Chapter 87 – Ep.5 – The Story of the Demon Continent Across the Sea
Helen joined the group and began her story.
She, of course, had to face all sorts of questions even before she started talking.
Her patience eventually overcame every woman’s doubts and vigilance.
“We don’t have time to listen to the advice of outsiders. Please step back.”
Borders of the Neva.
“But if you don’t listen to me, the five of you will get into more trouble? Please listen to me before time runs out.”
“You’re the Archbishop? I’ve never seen a bastard like you?”
Philmarck’s Doubt.
“Well. I’m not the type to take on the work so diligently usually… He must have been taking a nap when Daedo-nim was invading the Holy Kingdom.”
“But you gave me the position of archbishop? That young old bastard?”
“It’s because it’s as good as the divine power.”
“How did you know we were coming here and waited?”
Chichi’s question.
“I have to tell you now. I dream…”
“The smell of cigarettes is so strong! Keheeng! Nose apat!”
Kaede’s sudden irritation.
“…I’m sorry about that. Anyway, let’s talk in earnest now…”
“Seobang-sama, lend me your body because my nose hurts… I want to wash my nose with Seobang-nim’s scent…”
“Eh? Wait a minute! Why are you coming inside!? My clothes are ripped! Ripped!!”
“That crazy mutt…!
“Both of you, stop!”
“Eh, let’s listen to that woman first and decide. Philmarck! Please moderate!”
At the frantic conversation between the five of them, Helen smiled and filled her mouth with the smoke of the heavy poem again.
‘Looks like you’ve already eaten. God.’
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Ten minutes later,
The party of five heroes, every minute and every second, saw her agreement to listen to her story, and sat quietly in her seat and listened to her.
“Okay. Now that you’ve calmed down, let’s start talking in earnest.”
Helen calmly took a sip of her own strong drink and immediately opened her mouth.
“First, let’s talk about the duties and responsibilities that have been handed down from generation to generation in our Holy Land…”
“No. I don’t need anything like that. Just tell me what’s going on. I’m busy.”
She could be hurt by the thief’s remarks, but she starts talking regardless of Helen.
“The main duty of the Holy Kingdom is to watch over the demons and prevent invasion of the Demon Continent. The god who oversees such a kingdom has given humans the power to resist the powerful demons, so that’s divine power.”
“Ah! Kaede-san, it tickles me!”
“But I can’t help it because Seobang-nim smells so good… Kyareung…”
“Good enough…! Delrin, sit next to me!”
“…Anyway, there are some unusual phenomena caused by divine power. The most important phenomenon is precognitive dreams. We receive divine revelations through dreams.”
Dream.
“A dream?”
Delrin responds to a word that is quite familiar and strange. Several dreams he had seen since he fell to another world flashed through his mind.
“Yes. A dream that you meet when you close your eyes… Usually, you will see meaningless scenes in the dream, but those with strong divine power receive revelations in their dreams. They are handed the future in advance.”
“So, did you see the future?”
Neva asked Helen.
Instead of answering, Helen puffed out her cigar once more and smiled.
“And they say they saw us in that future.”
Chichi asked this time. Chichi is very offended by Kaede’s tail hair during a scuffle, but she participates in the conversation quite seriously.
“You got about half right.”
Helen’s playful reply. To that answer, Philmarck adds the other half of the answer.
“You must have seen the demons. You bastards of the Holy Land don’t care about wars between other countries, but the demons bastards get seizures just by catching fish in the nearby sea. Unless it’s related to the demons, they don’t move.”
“You’re right. You are the only one who made our kingdom move. Why did you steal the cardinal’s panties?”
Filmarck is taken aback by the unexpected question and looks at the others. She defends herself, stuttering her words with her red face.
“What, what bullshit! When am I!”
“Poohyot!”
“Ugh… You mean you stole the underwear of the same sex?”
“It’s great… Kuh…”
The wolf is shocked, and the witch and the knight struggle to hold back their laughter.
“Because it’s not! No!”
“Even that, His Excellency Cardinal was in trouble all day because he took off the underwear he was wearing in a blink of an eye and ran away.
“Why did you do that… Oops…”
Even Delrin can’t help laughing at Philmarck’s grotesque theft. Phil Marc, his face flushed red, is furious and makes his excuses.
“Everything, I stole it because other bastards took care of it when they stole it!”
“Well. Anyway, you stole three more times after that… On the other hand, I respect you. It’s the first time I’ve seen the cardinal get so angry.”
“I really want to search…! Get started!”
“I was going to write it. Because there are so many other things to talk about. Anyway, in my dream, I saw demons. But that’s not the important thing.”
Helen’s mood becomes quite heavy. As if she was reluctant to speak out, she calmed herself for a moment as she bit on her cigar. A rather serious word came out of her red mouth that opened behind him.
“…A new Demon King has been born.”
All the women are startled when they hear the word demon king. Everyone except Delrin finds the word itself ominous.
“Devil?”
Delrin, who was alone and not aware of the situation, asked Helen back. Are you a new demon?
“Oh. It’s not the first time you’ve heard of it, right?”
“Delrin, you are from the Holy Land. But don’t you know the Demon King?”
Philmarck asked, looking at Delrin as if wondering. Delrin is taken aback by the question.
Ah! Come to think of it, I got the concept of being an aristocrat of the Holy Land!
“Ah, you know…! That’s not it, he said he’s the new demon king…”
“People from the Holy Land?”
Helen stared at Delrin for a moment, enjoying her cigar, then returned her topic with a light smile.
“Anyway, the new demon king… Means that the story of the devil’s egg, which has only been rumored so far, is true.”
Fuck.
What the hell is that?
Delrin eagerly listens to the story and pretends to know her, but the women continue their conversation without any further explanation.
“But even if a new demon king was born, isn’t there any problem for us? It’s only a problem for the demons.” Kaede’s question.
“It’s not like that. Most demon lords pass without much trouble, but this time is different.” Helen’s answer.
“This Demon Lord will be more powerful than ever. My precognitive dream couldn’t properly show the future.” Helen’s explanation.
“That means…” Chi-Chi’s guess.
“…An entity that hadn’t even been born yet intervened in the power of a god.” Philmarck’s confidence.
Silence lingers for a while.
This silence is like saying that all their concerns are true.
“Are you asking us to defeat such a demon king?”
Neva asks.
“Ummm…”
Helen burns her cigar, thinking about how to answer that straightforward question.
“I hate being a warrior, so I dismiss it without even hearing it. I will never do it.”
First, Philmarck expresses his intention of refusal.
“I’m busy with my life. I don’t want to act like a stupid errand boy while listening to the warrior… Hey! Stop rubbing Delrin! This bastard is real!”
“It’s not rubbing, it’s just sniffing!”
“It’s okay, get off!”
“Kgae-gaeng! Apat! It hurts!”
After pushing Kaede away, Philmarck strongly rejects the offer of a warrior party once more while holding Delrin tightly.
“Heroic things are handled by the heroes here. We’ll just hide in our hideouts.”
We?
Why me…?
“My, my doctor…”
“Shut up.”
Of course, Philmarck wasn’t the only one who refused to subdue the demon lord.
Each of the women adds a few words and makes excuses.
“I think that’s the same. Even if people who don’t match like this get together, they’ll all die before they go to the devil.”
“First of all, it’s a refusal. There are other things that need to be resolved before saving the world…”
“Ki-ing… So-in doesn’t want to go either. I just spent a hundred years with Seo-bang here…”
Helen listens to their stories one by one and looks at Delrin with her cigar in her mouth.
Helen is feeling it. All four women are united around that man, but rather it has become a stumbling block.
If there is a loved one, human beings want to stay. That’s the natural way of the world. Human nature.
“Hmm… Well, I’m sure everyone knows anyway.”
However, she has no worries. Helen is already certain of the future.
“If you are chased by all of Albator like this, you will live being chased for the rest of your life. Without a single blade to stretch your legs out…”
Your wife knows
That you can’t escape from the queen’s pursuit by ordinary means.
No matter how much she cuts down her pursuers, her life will continue to be aimed at until the day she dies.
“…There’s one way to solve all of that.”
“…What.”
“We’re going to cross over to the Demon Continent. To a place where even the pursuit won’t reach. Go like that…”
Helen’s cigar burns red. Her strong scent lingers in her mouth and slowly rises towards the moon…
“I’ll subdue the demon king and enter the garden of God.”
