137 – The Demon King
My first thought was to apologize.
I said I would return safely, but it doesn’t mean I will be safe even if I return at this rate.
And the second thought I had was lament.
What on earth is wrong with my stomach so that it gets pierced again?
“Huh? I stabbed him with the intention of killing him. Kyo is so persistent.”
And the last thought I had was anger.
I don’t know who that bastard is.
How dare you do something like this with Riel’s face and Riel’s voice?
“Daddy!!”
“Are you okay?!”
Sir’s screams and Mr. Cheyney’s voice.
It wasn’t clear, but it seemed like he was conscious, as he could hear sounds around him and felt the pain piercing his stomach.
Then you will be able to move your body.
Even though it was difficult, I concentrated my remaining consciousness and moved my body.
Immediately, she threw her fist at the b*tch with Riel’s face in front of her.
The sound of a leather bag being struck and falling down.
Ah, now my vision is clearer.
The fake Riel in the form of Riel must have hit her squarely in the face, and she fell backwards with her face swollen.
“…It’s too much. You said you loved me, but you didn’t hesitate…”
“Shut your mouth, don’t make Riel’s voice with Riel’s face.”
The fake Riel, who had fallen on the floor, raised her body.
I wanted to run right now and hit him one more time, but honestly, my body is at its limit.
Even though she was already exhausted, I punched her with all my might, even with a penetrating wound to her abdomen, so there was no way she would be safe.
“Dad! Are you okay?”
Sir, who had come next to me, was worried about me, and Mr. Cheney stood in front of me, blocking the fake Riel.
She must have had a hard time consuming her magical power, so she held up her staff and confronted him.
Other knights and wizards were already on guard against the fake Riel, with her sword and staff out.
Fake Riel chuckled.
“Ah~ I failed. I tried to let Kyou die in despair, but I forgot there was a World Tree.”
“There’s something I still don’t understand.”
“Huh? What don’t you understand? Mr. Cheyney?”
“Stop acting like that. How are you alive? Demon King.”
“Hmph, what a boring b*tch.”
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The fake Riel’s appearance just melted away.
In the place where it had melted, there was a small girl standing.
He appears to be approximately the same age as Sir.
She is a girl with silver hair and golden eyes.
“You’ve shrunk quite a bit. Demon King.”
“…I guess one offering isn’t enough.”
As she said that, she turned to look at me.
“So I put on a show on purpose to get one more sacrifice, but I failed.”
“Sacrifice…?”
They’ve already eaten someone?
In my head, the worst possibility came to mind.
Considering that that guy imitates Riel’s appearance…
“Well, the resurrection itself is a success, perhaps because it was a sacrifice that was raised with great effort.”
“You…You f*cking b*tch…!!”
The Demon King laughed mockingly at me, thinking of the worst possibility and bursting out in anger.
I shouted at the devil.
“You…! You said you sacrificed someone…!!”
“Huh, I didn’t expect you to cherish it so much. After all, I had a relationship with you…”
“You…Youuu!!”
Kill.
I will kill you.
The wound on his abdomen looked like it was about to burst, but his murderous intent against the Demon King was even greater.
Riel.
I’m sorry.
I promised to protect you…
“Alan Ludwig, the despair he had was very delicious. I honestly didn’t know he could be revived so quickly.”
…
……
……Huh?
“…Alan?”
“Well, he was the one I raised as a chess piece for resurrection.”
Ah…
Umm…
“…At the fortress…What are the other offerings?”
“No, he’s the only one I ate in this fortress.”
……
…Uh…
I’m confused.
The devil.
A being that has existed since time immemorial and has been given strength and form by demonic energy.
She was driven to the brink of extinction by the magic of a girl summoned from another world about 400 years ago.
No way, she would have thought that she would push herself this far by pouring out her magic power and refining it with a single blow.
My body collapsed and my consciousness became blurred.
The warriors she fought with were all stunned in place, and the girl from this world who had blown her magic also fell unconscious.
‘Am I…Disappearing like this?’
If she had known this would happen, she would not have placed a limit on the number of people here.
If there was someone with an evil heart in their heart…
Then you can delve into that heart and maintain its existence…
Who would have known that the number of people limited to avoid being surrounded by too many enemies would become such an obstacle?
After all, everyone in this room had almost no malice in their hearts.
There was no one with malicious intent that could sustain its existence.
A wizard, a being from another world, is someone you cannot delve into in the first place.
The fighting girl lives with only one goal in mind, which is to revive the family, so there is no such thing as malice.
The knight was also full of loyalty to the fighting girl.
The beast warrior… I didn’t even want to look at him.
All I could see was an unpleasant feeling of love… For a girl from another world, so I felt bad just looking at her.
There is no saint…Of course.
The devil knows well the people called saints.
A group of crazy people united only by fanatic-level faith.
Of course, if your faith reaches a serious level, you may become a fanatic and call it evil.
Still, faith is faith, and it is not at a level that the devil can touch.
So, the Demon King had almost confirmed that he would disappear.
It must have been my last struggle to look around at them, wondering if there was anywhere to run to.
But…
‘…Is there?’
There was.
He is willing to dig in.
The heart penetrated by the devil.
That was the heart of Saint Velia.
Really surprisingly, there was an evil heart called jealousy in a corner of Saint Velia’s heart.
That too, a jealousy so thick and big that the devil can dig into it.
The place where that jealousy is directed is a girl named Elena Melott.
She possessed a gem, which she received along with a blessing after meeting none other than the world tree, Yggdrasil, and winning her favor.
A gem that allows you to go to see the world tree, Yggdrasil.
Velia was happy and blessed Elena when she returned after receiving it, but…
‘It is rare to feel such deep and dark feelings of jealousy.’
There was a jealousy inside her that was so ugly that even she turned her head away.
The Demon King, who penetrated into the soul of Saint Velia, remained quiet for the time being.
No matter how secretly she delve into her soul, she is still a saint.
She is an opponent who cannot even be touched, as she is nothing more than a piece of dust.
Moreover, when it was time for Saint Belia to die, she sacrificed herself to Yggdrasil.
He wanted to serve Yggdrasil even after death, and that wish reached the World Tree, and his soul became a heroic spirit and remained by Yggdrasil’s side.
The Demon King was anxious.
Perhaps his existence might be discovered by Yggdrasil.
However, perhaps it was because the Demon King’s existence was so small, or whether Yggdrasil was in bad condition, such a thing did not happen.
Well…If I think about it now, it’s probably the latter.
Yggdrasil was aware that his lifespan was coming to an end.
She assigned her own child, to create her new world number.
She used her remaining power to bestow her protection on the child, and gradually restored her own power.
Velia and the Demon King hiding within the soul saw the creation of a new world tree.
The ‘child’ designated by the world tree Yggdrasil is a cute little baby with red hair.
Watching her, Yggdrasil smiles at her.
And, looking at that, Velia’s dark jealousy stirred again, and the demon king hiding inside clearly felt it.
No, this is not just jealousy.
‘This woman…’
Velia was surprisingly in love with the world tree, Yggdrasil.
At the same time, she said to Yggdrasil, who did not look at her at all.
She harbored hatred towards Yggdrasil, who took care of Elena and the other baby.
She had love and hate, two contradictory emotions all at once.
This is the feeling that the Demon King likes more than anything else.
When Velia, realizing those feelings, stops herself, saying she shouldn’t be like this.
“Don’t deny it, Velia.”
The Demon King whispered sweet words into Velia’s heart.
Saint Belia, who fell for the devil’s trick, took away the power of Yggdrasil, who trusted her.
And then he locked her up just as she was.
She left behind Yggdrasil, who was crying and crying desperately for her.
I fell for the devil’s little temptation…
Yggdrasil withdrew the blessings bestowed on his child and thoroughly harassed the child.
Yggdrasil died lonely as she gave her blessings and watched her beloved child suffer.
The foolish saint who fell for the devil’s temptation
With her own hands, she caused Yggdrasil, the world tree she loved, admired, and worshiped so much, to her death.
Saint Velia confirmed the death of Yggdrasil, who had taken away her power and imprisoned her.
She went crazy from that moment.
It was a good thing for the devil.
The saint who had gone crazy could now induce her to take action just by the Demon King gently whispering into her heart.
The devil planned his own resurrection.
First, he ate a helpless little fairy and stole its existence.
Weak and powerless, a foolish fairy whose only talent is to emit light.
With this, the Demon King obtained a vessel that could move away from Velia.
And, it led Velia to take action.
Yggdrasil continued to harass her child.
When that child dies in despair and pain after suffering, it will become her own food.
And the chess piece that Velia used to harass that child.
That chess piece will be on the road to success.
But later, when everything was taken away again and he despaired, he realized that everything he had enjoyed so far was lost.
If you know that it was given to you by the devil to use you as food.
How can I despair, and how delicious can it be?
If you raise those two like that and eat them…
Complete resurrection can be achieved.
As a result, the target was only half successful.
At some point, the girl who was taken over by Yggdrasil escaped from the plan prepared by the Demon King and took his happiness into her own hands.
There was no longer any negative emotion in her that could be preyed upon by the Demon King.
In the case of clowns, it was a little different.
The plan to raise it all the way to the sky and then bring it down to despair failed.
This and that are strange variables. This happened when a guy named Kyouwentos intervened.
I felt bad.
In a strange way, this guy exuded a similar aura to the girl from another world who had driven him to the brink of extinction.
The Demon King, wary of him, guided Velia’s actions and stuck to the clown’s side using the disguise of a summoned animal.
Everything is done to monitor the variable Kyouwentos.
…Well, there wasn’t much of a harvest.
Although he smelled similar, he was just an ordinary human noble.
But because of his position as a nobleman, he had no choice but to completely abandon his plan to kill the girl by making her desperate.
But luckily, the clown self-destructed and fell down.
It would be difficult to raise it up to the sky and then drop it, but then all you have to do is roll it around on the floor and dye it black.
You are right next to you, and there are no distractions.
This clown, probably by his nature as a clown, had an outstanding talent for self-destruction.
Sometimes, I felt like laughing when I saw the despair of self-destruction that would surprise even the Demon King.
Just like that, the Demon King watched the clown become more and more enjoyable to eat and lost his appetite.
When it was just the right time for the clown to eat, she took action.
I asked Velia to gather her followers.
The believers gathered there happened to be a building containing a prison where a clown was imprisoned while acting as a clown.
After letting the clown out of prison, the demon king who broke away from him…
He ate all the believers gathered in the church.
Honestly, it didn’t taste good.
There aren’t that many negative emotions, so the strength doesn’t come back much.
Well, there were some people who had negative emotions, such as jealousy or arrogance, but they were not at a level where they could regain their power.
But it was important to eat them and get some strength back.
To eat the clown, Alan Ludwig
They had to be the whole dish.
However, one variable occurred here.
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This stupid clown, Alan Ludwig, was stupidly caught.
I let him run away so as not to be caught, but then he got caught. What is this absurd?
If Alan Ludwig dies, the preparations made so far are a total waste.
I went to rescue him just in case, but as it turned out, Kyouwentos was there.
I confirmed several times that there was an elf who would shoot and kill anyone who saw him near him, so I was too cautious to approach him.
As a result, there were no elves, but Alan Ludwig was captured while he was still waiting.
But fortunately, he was not executed.
Due to the incident caused by the devil in the church, he was interrogated as an important witness.
It was fortunate for the Demon King.
But at the same time, there was a problem.
By any chance, the place where Alan Ludwig was taken was the County of Wentos in the north.
There was a white magic tower, the thought form of Cheyney, a girl from another world.
Like that woman’s thought form, if she used even a little of her recovered power to eat Alan Ludwig in this area…
…Probably that’s when it will disappear without a trace.
In the end, the Demon King, who induced Chainy’s thought form by deploying all the elves who ruled Velia,
Just like that, he ate Alan Ludwig.
Like food that had been aged for a long time, I felt my strength greatly restored.
The magic energy, magic power, and the body of the sacrifice merged, and he felt his body being resurrected.
…Well, it’s only a half-resurrection as originally expected.
Still, at this level, a certain amount of force can be used.
In this fortress, there is a new world capital and the woman who was originally intended to be eaten.
I can feel that there are many wizards with magical powers.
Then, if we just kill and eat everyone in this fortress…
I thought so, but I quit again.
This was because he felt a presence radiating tremendous power coming towards him, who had just been resurrected.
…I sensed with my intuition that I, who had just been resurrected, was an opponent I could not defeat.
In the end, the Demon King ran away from the fortress… No, he had no choice but to retreat due to operational reasons.
I thought about running away to the Demon Continent to save up my strength.
However, perhaps because only half of him was revived, he felt a lack of strength along with his empty stomach.
At that time, it felt like Velia had been defeated.
Despite giving her all, it seemed like she was ultimately defeated by Cheyney’s thought form.
Well, it didn’t matter.
In the first place, she was thrown out as a castaway in order to attract Cheyney’s thought form.
Then how about ending or eating the weakened Cheney’s thought form…?
I thought so, but surprisingly, Cheyney’s thought form was intact.
Of course, she was very tired, her magic power was all gone, and she looked limp and helpless, but she wasn’t to the point where she could be immediately overpowered and eaten.
‘Hmm?’
At that time, it was Kyouwentos that caught the Demon King’s eyes.
I thought he had rushed out of the fortress to save Cheyney, but it seems he finally arrived and fought.
It is seen standing alone in the group and looking blank.
Ah.
I had a good idea.
If you are ridiculed and killed at the hands of someone you love.
How delicious will it be?
…I ruined the food I was preparing, so isn’t that worth it?
The Demon King changed his appearance…And…