Chapter 15 – You and I Are at Odds

Episode 15: You and I Pass each other

“Rumika… ?
Treason?!
What are you talking about!”

“Shut up!
Betrayer!
Traitor!
You’re still pretending, you dare to make me a puppet?!”

What is this… !
Ah. No way.
It can’t be.
No, let’s calm down.

“Calm down, Rumika!
Are you going to shrink further from here!?”

The fact that Rumika has now returned to her original form means that she has been forced to release her power by bursting into her inner potential.

Didn’t Murtol, the legendary guru of the Hwan Empire, say that the first technique he learned was ‘hair straightening’?
The more you use the mana that spreads evenly down to the smallest parts of your body, the better you become.
However, a temporary return to the current adult mode is fatal for a being that receives a large reaction like Rumika.

In the worst case, the abuse of magical power could cause the body to dissipate or become disabled…
I forcibly opened my power, but I don’t know how much power I’m using.
Because you can’t stop at the right time.

“Shut up! Shut up!
How… How could you do that to me?!?!
You bastard, I trusted you… !!!
Disappear in front of me!
Be gone!”

Damn it!
I want to counter with offensive magic, but only then is Rumica dangerous.
That’s why I’m going to endure with pure defense magic, I don’t know that much defense magic…
Oh, I don’t know ‘I’.

I turn around and run to Marianne lying on her stomach in the corner.
There’s someone here who specializes in defense much more than me, right?

“Ka, Mr. Kamu?”

“Eight!”

He put Marianne on his back and ran behind her.
How to become a community of destiny as much as we stick together!

“Number of animals! Deploy the shield!
That guy uses a wide area skill!”

Rumika began chanting the next incantation, and I took whatever amulets I could find from her backpack on her back.
Player must win!

“Visibility Distortion!”

Throws the talisman written in red on yellow paper backwards and blows magic into the catalyst.
Through the catalyst called the amulet, it shortens the casting time and increases the success rate and accuracy of magic.
The so-called Camus style!

Using her vision distortion, she carried Marianne over her shoulder with her left arm and hid in her corner.

In the eyes of Rumika trying to cast her spell, the world will appear to stand on her head and cross her eyes, as Van Dark did.

If you want to hit the spell, you have to set the target visually, so if your vision is distorted, you won’t be able to aim like the bandits just before.

“Hey, you crazy bastard!
Then we are in danger too!”

I hear Van Dark screaming on the cliff to my left.
What, you didn’t run away?

Due to the nature of fire magic, Lumika’s main skill, she must have chosen wide range magic that requires less aiming.
Just throw some fireballs at me please!

“Hell Fire!”

“Crazy!”

Rumika was too wise to choose an area of ​​effect magic that didn’t require aiming.

“The protection of the sun god!”

This time, a wave of yellow light came up from the floor and wrapped around us.
At the same time, an explosion of flame exploded in front of me!

Kwaaaaang!!!

I think I’m going deaf!!
Marianne and I bounced back in the direction we were running from, despite the shield being activated.
Apparently, Rumika seems to be fighting here, ignoring her life and death.

Why is this all of a sudden… I can only guess.

No way.
I couldn’t have been hypnotized.
No.
Did you destroy the evidence and let the hypnosis work itself out?
There’s no way I could have caught it.

“Ahh! Be careful!”

It seems that even Van Dark and his subordinates who were hiding nearby were affected.

“Cool, cool.”

“Number of animals! Wake!
Even if the casting time is long, prepare the best defense magic!
I’m going to run towards him this time.
Block just one more time.
Unless you want to die!”

“Cool, why, what is this…”

“Goes!”

I tossed the amulet and raised the wind, causing more dust to rise.
Then he lifted Marianne on his back and ran as hard as he could towards Lumica.

Lumika did not use second-level magic that had a good power-to-magic ratio like Fireball.
Hellfire has the widest range of damage among single magics, but it is an inefficient magic because it consumes a lot of magic power compared to its power.
Use it only when dealing with densely packed enemies.

In the end, Rumika is obsessed with matching me and is making a risky choice that ignores her own comfort.
Blocking while running away is also dangerous for Rumika.

“Kaamu!! Come out now!
How could you do this to me?!
Were you also a helpless hypnotist?
You know that the price is death!”

… It’s a head-to-head match.
Finish quickly
No more wars of attrition.
For Lumica.

“Marie, slap me on the back when you’re ready!”

Soon the dust will clear.
And the distance from the dirt to Lumica is a distance that I can reach quickly if I run at once.
But one more hit.

… Please don’t use magic cloth.
It’s crazy that I just brushed by, but it’s impossible to do it from the front.

“Die! Magic flame!”

“Fuck for real!”

I threw the whole backpack on my back.
You must consume all of your amulets and magic earrings to combine them with Marie’s shield.
And Marianne patted me on the back.
Ready!

Seebaaar!!
A year’s worth of sales in our store blows up in one shot!

“Number of animals!”

“Guardian of Twilight!”

A sunset-colored shield spread out in front of Marianne, and a river of dark red flames swept over it.

“Aaaaa!!!
Hot!
Keep it up!
This will do continuous damage!”

“Keugh! This is the Demon King’s technique!”

… Come to think of it, Marianne was a member of the Demon King Assassination Special Task Force.
It seems that he knows because he has already suffered from the magic bullet in that fight.

“Can you hold on?!”

“This, this much… Overcome… I can!”

Hey, I really cursed at him when he was an enemy, but when he was an ally, he couldn’t be so reassuring.

Using Marianne as a shield, I climbed up the river of fire.
Dark red flames melted the defense shield, emitting heat like the tongue of a dragon breathing fire.

“Turn it off…!
It’s hot, it’s hot!!!”

The casting time of Magic Flame Cannon, which felt like eternity, was over.
Flames still linger on the shield and twilight guard, sizzling.
A black flame that inflicts continuous damage as if eating away at a shield.

Tadada dat!

In the meantime, I arrived in front of Rumica.
He throws Marianne to the floor and runs at Lumica!

“Rumica!”

Fake left jab.
The right hand body straight is real.
In the meantime, take care of your face.
Instead, he hit the stomach and became incapacitated…

Blah blah!

“Keugh!”

Rumi Kai was preparing her bastard, her front kick!
Although I was taller and reached them at the same time!
It hurts even more because I was hit by a counter in my stomach with the same weight I was running towards!

Ah, if I had known this was going to happen, I would have just hit my face!

I struggled, but steadily grabbed both legs and tried to knock it over with a bottom tackle.

However, Rumika’s strength is stronger.
They couldn’t get over it and struggled with each other.

“Rumika! Calm down!
Treason?!
What are you talking about!
I am innocent!”

“White hands?! Say that!”

“Sir Baal! Let’s find out why!
Got proof?!
Who framed me?!”

“Depot ship? You sound like a slanderer!”

Fuck!
Rumika, who pushed her blade away, took her belongings out of her arms and threw them.

“… !!!!”

My mind went blank.

What Lumica threw on the floor was definitely the bath salt I threw into the fireplace and burned it.
It’s a hypnotic elixir dedicated to Rumika…
How does this stay intact… ?

“Is this still a slander?!
Uh? Evidence?
Need more?”

This time Rumika took another from her arms and threw it in my face.
This…
It was Rumika’s panties.
It’s strange, I must have burned everything I stole?

“Rumika…
This… What a misunderstanding…”

“Don’t make excuses, you bastard!
Do you think I’m doing this after seeing one or two?!”

The last thing Rumika threw into my chest was…
It was an empty bottle of the liquid elixir that had been applied to the basement desk.
Evidence that cannot be denied.

Weird…
I must have watched everything burning in the fireplace meticulously before leaving for the refugee camp…
How the hell did this happen…

Aww!

“You bastard!
I trusted you!”

My heart hurts more than a slap raised like fire.
I have no strength in my legs and my body staggers.
How… Where did you go wrong?

“I… I liked you… I really liked it!
Was that also hypnotized by you?
Was everything you sweetly said to me a lie?
How did you all try to hypnotize me?!”

“Ah… No, that’s not it!”

Aww!

Again a huge slap comes flying.

“No, what’s wrong!
You tried to dominate me and make me a puppet!”

“… At first, it was like that the day you came to see me!
But, yes.
After the bidding, after you took care of me, I put my mind down and organized everything!
At least everything I said since the day we drank together was sincere, without magic!”

“Under…
Are you really trash?!
You said you were sincere from the day you confided after drinking?
So, at least since the day I came, it’s true that you tried to control me with hypnosis?
Then, from then on, there is no guarantee that my emotions and my memories will not be manipulated, right?
Did you try to dominate me like that saintess?”

Rumika’s eyes, which had been so kind as they sat together in her bathroom, had now completely changed to those of contempt for her bugs.

“I trusted you! I believed you!
The fact that I risked my life to leave the castle and run away to the human country was because I believed in you alone!
After my father passed away, there were a lot of people around me who were aiming for my body and my position…
So, you only see me, not my background!
I only wanted to believe in you…
But you were the same guy!!!”

I knelt down on the floor.

“No, Lumica.
Really.
Even if it was like that at first, later I… Because I genuinely like…
I really misunderstood for a moment.”

“This bastard really!”

They are forcibly grabbed by the collar and lifted up.
I’m short of breath

“No matter how much I called you a kid, I never thought you would be this thoughtless.
Thinking about being 200 years old…
Is it just like this?
Were you a cockroach opportunist like the other suitors?
I trusted you… !
I believed it!
I can’t trust myself anymore
Maybe my heart that believes in you is also planted by hypnosis, what will happen to me if there is hypnosis that cannot be solved by magic…
Do you know how much I struggled to come this far?
You took my self away from me!
You took my freedom!
Why did you cheat!? Why!
As you said, I will bet when we date, why the hell come now!”

“Oops, I’m sorry. It’s my fault…
I’m really sorry.
But all the hypnosis was released when we kissed.
Really. Do not doubt yourself any more…”

Kwaaaaak.

The neck is tightened by the tremendous power of agwi.

“Kamu, why did you do that!
Now… My dad isn’t even there!
There are no demons to hinder us!
Why are you doing this now!
You bad boy!”

I don’t even know anymore
My head and chest are so hot that they seem to burn.
I think of you even when I’m fighting like I’m about to die, why don’t you know that!
The accumulated resentment burst out, and all the things to say and not to say began to come out.

“I thought I could have you that way!!!”

“… What?”

“Even so, I wanted to have you!
I’ve been trying to be nice to you for a hundred years, you know…
I don’t even have the strength to try anymore…
So, so finally…”

“How dare you hypnotize me?!
You’ve completely crossed the line!
There are things you can do, and there are things you can’t do!
If you do this, how can I trust you now?!?”

“Tell me honestly, then?
I’m tired too!
I’m tired of being a fish that has suffered for 100 years of fishery management!
How much more do I have to work?”

“What bullshit!
Don’t pretend to be the victim, Kamu!”

“You are!
Rumika, you must be feeling refreshed!
Now I can catch my pod and throw it away!
Are you relieved to be a perfect victim, a heroine of misfortune?!”

“Are you mad about what you did well?!
Where are you talking, are you crazy?!”

“Yes, I am crazy!
I quit being a tutor because I was crazy, I went to work crazy about my achievements, as if I was courting you!
Shall I be honest?
Your father, you know that the Demon King set a condition for me to woo you?!
Win the magic tournament, graduate from the academy!
Do you know how easy it was?
Does it make sense to ask the hypnotist to win the offensive magic tournament from the beginning!
How about graduating senior!
I know your dad told the professors to take my grade off because of my faults!
I put me in a place full of fucking cubs! “

“Is this even cursing at my deceased father?!”

“Is it insulting to say that your father did something wrong?!
Then you shouldn’t have done that stupid thing!
In the meantime, you won all the prizes!
Because of you!
Because you like it!
Only 22 national runners-up in magic tournaments!
Damn, there are countless regional championships
You didn’t admit it… !
The academy is second!
That’s enough, so I’m going to have to take care of it!
So what?
If you become a military commander, will you marry me?
Who fired me from the position of corps commander?!
You are the devil!
If you go higher than the corps commander, you are the commander!
Didn’t you really want me to go up?!
Or is it because the general is threatening Calczari!?
Either way, if I go higher politically, the demon king will be in trouble, so I brought him down!”

“Are you yelling at me now?
Are you swearing at my dad?
Seriously, you are really funny!”

“Fuck really!
That’s my story!
You asked!
Listen up if you ask, fuck!
Let’s talk about myself for the first time in a hundred years!
Stop making me scream!”

“After you did something shameless, are you blaming my family now?”

“You explain why you did that!
Shut up and listen!”

I don’t even know anymore
It’ll end anyway, explode everything and go.

The collar has loosened before I know it, and Rumika and I are pointing at each other.

“They said that they would marry you when you get the position of chancellor this time after being fired from the position of corps commander!
That’s why you quit the military and worked as a civil servant, and even went to the position of espionage officer!
It was a solid road to the chancellor position, but I was fired after one year!
That handsome demon king!
If I do well, I think I will marry you!”

“So I kept waiting!
While rejecting all the other eminent suitors!
Even though my dad stirs me up like that, I’ve never given my heart to anyone other than you!
Do you know how fun it was to hit an iron wall for 100 years?!
I waited hard, really hard!
Now, there are no demons standing in the way anymore!”

“Look at this! You’re the problem!
Whether it’s you or the devil, it’s always like that!
‘I did everything well, but Kamyu, you should have done well’!
They put all their responsibilities on me, set traps and blame me!
Hoping I’ll just stumble!
How much more do I have to work… ?!
How much better do I have to… ?!
I’m tired too!”

Even if you look up with resentment in your eyes, it is useless because it overflows.
Obviously, when I collapsed after bidding, I thought that all these feelings were relieved by being comforted by Rumika…

[Camyu, do you still resent my dad?]

You asked me when I was drinking that I still resent you a lot, right?
Yes, I actually resented it a lot.
Really really a lot.
If everything went well with you, I would have forgotten everything.

Still, I thought I had forgotten about it like clear water as time went by…
After things went wrong again, bad memories came up like churned muddy water.

“You did enough for a hundred years!
What, an opportunist?
Do you think I’m betting on you right now as I’m weighing your power and finances?
You’re welcome!
I’m just genuinely tired!
I don’t know how to push and pull, so I’m tired of chasing after you like a loyal dog!”

“When did I say you liked my background?!
I never suspected you of anything like that!
I never doubted that you loved me!
That’s why I feel more betrayed by hypnosis!!
Shouldn’t you have buried the past and endured it a little longer?!
There’s no demon to stop us now!
We should have thought of winning together!
And what? Loyal dog?
Are you chasing my tail?
Under! You are really funny
I tried to hold it in without saying anything, but I can’t stand it if I don’t say anything!”

The more angry she gets, the colder Rumika’s unique expression and tone comes out.
Never mind.
Has that guy been sarcastic for a day or two?

“Kamu, don’t be hypocritical.
One hundred years? Loyal dog? Sincerity? Under!
Yeah, who’s the one who messed around with that handsome master?
After saying we broke up, I go to my first love, my ex-girlfriend, and learn magic!
Is it normal to ask for help on your career path?!
Did you go to that woman’s lab too?”

“Don’t talk nonsense about you!
I’m not the kind of person you can talk about carelessly!
It was a hundred years ago that I dated Master!
And that’s what Master asked us to break up with!
Since then, nothing like what you thought has ever happened!
Rather, I am grateful to the person who helped me to propose to you!
Don’t belittle me like that!”

“Why?
Are you bringing up my dad?
Why can’t I talk about your teacher?”

“I was mentioning the facts and came up with the devil!
Since I was a commoner, teach me magic for almost no tuition!
Even the battalion commander is sweetly dragged from the military department!
Send me out for the tribune elections!
I’m going to a magic tournament for you. Teach me witchcraft and taoism!
If I didn’t have a teacher like this, I couldn’t be a teacher by your side and I couldn’t propose to you!
This is a fact!”

“Can I mention the facts too?
You too, your master… No, you hate cursing your first love, right?
That woman kept calling you because she wanted to see you again under the pretense of helping you.”

“After we broke up, nothing like that happened!
I’ve never had that common skinship!
I’ve never touched my fingertips!!
Are you always talking about that?!”

Rumika is sarcastic with a look of contempt.
Eyes looking down at me.
It’s really cold.
Sick.
And annoying

“Wouldn’t it be nice to go around researching and working together while hanging out with your first love to get help?
Did you feel refreshed?
Did you enjoy it?
I was happy?
Don’t talk as if you’ve lived your life enjoying everything you’ve had, and you lived only for me!”

“Then what do I do!
My family is small, so there are no members to support me, no money, no connections!
Other than the teacher who accepted me, taught me, and nurtured me, who was the demon who helped me?
Who?
Oh your dad
The one who only talks and sells traps behind the scenes?
Wasn’t the reason why I was dispatched to the human kingdom as an alternative because the nobleman sentenced me to death?
I invaded the castle because of someone’s fault?
Whom I slipped because of the academy chief?
Are you talking about your dad, who paid only a month’s salary in advance, and didn’t send a penny in the budget for business promotion expenses and meeting expenses?
Aha~
Trust that kind of person and rise up in the world, whether it’s the prime minister or the commander, you said to take a position, right?
Is that so?”

“… Don’t cross the line, Camus.
I can’t stand being sarcastic with my dad anymore…”

“Why am I doing an herbalist here!
It’s manpower and budget, and I’ve never sent a single demon or even a single grain of rice!
Gathering herbs by hand from the bare ground, and barely doing business, I came all the way here!
Why?
Because nobody helps!
No, how did I get here in the first place?
Didn’t I go on a rampage because the well-known Demon King would never marry you?
Isn’t it natural for me to be thirsty for the help of Master who cares for me?!”

“Did my dad do that?!
Who helped my dad manipulate the academy credits?
Why?
Why don’t she go up to her and ask her why she helped my dad?
Yes?
That woman was an academy professor!
When did she graduate from under that woman, do you still follow her while calling out to her master?
You shouldn’t have asked your friends or classmates!
Go to Ballack or Adolph or, at least, to Ran!
Why is it that girl!
Get out of the shadow of that woman who follows you like a shadow all your life!
Even when you’re drunk, Master, that bastard’s Master!
I’m so sick of that sound!
Didn’t you just openly say in front of me that you’re dying to see her ex-girlfriend?!
… Still, I waited while thinking of you!
I know how hard you work and how hard you work!
My dad also thinks of me, fears that my position will diminish,
You didn’t even remarry and waited for me!
Countless great nobles and four heavenly kings, as long as I marry them!
I said I’d look after you!
My dad… Black, Dad…
Heck, he ran all over the place by himself to do my immature request!
I wish I had just married into such a family!
If that was the case, my dad wouldn’t have died that day in vain!”

“Is it my fault?
Do not extend the causal relationship!
The other suitors came anyway, politicizing their families and connections!
Was I born because I wanted to be born as a commoner?
I’m frustrated too, I’m going crazy!
Do you ask your classmates?
What group assignment do you have to do?
Learn from demons who are better than me to improve anything!
You just don’t like me sticking with you guys!
When I was away from Master, did you and the devil take care of my life?
You haven’t even contacted me in years since I came here!
Even if you don’t help, if you’re interested, you should have contacted me!
That’s right!
Just like you said, you’re a noble!
Didn’t you make her a son-in-law and raise her?
No, even if I told you to retire right after marriage and stay still, I could have endured as long as you were by my side!
I also want to ask the demon lord!
Why didn’t you!
What on earth did you not like about me?
If I hadn’t been a real reserve craftsman, I would have hit it hundreds of times!”

Rumika talks about her tears and runny nose, as if her emotions were boosted by the story of the demon king.
I’m in no position to say anything because I’m shedding that much.

“Don’t keep talking and making excuses, Kamyu.
You didn’t learn magic from your proud first love simply because you entered a magic tournament to get ahead.
Why? Why don’t you be honest?
She still won’t forget her.
I say I love you!
So, just like you learned from your first love, you stuck by my side as a teacher, right?
Because you liked it!
Aren’t you copying the priestly role you played with that fire fox!”

Now Rumikana Nana, instead of talking, she spits out tears.
Tears are flowing so much that they are welling up on my lips.

“Okay! It was good!
Acknowledge me, do well, do well!
I really, really like the teacher who fills up all my lost self-esteem and embraces all my mistakes, so I’m going crazy!
Are you done now?
Are you cool inside?!”

“Keukkeuk. Yes, Camus…
I admit it, I admit it
Are you feeling relieved too?
I don’t know how you didn’t confess like that until now
I hope
Now all I have to do is hold that woman in her arms and be loved!
Maybe by now that master is so snobby that he forgot how he fought a duel with you?
No, I would have forgotten it the moment the duel ended.
You’re an empty woman kneeling down to my dad to beg for mercy by sending you here, who was almost sentenced to death after a duel!
Even seeing the disciple who almost killed him, honey dripped from his eyes. Did it fall!
Ah~ the saintess came out, the saintess came!
I heard that your teacher, whom you love so much, is also subject to mind control!?
I can hypnotize her and control her, but she’s noble so I can’t touch her?
Is this your true intention?!”

After…
All sighs come out There is no end.
A few days ago I never thought this would happen
I couldn’t even imagine…

There is no separation that is not painful, but
Ending up biting like this
I really don’t want to

“…To Master, that was about fighting a duel because I was pissed off to protect you.
It’s not like I was really trying to manipulate it from the beginning…
I apologize for hypnotizing you.
I’m really sorry.
I did it because I wanted you that much.
That’s what I did wrong…
So Rumika, let’s stop… “

“What are you stopping?
Why?
Go ahead!
Why?”

“I’m tired and tired now, so I can’t do it anymore.
Let’s stop hurting each other…”

“What can’t you do? Under!
What did we start with
Very funny!”

Okay. Whether you listen or not, I will just say what I have to say and finish it.

“I’m tired of trying to be good with you, an achievement that doesn’t deserve it, and I’m tired of struggling to get a position.
I’m tired…
I hate to make excuses…
Let’s stop…
I want to rest now.”

Dump.

“What are you tired of?
Tired of what you’re good at?
Wake up Kamu!
Don’t sit down and keep talking!”

“Van Dark!”

“Uh… Uh? Me?”

“… Take our princess and go to the Devil’s Castle.
Soon the transformation will be released and you will become weak.
Rumika’s magic consumption has been extreme lately, but she used magic dye twice before.”

“Then, please…”

“That’s right. Even the dormant energy inside her body exploded and flew away.
It will be dangerous, so take me to the Devil Castle.”

“Camu!
Who are you to look at me and go here or over there?!”

“… You will be transformed soon
I couldn’t last long while hiding my horns in that state.
But that doesn’t mean you’re going back to the capital of the human kingdom with me.
… Don’t be stubborn and follow Van Dark.
He’s the commander of the corps, and he’s my friend.
It may sound embarrassing, but there are no demons around here who can escort you to the demon castle.”

Her head hurts, so she puts her forehead and presses her temples.
Even just waving my hand, the bone resonates so much that it tingles.

Rumika looked down at me as I sat on the floor with my temple propped up.
Pass me by

“I’m disappointed, Kamyu…
You believed…
We’re done now.”

“Okay… Bye.”

Stop.

Rumika glared at me as I sat down with fiery eyes, then she turned around and walked away.

“…”

Tuk-tuk.

Van Dark patted me on the shoulder once and passed by.

After that, I have no energy.

Tuk-tuk. Tuk-tuk. Tuk-tuk. Tuk-tuk. Tuk-tuk. Tuk-tuk. Tuk-tuk. Tuk-tuk. Tuk-tuk. Tuk-tuk…

Fuck this…
All the Demon Soldiers hiding behind Van Dark came out and lined up and patted me on the shoulder.

… Have there been many around here?
Oh, it’s embarrassing.
I’m afraid to see the faces of the village demons, so where will I go back?
I can’t lift my head while sitting down.