My Lord Who Is Being Prudent! [EN]: Chapter 91

§ 91 – Reunion (2)

White divine power gathered on Aria’s jade-like hand.

Eeeeeeeeee!

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

The demon detector in Cian’s hand was ringing wildly, showing no signs of stopping.

Lea kept saying it was noisy, but this was beyond noisy.

Therefore:

“This thing works fine. What exactly is broken?”

“You…!”

Various emotions flashed across Aria’s eyes.

Surprise, embarrassment, shock.

And a hint of anger.

But the most prominent emotion was betrayal.

Aria reached out her hand towards Cian.

With it came a torrent of pure white light.

The onrushing light was quite threatening.

It seemed quite sincere.

Cian immediately reached into his inventory.

And took out the SS-rank sword he had stored before entering the Papal State.

Saaah─!

Dark magic surged over the dark blade.

Cian swung the sword at the onrushing light.

Clang─!

The light was cut in one stroke.

Although Aria was called the reincarnation of Muriel,

She was not comparable to Muriel in reality.

And the magic Cian wielded was based on Kyle’s Soul-Devouring Art, known as the strongest Arnaise [a powerful magical technique].

It was the magic of the origin that even the great mage Elodie could not dare to touch.

Saaah─!

The pouring lights were swallowed by the magic and disappeared.

Cian’s sword continued to dance.

Paang─!

Sagak─!

The pouring lights were all cut down.

The cut light lost its power and simply vanished.

“Hoo…!”

Cian took a deep breath and sheathed his sword.

“Why attack me out of the blue?”

He frowned and spoke to Aria.

But why was it?

“You…! What are you doing…!”

Aria was looking at Cian with an expression of disbelief.

That was because the divine power she had just unleashed.

It was truly sincere.

Though not at full power,

It was not something that could be easily suppressed.

Aria, the saintess of the Holy Empire.

If Cian wasn’t the successor of Kyle,

Aria was the one chosen by the Zodiac Sword, surpassing Kai and Panat, who were called the stars of the empire.

If such Aria put her heart into it,

Not many could withstand it.

But Cian had cut down all of Aria’s divine power.

In other words, Cian’s level was by no means low,

And he was completely different from the Cian that Aria knew.

The Cian Aria saw in the hall was not this strong.

Could he have grown this much in such a short period?

That could be ruled out as impossible.

Unless he had been hiding his strength from the beginning.

Moreover, the sword Cian was holding now.

More precisely, the aura surging over the sword.

Unlike the blue aura,

The aura surging over Cian’s sword was clearly black.

And even the eerie power that was felt.

Therefore, it was definitely the negative magic.

Eeeeeeeeee!

Above all, the demon detector was still ringing wildly towards Cian.

“You… you’ve been deceiving me all this time…?”

Aria’s misunderstanding only deepened.

Eeeeeeeeee!

Cian put the wildly ringing demon detector into his inventory.

At the same time, the sound stopped abruptly.

And despite the loud noise, no one else seemed to have heard it.

Whatever it was, it was a fortunate situation.

And now that things had come to this, Cian couldn’t just keep scolding Aria.

In any case, to anyone who saw it.

It was a situation that could easily lead to misunderstandings!

“No, hey, wait a minute. This is, well…!”

“Shut up!!”

But Aria didn’t listen to Cian.

Her face was distorted with anger.

Tears were slightly welling up in her eyes.

It seemed that Aria had received a considerable shock.

Aria spread out her hand.

She thought he was someone she could trust.

The memorial service and its nobility shown in the Arnaise Hall.

The warmth of using Aria’s abilities for the sake of her territory’s people without hesitation.

He was still annoying, unpleasant,

And really hateful all the time.

But she thought he wasn’t a bad person.

She thought he might be a man she could trust a little bit.

To think that such a person was actually a demon.

Aria didn’t know how to explain this shock.

Of course, even though all of that was a misunderstanding.

Aria had no way of knowing the truth.

“I can’t forgive you!!”

Hwaaaaaaaak─!!

An enormous amount of divine power erupted from Aria’s entire body.

This time, she really intended to do something to Cian.

The entire room was filled with pure white divine power.

The one with the most powerful divine power in the history of the Holy Empire.

Was Muriel’s reincarnation really a reincarnation?

He couldn’t avoid this.

The only way was to attack Aria.

But no matter what, he couldn’t do that.

“Hey! Calm down for a second─!”

“Shut up!!”

Aria screamed and continued to pour out divine power.

The absolute power to annihilate all impure energy in the world at once.

No matter how demonic, it wouldn’t be safe.

The erupting divine power spread throughout the room and eventually engulfed Cian as well.

Thud.

Aria collapsed on the spot.

Partly because she was exhausted from using too much divine power.

And partly because an unknown sense of emptiness filled her.

A strange feeling of resentment and betrayal.

Also, an unknown emotion swirling in her heart.

And.

“Ugh…!”

A familiar voice was heard from somewhere…?”

Aria’s head turned towards the source of the sound.

That’s where she looked.

“Kuh…!”

With a face full of distortions.

Cian was holding his forehead with both hands, looking quite distressed.

“…Huh?”

Aria’s expression momentarily went blank.

That was because Cian shouldn’t have been okay.

Of course, no matter how you looked at that appearance, he didn’t seem okay.

But the fact that he was still there was absurd.

The divine power that Aria had just unleashed was the power to annihilate impure evil.

It didn’t have much effect on beings that weren’t evil.

But it was an absolute power stronger than any other for beings based on evil.

If Cian was a demon, he should have been annihilated.

At the very least, he should have been writhing in pain on the floor.

“Ugh…!”

He shouldn’t have just been frowning like that.

There was only one way that was possible.

“He’s not a demon…?”

Aria’s expression went blank.

And.

‘Damn it…!’

Cian was in a terrible state right now.

The magic was rampaging inside him.

He was frantically reciting the formulas of the Soul-Devouring Art.

But he couldn’t control this rampaging magic at all.

Of course, learning the Soul-Devouring Art meant that facing and talking to Aria wasn’t a big problem.

But directly facing Aria’s divine power was a completely different story.

Unless he could master the Soul-Devouring Art like Kyle and perfectly control the magic.

Cian’s progress in the Soul-Devouring Art was only about 14%.

As he held on to his fading mind.

“You… how…?”

Aria’s blank voice was heard.

“I… Kuh…! I told you it was a misunderstanding… Ugh!”

Cian couldn’t continue speaking.

The overflowing magic was causing dizziness beyond dizziness.

And Aria was watching Cian’s appearance.

Aria couldn’t understand what was going on right now.

And only then did the situation start to come into view little by little.

Come to think of it, Cian hadn’t really attacked Aria.

If his identity as a demon had been revealed, he should have tried to kill Aria right away.

But Cian had only defended himself.

He hadn’t posed any particular threat to Aria.

Her mind was complicated.

But one thing was certain.

She had definitely made a misunderstanding.

A strange sense of relief.

And at the same time, a feeling of guilt.

“Are you okay…?”

Aria slowly approached Cian.

His face was quite distressed, as if he had suffered a serious internal injury.

“Get… away…!”

Cian pushed away Aria who was approaching.

At the same time, Ugh…! Cian’s expression became even more distorted.

“I’m sorry…! I’ll heal you right away.”

But Aria moved even closer to Cian.

The silky platinum blonde hair brushed against Cian’s face.

Aria’s dizzying face filled his vision.

A refreshing scent stung Cian’s nose.

Could it be that even the scent was embedded in the beauty that could be called perfect?

Therefore, it shook the hearts of all the men in the world.

“Get away… Ugh!”

And even shook Cian’s magic!

Cian was really going crazy.

The magic was already boiling from the divine power!

It was as if it was shouting, ‘Get rid of that, that, that damn thing!!! Right now!!!!’

So, although it was a beauty that made his mind dizzy just by looking at it.

It was a harmful existence to Cian right now.

“Don’t shove that disgusting face in my face…!”

Cian roughly pushed Aria away.

But was the timing a little late?

“Ugh…!”

Cian couldn’t help but vomit out what was inside him due to the terrible pain.

“Uweeegh…!”

Once he started vomiting, his stomach continued to pour out its contents.

“……”

Aria’s mind was in a mess.

Was he… throwing up now?

Of course, he could be doing that because he had an internal injury.

But the problem was that Cian had clearly told her not to shove that disgusting face in his face.

That meant.

‘Is he throwing up because my face is disgusting…?’

Aria just stood there blankly, staring at Cian.

“Haa…! Haa…!”

Cian wiped his mouth with his sleeve.

The throbbing headache made his mind faint.

To calm down, he had to get away from Aria.

Moreover, this place was the Papal State, called the sanctuary.

He seemed to have to go outside the Papal State altogether.

“Don’t follow me…!”

Cian turned around and left the room.

#

“I wonder if our saintess is doing well…”

Laura, who had stepped back for a while to avoid disturbing their time alone.

Also, Laura had dismissed all the surrounding priests and holy knights.

Therefore, she wanted to give them a little more time alone.

But now Laura was heading to the room where Cian and Aria were.

“Even Archbishop Lahir is going to the south…”

It was because she had to deliver Archbishop Lahir’s message.

The south was suffering from an unprecedented epidemic.

Aria had expressed that she should send support.

But Archbishop Lahir had opposed Aria, saying that she couldn’t.

In the end, the situation was settled with Aria going herself.

But suddenly, now he was saying he would go himself.

“What on earth is he thinking?”

Laura was able to arrive in front of the room where Cian and Aria were.

And just as she was about to knock.

Bang!

Suddenly, the door burst open and Cian came out of the door.

And what had happened?

He was covered in sweat and his hair was all wet.

For some reason, he was panting.

It seemed like he had been doing something intense in the room.

‘What on earth…?’

Soon, Cian glanced at Laura once.

But that was only for a moment.

He took a big step and quickly disappeared from sight.

Laura stared blankly at Cian.

And she gently looked into the room.

Aria was left alone in the room.

Aria was staring blankly at the door where Cian had left.

Also, for some reason, her clothes were torn.

And her silky platinum blonde hair was also disheveled here and there.

It also seemed like she had been doing something intense.

‘What on earth…?’

Laura had no idea what the two of them had been doing in the room.

“S, Saintess…?”

Laura called out to Aria.

Soon, Aria slowly turned her head.

And really, really why.

Tears were welling up in Aria’s eyes.

#

“Seriously, that kid…”

Cian muttered as he left the door.

He told her it was a misunderstanding.

But she attacked him out of the blue.

She even unleashed her divine power with sincerity.

He almost ascended to heaven as it was [a euphemism for dying].

Of course, no matter how much Aria was the reincarnation of Muriel.

Could she possibly approach Kyle’s magic?

But for Cian, whose progress was not yet high, it was a difficult type to withstand.

“Ugh…! My stomach keeps churning.”

Was it because he was hit by quite a powerful divine power?

Even though he was far enough away from Aria, his physical condition was not good.

His chest was stuffy as if something was blocking it.

His stomach was full of air and felt like it would burst at any moment.

And even the divine power that was felt around him.

As expected, he seemed to have to completely leave the Papal State.

Cian continued to move.

And…

“Where is this?”

He got lost!

Cian looked around.

First of all, it was terribly wide.

And they all looked similar.

Because of that, he couldn’t find his way out!

He thought he had retraced the path that Laura had guided him on.

But in reality, that didn’t seem to be the case.

“Damn it…”

He had to leave the Papal State as soon as possible to calm the rampaging magic.

But he couldn’t just stay still like this.

Cian started walking as he could.

How long had he walked like that?

“Where is this again?”

Cian had come to a place he couldn’t figure out at all!

It was quite secluded and the many priests were nowhere to be seen.

It seemed that even the people inside the Papal State didn’t come here often.

“Haa…”

Cian sighed deeply.

He seemed to have to ask a passing priest for directions.

He was worried that if he asked for directions, the priest’s meddling would start with ‘Brother, you don’t look well, are you okay?’

And he was trying to solve it alone because he was worried that the magic would run wild again due to the divine power.

Cian looked around.

And far away.

He could see a priest moving busily somewhere.

Cian slowly moved towards the priest.

Then suddenly.

He flinched.

Cian’s senses felt an alien energy.

It was more of a familiar energy than an alien one.

In other words, it was the only familiar energy in this damn Papal State full of divinity.

“…Magic?”

He could feel the energy of magic from that priest.

“What is it?”

Cian really wondered what it was.

That was because magic in the Papal State?

Even a priest who wielded divine power?

Cian focused his mind for a moment.

The magic that had not yet calmed down was rampaging, but he held it back.

And.

“What is it really?”

Cian tilted his head.

That was because the magic he felt was quite strange.

To be exact, it was subtle to call it magic.

Even aside from the original magic that Cian wielded.

There was a clear difference from the magic felt in the Forest of Darkness.

Even a faint malice was felt.

But it was strange to call it a demon.

The demons Cian had met so far.

The 7 demon lords, Nurvia of Sloth.

The demon of negation, Lich.

He could feel a clear malice from these two.

There was only a difference in degree.

Cian could recognize a clear malice.

But the energy that was felt now.

It was subtle to call it such malice.

‘A demon?’

That was all he could think of.

But that didn’t make sense either.

The demons couldn’t come out of the Forest of Darkness.

The moment they came out of the Forest of Darkness, their existence was denied.

Moreover, this place was the Papal State full of divine power.

The demons couldn’t even set foot in it.

In short, it wasn’t the energy of a demon.

But it was an energy that couldn’t be called a demon.

And it was something that couldn’t be felt from a human.

“What is it?”

So it was an energy he didn’t know what it was.

Soon, the priest moved busily.

Cian followed the priest, suppressing his presence as much as possible.

How long had he followed like that?

The priest entered a room.

Cian pretended not to know and passed by the room.

Then.

-It seems the saintess is going to the south herself.

-What? The saintess herself?

Voices leaked from inside the room.

-Yes. The saintess kept nagging, so Archbishop Lahir said it in a fit of anger.

-Wait. The saintess can’t go to the south. It’s…

-So it seems Archbishop Lahir is going with her.

-How could this be…

Silence fell in the room for a moment.

And again.

-Are you thinking of advancing the plan?

-It seems so.

-This is a big problem. We still need time to complete the vessel.

At that very moment.

“I don’t think I’ve seen your face before.”

Suddenly, an old voice was heard next to Cian.

That’s where he looked.

There was an old man wearing a neat robe.

-W, who is it!

Surprised shouts erupted from inside the room at the voice.

Soon, priests rushed out of the door.

And they found Cian standing in front of the door.

“L, Archbishop Lahir!”

The priests shouted in surprise.

And at the same time.

“Who are you and why are you eavesdropping on other people’s conversations here?”

Lahir asked Cian.