Chapter 251
Chapter 251: Reckless
Translator: Tseirp
I guessed somebody removed the ropes binding His Highness Albert .
But to exit from the Sanctuary Barrier, he’s seriously done something troublesome .
A person this reckless would become this country’s king in the future huh? … Well, to be honest, he might still be better than the one on the throne right now .
Such thoughts went through my mind as I returned my sight from His Highness back to Melfina-san .
If I had activated my Sanctuary Circle that has been powered up after becoming a sage, she might disappear in a single blow .
But if the demonization has progressed, it might not be possible to return her to her original state …
If we can somehow revert her consciousness back to the original Melfina-san personality as opposed to the one after demonization … that’s when I was struck with an idea .
“Your Highness, could you … continue calling out to Melfina-san?”
When I returned my sight to His Highness Albert, his arm was twisted behind his back by Kefin and was prone on the ground .
Kefin’s brilliant suppression reminded me of how police arrested criminals but now wasn’t the time so I spoke to His Highness .
“Your Highness, Melfina-san has fallen to demonization . However, she has advanced even further down the demonization compared to when I treated her before . ”
“Tha, that’s why you plan to kill her!? I will definitely not forgive you if you do that . ”
“And does Your Highness have a method to save her? Even after she has belittled you in such a way, do you still wish to save her?”
“Of course! Please . Only Melfina, please help her no matter what . ”
His Highness said as he placed his forehead on the ground to plead to me .
He’s able to go to such lengths for a girl he fell in love with … isn’t that quite cool?
“I’ll be holding you to various requests after this . ”
“Yes, thank you . If you can save Melfina, I will do everything I can to cooperate with you . ”
“Very well . And so, please continue to call out to Melfina-san . ”
” … That’s all I have to do?”
“Yes . Just now the demon who took over Melfina-san’s body said that it was excited when it saw Your Highness after all . ”
” … Yeah . ”
I would have been able to hear a loud shatter from his shock if I could hear sound effects .
Well, it’s not like I didn’t understand how he felt when the person he likes underwent such drastic personality changes …
But it would be a waste of time to continue being depressed so I continued to talk to him .
“I think that is because Melfina-san’s consciousness is still present . That’s why, please call out to her as much as possible . ”
“Okay, I understand . I understand so could you release me?”
He seemed unhappy that Kefin still had him in an arm lock but I already had my answer ready .
“I’m sorry but no . I will now attempt to save Melfina-san to the best of my ability . However, Melfina-san will face considerable suffering . Will Your Highness be able to stay silent and watch when that time comes?”
“I can promise you, it should be fine if I do that right?”
“No, even if you make a pledge, I have a feeling you will be willing to pay any price so be obedient and call out to her from there, talk about anything that would jog her memory . ”
” ………… . Fine . In exchange, save her no matter what . ”
In the event that I couldn’t save her or she didn’t want to be saved, he will definitely become our enemy . This person and this turn of event were seriously too troublesome .
But it was important to remove that unstable factor here .
If I saved Melfina-san here, I will be able to remove the troublesome factor named His Highness .
After all, I had decided that I will also make him sleep after I let him confirm with his own eyes that I saved Melfina-san .
In order to save Melfina-san, His Highness Albert started desperately crying out to her according to my instructions .
After verifying that with the corner of my eye, I started thinking of the best way I can go about doing it .
I had already applied Dispel and the other spells when Melfina-san self-destructed .
But her pitch-black wings were still there and there was still some miasma remaining .
I wonder how did she get demonized in the first place .
Was she made to swallow a magic stone, or was immersed in miasma for a long time, or was it performed through some kind of a ritual?
Previously I cast the spells from afar using Magic Circle Chant so this time I once again cast Dispel and the other spells in sequence while monitoring her .
And when I applied Purification, Melfina woke up, perhaps awakened by the intense pain .
“That hurts … What are you doing to me? Your Highness, the sage-sama is hurting me . Please help me . ”
“Oo Melfina, you’ve returned? Luciel-dono, please release her . ”
Although it is said that love is blind, he is way too blind .
If he saw her as the usual Melfina-san even though her personality was completely different, in a sense I could say that he was only looking at her appearance .
As long as Melfina-san can’t exit from the Sanctuary Barrier on her own, I don’t intend to let her out from the barrier .
“Yeah, go ahead if you can leave this barrier . ”
Even though Purification couldn’t show the effect I was anticipating, since she felt pain, she was probably still a demon .
“Luciel-sama, please remove the binding on me then . This is an order from the Empire’s first prince . ”
“Rejected . ”
“At least consider it for a moment . ”
It was troubling to see him say that with a shocked expression but I asked just to be safe .
“I wonder what would the original Melfina-san think if she saw the present you? Won’t she think that you actually only look at her appearance?”
” … Even so, I do not wish to see Melfina suffer in pain any longer . ”
“Then do you think Melfina-san wish to remain as a demon for her whole life?”
” …… ”
It’s really a pain to be looked at with such a hostile gaze .
When I looked towards Lionel’s direction, he had already gathered the soldiers so it seemed like he was leaving this all to me .
“Ha~ If you understand then please speak of things that the real Melfina-san will recall . I believe that will cause Melfina-san to return, even if just a little . Only Your Highness can do that . ”
” … Understood . ”
His Highness was finally convinced . He started talking to Melfina-san about past memories .
His Highness spoke of how she followed up after his failures and how she scolded him when he got carried away with a happy expression along with an embarrassed expression .
His Highness probably forgot that there were Imperial Soldiers around us .
He’s really the reckless type . Even so, that was also enviable so I also did the best I could .
Firstly, I made a mental image of completely removing the miasma, then an image of completely removing it if there was a magic stone, finally, compacting it into an image where Melfina-san’s wings were removed and her skin tone returned to normal before I pleaded to the Holy Dragon .
“Holy Dragon, become the light that dispels all curses, consume all that is unholy and provide salvation to the evil soul through purification . ”
It’s been a long time since I felt my magical power get consumed so intensely .
While enduring that, I channeled the magical power into the Illusionary Cane and a translucent Holy Dragon like the status page flew toward Melfina-san and was taken into her body .
Melfina-san screamed and His Highness Albert said something and wanted to reach Melfina-san’s side but I didn’t have the leeway to listen and immediately cast Extra Heal .
The translucent Holy Dragon consumed Melfina-san . Until that point, I still had some leeway .
However, perhaps the demonization had progressed too far, or perhaps a soul had entered her but the Holy Dragon swallowed the places where the demonization had occurred .
The locations that were easy to tell was the wings on her back that disappeared but blood wings then appeared instead .
It would be strange if I had any leeway after that happened .
Moreover, perhaps it was a kind of magic equipment using miasma from the demonization because Melfina-san became totally naked and I would be troubled if His Highness Albert went against his promise so I was desperate .
After I finished casting Extra Heal, I took out a robe from my magic bag and called out to Kefin .
“Kefin, you can release him . Your Highness, please use this . ”
I threw the robe at His Highness as he quickly rushed to Melfina-san .
” … I’ll gratefully accept this for now . ”
He glared at me as he placed the robe on Melfina-san .
I sighed grandly and reflected as opposed to our original plan, I was still on the verge of magical power exhaustion even though there wasn’t a fight .
And as I drank a magical power potion, I felt melancholic from the development of the skirmish that happened even before the main fight .
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