Episode 423
Raon took off his arms and walked into the barrier of Sloth. The feeling of being submerged in water. I didn’t feel any disturbance whatsoever.
“It’s a free pass.”
I looked back with a smile and saw Lars with his jaw wide open enough to touch the floor.
“It’s just, ‘Welcome.’ to do?”
-Why is this open?
Lars’ lips trembled and he pounded the barrier with his fist.
– Shouldn’t it be like this? Where is the barrier that opens so easily!
The guy must have been very embarrassed, so he threw away the dignified tone he used to use and started whining.
– You bastard! What else have you cheated on! Why is the barrier not working!
“Why, why?”
Raon pointed at the black flower bracelet he was wearing on his wrist.
“Because the emotion of < laziness > is embedded in this bracelet and in my soul. It’s open.”
A little while ago, I felt the black flower bracelet and < laziness > in my soul respond to the barrier of sloth.
It was only natural that the barrier would not push away, since it was Sloth who created this barrier, and the black flower bracelet and < laziness > in the soul were also his power.
-Uh….
Lars looked closely at the barrier with his thick hands trembling. His narrowed eyes widened like the full moon.
-You stupid sleeper! What a barrier you make!
“why? You made it well.”
Raon waved his finger at Lars, whose face was red like strawberry-flavored cotton candy.
“I know very well who to reject and who to accept.”
I touched the barrier again. There is not even the slightest rejection.
Seeing that Sloth, who is bothered by everything in the world, had created such a barrier, it seemed to mean that he liked the goblin king’s magic stone that he had given him before, so he wanted to come back.
-Ouch…
Lars blushed even more as if he didn’t like it.
-If the original king only finds his body, he will make it impossible for Sloth to sleep for the rest of his life! I will never forgive you!
“You can do that later…”
Raon held out his palm to Lars.
“You have to give something.”
-Huh!
Lars closed his eyes as soon as he saw the hand.
“They say don’t bet on a game if you’re not sure. Haven’t you heard?”
– I haven’t heard of it! You damned cheater!
The guy was more resentful than usual, probably because he thought it was a winning bet and then lost.
“Then, I learned today, so that’s okay. Think of it as tuition and pay it faithfully.”
-Sue Tuition….
“With the right traits, not the unnecessary traits.”
-Don’t worry about that as the original king won’t decide it like before.
Lars murmured that he would leave it to the system’s choice because if he made his own decision, the fairness of the bet would be compromised.
‘Because he’s a strange guy.’
Even though he is the Demon King, he does not lie and does not cheat. Except for the fierce anger that sometimes pops out, he was a good guy than most people.
“I will happily wait for you.”
I waved at Lars, who was trembling with anger, and climbed the mountain that was not far away.
There were no monsters or wild animals inside the barrier of Sloth, so I was able to climb to the top comfortably.
Raon whistled as he stood on top of Mt. Sterrin.
“Is this the top of Mount Sterlin?”
The summit was a slightly slanted plain, but the entire floor was stained white.
It wasn’t snow, but the water was frozen like a lake in the middle of winter.
The frozen ground and the lightly shining sunlight created a mysterious atmosphere that seemed out of this world.
“Where is Sloss… there it is.”
Raon laughed as he looked at the center of the frozen ground.
‘I’m openly sleeping.’
In the center of the ice sheet lay a small ball of cotton, hugging a red stone. It was a sloth with nothing to see.
– That stupid bastard!
Lars hit Sloth with a round ham fist as if his anger was still not resolved. Naturally, nothing happened.
-Because of you, the main king was ripped off again! You useless sleeper!
Raon approached Sloth as he heard Lars’ scream of rage.
“A baby polar bear?”
The image of him holding the goblin king’s magic stone with his short arms and legs was a baby bear.
However, a little different from a normal white bear, it had two candy-sized horns growing on its head, and a black star was engraved on its chest.
‘Is this a sloth?’
I can feel the energy of < Sloth >, but it looks so different from what I’ve seen before, so I doubted if it was really a sloth.
-You don’t even know this stupid expression! You’re sleepy!
Lars frowned as he pointed to Sloth, who licked his lips happily.
Raon smiled and nodded.
‘I do have a feeling.’
Listening to Lars’ words, I looked closely at his face, and it seemed to overlap with the expression of Sloth I met in front of the castle wall.
“Sloth.”
I called out the name in my round ear, but Sloth didn’t even budge.
“Sloth! wake up!”
Even though he kept shouting his name, he didn’t even move in his sleep.
‘Aren’t you dead?’
– This guy won’t wake up for a while.
Lars let go of Sloth and breathed heavily.
‘why?’
-There are two types of sleep: light sleep and deep sleep. When a creature sleeps, the two sleeps are repeated, but now this guy is in a deep sleep.
‘Then you’ll just have to wait until light sleep comes. It won’t be long.’
-Ordinary humans and demons would repeat every 90 minutes, but this guy…
looked down at Sloth with a pitiful look on his face.
-That’s a yearly unit.
“uh…?”
Raon opened his mouth wide. I was so embarrassed that the words came out through upbringing.
‘Women year unit?’
-That’s right. I’m guessing it will be released sometime next year.
Lars shook his head, saying that it would never happen in this state.
– You entered the barrier, but in the end, you struggled in vain.
The boy curled up his mouth as if he was lucky.
‘Is that true?’
-If you don’t believe me, shake it and hit it. If you cover your ears, no matter how much you shout, it will be of no use.
‘What if he wakes up and causes a commotion?’
-You can never wake up Sloth with your poor power. Because his recovery is faster than your attack.
Lars scoffed, saying that when Sloth wakes up, he will not be able to wake him up, saying that it is when he is attacked and feels threatened for his life.
‘Oh…’
Lars doesn’t lie just because he can. To say so openly meant that it was true.
-If luck arises and wakes Sloth now, it’s a problem. The one who wakes up from a deep sleep will not recognize you and will run over you and step on you.
‘Then is there no way?’
-Now I’m just waiting.
‘What kind of sleep is this!’
It was absurd that the time spent sleeping was not one year, but that the interval between deep sleep and light sleep was on a yearly basis.
-That’s why it’s < laziness >. For Sloth, only sleeping is important. That Duntang is a guy who doesn’t care if other demons sell his name as long as he can get a good night’s sleep.
Lars said that there were many low-level demons selling the name of Sloth in the Pandemonium in the past.
“Haa…”
Raon grabbed Sloth’s shoulder and shook him.
“wake up!”
“…”
However, Sloth maintained a happy expression and did not show the slightest movement.
‘Should I take this away?’
I tried to steal the goblin king’s magic stone, but it didn’t come out as if it was stuck in the ground.
‘Even in this form, is the demon king a demon king?’
Even though he is using all his strength beyond human strength, he can’t take away the magic stone held by the baby bear.
“Haa…”
Raon sighed and put the sloth down.
‘I can’t really hit him.’
Lars said it was okay, but coming to ask for a favor and striking the sword was crazy no matter how much you think about it.
-Unlike the barrier earlier, this is impossible. How about going back and eating pineapple pizza?
‘Pizza….’
When I heard the words ‘Pizza and the barrier’, one more method came to my mind.
‘just in case.’
I decided to use sloth just like I had broken through the barrier of sloth a while ago.
oh oh oh!
As if raising the anger he received from Lars, he raised the energy of indolence that clung to the bottom of his soul.
As the emotion of < laziness > rides up the soul, the whole body becomes drowsy.
When I closed my eyes, I felt helpless and didn’t want to do anything, along with the faint feeling of falling asleep right away. This was like the pure power of indolence.
He grabbed Sloth’s shoulder with the hand that lifted him up.
Whoa!
As the energy of sloth and sloth met, a small movement occurred to Sloth.
“uh…?”
However, that was not the direction Raon wanted.
“Heh…”
Sloth smiled a little more and fell into a deeper sleep. It was a happy expression.
-Khehehehe!
Lars grabbed the fluffy belly and burst into laughter.
– Adding sloth to sloth only results in more sloth.
The guy snorted, saying that the world is not all your way.
‘I don’t know.’
Raon chewed his molars and lay down on the transparent ice.
‘I’m going to sleep until he wakes up!’
– Stupid bastard. Waiting here for a year…
Just as Lars was about to sneer again, a message came to him.
[You won the bet with < Rage >.]
Raon looked up at the message and lifted his chin.
‘I can wait while watching this.’
-Damn it! Why give it now!
* * *
The Sword Demon placed a hand on Muston’s forehead and lowered his eyes.
‘I’ll wake up soon.’
Muston still hasn’t woken up, probably from the psychological shock of being hit one-sidedly by Raon.
However, since he fed the high-level elixir and used the aura to release the energy of the elixir, his body recovered a lot and seemed to come to his senses soon.
‘Fortunately there are no aftereffects.’
There were no aftereffects left on Muston’s body, as if it was worth caring for by his side for two days.
If you woke up thanks to the energy of the elixir, you might be able to move right away.
‘You hit me really well.’
It’s easier to kill. It was not enough to say that it was amazing to beat a person to this extent and not leave any aftereffects.
‘Now this guy must have come to his senses.’
Muston must have grown up a bit since he was beaten so much by the young Raon.
“Get up quickly.”
A small moan was heard as the Sword Demon used his aura to free Muston’s body once again.
“Umm…”
It’s Muston. He opened his eyes slowly like a turtle.
“W This is…”
“It’s a hospital room.”
“Master?”
“Are you okay?”
The Blademaster removed his hand from Muston’s forehead and looked into his eyes. Fortunately, there didn’t seem to be any problems on the mental side either.
“There is no place that is seriously ill.”
Muston’s cracked voice hurt a little, but he had something to say now.
“Do you remember what you did?”
“Ah…”
Muston opened his mouth as if he remembered that he had lost to Raon.
“Sorry. I lost again…”
He bit his dry lips and clutched his head.
“I’m really sorry for disgracing Master’s name…”
“That’s not it.”
The Sword Demon shook his head.
“Are you considering me as your teacher?”
“Mu, of course!”
“Just as you value me, Rimer will be precious to Raon. If your teacher is important, others’ teachers are also important. You said something you shouldn’t have.”
“Ah…”
Muston’s eyes fluttered like a sailboat hit by a wave.
“You were as precious to me as they were, but it seems the direction you are leading is wrong. I should have taken care of my personality first, not force, but it was my mistake.”
“Master Su…”
“Your body has recovered a lot and you have regained consciousness, so the first thing you should do is apologize to Raon and Limer when you wake up. I will go with you as a teacher.”
The Sword Demon patted Muston on the shoulder and then stood up.
“It is the medicine that Raon left behind. My wounds aren’t fully healed yet, so finish your meal and eat.”
He put the neck armor that Raon had left on the bedside.
“Let’s appreciate Raon’s consideration. You really could have died this time.”
“…”
Muston bit his lip, looking at the sword demon without answering.
“Rest.”
The sword ghost left the hospital room after saying to take care of yourself.
“Whoa…”
He sighed, leaning his back against the wall in front of the hospital room.
‘I’m sorry, but that was something I had to say.’
Muston hoped that Raon would just worry about him, but if he did, he would create the same situation again.
In order to wake up the spirit of the disciple, you must drive a wedge now.
‘Raising disciples is difficult.’
It was too difficult to raise a disciple without wielding a sword with an old enemy.
He admired Rimer and Sylvia Sieghart for raising the younger Raon so well.
The Sword Demon touched his forehead as he left the medical unit.
‘I’m tired.’
I felt a little dizzy, whether it was because I used my aura for two days to heal Muston, or because I had spoken bitterly to my student.
‘I need to rest a bit.’
After looking around Muston’s hospital room, he headed for his lodgings.
* * *
After the Sword Demon left the hospital room, Muston stared blankly at the ceiling for over an hour.
Meals and medicine came in, but I didn’t even look at it and just grinded my teeth.
‘Raon. Raon again. As soon as he wakes up, he should also ask his master for his name.’
The first thing the Sword Demon said was ‘Are you okay?’, but he forgot his worries and only remembered Raon and the scolding.
hard.
Muston gritted his teeth with the sound of twisting iron.
‘Why the hell…’
Why are you saying that!
If you are a teacher, you should start by worrying about the disciple who wakes up after being beaten one-sidedly. It was an incomprehensible treatment.
‘He changed because of him.’
Originally, the teacher did not care about others and only looked at himself.
Seeing the teacher, who cared for his pupil more than anyone else, took care of Raon first, his fists naturally energized.
“Do you like Raon Sieghart that much?”
The feeling of jealousy that had been hidden under the weight of Raon’s violence and fear revives again. It started a bigger fire than before and burned fiercely.
‘I am the one who was chosen!’
I was recognized as my second talent in training and was able to become a disciple of the Sword Demon, but now I thought he was not looking at me, and I felt like I was going to die.
“Damn it!”
Muston stood up. I had pain all over my body, but it wasn’t unbearable. After changing my clothes, I went outside through the window.
It was still early in the morning, so there were not many people on the streets. He stumbled and climbed onto the wall.
Contrary to the blackened inner heart, you can see the pure white snowfield like a blank sheet of paper.
“Keugh!”
He gritted his teeth and jumped into the snowy field. The scouts and knights called from behind, but he didn’t pay attention and walked on the snowy field.
“Damn it. damn it damn it!”
I get jealous.
More than anyone else in the world, he was jealous of Raon Sieghart.
From being famous throughout the continent to being nicknamed the Little Sword Demon and the White Sword Dragon to receiving sincere interest from Master. I was so jealous of everything that I couldn’t stand it.
Muston kicked the ground violently, unable to hold back his growing jealousy.
Like a dry twig, strength surges in the legs that had no branches, and breath fills the withered lungs.
As the green flame blooming in his chest grows, his whole body swells with strength.
Just like before fighting Raon. No, it seemed to have more energy than that.
Koo Goo Goo!
I couldn’t control the emotions and powers welling up inside me. I thought my body would explode if I left it like this, so I concentrated on running.
I don’t even know how far I ran. Even though he was running to the point where he could barely see Habunseong, it was still not enough to appease his stomach.
“shit!”
I’m jealous of Raon Sieghart.
I wanted to steal everything from him, his name, his reputation, his power, and even his teacher’s attention.
“I am jealous of you. Raon Sieghart!”
Muston spoke the word jealousy for the first time.
“I will use all the means in the world to take what you have! Never let go!”
The moment I shouted those words, the energy that had filled up to the top of my neck exploded.
Whoops!
A tremendous uncontrollable force began to radiate outward.
“uh…?”
But this was not his strength.
‘what?’
In front of my eyes, something like a green blade came out and twisted open the space.
Jijijijijik!
In the dimension where green light and black light harmonize, a presence that cannot exist in this world welled up.
It was a savage spirit that could not be felt even from the teacher.
Koo-goo-goo-goo!
Dark green eyes flashed in the torn space as Muston shuddered and stopped.
“It’s < Jealousy > that I quite like.”
