Episode 244. Cogwheel.
Number Three, Albus’ subordinate, climbed on top of Brunhild, who was left with only his upper body, and made a pincer shape with his two fingers and said.
“Okay, now let’s see the end. Since you don’t seem to want to answer my question anyway, I’ll just pull out all those useless teeth.”
Brunhild was already so seriously injured that he had no strength to respond. The surroundings that come into your blurred gaze are also difficult to distinguish what is in front of you, as if you are looking at a forest filled with fog.
She had already given up on life and waited for death to come. She only looked at her own frozen arm, five steps away in front of her.
She closed her eyes.
Number Three giggled, opening her mouth with dirty hands and grabbing her front teeth.
“First, attach these two to make my necklace. The remaining kids next to me should try to weave a necklace together. An accessory made from the first wizard’s tooth. Key! “This is an absolute treasure!!”
Brunhild offered no resistance.
No, to be precise, I couldn’t.
As her noble blue dress became stained with red blood, her clear mind also became cloudy and could not be restored.
“Stop there.”
A cold voice came from behind Number Three. Number Three, who had been smiling just a moment ago, made an unpleasant expression and slowly turned his head to look at the person standing behind him.
“who are you?”
A knight in silver armor who cut through the fog, an apostle of the tower, and one who headed to the royal capital before Verdin.
‘Deadlord’, he approached with his skeletal horse and looked down at Number Three.
“You look familiar.”
“No, not you, that woman.”
“Did you come after this woman too?”
“No, I’m lost.”
“It was definitely heading to the royal road. “Somehow I ended up here.”
“Royal road?”
“Yes, the royal road.”
What kind of crazy thing is this guy talking about?
Number Three looked at him with a puzzled expression, then twitched the corner of his mouth and answered.
“So who are you to tell me to do this and that? “Do I look like someone who shouldn’t do something when you tell him to stop?”
“Free choice. Instead, humbly accept the consequences.”
“The results of the free high school are damned. “If it doesn’t turn off right away, you’ll die.”
“I’m giving you a chance because I’m in a good mood because I’m having a good time, so if you want to live, you’d better turn it off right now.”
The deadlord who was talking let out a laugh and took off his helmet. He then looked at his neck, where the number three was empty, and continued speaking with an embarrassed expression.
“What are you? “Are you sure you’re using dark spells?”
“If you don’t get off of her for the count of three. “Your neck will also become like mine.”
“What kind of bullshit is that?”
“Stop being a bastard and ask what kind of person you are.”
“Hey man, are you sure you want to go after it?”
“Ha, this is it! “I tried to forgive you if I just went, but it wouldn’t work.”
The sound of the wind blowing past Number Three’s ears. Then his gaze slowly fell to the ground, and before he could even wonder about his enemy, he stopped breathing and was unable to open his mouth.
Number Three’s head fell to the ground.
He was a new apostle chosen by Amon, and he used his power to reach death without a chance to deal with his enemies.
Perhaps, if he had prepared for battle right away instead of lusting after women, things wouldn’t have ended up like this. Deadlord knew it too, but he didn’t give his enemy a chance. Although he had guarded the tower for a long time, he was not light enough to reveal a gap to the enemy.
“Opportunities are given to the strong, not the weak.”
Deadlord kicked Number Three’s body, which was still on Brunhilt, and threw it away.
He asked while holding Brunhild, who was completely injured, in his arms.
“I know him as Bae Hu-ryeong, who is with Verdin. “How did he come to have a body like a human?”
Brunhild answered, looking at him with blurred vision.
“The story… . “It’s long.”
Deadlord closed her mouth with his finger at her tired voice.
“I’ll listen to it later. “An unexpected guest came.”
Black smoke flowing from the ground approached the Dead Lord. As he covered Brunhild with his cloak and drew his sword, black smoke began to take the form of a cat.
He blocked the path ahead with harsh eyes.
“… Could you please speak with her for a moment, Deadlord? “I will ask you to do so politely.”
The owner of this voice is the apostle who spent the longest time in the tower with Ordin, and the demon king Imperator who is closest to Baphomet. Deadlord extended his auror and answered him without letting down his guard.
“I never thought I’d hear the word please out of your mouth.”
“It means that you are that earnest.”
“I wonder how the guy who kept silent until now showed up here.”
“I came to meet my destiny.”
“Destiny?”
“Yes, the woman you are holding now. “She is a colleague who climbed the tower with me in the past.”
Dead Lord seemed quite surprised by his answer and did not answer for a while. Soon, he laid Brunhild down on the rock and took a step back. If Imperator had shown even the slightest hint of murder or had shown any sign of lying even once, this would never have happened.
“Thank you, I will never forget this favor from you.”
“If you try to harm her in the slightest, you will be considered an enemy.”
“That won’t happen, so don’t worry.”
Imperator stepped in front of Brunhild and poured out his mana little by little, infusing him with energy. Then, Brunhild came to his senses and opened his eyes little by little. He met her gaze and began a conversation with her.
“Imperator.”
“Did you leave the tower just to live a life like this?”
“… Not bad. “Leaving like this.”
“Not bad? “Is that what you will say before you die?”
Brunhild looked at him with smiling eyes.
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“Yes, because you live so long, there are times when you feel this way about death.”
Imperator returned to his human form as a cat and clenched his fists, then his lips trembled and his eyes closed tightly.
“Is it because of him?”
“Thanks to that guy.”
“Did I die a meaningless death?”
“No, it was his will that allowed me to die a beautiful death.”
“Was it not possible for me?”
“If the person next to you right now was me and not Verdin.”
“If that were the case, this would never have happened.”
“Why did you not stay by my side, a colleague with whom I spent many years, but made a contract with someone who would stay for a while and then leave? Did you know that Verdin was the reincarnation of Bor?”
Brunhild slowly shook his head with his remaining strength.
“But why?”
“… Just, my heart just went out to him. As if the wind blowing here now passes by us without any reason. “My relationship with him came naturally in the same way.”
“I am?”
“Same goes for you. So we climbed the tower together, right?”
“No, what I want to say is…” .”
Imperator, who had been showing a calm expression until now, looked tearful and lightly grabbed Brunhild’s shoulder.
“I mean why did you like that guy and not me? “I know that you gave Verdin your heart.”
“Brunhild, I liked you first. huh? You probably knew that too… . Why did you ask him for a ring? why? why?? why?!”
“If only you had been with me! If that were the case, the day would have come soon when I, or rather we demons, would become the owners of the tower and conquer this world!”
Brunhild looked blankly at Imperator, then smiled brightly and answered him.
“I liked you.”
“Do not lie! If you did, you wouldn’t have left me. “He would have stayed by my side and lived in the tower with me!”
“No, the reason I left the tower wasn’t because I didn’t like you. It was just to get my body trapped in the hourglass back and go back to the top of the tower. “Why do you say that when you know the reason?”
“I was going to solve all of those problems as well if you would wait.”
“I was afraid that would be the case, so I moved it myself.”
“If only I had stayed in the tower. Because you must have gone to the dragon to find my body. “It’s obvious what the outcome will be if an apostle attacks a dragon.”
“The only way for me to protect you was to leave the tower. And I didn’t ask Verdin for a ring because I like him.”
Brunhild opened his mouth to say something, but then his smile froze.
This is probably the reaction before death that occurs to someone who has consumed all of their energy.
If she were human, she would have already died, but because she was a demon, she was able to have a conversation by pouring out her life until now.
“‘Oh, no. like this… . “What if I leave like this again?”
Imperator stared blankly at her, frozen as stone, and then lightly hugged her.
Dead Lord just quietly listened to the conversation between the two and did not intervene.
Even after the moment of Brunhild’s death came, until Imperator, an apostle like himself, left the place.
“Deadlord, can you keep this a secret from Verdin?”
“What do you mean?”
“The fact that I was Brunhild’s former colleague.”
“If you ask, I will give you the answer. “If not, don’t bother bringing it up.”
“… Thank you, I will leave her body here. “I think it would be better for her to remain by Verdin’s side.”
After saying these words, Imperator turned into black smoke again and left.
After he left, Deadlord picked up Brunhild’s frozen body like a statue and wrapped it in a cloak filled with his Aura.
Peace has come to the royal capital.
The next emperor, Rocky de Rockefeller, who came to his senses, organized the ranks with his brothers, completed the succession to the throne, and sat on the throne with the help of his mother, the queen, and the 12 elders who upheld the royal family’s laws.
Verdin waited for this moment.
A time when the person you choose becomes the master of the continent and brings the emperor Bae Hu-ryeong.
Loki, the new emperor who completed the succession, visited Verdin to repay the favor that had led him.
And there he faced the biggest crisis of his life.
‘I wish I had died.’
I never thought something like this would happen in the palace.
Verdin’s blade stuck in Loki’s chest.
“Your Majesty, because of your noble sacrifice, this continent will experience a long peace the likes of which it has never seen before.”
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