Chapter 76 – 21. Demon (6)
“About an hour from now…”
Jennifer Di Kairos murmured as she sped through the bushes.
It’s been 9 hours since you sneaked out of the imperial palace. Her destination, the capital of Count Curreal, looms in the distance.
She stayed up all night and moved her legs until now without a single break, but her body, which has achieved her transcendence, does not feel tired easily.
Due to the slightly reduced amount of magic power, it is slightly less than her power, but with this amount, it can crush any enemy. Her self-confidence and will were just as strong as when she set off on her stealth.
But Jennifer said, ‘Am I not too late?’ He couldn’t erase the anxiety that he did.
In order to leave the ecliptic without anyone knowing, it was necessary to do a preliminary operation,
The blinding midnight environment hindered her movement,
For she was not on a straight, well-paved, regular road, but through a dense forest of trees,
More time than expected was delayed.
The reason why the first princess, who should be in the imperial palace, infiltrates the adjacent territory without anyone knowing.
The reason goes back to just a few days ago.
Soniel, who is praised as a ‘prophet’ or ‘shaman’ in the world, foresaw the terrible horrors that would happen soon, and predicted that in order to prevent this, one transcendentalist would need to sneak into the scene.
These are the words of a precious sister whom he trusts more than anyone else.
If she dragged her army along, disaster would quickly notice it and flee elsewhere, so Jennifer decided to solve the prophecy herself.
All other transcendentalists available to the ecliptic are tools exclusive to the emperor. The thought of winning the race for the succession to the throne by accumulating one more great achievement by handling this matter directly rather than leaving it to them has settled in a corner of her head.
In a way, this is not a great attitude, but in its essence, it contains a heart that cherishes and loves the empire and its people more than anyone else.
But Jennifer didn’t know.
That Soniel’s prophecy had already been broken.
What awaits the princess at the final destination is a gigantic play and ‘one’ cast’ wearing masks.
* * *
[Hey, stop! Where are you going now!!]
“You can’t see it. They’re running away.”
[Then why are you doing this all of a sudden!]
Here, like her 1st princess, there is a being running at full speed through a deep forest.
In the posture of running away without looking back, one can feel a firm will without hesitation, but in his head is chaos itself due to the collision of two egos.
[Really out of shape! Do you think I gave you the initiative of my body to do this?!]
“I couldn’t help it.”
[No, even if it stands out, why did you throw away my school uniform, mask, and dolls?!]
A furious voice echoed through the skull.
Seo Seung-hyun, who can only watch the situation, is dissatisfied.
The school uniform that is the last remaining connection point to the earth, the mask that he has been using so far, and the dolls that have been responsible for his sexual desire for a while. For they left them all in the garden.
As a result, he was completely naked, wearing nothing and nothing in his hands.
However, being naked is not something to be ashamed of or ashamed of.
Because his current body is not a human, but an intangible shadow. There is no one around who can see him moving quickly away from the city, moving through the shade of the trees in the forest.
“You idiot. If you use this power, you have no choice but to throw away your belongings and clothes.”
On the other hand, the ego that moves the body directly, the demon lord Casper Lance, completely ignores the complaints coming from his head and sticks to the existing choice.
The demon king was able to escape from the long seal thanks to his consciousness transferred to the body of the summoner who suddenly appeared in front of the sealing stone a few months ago.
They signed a mutual aid agreement and began working together. The demon king gradually built up his strength by eating people, and Seo Seung-hyeon lived a life of fulfilling his lowly desires that he had never thought of before.
Then, the two decided to leave the ecliptic. It’s because it’s a headache to get caught while ‘preying’ at the gathering place of mankind’s potential. The Demon King did not want to be sealed again.
In the process, they stopped at the Earldom of Kurreal. The family head there gave off a very disgusting and intense smell of desire. It was the demon king’s favorite scent.
Instead of just passing by, the two decided to hit it off. While Seo Seung-hyeon played with the maids of the castle, the demon king made a meticulous plan and put a lot of expectations on it.
If you can extort the vitality of tens of thousands of people and use it as your own strength, you will be able to grow explosively to a level close to the heyday of the past.
At that level, at least one Transcendentalist could be defeated.
The fact that this place was close to the ecliptic was disturbing, but they dared to do it because the return is greater than the risk and the probability of success is very high.
But the plan is a fiasco.
“Can’t you feel it? A huge presence looking for us.”
[What is he saying now!]
Just a few minutes ago, at the same time as the curse he had worked hard on for days was taken away, anxiety crept in from all sides. The Demon King trusted his instincts and intuition and immediately invoked the [Film] Power.
Their attribute is epic level [Shadow]. It is an attribute that grants an awakened person overwhelming talent in stealth and ambush.
At the cost of unreasonable authority, all the power he had built up with great effort evaporated, but in the end, it was the right choice.
That’s why even that terrifying being can’t spot them. Power can be built up later, but you only have one life.
“···Shit.”
The demon king is just as wasteful of things he left behind as Seo Seung-hyun. School uniforms and dolls are useless, but I wanted to bring a mask.
A white mask imbued with the [Shadow] Attribute. It was the first and only sacred object created since it was released from the seal.
Of course, it’s not worth more than life, so I’m running away like this now.
Noon when the world should be brighter than ever.
No one witnessed the darting movement of the small shadow in the forest under the dark clouds.
* * *
Based on the Earl’s Castle, the Magic Tower and the Garden are located on the opposite side. Therefore, I must cross the wide city to reach Jonathan in the Garden.
Even naked. Because of the curse, all the horses to move the carriage were knocked down.
No matter how fast it will take more than an hour.
Moreover, reaching the other side is not the end. Jonathan, of course, would have finished preparing for the intruder.
The barrier surrounding the hill will announce my approach, and countless magic traps will attack me on the way up the hill.
It’s quite a long way to shoot or subdue him after facing his arrangements head-on.
So I used a cheat key.
“Iris, please.”
After climbing on her back and hiding with magic, fly up into the sky and head straight to the guy’s location.
There are no magic traps installed in the air. This is because the concentration of magic power in the atmosphere drops rapidly as the altitude increases in another world.
For the same reason, very few wizards can fly, so Jonathan was not wary of overhead.
That was the bastard’s defeat.
So it looks like this.
“This, release this! Now!!”
Jonathan flutters on the ground like a freshly caught fish.
He was helpless against our surprise fall from the sky.
Of course, even if it was a head-to-head match, it would have been an easy win for us, but we didn’t have to be cumbersome and cumbersome to match his rhythm.
There are two things more important than how you subdued him.
First, there is no suspicious entity that would have designed the curse with Jonathan.
It is certain that he was here. The faint reverberation of mana and the things he left behind prove this.
I couldn’t help but be shocked by the three letters of the name written on the clothes.
“Seo Seung-hyeon…!”
In high school, he was the ubiquitous male student. He has a normal appearance, moderate friendships, and manly hobbies like football and games. My grade was average for my class, but since our class was science-focused, we ranked high in the whole school.
He is one of five missing people the Empire never found.
“Iris. Search the area and find him. He probably hasn’t gone far yet.”
“Okay.”
“If you can, don’t kill me.”
I don’t know what attribute Seo Seung-hyeon had awakened to, what experiences he had been through to reach this place, what he was thinking of doing by incurring the curse, I don’t know.
There are many questions to ask him.
Iris left this place for my request.
Originally, my plan was to find and kill the slut who probably raped Jennifer in the future that Soniel saw. Could it be that he was Seo Seung-hyun? Something unexpected happened.
“······.”
The matter was now in Iris’ hands. She will either bring Seo Seung-hyeon, who is still alive, or bring news of her failure.
While she waits for her, let me focus on other things.
More important than Jonathan’s suppression, the second.
It is ‘what kind of revenge will I feed him’.
“I, I must complete the curse !! To bring her wife back to life !!!”
Jonathan Cursreal is the culprit of the curse aimed at wisdom. The moment has finally come to see the end of this long revenge.
Jamie Cursreal, who played tricks on Wisdom at the academy. His revenge was to stab and kill her fiancée, Sophie, in front of her eyes.
I want to present a similar revenge to Jonathan. His wife is already dead, and her daughter has pushed her into the pain herself.
So I pondered over and over again.
How can I make him feel the most terrible pain?
How can he die in regret for his series of actions?
Physical torture is too barbaric… I prefer mental torture.
From last night’s rendezvous with Emilia until I was riding on Iris’s back, this worry hadn’t left my head.
And finally, I succeeded in coming up with a very brilliant idea.
“Darling······?”
“···!!!!”
As her daughter’s body trembles as she lies asleep next to her wife’s grave, a nickname she misses dearly for the first time in years flows from her mouth.
Jonathan stopped resisting and opened his eyes.
“Honey······?”
“Darling? Darling, right! My, why am I here? Sleep, what is this?”
“·······.”
After devoting a lifetime to a wish that seems impossible, what is the attitude of a person who has finally achieved it?
What kind of facial expressions do those who have achieved their goals after overcoming numerous failures, hardships, criticisms and frustrations?
What kind of words will the person who has achieved his earnest wish come out?
I was able to get the answers to three questions from Jonathan.
“···Keuheop, Keum··· Heuh·····.”
He wept silently. He desperately tries to swallow his tears, but it doesn’t seem to work as he wants.
“Darling, why are you crying?”
“Huh… Black…”
“Don’t cry…”
I don’t know if someone will feel moved by this look and swallow tears.
All I can think of is that I’m ugly.
‘That crying, I’ll make it stop.’
Whether you want it or not
It is the beginning of revenge.
“By the way, who are you? Darling, why are you doing that… Wait a minute, what, what are you doing—- kyaaagh!”
At her sudden scream, Jonathan’s head, which had been hiding his crying face by burying his head on the ground, slowly began to rise.
At the same time, his face was stained with shock.
“You bastard!! I can’t stop right now!!!”
“S-I hate it! Let go of this— kyaaak! Darling!”
“Stop! Stop!! No, please stop…! Please!”
Of course, all of this was a blatant lie, a play only for Jonathan.
