Chapter 114 – Chapter 02: The Gold Half Is the Hero, the Half Is XXX
The problem was that he was too absorbed in the emotions that had colored the time of Genos, who had lived a life no different from a machine of lovingkindness thanks to Moon Gok-seong.
Unlike the past years when I lived with only feelings of loving-kindness, all the emotions I came to know as a woman were not just positive emotions.
If positive emotions such as love, friendship, emotion, and joy exist, negative emotions such as jealousy, sadness, and hatred also exist.
However, Genos, who had lived as the embodiment of love under Moon Gok-seong, realized this fact too late.
For others, he would have learned to control emotions as he grew up, but he realized them too late and did not know how to control them.
‘So that… So, like an asshole, I did it with my own hands…’
Because he didn’t know how to control it, he went wild, and at the end of that runaway, Genos made a mistake that could never be reversed.
And by the time he realized the mistake he had made, it was already too late.
Your own life, the life of someone you love… , And even the fate of the world he was supposed to save had come to an end.
Therefore, at that point, the girl who knew the world as just a woman named Genos, not as an incarnation of Moon Gok-seong, was broken. … No, I wanted to be broken.
‘But why… , Why, why, why, why, why… !!!!!’
Yes, he wanted to ruin it. I just wanted to be completely broken and forget the feeling of cutting the person I loved with my own hands, and the despair I felt when I realized that fact.
But I couldn’t forget it. The world’s greatest talent recognized by even the Holy Sword. The very talent that slowed her growth as a person, her Moon Gok-seong, prevented her from even achieving it.
Therefore, all that remains is a sense of shame toward himself and hatred toward the Crown Princess, who was the reason he ended up in the situation that led to the saint’s death.
… Lastly, I only feel disgusted with myself for harboring hatred toward the Crown Princess over an unqualified subject.
There was no hope in life. No, there was, but she destroyed that hope with her own hands.
It’s not just about crushing one’s hopes. Furthermore, he destroyed the world’s hopes, and as a result, he failed even in his job as a warrior.
Why on earth should I live like that?
Therefore, if all Genos wanted was her death, it would certainly be the worst punishment for her to have to continue living in this hopeless world as her slave.
And Genos did not have the confidence to endure such punishment on his own.
However, it was impossible to take her own life. By killing the saint she loved with her own hands, she is now downgraded from a warrior to the worst criminal.
Therefore, the empire did not allow her to die on her own terms, and as proof of that, a platinum-grade slave engraving was engraved on her back.
As long as she has this slave imprint, she is treated as a slave and cannot even take her own life without her master’s permission.
‘Rather… , I would rather let it get ruined. Please God… , Please give me death…’
That’s why she wanted to be broken. But she couldn’t be broken. Then she wanted to die. But she couldn’t die.
As if God really existed and told her to suffer for her sanity as she was punished for the sins she committed, former Hero Genos was just living today in pain.
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… And Genos was waiting for his death to be sold as a slave through a slave auction house.
However, contrary to Genos’s thoughts, she was not exhibited at the slave auction house.
That would be because Eugene had gotten her out of the way by transferring her property and shares of her stock in her former possession, allowing her to operate for her own good.
‘Why…’
Genos, who had become Eugene’s slave, had a hard time understanding the situation. That’s because she knew the person named Stral Zenon well.
She also helped get Stral Zenon expelled from her academy at the request of Lore, the person she loved.
Genos, who had originally infiltrated the Academy as a warrior, could not ignore his demons.
Therefore, it is natural that she cooperates with her Lore to prove the charges of her demons who had infiltrated her academy and Stral Zenon, who was in collusion with her.
Therefore, the story goes that his appearance was completely unexpected for Genos, who knew how new the spirit named Stral Zenon was and had thought he would never meet again after being exiled from the Academy.
That’s why he was embarrassed, and at the same time, he felt complicated feelings about Stral and his position, which was 180 degrees different from when he was expelled from the academy.
Strahl, who seems to be living a fine life despite being exiled to the Academy and even deprived of his status as a child of the Grand Duke’s family.
In contrast, he, who was a warrior, harmed a saint with his own hands and is waiting to be sold as punishment with a slave engraved on his back.
It is only natural that Strahl would feel shame and other emotions when faced with such a person.
‘How could that Stral Zenon have this much money…? … ?’
But beyond that, what was most incomprehensible was that Strahl Zenon had enough money to personally purchase himself, who was entangled in all kinds of international relations.
It was understandable if he was a descendant of the Grand Duchy of Zenon. However, he was expelled from the academy and at the same time was deprived of his noble title as the child of a grand duke.
Since his whereabouts were unknown after that, it was thought that he had died somewhere or had been reduced to an illegal slave by other nobles who had a grudge against him.
But contrary to Genos’s thoughts, he was alive and well.
Is it even possible to pay even if you belong to the Grand Duchy? A situation where I even purchased Genos with a fortune that made me think.
Therefore, when Genos was in that situation, he came up with several hypotheses and despaired after thinking of the most likely one.
‘Has he completely transferred to the Demon King’s army, a traitor to humanity…? … !’
It was a reasonable guess. In order for Stral, who was almost an outcast from humanity, to possess this level of wealth, he would have had to join the enemy of humanity, not humanity.
In that sense, the amount that Stral willingly gave to purchase Genos was not Stral’s property, but the property of the Demon Lord.
If it were a demon that came from the demon world through a dungeon and is still secretly lurking among humanity, even if it was a former warrior, it would be possible to borrow this amount of money to secure it.
Therefore, Genos despaired even more in an already despairing situation.
Beyond just being punished by having to live as a sinner, they now end up being used as the hands and feet of the devil’s army.
Should I escape late? That thought occurred to her, but the slave imprint engraved on her back did not allow it, so all she could do was act like an even more thoroughly useless tool.
Therefore, Genos, who was sold to Stral, or more precisely, Eugene, who possessed Stral’s body, was completely acting as an autistic child.
Due to slave imprinting, they are forced to follow orders but cannot communicate.
Therefore, I hope that you will realize that it is better to dispose of it than to use it, and dispose of yourself as you cannot even choose to rest on your own.
… However, contrary to Genos’s expectations, the reality that I faced after becoming his slave and moving with him was not that I was a slave to the Demon King’s army.
An encounter with an unknown girl elf. And the actions of that elf trying to kill her without any reason and her stral trying to convince her somehow.
In addition, the elf saw through Genos’s acting, which he could not go crazy even if he wanted to, and warned him, and soon even showed himself freely manipulating an energy that was more like that of a demon king than that of a demon king.
After seeing that, Genos thought that he had become a slave to the Demon King’s army, but as time passed, he had no choice but to conclude that was not the case.
She could not be said to belong to the Demon King’s army because the conversation between Strahl and the elf was of a completely different line from what she had thought.
Some of the words and content in the conversation between the two were completely beyond Genos’s understanding, but within her understanding, it was difficult to say that the conversation between the two belonged to the Demon King’s army.
… Rather, listening to the conversation between the two people who do not hide anything in front of Genos because they are slaves, isn’t it closer to the one trying to protect humanity at all costs rather than the demon king army, which is the enemy of humanity? It was to the point where I thought,
No, this was limited to when two people had a serious conversation, and if you listen to their conversations in everyday life, you would think that they were just newlyweds in the prime of their lives.
… To be honest, she was judged to be a vicious newlywed and not an ordinary newlywed, considering that she mixed her body whenever she had the chance and sometimes showed it off to herself, who was a slave on the elf side.
In particular, every time he showed off like that, Genos felt disgusted with his own body, which went against his master’s will and went into heat at will even in this hopeless reality, but let’s skip this part for now.
What was important was that the reality that Genos faced after becoming Stral’s slave was completely beyond her predictions, and at the same time, it was full of mysteries that she could not understand at all.
‘Why do elves call Stral Yeongsik by the name Jeol Yujin? Is the stral there the same stral I knew? From mannerisms to tone of voice and personality… , Above all, the level of supernatural ability is at a level that would be unthinkable if it were the Stral I knew?’
There were many other mysteries. If he didn’t belong to the Demon King’s army, how did Stral have enough wealth to purchase himself?
And what is it about Stral that he sometimes talks about in his conversations with the elf as if he knows the future?
… However, of all these riddles, what confused Genos the most was that the vicious villain Yeongsik Stral he knew and the current Stral could not match.
Basically, Stral was the villain spirit medium who treated everyone high-handedly, looked down on them, and treated them poorly, and was literally a gender-switched version of the villain medium who appeared in the roman novel.
However, Stral, who purchased Genos, was not like that at all.
Starting with her differences in her petty behavior and beggar, if she was originally a stral, then Genos, her former warrior, committed her asshole behavior and the part of her that became her slave was sure to look down on her and insult her personally. I would have done it.
Strahl, who was also the embodiment of inferiority complex, could not have liked a warrior who was treated more precious than himself despite being the child of a grand duke and a commoner.
So, of course, there was no way Genos would leave her alone when he was no longer her hero and became her own slave.
Compared to when they were expelled from the Academy, it was clear that they would try to relieve their feelings of inferiority by showing off their positions, which had changed 180 degrees.
‘But you didn’t.’
Yeah, I didn’t. After purchasing Genos as a slave, Stral did not insult him in any way.
Rather, it was not her stral that was insulting her, but her girl elf side with whom he was staying.
Strahl, in her role, only showed her actions to appease her when she insulted her xenos, her words.
In other words, the current Stral cannot be considered the same person as Stral Zenon, the villainous spirit that Genos knew.
But it was the same person. His appearance was such that anyone who knew him would think he was Strahl.
However, he did not actually call himself Strahl. In addition, he acted like a completely different person from Stral.
In that regard, Genos can assert that Stral, who has become his master and now calls himself Jeol Yu-jin, is the most difficult person to understand at the moment.
