Chapter 229 – Astaroth Received a Gift
‘Great!’
Marian bit her lip as she watched Camara and Genoa attack the monster.
The most terrifying thing about the monster was its endless regenerative powers of her, but that changed completely after Marianne was entrusted with her powers of her by the goddess.
The power of the goddess, that is, her divine power of her, was at odds with the magi that made up the body of the monster, and Marianne could prevent her bastard from regenerating just by responding appropriately.
Moreover, Marian was not in a situation where she was solely focused on preventing the bastard from regenerating.
“Careful!”
At the sound of Genoa’s screams, Marianne quickly moved her hand and cast a small protective spell in the air over her.
She could n’t create a barrier that covered the entire church like the goddess used, but her shield her, which concentrated her power her in one place, was much more effective at blocking monster attacks.
When the monster’s hand bounced off Marian’s barrier, Camara’s claws sliced through his arm.
The arm the size of a house, or even bigger than that, fell to the ground, and Marian quickly began spraying the poison of divine power on the shoulder of the monster.
The arm that was bubbling and regenerating stopped regenerating as soon as the divine power was projected.
Cutting off an arm was just the beginning.
Genoa, Lucille, and Isabella constantly diverted the monster’s gaze, and each time Camara’s attack was cutting the monster’s breath little by little.
‘It’s almost done!’
Marian broke into a cold sweat and aggravated the monster’s wound.
All she could do was stop the monster from regenerating and block its attacks her, but that alone gave her party a bit of an advantage.
Thud.
Eventually, Kamara’s magic detonated the monster’s head, and the battle was over.
The monster, unable to regenerate its head, slowly fell backwards and, after wriggling several times, stopped moving.
“Ha… Ha…!”
Marianne looked at her fallen monster and ran her own blue hair through it.
I thought that if the goddess had used her power in this way long ago, the battle would n’t have been this long.
The power of the goddess she handled for the first time was enormous, and Marian was completely exhausted just using it.
She lay on the floor and wanted to pass out, but the hero’s battle was not over yet.
‘Who is the hero?’
Marian’s gaze naturally turned to the hero, and she witnessed a scene that was difficult to understand.
Astarote, who had gone to the hero’s side at some point, was aiming at the hero’s lower body with an obscene expression.
And it wasn’t just Marianne watching the scene.
“Genoa!”
At Marianne’s cry her, Genoa quickly ran towards Astarote, and Lucille and Isabella who were by her side her also followed her.
Marian saw her allies her running to defend her champion, and sprayed her holy power at her champion her.
The holy power that had blocked the monster’s attack just a moment ago was now used to save the hero from Astaroth’s clutches.
**
‘Tsk.’
I clicked my tongue inwardly as I looked at Astaroth, who had lost the will to fight.
I knew he was in a miserable situation, but the imperial capital had already suffered too much damage because of him.
As Astarothe said, he had thoughts of keeping the guy alive, but there was no guarantee that the guy who had been hurt properly wouldn’t aim for the imperial capital again.
Furthermore, since there was a passageway between Astarote’s territory and the empire, the anxiety was bound to increase.
“I’m sorry, but you brought it upon yourself.”
I grabbed the ebony and headed towards Astaroth.
I could see his empty eyes looking at me.
“Now, wait.”
The moment I was about to slit his throat, it was again Astarothe who grabbed my arm his.
“What?”
I asked Astarothe in a cold voice.
I didn’t want to go along with her pranks her anymore, and I didn’t want to make fun of Astaroth.
However, Astarotte must have been sincere in trying to save her own husband her, so she began to tell me her unexpected story her.
“As it is, killing Lee should be a loss. Although Purson is defending my territory, he is too strong to stop other lords. Hero, rather use Astaroth.”
“… Astarothe.”
At Astarothe’s words her, Astaroth looked at her with her blank expression.
There seemed to be a lot of emotions and stories between the two that I couldn’t understand, but it wasn’t something I was interested in.
However, the idea that Astaroth could be used to keep the Pandemonium lords in check was quite appetizing.
“Use? How can you trust this person?”
“Astaroth cannot break his promise his. Because existence itself is like that. So, in exchange for saving his life, you can make him guard the passage.”
Astarothe desperately defended her own husband her.
Of course, I didn’t know if that would be a good thing for Astaroth, but it was a proposal that I couldn’t lose.
“… What do you want to do?”
I asked that to Astaroth.
He was also listening to Astarothe, so he didn’t have to make a long explanation.
At my question, Astaroth bit his lower lip and glared at me, as if his pride his had been hurt.
“I… Do you think this Astaroth will accept the role of a gatekeeper?”
Astaroth said that to me with a sneer.
I was moved just a little by the spirit of his willingness to face death rather than be treated as a gatekeeper, and I held up the ebony aloft.
The man said she wanted to die as her man her, but it was the duty her to kill her.
“Hey, you bastard!”
However, Astaroth’s spleen was completely destroyed by one word from his wife.
“Why are you looking behind? Do you think things will look a little better after that?”
“Astaroth. There’s no reason to hear that from you…”
“Shut up. You’ve been a problem with that bravado ever since. Anyway, I’ll let the bastard who can’t even play the role of a man properly act proud.”
“It’s not that I can’t…”
“Don’t give a damn. If I hadn’t met a bastard like you, I wouldn’t have been given that nasty nickname like the devil’s sorceress.”
When she opened her mouth, she could see Astaroth’s pupils quiver at the sight of her wife spewing poison.
“Come now, are you blaming me for your nun’s carelessness?”
Astaroth glared at Astaroth with her feverish face.
How angry she was, not only her hands her clenched into fists, but her shoulders her shoulders were shaking.
“Under? So who am I to blame? Are there more besides you?”
“You slut bitch!”
“Rag? Hey, honestly, I thought I was like that too, didn’t I? But wasn’t it? It’s just that I haven’t met the owner properly until now.”
“Dog sound!”
“It’s bullshit, it’s bittersweet, is it real? Is that man enough for me now?”
Astaroth’s gaze suddenly turned to me, and Astaroth did the same.
Suddenly, I, who became the main culprit of the family breakdown, was just looking at the two in a fight with a troubled expression.
‘Hey, what’s the point of killing?’
**
“… I will not say thank you.”
“Okay. I don’t even want it.”
In the end, Astaroth made a contract with me and promised to guard the passage to the Pandemonium.
I did n’t know exactly why he changed his mind of him, but it seemed like there was a lot of unfairness to die roughly.
Some might be unhappy about letting him live, but I didn’t care too much.
I was the only one who promised to save Astaroth, and those who were dissatisfied would have had to slit Astaroth’s throat.
But, of course, no one was there to directly aim for the demon lord’s head.
Of course, it might have been possible to capture the injured Astaroth if she was at the level of Camara, but she wasn’t very interested in the demon lord in the first place.
‘It’s a bit pitiful.’
Astaroth was the only one who came to the continent from the beginning, so he was the only one who returned to the Pandemonium.
I was not in a good mood watching Astaroth trudge away with her droopy shoulders turning around forlornly.
It’s the first time I’ve felt this kind of emotion towards an enemy since dealing with the rich Bahamons.
I didn’t have time to look at the situation of the enemy when I was dealing with the Bahamons, but not now.
“Hey, Astaroth.”
“… Why are you calling me?”
I stopped and threw something at Astaroth, who was looking at me.
Astaroth, who held it in one hand as it flew through the air, looked back and forth between the object and me with an incomprehensible expression.
“Write when you are lonely.”
“… What?”
“Try it once, throw it away if you don’t like it.”
What I threw to Astaroth was a pussy hole made by the dwarves.
Right away, Ebony was shaking the blade as if rebelling, and it was something I had already used, but I wondered if it had anything to do with it.
It’s a new thing anyway, so I had to ask the dwarves for a favor, and the awkwardness of reuse wasn’t my problem, and it would be enough if Astaroth didn’t know.
And it was completely unexpected for me that the item I threw away without much thought would become a huge hit in the demon realm.
