NOVEL SIMPLE c33
"This is terrible. ......
I'd love to help you, but I'm sorry, I don't have anything in my supply store that can help with all of these symptoms."
"Oh no ......"
After two days of not sleeping and walking with my brother on my back, what awaited me was the cruel reality that there was no medicine.
I had to go to the church, but they didn't have a magician to help me.
"It's okay. ......"
My brother, who was born with a weak body, suffered a lot when his parents left when he couldn't talk yet.
I'm not going to lose my only family member.
"I heard that there is a girl in this town who is looking for a cure for an injured boy, is that you?
"...... who is it?"
As I continued walking through the city and the sun began to set, a man dressed in black spoke to me.
"You have a choice."
I spoke to the suspicious man who suddenly appeared, wary, but the man ignored my words and continued.
"You can either leave the boy there in bottomless despair with no hope in sight, or you can take my hand and save him even if you are treated like a puppet yourself.
Choose whichever you prefer."
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"When the man asked me what my choice was, I decided to help my brother even if he treated me like a puppet.
After that, I think it's a process that anyone could have predicted, the man who paid for the medicine was a duke and I infiltrated the count's family after only six months of training as a spy."
...... I see.
Somehow, I didn't feel any intent to make Mena sympathetic, but the way she spoke just seemed like she was trying to invite sympathy.
And it left me feeling uncomfortable in places, how can the Duke use a spy and execute it with only 6 months of training?
The story is also horribly short, and I'd think she'd be more indebted to the duke who shouldered the cost than the countess who just made the potion. ......
It's a strange and uncomfortable feeling, like a bugbear, like a snag.
Let's check it out,
"I've got a few things on my mind, let's just get this contract magic done.
I'll end this contract magic for now, break all previous conditions, and give you my word that I won't hurt Mena until 10 minutes after we make the contract magic again."
"I agree."
The contract was over and the magic was available to both parties.
"Look into my eyes."
Yes, okay.
I approach Mena and look her in the eye.
Looking straight into her eyes, I spread my magic to cover hers and Mina's.
"Oh, um, I'm ......"
"Please stay a little longer.'
"Oh, okay."
The magic power spread out is thinned out to match Mena's body.
(It is shaking.)
The thinned magic power was partially unstable and kept shaking.
My prediction may have been right.
"I'm going to touch your forehead."
"Huh?"
I directly touch it and send a large amount of magic power.
After a few seconds, the magic power began to be absorbed rapidly.
"It's witchcraft."
There are surprisingly many ways to obtain special powers other than magic in the world.
Very powerful things such as the power of the deadly sins, which is also the world's title, as well as the power of virtue, and an ore called the divine ore, which allows you to gain the power of God.
In addition to such powerful powers, there are also special non-magical skills that can be acquired through training and are used by many people.
One of these skills is called witchcraft.
It is the power to sacrifice one's own body instead of using any magic power at all. The main ability is to kill by spell, but unlike normal magic, there is basically no evidence left behind.
By the time the magician realizes that the spell has been cast, it is already too late, and the magician cannot be identified.
Of course, in addition to spell-killing, the magician can also use other powerful abilities, such as the power to transfer injuries to the other person, called " puppet transfer," and reversal of fortune.
The downside, however, is that if the opponent's magical power is high, he will resist, and if he fails, he will lose his own power.
Witchcraft is basically passed down from one generation to the next, and there are almost no users today, let alone 100 years ago.
Even in our knowledge, it does not even exist in this timeline, and only appears as an enemy in the next work, i.e., a little further in the future.
""Withdrawal: ......"
"Hmm, mild thought guidance."
I don't know all the details of how it was induced, but it seems to have been induced to withdraw from the Count's house, as she is muttering with empty eyes.
If I maintain the current state in which Mena is unstable due to my magic power, I will be able to make her tell me everything about how she was led to the Count's house.
But in 10 minutes, I will have to perform the contracted magic again, and I will have to cut the connection between Mena and the one who is performing the conjuration.
It's like tearing off the path through which the magic is flowing.
"Geez. ......."
Mina suddenly made a distressed sound, and it seems that Mena's arms are straining.
Sorry, hang in there and endure.
Gradually, the path of the magic power becomes smaller and smaller, and eventually the path that the magic power was passing through disappears completely.
"Ah, that?"
"......"
Are you okay, ~!!
The Mena who has regained consciousness is surprised at Mina who is turning her eyes in her own arms.
Did I kill her? I'd like to see her expression interesting, but the time for the contract is approaching.
"I'm going to use my contract magic, right?"
"Yes!"
The situation is returned.
"The thought process must be lost.
But I don't want to hear about the past again, I'm just giving you a choice."
I don't want to hear about the past.
All I need to know is that Mena is a spy, and that she has turned herself in, and I need to know what she wants.
"One, be killed by me right here, right now.
Second, spend the last moments of her life with your brother, and then be killed.
Or three, to be killed together with your brother.
Which one?"
"......!"
Mena rolls her eyes in surprise.
The previous contract magic included the condition of not being killed, but the new contract magic now does not, because I who spoke the condition first will be given priority.
Even if it is said that it was a surprise and cowardly, there is something that I cannot forgive.
It is a betrayal against the Countess Dicaman, and I will never forgive her, even if I am mentally weakened by the knowledge and the betrayer is being threatened.
"Take your time to think about it until you run out of magic."
Contract magic slowly consumes magic power even before it is bound, and once Mena's magic power is exhausted, she can attack.
Now what will you choose?