Chapter 72 – Not Egg Steak…?
“Bout. Haum, mumble… “
“Cheer, eat slowly. Then I will do the same… !”
“Take the time for that. Bout.”
Enough mana to overwhelm Alphonse, who is said to be the closest to the archmage among the demons.
Its destructive power is also… Even I couldn’t guarantee safety if the barrier was broken.
Isn’t it amazing At best, Alphonse was being pushed back by a girl who barely passed the terms and conditions.
“Hmm… “
After all, humans are mysterious and interesting beings.
This girl I met at her window may really have the qualities of an archmage. She might be able to use that power in the right place to completely change the rotten human empire.
“Haha. Do you like the taste?”
“Um… Drink it.”
She shoves a full steak into her mouth like a squirrel and mumbles.
A girl who can’t trust others because of the scars engraved deep in her heart, and can’t even trust herself because she has no self-esteem.
I remember her jumping around with joy after defeating the king slimes.
She showed off that spotless smile that she showed for a moment. She was dazzlingly bright and dazzling.
It must have been her true self.
Rainier wondered what had happened to her that made her crouch down like this. As her third person, I can’t even fathom the bottom of her deep furrow.
“…Gulp. Alphonse and Diable eat quickly too. If I finish this, I will leave without waiting for you guys.”
“Haha… It is.”
In fact, her original intention was not to get too deeply involved with her.
Aren’t there a lot of illegal contracts in Changgwan?
Rainier was also destined to become one of the common prostitutes. She would have sold her body and supported her day by day with the money.
However, Rainier’s sad eyes stimulated something in my heart. Because of her, she brought her out, and in that moment, her fate changed.
She faintly regained her smile. She had a desire to return home.
She only spent one day with her. However, my impulsive actions are already exerting a great influence on one’s mind and heart. How terrifying is this.
Any further involvement with her here is an unnecessary intervention in her fate. All I do is induce her to depend on me for her lack of support.
In the end, it would be deceptive and irresponsible play if she did such a thing from her point of view, who couldn’t even take responsibility for her until the end.
“…I have no appetite. I want you to eat mine too.”
“Ew? Auund… “
“Haha. No one will take it away, so eat everything and talk.”
“Ugh… “
However, after seeing the magic in the morning, I changed my mind.
From the first time we met, I felt a sense of difference in the mana flowing from my body, but after using magic, the amount of mana increased even more.
The ability to manipulate mana and bring out the desired magic is her ability and talent.
However, it can only be seen that the bizarre amount of boiling mana was attributable to an external force, a divine force.
There is no way to know what happened to the process, but what is certain is that the human circle cannot withstand the enormous amount of mana for long.
At the earliest, in a year, the circle will be broken and the vessel to contain mana will be lost. After that, the mana that could not be contained anywhere would slowly poison her body.
In the end, this unfortunate girl will disappear asrai, holding nothing but her hatred for her world.
That is the future of this girl. Rainier’s circle is still breaking little by little, and mana poisoning will come soon.
“Um… By the way, this place sells two kinds of steaks? That’s interesting.”
“Two types? What do you mean?”
That’s why I changed my mind.
Even if it has nothing to do with me, death is obvious, so we can’t just leave it unattended.
“Flaw… See. Beef steak here and egg steak… “
“Haha. Egg steak, isn’t that fried eggs?”
“…To?”
Rainier opened her blue eyes wide and looked at the wide-open egg.
As if hearing the word for the first time, the way he closed and opened his eyes was so cute that laughter came out.
“Fry… ? It’s not an egg steak… ?”
“Yes, Fry. You must have misunderstood something.”
Thanks to her fierce appearance, she must have been quite cute since she was a child.
She must have had a lover too. If the aesthetic sense of the human race is not very different from that of the demons, this girl belongs to the axis of beauty.
I’m getting more and more curious about this girl. What kind of life has she lived?
I thought for a moment whether she would spit out her rumbling curiosity in her mouth, but I gave up, deciding that it might lead to new scars on her.
Instead, he found sauce smeared on Rainier’s mouth and took a napkin and brought it to her mouth.
“Didn’t the sauce get all over her mouth? Now, stay still.”
“Oh… “
Wiping Rainier’s mouth with a napkin, at the same time absorbing her overflowing mana.
Of course, even this is a temporary measure. If you don’t do something with the continuously generated mana, it’s useless in the end.
Rainier widened her eyes, as if embarrassed by the sudden touch of her lips. She suddenly bit her lips and strongly shook her arm.
“…Don’t keep touching it on your own.”
“Hmm? What did that mean?”
“You just stroked her hair, and you just touched her lips. Don’t be smart and pretend you don’t know. If someone touches… It’s scary.”
Rainier lowered her head. She put down the tableware she had been teasing so hard that she might have offended her.
There was still a chunk of meat in her bowl, but she didn’t seem to want to eat any more.
In order to absorb mana, physical contact is essential, so it was really troublesome.
However, to tell the truth about mana poisoning, Rainie, who is not in a sound state of mind, doesn’t know how to accept it.
“Yeah, sorry. Then would you like us to leave now?”
“Great.
“…Great.”
Rainier looked at her and adjusted the way she dressed, as if her cold treatment of me was bothering her.
It seemed to mean that if I got up first, he would follow me, so I gave Alphonse a signal and stood up.
…That was a mistake. She was caught off guard because her head was complicated.
She should have always kept in mind that Rainier is like a water balloon that may burst at any moment.
“Customer! You left your bill here!”
A waiter who finds the bill on the table follows us.
From his point of view, it would have been more efficient to call Rainier rather than me and Alphonse, who were walking ahead.
The waitress hurriedly ran over and grabbed Rainier’s arm. He didn’t even know that that perfectly normal judgment could cost him his life.
“Let go.”
“Yes? No… That, the bill… ”
While waiting for Rainier to come out with the bill, he felt an unusual flow of mana and hurriedly turned his head.
Rainier’s arm was grabbed by an employee. And the clerk who hands over the bill to do her part even though she is embarrassed.
Rainier kept her head down and her body trembling. Rainie, who muttered something inaudible, suddenly gritted her teeth. He spun around to face the waiter and stretched out his free arm.
“Let go, I told you… !”
“Le, Mr. Lemarque!”
“This… !”
The magic has already been cast. The flowing mana was gathering in the form of water droplets.
If so, the best thing you can do now is to reduce the damage.
After a month, I ran to Rainier’s side and took off the employee’s arm, and then Rainier’s arm was raised to the ceiling. It was almost immediately after that that a water cannon of formidable power was fired from the raised arm.
Coo goo goo-
With a terrifying roar, a hollow hole pierced the ceiling. Even the center of the cloud seen through the hole was open, suggesting its power.
Now it’s over with property damage… If Rainier had been left alone, it wouldn’t have ended with one or two people dying. It must have caused at least a hundred human casualties.
In a severe case, this village may have disappeared into the back of history as it is.
I reached out to the stupidly blinking employee. He lifted him up and brushed the dirt off his shoulder.
“Her… I’m sorry. You surprised me.”
“Uh… ? Bar, bar, just…”
“This is the cost of repairs to the store. There will be no shortage.”
I gave you all the money I earned from this quest, so it’s probably more than enough.
“Let’s go, Rainier.”
“…”
Rainier, frozen in place, blankly looked at her palm.
There was no way I could know what emotions were going on in that blue room.
I just take her out of her store before there’s a bigger commotion.
“Ranie, wasn’t it really dangerous just now? Why did you want to kill him?”
“…You did.”
“Hmm?”
Rainier, who had been dragged by me, shook her arm annoyedly and said,
“That man just tried to rape me… Hmm, so before I get hurt, I first… “
“He was just trying to hand over the bill. Didn’t you see it too?”
“No! For sure… He must have been trying to grope me! You saw it too! Are you pretending not to know everything? Is that so?”
She trembled with her fear, and let out a heavy breath, holding back her tears.
Is it madness or delusion?
Her eyes were clear to say it was madness, but it was too impulsive and violent to be explained only by paranoia.
If the world drove Rainier this way, is her revenge against the world justified? Is it okay to hurt even the most unrelated ordinary people?
“…Is that so. Then he must have been punished.”
I couldn’t easily answer that question. Perhaps it was because her odd fate disturbed her judgment.
I nodded her head and let go of her arm.
Rainier absentmindedly stroked the area where my hand had been. She doesn’t even look at me and answers with the cold voice she used to when we first met.
“Huh. Humans only have those things. I wish someone called the Demon King would come and kill them all…”
“…Is the Demon King such a being?”
“Of course. He’s the devil, the enemy of humans. Maybe even now they are sneaking among humans and eating them alive. Flaw…”
I want to tell you that I don’t do cannibals, but… I endured it.
“Still, don’t use magic hastily from now on.”
“…Why? Then just stay silent and get eaten… “
“For now, I am by your side. If someone tries to do nonsense, I, an equally filthy human being, will solve it, so don’t get your hands dirty. Did you intend to become like those filthy humans?”
“…”
Rainier was silent. She lowered her head and looked at her floor in silence.
“Did you understand? If you understand, answer me.”
“You are annoying too. As if anything could happen to an adventurer of the same level…”
“Did you understand?”
“All right… Otherwise, you can.”
Rainier replied curtly and she crouched down on the floor.
I am worried. Would it be right to send this guy back to her house?
If I went back to this state now, I might commit something that betrayed humanity with my own hands.
If that happens, she will be ruined to the point where she can no longer do anything about it.
Even though I think that there is nothing to worry about, I can’t stop my heart from going to my heart.
I need treatment for mana poisoning anyway, so I’d rather…
“Le, Lemarque! It’s a big deal!”
“Hmm?”
Alphonse, who was talking with the owner of the store, hurriedly came running. He had a piece of paper in his hand.
“The lockdown… ! Don’t leave town… “
…Lenny. Who are you?
That bizarre amount of mana, the scars engraved deep in your heart, even the forces that try to hold you down, even blocking the entire village.
This delicate girl who was destined to become a prostitute… Why are you going through this Doesn’t it seem like everything in her world is against her?
“Oops! Look at it I want to leave quickly because of this… !”
“Haha… You are right. It’s a pain in the ass.”
“Ugh, I’m a fool for trusting these people… !”
Rainier stomps her feet to find a place to hide her body. She then grabs my sleeve and runs into her back alley, as if she has found a suitable place.
However, dozens of knights popped out of that alley. Before Rainier could even react, some of them looked this way and shouted.
“There! Blue hair and blue eyes! The year of the traitor is right!”
“There are also her colleagues by her side!”
“Bar, treason? I never did anything like that…!”
It was Rainier who protested as if he was unfair, but her knights didn’t even listen to her words and started forming camps around us.
Eventually, when the surroundings were completely surrounded by knights and there was no time to escape, Renye smiled dejectedly and spoke quietly.
“Flaw… I’ll open a way for you to run away. After they catch me, they probably won’t bother trying to catch you.”
“…What do you mean? Are you running away?”
“The one following you is the Imperial Princess. Even if we run away like this… We will be caught someday. The outside air is also warm enough, so I’m going to stop going back now. Thank you so much.”
As she trudged toward the knights, she muttered in a barely audible voice.
“Flaw… If you’re going to get caught anyway… How many… “
If I mentioned her princess, she would have thought that I would take away her fear.
It’s not even funny. I, the supreme demon lord, fear the princess of humans and run away, leaving the person who was driven to the brink by her? It’s nonsense.
“Her… “
I follow the duty as a ‘person’.
Humans, demons. No matter how different the values of the two races are, ‘humans’ just do what they have to do.
Rainier had just stretched out his arm and aimed at his knights. As he said, he was going to kill again to clear the way.
… I didn’t want to see her completely ruined by even killing her. Instead, I wanted to help her get her bright smile back.
“What?!”
Before she could gather her mana, she shot behind her. He wrapped it around her waist, lifted her up, and put it on her shoulder.
“It will shake a lot, so hold on tight.”
“Lemarque de Diable! Let go of this!!”
“Haha! You were memorizing your name Alphonse, I’ll ask for your back. I can’t wait this time.”
“When did you say you were worried about me… I will follow you on my own, so please go first.”
“Okay, then go back first when you’re done.”
“Lemarque!!”
I don’t know who Rainier is.
I don’t know what kind of wounds she had or why her heart was broken.
However, you know that when you give her a compliment, she pretends to dislike it, but raises the corners of her mouth, and when she talks about adventures, her eyes twinkle.
And… I want to know more than what I know.
I want to know what this mysterious girl was originally like, what she enjoyed and what she liked.
I want the ‘essence’, not the meaningless ‘fact’ that she is simply about to die from her mana poisoning and that the princess of her empire is after her.
“Hmm!”
That’s why I held onto my employer so that he wouldn’t struggle, and looked into the air, not the front blocked by knights. He concentrated all his energy on his calves.
“Let go! I can’t run away anyway… !”
“Ranie, the end of my request was to send you back home. So, if I let you go like this, wouldn’t that disqualify you as an adventurer!”
“That… Kyaaaaagh!”
Kwaaang-!
As if a meteorite had hit the ground, a crater hollowed out, and Rainier and I were shot into the air.
“Hey, hey… “
Rainier, who trembled her body for a moment. She saw the knights, who in an instant became as small as her ants, and limp and her movement disappeared.
Even when she jumped from the window, she was a fussy girl, so she might have a fear of heights.
I looked at the ground that was approaching fiercely again and thought it was fortunate that Rainie passed out. If I had been awake, I would have vomited, incontinently, or both.
