Chapter 509

Having escaped from the soul that was slowly killing him, the demon king regained his strength as if asking when he had ever been sick. Everything returned to its peak state. However, silence hung among the upper echelons of Edina. Only a few knew what had happened. Liana de Grants deceived the demon king on her own, but this time all his close aides conspired to deceive him. Although they did it to save the demon king, they couldn't help but hold their breath and hide while doing so. It was a situation where one could only be angry. They had deceived him once again, and this time all his closest aides had conspired to deceive him. No one knew how the demon king's anger would be expressed, so everyone was afraid. Even Heliott, Olivia, Ailey, Charlotte, and the Council of Elders were afraid to speak about this matter. However, the demon king did not say a word. He did not express any anger, sadness, hatred, or resentment. He just sat on the highest tower in Edina all day without saying a word. No one knew what he was thinking or feeling. It made everyone even more afraid. When Heliott heard Reinhardt's words, he felt both a desire to hear them and a fear of not wanting to hear them. Reinhardt brought up a completely different topic, the ability to control dreams that belonged to Ailey. He suggested creating an artifact that could emit an aura-like effect by magic, which would allow everyone in a certain area to have good dreams. Heliott couldn't understand why Reinhardt was suddenly talking about dream artifacts. The demon king was acting as if he had completely forgotten about Ellen Artoleus. Everyone was afraid to speak about the matter, as the demon king remained silent and expressionless on the highest tower in Edina. A week after the incident, Eleris came to talk to Reinhardt about it, but he seemed indifferent and asked why it mattered. Eleris couldn't understand his emotions and asked if he was okay. Asking someone who is clearly not okay if they are okay was a terrible feeling, but Eleris had no choice but to speak up. His suppressed emotions might explode at any moment, and Eleris didn't know what to do if that happened. The demon king remained silent and looked down at the view of Lazark. Eleris remembered the demon king's words from before, about hoping that their relationship wouldn't become a sad one like with Ellen Artoleus. Eleris couldn't understand the demon king's logic, and the demon king seemed to be the only one who could understand it. The demon king was no longer looking at Lazark but was instead staring at a preview message that showed a scene of Ellen killing Eleris and then committing suicide. This was the last evil that Heliott was destined to face. "I don't know what's left outside of the scenery I saw. Whether Edina has been destroyed, humanity has been destroyed, or both are intact. Whether it's after the Gate incident or before it, I don't know. In the end, the path I have to take is fixed in some way. I can't bring back what I said to Ellen. This time, Ellen won't cooperate. Even if I could bring it back, the situation would get tangled up and we would end up fighting Ellen in a different way. So I accept the fixed future. I have to fight Ellen. If I can't kill her, I will die, and if I die, Ellen will die too. I don't know if the Ellen I saw was the Ellen who was obsessed with revenge and lost herself, or if Ellen is the one who has control over that body. Either way, no matter how I try to avoid it, the future will find me. So I didn't really feel angry. I was just filled with a sense of futility that this was how it was going to be, after being exposed to so much evil. Can I change this future? The preview isn't showing me this for my despair. It's showing me that I can change this future. Of course, now it feels like it's just showing me my despair, but if I can change this future, it's not difficult. If one of us dies now, that future will disappear. Even committing suicide is an easy thing to do, so that future cannot be absolute. It's not an absolute future, but a future that can be easily changed. But I won't choose those easy ways, so that future is still coming. If this future is really an unstoppable future and just meant to taunt me, then that bastard shouldn't have shown me this future. Showing it to me means that someday this situation will come up again and I'll have to fight it. The future doesn't come when you know it. Like some of the futures I've seen that haven't happened in reality. This case is simple. If I'm weak, I'll die and Ellen will die too. So, I just have to be stronger than Ellen. That's the simple fact I'm showing. Everyone must have been curious as to why I'm not angry or why no one is scolding me. But I couldn't explain this feeling to anyone but myself. "Did you call me, great being?" From the top of Lazark Castle, I heard Antirianus' voice responding to my call. I heard that it was Antirianus who suggested that Ellen take on the burden of the soul I carried. Always. A crazy old man who suggests choices that seem to be for me but are not for me at all. "Are you angry with me?" "That's not really important." I speak without looking at Antirianus. "I thought you were going to kill me." "What good would that do?" It's not that I'm not angry. Antirianus is special. It's true that my anger is spreading. But is there any meaning to my anger?" "Would it be meaningful to kill Antirianus? We tried to prevent the Gate incident, but it still happened. It's not easy to achieve what I want in this messed up world. It's better to accept that it won't be easy. But there may still be a slight possibility. The possibility of recovering Ellen. It may be possible. Even if it's unlikely, I don't think all possibilities are closed. So, I will do what I can. 'You're trying to make a proposal that's hard to refuse.' 'Haha... that's interesting,' Antirianus said, listening to me with interest."