138. reason
The dormitory was in the same condition as if no one had used it while we were gone.
It’s just a pile of dust. Nothing changed.
After quickly tidying things up, I left my room and knocked on Seria’s door.
smart smart
“Seria. Are you there?”
It was at that time that I wondered if I should knock on the door again because there was no answer.
“come in.”
Seria did not open the door all the way.
When I pushed through the slightly open door, Seria, who was covering herself with a towel, greeted me.
“Ah. You were washing. Sorry.”
“No matter how much I wiped it, the blood stains didn’t come off, so it took a while.”
Sarah smiled at me.
Even though he was clearly smiling at me, something was different.
Her eyes no longer felt the deep affection they had before.
Had my native magic been broken?
But considering Luna, I don’t think that’s the case.
I had to find out quickly what happened to her.
“Seria.”
“huh?”
“Are you really okay?”
Seria smiled and smiled.
“So! He’s alive and breathing next to you like this?”
I went and sat next to her on the sofa and she slipped into my arms.
“Yes… that terrible nightmare is now really over…”
She buried her face in my chest and murmured in a low voice.
I stroked her hair and thought it was time.
“Seria. Can you tell me what happened inside the rift?”
“No big deal. It’s a story that’s not even fun to hear. This is.”
“Tell me anyway.”
Taking her away from me, I looked into her blue eyes.
“Yuwol… I…”
Seria started talking in a trembling voice.
“I fought the enemy who killed Master.”
It was clear that Lord Bellos was what she was talking about.
If her story is true, she probably couldn’t come back with a high probability…
I didn’t understand it with common sense, but I decided to listen to her story for now.
“And he died.”
“what?”
“I died while dealing with that demon. I died again. I died again.”
“Wait. Seria. What do you mean? If you die in the rift, you can’t come back…”
But it was hard to believe that she was ever lying.
Because her trembling body was proving it.
“You don’t believe me?”
Seria grabbed my arms with both hands.
“Then I’ll tell you. How I died.”
“The first time I died, I got my heart pierced by his blue spear.”
“I’ve had limbs cut off.”
“There was one time I died because my ribs were all smashed and I couldn’t breathe.”
The more she talked, the more her arms trembled.
“But what I… is a lie?”
Whether her words were true or not didn’t matter.
I hugged her as hard as I could.
I could feel the vibrations of Seria’s body being transmitted to me.
“No… trust me… you mean Seria.”
“Yuwol-ah…”
Hot tears flowed from her eyes.
“That bastard Bellos… I won’t let him go.”
“I’ll cut you limb from limb and tear you to death.”
“I… I… had to die a few times.”
The more she continued, the more I couldn’t help but understand why Seria had changed.
It felt like my heart was being torn apart.
how scared i was
how painful it must have been
Ordinary humans are so afraid of even a single death that they struggle.
It seemed that Seria had been unable to avoid death dozens of times.
As I was patting her back, I suddenly noticed something strange about her words.
How could she have gotten out of there if she had died fighting Belos all along?
I stopped patting my hand for a moment and called her name.
“Seria.”
“…huh.”
Barely calmed down, she looked up at me with bloodshot eyes.
“So you finally… did you succeed in defeating Bellos?”
Sarah nodded her head without saying anything.
What worried her more than the fact that she had defeated the Great Demon was how long it took for her to achieve that fruition.
I didn’t want to remind her of any more painful memories, but I closed my eyes and asked.
“Seria. You.”
“How many times have you died?”
…A number that should never have come out of Seria’s mouth.
It was hard for me to keep my composure after entering Luna’s room after the conversation with Seria.
Her voice kept ringing in my ears.
[No. 1254.]
How will people change if they die 1000 times in the same situation?
It wasn’t that she felt unfamiliar.
Rather, it was to the extent that it was remarkable that he remained so sane.
I could understand why Seria felt an aura comparable to that of Rebecca.
The image of Rebecca fighting with Amelia-sama came to mind.
“…It’s been a while since we’ve been together, isn’t it a very gloomy expression?”
Luna wrapped her arms behind her neck and hugged her.
The spicy orange scent that I missed rose from her body.
“…sorry.”
“Did you meet the warrior?”
“how did you know?”
“Is there anything else besides him that would make you look so serious?”
Luna, who was rubbing her cheek against mine, asked me a question.
“Yes. To be honest, if it was usual, you would have asked why you didn’t come to see me first, but today I’m curious too.”
Luna naturally sat on my lap rubbing her hips.
“Why did he lose his taste?”
I let out a deep sigh, filtering out the details and listing only a series of facts, sorting out what had happened to Seria to Luna.
“…I see.”
After hearing my explanation, Luna had a serious expression.
Of course, it was never out of pity for Seria or empathy for her pain.
Luna is always a demon. As she was about to take the final exam, the fact that Seria had obtained power comparable to Velos-sama’s was something that bothered her.
“Sirius. I have a vague idea of what you think of him.”
Luna squeezed my hand tightly.
“…We must go ahead with the plan.”
Luna looked at me with an expression similar to that of Amelia-sama asking Luke if he would like to be by her side one last time.
I knew.
That I had to betray Seria.
Even if she names me as a member of the final hero’s party, I have to reject it.
All of this was a process for that one moment only, and in order to make this plan a success, I had no choice but to undergo bone-breaking training.
but…
The image of Seria, who cried out that she would kill Bellos, came to mind.
If I betray Seria, who seems to have already been ruined somewhere…
I had no idea how Seria would change.
I remembered the day I first followed Amelia-sama into the Demon Realm.
What I was hoping for even then was a happy future with Seria.
Of course, now, if the plan succeeds, Luna and I have decided to stay in the Pandemonium, so I can’t be with Seria.
I wanted to free her from this bondage and free her from these canine humans.
The moment of decision is not far now.
I found it funny that I was still hesitating.
“…know.”
Luna was right.
I wasn’t Luke.
I was a member of the demon tribe and knew how ugly humans were.
And another piece of information obtained from the rift.
It was unknown whether this was true or not, but Bartina said that she had definitely met her death by the human hands of past warriors.
If that was true, I had to stop Seria all the more.
When I think that Seria will be executed at the hands of humans without receiving proper compensation, I…
I would rather join the ranks of the destruction of mankind.
“Sirius. I said I’d tell you what I encountered in the rift.”
Luna got up from her knees and walked towards the terrace window.
Seria’s story was so shocking that my nerves were all over it, but I was also very curious about Luna’s story.
“huh.”
I sat quietly on the sofa and watched her back.
“I met my ancestors.”
“Ancestors?”
“Strictly speaking, rather than calling them ancestors… I encountered the Demon Lord thousands of years ago.”
…I really thought everyone was falling into strange places.
Luna sent to thousands of years.
I was sent to an academy a thousand years ago.
Seria is trapped in an endless loop of time.
As if the rift had a will, it led us to different places.
“so?”
It was clear that the note had given her an ordeal.
“The demon king’s blood flowing through my body. And my own magic.”
As she opened the door to the terrace, her silver hair shone in the moonlight.
“I have perfectly mastered how to use these two things. I have gained a harvest that could not have been achieved if I had trained here.”
Turning her back, she asked me.
“Now, Sirius. What did you get?”
…I just went in and out of Luke’s body.
I was very worried about how much I should talk about for Amelia-sama’s personal information.