Chapter 82 – Disclosure

Episode 82 Disclosure

[Authentication denied.]

?

What.

Put your hand on the red orb again.

[Authentication denied.]

Hmm…
Master must have reset this?

Let’s knock

Smart.

“Uh… Can you wait a moment… ?”

“Yes, take it slow.
Can I go to that room?”

“Uh?
Oh no… Come in.”

I put my hand on the red marble again.

[Camus Franz.
It has been verified.]

It’s amazing every time I see it.

“Excuse me.”

Sigh.

Master is sitting on the bed.

It looks like you can change the authentication remotely.

“Are you feeling okay?”

“Huh… Thanks to you.”

“Thank god.”

My eyes are a little swollen

I also fixed my makeup.

Got prettier

Because women need reorganization in many ways.

I guess it took time

“… Didn’t I look ugly when I cried?”

“No.
Actually, I was the prettiest when I cried.
To the point where I want to cry on purpose sometimes.”

“… You have changed so slyly.”

“I was just being honest.”

Master pulled his legs together on the bed and hugged them.

… You have such a big chest, but you can do that movement?

Flexibility is no joke…

“… Am I really ugly?
Eat 300 years old, do whatever you want.
I think and cry alone…
I don’t think I grew up at all.
Inside.”

“I see.”

“… Do you want to die?”

He buries his face between his legs and only peeks out his eyes, glaring at me.

“It’s okay to do whatever you want by yourself.
That’s why you asked to break up with me… Is it because of infertility?
I should have told you beforehand.
We loved you so much…
Is it because I don’t seem to understand?”

“… It’s not like we broke up just because of infertility.
Ha… I’ve been prepared for a long time, and I’ve been worried since I knew you were coming here…
Can’t organize
Where to start talking…”

She lowered her head again and asked her leg.

“Take it slow and tell me.
I’ll wait.”

Creak.

I also went to Master’s side and sat down on the bed.

“In fact… I liked you first.”

“It is not.
I liked it first.”

“… Isn’t it?
I liked it first.”

“Because it is not.
I say first
I fell in love with Master from the moment I first met him! … Yo. This.”

I get angry and say half words.

“Chit, that must have been a child’s ‘Teacher is pretty’ level.
Even if a little kid says, ‘Teacher, I’m getting married’, does she really know the meaning of what she is saying?”

“… It is.”

Back.

Master hugged her leg tighter.

“I mean, a few years before you became an adult… I’ve loved it ever since.
… You are a student, I am a teacher.”

“You did?!
No, but why did you get cold right away when you confessed after the coming-of-age ceremony?”

Food.

Master laughs softly between his legs.

“At that time… It hasn’t been long since I became the Four Heavenly Kings, and the gazes around me are stinging…
I couldn’t bear to date right away on the day of the coming-of-age ceremony.
What would everyone say if I said that I liked minors… ?
I had a date with you because I had regrets.
… Do you know how hard it was when I pushed you away too?”

“And… To hide such a thing for 200 years.
Indeed, the Four Heavenly Kings, fire foxes…”

Fuck!

“Aagh!!
My forehead!!”

“Hey guy.
It’s been a long time since I’ve had a golden night, right?”

I think my brain is going to explode!!

I clutch my forehead and groan, but I hear a gloomy voice again.

“So when you met again after a long time and confessed, I didn’t want to lose you either.
And the time I dated you was so precious.
To the extent that I wish that it would last forever.
So… So, I did something very, very mean to you.”

“What is it?”

Seruk.

“!!!”

Master untied his knees and knelt in front of me as I sat on the bed.

“Master… !!”

Back.

Master presses my knees with both hands so that I cannot get up.

“I don’t mind… I want to ask for forgiveness.
In fact, I hypnotized you.”

“… Yes?”

“… So that you will love me unchanging
Even if one day a girl younger and prettier than me appears, look only at me…
I hypnotized you…”

Kwalung!

It’s like lightning strikes in my head.

“… Since when?”

“From the moment you confessed to me.”

“… Lie.
There was no reaction to my mental barriers.”

No matter how much I am the Four Heavenly Kings, before and after the coming-of-age ceremony, I also have magical powers and my understanding of hypnotism has increased.

It is the basic of the basics that hypnotists build hypnotic defense techniques and mental barriers.

As long as the mental barrier has been erected, it is impossible to go unnoticed by infiltrating the mind.

“Really.
Trust me.
… You promised
You will listen to me to the end.”

Thump thump thump.

My heart is pounding.

If it’s true that I was hypnotized, are these feelings I have for Master right now real?

“If you control it directly, like mind control, the mind barrier will of course react.
However, if it is to plant a suggestion unconsciously, it is quite possible.
Do you know
Because he is a hypnotist.”

… That’s right.

The first day Rumika came to my herbalist.

I hinted at Rumika in her brainwashing room.

Even 100-year-old Rumika takes it, but what if I’m just over 20?

If that’s also an indication from the Four Heavenly Kings?

Enough to take hints.

“… That’s right.
Keep talking.”

“As you know, suggestion takes longer and takes longer the more it suits the mind of the target and the more specific the content is.
So… Planted in you
To ‘I love Nene Boulanger’.”

If what Master said is true, the suggestive effect must be strong since it amplifies the feelings I already liked.

If it is ‘true’.

Master’s words continued, whether she didn’t know my feelings or pretended not to know.

“The time I met you was really… It has been a blessing in my life.
I was happy enough to never again.
But… I was always nervous.
What will happen if I get hints from you…
If the suggestion is broken, won’t you abandon me…
Then, when I found out about my physical condition, I couldn’t help but… I didn’t have the face to see you
I’m just a selfish woman who even hinted at you and tried to keep you by your side.
Because she is unqualified and despicable…”

Ah.
Ah.
Ahhh.

How did you feel, Rumika?

[Shut up!
Betrayer!
Traitor!
You’re pretending, you still see me as a puppet?!]

[Bad asshole!
I trusted you!]

[I… I liked you…
Was that also hypnotized by you?
Everything you said to me sweetly was just trying to control me!]

[Then, there is no guarantee that my emotions and memories will not be manipulated from then on, right?
Did you try to dominate me like that saintess?]

Lumica… Sorry.

I wasn’t just making excuses back then…

When a hypnotized subject realizes they are hypnotized, they have only one action to choose from.

Moving in a direction the hypnotist never wanted.

For example…

Like killing the hypnotist.

… Rumika didn’t kill me then.

I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.

“So I told you to break up first.
And all hints have been solved.
I thought I should get away from you now.
However… However… Hey, I can’t let you go… There was no
No matter how much time passes…
What do I do when I keep thinking of you…”

If I hadn’t done that to Rumika, I wouldn’t have tried to understand her Master.

You would have thought that hypnosis was only used against enemies and props.

So, am I really free from hypnosis now?

Need to check.

In a sure way.

I disarmed my mind barrier and put my hand to my head.

And cast a mind control spell.

Tsutsutsu…

The surest way is to reset all magical effects, including the mental barrier, by massaging my brain.

Once the brain is massaged, there is no magical effect on the brain.

… It’s clear I’m not being manipulated now.

Mind control magic is an ultimate skill that even the master cannot solve.

I know because I used it in a duel.

Right now, my feelings and reason are mine alone.

… Thank god.

I’m so glad.

I’m so glad that Master’s words about clearing the suggestion are true.

All that remains is to format any effects that may have slipped through the breach in the mind barrier.

Tsutsutsu.

Tears were falling from Master’s eyes again, as the makeup she had corrected was colorless.

“So this time without hypnotism, huh…
To be honest, I wanted to let people know my physical condition and start over.
However… Sobbing…
Rumika appears next to you…
I have nowhere to go…
Whoa…”

“So you were jealous and tried to separate me and Rumika?”

“No!
I was jealous…
I didn’t deserve to see you again…
Because the two of you really had a reason not to get along!
Even the Demon King and the Four Heavenly Kings knew it.
That’s why!!”

The long-awaited master now cried desperately and hugged my leg.

“What is the reason… ?”

My head is cold after hearing such great stories.
Because there is no sense of reality.

I never thought something like this would happen in my life.

I understand the feelings of Rumika who was angry with me again.

It’s not like I’ve been supporting him all my life like Master.

It is brave to have endured that anger.

… If I could, I would like to apologize properly.

Why did Rumika and I have to separate?

Aren’t you jealous?

If it’s a collaboration between my ex-girlfriend and the future father-in-law…

“Camyu, the day the Demon King was assassinated.
Why do you think your family must have been in the Demon King’s Tower?”

What?

“… Yes?”

Master grabbed my knee to break it.

Now, the tears flowed from her eye makeup and she turned into a cheetah.

“Didn’t you ever think it was strange?
The Franz family, no estates, no money, no genealogy.
I am not an aristocrat, but a commoner.
But how do commoner families get an audience with the Demon King?”

Kwalung!

It’s like lightning strikes my head again.

I never thought about why my family was there because I only thought about their deaths.

“That was to ask permission to marry me…”

“Even so, permission like that is usually given through complicated procedures.
To think the demon king met three commoners in person.
Isn’t it strange “

“!”

“And how do you think a commoner will bring you young to teach me magic?
Magic belongs to the talented?
Your parents can’t use magic, so how do they know you have a talent?”

Come to think of it, my father and mother are ordinary people.

I’ve never seen him use magic.

Tamyu, rather, she followed me and learned beginner magic, but she was there…

“How could you, a hypnotist, achieve excellent results in magic tournaments?
You often say
A genius hypnotist.
You’re quick to learn magic.
He learned ancient witchcraft and even the Taoist magic of the East.
What a mighty magic power was dormant in you.
Do you think this is all a coincidence?”

If three or more coincidences overlap, they are no longer coincidences.
There is a hidden causal relationship.

“No way… “

“Okay.
You are the possessor of Dark Blood.”

Haha…
Such a coincidence… Really…”

“No, Camu!
Dark Blood may appear by chance, but the odds of that happening are extremely slim!
Dark blood is passed down through the blood of the demon king!
Still don’t know?”

No way. No way.

“The day I met you and did the blood test.
I knew it was dark blood.
I secretly investigated.
I know because I participated in the civil war.
Because the former demon king purged all his blood and relatives.
Research was easy.
Excluding the dead, we only need to find the missing.”

“Wait, wait…”

I cover my head.

[Mom.
Aren’t we going somewhere else for the holidays?
The other kids are going to grandpa and grandma’s house.]

[Is your mom and dad an only child?
No aunts, aunts, or uncles?]

Since I was born, I have never seen my relatives, such as grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc. ‘Not even once’.

Even during the holidays, only my family stayed simple, and I thought that was natural.

I wondered if it made sense that the long-lived demons had no family or relatives, but…

I thought I was just fighting with my relatives and cutting off ties.

… I just knew that.

“The former demon king and your father’s great-grandfather are the same.
So, you and Rumika have the same great-grandfather.”

“Wait, wait!!!”

Whoops, whoops…

I run out of breath and the world spins round and round.

“Great-grandfather?
Father’s father’s father’s father?
Grandfather’s grandfather?
Who is it?
That’s the same… ?”

Master, who has become almost a cheetah due to the flowing eye makeup, barely looks up while on his knees.

She, too, has a sore throat in her throat.

“Okay.”

It’s ridiculous.

The reason why the demon king opposes death.

The reason Master suddenly intervened and prevented Rumika and I from getting married.

“You and Rumika can’t get married.”