Volume 8 Chapter 3 Part 5
Fiancée of the Wizard
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Translation by Goma
Editing by Team Foxsunes
「I hypnotized a few of the priests and holy knights who were binding the magician. I had wondered what they would be like, since they belonged to the main church, but they weren’t much. They were almost as easily hypnotized as an infant once I kissed them a little. They should have weakened the magician’s constraint without letting the surrounding know」
The demon laughed proudly, while I fell silent and simply froze. She then placed her long sharp claws on her lips.
「Besides, I did not just bring you to lure the magician. You have a much more precious and important role. You better be grateful」
Silently, I eyed her as if to ask, what do you mean? The demon deepened her smile once more, then lowered her arms she had been resting on the armrest. Then she silently stood up from the chair. She crossed her thin arms in front of her chest, and stated with a clear tune like a singing aria.
「My beloved master is gone. That is why I am going to create my master……the demon lord with my own hands」
「Create……? 」
「Ah, yes. Do you know what this is? 」
The demon took out something from the cleavage of her busty breasts. It fit within her palm. It was almost like a shard that was originally part of a sphere. Its darkness resembled an abyss, and it did not mirror or reflect the surrounding magical fire’s light. It seemed to swallow all kinds of light.
I should not be looking at this. This was something I must not see. My instincts warned me. Yet, I could not help but look at it. This might be what they call evil’s lure.
The demon gazed at me with a satisfied look at how I was wordlessly stared intently at the thing. Then the demon lovingly caressed the dark thing.
「This is a shard of my beloved master’s core. The only noble inheritance he left for me. Hehe, no matter how many times I look at it, it is still so beautiful」
The demon lord’s core. The moment I understood this, I felt as if my whole body’s hair stood on end.
I had seen the demon lord’s core before. It was when the Celves was cursed. Agedilus had destroyed the demon whom Celves made a contract with. The only thing left was the object known as the demon’s core. It was a reddish-black octahedron. Even without being trained, I could tell that the octahedron I had seen and the object the demon was now holding were similar in some ways and different in other ways. The object that the demon called the demon lord’s core was only a shard. Yet, it seemed to have wielded so much power that comparing it with the lower-ranking demon’s core was impertinent.
The demon gently rubbed the surface of the object without any reluctance. Then, she tilted her head.
「Now, what do you think I will do with this? 」
Although she asked me a question, it seemed that she did not want an answer from me from the start. Before I could open my mouth, the demon chuckled and raised the shard of the demon lord’s core up high.
「I am going to make the magician absorb this noble inheritance. In this way, using the magician’s body as a vessel, the new demon lord would be born. Isn’t it splendid, right? 」
My throat creaked. A chill ran down my spine. What did she mean, splendid? My whole body turned white. It, it was ridiculous. I finally completely comprehended the reason, the meaning of why she targeted the man. The second demon lord. Such a phrase popped up in the back of my mind.
「The magician has enough magical powers to supplement my master’s broken core. Moreover, fortunately, he has good looks for a human. And most importantly」
The demon sniggered in a seductive and evil manner.
「If that magician becomes my new beloved demon lord, wouldn’t it be the best revenge against humanity? 」
「……Don’t you understand that revenge bears nothing? 」
Although I was the one that had said so, my cliché line incomparably lacked in persuasiveness. Anyone would know that revenge would not bear anything. However, revenge was something that nobody could resist doing.
It seemed that the demon could read my mind. This was because the demon did not get angry and continued smiling. She tilted her head and said, 「That’s not true」
「Because, at least I would feel better. Additionally, there is nothing more splendid than the revival of my master」
「That man would never become a demon lord」
Had my voice been shivering when I rebutted her?
Even if I had been kidnapped, the man I knew would not easily say yes to becoming a demon lord. However, if something did happen to me, or if something did happen to this baby. I could not help but tremble while imagining this. I could not help but fear that our existence would become a burden to the man who I knew was not honest, but very kind.
The demon should have already noticed that the color of my face was unusually bad. Nonetheless, the demon did not point this out. Except, her mellow voice certainly fed my anxiety.
「Indeed, you are right. My beloved demon lord’s core has enough power to destroy a weak human’s heart, even if it was a shard. But that is not enough. This core can come to its full potential if the vessel is filled with despair and hatred」
Then, she deepened her smile and clasped the shard of the demon lord’s core onto her breast, and said, 「That is why」. Her dark eyes seemed to gleam with animosity and joy.
「I shall let the magician feel my anger and pain of losing my beloved master and comrades. His wail will become the first cry of my newborn master. You, girl, will be the prop for this」
The demon’s tone of voice changed. As I froze, the demon smiled in a very gentle and more importantly cold-blooded manner.
「This magic circle I have drawn is a summoning device. The magician’s magical power in the girl’s bracelet. The girl’s stomach’s baby which is of the same blood as the magician. Now that the church’s restriction has loosened, there are enough conditions met for the magician to be summoned. If he had been bound by the capital’s main church, it would have been a little troublesome. But the magical barrier that a church in the countryside would have? The barrier was equivalent to a thin paper in facing my magical powers. Now, the stage has been set. The only thing left is, Noct. You know what you need to do, right? 」
「Mother, I……. 」
「Don’t tell me you forgot how I had adopted you? 」
「! 」
Noct gulped. He looked at the demon with wavering eyes, but it seemed that the demon did not care about Noct’s indecision. She sat down on the chair again so easily as if she was watching a festival’s performance.
「Well, it would be much more interesting if it was in front of the magician, but well it’s fine. Let us begin the show before the magician is to come. My adorable child, paint this stage with the girl’s blood, and decorate it with her organs. Then, summon the vessel for my new master」
Urged by the demon, Noct walked towards me wordlessly. His hand’s claws suddenly grew long and sharp. It was like the edge of a sharpened knife. Surely, it would easily cut my throat and dig out my stomach.
Even though I tried to back away, the black fire that drew this magic circle did not let me move any further. However, for Noct this fire was useless. He came through the fire without any hesitation. Then before I knew it, he was standing right in front of me.
Noct looked down at me with an expressionless face. His hand was raised, and his sharp claws reflected the wavering magical fire. Instinctively, I closed my eyes tightly.
……Nevertheless, the pain I had expected did not come on me no matter how long I waited.
「………? 」
When I opened my eyes fearfully, Noct was still there. However, his hand that had been raised hung limply from his shoulder.
「I cannot do it」
His slight voice that barely was a whisper echoed through the large hall. I had heard it properly. While I opened my eyes widely, the demon wrinkled her eyebrows as if frustrated.
「……What did you say? 」
「I am sorry, mother. I cannot kill this person」
「Noct? Do you understand what you are saying? 」
The demon’s voice ceased in its mellowness. Since the change in tone was so great that I had noticed, Noct who had been with her for so long definitely would have noticed. Yet, he transformed his long sharp claws back into his original human nails as he spoke in a trembling voice.
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