38 [1-38] The princess lays herself in vengeance. (1/2)

No matter how powerful her regenerative abilities were, Deanna would have died if she had been beheaded after doing so much damage.

The emotions she had been experiencing ceased. Her emotions were warm to Renai until the end.

The head that had left the body rolled on the snow. The smile on her face, as if she were sleeping peacefully, could be that of the Madonna in some earthly religious painting, or perhaps a statue of an angel.

Diana's body, with a hole in her neck and abdomen, suddenly bursts into flames.

The pale, brilliant flames licked up Diana's body and extinguished it like a lit candle melting, leaving not even ashes behind. All that remains is an empty, blood-soaked monk's robe without a trace of charring. And the remains of the silver whip.

”Gone ......, ......?

For some reason, Rene thought at that time, ”Thank God it disappeared. She didn't understand her own thought process.

It's not just Deanna. Benedict's and Hugh's bodies disappeared into the glow as well. They should have been lying on the snow, but the flames hadn't melted the snow at all.

”Was that ...... holy air energy?　What the ......

”Oh my, are you sure you can't hear Deanna?

I heard a girl's voice from nearby. It was not an auditory sound, but a voice that Rene's soul heard.

When he looked up, he saw the girl he'd been relying on floating in the air.

You're right. Because this is a spell to protect souls from undead and evil gods.

The undead can't hear the voice of a person in the arms of a god.

”Iris, ......?

Wavy blonde hair and wisteria eyes. A girl sorceress with wavy blonde hair and wisteria eyes, wearing a slightly oversized robe.

I'm not sure what to make of that.

The Moon Eater, the last of the Moon Eaters. Offer your body as an offering to the gods and return it to heaven with your soul. Protection of the body and soul from being handed over to the evil gods. It's called ”Coffin Stigma” ....... So Deanna was a Moon Eater.

Deanna's not here anymore. She had to go over there to pull us up.

With a confused and overwhelmed mind, Rene tried to make sense of the situation.

After death, his body should not be turned into an undead army of evil gods or his soul should not be captured and twisted into evil. For this reason, high-ranking clergy, royalty, and nobility who fight the undead for a living perform special rituals to protect their souls from being lost to the evil one after death.

It seems that Diana was preparing for something similar.

”Deanna ......?　Deanna?

Without thinking, Rene looked up into the dark night, searching for Deanna. There was nothing but darkness.

No voice, no form.

The undead are those who have stopped time between life and death.

They are not the living, but they cannot look into the afterlife.

Now the worlds of Rene and Diana are divided.

I'll say it for you, because Deanna is kind. You don't deserve to be called that name.

Iris's words were harsh and cold.

Rene would have killed everyone in Dragon's Throat. He had taken something precious to Deanna, and he had also taken her own life. To expect me to feel sorry for her after that is just unreasonable.

The fact that this was the only thing that mattered struck René with unbelievable force.

--There was nothing else he could do. There was no other choice. Once the fight was over, the option of not killing Diana was gone. There was nothing else I could do. There was no other way. ......

”Suck it up. That's your punishment.

If you kill out of vengeance, you'll kill the people who are important to you.

The poor princess will suffer alone for every life you take from her.

Her wisteria eyes narrowed in a lecherous manner. It was as if she could see through Rene's anguish to a part of him that even he was unaware of.

Even if you are a genius magician, Iris is only a child in terms of life experience.

Even Iris can see through her, and so can Rene.

Suddenly, Iris looked up at some high place.

And then a troubled look on her face.

”...... Sorry, Deanna. I'm sorry, Deanna. I can't tell you what she's asking. I'm not going to forgive her.

Deanna.

It seems that Deanna, who is out of Rene's reach, said something to him.

And then she asked Iris to deliver the message, and Iris refused.

Rene wanted to hear what Deanna had said.

There was no way she could hear.

She couldn't speak.

”Goodbye.

Iris waved her hand, and her soul vanished.

Suddenly. As if it had never been there in the first place.

He was held in the arms of the god, separated from the undead Rene.

The cursed red blade left Rene's hand and plunged into the snow.

Literally holding his head, Rene broke his knees.

”Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!

-- ”I've turned into a monster to my heart's content.” ......?　If so, then what is this sense of loss and ...... despair!

The feeling was not guilt. Like Benedict and Hugh, René felt no remorse at all when he killed Diana.

The only thing was that he could no longer see Diana, who had cared for him to the very end.

René's feelings were very similar to the feelings of a motherless child who misses her mother and grieves for her.

And this time, it was not a knight of the royal brotherhood. It was Rene himself who cut off his head.

The regret that he had ruined a treasure that had been so precious to him by his own hand was sinking its fangs into René's heart and threatening to engulf him.

Rene had always treated Diana as Iris.