Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 514

Was she kidding, saying if he didn’t like it?

Was that something someone in the position of queen should be saying?

When Su-ho started to truly pour out killing intent, Marloe, too, showed a genuinely flustered expression.

"That killing intent is pretty ominous. Two jokes and there’ll be a full-blown massacre, huh?"

“Joke?”

At that, Su-ho swung his sword wide.

Sky Severing activated, and a gigantic sword slash brushed past over the queen’s head, and—

— KOOOONG!!

The enormous tree behind Marloe was cut clean through and toppled over, falling with the whole trunk.

Su-ho lifted his sword and pointed it at Marloe as he spoke.

“Stop talking like you’re joking. Are we close? Jokes are something you can do between people who are close. You’ve been treating me like some lowly mongrel all this time, and now all of a sudden you’re talking about jokes? It’s not even funny. If you’re a queen, why don’t you have the dignity to match? Or what, is this the dignity you’re aiming for as a queen or something?”

A nonstop carpet-bombing.

At those words, Marloe’s face turned red.

“...All right. I’ll apologize for this.”

At the sharp jab, Marloe apologized surprisingly easily.

It wasn’t because she feared Su-ho’s strength—this time, she truly felt ashamed of the words she’d let slip.

“...And I will also apologize for saying that to you before. Also, since you captured Gomes, who is the nemesis of our fairies and could be called a disaster, I will, as promised, not discriminate against you and will respect you as a fellow fairy.”

“Tch. You should’ve done that from the start.”

“However.”

“However?”

However?

What now with “however” again?

What were you trying to say after that?

Su-ho furrowed his brow, but she continued without caring.

“However, I and my children may respect you as a fellow fairy, but you must abandon any expectation that other fairies will respect you the way we do. This was, after all, a promise between you and me.”

“No, how does that make any sense?”

“That is reality.”

“This is unbelievable... Then give me some kind of proof—some kind of token of guarantee—that a queen-class fairy like you respects me, so I can be recognized wherever I go. Then other fairies will see that and think differently.”

“That is...”

Marloe trailed off.

From Su-ho’s perspective, it was a pretty rational demand.

If she truly acknowledged him as the same kind of fairy as themselves, she could produce something like a guarantee token as much as she wanted.

And yet even so, the reason she couldn’t answer easily and kept trailing off was because she still hadn’t fully, sincerely accepted Su-ho.

'Damn it.'

Watching her hesitant attitude, without realizing it, a crazed wail threatened to rise up inside me.

Because the reason she was acting like that was obvious.

But instead of pressing her with words, I only narrowed my brow and looked at her in silence.

Because that was the last respect Su-ho could show her—and the last expectation that her remaining conscience could be trusted.

After a while, fortunately, she accepted Su-ho’s condition, grudgingly.

“...All right.”

After answering, she snapped her fingers.

A Seal of Protection—something only Marloe could create—formed, and then settled onto Su-ho.

[Fairy Queen Marloe engraves a Seal of Protection on you.]

A system notification.

Along with it, Su-ho could feel her power as well.

It was thanks to the Fairy Form he had newly obtained this time.

Marloe spoke.

“I have just engraved upon you a Seal of Protection that only I can create. With that, all fairies will recognize my power, and it will be able to steer the opening of their reactions in the direction you want.”

“Nice.”

It felt strangely mysterious.

However, he couldn’t separately check any system information about the Seal of Protection Marloe had engraved.

It seemed like this was, literally, just something that felt like a certificate of guarantee.

After obtaining everything he wanted, Su-ho held out his hand toward her.

“Good. With this, our relationship’s gotten a step closer. In that sense, let’s shake hands.”

“...”

At Su-ho’s request for a handshake, she stared at his hand for a moment, then let out a short sigh and took his hand.

'A sigh comes out of me too, you little...'

It was like the feeling of a slave shaking hands with a nobleman for the first time right after the status system was abolished in the Joseon era.

Whatever. I didn’t care.

The process hadn’t been all that smooth, but in the end, the result itself turned out exactly the way I wanted.

Soon, behind Su-ho, a portal appeared that would allow him to leave the Fairy Kingdom.

Su-ho glanced at the portal once and said to Marloe,

“Feels like you’re pushing me out and telling me to hurry up and go?”

“It’s your imagination.”

“Yeah, it’s probably my imagination. But leaving right away like this feels a bit wasteful, and I’ve got a few questions I want to ask you. How about it?”

“What are you so curious about this time?”

“Of course I’m curious about a lot. It’s my first time ever coming into the fairy realm itself. But aren’t you hating me a little too much? You know, I might end up being the savior who’s going to save the Fairy Kingdom someday.”

“Savior? What kind of nonsense is that?”

At the talk about a savior who would save the entire Fairy Kingdom, she got genuinely annoyed.

To someone like her—who was like an extreme racist supremacist—Su-ho’s statement just now sounded like a freed Black person telling a racist white person, I’m going to be the savior who will save you white people.

But this time, Su-ho enjoyed her sour reaction.

Su-ho smiled and continued.

“There’s a lot I want to tell you and a lot I want to say, but for now, let me just ask one thing. Even though you could always feel Gomes’s presence, why did you go out of your way to tell me to bring you Gomes’s corpse?”

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