Chapter 161 – Hauzen Underground

Bab 161 – Bawah Tanah Hauzen

Eris, yang masih membusungkan dadanya dengan angkuh, berbicara saat dia mengingat sesuatu.

[Ah, right! Mimir tried to follow me earlier, but I left her back at the castle. I suppose it’s for the best, right?]

[That is indeed for the best.]

Mimir memang memiliki keterampilan ksatria suci. Namun, dia dilarang menggunakannya oleh hukum kerajaan.
Bahkan dalam keadaan darurat yang mengerikan seperti insiden dukun goblin, dia masih dihakimi dengan kejam karena melanggar aturan.
Untungnya dia dibebaskan dari hukuman oleh otoritas ratu sendiri.
Tapi tidak akan ada yang kedua kalinya.
Oleh karena itu, saya lebih suka tidak menempatkannya dalam situasi di mana dia harus menggunakan pedang suci lagi di masa depan.

[That’s why I ordered her to assist Seto instead.]

[That really helps.]

[Ehehehe. I was praised by Fate. That’s got to be a lot of points for me!]

Bagaimanapun, kita harus melacak dan mengikuti Snow melalui saluran pembuangan bawah tanah ini…
Sungguh wanita yang santai, dia.

[Good grief…can we really act this easy going especially at times like this?]

Ngomong-ngomong, satu-satunya sumber cahaya kami saat ini adalah bola api ajaib yang aku lemparkan.
Saya memiliki keterampilan penglihatan malam, jadi saya bisa melihat dengan baik dalam kondisi gelap gulita. Tapi itu mungkin tidak terjadi pada Eris dan Roxy.
Saat itu, Eris pindah dan memelukku.

[Not bad. It’s nice for a change. I don’t like using Night Vision anyway.]

[Indeed. The flickering light also looks beautiful.]

Nn? Dari reaksi mereka, sepertinya mereka memiliki metode sendiri untuk melihat dalam kegelapan.
Dengan senyum lembut, Roxy menunjukkan padaku alat ajaib yang dia simpan di saku dadanya. Alat itu seukuran telapak tangan, dengan tulisan ajaib di permukaannya.

[This has a similar effect to night vision skill. It is quite rare though.]

Sepertinya item yang digali dari Gallia.

[Does Eris also have that kind of item too?]

[Nope. In my case, I have various kinds of magic eyes transplanted on me. One of them has a similar effect to the Night Vision skill.]

[Magic Eyes?]

[To say the least, it’s not Lust skill’s power. Monsters that lived in the ancient period had magic eyes with varying function. He transplanted many kinds of them into me.]

Dia … ketika dia mengatakan itu, wajah pria tertentu segera muncul di benaknya. Pria yang muncul sebelum kita hari ini.
Dan pria yang sama ini berbagi sejarah dengan Eris juga.

[Libra?]

[…….yes, it was him. As I’ve told you back on Tetra, he was originally my owner.]

Roxy tidak pernah mendengar semua itu tentunya. Dia tidak sengaja meninggikan suaranya.

[Original owner…?]

[Ahaha, don’t give me that kind of look. For those people back then, we humans were no more precious than pebbles in the dirt.]

[But…]

[I…and the white knights back at the capital shared the same situation. We were the only survivors. Those people, even if they looked like humans, what was inside was…something else. Anyway, that Libra had a particular interest in Mortal Sin skills.]

Dalam pemahaman saya, Libra telah melakukan berbagai macam eksperimen pada Eris atas nama penelitian. Mungkin selama yang disebut ‘penelitian’, dia mentransplantasikan mata ajaib padanya.

[It’s not all that bad. I’m fine with having them. Some of the magic eyes are useful after all.]

[I see… But why didn’t you tell me before this?]

[The reason is simple. I don’t want to rely on the magic eyes too often….or more like I can’t use them.]

Aku bertanya-tanya apakah ada yang salah dengan Eris.

[Nn? But you used magic eyes with night vision capability before this, right?]

[I did. It’s the easiest to use actually.]

[What do you mean?]

[For example, it’s like Fate’s Gluttony skill.]

Suka skill Gluttony? Dimana kesamaannya…?

[So there is a risk in using it?]

[Correct! The eyes weren’t originally mine after all. Therefore, the more powerful the magic eyes are, the greater the burden they imposed on my body.]

[What’s the worst of it?]

[I might become blind. Worse comes to worst, I might also die from overusing it.]

Eris terkekeh saat mengatakannya. Aku tidak tahu apakah dia serius atau tidak.

[Then please don’t overdo it.]

[You’re not one to talk. Am I right, Roxy?]

[Exactly! Whenever he got away from our sight, Fate always stormed off to do something dangerous!]

[That’s…..]

Saya tidak bisa membantahnya.
Jadi saya memilih untuk mengarahkan pembicaraan kembali ke topik.

[So Libra captured Eris, and conducted various kinds of experiments on you?]

[I think it’s more like I was born to serve that purpose.]

[Nn? Say again?]

[Look, you remember what Envy was trying to do back at Gallia?]

Saat kami terus berjalan, Eris menatap Roxy dengan ekspresi menyesal.

[Could it be, when it tried to kill me back then?]

[Un, I’m truly sorry for that. Envy is also reflecting on it.]

Sambil mengatakan itu, Eris mengetuk bayonet hitam di pinggangnya.
Apakah Iri hati benar-benar merenungkannya? Jujur saya tidak tahu. Aku tidak mendengar suaranya lagi sejak pertempuran kita di Gallia.
Eris selalu mengatakan itu.
Mungkin menyadari apa yang kupikirkan, Eris terkekeh.

[Envy is prideful in nature. It had the upper hand, yet still got beaten by you in the end. It’s already doing its best by not complaining while being around you.]

[Humph, and I still haven’t forgiven it for that incident yet.]

[Now now, I survived in the end. Rather than me, think about the other people who suffered from the Tenryu’s attack instead.]

Roxy mungkin mengatakan itu… Tapi dia juga kehilangan ayahnya, Mason-san karena serangan Tenryu.
Dia kembali hidup sekarang, berkat Pintu Menuju Pembukaan Tanahnya… Saat aku berbicara dengan Mason-san, jawabannya mirip dengan Roxy.
Mengutip perkataan Mason-san, ketika seluruh situasi memaksa kami, tidak ada yang bisa kami lakukan.

[Then, what does it have to do with the attempt to kill Roxy?]

[Fate, you are leaking killing intent now. When it comes to Roxy, you always get easily riled up.]

[Just get on with it already!]

Karena saya mendesaknya, Eris mengalah dan melanjutkan ceritanya.

[Good grief, how impatient. Envy deliberately overlooked the tyranny of the Holy knights. Even when the hatred of the people kept accumulating, it pretended to not be aware of that. Do you know why?]

[Indeed…when I talked to it back then, it mentioned something about producing a Crown-tier human.]

[You remember well! Good, good!]

Aku menepis tangan Eris ketika dia mencoba membelai kepalaku.
Dia bermain-main lagi. Namun, ekspresinya berubah serius lagi saat dia menoleh ke Roxy.

[When Mason died, Roxy had to take his place as a guard against the Tenryu. It was pretty much sending her to death, and the hatred of the commoners would’ve reached the peak.]

[If, hypothetically, I was killed back then, what kind of person would be born from it?]

Eris menghela napas sebelum menjawab pertanyaan Roxy dengan perlahan.

[Our kind.]

[Don’t tell me…]

[Yes, the Mortal Sin skill holders. We were born out of people’s hatred.]

Mendengar itu untuk pertama kalinya membuatku lengah.
Lahir dari kebencian…. Pada saat yang sama, saya menemukan bahwa semuanya masuk akal sekarang.
Ekspresi Eris berubah ketika dia menyadari raut wajahku. Roxy juga menatapku dengan cemas.

[I thought you’d be more upset than that.]

[Looking back again, I understand now. Eris also told me before, didn’t you? That Envy did everything to find a replacement for you.]

[Yup…..you are right. I guess I did give you a hint back then.]

[But seriously, thanks for telling me all this.]

Eris tertegun dengan mata terbelalak.

[I never thought you’d thank me. Knowing your past, I honestly thought that such words would never escape your mouth…]

[If it was the old me, maybe I would take it badly. But now, I know that I’m not alone.]

Aku meletakkan tanganku di atas Greed, dan menatap Roxy.
Kemudian saya mengingat setiap orang yang saya temui selama perjalanan saya.

[Moreover, I have stopped living in my past. Thanks to Roxy.]

Bagaimana saya dilahirkan adalah sesuatu yang tidak bisa saya lakukan apa-apa.
Dulu, pikiran seperti ini selalu terlintas di benak saya. Saya berharap saya melakukan itu sebagai gantinya… Andai saja saya melakukan ini pada saat itu. Selalu ada penyesalan setelah mengetahui hasilnya. Tetapi waktu tidak dapat diputar kembali.

Setelah melawan Rafal, saya diberitahu oleh Roxy.
Pentingnya hidup di masa sekarang, daripada tinggal di masa lalu. Saya tidak akan pernah melupakan kehangatan itu.

[That’s why, I don’t know if I can do it as good as Roxy did to me, but I intend to teach Myne the same thing.]

[I see…hopefully you’ll get through her. That feeling of yours… But it will be an uphill fight. Myne is strong, much more than you know. Can you really defeat her?]

[I know. In order for her to listen to me, I need to defeat her first. Otherwise whatever I say will amount to nothing.]

Saat kami melewati kegelapan bawah tanah, kami akhirnya tiba di sebuah celah.
Ini jelas merupakan artefak masa lalu. Saya mengenali tandanya. Ini mirip dengan struktur yang saya lihat di distrik militer ibu kota.