I Give Up on Conquering the Heroines

246Th Chapter. Dagger

This time, the time I lost consciousness wasn’t that long.

I think I slept a little over 12 hours?

Considering that there was a time when I slept for over three days, it wasn’t that bad.

And as expected······.

“Ugh. You’re awake, Eugene? Are you okay? Do you feel any pain? Huh? Hmm?”

As soon as I woke up, Jill, who was lying next to me as if it were natural, hugged me.

She put her ear near my heart and groped me all over as if she was checking if my body was okay.

I’m fine.

I’m so fine that I feel like I’m going to fly.

It feels like all the damage and fatigue that has accumulated over time has disappeared.

Is it thanks to Jill’s recovery magic?

“Are you really okay? You have to tell me right away, Eugene. Quickly. Quickly.”

“I’m fine. I just lost consciousness for a while, why are you making such a fuss?”

“It’s not that simple, that’s why I’m doing this······! Eugene, you······ you······. You’ve molted rapidly while you were sleeping.”

“Molted?”

Jill said that the cause of the severe pain I suffered while I was sleeping was molting.

Every time I swung the Ouyi, my bones would crack, but now they’re much stronger and I’ll be fine even if I swing it dozens or hundreds of times······.

Isn’t this a complete cheat?

I can use a technique that is no different from an ultimate skill as many times as I want, without any restrictions?

I had that thought for a moment, but I shut my mouth when I heard that most of the superhumans except me had this kind of body.

I suddenly felt wronged.

“So if there’s anything wrong or strange, you have to tell me right away. If the molting process goes wrong, your bones or nerves could harden while they’re damaged. If you correct it before the molting is completely finished, you can fix it.”

“I don’t know anything strange. My body just feels light as if I’m going to fly-“

“Fly?! Why? Is there something wrong?”

“My eyesight is unusually good-“

“Your eyesight is strange?! Really?”

“······.”

Jill was so surprised by every word I said that it took a long time for her to get rid of her worries.

After carefully observing the inside of my body with the light of the extreme, there was nothing wrong.

No, if you call the overall improvement of my physical abilities strange, then it’s strange.

However, there was one strange thing outside my body.

‘I can’t feel the system anymore.’

This is one of the reasons why I feel refreshed.

The creepy thing that had been inside me all this time, the system, is gone.

It’s no use calling the status window or the profile.

All the characteristics have become unusable.

The characteristic that amplified my stats by 7 times, the guardian knight, has also stopped working.

Of course, now that I’ve molted, I’m much stronger than when I activated the guardian knight with my old body.

‘As expected. The system was related to Draken.’

If I deceive all three heroines and achieve a completion rate of over 95%, I will inevitably lead to ruin.

If I had killed Draken, the entire world would have been destroyed.

Either way, there was no such thing as a happy ending.

What on earth did the system think when it forced me to regress by giving me this impossible task?

‘No. I have to think about why this time is the last time.’

Did the system exist simply to push me into the abyss of despair and torment me?

That can’t be it.

I had to approach it differently.

The reason why the regression stopped this time.

It’s hard to see it as a coincidence.

I had to find a ‘reason’ why the regression had to be stopped and fixed this time, not ‘by chance’.

Is this time the most satisfactory result?

To whom?

As I asked that question, the answer naturally began to come out.

At that moment, Jill slipped out of my arms and knelt down gently to face me.

“Eugene······.”

“Huh?”

“I. I’ve really thought about it for a long time. Let’s get married.”

As she said that, Jill reached out her hand to my chest.

Then, pass, a halo of light gathered at the tip of Jill’s hand and was pulled out in the shape of a dagger.

I can feel the dagger disappearing from my inner world.

And the dagger was soon held in Jill’s hand.

It’s not the beautiful and sharp look it had when I first saw it.

The blade that used to shine brightly had already lost its light and rusted.

The blade was badly damaged and turned into a sawtooth.It seems that I have become severely worn out from using too much divine power.

“I like waking up and falling asleep together like this. That alone is good enough······. But I’m not satisfied. I still have to get married. I feel like I have to let the whole world know that I am Eugene’s companion and that Eugene is my husband. Is this too greedy······?”

Jill looked up at me with earnest eyes.

How can you call this greedy?

I smiled and took Jill’s hand, which was holding the dagger.

“Fine. I don’t mind, but are you okay with it? No matter what, a saintess is marrying a commoner.”

“Huh? That won’t be a problem. Basically, all superhumans who have undergone metamorphosis are treated as nobles. The children of superhumans are also likely to inherit their talents.”

“Then······.”

“Yeah. Well, it’s not like it’s a forbidden love or anything. There’s nothing stopping us from getting married. In fact, we can get married today.”

“Really? Should we get married today?”

“hehehehe. Okay. I like it too much.”

Jill laughed bashfully and held the dagger backwards, pointing it at her chest.

The old sword that had been stuck in my world was now facing Jill.

Ha ha ha, Jill covered my hand as she gasped for breath.

“I really······ I don’t know how long I’ve been waiting for this moment······. I’ve lived every day in regret. I wonder what would have happened if I had been more honest then. What if I had thrown away my petty pride and confessed first? I was so miserable thinking about such useless things······. hehehe.”

What’s done is done.

Jill and I both know that.

But the wounds and guilt in our hearts cannot be erased.

“That’s why Eugene······. This. Let Eugene stab me. I want to feel Eugene’s pain too. I don’t want Eugene to be hurt alone anymore.”

She’s taking it all in.

More than what we’ve hurt each other.

Because we love each other.

“I love you. Jill.”

“Heuk······!”

Poof.

Jill gasped as I plunged the dagger deep into her.

Pain spread across her face.

But as if she felt a greater sense of happiness, Jill soon exhaled a shallow breath and smiled faintly.

Soon, the dagger became a complete halo and dug into Jill’s chest.

The dagger was stuck to the root.

The dagger, which had absorbed all the pain, memories, and suffering as it passed through me, was embedded in Jill.

Now Jill can feel it too.

The countless times I’ve repeated.

Jill, who had accepted them all at once, smiled brightly and replied to me.

“Me too······!”

***

It was a disaster that struck the entire present world.

The sky was completely black, and people went mad.

One by one, they lost their minds to the overwhelming pressure of evil and became monsters.

It is said that when they saw a small golden light in the sky, they all stared at it as if they were possessed and prayed.

Then the light gradually grew larger.

It covered the entire present world.

No more dark darkness could approach.

Then both the golden light and the darkness disappeared.

Once again, a clear blue and peaceful sky spread out.

The world became quiet.

That was the day people recognized.

How much to hide and how much to announce.

I decided not to worry about it.

If you ask me if there is a reason to hide it, there is no reason to do so.

As Jill said, I am now a noble.

But the problem was who would recognize me as a noble.

Originally, when a superhuman is reborn, the head of the country to which he belongs grants him the title of noble.

Then from whom should I receive it?

No one dared to do so.

I didn’t really care who it was, but the Pope of the Holy Kingdom, the King of Gallia, or Yeri, the leader of the North, all refused to grant me the title.

They all reacted as if they would rather bite their tongues and die than give me a title.

I wondered if I was that hated.

It seemed that they were burdened by the fact that they were ‘granting’ me something.

It would be a good excuse to find fault with me later, as if I were treating the hero who saved the present world as an inferior.

I decided to think about the noble title issue later.

It’s not that urgent.

Above all, there was something more important.

“What about Draken?”

“The stabilization is complete. If I hadn’t done as Eugene said, the core would have collapsed······.”Kern’s daughter reported to me with a haggard face, following me.

It seemed that they had succeeded in operating the clockwork machine with the magic stone containing Draken’s soul while I was unconscious.

With this, they had succeeded in neutralizing Draken without ‘conquering’ him.

According to my calculations, this magic stone had put him in a blind spot of the world’s laws, but…

It was still unknown whether it had worked well.

If it had worked well, his will would not be distorted, and conversation would be possible.

If it hadn’t worked, his will would only flow out as evil.

Then, conversation would be out of the question, and we would have no choice but to seal him in a main circuit that could not be input or output.

“Lady Linda is connecting the input/output parts and teaching him language to make him capable of conversation. It should be completed by now.”

“Linda. Are you ready?”

“Oh. It’s not proper to enter a lady’s room while she’s getting ready…”

“······?”

Kern’s daughter tried to stop me as I opened the door without hesitation.

A lady? What on earth does that mean?