Chapter 184 – Chapter 184. Your Secret Story You Don’t Know (1)
After Celica’s weeping ended the act, she silently put on her clothes and left her tent.
She didn’t bother to stop her.
Because the cold-blooded man, who didn’t seem to be able to shed a drop of blood even if he was stabbed by her sword, shed tears.
How can we regard her as her cruel madman, when in fact everything she has ever seen is to some extent contrary to her true intentions?
“… Dave.”
“I’m fine, so I’m sleeping. Because there is no problem.”
Afterwards, Heira, who was left in her tent, stroked her hair and covered her with a blanket over it.
So that the girl who understood the cruel hero’s true intentions before me could sleep peacefully.
“Dave.”
Heira, who gradually laid her tired body down like that, soon began to call my name and express her concerns.
“Do you hate Celica?”
“…”
“… Dave.”
“Hey, did you notice? That Celica now is a different person.”
Heira nodded her head quietly.
However, there was no hostility towards Celica.
“Anyway, I think it will be fine.”
Unlike me, who has not yet shaken off all of her vigilance even after seeing her tears.
“… Hey.”
“Unlike Dave, I don’t know the details of Celica’s condition. She thinks that unless Celica unnie tells her directly, she shouldn’t know.”
Can’t you know
Did she know what she said in front of me and was she saying that?
Even if I revealed her true self, unlike me, I didn’t even convey that intention to this girl?
“I can be sure of one thing, though.”
Still, Heira said.
Not even me, and maybe not even Celica herself.
“Serica, she likes us all.”
Her true feelings felt through her unique innate senses.
Even in a quiet voice, with conviction.
“Dave and I, Ymir and Verdia too.”
“…”
“… There must be circumstances with Celica-nee too. Dave.”
Last whisper before going to sleep.
When Heira, who held my hand tightly with him, fell asleep, I stroked her hair and quietly left her tent.
In order to face Celica, who was standing there as if waiting for me, even though she had left her seat.
“The wind is nice. Shall we take a short walk?”
Facing me, she was smiling.
As if all the joys and sorrows of the past were forgotten…
No matter how good you are, you can definitely feel that it is acting.
***
The highlands we arrived at after leaving the forest are very barren.
Even sparsely visible plants have evolved into a skinny form to minimize water consumption.
Even so, once you set your eyes on it, there was a place that focused your attention there.
In a place where there is no ceiling called the sky, you can look up equally from anywhere.
“Are you okay here? The wind is good, and I can see the sky well.”
Yes, I already understood that the sky in the Demon King’s Spirit is beautiful while working with Heira.
“I found it while walking around with Heira earlier. The night sky looking up from here is so pretty, I wanted to show it to Dave as well.”
She asked me with her back to the night sky.
“Does Dave like stars?”
Just pure.
Celica asks me to appreciate the sky behind me.
However, even though the magnificent view that dominates half of the world existed in front of her eyes, my eyes could not help but focus on her who stood in the middle.
“… I like you.”
“Yeah, that’s good. Dave likes stars too…”
“I like you.”
“…”
The moment you stop talking.
But I said it over and over again.
“I like Celica.”
Even if the beginning was a lie.
Even though I was just a person who went through to take advantage of her, now I have come to like her.
“… Yes, me too.”
It is the same with her who experienced the future.
“I like Dave too.”
Even though I may have induced it that way, even now that I have learned all the truth, I have not lost my heart for myself.
It must have grown even bigger during the time he had traveled through the ruined world.
That’s why she longed for a relationship with me, and at the end of it, she couldn’t hold on to her feelings of happiness and shed tears.
“But why… Did we have to be like this?”
Yes, the sadness revealed now comes from that reality.
No matter how much he confirmed his feelings in his actions with me, he couldn’t come to the conclusion that he was willing to quit the policy he had adhered to before.
“… What did you see in the future?”
It was so shocking to see what I saw in the future, and it was a fact that I couldn’t overlook.
“What did you see that made you want to die to me?”
If he wanted to understand her feelings, he could no longer remain silent or blindly hostile to her.
That somehow she should know the truth she saw.
“… It would have been easier if I had just slit her neck earlier.”
When asked with such feelings, she just turned her head away with a soft smile.
“What…”
“Yeah, that’s right. If I leave it like this, I could really kill Heira and the other coworkers, but if I stabbed you while you were crazy about your cock, wouldn’t everything be over?”
Fair and playful attitude.
However, it would not be an illusion to feel sad at the gaze looking down at me at this moment.
“But Dave is kind. Even a trashy woman like this would consider herself a woman just because she loves her…”
I saw it and realized it again.
That she’s not some crazy madman.
No matter how the mind was, no matter what reason I let go, the foundation came from the Celica I knew.
“… Too much Something like a villain to me.”
Based on the morality of a warrior who wants to save the world, he always chooses a way to protect more people…
Even so, a pitiful being who couldn’t bear to suppress his heart and decided to make a tragic choice.
“No matter how hard you kill your heart and try to intimidate your comrades… You don’t want to be hated, do you?”
Even if you stray, if you correct your mind, you can be reunited with that kind of existence.
That’s why I wanted to hold her as her woman.
Because in her longing for her relationship with me, she felt her true love for me.
“… Celica.”
“I won’t tell you directly.”
Such a being immediately turned away from me and spoke quietly.
“The things that happened at that time are memories that I want to forget. Can you forgive me for being mean like this?”
I understand.
I can see her consideration and kindness towards me even in her already engaged in affair, wouldn’t it be too cruel to tell her to put her tragedy that she couldn’t handle?
“Still, if I had to give you a hint… Um, yes.”
Even so, she had already established her relationship with me, and confirmed her own heart by immersing herself in it.
As if it was impossible to keep the distance any longer, she took advantage of this moment and started whispering an opportunity to me.
“If I, a warrior, couldn’t do anything, there would be only one, right?”
Things that the main axis of this world cannot handle will happen in the future.
The first thing that came to mind was the devil’s attack. Because she said with her own mouth that her party members were all dead.
After that, she wanders around the destroyed world, and for some reason, she says that her hatred towards me has blossomed…
“… Haha, what is that?”
At that moment, what came to my mind the most was a very absurd conclusion.
Possibilities that have never been imagined and should not even be thought of.
“Could it be that I become the Demon King?”
The moment she spoke of that absurd possibility as if it were a joke, I felt her eyes looking down at me turn a dark color.
A smile is still drawn on her lips, but no words come out of her mouth…
It’s like saying that the silence that you can’t even denial but can’t spit out is your answer.
“… Isn’t it?”
“Well, what about it?”
It’s not negative.
Even if I ask him what I think, he doesn’t directly deny it.
“That is nonsense.”
“I think so too.”
I was so desperate that it didn’t make sense.
That’s why even though he had to hate me, he couldn’t give up his feelings for me and couldn’t even defeat the demon king with his own hands.
“… Dream.”
Even though all of that was revealed in her mouth, she couldn’t accept it as the truth, so she spit out negativity without even realizing it.
“It must be a dream.”
“You really think so?”
“Yeah, isn’t it? How can someone like me become a demon king…”
Although I have demonic power in my body, it is far less than the real demons.
I don’t know how the demon king is created, but among the demons, if one is born with great power, there must be countless other suitable people in this world besides me.
“Yeah, I just had a bad dream.”
Celica would be well aware of that.
The present that has returned to the past, seeing my shabby appearance now, there is no way I can think of it as the same as that of the future.
“Serica, you know that too, right? You now…”
“The Dream Demon Queen messed with my mind and made her mind unstable. In order to fix that, you guys entered the Demon King’s Territory in search of a witch.”
Maybe it was a dream that I saw when my mind collapsed.
Scary to mention that possibility, the conclusion about the current situation came out of her mouth.
