The Only Ending for the Evil Count Pig Is Destruction

273 – Scene 273# Temptation

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The extermination zone is known as the land of death due to its murderous cold that freezes even the lungs. It’s hard to imagine what it looks like now, with nothing but snow and ice, but it was once a good land to live in and even had a kingdom.

The story about that kingdom was first mentioned in the original work through the song of a wandering bard.

To summarize the song, it is as follows.

Once upon a time, there lived a good princess in a kingdom. One day, the princess, who monopolized the beauty of the king and queen, suddenly falls ill with an unknown illness.

The kingdom’s healers did their best to treat the princess, but her condition improved day by day.

In the end, the king spends a lot of money to summon a southern wizard who is said to be able to cure all the diseases in the world.

However, the southern wizard had no intention of treating the princess. His purpose is to use the princess as a living sacrifice to summon her demon. And he intended to rule the kingdom through the devil.

The person who stopped such a wizard was none other than the princess’s knight. A short story about a knight who sensed a wizard’s evil plan, executed him, and succeeded in preventing the summoning of a demon, thereby saving the kingdom.

The story behind this story, which at first glance sounds like a heartwarming fairy tale, is actually depressing.

To conclude, the princess’s knight failed to save the kingdom.

The wizard is dead, but the dark magic he created to summon demons has begun to affect the entire country. All people exposed to the magic went crazy. In the madness, the king, queen, subjects, and even citizens end up killing each other.

Their bodies soon became undead, and the spirit of death swept over the entire kingdom. The once prosperous land of the kingdom begins to freeze as if it has been cursed. It turns into a land where not even a single living thing can survive. That is the extinction zone we know.

In this story, the princess’s knight who stopped the southern wizard is, of course, Aaron. He also became undead due to this incident and became a ghost wandering the extinction zone.

Arisa, the snow princess served by Aaron, is a being who can only live in cold areas such as the Extermination Zone or Northern Garden. Aaron has a grand plan to make her the next Demon King and freeze her her human world her her her her.

In the original work, it was a plan that almost succeeded, but was failed by the protagonist.

Even though there is no main character to stop it now, there is me instead. As long as I exist, Aaron’s plan will never come true.

Aaron was ultimately defeated by the combined attack of me and Bella.

In particular, Bella’s blow containing the magic of light was enough to fatally wound the undead Aaron.

-I am… I can’t die here.

He suppressed his anger and turned his horse to retreat.

I tried to chase him down as he was running away, but I had no choice but to give up due to the blizzard he caused and the army of skeletons he summoned as his last struggle.

At the last moment, Aaron came out with his hideous features showing half of his bones and glared at Bella. The madness in those eyes was unusual. Are you sure you want to remember it?

If today’s fight was phase 1, next time it will be phase 2.

Aaron was a strong enemy.

Of all the people I’ve faced so far, he was the first to feel this much of a wall.

I also clearly felt the limits of ‘jealousy’. It is impossible to imitate something that surpasses the original. No matter how ‘jealous’ you are of Aaron’s swordsmanship, you cannot surpass him with that.

If Bella hadn’t been there, it would have been quite a classic… No, she might not have been able to win.

After confirming that the snowstorm had completely cleared, Bella finally sheathed her sword.

It was already time for the sun to rise, and the dark sky began to take on a bluish glow.

“I missed it in the end.”

“Hmm.”

Bella stroked the side of his head. Her silver hair slowly fluttered in the dawn wind.

“… Why are you staring at me like that?”

“… Not really.”

“Huh? Then why are you looking like you have a crush on me?”

For a moment, I wondered if I really made that expression, but that would never be the case. It’s already been a few months since I’ve been with Tristan, and facial expression management is the most basic of basics.

“I’ve never made that kind of expression.”

“Well, you don’t know. “There’s an expression that only I know.”

“Only you know?”

“Yes. “Your face just looks like you’re in love with me.”

“Unforced…”

“Hehe… It’s cute. I did appear rather cool. So you thought you would fall in love?”

“No.”

I frowned and shook my head.

It looks like she’s so happy that she saved me that she wants to show it.

It is true that she was actually able to come and defeat Aaron. So, I don’t feel like it, but…

“But it was helpful.”

“… Yes? Now… “What did you say?”

“They said it was helpful.”

“…”

Bella hesitated for a moment and then cleared her throat.

“Keuhumhum! Also, I’m glad it was helpful!”

Did I say thank you for no reason? It was obvious that Bella felt awkward, perhaps because she was so unfamiliar.

Even I felt awkward, so I quickly decided to change the conversation.

“So… “Are you hurt anywhere?”

“Oh, well. Maybe… I don’t think there is one…”

I looked at Bella closely. Then I noticed a faint scratch on her cheek.

Did he get grazed by Aaron’s great sword?

I gently placed my hand on her cheek. Then Bella started and tried to take a step back.

“Now, wait a minute?!”

“… “Just stay still for a moment.”

I grabbed Bella’s wrist and pulled her to keep her from running away. I needed to confirm whether treatment was necessary or not. But maybe because it was early morning, I had to look really closely to find out.

I brought her face closer to check the scratches on her cheeks. OK…

“…”

Bella gently closed her eyes to see what was happening.

Her eyelashes and lips she were trembling, perhaps because she was nervous. Her wrists, which had been very strong, began to lose strength. It’s as if she’s leaving everything to me from now on.

Thanks to Bella’s calm cooperation, I was able to realize that the scratch on her cheek was just a blush.

I’m so glad. It hurts for no reason if her face gets hurt.

Oh, now that I think about it, there was someone who suffered worse injuries than Bella.

“Patrick. Are you okay?”

“?!”

Only then did Bella open her eyes and find Patrick nearby.

“Oh, yes. It’s okay.”

“Lose, Patrick?! Uh, how long have you been there?”

“It has been here even before the princess came.”

Bella’s expression her her her worsened at those words.

“Is it so? “I had no idea.”

“She was injured and was hiding in the snow.”

“I see. Hey Patrick. Just now…”

“It’s okay. I don’t care at all. Cluck cluck… By the way, Count.”

“What is it?”

Patrick, who was in scars, spoke to me with a somewhat bitter expression.

“At last… “You won.”

“Okay.”

“I can’t win anything.”

“What?”

“No. I just did some lamenting. However… That…”

Patrick scratched his cheek and mumbled.

“I don’t know anything else, but really… You seem to be good at seducing people unintentionally…”

“You weren’t tempted?!”

For some reason, Bella joined in, her face turning bright red.

*

After Aaron was defeated.

In fact, the hegemony of the Demon Forest was mine. The tribes that Aaron led each lost their strength and were scattered, and some came under me voluntarily.

It will take a few more days to deal with the remnants of Aaron’s followers and take over the entire vast forest of demons, but it will be much easier than before.

The black earth people and the annihilation maids expanded their territory day and night to encompass various races. Also, the races that have come under your control are expanding their power, so there will be no need to worry about the Magic Forest anymore.

What I’m worried about now is how Aaron will turn out. Once he recovered from his injuries, he would immediately launch a counterattack, so preparations were needed for both the Demons and the Imperial Army.

Aaron is a man with strong tenacity. He plans not to give up until his death. Until he turns Arisa, whom he serves, into a demon lord, he will continue to target us.

Now that it’s like this, there are only two options for me.

All I can do is just kill Aaron and Arisa, or I can become the Demon King first and serve over their heads.

If possible, I would like to choose the latter.

No matter how bad a character is, it is difficult to kill them carelessly, and more than anything, they are potential allies.

The problem is that I haven’t yet found the final clue to becoming the devil.

There are three conditions to become a demon king.

Receiving the support of many demons, the consent of the highest-ranking demons, and finally, being recognized by Lucaella, the god of hell.

The support of the demons was no different from the solution, and the consent of the highest-ranking demons was also not difficult. However, it is very difficult to get recognition from Lucaella.

Lucaella acknowledged me but did not acknowledge me yet.

Tristan’s her past her her and her being a descendant of the devil are definitely her her plus points her her, but she is not enough to be recognized for that alone.

Perhaps Lucaella’s hint to find her despair is the answer. In other words, if I don’t find my despair, I won’t be recognized by Lucaela.

‘That’s right…’

I patted my chin in the carriage and thought for a moment. How long was it like that? A voice was heard outside the carriage.

“Count.”

“Come in.”

Squeak.

“I’m sorry for disturbing you while you were resting.”

The one who opened the door and appeared was the escort knight, Helga.

For some reason, as soon as I see her face, I feel like her, her energy, her, her is gone.

“… Never mind. If you said you were more sorry than that, at least pretend to be sorry.”

“Oh my. What pitiful words are you saying? “I am truly sorry.”

With that face?

Helga was looking at me with a sinister smile on her face. Anyone can see that this is far from being sorry. Since she had poor acting skills, she had Blanche act instead.

“… So, get to the point. What’s going on?”

“Ah, it’s no different…”

She said as Helga looked at the pointed castle tower behind her.

“They say preparations were made to enter the Margrave’s castle a while ago.”