Episode 519
“Uh, uhm… ahhh….!!”
The remnants of a gigantic will, once called Oesin, have taken the form of a slender girl and are struggling in the fire.
Even when she first arrived in hell, she kept saying things like ‘This isn’t the end’ or ‘You’ll regret it someday.’
I had no choice but to collapse soon after due to the burning pain in my soul.
“Well, the will outside… is still…”
– Howling…!
“…S-Stop it.”
No matter how great you were before, it is something that cannot be helped once you become human.
I can only suffer forever from the flames wrapping around my body like a rope and the countless blades cutting into my skin.
These were the gruesome and pitiful words of a being who had once driven an entire dimension into crisis.
“Let go of this…! Know who I am…!”
“It hurts… please take it out…”
“Uh, uhm…”
And recently, hell has been overflowing with people who have met a similar end to foreigners.
This was because with the end of the endless regression that Frey and Perloche had been engaging in, Hell, which had been in a dormant state, finally came into play.
However, there was no problem.
Originally, when the demon god in charge took care of it, it was left unattended for a long time, with only the basic punishment of submerging the soul in lava.
After Kania, the best expert in torture and curses, became a demon, hell began to be managed several times more thoroughly than before.
This was because they were ready to thoroughly crush the evil spirits that had accumulated over the past few years.
Ripael was naturally dragged to hell as the world was restored.
Her mother Lumière, former emperor Lycan, and former prince Killian.
In addition, it is a place of judgment where many of the corrupt nobles of the empire who were purged and the evildoers who lost their lives to Frey suffer in various ways.
That is what the current hell looks like.
“……..”
And, at the very end of that place.
In front of the ‘Gate of Darkness’, which is rumored to be the most terrifying place in the cruel and terrible hell.
There was a person sitting on his knees with a blank expression.
She is none other than the magic tower lord.
The story that started from the first page of the diary in her hand was playing in her head like a vivid play.
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It was a time when she was still called ‘Comerne Philliard’ and at the same time, she was called an evil witch.
“Mama mama, witch…”
“Hmm.”
An unexpected thing happened to Comern, who was quietly spending his time hunting intruders in his territory, the Gray Forest.
“Kid, how did you get in here?”
“Uh, uhm…”
A naughty little boy came into her territory.
The guy’s claim was that he was so hungry that he was picking fruit in an empty forest.
Kommern didn’t believe that.
“Lying is bad.”
“Yeah, but…..”
“Especially the lies you tell in front of me.”
There is a rumor that there is a witch who boils and eats children. There was no way a child, not an adult man, could have come into her own territory, where villagers were afraid to even look at her, to pick her fruit.
Of course, there was some possibility that this kid was unaware of that fact.
Unless there was a large-scale anti-entry spell deployed in her domain.
‘Who sent it?’
“…Hiccup.”
“You’re not going to answer?”
As Komern questioned him in a cold voice, the boy, who was sweating coldly, closed his eyes tightly.
– It’s so hard…!!!
And at that moment, the space around the boy began to distort with enormous energy.
“…It’s fun.”
Kommern, who was watching the abnormal phenomenon with interest, muttered in a low voice.
“At that age, that level of magic.”
The magic he is currently performing without realizing it is none other than teleportation.
No, it was magic of a higher level than that.
Teleportation simply moves the body to set coordinates, but what the boy is doing is distorting space itself.
Actually, the results are not much different.
The accuracy and technique were excellent even for Comern, who already had no rival when it came to magic.
“Where are you going?”
“Uh, huh?”
She thought about letting him go in return for showing him something fun, but she soon became interested in the boy and reached out to interfere with his magic.
“why…?”
When the boy, who had failed at magic for the first time in his life, looked at her with a puzzled expression, she walked forward and whispered in a low voice.
“You’re trapped.”
“…!”
The boy’s eyes began to shake wildly.
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– Mutter…
“…….”
A boy sitting at the table hastily puts food into his mouth.
“Sigh… kek kek…”
‘That’s stupid.’
Then, Kommern, who had been watching the boy choking and pounding his chest, handed him a cup filled with water and quietly began to think to himself.
‘…I’d like to try raising one.’
One day, a beggar boy with mysterious abilities suddenly appeared in the front yard of his house.
The new toys that appeared in her boring daily life were stimulating her curiosity.
‘I don’t think he’s an assassin.’
The boy’s explanation that he ended up here by chance while living on the streets using his own abilities was worth believing for once.
The dirt from various regions on the guy’s shoes supported that fact.
‘It’s also interesting that I’ve been able to use it since some time ago.’
And what she learned after blocking the boy’s escape attempts several times was that he possessed a ‘mysterious potential’ discovered in a very rare case.
A unique constitution that usually appears in small children and allows them to become masters of any talent when fully developed.
Her last disciple to appear in the distant future.
Comern’s eyes, upon first encountering the rare ability that Glare possessed, were suddenly burning with a desire to explore.
‘As expected, it would be better to raise it.’
Since she was a corpse in the first place except for her curiosity and desire to explore, Comern made that decision and began to approach the kid.
“Hank.”
“…!”
“Hank Dymer.”
When he finally said his name, the kid looked at him with a possessed expression.
“H-how do you know that name?”
“I know everything.”
The magic of finding out the ‘true name’ of a being was one of her favorite magics.
Normally, it was an anti-magic technique used to weaken the power of the great devil, but it was also useful when suppressing the energy of the little boy in front of you.
“Ahhh…”
Sure enough, fear is etched into the kid’s face.
Several times more than she expected.
To the point where I wonder if there’s something traumatic about the name.
“…no.”
“Hmm?”
“Well, that’s not my name!”
As if that was true, the kid suddenly stood up and screamed.
“That’s a name that was abandoned long ago!”
“so.”
“Yes! My, my real name is…!”
And then what came out of the guy’s mouth was what he claimed was his own name.
“Pfft.”
It was pretty funny.
The name wasn’t funny or out of place.
It was just funny that he gave a fake name when it was his real name.
“You’re a kid who really likes to lie.”
“Ugh, ugh.”
If he thought the name he uttered was his real name.
There was no way the magic that detected true names would not have reflected that.
“Well, I guess that doesn’t matter.”
“Yes, yes?”
I quietly placed my hand on the boy’s shoulder and whispered in a low voice to the boy who smiled kindly and used the polite word again without realizing it.
“As long as you’re trapped here, you’re nothing more than my property.”
“…Hi.”
“You’ll have to pay close attention to me from now on.”
Only then did she realize that she was being held captive by a very bad witch, and she began to look at me with tearful eyes.
“Otherwise, I’ll eat you.”
“…!”
As I looked down at him and tasted him, the boy began to flinch and tremble.
“Hehe.”
The toy that caught my interest this time was Comern, who let out a low laugh, wondering when I would ever get tired of it.
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“So, when are you going to eat me?”
“…noisy.”
The decision I made that day was the biggest misjudgment of my life.
“You always treat me to delicious food to help me gain weight, and these days you don’t even contact me.”
“………….”
I never thought that little boy would grow up to be so cocky.
“Anyway, let me know if you’re going to eat it, so I can at least give it a bath.”
“Even though it’s noisy.”
And I never imagined that just 10 years after learning magic from me, he would surpass me.
“Hurry and go to the imperial palace. There is no time to stay like this.”
“Anyway, all you have to do is move through space. There is plenty of time, so you don’t have to worry.”
“Huh, really.”
And when he kicked him out of the house under the pretext of being fed up with him, he would never have guessed that just a few years later he would become a hero and a respected archmage who defeated the dragon that invaded the empire.
Even though he became such a great being, I didn’t know that he would come over for dinner regularly.
“Please get out.”
“I don’t like it.”
“Are you going to compete against each other after a long time?”
“I decline that. At that time, I really thought I was going to die.”
“Then, what do I have to do to get you to leave?”
“Just chatting a little more. Don’t you and me both need someone to talk to since we’ve become difficult to others?”
“Who is your teacher?”
“haha.”
I was quietly glaring at the guy who was waving his hands with a shameless expression.
“…Now that I think about it, there’s one thing I’m curious about.”
“Master? That’s amazing… ugh.”
“Are you under a curse that will make your mouth cramp if you don’t open your mouth even for a moment?”
“Maybe?”
“Let’s not talk. Anyway…”
Now that this had happened, I decided to ask something I had always been curious about, so I opened my eyes and asked a question.
“What on earth is that name you’re using now?”
“……”
Then, his mouth, which had been fluttering, suddenly closed.
“Why did you give up your real name?”
Actually, the reason I asked that question was because of my innate curiosity.
It was also to get away from him.
“If you’re not going to tell me, don’t come visit me in the future. I hate secrets the most in the world.”
It is a secret that has been hidden for over 10 years.
No matter how much of a guy he is, he probably won’t be able to bring up the story easily.
It was the perfect topic to chase away uninvited guests who were interrupting your leisurely time.
“Marquis Daimer. An unfortunate family that suddenly disappeared overnight.”
“..what?”
“…I was the last descendant of that family.”
Of course, I was thinking that way.
“One day, masked people infiltrated the mansion and started slaughtering the people in the house. As a child at the time, I had no choice but to hide, unable to do anything.”
This guy exceeded my expectations this time too.
“One by one, the survivors disappeared, and the moment a bloody hand finally touched the handle of my closet where I was hiding.”
“……..”
“Before I knew it, I was rolling around in the yard of my former mansion.”
Although he was speaking with his usual innocent expression, his eyes were burning.
It was a look in his eyes that I had never seen from him before.
“I prayed really earnestly. Please let me escape from this place.”
“that…”
“The potential that the teacher spoke of was awakened at that moment. I guess.”
I didn’t know what to say, so I was nodding my head blankly, and the guy who was looking at me smiled and continued talking.
“From that day on, while hiding here and there, I promised myself that I would keep my name hidden and somehow find out the truth about what happened that day.”
“…That’s what it was.”
“The pseudonym I am currently using is for that reason.”
“Wait, why is my diary…”
The guy who said that suddenly picked up my diary on the desk and started writing down something.
“Do you want to find out?”
“…This?”
“This is my real name written in a secret password that I like to use. My pseudonym is a mixture of this password and pronounced appropriately.”
“……”
Eventually, as I was looking down at the diary he held out, I heard his serious voice.
“…Even if you use a pseudonym, shouldn’t you forget the essence?”
But my attention was entirely focused on the notebook, or more precisely, on the letters he had written.
How does he know this text?
This script may be an ancient demon language that was lost hundreds of years ago.
As of now, the only person writing this text has been the head of the Sunset family whom I knew in the past.
“It was a code taught in my family. When I was young, I often used this to exchange secret letters with my younger brother.”
I was curious about an incomprehensible question, so I asked him a question, and the answer I got was the same.
With this, I knew how he knew this character, but the question still remained.
Why on earth did the Marquess of Daimer inherit this character?
“Ah, it’s already so late.”
“…Ah, over there.”
“I’ll just go now.”
Thanks to my chronic curiosity, I tried to ask another question, but for some reason, he got up from his seat.
“…already?”
“While we were talking, coincidentally, I got a call from an informant.”
He asked with a rare expression of regret, but his expression was stiff.
“Maybe we can find out the truth this time.”
“…Have you been investigating until now?”
“Ever since you made me stronger.”
Seeing him with a serious expression for the first time in a long time, I felt like I had to leave him for today.
“Okay, then…”
So, for some reason, I suppressed the loneliness that had begun to creep in and waved at the guy who was starting to head towards the front door.
“……..!”
I immediately opened my eyes and looked at the ring on my hand.
“Haha, Master, you let your guard down too. I can’t believe you didn’t notice.”
“What is this…?”
I was looking at the ring with a puzzled expression, which he had obviously put in with a space movement spell while I was immersed in the story, and then I looked at him and asked a question.
“Isn’t it obvious?”
The guy answered very shamelessly.
“It’s a proposal ring.”
“……!?”
“You heard a secret I didn’t want to tell anyone, so you need to take responsibility.”
When my brain, which had stopped for a moment, began to squeak and roll, I said these words in a dazed voice.
“You… do you know how old I am?”
That was probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever said in my life.
“Eh, the elf queen is my old friend. But still…”
“What does it matter?”
I, who had a blank expression on my face at the brazen answer of the guy who came flying in before long,
“I guess that doesn’t matter to the innocent little boy who was raised by you.”
“………….”
“Well, if you don’t like it, why don’t you just eat it now?”
I had no choice but to quietly let the guy leave the mansion while saying that.
“Until I return from work, choose one of the two.”
I should have caught him then.
Because the guy.
From that day on, I never came back.
[The Imperial Magic Tower collapses! Hundreds of casualties expected… shock]
[The current prime suspect is…]
“…her?”
A few days later, the text written under the guy’s photo, which was prominently published in the newspaper, alerted me to that fact.
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“…It’s been a while, Master.”
“……..”
A few years later.
“Have you finally come to eat me?”
“…Shut up.”
This time, I met the guy who appeared in the imperial capital for the first time in a long time.
“What on earth are you doing?”
From that day on, the empire couldn’t handle the guy who suddenly started running wild and rampaging around.
As a result, a subjugation request came even to me, who was hiding in the gray forest.
I had no intention of clearing my name now.
As a result of not being able to control my natural talent since I was young and causing several accidents, when I grew up to be able to control my abilities, everyone was already pointing fingers at me and calling me a witch.
Although I was now used to that title.
I couldn’t bear to point fingers at my first student.
There must have been some misunderstanding.
There must be a good reason for him to do this.
– It’s crunchy…!
“…Ugh.”
That’s what I thought.
“Looking at the past, I guessed wrong the first time.”
I discovered a terrifying lethality in the attack he made.
“This is why I wanted to hit you a long time ago.”
I had no choice but to quietly prepare to put an end to the mistakes I had made.
“I won’t be able to get out of here safely.”
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“Cluck, clack…..”
“Your body is definitely not healthy. This is a fairly fatal wound.”
I put all my effort into it, but in the end I had no choice but to kneel in front of him.
“Ugh…”
I tried to force myself to stand up, but my body didn’t listen.
The student I met after a long time was several times stronger than when he first defeated me.
“…why.”
When I saw him approaching me and felt that everything was over, I stretched out my trembling hand, grabbed his leg, and asked him a question.
“Why did you do this…”
“……..”
The ring with his name engraved on my hand until then was glowing faintly.
“I’m looking for the culprit who destroyed my family.”
As I take in that light with my dying eyes, I hear his cold voice.
“What is that…”
“The people who secretly massacred my family were none other than the Empire.”
After hearing those words, I could only look up at him in bewilderment without saying anything.
“In fact, demon blood was flowing in my family. No, it wasn’t just flowing… the entire family was potentially half-demon.”
“…………”
“But, by far, they have never been hostile to the empire. It was only our ancestors from long ago who tried to aim their sword of revenge at the empire, and in my generation, they did not even know that they were half-demon.”
The emotions in his eyes were hatred and anger.
It was an unfamiliar emotion that could not be found in his eyes.
“But I think the imperial family, who found out about it by chance, didn’t want to leave even the slightest risk.”
“no way…”
“The reason the Moonlight family’s assassination unit moved that day was none other than a secret order from the imperial family.”
The truths he discovered that day, and over the past few years, were truly devastating.
“I will overthrow the Empire. You know that over the past few hundred years, the Empire has been decaying rapidly.”
To the point where I can understand why he became like this.
“I will bring back those like me. To destroy this hateful empire, for the sake of the Demon King who will soon be revealed to the world.”
“Hank…”
The guy who said that and shook my hand away started raising his hand high in the sky and started chanting a spell.
“…shit.”
I don’t know what kind of magic it is, but the magic circle looks unusual.
It was clear that if left like that, something terrible would happen.
“You have become a hero that is not even mentioned in the Eight Characters.”
I quietly gathered mana in my hands and looked around at the people of the empire who were looking at us with anxiety from all directions.
– It’s crunchy…!
With all my strength, I threw myself at a little boy who was once crawling around my yard with a scared expression on his face.
If I use all my remaining power, I’ll probably be able to annihilate it or at least block that magic.
With that in mind, I reached out to his heart.
– Kugwagwagwang…!
Soon, light surrounded the two of us.
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“Gasp… gasp…”
“…………”
The light that filled the room disappeared, and my lost consciousness began to return.
“…..uh?”
As I lifted my heavy eyelids and checked the result of the attack, I couldn’t help but let out a dumbfounded voice.
“Off…Ugh…”
“W-what…?”
The guy was lying down with his heart pierced.
How did this happen?
Clearly, the guy had enough stamina left to prepare for my attack.
However, he ended up allowing my attack defenseless.
“What are you doing, this?”
I forced myself to hold on to the spirit that seemed ready to go out at any moment, and asked a question while holding onto the guy’s collar.
“What on earth have you done…!”
“ha ha ha…”
Then it started to appear on the guy’s face.
That cheeky expression that I missed so much.
“The magic has been completed.”
“……..!”
As I urgently looked up at the sky at those words, I couldn’t help but be shocked.
“That’s…”
A large-scale ancient magic whose structure I could not even understand was filling the sky.
“It is a causal law manipulation magic designed by the Demon King 1,000 years ago. It was originally intended to be used on the hero, but it failed spectacularly, so it ended up being used on the two of us.”
“……..”
“It was worth finding it after being busy wandering around for the past few years. If it hadn’t been disposable, I would have used it on the second generation of heroes who will appear soon…”
The guy with blood dripping from his mouth says that and laughs.
“Well, even if that were the case, it would have failed, right? They say the hero has mysterious powers…”
As long as that magic circle has been activated, it is no different from victory for him.
But then, what on earth is this cocky expression on his face?
“For the past few years, I have been wandering around seeking revenge… and I have come across some truly regrettable information.”
The answer was eventually found in an unbelievable statement that came out of the guy’s mouth.
“The Empire is preparing to subdue you…”
“The Empire… me…”
“They probably decided that there was some kind of connection between me and the rebels… hahaha…”
It was at that point that my body started shaking.
“You, you…”
“But this way everyone will know that you are my enemy.”
“Do it, Hank.”
“You are the only one who defeated me… Now even the Empire will not be able to easily touch you…”
Because it was only then that I realized his intentions.
“Well then, it’s time to say goodbye, Master…”
“Oh, no. Wait.”
“All information about our relationship will disappear from the world as of today.”
“wait!!”
“Of course, in your and my memories too.”
I tried belatedly to interfere with the magic circle in the sky, but it was already too late.
“I, too, will join the Demon King’s army! So…”
“Unfortunately, we only received demons…”
“Hank, don’t do this. Please…”
Before I knew it, I was sobbing bitterly, wiping away the tears that had started to flow from my eyes.
“Either eat it or marry it. Didn’t I tell you to choose one of the two?”
“…….”
“I never chose this…!”
Under the magic circle that had begun to glow, I cried for a long time while holding him in my arms.
“Leave here… I hope you live happily…”
“I-I want you…!”
Soon after, the world turned upside down.
I, who was feared by the world, became a respected hero and archmage of the empire.
In order to regain my first love, which I couldn’t remember no matter how hard I tried, I gave up maintaining my youth, which was extremely mana-consuming, and began to become obsessed with power.
That’s right, it happened after that day.
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“…under.”
The magic tower owner opens his eyes and looks around blankly.
“…….”
The blazing landscape of hell spread out behind her.
“okay.”
The magic tower owner, who looked at the scenery for a while to gather his mind, soon walked forward with a detached expression on his face.
“So that’s how it happened.”
The diary in my hand had already disappeared somewhere.
All the forgotten memories were already vivid in the mind of the Magic Tower owner.
The face, name, and all related truths of ‘him’ she so desperately wanted to get back.
“That’s how it happened…”
However, instead of going to see him, she had no choice but to go to the ‘door of darkness’ in front of her.
Instead of walking into the deep end of hell and atonement, it allows you to realize the truth.
It was time to fulfill the contract made with Frey.
“I wanted to see your face one last time.”
– Sigh…
“I don’t deserve it.”
The moment the magic tower owner slowly opened the dark door and stepped inside.
– Shaaa…
Soon, pitch-black darkness enveloped her in all directions.
“…Hmm.”
What greeted her at the edge of hell was complete darkness.
It was an empty space where nothing existed.
“It deserves to be called the scariest.”
The souls of ordinary wicked people, unless they are sentenced to life imprisonment, suffer endlessly and are purified before being sent back to earth.
However, this space was simply left in the void until the soul was completely purified.
Naturally, it was bound to take twice as long as purifying it by forcibly inflicting pain on the soul.
Truly, the cruelest punishment in the world.
“Ugh…”
The magic tower owner, who has already begun to be weighed down by the sense of helplessness and fear brought about by the void, begins to break into a cold sweat.
“Hank…”
Then she
“…no.”
The moment when I was about to mutter the name I had longed for my whole life in a voice full of fear.
“I told you not to call me that name, right?”
“…!”
The voice she longed to hear echoed next to her.
“you you…!”
As the magic tower turned its head here and there to find the owner of the voice, a man standing next to her suddenly appeared.
“What do you think…”
“I heard you were going to be here, so I came in advance.”
“…what?”
“Mr. Frey told me to listen. I also have a lot to atone for. I asked to be sent to hell.”
The magic tower owner, who heard his words with a still shameless expression on his face, looked at the man with dumbfounded eyes.
“by the way.”
He smiles brightly and asks questions.
“Are you going to eat me?”
Comern, who heard those words, burst into laughter and responded.
“…I guess that’s not the case, you idiot.”
“Thank God. We finally met again, but I was wondering what would happen if we got eaten.”
After speaking, the two souls hug each other without even thinking about who goes first.
“I’m so happy and so sad at the same time, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.”
“That’s right, the proposal was successful, but we can’t have a wedding. It was my wish.”
The ring that had suddenly reappeared on the magic tower lord’s hand was shining brightly among them.
“Anyway, as long as I keep my mouth open.”
“ha ha ha…”
The story of two souls who faced the most cruel yet lenient punishment came to an end.
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Meanwhile, at that time, the world’s empire returned to its original state.
“…Once the atonement is completely completed, I will also be released.”
“Frey, did you call me?”
Roswin approaches next to Frey, who is staring at the cold bodies of the Mage Master and Ripael being carried away on a stretcher.
“Roswin, I have a question.”
Then, Frey turned his head, took out the magic tower’s old diary from his pocket, opened it, and then pointed to one word.
[hank dimer]
“How do you read this?”
“Oh, this?”
The slightly clumsily written text was all too familiar to Roswin.
“It’s pronounced Hank Dymer!”
Therefore, Rosewin answered with a confident expression.
“Really? Then…”
Frey, who was stroking her head, lightly taps the paper, and suddenly the names start to get mixed up.
“How do you read this?”
Soon, when Frey pointed to the name that appeared on the paper and asked a question, Roswin, who had been holding his hand with a bright smile, looked at the paper once again.
“This…”
Unlike before, she was scribbling something with a pen and thinking about it, but soon she wrote down the pronunciation next to the newly appeared name and handed it to Frey.
“hmm.”
“But why are you suddenly asking this?”
When Roswin asked a question to Frey, who nodded after hearing the answer, Frey opened his mouth with a subtle smile.
“I just want to check something.”
“is that so?”
“Anyway, you did a great job, Roswin.”
“…Hehe. This is basic.”
Roswin, who had a confused expression on her face, received Frey’s compliment and shrugged her shoulders with a confident smile.
“But, I think I heard it somewhere…”
Then, suddenly, Roswin was lost in thought, scratching her head.
“Well, it’s nice that I received praise!”
“…Ahaha.”
But in the end, she couldn’t remember it, so she threw the paper back with a tone of approval and soon started walking away with Frey.
[demirkhan]
The paper fluttering behind them was flying in the wind with a familiar name on it.
Side Story – End
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