‘No, calm down. I shouldn’t think too seriously about this.’
He tried hard to shake off the ominous thoughts. Because what Seianes loves most, now and in the future, is Abrisius himself. He didn’t want to ruin everything like the original Abrisius with needless thoughts.
“I’ll just, Lily, I’ll somehow prevent things between those two. So you don’t need to worry.”
—If you say so, I can’t say anything about it.
Lily, who had pursed her lips, stared at Abrisius.
A child from the Underground. And Cairens is the child Henelion bore to defeat Ircadeon. Probably this child with Underground bloodline would inevitably become enemies with Cairens too.
‘I don’t want that.’
Lily, who liked Abrisius, didn’t want him to get hurt for any reason.
She didn’t know why, but Lily liked Abrisius.
“I’ll just try to prevent it as much as possible. Him being together with Seianes.”
Putting the last strawberry in the basket, Abrisius stood up from his spot.
The task Cairens would perform. Abrisius, who knew the original work to some extent, roughly knew what that would be. However, since quite some time had passed, he couldn’t remember the exact order or content of the tasks.
‘It wasn’t something like catching a monster from the start…… What was it again?’
Tracing his thoughts, he headed back to the temple where Seianes was. And unexpectedly, he quickly learned what his task was.
A proclamation that wasn’t a proclamation that Seianes spoke to Abrisius, who had just returned after picking strawberries.
“Cairens will be restoring several barren lands for the time being.”
“That, he has to do together with Seianes…… Until the land recovers……”
It felt like his heart had sunk.
Restoring land filled with death was no easy task.
That land was far away where not only humans but not even a single blade of grass grew—land filled with death. It was also the territory where Ircadeon and his people had lived long ago before falling to the Underground.
It was not far from the back of Seianes’s Temple and was also the reason Seianes had established his temple in this location.
After he could completely hide the Underground Energy, Seianes had taken Abrisius here and there, saying he would show him the world.
He absolutely never took Abrisius to the contaminated land. Pointing in that direction, he earnestly entreated him never to go there under any circumstances.
[Why can’t I go from there to there?]
Young Abrisius at that time had pointed to the contaminated land and shown curiosity to Seianes.
[That place is already filled with death. Unfortunately. It’s difficult to restore. Without earnest prayer and devotion, it’s impossible to return it to its original state.]
[Then to restore it?]
[Well, it might be solved if a great hero appears. Don’t worry about it now and let’s go somewhere else. There’s a reed field over there.]
At Abrisius’s question, Seianes answered briefly and led him elsewhere.
Even if that land might not have been a great danger to Abrisius, a child of the Underground, he prevented Abrisius from going to that land even more out of fear that it would draw the attention of the gods on the Surface.
Even though he knew the land already filled with death was outside his jurisdiction and there was nothing he could do, the fact that there was a place where Seianes, the god of the earth, couldn’t do anything felt scary for no reason.
But looking at it now, it seemed like talks had already taken place among the gods.
The land where Seianes couldn’t do anything. And the hero Cairens who would restore it.
‘Right, that’s why Cairens stayed here for a long time and fell for Seianes……’
Only then did he recall the original content. Cairens stayed at this temple as a hero to restore the contaminated land.
In that process, as a demigod, he also had to learn the basic control of divine power he should possess.
Because he had to fight Ircadeon, he needed power to suppress the Underground force that had once been his domain.
“Yes, that’s right. Cairens, if you want to revive the contaminated land, stay here and accumulate virtue. After 100 days, the land will quickly become completely clean.”
“As many as 100 days……”
Perhaps surprised that he would have to stay for such a long time contrary to his thoughts, Cairens’s expression became subtle. Abrisius felt somehow that Cairens looked wronged. It was like he was cleaning up alone something he didn’t even do.
Of course, since he was the one who caused that accident, he had nothing to say.
“……What should I do first?”
Cairens, who had been pondering silently, opened his mouth.
The fact that it would take a long time was a flaw. But if he thought of it as his first task as a hero, it didn’t matter much.
“Good grief……”
Watching Cairens obediently comply without resistance, Abrisius clicked his tongue.
“Then stay here. I’ll prepare a room for you. There should be a room that believers sometimes use when they stop by here.”
At Cairens’s answer, a satisfied smile was drawn on Seianes’s face.
At his beauty that he couldn’t get used to no matter how many times he looked, Abrisius inhaled.
An indescribable beauty just from his existence itself was felt from Seianes.
“……Thank you.”
His voice trembled at the end. It was Cairens’s voice. Abrisius, who had sharply turned his gaze, looked at Cairens.
When their eyes met, he quickly turned his head. The tips of his ears were red.
He felt one corner of his heart sink with a thud.
“……”
For a moment, he was at a loss for words and couldn’t speak. He suddenly recalled memories he had been forgetting. Seianes and Cairens. In the original work, the two were lovers. And the decisive opportunity that allowed the two to come together was the time they spent together while Cairens stayed at Seianes’s temple for several days for some reason.
Recalling that fact, a thousand fires burned inside Abrisius.
‘Watch that with my own eyes? Don’t make me laugh.’
His mind became dazed and the color drained from his eyes, becoming murky. Abrisius slowly raised his head. Seianes, who was guiding the room and kindly explaining next to Cairens, clearly entered his vision.
Since it was going in the same direction as the original development, the probability of the two coming together was high. Seianes’s expression as he smiled at Cairens passed by. Just moments ago, where did that prickly attitude go? He could feel that he liked Cairens. His stomach churned.
Cairens would become lovers with Seianes. Because that’s how it was in the original work.
This love and attention he had obtained with such difficulty. He couldn’t let it be taken away.
At the very least, he had to somehow figure out what the two were doing, what kind of relationship they had reached. And find a gap where he could wedge himself between them.
