CH 109

“G-Get ready!”

Just as Clovis and Rex felt something coming and shouted at their knights.

<My Kai.>

An expression bloomed on the Queen’s face, which was stiff like a plaster mask. It was a maddening joy.

<I’ll put the shards of the Mirror of Ugliness in your eyes and heart again! With my kiss!>

Wooosh!

The Queen rushed in.

“Arghh!”

The Holy Knights were white with fear of the beautiful but mad queen that seemed to come to kiss them.

Agnes’ shrill voice came from my necklace.

<Crazy! The method of moving the shards was a kiss!>

At that time, there was a person who calmly took a step forward.

“……”

Thesilid went ahead, undisturbed, even in the fierce wind.

<Ah, Kai!>

The Queen was thrilled by Thesilid, who obediently came to greet her.

As the blizzard danced more ferociously, the Queen flew towards Thesilid.

Their faces gradually came closer. One side was intoxicated with ecstatic madness, and the other side was expressionless without an ounce of emotion because of repeated experiences.

<…….>

“……”

The moment when the Queen tried to kiss the most beautiful silver-haired creature in the world.

Tok!

<Eup?!>

“……!”

My hand cut in and blocked the Queen’s mouth.

Two pairs of surprised eyes focused on me. Among the two, I said to the pair of blues eyes that had snowflakes in the pupils.

“Your Majesty the Queen, please keep your dignity. This is sexual harassment.”

<Yo-You dare……!>

My right hand, which closed the Queen’s mouth, felt pain along with a chill. It wasn’t because the Queen bit it. I had a feeling it was one of the shards that were in her mouth moving into my palm.

But I ignored it and with my left hand, I squeezed the Queen’s collar. It was easy to control because it was just an alter ego.

<Cof!>

The Queen could make a more colorful expression than I initially thought. Her pained face was quite human.

<Le-let go……! Let me go……!>

Of course, there was no pity.

I completely took her away from Thesilid and made her look at me.

“Your Majesty, let me ask you one question. Instead of his eye and heart, you just tried to put the shard in his mouth, right?”

I asked because I was curious about the reason she had for changing the original setting.

<Ka, Kai wanted that!>

“…This sister is out of her mind.”

<How can you not kiss those lips! Kai seduced me……!>

“I can’t hear you anymore. Forget it, just give me the remaining shard.”

I grabbed the Queen by the neck and pulled her closer to me.

<I-I don’t want to! I’m going to kiss Kai……!>

“Then I just have to make you give me, what’s the big deal?”

Only one shard could be moved for each part of the body, and the remaining shard of glass had to be placed in the eye.

With my right hand I fixed the Queen’s chin so she could kiss my left eye.

<Kyahhhh!>

It sounds like you’re pretending to be harassed.

I put aura on my left hand to give it strength.

Purseok!

The body of the alter ego broke like porcelain. 

<Ah, Gerda……My main body will not forgive you……>

“Who said I’m Gerda? Just finish this role play and disappear already.”

[<System> The alter ego of the Snow Queen has disappeared.]

Feeling that the blizzard had subsided a little, I brushed my hands to get rid of the sexual harasser’s remaining dust.

“Ah.”

A slight foreign sensation was felt in the left eye where the mirror shard had been lodged.

“Eli.”

As I was blinking with my hand covering my left eye, a stern voice rang in my ear. When I turned my head, I saw a stiff-faced Thesilid. 

“Why did you?”

“You’ve been through a lot. I think you will get sick and tired of it by now.”

I lowered the hand that was covering my eye and smiled lightly, but for some reason, Thesilid’s expression seemed to get harder.

“Your Grace, the Holy One!”

“Are you alright, Your Grace?”

“It’s okay.”

I turned to Clovis and Rex, and their eyes widened in surprise.

“Holy one, one eye is……”

My eye?

<It turned blue.>

Alas, it must have been the effect of a mirror shard stuck in it.

[‘The Scales that Judges the Soul’ is very fond of the green and blue odd-eyed look.]

“Never mind. It’s nothing.”

I was waving my hand, but my wrist was caught.

“Thesilid, how disrespectful are you to her Grace?”

“Yes, Sir Thesilid. How dare you grab the Holy One’s wrist?”

Despite Clovis and Rex’s stern rebuke, Thesilid only looked at my whitened right hand.

After a while, he opened his mouth.

“These shards freeze the body. It would be too much to keep two of them in your body.”

This part was demonstrated more clearly by the system, and right now, I was debuffed by the number of pieces embedded in my body.

[<Status> ‘Ice Frostbite (2 pieces)’

A debuff in which the body freezes over time and turns into ice itself.

If you don’t go to the place where the Mirror of Ugliness is and take out the shards quickly, you will turn into an ice statue. Let’s hurry!

Note: Frostbite progresses faster in proportion to the number of shards.]

Certainly, the feeling in my right hand seemed to have gone numb. Should I hold the sword with my left hand?

I shrugged my shoulders pretending as if nothing has happened.

“Hm, well, you did it, it’s not like I can’t do it too, right?”

“In some timelines, I became an ice statue.”

“……Scaring me for nothing.”

To be honest, I was a little scared.

Since Clovis and Rex were wondering what we were talking about, the meaningful conversation ended there.

Then Thesilid said something I had never thought of.

“We’d better take it out.”

“Huh? Is there a way?”

There was nothing like that in the original.

[‘The Spoiler Inspector’ is puzzled.]

“……I’m not sure, but I’ll have to try.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he went into action, and at that moment.

“Hah!”

“Oh, my!”

“Huh?!”

Starting with Clovis and Rex, gasping sounds were heard here and there.

That’s because Thesilid buried his lips in the palm of my hand.

[‘The Scales that Judges the Soul’ breaks down the desk in excitement.]

Perhaps because my hand was very cold, the body temperature that touched my palm felt unusually hot. 

“Wh-what are you doing?”

I wanted to ask a question calmly, but my voice trembled a little.

At that time, something strange happened to my right hand. The blood started to circulate gradually and the senses returned to normal.

And Terry’s lips, which had been hot as if they had been on fire from earlier, felt cold. It was a reversal of temperature.

“Huh?”

“……It works.”

He slightly covered his mouth with his hand while speaking and a glimmer of light shone through his fingers. On the other hand, the mirror shard that should have been embedded in the palm of my right hand was nowhere to be seen.

[<Status> ‘Ice Frostbite (1 piece)’]

The system notifying me of the missing shard indicates that his attempt was successful.

“How did you do it?”

“It seems that I can move your debuffs since I have the ‘Guardian of the Beloved’. I copied the same method of transfer and met the conditions for moving it into my body so the fragment came over to me.”

“Oh, um, yes. Copying……”

“Right.”

As I looked at his kind smiling face, a small urge suddenly arose and I reached for his face.

“Eli?”

My fingertips stopped just short of touching his lips. The breath I could feel was colder than the permafrost air.

“Let’s hurry.”

We started walking through the snowstorm again. The destination this time was the Ice Castle.

Finally, we arrived in front of the moat surrounding the castle walls.

The iron gate beyond the bridge was firmly closed, and a strong barrier surrounding the entire castle was felt in the area.

“It’s supposed to be open, that’s weird.”

<Looks like she got mad at you for not letting her kiss him.>

“Oh, that makes perfect sense. Then……”

Agnes and me said at the same time.

“We have to fight a siege.”

<You have to do a siege.>

And it just happens we had a professional in here. 

“Terry.”

Understanding the meaning only by calling his name, he immediately stepped on the bridge.

A sword formed at the end of his right arm that stretched out.

As he stopped in the middle of the bridge, the whitest aura in the world began to dwell in the blade of the Holy Sword Libra.

The knights groaned.

“No way, is he going to do the same as when he destroyed the Sky Fortress……”

“Are you talking about the ultimate skill for anti-siege?”

“I heard that half a city was destroyed because of that……!”

They must be referring to the Sky Fortress almost falling on the commercial city of El Torini.

You should be grateful if he turned something that could annihilate everything in the area, into half of the destruction. Anyway, the main character is notorious even after doing good things.

Then Clovis came up to me and shouted urgently.

“Your Grace! Could it be that you ordered Thesilid to use the anti-siege skill?”

“I only called his name, but he got it perfectly. I guess we clicked.”

“You must stop. If he uses that skill, Thesilid……!”

Kwakwagwagwang!

The ultimate skill did not wait for Clovis to finish his words.

Colossal destructive power, contrasted with a light swing of the sword, penetrated the castle gate. The heavy iron gate was completely destroyed, and the courtyard beyond the gate was dug up.

“……He will be tired and can’t do anything……huh?”

Clovis stopped talking and put on a dumbfounded look.

“Eli.”

Thesilid, who had finished a slightly overdone task, came out casually and turned to the knights.

“It’s done.”

“Yes. You worked hard, Terry.”

“Hard work? Not at all.”

Indeed, it is his 17th episode. Even after using the ultimate anti-siege skill, he showed no signs of getting tired.

“Let’s go, Captain Clovis.”

“……Yes, under the command of The Holy One.”