Chapter 351
The Demon King’s Palace was so vast and huge that it took quite a while to look around each floor. Most of the rooms were empty or dusty, as everything worthwhile had been taken.
It was a library without books, or a warehouse, but there were also spaces that were wide open and empty.
There was also a throne where the demon king was supposed to sit. The audience room was bigger than any other audience room I had ever seen.
As expected, it must be because the demons entering here are of different heights.
After going around the first floor, I went around the upper floors. I also passed the place where I found the magic scroll.
Of course it was empty.
And, walking along the corridor, I had no choice but to arrive at the place naturally.
prison cell.
“… … .”
“here… … .”
Charlotte nods.
“Yes, that’s where I was locked up.”
A place full of terrible memories.
“I have to go in here… … . It doesn’t sound like anything good.”
Charlotte seemed hesitant, then tried to turn around.
There are no remnants of the demon king here, only trauma.
– Beetle
“majesty!”
“ah… … .”
Charlotte suddenly stumbled while walking and was supported by Tana.
“are you okay?”
A cold sweat broke out on Charlotte’s forehead as she approached.
Is it affecting the body because the traumatic memories are being revived?
“It’s nothing… … . I suddenly lost strength in my legs… … .”
It’s not a memory that can be easily forgotten, and it must have been even more difficult to come back to the scene. Tana entrusted the Charlotte she was looking forward to to me.
“I beg of you for a moment. Let’s find a place to rest.”
“yes.”
Charlotte leaned against me, holding my arm, and Tana ran down the aisle.
“ha… … . ha… … .”
Charlotte was gasping for breath, as if she had just run.
“Do you think it’s dangerous now?”
“no… … . It’s not like that… … . just… … .”
It wasn’t that the power caused the seizure, but it seemed like a symptom similar to hyperventilation. Charlotte took a few deep breaths, and she soon stabilized her breathing.
“I thought it wouldn’t be that good… … . It’s hard too.”
He only told me that he was the one who killed everyone in the camp. I made Charlotte lean her back against the wall and gave her an arm.
how long has it been
“I found a place to rest. Let’s go there.”
Saviolin Tana seemed to have looked upstairs and said as she came towards us.
* * *
After passing through a few more corridors and going up a few more floors, I arrived at a space that looked like a bedroom.
I couldn’t see anything of value, but the furniture was still there. After opening her window and dusting off the sofa, Xavi Olintana laid Charlotte down on the sofa.
Charlotte gave a vague smile.
“Sir Tana, I am not sick.”
“You should get some rest though. Didn’t you walk quite a bit today?”
“… … Haha, that’s right.”
Charlotte was lying on the sofa, breathing.
It was a strange feeling, not knowing if I should be worried that it was a traumatic attack, or if I should be grateful that it wasn’t a power attack. Saviolin Tana was looking around the bedroom.
“I was in a hurry to find it, but here it is… … . It seems to be the bedroom of a person of high rank even in the Demon Castle.”
“… … ah. I see.”
There are no valuables, but all the large furniture remains. Seeing that all of them were high-end items, Saviolin Tana’s statement that it might have been the bedroom of a person of high rank even in the Devil’s Castle seemed quite plausible.
no wonder.
I feel weird.
“Tsk… … . Because they were all looted indiscriminately, I can’t tell whose bedroom it was. Of course, it may not be that important, but… … .”
Tana seemed to think of the possibility that this might be the devil’s bedroom. She was in fact a bedroom that she was free to think.
The Four Heavenly Kings or the Demon King.
and.
someone else noble.
-Dreuk
Tana was opening the closet and rummaging through the drawers to see if there was anything left in the room.
Charlotte suddenly rose from the sofa with difficulty.
Saviolin Tana rummages through the drawers.
All the things that could be money would have been robbed and gone, so there would be nothing special.
But somehow.
A strange feeling of uneasiness burned through me.
-Dreuk
Every time Saviolin Tana opens a drawer one by one.
A strong sense of incongruity, as if something might be discovered.
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It was as if the warning of feeling pricked my heart with a needle.
– Dripping
“… … ?”
Saviolin Tana opened the dresser’s drawer and tilted her head.
“Certainly, there are still things that don’t seem like money.”
She took something out of a drawer.
A luxurious wooden case at a glance, the lid was open, but the contents remained intact.
It was an object that looked like someone was going to take it and left it there after looking at the contents.
“biscuit… … That’s it.”
Charlotte was looking at the biscuit, eyes wide open.
I clenched my teeth to the extent that my molars sat down in order not to make any expression.
“Would you like to give it to me?”
Charlotte, who has become frighteningly calm, says so quietly.
“Your Highness, you must have been hurt.”
“I’m not doing it to eat.”
“… … yes. Here you are.”
Charlotte stares at the biscuits Tana brought, wrapped in packaging, in her hand.
Biscuits individually wrapped.
Charlotte stares at it.
biscuit.
him at that time.
‘You must be hungry, but at least eat this.’
‘you you… … . you?’
‘I’m fine. Eat you first.’
‘You, you too… … . You eat too.’
biscuit.
The biscuit found in the bedroom of someone thought to have been inhabited by a high-ranking demon, in the same packaging as back then.
Charlotte unwraps the biscuit and breaks it in half.
“majesty!”
– Wow!
Charlotte took a bite of the biscuit despite Tana’s insistence.
what did you feel
Charlotte will never be forgotten.
Even if I forget everything, I will never forget the shape and taste of that biscuit I ate.
I don’t know if I felt the same taste then.
but.
Tears rolled down from Charlotte’s eyes as she bit into a biscuit.
“under.”
Charlotte knew something.
“haha.”
“… … majesty? Hey, why are you doing this?”
There were suspicious circumstances, but in the end, I didn’t want to believe it, and something I tried to deny.
Denying the unbelievable truth also has a limit to the end.
Even this biscuit is not definitive proof after all.
But too much has accumulated.
Evidence and suspicion piled up.
piled up and piled up again.
Biscuits individually packed in a luxurious case.
Do you think something like this can’t roll around everywhere?
Charlotte’s thoughts eventually continued one after another, and she must have reached a certain conclusion.
“Heh, heh… … . Hehe. under. flaw.”
“majesty! Why?”
Now, it becomes an irreversible certainty.
“Heh, hehe! Heh, hehe!”
Charlotte bent over and laughed like a madman.
I think it’s right, but I still feel like I’ve been doing it.
It seemed that even the vague thought that it might not have completely disappeared.
What is Charlotte thinking?
In the end, does he think that he was only used to help the next demon king escape?
I couldn’t find out.
“Hehehehe! Heh heh heh heh! Hehe! Ugh! ugh! Hehe!”
However, Charlotte’s laughter eventually turned into sobs.
* * *
“… … There is a slightly larger bedroom inside, which is presumed to be the Demon King’s bedroom.”
Said Saviolin Tana, who had looked around all the nearby rooms and looked unsure of what to say.
Charlotte asked to see if there was a larger bedroom nearby.
There is only one room further back than this bedroom.
Due to its scale, it is thought to be the bedroom of the Demon King. I don’t know what the architectural philosophy of the Demon King’s Palace is, but what does the second luxurious bedroom right next to the Demon King’s bed mean?
Charlotte sat blankly with the box of biscuits in front of her.
This, too, was not definitive evidence, but it seemed to Charlotte that it was psychological evidence for a final reassurance.
Charlotte had known for a long time that Valie could not have anything to do with the demon lord.
However, the successor of the demon king has recently started his activities.
Charlotte gave no explanation, but Tana seemed to know what Charlotte was thinking.
I was silent.
No matter what I said, I couldn’t comfort Charlotte now, and even if I could, it didn’t seem like it was my job.
“Your Highness, why… … . I don’t know if you do, but it’s just a biscuit after all. this is… … . No matter what Your Highness thinks, it’s hard to use anything as a basis for certainty… … .”
Saviolin Tana was about to say something, but stopped.
She doesn’t know what these biscuits mean to Charlotte.
After hearing Tana’s words, Charlotte nodded slowly.
“Maybe.”
Charlotte says so calmly.
“just… … . I have given up now.”
Charlotte stopped advocating for Valier in her heart now.
“The child who saved me is either the son of the demon king or the successor. He wanted to believe no, but he won’t anymore.”
This can’t be strong physical evidence, but enough evidence has accumulated to put up a wall in Charlotte’s mind.
The child he saved at that time was the successor of the demon king, and he was the main culprit of the demon raids that took place in the ecliptic.
Charlotte is sure.
“I just kept asking questions. Then why did you save me… … . why… … . He could have escaped alone, but he didn’t bother to save me… … . So maybe not, because there’s no reason to save me. So I guess not… … . I wanted to believe.”
When I left the castle with the teleport scroll, I was in a situation where I had to run away. But I risked my life with Dyrus and came back to save Charlotte.
It must have been because of that that Charlotte tried to trust me until the very end.
If you are the successor of the Demon King, there is no reason to risk your life to save Charlotte. I would rather have let it die.
I, who hates the Empire as much as Artorius, has no reason to save Charlotte.
That was Charlotte’s last psychological barrier to thinking that Valie might not be the devil’s son.
But that has now collapsed.
“now… … . I think I know. Why did that child save me?”
So, now Charlotte thinks.
The reason why the devil’s son had to save himself.
A good rational reason to risk your life.
Charlotte sees me this time.
“What dwells in me is either the demon lord’s power or the demon lord’s soul. Because that’s it… … .”
Charlotte murmurs blankly.
Seeing Charlotte muttering like that gave me goosebumps.
He seemed to know what conclusion Charlotte would come to.
“You didn’t save me… … . What saved me… … . It wasn’t.”
Charlotte stares blankly at the biscuits and speaks slowly in a voice tinged with betrayal.
“It dwells in me… … . The demon king’s soul… … . I was saved… … .”
As long as she was certain that Valie was the devil’s son, that was the only reasonable conclusion Charlotte could reach.
I can never reach the idea that I saved it simply because I wanted to save it with good intentions. Because there is no reason why the son of the demon king should save the princess of the empire.
lost the war
the devil is dead
There is no way that the demon king’s son is unaware that the princess is being held here and that the demon king’s soul dwells in the princess.
So, not to save the princess, but to save the demon king’s soul within her.
He has no choice but to come to the conclusion that he risked his life to save the devil in the heart of the empire later.
“Heh, heh. Bird, if you think about it… … . It was natural… … . Of course… … .”
Charlotte laughed blankly, as if she couldn’t understand herself, who hadn’t come to this conclusion before.
to that Charlotte.
It’s not like that, you’re misunderstanding.
I just didn’t want you to die, and I didn’t know who you were at the time, and I didn’t know that anything like that was sleeping inside of you.
I wanted to say.
It felt like someone was squeezing my heart.
The misunderstanding grows out of control, but it was so reasonable that I couldn’t deny it.
No.
I wanted to say that I’ve been watching you by your side, and I’ve been working hard to protect you, and I’m still working hard.
However, if he reveals his identity, he dies.
If I reveal that I am Valier, all Charlotte will feel is betrayal.
The many lies that have been told to Charlotte so far are also a problem, and the way Charlotte’s thoughts develop like that is also a problem.
Even if I control Charlotte’s symptoms, I might think that it is for the sake of the complete resurrection of the demon king.
Certainly, if Charlotte had not been stopped on the day Charlotte ran out of control, there would have been sacrifices, but Charlotte would have died in the end.
Having no one see how desperately I fought that day helped me hide my identity in the end, but it also gave me the problem that Charlotte herself had no idea how truly I fought for Charlotte.
As long as I started to doubt Valie, once I revealed that I was Valie, all of my actions as Reinhardt would be to save the demon lord.
“ha ha ha… … . haha… … .”
In the end, I couldn’t say anything in front of Charlotte, who laughed helplessly.
