Chapter 292 – Chapter 292 ― Demon King of Misery (2)
Episode 292 ― The Demon King of Misery (2)
“What… , Does it stick out?”
Fiora’s voice trembled.
It is not a comfortable word for her to hear that her life-and-death will fail.
However, Naor responded in a strange and blunt way.
“It didn’t come out. It was ‘almost’ going to pop out.”
Roan knew that it was canceled with the gaze of ‘greed’. And why did it happen.
So you could have guessed what Naor would say.
“And suddenly I found out that time had gone back.”
“Ah…”
A moan escaped Fiora’s mouth.
He wondered why the thing he wanted to end by throwing himself remained unfinished until now.
And he still makes those he cares about suffer.
“I definitely felt the neck of the warrior’s sword drop. He felt the devil’s evil laugh upon the world. But I woke up fine in bed.”
Naor put on a puzzled expression.
“At first I was foolishly floundering. I don’t know why such a nonsense happened. After dreaming of the goddess, I found out who did this. She wants to lend my hand. After all, I said I’m the strongest of all living creatures.”
In that part, she admired.
In Fiora’s words, she was an ‘effortless student’, but with that innate ability alone, he was proclaimed by the goddess as the strongest creature.
“Only then did I understand the situation. And she was foolishly hopeful.”
“Why is hope so stupid?”
“I know now that I can’t achieve it.”
Naor answered bitterly to Fior’s words and tilted his glass.
His face, reflected in the glass, had faded.
“I couldn’t believe it at first. Because demons do not have the power of goddesses. To be honest, it’s true that I was a bit conceited. She saw it as an opportunity. A chance to change the future.”
“However?”
“I was arrogant.”
Roan’s eyes lit up.
I didn’t know what I was going to say.
“As if the future was fixed.”
Naor let out a sigh.
“And I didn’t think I’d be so bound by that bridle.”
Roan, who was staring at the figure, pondered for a while, then carefully opened his mouth.
“I wish I could tell you more about that story.”
“…”
I raised his eyes violently, but the momentum was quite different from before. Right now, he is accepting this situation, but it’s probably just an expression of discomfort.
“Because you must have struggled to know the correct answer. I need your information on things I haven’t tried. I will not hide the answers I have, but share them.”
Roan said, careful not to sound like a nag or a sermon.
“I know it is a painful memory. But there are new perspectives or information you can get when you share your words with others. I got a lot of help from it. Demons aren’t used to that. So you must have lost something.”
“… I guess you weren’t a demon.”
“If you’re curious about that, tell me that too. After hearing your story.”
Naor, who had complicated eyes, silently looked at Roan and said.
“The first few times the hero came. In terms of time, it’s already been a hundred years for me. He’s a hero, but he’s a beastman, so I thought it was strange. Since the time when he visits me is similar, I set a trap. I caught him and interrogated him to give an answer.”
Fiora made a grimace on her face.
“Did you find out anything?”
I shook her head.
“Except that he was heavily brainwashed. He hasn’t worn the bracelet since he first tried it. So it was not enough to deal with me.”
“That bracelet is an important item to the devil. At first, I gave all my power to the hero, but after seeing you frustrated, I probably thought I shouldn’t entrust it to the hero.”
“What is that?”
“A proof of the covenant between the devil and this world. ‘Relic’, the goddess called it.”
Naor’s expression was filled with surprise at Roan’s words.
“Can you really talk to the goddess? Even if it entered my body?”
Then Na Orla lightly nodded his head.
“I will tell you more about this story in detail later. I want to hear your story first.”
“Ah.”
Naor looked a bit frustrated, but agreed with Roan’s words.
“After not being killed by the hero, we had something in common.”
He continued his speech.
“The most representative thing is that I was killed by Elenir.”
“Are you Eleanor?”
It was Fiora who questioned.
Fiora was always by Roan’s side. Of course, she knows Eleanor.
“There were some odd corners, but… Enough to kill? Well, Roan treated Elenir too coldly.”
“It’s the opposite.”
Naor grumbled.
“It didn’t kill me for being cold-hearted. It happened because you killed me.”
I can understand. Roan nodded his head.
Even if I realized that this person and the person back then were different, I will never forget the image of Elenia laughing after stabbing me and negotiating with the Grand Duke whether to cut off her arm or her leg.
I will probably never forget it for the rest of my life.
But it’s not the crime she committed now.
I will have to embrace the contradiction alone and live by trying to calm it down.
It’s only once for me, but not for Naor. Now Roan understood why Naorga had told him to ‘stay away from Erenir’.
Because it’s useless anyway.
It meant not to work in vain to appease.
“You might have noticed, but Eleanor doesn’t plot things alone. She was raised that way.”
“Know.”
For her fear of her father, the Grand Duke, is greater than that of her other father-daughters.
“So, of course, I found out that the Grand Duke was involved in this. Only then did I begin to feel his presence all around me. I said it before. My eyes sting.”
When the devil’s presence gets stronger, those who have the goddess’ holy power feel the presence.
Rejection through the senses.
In my case, it was smell, and in Naor’s case, it was sight. He said he couldn’t open his eyes.
“Did you know how many people the Grand Duke planted around me? To keep an eye on me and watch over Elenir. I couldn’t forgive He already took too much from me.”
Naor said lowly. His roaring voice sounded like the menacing howl of a beast.
It sounded like crying to Roan.
“It was clear that the aging lord of the Southern Dark Spirit was my enemy. However, the ending did not change. Dozens or hundreds of times… I fell to Erenier, to the hero, and occasionally to the blade of the Grand Duke. That eerie force was always by his side.”
“… Roan.”
Fiora bit her lip and quietly called out the original name that Naor had abandoned.
“I haven’t been able to find out how the Grand Duke managed to make the beast-man hero stand out in the eyes of humans. But I’ve killed the Grand Duke or Elenir first. Then we found out a few things.”
Roan stared at Naor through the languid shell he had left behind. Even without ‘detection’, I could see that he was filled with all sorts of negative emotions.
“If the Grand Duke is by my side, Erenier will eventually kill me. That’s how it was. I tried to appease Erenier and make him my side, but it fails when the grand duke is present. So I forced myself to kill the Grand Duke.”
“How is it?”
“There was a rare case where Erennier didn’t kill me, but instead a demon was summoned. The whole city of Basel is in a sea of fire.”
Naor put on a painful expression as if he was seeing the scene in front of his eyes.
“If there is only the Grand Duke and there is no Elenia, the evil comes instead of the Grand Duke, or the beast, the hero, is possessed by the devil and comes.”
“Did you lose?”
“Fuck.”
“Roan, be careful with your words.”
Fiora put on a stern expression, but after swearing once, Orla shut her mouth for a moment.
Roan waited in silence.
He’s been bringing up bad memories for a long time, so he’ll need time to digest them.
Naor, who passed the glass without saying a word, opened his mouth again after a long time.
“Whether you kill one or the other. Time was delayed, but the ending was the same.”
“Time is… When is the time you use as a standard? When are you going back?”
“Starting in the summer of the 6th year of reign, the ending time varied from the fall of the 9th year to the spring of the 14th year.”
It is the fall of the 12th year since the demon king started ruling Evirgio when the demon king and the hero meet in the game.
It was the summer of the 10th year that I possessed here.
“What happened in the spring of Year 14? It’s still the longest surviving period.”
“I killed both the Grand Duke and Eleanor and captured the hero.”
It must have been after he had done everything he could as a demon king. However, Naor’s expression was expressionless.
“At the time, I thought I held on pretty well. He grabbed the hero and tracked him down to Merde, but he couldn’t get there. He also killed the Grand Duke and Eleanor. With the war at an ambiguous stalemate, in the winter of the twelfth year after ascending the throne, a major illness circulated in Merde.”
“Party?”
Finally, a new keyword came out.
Sick?
Naor’s expression was serious.
“It was a huge deal. Because Merde has fallen.”
“… What?”
For the first time, Roan’s expression collapsed,
The expression of the kernel inside it was revealed.
Merde disappeared.
What was Schlaner doing?
Where were the artifacts then?
I look back on the memory of ‘greed’, but the artifact was still in the palace of Sprouse?
“I wondered if the hostile country would be gone, but somehow the disease crossed the border. And one day suddenly… A demon appears in the imperial castle. Right after that, time goes back, and it becomes the summer of eight years ago again.”
Turning back on things you don’t want to think about actually makes people impoverished.
With a messed up look on his face, Na Orra drank again while resting her chin on his chin.
Even Fiora couldn’t offer words of comfort.
“I couldn’t figure out where it came from after all.”
Naor spat out like a passing word.
Roan was shocked and decided to continue the conversation.
“If that was the longest time… What was the outcome you saw in the ninth year of your reign?”
Naoru replied sternly.
“Suicide.”
Fiora’s eyes blurred.
There was a reason why Goddess called him ‘a victim who wanted to escape from bondage’.
“Anyway… There were some commonalities that I grasped after spending hundreds of years of such a beggarly time.”
“What?”
“First of all…”
I scratched his head nervously.
“If you keep looking at the same thing, it means that a person’s personality becomes dirty.”
“… Ah.”
Fiora smiled miserably.
