episode_0541

“What were you thinking when you said that?”

Dantalian’s agents have no obligations.

The servants are not even told what to do.

They simply judge the world based on their own goodness and generosity.

‘It shouldn’t have been like this.’

Jules was merely taking on sin for the sake of peace.

“These are things I don’t need.”

“Everything my sister had built up until now has collapsed.”

“What have I accumulated?”

Jules tries to laugh off my gaze, but ends up looking at me.

“You were the only one I had in the first place.”

“······.”

“So, you just need to understand me.”

That big guy wags his tail and walks briskly as usual.

Then he pulled out the arrows stuck in his body one by one.

Shir glanced at Jules curtly.

“···My aunt said that’s what Sihyeon learned from watching.”

“So, you don’t like it?”

“······No.”

We left Benjis under the guidance of the soldiers lined up.

Anne looks up at Jules with an expression as if her stomach is bursting.

“···Is this right?”

“Then.”

“When Lee left me behind. I didn’t feel like living in the world was like living.”

“But you joined the military to survive.”

“···That’s what ran away!”

“But I escaped through the gap between people.”

“······!”

Anne looked up at Jules with a stuffy expression, but quickly closed her mouth.

Jules guessed exactly what I was thinking.

I just hoped Anne would adapt to the world.

Because we look alike.

Before we knew it, we were at the end of the procession to see us off.

Benjis still has some business left to do.

However, on days like today when the atmosphere was tense, I shouldn’t have come back as a guest.

“···Let’s take a break for just one day.”

“Yes.”

We sat in a group of two or three in a deserted forest.

‘What would it be like if it were me?’

If, instead of everything I built collapsing, a happy world would come.

I… yes. My country would have been like that too. But it won’t matter.

Because the people who love me know that I am innocent.

“Okay. Well done.”

It doesn’t matter what other people think.

Whether you curse or curse at me, in the end, I value my group.

Just like an animal only values its own group.

“What’s the point of looking at what other people think?”

My people just need to treat me like they normally do.

This was close to group egoism.

However, altruism also has its roots in selfishness.

‘So let’s not deny it.’

That kind of altruism is what made me love Juul.

“Thanks to you, public opinion in the world will change.”

“What does the white wolf look like? You just have to show that to me.”

Jules looks at me with surprised eyes.

Then he smiles and nods his head.

“That’s right. I’m glad you understand.”

We are all demons, embodiments of the same selfishness.

“This will be an excuse to reconcile the southern subhumans.”

“Because Habstenburg and Union don’t even know why they are fighting.”

“So now let’s live like humans.”

The servant’s power makes us complete, but in perfection our cognition becomes distorted.

In the end, this is why Shirna Jule and Lexi tried to arrest me.

So, let’s also arrest Jules.

“Otherwise, everyone will be kicked out and returned to Earth…?”

There are times when people’s thoughts and actions do not match.

I thought it was really fun, but now that I’m talking about it, it’s not that fun.

I usually realize it while I’m talking.

Nevertheless, I spit it all out, wondering if anything is going to happen.

You might laugh when you hear it all!

That’s better than interrupting mid-sentence and making excuses.

Exactly, I thought so.

Until three pairs of sad eyes stared at me.

“···What did you just say?”

“It’s a joke, right?”

“Are you going to go home?”

I was out of breath.

But do you pick it up?

“Answer me.”

“Still. There are some things you shouldn’t say, even as a joke.”

“Don’t avoid your eyes, look straight at them.”

‘Why?’

Wasn’t it a time when we exchanged warm words of gratitude?

Even if I say something like this as a joke, can I get away with it?

“Seeing that you can’t answer, I guess you’re thinking of going back.”

“You’re going to go back and leave us behind?”

“You are ours. I can never go back.”

Soon the power exploded.

My hands and feet are shaking from excessive excitement.

“I mean…! That’s not it…!”

“What Lee says. I think Seolrang wants you to be careful.”

“That’s right! That’s it…! Huh?”

As I chimed in, it was an unfamiliar yet familiar voice that came from behind me.

Dennis wearing the robe of a priest of the Wolf Church.

Jules looked at Dennis blankly.

“Why did you come here?”

“I came here to ask for an apple.”

“What?”

I realized this while asking the question.

‘Jules said Dennis killed me.’

Dennis looks at me like that and smiles.

“The ‘head’ monitors and evaluates Dantalian’s agents.”

Soon those eyes turned to Jules.

But I had a lot of questions about my hair.

“Why didn’t you tell me this whole time?”

“Because Dantalian’s agent is dangerous. Because they are very selfish.”

I understand what you mean.

Because the power of the ‘head’ cannot exceed that of Dantalian’s agent.

“We live two lives. When he is Dantalian’s agent who is forced to be good and generous. And when I became a head free from coercion.”

“When the third life begins, the head acts after its own doubts.”

‘Is that why you came after I killed the Grand Duke Widow?’

Because that was my third life.

But I couldn’t understand.

“Jules, that happened twice.”

“That’s right.”

Dennis glanced at me and Jules.

Soon, the eyes turned to Jules again.

“We thought Seolrang was crazy about revenge.”

“Because he tried to overthrow the entire country.”

“I had no choice but to step forward to stop Seolrang.”

“What we were mistaken about was that the two of you were Dantalian’s agents for two lives.”

It was strange. I wonder if this could be mistaken.

When I think about it, Gusteau said there was no ‘stigma’ for me.

‘Dantalian said that when you die, he will meet you and tell you everything?’

Even Jules referred to his second life as ‘head’.

I looked at Jules, but Jules was looking at Dennis with keen attention.

It’s ready to pop out if anything happens.

“Sister, what did Dantalian say in the second life?”

Blue eyes stare at Dennis as if he is uncomfortable.

Still, he looked at me and answered.

“I didn’t say anything. They said I would live the next life according to the contract. I heard the word ‘head’ from them.”

‘For some reason, he hates his hair.’

Even though Isabel was instilled with goodness and generosity, she told me to kill my head.

Of course, it would not have been possible to reveal the head.

Because I rejected Jules’ past, and if you asked me questions, I would have questioned you about it.

“As Seolrang said, good and evil are the front and back of a piece of paper.”

“That’s why it’s important to understand your mentality.”

“But we sabotaged Seolrang’s goodness before it was even revealed to the world.”

Dennis laughs weakly.

“Moreover, Seolrang was a person with a very outstanding personality.”

“Seolrang simply loved her spouse.”

Finally, Jules sighed and looked at Dennis.

“Stop talking nonsense. In the end, it’s your mistake, right?”

“That’s right.”

” Responsibility follows for mistakes. What can our heads do for us?”

“I promise that no ‘head’ will be hostile to you.”

It was a topic of interest.

“What about me?”

“I won’t chase you either. Moreover, Lee lost two opposing votes.”

“Someone told me very well.”

A laugh came out.

Dennis also laughed. Just for a moment.

“Of course I won’t chase Lee either. And let me tell you something important.”

Dennis hesitates for a moment, but eventually gets lucky.

“The agent of Prometheus pointed out Lee as a public servant of the Infidel Demon Lord.”

─He is a prophet.

They said I would destroy the world.

‘I have to figure something out.’

If you are Dennis, you might know about ‘Angel’.

“I have something to ask about that.”

“What is it?”

“Do you know what an ‘angel’ is?”

A strange look appeared in Dennis’ eyes.

But even for a moment.

“···Have you met an angel?”

“Yes. From the tumor in Gusteau’s head, which was his head.”

“······It was in his head?”

Dennis looked very surprised.

Besides, James was tricked by someone and came to kill me.

Dennis swallowed his sleep and his eyes rolled back.

“Have you ever thought about heaven?”

“It is a place where people go to find God and sing in praise after death.”

Dennis chuckles.

Just for a moment.

“We don’t know what heaven looks like.”

“However, as everyone knows, it is probably a world where there is a creator god.”

As Lee said, it is a place to praise God. Angels are probably servants of the Creator God who are praised.”

In other words, it means that he is a god born on Earth.

‘I don’t know if Earth is heaven.’

As far as I know, the concept of angels exists only on Earth and not on ‘Pangaea.’

What mattered was why he was interested in me.

“An angel shows interest in me. He told me to bleed myself. When I asked who he was, he exploded out of nowhere.”

Dennis’s eyes, which had been thinking deeply about something, returned to focus.

“We perceive the world by seeing, hearing, and smelling. What sense do you think ‘angel’ is perceived in?”

‘Recognition?’

I saw and heard with my own eyes, but Edeline did not see the angel.

We cannot conclude that it is simply auditory or visual.

“I don’t know either.”

“Even the servants don’t know that. That’s why you can’t find an angel. Even angels would know that.”

“Then what?”

“I don’t know why, but it probably means that Lee had business enough to take the risk.”

In other words, it is a round trip ticket.

But I had to figure it out somehow.

Because this world was just about to get better.

“How did Dennis know about angels?”

Dennis seemed not to understand my question.

That obvious expression made me more anxious.

‘Am I the only one who doesn’t know that he’s an angel?’

Dennis finally spoke after seeing the look in my eyes.

“Maal and Dantalian are foreign news. Dantalian is the devil. Then what is Maal?”

“Well, ”

“Think about it. Beasts that only appeared in Earth’s legends, and harpies and kobolds that disappeared overnight.”

“I have no idea.”

Dennis laughs in bewilderment.

“Heaven means perfection. Then angels would also be perfect, or pursue perfection.”

“······.”

“Have you ever thought about it? The reason why the standard for Ahuman is an animal that can communicate with ‘language’.”

“I really don’t understand that.”

It was an act of ignoring non-human beings.

As someone who raised a dog, I can never understand it.

“Our values and thoughts come from the imperfections we feel in reality.”

“Then, the crazy people we see are one of two things.”

“Extremely incomplete or complete.”

“······.”

Now I know what Dennis meant.

Dennis also puts an end to it.

“Maal is an angel.”