The White Palace, Arnaria, which was originally a quiet palace, was now even more tranquil.
Silence, far from gloomy.
Silence inevitably evokes some fear, but Arnaria’s stillness was close to chastity.
As the Grand Duke said, it was a lonely place, but the loneliness was still there.
As I climbed the stairs, the Grand Duke came up to a place where Arnaria could be seen in the distance.
The Archduke said nothing.
I just walked a little bit ahead of him, and I quietly followed him, wondering what to say.
I felt like I was being punished somehow.
Honestly, it’s something I have to keep an eye on.
I came to tell the grand duke to take my side in a situation where I have nothing to say even with ten mouths.
If the resentment had gone too far, wouldn’t it be something I should understand even if the Archduke tried to cut my throat?
The Archduke is a person who has suffered tremendous damage because of my existence.
Because her daughter disappeared with the demon king, her reputation has been ruined, the people of the principality are hated, and the allied forces are treated coldly.
The honor of the Saint-Ouan family, which had been built up for a long time and had walked the right way, was thrown into the gutter in an instant.
what is honor
It may not mean much to most people, but to someone like the Archduke of Saint-Ouane, it must be very important.
It all evaporated because of my one existence.
The Grand Duke did not speak for a long time, and after looking at the palace, I couldn’t help but come to that thought.
Is everyone doing well?
Harriet’s mother or brothers.
Since all of my older brothers are magicians, I knew that they were serving in the Allied Forces. And I know it’s safe.
But there’s a world of difference between being safe and getting along well.
Hello everyone, I didn’t even have the right to ask questions, so I couldn’t say anything.
almost over an hour.
The Archduke didn’t say anything, and I was dumb.
It was clear that I wasn’t feeling like I was being punished, I was really being punished.
After such a long silence.
“That’s strange.”
The Grand Duke suddenly said that.
Are you weird?
The Grand Duke is staring at me.
“No matter how you look at it, it looks restless… … .”
actually it is
So, isn’t it weirder to be confident in this situation?
Does that mean that I should straighten my shoulders and come out proudly?
“That, that… … . me… … .”
“… … .”
I want to say something, but I can’t keep my mouth shut.
Other people may not know, but the Grand Duke has nothing to say.
The Archduke must have known that I did not kidnap Harriet, but followed her on my own. But what does that even mean? Hiding a secret and being friendly with her daughter is already scandalous in itself.
The Archduke looks at me.
“Do you think you did me wrong?”
no.
So if this isn’t wrong then what is?
“… … yes.”
I have no idea what the Archduke was thinking.
“Hmm… … .”
The Archduke pondered, then nodded slowly.
“Yes, then tell me.”
Did you mean to tell the truth?
“What do you think you’ve done wrong?”
The Archduke held onto his cane.
Standing in front of me like a judge, he spoke quietly.
“Whatever you did to me.”
“Whatever you did to my daughter.”
“you… … . for example.”
“oh my god.”
“Whatever it is to mankind.”
“If you think there is something wrong, what is it?”
A person who has never touched evil powers and tricks.
A person who pursued the right path with the right strength and lived for noble and just justice.
A person who did nothing wrong, but lost so much because of me.
Nonetheless, a person who has done what he had to do without expressing a single regret or resentment, and continues to do so even now.
Archduke Saint-Ouane.
“Tell me about him.”
He’s probably the one who deserves to judge me.
* * *
It was a long story.
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But in the end, it was a story that ended with trying to save everyone and bringing everything to this situation.
What was Akasha, who was Cantus Magna, and what made the lich’s tomb. How was Akasha originally intended to be used?
The moment I knew everything, it was already too late.
I had been lying for so long that no one could believe me. And those who felt the greatest sense of betrayal had no choice but to hate me.
A story about trying to change the future and making it come true.
It was a story that nothing would have happened if nothing had been done.
“It was not chosen by the gods, but cursed by the gods.”
After hearing all the stories, the grand duke spoke plainly.
Are you saying that possessing two of the holy relics of the gods is not a blessing bestowed upon me, but is tantamount to a curse?
“Not you, but mankind is cursed.”
But as if he had read my thoughts, the Grand Duke corrected his words.
Is it a curse on mankind?
“If the demon king had no intention of harming mankind and wanted to leave for another world using Akasha, then there would be no reason to fight.”
Balie wanted escape, not war.
Fearing the threat of demons, mankind invaded the Dark Land and annihilated most of the demons as well as the demon king.
I didn’t want to understand, I was afraid.
It happened because of a misunderstanding.
“Didn’t humanity perish because of the sin of killing my neighbor at the end of the misunderstanding that my neighbor would kill me?”
In the end, the gate incident also happened because of misunderstanding and misunderstanding.
“Whether you want revenge or not, the truth that the Demon King has taken the most decisive and definite revenge on mankind remains unchanged.”
Regardless of my intentions, in the end, I couldn’t say that this wasn’t revenge at the same time.
I played the biggest role in the extinction of mankind.
The truth never changes.
“How can it be that it is not the curse of the gods?”
Having killed a neighbor by misunderstanding, getting it back by misunderstanding.
The Grand Duke seemed to think that this was the judgment and curse of the gods on mankind.
* * *
Is this situation a curse from the gods?
The Archduke looked up at the dull sky.
“Of course, I don’t know if this is a curse from the gods or a nasty coincidence.”
If it was just a terrible coincidence, how can the possibility be calculated?
“However, even if this is a curse from the gods, your sins will not disappear, and you will not be without them. After all, it doesn’t change the fact that all of this started with you.”
okay.
I don’t want to say that I didn’t do anything wrong.
Neither guilt nor responsibility will ever go away.
The gate crisis happened to save me.
Antirianus urged, Sarkegar insisted, and Eleris activated Akasha.
That, too, is an undeniable truth.
“But isn’t it too harsh to say that you should have died instead?”
“… … .”
“When I came to my senses with all my memories lost, the country was destroyed, my father, who was the king and absolute leader of a world, was destroyed along with the hero, and I was the last successor of the destroyed country, with only a facade that could not be more than a stigma. only one thing i know. Soon the world will end… … .”
“… … .”
“Yongke came all the way here. No, how did you get here… … . Isn’t it miraculous… … .”
The fact that I was the last Archdemon in the perishing world of demons was an extremely unfavorable condition for my survival.
It would have been better to be some human on the street, a nobody.
But in the end, I came to the point of destroying the world, and eventually rebuilt the Dark Land, and the Dark Land is where humans live together.
A lot of coincidences saved me, and a lot of coincidences eventually got me into this situation.
But in the end, he became the king of the reconstructed Demon Realm.
How did you do it?
The Archduke thought it was bizarre, and when I looked back at it from the beginning, I wondered how it was possible for what I had been doing.
If someone had tipped me that I would be like that a few years from the starting point, I wouldn’t have believed it either.
“You may not be the most powerful demon king in history, but you will be the greatest demon king in history.”
Is it like that?
Reconstruction of a fallen country.
The Dark Lands have been rebuilt.
That’s why I was able to face the Archduke as a being who could call myself the Demon King instead of Reinhardt.
and perish.
He also succeeded in taking revenge on mankind.
I didn’t achieve everything according to my will.
However, everything that the demon lord had to do was successful.
“Now that humanity is on the brink of extinction, the possibility of becoming the master of the whole world is right before your eyes. He is the greatest and at the same time the perfect demon king in history.”
And to become the master of the world.
“Isn’t it ironic that you, who did not wish for the life of a demon king at all, became the closest thing to the Arch Demons’ wishes that no one has ever achieved?”
I didn’t want to become a demon king.
I didn’t want to be like a king.
“It seems that Archdemon is cursed with never being able to live the life he wants.”
okay.
If the Archdemon is a race with such a curse.
I didn’t want to rebuild the Dark Land, but I rebuild the Dark Land.
I did not wish for the destruction of mankind, but this situation in which mankind perished is understandable.
In the genealogy of Archdemon that has been passed down from generation to generation, perhaps I am the only demon king who did not want to become a demon king and did not hate humans.
That is why I have destroyed all mankind, rebuilt a fallen nation, and have the opportunity to make the whole world mine.
Does such a curse really exist?
Is that why the demon lords have been failing all along?
“Then it’s a big deal.”
“Is it a big deal?”
Isn’t it a big deal if there is such a curse?
“Because the gate crisis won’t end.”
If Archdemon had such a curse, the situation where the gate situation would end would not come.
Then this will be a joke again.
It’s about to send chills down your spine.
“haha… … . I guess so.”
The Grand Duke laughed helplessly at my words.
I don’t know if there is such a curse or not.
More importantly, it seemed that the Archduke had conveyed my determination that I was really desperate for an end to the Gate crisis.
“So in the end, is it your fault?”
The Grand Duke asked me to tell him if there was anything wrong.
So I told you what happened so far.
“That’s it… … . Harriet… … . It’s my fault for doing that… … .”
He himself followed, but in the end, it was the archduke’s fault.
“No contact so far… … . You must have been worried. anyway… … . It’s all my fault. The world has become like this, everything… … .”
“How did the world become like this?”
“yes.”
“Why is that wrong?”
The Archduke looks at me.
“You said that. It is because of me that the world came to be like this. Then my fault… … .”
“It could all be your fault, but why is it wrong?”
Is there a difference between sin and fault?
I couldn’t quite figure out what the archduke really wanted to say.
“Let’s say you caused the Gate Incident with the intention of destroying humanity. Let’s say you did.”
The Grand Duke tapped his staff on the marble steps and said quietly.
“Aren’t you okay?”
“… … yes?”
What is this sound?
“Dark Land didn’t even think of a war with humans, but humans invaded the Pandemonium, destroyed your country, killed your father, killed those who were like family, and even made them slaves.”
ah.
“If you, having suffered such a thing, tried to destroy mankind, who can tell you that it was wrong for you to have such a heart and act like that?”
many have died
If I did it because I really wanted to, it would be a sin.
But it wasn’t unreasonable.
The Archduke is talking about revenge.
Murder and slaughter out of vengeance cannot be justified in the end, so it must be a sin.
However, that vengeance can be justified.
sin is right
However, it can be.
you could have
The Archduke is saying that.
I am a being
So even though there are sins, there is nothing wrong.
The Archduke had said so.
The first thing the Grand Duke asked me was to tell me if I thought there was something wrong.
The Archduke didn’t say I was wrong.
“I did it to you.”
“… … yes?”
“As long as the War of the Demon World was a war that went wrong from the start, the fault wasn’t you, but I was the one who did it to you first.”
The Grand Duke was a participant in the Demon World War.
So, as long as the War of the Pandemonium was a war that was fundamentally wrong, as long as the result was the destruction of the Dark Land.
It was the grand duke, not I, who had committed the unforgivable sin.
“Even if it was a fair war, it would be natural for the heir of the ruined country to seek revenge on all those who participated in the Great War of the Demon World.”
“… … .”
Ever since I knew I was the Demon King.
The Grand Duke believed that everything I did to mankind was justified, even if it was a sin.
All humans have the right to avenge, so I was convinced of everything I was doing.
The Grand Duke is, strictly speaking, one of the enemies.
The Archmage, the Archduke, would of course have made a huge contribution in the Pandemonium War, and that would have been a feat built up by killing demons.
If I were a real Balie, the Archduke would have to have a name in a very high place when I wrote down that I was a murderer.
“Why do you come to the enemy’s residence with the expression of a criminal and try to apologize?”
In the past, I wore a human mask, but since it is known that I am the Demon King, I take off the mask and nothing has changed even in the right situation.
“I don’t understand that.”
It seemed that the Grand Duke did not understand that he came here with the attitude of a guilty person and was paying attention.
“okay… … .”
The Archduke looks up at the sky.
Beyond not even having the vengeful spirit I should have, I really didn’t have the slightest hatred like a grain of wheat, but instead just thought about what I had done wrong to the Grand Duke.
“My daughter was right.”
The Archduke said something, in a voice filled with deep guilt.
“Even though you may have sinned, you haven’t done anything wrong.”
The Archduke muttered blankly.
“I have sinned and I have made mistakes.”
Now that he learned the truth about the Great War and the truth about Balie, the predecessor of the Demon King, the Great War was just a slaughter.
Humanity was not saved through the extermination of demons.
As a result, the gate situation was returned.
It wasn’t just me who had to stay still.
In the first place, it was a problem that humanity had to stay still.
I am not Balie.
That’s why the grand duke couldn’t have any vengeance.
The Archduke is just misunderstanding.
It’s not just that I was the cause of the gate debacle that all of this ended up with me.
This absurdity was created from scratch with my own hands in the first place.
So there was no revenge or resentment, only the guilt deepened.
As if the Archduke felt guilty for me.
I, too, couldn’t help but feel guilty.
