A small room up the spiral staircase of the East Tower. When Keefa was a young girl, she used to play adventure here. The floor and walls are stoned, and the room is dusted with broken yarn wheels and empty liquor barrels.
Few people come close to this room, which is not even in storage.
Armed clerics were running up the spiral staircase.
To get Liz, who escaped from prison.
They were earlier ordained by the present Virgin.
"Sheena has told me. When Liz is in the small room in the east wing. That's what His Highness Keefa and his neighbors were talking about."
Armed clerics hit the door of the small room at the end of the stairs. Make a noise and the door opens.
The clerics gained momentum and slipped indoors...
In Keefa's own room, Eric said.
"Then I will go to the East Tower to see how Master Liz is doing. I'm worried."
"Oh, please"
Eric leaves.
Keefa exhaled heavily. I stood up from the chair and my sight broke unexpectedly. Put your hands on the table in a hurry and support your body.
"What... what...?
I was gnawed. Words don't come out well. Your mouth doesn't move as much as you think.
I don't know why, but I put my right foot forward anyway. My vision shook once again and I was about to fall again. I don't listen to my body. With his powerless arms, he grabbed desperately on the table.
There was a sound of the entrance door opening. Keefa raised her sweaty face.
It was Sheena who opened the door and came in.
Sheena smiled thinly.
"Looks like the pills are working."
(Drugs!?
So I noticed he had heat like the back of his neck was numb. I was stunned to notice. That's the part where Sheena turned her hands when she hugged me earlier.
"No way......"
"I made up my mind. Whatever it takes to be Princess Wang."
Sheena saw Keefa and made it clear. Those black eyes even seemed to dwell in madness.
I put pills on Prince Wang. If you discover it, you're not just sorry.
Sheena smiled at the breathtaking Keefa.
"It's okay. There is no danger to life. My body is just numb and I can't move it on my own volition. That's the kind of medicine. Though not well known to the public. - Unfortunately, Your Highness has become ill. Keep it up, keep it up. But there's nothing to worry about. Because I will be my wife and I will support His Highness for life."
My spine got cold. Sheena is serious.
Sheena slowly approached me. Keefa tries to escape, but her body doesn't move.
"His Royal Highness has become a consultant, and Sheena and I have become close. The Prime Minister testifies that he really loved Sheena, not Liz."
Stop it! I want to say that, but I don't have a voice.
Sheena laughed. The kind of grin where the prey is in your hand and you're happy with what you can do. And I put my hand on Keefa's body. Finger your chest from your stomach so that you can prey. Like a bruised laugh at Keefa trying desperately to escape.
"- What!?
Sheena screamed unexpectedly. Because all of a sudden, they took it from behind. Shortly after Sheena turned around, her hands were turned on her back and her body pressed against the floor.
"Dear Keefa, are you okay?
It's Eric. While he looks worried about Keefa, he quickly ties Sheena up with a rope.
"You didn't expect Sheena to get this far. Behind what we said, I thought you'd come to this room again, but I didn't expect you to serve the pills to Master Keefa..."
"... but... good on the contrary..."
"Right. You will be captured for the crime of trying to harm Prince Wang. You're under arrest."
Laughing Eric and Keefa who wants to laugh but the muscles on her face don't move and make a weird face.
Sheena, kneeling with her ropes tied, stared at the Keefa's.
"Why is the proximity here!? I should have gone to the East Tower to see how Liz was...!
"I haven't been there. Not just me, of course, but her."
……
Liz entered in front of the Sheenas from the washroom where she was hiding. This is Keefa's own bathroom.
Sheena looks up with a pale face.
(Finish it)
Liz saw Keefa, propped up by Eric and upper body. While breathing painfully, Keefa returns a powerful gaze. Liz turned to Sheena with a distorted face.
"Hey, Sheena. You said earlier that you had taken Emilia, who had fled the monastery, in front of the Bride Monastery. But that's not true. The former dean of the monastery where Emilia was testified." Emilia was taken out by Duke Aigner's men, "he said."
The dean of the monastery, where Emilia was, had taken his place some time ago. The Dean now would be in the hands of the Duke of Eigner. That's why I searched for the former abbot.
But the place was heavily hidden, and they had a hard time finding it. The former Dean, who had finally searched for him, had kept his mouth shut at first, but when Eric showed him the shoulder with the royal testimony, he told me as he had noticed.
Namely, "A man of the use of the Duke of Eigner has come to receive Emilia. But the matter was firmly stopped by the Duke".
Sheena laughed thinly.
"Then Emilia must have escaped from the Duke's. It wasn't me who got involved with the Duke in the first place, was it Emilia?
"A local man who used to talk to Sheena in the Colorado region threw up saying he was employed by the Duke's men. I also captured that Duke's men. It's only a matter of time before I tell you everything. For him, it's the Duke who should protect you until the end, and you're the most truncated subject."
Sheena doesn't answer Eric, who speaks in a quiet voice.
I'm just silently picking on Liz. There was anger in his eyes. The anger that comes from your offering.
Liz took it directly from the front.
"With Emilia gone, Sheena showed up. You deny you're not, but I can tell. You're Emilia. Emilia I know well. You have been wronged for my candidacy for the Virgin. It could have been killed then. There's no way I can forget."
Sheena laughed thinly.
"Really, I wish they'd killed me"
It's Emilia.
At the same time my heart was cold, I was convinced.
In my home village, in Emilia's raw house, at that time, Liz was rolling on the floor, as opposed to now. Emilia, who has looked down cold. I was laughing then too.
If Emilia's lies had caused Liz to be killed like that, she would have laughed the same way. Just that you were born in a different capacity.
And even now, Emilia hasn't changed anything.
The bottom of my heart got cold. What did Liz and the others do? I'm just living hard. That can't be harmed, just for Emilia's pride -.
Liz's red eyes opened forcefully.
"I know. I can see it properly. Your true, original appearance -!"
Liz's body glowed. Non-cloudy, pure white light. That wraps Liz up with a divine glow.
One point in it, his red eyes were deep and he glowed so suspiciously and intensely that he was about to be sucked in when he watched again.
Sheena's face was frightened. In her own home before, Emilia got barometric pressure from Liz. The same intimidation as then. No, haven't you gotten much stronger than then? A blue cheek tells me so.
There was no Keefa, no Eric, no voice, just staring at Liz.
White light envelops the surroundings. Keefa and Eric, and Emilia. At that moment...
"... what is it!?
Sheena screamed. Sheena's cheeks began to stain and discolor. Both the forehead and the eye area are discolored in the same way as they were in Mizu, and they fall apart and peel off.
"What, this!?
With Sheena tied up, she screamed. I guess it doesn't hurt, I'm just shocked and stunned. Because you can't keep the prototype as if your face were melting.
"No! What's going on!?
……
Keefa and Eric raised the voice of shock at the same time.
Sheena's face was gone, and the face that appeared from the back was not Sheena's. It belongs to someone else entirely. A neater, more flashy face than Sheena's.
Keefa and Eric don't know Emilia's face. Still, you figured out whose face it showed up to be.
And Sheena also seems to have realized, without having to look in the mirror, in the reaction of Keefa and Eric, whose face she went back to.
"Why...... why!?
The sorcerer told me that I would never go back to the original Emilia face. That's what I said, I distorted my face and screamed.
The white light that was surrounding him faded rapidly. And at the same time, Liz's eyes lost their radiance. The suspicious light slowly disappeared from his red eyes, and Liz knelt on the spot like she had exhausted herself.
"Liz!"
Keefa tries to rush over, but she can't move properly because of the medication. Before biting his lips with regret, Eric held Liz up, as he had returned to me.
"Dear Liz, are you okay!?
But just before I tried to hold him, I hesitated for a moment, probably because I saw Liz's strange power. The calling voice is also slightly stiff.
And Eric saw Sheena in awe. It's Sheena's face I'm used to seeing. The impact is not very blue, but the skin is not peeling off anywhere, and there is no shadow of someone else anywhere.
"... what was that thing now?
Fantasy? And Eric snapped a little creepy.
At that time, there was a loud noise from the hallway across the narrow open door. Sounds like something hit me.
Eric quickly heads to the door and opens wide. There were two elderly maids who sat down and the appearance of young soldiers.
The two samurai cling to the floor like their hips had fallen off, holding each other in a blue and frightened manner. A soldier who stands flaunted with a pale face as well.
(Those ladies, they look familiar...)
Liz thought with a frustrating head.
These are the ladies of the Second Temple. Besides, one is a samurai who blindly supports Sheena. Before Sheena said, "The medal the king gave me was stolen. Isn't the killer Liz?" When I lied, I was next door all the time and covered Sheena.
(Sure, I'm from a neighboring district in the Colorado region or something...)
I heard a relative was involved in a civil war in Colorado and was helped by Sheena. That's why I worship Sheena.
That soldier probably questioned the ladies in the royal palace, the guards of the royal palace.
But the temple ladies, why are they here?
The samurai said in a trembling voice.
"Si, I've been worried and watching Master Sheena look different today because she looks scared. Then... they took the medicine out of the temple dispensing room. It's a potent medicine, and it can also be poisonous... I went straight to the royal palace..."
"I was worried when she told me about it, and the two of us followed it sneakingly. Then, then, Master Sheena gives His Highness Keefa that medicine......! And... what is it now? How could Master Sheena's face be to someone else!?
As I recall, the samurai shouted like screams.
Keefa said with a painful breath as she leaned against the table.
"Unfortunately... this is what Sheena really looks like. The way you look, the way you drugged me."
"No! No, it's not!
Sheena shouts out. I can see my eyes open and I'm in a hurry. Naturally, if it was just Liz's side, like Keefa and Eric, I wouldn't have to know, because they were witnessed by the ladies who were supposed to be Sheena's side.
"This is a mistake, it's a misunderstanding! Hey, you guys would understand, wouldn't you? Because I'm the Virgin of Colorado. Could they have been your relatives? You saved him!?
He opens his eyes and complains desperately. But the samurai do not answer. A frightened face was rejecting Sheena.
"Hey, you know what I mean!?
Sheena screamed hysterically.
Liz noticed.
"Why would the Duke hire a Colorado man? She used to talk to Sheena... no way"
Keefa nodded bitterly.
That's royalty, you seem somewhat used to poison. You seem to be able to talk slowly enough, but you still look pale.
"Probably. Did the Duke lend a hand to the Colorado regional dispute or provoke it in the first place? To tailor Sheena to the Virgin of Colorado and bring her closer to me. It's an area that hasn't been contested in hundreds of years."
"Oh no..."
Liz breathed. Impossible. Oh my God... Hold your hands tight.
And before Sheena blued, the samurai blued more. The whole face of the samurai swells so hard that it's going to collapse now. Seeing Sheena's eyes turned to seeing the devil.
"Oh my God...!
"This, you bastard!
"No! No, it's not!," Sheena complains desperately, but her eyes unchanged on the samurai Sheena. I saw him poisoned Prince Wang with his eyes, so I couldn't help it.
Liz stood in front of Sheena. Grip the silver key lowered from your neck. Sheena frowned suspiciously, but even if she couldn't see it, she seemed to realize it was the key to being a testament to her candidacy for the Virgin.
You took it to be proud of me, and I've been grinning at Liz, eating my teeth out of criticism.
Liz didn't turn a blind eye and glanced straight back at Sheena.
"Same as I don't see this key. You don't see anything. Colorado deliberately caused it, I knew it and helped. I can never forgive that. But is it true what happened there? Even if my heart was fake, the act of saving wounded people with their lives was real, wasn't it?
Liz looked back. The samurai who was covering Sheena is crying. There will be no such shock.
"The respect of that samurai and the smiles and gratitude of the people of the Colorado region must have been real. But you didn't see it. As one. You'll never see this key to someone like that."
I say it out loud. Rin stands proud of Liz. It's not an identity, pride of mind.
I guess Sheena figured that out, too. Momentarily, he opened his mouth wide with momentum. But I can't really get the word out, like that I have to shut my mouth.
He tried to get Liz again and looked away powerlessly, feeling the strong gaze of the samurai.
And he moaned with regret, sincere regret, and nodded as if he had exhausted himself on the spot.