I Became the Childhood Friend of the Northern Duchess chapter 81

81 – Words of a Betrayer

Vincent was very thorough.

Even Ariel, who was watching, admired the act of somehow controlling the opponent so that he would not die while cutting out one part after another.

Perhaps because he had been on the battlefield for a long time, he knew very well how much a person had to die.

Under the influence of the magic on his body, the man could not resist even though he felt all the pain of his skin being cut and his eyeballs being pierced.

Even though he is gagged, only the saliva flowing out of his mouth and the groans of pain leaking out indicate his situation.

Ariel kindly used a recovery magic and forcibly postponed the death of a man whose ninth finger had already been cut off.

“Kuh, it’s already been 15 years… … !”

Thanks to that, Vincent succeeded in cutting out ten fingers, both ears, and three toes from the man.

In the meantime, the only reason I didn’t dig out my eyeballs was because I was afraid that this man would die, not because I felt remorse.

If he had felt remorse in the first place, he would not have been able to continue this terrible act.

“Are you keeping your promise?”

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Looking at Ariel, who was watching this scene outside the iron window, Vincent smiled and reconfirmed his earlier remarks.

She responds with a bright smile that is perfect for this.

“Sure. Do I look like someone who can say two things with one mouth?”

“Good. very good.”

Anyway, I’ve already earned fifteen years of life.

Considering Vincent’s age, it would be safe to say that he had already saved up some time before his death.

Still, just in case, he didn’t know, so he started cutting off the man’s toes in order to earn another five years.

If this wasn’t enough, the last target would be that bloodied eyeball that’s about to explode at any moment.

“Anyway, don’t you feel guilty?”

“Is there anything in the world that is more important than my life? Since you are young, it seems that you do not know the world yet.”

Vincent, who was considerably more mentally relaxed, spoke as if provoking Ariel.

But she didn’t respond, just watched the scene with a smile on her face as if she was having fun.

“Turn it off… … !”

“It’s good enough that you didn’t faint.”

The man’s toes, which now only have two left.

It was admirable for Vincent to let out a scream of pain while still remaining conscious, even though he felt the pain of having his skin cut into life so much.

Rather, it would have been more comfortable to lose my mind.

Maybe Ariel was trying to keep him from losing his mind to feed his guilt, but he didn’t know.

How many times have you taken the lives of strangers anyway?

It was a trivial level if it was just a process of interrogating the enemy to dig up information.

It made me wonder what was going on in her head with such a simple condition.

‘This should be enough.’

Having cut off all of the man’s fingers and toes, and taking away his ears, he lightly brushed his hands off as he watched the flesh and blood clots that had fallen on the floor.

Having passed the age of 60 years ago, he will have to live for about 20 years from now on.

It’s safe to say that this was enough time to actually die, so there’s no reason to get your hands dirty anymore.

“it’s over? Vincent.”

“Heh, yes. That should be enough.”

Ariel opened the barricade and slowly approached him as he stood up with a cold smile.

Now I could see the man lying on his side on the floor, emitting only voices that could be screams or cries.

The way the fingers and toes were cut off in slightly different shapes showed that it was done by humans, adding to the horror.

“Aren’t you going to keep your promise? miss.”

“Of course you have to keep it. But before that, aren’t you curious?”

“What are you talking about?”

Vincent expressed his doubts about Ariel’s sudden questioning in reverse.

I have no intention of exchanging questions and answers, so hurry up and release me from this cold cage.

However, I decided to go along with the thought that if I touched her planting now, the time I had earned for so long would be lost.

“Don’t you ever think it’s strange? Why did I offer such good conditions?”

“that is… … .”

there was no way that

I just finished rationalizing myself thinking that she looked down on a man named Vincent.

Watching him hesitantly swallowing his backbiting, Ariel smiled and bent down halfway.

Her hand was directed to a trembling man lying on the cold bare floor.

Maybe he was tired of urinating, and bright yellow water was oozing out of his pants.

“You really don’t remember this face?”

“I’m not so stupid that I can’t remember my acquaintances just because I’m old.”

“yes? If so, this might be a little different.”

Ariel grabbed the man’s hair and lifted it up, freed himself from the gag, and lightly snapped his fingers.

Vincent looked around, wondering if he was using magic, but nothing really changed.

“What the hell… … ?”

Vincent, who was looking around inside the cage, turned his head again to face the man Ariel was forcibly holding up, and his eyes began to widen little by little.

eyes, nose, mouth.

The face, covered with various fluids from three parts, was unsightly, but not to the extent that it was unrecognizable.

He had slightly slanted eyes, a blunt nose, and a sharp jawline.

And the light brown hair reminds me of Vincent when he was still young.

Realizing the man’s true identity, Vincent couldn’t say anything, ‘Uh, uh…’ .’ He repeated only a low voice.

“how? Do you remember now?”

“This, this f*cking whore… … !”

thud!

Vincent, who ran towards Ariel who asked again with a bright smile, collapsed on the spot as if bumped into something.

Ariel’s foresight, which had created an invisible wall with magic in advance, in the hope that something like this would happen.

“Aidan… ! how do you… … !”

Before long, the man’s name came out of Vincent’s mouth.

I couldn’t have known That would also be the case, because the man in front of him was Vincent’s own son, who had been raised like a jade leaf.

“I thought you would still have magic resistance even if you were a bit older. So I cast a cognitive impairment spell directly on your son.”

Perception-damaging spells cast directly on people are a kind of hallucination.

That’s why people with strong mental power or strong resistance to magic often did not get caught, so the risk was high.

There, Ariel came up with a reverse idea.

Instead of Vincent, let’s cast a deterrence spell directly on his son, so that instead of directly changing his appearance, he’ll create the illusion that he’s someone else.

As you can see, the result was a great success.

Enough to cut off the fingers and toes of the son who has been watching for about 30 years, and even steal his hearing.

“How do you feel? Vincent Roland.”

fluff.

“Uh, huh… Aidan… … .”

No matter how much he was a man who plotted to take someone’s life, he wasn’t sane knowing that he had cut out his family’s body with his own hands.

Vincent sat down in his seat and muttered his son’s name over and over again.

However, Aidan, who could not endure the pain, had already lost consciousness, and there was no way to hear his father’s anxious voice because he could not hear his ears.

Seeing him pounding his head on the ground with tears and runny nose, Ariel smiled with satisfaction.

That’s what it looks like.

It’s because he made every plan one by one, vowing to make sure that those who did trivial things to take away his precious person would have such an expression.

And only now, when the fruit came into fruition, the exhilaration was indescribable.

Besides, the most enjoyable thing is that there is still despair left to present to the author.

“What if I already cry and cry like that? It is still just the beginning.”

“This, committing such an evil thing… ! Are you saying it’s still not enough!?”

“Wicked?”

Ariel shrugged her shoulders, eyes that couldn’t understand what the old man was talking about.

Wickedness is not always an act of remorse in conscience, or a word only when a person commits a sin.

No one can say that the act of tearing a dog apart by biting its owner is evil.

Ariel’s awareness of her own actions was just that.

“Couldn’t you mean that you didn’t make this much of a decision when you laid your hand on Ed?”

“Dogs… ! I didn’t think it was strange that you went crazy for four years because of such an insignificant bloodline… Kheuk!”

fast.

His backstory didn’t follow.

It’s because Ariel grabbed Vincent’s neck and put strength into it with the momentum to break his neck.

In addition, because she used body strengthening magic in case something happened, her current physical strength was beyond imagination.

“This garbage… Who do you dare to mention?”

I feel like I want to break my neck bone like this, but my revenge isn’t over yet.

This old man’s sins were higher than a mountain and deeper than the sea.

Besides, Ariel had no intention of getting her hands dirty.

The mere thought of this hand, which was to embrace Edgar’s body again from tomorrow, would be stained with filthy blood.

“Cheuk… ! Coke! Coke!”

Ariel slammed his body onto the floor nervously letting go of his neck, then went to the corner and picked up a crystal ball.

It was a rather neat impression that did not fit in this desolate iron cage.

Seeing her holding it up and slowly approaching him again, Vincent was terrified and backed away on his own.

I had no time to infer what it was, nor did I want to know.

Just the shock of having cut out his own son’s flesh with my own hands was still filling my head.

Ariel puts the crystal ball wrapped in a cloth in front of Vincent as if to personally explain for him.

Then, as he snapped his fingers again, a faint light leaked from the crystal ball, and a certain sight came into Vincent’s eyes.

“Oh, Marie… ! to the wife… … !”

Although the video was a bit blurry, it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t recognize a face I’d seen for decades.

And the scene contained in the crystal ball is Vincent’s son who is now collapsed in front of his eyes, and his family, who are in the same miserable situation.

What the hell is this all about?

At some point, they spread their magic not only to Aidan but also to the other members of the family.

Vincent’s consciousness couldn’t catch up.

“I forgot to tell you. As you can see, your wife and daughter were subjected to the same torture as you did to your son.”

Ariel gives a short apology, saying she’s sorry for telling you so late, with a calm expression, as if she forgot to eat.

Despite the shocking news, not even a scream or cry came out of Vincent’s mouth.

No, that’s not exactly what it was.

Since ancient times, humans will not say anything if they exceed the limit of the psychological shock they can receive.

Rather, when the situation was pushed to such an extreme, Vincent was able to calmly judge the situation.

That there is no point in trying to save your life now.

What he has to protect is not his own life like a fruit fly, but the lives of his children who have a long way to go.

“Please. Please, please, just my wife and children… … !”

Even if all the fingers and toes are cut off and both ears are missing, there can be no more gruesome ending than death.

If he somehow manages to save his life, the Roland family might be able to do something about recovering his missing body.

That’s why Vincent earnestly asked.

Please, just keep the family name intact.

However, Ariel tilted her head at this and clearly corrected his misunderstanding.

“You don’t think these people are alive, do you?”

“what… … ?”

“How can I be alive when I am bleeding so badly? I don’t seem to remember, but your son was only alive thanks to my healing magic.”

The last hope of Nogu, who had promised to save his family somehow, collapsed in front of the harsh reality.

It was.

The fact that Ariel cast a healing spell on Aidan, who was being tortured by her father, was just a cornerstone to drive the other two people caught to death.

If the ending is ambiguous, there is a chance that they will survive.

To be honest, I wished he had dug out an eyeball or two, but thanks to that, Aidan could vividly witness his father torturing him until the end, so it might not be a bad result.

“Congratulations anyway. I promise I won’t lay a hand on you for the next 20 years.”

“… … .”

Vincent couldn’t say anything to Ariel, who even clapped for congratulations.

What can I say?

At least, if I had given up for five or three years, my wife and daughter might have lived.

Even in such an extreme situation, the mere act of trying to earn a little more of his own life drove everything to ruin.

He silently picked up the dagger that had fallen to the ground, bowed before Ariel and respectfully offered it to her.

She knew enough to know what that action meant.

“You have achieved the desired result. Come now?”

“… If you don’t want to do it, I’ll do it with my own hands.”

“Hmm… I kind of don’t like that.”

It was only then that he seemed to have repented of all his sins and accepted the death of apology, which was very uncomfortable for Ariel.

Evil must die evil.

There should have been an ending appropriate to it.

‘ah.’

Then, in her eyes, she saw Aidan collapsed on the floor.

As if she had an interesting thought, she bent over and cast a recovery spell on Aidan’s body, waking him up and throwing a dagger in front of him.

At that, Aidan only stared blankly at the dagger in front of him and at his father, with all of his fingers and toes cut off.

“I will leave the judgment to your son. then.”

Ariel, who had just closed the barbed wire and slipped out into the hallway, took a lofty step forward.

What would a man do after witnessing his father cut off his limbs and ears?

Just as I was curious and wanted to check it out, I heard the low voice of a helpless old man.

Only then did Ariel move her legs again with a satisfied smile.

In the words of a traitor, it is always to be pierced by the sword of the most cherished colleague or loved one.

It is a common material in any fictional story, but it is also a royal road story.

It seemed to have ended with a very good ending, so she was satisfied as well.

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Lux, I wanted to see the end of that man, but I handed it over to someone else who wanted it.

The only thing left for her now is to enjoy her daily life with the one she loves from tomorrow.

That was all.