Chapter 289 – Fault (3)
Everything Escalia likes is gathered in the castle.
Which hand do you like the most?
A gentle guiding hand.
“Escalia, here you are.”
In front of those thick, big hands, she runs and pampers herself in the form of the little wolf she is most ashamed of.
“Escalia, come here.”
It’s embarrassing to show off your big figure to the unnies.
Lars should cut down on his food, but if he said the same thing to himself, he might die of embarrassment.
“This might be the last time I feed them myself.”
“Keeing.”
“Ah. Don’t get me wrong. If you come here at the same time, I’ll feed you.”
Lars stroked Escalia’s head and said.
“Tomorrow is the day my wish comes true. I’m very happy.”
“Pww!”
“It’s going to be a national anniversary, so my wife and servants were so polarized that I had to choose a good day.”
I don’t know what’s going on, but when Lars is happy, Escalia is happy too.
The kind owner who feeds you. The owner who takes care of me so that I don’t get cold.
“It might be difficult to move your body right away. Escalia help the master.”
“Kkiung!”
Escalia was ready.
I had no doubt that when she grew up, she would naturally work for her master like her older sisters.
This garden and castle was a cradle with everything forming a little Escalia.
Mother, Premia.
Father, master
The three older sisters who love Escalia.
From the moment you start to feel that other people’s eyes are a little bit reluctant to sleep,
Even though Escalia has developed some sort of shyness.
She thought her family was enough.
She thought she would do anything to protect the most precious family in the world.
On the 7th day.
The goddess turned the king into a monster.
She doesn’t change her mind at all and she keeps wishing that she wants to be a monster,
Premia directly.
He was born as a human child and turned him into a monster.
According to the wish of 『I want to become a strong monster』.
“Thank you, Goddess.”
“I’ll ask you one last time. Won’t you regret it?”
“Yes.”
“Um. It’s over. You’re my child now.”
Premia carefully places her hand on Lars’ forehead.
There were no grandiose ceremonies, no lengthy spells.
“It will change in a little while. Be careful as it may put a strain on your body.”
“Thank you! Goddess.”
Lars, who is well versed in the mystic arts of the soul, immediately noticed a change inside.
Interfering with the soul and changing the species.
This is a miracle…….
The two creator gods treat different souls
Because the human soul is very tricky to handle.
Premia cannot turn a monster into a human,
She was a goddess with the power to turn humans into monsters if she wanted to.
‘Amazing. It is changing moment by moment.’
The components that make a person a person are fatally degenerating.
It wouldn’t be strange even if that alone led to death,
Lars felt an inner calm.
‘The power of a goddess who twists the laws of the world.’
And I’ll be a monster made by the mighty Goddess herself,
Will reign in this world.
Lars clenched his fists.
“What are you doing? You?”
That night.
When her wife slipped into her bedroom, Lars said excitedly.
“I’m writing notes. I feel like I should leave this great experience behind.”
“Oh my God. Who hasn’t kept a diary for a day?”
“Isn’t my history written down by the scribes anyway? This is a memoir that contains only my thoughts.”
“Congratulations on your wish coming true, you.”
The wish came true.
He will be reborn as the monster he longed for.
I’m still shaking because I’m emotionally unstable somewhere, but that’s okay.
It was a temporary phenomenon, the king thought.
‘I learned sign language in case I couldn’t speak, and I built a training facility for motion control.’
His wife, entourage and old friends are well aware of Lars’ eccentric tastes.
He is firmly holding up even to the monstrosity that made him swear allegiance with the contract of the soul.
Lars thought he was perfectly prepared for the change.
The next morning.
“Kyaaaaa!!”
The king woke to his wife’s screams.
“Well?”
Has a change come?
“Ah!! Ahh!!”
Her wife ran out of her bedroom screaming at her,
Even the maids who entered her room fainted.
Haha. It seems that my appearance has changed so much. Where to look? My new body.’
The king curiously looked at his torso and distant limbs and raised a question mark inwardly.
‘Yes?’
The king had become a monster overnight.
It looked like a doll with its neck, arms, and legs stretched like noodles, with tentacles about 20 meters long growing from its limbs.
“Oh, oh oh oh… This… What is this… What is this…!!”
Procrastinate.
The king wandered his corridors shaking his head and limbs grotesquely.
“Kyaaaaagh!”
“Is there anyone here…! Kuck, the voice… Doesn’t come out well…”
“You hideous monster!”
Cried the queen, who had brought the guards.
“Why are you so surprised? Didn’t I tell you hundreds of times that this would happen?”
“Sobbing…….”
With her tentacle arms, she soothes the queen, who continues to cry over her startled heart,
After barely sending the guards back, the king returns to his room shaking his limbs.
‘Why did you become such a disgrace….’
It’s ugly.
My stomach continues to feel nauseous. My eyesight goes down, and my mood just keeps getting worse.
I received the hateful gaze and strangely felt my heart.
‘First, let’s practice shortening the arms.’
Lars was patient and controlled his body.
Even in order to get the queen out of the room, the first task was to shorten the excessively long tentacles.
The commotion subsided only after he managed to take on a human-like appearance.
The king often wore bandages all over his body.
While watching state affairs, the king’s head ascended to heaven.
There were often things like legs getting longer, but…….
〈Many people expected the majestic figure of the king 〉 who finally became a monster with the power of the goddess.
I was stunned by the surprise beyond my imagination.
In the war, it became even more amazing.
Once he became a monster, he quickly recovered from any fatal wounds,
The performance when handling the demonic sword has also improved.
Above all, the enemies feared the king.
Chest King.
The one who became the Demon King in a human body.
As it was called that at some point, there were side effects.
『I can’t possibly work under a king like that』
『I have terrible nightmares every day』
The king is the rite of passage of all monsters,
〈Because I became an extremely detested being〉, even the humans who only outwardly said they understood Lars’ wishes left on the first day.
The rest didn’t last long either.
The queen could not even look at her husband, with whom she had been with her for almost ten years, and she starved day by day and left the world.
In just ten days, the king lost everyone near him.
Those who forced loyalty through the 『Soul Contract』 Remained,
The sweet words of the faithful, whose soul was tainted, could not fill the king’s heart.
Somewhere there is still a dissatisfaction.
Meanwhile, her mother, Premia Mann, affectionately treated him as her own child.
“I like being very ugly and dignified like a monster. After all, he is my child.”
“What is this?”
“Yes?”
Premia blinked her eyes at the king.
“I turned you into a monster as you wished.”
“It’s… So funny and not ugly.”
“Funny? What?”
“Isn’t it funny that only the arms and legs are stretched out… A little more…!! In a monstrous, terrifying shape…”
“Isn’t that terrifying enough?”
It’s frightening.
No one laughed at the sight of the king.
It’s not something you can laugh at even as a joke, it’s so bizarre.
“Not something like this! As strong as an orc’s thick forearm, as strong as a minotaur’s legs. I want you to make me a body like that…!”
“Thick and strong forearms? Legs?”
Premia said as if she didn’t understand.
“…Are these not all human characteristics?”
“…Ah, anyway, it’s not what I was hoping for! Change it!”
“If you touch the soul that gave it metamorphosis again, you don’t know what it will look like.”
“Please change it though! It’s better than staying like this!”
The blonde goddess let out her long sigh.
“I get it.”
Change once again
Escalia is like a child watching a couple fight,
She just hid behind the pavilion and watched her master fighting while raising her voice.
Next day.
The king completely lost his lower half.
About 100 thick tentacle legs sprouted out.
Each of them moves, displaying amazing motor skills.
The arms and neck were still elongated with tentacles.
“This isn’t it!! It’s not it! What the hell is that goddess experimenting with my body? She can’t even go out to her public appearances like this!”
The king questioned the goddess every day.
This is not what I was hoping for.
When asked to change it to something other than tentacles, she changed into a caterpillar-like figure with bat wings and hair growing all over her body.
When even human speech became difficult, I had to write on the floor with my body asking for it to return to its original state.
It was better that the human head still remained.
“Damn it!!”
Even if I go to get a confirmation every day, the monster form I want doesn’t come out.
Then, the journal began to be filled with curses toward the goddess.
She was betrayed
This is not what I wanted. Same way.
“Didn’t you ask me to change it into a monster that’s as close to a human as possible!!”
“…”
Premia looked at her child with a sad expression.
“My child…Don’t bully this mother…”
“I’m not your child!! Just make me a monster! As human-like as possible and strong!”
“……Black……”
Premia shows tears,
The king jumped up and shouted loudly.
“Hurry up! Cry for doing well!”
“……I got it… Can I change it into a more or less hideous human form…?”
“Okay!!”
It changes. It changes again.
However, it was Nimuel’s job to create humans.
No matter how much Premia makes her, she only creates more hideous, grotesque, monsters.
Her body is uncomfortable, and she is naturally ostracized by people.
There was no one left nearby to relay her orders.
The four monsters who forcibly swore allegiance and.
Except for Escalia, who follows him without knowing anything.
“Damn it!! I should have called Nimuel. You incompetent goddess!”
“……Ah….”
Premia cried.
Every day she cried in sorrow.
“I can only make monsters…Would you please stop?”
“Shut up!”
“Don’t blame your mother…”
“Bitch like a dog!”
This is not it!
This is not what the monster I was looking for.
In the process of changing day by day, the King of Darkness gradually went mad.
Sometimes as a spider,
Sometimes to Paris,
Sometimes as a snail.
The fact that I become that kind of body ‘even for a moment’ is painful and I can’t bear it.
Okay. I just can’t stand it.
I don’t like the bristles and villi that grow here and there without moderation,
The hard carapace surrounding the soft internal organs—there is no answer if broken by chance—
I hate bug larvae legs that move wildly.
The human hand missed fiercely.
Small and complicated joints move beautifully as I want.
I missed the knuckles of my fingers that worked straight as I gave them strength.
A delicacy that a monster’s body would never possess.
You realize how great the human hand is structurally and the product of superior evolution.
Miss you. I miss you like crazy.
I miss my hands! I miss my feet!
When you see your own face that is more hideous than you think,
I can’t deny that I’ve cooled off inside.
If you think about it, that is natural.
‘Is it so painful to change species?’
How great would the pain be if humans became plants the next day?
Even a change in lifestyle is painful for human beings.
Feeling, touching, and enjoying both pain and pleasure with the human body.
Premia thought that the matter was not a big deal because the Queen’s will was so firm.
Lars has become a cursed being who struggles to return to being as human as possible.
Living in a human body,
Being a monster was so painful that I couldn’t bear it even for a moment.
“Mom… Why are you crying…?”
“…”
Premia hugged Escalia and patted her.
“You… I’m sorry I gave birth to you as a monster. Escalia.”
“Yes?”
“……Sorry….”
“I… I’m fine… Master… Doesn’t like monsters…?”
“……Yes.”
“Can’t we just put it back to normal…? Master, it looks scary, so I can’t go near it…”
“…”
The blonde goddess broke down and cried.
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry. I’m so sorry to you guys.”
Escalia was a helpless child who had no choice but to watch her family crumble without knowing why.
Her older sisters,
She returns from the battlefield drinking copious amounts of blood as a tool to quench the Queen’s repressed anger.
Now she had no time to play with Escalia.
“Damn it! I was fooled. I was fooled by the goddess!!”
Lars poured out her curse.
This is not it. This is not it. This is not it.
She later smashed all the mirrors in the royal castle. The curse that Lars poured out was only poured out on the continent.
The dark period caused by the King of Darkness continued for a long time.
When Naeli returned to the devastated castle after a long mission,
The king was already the appearance of something that was neither a human nor a monster.
Looks much larger than before.
My whole body wriggled without joints like slime, and the tentacles that stretched here and there wriggled.
Long, stinky hairs spread out like a fan, scattering ooze.
Just like he made his childhood friend that way.
Lars had become a lump of filth that gave off a terrible stench.
Forcibly repeated transformations had destroyed the soul to its limit, turning it into 『Garbage』, Not even a monster.
A platinum-haired elf who came across the throne room full of corpses.
Knight Commander of 〈 Changmoon Knights 〉, Naelli, lowered her eyes in pity.
It’s all over now.
I knew that painfully.
“… King. My old friend.”
“I should have told you not to enter the castle!!”
『You didn’t leave, I didn’t let you come』
The king’s remarks were close to such an outburst.
“Now the defenses can’t stand it any longer. The champion is coming.”
“Why is the hero coming to me?! He has to go to kill the demon king!”
“That Demon King is…”
It’s you.
I, Eli, couldn’t bear to open his mouth.
What Naeli felt after seeing the ruined figure of the Queen was pitiful.
It was to the point where he thought that having a party of warriors come and kill him would rather be a relief.
I, Eli, drew his sword.
“I’ll avenge my enemies. Who made your body like that?”
“Goddess! Goddess Premia!”
Lars roared as he spewed gas through his gills.
“Premia tricked me! Premia made me like this! Kill Premia! Kill Premia!”
“…”
“Hee hee hee! Order! Kill Premia! Kill Premia!”
Naeli made a stern expression and crossed the hallway.
I hurry up to put an end to this cursed story.
Go to fulfill her last order.
The king’s curse to kill Premia seemed to linger in my ears.
Naeli, who finally stepped into the garden of the goddess, was startled.
Because the golden garden was already stained with blood.
“You?”
“You know… Tell me why my mother died…”
“…”
Then Naeli realized.
That her last command had been given to this black-haired girl.
In the small pavilion, human corpses were torn to pieces and scattered randomly.
Only a few hairs, torn clothes, fragments of flesh and fragments of bone could barely tell that it was originally human.
Drenched in her blood, Escalia trembled in a red puddle.
“Mom… Tell me why my mom died!!”
“〈 Soul Contract 〉…”
Lars is also long for Escalia’s soul.
A contract to make her absolutely obey her self-orders.
Escalia, under the influence of her hated king’s cry, ripped Premia to pieces.
Premia was killed by her daughter.
The period is already marked.
For a girl, in the worst form ever…….
‘There is no salvation……. What did God want in this mess?’
Naeli bit her teeth.
‘Is it okay if I do this and go back to the spirit world alone?’
Even if I tried to ask, there was no way because Premia was killed.
Are we just beings tossed around by the goddess?
‘Be swayed by one omnipotent being, our country. The king…….’
Naeli left the kingdom that day,
The girl cried in front of her mother’s corpse, which she had torn from her.
