Episode 292. Retribution (4)
Rogers silently moves through a scene filled with the foul smell of blood.
In addition to the smell of blood, his nose was filled with other smells as well.
If I had to express it, would I say it is a smell full of screams and despair?
It was the kind of smell that naturally spreads when a creature nearing death cries out in unbearable pain and goes crazy.
Rogers was particularly familiar with this smell.
There was always the same person at the end of the scene where this smell spread.
Rogers stopped when he saw the back of someone familiar at the end of the road.
His master and absolute ruler of the demon world.
It was the demon king Belkarion.
“hmm? “When did you get here, Rogers?”
“I just arrived.”
Belkarion welcomed Rogers with a blood-soaked smile.
In front of him, a strange, unidentifiable body lay covered in blood.
After bowing, Rogers manifested mana in his hands and took long strides toward the Demon King.
As usual, it was to clean up what he had done.
“No, it’s okay. don’t do it.”
However, Belcarion stopped this.
“Are you just going to leave it like that?”
“I don’t really want to erase any traces. “There are no demon residences around here anyway, right?”
“Anyone who sees it will know that it was the Demon Lord’s doing.”
“Yes, it would be better if you did.”
Belkarion seemed to want that more.
“Wouldn’t it be a way to prove myself with some warnings?”
“What are you trying to prove?”
“My true nature as a demon lord still clearly remains. “No matter when, where, or who, everyone will realize that it’s not easy to make something like this if I put my mind to it.”
Belcarion looked at the corpse and smiled sinisterly.
Rogers, who was examining the body, frowned slightly.
“It’s not that Eshel guy… … .”
“That’s right. Instead, this is the witch who created the pendant that tormented Betsy. This bitch said that that Eshel guy is no longer in the demon world.”
“Then where?”
“He doesn’t even know. “If you’re curious, did you tell me to go to the Human World?”
When the Human World was mentioned again from the Demon King’s mouth, Rogers swallowed his saliva.
“You’re going… … Are you thinking?”
It was indeed a question with many implications.
Rogers’ face suddenly became very tense, and Belcarion smiled brightly as he looked back at Rogers.
“well?”
Behind him, the Four Swords Heroic Spirit was still crying like crazy, craving blood.
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“What on earth are you thinking, Marian?”
“Didn’t we agree not to ask any more questions from each other?”
“If the behavior was understandable in the first place, there is no room for questioning. “Why did you intercept the prey they were chasing?”
“It’s not like it was intercepted. I’m just tying it up for a while. “It’s not something I did because I wanted to in the first place.”
“I wonder if supreme beings also see it that way. “I have doubts.”
Marian shrugged her shoulders as if she didn’t really care, and Nagel stared at her with a suspicious gaze.
“Are you planning to cooperate with the God of Black Mist?”
“Why is this like this? Don’t you know that you and I are just mediators who don’t get involved in the affairs of this world? “It’s difficult to think that way about just this one thing.”
“You asked the wrong question. “Is the Goddess of Blue Water thinking of collaborating with the God of Black Mist?”
The moment the goddess was mentioned, her eyebrows moved subtly.
“I didn’t know he was such a curious man. why? Do you want to join in too?”
“You sound terrible. “When you’re done with your business, get out of my sub-space quickly.”
“I still think so.”
Marian immediately created a gate.
I thought about going that way, but then I looked back at Nagel and said.
“You’ve definitely become a lot more human.”
“What does it mean?”
“It doesn’t mean anything.”
After saying those words, Marian left the subspace with a satisfied smile.
Not long after she left, familiar footsteps were heard from across the space.
He had instructed me to bring him to him through Mishka,
It was Sian.
“… … .”
Sian, facing Nagel, looked at him with a strange gaze for some reason.
“The way you look at me is strange. “It looks like I’m hiding something?”
“Is it because I feel like I’m saying that because something stings me?”
Xian responded with a calm expression that neither smiled nor frowned.
“I don’t have the prey you were looking for. Moreover, it no longer exists in the demon world.”
Xian didn’t ask any other questions, as if he already knew this.
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“As a successor to the supreme blood, I have lived as the mediator of this land for a thousand years. I’ve seen a lot of humans over those thousand years. There were people like you who made a contract with a god, and there were also people who handled other gods’ weapons besides the holy sword and the magic sword. However, their endings were generally not good.”
The thousand years of time that Nagel spoke of clearly included the history of an older era whose records have now been erased.
“No, not mostly. Without a single exception, they all met an unfortunate end. They were secretly proud of the fact that they had been chosen by God, but they probably realized it all at the moment of death. God’s choice is neither a blessing nor a grace, but a curse that signals the beginning of destruction… … .”
“Why are you telling me that now? Are you planning on giving me a late warning?”
“Let me ask you one question, human. “Would you not back down even if the being standing in your way was a god?”
“Are you going to kill me?”
“You are creatures. Do you think that as creatures, we can stand against them, our Creator?”
“Is there any reason not to?”
Nagel could not continue speaking in response to Sian’s retort.
“It’s been a long time since I became a thorn in the eyes of those proud creators. If I want to survive, I must deny them and desperately resist them. “It’s not your place to discuss possibilities.”
To survive,
An entity that must inevitably resist in order to exist.
That was the heavy yoke that a man named Sian Bert had to bear.
“Then go to Pruina.”
“… … !”
“The path you seek will be there.”
Pruina, the land of the White Elves, where the harsh cold winds blow in the northern part of the Human World.
Nagel suddenly suggested to Sian that he should find a way there.
“Normally in a situation like this, I would ask why you are helping me… … .”
Sian frowned and faced him, but then opened her mouth with her arms crossed.
“I guess I’ll have to ask something else now. “What do you think of human beings?”
Nagel answered right away without hesitation.
“I think it’s no different at all.”
Sian continued to ask the question again without stopping.
“The inexperienced dragon who came to pick me up said that you had been to Human World about 9 years ago… … .”
Nagel’s eyelids drooped slightly.
“By coincidence, I found it at exactly that time. Born between a human and a dragon… … “I’m talking about a dragon’s egg.”
Sian paused for a moment and looked at his reaction.
However, Nagel only slightly moved at first and did not show any particular reaction.
“Why aren’t you talking more?”
Rather, he seemed to urge them first.
“Do you want to ask whether the child who came looking for you is related to me?”
“It doesn’t seem like there’s any need to hear an answer.”
However, Xian dismissed the statement, saying he would not listen to the answer.
“Then let me ask again. “What do you think of that child?”
“person.”
It was a firm answer without any hesitation.
“A person by my side, someone I must protect. “That’s it.”
“No matter how much you consider yourself a human being, you cannot deny the nature you were born with.”
“Didn’t you just say that too? Are you saying that humans and dragons are no different from each other? If you think you are a human, you are a human. If you think you are a dragon, you are a dragon. “I don’t intend to force anything there.”
At those words, Nagel just smiled silently.
I don’t know what meaning that smile contained, but it didn’t seem like there were very negative thoughts.
After saying those words, Sian turned around, and Nagel did not catch him as he walked away.
‘Papa is just my papa. It has no other meaning.’
A situation in which the image of Nana, who dared to say something bold to him, flashes clearly before his eyes.
“okay. If you are, then it must be like that… … .”
Nagel recalled that scene and whispered softly to himself.
* * *
-Whoa!
As the entrance to Lemea Gorge appeared through the thick fog, Mishka immediately folded its wings and settled on the ground.
“get off! Because we’ve arrived!”
Then, with a disgusted look on his face, he shouted at me to get off.
“You’re so grumpy.”
“Who was the one who pampered me until the end? “If I ever interact with humans again, I won’t be a dragon!”
“If you’re curious about the human world, come over again sometime. “When you come over, make sure you come in a polymorphed state, otherwise you may be misunderstood.”
“I’m not going! “I won’t go away even if I die!”
Mishka ran away into the sky, shouting that he was already sick and tired of it.
A faint smile appeared on my face as I thought that it wasn’t a bad relationship.
[Can I really go on like this?]
“My work here is done. “There’s no reason to stay any longer when it’s over.”
[Just because your work is done doesn’t mean everything is over, right? Do you think that demon lord is going to let you go like this?]
“There’s no reason not to send it… … .”
As I was moving forward, I suddenly stopped and looked straight ahead.
[Look at that.]
Kayram looked at me and smiled proudly.
Exactly twenty steps ahead.
“Where are you going in such a hurry?”
The Demon King, who I don’t know how long I’ve been waiting for, waved his hand and greeted me.
“I just want to go back because my work is done.”
“through? Eshel Did you even find that guy first? “I don’t think that’s right?”
The Demon King tilted his head and slowly began to approach my direction.
“That witch named Haniel, why did you hand it over to me?”
He then asked why he handed Haniel over to himself instead of killing him.
“What did you mean by killing her instead of Eshel and letting go of her anger?”
“I guess that depends on what you think.”
I neither confirmed nor denied this.
“That bitch said that? That guy named Eshel is no longer in the demon world. I heard that if you want to find it, go to Human World? “Seeing as you’re trying so hard to go back to the Human World, I don’t think it’s a lie, right?”
“So, what do you want to say that you will find that guy and move on?”
As soon as I spoke, I immediately became alert and entered a defensive posture to prepare for an unexpected situation.
Depending on what he says next, my next action will be determined.
“You can’t do that. “You promised me from the beginning.”
“… … ?”
“Are you asking me not to come over to the Human World? “I am a man who keeps a promise he makes, even if it means betraying his nature.”
“Are you serious?”
I asked back because I was genuinely curious.
Are you going to keep the promise you made 10 years ago because you think it’s still valid?
You, the devil, are you and no one else?
“Of course, I’m not saying I’m just going to let you go.”
For a moment, it seemed like demonic energy was concentrated in his right hand, and then the Demon King’s absolute weapon, the Four Swords, appeared once again.
The Demon King aimed the summoned evil sword at me.
“one hour. Please play with me for just one hour. Then I’ll just let you go without saying anything. Of course, that’s assuming you’re still alive by then… … .”
“Are we going to have a final battle?”
“Aren’t you sad that it ended like this? “Let’s have some fun with just you and me, with no one to interfere or stop us!”
He is truly a man you don’t know even if you know him.
If you survive this situation and face the final battle, you will be sent away.
To put it another way, wouldn’t it mean that you don’t want to leave behind any regrets?
It was also a condition that I had no reason not to accept.
I quietly took out Keiram, aimed it at the evil sword, looked into the Demon King’s eyes, and spoke softly.
“It’s nothing bad… … .”
(Continued in the next part)
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