181 – Fragment of Power (10)
“Oooh… Huh? Daddy?”
“Faust went there because someone said he had made a wish. He should have returned after breakfast.”
“Really? Long time no see.”
The next morning, she wakes up and rubs her eyes, and Lucia comes out of her room and nods her head as she listens to Aigokeros.
Lucia is a little surprised, but not too shocked, since her father has been so busy with work lately that her father has not done much to grant wishes.
Since he was an ugly father who repeatedly left himself alone and went far away to grant someone’s wishes since he was a child, he has come too far to be shocked.
“Croquettes for breakfast?”
“Many delicacies are prepared. Creamy soup seasoned with the finest beef jerky, well-aged bacon, and sweet bread filled with milk and eggs—”
“It wasn’t made by my father, it was made by you guys. Where is mine? Mine.”
Aigo Keros, who was eagerly answering Lucia’s question by lowering his head and waist at the same time, is at a loss for words at Lucia’s continued words.
Aigo Ceros fully anticipated that Lucia would be like this, but seeing the predicted phenomenon happen right in front of her eyes is a completely different matter.
“…If it’s a sandwich, it’s ready. Faust-sama doesn’t sleep, so I made it a few hours in advance.”
“Give me that.”
It is Aigokeros who said it strongly with the words that he made it a few hours ago, but Lucia just passes it on moderately even though he understands what Aigokeros wants to say.
What if it’s been a long time since it’s been made and it’s slightly cooled down or hardened? It was the only thing Lucia had eaten so far, and it will continue to be so.
No matter how many delicious mountain and sea delicacies are out there, Lucia can’t even get one of her dad’s crude sandwiches.
“Sandwiches are prepared in the cafeteria. The others have woken up first and have been waiting for Lucia-sama to wake up, so if you go to the cafeteria right now, we can have a meal together. But are you going to go that way? First of all, head first. Better to close…”
“It doesn’t matter, no one needs to look pretty anyway, so what’s the matter?”
And even if daddy comes back from dinner, he can show off his defenseless side and seduce you in his own way, right?
Lucia swallows what she is about to say behind her back. There was no need to tell Korokke about such a fact.
“…Yes, Miss Lucia.”
Of course, Aigokeros had already seen through Lucia’s thoughts a long time ago.
Isn’t it possible that Ceros, who has been by Lucia’s side since she was a child, can’t read Lucia’s mind?
However, Aigokeros did not dare to reveal that he had detected it. Lucia didn’t want to say it, but if she forced herself into it and said it as if she noticed it, she would be disqualified as a member of her family.
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“Tsk, annoying.”
All the kids were asleep, and since it had been a while since Sowon reached me, I went to see what was going on, and as expected, I was looking forward to it.
The overwhelming majority of those who wished enough to sell their souls to the devil proved again that their personalities were so poor.
Begging to make money is just personal greed, so you can pass it on, but just wishing to let someone you hate die in agony… Ugh, really.
[Damn, Devil!! Isn’t this a different story!!]
[If you can’t even kill yourself and make a wish to me, then you must be very weak, and your head is full of all sorts of negative thoughts. Wouldn’t that be nice?]
[What is that- hehehe!!]
[Thank you as always, the elders!! Hey!! Give him a shovel and tell him to scrape up the remaining salt on the floor!!]
The mine I used to visit often had been dug too much, and it was abandoned. Rather than looking for another mine, I decided to just pick a new company. This time it is not a mine, but a salt field.
Since the managers who used to work in the abandoned mine have spread all over the place, everyone knows me well, so it’s very comfortable. It’s really nice to guess that people who wished for me owed me something and sold me for debt.
“Ah, Faust. Are you here?”
“Welcome, Dad.”
Oh no, everyone must have been eating.
It was too late to eat breakfast, so I opened the portal to the restaurant, but I was eating in the middle of the day, and the dust outside prevented the food… Huh?
“Lucia, why are you doing that?”
Lucia’s outfit is very strict. She wears a t-shirt so her shoulders, armpits and forearms are just plain visible, and her messy hair is roughly tied up and lifted up, so her neck is also exposed.
Even Lucia’s underwear is originally for sleeping, so the fabric is so thin that it slightly reflects her body.
“What?”
“…Aigokeros.”
Lucia tilted her head with an expression that she didn’t know what was wrong, and when I saw that, I couldn’t help but reflexively call Aigo Keros.
Turning to her side, Aigo Keros lowers his head with his face distorted with a sad expression.
… Well, if Lucia insisted that she want to dress like that, Aigo Ceros could not help it.
“From now on, don’t wear it like that.”
“Ah, I’ve seen all kinds of ugly things anyway, so what do you think? And all of them are only women anyway—”
“Isn’t there a man?”
I go up to Lucia and put on her the coat I was wearing and cut her off in the middle of her.
Well, even if there are only women in the warriors’ party, what are you going to do if you go around defenselessly like this?
I can’t imagine that Aigokeros would have such feelings for Lucia, but Aigokeros is also a man, right?
“…Sigh.”
Lucia, who had been arguing here and there and refusing my words until just now, now, as if she had never done that before, kept her mouth shut and quietly held up the cloak that covered her head.
A strangely still silence fills the restaurant.
Well, fortunately, I seem to have figured it out. After all, Lucia is nice.
“Mr. Faust!!”
“I-“
At that moment, a tremendous roar suddenly erupted from all directions.
The unbalance is not a joke as such a roaring sound pops out right after the strangely quiet silence. It feels like it has become several times louder.
All of the warriors’ party, except for Irene, is suddenly taking their clothes off. Since there was still food left on the table, everyone seemed to not care about that at all, even though doing something like that would significantly stain the meal with dust from their clothes.
No, why are these b*tches doing this all of a sudden?
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“It’s quiet.”
It’s so quiet. Since I couldn’t even hear the common wind and breathing, I felt as if I was alone in a subspace.
But it doesn’t feel too bad. No, I’d say it’s good rather than bad.
For me, this kind of space is very stable.
Because it’s only natural that a stupid wizard like me should be treated like this.
[Faust] Sits on a roughly made throne and gazes up at the sky.
Flinch
“…Tsk.”
However, Faust’s rest is soon cut off.
As if he couldn’t help but watch the proprietor rest in peace like that, the divine powers that permeated Faust’s body were shaking.
Because the world’s system is trying to force you to move while taking control of your body so that you can fulfill your contract with Noah right now.
Not only that.
Since there is no demonic sphere, nature, which has been exposed to Faust’s demonia as it is, begins to wither, rot, and mutate. It makes it into a space that does not exist and should not exist.
‘Swearing at me is a very stupid act, but I have no choice but to curse. What the hell are you doing?’
It’s too much with just one god of light, but there are so many gods like fire god and wind god. Of course, compared to the god of light, the power of other gods is considerably weaker, but isn’t it still a god?
It seems that this problem has been resolved since there is no more trust, but Faust thinks that this problem has exploded in the first place. Even if he has managed to deal with it, it cannot be said that he has completely solved it because he can not do anything about the Shin Wi that has already entered his body.
If the body is transferred to the system in this state, another me and the party will have to deal with the extremely strong self.
“…Still, I have no choice but to believe.”
However, even if Faust realized that, he doesn’t worry too much.
No matter what happens, the other me is also ‘me’.
Faust, who has great confidence in her own existence, waits two years later, desperately suppressing her trust and system.