Episode 354
“Damn, demon.”
Ruby, who entered the image world with a pale face, urgently looked around and spoke.
“Mashin, where are you?”
The demon spirit that was lying on the floor just a moment ago is nowhere to be seen.
Why? Where did it go?
I need to quickly ask her how this happened.
I need to hear the demon’s explanation quickly.
‘By any chance, he didn’t run away, right?’
My mind keeps getting anxious.
“Where is it!!”
“Please walk forward.”
As a result, Ruby finally screamed, and an arrogant voice came from the front.
-Turp, trudge…
After hearing those words, Ruby began to walk forward, dragging her trembling legs.
“So you’re finally here?”
Then, a black peak rising high in the center of the image world appeared in Ruby’s field of vision.
“I thought you would come a little sooner, but you’re late?”
The demon god was sitting with his legs crossed on a black chair on top of the peak.
For some reason, unlike just before when she was in complete disrepair, she looked fine and was smiling arrogantly, but that didn’t catch Ruby’s eye.
She was in a state of panic for the first time in her life, and there was no way she would have the ability to think normally.
“Well, there’s a problem.”
“Problem? Some kind of problem has occurred.”
“Frey was a returner. He was a real returner.”
“Hmm, really?”
The Demon God, who was looking down at Ruby who was speaking in an urgent voice, put her hand on her cheek with an interesting expression.
This behavior was completely different from her usual attitude of readily adapting to the Demon Lord’s mood.
“……?”
Only then did the Demon King begin to notice something strange.
“Yes, you didn’t tell me.”
But I couldn’t stop asking questions because of some strangeness.
“Fray… isn’t a returnee. Didn’t you say something like that will never happen?”
“Ah, that?”
“It is said that turning back ‘time’ by any means is close to impossible…”
Ruby, who was speaking in a trembling voice, soon trailed off.
“Well, what is it? That expression.”
The demon god was smiling at her with an excited expression.
“What!”
When Ruby, who was embarrassed by this, raised her voice and urged, the demon God narrowed her eyes and opened her mouth.
“I’m sorry, Ruby.”
“Are you sorry? What are you sorry for…”
“Actually, it was a lie.”
The demon who answered like that smiled brightly and whispered in a low voice.
“Frey is actually a returner.”
“What…?”
Ruby’s expression began to fall.
.
“Well, what do you mean?”
Ruby’s eyes roll back and her entire body begins to radiate death.
“What kind of bullshit is that!!!”
“What do you mean, you bitch tricked me?”
However, the Demon God, who was looking at Ruby as if she were laughing, raised the corners of her mouth and continued to whisper.
“You were more innocent than I thought. One day, when I came to you, I told you that I knew you would, and it was cute to see you being fooled.”
“what…”
“Well, that’s how it happened.”
“What happened like that!”
Ruby, who exploded at that shameless appearance, began to rush at the demon god, gathering demon energy in her hands.
– Crackle, crackle…
“Uh, huh?”
However, when the demon god lightly gestured, Ruby stopped in her tracks.
“I know you’re strong, but… this is my imaginary world.”
– Ugh…!
“Huh…”
When the demon who said that snapped his fingers, black chains came out from all directions and began to bind Ruby.
“No matter how much you do, you can’t deal with me here.”
Ruby, who was struggling while bound by chains, stumbles and falls to the floor at the demon’s gesture.
“Uh, uh…”
“It’s no use.”
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Ruby tried to break the chain, but it was no use.
As the demon god said, this is her unique territory.
Even the strongest Demon King could not stand against the Demon God here.
“Well then, really?”
The Demon King, who realized this and gave up his struggle, asked a question with a bloodshot expression on his face.
“Did Frey really go through countless regressions to save me?”
“well.”
“I didn’t even know that, and I was corrupted and killed him countless times?”
“Well?”
The demon was whispering with a teasing expression, but the meaning was clearly understandable.
Tears began to fall from Ruby’s eyes.
“Have you been fooling me this whole time? Are you?”
“Hmm…”
“I don’t even know that, and I’ve been with you until now…”
“Hey, there’s a lot to be said about dolls.”
After hearing those words, Ruby made a blank expression.
“Go quickly and finish off Frey, whose soul is empty. Then you and I are free.”
“…….”
“You never know? If you follow my instructions, I might specially bring Frey back to life.”
Saying so, the demon god began to prepare to expel Ruby from the world of images.
“The chess piece is as it says, move quickly…”
“Aaaaaah!!!”
“Huh? Huh?”
Then her eyes widen.
“Dog!!!! Bastard!!!”
Ruby, who had broken the chain with explosive force, was rushing towards the Demon God with tears streaming from her eyes.
“W-what. Is he this strong?”
“I’m going to kill you!!!”
“Well, it’s none of my part-time business.”
However, the demon God soon regained her composure and swung her hand to open a portal in front of her.
“Goodbye.”
– Passy…
With the sound of a small spark, Ruby was caught in the portal opened by the demon god.
“Puhuhuh…”
“What on earth have I been doing…?”
The last scene Ruby saw there was the Demon God smiling at her with a sneer.
.
“Hmm.”
As the portal closes, the demon starts wiping away cold sweat and muttering.
“I was surprised. I never thought it would be that strong.”
That was the end of my appreciation for Ruby.
The Demon God’s eyes shine with a very happy expression and he begins to mutter again.
“If I hadn’t been careful, I could have been in big trouble.”
He was a Demon God who had been living in fear for the past few days, waiting for the day when he would fall into mortality, as he had recently lost his godhood and power.
The power was lost to the recovering foot race Kania, and even that was not gathered well.
Now that quite a few people had realized Frey’s identity, there was no one who could create feelings for her anymore.
“It’s a little pitiful, but there’s nothing I can do about it.”
That’s why the demon god made a deal with Perloche, who dared to come to him last night with a stupid-looking pigeon.
The fact that Frey deceived the Demon Lord by saying she was not a returner, and the fact that he aggravated the misunderstanding by taking an ambiguous attitude towards her earlier were all just as they had bargained.
It made me feel a little sick to deceive the demon lord who was on my side, but I couldn’t help it.
She was the only person best suited to produce his own nutrients right now.
In addition, whenever Ruby uses the ‘help system’, that power is transferred to the demon god.
Therefore, the demon god had recovered enough to regain some degree of godhood.
In the long run, it is of course a loss. Ruby was completely fooled by those guys’ plan and the chances that she and she would win this fight were extremely low.
“Then let’s get ready now.”
But, he was a demon who didn’t care about that anymore.
Because she decided to leave this dimension.
From the moment I was swayed by that ‘eye guy’, I felt like something was wrong.
So, I decided to take this opportunity to abandon this place and spend the rest of my life hiding in another secluded dimension.
And then when the time comes.
It would be okay to come back after a thousand years or so and eat the world.
If necessary, you can invade another dimension like the pupil guy.
No matter what happened, the demon god was planning to escape from this horrible place.
‘A hero, a demon lord, a blacktail fantasy, a system. Let them take care of it themselves.’
With that thought in mind, the Demon God stood up with a relieved expression.
Power was building up inside quickly.
So much so that I will soon be able to attempt a dimensional jump.
The sight of Ruby collapsing was sweeter than I expected.
“Mr. Eclipse.”
“…hmm?”
While thinking about that and taking a sip of her food, she tilts her head when she hears a sound coming from in front of her.
“I hope you did everything you asked me to do well.”
“How on earth do you freely enter this world of images? No matter how much you deal with the soul…”
“Did you do well?”
“…Yes, I did everything you asked.’
Then, the demon god suddenly appeared in front of him and started talking to Perloche.
“You said I wasn’t a regressor, and I also asked you if you ever bought ‘Absolute Love’ on purpose, and just now… I did everything you told me to do.”
“good job.”
“Anyway, I have a question.”
Then, she soon tilted her head and asked a question.
“So why did Frey buy ‘Mind Control’?”
“Instead of absolute love, I just loved Ruby for a little while.”
“Then… What are the past memories that Ruby saw while reading Frey’s soul? What are they all?”
When the demon asks an unexpectedly curious question, Perloche furrows her eyebrows.
“It must be a memory from the previous episode when Frey was Ruby’s subordinate. I showed it to Ruby and made her misunderstand. Is it okay now?”
“But there was a part of my memory that was blocked? Isn’t this the first time you’ve had a regression?”
“…….”
“Is it true that we have already entered the multi-episode cycle, but the subject of the regression is not Frey? So those countless memories are just traces in the soul?”
Perloce becomes speechless due to the demon’s sharp question.
“The Demon King, knowingly or unknowingly, was drawn to the memories that remained as traces… Hmm…”
“What do you want to say?”
“If what I say is true, then Frey would never fall for Ruby even once out of all those episodes…”
“The person who even Litry didn’t notice until a while ago has been quite generous.”
When the Demon God subtly provokes Perloche, she responds in a cold voice.
“Hurry up and give up your strength.”
“huh?”
“It was a deal. Instead of working together, you would replenish your strength just enough to keep yourself from falling into mortality and hand over the rest to us.”
“Ah, I did.”
The demon who heard those words smiled and waved his hands.
– Whilick…!
“……?”
At that moment, black chains came out from all directions and wrapped around Perloche.
“But, I changed my mind.”
The demon who bound Perloce with black chains begins to whisper with a creepy smile.
“Even after recovering, I have recovered too much strength. It is enough to deal with you.”
“…………”
“It was a godsend to instill the ‘help function’ in Ruby. Every time Ruby uses the power of that function, her power comes to me.”
Just as he said, a mixture of purple and ruby light was blooming from the Demon God’s right hand.
“The deal is broken.”
“under.”
“It’s your fault for believing in me, a demon god, in the first place. Isn’t that… AAAAAAH!?”
The demon, who was confident of victory and was about to finish preparing to jump across dimensions, suddenly collapsed on the floor.
“…Ha, I wonder if that tingling sensation back then was because of this.”
Eventually, the demon discovers the feather stuck in its back, plucking it out with a laughable expression and muttering.
“It might be me before, but now you can’t stop me with something like this…”
“This was done to create a small gap. We have already bought enough time.”
“hmm?”
“You will eat well today, Mr. Kania.”
However, when someone came out from behind Perloce who said that, the Demon God’s eyes widened.
“How did you get here…?”
– Shaaaaa…
“Uh, huh? Now, wait a minute…!”
At the same time, the power that had filled her body began to be sucked forward.
“It’s amazing that this was truly divine.”
“This is crazy!!”
Kania, who jumped out from behind Perloce, was absorbing the demon’s power with an expressionless expression.
“You, when did you become like that? Wait, what are you? Why is God better than me…?”
“That’s because you are no longer a demon god.”
“Huh?”
“Now you are a godhead watering hole.”
Kania’s godhood has become several times greater than her own, having fully recovered her strength. She was in a cold sweat at the unbelievable situation, and she soon opened her mouth in a low voice.
“Now, wait a minute. The deal is…”
“You just destroyed it, right?”
“W-don’t you want to get Frey’s soul back?”
But when the seed didn’t work, the demon spirit cried out urgently.
“Seeing as the soul is not shattered but completely destroyed, it seems like there is a problem with the operation, right? Am I right?”
“”…………””
“I’ll help you all the way. I’m a complete expert in that…”
“Is this what you mean?”
“…..uh.”
However, when Perloche takes something out of her chest, the Demon God freezes.
– Shaaa…
“It’s unfortunate, but it’s all a plan.”
A small bead was shining in Perloche’s hand.
For some reason, it was a bead with a silver glow.
“What the f*ck…..”
“Please take care of me today as well.”
“Waaaaaah! Now, wait a minute! Wait a minute!!”
Only then did the Demon God understand the situation and try to leave, but he was tied up in a black chain moved by Kania’s hand and began to struggle.
“Stop it!”
“hmm.”
Perloche looked coldly at that fiery figure and quietly walked away.
– Side…
Then, she closes her eyes, kisses the bead, and quietly strokes the bead and mutters.
“You may have said a lot, but I can’t fool you.”
-Wiggle…
“If I hadn’t sent Gugu to save you at the last minute, your soul would have been shattered. I think that was your original plan in the first place.”
Perloche, who was poking the bead that was wriggling in his grasp with his finger, asked a question in a low voice.
“What on earth are you thinking? Do you want to commit suicide?”
– Wiggle, wiggle…
“If you don’t want to tell me, I have a way too.”
Then she licks the bead with her tongue and whispers.
“Is it possible to destroy the head but not the soul?”
Then the beads became quiet.
“Huh.”
Perloce, who was staring at the marble, closed his eyes and put the marble in his mouth.
“Before I swallow you up like this, tell me quickly.”
– Well well…
Perloce, who put the marble in his mouth and started rolling it, began to make a pensive expression.
.
“…..ah.”
Ruby opens her eyes and lets out a small sigh.
– Sreuk…
Then she slowly looks around.
Of course, where she was now was a motel.
“P-frey.”
As soon as she realized that, she crawled over to Frey who was next to her.
“P-frey. I’m out. I’m here.”
“…………”
“Hey, open your eyes.”
Ruby, who was shaking the cold Frey, placed her trembling hand on his chest.
– Shaaa…
Eventually, she began practicing healing magic for the first time in her life.
– Cheeeeeeeek…!
Naturally, since she is the antithesis of healing magic, her hands start to feel numb.
But regardless, Ruby poured enormous energy into Frey.
“F-frey. I’ll fix it right away, okay?”
“…….”
“So just wait a moment? Huh?”
She mumbled like that with blood coming out of her mouth before she knew it, but then she lowered her head and spoke.
“I’m sorry. Frey.”
Tears fall freely from Ruby’s eyes.
“I know now. I finally realized everything.”
Her tears begin to wet Frey’s face.
“I realized everything: your attitude up until now, the reason why I was obsessed with you, our past and our love.”
“…….”
“Well, so…”
After a while, Ruby stopped treatment and fell down on Frey’s chest.
“Now stop playing around and come back…”
She begins to wail while hugging Frey’s still cold body.
“I-I was wrong. I don’t even ask for forgiveness. I just want to apologize for everything I’ve done so harshly. If you want me to fight, I’ll crawl, if you want me to sacrifice myself, I’ll sacrifice myself, and if you want me to commit suicide, I’ll commit suicide. Please… ”
There was no response back.
“Oh, no.”
Ruby, who only then confirmed Frey’s soul, buried her head in his neck and started screaming wildly.
“No! No!! Frey! No!!”
Frey’s soul had already completely disappeared.
So clean, with no room for restoration.
“Nooooooo!”
A girl’s regretful cries filled the room.
fantasy,
