Became the Patron of Villains Chapter 618: Tier (6)

Alon, who had choked and coughed several times, looked at Siyan with bewildered eyes.

“?”

Siyan wore a questioning expression.

At that reaction, Alon, for a moment, thought, 'Did I misunderstand?' Then he hurriedly cleared his throat and forced his stinging throat into order before speaking.

“......Wait, so—the seed you just mentioned. What are you talking about?”

“What else would seed mean? That, of course—”

“If by that, you mean—”

“The seed of conception.”

At Siyan, who spoke as peacefully as if she were asking, “Do you want another sweet potato?” Alon once again opened his mouth blankly.

No, wait...... Is my way of thinking abnormal? The thought flashed through Alon’s mind.

As a result of living in this world until now, Alon knew for certain that there were quite a few people in noble or royal society who possessed that sort of way of thinking.

In other words, it could be somewhat inaccurate to say Siyan’s words were simply strange.

......No, even so, I still wonder whether it’s right to say something like this so suddenly—

“I did not say it to make you worry that deeply, so do not mind it so much, you.”

Siyan looked at the stiffened Alon and then spoke as if slightly amused.

“......That is not a remark I can simply not mind.”

When Alon answered that way, she laughed softly and continued.

“Is that so? It seems you are conscious of this body.”

“That is not the issue. Anyone would react this way to a remark like that.”

“Hehe—”

Siyan gave a meaningful laugh and pushed the sweet potato into her mouth.

At the sight of her, Alon wore a strange expression and slowly ate his sweet potato as well.

A short while later.

“It seems I will have to give up on your seed after all.”

“Are you still joking?”

Alon responded to Siyan’s words after she finished eating her sweet potato.

“It is not a joke, though?”

“......Then what is it?”

“That is for you to think about yourself.”

Still smiling as she said that, Siyan changed her posture and sat again.

“Let us leave that there and move on to the main subject now.”

As Alon cleared his throat and set down the sweet potato he had been eating, she made a thoughtful sound.

As if she were considering what would be best to talk about first.

After that silence passed.

“Now, until the Karma Seats descend, is it three months? No, two months and a little more left?”

As if she had reached a conclusion, Siyan opened her mouth.

Alon, who had been about to nod naturally, soon wore a questioning expression.

It was not exactly a secret he had completely hidden, but the information that had just come from Siyan’s mouth was something only Alon and the children knew.

“......Who did you hear that from?”

Alon’s question came from a natural line of conjecture.

But Siyan shook her head.

“There is no way. Aside from you, there is no one among the people you keep with you who is close to me.”

“.......”

Alon naturally nodded.

Because her words were true.

No, in the first place, there were likely fewer people who were actually close to royalty.

Meeting royalty was not an easy thing.

“Hmm— it seems you are wondering why I know this.”

But since that left the question unresolved, Alon looked at Siyan, and she opened her mouth.

“It is not exactly a secret, but it is not information that has spread.”

“I did not hear it from anyone else. It would be closer to say I found it out myself.”

“......Found it out?”

At Alon’s question, Siyan smiled faintly.

“The Spear of Longinus. It predicted it.”

“......Predicted?”

“Yes. It said there is not much time left until something called the Karma Seats falls into this world.”

“......It has a function like that too?”

“It has more functions than one might think. There are some functions I still have not managed to use properly.”

Even after using all the intellect I built with the Golden Thread Eyes, Siyan said with a shake of her head, then continued.

“However—what I want to tell you is not this. To be exact, it is what I will tell you from now on.”

“......?”

“Ah, from this point on, this is something I heard.”

Siyan began.

“Star Eater, if you are hoping for a war among the Karma Seats, it would be best to give that up. Their first objective is to eliminate you.”

“......!”

—That was what she said.

“What does that mean?”

Alon’s face creased slightly.

Siyan soon shrugged and answered.

“It means exactly what you heard. The Karma Seats that will descend now will not fight one another the way you think. They say they will form an alliance. Solely to kill you. No—”

“Perhaps it would be more accurate to say, until you die?” Siyan added.

At that, Alon asked about the one who had said it.

“I do not know exactly who he is either.”

Siyan answered that way.

“However, he was a man wearing strange clothing.”

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At Alon’s request, Siyan fell silent for a moment as if recalling that time, then began explaining the man one detail at a time.

And after some time had passed.

“—That is how it happened. That is why I came to find you. I thought it was not a situation to be taken lightly.”

Alon was able to hear everything Siyan had to say.

“So someone came to you one night about a month ago and told you that?”

“Yes. It was a man wearing chains. He truly appeared in an instant and vanished in an instant. I thought it was a dream, but it was not.”

Siyan faintly frowned as she recalled that time.

“......He did not get caught by the guards at all?”

“Yes. After I obtained the Spear of Longinus, there had been no issues like that at all—but even the Spear of Longinus could not detect his intrusion.”

“He would not be an ordinary person, then.”

“No.”

“Did you perhaps see his face?”

At Alon’s question, Siyan shook her head.

“Unfortunately, I did not. He was wearing a hat. But more than that, it felt as though there was perception interference on him.”

“......You could not make out the shape of his face at all?”

“Because of his voice, I could tell he was a man, but it was impossible to know anything beyond that. However, if there was one thing I could specify...... it would be red eyes.”

“......Red eyes?”

“Yes. His eyes were red. Like blood. Probably.”

“‘Probably’?”

Siyan seemed about to say something more there, but then closed her mouth for a moment, thought about something, and continued.

“With the overall perception interference in place, even seeing the color of his eyes accurately was difficult. I managed to see that much, at least, is what I mean.”

Of course, I do not know whether I successfully pierced the perception interference and saw them, or whether I failed to pierce all of it and saw a different color, Siyan added.

Only then did Alon nod.

After a little time passed.

“Then I will be going now.”

“......You are leaving already?”

“Mm? It seems you are disappointed that I am going?”

“That is not it, but—”

“......Do you not think that is rather cold in its own way, you?”

At Alon’s expression, which seemed to ask, How am I supposed to react to this? Siyan smiled and continued.

“Of course, it was a joke. You have work to do, and I have work to do as well.”

“......Thank you for coming to tell me.”

“It was nothing. From my position, it was something I naturally had to do. In truth, I had many more things to say than this, but—”

Siyan tapped her lips, then smiled smoothly.

“I will save that for next time.”

“......Why?”

“Because you are the type to completely stop paying attention to the other person once your business with them is over, are you not? So if I want to hold even a little of your interest, I must do at least this.”

Siyan said that.

“It would be nice to see you at the royal castle after everything is over next time.”

With those words, she rose from her seat and moved her feet.

As Alon watched the dozens of knights who followed her as if they had been waiting outside the door, he fell silent.

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After Siyan left, Alon once again continued interpreting magic with Heinkel upstairs, and only late at night, after finishing the interpretation work, did he recall the words he had heard from Siyan today.

'......The Karma Seats will form an alliance and fall, and the one who told her that was a man with red eyes.'

A small sigh came out.

Each and every thing she had told him was certainly not easy to deal with, and the information was °• N ?? v ?? l i g h t •° full of questions.

How had that man known the Karma Seats would form an alliance?

And if he intended to tell him that fact, why had he not come to Alon directly and instead told Siyan?

No, in the first place, was it even true that the Karma Seats would form an alliance?

If it was not true, why had he deliberately leaked this sort of information?

“Hoo—”

Alon forcibly stopped his complicated thoughts.

And he decided to think coldly.

In truth, when considered coldly, there was no way to verify whether what he had heard from Siyan was true.

Because he could not meet the man who had delivered those words in the first place.

Even so, Alon decided to try believing it once, even if not completely.

He did not know what that man was thinking, but if he were someone who wanted Alon to be destroyed in some way, there would be no reason for him to bring this information.

If this was true and Alon had no information, Alon would not be able to respond to the Karma Seats.

In other words, the reason for deliberately informing him like this did not match the idea that the man wanted Alon’s destruction.

'......And assuming that is true—'

At minimum, seven to eight Karma Seats would be forming an alliance.

“.......”

At that suffocating number, Alon unknowingly rubbed his chin.

Just dealing with two Karma Seats had already been overwhelming.

But would it be possible to deal with eight Karma Seats?

Even if he mobilized all the children?

“.......”

Alon let out another sigh.

Even so, he did not stop thinking.

Because wanting to give up did not mean he could give up.

That was why, instead of giving up, Alon thought of a method in his head.

And then.

“......As expected, is that the only way?”

Alon soon muttered and recalled it.

His own law.

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Around the time Alon was thinking that.

Inside an absurdly luxurious carriage, Siyan was blankly looking outside.

She had been staring blankly at the sky, where not a single star could be seen, only darkness.

“Hello.”

At some point, she turned her gaze toward the voice that came from in front of her.

There was a girl sitting there.

A girl she also knew very well.

“......Cardinal Yutia.”

Siyan murmured.

But Yutia only looked at Siyan with a smile, without bothering to answer.

“No, does calling you Cardinal no longer have meaning now? Since Rosario has been blown away entirely.”

At Siyan’s following words, Yutia spoke.

“No, you may call me that. Even if Rosario is gone, it does not mean the faithful have disappeared.”

“I see—”

Siyan gave a short agreement.

“So, why did you suddenly stop by here? As far as I know, you are not an existence with so much free time.”

At the question that soon followed, Yutia smiled.

“That is true, but this place is important too.”

“Why?”

“Because—”

—She said.

“You asked for Alon’s seed, didn’t you?”

“.......”

Only then did Siyan realize.

That Yutia’s eyebrows, reflected in the moonlight, were slanting downward in distress.