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◈ The Forgotten Curse Knight ◈
Vol. 4 Ch. 7: I Can't Hear Your Voice
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Theo climbed down from the roof, dismissed his Curse Armament Manifestation, and retrieved Lenny, who was covered in soot and dust. By then, Rosé had already reduced the Termea to wreckage.
Carla landed beside Theo, who stood speechless at the devastation. Hulk jumped down from the roof a little later.
Theo asked in a trembling voice.
“Is Rosé always... like that?”
“No.”
Carla shook her head and quietly added,
“There aren't many enemies today, so she's holding back.”
“Yeah,” Hulk agreed.
Termea remains littered the ground at Rosé's feet as she brought down her battle axe. Every piece had hardened, making it obvious the Termea had already died.
Even so, Rosé did not stop swinging her axe. She kept smashing the hardened remains.
Hulk folded his arms and exhaled through his nose.
“You know how fighting while relying on the Curse's power causes mental contamination, right? You start seeing hallucinations, your mind gets muddled...”
“...Yes.”
During the mission in Rejilna, Theo had pushed his Curse Armament Manifestation beyond its limit and lost track of who he was. That must have been a form of mental contamination too.
“Cherry Beauty dives straight into battle because she wants the hallucinations from mental contamination. That's why she got torn up on the West End front. We pulled her back and had her recuperate at Cinder House for a while.”
Rosé could easily smash the Termea's shell, which even Theo and Hulk had been unable to break.
That monstrous strength was an advantage in fighting Termea. For someone small like Theo or Carla, if a Termea's body was thick, cutting through it was difficult. They had to shave it down bit by bit from the edge.
But Rosé could split even a huge Termea in two with a single blow.
That was amazing. It really was, but...
“Was there really any need to fling the Termea around...?”
“She wants to use enough power to get mentally contaminated.”
That was why Rosé continued raging even after defeating the Termea.
They could not let Rosé use any more strength. Theo dismissed all his armaments except his boots, jumped down from the roof, and ran over to her.
“Rosé, please stop! It's over!”
“...Huh?”
Through her wildly tangled pinkish hair, dull, murky eyes looked at Theo.
“Using any more strength will be bad for your body. Let's rest.”
Rosé turned toward Theo, but she did not stop bringing down her battle axe.
The hardened remains of the Termea shattered one after another, scattering across the area.
“Because unless my head's completely fucked up...”
Between the sounds of the Termea breaking apart, Theo heard a quiet murmur.
“I can't hear Charles's voice...”
Charles. Theo did not know that person. No, he had seen the name somewhere.
Right. Mrs. Moran's recipe notebook...!
It was the notebook that recorded the favorite foods of Gray Knights throughout the years. Theo had seen Charles's name there.
Charles had probably once been a Gray Knight at Cinder House.
Manager Archibald had stated that not a single Gray Knight had ever been freed from the Curse. That meant Charles...
Charles was probably dead and had likely been someone important to Rosé.
That was why Rosé gave herself over to the Curse's power, trying to see an illusion of Charles through mental contamination.
“Rosé, the mission isn't over yet. There's still one more Termea!”
Rosé's hand stopped in the middle of her swing.
At that moment, a familiar voice called, “Hey!” from the south. It was neither Carla nor Hulk.
Beryl was hopping from roof to roof, her legs covered in red-black beast fur after she had removed her wrap skirt. On her back was Gertrude, a woman in a lab coat with an imposing monocle.
Carla and Hulk noticed them and came over as well.
Beryl lightly jumped down in front of Theo, looked around, and widened her eyes.
“Wow, what a mess. Rosé really went wild... So, which one is this?”
There had been two escaped Termea. Termea A, which the research institute had originally captured, and Termea B, born after a Curse was implanted into Carla's body.
When Beryl asked which one these remains belonged to, Hulk answered.
“Probably Termea A. The one that was originally at the institute.”
“I see, I see... Then that one is Termea B with Hyper Regeneration... Hmm, this looks bad.”
Beryl frowned and muttered to herself.
Her tone suggested that something was wrong, so Theo asked,
“Beryl, did you find the other Termea?”
“I shall explain that.”
Gertrude, the self-proclaimed Termea Doctor, climbed down from Beryl's back.
Gertrude should have been investigating how the Termea escaped from Adcock Research Institute. Why was she here? Theo had a very bad feeling about this.
“When I returned to Cinder House after investigating the institute, an envoy of Crown Prince Richard arrived... It seems Timbergum Minor Palace has been attacked by a Termea.”
Theo was speechless. This was even worse than he had imagined.
Timbergum Minor Palace was a small palace located slightly east of Grandrium.
It was like a retreat for royalty away from political affairs, and the sickly second prince, James, was currently staying there to recuperate.
Theo spoke in a trembling voice.
“Don't tell me Termea B is there...”
“Worse still, Timbergum Minor Palace is relatively close to the Reyel Holy District.”
The Reyel Holy District, home of the Papal See and the Holy Knight Order headquarters.
Theo voiced his worst fear.
“Don't tell me the Holy Knight Order is already moving to retake the palace...?”
“Correct. From here on, we must pretend to cooperate with the Holy Knights while outwitting them, then either slay or capture the Termea. What a nuisance.”
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