chapter 286
286 – Scene 286# Decision
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Tristan, who was watching Milliam’s shocking past of hers, vomited blood and collapsed. He was in pain, squeezing his chest.
“Count!”
It was the moment when Wendy was about to run to him to do something.
Excited.
“Wow?! Oh, an earthquake?!”
Suddenly, her floor shook and Wendy fell on the spot.
The surroundings darkened and then brightened repeatedly with the ground shaking. Milliam, Aidan, and Aslan’s crew had all but disappeared.
Excited.
The space shook as if it would break at any moment, accompanied by a sound as if my heart was pounding.
Wendy had a vague guess.
Something big is going to happen here and now. And that big things are never good things.
Wendy looked at Tristan, who was lying down.
A black aura was rising from his unconscious body. It was so ominous and gloomy that it writhed as if it would devour him.
But why?
Wendy remembered seeing that eerie black aura before.
“Well, that…”
“It is the magic power of the ‘devil.'”
“Hi?!”
When she noticed, an elderly man was standing in front of her.
“W-Who are you!? How do we get here…”
“Step back.”
The old man’s amber eyes stared down at her, warning her sternly. Wearing a pure white robe and rubbing his beard that reached down to the nape of his neck as a habit, he gave off the air of a master who had somehow realized the principles of the world.
“It is dangerous to get close to the Count. “Disciple.”
“That voice… Seriously, Master? Are you a teacher?!”
“Okay. “The situation is the same, so I can’t stay still.”
Myohail stared at Tristan, who was lying down with a serious expression. That was the true appearance of the sage Myohail, who turned his back on the world and secluded himself.
But there was no time for surprise. It also meant that the situation was so bad that Myohail showed his true face.
“I guess it ended up being the worst. Even the devil is in trouble, and even the devil is waking up…”
“Yes?! What do you mean by that?”
“That’s literally it. The Count has now awakened into the Demon King. And as luck would have it, the devil inside his body woke up.”
“The devil?! And oh, the devil?!”
Some scary words came out of Myohail’s mouth, but Wendy couldn’t follow them. Seeing her like that, Miohail cleared his throat.
“Hmm… I can’t help it. The Count asked to keep it a secret…”
Myohail revealed what he had been watching from behind. From Tristan’s decision to become the Demon King to his self-created play his in the guise of the mysterious Demon, Trinity …
When Wendy heard that fact, she sat down and covered her mouth.
“Oh my god… Bae, the Count has become the Demon King… ?”
Even Wendy knows how dangerous the meaning of being a demon lord is.
A being who leads the world to destruction and an enemy of all humans.
That’s why she couldn’t help but wonder.
“Uh, why? Why does the Count want to become the Demon King? .”
“It’s probably to protect you.”
“Yes?”
When she saw Wendy’s pale face, she opened her mouth as if she was having a hard time.
“Wendy. Since you have received God’s attention, there is a high possibility that you will become a hero in this generation. If that happens, you will have no choice but to fight the devil.”
It certainly was.
Shin, who appeared with sleepy eyes, was encouraged by Lili to become a warrior and even received her sponsorship coin.
“B-But if the Count becomes the Demon King, he will have no choice but to fight me… ! I-I can’t fight the Count… !”
“It’s the same for the Count.”
“Yes?”
“I think the Count wants to become the Demon King so that he doesn’t have to fight with you. There can be no other reason than that.”
He becomes a demon lord so that he doesn’t fight her? To Wendy, who couldn’t understand the contradictory words, she quietly explained what she was doing.
“If someone else becomes the Demon Lord, you will have no choice but to fight. However, if the Count becomes the Demon King, he will not want to fight you. In other words… He thought that becoming the devil himself was the only way for you, Wendy, to avoid getting caught in a fight.”
“!”
Only then did Wendy understand Myohail’s words and looked at Tristan, who was lying down.
“Why why… Why did you do that? Count… Sniff…”
Tears flowed freely.
She usually had weak tear ducts, but her tears were flowing now more than ever.
“Well… I, I can’t help the Count and I’m always a burden…”
Her chest felt tight and numb. Because she felt like she could sense Tristan’s kind heart and his concern for her. And I felt Tristan’s solemn determination to protect her even as he became her demon her king her her.
“Why… Bae, the Count, for me, for people like me…”
Wendy covered her face and sobbed.
In fact, when I just found out that she was a warrior, I was very scared.
Of course, it was unreasonable for her, a servant of the Countess who always made mistakes, to be the hero who would save the world from the devil.
In her mind, a warrior was someone with courage who led her comrades and fought at the forefront.
However, she was far from such leadership and courage.
I was afraid.
The absurd reality of having to fight against the devil just because one of your ancestors was a hero.
I wanted to run away.
From her pressure that only she can save the world.
‘Who… ‘ Help me…’
The day she realized she had the blood of a warrior, Wendy curled up on the sofa in her chancellor’s office and tried to cover her ears. But…
-A hero is not a convenient tool to save the world.
Tristan said so.
He was truly worried. She understood how heavy the burden was on her shoulders.
From then on, Tristan’s presence began to grow in Wendy’s heart
Although she was cynical and arrogant towards others, she was kind to herself. She secretly stroked her head and stayed by her side when she was sick. Even when she made a mistake, he did not scold her and even wiped away her tears. When she was in need, I patted her and gave her a warm hug.
When she was held in his arms, Wendy would unconsciously be caught up in the happy feeling that she had become something precious to Tristan.
And every time, Wendy had to struggle to deny that thought.
Because it didn’t make sense for Tristan, one of the most powerful and noble people in her country, to favor her because she was a poor peasant. There is no reason to spare her for her mistakes and her repeated actions.
Okay. If I were to compare her, she would be closer to Tristan’s daughter.
It must have been like that… She would have had to…
Tristan was trying to protect her until he became her demon lord.
At that fact, Wendy cried and opened her mouth.
“Well, if only I hadn’t received God’s attention… Black… The Count would not have become the Demon King…”
“No…”
But her strange thing was to shake her head.
“It is difficult to avoid fate. Even if you hadn’t done that, there would have been a high possibility that you would receive God’s attention someday.”
“… Ugh.”
“I’m sorry, disciple. “Now is not the time to cry.”
“Yes, yes… ?”
“Do you remember when you played chess with me before?”
I remembered. While Tristan entered the secret library of the General of Truth, he learned chess for a while.
When Wendy nodded her head, she continued speaking.
“When I played chess, I was wary of you using black magic. Because that was the dark magic that demons wielded.”
“Ah, devil…”
“The reason you were able to use the devil’s magic may be because you have the blood of a warrior who controls all attributes, but it may also be because you thought of the Count when making the chess pieces.”
Myohail muttered like a sigh.
“I should have noticed then. The devil sleeping in the count’s body… Perhaps that devil is the reason the Ruelberta family went crazy and the culprit of the curse. “If my guess is not wrong, going back to the Ruelberta family, there will most likely be some connection to the devil.”
“Yes?!”
At those words, Wendy looked at Tristan, who was lying down with a face that looked like he had been hit on the head.
Black magical energy continued to leak out from his body like smoke.
“Disciple, as you know, the Ruelberta family is cursed. Both Millium and the Count were born without magical powers due to the curse. He thought it was a curse that had something to do with the devil… It seems the devil was closer than I thought. That evil deed that betrayed humanity that I saw earlier was probably also influenced by him.”
“You’re too much…”
“The demonic tribes easily find a home in the corrupted and broken human heart.”
Wendy gritted her teeth without realizing it.
Killing Kyle and corrupting Milliam were all the work of the devil! The sight of Aidan smiling at Milliam in despair was clearly the devil itself. Moreover, it was scary to think that the devil was in Tristan’s body after Millium’s.
“Uh… ?”
As Wendy was feeling indignant, a question suddenly crossed her mind.
“Well, but… Master. The Count is trying to become the Demon King now… ? But why is the devil inside my body suddenly running wild… ?”
“Hmm. I don’t know, but the Count must have been using some method to suppress the devil in his body. However, as he awakened as the Demon King, a gap appeared in his heart. And… It would be correct to say that the devil in his heart was awakened, taking advantage of that opportunity. And if control is lost to that devil, it’s over. The Count’s plans may all come to naught.”
Myohail glared at the ominous magic power that enveloped Tristan with an uncharacteristically grim expression.
“That devil is the variable. If we leave it like this, the devil will become the devil.”
“Well, isn’t there some way? “Master.”
Wendy asked, feeling like she was grasping at straws. If Myohail is a wise man who has mastered the laws of the world, there must be some way.
“Okay. “Be there or not.”
As expected, Myoha nodded her head.
“One way is to seal the count here.”
“Bo, seal?!”
“Okay. This space itself is like a stepping stone for the Count to become the Demon King. Since it is cut off from the outside world, if it is sealed here, even if the devil who took over the body becomes the devil, it will never be able to escape.”
“Well, that’s not possible!”
It’s a seal. So, isn’t that why we’re breaking up forever? That could never be tolerated. However, the method Myohail proposed next was even more desperate.
“The second way is to kill him.”
“?!”
Wendy held her breath without realizing it.
“Right now, the Count is probably fighting with the devil for control of his body. If you kill him during that time, the devil in his heart will also die along with you.”
“Well, absolutely not! “I don’t like it!”
Just thinking about Tristan dying is a terrible thing.
As if anticipating Wendy’s fierce opposition, Myohail said the following method.
“And the last way… “It is a method that neither seals the count nor kills him.”
“W-what is that?!”
“But, disciple, I really need your help.”
Myohail stroked his beard with a heavy expression.
“It is very dangerous for you. Will you still do it?”
“…”
Wendy, who had repeatedly wiped away her tears, looked up at her mysterious work. And soon Myohail’s eyes widened.
“Master…”
Myohail, who found the faint face of her old love on her face, was able to anticipate the next answer.
“W-what did I…” ” ” “I can do it, right?”