Princess Reutrina, the one in charge of the ‘head’ portion of the people who were referred in six parts, received a letter from her comrade Kabal. A few minutes ago, she brought Riley, a guest who she gave the infirmary for him to rest as a patient, to her room by dragging him.
“Now.”
The otherworldly power that she possessed was reading the other’s thoughts and memories and controlling them. She dragged Riley here to use her ability.
“Young Master, show me your memories.”
She placed her fingers on Riley like a snake. She then exuded purple light from her finger and started to touch Riley’s forehead.
“… Let’s see.”
Using her ability, Reutrina started to dig into Riley’s memories, which were tightly hidden away in fogs. Reutrina furrowed her eyebrows after witnessing the very first sight.
‘What’s this?’
Going past the fogs, what Reutrina saw in Riley’s memories was a place that was drenched in red blood and leaked of blood. If anyone asked where it was…
‘A Holy Temple?’
It looked like a church or a holy temple.
‘Why does it leak of blood here?’
Reutrina had smelled blood many times in the past, but it was the first for even her to smell this kind of blood. It was that strange. She tilted her head to the side and wondered, but then she saw the back of someone who looked familiar.
‘… This man is?’
The smell of blood was coming from that man.
‘Young Master Riley?’
He was wielding a brilliant and majestic sword, but even the sword had the strange blood on it. One thing interesting about it was that the blood color was not red. It was purple.
“Your eyes look as if you are about to die at any moment. How could you have come all there way here, standing before me? I really… cannot understand this.”
Having heard the voice coming from somewhere in front of Riley, Reutrina, who was watching the memory in hiding, turned her gaze to the front of Riley.
‘That is?’
In front of Reutrina, in front of Riley to be precise, the being had red skin although he was not bleeding. The being had a palm sized black horn on his head.
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Having heard the man with the horn, the man who appeared to be Riley shook his head and responded in a low voice.
He looked exhausted.
His voice was so weak that the one who just said ‘That sure is’ would not have looked odd if he just collapsed right now.
“You may be a Brave Hero who were born with blessing, but… Still, you are just a human. Nothing would look out of the ordinary if you died right now.”
“Instead of a blessing, it is probably a curse.”
“Curse. Certainly, you do have many curses cast on you, but they should only pale in comparison to the blessings you have?”
The man with the horn called Riley a Brave Hero. Riley, with bitter look on his face, muttered,
“Hu… A Demon Lord is being concerned for a Brave Hero? You sure are something. This is unbelievable. The fact that a Demon Lord is kinder than Priestess… I don’t know who I should bring this up to.”
Riley called the man ‘Demon Lord.’ The Demon Lord’s lips crumpled.
“Did you say… I am kind?”
“Ahah…. If I knew this sooner, I would have acted from being on your side instead. There won’t have been anyone trying to trip me over, and I won’t have had to worry about people’s opinions either.”
Riley roughly wiped the blood stained sword on his pants to clean it. The Demon Lord extended his hand toward Riley and made a proposal.
“In that case, even if it is from this moment and forward, how about standing on my side?”
“No.”
Riley had a bitter smile on his face. He said,
“The bastard called God always does things as one pleases. The God is selfish too.”
He was refusing the proposal.
‘Just what is this? Brave Hero? Demon Lord?’
They mentioned Brave Hero and Demon Lord. The conversation was incomprehensible for Reutrina. She stood there like an invisible woman. It was around the time when she furrowed her brows. Riley aimed his sword to the front.
“I don’t want to drag this out any further, so… Regardless of who wins, I think it would be best to finish this soon.”
The sword that Riley aimed to the front was engulfed in steady light. The Demon Lord, who had his arms crossed on his chest until this moment, lowered them and started to look at Riley.
“… Before that.”
To be precise, the Demon Lord was starting to look at the invisible woman who was standing behind Riley.
‘…?!’
The Demon Lord was looking at her with violent look on his eyes. Reutrina, who was standing there idly until now, flinched her shoulders.
“There is a kitty cat there watching us in hiding.”
The man’s eyes started to overflow with purple light. Reutrina, who had the same purple glow in her eyes, muttered in disbelief,
‘Y… You are?’