Chapter 56 - Let's Do It Right Away

As I escaped outside using the teleportation device, Sister Lilia pulled me and shouted, "Little one!"

Perhaps because I was a bit late due to using the point explosion, her expression was full of worry and relief.

Seeing Sister Lilia like that, I smiled awkwardly to show I was okay, but Sister Lilia, still not relieved of her worry, looked over my body and said, "Are you hurt anywhere? Does anything hurt? No, let's go to the healer right away. I think we should start with a thorough examination first."

I tried to calm Sister Lilia, who was fussing over me, and pointed to her wounds, saying, "I'm fine, so I think you should get treated first, Sister."

"Me? No need to worry, these wounds will heal with just some ointment."

Sister Lilia waved her hand as if it was nothing and told me it wasn't a big deal, but seeing her whole body covered in blood, it didn't look like ordinary wounds.

I told Sister Lilia that she needed to get treatment right away, and decided to head to the mansion together for now.

And before we go...

Thinking it would be good to destroy the teleportation magic circle, I asked Daisy to burn the magic circle, then turned my gaze.

***

When we returned to the mansion, I saw my companions, including Liana, gathered in my room.

It seemed they had each finished their business and assembled in my room.

I waved to my companions, smiled awkwardly, and flopped down on the bed.

I'm dying.

Perhaps because I had used power beyond my limits, not only could I not muster any strength in my body, but a lethargy close to powerlessness was pressing down on my body, making it impossible to move.

So as I was resting on the bed for a moment, Daisy also slipped out of my chest and laid down right next to my face.

"...Myeok."

Daisy seemed to be in a similar state to me.

She laid spread-eagle on the bed with her chubby cheeks facing up.

As I was giggling at this sight, Liana looked at us and said, "Are you both okay? You look in pretty bad shape."

I nodded to indicate I was fine, and Liana looked at me, crossed her arms, nodded, then calmly spoke about what she had found out.

"Upon investigation, we found that several teleportation magic circles owned by the information guild were used in this terror attack."

As I had already suspected this, I nodded without much reaction.

Liana looked at me and slowly continued speaking.

"And we also received information that black mages had raided the lodgings where we were staying."

"...The lodgings too?"

"Yes. It seems the feint operation was correct after all."

It feels more dispersed than concentrated to call it a feint operation.

So I wondered if their real purpose was to assassinate Sister Lilia and retrieve the black mages, but

Due to lack of information to confirm anything, I decided to leave the question unresolved rather than trying to solve it for now.

As I continued to ponder,

Liana looked at me and asked one question.

"So what are you going to do? Are you planning to carry out that counter-terror you mentioned earlier?"

At those words, I smiled slightly and answered briefly.

"I did it."

"What?"

"I already did it."

I told the bewildered Liana about everything I had done while rescuing Sister Lilia earlier.

Liana listened to my story, laughed hollowly, and started to make guesses.

"If it's a place where common sense collapses, there's a high probability that it's a very important place among the black mages' main strongholds."

"I think so too. Magic that reverses common sense is considered difficult."

Liana provides information and Siren adds explanations to it.

Listening to these words, I smiled thinking I did well to throw a gift at the last moment.

***

Having exhausted all my energy, I fell asleep as if passing out right after our conversation.

Although I had just slept, I instinctively felt I had slept for quite a long time as I blankly stared at the ceiling.

I saw Siren placing a cold towel on my forehead with her slender fingers.

"...Siren?"

I called her name to ask what she was doing, but as soon as I woke up, Siren looked at me with a surprised expression and called my name in return, "Damian!"

Then she buried her face in me as if hugging me and said, "You didn't wake up for two days, so we were very worried."

"...Two days?"

Now that I look at it, the scenery of my room had changed a bit.

As I got up with a blank expression, I saw Daisy, who had shrunk a bit, sleeping on my leg.

As I was carefully picking up Daisy to assess the situation, Siren told me various things.

"It seems you fainted due to mana and physical exhaustion. I don't know exactly what you did, but it would be better not to do it again in the future."

It seemed the aftermath was great as it was an attack where I poured everything out.

I decided to avoid such attacks if possible and nodded, when Liana entered the room and spoke to me, "Oh, you're awake."

Liana bit into a fruit she had brought and said to me, "Fortunately, no major problems occurred. It's partly because the Carsaril family's knights were inherently strong, and partly because Lady Lilia returned safely thanks to you, Damian."

Then that's fine.

I nodded with a sigh of relief when Liana sat in front of me and said, "The Saintess was very worried too."

"Really?"

"Yes. When she heard that you had collapsed, she tried to rush here, and we barely managed to stop her."

I smiled slightly at those words, when I suddenly noticed that Loraine and Dasoon were not visible, so I asked where they had gone.

"They went down to do sword training. Dasoon said she wanted to become stronger."

Judging by her personality that I had seen so far, I had thought Dasoon was lazy and arrogant, but hearing that she was diligently making efforts contrary to my expectations, I couldn't help but think it was quite unexpected.

Anyway, it's not a bad thing.

Even if she was a fake hero, Dasoon was the protagonist of this world.

One way or another, there was an extremely high possibility that Dasoon would have a role that only she could fulfill, so I decided to support Dasoon's efforts.

In that sense, I want to rise to mid-grade Expert as quickly as possible too.

I felt it keenly while facing the black mages, but being just a low-grade Expert was far from enough.

So I was thinking I want to rise to at least mid-grade Expert, when suddenly, a “old book” placed on the desk caught my eye.

Come to think of it, I was too busy to read the book Ruen gave me.

Because too many problems had rushed in, I was too preoccupied to check the old book, so I picked it up and opened it.

What I saw was text written in characters I couldn't understand at all.

It was impossible to interpret with the knowledge I had, so as I was wondering what to do with it, Siren took out a book from her chest and said, "I translated that."

"Huh?"

"I thought it would be good to do it, so I did it bit by bit while nursing you."

This was somewhat touching.

I silently accepted it, and Siren looked at me with an expression as if expecting something.

Seeing this, I patted Siren's head and praised her.

"Yeah."

Siren nodded with a very satisfied expression at my touch.

As I was thinking I was glad to have chosen the right answer, Daisy woke up drooling, then whined and thrust her head towards me.

It seemed she wanted to be patted too, so as I was patting Daisy's head, Siren poked Daisy's cheek and said to me as if it was nothing, "Oh, and that research is done."

"Research?"

"Yeah. Elisia's brainwashing."

I was surprised it was finished faster than expected.

Hearing this, I asked about it, and Siren stretched Daisy's cheek and said, "Myeok!"

"We can change her to any state we want. Is there anything you want to do?"

At those words, I told Siren about the things I had been thinking about.

"First, I want to implant a bomb in her body, is that possible?"

***

What I wanted to do using Elisia was one thing.

It was the destruction of the North's leadership.

In other words, my goal was to kill all the forces on the eldest son's side.

Actually, achieving this isn't that difficult.

Just like I had sent a gift (bomb) to the black mages' stronghold, I could just detonate a bomb with all my power where the North's leadership stayed.

However, the problem was that if I did so, there was a high possibility that responsibility would be transferred not only to me but also to the Carsaril family or the Saintess.

So I had to avoid killing them in such a direct way.

So what I came up with was to use Elisia to bring down the North.

If I used Elisia to damage the North, I wouldn't have to take any responsibility, so if possible, I wanted to raise Elisia to a key figure in the North and then use her to destroy the North.

Of course, the possibility of failure is higher…

So it wasn't a very promising method, but it was more beneficial to use her like this than just killing her, so I decided to try it out and told people about this plan.

"Are you crazy?"

Liana looked at me with an incredulous expression.

At those words, I was about to say it would be fun, as I always did, when Liana beat me to it and answered, "But it does sound fun."

That answer was somewhat funny, so I smiled and nodded.

"Right?"

"Yes. Then we'll need to prepare a few things. For example... giving her an artificial sun?"

Interested by the mention of an artificial sun, I looked at Liana, and she smiled and said to me, "If we implant an artificial sun in her body, it would serve the bomb function you mentioned, Damian,"

Moreover, she said that since it could bring warmth, there was a possibility that Elisia could rise as a key force in the North.

"If she rises as a key force like that, we can use it to damage the North or..."

If she did something we didn’t like, we could detonate the implanted artificial sun and annihilate the entire North, she said.

Thinking it would be fun whether it works or not, I said let's do it right away.