“Is that what you think of me?”
“You do? You don’t, right?”
Riley, who reconfirmed that the content on the big screen had been manipulated by someone, clicked his tongue as if he didn’t like it.
“…tch.”
“Is there something wrong?”
“Now, you and Iril have become killers who like eating human flesh.”
“What?”
When Sera’s expression turned even more bizarre than before, Riley, who added that she didn’t have to worry about it, reached out as if he had decided it was better to hide.
“Iril.”
“Umm, euu…”
“Wake up.”
Riley, who had said it was okay to fully enjoy her sleep for a little while, shook Iril to wake her up.
“Eu, what? It’s still… midnight, isn’t it?”
Iril narrowed her eyes and looked up at the night sky, and began to whine, saying, “Why did you wake me up already?”
A child is a child, huh?
Sera supported Iril, who was still tired, to get up from the bench. She then explained that it was no longer a situation where she could sleep peacefully.
“Anyway, we need to join Commander Nara at once.”
“Nara?”
Iril, who was still half-asleep, looked around, asking where Nara was, and Sera, who squeezed her shoulders as if to wake her up, spoke.
“Commander is waiting somewhere, not here.”
“Ah…”
Barely conscious from Sera’s massage, Iril purrs like a wet puppy, wiping her face, and Clap! She slapped her own cheeks with her palms.
“Okay! I’m awake! Please say it again! What did you say?”
Riley, who pointed to the ‘serial killer who likes human flesh,’ being introduced on the big screen due to breaking news, shrugged as if he was too lazy to explain it again.
“Eh? What’s that?”
Whether Andal’s interpreting magic was effective or not, Iril, who could read the translated subtitles on the screen, frowned.
“Killer? Human flesh? What is that…”
“…for that reason.”
Riley took the first step after confirming several things through Sera’s sense to reduce the probability of missing each other with Nainiae.
“We must go back for now.”
It was uncomfortable to go back like this because he couldn’t find any parts to heal Mi-rae’s parent, but he also couldn’t stay like this because they were in a bad situation.
*****
Priesia was able to restore the man who had become a monster back to normal through her purification. Thanks to it, Nainiae succeeded in extracting some information from him.
The first was the fact that it was Helena who made the man into a monster. The second was that certain conditions had to be met to turn a human into a monster. And the third was that it wasn’t just one or two people that Helena wanted to turn into a monster.
“…the situation is more serious than I thought.”
Looking down at the man who had now passed out, Nainiae mumbled, organizing the facts she had just discovered in her head, while Ian and Priesia muttered as if they couldn’t understand at all.
“Didn’t Young Master and Abyss, whom she originally intended to rule out, meet their end together a year ago?”
“Nainiae said earlier that the saintess lives a comfortable life now, so what else is lacking? Why is she still doing such a terrible thing…”
No matter where she went, she was praised by people to the extent that no one would slander her… The three of them couldn’t easily guess what on earth was lacking.
“I will go to the memorial for a while. Just before, I sensed the trap I had placed there had been triggered.”
“Wait, what are we going to do with this man?”
When Nainiae was about to return to the memorial again by teleportation, Ian caught her.
“Even though Helena turned him into a monster, he had done something he shouldn’t have done… shouldn’t he be punished for it?”
As Ian swelled with a serious expression, Priesia, who was standing next to him, bit her lip as if to disagree with Ian’s opinion and spoke out.
“But… it had nothing to do with his own will.”
“No, in any way… he should be punished here.”
“It was done by a wicked woman who was not worth the title of saintess named Helena! If someone has to be punished, she’s the one who has to be punished, so why should an innocent person be punished?”
When Ian and Priesia confronted each other, saying that their opinions were right, Nainiae, who couldn’t see it, intervened.
“It is not right for us to fight each other.”
Nainiae looked down at the now-normally passed-out man who used to be a monster and replied that it would be better to decide by majority vote. Then she gave her opinion.