Chapter 93 – Self-Reliance (2)
Azazel found me and ran quickly.
Will I be too happy?
The corner of his mouth loosens at the sight of her warm welcome.
A good child, and a sorry child.
The more friendly and kind she is to me, the more her heart tingles.
Because I’m her fucking bitch she hijacked her likes.
Whether it is wrapped or hidden, the fact does not change.
Sorry.
Still, I couldn’t help it.
Because without him, I couldn’t live.
Even if you were alive, you wouldn’t have lived.
This is a feeling that cannot be easily shaken off.
What to say
It would be okay to call it guilt and shame caused by one’s despicable behavior.
I am nothing more than her guilty party to her.
It may sound funny to her, but even a country like this has a conscience.
It is a round conscience that is infinitely close to a circle.
I shook my head.
It’s a useless idea.
Brushed off her grudges.
I expected Azazel to come into my arms, and she quietly opened her arms.
Then a smile grew on her face.
The speed is pretty fast.
Even though the distance was close, it was still fast.
… What?
Azazel rushes quickly without slowing down.
To put it in words, it was a physical assault of small animals.
If it were Ain, she would have readily accepted it.
Unfortunately, I am so weak that I am so intimidating that even that level of rushing is left behind.
If there was a collision with that Azazel, let alone standing, I would roll across the floor like a bean worm.
Avoid.
You can live by avoiding it.
However, if there is one mistake I made.
It’s too late to think about this.
Unlike electric potential, which moves the body, my body’s reflexes are not so good.
So I couldn’t react quickly, so I was hit from the front.
Pug.
The momentum that is hard to see in a small body swooped down on me.
Are you a wizard?
“Keheuk!”
Booung.
I feel floating.
Feeling as if your body is defying gravity.
However, gravity cannot be ignored forever.
As I was swimming in the air according to the laws of nature, I immediately fell to the floor.
Iron flip.
Rolled across the floor
Azazel and I rolled on the floor a few more times, as if there was no difference.
It swept the floor as if it had become a mop.
Thanks to this, all the dust on the floor stuck to it.
Even as I roll, I worry in my heart.
Azazel likes neat things, so won’t he get angry?
I see her in the midst of her rolling.
The smile is bright
It’s a dusty floor, so even though it’s dirty, you don’t mind.
The rolling finally stopped.
I pulled myself up, pressing down on the pain in my lower back.
It hurt so much that I even shed tears.
The moment I was about to complain, ‘It’s dangerous, I’m not strong,’ Azazel grabbed my arms as tightly as her lion attacked her deer.
And whispered in her ear
“I finally found you, sister.”
A sweet and captivating tone.
I sighed and looked at Azazel.
Her eyes were the moist color of melted pomegranates.
… Why are you crying
“I thought something was going on. I thought I was lost forever It was horrible to see the first friend I ever made, the man I trusted disappear all at once.”
The voice is full of moisture.
My voice trembled as if I was overwhelmed with emotions.
Ah.
Although it is a feeling that she will consider ungrateful if she hears it.
I was glad she was sad.
To be precise, I was ecstatic with the anxiety and concern for me melted into the emotion of sadness.
The fact that there are people besides Ain who want me is more special than I thought.
Her friend’s concern overtook her.
I slowly patted Azazel on the back.
“… I’m sorry for coming late.”
“Okay, as long as the limbs are fine.”
Your standards for being okay are tough.
We hugged each other for a while.
A scene filmed in front of a blazing tentacle monster.
It’s good though.
Because my heart is warm
* * *
Moved to a relatively safe location.
It was because it was self-evident that interruptions would come in if we had a delayed conversation on the spot.
Azazel and I relaxed in a relatively comfortable place.
We talked about giving and receiving each other.
Azazel says it’s been about a month since we entered the hidden room.
Has it been that long
“Really?”
“Yeah, there’s no reason for me to lie to you, right?”
Azazel exhaled her snort while sticking out her meager breasts.
Cute I want to die
I instinctively resisted wanting to hug him.
“That too. That’s right, is this really the Gallic royal palace?”
At my words, Azazel put on a puzzled expression.
“Yes. It was the Gallic palace.”
“Amazing.”
Staying in that closet for a month is quite extraordinary, but what is most surprising is that the royal palace has gone out of business in just one month.
I looked around in disbelief.
A sight that can only be seen in a war movie or disaster movie is unfolding before your eyes.
Involuntarily, I let out a sigh.
It has become such a terrible ruin that it is impossible to know that it was once a royal palace.
Aren’t monsters even openly roaming around the ruined palace?
There is no such thing as an end-of-the-century show.
“What happened to the palace?”
“… Oh, that.”
Azazel gave a puzzled response to my question.
Are you embarrassed?
“I will explain that.”
A male voice intervened.
It was a sharp voice like a knife.
Sounds very similar to someone I know?
However, the atmosphere was so different that I looked away to see if he was really that person.
“Leon low?”
There was a prince
Not a soft impression, but a cold appearance like a well-forged long weapon.
He took one look at me and said coldly.
“You don’t seem to have any problems with your personal life.”
Approaching he was alone.
Where is Edelis?
My questioning expression made him frown in disapproval.
“Who are you looking for?”
Azazel took a step forward.
It looked like it was trying to protect me.
She scolded Leon.
“Prince, don’t take out your anger on your sister, right?”
“She knows it’s not her fault. If only she had…”
Leon clenched his fist, unable to finish her words.
Seeing that even the veins stood out, I realized that something unusual had happened.
This is an answer for others, and there is nothing good to postpone.
Hit it from the front and know the facts.
So there is no remorse.
I took a deep breath.
“… Something happened between me and Ain’s absence.”
“I was attacked.”
Explanation that follows.
There was an attack by demons.
The assailant is the one who created Prince Leon’s doppelganger.
A demon who can handle curses and shadows.
A direct subordinate of the Demon King.
Karel Nadeluca.
“A huge amount of monsters invaded the palace. Resistance was pointless. It was more like a black wave.”
Looking at the fact that they were called black waves, the number must have been uncountable.
“Is it possible to bring that many monsters to the capital of the Gallic Kingdom without being caught?”
“Originally, it is impossible. But…”
“But?”
“What if there is a spell that transcends space?”
I swallowed.
“No way.”
“I can’t believe it.”
That’s against the rules
Who will stop the attack using the portal?
While convincing myself, I suddenly had a question.
“By the way, where is Sir Edelis?”
“…”
As if cold water had been splashed on my remarks, the atmosphere settled down.
The atmosphere is awesome.
It was bloody walking on a cutting board.
Leon shrugged his shoulders and said.
“The Curse of Edelis has recurred because Miss Arya is missing.”
“… If you say it’s a curse.”
“Yes. The curse you suppressed.”
The word curse shook my spine.
Should have had that in mind.
That without me, she has no one to curb her curse.
I should have at least cured Edelis’ curse and visited the royal basement.
“The only solution to stop her curse was gone, so there was no way to stop it.”
He continued his explanation with a calm expression on his face.
An ancient curse on Edelis.
When it fully erupted, it is said that magic was manifested that sucked her mana and narrowed the distance between spaces.
In short, it means that the portal of space movement has opened.
In other words.
“… The raid was possible because I was away.”
Heavy.
It feels like a heavy stone has been placed on her chest.
Azazel glared at Leon ferociously, but he only shrugged at him.
“I guess you could look at it that way. Anyway, monsters poured in from the portal Edelis created. Perhaps what the demons wanted was to use me as a medium to attack the royal palace, but it was my faithful knight who suffered the most, so isn’t it ironic?”
He smiled bitterly and rubbed his arm.
I roughly understood why it was such a mess.
But, there’s something I haven’t explained yet.
I asked the most important thing.
“So what happened to Miss Edelis?”
An uncomfortable silence fell again.
Is he letting go of his anger?
Or do you regret it?
“Doesn’t the saintess know better than me what happens to a human who loses all of her mana?”
Leon laughed.
It was a bitter laugh.
“… Sorry.”
“All right. You didn’t disappear because you wanted to disappear. So, what have you guys been doing for the past month? The reason I don’t have Ajin is because of the fishermen.”
I bit my lip softly at his question.
“… Ain has been kidnapped.”
The response was that no one in this room could believe it.
I can’t believe it either, but what should I do?
