“If it’s someone with holy power, she can suffer from holy fever.”
There is a disease that capable people suffer from.
Mana collided, rush, holy fever.
Mana colliding occurs in people with the same holy power and magic power.
Rush and Holy Fever occur in people with excessively high magical power and holy power levels, respectively.
Among them, ‘Holy Fever’ is a disease that is like a rite of passage that believers from temples experience at least once in their lives.
“It’s a disease based on holy power. So… isn’t it possible for Your Majesty to make the child suffer from holy fever?”
“…Yeah, I can.”
Nicholas’s mouth slowly opened.
When Holy Fever appears, the person with the ability falls into a deep sleep and begins to suffer.
Usually, if they endure the heat for about a week, their eyes will naturally open, but there are some people who end up dying.
There is no way to force a capable person in holy fever to wake up.
Except with Primera’s almighty power.
“Don’t you remember, Your Majesty? Your Majesty himself awakened the young believers of the Temple of Pavil.”
It would be a pity if a highly capable person died without being able to overcome holy power.
Especially if they are believers of the New Church that is on his side.
So, Nicholas personally woke up the believers of the Temple of Pavil who were suffering from holy fever.
Since it is a disease based on holy power, waking it up is very easy, requiring almost no vital energy.
“Who knows whether the child suffered a holy fever because of Your Majesty’s power?”
“That’s right, yeah…”
For those capable people with holy power, the only thing certain is that holy power is superior to magic power.
No one can know whether or not a person has a high level of holy power to suffer from holy fever.
“Isn’t it only the great Primera who can awaken those in the Holy Fever with power?”
Timothy added, looking at Nicholas’ satisfied expression.
“Sir Enoch will come to you and beg for it. Please, wake up my daughter.”
At that time,
Knock, knock. Suddenly, a knock was heard.
“Your Majesty, Sir Enoch has arrived.”
Aide Ramon’s voice announced Enoch’s long-awaited visit.
“Yeah. Let him come.”
Nicholas’s corners of mouth rose meanly.
* * *
I had a good breakfast and came up to the mountain behind with Axion and Cheshire.
Axion, who was in charge of daily childcare, played with me well even though he gritted his teeth the whole time.
“Wahaha! Uncle, take it~!”
Puk—.
“Ah.”
The snowball flew from my hand and hit Axion’s thigh violently!
It’s incredible combat power.
Maybe I’m pretty strong?
“You’re dead, you.”
“Huh? U, uncle! Wait! Time!”
Axion’s eyes widened.
It was a completely different size than the snowball I threw.
“That’s not right!”
“What do you mean it’s not!”
“Aah!”
I turned around and crouched down. A snowball landed on my back with a thud.
“Ugh, it hurts!”
“Don’t be ridiculous. It’s not tightly clumped.”
“Ohehe.”
Actually, I felt it as I was being hit. It comes together roughly and falls apart as soon as it is hit.
“It’s fun!”
I sniffled and closed my eyes again.
Then, suddenly, I noticed Cheshire sitting quietly in the distance, just watching me and Axion.
‘Hmm.’
Cheshire was as distraught as my dad and seemed angry at me.
‘I should apologize, right?’
He doesn’t want to listen to my request.
Cheshire said very firmly that he would never choose to sacrifice me for the survival of the majority.
I was embarrassed for a moment.
I felt sorry for Cheshire.
‘I really did too much.’
I was so scared of dying that I asked Cheshire, who knew nothing, to save me dozens of times.
After making Cheshire so confused.
‘Now, if there is no other way, just kill me~. Yes, I would be angry too.’
Besides, I was already quite a close friend with Cheshire.
Of course Cheshire can’t kill me without any hesitation.
“Cheshire! Why don’t we have a snowball fight together?”
“Eung, I won’t.”
I tried to call Cheshire, but he was firm.
I pouted and started to close my eyes again.
“Are you cold?”
Axion approached me as I sniffed.
“No? It’s all right.”
“What else is alright? You’ve been sniffing.”
But I’m really fine.
I was wearing a thick coat, a red cape, a fur hat, fur boots, and gloves.
“Come here.”
Axion, who was facing me, pulled the bell on the front buckle and tightened the cloak.
“Your ears are red, too.”
Next, he covered my ears with a fur hat and then took out yellow gloves like a chick from his pocket.
What? When did he get that?
“The gloves are wet, so change them.”
“Yes!”
He took off my wet gloves, held my red hands, and even blew on them.
Then he put on new gloves and collected the wet ones.
“Wahaha…”
“What is it? Why are you laughing?”
Axion raised his eyebrows as he looked at me laughing.
“Uncle, you are good at raising children…”
“What?”
Axion was angry.
Is it because I had a strange lucid dream?
I was grateful that Axion was on my dad’s side.
「The moment before the end.
Enoch’s revenge, which was ahead of the cause, was finally about to be completed.
Axion spoke carefully to Enoch, who remained silent for a long time while holding his daughter’s dirty doll.
“I regret it.”
“…What?”
“That day, from you.”
“….”
“When I take your daughter.”」
In the last chapter of the original work, Axion said so.
There’s nothing to be sorry about, nothing to regret.
And yet he felt pain and guilt.
‘Phew as expected, it’s a good thing Dad followed him and returned to the Capital obediently.’
If I had been dragged and kidnapped, I would have died.
Since my Dad was a deserter, the emperor at the time had sufficient justification for kidnapping me and not letting me go.
But now?
Dad’s daughter, the strongest person even the emperor can’t start a fight with, is Octava!
As long as my identity is not discovered, the emperor will not be able to harass me openly.
So, I have absolutely no regrets about my choice to return to the Capital.
“Uncle!”
“What?”
“You know, my dad bullies Uncle a lot… But please be his friends for the rest of your life.”
“Why should I?”
Axion was disgusted.
“I’m looking forward to my retirement day when I can stop seeing your father’s face? But what? Friends forever? Don’t even say anything scary that will come out in your dreams.”
“Uhaha~ no!”
“What do you mean no! I don’t want to!”
I grabbed Axion’s legs and hung on. Although he said no, he looked as if he were holding back his smile.
“Uncle, uncle! Now a snowman! Please make a snowman!”
“Haa, what… you look like your father. The kid doesn’t get tired.”
Axion grumbled, but he still started rolling his eyes as he tried to build a snowman.
I also made two little snowmen next to him.
“Hehe, Cheshire! Look at this.”
And ran to Cheshire.
“I made it! It’s you and me!”
“….”
Cheshire stared at the snowman.
I put it down still in front of Cheshire, and went and sat next to him.
“Cheshire, I’m sorry.”
“….”
“I thought about it a lot. I can never kill you if someone tells me to kill you. I can’t do it either, so I’m sorry for asking you to do it.”
“….”
“Can I change my request?”
Cheshire looked at me. And then he said.
“You don’t have to tell me. I know what you’re going to ask.”
“Mmhm. Do you know if I don’t tell you?”
“Eung. You’ll tell me not to fail.”
As expected, he’s smart.
“If you succeed, no one has to suffer. You are safe, and people will be safe.”
“Yes, it is.”
I nodded and looked at Cheshire.
“But you know. Did you say something to my dad yesterday?”
“I did a lot. I know everything now. What Uncle is doing now, and what I have to do.”
“Mmhm, I see.”
Dad was teaching Cheshire for the future.
But he probably didn’t plan on telling everything to Cheshire, who was only eleven years old.
‘Phew, that damn letter.’
Everything was moved forward because of me.
What did my Dad think when he asked his 11-year-old if he could blow off the emperor’s head for world peace?
Also, what did Cheshire think when he heard that?
“D, did you say you would?”
“I have to do it.”
Cheshire answered without hesitation and added,
“I kept wondering. Why am I Dos when I’m born from only half a capable person? Why I was born as a person who can use my ability without the permission of the Primera.”
“…”
“But now I know why.”
I nodded.
Isn’t it like a mission from God?
Cheshire is the main character who will save the world.
Because he’s the only one who has the ability to deal with bad villains.
“Because I have to save you.”
Dding.
However, I was confused by the answer that was different from what I expected.
“Mmhm?”
“Only I can do it. So I have to, I have to do it.”
Cheshire turned his head from me and looked at the two snowmen.
“I will… survive with you.”
* * *
A firm commitment.
When Lilith heard that, she didn’t know what to do, but then she whispered shyly.
“Mmhm. Thank you.”
The two sat in silence for a while.
It’s as if they can have a conversation just by the warmth of each other.
Cheshire kept staring at the two clumsy snowmen, feeling Lilith leaning on his shoulder.
I can do it.
We will be able to survive like that.
Emperor.
How scary he is.
How far can they threaten us?
I don’t know, but…
Tuk
At that time, a snowman fell forward.
“Ah.”
Cheshire reached out his hand to raise it, then looked back at Lilith, who was still leaning on his shoulder.
“Lilith?”
“….”
“Are you sleeping?”
Was she tired? Lilith fell asleep in an instant.
“Wake up. It’s cold, so go in and sleep.”
Cheshire shook Lilith.
He thought she would wake up in an instant.
“…Lilith?”
As he shook her, Lilith fell helplessly onto the snowfield.
“If it’s someone with holy power, she can suffer from holy fever.”
There is a disease that capable people suffer from.
Mana collided, rush, holy fever.
Mana colliding occurs in people with the same holy power and magic power.
Rush and Holy Fever occur in people with excessively high magical power and holy power levels, respectively.
Among them, ‘Holy Fever’ is a disease that is like a rite of passage that believers from temples experience at least once in their lives.
“It’s a disease based on holy power. So… isn’t it possible for Your Majesty to make the child suffer from holy fever?”
“…Yeah, I can.”
Nicholas’s mouth slowly opened.
When Holy Fever appears, the person with the ability falls into a deep sleep and begins to suffer.
Usually, if they endure the heat for about a week, their eyes will naturally open, but there are some people who end up dying.
There is no way to force a capable person in holy fever to wake up.
Except with Primera’s almighty power.
“Don’t you remember, Your Majesty? Your Majesty himself awakened the young believers of the Temple of Pavil.”
It would be a pity if a highly capable person died without being able to overcome holy power.
Especially if they are believers of the New Church that is on his side.
So, Nicholas personally woke up the believers of the Temple of Pavil who were suffering from holy fever.
Since it is a disease based on holy power, waking it up is very easy, requiring almost no vital energy.
“Who knows whether the child suffered a holy fever because of Your Majesty’s power?”
“That’s right, yeah…”
For those capable people with holy power, the only thing certain is that holy power is superior to magic power.
No one can know whether or not a person has a high level of holy power to suffer from holy fever.
“Isn’t it only the great Primera who can awaken those in the Holy Fever with power?”
Timothy added, looking at Nicholas’ satisfied expression.
“Sir Enoch will come to you and beg for it. Please, wake up my daughter.”
At that time,
Knock, knock. Suddenly, a knock was heard.
“Your Majesty, Sir Enoch has arrived.”
Aide Ramon’s voice announced Enoch’s long-awaited visit.
“Yeah. Let him come.”
Nicholas’s corners of mouth rose meanly.
* * *
I had a good breakfast and came up to the mountain behind with Axion and Cheshire.
Axion, who was in charge of daily childcare, played with me well even though he gritted his teeth the whole time.
“Wahaha! Uncle, take it~!”
Puk—.
“Ah.”
The snowball flew from my hand and hit Axion’s thigh violently!
It’s incredible combat power.
Maybe I’m pretty strong?
“You’re dead, you.”
“Huh? U, uncle! Wait! Time!”
Axion’s eyes widened.
It was a completely different size than the snowball I threw.
“That’s not right!”
“What do you mean it’s not!”
“Aah!”
I turned around and crouched down. A snowball landed on my back with a thud.
“Ugh, it hurts!”
“Don’t be ridiculous. It’s not tightly clumped.”
“Ohehe.”
Actually, I felt it as I was being hit. It comes together roughly and falls apart as soon as it is hit.
“It’s fun!”
I sniffled and closed my eyes again.
Then, suddenly, I noticed Cheshire sitting quietly in the distance, just watching me and Axion.
‘Hmm.’
Cheshire was as distraught as my dad and seemed angry at me.
‘I should apologize, right?’
He doesn’t want to listen to my request.
Cheshire said very firmly that he would never choose to sacrifice me for the survival of the majority.
I was embarrassed for a moment.
I felt sorry for Cheshire.
‘I really did too much.’
I was so scared of dying that I asked Cheshire, who knew nothing, to save me dozens of times.
After making Cheshire so confused.
‘Now, if there is no other way, just kill me~. Yes, I would be angry too.’
Besides, I was already quite a close friend with Cheshire.
Of course Cheshire can’t kill me without any hesitation.
“Cheshire! Why don’t we have a snowball fight together?”
“Eung, I won’t.”
I tried to call Cheshire, but he was firm.
I pouted and started to close my eyes again.
“Are you cold?”
Axion approached me as I sniffed.
“No? It’s all right.”
“What else is alright? You’ve been sniffing.”
But I’m really fine.
I was wearing a thick coat, a red cape, a fur hat, fur boots, and gloves.
“Come here.”
Axion, who was facing me, pulled the bell on the front buckle and tightened the cloak.
“Your ears are red, too.”
Next, he covered my ears with a fur hat and then took out yellow gloves like a chick from his pocket.
What? When did he get that?
“The gloves are wet, so change them.”
“Yes!”
He took off my wet gloves, held my red hands, and even blew on them.
Then he put on new gloves and collected the wet ones.
“Wahaha…”
“What is it? Why are you laughing?”
Axion raised his eyebrows as he looked at me laughing.
“Uncle, you are good at raising children…”
“What?”
Axion was angry.
Is it because I had a strange lucid dream?
I was grateful that Axion was on my dad’s side.
「The moment before the end.
Enoch’s revenge, which was ahead of the cause, was finally about to be completed.
Axion spoke carefully to Enoch, who remained silent for a long time while holding his daughter’s dirty doll.
“I regret it.”
“…What?”
“That day, from you.”
“….”
“When I take your daughter.”」
In the last chapter of the original work, Axion said so.
There’s nothing to be sorry about, nothing to regret.
And yet he felt pain and guilt.
‘Phew as expected, it’s a good thing Dad followed him and returned to the Capital obediently.’
If I had been dragged and kidnapped, I would have died.
Since my Dad was a deserter, the emperor at the time had sufficient justification for kidnapping me and not letting me go.
But now?
Dad’s daughter, the strongest person even the emperor can’t start a fight with, is Octava!
As long as my identity is not discovered, the emperor will not be able to harass me openly.
So, I have absolutely no regrets about my choice to return to the Capital.
“Uncle!”
“What?”
“You know, my dad bullies Uncle a lot… But please be his friends for the rest of your life.”
“Why should I?”
Axion was disgusted.
“I’m looking forward to my retirement day when I can stop seeing your father’s face? But what? Friends forever? Don’t even say anything scary that will come out in your dreams.”
“Uhaha~ no!”
“What do you mean no! I don’t want to!”
I grabbed Axion’s legs and hung on. Although he said no, he looked as if he were holding back his smile.
“Uncle, uncle! Now a snowman! Please make a snowman!”
“Haa, what… you look like your father. The kid doesn’t get tired.”
Axion grumbled, but he still started rolling his eyes as he tried to build a snowman.
I also made two little snowmen next to him.
“Hehe, Cheshire! Look at this.”
And ran to Cheshire.
“I made it! It’s you and me!”
“….”
Cheshire stared at the snowman.
I put it down still in front of Cheshire, and went and sat next to him.
“Cheshire, I’m sorry.”
“….”
“I thought about it a lot. I can never kill you if someone tells me to kill you. I can’t do it either, so I’m sorry for asking you to do it.”
“….”
“Can I change my request?”
Cheshire looked at me. And then he said.
“You don’t have to tell me. I know what you’re going to ask.”
“Mmhm. Do you know if I don’t tell you?”
“Eung. You’ll tell me not to fail.”
As expected, he’s smart.
“If you succeed, no one has to suffer. You are safe, and people will be safe.”
“Yes, it is.”
I nodded and looked at Cheshire.
“But you know. Did you say something to my dad yesterday?”
“I did a lot. I know everything now. What Uncle is doing now, and what I have to do.”
“Mmhm, I see.”
Dad was teaching Cheshire for the future.
But he probably didn’t plan on telling everything to Cheshire, who was only eleven years old.
‘Phew, that damn letter.’
Everything was moved forward because of me.
What did my Dad think when he asked his 11-year-old if he could blow off the emperor’s head for world peace?
Also, what did Cheshire think when he heard that?
“D, did you say you would?”
“I have to do it.”
Cheshire answered without hesitation and added,
“I kept wondering. Why am I Dos when I’m born from only half a capable person? Why I was born as a person who can use my ability without the permission of the Primera.”
“…”
“But now I know why.”
I nodded.
Isn’t it like a mission from God?
Cheshire is the main character who will save the world.
Because he’s the only one who has the ability to deal with bad villains.
“Because I have to save you.”
Dding.
However, I was confused by the answer that was different from what I expected.
“Mmhm?”
“Only I can do it. So I have to, I have to do it.”
Cheshire turned his head from me and looked at the two snowmen.
“I will… survive with you.”
* * *
A firm commitment.
When Lilith heard that, she didn’t know what to do, but then she whispered shyly.
“Mmhm. Thank you.”
The two sat in silence for a while.
It’s as if they can have a conversation just by the warmth of each other.
Cheshire kept staring at the two clumsy snowmen, feeling Lilith leaning on his shoulder.
I can do it.
We will be able to survive like that.
Emperor.
How scary he is.
How far can they threaten us?
I don’t know, but…
Tuk
At that time, a snowman fell forward.
“Ah.”
Cheshire reached out his hand to raise it, then looked back at Lilith, who was still leaning on his shoulder.
“Lilith?”
“….”
“Are you sleeping?”
Was she tired? Lilith fell asleep in an instant.
“Wake up. It’s cold, so go in and sleep.”
Cheshire shook Lilith.
He thought she would wake up in an instant.
“…Lilith?”
As he shook her, Lilith fell helplessly onto the snowfield.
