Chapter 567: It’s easier to endure something when you know there’s a reward in the end
"You should tell me when the baby comes, okay?" Zarfa gripped my hands tightly when it was time for them to return to the Human Realm.
"Okay, okay~" I replied lightheartedly, but she tightened her grip and stared me down.
"Promise me!"
"Promise!"
I replied loudly in reflex as if a drill sergeant was talking to me. Or was it the head nurse? Ugh...
But Zarfa smiled sweetly and nodded in satisfaction as if she hadn’t just given me a mean glare a few seconds ago. "Good, good--just let me know through your husband’s staff over there, ’kay?"
I laughed and hugged her for one last time. "Alright, Aunty~"
She held me tight and whispered. "What about the templars?"
On our way back from the amusement park, the two of them told me briefly about their mission in that accursed kingdom. Jade had fallen asleep from exhausted playtime, but even then, the two didn’t seem too keen on sharing too much. Not out of secrecy, but because it was very uncomfortable.
I understood though--the biggest victims of the kingdom were, after all, girls. Those bastards were targeting virgins, so they deliberately looked for young girls because they were less likely to be ’tainted’ already. Utterly disgusting.
They did not say it outright, but I had a feeling that their ’vacation’ here was their way of forgetting the awful experience while rescuing those girls. The details were heavily omitted, but it seemed they found a mountain of bones beneath the church where they did the blasphemous act of extracting mana.