Chapter 741 – Day 84 – Demon, Demon King, Demon God
The princess, who had risen from underground to the surface with her superhuman patience, was speechless at the chaos before her eyes.
‘You haven’t even become the devil yet, have you? The Zodiac commander is being pushed unilaterally like this?’
To her dismay, the princess examines the condition of Minos, who has barely stopped breathing.
Her red face returned to its normal color and the sound of her pounding heart became calm.
“Are you feeling okay?”
“Yes, thanks to my dear dad… Sigh, sorry Minos wasn’t helpful at all.”
“What are you talking about? Isn’t Minos cursed because of Abama?”
The worst has passed.
The princess caresses the arms and legs of Minos, who is still unable to come to his senses.
‘But what on earth are these wounds? At first, I thought it was because I was tied up in red chains.’
There were bright red spots on Minos’ thighs and wrists. The princess does not know why this wound occurred.
“A curse, maybe something like that.”
Minos let out a warm breath and wanted to be hugged even more by the body of his beloved father.
She swung her legs back and forth a little differently than before, then held the princess’s shoulders tightly and looked around her together.
‘It seems clear that the general and the demon were fighting here just now.’
The princess swallowed her saliva and closed her eyes tightly, looking at her room, which was stained with her bright red blood.
The sight of the Zodiac Knights wearing massive full-body armor being brutally murdered was so graphic.
‘Was there such a fierce fight that her pure white hair became wet with the blood flowing from her body?…’
Even though she fought here to fulfill her duty, the princess was heartbroken because in the end, the knights were all alive.
She only decided to cut off her less painful finger, but she also wanted to save the knights’ lives if she could.
“Let’s go outside first. I don’t think anything good will come of staying in this fortress.”
Minos nods at her. The princess runs out of her castle in one go, stepping on the puddle of her bright red blood while holding her.
Annette Carcassonne carried out the princess’ orders perfectly. When she came out of the fortress, she could see that everyone, from the miners working in the mine to the wizards who were polishing the magic stones, had all evacuated.
“Princess! Are you okay?”
When the princess turned her head at the sudden sound of her voice, she was able to see her Ceres leaping out from the shadows right next to her.
Her entire body was stained with bright red and black blood.
“If my body is fine, why is Ceres in such a state?”
“Because the demons who had received orders from the demon king attempted to return to the fortress, we had no choice but to make this choice.”
“Wasn’t there more than 10 people? Did they fight and win?”
Ceres nods her head as if it were obvious. She was a slightly absent-minded princess, but Ceres had a more serious look on her face as she examined Minos’ arms and legs, so she did not speak.
“Is Minos in good condition?”
In response to the princess’s question, Ceres strangely looks into Minos’ eyes.
“Yes, a healthy Minos is not sick at all.”
“Yes, Minos is in very good health right now. I have been feeling the waves of the curse continuously.”
As Ceres blurted out her words with a worried look on her face, the princess let out a light snort of her own.
“Haha! Don’t worry! Abama-ma just thought of turning me into a beast that loves her daughter’s hole.”
“He’s someone who doesn’t care about people’s feelings as long as it’s truly for his own sake.”
Ceres clicks her tongue briefly. Her eyes were overflowing with worry, but when Minos saw the sparkle in her eyes, he put a lock on her mouth.
Even if you don’t know, good things happen.
“Did Annette evacuate properly?”
“Yes, fortunately it seems to be moving quickly towards the fortress city.”
The princess looked relieved at the thought that things had gone well.
“I’m quite concerned that the Zodiac commander and his knights are nowhere to be seen…”
So what happened to the demon who wanted to become the demon king?”
In response to Ceres’ question, the princess shrugs her shoulders.
“How would I know that? I’m sure the warlord is continuing to fight somewhere…”
As she spoke, the princess’ whole body trembled. Her heart was pounding so hard that it was painful.
“No way was the worst situation I could have imagined—”
The princess never thought that the Zodiac commander would miss her demon.
She didn’t want to fight and win, but she was sure she wouldn’t run away.
He was famous for sacrificing his life if ordered by His Majesty the Emperor.
The problem was that I couldn’t think of any other situations.
─Bang! Thump!!!
The moment the ground shook so much that her vision was distorted, the princess realized.
There is a possibility that the Zodiac commander was defeated by the demons, and even if he was not killed, there is a possibility that he was at least incapacitated!
“Princess! What did you do with the underground magic stone?”
“There was no time to deal with Abamama’s curse!”
The princess shouts and Ceres’ expression turns pale.
─What a disaster!!
A huge hand emerges from the cool cracked ground.
The bright blue flame was in the shape of a perfect hand, and each strong finger curled up and grasped the ground as if plowing.
─To boom! Bang! Blah blah blah!
As the brilliantly shining castle, walls, and entrance to the mine begin to disappear through cracks, the princess hugs Minos tightly and runs desperately.
Ceres also threw her huge scythe into the shadows and retreated behind her with the princess.
─Blah blah enemy!
A being made of a bright blue flame that seemed to burn forever, its upper body perfectly descended to the ground.
Only after seeing the crown faintly visible on her head was the princess able to be sure.
“Uh, that! Are you saying this is the identity of the Demon King that we only saw in fairy tales?”
“No, princess. That’s just… It’s just like a caterpillar forming a cocoon to protect itself before it becomes a butterfly.”
“What does it look like?!”
The frightened princess could not think of a way to defeat the being in front of her.
The body of the ‘Demon King’, which looks like it is crawling out of a crack, is spewing out endless blue flames. What kind of power can quell the heat that seems to melt even the sword that Amilias made?
‘Even if Arisa’s magic is used, there seems to be no hope! What on earth is this guy burning himself with?’
The princess even had Ceres’ words on her mind.
Before we knew it, pitch black clouds were gathering in the sky.
“Ceres, I know that won’t happen, but if that figure is the devil and that thing is just a chrysalis, then what is a butterfly?”
Surprisingly, it was not Ceres who answered the very nervous princess’s question.
“It’s a demon. Dad.”
Minos answered with eyes that knew everything.
“Demon God? Are you talking about the god that demons believe in?!”
“Yes, Dad. Minos knows. The greatest dad in the world is…”
Although it is only a distant future for the princess, Minos remembers the past as if it were yesterday.
“In order to save the many people he loved, he tried to defeat the demon spirit that descended on the body of such a demon king.”
“Are you saying that I, who became the emperor, couldn’t defeat that demon in the end?”
Minos does not answer. My beloved Abama did not return in the end.
He was alive and well and had a terrible contract. That was the only story Minos knew.
“Even if I became emperor… Even if I had omnipotent power… Wait, no way…”
The princess knows more than Minos knows.
I wonder what that means, but doesn’t she already know what the future princess was trying to do?
‘No way, no way! The future me was once again trying to fight even at the cost of sacrificing countless people of the empire! Are you saying that the entity that tried to start the war was that demon?!’
Only then did the princess, in this twisted and twisted future, seem to understand why she had gone half crazy.
The princess holds her sparkling pocket watch with her left hand and looks at the devil before her.
“Khahahaha!! Haha!! Haha!!! I can finally descend to a land overflowing with magic!”
The Demon King laughs excitedly and looks at the princess and Ceres as if they were laughing.
“I don’t know what trick you were trying to use, Virgilia!! I will become this demon! Furthermore, I will burn you, the traitor, at the stake after that!”
The Demon King, who laughs, doesn’t even care about the princess.
The dark clouds filling the sky probably meant that Emperor Jupiter was watching the situation, but he did not appear.
“Ceres, how much time do you think is left until this guy becomes a demon?”
“If you can access the magic stone buried in the Holympus Mountains, it will take less than 30 minutes.”
The princess swallows her saliva.
“If Abama comes here…”
The devil will die.
But he will take Minos back. This time, he may have half-buried his beloved daughter in a place where she will never be found.
The princess clenched her fists because she didn’t want the work she had done so far to go to waste.
“You must run away, princess.”
“Don’t be ridiculous! That’s what my future self said! There’s a guy who can end everything in this world! Isn’t that the demon god?! Leave the demon lord here?!”
I don’t like that. I don’t want to let Emperor Jupiter handle it either.
The princess clenches her molars and caresses the ring that Amelia Su made.
I wondered if something like a huge gun could inflict fatal wounds on a being that radiated heat that could be felt even from a great distance, but the princess made up her mind.
“You won’t know until you try! Ceres is injured, so take Minos and run away!”
After shouting, the princess takes a step forward.
“Abama moved forward like that even in the future. She said the whole world might end, and she says you don’t know anything unless you try.”
“Even if the situation is the same, aren’t there some things you can’t give up on?”
“It’s not the same, Dad. Minos is here. The future Minos was really weak and a fool who knew nothing about Abamama’s wonderful heart, but…”
Looking at the princess’s back, Minos moves forward in the same way.
“Minos here, lovely Minos, is strong enough to help the wonderful Abamama.”
Although Minos spoke while breaking into a cold sweat, she had no intention of letting her beloved father experience the same future.
