First, Del burst out laughing.
“haha…….”
“Ahaha….”
And when he saw Elena Sebes smiling at him with an embarrassed face, he couldn’t even help but laugh.
“What are you doing?”
“Ah… it’s nothing.”
As she lifted herself up on her thighs, Elena Seves tried to appeal her helplessness, as she always did.
But at this point, the situation was clearly visible to Del.
The child of God seemed to have a crush on that woman who smelled like the devil, and from some point on, he always kept her by his side.
Even in this desperate moment, he seemed to have overestimated this woman’s abilities.
They probably used this small, harmless-looking girl as a watchman.
His role is to hide here and run away carefully when someone comes and inform Klaus about the intruder.
‘It looks like the plan is to use the power of the demons to greatly reduce the time it takes to bring Klaus Ertikef here.’
As if to support Del’s guess, Elena was wearing comfortable pants instead of the usual baggy dress, and her hair was tied up tightly.
However, despite all the preparation, I made the mistake of falling over because I was nervous at the last moment.
“hey.”
Perplexity appeared on Elena’s face when she saw Del taking a step toward her.
“Well, can you just pretend not to see it?”
“Young lady? Why me?”
“Then I’ll pretend I didn’t see it….”
“Well? Is there any particular reason for you to pretend not to see me?”
“Ah!”
Elena bit her tongue in embarrassment again.
Looking at her, Del clicked his tongue in his heart.
‘You’re like a stupid demon’s liaison.’
Her remarks just now were nothing short of proof of the fact that she had taken on the role of gatekeeper protecting this place.
If Elena Seves happened to be passing by here, instead of proposing such a trivial deal, her reaction would have been to reunite with the missing ‘Duke Brudel’.
Either way, I would have killed him.
“Well, can you just let me go?”
Elena must have sensed Del’s murderous intent and asked again with a nervous expression.
“Give me a reason.”
“I don’t have any special abilities. I’m completely incompetent, so you can let me go.”
“With that being said, I guess you are thinking of summoning Klaus Ertikev.”
“Ugh.”
Elena could not hide her reaction that her true thoughts had been read once again.
Her expression slowly cracked.
‘Pathetic.’
Del felt that even the tension he had maintained was disappearing.
His last enemy was only this stupid woman.
It seemed like he was bragging about having luckily come into contact with a demon and gained some of their power.
It seems that he showed that power to the child of God and led him to the side of the demons.
‘It worked out better.’
In the end, God’s Child was one of the worlds that Del would destroy.
It was a shame that they couldn’t attract the child of God to their side, but since the person who colluded with them was such a stupid woman, it was obvious who would win.
‘Let’s kill him quickly.’
Dell made up his mind.
In order to eliminate any remaining variables, it was necessary to prevent that woman from coming into contact with God’s child.
Thinking like that, Del approached Elena with long strides.
‘You’re more hasty than I thought.’
I thought as I looked at Del walking towards me triumphantly.
Del, who was nervous, seemed to completely believe that my foolish acting was sincere.
‘Is this the image I’ve built up so far?’
Probably not.
I shook off the ominous feeling that suddenly arose and focused on the fight with Del again.
My mission was twofold.
Among them, the priority was to avoid being caught by Dell and to prolong this standoff.
‘You can’t just avoid it.’
I had to keep talking to Del so that he wouldn’t notice that time was passing, and at the same time, I had to look easy enough that he wouldn’t do everything in his power to kill me.
If Del kills me before Klaus comes, or leaves me alone and retrieves the Sword of Radiance from the Source of the World, things will go wrong.
‘As expected, Klaus was meticulous.’
Even though the brooch must have conveyed my pain, Klaus didn’t come right away.
As he said, it seemed like Del had set up some sort of barrier to prevent movement-related magic from being used throughout this space.
Witnessing what he feared had happened made me more nervous, but I consciously relaxed my body.
In order to keep Del from finding out about her plan, she had to remain as stupid Elena Sebes.
“There, there.”
“Is there anything last you want to say?”
“Is it because there was a misunderstanding?”
“misunderstanding?”
“I really don’t like you anymore, Duke.”
“Now you’re bringing up such an old story?”
Del laughed as if he was dumbfounded.
“I probably already told you that I discovered your identity.”
“Well, it’s true that I met a demon. It’s not like that.”
“What is that?”
“Well, I haven’t heard that the Duke is actually an archangel or anything like that.”
I spoke very urgently.
Like very, very stupid villains accidentally spilling words.
And then he hurriedly covered his mouth with a shaking gaze.
I’ve been doing it like I was breathing since I fell into this world, and after meeting Klaus and receiving one-point lessons, my acting shined brighter than ever.
“I heard everything.”
“that that…….”
I pretended to take a step back as if I was embarrassed, and gradually moved away from the cave leading to the source.
Del, who thought of me like a rat in a poison, leisurely chased after me with an expression that said he could kill me with a single blow at any time.
He tried to look at me more easily.
“Yeah, that’s right! I heard the story! They said you were trying to destroy the world! You bad man!”
“It’s not?”
“Oh, isn’t it?”
“I am a being who stands against the demons who want to destroy the world. Those demons you made a contract with.”
“Yes…? But the demons clearly said that you were trying to destroy the world… They said that God gave them back time…”
Pretending to be confused, pretending to be an innocent girl who doesn’t know anything.
‘As I’m talking like this, I remember the first time I met Duke Brudel.’
There was a world of difference in mindset between then and now.
I tried to come up with something that would interest Dell and make him react, but luckily he didn’t get suspicious yet.
“Did you believe that? That….”
“Well, that’s….”
“Did you think the demons were on the human side in the first place? The empire became more chaotic because of you. It’s because you joined hands with the demons.”
Del said that with a very dramatic expression.
It was a statement that blamed me for my stupidity and at the same time stimulated my guilt.
It was clear that he wanted me to suffer psychologically, even though he was planning to kill me anyway.
‘Your personality is really dirty.’
People said that Klaus had a bad personality, but when he met a guy with a really bad personality, Klaus was like a fairy.
Moreover, he has the acting ability to not even blink an eye while lying like that.
‘Actually, isn’t this guy the one with the most talent as an actor?’
As I was thinking meaningless thoughts and taking a step back, I felt a tree touch my back.
Although it was an intended route, it seemed to Dell that it had simply ended up in a dead end.
“It’s time to end it.”
“Say, please save me.”
“Do you feel like asking for your life after turning the world into such a hell, Elena Seves?”
“It’s a lie, it’s a lie!”
I shouted out loud and caught my breath.
Dell still seemed relaxed.
It’s really that they don’t pay attention to me to the point where it’s so severe.
“Oh yeah.”
Del nodded, smiling leisurely.
“Actually, I was trying to destroy the world.”
He even seemed to think that the last moment was approaching, so he even revealed the truth to me.
However, fighting is something you must not let down your guard until the very last moment.
‘It’s like that in all novels.’
I focused on acting with my heart pounding.
I was quite familiar with this level of acting, having done it several times when dealing with Klaus.
“As expected, you… why on earth did you want to do something like that!”
“If you’re here, should I tell you a story?”
Del smiled faintly.
“A world where demons stand above the Elyos is fundamentally wrong.”
A golden glow appeared in his black eyes.
It could be said that it was the look in the eyes of a madman.
“The gods of this world wouldn’t think so.”
“Yes. God turned back time.”
“is it so!”
“Did you know? Well, I noticed that something had changed when that immature woman was right next to God’s child.”
lie.
‘You didn’t notice and you accused me of being a stalker.’
But Del was now very drunk on his own words.
“Yes. God turned back time. What was it like?”
“…….”
“I wondered what would have happened when God used the last remaining link to turn back time, but it doesn’t really matter now. No, it’s actually a good thing. That damn hourglass’s influence would have become weaker.”
“A terrible human being. You are the one who lured my sister away.”
“I just made a contract. It’s the same thing you and the demons did.”
“Bad people.”
“In a world that will disappear anyway, what can we use for good and evil?”
done.
I added an appropriate amount of humor and let Del get drunk on his arrogance.
To buy time for Klaus to get here in time.
However, this gradually reached its limit.
“It’s a long story.”
Del clicked his tongue lightly.
“Let’s see the end soon.”
Instead of the sword of brilliance, an ordinary sword was in Del’s hand.
Del struck down his raised sword with force at me, who was shivering as if he had nowhere to go.
And I am.
Herta-style evasion technique No. 39 was activated.
