177 – It was already decided.
“Well… ?”
Aurora loses her balance and stumbles. Dusk leisurely savored the sight of her barely able to stand with her hand touching the black and red barrier.
Since the reactions were so vivid, it was a lot of fun talking about them one by one. However, it would be inconvenient if it broke right away, so Dusk forced a pause.
No, when I thought about it, I didn’t think it would matter if it was broken. Because the goal I wanted was already close to being achieved.
Eventually, Dusk opened his mouth again.
“If you think about it, it’s a simple and easy fact. There is no way a blood demon would attack a blood demon. Also, there is no way humans would have the ability to predict the future. “Isn’t that right?”
It seemed like she would lose consciousness due to strong confusion, but Aurora desperately concentrated her mind so that Dusk would not miss a single word of what she said.
Blood demon.
The key was that word. Isn’t Dusk ultimately saying that Aurora was born as a blood demon?
“You grew distrustful and started to select people more carefully than anyone else, and you became interested in people who were strong and uncommon…. Is it really a coincidence that I created myself this way? Was it really because of her own realization?”
Dusk laughed out loud.
“No. You’re just made that way. “They really put a lot of effort into that design.”
“Why on earth? Why….”
“Are you asking why? “It’s simple.”
Dusk shrugs his shoulders as if asking why he is asking the obvious.
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“Because the princess wanted it to be like that. Because the princess ordered it to be so. Because he also commanded it.”
He continued her words and tapped Aurora’s temple with the tip of his index finger.
“You must have planted the device in the first place, right? Have you ever felt it? “When you come across a strong and interesting human being, when you find someone who matches your taste, you are bound to react.”
After saying that much, Dusk pursed his lips. He just looked away and hummed, as if trying to guess what he was going to say next.
Aurora began to roll her taut head as hard as she could. It wasn’t long before a blank response escaped her lips.
“… “Flan?”
The only thing she could think of was that man.
Yes, if there is a device that can clearly feel it, it is the only one. Because Flan was the only man who made Aurora feel strange in her life.
After listening to Dusk’s story, the fragments of thoughts floating around in his head began to come together one by one. Goosebumps run down my back.
Just by seeing the princess’s reaction, Dusk understood what Aurora had realized. She soon smiles as if she is happy.
“Judging by your reaction, it seems you finally understand. Is it so. It’s flan. “You couldn’t see any future for him, right?”
Dusk patted Aurora’s shoulder a couple of times as if she understood. The princess’s face hardened in real time, but the more it happened, the more Dusk added a smile to her face.
“Plan Judith. You were a doll designed to find and bring in such people. Did you understand?”
Dusk still didn’t stop humming his tune. He began to continue his happy thoughts.
“How should I proceed so that the next picture is pretty?” . That’s what I’m worried about. “Every doll comes to an end, and we are currently assessing your expiration date.”
Aurora wanted to protest, but she had no time to do so now. All she could do was spin the treadmill in her head and struggle with countless question marks.
Aurora slowly touched her own face.
I am a blood demon?
It was ridiculous. What happened to her own actions, as she despised her blood demons and lived to reign at the pinnacle of humanity? What does she mean by the realization she has felt and the beliefs she has firmly established?
“That can’t be possible.”
Aurora cupped her own face.
“I am human, human….”
Dusk’s words must be part of the illusion.
He couldn’t help but think that way. He was a human being and had parents. In the first place, there was no way a blood demon could have planted something in the blood of the noble royal family.
“… “There is no way a blood demon could hide in the imperial family.”
“Does it feel like an impossible task?”
Dusk whispered into Aurora’s ear.
“Why have the blood demons been quiet all this time? Why did they let the barrier hit, why didn’t they bother to hit the barrier…. “There were so many clues, weren’t there?”
“Shut up. “Shut your mouth!”
“Because the blood demon has already been planted in the heart of humans. “She didn’t need to move.”
Dusk lightly bit Aurora’s ear.
“… Why did you lift the barrier on Reheln Hill? Even that had already been decided.”
“Ugh… !”
Aurora grabbed her porcelain head. The unbearable pain overtook her. Her thoughts weren’t just coming to mind, they were gnawing at her head.
Of course, each of those reactions was nothing more than entertainment for Dusk to savor.
“The princess is that kind of person. “The one who makes the impossible come true.”
“No. No….”
Aurora held her head with both hands. Dusk patted the princess kindly.
“Is it broken? It’s okay. I will take over your role for the time being. She could probably play a better princess than you. “Don’t have any regrets.”
But then.
Wow!
Dusk’s head turned to one side. He blinked a couple of times, unable to understand the situation for a moment. It was a long time later that the head that had been turned returned to its original position.
Aurora grinning, wide-open eyes, heavy breathing, outstretched hands…. After putting the clues together, it was very clear what had happened.
“….”
Dusk rubbed his face with his palm. Aurora shouted at the blood demon.
“I am—!”
A tendon was carved vertically on the princess’s forehead.
“I am the princess and the owner of this continent. “It’s not a lineage that someone like you can easily talk about!”
“….”
Dusk was still rubbing his face with his palm. The time lag between closing and opening his eyes gradually narrows, and then he starts blinking like crazy.
He muttered quietly.
“Touch my mask….”
Next moment.
“Wow… !”
Before she even realized it, Dusk’s fist hit Aurora directly in the solar plexus. The princess sat down helplessly. She was not strong enough to stand still.
Dusk tightly held Aurora’s hair as she fell. He forcefully picks it up, brings it up to her eye level, and mutters.
“I will skin her face. And I’ll cover the other face. “With the ugliest face in the world.”
Dusk spreads his palm as wide as possible and places his nails on Aurora’s face. There was no body temperature, so it was a completely different sensation from being touched by a human hand.
A feeling as if the blades of an operating table were placed on top of it. Aurora shivered from the chill. Faced with the fear of death, she could not even blink her eyes.
Aurora just muttered the same words with tears in her eyes.
“I am not a blood demon…. I, I….”
A tear fell.
I wanted to deny everything.
When she thought that the trajectory she had followed with all her convictions was nothing more than someone else’s tricks, she felt empty and empty.
The despair I felt as a child, the eight years I spent underground, the things I did on earth….
Kwaak─.
Her fingernails dig in slightly. At that time, Aurora’s face was covered in blood with fresh blood flowing from her forehead.
Dusk’s head exploded with a loud bang.
There was no sign of anything flying. It was an explosion that was mistaken to have occurred spontaneously in an instant.
Boom! Kwaang—!
Explosions occur one after another from Dusk’s body. Upper body, arms, legs…. The explosion does not stop until the body is reduced to mere pieces.
“… !”
Aurora then wiped the blood on her face with her sleeve. Until now, she had no idea what was happening.
However, the situation did not give Aurora much leeway. Soon, Dusk’s bodies began to come together and quickly regain her original shape.
“No….”
The moment Aurora muttered that.
“It would be better not to play.”
A low tone rang within the barrier.
For a moment, I felt like the world was getting a little brighter. No, it might not have been an illusion. The bright mana was brilliant, starting with the body of the man who actually appeared.
He began to walk at a leisurely pace. Aurora’s back was bent, but he was still holding her head stiffly.
“Even if you’re not dead, pretend to be dead and stay out of the way.”
This is incomprehensible.
It was a barrier that even the court wizards had not yet finished interpreting, and there was a door-shaped gap in the dark red barrier behind the man.
The man lifted her collar once and then cast his gaze towards Dusk, who was nothing more than a lump of her flesh.
“I need to talk about butterflies for a moment.”
Plan.
He blackened Aurora’s future.
Finally, the ‘present’ appeared.