They say a humans nature never changes.

Olivia Lanze was quite the quirky senior who liked to tease me, but in the end, her base nature hadnt changed.

She still seemed to feel a certain obligation to help others, and it looked like she thought that would be a given to help the one that saved her like that.

When I seriously asked for her help, I immediately knew from the look in her eyes that she would do whatever she could.

Someone who was usually light-hearted, but would always try to help out if needed.

That was who Olivia Lanze was.

Most students might not be aware of it, but Temple was thrown into chaos at the moment, so I wanted to discuss that rather delicate story outside of Temple. However, it wouldnt be possible for me to take the corrupted Tiamata outside of Temple. Even if I try to disguise it as a training sword, I would obviously get caught at the exit.

Because a possible demon gods divine Relic in the shape of a sword had disappeared, it would just look suspicious if I went around wearing a sword at my waist for no good reason.

So I gave her a brief explanation in the park in front of the dormitory.

I talked about what happened in the Darklands, the cursed sword, what occurred after I brought it to Temple, and what we found out through the ritual Dettomolian performed.

The cursed sword was presumed to be a demon gods divine Relic.

And my predicament where it suddenly kept coming back to me no matter what I did.

At that rate, I might get suspected of being a demon gods apostle.

If Olivia Lanze went to a teacher or the church accusing me of something like that, I would be dead.

However, I believed that she wouldnt do something like that.

Olivia furrowed her brows after hearing the whole story.

This is all really hard to believe

Quite some time passed. It was a very long story, after all. Olivia was silent for a bit as if she was trying to retell my story in her head.

Yeah you couldnt have just told these things to just anyone. If the church finds out, they would kill you, no matter if you had the sword on you or not. They wouldnt even grant you a heresy trial.

She served Towan, so she would know best what the priests and heresy inquisitors of Towan were like.

I, who was chosen as the owner of the god of corruption, Kiers, divine Relic, the god diametrically opposed to Towan, would face extreme prejudice.

They are going to think that you were chosen by the divine Relic because you were a corrupted being to begin with.

No matter what the truth was, if a person was chosen by such an unholy power, then they would have had to be evil to start with. Olivia Lanze knew that they would kill me with that kind of logic as a basis because she once served Towan.

However I dont know how I should help you with this

Although she was shocked to hear that it was a demon gods divine Relic, Olivia didnt seem to know how to help me, who was chosen by that thing, no matter how much she thought about it.

However, I already planned out what I was going to say.

Senior, although this is just my guess, I dont think this is actually a Relic of a demon god to begin with.

What?

Olivia Lanze was taken aback when I told her that it wasnt actually a demon gods divine Relic after stating that it was one without a doubt.

Then you think it isnt a divine Relic but just some ominous object?

I shook my head.

I dont think there are such things as divine Relics of demon gods in the first place.

These words seemed even more confusing to her.

divine Relics of demon gods dont exist?

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At least, thats what I think.

There were no such things as divine Relics of demon gods.

Then what do you think it is?

My guess is that its Towans Holy Sword, Tiamata. I think its like this as the result of getting corrupted.

Thats ridiculous.

Olivia, of course, completely denied my ridiculous reasoning. It might have been any other divine Relic, but its characteristics were the exact opposite of the Holy Sword Tiamata.

I dont have any hard evidence. However, after hearing that assumption that its a divine Relic of a demon god, I looked into the divine Relics of the five great gods. From what I could tell, the relics of the five great gods have appeared continuously over thousands of years. There were people who used them, and their history is clearly written down.

Yes. I know that better than anyone.

Olivia Lanze knew more about the five gods than I, who only did some brief research the day before, so she should have known a lot more about the divine Relics of the great gods and what they achieved in this world.

Not all divine Relics of the five great gods had appeared in history all the time.

However, recounts of people doing great things with them had continued to appear.

However, in all of human history, there had never been any recounts of a demon gods Relic overturning humanity.

Thats true

Nothing was known about the divine Relics of the demon gods, not even their existence was confirmed.

Dettomolians testimony

An unknown but incredibly strong power of the cursed sword

Its power that could bring the dead back to life

The fact that it had been discovered in the Darklands

Based on that, one might be able to speculate that it might be the divine Relic of a demon god. They only assumed that it was a Relic belonging to Kier, the god of Corruption, to begin with. Temple didnt immediately guarantee its veracity, either.

Olivia was convinced that the cursed sword I had was a divine Relic.

However, I refuted that there was no way that it could be something like a demon gods divine Relic which had never appeared in history before.

It has been said that the last time Tiamata had appeared was 300 years ago, and believers of the Church of the demon gods who killed the last champion of Towan stole Tiamata and fled to the Darklands.

Olivia nodded at my words.

Thats right. After Towans last champion, Reigorn, was murdered by the church of the demon gods, their believers stole Towans Holy Sword and took it to the Darklands

Olivia went over the story she knew of, but gradually slowed down when she realized that I had found that sword in the Darklands as well.

No way, could it be that the cultists cursed Tiamata to be the way it is now?

Something like that.

Thats far too speculative. I cant believe that a Holy Sword could become something like that. I just cant.

Well, it was very hard to convince Olivia. No matter how much she abandoned her faith, she couldnt turn away from Towan completely. It was just too much a guess that it was possible to corrupt a Relic of Purity to hold the exact opposite power.

It would just be conjecture if I couldnt convince her that the demon god Kier and the god Towan were the same entity. And I couldnt explain to her why it was like that.

For me to know the fact that there werent any demon gods would mean that I knew about the actual belief system of the demons, and that would be really strange for me to know.

It would actually make no sense for me to know such things, so I couldnt tell her the truth of the church of the demon gods.

Tiamata, the Holy Sword that had the power to smite the undead, could become a demonic sword that ruled over the undead. To be honest, that wouldnt make sense to anyone. Even Eleris, who knew about the demons belief system, wouldnt believe me if I told her.

Olivia claimed that the Holy Sword had disappeared somewhere in the Darklands and that cursed Relic was also found there, so she simply couldnt trust my claim that it was Towans Holy Sword.

Couldnt it be that no demon gods Relics had been found because the Darklands havent been fully explored yet? They might have only appeared among the demon tribes who served the demon gods.

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Olivias guess was reasonable.

Just as there were Relics of the five great gods in the human realm, wouldnt there be Relics of the five demon gods in the Darklands and the humans just dont know about them? And by chance, I had found one.

There was one point I could refute here.

The Demon World War. If they had items like that, the demons would have used them in the war. However, the Demon King ended up killed and all his treasures were taken away, but among them, I dont think they found anything like a demon gods divine Relic. If they had, there would have been rumors spreading about it everywhere.

Thats true. Youre right. I volunteered to participate in the Demon World War, although I didnt actually fight in it. I never heard about anything like a demon gods Relic being sighted.

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If there were such thing as demon gods divine Relics, there was no way the demons wouldnt have used them in the final war against the humans. Olivia actually participated in the Demon World War with the purpose to treat and support wounded soldiers.

She knew better than anyone what information they had back then. She hadnt heard about demons using powerful items such as divine Relics of the demon gods or something.

They had plundered the Demon Kings Castle of all its treasures and magical items, but there hasnt been a word about them finding Relics of demon gods there.

Olivia would know better about those things than I.

If they had such powerful items like the demon gods divine Relics in the Darklands, why werent they used in the Demon World War?

So Olivia seemed increasingly unsure about my words that there werent any demon gods divine Relics to begin with.

It was an inference that started out with its conclusion.

There were no such things as demon gods divine Relics.

If that was the case, the cursed sword could absolutely not be a demon gods Relic. If so, there was only one conclusion one could get to: It was a divine Relic of one of the great gods.

But why had a divine Relic of a great god turned into something like that?

Tiamata disappeared along with the demon god worshippers who took it to the Darklands. Along the way, the worshippers did something to the divine Relic.

That had been my guess so far.

First, heres what I think. There are no such things as divine Relics of demon gods that could just suddenly appear out of nowhere. However, its impossible for an item to be so old and hold such power if it wasnt a divine Relic. So thats why I think that this divine Relic of one of the five gods had been corrupted to become like that.

If what I said was true, I might end up being mistaken as the owner of a demon gods divine Relic that didnt even existit actually was Tiamata that got slightly corrupted.

Yeah, I know what youre talking about. Before, I would have never believed a thing you said

If I had told her that when she was still a faithful believer in Towan, she would have treated it as a gigantic act of blasphemy against her goddess.

If what you said is true, I would be just a little bit more disappointed in the gods.

However, she no longer served Towan, so she didnt get angry at my words, no matter if it was possible to corrupt the divine Relic of Towan or not.

None of the other priests of Towan would believe me, so they wouldnt have any reason to try restoring it, either.

One had to firmly believe that the cursed sword was Tiamata and that one had to restore its original form.

Ill take a look at it. I dont know if I can purify it, but I can try, at least.

However, Olivia was willing to try without much resistance.

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The demon gods divine Relic had disappeared.

It had left Reinhardts and her hands, so she thought that it was a matter for the teachers to take care of.

However, she also felt a little anxious.

In such situations, Reinhardt would usually try to do something. Maybe he was doing something reckless on his own, causing even bigger trouble.

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Ellen was worried, so that was why she tried holding him in the training room to prevent him from doing anything useless.

However, Reinhardt went off somewhere in a hurry after breakfast.

He surely was off doing something reckless again. Thinking that she would drag him away if she found him, Ellen waited in the lobby for Reinhardt, who had gone off to who-knows-where.

-And you really just want to look around my room?

-Why, of course. What? Do you think Ill eat you up?

-Please Dont say things like that.

The scene that was approaching her completely destroyed Ellens anxiety.

Olivia Lanze, a fifth-year Ellen also encountered in passing from time to time, was just entering the first-year Class A dorm while clinging to Reinhardts arm.

She was practically sticking to his arm.

They didnt see each other often, but as soon as she was together with Reinhardt, she would act overly intimate with himthat was what she knew.

-Is there a specific reason why you try to get into my room like that?

-I wonder. Hehe. Why?

-If you try anything weird, Ill scream.

-Ooh~ What were you thinking? So youre also a man, huh~?

Reinhardt wore a disgusted expression while the female senior hanging from his arm was smiling brightly.

She was worried for nothing. That female senior wanted to enter Reinhardts room, and he seemed to have reluctantly agreed.

Reinhardt made eye contact with Ellen but just passed by her pretending not to know her.

-Dont you have any snacks or tea?

-No. What are you even expecting of me?

Ellen felt a bit anxious as she watched Reinhardts back as he got dragged away.

She was worried that he would cause trouble, but he wasnt up to anything. He was just normally spending his weekend.

Anyway

There seemed to be an unknown emotion wiggling in her heart.

It was a strange feeling she had never felt in her life.

-Get off of me!

-Why? You like it too though.

-Im not! I dont like this?!

-So now youre talking informally to me, huh? Do you want to get in trouble?

-AhThis is annoying

It felt like something was crushing her heart or tightening around it.

It was like a bug was crawling around on her heart and in her head.

It was really unpleasant.

What a strange feeling it was.

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