Chapter 207.2
As Juliane’s mind worked hard to come up with ways to escape from this place, she realized that there was only one person whom she might be able to take over even in her current weakened state, and whom her enemies would hesitate to attack.
“That girl… you… your body, oh!”
The Royal Guards surrounding her were indeed startled and stopped moving as Juliane tore off her own neck with her remaining arm and threw it towards Lily.
The next moment, Annette, who was standing next to Lily, waved her arm, throwing something in the air which collided midair with Juliane’s head. It was a crystal bottle that contained perfume, causing Juliane, drenched in its contents, to scream. Immediately after, her head was skewered by a spear.
“A guy like you, always makes a bad mistake, don’t you?”
What Annette threw at Juliane was a small crystal bottle that was meant to be some kind of charm that was given by Rafed to Welner. It turned out to be perfume.
Welner had instructed Annette to hold it for him in advance to keep the bottle secure. After they had rescued Lily and made sure she was safe, he also mentioned handing it over to Lily just in case because he knew that Lily would unlikely be able to accidentally toss it or something because of her athletic ability and how bad she was at throwing things.
When Annette mentioned this to Lily several years later, Welner was seen hurriedly trying to appease Lily, who had an unusually hurt expression on her face. This event was also well documented with many witnesses.
The Royal Guards and the Zeivert Knights cheered in triumph around Welner, who was muttering in a low voice, “How can she speak when all she has is her head?”
Goretzka instructed the Royal Guards to examine the bee’s head and body parts. He thought that if the enemy was a demon general, that black jewel should certainly be there. Seyfart also instructed the surrounding knights to remain vigilant.
In the midst of all this, Welner, who had come to his senses, let out a deep sigh of relief. Next, he went straight to Lily’s side who was sitting there with a stunned expression. He knelt on one knee in front of Lily, took her hand, and looked at her face.
“I’m sorry. I scared you. I’m sorry to keep you waiting, Lily.”
“…”
Lily’s hands touched Welner’s armor and cheeks, as if confirming that he was not her imagination. A trembling voice escaped her lips.
“Um, Welner-sama, right?”
“Oh, right.”
Welner responded with an expression of “What in the world?” and became flustered differently than before. Lily hugged Welner with tears streaming down her face.
“Li, Lily!”
“Thank God…thank God, Welner-sama…! You are safe and alive…!”
Lily cried out in his chest, while Welner looked around and asked for help with a distressed expression on his face, but the group of Royal Guards and the others only looked at him with warm expressions.
Neurath and Schunzel couldn’t help but smile wryly at him as well. After all, they witnessed Welner leap into the hidden staircase of the temple, shouting, “I’m not weak enough to stay calm even after my precious lady has been kidnapped!”
After a dozen or so rapid-fire rants to his inner circle, Welner turned his thoughts back to Lily.
“Uh, Lily, we should go back to the royal capital once anyway. I’m dirty, you see, as well.”
“The Royal capital…”
Hearing those words, Lily looked up. For a moment, Welner gulped at the sight of Lily’s desperate eyes, wet with tears, in front of him.
“Yes, yes, Welner-sama, the barrier of the royal capital is in trouble.”
“Barrier? I’m sure there’s not a single person who knows that place…”
Up to this point, Welner and the others still did not know that the monster they just fought was Juliane in the first place. That was the reason why they did not understand Lily’s sense of urgency.
Lily’s expression was not relaxed and Welner silently urged her to go on.
“Um, you see. Um, the other person said. She said that she damaged the barrier. That barrier has multiple interlocking…”
With so many eyes on them, Lily was unable to directly mention Juliane’s name, so she tried to convey the situation to Welner in a hushed voice. Welner managed to pick up Lily’s statement, but for a moment, he had a confused expression on his face, but it soon became clear to him.
“Remember the damaged underground library… it was there. There was a different magic circle painted on the floor of that underground library that she mentioned.”
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