Chapter 91: A mess
After some time has passed.
“eww… … .”
When Paul opened his eyes, he was in a dark room.
“This place… … ? Ugh, clack, clack!”
As soon as he woke up, he suffered from pain all over his body. My body was literally screaming.
“That bastard… … .”
Paul’s last memory is of Frondier suddenly overtaking him and grabbing him by the collar. I don’t know what Frontier did after that.
‘After knocking him out, did he destroy his body so he couldn’t run away? ‘You really made a complete mess.’
Paul couldn’t remember why he fainted, so he accepted the injuries to his entire body as separate things.
I had no idea that Frontier had slammed his body to the floor and used it as a brake.
It was a shame because Paul was a demon and had Aurors at the same time, otherwise there would have been no form left.
In the meantime, Paul was even impressed by Frondier’s skill(?) in not waking up even though he was injured.
“Besides, they even arrested you. “After putting my body in this state.”
As Paul said, he is now restrained in a chair. The binding material is, of course, black cloth.
Paul frowned at Frondier’s thorough personality, but in fact, Frondier had no idea how much he had hurt Paul and just tied him up.
Paul just resigned himself and relaxed his body. Black Heaven’s restraints are so tight, it is impossible to escape from Frontier with your body in this state in the first place.
‘The fact that they completely immobilized my body without killing me means that there must have been a reason to keep me alive.’
If you negotiate about it, you have the highest chance of survival.
‘But where is this?’
Paul wanted to know where he was, but it was so dark that he could barely see. Instead, he tapped his foot. In the midst of the silence, I heard the sound of his feet stamping.
‘… … This feels and sounds like a laboratory. ‘Still in Hitchcock.’
There was a possibility that Frontier dragged him outside, but that didn’t seem to be the case.
As I concentrate more, I can sense the lab’s unique smell of metal and chemicals. It’s hard to tell because of the smell of your own blood.
‘Does Frontier still have business at the company?’
If Paul were in Frondier’s position, they would have left the company with him unconscious. And they must have really locked him up in a place that no one knows about.
But if Frontier didn’t do that, does that mean he still has a reason to stay here?
Jerk.
At that time, I heard footsteps outside the door. A leisurely yet weighty step.
The steps soon reach the door where Paul is,
Crash.
I slowly opened the door.
“Ugh.”
Paul was dazzled by the light coming in and turned his head. It’s just the outside light coming in, but it dazzles my eyes. How long have I been in this darkness?
“You’re awake.”
Paul looked there when he heard a voice that was both familiar and hateful. Then he opened his eyes wide.
“Jeez, Jeremy!”
Frontier was carrying Jeremy on one shoulder. Jeremy didn’t move, as if he was dead or passed out.
dump.
Frontier pushed Jeremy aside from Paul and turned on the switch to light up the room.
When Paul saw his surroundings, he first checked Jeremy. Jeremy had bruises and wounds all over his body, but he was seen breathing slowly. It didn’t seem like he was dead.
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“What did you do to Jeremy?”
“I did some simple tests.”
“test?”
Frondier went inside and closed the door. I walked around the lab as if it were my own room. As if he were familiar with this company.
The sight of him walking like that and pouring water into a cup was the perfect example of a homeowner.
“After we moved you here after you passed out, I went to check on Jeremy and he was fighting surprisingly well. “At that time, my whole body was already full of wounds, but I did not lose my fighting spirit.”
So, while Frondier was saying that, he drank some water and put it down.
“We lowered the performance a little bit.”
“… … “What?”
“There is an older version of the golem I showed you. So I changed it to an older version of the golem, and it held up to some extent. But the wounds and fatigue had already piled up, and even that seemed like it was too much.”
“… … “You guy.”
“So I replaced it with a previous version of the golem, and it somehow held on, but this time I got rid of the golem and dealt with it only with the black gun. It seemed like he was having a hard time too, so I picked up a weapon and fought with him myself. However, at that time, it already seemed difficult to hold one’s own weapon. Since he couldn’t stop me from attacking, I stopped attacking and focused on defense. “As I did that, he somehow swung the knife again.”
It got pretty boring from there. Frondier did not hide his bored expression as he spoke.
“I have a technique that makes the opponent drop their weapon, and I practiced it over and over again.”
“It’s called practice… … ?”
“yes.”
Even when Paul asks back in anger, Frondier just answers calmly.
“So every time he missed his weapon, he picked it up, he missed it and picked it up, and after he found out that he wouldn’t attack me while I went to pick it up, he slowly slowed down in picking it up, and eventually.”
Frondier sighed. As if he was truly disappointed in Jeremy.
“He didn’t even pick up the weapon.”
“… … .”
“I was curious about the devil’s stamina and tenacity, but it was much worse than I expected.”
Listening to Frontier’s words, Paul seemed to picture in his mind what had happened to Jeremy.
Even though they are completely played by the other person, they struggle with all their might to hold on to even the slightest possibility.
Frondier had no intention of defeating Jeremy. The goal was to make him lose his will to fight and lose.
And as intended, Jeremy broke down. The whole mind and body.
“Thank goodness it took me a while to come back. But since Paul woke up in the meantime, I think it saved us a lot of trouble.”
Grumble.
Frondier dragged an empty chair from the lab. Then he placed a chair in front of Paul and sat down there.
Frontier’s gaze facing Paul is still emotionless.
“Paul, we weren’t meant to be like this.”
“… … .”
Paul looked away because the words made no sense. It’s bullsh*t. Paul is a demon and Frontier is a human. There already exists an unavoidable gap there.
“I just wanted to know how to tell the difference between a human and a demon. But Jeremy interfered with that, and now Mr. Paul is interfering with it.”
“Do you think you will tell that to humans? When he finds out, he will plan to kill all the demons hiding in this empire!”
Frondier blinked for a moment at those words. He tilted his head for a moment as if he was thinking about something and then said.
“That may be so. “Maybe not.”
“What nonsense!”
“I heard that the devil is faithful to his ‘desire.’ We shouldn’t expect the rule of law or morality from humans. The reason why demons hiding in the empire are still hiding is because their desires are allowed in the human world, or because they have committed something that is not allowed and are hiding it.”
Frondier said what he heard from Lili. As I tried to understand Lili’s behavior, I began to get a general sense of what to think.
“Of course it is the latter that I want to find. If all the demons hidden in the Empire are the latter, I will kill them all. If you think so, you’re probably right. But if they’re all electronic, I won’t touch them.”
“… … How can you distinguish between the two? Are you just going to decide whether to live or die based on your mood?”
“no. If it’s the latter, we’ll have to see how they hide their sins. It’s not me who makes the distinction. They set themselves apart. The crime will vary depending on what is hidden. “We will be able to track what crimes they committed.”
Paul bowed his head at Frontier’s words. He bit his molars. He was bitten so hard that blood began to flow and his body began to tremble.
Paul’s voice was full of anger and pain.
“… … “Why on earth are you doing this?”
“… … .”
“What on earth do you want to do? If you killed Belphegor, you just had to indulge in playing the hero for a while. “That’s human.”
Paul also talked about when he set a trap of mana loss on Frondier. Frondier, the hero who saved Belphegor. I believed that the time of peace felt by everyone after the war would naturally include Frontier.
“No human being I have ever seen, even the Zodiac, had a time to celebrate after success. But what about you? “It’s not about getting money or getting women, or at least enjoying praise and applause.”
A week after the war ended, Frondier went to keep his promise to Lili.
In the meantime, I just stayed at the mansion. I had to sort out the messy situation after the war ended, and I needed time to think about the information received from my smartwatch.
Frontier played the most important role in the war against Cape Bay. Everyone in the empire knew this, but Frontier lived as if he had nothing to do with the war.
He just moved on to the next task.
“There was such an incident, so why are you looking for demons again? Do you have a hatred for devils? “I didn’t even realize they existed until now, but now that I know, I can’t bear not to catch them.”
“Hey, Paul.”
Then Frondier interrupted him.
The honorifics toward Paul were gone, but the voice didn’t sound particularly angry.
When Paul saw Frondier, Frondier spoke as if he was truly puzzled.
“What I’m looking for is a criminal organization. “We are looking for people who are hiding among high-ranking nobles and committing crimes without anyone knowing.”
“… … .”
“Do you think I would have treated them differently if they were human?”
Paul may not know it, but Frontier has dealt with more humans than ever before.
I have met all kinds of people, and there have been times when I was truly angry, distressed, and sad.
“Especially you and Jeremy, who tried to kill me with mana loss. If I were to kill all the demons, one of you would have been in the other world a long time ago. Don’t you think so? All it takes is one mouth to get information out.”
“… … “You bastard.”
“Be thankful that I am still keeping them both alive. and,”
Frondier lowered his posture. Naturally, the distance from Paul became a little closer.
It was then that Paul read emotion in Frondier’s eyes for the first time.
It was ‘worry’.
“You are afraid of Belphegor, but aren’t you afraid of Satan?”
“… … what?”
“You know about the demon incident in the imperial palace, right? There is a possibility that Satan released high-ranking demons into this empire in advance at that time. “I’m looking for that possibility.”
“… … !”
Paul was trying to refute Frondier’s words without thinking, but his face became cold when he realized that it was quite possible.
“The devil from the west is about to come in as soon as Belphegor leaves this land, you who have been hiding in the empire from the beginning, his minions that Satan has sown like seeds in advance. “The mess happening here is what Satan is after.”
“… … .”
“Do you still see me as your biggest threat?”
Paul remains silent at Frondier’s words.
Seeing that, Frondier just seriously asked a question he really wanted an answer to.
“A war between demons was predicted, so why do we surround demons just because they are demons?”