chapter 41
My Beloved Sir (2)
A space enveloped in pure white light
“Where… am I?”
Vissus realized that he was in the middle of an unfamiliar space.
“Heaven? The afterlife?”
Thud
As Vissus turned his head at the sound coming from somewhere, he saw a group of men gathered.
“This is…!”
“Quite audacious of you.”
The secretary, dressed like a mercenary, opened his mouth.
“Do you think you can just stand there and offer your chest?”
“It was necessary.”
Agent Vers responded with a determined look.
“Fine, I suppose you would. But it seems like you’ve forgotten that this body isn’t yours alone.”
“You are me, and I am you.”
“Hey…”
The two Vers glared at each other.
Thud.
“Stop right there.”
Angel Vers descended from above, landing between them.
“It was necessary. In order to free Lopina, who was corroded by Diablo’s magic, we needed to deliver a certain amount of mental shock.”
“But still…”
“If Diablo were in the same situation, wouldn’t you have acted the same way?”
Warrior Vers interjected.
“That’s…”
“No need to worry. The conditions for activating the Holy Sword are met. There’s no chance of anything going wrong with our bodies.”
Warrior Vers walked slowly between them.
“The essential virtue of a warrior, sacrifice, has been fulfilled. With this, the engraving of the Holy Sword will proceed, and our bodies will be restored. So there’s no need to worry.”
Warrior Vers turned his gaze towards Vers, still in the same position.
“What remains depends entirely on us.”
In a flash,
Secretarys opened his eyes.
Countless versions of themselves from past lives.
It was all a fantasy about them.
“Gah….”
Secretarys grabbed his head as if he were about to explode from a severe headache.
A vast amount of memories and emotions rushed into his mind.
They were the experiences of Agent Secretarys, who sacrificed himself to save Alice.
And now, a new version of himself.
How far does this go?
Now he could be certain.
He wasn’t just reincarnated into a novel.
His life on Earth, which he thought was his true past life, was just one of many past lives.
Just a mere memory of his first past life.
Then why am I gaining memories of past lives?
Sparkling,
Secretarys discovered something shining brightly in front of him.
Secretarys slowly stood up and walked towards the radiant light.
After what felt like a moment and an eternity, Secretarys realized that he was standing in front of a brightly shining sword.
Sword….
The Holy Sword?
Secretary Viss, unconsciously reaching out, grasped the Holy Sword in front of him.
Fwoosh
An enormous amount of light poured out from the Holy Sword in an instant.
It must have been a blinding light that would make it difficult to open one’s eyes, but Viss could receive all that light with his eyes closed.
Instead, he felt as if he were in the warm embrace of something.
Within Viss’s vision, a woman’s figure appeared, enveloped in white light.
The figure of a woman with silver hair, looking at him.
“Pity?”
For some reason, Viss could sense the emotions the woman held towards him.
He wanted to know why a woman he had never seen before felt pity towards him.
But the moment Viss took a step towards her, the world turned upside down.
Fwoosh
In an instant.
“Ah, Aoi!”
Viss, opening his eyes, could see Lopina embracing him with a tear-streaked face.
“…Alice?”
“Thank goodness! I’m so relieved!”
Thunk
“……!”
Secretarys unconsciously raised his hand and stroked Lobina’s head.
It was the touch of emotions that arose within him as the reincarnated agent, Secretarys.
Overwhelmed by the longing she had for that touch, Lobina stiffened.
“Long time no see, our cutie.”
“Bu-ee-ee-ee-eh!”
Lobina poured tears again and buried her face in Secretarys’ embrace.
* * *
“Oh, I see… This time, I was manipulated by the Chairman’s energy….”
Lobina, who had been newly reincarnated but hadn’t yet regained her memories from her past life, was shocked to hear from Secretarys that she had been manipulated by Diabel’s energy.
“I was so stupid again… To save someone like me….”
Secretarys apologized, explaining that he had acted in the same way as before to give her a mental shock since they couldn’t free Lobina through normal means, but Lobina couldn’t forgive herself.
Crunch.
Lobina bit her lip hard, causing blood to flow.
“Stop it.”
Secretarys grabbed Lobina’s arm and pulled her into his embrace.
“Huh?”
Lobina stayed in Secretarys’ embrace.
With a reddened face, Secretarys took his finger to Lobina’s lips, looking up at her.
“Ah, sir?”
Ooong.
Sacred power manifested from Secretary’s hands.
“There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Cutie. It’s all my fault.”
With pure divine power, Lavina’s lips gradually healed.
Lavina could feel Secretary’s warm energy embracing her face.
“Above all, because I met Lavina again like this, I was able to regain the memories of my past life. I’m actually grateful to Diablo. …No, wait.”
Secretary fixed Lavina’s disheveled appearance as if a mother tidying up her child’s clothes.
“Should I pay the price for daring to manipulate our Cutie as I pleased?”
Secretary looked down at Lavina and burst into laughter.
“Sir…!”
Lavina embraced Secretary tightly.
“I should be the one apologizing. I made you go through such a terrible experience twice.”
“…Never again. Never do that again.”
“hahahaha. Well, anyway, I knew you would recover because of this sword…”
Thud.
Suddenly, a shadow sprang from the floor and grabbed Secretary’s leg, pulling him down.
“…Huh?”
Secretary fell backward.
But Lavina’s hand held onto him, preventing his body from hitting the ground.
Lavina, who wiped away tears with her sleeve, looked at Secretary.
“I won’t let you miss it again.”
Robina’s gaze at Vissus flickered with unease.
“…Huh. What’s this…?”
Vissus, who had experienced countless past lives, felt a shiver run down his spine even from that gaze.
“Come to think of it, am I your senior?”
Robina, looking at Vissus, gave a mischievous smile.
“hehehe. Am I your older sister? Mister. Would you like to call me ‘Nuna’?”
“Just a moment. Alice!”
“It’s not Alice. Try repeating after me. Nu. Na.”
Robina’s gaze was no longer that of a little girl longing for him.
Rather,
It was closer to the eyes of a predator distorted by wounds and desire.
* * *
“In the end, I couldn’t hear it.”
After Vissus left, Robina felt the warmth that remained in her embrace.
Mister had never done anything wrong.
Connected to him in a past life, she could glimpse his emotions and memories.
In a past life, she lost Mister and brought down the ‘government’.
She knew the fact that Mister gave up his past self simply to save himself.
And in this life, once again, he threw himself to save her.
With that special-looking sword, I managed to recover, but once again, something like that happened…
“You, as a person, really…!”
I can’t do something like that for you!
Why do you keep burdening me with debts!
…This won’t do.
I have to manage myself well so that I can’t engage in such dangerous actions again.
Unable to let Mr. Ajeossi be in danger anymore, I sent Secretary Vissus out.
Though Secretary Vissus was very worried about him, I convinced him by saying that if I were to meet Mr. Ajeossi again, I would do something dangerous.
Though he couldn’t take his steps away, I could barely send him away by saying that he had to leave so that he could work.
Robina slowly raised her hand.
And then she clenched her fist.
Crack!
A giant hand burst out from her shadow and destroyed the core of the area.
Boom!
As magic condensed behind her, Diavel revealed himself.
“Alice. No, Robina. What are you doing right now?”
“Heh.”
Robina, who slightly raised the corner of her mouth, turned around and met Diavel’s gaze.
“I have something to say. Chairman Diavel. What did you do to me?”
With eyes that were not laughing at all.
Oong
A shadow took the form of Vallock behind Robina.
“Hmm? Will you tell me?”