I shrugged my shoulders and replied in a clumsy manner.
“Hide? What do you mean I’m hiding?”
“It still is. Even though you have withdrawn, why did you, who was a member of the warriors’ party, go to the trouble of disguising yourself as a student at Salomon Academy? Even while using a new identity as Seil Sieghart. Could it be that there was another reason for approaching my sister?”
Certainly, her condition seemed to have deteriorated a lot after the demon lord subjugation.
Still, she was in the category of the most normal among the warriors’ party, but now she seemed like a completely different person.
Not only did he openly reveal his emotions to this extent, but he couldn’t predict whether his sensitivity had reached its peak, or the changes in his emotions.
Even now, the atmosphere was as if he would pull out his sword at any moment.
Looking closely, I could see the dark circles under her eyes.
He probably hasn’t been sleeping well lately.
She put her hand on the scabbard.
“Answer me.”
That moment.
I sighed and looked at her.
“If you pull out that sword, you will die.”
It was sincere.
The moment she swung her sword at me here, I was going to kill her right away.
I understand to some extent, but it wasn’t that I didn’t have any ill feelings toward her.
Even without ‘me’, at least the original owner of this body, Abel Croy, harbors hostility towards her.
I’m not a good person enough to let the person who drew the sword live.
Also, she is virtually the only human who knows my identity.
Depending on how you use it in the future, it might have value, but if you pull out the sword and say you’ll kill me, there’s no reason to keep it alive.
I already came to this world and took dozens or hundreds of lives, and the amount of blood on my hands is immeasurable.
The path I’ve walked so far hasn’t been dull enough to make me hesitate to commit murder, to the point where I’ll admit that the target of that murder is an old colleague.
“It doesn’t matter if you pull it out if you’re curious.”
Her whole body trembled intermittently.
“… … .”
I stared at her and spoke out in a clear voice.
“But then you will surely die.”
Her shivering intensified. By obtaining a copy of the book of demons, the demonic power increased significantly.
As a result, the energy I could radiate seemed to have changed. Even though he controlled his own way of life, it was to the point that a warrior the size of Teresa withdrew.
It was a phenomenal development even for me, the person involved.
She removed her hand from the scabbard. And then he burst into laughter.
“… … I can’t understand. Everything around me seems to be a lie. Kal Damian, who I thought was just a porter, was an unimaginable monster, and now the assistant wizard, who was considered the most useless in the warriors’ party, overwhelms me just by living. hahahaha. Ha ha ha ha ha!”
I was thinking of killing him if he crossed the line just a little bit longer, and turning him into a familiar.
A knight of Teresa’s level was well worth using.
There was a fatal flaw that he couldn’t kill, but if he was reborn as an undead anyway, he had to obey my orders absolutely.
I pondered for a while.
This is a kind of weighing.
He was weighing the gains of keeping her alive and the gains of killing her.
‘You already know my identity… . But if I kill her here, things will get out of control.’
There was also a way to pretend to be normal by killing her and turning her into a monster, but that was also a big risk.
The family she belongs to is the Duke of Rundel.
It is an aristocratic family that is considered to have the highest power in the empire.
If the fact that I was a dark magician were exposed to them, let alone the plans I had made so far, I might end up being chased by the Heretic Questioners for the rest of my life.
I think I can easily deal with one or two Heretic Questioners… … .
‘A monster like that woman is unfathomable.’
There is no reason to take such a gamble now. Be sure to show your teeth when you’re ready.
As I was thinking about that, a book suddenly popped into my head, and the pages turned by themselves, reminding me of dozens of black magic tricks.
‘This… … !’
It wasn’t called a drinking book for nothing.
As befits a book written by Salmon, the first black magician, it contains the essence of black magic. Although it is only a copy, not the original, it was enough to open a new horizon.
Just by imagining a new form of black magic in my head, it presented possibilities like this every time.
It felt like I wasn’t simply teaching black magic, but I was forcibly hitting the knowledge on how to apply it in my own way.
It’s a true infusion education.
Salmon owed a lot to that nobleman. I guess that this is probably the true identity of the condensed magic that he passed on to me for the last time at that time.
“It is a good choice. I don’t want to kill you either. Unlike others, don’t we have enough intelligence to solve the problem through dialogue? At least that’s what I think.”
“It’s Jisung… . I never thought I would have a conversation like this with you. What I felt most painfully while leaving the empire and dealing with the demons was that I was just a frog looking at the sky in a well. So, why don’t you tell me what you really are?”
After thinking for a while, I answered.
“Is that so curious? I’ll let you know if I finish telling you this story.”
she chuckled. Is it my imagination that somehow seems desperate?
“There is nothing difficult. As I said before, the battle with the Demon King was all ruined by Kal Damian’s intervention. The real monster was not the Demon King, but Kal Damian. Isn’t it funny? The human we ignored the most, as it turned out, had been saving us all this while. No one, including me, would have known. I never thought that Kaldamian would possess such formidable power.”
“Wouldn’t a hero with divine protection and a holy sword be an opponent? Aren’t you and Charlotte also knights and wizards who have reached the 8th circle? Still no opponent?”
Theresa’s eyes went wide. Only a smirking smile represented her feelings.
“opponent? hahahaha! Opponent… … . Did you say that the elephant killing the ant by stepping on it is the opponent?”
I was astonished inside, but asked cautiously without showing any signs.
“That’s the difference… ?”
“I don’t know. Because I was just an ant. I couldn’t tell if Kaldamian was an elephant or something more. But one thing is for sure, no matter how hard the likes of us struggled, we would all die at the beck and call of that monstrous human being. If it wasn’t for the space warfare scroll possessed by the Lin Mage, everyone would go to the underworld amicably. Lars had already lost an arm in the process. Even the saintess Lia couldn’t get his arm back to normal. Can you feel it now?”
It was very pleasant information that the hero Lars lost an arm.
“The real demon king was different. no. It’s not even a demon king, it’s a demon god.”
“Drinking… . oops.”
“What is funny?”
“Oh, sorry, sorry. I smile without even realizing it. So, anyway, while trying to kill the demon king, he was badly beaten by Kal Damian, and Rin’s space warp scroll returned to the empire with only his life intact, right?”
Cheonakcheon seemed to recover faster than I expected. Of course, he knew that Cheonakcheon was strong, but what made him feel a little complacent was his body.
It was the body of Carl Damian, the porter of the possessed warrior party.
No matter how good he is, he thought that it would take some time to recover his original strength because his body was not his own.
However, from Teresa’s story, it was very likely that the Cheonakcheon had already exceeded my expectations.
“It is like that.”
“In the process, ignoring the fact that they were defeated, and announcing that they killed the demon king?”
“… … Yes. I have nothing to say.”
In summary, aren’t these bastards just a group of trolls?
“I bet Bona Mana Lynn Mage and that bastard Lars said let’s do it.”
Theresa made no reply. But rather, that silence was proving that I was right.
“… … .”
“Anyway, you can’t deal with this, Kal Damian, and if you report honestly to the imperial family, the achievements and image you’ve built up so far will be ruined… . Did you just try to bury it like this? It’s very shameless.”
“… … okay.”
“Thanks to that, the Empire is holding a festival. In commemoration of your victory, all the people, whether noble or lowly, are enjoying happiness every day. Should I say thank you for this?”
Theresa let out her anger as she clenched her fists.
“… … I didn’t want to either. But there was no way. The people were waiting for our return. How could I tell them that I was defeated!”
Seeing that, I sneered.
“After all, nothing has changed. Shameless b*tch.”
she shouted in a fit of fuss.
“What on earth do you know, talking like that!”
“Don’t make any excuses. You know what? what you say now That it’s all just rationalization. Just be honest. It’s because you don’t want to lose the wealth, honor, and popularity you’ve accumulated so far, right? If you were really for the people, you should have been honest. They couldn’t defeat the Demon King, and more monsters appeared than that. You should have warned me like this. Even if that petty honor falls to the ground, isn’t it truly a way to serve the people by warning them about the upcoming crisis?”
“no… . I’m not really… .”
“Let’s say that with a one-in-a-thousand, one-in-a-thousand probability, you weren’t like that. so what’s the difference? In the end, you agreed with the opinions of the other party, and because of that, the imperial family and the people will think that the enemy threatening mankind has disappeared and peace has come. But what if you get attacked later? Who will be responsible for the damage?”
I continued talking. Each time she said with a pale face, ‘No. I’m not like that,’ he muttered, but ignored it and continued.
“Didn’t you think that the demons who died at our hands could, on the contrary, become the people of the empire? What if the false information you created made the empire unprepared for the coming invasion and collapsed? Even then, are you going to masturbate while repeating that it’s not your fault?”
she asked, looking up at me with dead eyes.
“I… . I… what should i do… ? Why did this happen… ? I’m just trying to save the empire… I was just trying to save the people… ”
I moved a little closer to her and spoke clearly.
“If I had a way, what would I do?”
“room… law… ?”
“I will kill Kaldamian.”