91 – I can’t forgive as much as you
The Skeleton Wyvern carrying her flapped its wings vigorously in the air.
A mighty gust of wind blew against Jocasta.
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Jocasta gathered the strong wind into one place, turned it into a sphere, and threw it at Mrs. Herte.
Mrs. Herte swung her staff and knocked out the sphere of condensed gusts.
The wind sphere flew away and exploded, creating a powerful whirlwind that blew away everything around it and quickly died down.
“You said you would kill the sixth hero and become the demon king, but was it all a lie! What an amazing year of smoke!”
Mrs. Herte burst into cynicism.
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Jocasta bit her lower lip in anger.
“Don’t laugh at me, come on!”
“The attack is not cool because four years have blocked it. I have no choice but to write this.”
Mrs. Herte raised her staff and fired something into the sky.
It rose high into the sky and then descended vertically and hit the floor behind Jocasta.
“ha ha ha! Curse! Sixth Warrior! Your flesh will ooze out and you will become a terrible monster!”
“curse?”
Maru was not able to block the black energy that permeated into his body and suffered as it was.
He looked down at the palms of his hands.
There was a sign that the skin would flow like a wave.
“lily! I will delay the curse by imprisoning you in the Chamber of Time!”
Luciella shouted hastily, and Lucy, who knows how to use magic like her, came closer and spoke hastily.
“I’ll try to purify it with magical power! Quickly take off your clothes and stick out your back!”
“Shit! If only there was a saintess, it would have been better!”
Natalie clicked her tongue and Kiera stood dumbfounded and muttered to herself.
“If Maru is cursed, what will happen to me… ?”
Will the warrior’s power disappear?
“Everybody calm down.”
Maru smiled with a relaxed attitude.
“Demon! Did you think you could defeat me with just a curse or something? Foolish!”
He immediately unleashed the power of Shining.
The body glowed once and the curse was lifted in an instant.
Mrs. Herte was the first to notice the situation and was greatly surprised.
“Oh, how can it be!”
Maru smiled and stepped forward to Jocasta.
“No more? Would you like to try again?”
“Yeah man!”
Mrs. Herte used the surrounding demons as sacrifices and cursed Maru again.
However, as soon as Maru was cursed, he immediately released it.
“Is this all? I was bored and wanted to die.”
“A wormy bastard!”
When the curse was blocked, she attacked directly with the Skeleton Wyvern.
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Jocasta blocked it again this time, and Maru looked around.
The knights led by Venzaris were slaughtering the demons coming up from the underground, and the sword goddess Hergantia had enlarged her body and poured thousands of blades into the holes in the ground.
‘They’re fighting well, but there’s a lot of sheep.’
shouted immediately.
“Luciela! Lucy! Natalie! Kiera! You guys go over there and help!”
Lucy, who was casting from afar, replied.
“Already fighting!”
Following her, Natalie dutifully grabbed the two-handed sword.
“Floor! Leave it here!”
Natalie sprang out like a gale.
Elsewhere, Kiera was facing a hideous tentacled monster.
He was the second son of Mrs. Herte after the first son, Skeleton Wyvern.
“I will take care of this guy.”
Kiera drew her sword and charged forward with enthusiasm.
Luciella wasn’t alone either.
She changed once again from her succubus state and was reborn as a very powerful being.
It was the result of the power of Gnir, a giant who ate mineral bugs, and of swallowing countless demons in Jocasta’s castle.
“Now, I will love you, my dears, Irion.”
As a muscular succubus, she abandoned her whip and plunged into the demons in hand-to-hand combat.
Every time he swung his fist, the blood of the demons splattered in all directions.
“I’ll just have to focus on Herte.”
Maru was satisfied with the reliable appearance of his colleagues and turned into a Leviathan and flew at high speed.
In the blink of an eye, he caught up with the Skeleton Wyvern.
Then, he swung his claw vigorously and blew off the head of the Skeleton Wyvern in one shot.
***
The battle ended smoothly.
Dealing with Maru, the goddess Hergantia, the warrior Kiera, and the great demon Jocasta all at once was a hopeless situation for Mrs. Herte.
Her strength was sorely lacking.
The dark soldiers were annihilated, his two sons were killed, and he himself was tied up and had slave tattoos tattooed on his lower stomach.
“Stop it! aagh!”
Her desperate screams resonated in the palace built underground.
Regardless, the knights took the spoils in the palace, and Luciella’s massacre of high-ranking demons took place in another room.
Maru let out a relieved sigh at the thought of finally going back to where Audrit was.
“When we get back, it’s the engagement ceremony.”
Defeated the three most dangerous and powerful demons.
That should have been enough warning to the demons of the world.
He intended to go back to being the crown prince and enjoy a normal life.
Being separated from someone you love was hard.
As expected, he realized that he was not an adventurer.
“Where is our next destination?”
Lucy, who had changed into a maid outfit before I knew it, approached and handed me hot tea.
Maru smiled after taking a sip of tea.
“It is sweet and delicious.”
“Did you ride well?”
“yes. Eating sweets gives me energy.”
“Boo, tell me if it’s not enough. I’ll ride you again.”
She was thrilled by Maru’s bright smile and smiled shyly.
However, Maru spoke out against her expectations.
“A belly tattoo. Let’s erase it.”
“why… ? Because you don’t like me.”
“Thank you for being with me on this journey. But I guess I’m a very narrow-minded person. I try to keep you at a distance, but I use it when adventuring. I am also confused as to what the hell I want.”
“Hey, you can use it. Don’t worry.”
“Come to think of it, it wasn’t all your fault. I think I did something wrong, and I thought a lot about whether it was right to treat you coldly. And as a result, whoa… just thank you guys For continuing to find a guy like me.”
The barriers she had built in her heart were slowly crumbling.
“When I return to Basilite, I will be engaged to Audrey. And I’ll go back to the empire and have a wedding.”
“already?”
Lucy’s heart sank.
There was sadness in both of her eyes.
He lowered his gaze and twisted his face.
“I want you to meet good people like me. Everyone is full of energy. I want you to forget about the past and live your own life.”
Lucy, Natalie, and Lloris.
forgive them all
Let’s make it happen so that we can leave without regret.
“Lucy. You don’t have to feel guilty anymore. I am really fine.”
“I love you. You are the best person for me.”
Lucy, choking, confessed with a choked voice.
But Maru shook his head.
“You know it from Jocasta. You won’t know if that’s your true intention or not until you remove the tattoo.”
“As I said before, it is my will!”
Tears flowed from Lucy’s eyes.
“Black… Whoa… why don’t you know… ”
“You know that. We can’t make it.”
Maru raised his hand and stroked Lucy’s head.
Her tears wouldn’t stop.
When she said that it couldn’t be done, she cried even more sadly.
Maru had no more words to comfort him.
All Lucy wanted was a relationship, and he already has a lover.
All I could do was watch him cry.
“Tattoo. Let’s erase it.”
“Huh… Sobbing… ”
Lucy finally nodded.
“Wait… I’ll prove it’s not because of the tattoo… black… black… ”
next day.
On the way back to Basilite Kingdom with loads of loot.
Quietly found Natalie at camp.
For some reason, he lightly tapped her chest with his fist, which was downcast.
“Have you not eaten? Why are you low on energy?”
“I heard… engagement ceremony… do it.”
“Did you hear from Lucy?”
“I knew it was going to happen before, but when I heard that it was right in front of me, I somehow lost my strength… ”
“okay. I am a married man now. And I’m in the middle of sorting out the ties from my bachelor days. Natalie. Thank you so much.”
“Why are you saying goodbye? You want me to disappear?”
“I hated seeing it before, but it’s different now. I wish you well, I hope you find your life. You can’t just cling to me forever.”
“It’s okay though… ”
“I am not okay.”
Natalie sensed that the atmosphere today was different from before.
The floor was infinitely soft.
It would have been better if he had been angry, but then he would have had a reason to keep following him after begging and begging Maru for doing something wrong.
However, unlike that wish, the desire to obsess has subsided as he caresses the sore spot and speaks kindly to people.
Maru was sincere.
I was really looking forward to breaking up.
Her conscience could not defy his will.
“It’s not like breaking up. Even if we are far apart, let’s keep in touch often. We are friends.”
“Chi, friend!?”
Natalie was startled, and a blush came over her face.
“Ooh, are we friends?! Are we friends?”
“yes. They are our friends.”
“Are you going to continue?”
“Uh, continue.”
“Good! me! me! Hey, apart from the engagement ceremony, the wedding is definitely going! Hehehehe! Whoa… ! Because I will definitely go! You can’t tell me not to come there either! uh black! Why do tears keep coming out… ! I shouldn’t cry… !”
Natalie screamed and cried in a mess.
It was the first time I had ever seen her cry.
that evening.
I bumped into a glass with her.
It had been a long time since we drank together.
“To commemorate, every time Maru drinks one cup, I’ll drink two!”
“If you quit drinking, don’t you become addicted again?”
“Oh no! It’s only today! only today! Just drink today and quit drinking again!”
Lucy also joined them and had a pleasant conversation.
It was a pleasant night, as if we were liberated from each other.
and the next day.
Maru called Kiera and met them alone.
It was my turn to say goodbye to Kiera from the bottom of my heart.
“I am getting engaged. But I think it would be very wrong for Audrey to stay with you ex-girlfriend. So I’m thinking of cutting off contact with you completely. When I go back to the Empire, I’ll buy you a house, so stay quiet there. Don’t contact me again.”
“Ha ha ha ha ha.”
Keira let out a self-deprecating laugh.
“Have I come too far to repair the relationship?”
Maru asserted to her, who seemed to have lingering regrets.
“Even if I forgive Lucy, Natalie, and Mr. Lloris, I will never forgive you. sorry.”