(EP.391)# 2
391 – Friend #2
“A thousand one hundred, one thousand one hundred two… .”
As she went down the stairs, only Narmi’s voice spread out. As you go down, the musty smell and strange smells are quite annoying.
“Two thousand five hundred twenty two… .”
The numbers mentioned from Narmi’s mouth grew bigger and bigger. I thought I was going down pretty deep. There was hardly any end to this staircase.
Why the hell did you make the stairs so deep in this fortress? I don’t know that far, but if there was an imp’s soul down here, I had to keep going further down.
“Huh, it’s a little chilly. Tae-oh, do you feel anything?”
At Stella’s question, I quietly inked my senses. There was nothing particularly noticeable except that the air was very cool, as she said.
Then I finally saw the end of the stairs. What appears in front of us, having stepped on the ground, is a door that looks quite sturdy and heavy.
There was no such thing as a lock, but it was quite heavy, so it seemed difficult to push it with force.
Together we pushed the door as hard as we could. Then, the iron door, which had been abandoned for a long time, made a rusty sound and slowly moved its heavy body backwards.
As I pushed it in, I saw an even darker and darker interior. When the light was lit with magic to illuminate all directions, tools and bones were scattered everywhere.
“prison?”
whose word was it? I also agreed with that. This place was like a prison. Because I saw a lot of iron bars, handcuffs, shackles, and molds that tortured criminals.
It was quite eerie because there were bloodstains all over the place that looked like they had dried up for a long time. There are imps in this place.
said Narmi.
“It seems like a lot of people have died. It was also very horribly murdered. Why the hell did you kill people so recklessly? ?”
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Narmi, who was born with a psychic constitution, seemed to see and hear something that I couldn’t feel. For me, I just feel that it would be better to get out of this place quickly.
Stella said.
“The demon king Solomon who escaped to this Gargata Fortress was quite crowded. It was said that it was then that the brutal massacre began. Because when you are in a corner, everyone reveals their true colors.”
Was this the corner of Solomon?
I imagined the appearance of the Demon King who would have roamed this place. There were a lot of corners that didn’t come to mind because I had never seen a picture depicting him.
Anyway, the important thing is where the imp is rather than where it is.
So I hurriedly looked around.
Imp with red hair. Did I say that only by finding him and making him holy and destroying the jar would the curse be completely healed?
Shall I call you one more time?
“Imp, do you have an imp?”
Even when I’m speaking, I think I’m saying something very stupid.
If I had known it would be like this, I would have given you some nicknames.
If he had come to this call in the first place, there would have been no need to wander around the fortress for so long.
“Who called me?”
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Crumble.
At that moment, a red hair suddenly came out of the darkness. It was a little funny to see the face slowly revealing itself soon.
It will come out that you are really calling.
“What is it, Tae-oh? I thought you were the owner. It wasn’t.”
The guy came up to me and gave me a disappointing tee. Then Stella asks.
“Tae-kun, what is there?”
I could understand her question. Stella can’t see this little imp. Can’t you see a guy who is alive like this?
Miraculous.
Then Narmi said.
“I can only see in a blurry form. I just know there’s something here. I can’t see well, so it’s a bit frightening.”
In the end, it was only me and Mirna who saw this imp properly. It was really a ghost. When I thought of that, I felt something eerie and pitiful.
A dead imprani trapped in a jar. Didn’t Solomon say that he cares for the imps very much?
So, even Imps like Marmardo and Tartar were waiting for the demon king Solomon to appear again and lead their lives.
To them, the demon king was more than just a king, it was a realm of faith or worship. But how could such an imprisoned imprisoned in a jar and turned into a curse?
Does Marmar or the other Imps know about this? No, I didn’t think you would. Because these things were being done secretly in such a deep underground place.
My eyes looked at the jars scattered around this basement. It seemed to be empty inside, but I felt quite terrible that there were several of them.
Then the imp said to me.
“More than that, how did you get here? It was a secret passage that only I knew without telling the master!”
“I came to find you. Come on, let’s get out of here.”
* * *
I found the imp easier than I thought and was able to bring him to the fortress. spacious training ground. When I led him to a place where a large bonfire was lit, Mirna clapped and clapped.
“As expected, if you entrust it to Sir Tae-oh, the matter will be resolved quickly.”
It was too easy for me, so I thought it would be okay. I soon learned that finding him and bringing him back was only the foundation of what was to come.
Because what we had to do was not to find him, but to make him a saint. So we took the imp to the jar near the campfire.
“Hey… !!!”
The Imp let out a very pitiful scream and began to tremble.
As if the jar had become something very terrible and painful for him, he was frozen in place and did not know what to do.
Mirna said.
“You have to put the soul of the imp in the jar. Sir Tae-oh, I hold the leg. Please hold Tae-oh by the side of his head.”
With those words, I grabbed the imp’s wrist. He screamed like a stray dog after he had been abused for a long time to run away and be recaptured.
“Hey eh… !!! Hey, let this go! I hate that! Somebody help me! help me! Hey, these guys are trying to kill me! Imp hates! monster!”
Seeing him struggling, I felt very sorry for him.
I was just running free from that dreadful urn and roaming this castle freely. Now that I have to go back in there and put an end to this crazy life.
“King Tae-oh, I think I know what you are thinking. It’s harsher to let Imps wander around like this. If time goes by like this, one day I will forget everything and become a true demon.”
Mirna’s words were realistic.
I looked at the faces and jars of Mirna, the Imp, and the others, and finally spoke with a deep sigh.
“… I can’t.”
Earlier, I slandered Solomon for harassing the imps.
However, even though I have the purpose of becoming a holy Buddha, if I forcefully put this imp into a jar, I start to think that I am no different from the old demon king.
Also, the face of my friend Marmar, who has always supported me, overlapped in this guy, so putting him in a jar like this seemed like a very bad thing to do.
I know.
How foolish it is to stop working with emotion. It’s better for him to put him in that jar and end his bizarre life than to just leave him like this.
At that moment, Elgar, who was looking at us with her arms crossed, said:
“What’s wrong? will i do So where is that imp?”
Elgar didn’t seem to see the Imp screaming right in front of him. Mirna sighed at the carefree story.
“There is no way someone who cannot see can touch it. Lioness, you are so proud. You cannot see or touch ghosts.”
“To be strong is a compliment to the women of the Lioness.”
“So that’s not going to happen. Anyway, I knew that Sir Tae-oh would hesitate. Because Tae-oh is an imp lover. Even if you don’t force it into a jar, there is a way.”
At Mirna’s words, I turned to anger.
“What should I do?”
“The good news is that the soul of this imp is clearer than I thought, without hatred. In this way, we will be able to communicate, and we will be able to find a way to achieve success.”
“If it is a holy Buddha, can I release any regrets I have left on this earth?”
Mirna’s eyes widened at my question.
“You know it very well. It’s one of the secrets I don’t tell anyone.”
I was even more surprised that Mirna was surprised by my words. It’s a pretty common way to get rid of regrets when you’re sacrificing your soul, isn’t it? Another thing in this world
Sometimes I come to realize that people in this world and the environment I have lived in are different. Anyway, that’s probably not what’s important right now.
I made sure to put the jar away from this imp’s sight. Soon, the condition of the Imp, who had been trembling, improved little by little.
“You guys, it’s okay! What the hell is that? I don’t know what it is, but don’t give it to me again!”
The Imp seemed angry at us for bringing something terrible to him. Don’t you know what that is? As I feel it now, this guy didn’t seem to know that he was already a dead ghost.
It wouldn’t be easy to tell such a guy that you actually died a long time ago and now you have to pay. I asked.
“Imp, is there anything you want to do? food you want to eat. Because I just made a big mistake. In return, I will grant you one wish.”
“… … .”
The guy looked at me very hard. It’s probably the last thing that’s left behind for things that just happened.
From my experience, Imps are generally cat-like, so it’s very difficult to build trust, but it’s really easy to lose trust.
“… Can I really say anything?”
But this guy was a little different. It’s an imp that doesn’t have horns on its forehead like Marmar. Such imps are usually naive and have a lot of good sides. This guy must have been too.
“Are you really granting my wish if I say anything? I promise you with a tail.”
Shh.
An imp holding out a star-shaped tail held in his hand.
Then, I held out Marmar’s heart-shaped tail, which I had also wrapped in my hand, to him. The two tails then bent towards each other, as if they were walking on their little fingers.
said the imp.
“Heart-shaped tails are quite rare. where am i from Isn’t it like forcing it out of another imp or something like that? like me.”
“No, this was a gift from a friend.”
“friend… .”
The Imp murmured a little. Then he said as if he had thought of something.
“I have an idea of what I want to do! Then, Tae-oh, bring your ear.”
Then the imp whispered something into my ear.
“… Are you really okay with that?”