episode_0127

That place was very different from any space in the Magic Tower.

Of course, I can’t be sure since I’ve never been to every nook and cranny of the Tower of Eternity, but at least the unpleasant air that was felt even in the Magic Tower Master’s room where the Magic Tower Master stays, was not felt here at all.

Rather, it felt like the fragrant lavender scent gently brushed the tip of my nose, relaxing my sharpened nerves.

“Are you going to keep looking? I don’t mind….”

“Ah…. S, sorry. I’ve been rude. I apologize.”

I make eye contact with a half-naked, purple-haired woman, wearing a subtle smile.

Anyway, it was me who suddenly barged in here, so I quickly turned my body.

‘But isn’t this place like the Magic Tower Master’s secret room? Why is there one woman here?’

A secret room made with magic. And one woman in her underwear in that place. The only conclusion I can draw from this is.

‘Did he bring a woman here secretly?’

First of all, the Magic Tower Master is a man, so he will have sexual desires, and at the same time, he has the position of Magic Tower Master, so he can’t just invite women.

Is this room for that?

If so, it makes sense.

If the reason why only this room has a unique, stuffy, and unpleasant atmosphere is to consider ordinary humans….

[Master!! Master!!!]

“?”

As I was thinking that, the Holy Sword Makina spoke urgently.

[F, Fragment!!]

“Fragment?”

[Fragment of the Demon King! It’s a fragment of the Demon King!! That woman!!]

“!!”

Fragment of the Demon King.

My spine tingled at that story.

Who is a fragment of the Demon King? The woman behind me right now?

“Kuh!”

I quickly turned my body and drew my sword.

If there’s one thing I learned from the last fight with the Heavenly Demon, it’s that any being called a fragment of the Demon King can kill me.

In the case of the Heavenly Demon, he killed me in one blow, but that doesn’t mean his attack wasn’t dangerous.

It’s a threatening attack to just take with my bare body.

‘I don’t think the Heavenly Demon is overwhelmingly stronger than other fragments of the Demon King.’

[Witch! Tammiel!! She’s one of the fragments of the Demon King!!]

Witch! Is she a fragment of the Demon King that the Black Dawn Society is receiving!!….

Swish, swish

“Hmm?…. Oh my…. Does he want my body that much? I don’t mind, though.”

But the woman whom the Holy Sword Makina called a fragment of the Demon King had turned away from me and was changing her clothes.

Then, when she made eye contact with me, she smiled and shook her beautifully swollen chest slightly.

“No…. It’s okay. Finish changing….”

“Then I’ll accept your consideration and do that.”

I turned my body back and covered my face.

‘Makina.’

[N, no, it’s not a lie!! Of course, her appearance has changed a bit, but…. That purple hair and unique power!…. It’s definitely Tammiel, one of the fragments of the Demon King!! Really~!!]

‘….’

Judging from how far Makina is going, it must be true….

Am I suddenly meeting the Demon King’s fragment herself here?

‘Is it Revia’s luck?’

If I hadn’t tried to take Revia with me, I wouldn’t have come to this Magic Kingdom and would have gone straight to the Holy Kingdom, and if that were the case, I wouldn’t have met the Demon King’s fragment staying in the Magic Kingdom.

In that sense, it seems like Revia’s ability worked somehow….

But now there’s another problem.

“I’m all changed, so you can turn around now.”

“….”

When I turned my body, a woman in a black dress that revealed her figure was looking at me with a smiling face.

“There are a few things I want to ask.”

“As much as you want. It’s a bit much to talk standing like this…. Shall we sit down and talk?”

She flicks her fingers.

With just that action, the surrounding environment changes.

Is it magic?

Or is it an illusion?

There’s no way to tell. Anyway, what’s important is that in front of me are a small table and two antique chairs that can face each other.

And a garden with light refreshments has appeared.

“….”

“Is it more comfortable standing?”

“No, I’ll sit.”

Me and her sitting on the chairs.

She picked up the teacup she created and drank tea.

“Then what do you want to ask?”

“Are you a Demon King?”

“….”

I asked directly.

I didn’t feel the need to ask indirectly.

The other person silently took another sip of tea and put down the teacup.

“Yes, as your cute Holy Sword said, I am one of the fragments of the Demon King. Witch, Tammiel. One of the four fragments of the Demon King that you, the hero, must defeat.”

“…I didn’t expect to meet you so suddenly.”

“I couldn’t have imagined meeting you so suddenly either. Thanks to you, I showed you an unsightly sight.”

Purple eyes without a sense of vitality.

But anyway, she was smiling as if she was happy about something.

“That’s strange.”

“What do you mean?”

“I’ve already met a fragment of the Demon King once.”

“Ah…. It seems so. Because one connection has disappeared.”

…Connection?

What is this story again?

I heard a worrying story, but I’ll skip it for now.

“The Heavenly Demon. I defeated the fragment of the Demon King who was building power in the Yeom Kingdom. And the feeling I felt when I faced the Heavenly Demon at that time is not felt at all in you. The overwhelming presence that makes my skin tingle. The weight of the heavy evil. It’s not felt at all in you. Are you really a fragment of the Demon King?”

She lightly nodded her head at my question.

“You’re sharp. I am a fragment of the Demon King, but at the same time, I am not a fragment of the Demon King.”

“What does that mean?”

“Literally. This body is just a vessel for me to appear here. The real body is in another place, so it’s no surprise that you can’t feel anything.”

The real body is in another place?….

[S, so that’s why her appearance was different!]

‘No, more than that, you. You said you don’t remember anything properly about the fragments of the Demon King, so how did you know she was a fragment of the Demon King?’

[Maybe…. When you encounter a fragment of the Demon King, it seems like you receive information about it from the Goddess.]

‘She’s a Goddess with a bad personality.’

If you’re going to give it, just give it in advance….

Anyway, if the main body is in another place, it makes sense that the Holy Sword Makina said the appearance is different.

“Okay. Anyway, if you say you’re a fragment of the Demon King, the story is simple.”

I stood up from my seat and pointed my sword at the other person.

But even then, she didn’t react at all.

“Are you going to kill me?”

“If a hero meets a fragment of the Demon King, that’s naturally their fate.”

“Fate…. There’s probably nothing less suited to that word than you….”

Tammiel, who glanced at the Holy Sword, turned her gaze to me and said.

“Even if you kill me here, it won’t mean anything. Didn’t I say it before? My main body is in another place, so even if you kill me, it won’t mean anything.”

“That Heavenly Demon guy also parasitized the body of the Sword Demon and messed around before ascending to heaven.”

“That’s obvious. The Heavenly Demon, his main body had already been killed by the First Hero a long time ago. Just a soul with nowhere to go, moving from body to body…. The body he was possessing disappeared, but it’s only natural that the soul also meets death according to the natural order.”

“That’s…, the first time I’ve heard that story.”

The Heavenly Demon’s body was already killed by the First Hero?

“Then what about you?”

“Even if this body dies, it will just return to its original body.”

“….”

Tsk.

I thought I met a fragment of the Demon King by good luck.

“What’s the way to kill you?”

“Hahaha, are you seriously asking me to tell you how to kill me?”

As if she was genuinely amused,

She laughed exaggeratedly and said, raising the corners of her mouth.

“Yes, there’s only one way to kill me. If you kill my main body sealed in the Mirror World, I will die.”

“…Why are you telling me?”

She’s really telling me this. It’s not a lie, is it?

When I glared at her with suspicious eyes, she shrugged her shoulders and said.

“Well…. Because what I’m waiting for is not the destruction of the world.”

“?”

“I rather want to ask you.”

She quietly stood up from her seat.

There was no feeling of danger or anything like that. So I didn’t take any special defensive actions.

In the meantime, she slowly approached me and carefully hugged me, saying.

“Are you the prince I’ve been waiting for?”

* * *

“This is the pass. This person is…. O, one of Hero Leon’s group. She said she was interested in the Magic Tower, so I brought her.”

When Anne took out the pass and talked about Revia, the guard’s face turned pale and quickly moved away.

Anne and Revia tilted their heads at the guard’s actions, but anyway, they thought it was a good thing that they had entered the Magic Tower, so they went inside.

“This is the Tower of Eternity!…. Hmm…. It’s a bit…. different from the Magic Tower I saw in Lium….”

A heavy, sunken, or unpleasant air that seems to be mixed with various things.

When Revia felt that air and shivered, Anne chuckled and said.

“The Tower of Eternity is researching the bodies of various races. It can be a little difficult to breathe in order to maintain an environment where the bodies of each race can function in the best conditions.”

“That’s right…. Huhu, huhu!”

Revia, who was breathing hard, and Anne, who was looking at her.

One magician belonging to the Tower of Eternity came to the two of them.

“Anne, you’re here. But who is that?”

“Ah, this person is Revia. She’s one of Hero Leon’s group. She’s very interested in the Magic Tower….”

“Hero Leon’s?….”

The magician who carefully looked at her nodded his head.

“If you’re interested in the Tower of Eternity, how about level measurement?”

“Level measurement?”

“Yes. It’s a test that converts the level of the body into a level.”

“Huh? That’s….”

Isn’t it similar to the blessing they give at church?

As Revia looked with such questions, the magician laughed and said.

“That’s right. It’s similar to the blessing given by the church. However, the difference is that the church’s blessing gives you something called status, thereby giving you the power to set the direction of your current abilities and future abilities according to your will, while the level measurement here is literally just measuring your current power.”

“However…. The downside is that it only measures the abilities of the pure body, so elements such as magic power cannot be measured….”

Revia nodded her head while listening to Anne’s supplementary explanation.

Revia had never received a blessing from the church, so these elements were very fascinating to her.

“I’ll try it!”

“Then come with me.”

Revia lay down on the facility for level measurement.

The level measurement was done in an instant.

It ended with something like a laser scanning Revia’s entire body.

Revia herself didn’t feel anything to the point where she wondered if she had done something.

“Is it done?”

“….”

“?”

And the magician who was looking at the level measurement result sheet suddenly ran somewhere without saying a word.

“What’s wrong?….”

“I don’t know. Is something bad?”

“That can’t be. I saw it with you, and she was just…. normal.”

“Is that so?”

Hehe, that’s a relief.

Revia thought so and started looking around the Magic Tower with Anne.

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[Level Measurement Result]

[Name: Revia]

[Gender: Female]

[Age: 20]

[Physical Level: 9]

[Sacred Suitability Value: 99%]