Episode 363 The Devil’s Harmony (1)
Helya’s touch became even more bewitching.
Her lips became moist and her eyes even contained a subtle color.
A pink air current flows around.
At the same time, it even gives off a thick scent that melts the brain.
“how is it? Aren’t you interested?”
“…..”
The hand that went up the collar went up to the neck.
“I am very interested.”
The moment when the hand that carried on that momentum was about to touch Rudger’s cheek.
“Clean your hands.”
widely.
Rudger lightly tapped Helya’s hand.
“be not interested in.”
At the same time, the pink airflow that filled the surroundings and the scent that tickled the nose all disappeared.
Helya stared at Ludger in disbelief with her eyes wide open.
She belatedly smiled with her usual mischievous smile.
“Whoops. It’s been a long time since I’ve been rejected by a man like this.”
“It’s not an ordinary temptation, it stimulates all five human senses with hallucinations, so pretty much everyone will go crazy.”
“that’s right. Even if I just talk to her a few times, she couldn’t come to her senses. But you are different too. I never thought I’d car like this without mercy. To be honest, I’m ashamed of myself. At this point, do you think there is a coming?”
“An action that is not sincere is bound to be light, no matter how thick the surface is.”
“Sincerity is like a heavy anchor. Even if you want to go somewhere, you will be tied up and unable to do this or that.”
Helya spun her parasol around and thumped it on the floor.
“Isn’t it much better to live freely as the wind and the water flow?”
A hazy, thin glass-like curtain covered the accommodation in the form of a dome.
“What are you planning to do?”
“Of course it is a story. Of course, can’t we go inside and talk? I am still a guest.”
“…..”
“Ah. Could it be that you got mad because of the prank you just a moment ago?”
“…Go in.”
Rudger gave permission, and Helia walked inside with brisk steps.
“Hmm? Is there anything less than expected inside? I thought it was all decorated with miscellaneous things.”
“Because it is a place where there is nothing good about it. Sit here.”
Helya sat down as instructed.
“Oh, do you have any coffee? expensive ones.”
“Do you know about the word modesty?”
“Humility, humility, humility. Who could be more suited to that word than I am? no It must be a demon to you.”
Helya said it herself and laughed as if she had told a funny joke.
Rudgar didn’t even respond to the figure and sat down across from her.
“uh? How about coffee?”
“does not exist.”
there is a fact I got some beans from Sedina.
But even if I died soon, I didn’t want to give that precious coffee to this demon in front of me.
“no way. what. be no fun.”
“So why did you come here to find me separately? It couldn’t have been just for fun.”
“What is the purpose? I wanted to find out what kind of place the Zero Order guy was interested in, and to see who the former owner of the vacant seat I had occupied was.”
“Did you go see Selina?”
“I haven’t met him in person. I just watched it from afar. Actually, I’ve seen it before when I was Esmeralda, so I mimicked it a bit as an illusion, but I’ve never met her face-to-face.”
Surprisingly, the statement that he had no direct contact with Selina was not false.
Of course, Helia herself said that she didn’t approach Selina because she wasn’t particularly interested.
‘It can’t be.’
Selina was a very strange existence even to Helya.
The original owner of the body was Esmeralda.
However, she disappeared and, of course, the body that lost the soul had to stop its life activities.
Surprisingly, she was alive.
As the existence of Selina, not Esmeralda.
‘I was curious and thought about going over to take a look. If [something like that] is by your side, no matter how much I am, I’m reluctant to approach you.’
There was a similar guy by Esmeralda’s side.
Did you say “Quasimodo”, the spirit of fire?
‘I don’t know if it’s okay to call something so twisted a spirit.’
Quasimodo was a pretty powerful being. It was not for nothing that he rose to the position of the First Order.
But even Quasimodo wasn’t a threat to Helya.
On the other hand, the thing attached to Selina is such that even Helya, a demon who has been living for a long time, feels an instinctive reluctance.
‘A spirit less like a spirit than Quasimodo, who twists and pretends to be a spirit. But he must be closer to the real thing. So better avoid it. If I approach it recklessly, I’ll only see blood.’
There was no need to explain this to Rudger.
“Aside from that, it looks like he has something to say to you, seeing as he came to see me.”
“Yeah right. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have put up a tent around them in the first place. Wouldn’t it be troublesome if the conversation between the two of us goes outside?”
“I know roughly what you came for. Is it because of the Order Synod?”
“what. Are you too easy to match?”
Helya crossed her arms and pursed her lips.
“I wish I had known a little more.”
“Didn’t the Zero Order tell us in the first place that there would be an Order Synod soon?”
“okay. so it’s dissatisfying How dare you release such valuable information.”
“Zero Order is the only entity that can hold an Order Synod. It is useless to argue like that.”
“Speaks like someone loyal to the Zero Order. You don’t have to act like that [John Doe] guy in front of me.”
Helya leaned her upper body forward and rested her chin on one hand.
I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but Helia playfully asked, revealing her voluptuous body as if she were proud of it.
“Or are you still wary of me?”
“Being wary of the devil is a natural human reaction.”
“ha ha ha! ‘As a person’. If you think about it, you’re right. It’s no surprise that I’m being treated that way. Aren’t you curious though?”
“What are you curious about?”
“Zero order. How did he and I get to know each other? Like what happened in the past?”
“…..”
This is definitely something to be curious about.
That’s to the point that it feels very enchanting among all the actions Helya has shown so far.
But Rudger didn’t say he wanted to hear it.
It could be that this is a deliberate attempt to open up your feelings, but there is no guarantee that everything Helya tells you will be true.
Aren’t they both the same devil in the first place?
They say that there is no such thing as camaraderie between different demons, but at least from a human point of view, it can only be felt that way.
First of all, we are holding each other’s hands.
“Hmm. Are you on guard too?”
“It’s rather strange that we don’t be vigilant when it comes out like that.”
“Ahaha. That’s it too. Then, shall we give you some information as a special service?”
“what?”
Before he could ask what kind of joke he was planning on playing again, Helya recited information.
“I know that? The Zero Order guy fought with the Saint of the Church of Lumensis a long time ago.”
“Fighted? In a big way, there is nothing strange about it.”
“yes. It was obvious that the devil would fight the saintess. But the Zero Order was defeated by the saintess. several times too. Defeated, he had to keep running.”
Didn’t the Zero Order lose the fight and even run away?
“Was the saintess really that strong?”
“That’s true, but actually, the Zero Order wasn’t such a strong apostle in the past.”
“The one who leads the Black Dawn right now wasn’t a strong apostle. Aren’t you demons born with powers?”
Ludger remembered Helya’s vision and Basara’s mental wave.
A force that in itself is fatal to mankind.
That was the devil’s power.
“Ugh. What should I say? He also has powers. It’s a kind of privilege given to us apostles. A completely dead Basara shakes the human mind, and I can hallucinate with physical power. So do the other guys. It’s easy to deal with power that makes no sense.”
“You were fully aware that your own strength was meaningless.”
“But Zero Order wasn’t like that. It’s power, but it feels like it’s not power? If everyone else started from 100, it felt like he was starting from zero.”
“Is it still called an authority?”
“Yes, maybe? The “authority to learn” must also be an authority.”
It’s the power to learn.
Indeed, the expression is comprehensive and unclear.
Even if it were other demons, I knew only two of them, but compared to the powers that Basara and Helya possessed, they were definitely different.
“Come to think of it, the Zero Order guy fought particularly hard. The target was a saint. In fact, the saintess is constantly moving to eliminate the Zero Order, and she managed to escape after being defeated.”
“Is that why the Zero Order is now looking for traces of the saintess?”
“Yes, maybe? Zero Order is a very sinister guy even if he looks like that. They don’t reveal their true feelings.”
“I know that because I saw it.”
“By the way, the former saintess is already dead, right? Even if you’re a saint, you’re still human after all, so you have no choice but to grow old. Zero Order is still alive because it’s a demon. But the memory of defeat is inevitable.”
“Are you trying to get rid of the heir to get revenge on the saintess?”
“Or rather take away the power of the saintess to dishonor the Church of Lumensis? For now, my guess is yes.”
“A guess.”
“It can’t be helped. That sneaky guy doesn’t even show me what’s inside. It’s not like I know everything. Come to think of it, do you get a little hot? Am I not that trustworthy? With the same apostles.”
Helia grumbled, twisting the ends of her hair with her fingers.
Right away, at the point of revealing the story to me, your trust level was already…
Ludger couldn’t bear to say that.
First of all, this is the position to receive information.
In fact, the information Helya gave was quite advanced.
Aside from being able to believe everything about what happened with the saintess in the past of Zero Order.
At least it didn’t seem like he was lying about the authority he possessed.
‘Is it a power that can be learned?’
Learning is so comprehensive.
Especially in that there is no ‘what’ in front of me.
If you want to learn the sword, you can learn it.
If you want to learn magic, you can learn it.
said Helya. Zero Order wasn’t that strong in the beginning.
Even if you can learn it, the speed of mastery is not as fast as you think.
However, if even that is given a time far beyond human life, the story will change.
Even with the talent of a criminal, if you train the sword for more than 500 years, you can reach a level by itself.
The same goes for magic.
How to deal with people, how to intrigue, how to set up organizations, how to work behind the scenes, how to wreak havoc in the world.
If all of that is replaced by the power of learning and the period is set at least 500 years.
zero order.
Now he is rather the most terrifying being than any demon.
“What kind of nonsense is this? Shall we go to the meeting now?”
“okay. don’t let that happen.”
“ah. By the way, it’s a secret even to Zero Order that I met you separately. got it?”
Helia got up from the sofa and closed one eye at Ludger.
I can’t believe it was a really arbitrary act.
Rudgar waved his hand in agreement.
That attitude must have offended her, but Helya evaporated like a mirage on the spot with a cat-like smile.
At the same time, the barrier that spread around the inn disappeared.
There are all really strange guys. Thinking such a foolish thought, Rudger put the ring he had prepared on his hand and closed his eyes.
And when he opened his eyes again
He was in the surface world of Dreamland, where he had visited once before.
* * *
“You’re a little late this time.”
Those were the first words Leslie said upon entering through the door built in the sign world.
As we’ve seen before, the First Orders were all black balls of fire.
“I was busy.”
Rudger replied briefly and sat down in his assigned seat.
All the other First Orders were there.
If it was different from usual, it was that the person who should talk the loudest was exceptionally quiet.
‘Nikolai.’
Considering his personality, he would have been talking a lot about what happened in the capital right now.
The fact that he didn’t do that means that he didn’t have the planting to talk about it.
‘Since the secret initiative failed miserably, it has to be natural.’
Then, Nikolai looked at Rudger with a blazing gaze.
If you knew what happened in the capital, you would know that Ludger interfered with your plans.
“John Doe.”
Just when I was thinking about that, Nikolai opened his mouth.
“It sounds like you’ve been doing some pretty interesting things lately. Did you stop the terror in the capital?”
“It is.”
“under. Is that so? That’s funny. Are you seriously working as a teacher for Seorn?”
All eyes of the other First Orders were on Rudgar.
