episode_0180

“How beautiful will you be with your horns and wings? And how sweet will your tears be when you cry.”

“Ah..No!!”

He immediately pulled out the sword stuck in the middle of my chest.

However, the magic that had formed the blade had already disappeared, leaving only the handle.

As I let go of his hand with a blank expression, the sword fell to the floor without any strength.

“Ah..ah..no..”

I kept touching my head, body, and face alternately with both hands.

I pray earnestly that this appearance will not change.

“I will give you special permission.”

The Demon King hugged me tightly with both arms and began to gently pat my back.

“It’ll be quite painful. In the meantime, you can vent your anger on your own body.”

“Let go of this…let it go!!”

I tried to push her away with all my might, but her body, like a mountain, wouldn’t budge. I could only struggle in her arms.

That was when.

thud-

My heart pounded loudly once. I felt something vividly spreading from the center of my chest to my body.

“Ah…ah…no…no!!no!!!!”

A desperate scream escaped my mouth.

It needs to be dug up.

I must somehow dig out the demon lord’s magic that has entered my heart.

I tried to move my hand, determined to extract the magic even if it meant tearing open my heart.

Because Mayuk was hugging me tightly from the front, there was no room for my arm to squeeze between us, who were so tightly pressed together.

thud-

The sound of my heart beating loudly again.

But this time, what came with him was.

“Huh…ugh…?!!!”

It was a terrible, excruciating pain, as if every cell in my body was on fire.

“AAAHHHH!!!!!”

A sensation that surpassed any pain I had ever felt. My body was covered with an indescribable sensation.

“Hold on. Then you too can become a great demon.”

“Ahhh! No!!! No!! Athena!! ”

I called out her name, which came to mind instinctively.

But she won’t be here.

Ironically, the person who is hugging me so tenderly right now.

The fact that it was none other than the Demon King made me sink into despair even more.

“Huh huh… It’s a little warm. Are you gaining strength already?”

I was in such terrible pain that I couldn’t stand it any longer and I grabbed everything I touched as if I was going to burst.

He grabbed the back of the Demon King he was hugging and repeatedly scratched her. He bit her neck so hard that he almost ripped it off, trying to relieve the pain as much as possible.

But despite my rough behavior, the Demon King just smiled calmly and patted my head.

“It’s like taming a ferocious beast. Not bad.”

“Ugh!! It hurts!!! It hurts aaah!!!”

“Yeah..name. I guess I need to decide on a name.”

I almost lost my senses for a moment due to the dizzying pain, as if my whole body was being stabbed by a knife and burned.

“I think her original name was Hera.”

The Demon King grabbed my head tightly as I writhed in pain. He kissed my forehead as if he were a priest giving a blessing and spoke to me.

“What would be good..Ah. Okay.”

I heard that when pain becomes too much, the brain instinctively turns off the mind to protect the person.

It was a lie.

I wish they had just made me faint.

The pain that continued to torment me as if it was going to kill me seemed to have no intention of letting me sleep.

“Hesilla. Let’s call it that.”

So I was left to writhe in constant pain.

Eventually, after a long time, the pain gradually subsided.

It was then that I lost consciousness as if I had collapsed.

*

“Really? Really, Athena?”

As I jumped up and grabbed her hand, Athena looked down at me with her flushed cheeks.

“Of course. If I’m not on your side, whose side am I on?”

I did it.

She was the dark side of the novel.

She made me promise to help humanity.

In some ways, it might have been nothing special.

The joyous excitement of getting one step closer to a happy ending made me feel satisfied.

“Thank you Athena..!”

As I jumped in, Athena lifted me up gently and hugged me.

“I swear, Hera. I won’t let you be in danger again.”

Athena left a deep kiss on my cheek and continued speaking with a generous smile.

“I will kill all of the demons without exception.”

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“…..Ugh.”

My eyes opened with tears streaming down my face.

For some reason, my body felt much lighter than before.

Unlike the dungeon, a magnificent bedroom came into view, like the Demon King’s room.

And a large mirror was placed right in front of me, as if telling me to look at it.

I slowly approached the mirror. My horrible face came into view.

My red eyes glowed even more ominously than before.

Skin that is already white and looks almost pale, with no vitality.

And two ominous horns rising prominently above my head.

“Ha…haha…”

Tears began to flow down my cheeks without any resistance.

It’s a nightmare.

This is a nightmare.

There’s no way this is real.

It’s clear that I’m just having a bad dream.

“Hee..ha…..sob…”

I lowered my head and wiped away the overflowing tears.

The cold reality that I couldn’t ignore was stabbing my heart hard.

Eventually, the sadness that had been building up inside me exploded, in an impulsive mood.

He raised both hands and grabbed the horn growing on his right side. He pulled on it with all his might.

Should we really call it the Demon King’s magic?

With the force now much stronger than before, the horns were broken quite easily.

And at the same time.

A pain came over me, as if someone had hit my head hard with a hammer.

“Ahhhh!!! Ugh! Aaaah!”

I writhe in the horrible pain I brought upon myself and immediately regret what I had done.

For a long time, I struggled and screamed in pain.

My body slowly lost strength and began to slowly and painfully decline.

He collapsed on the bed, exhausted, holding the broken horn in one hand.

“…………Should I die?”

It was just something I muttered to myself in a state of liberation.

I started to think that maybe it would be better to die.

Once you become a demon, you cannot go back, no matter what method you use.

The horns will probably grow back someday.

The end of a human who has become a demon was clear. In the end, if time passes like this, I will become a monster that thirsts for blood.

Even if Athena had come to save me, I didn’t have the confidence to continue living like this.

“Did you tear off your own horn?”

While I was lost in thought, I heard a familiar voice.

As I turned my head weakly, what came into view was a knight clad in pitch-black armor.

Tyros was standing in front of the door, staring at me silently.

“…Are you trying to grab my hair again?”

He glared at him sharply with what little strength he had left.

Perhaps because he had suffered a pain worse than death, he was no longer afraid of him.

No. I was even thinking that it would be better if he just killed me.

If he has the power second only to the Demon King, then it is definitely possible.

With such anticipation, I looked at Tyros. Tyros came up to me and placed his hand on my head.

Are you really going to pull my hair out again?

That kind of thing doesn’t matter anymore.

I looked at Tyrus as if he was telling me to do something while snorting. He started to act unexpectedly.

A black mana glowed around his hand. It flowed near my horn and cleanly took away the pain that felt like my head was going to burst.

“You…what is this…”

“…Don’t do stupid things anymore, because it will grow back soon anyway.”

Then he continued talking after taking one look at my violent shaking.

“Now that you have accepted the Demon King’s magic, no matter what you do, you will not be able to die, so just give up.”

In disbelief, I grabbed him by the collar.

“Stop being so crazy!! What the heck! Why are you suddenly giving me treatment or something!”

When he would hit, kick, and push me to his heart’s content, I couldn’t understand why he did that now.

Could it be that you are feeling sorry for me like this?

I just hope it isn’t just that.

The cheap things I received from him only made me more miserable.

“……”

His disgusting appearance made me want to vomit.

“Just kill me! You hate me too!! Just kill me!!”

“Don’t get me wrong, it’s not for you.”

A cold voice came from his helmet.

“It’s just the Demon King’s order to watch over you. Nothing more, nothing less.”

“You’re spying on me?”

“Yeah. So don’t even think about doing something stupid.”

Fortunately, his actions didn’t seem to have any particular meaning.

But the grim reality of being watched by him from now on only became more bleak.

‘…I can’t even die anymore.’

As long as he’s watching me, no matter what I do, I can’t commit suicide.

My body’s regenerative power has accepted the Demon King’s magic. Even if I sustain an injury that surpasses that, Melum will revive me.

Tears welled up in my eyes in this situation where there was no hope in sight.

“Why do I have to be treated like this….”

He fell to his knees with his head together and began to cry.

“…….”

Tyros just looked at me, pouring out his sorrow without saying a word.

For a while, the only sound in the room was me shedding tears.