episode_0181

One month.

A month passed by so quickly and slowly.

In the Demon King’s bedroom, two women were sitting close to each other, covering each other.

Demon King Arbes, whose eyes, which looked like they were painted with blood, were shining menacingly.

In her arms, like a doll with its strings cut off, a beautiful woman stands still without moving an inch.

The woman just stared blankly into space with her empty eyes. If her eyes had been closed, she could have been mistaken for a corpse, as she had no life whatsoever.

But at the same time, the woman had an intense, aura of innocence that was impossible to take my eyes off of.

“Hesilla. Is there anything you want?”

The Demon King asked her gently, stroking her head.

“…….”

But the woman just stared blankly into space and didn’t give any answer.

If it were the usual Demon King, I would have cut off his head right away.

The Demon King, who was strangely generous to women, simply smiled faintly and grabbed the woman’s ankle with his hand.

“Is it okay if I do that?”

When the woman nodded weakly to the Demon King’s question, the Demon King tightened his grip on her ankle.

Woodduck-

“Ah…uh…”

A faint moan escaped the woman’s mouth, and tears began to flow from her eyes.

The Demon King admired the woman’s face with a tear running down her cheek, and then gave her a kiss on the cheek.

If it were a normal person, it would have been a pain that would have made them scream at any moment, but the woman just stared blankly at the ground and shed tears.

The woman’s ankle returned to its original shape in an instant, as if nothing had happened.

“Is there really nothing you want? I’ll give you anything.”

“……”

The Demon King asked her again, but this time, there was no answer.

As the Demon King’s expression gradually became more and more gloomy, the woman turned her head weakly and looked at the Demon King with empty eyes.

“…..there is.”

At the woman’s words, the Demon King’s eyes immediately widened and he stroked the woman’s head once more.

“Oh! What was that? Tell me freely.”

The woman turned around and faced the Demon King.

She put her hands on her neck.

“…Please stop killing me now.”

As if she really wanted to die. Unlike before when she had just been dead, the woman spoke in a voice full of anticipation.

The Demon King stared blankly at the woman for a moment, then frowned and began to strangle her neck.

“Gek…! Keuk..!”

With her face turning pale, the woman’s body instinctively began to struggle to catch her breath.

But that was the end of it. Nothing more happened than that.

The Demon King’s gaze was certainly fierce, but contradicting that, she was being very careful with her strength so that the woman’s neck would not break.

As if he didn’t want to kill her.

“How dare you…how dare you order a doll around?”

“Ugh…ugh…haak..!”

“You want me to kill you? No. How could I? You will have to live by my side for the rest of your life.”

“Geuk….Ugh…Ah…Te..Na..”

A woman who calls Athena’s name again with her eyes tightly shut.

The Demon King unconsciously tightened his grip on his hand, overcome by an inexplicable sense of sadness.

Then the woman felt her cervical vertebrae slightly crack.

As she let her body drop, the Demon King was startled and took his hands off the woman’s neck to examine her condition.

Perhaps it’s a blessing in disguise.

She had simply lost consciousness, and was breathing heavily, holding her exhausted body in check. The only thing that had changed was the large, blue bruise on her neck.

The Demon King let out a short sigh. He laid the woman down on the bed and left the room.

With a scowl on his face, as if he didn’t like something.

*

It’s not fun.

“It is said that warriors and heroes are searching for traces of the demons day and night.”

It’s so boring.

“The Empire thought the war was over when the gates of the Demon Realm closed. They are ringing out news of victory.”

Even a war that I would have originally gone to find on my own.

And hearing the desperate screams of flesh and bone being torn apart.

It’s all so damn boring.

“Soon, our eyes outside will also lose contact. If things continue like this, we will never be able to leave the demon world again.”

Over the past month, quite a lot has changed.

The righteous warrior of the Holy Sword was torturing anything that resembled the demons even just this much, day and night.

There were rumors that the woman who was called the heroine of the empire had become a tyrant.

One day, a dragon of natural disaster suddenly appeared in the sky and was spreading disaster across the continent every day.

The saint who was always so merciful became a madwoman who was always covered in blood.

And the Demon King himself also changed just as much as these people.

‘What is this unpleasant feeling?’

She was chosen by the demon god and was granted the power of the Demon King and an endless desire to kill. Arbes.

But strangely enough, the desire to kill that had stimulated Arbes throughout his life began to gradually disappear when he was with Hesillaya.

A month passed like that.

Arbes, no longer interested in killing, naturally withdrew from the war.

In the Demon King’s heart, the great desire for murder has disappeared.

Ironically, what filled that empty space was an emotion Arbes had never felt before.

It was a feeling that was directed only towards Hesilla.

At first, it was so much fun to ruin her.

Her face, writhing in agony, was more beautiful than any sight.

Her screams of pain were softer than any other sound.

The tears she shed in sorrow were sweeter than any blood.

But now, things have changed quite a bit.

Every time she screamed in pain, I felt an inexplicable sense of guilt.

Every time I made a sad face, I felt an inexplicable sense of unease.

When you asked me to kill myself earlier, I was filled with rage.

Arbes, who had never felt this way in his life, began to wonder what this feeling was.

After thinking about it for a while, the Demon King remembered what Hesilaya had said before.

-Athena…

A name that makes you feel uncomfortable just hearing it.

“..That was it.”

The Demon King realized.

This dirty feeling that is making my stomach churn. The unpleasant feeling that my doll still does not treat me as its master.

It was because of the resentment of thinking of another woman while leaving him.

“Yeah..that’s right.”

There was no longer any hesitation on the Demon King’s face after he realized the cause.

The Demon King’s face lit up with a wide smile and his eyes glowed red.

Thinking of the lovely doll that has not yet dared to give in.

*

bang-!!

BANG-!!

“Ugh..”

I woke up to a loud noise that felt like my eardrums were going to burst.

I sat up from my soft bed and looked around, and for some reason, I felt that the Demon King’s castle was more noisy than before.

“….Huh?”

I sat up. I could see that the leash that usually kept me tethered was gone.

After entering the Demon King’s Castle, I couldn’t help but feel a bit dizzy as my body became free for the first time.

But as time passed, I eventually had no choice but to give up.

‘..What’s the point of doing that? You can’t do anything anyway.’

Not only did he not think that he could escape the Demon King’s embrace, but he also had nowhere to go as a demon.

Kwaaang-!

Then a loud explosion is heard again.

The noise was so loud that it made my eyes squint, so I ended up going outside.

Then what catches your eye is.

“What is this…what is this…”

The demons whose entire bodies are burning in blazing fire and turning to ash.

The Demon King’s Castle is engulfed in intense flames everywhere.

I could only blink at the shocking sight.

– Kkaaaak-!

Then, a terrible scream is heard from the other side.

I followed the direction of the sound as if I was possessed by something.

After not walking very far, I was able to find the source of the sound.

“Save me..Save me..!”

The demon, who had been cruelly split in half, tried to struggle and scream, but soon his entire body was engulfed in flames and turned to ash.

An intense flame engulfed him.

At the color of the flames that was so familiar, my eyes began to flutter.

It’s so strong that it engulfs everything, but at the same time, it feels like it will embrace me warmly.

Just like her.

“Hera.”

I missed you so much.

The voice of the woman I had been longing to see came into my ear.

I was afraid to raise my head.

No. I couldn’t hear it.

What if I raise my head and she isn’t there? What if I end up falling into despair again?

Because at that time I didn’t know how I was going to endure it.

“Hera. Look at me.”

Then I heard her voice again.

Let’s raise our heads and pray earnestly that it is not a dream.

“Ah…..Athena….”

I looked into her golden eyes. My heart, which had been sinking, began to beat wildly again.