Punishment Arc/Web Novel Summary

Chapter 74: The Queen
After defeating The Pope, Naofumi receives various wounds as a consequence of using Blutopfer. He is barely managing to stand on his legs and is enduring a great amount of pain. He gets the knowledge that the commander that is issuing the orders to soldiers to heal him is Queen. She praised him for his deed and prioritizes his life over everybody else. Naofumi is distrustful because he is not sure if she is an enemy or not. But recovery and healing magic aren't working because of a very strong curse inflicted by the usage of Blutopfer. Queen apologizes for her delay and declares that there will be punishment for Malty for her behavior. She stops the fight between heroes. Naofumi warns Raphtalia to run away with Melty and Filo if anything suspicious happens and after that, he loses consciousness.

He wakes up in the castle in the bed with Raphtalia, Filo, and Melty and is informed that his curse cannot be healed by magic and needs time to recover (about month). He acknowledges that his stats dropped by 30% except for defense. After that occurs dialogue of Naofumi and Queen about her helping him with two shadows and whole scheme. Shadows were disguised and were creating openings for him to run away. Queen persuade him to follow her to the castle to watch something.