Punishment Arc/Web Novel Summary

Chapter 74: The Queen
After defeating The Pope Naofumi receives various wounds as a consquence of using Blutopfer. He is barely managing to stand on his legs and is enduring great amount of pain. He gets a knowlegde that the commander that is issuing the orders to soldiers to heal him is Queen. She praised him for his deed and priorizie his life over everybode else. Naofumi is distrustful beacuse he is not sure if she is enemy or not. But recovery and healing magic is't working beacuse of very strong curse inflicted by usage of Blutopfer. Queen apologize for her delay and declares that there will be punishment for Malty for her behaviour. She stops fight between heroes. Naofumi warnes Raphtalia to run away with Melty and Filo if anything suspicious happen 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 acknowledge that his stats dropped by 30% except defence. After that occurs dialogue of Naofumi and Queen about her helping him with two shadows and whole scheme. Shadows where disguised and were creating openings for him to run away. Queen persuade him to follow her to the castle to watch something.