Episode 282. Flow for him (2)
A sword with a red aura like a haze in the flames.
Belkarion slowly approaches, holding the evil sword tightly in his right hand, and Arin and Lunab watch him.
Even though the distance gradually narrowed step by step, the two women were unable to respond in any way.
Even if I wanted to do something, my body wouldn’t move.
My legs became stiff as if I had been rooted to the ground, and not a single ounce of mana was released from my hands.
The moment I faced the hidden truth of the Demon King, the functions of my body, which had been normal, stopped as if it were a lie.
“haha… … .”
Only rough breath came out of my mouth.
While the two women were so helpless, Belkarion had already reached the distance in front of them.
He looked indifferently at the two who were engulfed in fear.
-Sigh
In the meantime, there was someone who suddenly blocked the Demon King’s path and prevented his approach.
“… … .”
It was Nana.
She faced Belkarion with an ambivalent expression that was neither smiling nor expressionless.
“It’s a face I haven’t seen before. What about you?”
Belkarion also seemed to tilt his head when he saw her,
“Are you not human?”
He smiled and continued speaking.
“But it doesn’t look like it’s a demon, and just by looking at it, it looks like a devil dragon polymorphed… … Even the atmosphere is a little different? “What are you?”
Nana did not open her mouth despite the devil’s interrogative question.
All I could do was stare silently with half-lowered eyelids.
“It’s me, Nana! Dangerous!”
Arin, who could not bear to watch this, barely opened her mouth and shouted in a whisper towards Nana.
But even so, Nana did not answer.
instead,
“Hey… … .”
He showed a somewhat strange reaction, smiling so brightly that the corners of his mouth reached his ears.
“mister. “Does your body smell good?”
Belkarion’s face immediately became as hard as stone.
“Isn’t it a body odor? Isn’t that strange? “I’m sure it smells like you, right?”
Nana shook her head back and forth to express her doubts, but then her bright eyes turned to one side.
“Oh, that was the smell coming from over there?”
Belkarion’s gaze also naturally turned to where Nana was heading.
Unless Nana was looking at something invisible to others, her eyes were clearly directed at the evil sword held in the Demon King’s hand.
“Are you talking about this?”
Belkarion asked, holding out his sword for confirmation.
“yes! Isn’t that amazing? This is my first time smelling something that isn’t alive, and it’s the most delicious smell I’ve ever smelled in my life… … .”
Nana finally stuck out her tongue and tasted it.
“that… … “Can I eat it?”
A question that is too reckless to be bold.
No, it was a question so shocking that no word in the world would be enough to express it.
Belcarion looked intently into the eyes of Nana, who suddenly smiled,
-Shoo!
He immediately swung his sword as if there was nothing more to see.
“It’s dangerous, Nana!”
At that time, Arin, whose stiff body relaxed, ran over and hugged Nana without a moment of hesitation.
Even though the goal changed, the four swords did not stop.
Arin closed her eyes, and the moment the shadow of death was about to fall over her,
-Tung!
There was a loud noise and waves around the area.
After confirming that she was alive, Arin carefully opened her eyes.
Above her head was a transparent shield that glowed as warm as sunlight.
Light attribute defense magic Guardian’s Shield.
Of course, it wasn’t the magic that Arin cast, and it wasn’t Lunav’s work either.
The caster of the spell was none other than Duke Berthe.
“A former knight! “Protect the princess from the devil!”
Soon after the Duke’s instructions were given, the knights formed their formation in perfect order and immediately launched a counterattack against the Demon King.
Arin looked bewildered by the unexpected situation.
“… … .”
Belkarion accepted the knights’ counterattack with a strange smile, as if it were funny.
“Are you okay, Arin?”
Nana asked, caressing Arin’s face with worried eyes.
“Wow, you almost got into big trouble, Nana! What on earth were you thinking… … !”
“I was okay?”
Nana blinked and responded that she didn’t know what she had done wrong.
“Princess!”
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At that time, Duke Bert was next to Arin, grabbed her wrist and quickly distanced himself from the Demon King.
For a moment, I was suddenly taken away,
Arin asked, quickly shaking off Duke Bert’s hand.
“What are you doing, Duke Berthe?”
“It is to protect the princess.”
It was truly a ridiculous answer.
“What now?”
“The princess shouldn’t have been here in the first place.”
However, the duke’s eyes were indeed resolute and upright.
“I know that I am not normal, and I know that I am behaving in ways that the princess cannot understand! However, my desire to protect the princess’s safety is sincere!”
Not only Arin, but also Lunav, who hurriedly came to the side, could not help but be embarrassed.
“We will buy time. “Get out of here during that time.”
“I don’t understand! Why suddenly, suddenly… … ?”
“I have already crossed the line of no return, and I must pay the full price here. But not the princess. On behalf of myself, on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor, the Usif Empire! And you must protect the human world!”
As the guardian of the continent, his eyes are very upright and confident.
This was the original appearance of Duke Berthe that Arin originally knew.
Did it really feel like I was now face to face with Duke Berthe?
Arin’s eyes, which had been full of vigilance, gradually began to soften.
“Can I really say that he is Duke Willius Wert, whom I respected?”
“The faith of the guardian who has protected the empire and continent for decades is not so easily broken.”
The duke answered firmly.
A situation where your head is complicated and everything is full of questions.
However, time did not wait for Arin.
Arin made a decision right away.
“As the princess of the Wusif Empire, I give this order. Don’t die, Duke Berthe! You must repent and reflect on all the sins you have committed!”
Duke Berthe could not answer right away.
“Answer me, Duke Berthe!”
“The princess’s orders… … “I will follow.”
Just there.
There was no need to say anything more.
Arin finally turned around, barely suppressing the many emotions rising up.
Then, I started running away in the opposite direction with Nana and Lunav.
Only after the women had completely disappeared from sight did Duke Berthe turn back to the Demon King.
I knew it myself.
That he is not in a normal state right now.
He is deluded by an unknown power and absolutely follows the words of his eldest son, Eshel.
but,
‘I would like to ask you one favor, not as an emperor but as a close friend.’
For the past several decades, we have been fighting for the peace of the empire and the continent with the emperor’s grace.
The belief as a guardian that has been built up over nearly a lifetime cannot be changed even if a god comes.
A situation where you have to prove that belief one last time.
In Duke Berthe’s mind, the request that Emperor Dione had made at the front line 10 years ago clearly rose in his mind.
‘If a situation arises where I die before you… … Please quietly remove that child. ‘I just want you to be able to live a normal life as an ordinary person, with absolutely nothing to do with the imperial family.’
Emperor Dione asked that if he were to die before the Duke, he would save Princess Arin from the fierce wind of blood that was expected after his death.
However, no one, including the emperor and duke at the time, would have expected it.
The current Princess Arin is,
That he has become the only being who can take responsibility for the future of the Usif Empire and the Human World.
“I will definitely protect it. “Your Majesty the Emperor!”
Duke Berthe declared his loyalty to the emperor and transferred magical power to his sword.
and,
“I ask you to do what my poor father could not do. Please create the world you want… … draft!”
After finishing his final maintenance for his most trustworthy child, Duke Berthe rushed forward.
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I followed Duke Berthe’s words and ran away, but the situation was still urgent.
“I don’t really want to beat the clock, but the time those knights can give us is at most two minutes, which is probably not enough time for us to get out of Arem.”
Since Lunab had seen the power of the Demon King with her own eyes, she warned that the same situation as before could soon resume.
“draft! We need to find Xian! Can you find Lunav?”
“Currently, there are too few clues. I only know that my senior went here, but other than that… … .”
For a moment, I stopped running breathlessly so as not to waste time.
“… … !”
The three women felt threatened and stopped in front of a road that split in two directions.
I immediately noticed that there was someone next to the left street corner, hidden by the building.
At this, Nana sharpened her eyes and glared fiercely at him.
It was a much more negative and wary reaction than when facing the demon lord.
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The sound of footsteps could be clearly heard in the suddenly quiet atmosphere.
The owner of the footsteps appeared in front of the three women.
First of all, it would be obvious, but it wasn’t a person.
However, they were not demons either.
The energy felt distinctly different from that of ordinary demons, and Arin’s gaze naturally turned to Nana.
There is only one reason.
It was because I somehow felt a similar energy from the unidentified being that appeared in front of me and Nana next to me.
That means that the being in front of them right now is,
“Devil Dragon?”
It meant the devil dragon that Arin encountered as soon as she came to the demon world a little while ago.
“… … .”
The unidentified being quietly raised its hand towards it without saying a word.
Then a black magic circle was created beneath their feet.
Lunav, who realized that it was a transfer magic circle, hurriedly tried to cast a counter-magic, but
-Whoa!
The bodies of the three women were already engulfed in light by the magic circle and were transported to an unknown location.
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“OMG! “It’s so crazy!”
A dragon who enters an unfamiliar subspace whose identity is unknown and wanders without being able to do this or that.
Mishka thought that he was probably the only person on the entire continent to have experienced something like this.
What on earth does this mean?
In order to carry out the leader’s irresistible orders, he was even able to tolerate accompanying the human who had previously tried to eat him.
However, this human being, who is not good at chewing on anything (of course he doesn’t seem to be able to do it), is not enough to tell me to connect between sub-space and sub-space, so he just leaves, leaving me here alone.
Mishka, who was unwantedly left alone, had no idea what to do, and had been stomping around in Xi’an’s subspace for several hours.
“Are you really doing this because I have some kind of bad relationship with that human being? “He’s gone beyond this and I can’t tell if he’s alive or dead!”
I tried several times to reopen the subspace containing the cyan, but once it was closed, the subspace could hardly be opened.
“No. Now that I think about it, how do I know what happened to that guy? I already did everything Nagel told me to do, right? Yes, that’s right! “I have to leave here now!”
After much deliberation, Mishka decided on a direction and smiled awkwardly.
Then, a gate leading out was created.
“What happens to you is none of my business! I would welcome it more if I could never come out… … !”
-Whoa!
Mishka, who was about to go out of the gate, stopped immediately when he heard a familiar sound from behind him.
In addition to the gate you created, another gate was created.
Mishka quickly turned his head and couldn’t help but be shocked.
“W-what are you?”
The person who came out of the gate was none other than Xian.
However, the atmosphere was very different from when I entered.
Although he was not injured or in any life-threatening condition, he seemed to be in a very mental state.
Xian slowly raised his head and immediately made eye contact with Mishka.
“hey.”
Mishka flinched at the heavy question.
“why? what? “Why are you suddenly attaching weight to a topic that suddenly disappeared and then reappeared within a few hours?”
Still, I thought he would show his unyielding side by putting his pride as a dragon first, but
“You come to Arem with me.”
“… … ?”
Mishka could not bring himself to deny what he said next.
(Continued in the next part)
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