“Sure. Matapju-nim.”

As soon as those words ended, Matapju created the space again, frighteningly.

And she smacked Gelroks’ buttocks.

However, whether it was because of the force or Gelroks resisted, he didn’t go inside.

“You’re resisting?”

“Please save me. Me, me… Your Excellency. Please… Please. Anyone who can save me…”

Teddy’s gaze turned cold at those words.

“Save me? Why? Why should I bother saving you?”

“Um…?”

“Experience it. Let your life plunge into hell.”

Teddy’s ominous energy, which surfaced when he couldn’t control his emotions, and the vitality that leaked out due to the anxiety that Sessania might go wrong, condensed into one.

That vitality became a sharp and thorny spear, pressing Gelroks’ entire body.

“Gasp…”

It was a different force than the pain Matapju had given.

It felt like being whipped with a whip with sharp thorns rolled up.

He couldn’t even breathe, and if he moved a bit, it seemed like the thorns would burst his heart.

Instinctively, Sessania could tell.

Teddy’s emotions had never been so well-controlled.

‘Gelroks. Wasn’t your reason for existence to adjust Teddy’s power even once?’

Of course, that didn’t mean there was any reason to pity him.

“Pl-please save me…”

“Why should I save you?”

“Now that you know, isn’t it enough? Actually, what great wrong have I done? I just did as I was told. Just received money and did that kind of thing… What did I… do so wrong… that only I… only I…!”

Unnoticed, tears filled Gelroks’ eyes. It seemed there was no way out in either direction.

But if he didn’t do this, it felt unbearable. He had just done as he was told.

Was that so wrong? Wasn’t it the fault of those who ordered him?

“Even once… Even once, did you ever think someone might suffer because of what you did?”

“I th-thought about it…”

Teddy’s power gradually loosened.

“You thought?”

“Y-yes!”

“Unbelievably shameless. A person who thought about it didn’t even come once, didn’t even think about coming.”

“That’s…!”

He was speechless.

‘Damn it. Damn it.’

There was no intention to visit. No, for 20 years, he had forgotten and lived.

Whenever he remembered changing the hair color of the newborn baby 20 years ago, there were only two possibilities.

When he felt anxious that the nobleman might not handle it properly and his identity might be exposed, and when he wanted to gamble but lacked money.

Apart from those moments, there was no intention to visit. No, he had spent the last 20 years forgetting.

There was only a sense of regret that he should have attached a danger allowance and received double, or even triple, when he thought about changing the hair color of the newborn baby.

If he had known this would happen, he would have had a sense of regret, like wanting to attach a danger allowance to get more. Except for that, he didn’t even remember.

It was something unrelated to him. It was a job done on commission, and what did it matter to him whether that kid suffered or not as he grew up.
However, now, in the midst of all this chaos, he was going to ask about his own sins. He was on the verge of going crazy.

As he thought about it, it felt unjust, and more unjust. Why only him? The real wrong was done by those damn people. Shouldn’t he cause a scene with the mother who abandoned her child or the one who ordered the deed?

Why him? Just because he seemed insignificant, the world always brings chaos to those who are as insignificant as him.

With that thought, Gelroks became increasingly enraged.

“Am I wrong! I should kick the one who ordered this. Isn’t it because I can’t find those people? Why is this sin only piling up on me like this?”

“To blame the sin? There’s no reason. You’re just receiving your punishment. And don’t worry, if we find those people, it’ll bring more pain to you.”

Unable to stand the shameless scene he was making in front of Teddy, Sessania spoke up.

“…Damn… Damn…!! It was the mother’s fault. Not only did she abandon her child, but she also made it impossible to find! Why is this happening to me!!!”

When a person faces the pain of death, they either go mad or become silent. It was exactly that kind of scene.

Sessania approached him in an instant and slapped Gelroks’ cheek forcefully.

The sound was loud enough to fill the room, and Gelroks’ neck turned to the side with a dull sound.

“Shut up.”

“…Uh… Uh…”

“What do you know? Even if you knew, you shouldn’t speak like that. How can you all, the perpetrators, be all the same? Is what you did always an unavoidable act? Yes. Then I want to be a perpetrator too. Lord Matapju. I want to live not because I can’t die, but because I want to die every moment, really annoyingly. Please do everything possible while keeping me alive.”

“P-please…!”

“Enough. Go bite someone.”

Something popped out from the still-open space.

It happened so quickly that it wasn’t easy to see, but it was a giant creature with wings.

It was difficult to identify what kind of animal it was, but it was certain that it was not an ordinary creature.

“Kyaaaah!!!”