Chapter 72

Chapter 72

Jean crept closer to the sofa, looked at Adrian’s eyes, then pushed Nina’s legs away and sat down. Nina just proudly raised her legs on Jean’s lap.

In other words, the Princess wants to strengthen her imperial power, but it’s not something she can do alone.

“I’m sure they’re getting support from somewhere, and they’re going to test it with the Duke.”

Muttering, Nina folded her arms.

‘And so blatantly like this.’

“Isn’t that the temple?”

Nina opened her eyes wide at Jean’s words and jerked up her upper body.

“What? That sounds plausible. Has our Jean changed?”

When Nina said that, Jean looked very unhappy with her.

“I was always like this.”

“Of course, you were.”

“Wow, that’s a rough answer.”

Nina looked at Adrian after hearing Jean’s grumbling. She had a face like a student hoping for a sharp tip, Adrian smiled.

“So what do you think, Young Master?”

“I also thought of that possibility since the temple is being prevalent these days. But why? That question still remains to be answered.”

“And just like what Count Hasha said. Bellacs appeared in the capital, however, not the Lilies but the Knights Templar were dispatched first.” (Adrian)

Nina sighed.

“At times like this, the final boss must be in the temple.”

“What’s the final boss?”

Nina rolled her eyes and explained to Jean’s question.

“Well, the evil organization behind it?”

“······What are you.”

“The Cult issues, the movement of bellacs, the behavior of the temple, the Princess······. It’s like one person is moving them all.”

“Isn’t that just too much coincidence?”

“No, there’s naturally a possibility that there’s only one root when a lot of problems pop up at once. Just like a lot of branches.” (Nina)

As Nina spoke too confidently, Jean made a long face. He shook his head in agony.

“And I think that’s our job to solve now. But whoever the final boss is, it’s more important to break through these problems one by one.” (Nina)

“I agree.” (Jean)

Nina smiled, and Jean said with a strange face.

“So why did you call me here?” (Jean)

“Huh?” (Nina)

In response to what Nina was talking about, Jean switched between Adrian and Nina.

“You two usually talk about this alone. I don’t like difficult talks, and I don’t need to join them······. But I appreciate your consideration.”

Jean stuttered at Adrian, and Adrian looked at Nina, and Nina revealed her teeth and smiled.

“You don’t like it?”

“No, it’s not that I don’t like it.”

“But Jean, you didn’t want to let the soldiers die in that Green hall.”

Jean flinched as if he had been stabbed by Nina’s words, and then sneaked into Adrian’s eyes and said to Nina.

“Not really······.”

“What I’m thinking at that time is that we shouldn’t stand in the Lily Knights’ jurisdiction. If the bellacs are being manipulated, we’ll have to figure out what the other person wants to do first.”

Nina explained, sticking her finger.

“Lastly, I didn’t really want to expose my team.”

“I understand.”

Jean’s shoulders lost strength. He looked at the two and said.

“I know what the two of you are trying to do. At that time, Nina also told me. That we’ll need to hold out until the end. So I didn’t grumble because I’m offended. And I’m older than you.”

Nina added with a smile at Jean’s words.

“I know, but Jean is even more important to us.”

He looks like a tough mercenary living and dying for money, but in fact, Nina and Adrian know that Jean is not that kind of person.

He has a strong sense of justice, and can’t ignore the weak.

So, they didn’t want to break Jean’s convictions for the Duke’s sake or throw him into conflict.

But most of all······.

“I can’t always be with the Young Master all the time. Even today, the princess suddenly came and it’s just the two of you. In these situations, Jean has to judge for himself.”

“I trust whatever judgment the vice-commander makes, but I don’t think it’s good to trust others unilaterally without having any information.”

Adrian went on and Jean blushed. He said with embarrassment.

“Argh, I got it. I got it. Stop being so sticky.”

“Yes, and continuing. It seems like what the cult wants is the power of the fallen spirit. Then it is highly likely that I will be their target. They have to kill me to break the barrier in the Violet Forest.”

Her words turned the eyes of the two men to Nina at the same time. She shrugged her shoulders.

“I will do my best to avoid dying, but I could die, so ah ah ah?!”

Jean grabbed Nina and shook her, making a strange sound come out of her mouth. Jean said with a grimace.

“So how are you going to punish her now, your Grace?”

“I wish to punish you so that you will never say that again.”

Adrian spoke sharply, and Jean kept shaking her. Nina shook and struggled to talk.

“Wait, Jean, I’m dizzy······.”

“Don’t even bring out the ‘death’ Okay? Never die. Before you die, you’ll have to see me die first, this brat.”

“Yes, I’m sorry. Jean, I’m really dizzy.”

Only then did Jean let her go. Nina plopped back and her long hair ran down the sofa.

“Ugh, it got messy.”

Jean said, grabbed her hair, and flicked it onto the sofa.

Nina laughed without realizing it.

“Jean is treating me like a child.”

“You are still a baby.”

Jean, who answered calmly, got up from his seat.

“I understand the situation. May I leave now?”

“You can go.”

At Adrian’s words, Jean greeted him with his arms crossed. Nina and Adrian knew well that he was going to head to the gym for personal practice right away.

He’s stimulated, so it’s good to practice immediately.

Adrian asked Nina.

“Do you really think the temple is behind it? Not the cult?”

“Isn’t there usually something like that in storybooks? We originally thought they were good, but they were actually the evil forces themselves.”

Nina sat upright on the sofa and said, then Adrian squinted because her face had a serious expression.

“What are you thinking?”

Nina slowly opened the door to his question.

“It may be a leap too far, but, It’s also true that a cult has infiltrated the temple, right?”

“It’s true.”

“Captain Jack told me last time that there was a monster in the temple.”

“Yes.”

“What if a fairly high-ranking man in the temple is a member of the cult.”

At Nina’s words, Adrian swept up his forehead and folded his arms. She stared at Adrian and thought.

‘Although, in fact, the head of the temple is the Cult leader.’

It was too fictional, but it was true that the cult priest serving the fallen spirit king was the head of the temple.

In essence, it’s not about serving the fallen Spirit King, it’s about using it.

In any case, the Highest Leader of the Temple was working hard on his own calling(?) to destroy the world.

In the story that Nina knows, Adrian was completely hit in the back of his head. The cult broke through the Violet Forest, invaded the city’s barriers, and a crisis where bellacs were all over the place exploded.

It was easy to break through or break down the city’s settlement because it was the temple that maintained the city’s barriers in the first place.

Now, the reason why the cult can bring bellacs into the city was simple.

Because the temple that was guarding the boundaries were all in the same league.

The problem was that it was quite simple to know the reason, but it was difficult to figure out why.

In the beginning, God created the world and created the spirits to harmonize the world. And as creatures of God, humans also lived happily with the help of the spirits.

God made a great spirit that ruled all the spirits to take his place as his representative and left over the sea of glass.

God’s will and thoughts were always in resonance with the Great Spirit.

The Great Spirit had three Spirit Kings under his command.

Among them, Nodolu, the fallen spirit lord, thought like this.

‘Don’t you think I’m more suitable for the position of the Great Spirit?’

He carried out an attack to take away the position of the Great Spirit but was defeated by the other Spirit King, Wiaki.

The Great Spirit created a confrontational world that envelops the human world in case the fallen spirit lord harms humans.

However, being deceived by the hypothesis that the fallen spirit lord would give them strength, humans broke the confrontational world’s barrier and allowed the fallen spirit lord to enter the world.

Because of that, the Great Spirit could only completely separate the spirits and the human world as a last resort. Since then, humans have been unable to see or hear spirits, and bellacs have emerged in the world.

Based on this story, the temple believed that one day when God returned, the fallen Spirit King would disappear and the world would regain its new harmony.