episode_0176

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Continuing from episode 145. This is the story of when Athena failed to save Hera.

I’m leaving this message in advance because it’s pretty dilapidated.

Thank you for always reading!

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The building is engulfed in flames and collapses.

The monsters’ terrible roars are heard everywhere.

The students’ miserable screams are heard.

But even so, I could only stare blankly at her in front of me.

“What did you just say?”

“She told me to live as her doll.”

“A…hyung?”

The Demon King looked at me intensely and said.

“I came here with my subordinates with determination. I can’t go back empty-handed, right?”

“So…so..?”

The Demon King looked at me with an evil smile on his face as I asked the question in a trembling voice.

“It’s up to you to decide. Will you be the only one to sacrifice yourself? Or will you watch everyone, including the warrior, die?”

“That…that won’t do..!”

“Then you’d better decide quickly. Even at this moment, my legions are devouring your lives.”

My heart started beating faster at the Demon King’s words.

As she said, there was absolutely no time to relax right now.

Even while I was hesitating like this, someone could have died.

‘Well…still, it’s a doll…’

I didn’t think there would be a good life.

The demon tribe will basically have a vicious personality.

Being dragged to the demon world where those demons live could, in some ways, be a punishment worse than death.

You might end up living a life worse than hell.

“You don’t seem to be sure enough to hesitate. Okay. Take your time and think about it here. I’ll be back soon.”

“Ah..No!!”

As she tried to walk past me, I instinctively had no choice but to grab her arm and stop her.

“I’ll be..I’ll be a doll, so please stop..!”

I was scared.

I had no idea what I would be subjected to if I was taken away by the demons.

but…

But still..

I want to protect everyone.

Not the novel I used to love. The world I now live in.

No longer characters. People I love.

How scary it was when Lily was hit by the dark knight’s sword and sent flying.

When Melum’s poison approached Iris and Ariel.

When Darkhan was mortally wounded by Arbes.

If only my sacrifice could save them now…

This little fear. I could have easily overcome it.

“If you tell me to roll, I’ll roll. If you tell me to bark, do you think I’ll bark?”

The Demon King lifts my chin with a sadistic smile.

Tears welled up in my eyes in fear, but I nodded with a look of determination in my eyes.

“Please stop attacking..”

“Huh huh..good.”

After finishing speaking, the Demon King raised her hand high, and a large black light rose high into the sky around her.

The pitch-black light that rose high up quickly scattered everywhere, engulfing the monsters and demons that had spread out in all directions.

And then, not long after, the catastrophic beings disappeared in an instant.

It was hard to believe that the scene had been so desperate just a moment ago. In an instant, peace had come to the Academy.

The Demon King smiled and held out his hand to me as if it was nothing.

“Okay. Since the woman showed mercy, I should keep my promise.”

Her words made me take a step back without realizing it.

I felt sick to my stomach from the rejection my body was causing.

My whole body was screaming that I shouldn’t go near her.

Finally, after a long time of not being able to move, the air around the Demon King began to distort ominously.

“Are you deceiving your own wife? Just like this. Do you think you’ll listen only if I kill them all?”

Her words made my body tremble.

There was no way.

There is no one in this academy right now who can stop the Demon King.

Even if I rush in, I’ll just end up dying a horrible death from her.

“I’m…going…”

I made up my mind with a trembling voice. It seemed as if I was hearing a woman’s voice in my head.

[….don’t…go…poison…nim..]

A gentle voice that seemed to hold me.

But there was no one around.

The Master’s voice was even worse.

In the end, it’s probably just a delusion I created because I didn’t want to go to the Demon King’s side.

“This woman’s patience is not long.”

At the Demon King’s urging, I swallowed my saliva and walked towards her.

Step by step. Every time I approached her, I felt like I was going to cry with fear.

[Don’t…turn…reader…….”]

The voice that seeps into my head again.

But I still thought it was my delusion and took one more step forward.

By the time I forced my trembling body to move and reached her,

[Come back now, reader!!]

“Eh..?”

A sound that I heard clearly in my head.

My body stopped in its tracks at the sudden voice.

‘Who…who are you…?’

[Run away!! Run away, please!!]

But I realized something was wrong with her voice.

It’s already too late.

Like a beast pounced on its prey, the Demon King grabbed my wrist with such speed that I couldn’t even see his hand.

“You chose the path yourself. I hope you won’t regret it.”

The Demon King’s aura changes in an instant.

I was forced to look straight into her fiercely shining eyes.

I quickly realized that I had made the wrong choice.

Her determination to protect everyone until just now crumbled in an instant, leaving only the instinctive fear of killing emanating from her body.

“Okay…wait a minute…”

“It’s too late. I won’t show mercy anymore.”

“Ah..ah..no….shi..I don’t like it..”

I instinctively tried to push her away as fear surged through my body, but I couldn’t escape the Demon King’s power that was gripping my wrist so tightly that it almost broke.

“Shut up. You are my doll now. Don’t dare open your mouth without my permission.”

“Please…save me…please save me..”

I lost my senses in the face of the great horror before my eyes and could only make a desperate plea.

“Instead, I will also keep my promise and not invade any further.”

Her atmosphere was so brutal and violent that it made my body tremble like an aspen tree.

I felt confident.

If I were to follow the Demon King like this, I was certain that I would never see that bright sunlight again.

“Ah…no…”

I have to go back.

To Lily’s side. To Dania’s side. To Marie’s side. To Athena’s side.

But I still couldn’t escape the Demon King’s grasp. The Demon King’s black mana began to surround me little by little.

“I…hate…ah…Athena…Lily…”

I looked around hurriedly. I thought to myself, it was so ugly. I naturally started to seek their help.

But, hopelessly, there was no one around me who could save me.

In this situation where there was not an inch of hope in sight, a tear of sorrow ran down my cheek.

My vision suddenly became completely black.

I was never able to set foot in the Empire again.

*

I had a dream.

A cabin in the middle of a vast meadow.

It may not be a large house, but it still has a warm and cozy atmosphere.

There were happy days spent with her there.

In the morning, we all gather together and eat Dania’s sumptuous meal.

Marie was smiling brightly in the flower garden, making a crown for me.

Lily was still clinging to me today, arms linked.

Iris was reading the Bible to Sephir and influencing her.

Sephir was grimacing and denying Iris’s words.

I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw their petty squabbles.

“Hera.”

He turned around at the sound of someone calling him and looked at her.

The most beautiful blonde hair in the world. Her golden eyes that you will never get tired of looking at.

my love.

As I ran towards her.

Athena lifted my body so lightly.

“I love you Hera.”

She whispered sweetly in my ear.

I also smiled brightly at her and answered her.

“I love you too.”

A dream that is so wonderful and happy to me.

But what always comes after sweet dreams.

It was a harshly cold reality.

“…….Ah.”

My eyes opened to the hard, cold floor.

My whole body ached as if I was bruised, and my throat was dry, so the only thing I could feel was thirst.

“…..Here?”

When I look around, all I see is deep darkness.

Cold iron bars and hard floor.

It looked like a prison where criminals might be locked up.

Let’s try to slowly raise our heavy bodies to look around a little more.

Clink-

“Haaak!”

The throbbing pain shooting up my arm made me frown involuntarily.

When I turned my head, all I could see was a pair of handcuffs on my wrists.

It was firmly fixed to the wall and looked like it wouldn’t come loose no matter what I did.

It didn’t take long to figure out the situation.

It was such a cruel and cold reality.

‘I… really came to the Demon World…’

A vague fear and a great sense of loneliness clouded my mind.

devildom.

A place where only demons live. It is extremely cruel and merciless.

For a human being to be imprisoned here was essentially a death sentence.

I bit my lip and held back the tears that were about to well up.

This is the path I chose.

The path chosen to protect the Academy students.

So at least you shouldn’t have regretted it.

“Ugh…I miss you…”

But the tears that flow down my eyes from the painful emotions.

I just couldn’t stop it.