184. For you (7)
Deon entered the mansion with a stern face.
Never rush and maintain an appropriate stride. As if he was just taking a look.
Those who see his back will probably think that he is going in for confirmation. Deon aimed to be seen that way.
‘…brother.’
My brother’s head is in there. Maybe there isn’t one.
But either way I’d be swayed. I have no intention of showing anything like weakness to the demons. Moreover, if you are found to have diverted your troops for such a private matter, you will be quite tired in the future.
Deon wandered around the mansion accompanied by only one person.
“…Where is it?”
It must be the office after all.
You can start by checking the office and, if not, open the doors to all the rooms. In general, the office is different from the appearance of the door, so it should not be difficult to find.
While climbing the stairs and scanning the hallway, Dan, who had good eyesight, seemed to have discovered something and called out to Deon.
“Master, I think it’s over there.”
“ah.”
found.
I walked quickly and approached the door. However, contrary to the momentum that made him feel as if he would open the door at any moment, Deon did not hastily place his hand on the handle.
‘Because it could be a trap.’
Stand slightly out of the way in front of the door in case someone inside suddenly attacks you. Dan was also standing behind him, and Deon, holding a dagger in one hand and nodding his head, opened the door.
For a moment, a cool wind passed by them.
“….”
“There’s no one.”
“…I know.”
Deon answered blankly. His gaze had already been fixed on one place for a long time.
The duke’s office was nothing special. The only difference from the office I know is that there is a communicator and a wooden box on the desk.
The communicator was not even in sight. Deon froze the moment he saw the box.
‘It’s that box.’
There’s something important in there, whether it’s my brother’s head or something else just to tease me.
I took a step inside as if I was fascinated.
“master?”
“…you are waiting here.”
Because I can’t even imagine what my reaction would be when I check inside the box.
Although Dan is one of the few people who can show a disheveled appearance, there are degrees to that. He showed his unsightly side once or twice, but his minimal defensive instincts and last remaining pride were shouting that this was not enough.
Dan opened his mouth to retort, but Deon didn’t listen and closed the door.
The noise outside is blocked and a quiet room welcomes him. I turned around, walked very slowly, and stood in front of the box.
‘….’
He looked down at the box with an expression that even he couldn’t understand.
I can feel the vivid smell of blood. They said the duke had cast a preservation spell. If so, this box would contain the time of that day.
I slowly reached out and grabbed the lid of the box. After a short deep breath, Deon opened the box.
‘Ah…’
The accident stopped.
Deon closed his eyes and opened them to stop his shaking gaze. With his eyes fixed on the box, he struggles to make a voice by squeezing his neck.
“Brother…that’s right.”
Is it because they saved something like me? Was he being punished for saving someone who deserved to die?
A person who sacrifices his life to save one person should be an object of respect… but why is he like this?
“Kruel Hart is right.”
I didn’t cry. There was no anger.
Because I was already tired of being madly angry and crying when I found out the truth. Moreover, since the cause of this was not anyone else but Deon Hardt himself, he had no right to dare express his feelings about this situation.
Above all, I didn’t want my feelings to be revealed to the Duke, who was connected to the communicator and was watching their reaction with bated breath, so I suppressed my agitation and made an indifferent voice.
“You crazy bastard.”
Fortunately, the voice only trembled very slightly and was mostly dry.
A soft laugh came from the communicator, as if they had sensed that this party knew the connection status of the communicator due to the clear swearing.
“What are the importance of principles in achieving a goal?”
“…Where is the rest of the body?”
The honorific was thrown away.
Already all my patience has been used up to hold on to reason. I no longer had the luxury of using honorifics for a guy like him.
“It looks like even that body is gone. But you were wrong. All I have is my head. There’s no way I could have something that’s heavy and takes up a lot of space. “It’s not even a good thing.”
It is said that there was a time gap between Develania taking the head and body, so it is somewhat believable.
Even if the author had it anyway, there was no way he would give it away. Deon spoke naturally.
“…I didn’t have any military history, so why did you call me here? Was it just to kill time? “What would you do if I didn’t come?”
“No, you would have come. And here it comes. Also, to the question of whether you are doing this to save time, the answer is yes. “That was the intention at first.”
“….”
“But when I thought about it, I realized there was a better solution.”
At that moment, Deon felt as if the Duke on the other end of the communicator was smiling.
I opened my mouth to say something about the strange sensation running down my spine, but before I could, the Duke spoke first.
“I can just kill you.”
A low voice rings ominously. As if it was a signal, I felt a sense of popularity that wasn’t there before. Deon quickly turned around to look behind him, checked the other person, and hurriedly wrapped the box in his arms and crouched down.
“For salvation.”
A poor man carrying a bomb was running towards him.
There was no need to be shocked. In an instant, all kinds of thoughts crossed my mind.
As someone who is sensitive to presence, I think I thought about all kinds of things, from the wonder of not noticing an ordinary poor person in a quiet room until he came at me, no matter how careless I was, to the possibility of facing him with a dagger drawn, or of avoiding the body first, and so on. .
…When I came to my senses, I realized that my body had reacted first.
“…! …!!”
I vaguely hear the sound of the door opening and Dan’s voice. I guess it was because I felt like I was popular with people other than Deon Hardt. But it was already too late.
Someone overlaps the body from behind. and.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
There was an explosion.
***
In his fading consciousness, Deon strengthened his arm holding the box and recalled the statement he had made not long ago.
[I feel like fate is telling me to hate the world.]
As expected. Laughter flowed out.
‘Look at this, they won’t leave me alone.’
Even the poor abandon themselves and try to kill me. It has been a long time since he realized that the bastard was a member of the Church of Salvation, but his mind, shaken by the truth he had already heard from the Duke and the head of Cruel he had witnessed in person, seems to be unable to accept this situation rationally.
I’m just angry about everything.
Even unconsciously, when I thought about what made me so angry, all kinds of people came to mind.
Bystander Emperor. The Duke who is the culprit behind everything and plays with his brother’s head. Just like the Duke, perhaps even more, he is the culprit and the Demon King who treats me like a toy.
…Yes, devil bastard.
‘You must have had a lot of fun playing with me.’
He acted like he was going to take out my liver and gallbladder. Did you think I was such a fun toy when I was betting with the Duke?
As the thought of the Demon King came to mind, my consciousness flowed to the point where I branded the Demon King as an object of revenge.
And the moment that thought turned into a decision.
‘…it all sucks.’
A dazzling light burst out.
***
By world standards, it was a while ago, and by human standards, it was a long time ago. The world paid attention to a person who was dragged into an eight-year war.
If he had just been dragged out normally, there wouldn’t have been anything noteworthy. However, the devil was behind the situation in which the human being was thrown into a cruel world.
The victim of a bet made by the devil and his contractor candidate. This is such a situation that makes you a candidate for a hero. The next hero has already been appointed, but if he fails, it is enough to make him the next hero.
If we were to examine the reason for this conclusion, we went further back in time and looked at the ratio of the number of times the demon king and the hero killed each other.
Although the hero and the demon king have a death-and-kill relationship, looking at all of the time, the demon king kills the hero more often than the hero kills the demon king.
Why. After a long analysis, the world received an answer.
[A hero must have a strong will to kill the devil lord.]
Just because he is a hero, he does not have much strength to go because people are asking him to kill the devil lord.
The world has observed humans for a long time and realized the power of their emotions. Especially love and revenge. It is more intense and powerful than anything else. That human being, Deon Hart, would be enough to become a member of the team that can kill the current Demon King, who has a tough life.
It’s a new attempt. Even if I fail, I can’t let myself die without even trying. Shouldn’t we at least collect data?
So it’s difficult to die. At least you have to live until the outcome comes out, whether the next hero kills the Demon King or is killed by the Demon King.
As a warrior candidate, it doesn’t matter if your body is weak. After all, if you receive strength and become a warrior, you will have health that exceeds the standard. However, the problem is that it is difficult to keep one’s limbs intact until one becomes a hero.
That’s why the world granted a rare blessing.
Even though he was a weak human being, his protection was strong.
As if the world’s efforts paid off, young and weak humans eventually survived on the battlefield. And the moment the next hero died at the hands of the Demon King, the world immediately nominated that person as a candidate.
He was not born as a warrior right away. Physical modifications must be carried out to make it easier for him to accept the hero’s power, and above all, he does not yet have a ‘desire for revenge against the devil’.
To the world, one human life is literally just a moment.
It was no problem to wait until humans learned the truth and harbored a desire for revenge.
And now.
When Deonhardt listened to the Duke’s words and branded the Demon King as a target for revenge, and the moment his next thought turned into a decision, the world shook with joy.
If things really go according to his decision, what he has longed for ever since the world was born will come true.
[All preparations were finally completed.]
It was the birth of a brilliant warrior.
***
When the former warrior died, he tried to hand over his power to me. Even though I knew it was impossible, I foolishly tried to pour in my strength and ended up dying.
The power infused by the hero passed through this body leisurely and spread to the world. It was truly unfortunate and despairing that no remnants of him remained in my body.
…I thought so.
– They say that someone’s strong will sometimes goes against the will of the world. I think I am the proof.
The warrior spoke in a black world where there was nothing.
My will to save you became a flame and settled inside you. The person you face now is part of that will and body.
The warrior’s power did not remain in Deonhardt’s body, but it seemed to leave a trace elsewhere. And looking at what I am facing now, I can see that it has also had an impact.
– I unintentionally saw your past and watched everything that happened afterward. Oh, all I can see is the situation; I have no way of knowing what you were thinking or feeling at the time, so you can rest assured.
I don’t feel safe at all.
The warrior showed signs of being uncomfortable, but perhaps because he was influenced by me, he shamelessly pretended not to notice, unlike the person I knew.
– He lived a life that I cannot dare to put into words. I thought that maybe my wish for you to live was too selfish.
Selfishness is right.
There is a past that can be forgotten and overlooked, and there is a past that cannot be overlooked. The past I have is the latter.
My past affects my present, strangling me and controlling me like a puppet by strings, so there is no way for me to be happy in this life. It would be better to die early.
Oh, I guess he’s already dead since he got hit directly by the explosion.
– You will live. Because the world has chosen you to be a warrior.
…what?
