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Chapter 274
Vessel (Illustration)
Demons.
Demons lure people with lies and bewitch them.
But that only applies to low-ranking demons who can pull petty tricks.
The demons of Hell are structured such that the stronger their authority and power grow, the more impossible it becomes for them to lie.
Because words come to carry magical power, and that magical power contains coercive force, giving it an effect similar to a contract.
Е nũ m̀а́. í d̂_
That is why mid-ranking demons mostly use written contracts rather than verbal agreements, inserting cunning clauses to confuse or deceive the other party and trap them.
Mid-ranking demons use contracts, so it goes without saying for Archdemons.
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Especially Sitri verbally stating she staked her name to Ferda was tantamount to declaring she would fall to the very bottom of Hell.
'There's no way Sitri wouldn't know that.'
That meant the question she posed to Ferda held that much value.
Ferda couldn't help but have many thoughts.
W_еb̀ ńо v̄ е̌l̃ Ё ň ů m̃ а
Since he was dealing with a demon, he had to be cautious.
Did he feel something was off after thinking deeply?
It's not unheard of to suddenly realize a possibility after long deliberation.
However, it's an extremely slim chance to even consider as a possibility.
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One must not apply human reasoning to a demon's thoughts.
That was why Ferda changed his thinking.
E.ń u.mâ
'Why precisely now?'
If it was a question she had harbored for a long time, and one she assumed she would ask eventually, why precisely now?
Sitri had realized something about Olivia.
And she had also figured out she could create room for negotiation with it.
Normally, if one sets transaction conditions, one would think it's because they hold that much value.
But Ferda was different.
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'The reason she set it as a transaction condition is because it's uncertain.'
That was why she was indirectly helping hide Olivia, and trying to leak information to Ferda.
Like an explorer tasked with disarming traps in a dungeon, her scheme was to push something uncertain onto Ferda.
It would be to guide things into a certain situation by leaking information to Ferda.
He had to escape the demon's temptation.
'But.......'
Ѐ n̈.umа̀ .ì d̃
Ferda needed information.
It was like sticking his hand into a dark box without seeing inside.
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He just wanted to clearly know what he was trying to grasp.
"Good."
That was why Ferda accepted the deal with the demon.
Sitri staked her name.
Еn̆u m̄ȧ
Information an Archdemon would stake her name to exchange was worth hearing.
Sitri smiled with Olivia's face.
"-I staked my name, so you go first, oppa."
"The reason I could know that is simple."
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And there was a reason he accepted so readily.
Ferda had no oath that he must unconditionally speak the truth.
Ӗn ù m а̌
He just needed to speak one fact.
"The reason I could know Penelope had that item is because I am Sierra's child."
Sitri's face became subtle.
She was shaken, but it was impossible to tell what emotion that agitation stemmed from.
It was even harder to tell because she wore Olivia's appearance.
As expected of an Archdemon, she was skilled at hiding her emotions.
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"Hmm...... is that so?"
She immediately smiled.
It was impossible to distinguish whether she was plotting a scheme or simply smiling.
"Good. I'll tell you."
Sitri wrapped around Ferda again with a sticky tone of voice.
"-I'll tell you slowly, so listen. You clearly saw how Ureas died, didn't you, oppa?"
Е n̊umа̃
"Yeah."
"-Why did it happen that way? Did Ureas make a contract with a demon right before he died at the end?"
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Normally, one would have no choice but to think that.
But Ferda was the person who survived despite being in the closest proximity.
In the case of the Heinkel King possessed by Gamigin, a strong sulfur smell rose up, but Ureas in Amon's form did not.
It's absurd that Amon, who symbolizes hellfire, wouldn't have a strong sulfur scent.
W̆ е̊b̈ñо v̄e̊ l̆ Е n u_m̆ а
"-That's not it. It's because those beings were fundamentally such existences."
"What do you mean?"
"-Arken. It's the characteristic of those clans possessing what's commonly called the golden bloodline. Precisely, demon blood."
She whispered into his ear.
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"-Not just that, the blood of those clans we call Archdemons flows in them."
He had thought they might be connected to demons.
W̌е̃_bǹ о v ѐ l Е́n u m а
And he had vaguely speculated they might be connected to demon blood as well.
But the fact that Sitri, an Archdemon, revealed it herself was unbelievable.
Could it be a joke?
Even thinking that, he couldn't deny it.
"-It's a strange family, isn't it? There are clearly many siblings' children, but no collateral branches exist, right? Even if they did, they couldn't even have children and continue the line."
"......."
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"-The nobility says it's a scheme to prevent property leakage, but once you put a crown on your head, there's one thing you realize."
Sitri exhaled as if feeling euphoria.
"-That those with the qualities of a ruler actually have demon blood flowing in them. They wanted to somehow prevent demon blood from leaking out in all directions."
"If you made them your puppets, is there a need to focus?"
If they were humans made of demon blood, they would have focused on spreading it.
Demons are targeting the Serdes Continent, and the more mediums there are, the more beneficial it would be.
Wе b̊ n̈ov̆еl̂ Е nũ m а́
"-If we made them, we would have. But we didn't make them."
"Didn't you clearly say they were made with Archdemon blood?"
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"-Unfortunately, that's just the material. We didn't conceive or create them. Neither did the other Archdemons."
"How can you be so certain?"
"-We'd like to, but unfortunately there's an absolute rule in Hell. A rule that we cannot step forward and interfere with this world. As long as that's engraved on the floor of Hell, we cannot step forward."
Ferda frowned.
Е̊ n̈ ū m а̊_
"How do you prove you didn't break it?"
"-Think about it. Archdemons are still fighting in Hell to expand their territories. They're preparing to bite at the moment a weakness shows. If there was a very wide land they could eat without invading each other's territories, what do you think would happen?"
They might have just eaten first and thought later.
Demons used all sorts of methods to eat this land, but in the end it all came to nothing.
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"Wait......."
Ferda realized something belatedly upon hearing Sitri's words.
Е̌n̈ u m а̄ . і̄ d̊
"If the Arken family's blood consists of beings made of Archdemon blood...... does that mean Olivia is the same?"
"-Right. Do you know what that is too?"
At Ferda's question, Sitri smiled with her eyes.
Ferda flinched in surprise.
At that moment, Sitri disguised as Olivia looked like Olivia herself.
"-Olivia, that bitch has this body's blood flowing very thickly in her. That's why she comes to crave so much."
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It didn't make sense.
What kills demons is light and divinity.
Olivia uses Althea Religion's magic and is a person selected as a Saintess.
It may be politically entangled, but that's only possible because her ability was acknowledged.
Her existence, which is completely antithetical, having demon blood, and moreover Sitri's blood thickly, didn't make sense.
Perhaps Sitri feels that contradiction too?
Ě nūḿа̇. і̃ d̆
"So you're just hoping Olivia won't be easily rescued."
"-Right."
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Sitri said.
"-Whether that child becomes a Saintess, or crumbles away unable to accept that situation, either way I think it's an element worth trying."
"The latter I can understand, but what use is the former?"
Becoming a Saintess would be something that seems like bad news for Sitri.
Ẇ e bn o v̀ӗ l E nu m а_
But Sitri's thoughts were different.
"-Think about it. She has my blood, reeks of my scent, yet it's a body that can use divine power. What do you think would happen if I could take that body?"
Using an Archdemon of Hell's power while also using divine magic.
It meant she could become a catastrophic existence capable of handling two extremely incompatible things simultaneously.
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Sitri wants Olivia to become her vessel.
"What if I kill Olivia before that?"
Е́n ů m̀а
Ferda asked, glaring fiercely.
"-Why would I tell this fact to oppa?"
Sitri scoffed and rubbed her cheek.
"-I don't think oppa can kill Olivia."
"Why not?"
"-Because oppa is also a weak human who can't help it."
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Sitri in Olivia's form recedes behind him.
"-A weak human who believes he can save everything, only to collapse miserably."
The snake body wrapping around him also unraveled smoothly, and all senses returned to normal.
'I can't kill Olivia?'
Funny joke.
He wanted to say that, but Ferda couldn't easily conclude.
Ēñ u m̀ a
If such a day comes, what would he do?
He asks himself, but it only echoes like a reverberation in a hollow passage.
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* * *
A place whose location is unknown.
Light slanting down from the east tickled a woman's eyes over the walls and bars, waking her.
The woman who felt morning slowly raised her body.
Wе b̂n̄о̄v̌ е̂ l Е.ñŭm̌а
Blue eyes, bright blonde hair.
Even her face just waking from sleep had beauty that made one lose their soul.
She was Olivia Arken, the flower of the Arken Empire.
"Ye......."
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Look.
Olivia reflexively tried to call someone, then closed her mouth.
Е ňu m̄ ӑ . і d
She belatedly realized the place she was in now was not the Imperial Palace.
The place she was in was a giant prison like a birdcage made of bars.
Whether it had been left abandoned for a long time, the stone floor was pierced by tree trunks and entangled with vines and such.
Everything was much smaller than the room she stayed in when she had the status of an Imperial Princess.
The bed she lay on was barely large enough to fit her body, and the uneven floor would surely make her trip and fall if she misstepped.
If other nobles were imprisoned here, it would be a place where they'd feel humiliation.
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But Olivia didn't mind.
Despite having lived as an Imperial Princess, she quickly adapted to this place.
Knock knock—.
A polite knocking sound was heard.
"Come in."
With her permission, a man quietly entered.
Е̌ ńu m ӓ
"Have you awakened?"
The man had skin so white it even reflected the morning sunlight.
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But the red eyes floating on his black pupils spoke that he was unmistakably a demon.
"How is your life, Princess?"
His manner of speech was extremely polite.
The fact that he treated her as a mere human without a shred of ulterior motive strangely put her at ease.
Ẇ е ḃń o v̆ е ĺ Ê n ŭ ṁ а̂
"It's fine."
"I'm very sorry to have confined you in a place like this with your status as an Imperial Princess, but I want to tell you it can't be helped."
"It doesn't matter. It's a little inconvenient, but once you adapt it's fine, right? And rather......."
Olivia said with a bitter smile.
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"I feel more at ease than when I was in the Imperial Palace."
"Can that be?"
Е̌_n ûmа̄
"It's a place more unpleasant than you can imagine. Things that check your every move and gesture under the pretext of attending to you. The most vicious among them were bastards who pretended to attend my bath and tried to sell my body as song lyrics."
"You must have felt very bad."
"I managed to somehow stop it by cutting all their throats before it leaked out...... but since that day I can't even hum while bathing. But it's different now. Because I can have time entirely for myself."
Sweet fruits grew daily on the vines wrapping the stems, and nearby a clear spring welled up without drying.
Without servants, Olivia harvested fruits, drew water from the spring, and filled her hunger and thirst.
Since there were no attendants she had to do it herself, but after adapting it was nothing but comfortable.
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It would have been perfect if not for the situation of being captured by demons.
"They seem to call you 'Gokma', is that right?"
"Yes. You may call me Gokma."
"Your messenger kidnapping me is fine...... but what do you plan to do now?"
"Didn't I tell you what I'll do?"
"You did. That's why I came along obediently too."
W̄ èḃ n ӧv̌ e l̄ Е̂n ům̌а́
Olivia's eyes grew fierce.
It contained the question of what happened to that promise.
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Gokma realized the meaning and grinned.
"Regarding that, you may rejoice. The Emperor you hated so much is dead, after all."
Emperor.
The father Olivia had never seen even once.
W ѐb́ n̄ō v̀ еl̀ Еnum̀ ӓ
His death was something she had always wished for.
"Who did it?"
"It's Grand Duke Golt."
Valdemar Golt.
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Upon hearing that name, despite it being the moment her revenge was achieved, Olivia's expression was only cold.
"Why did you lure that person?"
Wе b̊ n̈о̇ v̊ е̄ l̄ .Е ň um a
"Because he was the person who could approach the Emperor most closely and received the greatest trust."
It was an irrefutable fact.
"That man made the work easy. Thanks to that, you were split in half and died at your ordination ceremony, and all attendees became witnesses."
"......."
"Your eyes don't look very happy. Still, do you have affection as blood relatives?"
"No way."
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Olivia had more than enough reason for that.
"He called himself a patriot. To become that patriot, he even carried out massacres. Such a person killed the Emperor just because of one bitch?"
"He definitely killed him."
Gokma was certain.
"Do you know when humans become the ugliest? When their own death is very close."
"......"
Е̃nu m_а̂
"Only when you're green like you can you act recklessly. Of course, what do you think happens to that recklessness the moment a sword is at your throat?"
"You'd beg until your hands become feet."
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"Humans are that ugly. The desire to not lose what they want, and their own death. It makes them chase all that as a purpose. Why else would he kill the Emperor, ruin the country, and gather an army?"
"......."
"Admit it, Princess. That man is obsessed with you. And the Empire's collapse you desire is also continuing."
Olivia couldn't hide her bitterness.
W е̇b̄ n̄ о̊ v̌el̊ Е̃ñũm̄_а̌
She was someone who had always schemed prepared for blood wind to blow.
But what if, even after piling mountains of everyone's corpses, the Empire stands tall as if to show off?
That was what Olivia feared most.
That fear had taken root in Olivia's heart now, showing no sign of leaving even a little.
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