“Who are you?”
“huh.”
Frey, who stared blankly at Bener, who had lost consciousness in front of him, and poked and shook the ball with a worried expression.
Then he tilted his head when he saw a girl with ruby hair of his age who appeared in front of him.
“Get away.”
“Ugh.”
Ruby pushed Frey aside like that, and in front of Bener, he used his clone to bypass the seal.
There was still time left to descend as a real body, but as the seal weakened as the seal weakened, it was just too late to descend in the form of a human clone.
“What were you going to do with this child?”
“…who, who.”
– Cucaceae…!!!
“Huh, heh heh…”
Then, when the ruby, who had awakened the fainted Bener with magic, gave off life, she was terrified and began to tremble.
“What were you going to do?”
“Tongue, for intimidation… I tried to hold you.”
“It looked like someone was trying to kill me.”
“Ugh, that’s… just to scare you that you might run away…”
I thought what she said was true to some extent.
I was watching her invisibility all the time, but she couldn’t sense ‘living’ at all until her hands trembled.
And, for a kidnapped child, there was no rope or eyepatch to tie up.
Judging by the trembling eyes and the search party searching the area, it must have been an impulsive kidnapping rather than a planned one.
“Like it.”
However, that does not mean that the crime of kidnapping a child and causing trauma by aiming a knife at her emotionally does not go away.
It used to be that I didn’t believe that humans were more evil than any other demon, but seeing a girl who was at best a student doing this, I think it’s time to admit it.
Also, humans…
“Why, why are you like that? Noona Benaire…?”
Hatred for humans starts to boil again, and Frey, who is sitting on the floor, starts to falter and come closer to him.
what? Isn’t this guy afraid of the kidnapper who just pointed a knife at him?
“Nu, noona… You used to be my bodyguard. You always emphasized justice… But why…?”
“……”
Presumably recognizing that he was on his side instinctively, Frey, clinging to Ruby’s back, sticks his head out and asks.
“…One day I woke up and found that all of my family had been destroyed except me.”
Then, Bener, who had his head bowed while being suppressed by Ruby, opened his mouth with tears in his eyes.
“Father, mother, brother and sister… all were arrested. I tried to visit him, but even that was not allowed.”
“Yeah, right? Then I’ll make a separate request…”
“A few days later, everyone was executed. The Hailin family disappeared from history in one day, and I became a survivor of the traitorous family overnight.”
Tears began to fall from Benaire’s eyes when he said that.
“I couldn’t understand. My mother and father, my brother and my sister were all good people. They even wrote letters to me the day before they died.
“………”
As the saying goes, Benaire, the last survivor of the traitorous family, had nothing to prove.
Although it was difficult to peruse the court records, there were only a list of heinous crimes that were unbelievable to her.
“For some reason, the information was poor. Everyone was quiet, and nobody told me the truth. It seemed like everyone was hiding something.”
Saying that, Benaire’s expression began to harden coldly.
“It was the same with your parents who hid my identity and took it away.”
“…yes?”
“I was an ordinary marquise youngae, but as a knight, I tried to follow those who raised me for the rest of my life.”
Both of Benaire’s eyes begin to tremble.
“Until I realized that after secretly holding my breath… the Starlight family was decisively involved in the fall of the Hailin family.”
Hearing that, Frey quietly shut her mouth.
His eyes trembled slightly, as if he knew something.
“That was today. You brought the evidence to your parents and demanded the truth, but they spared no words.”
“……..”
“That way, I ran out of the mansion and kidnapped you. And I got here.”
Having said that, Benaire said with a terrifying expression on her face.
“I wanted to know the truth no matter how much it undermines my view of justice or betrays grace. That’s why I took you hostage.”
“then…”
“But I don’t know if such an existence exists here.”
Saying that, Bener, who glanced at Ruby, quietly closed her eyes and said:
“Kill it.”
“Hmm.”
“I risked my life anyway. As long as I’m caught, I’m thinking of begging for my life…”
“You talk a lot.”
“Ugh…!”
Ruby kicked her stomach hard.
“You. I said he was the last survivor of the Hailin family.”
“Cool, cuddle… That, yes. But…”
“Yeah, that’s how it happened.”
The leader of the aristocratic group that tortured Ruby and her younger brother, Lulu, was the Hailin family.
According to her, the Benaire, whom she is now suppressing, will be the last remaining member of the family.
“Can you tell me what your family did?”
“What, what?”
“After all, I haven’t been there for four years, so I guess I didn’t really know anything?”
Having said that, Ruby put her finger on Bener’s forehead.
“Experience the pain I felt. Human.”
“……!”
At the same time, Benaire’s eyes began to widen.
It was Benaire who began to experience the memories of the tragedy that her family had done to Ruby and Lulu through Ruby’s illusion magic.
“Oh, father? Mother…?”
“I, over there.”
“Brother…? Sister…? Why do you look like that… ah ah ah ah ah ah!?”
“Hoho maybe… Ruby?”
With that, Frey asked with a voice that crawled at Benaire and Ruby, who started screaming with their eyes wide open.
“I would have killed him when he woke up.”
“Hey!”
“…just kidding.”
After a long time, Ruby smiled and replied like that, and immediately began to look at Benaire and Frey, who were shaking with a pale expression.
“Hmm.”
After a while, her eyes began to shine.
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“……..”
several hours after that.
“Hey, human.”
“……..”
“Why don’t you talk?”
Ruby was kicking Bener, who was kneeling on the floor with empty eyes.
“Is this… real?”
“Then are those vivid memories a fake?”
“Really my father and mother… the family was such an ugly person?”
Bener, who had experienced being tortured by his own family in Ruby’s position, murmured with a blank expression on his face.
“From what I’ve heard, it sounds like you were dreaming of a dream of nurturing an army of warlocks and challenging the imperial family.
“Do, Young Master. Maybe Young Master… did you know?”
Bener looked at Frey with fading eyes and asked a question, and he quietly nodded and opened his mouth.
“One day, my mother came home because she was very hurt… She looked so sick, so I cried when I asked her, and she said that she had suppressed the rebellion.”
“ah.”
“Nu, my sister came a few days after that.”
“Ahhh…….”
Only then, having realized all the truth, Bener fell down in front of them with a pale expression.
“Lord, please kill me.”
“”………””
“Everyone, I have no face to see you. I, I was a scum without grace.”
Tears began to flow from the eyes of Bener who said that.
“I didn’t know that my family was such an ugly family. To be the descendant of such a family, trying to harm the children of those who took me away…”
Having said that, Bener fell into a panic and began to tremble.
“Oh, Dad. What’s that gentle smile he gave me? Mom, he… you just said go out.”
“Noisy.”
“Oh, brother. The one who told me to be a righteous person was… none other than you…”
“I think it’s broken.”
Before long, Benaire began to gibberish.
Ruby raised her finger while looking at Benaire with soulless eyes, then frowned.
“Hmm…..”
If you kill this girl now, it will be cool.
The person in front of him is the human he hates, and the last descendant of the clan that tortured him and Lulu.
If you kill the descendants and cut off the line of the family, wouldn’t that be the perfect revenge?
“Umm…”
However, the current Ruby was more curious than vengeful.
“No, sister…”
It was none other than because of a boy named Frey who was next to him.
‘After all, he’s a strange guy.’
A boy who had no one-on-one relationship and helped him just before he died, who was sealed off with an eerie and frightening atmosphere.
Since then, the ‘strange guy’ has been constantly giving me food, washing my body, and sometimes telling funny stories.
At first I thought it was a pretense or a planned act.
But today, when I heard Bener’s threats to scare me, I had to change my mind when I saw him hiding about Ruby and willing to sacrifice for the sake of his family.
Frey is a ‘good’ human being.
Humans were taught that there are only evil people and those who hide their evil, and it was truly shocking to Ruby, who had only seen such people until now.
“Fray, you bastard.”
“Yes, yes?”
And thanks to that, her curiosity and interest in the existence of Frey were skyrocketing.
“Don’t leave this year’s disposition to you.”
“…Uh?”
To the extent of suppressing hatred and revenge towards humans for a moment.
“How are you going to deal with this b*tch? See it in front of my eyes.”
“Uh, uh…”
“Don’t look at me and do it without any hesitation. This year’s clan went extinct anyway. Killing an unrelated kid won’t make it any better.”
Having said that, Ruby, full of curiosity for the first time in her life, stepped back and folded her arms and began to observe the situation.
At this moment, how will Frey, a ‘good man’ who thought he could not exist?
You also tried to kill yourself, so are you going to punish me?
If it’s such a trivial ending, it just relentlessly invades the human world…
“Young Master… Now, I’ll turn myself in. Take the Young Master to the mansion right away…”
“Hey… Noona. Are you hungry?”
“Yes, yes?”
Ruby, who had been thinking about that, began to look blankly as Frey quietly stroked Benaire’s head and asked.
“Do, Young Master.”
“Wait here for a minute! I’ll bring you some food from home!”
“Come on, wait a minute. I…”
– Find the Young Master!!
– It must be around here! Search thoroughly…
Then, hearing Frey’s words, Benaire, who was about to get up from her seat, frightened, put on a pale expression at the sound of shouts coming from outside.
“…Shh!”
Then, Frey put his finger to his mouth and lowered his voice.
“You have to hide out here, okay?”
“I……..”
“Orders? Benaire?”
Having said that with the first serious expression on his face, Frey quickly jumped out of the cave.
“Young Master!!!!”
“Ugh, that’s a surprise.”
“Too, this is Young Master!! Young Master is here…!!”
“Chi, I was playing tag with my friend. Don’t be fussy, Kania.”
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Eventually, as he heard a voice coming from outside, Benaire started to look blankly, and Ruby started to make a blank expression in the same way.
“young master…”
“Is that guy… he’s not a nice guy, he’s just a cunt?”
It was Ruby who was muttering like that as she looked at Bener, who was soon shedding tears.
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“Benaire! Are you late? I’m sorry. My mom was sticking with me, hehe.”
“ah……”
“Are you hungry? Here’s the food!”
The day after the incident, Frey really came back to the cave with food.
“You still don’t believe me and you’re looking for the criminal, so you’re hiding a little bit more until it’s quiet? I’ll defend your whereabouts…”
“……..”
After that, Frey said to Benaire, who was sitting on the cold floor with his tangled hair and bruising.
“What would I… do to such a kind child…”
“Huh.”
“…After all, I was of dirty blood.”
– Sureung…!
Perhaps he had a conscience, and shortly thereafter, Benaire began an attempt to commit suicide.
– Pajik…!
“I heard that humans even attempt suicide, but it’s true.”
Of course, those attempts were stopped by Ruby shooting a spark that stunned her.
“Ugh…!”
He was starving, so he forcibly shoved the rye bread that Frey had left as his share in her mouth.
I didn’t sympathize with her, just because I wanted to see an end to why Frey was doing this.
“……………”
After unsuccessful suicide attempts so many times, Benaire spent the whole day, immobilized like a mang-brush.
“Benaire! You can come back to the mansion now!”
“………yes?”
Until one day, Frey, who came to the cave, took her hand and said so.
“I told Mom and Dad that you came here to calm down for a while!”
“Young Master…..”
“Be my escort again, noona!”
Having said that, Frey tried to lift her up, but Benaire was immovable.
“I, I can’t go.”
“yes?”
“Everyone, I don’t see you… and the victim, Mr. Ruby.”
Having said that, Bener hurriedly knelt down in front of Frey and spoke with a blank voice.
“I deserve to die. Please kill me. If you don’t like it, I’ll surrender. I’ll be locked up in prison and atone for forever. So please, don’t let it happen…”
“Are you okay? What’s the matter?”
As Frey speaks brightly, Benaire closes her eyes and weeps.
“I tried to kidnap and harm Young Master, the child of the benefactor, because I have an ugly bloodline. Such garbage is not an escort. It’s unreasonable…”
“Isn’t it because I didn’t know? If I had known, my sister would have done it? Why is it a sin to do something because I don’t know?”
“That’s when my eyes went back! I could have really killed the Young Master…”
“It’s okay because he didn’t die. Why are you assuming something that hasn’t even happened?”
Having said that, Frey hugged Bener and patted it.
“I’ll forgive you, okay?”
“Even if the Young Master forgives… Ruby-san…”
“…Didn’t you say that you entrusted punishment to that kid?”
Ruby, still tainted with curiosity, resists the urge to kill, and as he says so, Benaire sheds tears and buries her head in Frey’s arms.
“Please stop… Young Master. Please punish me…”
“Okay, then I’ll punish you.”
Frey, who looked down at Bener like that, sighed and put his hand to her lips.
“Benaire, make me take the oath of a knight.”
“……yes?”
“Isolet noona said that. A knight’s oath is incredibly important. Once you do, you can never break it, and for the rest of your life… um… What she said…”
Frey, who scratched his head for a moment and reflected on his thoughts, soon finished speaking with a bright smile.
“Anyway, do it as punishment! I’ll pamper you for the rest of your life!”
“Ahhh…”
Seeing Frey like that, Benere was in tears.
– Side…
Then she kisses Frey’s ring with trembling eyes and falls flat at his feet.
“I, Benaire Renee… No, Benaire… I swear my eternal allegiance to the Young Master.”
“Yes, yes.”
“No matter what happens, I will risk my life to protect Young Master and the people around him. If not, I will kill myself immediately.”
“Well, I don’t need that…”
“I will live as your tool for the rest of my life. That Venaire is your sword, from now on forever.”
After making an oath like that, Bener kissed Frey’s feet.
“Forgive me for garbage like me, and I will repay you with my life.”
“So, I don’t need a life…”
‘What is this?’
Ruby, who had been watching all the scenes from afar, muttered inwardly with a shocked expression on her face.
‘What did I see?’
Frey wasn’t like a hogu.
Hogu means a guy who generously spreads everything like an idiot and gets nothing.
But, look at Frey now.
“Nevertheless, I will have to pay the price for my sins. I have to confess the truth to Young Master’s parents…”
“Actually, I found it a few days ago!”
“…yes?”
Only the abyss saved the girl in front of him, and at the same time, didn’t he get a knight to help him by throwing his life away no matter what happened in the future?
No one would call that a hogu.
‘guy…’
were you aiming for?
Then Frey would be a great guy.
But what if you didn’t?
What if it was simply the pure kindness that came from his good heart that produced these results?
Then he is a scary creature.
‘no way……’
Ruby, that’s for you.
someone who saves. absolute goodness. victim.
A being who completely denies what she has learned and felt about humans until now.
When I listed the things I felt while watching Frey, it seemed like I could understand why I had an unknown interest in him.
‘Warrior?’
A word that suddenly came to Ruby’s head.
He was always warned by his parents who were demon lords, and if a demon lord exists, he is like a thread and a needle that will always appear in the world.
The adversary of the Demon King who realizes absolute goodness, saves those who are in despair, and naturally gathers companions to grow.
For the Demon King, the qualities of a warrior, the most feared being, why is it visible in that boy who is stroking Bener’s head right now?
‘No, it’s too early to judge yet.’
Ruby, who had a cold expression on her face and gathered magic in her hands,
He immediately shakes his head.
The leap of logic is too severe.
If that’s the case, there will be plenty of people who will become warriors.
There must be at least one more person like this in the world.
Hopefully this guy isn’t the only one.
And right before the seal was lifted, this little boy who helped him was a hero, what in the world is such a coincidence.
“Ugh.”
Suddenly, I remembered my parents’ teaching that the Demon King and the Hero were bound by fate, but Ruby immediately shook her head.
‘Well, if it’s a real hero, you can just kill it.’
Anyway, his plans haven’t changed much.
If this guy is a real hero, just kill him.
If you are not a hero, use it as a stepping stone to gather forces and invade the world.
This day was nothing but curiosity.
And in the future, I will never again be swayed by curiosity like this.
“Lu, Ruby… Do you want to come to our mansion too…?”
“Okay. I like this place.”
With such thoughts in mind, Ruby resolutely refused Frey’s offer to leave the cave with Bener, who was still crying, and began to enter the cave.
There was also his body in the cave, and it was because it seemed that Satan would rise if he got too close to him now.
“It’s not all about getting people.”
With that, Ruby headed towards her body and started muttering like that.
“The important thing is the power to handle people.”
Can he handle a knight from a traitor family, who is said to be a knight, but is not well versed in swordsmanship?
I’m glad she doesn’t leave disappointed. It’s hard enough to keep the person you hold onto your side loyal to you once.
“I can’t even do that…”
“Hey there. Ruby.”
“……?
Ruby turned away, thinking that if Benaire still maintained that loyalty after a few months, he should seriously consider whether Frey was really a hero.
“I have one request…”
“What?”
Then, as Frey sprints in front of her with a nervous expression on her face, she tilts her head with a puzzled expression.
“Me, killing me… can’t we postpone it a little later?”
“what?”
“Wake up, when I wake up, I… Lord, I said I’ll give it to you.”
Frey, who was terrified and started to leak, begs while holding Ruby’s hands.
“Ah, I haven’t finished playing dolls with my sister yet… I haven’t even beat my mom by tagging… I haven’t had a drink with my dad?
“Hmm…”
Thinking that Ruby would kill her right away, she stared blankly at Frey who was crying, then she realized one thing.
“Strange guy.”
I don’t know if the boy in front of me is a hero or just a good-natured guy.
“Turn it off.”
“Oh, thank you!!”
Anyway, he’s a very cute guy.
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several months after that.
“…..Umm?”
Ruby, who was sitting down in the cave and eating rye bread as usual, opened her eyes sharply and looked at the entrance.
“what…”
A thick bloody smell was wafting out.
It had been a long time since I left the Demon King’s Castle.
“….under?”
Ruby quietly puts the magic on her hand and prepares to protect her body.
Then, she immediately opened her eyes with a bewildered expression on her face.
“You…?”
“Uh, uh…”
A girl who had forced herself to put rye bread in her mouth a few months ago, Benere, was crawling into the cave, covered in blood.
“…what happened?
“Help, help me…”
When Ruby frowned at the sudden situation and asked a question, Benere opened her mouth while dripping blood from her body.
Her physical condition looked very serious.
It has penetrated all over the body, and black magic has penetrated deep into the bones.
If you keep going like this, you will soon die. In the first place, being able to move even by crawling was a miracle in itself.
“I don’t know if you’re a demon or a demon, but… I’ll sacrifice my soul, please…”
“Okay. I don’t want to get involved in useless things.”
However, Ruby, who still had a hatred for humans, tried to turn her head while treating her like that.
“Fray Young Master and… his mother is in danger…”
“…what?”
“I’m escorting two people playing tagger… Two warlocks suddenly attack me…”
After hearing that, I couldn’t help but pay attention.
“It’s incredibly powerful… these guys…. My time is limited…”
“F, Frey? Is he dangerous?”
“Please… I’ll give my soul, anything… Please help me…”
In front of her like that, Benaire was unable to finish her words and lost consciousness.
“Uh, uh…”
Ruby, who was looking at her like that, immediately began to mutter with trembling eyes.
“Yo, I can awaken as a hero… I’ll have to go take a look.”
It was never because I was worried about him or because I had affection for him.
“Well, it’s not too far away. Hmm.”
It wasn’t real.
“…but what about this annoying bastard?”
really.
Just admit that u like Frey