Evading the Hero’s Party with Full Effort

Chapter 151

Ch.151 If I Think About It, an Answer Will Come

After sightseeing around the territory with Cecilia, we returned around evening.

“My goodness!”

She looked utterly happy, holding the cute dolls she had gotten.

I’m glad she liked them.

The dinner that followed.

Cecilia chatted amiably with Aria while eating.

“Aria, look at this?”

She skillfully cracked a lobster claw and showed her the meat.

“Wow! Sister, you’re amazing!”

Aria’s eyes sparkled as she compared it to the clumsily extracted meat from her own claw.

Um… Couldn’t you just eat it with the shell on?

Aria is a baby dragon.

It’s a bit absurd that a species that chews on Ogres alive gets excited about watching someone crack lobster.

“Aria, what will you do if you get surprised by something like that?”

Icira grabbed Aria’s shoulder.

“Have a little self-awareness as a dragon. You’re over 1,000 years old now, aren’t you?”

1,000 years old is about equivalent to 10 years old by dragon standards.

Of course, that’s much older than me or even a long-lived race like an Elf, but by their standards, she’s still a child, right?

“Uung… I know.”

Seeing Aria dejected by the mild scolding, I offered her my lobster claw.

“Do you want to eat this one too?”

“Uh-huh! I want it!”

As Aria took it and tried to crack it open, Cecilia spoke up.

“Should Sister crack it for you?”

“Uh-huh! Yes, please!”

Aria was delighted at Cecilia’s offer. Soon after, Cecilia expertly extracted the meat and gave it to Aria, who ate it in one bite.

“It’s delicious!”

Aria’s eyes twinkled brightly.

Cecilia also extracted some claw meat, ate it, and her eyes shone too.

Seeing them like that, they look like sisters.

Cecilia with her platinum hair and Aria with her white hair.

Their eyes and expressions are similar enough that you’d believe they were sisters.

Cecilia will be leaving tomorrow.

But isn’t it about time for the Imperial Capital terror attack to happen?

Curious about how the Imperial Capital was doing, I asked.

“Cecilia, how is the Imperial Capital lately?”

Munch munch…

After finishing her food, she spoke.

“It’s been going smoothly lately? The enemies have been staying quiet, just surrounding us rather than attacking these days.”

“Really? What about the terror attack preparations?”

At my words, Cecilia gave a faint smile.

“Of course, it’s all done! If they try to raid the supply depot now? Unless it’s Scarlet and Leah, it would be tough for them.”

“That’s a relief. And you know that guy Alex we talked about before? He’s persistent. Make sure to deal with him definitively.”

He’s the mastermind behind the supply depot raid incident, the guy who makes players grip the back of their necks in frustration.

In the game, he attacks continuously, but if the damage becomes too severe, he stops.

It seems the Imperial Capital is becoming almost safe.

Except for the terror attack, that is.

The Imperial Capital terror event.

It’s an event designed to give a big ‘screw you’ to players who let their guard down.

It’s an event where Church of Death fanatics, who had been hiding quietly in the Imperial Capital, raid the supply depot.

I was really angry when I first experienced that…

To operate an army, supply depots exist.

They are warehouses storing food, drinking water for soldiers and Imperial Capital residents, weapons for battle, and such.

There’s an event where, when the army of the dead halts, the Church of Death believers blow it up.

If that happens, the difficulty becomes insanely hard.

The Imperial Capital becomes paralyzed, descends into chaos, plagues start spreading, and it becomes a complete mess.

So, unlike back then, the defenses are now solid.

Just let them come. I’ll blow them to smithereens.

While I was steeling myself like that, Cecilia didn’t seem to share the sentiment.

“Ah, how many times have I heard about that? If this continues, I’ll get calluses on my ears.”

She was clearly smiling, but the atmosphere screamed ‘stop talking about it,’ so I nodded and focused on eating.

And so, dinner ended, and I headed to my room.

It’s a relief that Cecilia is leaving tomorrow.

Now this nerve-wracking moment will be over.

I guess I won’t have to worry about my head splitting anymore.

Just as I was feeling reassured.

Knock knock

Goosebumps broke out all over my arms.

No… It can’t be? Again today?

Although I was worried, I had to ask who it was.

“Who is it?”

-“It’s me, Priest Hans.”

At the unwanted voice of Cecilia, I felt bleak inside.

Well… I still need to pull myself together.

“Come in.”

As soon as I gave permission, she entered wearing pajamas and carrying a pillow.

Wh… Why the pillow?

For a moment, a fearful thought crossed my mind, but Cecilia, with a nonchalant expression, placed her pillow next to mine.

“Since tomorrow is the last day. I want to stay up all night talking and then go.”

She was smiling brightly, but I got goosebumps down my back.

Pat pat

She patted the spot next to her.

“Come lie down here.”

“Um… Isn’t it a bit early? There’s a saying, ‘Men and women should not sit together after the age of seven’?”

“‘Men and women should not sit together after the age of seven’? What’s that?”

Whether it’s because this place has a Western setting, or because Cecilia’s head is in the clouds, it seemed like that saying wouldn’t work.

“Um… It’s just about sleeping alone, right?”

Perhaps misunderstanding my words, she frowned.

“Priest Hans, I didn’t take you for such a pervert.”

“It’s not that I’m perverted, it’s you sleeping here that’s the perverted thing.”

“What did you say?!”

Oops, the words I meant to only think in my head slipped out.

I raised both hands in a ‘just kidding’ gesture towards her, who was glaring at me with anger in her eyes.

“Hey, it’s a joke. Sleeping with a beautiful woman like you? I’d welcome it, actually.”

Welcome, my foot…

I know Cecilia’s sleeping habits are very, very terrible.

According to letters from Leah or Scarlet, she kicks the person next to her while sleeping.

Who would want to get hit while sleeping for no reason?

Then, a scheme came to mind.

“Ahem… It would be nice, but… What if a problem arises from sharing a blanket with a beautiful woman like you? You’re a Saintess, aren’t you?”

I subtly took her hand in mine.

“Ah…”

A faint blush spread across Cecilia’s face.

“I’m not sure if I, as a man, can restrain my instincts in front of a beautiful woman like you.”

I held her hand tightly with my remaining hand.

“Us sleeping together… let’s do that after we get married. Understood?”

“Priest Hans…”

Cecilia’s eyes gleamed.

“So you’re saying that even though you slept in the same bed with Leah, she lacked charm so it wasn’t a problem, but with me, I’m so overflowing with charm that sharing a bed would cause problems?”

“Huh?”

I felt bewildered by her unexpected words.

Is that how it works?

I lived in the same house with Leah for years, and she had trauma regarding her former master.

Sometimes, if she woke up crying at night, she would come to my room.

I’m not so shameless as to see a crying child as a woman.

What on earth… is going on in her head?

“Ahem… As a Saintess bearing the mission of humanity, I understand that feeling. Instead…”

She tightly grasped my hands that were holding hers.

“Let’s talk until bedtime.”

That night, I talked with Cecilia all night long.

***

Alex gathered his comrades and held a meeting.

-“How do we destroy that sturdy building?”

-“It probably won’t work even with Fireballs.”

-“Subduing the soldiers is impossible.”

The high-ranking Church of Death members had gathered, but they were in a difficult situation trying to carry out Davinus’s orders, and it was giving them a headache.

It was natural that the Empire would also be guarding the military supply depot, and the building was constructed anticipating various attacks.

Moreover, since Hans had already reported their planned terror attack, troops were deployed in double and triple layers, ready to obliterate any suspicious movements.

For a normal group, seeing such tight security would be enough to make them give up…

But the Church of Death is not a normal group.

It’s an extremist group that teaches its members that if they die for their god, great glory awaits after death.

None of them fear death.

They did not fear what living beings should instinctively fear.

What they feared was…

“We must fulfill the mission given by God, no matter what.”

Alex said, looking around at the others.

“God has prophesied. If we are victorious, paradise will be granted to all life. That is the mission given to us by the truthful one.”

The reason they don’t fear murder.

It’s because of their twisted belief that at the end of this war, all who died will find peace.

For them, death is a blessing, it is paradise.

Those who died for their god are objects of envy among the Church of Death believers.

Thus, even though their nature might be kind, they hesitated not at all to harm others.

What they feared was the destruction of their God of Death, the defeat of their own god.

“Is there no way?”

Alex looked around and asked, but no one could easily provide an answer.

Seeing everyone remain silent, he sighed inwardly.

‘Even if we fail, it can’t be helped. We can only prepare our best to increase the probability of success…’

“It can’t be helped. Please prepare the scrolls and weapons thoroughly.”

For them, the option of not attacking that place did not exist.

And so, they made their plans and prepared to attack.

***

I heard that the army of the dead hadn’t moved for several weeks.

“They should be attacking soon… but it’s quiet?”

“If we’ve prepared that much, of course they’d hesitate to attack. If it were me, would I just give up on attacking?”

Icira, drinking tea beside me.

“No. What kind of guys are they? Do you think they’re fanatics for no reason?”

She shrugged her shoulders.

“Maybe. So what are you going to do now?”

“What do you mean, what? …I need to separate Selena and Roy’s souls.”

Roy, who is currently in hiding.

He’s probably heading towards the location of the Seal Stones.

Unlike before, it will take quite some time, so stabilizing the Imperial Capital is the priority first.

Because one of the game over conditions is the fall of the Imperial Capital.

“Is the magic tool almost ready?”

“It should be finished around next month.”

“Oh? Faster than I thought?”

She took a sip of tea.

“Using human magic would take a long time, but with a dragon’s intellect and power, it shouldn’t take long. Still, for something made by a Lich, it was quite interesting.”

“That’s a relief then.”

“By the way… Can you subdue him? Roy, I mean.”

To use the magic tool, we might need to subdue Roy first.

“That… I hadn’t thought about it?”

The King of the Dead, with his overwhelming magic and physical resistance.

Frankly, his health is high, and his strength stat itself is high, so a method to subdue him isn’t going to just pop up, is it?

“Haa, then even if the magic tool is completed, it will be difficult to use.”

At her sigh, I scratched my head.

“But isn’t it better than having no method at all? If we solve the problems one by one, we’ll solve it someday.”

“Three Seal Stones have already been lost, haven’t they?”

“We still have two Seal Stones left. No need to look at it so negatively.”

In the original story, four Seal Stones break, and Roy is subdued at the fifth one.

No matter how skilled the player is, the scenario was built assuming four stones would break.

But still…

A method to subdue Roy.

“Hmm… Gravity would be difficult, right?”

A magic that increases gravity to crush or subdue the target.

“I doubt it would work on a creature with such high magic resistance.”

Subdue Roy, persuade Selena.

My head was spinning from the more troublesome-than-expected situation.

“Haa, let’s think about it slowly. If I think about it, an answer will come.”

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