episode_0241

“The saint comes to visit the demons. This is something I couldn’t even imagine in the past.”

Arbes, sitting nobly on the prince’s throne, looked down at Iris with an expressionless face.

A meeting between a demon king and a saint that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. However, there was no hostility between their gazes.

Now, the demons and humans were no longer at war.

At least in this kingdom of Rachel.

“I came to tell you some news.”

“Speak up.”

Arbes obediently opens his ears.

Iris thought that he had definitely become much more calm than when he was under the influence of the demon’s power.

“You might be surprised, but please listen until the end.”

“There is nothing more surprising in this life.”

Iris nodded at Arbes’ indifferent voice.

And then he took a short breath, looked at Arbes, and opened his mouth.

“Hera is alive.”

“What?!”

Arbes rises from the throne.

The look on her face that I had been sure would not surprise me was nowhere to be found.

“Please listen until the end. The surprise comes later.”

“..If it’s a lie, even you are safe-”

“You won’t listen?”

“…Speak quickly.”

The Demon King bows his head to the saint.

It would have been an unimaginable sight in the past, but now it had to be so.

Because the words Iris had just spoken had more weight than anything else.

“Two months ago, an oracle came down that Hera was alive. When I checked the tomb where Hera was actually sleeping, it was empty.”

“You’re not in your right mind, opening the grave of the deceased.”

“Is there anyone in their right mind in this situation?”

“……”

As the Demon King nodded as if to continue, Iris continued speaking.

“The first person to tell me was Athena. I thought she would find it right away. But now, two months have passed and Athena hasn’t given me any news. ”

“So that’s why you came to ask Jim to search for you too.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Arbes nodded, looking into Iris’ blue eyes.

“But why didn’t you tell me earlier that you were alive? If you had, we could have found you much sooner.”

“….That’s.”

The Demon King let out a hollow laugh as he watched Iris mumbling, unable to easily answer his words.

“These sinister things. They hid it so they could eat them all up.”

“……..Yes. That’s right. Even if you say I’m selfish, I have nothing to say.”

Iris decided to admit it obediently.

In reality, it was true that he had not been able to find Hera until now because of his own selfishness, so he felt that his heart would be relieved only if he revealed his sins in this way.

However, the Demon King did not laugh at Iris like that.

Rather, he looked down at her as if he felt sorry.

“You stupid things. It’s a shame you don’t know the true fun.”

“Huh?”

The Demon King looked at Iris, whose eyes were wide open, and spoke seriously.

“You four years ago, you couldn’t overcome your own selfishness and tried to monopolize her. That’s why you couldn’t see the big forest.”

“…What is that.”

“Think about it carefully.”

As the Demon King waved his hand, the entire surroundings were instantly engulfed in darkness, as if his eyes had been closed.

The only thing that can be heard in the darkness is the Demon King’s quiet voice.

“The sight of her shivering in bed, surrounded by us beasts.”

Perhaps it was because it was completely dark. Arbes’ words unfolded in my imagination as they were.

“Imagine her looking at us with trembling eyes, surrounded by a circle with nowhere to run.”

A female deer in the middle of a pride of lions.

Let’s imagine that situation with Hera, and Iris’s heart starts to get a little hotter.

“She earnestly begs us with a voice that shakes violently.”

– Hey.. guys..? Why are you looking at me like that..?

– Hey, won’t you get out of the way..? I’m starting to get scared..

– Iris..? Why me..

“And as we slowly close in on her, her eyes turn to despair.”

– Hey.. kids, wait..! I’m scared…!

– I… don’t like it… don’t come…

“She starts to struggle as we slowly take away her freedom.”

– Ha…don’t do that! Let go of it!

– Athena!! Ma..Maria!! Iris..! Li..Lily! Don’t do this..!

“And finally. She who was endlessly trampled by us and cried miserably..”

– I… don’t like it, huh?!

– Huh..! Huh?!?!

– Huh?! Oh no?!!

Juruk-

A hot, sticky liquid ran down Iris’s lower body.

The Demon King spoke to Iris, who was listening to his story with a considerably red face.

“They say delicious food tastes better when you eat it together.”

“……..”

Iris swallowed hard.

The Demon King rose from his throne and gave a loud applause.

“Did you call, Demon King?”

A demon that appears without a sound.

He bowed his head and waited for the Demon King’s command.

“Get the Demon King’s army ready. We have to deploy.”

“….! Are you really trying to start another war..?”

The Demon King shook his head as he looked into the demon’s greatly agitated eyes.

“I will find one person.”

“….Yes?”

A confused demon.

But Arbes paid no attention and continued to give orders.

“Call Tyros and Sephir to come before me. I have something to tell you.”

“….yes.”

Although he had many questions, like a loyal subject, he suppressed them all and withdrew.

The Demon King slowly came down from the throne and patted Iris on the shoulder.

“It’s annoying that you tried to eat it alone, but… Anyway, thanks to you, I found a reason to live again. I should be thankful for that.”

“….Thank you for understanding.”

“Don’t worry, Hera will find it soon.”

It has never happened before and it never will happen again.

It was the moment when the demons, who had come to find just one person, were released into the world.

Arbes, who was turning around to return to his throne, stopped dead in his tracks as if remembering something.

“Oh. Did you tell her by any chance?”

“…No. Not yet.”

Although it was a title that made it impossible to determine who was being addressed, Iris immediately knew who Arbes was referring to.

Arbes nodded at Iris’ words.

“Okay. Good job. Hide it until we find Hera.”

“I was thinking of doing that anyway.”

“….The last time I saw you, you had a strange smile on your face, even more so than when you were drinking.”

Her precious friend and the one he once had a crush on.

Even though she was the person closest to her, Iris couldn’t possibly tell this to her.

Because I couldn’t imagine what would happen if she found out.

Iris slowly turned around, praying that everything would work out perfectly.

*

“Ugh…haak..”

“Thank you for your hard work, Mom.”

I felt puzzled as Marie spoke while patting me on the back.

“Really…is it true that you usually take medicine like this…?”

“Yeah. Didn’t Mom move instinctively at the end?”

“…That’s right.”

Certainly, as Marie said, my last action was not mine.

It literally felt like the memories left on my skin were moving my body.

Did Marie really regain some of her memories as she said?

“If you do other things in the future, you will definitely remember them.”

“….Do I really have to keep taking this medicine?”

An instinctive fear came over me.

The medicine given by the girl named Marie was definitely very effective.

.

As soon as the medicine entered my body, I immediately became more energetic and my mind became clearer.

I feel like I’ve gained years of health.

However, the process of taking the medicine into the body was very difficult.

That feeling of unacceptable amounts of energy being forced into your body.

My stomach was still slightly distended and unable to absorb all of Marie’s medicine.

Marie stroked my bulging belly a few times, then muttered with a strange smile.

“I think I’m pregnant.”

“…Huh?”

“No.”

Marie took her hands off my stomach and immediately changed the subject.

“Don’t worry! This time, I took a year’s worth of medicine, so that’s it. From now on, it’ll be much less, like a glass of water? ”

“…If it’s to that extent.”

There was nothing I couldn’t drink as long as it was about a glass of water a day.

Marie smiled brightly at my positive answer and flew over to me and hugged me.

I naturally fell over under her weight.

I ended up lying down on the bed with Marie in my arms.

Marie looked at me and smiled bashfully.

“Then please take good care of me until I regain all my memories, Mom!”

“…Yes. Please take good care of me too.”

That’s how the time to regain memories with Marie began.

Time passed quite quickly after that.

I spent my time moving my body as Marie said and learning basic common sense.

It was a week later that I felt something was strange.

*

Chwup-chwup-

He put the tip of Marie’s tail into his mouth and sucked out the claws.

Then the remaining medicine went down my tongue and throat.

I slowly licked the tip of the tail with my tongue,

Knock-knock-

Finally, he kissed the tip of the tail two or three times and then pulled away.

Marie looked down at me with an ecstatic expression.

I looked up at her and thanked her.

“Thank you for giving my daughter medicine today too…”

Marie slowly stroked my head as if I were her daughter.

In such a touching atmosphere, I felt a sense of wonder.

…Uh..uh..

‘Something seems wrong……’