77 . Revealing the past (完)
Don’t trust children?
Thanks to Leon, who disappeared with an unknown sound, my head became more confused.
I didn’t know that such a sudden meeting would end like this. The knot in my heart has not yet been resolved. No matter how much it was my choice, Leon treated me with such a calm attitude that I couldn’t even think of him as the person who abandoned me that day.
He didn’t mention a single word about the choice of the day, and that came to me as quite a different embarrassment.
That’s something you just have to ask the next time we meet.
Right now, the priority was to solve the problem that Leon had given me. I decided to seek advice from people who know more about the situation than I do.
I slowly turned my head and asked the children behind me in a trembling voice.
“Did you all know?”
After all, demon kings are creatures of the demons, and there was no way that they had nothing to do with them.
As if my prediction was not wrong, the children reacted quickly. Stella and Olivia avoided my gaze, while Noah took a step back and quietly watched the situation.
Among them, Elia showed the most intense reaction.
With tears in her blue eyes, she said pleadingly to me with her arms crossed.
“What Dad thinks is right. The first demon king was us… No i made it But it’s not because I hate humans. Back then, I had no choice but to balance the world. But right now, this situation is really unknown to us. Trust me dad….”
The shocking remark that he made the first demon king himself made my head dizzy, but that answer was not important to me now. Isn’t that God in the first place? I can make one or two Demon Lords. What touched my heart right now was the way the girls responded directly without avoiding my eyes. There was a consistent sincerity in his appearance.
No, maybe that’s what I want to believe. I closed my eyes and thought for a moment.
Right now, I don’t have the heart to rebuke them, nor do I want to argue with them one by one. I had no intention of becoming a hero out of stupid determination.
There was only one thing I could do. Taking care of the people around me. I caressed the sobbing Elia’s head and gave her deep consolation.
“It’s okay. Thanks for telling me.”
Elia opened her eyes wide, perhaps surprised by my attitude of not blaming herself, and she looked at me silently for a moment.
“No… I’m sorry I hid this from you until now.”
I didn’t mean to blame Elia from the beginning, but she burst into tears as she said sorry for her length.
I could now realize that there were a few things they had hidden from me until now, but I decided to trust them for now.
Elia cried for a long time in my arms, and only after everything was sorted out, I belatedly realized the original purpose of my coming here.
“Ah….”
Rihanna was standing there, where she inadvertently looked away.
Her face, which received attention for the first time, soon began to contort, and then slowly began to approach me.
I didn’t want to say this to her for her struggles, but the sight of Rihanna approaching me with her arms pointed at me with her tears and snot, her face covered in mud and sweat and blood, was like a dungeon or a nightmare. It was the ghoul itself seen in . The foul smell from her body was a bonus.
I stopped her from reflexively extending her hand to give me a hug, and turned her head to her side.
“Sorry, I came too late, didn’t I?”
Rihanna seemed to have lost strength in her legs as she sat down and wiped her face, raising her voice in a weeping voice.
“I was really scared… !”
How pitiful she was, the children surrounded Rihanna and comforted her one by one.
Rihanna must have missed the warmth she hadn’t felt in a long time. She grabbed Stella’s leg and opened her mouth with a choked voice from crying.
“Huh? I thought I was right next to you, but when I opened my eyes, I was in front of the castle, Leon, I don’t know what that crazy bastard is thinking, and I… How much i….”
Rihanna didn’t even finish her words, swallowing her tears and shaking her head.
After that, I managed to soothe Rihanna, who had shed tears for about an hour, left her girl behind, and came out of the castle.
Even if I thought about it, nothing changed. I murmured involuntarily at the disastrous and frustrating reality.
“What should I do next?”
The stories I heard now were too much burden for me as a mediocre porter. The truth of the world Knowing that didn’t change anything. I still have no idea what Leon was expecting from me or what he was talking about.
I just wanted to live a quiet life with my children, but where did this go wrong?
Another confusion came to my head that was barely organized.
It was Rihanna, not anyone else, who cleared my head.
She put her hand carefully on my shoulder and with one hand poked her nose and said in an indifferent tone.
“What do I need to do?”
Didn’t Rihanna hear the whole truth from Leon, just like me? Unable to understand her nonchalant attitude, I asked Rihanna back.
“What do you do, did you hear?”
“No, so… You don’t have to mind that Leon told you that, right? Can you be a hero like Leon? Guys with no power like us are just ah, is that so? It’s pitiful. You just have to think about it and move on.”
If I could, I wanted to.
However, Leon never did anything meaningless.
There must be a reason why he said that to me, who is no different from an ordinary person.
My temples throb again.
I squeezed the area with my fingers and struggled to speak through tightly closed lips.
“… Let’s go back at once.”
In the end, I am the true identity of children, the truth about the world. With two inconveniences in my arms, I had no choice but to return home.
Only the unsatisfactory feeling that had not completely resolved the question coiled inside me was only growing.
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Returning home after a long time, the four elves had their own time after washing themselves in a warm bathtub.
All of them wanted to take a shower or wash themselves with Ain like before, but Ain said he was tired and went into the room alone.
In fact, he understood all human thoughts. I just did the act of s*x because Ain was happy, and to the gods, that kind of act didn’t mean much. Of course, he knew that Ain, a human, mixes his body and intentionally avoids taking a shower together because he has various thoughts. However, if you were so narrow-minded that you couldn’t even understand that much for the person you loved, you couldn’t handle the position of God.
Elia sat down on her bed and dried her hair, letting out a sigh of relief and opening her mouth.
“Ha, that hero almost got hated by my father for saying useless things.”
Stella, who was tidying her hair while looking in her mirror, didn’t even look back at Elia’s side. She asked a question in a rather cold tone.
“You really don’t know, right? Demon kings and demons, aren’t these creatures under your control?”
Elia frowned at Stella’s unexpected question, frowned at her, clicked her tongue once, then opened her mouth.
“… I really don’t know either. I haven’t come back with all my memories like you yet. You know, though, that she took her hands off managing those guys after being beaten by you, right?”
As an awkward silence ensued between Stella and Elia, Olivia struggled to smile as she spoke to them in a friendly way.
“Ah, why are the sisters so bitter about the past? It’s such a trivial thing. It’s going to be hard for Dad to focus on us anyway. Shouldn’t we do what we do?”
Until then, Noah, who had been alone in her thoughts while watching the moonlight, reacted to Olivia’s words.
“What shall we do?”
Olivia smiled her eerily, her eyes glowing.
“If my dad has a question, I have to solve it somehow. Isn’t that her daughter’s role? Maria? After all, wouldn’t she just have to hear her truth from that woman? Wasn’t the wizard like that too? Maria is the problem.”
Elia, who was being questioned by Stella, moved towards Olivia, reacting more violently than usual, though it may have been to get away from her.
“Yes, and I didn’t like her. I heard she was the first woman Dad liked?”
“Yes, but it will be difficult to move hastily like before.”
“Why?”
“You know that, right? Now Dad knows who we are. It means that if something strange happens, they will start to suspect us.”
“That….”
Elia couldn’t follow her words, and she bit her lip.
Seeing Elia like that, Olivia lightly tapped her on the shoulder as if telling her not to worry.
“But it is not that there is no way.”
Olivia’s smile, in her moonlight through her window, was somehow more eerie than usual.
“Don’t you have something nice to say about us?”
Good words, I knew what they meant without even bothering to say them.
She barely got her own space. Sorry Rihanna for taking her break for the first time in a while, but she didn’t have a break in the road ahead in her life.
Those are the words of a human being originally imprinted by a god.
Rihanna didn’t even dream of the trials she would face and those that would continue after that, she just took a short nap and had a blissful time.