episode_0523

‘The footsteps I have walked are the problem.’

I never thought I would hear that the problem was not with some incident or sin, but with my footsteps.

All of this was so radical.

─Why did you come now?

Do hallucinations have a connection to the head?

Have you finally realized that I died and came back to life?

But what is most incomprehensible is Dantalian’s treatment.

Dantalian values humanity.

That’s why he also didn’t like brainwashing.

‘Why do you do this to me?’

Radical movement of the head.

Dantalian himself mentioned that he would send them back home.

A prophecy made by an agent of Prometheus.

Prometheus invited me to the human world despite foreseeing that.

And the silent servants.

─Something is happening.

Lexi responded to the word ‘Mirage’ and began eavesdropping on the conversation.

I don’t know what was happening before that.

I sat down on a rock and wrote on a piece of parchment.

How much time has passed?

Black letters are written on the communication parchment.

‘Don’t be scared even if you feel strange.’

Crunch!

As soon as Shir’s answer comes back, the skeleton begins to change.

Before I knew it, I was taking on the appearance of a widowed archduke.

I don’t feel very good.

“Isabel, please help me.”

Even his voice sounds like a woman’s.

After changing into women’s clothes, I straightened out my damaged leather armor.

I may be questioned, but I don’t hallucinate.

It wouldn’t be surprising if they saw me at some point.

“Are you here?”

“Yes.”

Soon Isabel appeared.

Her expression didn’t look very bright.

“Why is the armor like that?”

“Didn’t you hear everything?”

“Yes?”

Isabel’s eyes were wide open as she questioned.

“No. Didn’t you hear anything?”

‘Is this Elysia’s ability?’

However, it is unclear how she uses her abilities.

“I met the ‘head’.”

“···Really?”

“It was someone I knew. They say don’t hesitate when you meet another ‘head’.”

First of all, I had to take the first step to get my bearings.

“Can you ask Dantalian? Am I still the ‘head’?”

“···No?”

“Since when is it not the head?”

“From the moment you gave me the power.”

─I am not a ‘head’.

Therefore, the real Widow Grand Duke is still alive somewhere.

They said that the Grand Duke Widow fell from his head, but that means that was not the case.

The hypothesis is divided into two parts.

1. The Grand Duke Widow has been reincarnated, but he is still in his parents’ womb.

2. Dantalian himself shook her off.

Of course, it didn’t matter anyway.

“Please be friendly with the Grand Duke of Widow in your next life.”

“Yes?”

“Please tell me I told you to be friendly.”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“I lived with only you in mind, wouldn’t I feel lonely even when I die?”

Because I don’t want to get revenge again.

‘The world learns from us.’

It wasn’t wrong, but I never thought I would be the one to hear that.

When we recognize ‘footprints’, the world looks different.

But it wasn’t bad.

Not only the world, but also children grow up watching their parents’ backs.

Therefore, I only need to choose actions that are honorable towards Rohan.

‘All you have to do is show Rohan what you can do.’

As expected from a military veteran, Isabel was quick to return home.

However, the face of ‘Ri Si-hyeon’ is originally Dantalian’s face.

Something I can’t tell whether it’s ‘Dantalian’ or ‘Ri Si-hyeon’ approaches me with a refreshing smile.

How unlucky that is.

Without realizing it, I puffed out my lips.

“Now let’s go.”

* * * * * *

In front of the dungeon we arrived at.

I ran into another big obstacle.

‘I’m sure he’ll ask how you’re doing.’

They don’t know what kind of person the Grand Duke Widow is.

What should I say to my hallucinations?

Something I can’t tell whether it’s Dantalian or Isabelle is looking at me deeply.

That was quite funny.

It was clear that the Grand Duchess of the Underworld would shed bloody tears when she saw me.

‘The person who wanted this situation the most would be the Grand Duke Widow.’

[okay. We are happy with that face. Because of us.]

Now, I am no longer embarrassed by the answers from hell that are thrown at me without hesitation.

‘For that matter, they told me to commit suicide.’

[It must have been like that back then. But that’s Dantalian, right?]

I was out of breath.

I thought it was Isabelle, but it turned out to be Dantalian like a ghost.

Dantalian started his luck before I could speak.

“I want her soul back.”

[no. I won’t give it to you.]

just as expected? It seems he came to me with a purpose.

The two beings were looking at me, not at each other.

“Are you asking me to give it to you?”

“No. I’m asking you to return it. Because she’s mine.”

‘To give a woman something that’s hers.’

You sound the same as me.

I snorted at the familiar tone of voice.

“As the former contractor told Hwan-sang down there, reincarnation is no different from the death of a being.”

“So what are you saying?”

“I’ve been thinking about it for a while… but I still don’t want to break up with her.”

Compassion steals attention at the human-like confession.

Dantalian is like a person.

It has multiple heads and presents memories that connect to them.

I soon realized something from that sight.

“I’m sorry, but I need this to fake hallucinations.”

“If you give it back, I will help you.”

─This devil is lonely.

Because I was lonely, I robbed people of death.

To make your own friends.

‘Why is God lonely?’

It was a very funny situation.

Dantalian, who received permission with his eyes, stretched out his hand towards the stigma of hell.

Hell struggles on the back of my hand.

[I won’t give it to you. I won’t give it to you!]

If it was a servant’s request, he never gave it.

However, if it was a request from a person, there was nothing that could not be heard.

[Aaaagh───?!]

Dantalian’s hand finally touched the stigma of hell.

In the end, something was absorbed from hell by Dantalian’s touch.

“Thank you.”

Dantalian smiled refreshingly with an incredibly handsome face, befitting the original master of top removal.

“Since you did me a favor, someday I will do yours too.”

I wasn’t really interested.

There was no request I wanted to make in the first place.

“So, how will you help?”

* * * * * *

“······Grand Duke?”

The nobles who were taken to the dungeon looked at Dantalian, who was disguised as the Grand Duke Widow, with trembling eyes.

[You idiots. Why did you do something you weren’t told to do?]

“···You idiots! Why did you do something you weren’t told to do?!”

[Dismantle the hallucination immediately and go into hiding.]

“Dismantle the hallucination immediately and go into hiding!”

Hell spoke like a machine and jeered at me.

[We can do something like that too.]

‘I would have considered it if I had been notified in advance.’

[Dantalian didn’t even tell you!]

It looks like he’s sulking.

I went out, listening to the words of hell in moderation.

“Don’t say anything strange. If this goes wrong, there is nothing but hell ahead for you.”

“······You are talking about your mouth being opened.”

I glanced at Dantalian, who was looking at me venomously.

He was angry like a real widow.

“Do you think I will forget you when I come back alive?! Better kill me!”

“···Can’t you forget?”

“Yes! I can’t forget you! The day will never come when the two of us will be alive in the same sky as you!”

I looked at the nobles in the dungeon.

What are the hallucinations thinking behind their eyes?

“That’s right.”

“I will definitely destroy you!”

“···Even if you take a step back, this is what happens.”

He quietly placed his hand on the dagger.

“Do you think it is right for me to keep this woman alive?”

thud!

The nobles knelt down before me and hit their heads on the stone floor.

“Please take away your anger! I will never make that mistake again!”

“What are you talking about! Are you planning to disobey my orders?!”

He really looks like a widow.

Thanks to this, I get irritated just by looking at it.

“···Please bring my younger siblings before I run out of patience with that babbling.”

“I will receive you within a week.”

“Your body is precious, so we will enshrine it in the castle. You’d better not do anything stupid.”

I grabbed Dantalian’s hand and pulled him.

“Aaaah?!”

A sharp scream resounds in my bones.

He—her? Dantalian! Dantalian was glaring at me with a venomous face.

It was then that I remembered the relationship between Dantalian and the Widow Archduke.

Putting his biological parents aside, Dantalian’s child with the widowed archduke was Harold.

‘You’re not going to come to me like that, pretending to be Jules or Isabelle, are you?’

“That was Sia’s request.”

“······!”

It calmed my pounding heart.

I feel embarrassed and can’t look behind me.

“···Why did she love you?”

“I tried to help Sia stand, but she ended up leaning on me.”

To kill time, I wanted to hear a love story between a servant and a human.

Dantalian’s appearance changed into Isabelle.

But no one salutes the queen.

“But why have you come looking for me now?”

“I wondered if I should send it, but I decided not to.”

“Why did you change your mind?”

“This is inspiration I got from a previous contractor.”

Inspired by me?

It was so absurd that it became disgusting and strange.

I also felt worried.

“If you take inspiration from my experience with women, you will be right.”

Actually died a few times.

How much trivial conversation did we have?

Soon we entered the castle.

“The head is targeting me, can you please mediate?”

“If you ask me, I will do it.”

Dantalian doesn’t seem to like my request.

I had no intention of forcing it.

‘If there are any complaints, they will come to you on their own.’

I just need to act proudly.

“Hell said. The world is the history of the devil.”

“No. Brainwashing and domination are about manipulating people, they cannot produce even a single piece of bread.”

“Can’t you just ask them to make it?”

Dantalian shook his head and smiled softly.

“Where did that person learn to bake bread?”

“······.”

“Dantalian’s agent is not that special.”

‘Is it survivor bias?’

Hell is created by people who died out of resentment.

Naturally, the members of hell are bound to have deep resentment.

Hell says Dantalian has everything, but Dantalian doesn’t even have any friends right now.

“I will persuade the ‘head’, but if it doesn’t work, I will kill him.”

“Do as you wish.”

If that’s the case.

Before we knew it, we had reached the passageway that separated the guest room from the bedroom.

Just as I was about to part ways from there.

I swallowed my greeting under Isabelle’s irritated gaze.

“···Why are you doing that?”

“The remnants of the widow Grand Duke remain in my head, so I get angry just by looking at Sihyeon’s face.”

Isabel continued to shake off her clothes as if shaking off dirt.

Even that pouty look is a precious look to me.

“Then, shall I help you come to your senses for the first time in a while?”

Isabelle smiled and shook her head as if she was disgusted by the subtle look in her eyes.

“You really shouldn’t do it now.”

“······Do you hate me?”

“Yes. I hate it, so go in and sleep.”

I guess I really hate it.

I had no choice but to turn around.

“Have a good night too, wife.”