입양딸 역할을 지나치게 잘해버렸다 165화 제논은 자연스레 비올라의 뒤를 따랐다.

Elder Elbato’s words seemed to not matter at all.

“I’m just a butler.”

Rain or shine, we have to stick together. That’s a butler’s duty. “Zeno, I’ll go alone.”

“Understood,” Zeno replied, staring at Viola’s back with a slightly dazed look. “Master, you should just take a break.”

“Our pupil is small and precious.”

“Why are you saying that here?”

“Ugh.”

Sheilan also gave up. Because Viola was both a pupil and an employer.

In Tundra’s worried gaze, Viola asked.

“Tundra, do you trust me?”

“I do. But I will be needed.”

“I will be needed.”

“If I need you, I’ll call.”

Tundra also looked at Viola’s back. Seeing that, Gaia was bewildered. ‘Why are they so worked up?’

In any case, Viola entered Elder Elbato’s house alone. Bichen lay on a large leaf bed.

“Bichen.”

Hurrying over, I placed my ear near his heart. Fortunately, it was still beating.

But the pulse was too weak. ‘His breath is too weak too.’

Elbato said. “He’s a corpse that’s barely breathing.”

“Can he be saved?”

“I tried to save him. I poured all my divine power into it.”

Before Viola brought the Laurel Crown, Elbato had already attempted to revive Bichen, but it had failed. Elbato had experienced this once before.

“I don’t know how much you know, but I’ve been through this. I couldn’t save the water mage Rael. Rael bore a divine will that I couldn’t comprehend.”

“Divine will?”

“A fate that even an insignificant human like me can’t change, no matter how hard I try.”

Viola could grasp what that meant. The author had explicitly mentioned it.

「A contaminated human cannot be revived.」

So, with just Elbato’s power, Bichen couldn’t be saved. That ‘contamination’ contained the divine will.

‘Divine will is essentially the author’s setup.’

In “Shadow of Bellatu,” it was written like this.

「On the day she drew her last breath, Rael faintly smiled and murmured.

“My lonely one. I want to be with you forever.」

」 From the reader’s perspective, Rael was already dead. Since the author directly set her death, it was only natural that even the clerics of this world couldn’t revive her.

“At that time, I dreamed of a miracle, but miracles didn’t happen.”

“Do you still dream of miracles, Elder?”

Elbato closed his eyes for a moment. Vivid memories from long ago flooded back.

“I thought my dreams were long abandoned. But that’s not the case.”

A miracle was needed. “So I told you to bring it. That.”

Elbato’s gaze turned to Viola’s hand. In Viola’s hand was a radiant Laurel Crown.

The crown of Harmona, containing the divine power of life and miracles,

“If we have this, can we save Bichen?”

“I’m not sure. But it’s worth a try, since it’s a crown carrying the power of miracles.”

Elbato was a cleric. A cleric is someone who performs miracles by borrowing the divine power.

“This child cannot be revived. That’s the divine will I sensed as soon as I saw this child.”

「A contaminated human cannot be revived.」

After receiving the crown, Elbato stood before Bichen. Speaking as if in confession, he opened his mouth.

Although he was speaking to Viola, these words were also a soliloquy to Elbato himself.

“I cannot completely defy the divine will with my power.”

Elbato shook his body. Since Rael’s death, Elbato had feared.

If it’s divine will, is it something I cannot defy?

Even when a person dies before me, can I not save them?

Must I obey the divine will? “So I was very afraid.”

Fearing there might be someone else killed by the ‘divine will.’ Fearing that someone I trust and rely on might inscribe another’s death.

“I was so scared that I ran away.”

That’s what I thought was the fate given to humans. I thought I couldn’t go against divine will.

“But there’s a child who doesn’t run away.”

That child was a little giant. ‘A brave and small girl’ resisted her fate and even changed the destinies of Karenna and Harmona. She even recited the ‘divine utterance’ spoken of by the elves.

‘Meeting you must also be divine will.’

A considerable time passed. I tried to draw out the miraculous power contained in the crown.

His hands trembled. I lack the power to change fate. Therefore, I cannot revive this child, even if I wake up from death.”

Tears streamed from Elbato’s closed eyes. Although he held the crown, he had no idea how to extract a miracle.

‘I want to save them.’

Elbato, who couldn’t save anyone and ran away from it. Fearing the death of someone else, he fled.

A great fear began to gnaw at Elbato’s heart.

‘I cannot save them.’

I want to save them. ‘I cannot save them.

I must save them.

I lack the power.

He had no method.

His will and divine will are different, so I can only obey. Today, I can only run away again.

But then, a voice was heard. “I understand your heart, Elder.”

Iventa opened his eyes. The little giant appeared.

“We can overcome fate.”

Now this world is not the author’s world, but Viola’s world. “There’s someone who promised to always be with me.”

“……Who is that?”

“Tundra.”

Tundra had already achieved miracles in this novel. Even Heron and Medea could only last for 5 years at the ‘Sacred Ground of the Ancient Warriors,’ yet Tundra had endured for 10 years.

「Attribute 1: One who makes the impossible possible.」

Tundra was the one who made the impossible possible. The only key to change the impossibility set by the author’s world into the possibilities of Viola’s world.

“Perhaps Tundra might already be feeling his role.”

“I don’t quite understand what you’re saying.”

“Just before coming in here, Tundra said something.”

Tundra had said this. “I will be needed.”

Viola responded like this. “If I need you, I’ll call.”

Viola walked toward the door. She needed Tundra.

Tundra stared only at the door of the gigantic mushroom house, like a pet dog waiting for its owner.

Gaia cautiously approached Tundra.

“Partner… no, partner sword. Can I ask you just one thing?”

Tundra didn’t even give Gaia a glance but nodded once. “Do you really think Princess Viola will call for you?”

He nodded again. “Why?”

No answer came. Only certainty was in Tundra’s eyes. For Gaia, it was all incomprehensible.

She had relied on information for most of her life.

Yet here, the information was so limited. ‘It feels like I’ve gone back to the past.’

Thinking of the time when she didn’t know anything and worked hard on the ground. Even though her skills were lacking compared to now, the passion was overflowing back then.

She considered it seriously in her own way.

‘Rationally speaking, there’s no reason for Princess Viola to suddenly call for Tundra alone.’

That was Gaia’s conclusion as the leader of the Night Cats. If it were the usual Gaia, she would have been sure of that.

But today was strange. ‘But somehow….’

I don’t quite know. Yet, somehow, I had a feeling. It felt like she would call for him, doesn’t it?’

A while later, the door of the gigantic mushroom house truly opened.

“Tundra, I need you.”

Tundra walked in as if he had been waiting for that moment. Gaia’s intuition was correct.

Thanks to that, she felt a kind of thrill.

‘I feel like I’ve taken a step closer to a new realm.

Simply gathering and processing facts and information has been what I’ve done until now.

But adding emotion to that was almost a first. Gaia sensed.

‘I have developed.

Being with Viola’s group has opened my eyes to something new.

I have heard many times that to move from first-class to super-first-class, intuition is absolutely necessary.

‘I have definitely improved.’

Gaia unknowingly started to chuckle, “Hehehe-.”

The ambition that she had temporarily forgotten began to swell within her. A finely sharpened intuition predicted one fact.

‘Princess Viola will one day rule the world.’

She had that ambition and greed, supported by sufficient skill and talent. She had perfectly resolved to be with Viola.

‘My choice was not wrong!’

She began to dream of the day when she would rise to become the best intelligence organization dominating the continent alongside Viola.

*

Elbato looked at Tundra with doubtful eyes.

“I have heard much of your reputation…”

Partner sword. A swordsman noted for his divinity.

“You’re Hixson’s pupil, right?”

“Yes, I am.”

Tundra stood before Bichen. “But right now, I stand here not as the pupil of my master, but as the partner of the princess.”

“Partner?”

Elbato felt something strange. Usually, ‘partner’ implies a romantic relationship, but Tundra’s notion of partner didn’t simply feel that way.

There was something transcendental about it. “I promised to always be by her side.”

He had determined to live for Viola next to her. In the way Viola lived, he resolved to fill Viola’s world.

“Tundra, can you save Bichen?”

“I’m not sure.”

Tundra instinctively looked back and forth between the crown and Bichen. “But if that is your will.”

Tundra drew his sword. The Laurel Crown was placed upon Bichen’s chest.

As if responding to Tundra’s aura, the Laurel Crown began to shine even brighter.

“And if it is your command.”

Tundra took a deep breath. His heart began to thump loudly. “I fully accept that will and command.”

Toward the Laurel Crown. Towards Bichen’s heart, he plunged his sword down.