Chapter 189. The Great Demon (3)
“Oh, hello······. Starting today······ I, I’m Eugene-nim’s personal maid, the former Great Demon······. My name is Na Tae, Belphegor······.”
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They say that when people see something too shocking, their minds freeze.
It seems to be true.
My brain had already given up on trying to understand the sight unfolding before my eyes and had declared a strike.
After a while.
Belphegor turned his face pale and shouted as if making an excuse.
“My father made me do it?! I didn’t want to do this······!”
“Who said what?”
“I was thinking to myself that this b*tch had gone crazy!!!”
“······.”
How did he know?
I thought he had really gone crazy because he was wearing a human maid’s uniform in the Demon Realm, where there were no clothes.
I found a note attached to Belphegor’s back and took it off.
-This is a gift. I heard that my bloodline has caused great harm in the mortal world. I know that this is not enough to apologize, but please use Belphegor as a maid for the time being. You may treat him as you wish. I will not care how you dispose of Belphegor from now on.
Has the hearing ended?
It seems that Satan judged Belphegor’s sin to be serious and decided to excommunicate him.
He said that I could treat him as I wished and that I could even dispose of him as I wished······.
‘Does that mean kill him?’
It was a roundabout way of saying that I could kill him.
He must have hinted at this because he knows how much I hate Belphegor.
But why?
“What, what does it say?”
“······.”
Just yesterday, I wanted to crush Belphegor’s head and kill him.
Now, that murderous impulse has subsided.
It’s not that my hatred has disappeared.
I guess you could call it the frog in the well syndrome.
Now that I’ve been told that I can kill him, I don’t want to kill him.
I think Satan has something up his sleeve.
If I kill him now, he’ll feel like he’s playing with me.
And above all, it is right to pay for the sins committed in life while alive.
In the case of Luna and Kali, they were already dead, so I sent them to the underworld to pay for their sins.
But for those who are alive, it is right to deal with them while they are alive.
Let me add another excuse here.
There is a lot of information that can be missed from Belphegor, who is from the Four Heavenly Kings.
He said that I could treat him as I wished, which means that I could extract information from him through ‘interrogation’.
-Astaroth. I’ll be out for a while-
-I understand. Call me anytime if it gets dangerous-
“What, what?!”
Astaroth responds with magic as I convey my intentions to him through magic, and then he steps back.
Perhaps because he can’t use magic, Belphegor is the only one who looks at us alternately in bewilderment.
Soon, only me, Mijeong, and Belphegor are left here.
The surroundings are surrounded by a barrier of magic.
“Just a moment······. What are you going to do to me······.”
“······.”
I was wondering how to deal with this, so I watched for a while.
Whether he was scared on his own, Belphegor took a step back and fell over, hitting his butt.
I looked at Belphegor like that and analyzed his power.
There is almost no magic or mana in his body.
It’s less than an ordinary human, so no matter how much I squeeze it, I won’t be able to get a single drop of blood.
It would be much more powerful to scratch with your fingernails.
In addition, the body structure is not much different from that of a human.
Slender and smooth arms and legs.
I don’t feel any strength from his thin body.
Of course, as a demon’s body, it is different from a human’s in terms of density.
Even so, it seems that I will be much stronger than him.
Belphegor has no means of resisting me.
He would even be overwhelmingly overpowered by Mijeong.
That was the conclusion.
“Belphegor. Do you know that Luna and Kali were taken to the underworld?”
“What······?”
“Sola has turned around. Now you are the only one left of the Four Heavenly Kings.”
“That can’t be······.”
Abandoned by Draken, the Four Heavenly Kings were shattered.
Kali tried to persuade the Underworld God that he was right until the end.
Luna cried ugly as she was dragged away by the Underworld God, with eternal life in front of her eyes.
Then what kind of impression will Belphegor show?”Die! Kill me!”
“Hey.”
“I’d rather die than be humiliated by a human! I’ll die with my chastity intact!”
“Hey······.”
This isn’t it.
Something completely different from what I expected came out.
At first, I didn’t think much of Belphegor being a woman.
But now that she’s acting like this, I feel a desire to humiliate her even more.
“I think you’re mistaken.”
“······?!”
I stride forward and grab Belphegor’s mouth, shutting it.
Until now, I thought the thick voice unique to demons was unpleasant to hear.
But now that a woman’s voice is coming out of this brat’s mouth, it’s even more unpleasant.
“Do you think you can die? You can never die. Your father just abandoned you. You have a body that can never die until I give you permission.”
“······!”
Whoa!
As I gather magic in my fingertips, Belphegor trembles and shakes her pupils wildly.
The trembling is transmitted to my hand.
I keep the magic in my hand and put it on Belphegor’s chest.
I was trying to imitate the blood pact of the little boy I saw once.
But as expected, I can’t follow it at all with just the memory I saw at that time because my talent is so poor.
This is also a place where there are no evil spirits floating around the Nine Hells, so the blood pact can’t work in the first place.
“Swear. Swear that you will be mine, that you can’t do anything without my permission.”
“Wh, what?!”
“Swear.”
“Waaah?!”
If I can’t use the blood pact, I have no choice but to create a new spell that suits the environment here.
My fingers dig into Belphegor’s chest.
The magic from my fingertips gradually seeps into the veins of the guy.
Belphegor injects magic into the guy’s body, just like she did with Tei and the other contractors.
The difference is that Belphegor was afraid of being caught with magic, so she put only a small amount in a secret place, but I openly fill the blood vessels and make it circulate throughout the body.
And with this amount of magic, it’s even possible to make the other person a puppet with no will.
Of course, that’s only if there was an oath.
“Swear.”
“N, no······.”
“You don’t know because you’re a demon. How much pain a weak body feels without any magic to protect it. I’ll teach you step by step. The ultimate art of torture that humans have developed over thousands of years of history-“
“O, okay, I’ll swear! I’m Eugene’s slave! From now on, I’m Eugene’s property, and I can’t do anything without Eugene’s permission!!!”
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Belphegor trembles and finishes the oath in an instant before I even finish speaking.
Then, the casting of the spell imitating the blood pact is completed, and the spell is embedded in the magic that runs through Belphegor’s blood vessels.
I was so surprised that I lost my words.
I was prepared to torture her for three days and nights to get her to swear.
I didn’t expect her to surrender before I even started.
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Anyway.
Now it’s time to test the performance of the spell.
“Sit.”
“Hic?!”
“Stand up.”
“Hmph······!”
“Lie down.”
“Heuk!”
“Kneel.”
“Aak! My knees!”
“Fly.”
“Wh······?”
As I give orders one by one, Belphegor moves quickly, as if her body is moving on its own.
The blood pact forces action by inflicting pain if the order is not followed.
My spell forces action by making the body move on its own according to the order.
Now it seems like it will be much easier to handle.
“You damn bastard······! You controlled the women who followed you like this!”
“Me? Controlling and killing contractors by eroding them with magic?”
“I’ve never killed a contractor! They’re all valuable customers, so why would I kill them!”
“Don’t you remember Lawrence Briam? The mayor of Cologne that you killed.”
“That guy was killed by this little corpse kid······!”
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Was that it.
I looked at Miso and the club she was holding behind her back for a moment and then turned my head away.
That’s not important right now.
“Anyway, the fact that you colluded with countless human deaths and disasters doesn’t change. Do you hate humans that much?”
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“Until I came here, I thought that demons were inherently evil and saw humans only as objects to exploit. But now I see that you are the only one of your kind. This demon world is a place where morality and justice live, so what the hell are you? Did a human do something to you?””You don’t even care······.”
“What?”
“What did humans do to me? Are you really curious and asking? No. You’re not curious. You’re just asking as a formality because you want to find a reason to punish me. You won’t believe me no matter what I say.”
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Belphegor glared at me with gritted teeth.
His pupils were still full of fear towards me.
But there was a faint hatred deep inside.
A deep and thick hatred.
“Are you going to make an excuse? That you took revenge because you were wronged by humans?”
“I don’t think so. If you were overpowered and killed by me right now, would you regret what you’ve done?”
“No.”
“Me neither. I don’t think I was wrong. I just lost because I wasn’t strong enough. I don’t regret it.”
“This······.”
For the first time, Belphegor showed hostility towards me.
Even though he had made a blood pact and become my slave.
He lifted his head stiffly and glared at me with growling eyes.