Chapter 195 – Chapter 195 ― Return for the Future (3)
Episode 195 ― Return for the Future (3)
I couldn’t take my eyes off it.
His head and shoulders were covered with a thin cloth, so all he could see was his face.
But just looking at her face is enough to feel her presence.
The woman, whose eyes met her Roan for a moment, turned her head away again.
The Witchbeast trudged along the forest road as if nothing had happened, and soon her light disappeared.
Roan was leaning against her railing, staring intently at her in the direction she had disappeared.
Not knowing that my body is getting cold in the wind of a rather chilly spring night.
“Your majesty?”
Aina came out of the bathroom and approached Roan. Aina looked even more surprised when she touched his cheek and noticed that her body temperature was cold.
“Could it be that you were still outside?”
“Hmm.”
“Why?”
“I was waiting for something.”
“What… ?”
At her puzzled Aina, Roan pointed her hand in one direction.
In a street where you have to cross several trees,
I saw someone crossing a bridge.
“… Iris.”
Aina’s complex mind was revealed in that brief moment when she called her sister’s name.
Iris, who belatedly discovered that both Roan and Aina were out at dawn past midnight, hesitated a little, but that was all.
Iris, who approached the two without a change in expression, told them the news.
“The king of demons. I need to come over for a while.”
A sudden notice from Iris.
Aina made a surprised expression.
“This time… ?”
However, Iris’ cold expression did not change much even when she turned to her child, Na.
The eyes seem to overflow with affection, but on the outside, it’s just a cool face.
“The Duke is calling him.”
A look of astonishment appeared on Aina’s face.
It seemed that it was a shock that could not be compared to the sudden visit of her sister to her room late at night.
And that feeling led to the fact that Roan suddenly finished his affair and prepared himself.
“Your Majesty, you know this… ?”
But Roan gently wrapped her arms around Aina’s shoulder and nodded her head to Iris.
“I get it. Prepare.”
Iris briefly opened her ax eye to Roan’s hand on her child’s shoulder, then spoke in a sharp voice.
“There is no need for great preparation. Aren’t you obsessed with that kind of thing? Will wait.”
As she said, Roan put on a simple coat and fastened a sword belt.
Although Iris’ expression grew more stern as Roan picked up her Fiora out of habit.
“Are you planning to bring something like that to the Duke?”
“It is a sword approved by the elders.”
Even without this anyway, the forest fairies couldn’t resist. Iris and the elders.
No matter how brilliant the elders are, it’s enough to defeat them before casting them.
But Roan didn’t bother to say that.
I’m not here to compete with them. He doesn’t have to provoke her.
If he really wanted to hide Fiora, he could have quietly put it in his inventory.
However, he did not want to betray the faith shown by the fairies in that way. I also wanted to avoid making trouble in front of Iris.
Even if her persuasion is troublesome, the quickest way would be to propose directly to her and get her permission.
“Why did the elder give permission?”
Sighing lightly, Iris reluctantly agreed. If she objected, Aina, who was about to nag at her, shrugged her shoulders, as if relieved.
“I will lead.”
Following Iris, we headed to the meeting hall where Roan had a talk with the forest fairy elders in the afternoon.
The door to the great conference hall opened once more.
Iris pointed inside her, as if telling Roan to go inside.
It was very dark and quiet at dawn in the meeting hall, which was bathed in the afternoon sun. The only light inside is a lamp that floats around the room and a brazier located far away.
A man was sitting by the fire.
Even from a distance, the presence of the crouched figure can be clearly felt.
It wasn’t until her face touched the red light of the brazier that the woman who had been sitting in front of it, looking at the fire, turned her head.
“You are here.”
At that moment, Roan doubted what he had seen.
“The king of demons. Roan.”
A soft smile lingered on the face of the forest fairy woman, who seemed to be about 30 years old, about the same age as Iris.
Just like when Roan and I met eyes earlier.
Roan saw her for the first time in her life, but seemed unable to recognize who she was.
“Sit down.”
Poof, she shook her hand and the cushion was placed beside her. As the elders did, the duke filled the teacup with magic and placed it by Roan’s side.
Roan lowered his head.
“It is an honour. Duke. My name is Roan, the emperor of Evirgio.”
“I am the one who leads the forest fairies. Call me Amelie. It’s my first time talking to a demon.”
She drank her tea leisurely.
“What kind of relationship do you have with Aina?”
At Roan’s question, she smiled softly.
They don’t seem to have much of an age difference, and their eyes are the same black as Aina’s.
Even the features are similar, and the smile is even more similar to Aina.
The only thing that can guess her age is her slow movements and deep eyes.
“Do we look alike, me and my daughter.”
Roan nodded his head.
“That’s right. I can see both Aina and Iris.”
“Aina resembles me too much.”
Emily gave a light laugh.
“I have a temper that I can’t stand unless I do what I want to do. So it hurts.”
“Is that so.”
“You managed to capture the heart of such a child.”
She humbly expressed her gratitude.
“Still, thanks to you, my anxiety was relieved. Thank you. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to find a partner.”
Her playful tone radiates affection. If Aina’s mother is a duke of forest fairies, it’s also understandable that she couldn’t be taken care of by her mother when she was young.
I heard that the forest fairy duke lives in the center of the dark forest.
For some reason, if Aina had grown up here, in the Northeast, she would have been separated from her mother.
“Aina is a loyal and loving person. She is often disingenuous.”
“We think we shouldn’t reveal everything. That kind of tribe It must have been hard for Aina to endure.”
As if looking back on her distant past, Amelie, who had been silent for a while sipping tea, spoke to Roan again after her considerable time had passed.
“I’ll take care of Aina.”
“Thank you for trusting us even though we are of a different race. Duke.”
At Roan’s answer, the duke showed a surprised expression.
“The stories you tell are not like demons. Did the Goddess notice that as well?”
After looking over Roan for a while, the duke waved his hand.
“Yes, talking about Aina is good, but your time will be valuable. Heard from elders Did I mention ‘greed’?”
“That’s right. I heard the story of Goddess Laurecia. ‘Greed’ has not been fully sealed.”
Even at Roan’s words, Emily didn’t seem too surprised.
“Do you have any reason to believe that?”
Amelie’s question was unexpected, so Roan asked back.
“It is unexpected that the Duke, a forest fairy, said that. How can you ask?”
“Are you not doubters? You are a demon Even if she had seen the goddess in her dream, I think she would have doubted whether it was really the goddess or a product of her own imagination.”
Do you mean to give reasons?
If I were originally a person from this world, I might have thought the way she said.
The thing about the goddess might be a dream, and there’s no way this could happen to me, a demon.
But I’m from another world.
With the power of the goddess, he skipped death in another world and became the demon king here.
In a world like this, the Goddess giving revelations and her demons rampaging feel like anything could happen.
Of course, it’s hard to talk like this.
“The land of our demons is being devastated. In the land to the east where it was sealed, the desert grows bigger and bigger. If the duke takes even one step into the desert to the east, you’ll probably be sure of what lies beyond, even without a revelation from the goddess.”
This is also true.
For the first time since meeting Amelie, her expression darkened.
Her ever-present smile had only slightly faded, but Roan could see that she was quite surprised.
“You mean the influence is widening?”
“That’s right. The demons who made their home in the east are gradually being chased to the west. The beginning was to ensure that my people would not starve and that everyone could live fairly…”
Roan looked back at the distant past.
When I first came to this world,
What you were trying to do
I wanted to save my life,
I wanted to save everyone who could be saved.
Because there was a way to save my life.
“Now I want to give my people a future. Duke.”
The heart he wanted to convey was naturally carried in his voice, which gave him strength.
Something that allows everyone to start at the same starting line.
Because I was a demon from birth
Suffering from hunger,
Rejected by other races,
To make sure you don’t have to accept the fate of wandering in a land that is getting more desolate day by day.
Not just my future, but giving everyone a future.
The goal of life that Roan came here, his will and strength were conveyed in his voice and moved the heart of the forest fairy queen.
Emily’s eyes sharpened.
“It is a strange thing. It’s really the first time I’ve seen a demon that isn’t like a demon.”
The duke spat out vague words, whether it was a compliment or an insult, and sat down on a seat in the conference hall that was made like a staircase.
Graceful action. However, her gaze, fixed on Roan, is fierce.
“Life is finite anyway. The future you are talking about may be a story of a distant future that your people’s descendants will meet, and you will be forgotten.”
A mysterious power began to flow from her relaxed appearance.
The overwhelming power comparable to that of a goddess that Roan felt from a distance earlier.
Roan bit his lip slightly.
I felt like I would tremble if I didn’t.
“Everything has an end. There is no eternity for us, which may seem eternal to you. There is an end to this earth and sky. But what are you so greedy for?”
Amelie’s black eyes,
The endless black darkness
Tried to swallow Roan.
Not all skills have advantages.
The duke’s power and negative emotions were transmitted to Roan unfiltered.
Sadness. Vanity. Faint anger.
Roan clenched his fists.
The little power he gained as soon as he arrived here.
Roan’s will urged him not to fall.
“Isn’t the journey meaningless just because the destination is fixed?”
Roan looked straight into the forest fairy’s eyes.
I could see sadness hardened like a crystal, refined and refined over a long period of time.
Carrying the weight of life and death for every forest sprite, she resigned herself to facing her destiny.
“The moments when you can breathe and eat your fill, fall asleep with someone you love, and feel the joy of seeing greenery grow are all reasons for living. Just because the end to come someday is fixed, it doesn’t mean you have to throw away everything you have. Duke.”
Roan quietly gripped the hilt of his sword.
“What made you so desperate? Can you tell us why?”
At Roan’s question, the forest fairy put on a puzzled expression.
“… We?”
And Roan called her name.
“Fiora.”
It was a very short moment when the end of the purmel, the pink jewel shone.
