003. He became the 3rd prince of the Seonghwang family. (2)
That must have been the last time.
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‘What on earth is this… … .’
Why should I lie in bed, chewing the porridge spoon-fed to me by someone else, when my soul has been burned?
[Whahaha! It’s so funny! Are you a baby? What should I do with this bib?]
‘… It’s a napkin. ‘You bastard.’
Why is the devil bastard who said he would burn his soul in a solemn manner talking loudly in other people’s heads?
Time goes back one day.
When he opened his eyes to the feeling of a wet towel wiping his forehead, he saw an elderly woman dressed in fancy clothes shedding tears as she looked at him.
“Mores! baby! Do you recognize her mom?”
“Oh oh! Prince! “You finally came to your senses!”
Seongjin blinked in confusion among the people making a fuss.
An old-fashioned and gorgeous room. Extreme care from people who appear to be servants.
At first, I thought it was the afterlife.
It was when he heard a familiar voice in his head that he realized that the situation was not unusual.
[Hey, don’t be dazed, come to your senses quickly! Are you still half asleep?]
This honest voice, really?
‘… Devil?’
[Oh, you recognize this body! Since I couldn’t open my eyes, I thought my soul was completely broken. As you know, the fire of Gehenna is very hot, right?]
Why this bastard?
You mean you weren’t completely done with it then?
[Whoa, whoa. Don’t get excited, just calm down. You need to come to your senses now. The soul is still in an unstable state. I barely got in, but if I make a mistake, I’ll be thrown out again?]
What are you talking about?
If Gehenna’s intimidation and my punches weren’t enough, I’ll get rid of them again.
Seongjin gritted his teeth and tried to get up, but had no choice but to shake his head and lie down again. It was partly because the people around him were scared and grabbed him, but strangely, his body felt drowsy and heavy.
It’s hard to breathe. My limbs are too heavy.
“Mores! Why? “Baby, where does it hurt?”
“Prince! Please calm down a little… … .”
Let go of this! That demon bastard is still alive! Hurry up and kill that bastard… … .
[…] Uh, hey? Is your blood pressure rising significantly right now? Then, as soon as it comes back to life, it dies again. Now, take a deep breath! huh? Breathe-ha. Breathe-ha.]
What nonsense is this devil bastard talking about! Why are these people arresting me?!
Let go! Let go!
“Oops!”
For a moment, I felt like my backside was really hurting, but then my eyes suddenly started spinning.
“Mores!”
“Prince!”
The sound of people’s urgent cries suddenly became distant, and darkness fell before my eyes.
Seongjin came to his senses again some time later, but was still lying in the same place, surrounded by the same people.
And the damn devil’s voice, from which I couldn’t tell where it came from, was the same.
[Wow, I thought you were right to have a temper, but it seems like you are really serious.]
‘You, you bastard…’ … .’
Snapping.
As Seongjin gritted his teeth viciously, the Demon King continued speaking urgently.
[Uh, sorry sorry. I won’t say anything bad anymore, so calm down, okay? Let’s talk, talk. It’s good, right?]
‘what? ‘You bastard?’
The conversation between the two still seemed distant.
However, Lee Seong-jin, who was so angry that it seemed like he was going to die because he couldn’t control his anger, surprisingly calmed down quickly in less than half a day.
This is because it was discovered that the Demon King’s body had already been completely destroyed, and only a part of his soul remained like dross.
I was at a loss as to how to deal with a guy whose voice I could only hear when he got angry.
He let go of his anger and silently listened to the Demon King’s explanation.
After the final battle, the flame of Gehenna completely destroyed Seongjin’s body along with the Demon King, but for some reason, it did not cause any significant damage to Seongjin’s soul and quietly faded away.
The Demon King said in a calm tone that perhaps a little bit of his soul remained because Yeonhwa evolved faster than expected.
[Actually, most of my noble soul has burned down, and I have no idea why you are still safe.]
“… … .”
[Anyway, that means I lost almost all my power and status. Is what remains now just a remnant of the fundamental personality?]
The point is that you can never go back to being the powerful Demon King you were before.
‘Then it will disappear somewhere long ago. Why are you talking in other people’s heads?’
The Demon King sighed at Seongjin’s blunt response.
[Well, it’s not that simple. Do you think I haven’t tried anything? But I can’t run away. If I try to get away from you even just a little bit, it will be extremely painful thanks to the divine energy around me. It’s a terrible pain that crushes the source itself. If time goes by, wouldn’t the remaining fragments of soul completely disappear?]
‘It’s concluded. Just disappear cleanly. ‘It’s simple.’
[You bastard! Would you do that if it were you? uh?]
I wanted to completely destroy Seongjin, as well as any remaining soul.
But how can you catch and kill something that has no substance in the first place? There is no way we can bring back the flames of Gehenna right now.
Seongjin Lee had a tendency to rush forward without looking at his surroundings as long as he had a purpose, but at least he was not a person so stuck that he was obsessed with the impossible.
Once I accepted that situation, I realized that the guy next to me was surprisingly useful. After all, he was a former demon lord and he knew a lot.
The Demon King, who came to his senses a day before Seongjin, was quick to gather quite a bit of information about this new world and Seongjin’s situation.
It’s an efficient way to directly contact another person’s soul and peek into their memories, or something like that.
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Thanks to this, while lying in bed and receiving the utmost care from people, Seongjin quickly began to learn about his current condition based on the noises he was making.
According to the Demon Lord, this is a world in a completely different dimension, far from Earth or the Demon World.
[We are very lucky. There was a high possibility that it would be scattered across the Void, but strangely enough, it ended up flowing into the real world.]
The real world?
[It means higher dimension. It is at least a couple levels higher than the flame worlds like Sigurd 34 or Gehenna.]
‘A world of flames? What is Sigurd District 34?’
The Demon King clicked his tongue.
[Wow, such a barbaric Earthling Class. I don’t even know the name of my own dimension. You guys have no concept of dimensions at all? I should have looked into it from the moment I rushed to my death. and… These ignorant things.]
I felt regretful that I should have left at least the devil’s head. At least I can beat him up before he gets angry.
The demon king’s soul trembled, as if he felt some kind of eerie energy.
But feeling this guy’s soul so directly makes me feel dirty.
[Severe. You are such a mean guy. But now we have become soul mates… … .]
‘… shut up!’
Anyway, this place in the higher dimension is the Holy Empire Delcross.
It is a country ruled by a holy emperor who has received the blessings of the main god for generations, and is a powerful empire with many kingdoms and principalities subordinate to him.
Seonghwang is currently in his 17th generation, and he will be the biological father of this body.
In other words, Lee Seong-jin was now a prince. Why are people’s attitudes so polite?
[Now your name is Maures Klein. He is the 3rd prince and the fourth child of Seongwang, who turns 15 this year… … .]
‘He’s your child?’
[He’s a very famous idiot.]
His mother, the 1st Empress Lizabeth Asein, was the daughter of the venerable Grand Duke Asein, and was the empress with the greatest background among the women in the imperial palace.
She was extremely confident even in front of the Emperor and the Empress, and had no doubt that her son, who inherited the noblest blood among the royal family’s children, was the crown prince who would succeed the Emperor.
And that expectation soon degenerated into excessive enthusiasm for education and emotional attachment.
Fortunately, even when Prince Mores was young, he was a prince who tried to live up to his mother’s expectations.
Although he was not much better than his other brothers, he at least steadily acquired the skills of a prince.
However, it is said that starting around the age of 7, he suddenly became more and more angry without any reason, and gradually became more and more unreasonable.
He swore at the maids and servants and committed unprovoked violence. When they are bored, they throw things at them and smash them, and the guard knights often pick on them or harass them too much.
During class, he insulted and ridiculed teachers, and after being scolded by the empress several times, he stopped attending class at all.
The Demon King was excited and told about the dark history of this bastard prince, as if he were seeing Seongjin’s misfortune.
‘But isn’t it too detailed for information obtained in just one day? ‘Is this trustworthy?’
[Uh huh! This is information that I have detected through direct contact with the souls of people around me. This is high-quality information that is impossible to gather in a short period of time even if you die and wake up alone. So that you know I am grateful.]
‘… … .’
After that, the prince’s daily life went downhill.
My neat manners disappeared and I started to find it annoying to move my body to the extreme.
In the end, he even gave up the swordsmanship class he loved, and spent every day lounging around in bed, eating only snacks.
People could not figure out the reason for his sudden change. My guess is that the young prince had been quietly following the greedy empress until now, but I could only guess that he may have been under extreme stress, knowingly or unknowingly.
Over the years, the most noble prince turned into a highly obese pig who was ignorant, had a nasty personality, and was quick to roll around.
[Then he suddenly collapsed.]
The incident occurred four days ago.
Mores, who had eaten well and gone to bed the day before, suddenly suffered from an unexplained high fever early in the morning and completely lost consciousness that afternoon. There was no evidence of poisoning, and the symptoms were unfamiliar to her as a disease.
Skillful members of the imperial family rushed to save the prince, but the prince never regained consciousness.
The Emperor postponed state affairs and visited the hospital, and the Empress stayed in her hospital bed all night in tears.
And four days after the fever began, Lee Seong-jin, not Mores, woke up in this body.
‘Then where did Mores’ soul really go?’
That’s what Seongjin was most curious about. He unintentionally became possessed by another person’s body, and even to him who had no spiritual knowledge, this state was not normal.
Wouldn’t it be a big deal if the original homeowner suffered damage because they took over the body of an otherwise healthy person?
However, the Demon King’s reaction was not surprising.
[well? When I woke up, there was no other soul in this body but ours. Couldn’t he have already died from fever?]
Does this mean that it came into the body of someone who had just died from an illness at the right time?
‘So what if we get out of here?’
[why? Going out? Since it is a body without a soul anyway, I think there is a high probability that it will die, right?]
‘… ‘Is there a way to get out?’
The Demon King’s answer was merciless.
[Why not? Just die.]
‘… … .’
Seongjin Lee had a shocked expression.
Being unexpectedly revived certainly wasn’t a bad feeling.
Even when I faced death with the Demon King, I knew that extinction was inevitable, and intoxicated with the sense of accomplishment of destroying the Demon World—even though it left behind unburned trash—I thought this was enough.
However, when I woke up again, my past life, which was filled with patience, hardship, and deprivation, came to me with a different feeling.
A life of simply cutting and cutting yourself down to fight and eliminate the demon world.
Seongjin’s past life was not something that could be said to be happy, even with good words.
So what now? Is it really possible for him to live a new life in someone else’s body?
Is it okay to consider this miraculous coincidence as compensation for an unhappy past life?
As Seongjin is lost in worry, the demon king, who has no way of understanding his complex feelings, cries out next to him.
[Anyway, how about pork? You became the son of the highest person in the land? Wow, congratulations. Your life has unfolded, you.]
Yeah, this was a problem too.
Seongjin swallowed his sleep as he looked at the bloated body spread out on the bed.
A bulging belly that obscures the view even when lying down, and thick limbs that are so fat that the joints cannot even fully fold.
Feeling out of breath and exhausted even after tossing and turning for just a moment is probably not just a side effect of a fever.
Why is it that I came in with such a poor body? Seongjin sighed, remembering his former body covered with powerful muscles.
‘Is this a good thing…? … .’
This is what happened last day.
And now, Lee Seong-jin was lying down on a fancy bed, with a napkin neatly tied around his neck, and was eating the porridge that Empress Lizabeth was floating around as if it were a baby bird.
“Now, Mores, say it one more time.”
Although he was so embarrassed that he almost died, Seongjin reluctantly opens his mouth again when he sees the empress’s affectionate face.
The sound of the Demon Lord laughing as if he was almost out of breath echoed in my head.
[Puhahahaha! I’m going crazy! I’m dying! Are you going to kill me laughing! Hahahahaha!]
That bastard, I will definitely get rid of it someday.
Lee Seong-jin swallowed the porridge roughly and then stopped the empress who was about to eat the next porridge.
“uh… mother? I’m full now. “It must be hard, but I think you can stop.”
“Mores… … .”
The Empress stared at her son with a sad expression for a moment, then lowered her head and wiped away her tears with the end of her gorgeous lace sleeve.
“Yes, once again I realize that your memory is not perfect. “You’ve never called me mother.”
“Uh, um… … .”
It’s crazy awkward!
In order to avoid unnecessary suspicion, he glossed over the fact that his memories before getting sick were vague, but every moment he spoke with the empress, Seongjin’s heart trembled for fear that she would discover that he was not Mores.
This time, Seongjin was at a loss as he didn’t know what to say, but the Demon King, who had glimpsed a memory from the empress’s soul, gave him a tip.
[I guess you always call me ‘eomamama’?]
Hey, what do you know?
Seongjin couldn’t bear to say anything, so he had no choice but to answer like this.
“… sorry.”
“You have something to be sorry for. It was such a terribly high fever. “Even though His Majesty used your own hands, the fever did not go down easily, and this mother was worried that something big was going to happen.”
The Empress adjusted her sleeves with an elegant gesture and carefully took Mores’ hand.
“Your mother is so happy that you woke up so healthy.”
When a soft, warm hand touched Seongjin, he had to struggle not to harden his expression. This was because he felt extremely guilty about having to pretend to be his son to someone who was not his mother.
The real son has already died and even his soul has disappeared, but since this person cannot know that fact, he cannot even mourn.
But that doesn’t mean he can say that he is another soul that has taken over Mores’ body.
There is no way you would believe that, and even if you did, it would be a problem.
What if they threaten to exorcise me right away? And what if his soul is really kicked out of his body?
I don’t have any regrets about living an extra life, but I also didn’t necessarily want to commit suicide in such a grand way.
“But there are some good things about being sick. “How long has it been since my child sat so calmly facing his mother?”
“ha ha ha… … .”
Mores, you crazy son of a bitch. How do you live in everyday life so that your mother can be happy with such small things?
Seongjin Lee could only smile with an awkward expression on his face.
fantasy,
