“…it’s late, Frey.”
When the sun that had lit up the world all day went down and the moon shyly revealed itself.
“Well, I’m late every day these days.”
Clana, who was lying on the desk with her chin crossed, was muttering like that, puffing her cheeks.
“Hey, why is he doing such things?”
Over the past few months, Clana and Frey’s relationship has developed very rapidly.
“It’s something I would never have imagined.”
Since the day she was first discovered, Frey has tried to erase her memory several times.
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Memory removal potions, cognitive impairment spells, Kania’s black magic, and even the Artifacts of Magic Treasure and the ‘Domination Stone’.
He did everything he could to try, but Clana’s memory was firmly entrenched in her mind.
“The diary… has changed.”
“yes?”
After about a month had passed, Frey sat down next to Clana with a tired expression on her face and muttered like that.
“The page that showed no sign of change, finally.”
“……?”
“…I will give up on erasing the princess’s memories.”
Frey, who stopped attempting to erase Clana’s memories, became her loyal dog from that day forward.
“Can you see? Princess?”
“This…”
“This is the contract that binds you and me. Of course, at this point, only my obligations remain.”
It was not meant to be metaphorical.
“What is that duty…?”
“It’s simple. My soul is already dedicated to you.”
“yes!?”
Frey’s existence was already magically completely owned by Clana.
“You can now order me anything. If I refuse, I will die.”
“……..”
“Of course, if you, the owner, die, I die. A dog without an owner will die.”
Clana’s eyes start to tremble as she stares at the obedient and devoted pet dog she has suddenly had.
“Why the hell are you being so kind to a being like me?”
“……..”
“Why me? There were a lot of substitutes. For example, Rifael, and even a blood relative of the Sunset family…”
“They cannot replace you.”
Frey looked at Clana like that, and the words came out of her mouth.
“The only one I am loyal to is you.”
It was something she wanted to hear from someone at least once in her life.
“…I’ll be back in the morning.”
was that so Despite Frey’s reluctance, staying up all night waiting for him became Clana’s routine.
“I practiced a lot by myself. After reading some books…”
Of course, it wasn’t for pure reasons.
“Little princess, it’s time to sleep.”
“That’s right! If you don’t sleep now, won’t you be taller?”
“…Well.”
If the maids who still treat her as an innocent girl learn the shameful things that happen every night under the guise of an order.
“I’m no longer a kid.”
“Yeah, that’s right…”
“…By the way, you seem to have matured somehow?”
He probably had a blank expression on his face and opened his mouth.
“… next time you do it, you’ll have to chew it a little bit.”
Of course, it was also true that she was still immature, so as soon as the lights went out, she mumbled in a sleepy voice and crawled into bed.
“…uh.”
Just before she fell asleep, something caught her eye.
“That’s…”
On Frey’s desk, something glowing in the moonlight.
“…diary.”
For the past few months, it’s been a diary that Frey has been sneaking through whenever he’s not around.
“……..”
In an instant, many thoughts ran through Clana’s head.
Is it okay if I look at that diary now? Maybe I just saw it and got angry.
The only ally and loved one you have gained in your life, maybe you will lose.
– Tub, Tub…
Swallowing dry saliva at that ominous thought, she was approaching Frey’s desk before he knew it.
“I want to know the truth.”
She had learned a lot about Frey, but there were still things she didn’t know.
The diary he always looked through when he was alone, and it is hard to even know its existence in normal times.
If you look at it, so you can get a little closer to Frey’s purpose.
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Maybe he himself can help him with something.
– Sreuk…
Clana’s hand, as she was thinking about it, reached the diary.
“……..”
And, the silence that began to flow for a while.
“…uh?”
Clana realized that the diary she had seen in front of her for the first time was somehow familiar, and immediately muttered in a blank voice.
“This is… Serena’s diary.”
As she said, the diary on Frey’s desk was exactly the same as Serena’s.
“…what happened?”
The only difference is that the outer cover is old and worn out.
“This, once the contents…”
Clana, who looked down at the diary with a ghostly expression on her face, tried to read the contents of the opened page.
– Shrimp…!
“Yeah!?”
At that very moment, the pages of the diary that suddenly began to roll over by themselves.
“Uh, what…”
The page that had been passing for a while naturally stops moving when it reaches the end of the diary.
– Shaah…
For a moment, I was surprised by the sudden strange phenomenon, and the soft moonlight coming in from the window lit up the pages of the diary.
“……..!”
Clana, who saw that figure, had no choice but to get tired of being frozen on the spot.
“Hey, the letters… are they being written by themselves…?”
On the blank page, fairly coarsely written text appeared quickly.
.
“Hey, are you okay? Can you move again now?”
“……..”
As I stare blankly at the boy in front of me and mutter the bread he gave me, the boy comes to me with a smile.
“If you can’t move, you have to get up now.”
“…why.”
“It seems that the chase came from the land unexpectedly quickly.”
Saying that, he got up from his seat and whispered with sharp eyes.
“The mana that surrounded the island changed abruptly in an instant.”
“…What?”
“It seems to have been captured as much as possible, but only the Archmage can make such a change. Not one or two people, but at least three people.”
Hearing those words, my body loses its strength.
“I wonder if… Teleportation has already started… But how…”
“There is one genius in our empire.”
If what he says is true, there is no way out of this island.
The magic circle of teleportation is an anti-magic that takes several days to activate.
But the cast time is only a few hours.
Since the magic circle has already been activated, only a few hours remain.
There is not enough time to come up with a way out of this island.
“…What are you doing? Come on, follow me.”
“……?”
So I give up everything and try to lower my head, but the boy in front of me grabs my hand and lifts me up.
“Hold your sword straight. Even at this moment, snipers are targeting you.”
“…?”
And then, he started to lead me somewhere.
“What the hell are you doing…”
I followed him, dragging my exhausted body, and when I saw where he had arrived, I clenched my teeth and asked a question.
“…Voila.”
“What are we going to do now?”
The place he led me to was none other than a cliff.
.
“Stop!!”
“Stop moving!!”
I was staring blankly at the distant cliff, and suddenly, soldiers came out from all directions.
“You are under siege!! There is no escape!!”
“Successfully surrender!”
Looking at them with sharp spears and swords, my heart starts to boil.
“You’re asking what the hell is this?”
“Well, this is your escape route.”
Eventually, the uncontrollable hot energy began to turn to the boy who calmly enticed me to this place.
“…you tricked me.”
“Big black.”
Of course, all I could do was cut through the heart of this heinous boy with a knife.
“Isn’t that right? If this knife digs one more centimeter to the side… you die.”
“Ugh…”
But, that was enough.
At least for the one who played with me in the end, I was able to get revenge.
“Just to know.”
As the ice dagger twisted as much as possible, the boy in front of him groaned in pain.
“As a comrade before death, it’s perfect.”
I wanted to stop being used and deceived by someone.
– Awesome…!
I just wanted to be comfortable.
“Wait a minute…”
That moment when he pushed the knife into the boy’s heart with that thought.
– Sharruk…
“……!?”
A warm aura began to feel in my hands.
“People say… listen to the end…”
Before I could figure out what had happened, my body jerked back in an instant.
“…the escape route I prepared.”
All of a sudden, I was falling down the cliff.
“It’s the sky.”
For a moment when I really thought that everything was over, I could see clearly.
– Pajik…
The dark red jewel that was shining in his hand.
A legendary artifact that is theorized to be the source of the power of all demons, including anti-demons.
‘Stone of domination’.
– Shareuk…!
The moment I realized what the energy was in my hand, the situation changed drastically.
“Wow, what…!”
“Wealth, it must have sealed the power of the demons…!”
It didn’t take even a second to spread the wings that had always been hidden and draw out the sealed demon’s power.
“”……..””
I floated into the air so quickly, and I began to stare blankly at the boy who was sitting on the floor and clutching his heart.
“Did you… help me?”
“…cool, cool.”
“Heartily…?”
Due to the action I had just taken, everything became clear.
That boy had come all the way here with my heart pierced in part to save me.
– Whoa…
The wind strength and height were sufficient.
If he can fly with the wind like this, he will be able to return to his hometown with the power of a little demon restored with the stone of control he used.
But, why?
why.
he…
“…ah.”
As I looked down at the boy with a completely dazed expression on my face, it was then that I realized a shocking fact.
“Warrior…”
The ‘Stone of Domination’ that defeated me in this war.
That the boy used it was pointing to only one fact.
“you?”
“Shh…”
And then, everything began to fit quickly.
“…you better go.”
“Shoot, shoot! Shoot arrows!!”
“Damn! You can’t miss it!!”
An ancient prophecy that Hero will one day save the world. The hero who did not cut my neck at the last moment.
“You know what? You’re being deceived.”
“……?”
“It’s not the Empire that kidnapped your parents and siblings.”
During the break just before.
“If you don’t shut your mouth…”
“…Devil.”
“what?”
A meaningful story he told while handing out rye bread.
“The one who tried to destroy you and the kingdom is not the Empire, but the Demon King.”
Putting it all together, there was only one conclusion.
‘Were you… a warrior?’
That motherfucker smiling and waving his hand in front of me was a hero to protect the world.
“ah…”
As soon as you realize that fact, your mind is dizzy.
“Oh My God…”
An ancient prophecy of the kingdom that I have never forgotten since I was a child, vividly recalls my mind.
[When the great evil opens its eyes.]
“If that’s true…”
[The kingdom will leave an indelible scar on its adversary.]
This war was nothing more than a war started to go against that prophecy.
Before leaving an indelible scar on the benefactor, in order to root out ‘great evil’ first.
After a long public debate, the Empire was defeated.
“…After all, I have made you your adversary.”
The boy clutching his heart exhaled a rough breath.
Curse of the frozen heart.
As known to the public, it is a terrible curse that freezes the heart more and more.
In fact, the prototype of this curse was a life-threatening protection magic.
In exchange for one’s own heart, it is a magic that can put any magic to sleep.
No matter how powerful a demon, even if the opponent is a demon king.
If you have that magic, you will be able to deal with it fairly easily.
“…Ouch.”
If only I could endure the dreadful pain of the heart being cut out that would follow right up to the moment of death.
“……..”
Just before the arrival of the Archmage, Aishi looked down at the boy who was suffering the pain with a soulless expression on her face.
“Sa, it’s gone!”
“…fuck it.”
It is said that at the moment she disappeared, for some reason, some thick water droplets fell from the sky.
.
– Profit…
A few hours after Aishi disappeared.
“…Oh, Serena.”
Frey, who was breathing heavily in the interrogation room, found Serena who opened the iron door and entered, and raised her head.
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen your face again…”
“Close your mouth.”
However, Frey immediately shuts her mouth at Serena’s words, which have gone beyond anger at the situation and have become expressionless.
“…well, I’m sorry about this, but it wasn’t intentional.”
– Kuk…
Serena, who was sitting facing Frey like that, grabs his neck, who was about to open her mouth again, and raises her right hand.
– Pair…!
After a while, a clear clashing sound resounded in the interrogation room.
“Gee, what are you doing now…”
– Pair, pair, pair…!
“…Ugh?”
After interrupting Frey, who looked at her with an expression that she could not have imagined, Serena, who slaps her cheeks in a row with deep hatred, whispers in a cold voice.
“I’m sorry, Frey, don’t breathe anymore.”
“What?”
And the next moment.
“…Kuhak!?”
With both hands wrapped around her neck, Frey began to breathe out.
“It’s so luxurious that you, who aren’t even a worm, can breathe.”
“Hey, heh heh…”
“Die. Die, die, die! Die!!!”
Serena, who had climbed on top of him who had collapsed, was giving strength to the soldiers who rushed into the room to dry her behind him.
“Why don’t you die like this… Now that’s enough…”
“Ugh…”
“Please… please die as soon as possible… I’m begging you…”
The eyes of the two eyes filled with tears for different reasons crossed each other.
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Meanwhile at that time.
– You shouldn’t have slapped him on the cheek then.
– You shouldn’t even do stupid things like strangling your neck all of a sudden.
“This…..”
– Why was he breathing hard?
– Why did you cry while looking at me?
– I’ll try to think about it with that handsome head.
Clana’s eyes, as she read the letters that appeared in the diary spread out on the desk, began to shake slowly.
– No, I don’t know anything else.
– As much as he said that he would die as soon as possible.
– I shouldn’t have taken it out of my mouth…
At some point, the tears that fell between the words were quietly wetting the stiff paper.