episode_0053

Former warrior. Traitor to the current human race.

Kyeom, the Demon King’s lover and former Four Heavenly Kings.

This is probably the word that represents me the most.

If you ask why I’m suddenly saying this…

“Ugh, my waist… It’s really huge. Especially the inside… My head hurts too.”

Because I was the only one who could handle that huge ark, having some of the memories of the person who created most of its interior, Abel and I were the only ones going around inspecting the facilities.

In fact, the external size was my own fault since I hired a dwarf engineer to make it as large as possible. If I had known that the internal space would be expanded anyway, I would have made it smaller!

In fact, it was half a waste of effort, as the ark was well maintained and not even needing to be touched.

“Leah, I found the system control room. Would you like to take a look?”

“Ah. I’ll be there soon, Abel!”

It clearly said that it would break if turned on without an energy source. I quickly ran in the direction where I heard Abel’s voice.

“This way. There’s a nameplate on the bow that says “System Control Room.” ”

Squeak…

Contrary to its well-maintained appearance, as soon as Abel opened the door, an unpleasant sound came from the hinges. Well, actually, the door wasn’t that important.

An endless array of magical machines, with square crystal balls embedded on three sides in a flat shape. And a power button on a round plate-like platform in the center connected to all the machines, and a plate with a slot for the power source right next to it.

Just looking at it made the eyes of a novice like me spin around. Anyway, the control would be done by a hologram that would pop out when you pressed the button.

“You’re crazy. Controlling machines of this level at once… Well, that’s the level you need to go to in order to reach a dimension with no connections at all, right?”

Just in case, I listened to Abel and started checking the machines.

“…There’s…no problem, right?”

“That’s right.”

“What is this?”

“Your machine is fine too, Leah.”

No, even if my mouth is crooked, I’ll say what I have to say. To be honest, Abel inspected the system control room. In my current life, I was a commoner worm -> a warrior tech who mainly uses the body, and in my previous life, I was a high-ranking lord. I’ll tell you the details of magic.

For about a few hours, the two of us chatted and checked out our magic tools. It wasn’t anything special, but it was a happy time.

“There is. Abel.”

“Huh?”

“…That’s it.”

Her mouth wouldn’t open properly. Shame forced Leah’s mouth to stay shut like a clamshell.

“We, no… …no.”

“…?”

Abel frowned.

Of course, unless something happens, Abel, who has become the Demon King, will easily capture the Goddess and force her into powering the ark.

But even so, talking about what happens after the decisive battle is right before it, especially talking about such an important matter as marriage, might shake Abel’s heart.

Problems of that level, such as Abel hating me, were resolved long ago. However, Leah also knew that emotional agitation due to joy could also become ill feelings in a fight.

“It really wasn’t that big of a deal.”

“Leah”

Just before I finished speaking, Abel suddenly hugged me. It was so sudden that I couldn’t even react.

No, it would be more correct to say that it did not respond. Abel’s embrace was warm. So much so that, for a moment, everything was forgotten.

“Leah. I can’t possibly know what you’re thinking, but…”

So I.

“I am happier than anyone in the world just to be with you again.”

I decided to propose to Abel.

Because Abel’s smile was truly that of a person who was extremely happy.

“…Then I’ll hold you a little longer.”

“Of course you can. Even all day long.”

I am happier now than I have ever been in my life, and tomorrow I will be happier than I am today. Goddess will not be an obstacle.

*****

And a few days later, the leader of the succubi (appearing in episode 13) who had been summoned by Leah was caught in the middle of the empire.

“So, I’m going to propose to Abel…!”

“…Yes…Congratulations. But why are you telling me that…?”

The leader of the succubi spoke, her pupils shaking like aspen leaves.

High-ranking connections, connections! It was clear that his subordinates were aiming for the Chadosalinji Order.

This is a political maneuver!

In the past, she had done it without any particular intention, out of habit from her espionage activities – and in a business-like manner, but she was already a nervous succubus queen because she was misunderstood by Leah as trying to seduce Abel.

‘Am I going to die today? No, I’m going to die… If I had known this would happen, I would have eaten that cake yesterday…’

“Okay, eat first.”

Leah handed the succubus leader some snacks she was selling nearby. It was chicken skewers.

“..Ma… Last Supper? Are you going to skewer me like this?”

“Robin De.”

“lop-2? Hey, you’re trying to cut me off after all…!”

“No. …That…I was going to ask how to propose…I guess the problem was that I was rude to you last time…”

This time, the leader of the succubi, who was dressed in normal attire, waved his hand in denial as if he was having a fit. If this reached the Demon King’s ears, he would be as good as dead.

Of course, Leah had already been out for a long time. I had seen a few more succubi while living in the Demon King’s castle, and most of them were similar to the leader of the succubi from last time. Today’s situation was even stranger in the first place.

“Wouldn’t there have been other people besides me, like the Four Heavenly Kings! I may be the leader of the succubi, but the real ‘queen’-level individual is Hira?! Even though she was mobilized for war!”

The leader of the succubi, who wanted to avoid the walking death flag, was quite desperate. She thought that if Leah did even one unpleasant thing, she might be subjected to the same succubus torture methods that only the holy men would use.

Her revealing clothes, with their sleeves endlessly long, swayed along her trembling body.

“…Hira is now starting over with Galvein? He’s basically a solo since birth? ”

It was a dilemma. There was not a single married man or woman around Leah. … Even the leader of the succubi, but at least she remembered the proposal she had received during her espionage activities.

String.

The leader of the succubi closed her eyes and thought long and hard.

Yeah. You just need to help me get a ring, right? Just dress me up in something suitable!

The leader of the succubi who made such a pledge was properly dressed in a long coat, not two layers, and was wearing long UGG suits to minimize body exposure and had her face covered with a fan.

“…Aren’t the clothes getting thicker?”

“Cha, chachacha, you’re mistaken!”

*****

“Um… This diamond has a scratch. About 0.03mm? And the diamond in the center of this ring is from the Imperial Dietery mine, while the diamond next to it is from the Holy Land Algiers. The saturation is about 0.1% different. And if you look closely at this one, there are very fine inclusions, and this one is polished-”

One thing that has been overlooked is that Leah’s previous life was as the owner of a huge guild.

Even after his father passed away, he was able to maintain his weight class without going broke, even while living on his own.

As such, Leah’s eyes couldn’t help but be picky. The abilities given by her new heart only added to that pickiness.

‘They all look the same… I want to go home…’

To be honest, I don’t know at all. The Demon King would be the same. With that thought, as I was starting to lose my mind, a ring caught the Succubus Queen’s eye.

“How about this? …yo?”

What the leader of the succubi picked up was a silver ring with diamonds tightly and continuously surrounding the entire ring, seemingly without any gaps.

“Hmm…?”

Leah began to examine the quality closely. If she didn’t convince him before then, the Succubus Leader’s day would be over!

“That’s called the Eternal Ring, and it means unending love. Eternal love with the Demon King! Doesn’t it mean something good?”

“…”

A moment of silence. The leader of the succubi gave in and offered her condolences in advance for the sake of her brain, which would only see half of the day today.

“Okay. …I’ll do this.”

Besisi. I don’t know what Leah was imagining that made her cheeks turn red, but the leader of the succubi was glad that she had escaped the hell she had planned.

“Okay, let’s go with this momentum and get rid of the wedding dress too!”

“…Isn’t it hot?”

The succubus leader, wearing two coats and two pairs of gloves, spoke while sweating profusely.

“Oh, that’s impossible!”

…Anyway. The two of them moved to the room next door where the clothes they had purchased from the famous store (a famous tailor shop called Elegant) were gathered and started choosing a wedding dress. Luckily, the leader of the succubi had more say in the decision-making here.

The reason is that Leah has lived as a man for the past dozen years, so her eye for women’s clothing is completely lost, and the fashions she knows are from a time period that is easily a few hundred years old.

In particular, the moment Leah took out the dress with internal implants, which had a round shape with lots of puffy shoulders, pearls hanging down, and a skirt that spread flat on both sides, Leah’s decision-making power was almost taken away.

“Oops. This doesn’t really fit my body type.”

“Hey, what’s wrong with my body shape!”

“If you have to explain it to me in words to convince me… My level of development is that of a 16~17 year old, very much below me -”

-Sreung.

Or a situation where Leah takes out her dreams.

“Look at that, I told you it doesn’t fit.”

“…”

Or Leah, who feels deprived as she looks at the loose, hanging fabric of the wedding dress’s chest area.

There were many things going on, but eventually the Succubus Queen found the perfect dress!

The off-shoulder top, which practically starts from the chest, exposes the shoulders and is covered with a semi-transparent, breezy shawl. The waist is tied with a ribbon to give it some flair. The back is held in place with a string, but is basically almost exposed. The hem of the skirt has long, fluttering frills.

“Okay, wear this veil too. And white shoes… Perfect!”

“I, I, this is too… too revealing…”

“Huh? Where? Doesn’t it give off a very innocent and pitiful feeling?”

“Uh… Is that so?”

Aside from the fact that Leah had her face mostly covered with her palm, and that her innocent and pitiful appearance was pure and pitiful in a succubus-like way, the dress the succubus leader had found seemed to have been made just for Leah.

“…Pretty. Yeah… I’ll do this too and Abel and… …..?”

It was only then that Leah realized something important. …A wedding dress is for getting married, not for proposing!

“…Over there?”

And that was something the succubus leader had just noticed.

“I was going to make you confess while wearing a wedding dress…! Actually, I planned it all out! I’ll prepare a place to propose! ”

And the leader of the succubi, using her long political experience, immediately flew out of that place.

No, I just tried.

At that time, the leader of the succubi was wearing clothes that were thick enough that even a passing fire mage would look at the ice mage who had spread out his magic in a 9-circle plate shape and ask, “Why haven’t you gotten your butt wet yet?”

The Succubus Queen, who was eventually caught in the door and arrested by Leah, was released after hearing that she was fine and that she had thought of a place to propose and that they should prepare together.

*****

“Therefore… Help me, Hira!”

“ㄴ… Yes, yes, yes? Me, milk, me? ”

The first to be mobilized was poor Hira, who had been brainstorming with Galvein to plan an invasion of the Holy Nation.

“Even a handyman can do something trivial like the Four Heavenly Kings – gasp.”

“Embezzlement, a leap in physical strength. And about 5000 gold as pocket money. It’s time to work again. Galvein. ”

“No way!!! How did I… How did I get out of that paperwork hell!”

And Galvein, whose eyes met Leah’s, was the second. It was the crime of sitting next to her. No, in fact, it might have been embezzlement.

“You must avoid eye contact, Pave. Turn your gaze to the noble one-”

“Wouldn’t it be good if you helped Leah?”

“Ahh… It’s my nap time…”

Fabio and Mino, who were nearby, were quickly summoned, and perhaps voluntarily. It was truly a gathering of the Four Heavenly Kings.

“…”

“Hey, help me too.”

“Yes?”

Oh, Han Seung-woo was also dragged in in broad daylight by Galvein’s water ghost operation. In fact, Han Seung-woo wasn’t even nearby; Galvein came looking for him himself.

“So what should I do, leader of the succubi?”

“I’ll speak for you. First, I have a place to go.”

Since the proposal was already taking place in a meaningful place, it was pretty much a given where I would go.

…okay.

The place where Abel and I first met – the place filled with memories of Lucifer and Noah.

To a sunny field filled with blooming sunflowers instead of yellow daffodils.

*****

“Uh… Hira? Is this it?”

The leader of the succubi looked at the floor and muttered to her closest acquaintance. Of course, Hira was equally shocked, so there was no answer.

“Well, I’m screwed.”

Mino also agreed, because it was an undeniable truth.

The field that held Leah and Abel’s memories… was literally left without a trace.

There were only the remains of buildings here and there, which were traces of civilization, so I saw it as a ruin and not a field.

“…Should I go back to the Demon King’s Castle right now and prepare to propose?”

Leah also gave up. Her condition was not serious.

“Did you come to the wrong place? Where does this look like a field?”

“It’s been hundreds of years… The weather wasn’t good for sunflowers to bloom in the first place, and it would have been the same even if it weren’t for this village.”

Just when I was thinking that there was nothing I could do, Galvein was seriously examining the land.

“Hmm? That might be possible.”

“…what?”

“If you take out all the debris, pull out the weeds, plant sunflower seeds, and use a growth promotion magic, you can somehow make something similar, and then preserve it with a preservation magic. ”

“Really? Really?”

“Then this time, I’m going to lie to the Demon King and break the Life Vessel?”

Leah’s eyes suddenly filled with hope.

“Wait a minute… Your Majesty the Four Heavenly Kings.”

But on the contrary, the complexions of the rest of the people were dyed a very blue color of despair.

“Then who does that work…?”

Han’s last hopeful question was instantly shattered by Galvein’s inorganic one word.

“Of course it’s us. Oh, except me. I have to use magic. And everything has to be ready by tomorrow, so if I take out time for magic, I have to finish clearing the debris, pulling out the weeds, and planting the seeds today. ”

“Friend… Then how about my sleep…?”

“You won’t die even if you don’t sleep for a few days. The friendship of hundreds of years will never go away.”

The screams of a vampire and a knight filled the ruins.

Of course, it had no effect on the evil and ruthless old man attacker, Lich.

*****

“Enchanting Punch!”

Bang, the ruins disappeared without a trace, leaving behind a bare field. The charm punch was divine.

“Uumuumuum”

“That’s not something you eat… No, it was omnivorous to begin with?”

The leader of the succubi sighed as she pulled out weeds next to Pave, who was lying on the ground eating and destroying the weeds. Most of the heavily armed clothes had been dismantled because they didn’t want to get steamed to death.

“Mom… Father… Little brother… I’m following you now… Oh, did I kill my little brother…? Hahaha…”

Han… Well, I’ll just say that while doing this work, unlike the leader of the succubi, he ignored the advice to take off his armor and insisted on wearing heavy armor until the end. If I say more, it seems like his honor will be ruined as he lies down on the ground, unconscious from exhaustion.

And Mino transformed into a giant bat and flew through the sky, carefully scattering sunflower seeds.

“Everyone, stay still, I’m going crazy.”

Finally, with the addition of Galvein’s magic, the field returned to its fresh, vibrant state, just like the memories of Leah and Abel.

“…This is…completely…”

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s exactly…just like in my memories…”

Really, the old scent, the sight, the memories. Everything was there.

“I like it so much…! Everyone… Thank you everyone… Ugh… Ugh…”

“Huh, huh? Today’s main character is crying…?”

“Leave her alone. The leader of the succubi. She’s crying because she’s touched. Didn’t you say you’re going to make her wear a wedding dress? We’ll calm her down first, get her ready, and hide, so you go call the Demon King.”

*****

So, the leader of the succubi was given a crucial task: to summon Abel to the proposal site.

However, the problem was… Thinking about their last meeting, he had to be careful with his words when calling out to Abel, but he absolutely had to avoid showing affection for her, as he might be looked down on by Leah if he did as he usually did.

And, in the mind of the Succubus Queen, whose mentality had been torn apart by an all-nighter, the thought of being ‘careful’ had completely disappeared, and only the part that she should not show affection remained strongly.

“Huh? The leader of the succubus? I clearly ordered you to prepare for evacuation, but why are you here…”

“Woman… Woman…B…”

‘Oh, it’s an instinctive habit… If I call you honey now, I’ll become trash! Drift somehow…!’

“?”

“You… you fucking bastard!”

It may not seem like an expression of affection, but it is no different from political suicide. The succubus leader’s determination to avoid conscientious suicide at all costs led to her own political suicide.

“…Hmm. Maybe I’m crazy from overwork. Or maybe one of the medications I was taking for overwork had a negative effect on my brain. ”

At least in Abel’s mind, he would have been politically and socially dead.