Chapter 282 – Chapter 282 ― Interlude (4)
Episode 282 ― Interlude (4)
‘Are you trying to write a book about alienation between me and Helen like this?’
Roan felt disgusted.
Why does ‘greed’ show this attitude towards Roan? Why is it that the target who has annihilated so many lives is himself?
Could it be because he is the Demon King?
Of all the people living in this world, because they are the ones closest to death?
For a moment, Roan almost became frustrated with his own existence and limitations. However, the power of the Goddess still remained within him. Relying on that warm aura, Roan answered.
“Don’t bullshit.”
‘Greed’ was silent for a while.
He didn’t know if he felt insulted or if he was thinking about it.
After a while, the darkness surrounding the Archduke grew thicker again.
— Hmm, yes. Maybe when I die, I’ll realize, what to do.
“That is a difficult word.”
Roan, who collected the ‘Star Cloud Shield’ to save his holy power, felt chills running down his spine from the cold aura emitted by ‘greed’. It feels like putting ice on your back.
It was the voice of the Grand Duke who was familiar but not welcome.
“I decided to save some and give them to my daughter.”
Roan clenched his fist at the absurd remark.
He was able to move his stiff body.
Beginning with anger and confusion, the senses began to return one by one.
He said he would save some of them and give them to Erenier.
Roan realized that he was the object of Erennier’s greed. And the Grand Duke wanted the throne where Roan was sitting.
The two aimed for the same existence, but they wanted different things. Of course, it would have been optimal to hold hands.
As I began to realize the situation, my head, which seemed to boil with a mix of emotions, turned cold.
Around the archduke, the wind began to subside.
His voice had already been eaten by the devil and sounded different from the original voice of the Grand Duke, but if it were a living being, he would have been able to clearly distinguish the voice of ‘greed’ dwelling in him and the voice of the Grand Duke.
“Helen.”
Roan whispered as he knelt on the floor, covered in dust and blood and flesh all around him.
“We need to neutralize Anmut first.”
Helen, dazed by the voices and powers coming from all around her, was brought back to her senses by Roan’s words. Soon she realized Roan’s intentions as well.
Anyway, the Grand Duke is difficult for Helen to deal with. Even if Roan manages to stop the Grand Duchess, she can’t stop Helen from both the other two, Shulaner and Anmut.
That’s why Roan must neutralize Anmut first before starting the fight. Helen’s ‘purification’ did not bring Anmut back. It was because the power was an old power that flowed from evil.
Then, only Roan can bring him back.
Without Anmut, it is not difficult for Helen to subdue a mage. That said, a lot depends on this advance.
She wiped away the tears that filled her face like her own child.
“Understand.”
There was determination in Roan’s eyes.
The moment he gave a small nod of his head and blinked his eyes, the two figures jumped out in different directions.
“Where… !”
The Archduke’s eyebrows twitched, and his blade blocked Roan from moving towards Anmut like lightning. However, at the cry of Helen, who was facing the Grand Duke, the Grand Duke had no choice but to hesitate.
“Holy Light!”
A bright, sharp light burst like a flash from Helen’s side. The Archduke let out a short moan and stepped back to avoid Helen’s blade range.
With the power of ‘greed’, the Grand Duke’s physical ability could be developed, but in the end, the place where that power dwells is the body. I couldn’t get past that limit.
It was a gap of one or two seconds, but it was enough for Roan.
As Anmut stood up and tried to pull out Fiora, Roan’s hand grabbed his right wrist.
Anmut grabbed his arm with his left hand and tried to pull it off, but Roan was a little faster. Roan used his shield to collect the holy power that had fallen to the floor.
“‘The touch of the stars’!”
The light of the explosive but gentle goddess scattered from Roan’s hand.
Anmut didn’t scream like a third-rate villain. He was torn apart like a doll, just like Urtellia had been. The sound came from the other side, not from Anmut.
“How dare you in my work!”
The wizard, who had let out a shrill shout, flinched at Roan’s vicious gaze. But Roan couldn’t handle him.
“I wouldn’t be able to afford to blink.”
As if Helen was nothing, her archduke, who had found her vision, blew her away with one shot and lunged at her Roan.
The moment Roan threw himself to pick up Fiora, the archduke’s blade just barely passed the place where his head had been.
In the distance, he heard Helen dripping and vomiting her blood, but Roan didn’t look back.
“You saved his life by rolling on the floor. It’s ugly.”
The Archduke’s rapier stabbed him vertically several times in succession, but Roan bounced his body off the floor like an acrobatic stunt and took his place.
[As expected, Roan! I’m here to save you!]
It was because the moment I heard a familiar voice, it seemed as if I had a little bit of strength.
“No, I was caught too.”
[What?!]
He tried to let the archduke’s blade fly in front of him as usual, but Roan gritted his teeth. It was because the power of the Grand Duke was quite different from before.
“Hmm.”
The Grand Duke grinned.
His smile, always with a frozen expression, was unfamiliar and creepy. All the more because I thought that the laughter was not the laughter of the Grand Duke himself, but the laughter of the devil standing behind it.
The Archduke’s sharp blade stabbed Roan without hesitation. With an ingenious trajectory, the light-like stab aimed at Roan’s body.
[… Fast!]
The blades collided with Fiora’s admiration. Roan put a sword technique on Fiora’s blade. The stabbing aimed at Roan’s heart, through the armpit gap in the armor, was blocked by the blade and slipped with a terrifying sound to the blade.
If he had received an attack like this earlier, Roan would have changed the direction of the attack with force and then aimed at the grand duke with a slash with the tip of the perm or a quick change of direction. But he didn’t work this time.
“… !”
The Archduke’s blade, which he tried to strike with force, stood still and did not move. The strength has changed since before.
For a moment, both Roan and the Grand Duke were startled. And the behavior of the two changed.
The Grand Duchess pushed his blade as it was and put his strength into it. It was a heavy blade that did not believe it was a rapier, as if testing Roan’s limits.
Roan took the step of the Grand Duke’s attack and pushed it aside, but the day he had already entered deeply did not let him go. Roan succeeded in deflecting the Archduke’s attack, but his sleeves were ripped instead.
“… Shit.”
There were several flashes of metal and light. Roan managed to avoid a fatal wound, but his momentum was noticeably different from before.
This time, blood began to ooze from Roan’s face and arms. Seeing this, the Grand Duke burst into laughter.
Haha, that’s right, now it’s possible!”
In the meantime, Schlaner cast magic at the wounded Roan. No, he meant to blow.
“”Destroyed… , Aaaaagh!”
His magic ended with a scream.
The Grand Duke turned his head away from Roan and stared at one point with an expression of disapproval. Because he had plenty of room for him. Roan wiped away a sweat and looked at the same place.
In a corner not far from the ruins, someone was barely able to stand up. Roan, who raised his senses to the maximum, was able to recognize who he was.
Aina holding her Demonic Bow was glaring at her covered in blood. The arrow pierced Schlaner’s arm, and he dropped his staff.
But not giving her a chance, Aina blew her next spell. While the magic was flying, Shulaner was also enduring the pain and preparing a defense magic.
Still, the power of the artifact is flowing into the grand duke.
“I’ll have to deal with it quickly, and I’ll have to clean up that year too.”
The Grand Duke muttered to himself. But Roan wasn’t going to let that happen.
“You chose this limit yourself!”
“What… , Ugh… !”
Transparent astor powder glittered and scattered in all directions.
The Archduke groaned once more.
This time not only the Archduke but also Schlaner were present.
“… Ah, ah!”
In the moment that Aina drew her attention, Roan was able to take out Astor Garu from her inventory. If the power of the Goddess is effective, wouldn’t Astogaru be effective as well? Even if that doesn’t work, it must have the power to sprinkle sand, right?
The Grand Duchess laughed at Naryotagon, but Roan’s inner circle had plenty of dirtier fights. Throwing sand in your eyes is nothing.
A short gap earned. Roan dove at Schlaner. The Archduke is a puppet. The main body is that, a relic.
Now I could understand why the Goddess told Amily to destroy the artifact.
Without that, the Grand Duke would not be able to exert his current superiority. The two lost sight for a moment, and Aina’s arrow hit Shulaner.
“Ah! Aaaaagh!”
As Schlaner screamed in pain, Roan cut off his wrists, the ones wrapped around the artifact. The screams became more bloody.
“Damn, okay…”
“It’s okay♡”
“… Uh?”
Roan sat down.
[Roan!]
For some reason, I think I saw a blade protruding into my stomach and then disappearing.
The blade was stained with hot blood.
It was his blood.
“… Ugh, ugh…”
Roan tried to stop the bleeding in his stomach with the hand holding Schlaner’s cleanly severed wrist. Because he couldn’t let go of Fiora.
A hot energy spread through his body as if he had been burned. In the burning pain, Roan let out a whimper.
In the lowered view, a person who shouldn’t be here appeared. He had an unbelievably dazzling smile.
“Yeah, I’ll get well soon, don’t worry♡”
“To… , Lenny… , Uh… , Heck…”
“Do not say. Are you still bleeding?”
[Roan, Roan! Roan! My God, what is that crazy woman doing!]
“… Quiet…”
As Erenir approached, Roan flinched and crouched over him. However, Ernear was taken aback by his move, and then she smiled again.
“Yeah, I won’t make noise. Don’t worry.”
Erenia, misunderstanding Roan’s murmur directed at Fiora, gave her a light nod, then she reached out her hand to Roan without a word.
Roan tried to raise his sword, but he didn’t. His arms trembled weakly. He suddenly lost so much blood.
Erenia didn’t care about Roan’s movements and started searching his uniform pockets.
Roan looked around, trying hard not to lose focus.
Shulaner was beehive with Aina’s arrows and magic. His blood was pouring from his wrists and the holes in his body, but his life had already ended.
Before I knew it, I could see that the archduke had caught up with Aina, who was far away, with a lightning-like movement. The moment Roan’s dry lips fell, the Archduke’s blade pierced Aina’s neck.
“… Kid… Me…”
A despairing moan came out.
Only then did Erenia glance back at her.
“Ah, forest fairy.”
Her smile disappeared from Ereneer’s face as if it was washed away. She said indifferently as she still rummaged through Roan’s pockets.
“She was a naughty bitch. She’s getting old, and she’s different from the lower races, whether it’s a demon or a human, and she’s sticking with Roan.”
There was no life in her eyes.
It was a creepy eye.
“But I won’t bother Roan anymore, oh, I found it♡”
