Chapter 33 – 32. Wake Up
Inside the quiet library, Arthur was sitting in a corner and quietly reading a book.
Normally, it was class time, so I had to stay in the classroom, but today all the students had come to the library because of Professor Serena’s assignment.
This is because the assignment was a problem that had not been taught in class, and the condition was that the student must obtain the necessary information from the library, solve the problem, and submit it within class time.
“. It wasn’t that difficult.”
Of course, it was an easy task for Arthur, who was faster at counting books he had not read, but the difficulty of the task can be guessed from the fact that even Fabian was looking through several books for over an hour.
Sometimes, this is good… Do I feel like I’m a bad student(?), Doing something else on my own during class?
Arthur chuckled at her own thoughts and started reading again. She heard noises outside, but she didn’t care because she had plenty of class left.
ㅡBoom!!
“Hi!!”
It’s a surprise! What does this mean?
While concentrating on her book, she heard a sound coming from above and Arthur’s eyes naturally turned to the ceiling, the source of the sound.
“Huh.?”
Was there a hole like that in the ceiling originally? Now that I think about it, there are no other kids around, so where has everyone gone?
Only then did Arthur realize that the situation was going strangely, so he peeked her face out from the corner and began to look around her.
“Fabian—! Professor—!”
She shouted out to see if anyone was around, but there was no answer.
Did something happen during class and everyone left first because they couldn’t find me in the corner?
Of course, there were only many speculations, and nothing was certain, so she thought she should look for others first, and Arthur tried to get up to leave the library. Unless her own eyes saw something coming through the hole in the ceiling.
What are those… Black wings and horns? Could it be. A demon? They even invaded the academy? Let’s hide for now. I’m weak, so if I hide well, they won’t find me.
Considering that it had black wings and horns, it seemed certain that it was not human, so Arthur decided that it would be dangerous to leave now and crouched in a corner of the library.
“…”
About 10 minutes passed, but fortunately there was no sound from the demons.
. Did he go somewhere else? That’s a relief, but he might be lurking around…!
-Track! Crack!
“Heo-eok… Heo-eok…”
At that time, Arthur, who was hiding, heard the sound of running nearby, and he just put his head out a little and looked at the place where the sound came from.
“Ho. Are there any students left? “We have to run away quickly!!”
Seeing the man looking around for students with an urgent voice, Arthur appeared, thinking it was a rescue team.
“Over there?”
“Uh? Thank goodness you’re here!”
“Yes, please help me. There are demons around me right now…”
“It was difficult because it didn’t reach the exact location, right?”
Location.? What do you mean..? Looking at it now, the clothes aren’t even academy clothes…! Are you not from the academy?
Showing an unknown tool, the man began to approach Arthur. Arthur sensed something strange and tried to run away from the man, but before he knew it, he was grabbed by the back of the neck by the man who approached him.
“Please let go quickly!! “Let go of this!!”
What do we do? Is he a kidnapper? Why are you targeting me! What are the demons from earlier? I have no idea what happened now.
“Calm down, if you keep resisting I’ll want to kill you, right?”
Arthur’s body froze as he got goosebumps at the voice he heard, and when he slowly turned his head and looked at the man, he saw that his appearance was completely different from what he had seen at first.
At first, he was a man wearing ordinary clothes, but when his appearance changed, black wings were visible on his back, and his clothes were a suit.
At least his face was the same, but unfortunately a large horn was visible on top of his head.
“Demon, demon?!”
“That’s correct! But I’m a little busy, so would you please excuse me for a moment?”
““Mirror World””
As the demon spoke, the surrounding space was seen turning black.
“This is…”
As Arthur was embarrassed and muttered to himself, the demon approached Arthur and began to kindly explain.
“This is my own space! The advantage is that no one but me knows what happens here! Even the goddess you believe in. Haha!”
“Then why don’t you sleep first, because it’s interfering with what you’re doing?”
As the demon spoke, Arthur felt something enter the back of his neck and immediately lost consciousness and collapsed.
“Hmm~ Demon King, I will save you!”
The demon approached the fallen Arthur, placed its hand on Arthur’s forehead, and began to look at Arthur’s memories.
“. Strange? I need to have information about the Demon King in my memory.”
The demon’s face began to harden little by little as he closed his eyes and examined his memories.
“I have a lot of memories of magic, so it’s annoying to read. “It’s not a very important memory anyway, so I can erase it all, right?”
The demon politely asked Arthur, but of course, Arthur, who had collapsed, was unable to give any answer.
“Thank you! That’s kind of you. Then erase everything and voila! How is it? Since you erased everything about magic, it definitely became easier, right?”
Afterward, he searched his memories again, but the demons could not find any clues related to the demon king in Arthur’s memories.
“Ha. The Demon King’s soul is definitely there, but he has no memory.”
“Haha, don’t worry. If you erase the memories you don’t need, they will definitely come out!”
ㅡExcited. Excited.
Perhaps it was a side effect of erasing his memories, but Arthur’s nose began to bleed, and his body also began to have violent seizures.
“Oh my, I guess it’s because I have a human body, so I’m weak. I need to do this quickly!”
“Hmm… I swung the sword for a very long time. But I don’t need these memories, so I’ll erase them!”
At the same time, Arthur’s seizures began to get worse.
“Hold on just a little longer! This time… Um, who is this white-haired woman? There’s a lot of memory involved, but I don’t think it’s that important, so I can erase it all, right? Then…”
“Stop.”
The demon was startled by the sudden voice and looked at Arthur’s face.
“Demon King.?”
Arthur, who had escaped from the demon’s grasp, was standing in front of the demon.
“Ah.! Demon King! “This is how we meet again!”
“Yes, Raum.”
Lau M looked happy for a while before her expression began to darken.
“Demon King. The horn. Hasn’t it regained its full strength yet?”
“It’s strength, I guess it’s because I just woke up. Still, I’m satisfied that I woke up.”
“Fortunately, the.! I already failed because I couldn’t find her memories of the Demon Lord? Haha!”
“It seems to me that your demonic energy has awakened my sleeping soul. Perhaps such luck will never come again.”
After the Demon King finished speaking, Raum continued his speech with a nervous expression.
“I’m sorry, Demon King, but I don’t think you can go to the Demon King Castle right now. There are traitors now, and I think it will be dangerous if we continue as is.”
However, contrary to Raum’s expectations, who thought the Demon King would be angry, the Demon King’s expression did not change at all.
“Okay. “I can’t move right now anyway.”
“Demon King? What do you mean.”
“It seems like my soul and the human soul are tied together.”
Raum began to panic at the Demon King’s words.
“Well. If you’re the Demon Lord, you can easily corrupt and absorb the souls of ordinary humans.”
“Hmm. An ordinary human being. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a soul shining this brightly in my life.”
“He is probably a human closely related to a saint or a warrior.”
“Is that possible? I haven’t seen all the memories, but I couldn’t find a connection.”
Raum spoke carefully so as not to offend the Demon King, but the Demon King smiled and answered, ignoring these concerns.
“Don’t worry, I don’t have the initiative right now, but I can take it from you.”
“Is there a way?”
“Yeah, it looks easier than I thought. The soul shone brightly like the sun, but the light became weaker intermittently. Perhaps there was a serious illness in the soul.”
“Then maybe.?”
“Corruption, this is the only way.”
Of course, from Raum’s perspective, it seemed impossible to corrupt a human being related to a hero, no matter how sick his soul was. Because not only had this never happened before in history, but I couldn’t even imagine how much despair it must have caused.
The Demon King seemed to have noticed Raum’s expression and continued his explanation.
“Looking at your expression, you think it’s impossible. “I don’t do that without a reason.”
As he spoke, the Demon King placed his index finger on Raum’s forehead.
“I see… It certainly seems possible.”
The scene Raum saw through the Demon King was Arthur’s life. His life was filled with pain and anger, and he had even lost his will to live, but he was living because of only one person, so it seemed very easy to corrupt him if he took advantage of that person.
“The plan requires your strength. So, be absorbed by me. If I take your human body, I will resurrect you.”
The Demon King’s order to be absorbed was an order that any normal Demon would refuse, but to Raum, the Demon King was a god, so he didn’t worry about it.
“Yes, as the devil wants.”
With those words, Laum knelt before the Demon King.
“…”
ㅡPhew!
At the same time, the Demon King’s hand pierced Raum’s heart, and the Demon King was able to absorb all the power.
“Then. I guess we should start trading.”
ㅡJjijijik.
With a bizarre sound, the Demon King’s body split in two, and only two figures in the shape of Arthur remained in the dark space.
