Chapter 74 – Chapter 74: Angel Rayella 2 (Author’s Note)
But even if I wanted to belittle it, I couldn’t.
Because you don’t know anything about the other person in the first place.
“How come you’re dumb because you ate honey? If you’re talking with that face that looks uncomfortable somewhere, I can’t understand you.”
I’m trying to continue the conversation by somehow bringing up the knowledge I’ve gained through Bagras, but I’m not good at bringing up things that aren’t my original memories, maybe because the damn situation is the situation.
Thanks to the spoon I was born with, there is water that I drank in society. How long has it been since I was so embarrassed?
This feeling of facing an angel as a devil, like when you do something bad and get caught by someone you shouldn’t be caught by, it’s like your hair goes white.
The panic right now is because he instinctively knows that this situation is a situation where there is nothing strange even if he dies right away.
It’s because I know very well that I’m a demon who wouldn’t be surprised if I was purged by an angel right away.
But how bad have I done that I have to face an angel and feel these feelings?
He used the devil’s power to satisfy his innocent desires, but this isn’t a mortal sin.
Anyway, I killed the Adren family, whose name remained only after being swept away by Bagras, and brought the sisters to Middle-earth, but this is the devil’s business.
But what did the angel do to the fragmentation body I made earlier, lying face down on the desk, so I can’t feel anything.
I feel like I’m just looking at a stone on the floor because I can’t connect with myself.
No way…
“Is the ‘I’ there dead?”
“Um… I didn’t kill him. Put him to sleep… Um… Um? Ah, here it is. I only took this.”
Reyella rummaged through her trouser pockets and pulled out a piece of the Soulstone she used to create her fragment.
The pieces are almost the size of a pea, because they were just taken apart to make a fragment to send to the company instead of the main body.
Maybe because of its small size, it didn’t fit well in her pocket, and Ray Ella instantly thought, ‘I’m sure you put it here?’ Made a face.
“I said Lairella… In charge of a pseudo-demon like me. What exactly does pseudo-demon mean?”
“I’m asking because I don’t know? I’m talking about someone like you who became a servant of the devil. His greed was beyond what humans could handle, and he gave up being human.”
With no information, she took a look at Layella.
A person like me, as defined by Leyella, is someone who has become a servant of the devil.
It seems to be referring to a human who only got a piece of the devil’s soul stone for some reason, like me when I died in a car accident absurdly and was resurrected after receiving a piece of the soul stone from Bagras.
So, first of all, you’re saying that you don’t consider me a perfect devil, but I’m… But aren’t I a devil in my own way?
I’m sure I put it in my pocket, but when I tried to find it again, it was so small that I thought it was missing, so I seem to be looking down on it because of that small piece of soul stone.
“Are there more pieces like this? Return all of them to me. Then I’ll erase only the memories related to the devil and move on.”
…Give me a piece.
You’re talking about the soul stone fragment.
Leyella’s tone is blunt, but extremely business-like.
Do you think she is business-like? She looks down at her rubbing her thumb and forefinger with her clenched fist slightly, and her eyes, whether dreamy or tired, look like an office worker who is stressed out at work.
She says she’ll just get things done and go back, and she actually thinks so, but it doesn’t.
The rest of me is too big to be a piece.
I have no intention of handing it over, but after seeing it, I don’t think I’ll just go back.
I don’t know if I was in the same state as before, but I accidentally leveled up too much in the hands of Bagras.
“Keuuugh…?”
“I can see you rolling your head.”
Layella covered my body with golden holy power.
Her divine power didn’t come flying from her Leyella, and her divine power suddenly appeared from all sides of her, so she couldn’t react properly.
The divine power, which was painful just to feel with her skin, penetrated directly into my body this time.
I had no choice but to sit down on the floor in pain that felt like my whole body was being fried.
“Huh? What, this body also has a clean brain? It has almost no memories? Isn’t it the main body this time too?”
“Kahheuk…!!”
Looks like Rayella searched my memory with her magic.
There can be no pain in the magic that reads memories, but unlike the devil’s magic, it’s magic cast with divine power, so it feels like the pain is ripping through my head.
Like the previous magic that I couldn’t even properly react to, and thanks to the experience of the angel and devil’s compatibility, where even non-lethal magic becomes threatening killing magic, I feel desperately what the instinct to be careful of angels is.
The bigger problem is that the fragments that move with synchronized memories through the soul stone, of course, only memories after they are created are stored in the brain.
“That, that’s not…!!”
“I can’t do that. If I can split the Soul Stone into more than three pieces, I’ll have to report it to the higher ups.”
The pain that suddenly becomes stronger along with the words that are difficult to see.
Things got messy really quickly.
It means that if you report to the upper line, more angels may come from here.
It is also impossible to give away only the fragments and attempt to cut off the tail.
I would be able to cut my tail only if I gave up my social status as Nam Min-woo, but I don’t want to do that.
“Oh, no…!!”
“Hmm…? Huh…!!”
Leyella showed signs of trying to use another spell.
If that is a magic to report to the upper line, the situation is over forever if it really stays like this.
In the end, just in case, I moved the main body from home to the office and wrapped the entire office with magical power to make it look like a closed room.
…So that there is no problem even if you directly use the killing magic you have known about.
“…If you’re going to come out like that, then I can’t help it either.”
For the first time, in a situation where he might have to risk his life and death, he completely turned his body into a demon for the first time, and horns grew from the side of his head, and even wings made of red demonic energy sprouted from his back.
“…Wasn’t it just a cheater…Suck!! …It’s getting into trouble.”
Ray Ella, too, sensed that I was determined to fight her, and stepped down from her desk with her earnest face, putting on her golden armor and revealing her white feathered wings.
Ray Ella stabs the office floor enchanted with her magical power with a sword made of her divine power.
She seemed to be trying to make contact outside of her.
But when she couldn’t get through after repeated attempts, she clenched her molars, straining her jaw muscles.
“Tsk…Is this the only way?”
“…”
It’s something that can’t be passed on like it’s never happened to each other.
Eventually accepting that she had to deal with the situation alone, Leyella pointed her sword at her.
I was prepared for a do-it-yourself battle in the situation where I came here, but the moment the opponent also pointed a sword at me, I felt really complicated feelings.
I know that fighting in Middle-earth is absolutely unfavorable to demons, but to fight sincerely, perhaps to the death, with an opponent who looks no different from an ordinary woman on the outside.
I clenched my fists, but not for the fight to come.
.
.
.
It was a fight that lasted for several minutes.
Knowing that it was a fight to the death, they went into the fight, but Leyella was really sincere.
I had no choice but to be intimidated by the opponent who sincerely tried to kill me.
Even though her whole body was covered with layers of her magical power, Rayella’s sword, made of her divine power, pierced through it and stabbed and cut my body countless times.
Originally, the wounds were at a level that should have healed right away thanks to the primary blockage with magic, but because of the divine power that was in conflict with me, they did not heal well and it was very painful as the affected area seemed to be burning.
“Kahhhhh…!!”
However, even though I was about to bleed, it was I who was standing still on my two legs, and it was Leyella who was lying on the floor helplessly.
Despite her compatibility, I was a demon to a level that Leyella couldn’t handle alone.
Layella, who was silently looking down at herself as she spat blood mixed with blood in her mouth, met her eyes and quietly closed her eyes with a look of resentment.
…I know what you mean.
She lost, so she must mean kill now.
I get it… Haa… So what if I kill it?
Can you escape the pursuit of the angels?
If I deal with Ella and go to her demon world like this, the angels will have no way to do anything about me, so there will be no problem, but her human status holds her back.
“…I’ll just let you go like this, can’t you pretend you don’t know me?”
“…Do you think that will happen?”
“How about ending it by taking only my soul stone?”
“Puh…! You… I didn’t ask because you didn’t need to talk to each other, but you’re sure you were human too? Your status was so clear that I thought you were a human who got a piece of the soul stone from the devil… Maybe I was mistaken for being a demon…”
“…So, what’s the answer?”
“Kuh…Becoming a devil perfectly enough to subdue an angel…Do you think that’s going to happen? You just die without a soulstone…Because you’re a devil.”
Leyella burst out laughing as if it wasn’t worth it.
Is there really no other way than to kill this angel and go to the Demon World?
Of course I’m a devil, so there’s no big problem.
Since the desire to maintain social status is the biggest problem, let’s assume that giving up social status is the feeling of not wanting to give up what you have because of sunk costs.
However, when he abandons his identity as Nam Min-woo and goes to the world of demons, Ah-hyun is caught.
If the sister goes to the demon world, she may rather say that she will go to her hometown, but she can’t tell Ah-hyun, a human, to come to the demon world for only me.
But if I leave only Ahyeon in the middle world…If I suddenly go to the demon world and disappear…Ahyeon’s sense of loss?
In order for Ah Hyun to not have to grieve over the loss, Ah Hyun’s memory must be erased, and then I will become the person Ah Hyun did not exist.
This hurts my heart again… It’s just… Was everything over when the angel found out I was the devil?
No, then I should just give up what I had just because I’m a demon?
Only this angel right in front of my eyes needs to be resolved somehow, so what should I do?
