The Priest of Complete Dispel ~ Every Time I Save a Cursed Beautiful Girl with My Status Abnormal Cure Skill, For Some Reason Her Dependence on Me Maxes Out ~

Chapter 69: The Royal Capital Einfilia ※

“Huh…?”

Even though they weren’t exactly enemies, there was still some bad blood between adventurers and them, the same way there always is.

But despite that, after Alisha said her thanks, she stepped forward, held out her hand to Iris, and they shook.

Sure, from what Iris had said before, she didn’t discriminate against adventurers just because they were adventurers—she’d even worked hard to lower treatment fees at the church and stuff like that.

So yeah, it made sense that she’d shake hands even with royalty. But what was going through Alisha’s head when she did it?

“The royal capital is still a little ways off, so if you’re okay with it, Alisha, why don’t you travel with us the rest of the way?”

“Is that really alright? I’d be really grateful, but…”

“Yeah, no problem at all. The Temple Knights are traveling with us too, but if that doesn’t bother you, then it’s fine.”

“I have no issue with it. Then—please let me accompany you.”

In the end, we ended up heading to the royal capital together with Alisha and her group.

The one thing that worried me, though, was Seira.

Seira had distanced herself from the royal family, but royal blood still ran through her veins.

And because of that blood, their ancestors got hit with a curse—and it had passed down all the way to her.

According to Seira, the one who cast the curse was someone close to the royal family.

Whether that caster was already dead or still alive somewhere, nobody knew.

Normally a curse should disappear when the caster dies—but the ‘Withered Blood Curse’ might be an exception to that rule.

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“—I’m Seira, captain of the Clover squad of the Temple Knights.”

“I am the third princess, Alisha Einfilia. Thank you very much for allowing us to travel together.”

“We aren’t actually traveling together with them. We’re just moving in the same direction. Our current mission is to transport a heretic to the capital. So we don’t have the authority to permit or deny anyone’s company.”

“I see… Even so, thank you.”

Seira answered as the representative of the Temple Knights, but her expression looked stiffer than usual.

You could feel she was trying hard to keep the inner turmoil down while facing royalty.

“Seira, you okay?”

“Shu… It’s fine. Were you worried about me?”

While the royal carriage was getting ready to leave, I walked over to her.

“Kinda. They’re royalty, y’know? And not many people know you’ve got that bloodline, right?”

“People close to the royal family might remember, but… someone as young as the princess probably doesn’t know.”

“Got it. As long as it’s not eating at you, that’s good. If anything starts feeling off, just tell me, alright?”

“Yeah… thanks. Then…”

It was a short talk, but her face softened a little.

That night, I made love with Seira in a nearby forest.

Since I’d been with the other women most of the time, this was the first time in these three weeks that Seira and I had been skin to skin.

The moonlight shining down at night reflected off Seira’s beautiful ass and it seriously turned me on.

When I slapped both cheeks of the ass she stuck out while bracing against a big tree, she moaned happily.

“Ahhhn!♡”

My handprints slowly appeared on her pale, glossy skin, and just seeing them made me even harder.

The wet sounds of her dripping love juices got louder every time my cock slapped against her, filling the quiet forest with lewd, sticky echoes.

“Sh-Shu… not just there… this side too…”

“You really love it, huh.”

“You’re the one who made me like this…っ”

Seira spread her own asshole with her fingers.

I brought my cock right up to that twitching pink hole and pushed inside her ass without any lube.

“Aguh!? Aguh!?♡ Ooh!? Ooh!? Nnnnnn〜〜〜!?♡”

Seira let out way nastier cries than when I was in her pussy.

My cock, slick with her juices, ravaged her gorgeous ass and filled her depths completely.

That night Seira was super aggressive, and my lower half ended up going wild even more than usual.

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After I used Complete Dispel to remove the ‘Paralysis’ from the captured bandits, Alisha’s escort knights questioned them one by one.

Maybe because they were men, I dispelled them instantly without even touching them.

I stayed to watch, but the bandits wouldn’t talk no matter what.

So I offered to take over the questioning from the knights.

“If you don’t wanna die, start talking.”

“You think we’re gonna talk? —We’re the lowest of the low. We’re not even part of any real organization.”

“Organization…?”

For some reason they opened up to me pretty easily.

So basically, they’d been ordered by someone to attack Alisha.

Thinking about Seira, it probably wasn’t that rare in this world for nobles or royalty to get targeted.

But the guys in front of me just looked like regular bandits—maybe a bit stronger than average, that’s all.

“Either way, the moment we failed the job, we were done for. —The ‘Assassination Cult’ doesn’t forgive failure.”

“…‘Assassination Cult,’ you said?”

The second I heard that name, Medina’s shoulders, standing in the tree shadows, trembled just a little.

Her job was Assassin—this ‘Assassination Cult’ might have some connection to her past.

I didn’t know anything about her life before Bulldog caught her.

“So you guys were trying to get in good with that ‘Assassination Cult’… that it?”

“Pretty much… we done here?”

“…Yeah.”

I let out a short breath, put Paralysis on them again, and left them unable to move.

But—the next morning.

All the bandits were dead.

A black crest-like curse mark was carved into their stomachs, and it looked burned-out, completely lifeless.

No one had touched them during the night.

Maybe the moment they failed the mission, the curse reported it to the cult and took their lives right then and there.

I asked Iris to try Appraisal, but she said Appraising the dead was only possible for grandmas at her level or the current Saintess—it wasn’t impossible, but this time it didn’t work.

An opponent bold enough to go after a princess.

If the ‘Assassination Cult’ really was moving… we might run into them again down the line.

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From there, the trip to the capital took almost another two full weeks—altogether it was close to a whole month of traveling.

The outer walls towered way higher than the ones in Hares.

Heavy iron gates had magic crests carved into them; just getting close gave off serious pressure.

You couldn’t see through to the other side even on tiptoes—it felt like the whole fortified city was alive.

The checkpoint went smoothly.

We showed our adventurer guild cards, they did a quick check of the carriage cargo, and we passed right through.

Dorotheia didn’t have any ID so she used teleport magic, but Iris and Alisha got face-pass treatment—the soldiers bowed deeply to them.

“—Everyone, thank you so much even though it was only for a short time.”

After we passed through the capital gates, Alisha bowed deeply.

She and Lizette and the escort knights would part ways with us here.

Watching her back as they left, I really felt that our month-long journey was finally over.

“So… what now first?”

I asked Iris.

“Hmm. We’re all tired from traveling, so let’s find an inn first. We can start doing things tomorrow.”

“Sweet. The beds in the capital are probably super soft, huh.”

All I could think about was fancy beds and good food.

After roughing it with camping the whole trip, that alone already felt like heaven.

“Tomorrow, come with me to the church school. We need to show Cardinal Alaster’s recommendation letter—and separately from school, I’d like to introduce you to Haramaria.”

“Haramaria… the current Saintess, right?”

“Yes. I’m sure she’s really looking forward to meeting someone like you, Shu. I’m… really excited too.”

There was respect and admiration mixed in Iris’s voice.

Looked like the current Saintess wasn’t just a title after all.

“—Shu. Thanks for everything this past month.”

Seira walked up and spoke quietly.

“Same here, you helped me a ton.”

“I’ll be staying in the capital for a while to report to the captain and stuff… so…”

“If there’s time—let’s meet up.”

I whispered it right next to her ear, and Seira’s cheeks turned faintly pink.

“Alright then, let’s go find an inn first.”

We said goodbye to the Temple Knights, and with Mogmo leading the way, we headed deeper into the capital.