My Friend’s Harem is Obsessed With Me – Chapter 141

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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The most challenging aspect of dealing with the Priestess was her ability to freeze time for her opponent.

Although she couldn’t use it repeatedly in quick succession, she could continue using it like scooping water from a large jar with a ladle without issue.

She firmly believed this was a kind of grace and mercy from God.

Because of this, it was fair to say that no human could defeat her in close combat.

Even without stopping time, she was already among the continent’s strongest in close combat, and now she had this overpowered technique on top of that.

‘It would be nice if I could use the other knights around, but…’

Judging by how she was focused solely on me, it was obvious the Priestess would only use her time-freezing technique on me.

But she wasn’t so easy that she would allow the other knights to land a hit either.

‘The one fortunate thing is that the Priestess is in a state of extreme agitation.’

Even searching through her past memories, she had never been this excited before.

Conversely, this meant she couldn’t tolerate my existence, which was proof of God’s mistake and defeat.

“Heretic, the Goddess wishes for your judgment.”

“Why blame me for their incompetence?”

“Do not speak so carelessly!”

The Priestess who had rushed forward raised the hour and minute hands high and swung them down at me, but I had already leaped far back.

‘I can’t give her the distance to stop time.’

Knights charged at the Priestess who was glaring at me, gritting her teeth.

She met them with smooth movements as if surrendering her body to a flowing melody.

The heavy, restrained knights were swept up by her fluidity, either rolling on the ground or kneeling as they coughed up blood, pierced by the hour and minute hands.

“Sir Daniel!”

A sword flew towards me along with Bertia’s desperate voice.

Finally, an opportunity to draw the sword I had brought from the academy.

“Elise!”

Elise, who had been analyzing the Priestess with pursed lips without rashly charging in, suddenly looked at me.

I gave her just a simple eye signal, but the quick-witted girl immediately understood and prepared to charge.

“Why! Why do you mock God! You, whose very existence is already a sin, what more do you seek by siding with the calamity!”

The Priestess, who had trampled over the knights’ corpses to reach us, shouted in frustration.

“If you read my memories, you know she’s trying to change.”

“Foolish! How foolish! You show mercy to the calamity! You weigh human lives on a scale!”

Once again, I retreated far back, creating distance from the Priestess.

Even throwing tables and chairs at her, they were simply sliced apart with a few swings of her hands.

“You also learned that if she dies, the calamity will begin!”

“Then the calamity will surely come someday! We need to restrain her and suppress that power!”

“So you’d let a child who has committed no crime rot on a cold prison floor for life? You’d make a child who gained unwanted powers into a lab rat?”

At my shout, the Priestess raised both hands high and plunged the hour and minute hands into the floor of the banquet hall.

“How can you not understand that this is the way to save this world!”

‘Oh no!’

She was using her trump card already?

A transparent membrane formed around her hour and minute hands, covering the entire vast banquet hall.

People touched by the membrane began to move slowly, as if time had slowed for them.

I couldn’t avoid it.

Before being consumed by the membrane, I curled up in midair and took the best defensive posture I could manage.

A technique that slowed all surrounding time, with a short activation time – the Time Freeze Domain.

In this domain, only the Priestess of Time was the master.

The Priestess approached empty-handed, having left her weapons as the anchors for the domain created by the hour and minute hands.

“I will kill you.”

Thud!

Her downward strike landed squarely on my arm.

I wanted to say something, but even the time it took for my voice to travel from my tongue out of my mouth was slowed.

The Time Freeze Domain only lasted for 10 seconds, but it felt like 10 minutes.

During that brief moment, the Priestess unleashed a barrage of attacks without even pausing to breathe.

The transparent domain disappeared like a bursting bubble.

I, who had been floating in the air, finally landed on the ground, and the delayed pain struck my entire body without mercy.

“Ugh!”

I nearly lost consciousness from the dizzying impact.

The Time Freeze Domain was a technique akin to the Priestess’s ultimate move.

Thinking of it that way, it was painful, but I had clearly endured it and drawn out one of the enemy’s cards.

“How persistent!”

Thud!

Crack!

The Priestess raised her foot high again and swung it towards my contorted face.

Even amidst the intense pain, I managed to barely raise my hand to block it.

I slid across the floor, only stopping after destroying several tables and chairs.

‘My wrist is broken!’

That last blow had broken my right wrist.

If this had been my 28-year-old body from before, it would have been nothing, but my current body wasn’t trained for this kind of punishment at all.

‘Well, I’ve only been doing the hitting until now, never been on the receiving end.’

The Priestess naturally didn’t wait and charged at me like an enraged bull rushing a matador.

Behind her, an overwhelming pressure, disproportionate to her size, swept fiercely towards me.

“God has guided me to you! Following His will, I shall kill you! Cut off the hands and feet of the calamity, pluck out her eyes and tongue, and seal her in a sinner’s prison for life!”

“…!”

I sprang to my feet and gripped the sword that had skidded across the floor with me.

“Yes, I thought that way at first too.”

I couldn’t deny it.

When I first regressed, I too was consumed by the delusion that Rin would become the calamity in the future and kill everyone, regardless of how she was now.

“But I realized how arrogant that was.”

“Arrogant? Arrogant? You dare speak of arrogance! You monster of sin who abandoned humanity to become a monster! Is it so fun to raise the calamity that will destroy mankind?”

“A priestess who judges the innocent shouldn’t run her mouth.”

The Priestess stretched both hands behind her, and the hour and minute hands stuck in the banquet hall carpet flew into her grasp.

If the distance closed just a little more, the Priestess of Time would immediately stop my time and cut me to pieces.

“Rin can definitely overcome this.”

That was why I leaped forward at the fastest speed I could muster.

Taking advantage of the gap in her thinking, as she had only been retreating until now.

The power that had been condensed from my big toe, through my heel, calf, and thigh, burst forth.

As I charged out at a speed even the Priestess could barely follow with her eyes, she hurriedly tried to stop time, but my body and sword were already shooting towards her neck.

My body couldn’t move.

Nevertheless, my body that had already sprung forward and the sword I held continued to advance.

“Kuh…!”

However, the Priestess was no ordinary opponent either.

She forcibly twisted her body with an audible creak, accurately avoiding having her neck sliced.

Crimson blood flowed, leaving a deep wound on her neck, but she didn’t die.

“My victory…!”

Squelch!

The long sword reminiscent of a golden branch sprouted up as if taking root in the Priestess’s chest.

“Don’t underestimate me so carelessly.”

With Elise’s voice, my stopped body began to move again.

“Kh, ughh!”

“You were too focused on me.”

Because she had perfectly memorized my strength through her memories, she hadn’t paid much attention to others.

Especially in a life-threatening moment like just now.

“I… must kill… you…!”

The hour and minute hands fell and rolled on the floor.

Even as she coughed up blood, the Priestess reached out towards me, but…

Slash!

I swung my sword, cutting off her right arm, which fell to the floor with a heavy thud.

“Kuaaaaagh!”

“This is what you were trying to do to Rin. You were going to inflict this pain you’re experiencing now on that innocent child.”

“G-God… oh God…”

The Priestess collapsed, foaming at the mouth with blood.

Thinking this was a fitting last word for the Priestess of Time, I pulled out Elise’s sword.

“No one can call the current Rin a sinner, nor pass judgment on her. But if the time inevitably comes when that must happen, I will bear that decision, having experienced and remembered everything.”

This was not a realm where a mere priestess who served God could carelessly interfere.

The outstretched hand of the Priestess crawling on the floor slowly lowered.

Soon after, she went limp, her eyes open wide with resentment.

“Why don’t you ask to be regressed too?”

Though I wasn’t sure if that would work.

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The incident was resolved for now.

Prince Oliver was arrested on charges of attempted assassination of the current king and the assassination of Princess Elena de Frisia, and was thrown into the royal underground prison.

As a result, the Second Prince Alois, who was credited with exposing these evil deeds, suddenly rose as the next candidate for the throne.

Of course, with the current king regaining his health, that time would be quite far off, but since it wasn’t his place to begin with, Alois expressed relief that he now had the opportunity to learn before taking the seat.

Tana, who had been injured by the Priestess of Time, was out of danger thanks to Princess Ainis.

Especially with the generous support from her main family, the Mayas, her hospital room was filled with rare fruits and flowers.

It seemed they were doing this because she had come as a maid instead of Valtory Mayas, the younger twin sister, but Tana dismissed it, saying, “Don’t think you can make up for everything with this.”

And although we who no longer needed to stay here since Prince Oliver had completely fallen from power were preparing to return after receiving treatment…

“Ngh.”

“Shall I help you?”

Elise approached me as I struggled to load luggage with my right hand in a splint and thick bandages due to my broken wrist.

Actually, I thought I didn’t have much to take back since I came with almost nothing, but I had received quite a lot of gifts.

“Wouldn’t it be better to heal it with magic now?”

“That way the body won’t properly strengthen. Instead of forcing it with magic, it needs to heal over time so that next time it receives the same impact, it won’t break.”

Elise made an ambiguous expression at my words.

After loading the luggage into the carriage and dusting off her hands, she too had already packed her own belongings.

“But are you sure about this? It’s only a matter of time before everyone knows you’re a princess now.”

Elise had wanted to hide the fact that she was a princess, but because she had made such a strong impression at this banquet, the story would eventually reach the academy as well.

“It can’t be helped. I’ll enjoy the remaining two years comfortably.”

“Right, you won’t be able to do crazy things anymore, even because of how others will see you.”

“…!”

Elise, who had been smiling gently until just now, made a shocked expression.

Then she hurriedly took out various things from her luggage and showed them to me.

“Th-Then what should I do with these? Should we use them here? I prefer outdoor play too…”

What she was holding were a whip, a collar, and… a cat tail?

“Wow, I thought you’d stop making me want to curse. I’m a patient, I shouldn’t get excited, you know?”

“I’ll be the only one getting excited.”

“You little…!”

I almost cursed without realizing it, but the coachman glanced over wondering what was going on, so I barely held back.

I wasn’t crazy enough to openly curse at a princess of the royal family.

At least, I try to avoid it when people are watching.

“More importantly, what’s that?”

When I pointed at the last item, the tail, she smiled slyly, pulled her hand behind her back, and then pointed to an exact location on her skirt, making a motion as if inserting it.

“This is how you use it!”

“Bertiaaaa! Didn’t you check what this kid was packing?!”

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For a traitor, there can be no rest.

Instead of being buried in fine earth and returning to God’s embrace, they are burned to ashes along with trash that needs to be incinerated.

This was the common method of disposing of traitors’ bodies in the Frisia Kingdom.

Cremation was natural, but even that was treated as mere ash, with no separate respect shown for the deceased.

Of course, no one came to mourn their death either.

If they were caught in the eyes of the royal family by mistake, it could be seen as honoring the death of a criminal.

That was why this time too, it was expected that no one would come, and only the funeral director would burn the body along with the trash and be done with it.

‘Why is the Len family here?’

Heaven Len, the current head of the Len family and Hayun’s uncle, had come all the way here and was shedding tears.

“Oh, God! Why did you take her away!”

He wailed miserably as if a family member had died, regardless of the funeral director’s gaze.

It was so extreme that it wouldn’t be strange if he was called a traitor to the royal family.

‘I’ll have to report this.’

The funeral director made a mental note while watching Heaven Len.

Especially since the criminal being burned this time was none other than the woman who had attempted to assassinate the current king and Princess Elena, swung a sword at the royal family, and killed many royal guards.

He couldn’t just ignore someone lamenting the death of such a person, and it was also part of his job to report such things.

Hiss.

He threw a small flame lit from a match towards the corpse.

Thanks to the oil soaked into the trash and the body, the flames spread in an instant, and he would have to keep burning it without extinguishing the fire for several days.

Since even a crematorium was not allowed for criminals, it was a rather arduous task that had to be continued using primitive methods.

“Hmm?”

At that moment, a rustling sound came from within the flames.

As the funeral director was diligently poking with the fire iron, he felt like he was prodding something soft when suddenly…

Something abruptly pulled the fire iron inward, and the funeral director was also dragged into the great conflagration.

“Aah! Aaaagh! Kyaaagh!”

Terrible screams echoed.

Heaven Len, who had been shedding tears, wondered what was happening, but amidst the screams that were fading in contrast to the fiercely burning flames…

A woman missing her right arm walked out with a smooth body like freshly fired pottery.

“Ah… Ahhh!”

Heaven Len, recognizing her identity, immediately knelt down and bowed his head.

He even tightly closed his eyes, saying he wouldn’t dare look at her nude form.

The Priestess, looking down at her only devout follower who had stayed with her, forcibly opened her mouth and spoke in a voice like ashes.

“We’re going to the Demon Realm Forest.”

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