How the Regressor Loves the Reincarnated

51. Between the saint and the apostle (2)

1.

With the successful elimination of Scorpio, there are now a total of nine apostles left for Adele to deal with. Excluding myself, of course.

In a way, we were very lucky. Thanks to the speedy handling of Scorpio, who was in charge of liaison among the apostles, I was able to enjoy some reflexive benefits.

First of all, the risk of being assassinated by the people around me, Adele and my family, to be precise, has been greatly reduced. Although the remnants of the Assassination Brigade are still spread throughout the continent, can the Assassination Brigade, which has lost its focal point, continue to play the role of the ‘invisible sword’ of the Zodiac? I don’t think so.

It wasn’t that there wasn’t a leader who could lead the entire Assassination Brigade instead of Scorpio. According to Adele, the exact relationship was questionable, but it is clear that Libra has a fairly close relationship with Scorpio. Judging from that point of view, only Libra was the only one who could bring the Assassination Brigade back into the Zodiac’s lower organization.

In other words, there is one more reason to catch and kill Libra as soon as possible. Even if it wasn’t so, since the apostle me and Adele wanted to deal with first and foremost was Libra, as long as they followed the existing plan, no problem would arise.

Next, Libra’s whereabouts could be determined.

“As expected. Luke, look at this.”

“Hmm? What is it?”

“A letter from Burgo.”

To take a look at this, Adele handed me a piece of pretty luxurious stationery.

[The item was definitely handed over. But if I was going to send that nerd Lee Bra as her courier, wouldn’t it have been better if I had arranged my schedule so that I had the least amount of time to meet her face-to-face with the human? Next time… No, I’ll correct it. Please do not let the next thing happen.]

The contents of the letter were brief, and the sender’s name was not written anywhere. However, even looking at the letter that gave off the feeling of saying, ‘I was sent by a precious person,’ I was able to guess who the sender was to some extent.

“Actually, the profanity written in the middle more than anything else is proof that the person who wrote the letter is Burgo. That girl really has her mouth dirty. With that personality of hers, I don’t know how the hell she usually pretends to be a saint.”

“Aha… That sounds pretty believable.”

“Hmm, by the way. Do you adjust your schedule? What is this again…”

While Adele closed her eyes and thought about her thoughts, I decided to scan Scorpio’s office lightly with a spotter spell to see if we had missed anything. Since this entire space was created by a wizard who far surpassed the normal level by expanding it with magic, wouldn’t it be worth looking forward to at least one hidden space?

“Ummm…”

I was a little worried about Adele, who was frowning and trying to think of something intently, but for now, I decided to make it clear what I had to do.

“I found it.”

The fact that a space with a considerable level of magical power was caught in my senses while I was looking for something that could be hidden in this office by spreading magic like that,

“…Ah! That’s right, full moon! Yeah, what are you looking for?”

It was close at about the same time that Adele recalled the information she had been trying to recall.

“I was just looking for something. I think that’s more important than that, so tell Adele first.”

“Um, okay. Luke, do you remember the last time there was a full moon?”

“…A full moon?”

I don’t know what kind of full moon it is all of a sudden, but is there anyone who lives remembering that? If you happened to see the moon the night before and thought, “Oh, the moon is very bright today,” You might remember what the shape of the moon looked like, but usually you don’t pay much attention to the shape of the moon. I’m on the side It wasn’t too different for me either.

However,

“I’m not sure when the full moon happened, but wouldn’t it be nice to just see it for yourself?”

As long as magic power is sufficient for a wizard, most things that we can imagine, except for a few special cases, are within the realm of feasibility. If you can’t do it with magic, it’s simply a problem that can be seen as a result of not having enough magic power. Although, in reality, it is usually referred to as ‘impossible’ when it is impossible to meet the required magical power.

“…Wow.”

And turning the entire ceiling of the office into a window that reflects the night sky in real time is also possible for a wizard. Although knights’ swords have romance, sorcerers’ magic has a unique magic touch.

Adele sheds an exclamation as she sees the colorful stars that gradually reveal their appearance above the night sky where the drawing paper called the ceiling is dyed black. Seeing him admiring it like that makes me feel like I’m starting to think of something.

In any case, she put off her thoughts until later and moved her gaze toward the moon, which Adele was curious about.

“I saw it not too long ago. It must have been about a week.”

The conclusion drawn by mobilizing all the shallow scientific knowledge was that the current rising moon was the waning moon that was just setting. Since the Barthes Empire belongs to the northern hemisphere, my guess is probably correct.

“Whoah…! I’m really glad. That’s enough time, though. What if I was late?”

“It would be a little less than three weeks before the full moon rises again. Why, is it because you have something else to do on the day of the full moon?”

“There is work. Not from me, but from the zodiac side. The second shrine, that is, the one in the center of the kingdom over there, can only be opened on the day when the full moon shines the brightest.”

After hearing that, it was only then that I could understand why Adele let out a sigh of relief as if she had been relieved. It was said that even if the time was a little ambiguous, we would have had no choice but to suck our fingers and watch as the Zodiac set foot on that sacred ground.

“Anyway, since the next place we’re going to go is Gyoguk anyway, I don’t think there will be any big problems. What did Luke say he found earlier…?”

“Oh, is that it?”

Even if it’s not so, I’ve been curious about it since a while ago, and I was on the verge of going crazy. First, he took out a quill from an inkwell lying on Scorpio’s desk. After that, close the lid of the ink bottle and turn the bottle two turns counterclockwise.

“Uh, uh uh?”

The wall behind the desk disappears like snow, revealing the safe behind it.

“What? How did you do it?”

“Of course I did it with magic.”

“…Don’t play around and tell me quickly. When I came here before, I couldn’t find anything like this.”

“Um…”

I deliberately took my time, and replied with the most mean-looking smile I could think of.

“I don’t like it.”

“What, what?! Really, stop playing such boring pranks and tell me, huh?”

There’s something else I can tell you. The fact that I put on a show with that inkwell was actually just trying to make it look like it was there. The magic that was hiding that vault began to destroy the moment I noticed its existence. I can’t reveal the fact that I just destroyed the magical power that made up the magic in time with my bravado.

I still had the events up there deep in my heart. Those humiliating moments he had to go through under Adele’s guidance. The karma was focused on horribly trivial things, and I had sworn to repay you as much as possible.

“Well, then… what is inside this safe?”

“…Was ignored.”

Let’s unlock the safe by lightly borrowing the power of magic and then open the door.

“…”

“…”

A scene unfolded that left both Adele and I at a loss for words.

“My God, how much does that cost?”

Adele translated my thoughts into words without missing a word. What an astonishing level of mind reading.

Without going into details, inside the safe were gold ingots, jewels, and numerous bundles of peon bills that could easily be crossed by dozens even at a rough estimate. Even for me and Adele, who grew up in a background familiar enough to be familiar with wealth, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen goods like this gathered in one place.

“…I couldn’t find something like this in the last episode, did I just skip it?”

Let’s put aside Adele’s heartbreaking experience that touches our heartstrings for now. Now, it was a touching moment when the wealth accumulated by the Assassination Brigade for hundreds of years was in our hands.

Thank you so much, Scorpio!

2.

I decided to put off taking care of the goods in the safe until after the day dawns, after my mana has recovered. It was clear that it was an amount that I had no idea exactly where or how to spend it. The first place Adele and I decided to use was…

I was involved with these guys right in front of me.

“…You don’t have to kill people? So am I going to be thrown away like this? I-I don’t like that…”

“I can’t really believe that the captain passed away in the first place. There’s no way that scary person could die so suddenly, right? It would be a lie if you didn’t see it.”

“Isn’t this the same test as before? He obviously said he would check our loyalty…”

A total of 15 children, including the boy Scorpio used as a shield to save his life just before Adele’s sword slashed his throat. Adele says she wouldn’t have let them live if it hadn’t been for the conviction that these children had never killed anyone.

It’s a relief that these kids won’t be able to regard killing people as a daily routine under Scorpio, but I get angry every time I see evidence that they’ve been growing to suit Scorpio’s tastes.

“Guys? It’s not a lie or a test, so listen to me. The naughty captain has done too many bad things and is being punished. Fortunately, you guys haven’t done anything as bad as he did, so he won’t be punished.”

“…Scared.”

And at that moment, a boy with black hair dropped a bomb in the hall.

“As expected, the lady killed the leader, right?”

“What, what…! Auntie?!”

Perhaps she wasn’t usually in shock, but Adele’s expression of opening and closing her mouth as if she couldn’t find anything to say seemed so pitiful. Well, where would Adele go to listen to her aunt?

“What is our friend’s name?”

After gently patting the back of Adele, who was looking at me with her pitiful eyes, she threw a question to the child, who must have been hated by Adele because of her previous remarks.

“No. 31. Hyung, but why are you curious about that?”

It was fortunate that I did not show my face to the children, so I was not treated as harshly as Adele received.

“Why, why is Luke the older brother and I…?”

I can hear Adele muttering something to herself next to her. I can assure you, she is talking to herself, telling me to see and listen to her unconditionally.

Due to Adele’s personality, I can’t openly act like her child, so I’m expressing it indirectly like that, ‘I’m mad right now, so please comfort me quickly.’

And even though you know that, you can’t help but listen to it. Therefore, it is urgent to sort out the situation of these children as quickly as possible.

“If any of you have names whose names are not numbers, your hands… Oh, they were tied, yea. It’s okay, can you tell me if you have any?”

Unsurprisingly, no one answered me.

It’s a long way to go.