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While supporting Ursch-kun’s body, I looked back at Alice-chan, who kept calling out to the fallen Chris-sama as she hugged his head. I looked around with caution, but I couldn’t see Viscount Hillson, who stole the [Anti-Soul Necklace] from Ursch-kun.
At that time, Ursch-kun moaned and tried to staggeringly stand up on his own.
“Ursch-kun!! Did you notice? You’ve just been resuscitated, so please rest a little more and sit down.”
“Hmm. . . . . . yeah. . . . Isabella, I’m sorry. Apparently, he got a necklace.”
When he sat on the ground with his body supported, Ursch-kun apologized by saying that.
“No. One necklace is okay. I’m really glad that Ursch-kun is safe. Rather than that, it’s my fault because I knew that Viscount Hillson was coming up to the ground, but I got absorbed in the conversation and relieved my vigilance. I’m really sorry for putting you in danger.”
“It can’t be helped. I didn’t expect him to crawl up so fast. He should have been quite far down, but the speed suddenly increased, so it was unexpected. Besides, I think I forgot to wear a bandana to hide my necklace when I changed my clothes. That’s why I was targeted for the necklace.”
When I looked at Ursch-kun’s neck, he didn’t have a bandana or a necklace.
Huh? There was only one necklace stolen by Viscount Hillson. And the necklace used to resuscitate Ursch-kun shattered. The necklaces that I gave out to everyone should be ‘three a piece’. Where is the other one?
As if my question was written on my face, Ursch-kun laughed mischievously and raised the hem of his pants.
“The last one is here. I thought this might happen, so I just did one separately.”
An [Anti-Soul Necklace] was wrapped around Ursch-kun’s ankle. At that time, even if both of the necklaces were ripped off, the necklace hidden on his ankle would have been activated. As expected of Ursch-kun. Crisis management such as anti-theft measures were put in place. I’ll tell Alice-chan and Chris-sama to disperse the necklaces and wear them.
. . . . . . .Wait!! That’s right!! Chris-sama!!
When I told Ursch-kun that something happened to Chris-sama, we rushed over to Alice-chan and Chris-sama.
“Alice-chan!! What’s wrong with Chris-sama?”
“Ah. . . Bella-chan. Viscount Hillson who attacked Ursch-kun earlier? He tried to escape, so Chris-sama clung to his arm and tried to catch him. But he was shaken away immediately. . . Chris-sama fell down like that, but he was saying something without moving.”
When I approached Chris-sama, who was resting his head on Alice-chan’s knees, he kept muttering something with hollow eyes.
His life doesn’t seem to be in danger, but he had a scratch on his face. I wonder if it was done when Viscount Hillson shook him off. I quickly healed the wound with healing magic, and applied purification magic just in case. In the meantime, Chris-sama continued to whisper something.
What on earth is wrong with Chris-sama?
When I tilted my head, Ursch-kun who rushed over with me earlier, looked at Chris-sama from behind me and said,
“Isabella. It looks like Chris-sama’s skills are out of control.”
“His skills are out of control?”
“Yeah. I can’t see what’s causing it or which skills are out of control with my [Absolute Appraisal], but Chris-sama’s current state is ‘State Abnormality: Skill Runaway’.”
Then, with my [Greed King] can I find out the cause? I appraised Chris-sama’s status and explored the abnormality more deeply.
{Christopher Ron Roserial
[State Abnormality: Skill Runaway]
Runaway Skill: Pride King Lucifer / Mind-reading ability is out of control
Cause of Runaway 1: Wearing skill enhancement items / searching for target items.
Cause of Runaway 2: The blood of the mind reading user and the subject’s blood contact.
Cause of Runaway 3: The mind reading user comes into direct contact with the soul of the subject.
The search for items that caused the skill runaway has ended.
Search results:
-Skill enhancement bracelet: 3 items
(can be safely removed now)
-Skill precision operation aid ring: 4 items
(can be safely removed now)
-MP Recovery Enhancement Earring: 2 items
(Safety of removal cannot be confirmed)
-Special item: Item name [Lovely Rabbit Ear Headband: White] 1 item
(Please do not remove the item)}
It’s the worst. A large amount of items for self-defense are adversely affected. I told Ursch-kun and Alice-chan about the search results and immediately removed the items that could be removed safely from Chris-sama.
Because he was wearing a lot of items, it seems like it caused a skill runaway, but is it okay to attach an item to recover state abnormality in this state? I’m worried that it might get worse.
“What else should I do to get it under control. . .”
“Hmm. . . What about the blood contact between Chris-sama and Viscount Hillson, which is one of the causes? Should I wipe the blood off?”
“It probably means that their blood touched each other. When It could be that the viscount was bleeding from his fingers from crawling up through the ground, so I think the viscount’s blood mixed with Chris-sama’s blood when he was scratched. Then there’s no point in wiping it.”
“Ursch-kun, what do you think it means that he touched the soul directly?”
“I don’t really understand that either. But if Ryan Hillson is possessing the current Viscount Hillson, wouldn’t he touch or slip through Ryan Hillson’s soul when he clung to the viscount? It’s just a guess.”
While saying that, Ursch-kun took off the boots he was wearing. He put his hand inside and rummaged around. The boots are the ones Ursch-kun was originally wearing.
“Ursch-kun, what are you doing?”
“Hmm? The inside of my boots isn’t solid. When I removed the insole of my shoes, I was able to open the soles, and I made it so that I could put things inside. It’s a boot version of the [Sub-space Pouch] that I lent to Chris-sama at the mountain hut.”
Why is there a sub-space in the boots. . . Certainly, unlike the pouch, boots are less likely to be stolen.
While saying that, Ursch-kun removed the insole of his shoes and took out a silver bracelet from the subspace of his boots.
“This is an improved version of the [Skill Sealing Bracelet] created in the mountain hut for Chris-sama. Since [Pride] evolved into [Pride King], it’s not always activated, so I didn’t have to use it, and I don’t know if it will work. . . I was making an improved version just in case. It’s more powerful than before, and the design has become fashionable.”
While saying that, Ursch-kun attached the improved version of [Skill Sealing Bracelet] to Chris-sama’s arm.
After the bracelet was on, Chris-sama’s murmuring gradually slowed down, and eventually he stopped muttering and became quiet. Alice-chan held the hand of Chris-sama, who was silent with empty eyes, and called out to him as she was about to cry.
“Chris-sama, are you okay? Please reply.”
After Alice-chan kept calling out for a while, Chris-sama blinked several times, and then he exhaled slowly and moaned.
“Huh?! Chris-sama, are you okay? Have you regained consciousness?”
In response to Alice-chan’s call, Chris-sama’s gave firmly fixed, and he turned to Alice-chan.
“. . . . . . Uh. . . hmm. . . . . . I’m okay. . . . where it this place?”
“Waaaaah. . . . That’s great!! I’m glad Chris-sama woke up!!”
Alice-chan cried and embraced Chris-sama’s head. With a slightly troubled expression, Chris-sama looked at us while stroking Alice-chan’s arm.
“Chris-sama. You tried to catch Viscount Hillson, and when he shook you away, your skills went out of control and you lost consciousness. Do you remember?”
“Huh. . . somehow. . . . . . . . I’m sorry to make you worry. So. . . What about the viscount?”
Ursch-kun shook his head awkwardly at Chris-sama’s question.
“I’m sorry. In addition to being able to escape easily, he stole my [Anti-Soul Necklace].”
“I’m sorry, Chris-sama.I just neglected to be vigilant. . . ”
After the two of them apologized like that, Chris-sama looked at Alice-chan, who kept crying, and shook his head while patting her shoulder.
“. . . . . . . Don’t worry about it. . . . Yes. . . . he got the real [Anti-Soul Necklace] that he had been looking for for many years. If that’s the case, I know where he’s going.”
“Has he been looking for it for many years? Does Chris-sama know the purpose of Viscount Hillson?”
“. . . . . . Yeah. I was just taking a look at his long life as Ryan Hillson. . . . . . . He wanted to bring his wife, Lindsay, to life for a long time. . .”
Chris-sama said that Ryan Hillson tried to create an [Anti-Soul Necklace] to bring his wife back to life, but he thought he couldn’t create it in one lifetime, so he used forbidden magic to eat the souls of his descendants, possessed them, and hijacked them. That’s how he changed his body and why he repeatedly kidnapped and sacrificed people to get their souls, which is a material fo creating [Anti-Soul Necklace], for decades. It is said that the reason why he kidnapped me aiming for 12 hair colors, was because it was necessary in the literature to create [Anti-Soul Necklace] that ‘Five, each with a human soul with different colors.’
“Wait!! What?! Do you need the souls of five people to create this necklace?!”
“Isabella. . . . . . You’re going to completely revive a human being from the abyss of death, right? No matter how much of your body is blown away, including MP and HP, it will revive everything without losing anything. I think it’s impossible if you don’t have enough for 5 souls.”
What? Really? Certainly, it’s against reason to completely revive a dead person, but was it such a big sacrifice? What should I do? I used it as a convenient item, but now that I know it, I don’t feel like using it anymore.
“Ursch-kun, what should I do? I didn’t know that five souls were used for this item, so I used it. What should I do? I don’t know how to apologize or how to make amends.”
Ursch-kun gently rubbed my trembling back.
“Don’t worry about it. Isabella didn’t make it. And when it’s already an item, those people won’t come back.”
“It bothers me!! It was made at the expense of someone’s souls?!”
“Well, the victems, maybe they’re still alive in this world, right?”
I was stunned by Ursch-kun’s words for a moment.
“Eh? What? What do you mean?”
“Because it’s the future me who created it, right? But I haven’t created an [Anti-Soul Necklace] yet.”
Huh? That’s right. That’s true. . . . . .
No, but the fact that this [Anti-Soul Necklace exists means that the souls of five people were sacrificed. . . . . .
But Ursch-kun hasn’t made a necklace yet, so the people who have been used for materials for this are alive. . .
Then, why does this item exist here now? What? My head is getting confused. What should I do?
“For now, let’s go back to the viscount. Certainly, in order to get the souls of different colors, the viscount kidnapped people with 12 hair colors and used them as materials for necklaces, right?”
That’s right. . . Let’s focus on the problem in front of us for now. Now, the priority is to solve the problem of the viscount.”
Let’s see. In order to create [Anti-Soul Necklace], Geese and Marieta who both had one of the 12 hair colors were targeted. That’s what I mean. . .
“Hey, does the color of the soul appear in the color of the hair? I don’t think so.”
“Yeah. . . . . . that’s right, but. . . the color of the hair and the color of the magical attributes that you are born with. . . . . they say it’s close. . . because of that. . . . . If that’s the case, the soul too. . . that’s what he thought.”
I see, come to think of it, Brian with read hair had a setting that was good at fire magic, and Geese with blue hair should have been good at water and ice magic.
In addition, when I remembered comparing the hair color of the person who can use magic with the attribute magic he has, Ursch-kun tilted his head and opened his mouth.
“Hmm. Well, the theory that the magic attributes and hair color are related should have been denied a long time ago. . . in the first place, there is no color in the water or wind, fire changes color depending on the temperature, right? As you can see from the rainbow, the color is not a single color.”
. . . I see. For a moment, I almost believed the theory that attribute magic and hair color are related. But if you ask me, I couldn’t color-code attribute magic correctly.
“Well, let’s leave the color of the soul aside, no matter how many [Anti-Soul Necklaces] he gets, Viscount Hillson can’t bring his dead wife back to life, right?”
“Eh? Is that so? Why?”
Ursch-kun answered my question strangely.
“Huh? Because [Ant-Soul Necklace] is an item that can completely revive someone in an instant even if the ‘equipped person’ is attacked to death or has an instant death, right? There’s no point in letting someone whose already dead wear it later. And it was decades ago that the viscount’s wife Lindsay died, right? Isn’t her soul already back in heaven or reincarnated? If that’s the case, there’s no anti-soul or anything.”
“Certainly, she wasn’t wearing it at the time of death, so it doesn’t meet the activation conditions. If you’re reincarnated, you can’t do it.”
She may be living a new life in a different world like me, and depending on the lifespan, she may have been reincarnated several times.
But Chris-sama denied our idea.
“The viscount is trapping his wife’s soul. . . . . . with a magic called [Prison of the Soul]. . . . . the viscount should have headed to the place where the [Prison of the Soul] is placed. . . . . in order to revive his wife.”
“[Prison of the Soul]? Oh, haven’t I seen it somewhere before?”
That’s right. I think I saw it when I was taken to the basement of the ruined church where Lucy was taken. Barrels were lined up on the magic circle in the stone basement with dampness and moss in the ruins that I was brought to. On top of the barrels, bones and bundles of sage were placed in a cross formation, and magic circles and magic like things were written on the surface of the barrels. . .
I appraised them with [Greed King].
The appraisal result at that time was [Prison of the Soul].
{Prison of the Soul
A container that traps the human Soul ∇
Ingredients ∇
A living person 1
Unicorn Horn 1
Horned Rabbit horn 1
10 circulating grasses
Wyvern Scales 100g/powder
Rich’s skull 1/ Something that doesn’t have chipped teeth
Elf’s right ear 3/ 200 years old or older
Arlaune 1/ The shape of the root looks like a girl
Ancient slime acid/ The amount that fills half of the prepared [Coffin of Sloth]
Coffin of Sloth (∇) 1/ The size that can hold all the above ingredients
How to make it ∇
Put the ingredients in order in the [Coffin of Sloth] (∇) placed on the prison camp(∇).
While chanting the spell (∇), pour the acid of ancient slime to half of the coffin and then cross the bundle of six sages and the goblin femur on the lid.
Leave it as it is on the prison camp for three months in the Benogaiden calendar (∇), it melts all the peices of ingredients inside, and it is completed when only the soul of the human who was put inside floats on the liquid.
You can keep the soul in the coffin until you open the seal.}
That’s right. That’s it. I was about to be used as a material by Lucy. I was almost dissolved in slime acid along with the ingredients. No, come to think of it, I have poison resistance and my physical resistance is too strong, so I wouldn’t have dissolved with slime acid.
“Huh? Wait? What? Did the viscount put his wife in it? Isn’t it because the viscount’s wife died?”
“. . . . . . He put his dying wife in it. . . because he couldn’t get out of that place. . . . he couldn’t help his dying wife on the spot. . . . . . so if he could get out of there, he tried to revive his wife somehow.”
“So, he conveniently had the materials for [Prison of the Soul] on the spot?”
What kind of situation is that?
“. . . . . . . That’s right. . . . . he was ordered to create a spiritual medicine that stops any curse by the king at that time. . . . .he needed a human soul as a material for that spiritual medicine. . . to protect the secret of it’s creation. . . . . . . his wife was trapped with him. . . . . . Viscount Ryan Hillson. . . . . . . has a grudge against this country.”
“The king at that time is terrible. . .”
“. . . . . . . It’s not someone else’s business. . . I’m sorry. . . I feel it. . . . . . the king’s son at that time. . . . . he was a possessor of the same [Pride King’s Ear] skill as me. . . . . the king. . . the king tried to solve that curse skill with spiritual medicine. . .”
The author has something to say:
The badness of the game Ursch will be exposed little by little \n I feel bad for Viscount Ryan Hillson’s wife. He dissolved her in acid. That had to hurt. Then I started wondering if she would be okay with his plan to bring her back to life at the expense of others lives (hundreds of lives if you include the necklaces that failed and a lot of them were only children). And how would she feel if she comes back and finds out that her husband ate their son’s soul and possessed his body and then did the same thing to their grandson and so on for four generations. And that means that he is the real father of the heroine and her sisters and even his other descendant viscount’s bodies. . . . . Doesn’t that mean that he technically cheated on his wife, that he supposedly loves so much and wants to bring back, multiple times?
I hope you enjoyed this chapter and thank you for reading!