Chapter 207: A forcible end to the stalemate [Continuation]
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Translator: “Pink Tea” Editor: ”Jack_of_Editing_Trades”
He put even more strength into the arm that was holding my hair and exploded into a shout.
「W-what are you, we too were doing it for the sake for the world…」
「Wrong!! What you are talking about is some far far faraway world!!! What we wanted was not some other fantasy world!!」
「Augh!!!」
The hand that was grabbing my hair suddenly released its grasp and was now grabbing me by the throat.
「The thing we desired, the thing we wanted to protect, was the world where the people we hold dear live, the world where we enjoyed our lives, and absolutely not the world that you are talking about!!!」
「Gua-ahgh…!!!」
「Listen well, I actually said the same thing to Leon. There is only one truth!! You abandoned us! You have forsaken us for the sake of some world that no one have seen or heard, and betrayed us…」
「Puha?!」
The moment I thought my neck was going to snap, he let go of it.
「…You killed us.」
His voice sounded weak and feeble, as if our positions have swapped.
But the very next moment after, he surprised me with such a tone.
An intense pain burned through my mind.
「!!! KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!」
Before I realized what’s happening, my wings and tail burst into pieces.
Until now, they were cut off a few times, but it is the first time they were cut into such hair-thin pieces.
「Aah, that was a waste of time. I should’ve known that. Aaah, really, such a load of crap.」
Not a hint of a weakness he showed a moment ago was present. Only a lone demon was standing there now.
「Now, let’s continue our game. Scream, cry, squeal, wail, and sink into the depths of despair. 」
Even so, I gripped the magic stone tightly, as not to drop it to the ground.
We pledged to protect the future of this world. I must endure.
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Eventually, the agony that felt like eternity, came to an end.
The pain was so great that it made everything that came before that seem like a joke.
It tore through my mind, numbing my senses as it ripped my sanity away. By the time I almost completely forgot who I am, where this is, and what is happening, the torture by the 4th person was finally over.
It was half a miracle that I managed not to drop the magic stone.
However, it doesn’t change the fact that I got through it.
And the last one. I have to endure for just 5 minutes more.
「Now, lastly, it’s my turn. Now that things turned like this, it is quite moving. All this time I kept thinking, just how should I take my revenge on you… But having a guide by my side opens a lot of new possibilities.」
「Leticia…」
As my wounds were healed after the hero’s torment, I was about to have the last part of my torture.
Demon Lord Leticia.
Using all of the unmatched powers available to a demon lord, she proceeded with the torture.
「The last five minutes. I will proceed by slowly going one spot at the time. First, I shall start with the wings, a proof of being a demon.」
「!! GAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAA?!」
A purifying light appeared in her hands.
The demon-cleansing light, the worst possible magic attribute for demonfolk.
The holy light that demons shouldn’t be able to wield burned my wings with its purity.
「I’m going to spend the next minute on thoroughly disintegrating these wings.」
It hurts, it hurts, it hurts. The pain is driving me insane. It’s simply nothing but excruciating pain.
One hellish minute later, my huge wings were burned to the base, without a trace.
「Next is your empty left hand.」
Using those nails clad in bluish purple aura, she made a shallow cut on my left hand.
「Hgyah, gyah, ah, ah, ah, a.」
The poison that entered through that small cut began slowly spreading through the body.
Gradually, my fingers turned to a dark shade of purple as the flesh was rotting.
And a minute later, completely tainted with poison, my left hand rotted away at the shoulder and fell to the ground.
「Next is your tail.」
With a short move of Leticia’s finger, countless bugs emerged from a small dimensional rift that had appeared which then proceeded to bite onto my tail, gnawing it away.
「Sto-, sto- aGUGH, AGYAA!!!」
And as expected, less than a minute later, the whole tail was gone.
「Next is your right leg.」
That very second, I felt some kind of putrid smelling liquid envelop my right leg.
「Hii… Hiii… uAh…」
A strong acid was dissolving my leg, and a minute later, my right leg was no more.
「And lastly, your left leg.」
Following her words two cylindrical stones appeared.
Pressing the leg in between them, the stones then crush it into a mush along with the bones.
「Gii… ah, gah, guh…」
Slowly turning, the stones squashed the leg. And a minute later they completely destroyed it all the way up to the hip, tearing off the leg in the process.
「Oh, yes, that’s exactly how my brother looked when I last saw him, after being tricked by you he was killed by Ardee Reuis, had his Core stolen, and then devoured by the Evil Dragon. Well, you are still alive, so you have a bit more pieces left, dear sister.」
I lost everything aside from the hand that was holding the magic stone.
「…ah, …uh, …」
Losing my voice I couldn’t make even the faintest of screams anymore.
However, even so…
I didn’t let go of the magic stone.
「Well, well, well, didn’t you try hard? As expected of the sister I’m so proud of. You did quite well to fulfill the condition. You managed to do it.」
Leticia smiled with the same familiarity as in the old days, and touched my neck with a hand carrying healing magic.
「I’m not a devil. You are free to say your farewells.」
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