35 – Wish
“High-ranking devil? “A high-ranking demon came here?”
She tilted her head towards her priestess in a dazed voice while blinking her big eyes.
Cecil Lionelta did not understand the current situation.
I just came here to show off to my mother-in-law about the joy of winning the wish ticket, but then suddenly you find a high-ranking devil, what do you mean?
“That’s right! “A high-ranking demon with a strange voice came here.”
“If that were the case, Julius would have been the first to notice, and there are two high-ranking demons here. You didn’t mistake Liliana, did you?”
Emily, who was looking at her daughter-in-law who was just tilting her head as if she still didn’t know, began to urge her by pulling out her hair in frustration.
“Don’t do that, just take a good look! “There are 24 of them, and some of them are probably practicing strange magic.”
“There are people who are good at hiding, but they can’t fool me.”
Cecil puts her hand to her chest with a confident expression.
With her arrogant, delinquent attitude, she began to draw out her magical energy and began to use her shadow to investigate the dungeon.
“… Um, this feeble Magi here is either Parton or Parasol.”
“Yes, yes. Do it right!”
“One little girl. “Is she this strange demon who uses that sword?”
“No, that b*tch died by my hands. The problem is that after killing her, a demon who used tremendous magic stole her body again. It must be a high-ranking demon who could disrupt my divine power.”
“Isn’t it just that your mother is an old woman?”
As Cecile’s words struck her bones with her bright smile, Emily couldn’t bear it anymore and grabbed her arm and started shaking her.
“If you keep doing this, I know it’s going to be really boring! Should I tell Julius to break up with you?”
“… Priest Emily, are you really trying to fight me?”
The devil dyes his eyes black and glares at the silver-haired priestess with a scary expression.
Despite her behavior, Emily did not give in and only continued to urge her investigation.
“If you do this, I will make things work out with Julius again, okay? “Don’t do that, just look carefully.”
“… Is it true?”
“Yes, yes.”
Julius’s wife, who returned with a sallow expression, looked at Emily in front of her with her eyes shining brightly, sighed, and then began to show off her magic again.
A faint scent of grass.
Cecil frowned involuntarily as she read the traces of Leilia Tonant, the girl who had been here.
“… This is an ‘echo’….”
Traces of a high-ranking devil who should not be here.
Cecil’s mind became confused as she felt the echo of the black forest that she had burned down not long ago.
I certainly didn’t even sense it when I was in the Lord’s Castle, but after resurrecting from a fatal wound, you deceived my eyes and revived a human being, and then used this huge spell?
In her complicated mind, the voice of another self, the emperor’s nightmare, rang out.
-… Echo There is no way something like this could be possible with that child’s power alone. Someone with tremendous power must have done this.
‘… In the current Lyriam, there is no one who uses demonic magic better than me.’
Cecil denies it outright as if it makes no sense.
Another Cecil spoke to her again.
-No, no, no. There is only one person who can fool our eyes.
‘…Who is that?’
-Did you not know that we are beings who can be called our flesh and blood?
“…Lionelta.”
“Huh? “Why are you suddenly calling me angel’s name?”
Emily tilted her head as she looked at Cecil, who suddenly muttered the words “Lionel, the Angel of Death” Instead of using magical powers.
“… Sister. “No, Lionelta is descending now?”
“Hey, are you okay? “Suddenly my complexion…”
Cecile, with her lips turning white in contemplation, began to break out into a cold sweat and shake her body.
Emily just feels sick to her stomach at her strange appearance.
“Uh, where are you? Yul, Julius. “Where is my husband?”
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I was deceived, the ascension plan was all a deception to fool my eyes.
Cecil, barely able to hold on to her trembling body, hurriedly swung her hand and tore open the air.
What you can see through the gap are various places of Aran’s lordly castle.
Even though I desperately rolled my eyes and searched, I could not see Julius inside the castle.
“…Lionelta, did you go to that b*tch?”
The devil chewed his lower lip and spat out words as if spitting them out.
Her blue eyes gradually begin to emit a cloudy aura.
“… Are you really angry? “Telling us to break up is just a joke….”
The immortal priestess, unable to understand her mood, tried to talk to her, but no sound came to her ears.
Anger and despair take over her entire body, and old emotions that she had not felt since returning from her death fill Cecile’s heart.
What if he doesn’t come back to me?
The despair of that time when he was curled up in a corner of the small house and sobbing filled his throat, and the high-ranking devil, who could no longer hold it in, screamed at the top of his lungs.
“Find Julius! Right Now!”
Explosive magical energy spreads out from the shadow shaking beneath the pretty feet wearing cheap shoes, and soon a huge monster appears from the swamp of black shadows.
A strangely large bird that has not even been given a name by its owner screams for the dungeon to leave.
A monster that spreads its large wings and widens its hideous eyes to find the blonde interrogator.
Emily, looking at such a ridiculous situation, broke out in a cold sweat.
“… What’s going on, I can’t keep up with the situation.”
I raise the horn piece of the divine beast in my hand and raise my divine power as I look at the demonic creature that is about to kick off the ground and fly up.
The devil’s familiar that controls the world and shakes it as it pleases.
It is close to impossible to kill that thing right now.
If something hideous like that rises from the lord’s castle in Aran, it could cause havoc among the citizens of the city, who are already trembling with anxiety due to the ascension plan.
Emily spreads the pure white divine power rising from her horn to cover the monster.
If we cannot defeat it, we must at least cover up that ominous black magic energy.
The familiar, who seemed unharmed even though his entire body was wrapped in the burning divine power, twisted his body, which had turned pure white due to the divine power, and then violently stamped his feet, which were too large to be a bird, and darted towards the sky. Flew away
“… Find it within 1 minute. “If I can’t find it, I’ll cut off your head and chew it up and eat it.”
Cecil, blinded by anger, trembles with her hands clenched, tears welling up in her eyes.
After realizing that it was Lionelta’s doing.
Negative thoughts that keep coming to mind.
Saint Erman’s plan and Julius’ face keep coming to mind.
I tried to hide it, but what if he finds out the plan?
“… I will be abandoned.”
-Kieek
The howl of a pure white monster flying powerfully in the sky.
Cecil, who realized everything too late, had to slowly feel her blood drying up.
***
“Why are you hesitating? Hurry and hold my hand.”
If my lovely wife had a sister, would she look like this?
An angel with brown hair slightly wet from the rain and blue eyes filled with the sky holds out a white hand in front of a weak man.
Sweet dongajul created by red cherry-like lips.
Looking at the salvation presented before him, Julius lifted her head and looked at her face.
“… How can I believe that it is true?”
“What reason would I have to lie to you? “If this is false, you might try to kill my beloved child, Erman, right now.”
I wouldn’t take such a gamble against the strongest Heretic Questioner.
With a kind smile like her mother, she pushes my hand and urges me,
He wanted to grab that hand right away, but Julius still couldn’t shake off his hesitation as he remembered Cecil in the Aran lord’s castle.
“Are you worried about Cecil who is with you right now? “She is certainly your wife, but she is not perfect.”
Was your Cecil really that kind of woman? No, no, the woman named Cecil Lionelta was a woman who could safely be called the culmination of the words purity and brightness.
“… ….”
“But look at Cecil now. “Think of your wife mixed with the great void of the Emperor’s nightmare.”
Is that really your wife? Well, he seems like a completely different person to me.
Lionel Tha, the Angel of Death, giggled mischievously, pursing her lips and repeatedly shaking the inquisitor in front of her.
His golden eyes now show visible confusion.
It’s already over.
It may be small, but it is my victory, little brother.
The shadow of something huge is reflected above the head of an angel with a wicked smile.
When I slowly raise my head, what I see is a nightmare monster clad in pure white divine power.
“You’ve finally noticed, poor Cecil.”
-Keeek!
A monster bird that opens its large mouth and cries desperately at someone.
As if it were a signal, the air between Julius and Lionelta shattered like broken glass, and a high-ranking devil, blinded by anger and despair, slowly revealed himself.
“It’s been a long time, Erman’s daughter.”
“…Lionelta.”
Did he even cry? The woman, with red eyes as if she had shed tears, growls at the angel.
It was only after her situation was over that Lionel Ta, looking at her belatedly appearing Cecil, laughed at her with her sarcastic tone of voice that was not like me.
“You came so quickly. For someone so arrogant, you were quick to notice.”
“… I am. No, I am not arrogant.”
A single word barely uttered through clenched teeth as if they were about to break.
Cecil spread her arms as if to wrap around the blond-haired man behind her and glared at the taunting angel.
“Aren’t you arrogant? I can clearly see your thoughts. “Are you upset that your plan was to deceive and corrupt a naive priest, but that plan went to waste when I came?”
“… I just want to live a happy life with my husband.”
“Julius is definitely Cecile’s only husband. A love so heartbreaking that it brought tears to the eyes of Rom, the heavenly master and our father. “It’s definitely beautiful.”
But is it really for you?
“… Of course it is for me. “I am his wife.”
“Your words are nothing more than a child throwing a tantrum at his parents. “She is just an evil creature who glued her dead body together with magic that defies providence and claims that she is Cecil with only the memories of her soulless body.”
“… I am Cecil Lionelta. “I am the only wife of Inquisitor Julius Tapnel.”
Now she lowers her head so much that you can’t even see her expression, muttering her words like a prayer.
The angel standing in front of her continues to spit out her cruel words.
“Julius’ wife is dead. Even if she were to be revived against her providence, she would already be a different person from the Cecil she was back then.”
So, you are not the Cecil that Julius loved back then.
There was no longer any reply to the angel.
Lionel Tarr snorted as if he had lost interest at the sight of the devil just standing at a distance, and looked at the heretic inquisitor, Julius Tapnell, who was standing behind her with an expressionless face, and whispered softly.
“So take my hand. “I will give you back your real love, not this fake one.”
“… ….”
“The pain and trials of the past. You have impressed us by showing off the majesty of God. So this is fair compensation for that. A gift from the Lord to you, a faithful follower of God.”
Have those words become a wedge?
The priest slowly begins to walk towards the angel, as if he has made up his mind.
Stepping through the muddy mud, slowly passing the demon and trying to get the golden fruit, a small voice is heard in his ear.
“…I did it.”
“… ….”
“You promised. “You won’t abandon me.”
“… Of course, I promised.”
“Then keep that promise now, let her choose me and not her.”
Cecil, who calls her past self as if she were a stranger, glares at him with wide eyes.
Her eyes were stained red with bloody tears flowing.
The devil’s black eyes reflect the priest into my eyes.
“… That can’t be done.”
“Why? “Why don’t you keep your promise?”
I clearly said I would protect it.
“… I just keep my promise to Cecil.”
“How many times do I tell you that I am that Cecil!”
She let out a terrifying scream as if she was about to vomit blood, and hugged Julius tightly in her arms.
A goosebump-inducing feeling that seems to never let go.
Looking at her like that, her priest whispers softly.
“… You are Cecil, but you also have other names.”
Isn’t that right, Nirhil?
The name of the devil who became one with the interrogator’s wife resonates softly,
The devil’s shoulders slump helplessly as he is called by a name that is similar to his own evil.
In the end, she couldn’t give any answer to his words.
Although she was Cecil, she was also a being called Nirhil.
Fresh blood flows down my pure white cheeks.
Julius gently wiped away the drops of blood streaming down from her demon-like face, smiled at her bittersweet smile, and walked past her towards her angel.
The Angel of Death, smiling like a winner, holds out his hand again.
The faithful priest gave up his hesitation and gently lifted his rough hand to take his hand.
The situation where everything is over.
Ehrman’s plan was such a sweet proposition, and the devil ended up losing the bet.
Everyone thought so.
Except for the Emperor’s Nightmare, Nirhilman.
“…Listen.”
“… ….”
“… You know, I promised that if I won the game, I would grant you a small wish, right? “I will write that wish here and now.”
The corners of her mouth, stained with despair, slowly turn up, and the devil with an evil smile gently raises his head.
-The devil always bets that he will win. That’s why they always win.
Saint Telmir said, “The devil always wins the bet.”
Nirhil, lifting her blood-stained face, looks at the back of her beloved husband and utters her last words.
“Please don’t abandon me. “This is my wish.”
If you don’t listen, I will at least give you a memory you will never forget.
The black smoke rising from the hands of Cecil, the daughter of Saint Erman, slowly entwines her body tightly.
And then what appeared was a dagger the color of pitch black.
After looking at the knife in my hand for a moment, she thrust her knife towards my heart without hesitation.
A world filled with silence.
Only the golden beast roared and rushed towards my wife.