Chapter 304 – Chapter 304 ― The One Who Doesn’t Run (3)
Episode 304 ― Who Doesn’t Run (3)
Roan felt Urtellia’s tail hidden inside her robe stiffen.
However, first of all, Roan was relieved by the warmth he felt in his arms.
Even though they knew that they didn’t know themselves, they couldn’t help it. Before I could think with my head, my body moved first.
And what followed was the life of Anmut.
“What are you doing?”
“That, that, that… , Sleep, wait a minute…”
The cool blade aimed at Roan.
However, Roan still embraced Urtellia. It wasn’t until long before he let Yurtellia fall from his arms.
Roan looked at Urtellia with a more relaxed expression than when he had just entered the bar.
There was affection and improbable longing in his gaze, and Yurteria was embarrassed even in her joy.
“It’s nice to see you again.”
“I asked what you were doing.”
“I am enjoying the reunion.”
“Anmut. Sleep, hold on.”
Urtellia intervened between Roan and Anmut and tried to stop them. However, the behavior of the two men did not change.
The blade was still pointed at Roan, and Roan was still smiling.
In the end, what made them move was the gruff voice of the innkeeper.
“Let’s go to the room and fight for love.”
“It’s not like that!”
Urtellia screamed.
Anmut glared at Roan with bloody eyes and lowered the tip of his sword. However, Roan looked down at Yurteria with an unchangingly kind expression and nodded lightly at her.
“Okay, let’s talk in the room.”
When Roan started to move, Anmut’s vigilance increased.
“How do you know? Our room.”
“Ah.”
Roan paused.
But the trouble didn’t last long.
“I saw it before.”
“…”
Anmut’s eyes narrowed even more when he realized that Roan’s words were not false.
But his surprise had just begun.
“Didn’t the king double the number?”
“How did you do that… ?!”
“Don’t let me worry about money for the rest of my life. Come to Evirgio. I will hire you.”
The eyes of the two of them widened at the curious words.
“Urtellia.”
“Why did you name me like that… , From earlier.”
Urtellia, who was frozen at the sudden suggestion, stuttered.
Then, Roan replied with a languid expression.
“That is your name.”
The chairs and tables were all shabby, but when Roan sat down, their shabbiness was completely invisible. Admiring his elegance, Yurtellia caught her breath at her unexpected words.
“And Anmut.”
Keen but kind eyes turned to Roan.
“I will help you with that ‘charity project’ you are doing.”
The blue eyes also widened in surprise.
“How could that…”
“Wait, Anmut. Let’s talk step by step. From me.”
Urtellia naturally hijacked her turn. That kind of thing was like Urtellia, so Roan laughed.
However, Anmut did not express any dissatisfaction with either Yurtellia’s actions or Roan’s actions. It was because he was too busy thinking about the words Roan mentioned.
The word ‘charitable work’ is a word that Urtellia often used sarcastically at Anmut.
From how the hell this person knows that word to why he is trying to help them. Anmut’s mind quickly became complicated.
And he wasn’t good at hiding his emotions. Even his short tail was swollen with astonishment.
He took a step back and sat down on the bed as if exhausted. On the other hand, Urtellia took a step closer to Roan.
“That’s my… It’s not a name. How does Your Majesty know all these things?”
Roan stared at Urtellia for a moment.
We cannot reveal all the truth.
The Yurtellia in front of her eyes is not the she he held. Not yet.
Along with him, a thin sigh passed through Roan’s heart for a moment.
You will go through this kind of conflict with many things you face in the future. The tedious task of losing valuable time spent and having to build trust again.
The awe and fear they feel for not seeing what Roan sees and not yet trusting him.
‘I must have faced something like this coming out.’
I thought about it for a while last time, but if this happens dozens or hundreds of times, I think my patience will wear out. I will feel that I am alone and alienated.
Roan now has many people who completely believe in him.
Naor is someone who has already experienced it, and Fiora, Elenia, and Grünent are people who try to understand what he is saying.
However, Naor himself probably did not have such a person.
Wouldn’t that have made him even more isolated?
“Your majesty.”
Roan stopped thinking and opened his mouth at the desperate voice of Urtellia.
“I know your blood and blood.”
“Yes?”
“Her name was identified in her by her.”
Even Anmut, lost in thought, turned his head and listened to Roan. It was because he also knew how important this was to Urtellia.
Urtellia seemed to be struggling to digest her emotions with her eyes wide open.
“… Blood… Her sister… You said you found her sister… But, I don’t have any information…”
Then Roan said with a soft ‘appeal’ as if to calm her down.
“If you have any questions about your sister, you will be able to talk and solve them if you meet in person. The important thing is not how I found her, but whether she is who she really is and who she is looking for.”
And Roan spoke.
“Idiots, by nature, do not reveal their names in front of others. You may think that it means nothing to you who grew up among humans, but if you come to the world of demons, you will have to be careful in the future.”
“The demonic world…”
“Okay. Urtellia. You will be able to meet your blood relatives only when you come to Evirgio. She, too, was doing her best to find you. I will arrange to see you soon.”
“Ah…”
Urtellia covered her face with her hands.
The long-awaited moment came so suddenly that I needed time to accept it.
Urtellia still doesn’t know who Roan is talking about, and she’s not sure if she’s really her own sister, but at least she knows that as Yurtellia begins to search for her sister, she comes closest to the correct answer. It was certain that the moment was coming.
Roan was able to understand her feelings through her Yurtellia’s actions.
So Roan decided to leave her alone for now.
To help her come to terms with her suddenly changed reality.
“So I want you to properly finish the thing you care about and help me in Evirzio.”
“… Yes?”
Anmut, who had been staring blankly at Urtellia, suddenly came to his senses.
The vigilance was revealed belatedly.
“How far do you know?”
‘That’s great.’
Roan scratched his head.
The mind is impatient because there is too much information about what one knows or needs to do. It is full of the relationships he made with them and the memories he shared.
But they don’t know anything yet.
The sense of discrepancy resulting from this difference was significant.
Roan took a deep breath and cleared his mind, then he consciously stretched out his hand and spoke leisurely.
“I am not here to trick you. There’s no benefit to me then. But I hope you don’t doubt the truth of my words. Even if that sounds hard to believe.”
Anmut’s eyes are still sharp, but he has the ability to determine the truth even for him.
He knew that everything Roan said was the truth. Rather, it was more confusing.
“First, introduce me properly.”
This is the second introduction.
“You said you came to kill the Demon King. I am that demon king.”
The voice was so calm that Urtellia, who sniffed for a long time, understood what he was saying after a while.
“… Yes?”
“Shit.”
Anmut hurriedly drew his sword. However, Roan did not even touch the sword.
Anmut does not first cut down a non-resistance person. He is such a person
Because his character made him a warrior.
“Isn’t it me who was threatened first? But I have no intention of harming you. If I had thought of that, I wouldn’t have let you go alive from the first time we met in Basel.”
Urtellia was very nervous.
However, as if her spirit to memorize her magic had not returned, she was staring blankly at Roan with a confused expression.
“Can I dispel the magic?”
“…”
“… Leah.”
Urtellia belatedly answered Anmut’s call.
“… Yes.”
Roan slowly touched his face and dispelled the spell.
Seeing Roan’s bare face and horns revealed, Urtellia heard another gasp.
A faint smile lingered.
It reminded me of the reaction when Urtellia first saw Roan’s real face in the past.
It wasn’t much different this time either.
“… Oh my god. You’re great…”
“Lea.”
Anmut rebuked him in a voice that sounded like a slob, but Urtellia muttered.
“As expected, there is a reason why the divine power of the goddess dwells.”
The moment he heard that, Roan burst out laughing to himself.
Haha, is that what you’re saying?”
The two opened their eyes wide, but Roan didn’t care and said pleasantly.
“That is your answer.”
“Humans… Aren’t you?”
“Okay. Because he is the emperor of the demons. Not human.”
“How does someone like that know about them?”
Anmut asked with a serious face.
“I understand that you are a demon, and that you are an emperor… It’s hard to accept, but I get it. But even more so, why do you know Merde’s circumstances… I don’t know why you want to get involved.”
The cold blue eyes grew thin.
“I don’t think the emperor would be idle enough to make me do these things one by one. And if you’re trying to take advantage of these humans, I…”
“Why? Will you stop it?”
Roan laughed again.
“Can you stop it?”
The smile did not disappear from the Emperor’s face.
However, Anmut gritted his teeth for an instant.
Even Yurtellia, who couldn’t feel her light, felt uneasy and looked around her. It is invisible to her eyes, but she lives that she can feel it too.
Only Roan’s calm expression was unfamiliar in this room.
“My treatment of that human being is similar to my attitude toward you. It would be false if it had no purpose, but I didn’t specifically mean to harm them. Rather, it will benefit them.”
Roan rubbed his chin.
It was an attitude of not caring whether Anmut’s hand was on the hilt or not.
“Hurting humans? If I was willing to do that, then I don’t have to take this difficult route. There is no need to even restart the war. Because there is no one in this country to stop me.”
Roan’s eyes looked straight at Anmut.
“Including you.”
“…”
“They will be increasingly at risk. Even now the situation is not good. You would know. Situation in the country.”
Anmut kept his mouth shut and listened to Roan. He couldn’t move his body quickly. He seemed to be sitting nonchalantly, but he had no openings to attack.
‘Shit.’
You brazenly say, “No one in this country can stop me.” That’s true. That’s why Anmut became even more resentful.
There seems to be no point in asking ‘how did you know’ anymore. Didn’t he say he was the emperor of the demons in the first place? It was natural for the emperor to find out something.
Anmut thought it would be more important to know what he intended to do in the future. He listened to Roan’s next words.
“The person who hired you didn’t ask you to get rid of me out of pure intent. They intend to get rid of me and start a war and more.”
“We are mercenaries. The intent doesn’t matter.”
“More than war? What is the king up to?”
“It’s about getting rid of Merde’s people.”
“… Are you the king? Sprouse III of Merde? What, such nonsense…”
Yurtellia, who was reflexively denying Roan’s words, shut her mouth.
There is no mercenary who does not know that the court wizard is the real power of Merde. And he is in control of the king, and after he took the real power, the war suddenly started.
Urtellia realized that there were too many things to point out to deny Roan’s words unconditionally.
Except for one premise.
