49 – Interlude – The Last Day of the 1st Carriage Store (Part 2)
“Woah, this place looks extremely expensive. Gwae, do you think it’s okay?”
The whispers of a woman who can be called the image of nobility itself.
The revived Countess, Liliana Aran, kept tilting her head to see what was so unsettling, and she kept looking around the inside of her dining room where she was sitting.
Darkana, the capital of the kingdom.
A restaurant where only the best people can come.
[Carridge Restaurant]
In the middle of a restaurant boasting the most delicious food and the highest prices in the world, the anxious devil was glancing at the red-haired man who was sitting in front of him and calmly ordering.
The end of life.
It was only at the moment when he breathed his last that he realized that he was a prince on a white horse.
I thought I would never see my husband again, but I was reunited with him thanks to becoming one with a high-ranking devil.
Deep inside, she was happy to see him and felt sorry, but Liliana just made an idiotic expression and shook her head as if nothing had happened.
‘W-I don’t know what to say.’
Although the relationship started as an arranged marriage and was a loveless relationship, her man, Rotani Aran, was a sincere man who tried hard to win her heart.
He didn’t even look at him and behaved viciously, so why would he now apologize to him with such a face?
A feeling of guilt flows through my heart, my stomach twists, and I feel the urge to vomit.
The Countess desperately endures the sight of her face being distorted as she struggles in pain. Then, the voice of an ancient being, Lana Hill, comes into her mind.
-ㅂ ㅐ and ㅍ a
‘Are you hungry? Now that I think about it, it seems like I’m definitely hungry…’
It was as if the worries from before had been devoured by a snake, and what filled my mind in an instant was just an endless hunger.
Liliana, not pretending to be stupid, but really stupid, looked at Lotani, who was sitting in front of her, looking at her wife with her melancholy eyes, and ended up talking about her stupidity.
“Um, um… When will the food be served?”
“You must be very hungry. Don’t worry, Liliana. “Your favorite steak will be available in a little while.”
Steak.
Certainly, Liliana was extremely fond of steaks made from roasted baby calves during her lifetime.
Even at the time when she was struggling in misfortune of her own making, it seemed as if she was being sold to the count. She loved meat so much that when she put her steak in her mouth and chewed on it, some of the sadness on her face went away.
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‘Yes, the meat is delicious!’
A serpent foolishly devouring everything and a graceful and beautiful countess.
It was a moment when two very different beings perfectly became one and joined forces.
***
“… You must be very hungry, Liliana.”
“Ah, ah… Ahhh.”
The man who comforts his wife with his kind eyes, and the woman who puts her face down on the table and is helpless with her shame.
What happened during the short period of time that we were just eating food?
The answer came not from the mouths of the Count or the Countess, but from other guests in the restaurant.
“… Is this really something a person can do?”
“When I look at that white and tall tower, an evil image comes to mind. It’s artistic, it is. “There is no other way to express it other than the word art.”
“I’ve lived all these years, but really, that. “It’s a sight that will drive you crazy.”
The sound of applause coming from the hands of gentlemen wearing stylish suits and neatly growing mustaches.
What on earth are they seeing that makes them so amazed?
It’s just a pure white tower.
A feat so great that it is hard to believe that it was accomplished with a woman’s body.
A feast of large plates on the table of the Count and Countess, artistically beautiful yet precariously rising toward the heavens.
That’s right. The Countess, Liliana Aran, was so impressed by the tender and delicious steak that her eyes popped out that she even used Lana Hill’s powers to devour it incessantly.
I came to my senses only after I achieved a new record of eating all the meat stocked at Kariji Restaurant by myself.
The Countess, who has her blushing face down on her table and doesn’t even show any signs of getting up, and the gentlemen who look at her and even blow their whistles and applaud her.
In the midst of a ridiculous scene that could not be called a clown’s play, only Rotani Aran looked at his wife with a sad expression.
“… Liliana. “Is there anything else you want to eat?”
“Well, I’m full now. “I don’t want to eat anything more.”
Liliana finally came to her senses upon hearing the soft voice of her husband, and shook her head, briefly showing her red face.
Her man, who had longed for love all his life, looked at her, who perfectly suited her words of being simple and neat, and simply nodded.
Even though I thought that all of this was just playing with dolls.
‘Liliana… Was not the kind of woman who would give me this kind of look. In the end, is all this nothing more than the devil’s clowning?…’
“Hey there.”
‘Even if you show me what I want and whisper love to me. ‘That is not the Liliana I loved.’
“You lose, you lose?”
‘But finally, even if it’s fake, I can see you loving me… And I can do the things you liked.’
I was happy.
“Go ahead!!”
“……?”
The voice of a young child was heard in the ear of a nobleman who was struggling with endless depression and sadness as he saw Liliana showing a completely different atmosphere from when she was alive.
It was not a familiar voice.
However, the tone reminds me of a little lady I heard quite recently.
The Count of Aran, who was lost in thought, slowly looked down at the little girl with blonde hair, Leila Tapnell, who was constantly pulling on his sleeve, and tilted his head.
“… Do you have anything to do?”
“Mister, please hide the loss.”
A child’s sudden request to hide himself.
Lotani swallowed her tears as she looked at the daughter of Inquisitor Julius who suddenly appeared before her again.
“… Um, what are you talking about?”
“Thanks to you, I got to go on a date with my dad today. “Right now, I’m eating and playing Shumbagguk.”
She said that and flashed her finger! Leila raises her hand and places her hand on my waist.
Clearly, seeing the child calmly pointing at him and whispering to him even though they were not face to face, the count calmed his turbulent heart and decided to spread blood on his face to trick the child into eating him.
Leira Tapnel is the daughter of the fearsome demon Julius.
On the day when the fact that he, the lord of Aran, is in the capital secretly like this reaches his ears and arouses suspicion, even if he is, Liliana’s body will be torn to pieces and will fade away in the golden flames that he boasts of. .
This is all for Liliana’s benefit, not for self-interest.
Rotani cleared his throat a few times and faced the child in front of him who was looking at him with bright eyes.
He opened his mouth slowly, trying to make her lie by playing with the earl’s tongue, trained in politics, which a girl living in a flower garden would not be able to recognize.
“Well, I don’t know. I’m not sure who you are. “Aren’t you mistaken for someone else?”
“Mr. Ajo is like that, and Mr. Cryle is like that too. “You keep treating Layla like a fool.”
Cecil always appears aloof, but always shows a sharp side at important moments.
Her little lady, Leila, looks just like her own mother, her triumphant stance, even her snorts, her fingers touching her. Pointed somewhere.
“Mr. Ajo, the picture on your shoe is the same as the picture of your shoe I saw earlier.”
In times like this, Mr. Krail taught me what to do…
Ah! Mata! Cheek!
It was a comical tone, but it hit the nail on the head.
It was just a guess coming out of a child’s mouth, but seeing those eyes sparkling with such joy made me feel guilty for lying. Rotani, who tried hard to fool the child, shrugged and raised his shoulders, showing off his dignity. He politely greeted the little lady.
“Wow, you are a lady after all. “It was truly sharp insight.”
“Re, lady. Come to think of it, I forgot to ask her dad to call me lady.”
Her mood is blown again by the Count’s words of treating her like an adult, and Laira panics when she realizes that she has forgotten her most important wish.
That look is so cute and adorable.
Liliana, who was looking at this lovingly next to her, cautiously offered her greeting to the little lady.
“Oh, hello. “Cute little lady.”
“Hello, Countess.”
“……?”
A little girl who slightly lifts her skirt and bows cutely, as if imitating a noble lady.
However, Liliana, who had suddenly had half of her identity revealed, could not understand what was happening and could only roll her eyes.
“Huh, how did you know? “Does our little lady have any magical powers of her own?”
“Huh….”
“Huh?”
“hehehehe… hehehehe! I have no choice. “If I tell you this, do you really have to hide me?”
Seeing Leila’s smug expression on her face, as if she was benevolently revealing her great secret, Lotani completely forgot about her gloomy thoughts from earlier and looked at her.
Honestly, I was also curious.
Even if she recognized herself only by guessing from the picture on her shoe, how could she know that Liliana’s true identity was the Countess?
The boy’s curiosity secretly raised its head in Rotani’s mind as she faced an exciting situation for a long time.
Now, how did this clever child figure out half of Liliana’s identity?
Eventually, the little girl’s small mouth slowly opened, and the Countess could not help but admire the words flowing from the little girl’s mouth.
“Mr. Kryle always brings me here, Joe knows. “Jari here is different depending on class.”
“… ! “As expected, he’s a smart kid.”
“You even know the word class at such a young age. Indeed, she can be said to be the daughter of Julius Tapnell.”
Clap clap clap clap.
The gentlemen, who were still amazed at the Countess’s great work, touched their mustaches once and began clapping their hands in unison.
Is that really the case? Liliana’s curiosity was piqued, so she gestured to the waiter who was bringing appetizers and whispered a question.
“Is that really true what the little lady said?”
“Yes, that’s right. Layla is so smart that she noticed this herself.”
It looks like that little lady is a famous genius girl in the capital.
Is it true that the strongest interrogator even has unusual children?
Liliana, who felt her head nod at her bow, smiled warmly, unlike before when she was alive, and continued her speech towards Leila.
“You are so smart. She will be a good lady in the future.”
“Joe is still a bit of a b*tch. So, can you please hide it for me?”
Layla asks to hide herself as per her original purpose.
Liliana simply nodded her head at her cute appearance, and the little lady responded with a wide smile and quickly slipped into the width of Liliana’s skirt.
“… Well, that’s a bit embarrassing….”
“Please be quiet. “I’m playing hide and seek with my dad right now.”
At Leila’s extremely serious voice, her crowd also held their breath, and before long, ‘that’ person walked slowly but gracefully into the area where the nobles were located.
“Hmm, Leila. “Where are you?”
The heretic inquisitor slowly looked around with her long blond hair neatly tied back and a kind smile on her lips that did not match the name above.
However, the nobles sitting in his line of sight were the demon butchers of Lyriam. Unable to bear Julius Tapnel’s gaze, he just lowered his head in a cold sweat.
Inside the restaurant, there is only strange silence.
However, in this place where no one could even breathe, there was someone who bravely complained to him.
“You see, this is an area where only nobles can enter, even if you are a top-class Heretic Questioner….”
As if they were made of melted gold, the eyes of the interrogator, glowing softly in the candle-lit restaurant, gaze intently at the nobleman who was bravely complaining.
“Now, do you know who I am?”
“… ….”
“I am the king of Lyriam! “His Majesty Mines’ right-hand man!”
“…… “Do you happen to know where Layra is?”
“… ….”
“Do you happen to know where Layla is?”
“That, that.”
“Do you happen to know where Layla is?”
He just spoke quietly, but the nobleman, who had been frowning and getting angry, straightened his body in a polite manner and glanced in the direction where the Count and his wife were.
The gentlemen who were watching the scene once again stroked their handsome mustaches and shook their heads.
Why on earth are you doing something you can’t even finish?
The silence for the fool continued for a moment, and the eyes of the Heretic Questioner, who was playing with his daughter for the first time in a long time, slowly turned to look at Count Aran and his wife.
‘Isn’t this definitely a play? ‘Is this not hide and seek, but some kind of demonic ritual?’
All she did was breathe, blink her eyes, and slowly turn her head, but for some reason, Liliana felt her breath catch and felt a drop of cold sweat running down her face. I swallowed it once.
No matter how much the man in front of her is the strongest angel, Tapnel’s representative, she is also a being named Lana Hill, one of the 24 ancient demons. There would be no way to recognize her identity.
Two steps─.
There will be no way to recognize its identity….
Thump-step──.
Sorry, I was wrong. I don’t want to die!
In front of Liliana, who was repeatedly praying to God in her heart about the devil and saying that she did not want to die, the sound of the inquisitor’s shoes, which had been echoing softly, stopped.
I slowly raise my head with a thoughtful face, and all I see is gold.
Her interrogator smiled bitterly at her as she reached the point where tears formed in her eyes and whispered softly to her.
“Where is Layra?”
Do you know anything?
-Puck.
A short sound made her come to her senses as she was about to leave this world and begin her journey towards the dream of the legendary archdemon, Nirhil.
I rolled my eyes and looked in the direction where the sound came from, and saw a man with gray hair striking the back of the head of the strongest interrogator.
Well, what is it? Does that person have multiple lives?
An incomprehensible sight.
However, the parties involved simply started chatting as if nothing had happened, perhaps because they were very familiar with this situation.
“Ulius, you crazy bastard. I sent you to play hide and seek, so why are you scaring people? “Tell me honestly, are you doing this on purpose?”
“… I simply asked about Leila’s whereabouts. “When was the last time I did that to scare you?”
Julius looked around with his eyebrows furrowed as if he was truly aggrieved.
However, no one could bear to say that what he said was right.
That’s right, because it was really scary.
If Krail Raynell had been a little later, there would have been many nobles in the world who would have fainted or fainted and tarnished the prestige of the family.
Krail, who was dumbfounded by his close friend’s truly aggrieved expression, shook his head and smacked Julius on the back of the head once more, then bowed his head politely towards the count and his wife.
“I’m sorry. This guy is a bit out of his mind. I can’t distinguish between playing and working. “Let me apologize on your behalf.”
“Oh, no. “Well, I… it’s nice to see you playing with your daughter…”
Liliana could not bear to say any more words than that.
The old curse that demons cannot tell lies silenced him, and after looking at the countess who was behaving like an idiot for a moment with strange eyes, Kryle slowly extended his hand towards the red-haired man, Rotani Aran. .
“My name is Cryil Raynell, and I am an Inquisitor of the Church of Telmere. “My friend is so poor that I was rude, so please accept my apology.”
The words were an apology, but in reality, the statement was like a threat.
All Lotani Aran could do was hide Liliana behind him and tremble, so he just held her hand and forced her to accept her apology.
The two gangsters, who made a mess of the place where everyone was eating happily, tilted their heads and mumbled something like twins.
“Leila, where have you gone?”
“Little boy, where did you go?”
The gangsters, who frowned for a moment and wondered about the kid’s whereabouts, began walking slowly toward the second floor as if they had decided on another victim. Soon, several high-ranking nobles who had invited a woman over for a debaucherous drinking party looked outside the window. , And the screams of the prostitutes began to fill the restaurant.
“… This, this is the capital.”
This is the infamous Central Inquisitor!
The fears of Lyriam that I had only heard about through rumors.
Rotani, who witnessed the famous duo of inquisitors who were known to break the bones of both nobles and commoners, let out a small expression of admiration, unlike the others.
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“… That’s cool.”
“Maja. “Dad and Ajo Cryil are great.”
Suddenly, the proud voice of Leila Tapnell, the blonde-haired kid who crawled out from under Liliana’s rich skirt, was heard again.
Rotani Aran quietly nodded her head as she looked at her child who ran towards her with her bright smile and quick steps.
“As a man, I want to emulate him. “It’s almost admirable.”
Hearing the words of admiration for the inquisitors who were just leaving, who looked at them with a sincere expression and had broken their bones first, all the nobles gathered there, including Liliana, had their mouths wide open.
This man is as crazy as Julius and Crayle.
The nobles of the capital, who had seen a madman right in front of them, began to quietly avoid the place, and Leila, who showed an unchanging smile even in a chaotic situation, began to whisper and make small gestures towards the man in front of her.
“Mr. Ajo, since you hid me, I will give you a gift.”
“… A gift? “It should be an honor to the family to receive a gift from the young lady of Tapnell.”
Rotani’s waist slowly bends to match her child’s eye level, and Leila’s hand, lifting her tiptoes so hard that she can reach his head, feeds the count’s forehead with the lovely honey chestnuts.
– Takkong.
“…? “What is this?”
“It’s Sean water. “I promised you earlier.”
‘Ah, Mr. Ajo, you are really kind. ‘I’ll tell my dad and ask him to forgive me even if he does something bad with just one honey balm.’
An incomprehensible sound coming from a child’s mouth.
Rotani’s brows furrowed slightly at Leila’s incomprehensible words.
The little lady’s subsequent whispers almost made his heart stop.
“…Mr. If you date a bad devil, my dad will scold you. But because the devil sister hid me. Even if I lose, I’ll keep it a secret for once.”
hehehehe.
With those words, the girl named Leila Tapnell began bouncing towards the second floor of the restaurant, which was filled with screams and the sounds of things being smashed, humming her nameless song.
And then, at the sound of another voice, Rotani, without even having time to think about the girl’s words, started running toward the restaurant window, taking Liliana, who was tilting her head next to her, with her.
-The unclean god will die, and the era of the devil will arrive once again. To set the world straight by beheading the evil Inquisitor Julius Tapnel!
Wow!
The cries of unidentified devils and heretics who unknowingly take over the entrance to the restaurant and start crawling inside.
As oil was poured into the restaurant, which was already in disarray due to the Heresy Inquisitors’ antics, the people who were leisurely enjoying dinner began to break the windows with all their might to escape.
“This place will explode in a little while! “Hurry and escape!”
“It’s a magic sword, it’s a stick, just get hit and get out! “It’s better than dying in flames!”
“aaa!!!!!!!”
Despite the ridiculous appearance of the nobles who were always talking nonsense, no one passing by on the street laughed at them.
“Everyone! Everyone get out of Kariji Restaurant! Julius Tafnel and Cryil Raynell are there now!”
At the shout of an unknown person, everyone stops in their tracks and begins to run in unison to a place away from the Carriage Restaurant.
It seems like it was a common occurrence for people in the capital to have buildings explode due to Julius and Krail.
“Liliana, hold my hand tight.”
On the streets of the capital city, which are becoming a mess due to the uproar, a man who risks his life to see his wife alive even just once smiles at the devil.
At first glance, Boygen looks very weak, but the will in his eyes is as strong a conviction as that of an interrogator.
She thought that the man she had never looked into had eyes like this.
Touching her own cheek, which was slowly turning red, the mistress of Aran and the being known as Taishan Serpent nodded her head.
Right now, I just wanted to go somewhere far away, led by that man’s hand.
***
“At this point, I won’t be caught in the flames of the interrogators.”
I ran around the streets of the capital for a while, avoiding the screams and screams coming from the Carriage Restaurant.
Only after reaching a quiet hill, Lotani stopped his busy pace and stared intently at the face of his only wife, Liliana Aran, who was only smiling softly even as she held his hand.
Her expression, which was always full of sadness and worry, was filled with her joy and excitement, and in her emerald-like eyes, which never once looked at her, she saw her red-haired man. ‘S face was fully reflected.
The woman named Liliana Aran had nothing but hatred for her man named Lotani Aran.
So, this woman in front of her is not the one I loved.
As always, helplessness flows through the weak man’s heart, and what lingers in her mind is the image of her wife rotting alive due to her plague all those years ago.
The Count looked at Liliana for a moment after she had been revived by her saint, then raised her head and looked distantly at the night sky filled with starlight.
I know.
The woman I longed for love has already become a star in the night sky.
I know.
The demon in front of her was just imitating Liliana to mock herself.
Still, still.
I feel grateful to you for giving me a warm smile with the face of the woman I loved.
Now it’s time to end everything.
It is right that happy dreams end in just one night.
Because, when I wake up from my dream, you won’t be by my side.
Because a man like me cannot endure the emptiness felt in that empty space.
The last moment of life. Her man, who had decided to give up everything, touched the cheek of the devil wearing his wife’s mask and left a sweet kiss.
And then, her man, Lotani Aran, put her own defeat in her mouth.
At least, I hope that the sight that will be reflected in my eyes at the end of her life will be the face of the woman I loved.
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.
.
“It’s my defeat. Liliana. So you can stop doing these ridiculous skits now.”
What bard in the world could sing of this man’s sorrow?
What artist in the world could depict this man’s sadness?
A high-ranking demon wearing the guise of Liliana Aran. No, the Countess’s eyes, having regained her complete self thanks to her devil’s magic, slowly began to turn red.
A bet between him and her made under the leadership of Saint Erman.
His victory comes when he fully accepts the woman he loved.
If he cannot accept the woman who has been turned into a demon, she will be his defeat.
‘It’s just a pretentious bet… Yes, the price the loser pays is to be eaten alive by the devil. ‘I guess I’ll leave it at this.’
‘Erman, I always think about this, but I think you do things too haphazardly.’
Who would have thought that they would choose defeat on their own?
The saint, who mentioned the price as if passing by without much thought, would never have thought that this weak man would choose her death on his own.
A man slowly closing his eyes, frowning as if he could no longer look at the demon in the form of her wife, comes into the eyes of Archdemon Lana Hill.
Perhaps, she may not truly be the woman he loved back then.
Perhaps it is just the Taishan Serpent dreaming of a woman named Liliana Aran.
But is that wrong?
Is it really wrong to chase a dream that will never wake up?
The countess, wearing her elegant shoes and a simple dress unlike when she was alive, took step after step toward her beloved husband. Walking quietly, like a child secretly playing around.
From afar, the corpses of heretics burned alive begin to fly into the air with golden brilliance.
The harmony of golden pillars and blue ice that magnificently decorates the sky, as if to bless the relationship between the devil and the count.
Her delicate hand caresses the cheek of the man who chose her death as if loving it, and the mouth of the serpent that is devouring her world immorally lusts after the earl’s lips.
In the abyss of just the two of us, filled with silence.
The devil who stole Liliana’s name thinks.
Even if everything is a lie. That the trembling of this heart is the truth.
-Things that are worse than daring to pollute Cecil’s wish. Don’t think you’ll come back alive!
-Wow! Fly fly!
-Kid!!!! What are you doing there!
Capital Darkana.
The screams of a little lady and a gray-haired man fill the streets on a quiet night.
However, the earl and his wife could only hear the sound of each other’s hearts resonating in their chests.
On that day, the weak man who could not forget the woman he loved and gave up her life was swallowed up in one bite by an ancient demon.
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“It’s time to resign. Congratulations! “Your Majesty the Count.”
“…?”
The devil is a being who always plays with words.
So, their words always cleverly bewitch and deceive people.
Obviously, Lanahil ate a man named Rotani Aran alive.
Although ‘catching’ and eating it had a slightly different meaning.
“Congratulations my lord! Now, we can finally have a successor to our Arang family.”
“Congratulations Rotani, I am so happy to have your child.”
“… Is this really okay?…”
I kissed the devil and entered the path of heresy.
Aran’s lord castle is noisy and noisy, unlike the days when it only followed the words of a faithful god.
Even though I went against the truth of death and violated the word of God.
Only happy smiles appeared on their faces.
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.
A one-night bet that took place on a midsummer day.
Erasing the unrequited love and starting to make beautiful love bloom.
It was a story of hidden love between a devil and a count.
“So… It can’t be restored?”
“Um, well… Mr. Julius exploded it so grandly that it can’t be restored even with holy water.”
Sorry.
A priest of a religious order called a first-class priest.
Despite Rian’s apology, the middle-aged man named Kari Ji just stared at the ruins of what had been her own restaurant in disbelief.
Julius and Cryil.
All that remains where the two infamous men swept away is a sign that has been torn in half.
[Carriage / Restaurant]
Having lost her precious home, which was like the child of her man named Kariji, he eventually collapsed onto the earth where only a pile of ashes remained, and cried loudly, feeling a single tear flowing down his cheek.
“Kwaaa!!!!!”
A one-night disaster that occurred on a midsummer day.
A magnificently erected building is erased, and flowers made of ashes are slowly sprouting.
It was the story of a hidden tragedy between the man and the restaurant.