Chapter 644
Ludwig’s nervousness is actually meaningless.
Ludwig’s nervousness was that he felt afraid that the demon king or some other force would approach Scarlett, and the demon king was with Scarlett at the moment Ludwig came.
When Scarlett asked for time, Ludwig only said that he could only wait a few hours.
At Scarlett’s words that she wanted to be alone, Ludwig said that he would like to take a walk and organize his thoughts until he returned, then headed somewhere.
Scarlett did not know that Ludwig had gone to the Temple College of Magic.
Ludwig, who has changed strangely from one day.
The demon lord knows the truth, but in the end doesn’t know where he’s been or what he’s been doing.
After all, Scarlett is afraid of both.
Both believed, but both were now afraid.
A dorm room that I could come back to.
“what… … . What happened?”
The cat returned to the demon king, and Scarlett asked the demon king for an explanation.
Fear was inevitable, but Scarlett needed to know how the situation worked.
The demon king carefully looks out the window.
There was a possibility that Ludwig was nearby, watching Scarlett’s movements.
After confirming that there are no hearing ears around, the demon king opens his mouth.
“Did you see the strange army during the last battle of Wallen?”
“Yes, obviously… … .”
Everyone saw the majesty of the bizarre army.
Everyone guessed to some extent that the Empire was the real force that had been hidden until now in some way.
“It’s kind of cruel to explain it properly, but that army is actually something like golems.”
“Golem… … What?”
“okay.”
Reinhardt nodded quietly.
“A golem made from corpses.”
At those words, Scarlett couldn’t help but sigh.
* * *
Just as Ludwig did not intend to give Scarlett much time, the Demon King did not have much time to explain to Scarlett.
What kind of power did the Empire touch, and who were those revived?
And who were the people in charge of the experiment?
Scarlett, who heard the whole story in such a short amount of time, couldn’t help but lose her senses.
There were so many shocking stories just by hearing one.
And the ones responsible for the experiment up until now were Cristina, Louis, and Anna, who had been talking nonchalantly.
“Ludwig recently had one of those arms transplanted.”
“Ludwig… … . Did you receive the chimera treatment?”
“Yeah, or what?”
Scarlett had nothing to say when the demon king asked if there was any magic other than the chimera procedure that could do that.
War makes too many things possible.
When she thought that Ludwig wanted to return to the battlefield to such an extent that even such magic was needed, Scarlett couldn’t help but feel like her heart was breaking.
But at the same time, doubts were bound to arise.
It is an army made of cruel and terrible things, but it is a necessary army in the end.
Since the army was created to end the war, isn’t it right that it’s a necessary force right now?
“however… … . Why is it important that I can neutralize that army… … .”
Before concluding, Scarlett naturally had no choice but to realize.
After the Gate Crisis.
The Demon King is talking about the next thing.
Someone might try to use him, Ludwig said.
“After the Gate Crisis… … . Do you want me to get rid of that army… … ?”
It is the most powerful force in human history as well as the strongest power in history.
Scarlett can incapacitate the army with her own abilities.
Just as the golem was suddenly turned into scrap metal, if the same thing were done to that army, the strongest military force in history would be easily neutralized.
“okay.”
The Demon King nodded.
“Ludwig is right.”
As if he had no intention of denying it, the demon king said.
“Ludwig really came back to protect you, and I intend to use you.”
Excuses and self-justification are meaningless.
No matter how suspicious it may seem, Ludwig’s words about protecting Scarlett are true.
No matter how well it is packaged, it is the reality of the demon king that he has to use Scarlett.
Ludwig hurriedly returned to the temple to protect Scarlett from the devil’s clutches, and the devil arrived sooner than that to take advantage of Scarlett.
Scarlett couldn’t help but tremble at the words of the demon king who calmly acknowledged everything.
“please… … . Do I have to fight?”
“… … .”
“It doesn’t have to be that way. you are… … . You didn’t want this. You’re not the kind of person who wants something like this.”
“… … .”
“Too many people were killed and injured in the gate crisis alone, and as soon as it was over. No, do I have to think about the next fight from now on, even before it’s over?”
Scarlett’s despairing Toroe Demon King was quietly leaning her back against the wall.
“Okay, maybe you don’t have to fight. Who knows.”
“Then, after everything is over, wouldn’t it be enough just to live in each other’s places? The army, after all… … . There is no meaning without a fight.”
“I guess so. clearly.”
No matter how powerful an army is, it is meaningless outside of the battlefield.
In this vast land, where many people have died and left most of the land empty, shouldn’t each person just live in their own place?
That alone would be daunting, so why bother preparing for the next fight as soon as the fight is over? Scarlett didn’t know.
“Things are very different from before.”
“It’s different… … yo. this?”
“You don’t know what the situation in the imperial city is like, do you? The allied forces will not know more.”
Scarlett has been away from the ecliptic for a long time, so she doesn’t know how the ecliptic works.
Even the mood of the allied forces, of course, is unknown. Scarlett isn’t in a position to decide that.
“I have come too far to stop. We’ve done too much to pretend that nothing happened and let’s live on our own in each other’s place.”
It’s not like a toy that can put everything back to its original state after you’ve played enough.
The world is too big to play with.
That’s why things that move remain the same.
You can’t invalidate everything.
“I don’t know. Maybe this time, I’ll end up in bigger trouble because of what I’ve done. It could be.”
As if all the actions taken to prevent the gate incident ended up completing the gate incident. There may be a similar ending this time.
But at least Scarlett knows that these things that have happened to the world are not the devil’s conspiracy.
This is not the devil’s conspiracy, but the devil’s failure.
Even after experiencing that miserable failure, the Demon King once again built something.
“It may be a selfish act. My act of doing something again after failing once may seem disgusting to someone, and it may be unforgivable. And there are people like that.”
“… … .”
“But I’ve come too far to stop. I don’t know what kind of ending this work I’m doing will really end, but to stop as it is. Acting like nothing happened would be the biggest mistake and mistake I could ever make.”
If you didn’t want to do it, you shouldn’t have done anything.
I don’t know if you haven’t even started, but if you start something, you have to go to the end.
The moment you give up in the middle, everything you built collapses.
Even the Demon King does not know the complete answer.
However, the Demon King knows only the perfect wrong answer.
Now that it has swallowed up half of the ecliptic and half of the allied forces.
To run away from everything, pretending that nothing happened.
That is the perfect answer.
“I won’t deny that helping me is a very risky choice. And, I’m not going to tell you that helping me was the right choice. Actually, I could be wrong.”
“… … .”
“I don’t know the answer either. And I know that people who want to kill me have their own legitimate reasons, and I have no excuses for their anger at me. Anyway, everything happened because of me.”
Even those who want to kill the demon king have their own reasons, and no one can deny that reason.
However, the demon king has a path he wants to go.
You’ve come too far to turn around.
Going the way you need to go now, going that way more safely, and going sure.
There is just such a reality that all other options are out of the question.
“Scarlett.”
“… … .”
“Help me.”
The demon king looks at the red-haired girl.
“I need you.”
It was too short, but Scarlett had never heard of a greater sincerity in her life.
Scarlett stared at the demon king with a firm look.
no.
I look at Reinhardt.
Memories from long ago pass by.
Memories that seemed to have been forgotten in war and countless deaths.
However, the memory that was hidden somewhere in the heart was clearly coming back.
Devil.
Reinhardt was a strange guy.
Even though he is the bottom stone of Class A, he was criticized for his ability to be inferior to Class B, but he always suffered from accidents.
Rumors circulated that he was a bit of an oddball, not only in Class A, but also in Class B.
A guy you can’t seem to get along with.
Reinhardt was clearly a guy who listened to such reviews.
But to Scarlett, Reinhardt was a strange guy in a slightly different sense.
One day.
‘What about the red one?’
When he saw himself being bullied by Erhi de Lafaeri, he said that out of the blue.
The strong man is said to be the best.
Was it after winning the duel with the senior?
After winning what must have been a reckless battle through a strange miracle, Reinhardt said so.
actually.
At that point, Scarlett was more afraid of Reinhardt than Erhi.
There wasn’t much involved.
However, Scarlett always looked at Reinhardt from a distance.
I wish I could be like that too.
I wish I had that kind of courage.
Scarlett, who was living in a huddle because she was afraid of being kicked out of the temple, was a person who shocked Reinhardt in many ways.
Suddenly.
When I came to my senses, I was always watching Reinhardt.
I want to be like that.
That’s how I made Reinhardt the idol in my heart.
like that.
Looking back on the past, other memories naturally came to mind.
As the memory of that time came to mind, Scarlett couldn’t help but smile even in this situation.
No, rather, I couldn’t help but laugh at myself for thinking that way in this situation.
“Do you remember the tournament?”
“uh… … . suddenly?”
The Demon King nodded with a bewildered expression at Scarlett’s question.
“… … I don’t remember.”
It was the moment Scarlett, who had no contact with her, said you were her idol, so Reinhardt couldn’t help but remember that time.
These are the times and events of the past that have been buried in so many deaths and sorrows.
However, it became a rather precious time because it was nothing.
Because the days when everything was peaceful and there were no problems will no longer come back.
“I said it then. Some people hate you, some people like you.”
“It did… … . You said that, you.”
Many people hated Reinhardt because of his eccentric temper.
But even then, strangely, there were people who did not hate Reinhardt.
Even if it wasn’t Ellen and Harriet, there were quite a few people who were friendly with Reinhardt.
There were a lot of people who hated it, but there were definitely people who liked it.
Why do you like a guy like that, why do you hang out with a guy like that.
There were a lot of people who said things like that.
Seeing that, Scarlett realized.
“Looking at you, I realized that just like you can’t make everyone like you, you can’t make everyone hate you.”
“okay… … . You said that.”
Scarlett realized in that thought.
If it is impossible to be loved by everyone, it is also impossible to be hated by everyone.
“Oddly enough, a lot has changed… … . Too many things have changed… … .”
Scarlett looks at Reinhardt.
The existence that has now been called the Demon King.
“You are still in that situation.”
Like the time when someone hated Reinhardt, but someone liked Reinhardt.
The same goes for the Demon King.
Some people hate the demon king to the point of wanting to kill him, but some people can’t hate the demon king.
Or, someone will still love the Demon King.
The scale has only grown from the temple to the world.
“… … Is that how it is?”
As if he knew what he was talking about, the demon king smiled bitterly.
In that past Temple, Scarlett was the one who liked Reinhardt.
It was different from the others in that he liked it not as a member of the opposite sex, but out of respect.
Reinhardt, who was once an idol, has now become a demon king who dares even mention his name.
No, he was the Demon King from the beginning.
Such an existence transcended a long time to find itself.
And I sincerely beg you.
ask for help
i need you
What to do.
The Demon King had his own circumstances. The demon king who said he didn’t want something like this, and those who know the circumstances, who the hell can say that the demon king must stand on the blade of judgment?
But what about the opposite?
Then how could the cries of those who say that the demon king must die be unreasonable?
There is a right to be justified, but there is also a right to die.
The Demon King is a contradictory being.
Just like the devil has his own reasons.
Those who wish for the death and destruction of the demon king also have their own reasons.
If everyone is just and everyone has their own reasons, what should you choose?
“I am… … .”
Scarlett quietly opened her mouth at the crossroads of her choice.
