141 – Scene 141# Prom
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“A dream demon? Pooh. Is that too soon?”
The dreamer blew smoke and said.
“In a little while I’ll eat my dreams and her body will be completely mine. At that time, you will be promoted to a demon with a higher rank, not a dreamer.”
“Do you think I will leave you alone?”
“What if I don’t let you go? Are you trying to interfere? uh huh… . I’m warning you, don’t disturb her. Because right now I’m having a good dream.”
A dream horse that shows its host a dream so sweet that he doesn’t want to wake up.
Left alone, Bella would suffocate in sweet dreams.
I clicked my tongue.
“If you are a devil, you will go to hell… .”
“under! am i crazy How did you rise from monsters to demons? You want me to go somewhere like that? i’m never going Well, hell is going to go to your girl instead of me. Whoops… .”
Mongma let out a fishy laugh.
Hell is like a prison where demons are imprisoned.
Souls whose bodies are taken away by demons fall into hell.
Quaang-!
Lightning struck again.
The wind and rain was blowing down to the eaves.
“I have to go in.”
“Yes? How dare you?”
The dreamer prevented me from opening the door and entering.
“I don’t know how you got here, but I’m the only one who can enter this house.”
“Know.”
“You know?”
“yes. I need you to help me.”
At my words, the dreamer made an expression that she couldn’t understand.
“… Who am I helping?”
“you. me. help.”
“Uh… . If you don’t like… ?”
“I don’t want to ask for your help, if possible.”
But I can’t help it. Excluding the owner of the dream, only the dreamer can enter and exit the dream freely.
I grabbed the Dream Demon’s arm as if I was going to intercept it.
“Cooperate with me.”
“Hey… . Have you ever wondered what happened to your hair?”
yes. It will look like that in the boy’s eyes.
just watch it once
I focused all my attention. OK… An amazing thing happened.
“Uh, uh?!”
The dreamer shouted in a panicked voice.
The boy’s body was blurring.
To be precise, it gradually became transparent from where I touched it.
“My, my arm?! what’s this!?”
As if the dreamer was groaning, he looked at his arm with a blank face and said.
I quietly told him the truth.
“Demons are insubstantial beings. The reason why you were able to enter the dream so easily is because you are a being made only of ‘magical power’. Then, what if there was a ‘magic that manipulates magic itself’?”
“… … What?!”
A dreamer who, of course, has no intention of cooperating.
I decided to swallow him whole.
It is possible for me who has learned moon magic.
From now on, I assimilate with him.
When I twisted my hand, the dreamer’s shoulder blades disappeared.
“Quaaagh!”
Before long, my chest and body were being sucked in through my hands.
It was like being a vacuum cleaner.
I could feel him entering my body.
“Looks like it’s going well.”
“You-what have you done?!”
“As you can see, I have your cooperation.”
“Wait, wait! stop! Stop! You asshole! We will cooperate! stop!”
“It’s already late.”
I completely absorbed him with moon magic.
It was bizarre to see her arms and legs twisting and being sucked into my palm.
“You are-!”
The dreamer, who was trying to say something, eventually came completely into my body.
I’ve tried absorbing various mana, but I’ve never swallowed the devil itself, so it was a strange feeling.
Is this the sense of being assimilated with the dreamer?
“Ugh… .”
The body heated up and then cooled down repeatedly.
Maybe it’s the fault of the guy running amok in my body.
But I have ‘patience’.
I swallowed the bizarre sensation.
“… My stomach is bloated.”
Having trapped the dreamer inside, I rubbed my stomach gently and opened the door to the mansion and entered.
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Many people were dancing together under the colorful chandelier.
The scene where a man and a woman wearing a dress match their feet and laugh made me feel nostalgic, as if I had seen it in an old film.
I sensed that this place was Bella’s dream.
It is one of her many dreams.
There was a process that had to be done before getting out of the nightmare.
It is to collect all the memories scattered in the unconscious. If that is not done, you will not be able to fully wake up from your dream.
I had to find Bella in order not to leave some of my memories behind in my dreams.
After staring at the ball for a while, I raised my head at the large shadow that appeared in front of me.
“Welcome to.”
The butler, who was over two meters tall, was looking down at me.
“Will you show me the invitation from the Isaachel family?”
It’s obvious, but there’s no such thing as me.
After thinking for a while, I spoke quietly and in a heavy voice.
“There is no such thing.”
“… … .”
It was a shameless act, but it was Tristan-like to do this rather than making lame excuses.
No, let’s be a little more brazen.
“Then you cannot enter the ball.”
“You can’t participate? You mean me from the Ruelbert family?”
“… Ruelberta?!”
At my words, the butler’s eyes widened.
It seems that he recognized me then.
“Mi, you are the son of Count Milliam. I’m really sorry I didn’t know!”
huh? Something is strange… .
“Please have a good time… !”
Watching the butler lower his head, I felt something strange.
Thinking no way, I headed to the corner of the ballroom.
To be precise, to see the mirror there.
“ah… .”
In the mirror stood a young boy with a youthful face.
Because of her long black hair tied in a ponytail, she could have been mistaken for a woman, but thanks to the tuxedo, I could tell she was a man.
More than anything, I knew this face.
Obsidian-colored hair and cold eyes befitting his age. It was Tristan’s childhood after the ordeal.
When I asked why the butler talked about Count Milliam, it was because the existence of Tristan had not yet been widely known. In addition, the reason why I felt that everyone around me was as tall was because I had become shorter.
Looking in the mirror, I concluded.
Perhaps this is Bella’s past.
I’m sure she’s somewhere here… I thought it was, but I found it right away.
A group of people looking through a mirror. And a beautiful girl sitting like a queen in the middle of it.
She was sitting there exuding arrogance as she had seen in the ordeal.
“yes… ?”
Suddenly, I found a mask lying next to the mirror.
It was a black lion mask someone had taken off for a while. It’s an animal that symbolizes the Ruelberta family.
Sensing a strange coincidence, I put on the mask as if possessed. Then, unknown courage came.
Taking a deep breath, I approached Bella.
Then I could see why there were so many people around her.
“Will you dance with me?”
“Nope.”
“Then come with me… .”
“Nope. I don’t feel like dancing right now.”
“I-.”
“Nope.”
“Ah, nothing yet… .”
“That’s Okay. go away. Because I’m tired.”
All the boys at the party seemed to line up in front of Bella.
Everyone would want to be her partner.
However, all of them were horribly beaten in front of Bella.
Although still young, Bella had a striking appearance.
Her rare silver hair shimmered under the chandelier lighting, and her arms stretched out from her slender shoulders gleamed with white jade. The mole under her eyes also accentuated her maturity, which was not appropriate for her age.
I went straight to her.
Of course, there are no lines.
“Uh huh? what?”
“Get out of the way.”
After passing through the nobles, I finally stood before her.
“… … yes?”
Bella’s eyes met mine, and her eyes narrowed.
A man wearing a mask suddenly appeared out of nowhere, so that’s understandable.
She immediately started looking at me with interest.
“Who are you?”
“Do you want to know?”
I reached out to Bella.
“Then dance with me.”
“… Yes?”
To get out of the dream, you must contact Bella.
This was also a process to put the puzzle pieces of memory together, so I decided to try Tristan-like acting as much as possible.
When I was invited to dance, she looked up at me as if she was dumbfounded.
“This is really rude. Why should I dance with you?”
“Have you been looking for someone to dance with all along? As it turns out, there doesn’t seem to be anyone out there who likes you.”
“that’s right. I don’t want to dance with a guy who can dance worse than my father.”
The place Bella pointed out with a wink was Duke Fred, a man dancing in the middle of the ballroom.
In the days when they were rich like now, they said that they held parties every day, and their dancing skills were also unusual.
Of course, Bella was making this excuse because she had no intention of dancing with anyone in the first place… .
“Then just go away. Uncle Lion.”
As if there was nothing more to do, Bella turned her head away.
As it is now, Bella at this time was as tall as her nose.
But Tristan had a high nose as well.
“Funny.”
“… Yes?”
“How do you judge someone’s dancing skills without even dancing together?”
Bella’s face hardened.
But that was only for a moment, she shrugged.
“huh… . You can tell that just by looking at it. I’m probably the best dancer here after my father?”
“Oh, sure… .”
“Since Bella-sama has danced with the Duke since she was little… .”
Bella’s words echoed those around her.
I didn’t care about that and asked her.
“Then how do I see myself in your eyes? Do you think you can dance well?”
“Nope. Just looking at it, you’re a total novice.”
That’s the theory… .
But I have a ‘pride’.
He is a newbie who doesn’t even know how to dance, but he is an expert in shamelessness.
“I don’t know if I check it myself.”
I took off my mask.
Then, I heard the people around me gasp.
“… … .”
Bella, who saw my face, was equally surprised.
However, those were not the eyes that recognized me. The eyes of a complete stranger.
In other words, this is the day Tristan and Bella first met. I could vaguely guess that it was a back story that had never appeared in the original work.
I stared into Bella’s eyes.
The eyes resembling a winter lake were shaking faintly.
Tristan’s appearance during this period was at its peak, enough to shake her high pride.
Now, how about… ..
“Huh… … . like.”
Bella, who had been watching me quietly, eventually stood up holding my hand.
“Let me check how well you dance. Know it as an honor.”
At that, I responded with a smile filled with ‘arrogance’.
“To the glory.”