Chapter 25 – 25. Spreading Wings and Leaving the Nest (7)

Naturally, I tackled my father’s words.

Anyway, aren’t you talking too harshly?

“No matter what, you’re still picking on me-“

“I waited for it to ripen well, and besides, you don’t like your sister, so why did you say that? It’s not like half-brothers and sisters can’t get married.”

“That’s true, but…”

“Why can’t you deny that, son? A true man is a cruel creature ruled by sexual desire.”

No, this old man.

Of course, I was taken aback by my father’s puns, but even after that, he didn’t stop making jokes while looking at my surroundings.

It’s like an old grandfather teasing his son who has reached marriageable age.

Actually, that’s right, grandpa.

“Besides, there are a lot of women here who say they like you, so there’s no need to pretend not to know that, son.”

Is it my turn to sit on the thorn cushion this time?

And as if she had been waiting for that, my older sister wrapped her arms around my waist, and I could feel that she was so excited that I could feel the heat of her body even through her clothes. And at the same time, not only Anna and Lucy, but also the spider on my belt, Nia, were giving me passionate looks.

…No, Nia, why are you again…

…

And the moment I looked at Nia, I knew something was different.

And it’s not just a spider.

It’s not just a spider, it also has a secret.

“You noticed it, son. No, it’s been 15 years since you noticed it?”

“…Father, did you know?”

“From the moment you brought that little spider, you instinctively ‘recognized’ him and brought him back.”

Black spider. I was surprised to see that it wasn’t even a tarantula, but was the size of my palm, so I brought it here.

But if I think about it another way, I instinctively took it.

And I fed him well, raised him, and even stayed with me for a long time.

“Aren’t you going to tell me the story?”

“I’m not going to tell you until the spider lady tells me directly. Besides, the dragon lady behind me… Hmm, if what I expected is correct, it’s really a great luck for you to have that child. .”

“Yes, you are lucky.”

“I need help with Clark, okay?”

“Of course.”

Over the past year, I have been able to survive more than once or twice thanks to Lucy. Lucy was brought in from a ‘runaway’ as a favor.

Lucy really helped me a lot.

Something to do with Lucy. After all that, I was planning on letting Lucy go if she realized who she was and decided to go her own way. I was planning on taking Lucy with me, if she still decided to join me.

I feel like I’m dealing with a child who doesn’t know anything about the world, so if Lucy really becomes independent of me, I’ll let her go, but not yet, not yet.

And upon hearing that I would be helpful, Lucy came up to me and hugged me. And his father chuckles as he sees his tail wrapped around my waist.

“Now you’ve finally come to live up to your ‘wizard name,’ son. Hehe, if it’s a golden sun, it’s a cancer, so be it. That’s not it.”

“…What is this? This is my personal question. How long did you know your father and Dick?”

“I knew from the moment I started wandering around in the slums… You know that I was originally born as a bastard, right?”

Know.

The illegitimate son of my grandfather, Marco – Dawn Bringer.

As an illegitimate child, he attacked a commoner’s maid and had her child, and as a result, he suffered all sorts of hardships and grew up on the streets. That’s when Dick showed up.

“He says his real name is different, but he just calls himself ‘Dick Johnson.’ Oh my God, he calls himself Chutchul. I thought, how full of Chut-likeness must the world itself be to have a name like that? Anyway, I like it. Meeting that guy…Clarke, I am your mother and Mira’s mother…And I brought them with me…The incarnation of ‘A Thousand Faces’ “I met you.”

“…A thousand faces.”

“Maybe it will respond to your awakening and come visit you.”

Is it.

“Are you an enemy?”

“No, she’s not on anyone’s side. It’s just… She goes where she wants, she’s madness incarnate.”

“I see. The enemy.”

“Because they’re not enemies.”

“If you cannot control your own reason and only act according to your instincts, and that is madness itself, then that alone is your enemy.”

And after saying those words, his father smiled. Naturally, my father also seems to know about ‘it’, and of course he will encounter it and me someday.

“Then you become her ‘shackles,’ son.”

“…Do you think I can control such a being, father?”

“You can do it. Your mother said it was ‘destined’ for you, and even ‘she’ said you were destined to do it, but I believe that if it were you, she could do it.”

My father really hated words like fate and ‘bloodline’.

Is it because your father is a bastard? I could guess that, but my father told me the real reason.

The world is not so easy that everything is decided based on bloodline and magic skills.

It was just as he said.

The world did not turn around easily with that alone.

“…Anyway, that’s how I met them, and they said they would give me strength if I sacrificed the most precious being to me. And in return, Noctis, Mira’s mother. And your mother. ‘Nebula’. Have sex with those two and conceive a child.”

“…Did you accept that?”

“I didn’t accept it at first.”

And my father said with a sad face.

“…After my mother died, the time when I was active as a magician on the streets. I, who was living with my mother, became the father of ‘Marco – Dawn Bringer’, who was my father and grandfather to you. “It was taken back by my hand. At that time, the only important family member I had left was my father.”

…

“And, I learned that my father was performing a ceremony to become a ‘transcendant’ by sacrificing all of his ‘children’ and his own children through an evil dark ritual, and that all of my brothers and sisters before me were in my father’s hands. “From the moment I became a sacrifice, I had missed my father all my life, and although I had the power to defeat him, I could not kill him.”

I, my sister, and I remain silent after hearing the secret story that my father had been unable to tell anyone.

It was something I couldn’t talk about with anyone, and it was a terrible truth that I had never heard from my father when he was alive, but my sister and I were silent about it.

In his early 20s, my father was able to defeat any wizard in the world, and his story was included in many textbooks.

His father excelled among his siblings and eventually became the head of the family, knocking them all out of the competition.

About my father who once asked me to promise not to abandon my family, no matter what happens. It is said that his father was a bastard who killed all his brothers and sisters and became the head of the Dawn Bringer family…

The truth was terrible.

“So, what I chose… Was the proposal chosen by the incarnation of ‘A Thousand Faces’. If they were going to sacrifice me anyway, I would also sacrifice my father… With that in mind. “I accepted the contract.”

“That-“

“Yes, I ran away. The thought that I could not have killed my biological father who had gone crazy with my own hands. The thought that if I did not kill my father with my own hands, if I sacrificed him, I would feel less guilty. With just this thought, I agreed to the contract. And…She grabbed your grandfather and dragged him into the abyss as if it were natural.”

A human being dragged into a pile of tentacles.

And the soul being torn apart within it. The body, and the soul as the medium, engraved on the body of the father. It dismantled the magic circuit that his grandfather had and strengthened it into a magic circuit that matched his father’s body.

And the moment he accepted it, he gained strength –

At the same time, my father…

“…Yes, you realized it too, right? That magic circuit in your body. And what you were able to absorb also included your grandfather’s.”

“…Did you intend to do that from the beginning?”

“…It was a contract. In the end, I was chosen by the star, and since I was chosen by the star, it had no choice but to be like that. Because that was the contract.”

And my father held me tightly in his arms.

“…Don’t be sad, son. From the moment you left your grandfather, who should have been finished with my own hands, into someone else’s hands, that is how the contract was ultimately made. It was my father’s fault, and I have to die for you. It was a contract, don’t be angry about it, don’t be sad about it, but promise me one thing.”

“…Say something, father.”

“…I will definitely finish the work that needs to be completed with your own hands.”

And my father said.

“There is no rest, even in the place you fled to.”

“…”

My father said to me with a sad face.

“Don’t run away from what you have to do, even if it really hurts and is painful.”

“…Yes, father.”

So I nodded and swore to my father.

“I promise. No matter what happens, I will cherish my family, just like my father said.”

“And, I will definitely finish what needs to be done.“

“…Okay, that’s enough. In this body right now, I don’t know what you’re planning or what you’re thinking because I don’t know how I might have died. But…If it’s you, , what you want, what you need to do. I believe you can accomplish everything.”

“…Father.”

Gradually, my father’s body was becoming blurred.

And your father smiled broadly as he saw your body fading away. Of course, my father stroked my head.

“…Son.”

“Yes, father.”

“…Even though I killed your grandfather through it and gave birth to you and Mira at the end of the contract, I still never once regretted raising you and becoming your father.”

“…”

“Why are you crying so much, man? After all, I am a human being, and you are a being who should live forever. It is natural for parents to pass away before their children. And, by using the rotten old trees as fertilizer, we use the rotten old trees as fertilizer. “The way of the world is to allow this to grow.”

“I didn’t want to let my father go like this. With him… More… More…”

There were a lot of things I wanted to learn and ask more about. The world was a very harsh battlefield for me, and I knew that I was a frog in a well, so I wanted to tell my father about many things and adventure stories.

And my father’s body disappears little by little.

“…I know. I’m sorry, son. My daughter. Please don’t forgive me for going ahead like this. And..Thank you for being born as my son and daughter. From now on, , walk your way.”

And before my father’s body fades for the last time…

My father gives something to my sister.

“This?”

“…Take good care of it. It contains the ‘dimensional barrier’ that sealed this place.”

The music box I gave to my sister. And as soon as the music box was handed over from my father to my older sister, it automatically started making sounds. Although it is pure, in a way, the song resonates with a sad tune. As if to represent the current situation.

And as this place disappears and begins to return to the warehouse –

“…Now, in a world full of light, the darkness of rest will come, son. So, even in that darkness, look closely for the countless beings that will follow you.”

He extends his hand towards his father’s body. And then, the body containing my father’s last memories disappears – I spread my hand through the air.

And, just like that, I knelt on the floor.

-My children, I was happy to be with you.

After those words, I no longer felt my father’s presence.

Ah…

“It’s so… So fast.”

And then, I collapsed on the floor.

“…Still, there’s still a lot more I want to say…”

And, the last time my father touched me, the hand that didn’t feel any warmth. And, in that space of memories, what my father said. And after each and every word that his father said to us was engraved in his mind –

All that remains is extreme pain.

“…It’s too much to leave like this, father.”

“Clarke…”

And…I ended up-

“…Father…!!!”

I called my father like that and cried loudly on the spot. May everything in the world go away, may this sadness, this regret be swept away. I sat down on the floor and talked about really breaking up with my father.

I cried on the spot, filled with all the sorrow I felt.

-?-

Black throne. Black pillar.

Black wall.

And the red carpet and numerous monsters positioned next to it. And a woman with silver hair was sitting on a black throne perched on the carpet. A being with a body that boasts a voluptuous body, covers all major parts, and exudes a beauty and charm that transcends this world to the point of making viewers fall in love with it.

And next to her stood a woman with horns and white hair covered in fur.

Then, the silver-haired woman asks the woman.

“Withi, are you feeling dazed these days?”

“…Do I look like that?”

“That’s right. A friend I’ve known for 500 years is making that look on his face. How could I not be interested?”

“…It’s my mood.”

“…It’s because of my mood. Tsk, you’ve been like that for two years, right? And that’s every single day.”

“…I told you it was because of my mood, you lewd slut.”

Naturally, the woman was immediately called Widi.

Wearing white fur, she immediately spoke to the silver-haired woman in a sharp voice, and the silver-haired woman burst into laughter and spoke to Weedy.

“Ahahaha~ I’m sorry, I’m sorry. When I see our old maid dazed like that, I want to make fun of her. So, is it okay if I call her by her name like before?”

“You can’t do that. You are the one who took the position of Demon King after the Demon King ‘Cassandra’ was defeated. Naturally, after becoming the Demon King, you must remain faithful to your position as a ‘subject’.”

“…Ah, really. How good would it be when we were just alone? That blond, gangly emperor…I was really surprised when he came to me so openly.”

7 years ago now.

The story of a party of warriors going on an expedition to subdue the demon lord Cassandra.

And at that time, in their residence, a residence unknown even to the Demon King Cassandra, a young man with green hair and a blond-haired young man with blond hair and blurry eyes, revealing his muscular upper body.

Gilgamesh, the emperor of the Uruk Empire, came to visit in person.

He tried to cast a charm right away, but he was blind, and was defeated in just one blow, with all the magic he had prepared shattered and his sword shattered.

-Do not be wary, ‘traitor’. I am not your enemy. But, you know that the hero party is coming to kill Cassandra, right?

-So, I would like to give you a chance. After the Demon King is defeated, wouldn’t you like to become the Demon King?

-Are you sure that the Demon King will fall?

And when he asked so, Gilgamesh, he said:

-I will collapse. And after that…Unbearable chaos will disturb this world, your ‘gods of darkness’ will awaken, and the ‘reign of light’ will begin to shake.

-Aren’t you the emperor of humans?

-If the light is too strong, plants cannot grow. It’s the same for humans too. I believe in human potential, but those who are slaves of God are an exception.

-You could become our slaves?

And at those words, Gilgamesh laughed heartily and said to himself.

-If you were going to do that, you would have done it a long time ago… You descendant of the demon god.

-…

-Cassandra will fall. And after that, chaos will come and then unfold your darkness. If that happens…This world will become endlessly chaotic.

…That crazy emperor.

Naturally, he is a transcendental person who survived even after confronting God directly.

Cassandra would probably have been neutralized in one hit if he had come forward. He was that strong, and in fact, he was a rare strongman that even the gods were reluctant to fight head-on.

Naturally, such an emperor gives an opportunity to fulfill a long-held wish.

His intentions themselves were truly lunatic, but nonetheless, it’s something he should have done anyway. After Cassandra’s death, if he was planning to secretly increase his power, if the emperor of the Uruk Empire personally authorized it –

“…After-“

“Why are you doing this, Your Majesty?”

“Gilgamesh, will that blonde gangster keep his promise?”

“After Cassandra died, didn’t you decide to start a rebellion anyway? Something new.”

“That’s right.”

And at the same time she said to Withi:

“So, how’s the blonde-tanned gangster wizard doing?”

“…I told you it wasn’t like that, you crazy bitch.”

Nope.

Whether or not he was safe and sound for two years, you can clearly see it just by looking at the fact that they sent dark elf infiltrators to chase after him. Of course, she knew where she had to go, so even though Widi had been tempting her implicitly, he wasn’t affected by it.

And it is not swayed by the ‘pheromone’ emitted by a powerful high-ranking monster like Weedy.

Although she was intrigued, she decided to give it up.

Because there is nothing worse than messing with your friend’s man.

“Okay, okay. Stop getting angry.”

“…Can’t you just focus on your work while you’re at work?”

“In the first place, all the living monsters were purged, you and I are the only ones left, and the management needs to be reappointed after training. Who else can I talk to other than you?”

“…Ha. Isn’t he there too?”

Withy’s eyes are focused on the large knight with blond hair wearing black armor right next to him.

“Hmm, that’s right… I guess it’s because you seem so lethargic these days.”

At the words of the Demon King, the large knight turned her gaze to her.

“…”

“That’s it, the King of Camelot. ‘Arthur Pendragon.’ I heard he died a year ago.”

“…Sir Gawain, you were from Camelot, right?”

“So, you’re Gawain from the Hero party, right?”

And now his companion.

Naturally, he jumped off the cliff to join Cassandra, killed Cassandra, and was at the point where he himself was dying.

He was a knight of the sun, and the sunlight from which Clark Dawn Bringer squeezed out his last strength shone even in the pit of extreme darkness, and he was barely able to avoid death by the power of that sunlight.

Originally, it would have been enough to kill him instantly, but the power of his body, strengthened by sunlight, was maintained all the way to the abyss.

Although she would have died shortly thereafter if left as is, she attempted to retrieve Cassandra’s body, but first she saw the man dying.

So I rescued him.

After that, he went to retrieve Cassandra again…

Cassandra’s body was nowhere to be found.

Over the past two years, she has been treating his injuries and has finally succeeded in making him her companion and mate. What will it be like?

He made humans into companions, and the humans who became companions became demons.

Okay.

She loves humans very much.

Even though she faced sorrow and experienced the sorrow of bereavement, she was the foolish queen of evil spirits who fell in love with humans again.

Even though she is widowed, she is a foolish woman who falls in love with another human man, has children, and makes those children reminisce about past lovers.

That was who she was.

“Gawain~ Are you going to meet your friend?”

“…Clarke, you mean, Elistro?”

“Yeah, yeah, it was the same party, right?”

Elistro.

That is the name of the devil.

And Elistro spoke to Gawain, and Gawain smiled.

“…I thought the child would survive. Still, the fact that the king lost his life…”

“…Ah, that dragon girl…Ummm, still, don’t hate your comrade.”

“I know. That child had no choice but to run away.”

King Arthur’s warrior.

And…

‘Mordred’, who killed King Arthur.

And the dragon girl that ‘Mordred’ was carrying.

And that girl is with Clark.

No matter what the truth of the incident was, I wanted to talk to Clark.

“…Do you want to go, Gawain?”

“…Sorry.”

“Oh, don’t be like that. It’s the Demon King’s official letter. It’s about my old colleague, my lord – and I’ll give you time to finish it, okay? And, in order to get in touch with me… I’ll send you one of my daughters. .”

Perfect!

And the daughters appeared as soon as they rubbed their fingers and made a sound.

Each of them had different variations, but they all had red eyes, the eyes of the Demon King, and some of them had young children, and even two children had blond hair and red eyes.

And at the same time, I spoke to my eldest daughter.

“Eris. Come with Gawain and go find Clark – Dawn Bringer.”

“…I understand, king.”

“Hey, it’s okay if you call me mom like before.”

“Now that you have ascended to the throne, you must not do that. I am teaching her younger siblings to do the same, so I would like you to take note of that.”

“Eh~ Like that!”

“…Fool, you are different from before, you are now a demon lord.”

“Look! Aunt Wedi here says this too. This old maid says the same thing!”

“I’m falling behind.”

And while the two were bickering, Eris drew a magic circle. We already know where Clark – Dawn Bringer is. He is currently in Magia, and although it is impossible to chase him right away, we can at least track him from the outskirts of the area.

Monsters should not appear in front of humans yet.

Meanwhile, I drew a magic circle, got on top of it, and that was the moment when Gawain got on it too.

“I’ll be back.”

“…Huh, Aris?…Uh, wait!! Aris?! Aris!!!!”

At the same time, someone else stepped onto the magic circle – and it happened before one of the sisters even noticed what was happening.

Naturally, due to the unexpected overflow of the magic circle, the magic circle…

An unexpected situation occurred.

“Excited! I will become a great monster like my mother and become great like her!!”

A girl with white hair and the lower body of a snake with white scales went straight into it –

An unexpected magic circle accident.

And, Eris and Gawain…

“…What the cold?!”

I ended up in Urus territory, a long way away from the direction I was originally going.

Also, to Urus, where the cold is bitter in the middle of winter.