Chapter 240 – Chapter 240. The Moment When the Innocent First Love Fell
Devil.
A being who descends for the sake of the mortal future that this world is supposed to advance.
No one knows why it appeared in this world and how it felt to destroy the world.
Both humans and demons.
And maybe the demon king himself too.
‘Are you the hero who will face me this time?’
Yes, that was what Mikhail felt when he first encountered the demon king.
He had an ego. He is talking.
But he lacked the will.
As if to teach that all the acts of destruction so far have not been initiated by himself, he just remains silent to carry out the mission entrusted to him.
When the time is right, it just jumps out into the world and creates destruction.
‘Okay. I am the last warrior you will meet.’
And to mankind at that time…
Furthermore, in the world, Mikhail was a being called the last hope.
Because before he came, many of the braves lost their lives without reaching this point.
And the Demon King, who has already started moving, will not stop until he annihilates everything in the world.
So he said that if even he were to fall, the current human race would not be able to hold out until the next hero was born…
‘… Am I alone?’
Mikhail’s shoulders, which held the sword, were heavily weighed down by such a heavy sense of mission.
Even if the only one who reached the Demon King’s side was himself.
‘Yes, I’m alone.’
Mikhail, who still hadn’t let go of his sword, prepared to attack the demon king with a single trembling but invisible eye.
He couldn’t even control that power, so he headed towards the demon king who was moving like a rampage at any moment.
With her haggard eyes, which had already faded as she wished, fixed them.
‘… I hope today will be the last of that tragic life.’
The sympathy of a transcendent being facing such a self was very quiet…
After a fierce battle, standing in front of the corpse, Mikhail suddenly had such a thought.
***
Yes, Mikhail survived.
He had no choice but to survive.
Because the responsibility of the last hero to challenge the demon lord was so heavy.
Even if another demon king descends into this world in the future, it’s just a matter of passing on that future to future generations.
For now, receiving compensation for all the tragedies that have been experienced is the only thing remaining in the world where the demon king has disappeared.
‘Mikhail, the hero, we will all remember your glorious journey!’
However, Mikhail could not bear to be immersed in their cheers.
Even when giving a speech on behalf of mankind, seeing people who have suffered so far looking for hope while looking at them, and facing children who are building up their longings and ideals while looking at them.
Nothing came to him as rewarding. He obviously saved the world, and even though it is clear that peace will come, at least in his generation…
It was because I felt the tragedies I had suffered on the journey to defeating the demon king keep flickering in my head.
‘Adal, Herestia, Swallow…’
Whenever I had free time, I always set foot in front of the graves with their names engraved on them.
An assassin from the shadows who always assisted the decrepit sage and saint, hidden from the eyes of the party…
Furthermore, numerous soldiers who gave their lives for themselves along with them.
‘… Melia.’
But what I can’t forget more than those who don’t already exist is the comrades who left the party earlier with a fate worse than being buried.
Melia. A long-lived girl who took advantage of the chaos of the world to find her people who were sold to the slave market.
And she is the opposite sex with whom she first fell in love.
‘I am not a kid. 400 years older than you.’
Of course, he was much older than himself, but elves spend most of their time in the forest.
There are many things you don’t know about the outside world, so it’s inevitable to ask for help from the people around you often.
As he took care of her like that, Mikhail suddenly felt her heart drawn to her.
‘You are a very kind person. If all humans were like you, there would be no kidnapping of my own people.’
The moment you take your eyes off it, the danger of not knowing where to go.
Even so, the mature side created by the past years is getting more and more eyes…
‘…Yes? Do you like me? Not as colleagues, but as members of the opposite sex?’
When I honestly confessed the thrill I felt at the end.
She seemed skeptical at first, as if she had never thought of it that way.
‘I’m sorry, but I think it will be difficult for you to accept that confession. It’s not that I hate you… On the contrary, they are much better than other people. You’ve taken care of me a lot, and you’ve been sincere for my people.’
‘It’s just that our tribe originally had such a culture. I guess it’s because I live so long that I don’t have much interest in the world… Even more so, having that kind of heart toward a species with a difference in lifespan makes me instinctively wary.’
Yes, no matter how strong a hero is, he is also human.
As her years pass, he too will grow old, and seeing the grave of the woman who left her world like that, she will live with her sorrow as much as she gave her heart to her.
Even though she sees the graves of her comrades right now and is saddened by herself, she can’t shake that feeling.
How great must the heartache felt by elves living thousands of years?
‘Then let’s do this.’
Even so, she seems to have found some meaning in her time with herself.
She did not reject her own confession right away, but was willing to give her the slightest chance.
‘Unfortunately, I’ve never thought about liking someone or anything like that. So, if it doesn’t make sense to me even after confessing, it’s just a matter of you teaching me how you feel, right?’
By nature, he shuns ties with anyone other than his own people.
That’s why love is a race that can’t awaken emotions.
‘Mikhail, teach me love while you are with me.’
Even so, value the time you spend with yourself.
As if to make it a memory to soothe the long time ahead.
***
Yes, the hero was in love.
In the midst of leading her weary mind and body weighed down by the task of saving her world, the presence of a little woman who was with her was approaching like sweet licorice.
She said that with her, she could do anything.
Furthermore, she wants to protect this world in which she will live by planting her roots in the future.
‘… Sorry.’
However, the effort to add love to the sense of duty is colorless.
Tragedy came so suddenly that it devastated their relationship.
‘I’m sorry, I did something reckless, so I…’
There was no way there was no choice in the first place.
In the first place, she came out of her forest into her world to save her own people from captivity by slave hunters.
Even if she had faced the malice of trying to placate herself by using them as bait, she would have had no choice but to shake off the dissuades of her colleagues and head there.
‘… So, don’t cry.’
She said that if she had noticed herself a little sooner, she could have stopped it.
But even if she regretted it, it was already too late to rectify it.
When she noticed it belatedly and arrived at the place where she was, she saw her being raised in the same space as the orcs who were imprisoned as slaves.
Mikhail only saw her like that, and she couldn’t help but recall very clearly what had happened to her.
‘Don’t cry, Mikhail, because I’m fine…’
Her lively figure, her curiosity and favor, all of which she had always seen, were engulfed in her lethargic fatigue, and she greeted herself with even her body covered in her white liquid.
She, who wanted to save her world, was the woman who had first captivated her, and she welcomed herself with her virginity miserably stolen by a bird she didn’t even know.
‘Really, it’s okay. It’s just that it’s my first time experiencing something like this, so I’m just a little surprised…’
Even so, the moment she saw her giving her words of consolation as if to reassure herself, her Mikhail felt that something she had built up inside her was gradually disintegrating.
The time she spent with her was filthy ugly.
Because she felt that even her sense of mission, which had been strengthened by her love for her, was going wrong in a chain…
‘Rather, too…’
Yes, because what has already happened has already happened.
No matter what she does afterward, no matter how much time she spends, her memory of this moment will never be erased.
A pure and neat elf who came out into the world without knowing anything.
The moment that awakened her craving for pleasure that had been dormant in her inborn nature that she was not even aware of.
‘I, right now, I feel so good… ♥’
Yes, that can no longer happen.
She’s already drunk on her own pleasure, she’s going to love someone purely.
***
I sincerely loved you.
Even now, more than half a century after that, she couldn’t erase her thoughts, but she couldn’t bear to go find her again.
After that day, going to find her after she slipped out of her party on the pretext of her recuperation, because her presence on that day would only remind her of her tragedy.
Yes, it was a memory that must be forgotten in her life.
Because he still loves her wholeheartedly, Mikhail decides to erase her own presence from her life, which will serve as a medium for her memories.
Even if her companions left her side one by one after that day, and soon she was left alone.
Even though the number of people who know his face gradually decreases in the world, and now only his name roams the world.
There will be no reason to tell the crowd of people who only yearn for hope about my life full of tragedies.
‘I won’t forget.’
No more though.
Almost settled in a mausoleum where no one visits, he has been drinking and drinking every day to soothe his weary heart.
‘I won’t forget. All that sight.’
Even if everyone in the world forgets them and is intoxicated with only the glorious results, only he himself…
Because he, who personally experienced all the stories, had no choice but to live without forgetting the journey.
‘I want to forget, but I can’t.’
That’s why I want anyone to be freed from this terrible life.
I hope that you will free yourself from the shackles of this fate, as you cannot take your own life because you do not want to forget them.
‘Should I make you forget?’
Yes, an opportunity to change that fate has come.
The moment that person appeared in front of him with bottles of wine lined up in front of the tomb, Mikhail felt the fact.
‘… What are you?’
Even if I was drunk, I could tell.
That she is a demon
The bewitching outfit, with white skin and mysterious colors, sharp horns and bat-like wings, was definitely from the demons.
‘He’s someone who can make your wishes come true.’
Such a being whispered to him in a sweet voice.
A voice that would inevitably seduce even the person who was perfected as a hero the moment he was caught off guard.
***
And, after that, after that…
No, I couldn’t remember what happened.
All she knew was that she accepted her offer, accepted the power she had given her into her body, and was born with her destiny as the demon king.
Until that happened, he couldn’t remember what he wanted to achieve, but whatever it was, Mikhail wanted to endlessly remind himself that this was also his will.
No matter what the process was, the beginning was his own will.
So at the end of this journey, he firmly believes that what he wants will come true, and Mikhail repeats endlessly following the power that his instincts lead.
Destroy everything that blocks you on the way, and burst into flames…
“You are the Demon King.”
The moment he met the short-haired woman he met at the end of it, Mikhail stopped her steps in front of her and engraved that figure into her eyes and thought.
Even though the person in front of me was the first warrior I encountered after becoming the Demon King.
At least I’m sure it won’t be the last.
