Chapter 14 – Demon King, Third Generation Chaebol, Baek Ga-Eun (4)

There was no useful information for several days after visiting Baek Ga-eun.

There was no relevant information other than old photos taken with my parents.

“Mr. Choin, what are you doing? Uh… Gray hair… Baek Ga-eun?”

I was startled by the voice I heard behind me, closed the search window, and turned around.

“Yes? “Who are you talking about?”

“No, I want to order you to do something… But why are you looking for that person?”

“Uh, is Hyeon Ha-yeon your next target?”

“Yes, but you spoke in a tone that seemed like you just knew…”

“I did ballet~”

“···Ballet?”

Traces of the devil were found in an unexpected place.

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She was a marketing employee, and it is said that she majored in ballet during her school days.

“So~ I thought she had a lot of money, but I didn’t know she was the daughter of Baekil Group~”

“Do you have any contact information?”

“I wasn’t close to her because she was extremely quiet and introverted.”

Baek Ga-eun said that she went to school quietly with an introverted personality and had few friends.
Her lack of friends was just like when she was the demon lord.

“Ah! “Maybe it’ll be on the show we’re doing right now?”

“···Show?”

“There’s something famous, Swan Lake”

*

She didn’t know if it was okay to book a performance with a corporate card, so she came to ask the accounting team, and she even heard Hyeon Hayeon praise from the accounting team staff.

“···Choin, Hayeon works so hard, but the manager in charge goes to see the ballet?”

“It’s not like that…”

“Hehe… Anyway, take a good look, and I’ll take care of it.”

“Thank you.”

The performance was a few days later.

I reserved the best seat among the empty seats.

*

She arrived at the concert wearing a neat semi-suit and with her hair straightened.
Perhaps because it was the most expensive seat, the entrance was different from the regular seat.

[♪~ ♫~ ♫]

The lights dimmed, and soon the orchestra began to play.

Rather than focusing on the performance, I was interested in the characters.

Before the performance started, there was a list of performers in the pamphlet, so she looked for Baek Ga-eun, but after searching for a while, she was able to find her name written in small letters in a corner.

[♪~ ♫~ ♪~ ♫ ~♪]

As the performance progressed, swans appeared.

Among the swans circling around the cursed princess, there was a woman who stood out.

It was Baek Ga-eun.

She was dressed like other swans, but her white hair, which was not covered by her headdress, was revealed, and her makeup was unusually darker than that of the other ballerinas.

She was a supporting character who hovered around the main character.

‘Baek Ga-eun wasn’t perfect at ballet… Her skills were only average?’

‘She just looked pretty… She was of average height, but her hair was amazing. It was amazing because her hair didn’t even take dye.’

It was similar to the information given by the office staff.

Seeing her mixed in among the many ballerinas, everyone would think she was ordinary except that her hair was white.

Knowing her bare face, I think she looks better than most celebrities.

Looking at a face covered twice as thickly as others

She thought it would be a waste for her to remain in her supporting role.

*

I could hear the audience cheering and giving final greetings through the wall.

I got up before the performance ended and headed toward the exit.

‘After the performance, there is a passageway where only the officials go out, and fans sometimes wait there! ‘

When I arrived at the aisle that the office staff had told me about, there were fans waiting earlier than me.

“Ah… It’s almost time to come out?”

“If you wait a little longer… Uh! It comes out over there!”

A few fans ran to their favorite cast members and grabbed paper and pens.

The ballet company members willingly signed autographs with happy expressions.

Some people were snooping around the aisle to see if the person they were waiting for had not yet appeared.

It wasn’t until most of her lessons were finished that she appeared with her hat pressed down.
I approached her, but she tried to pass me because she was walking looking at her land.

“Over there…”

“···”

Even though I walked up to her, I caught her going ahead, wondering if she was ignoring me or not hearing me.
She had a suspicious look in her eyes, as if asking if it was her.

The moment our eyes met, I became nervous without even knowing.

Her big, languid eyes and cute face like that of a well-groomed puppy looked exactly like the devil she had seen in her dream, but she was a different person.

“···Me?”

“···Yes! Congratulations on a successful performance. I enjoyed it. Please take this.”

After seeing the flowers prepared by other visitors, I hurriedly gave them the flowers I bought at the entrance.

I handed her a white rose, the same color as her hair.

“···Thank you, then…”

She looked back and forth between her rose and me, then took the flower and continued on her way.
I wanted to catch her and share her story more, but I couldn’t think of anything to say that would capture her like she should.
But this opportunity was too precious to let her go like this.
“···Over there!”

“···”

When she caught me again, she looked at me as if I was wondering what was going on.

“···I look forward to the next performance.”

“···Yes, thank you.”

She bowed slightly and left at a slightly faster pace.

I blew the first opportunity.

*

[Don’t be too discouraged…]

“… I didn’t think we could become friends on the first try…”

“But still… I even gave you flowers, but that’s all?! Are all third-generation chaebols like that!?”

[If you make up your mind in a hurry, nothing will happen…]

The goddess soothed me and told me to look back on the past circuit.

[I left a first impression on the Demon King, so the next opportunity will definitely come…]

“Next opportunity…”

There will definitely be another opportunity.

In just a few days, there were still several performances left by her ballet company.

Just in case, she reserved her seat for every performance.
It wasn’t a good place, but…

[How about taking a look at other records?]

“···Another record?”

[That’s right… As we’ve seen before, the Demon King not only appears in one record, but her power grew stronger, and she crossed into other dimensions several times…]

“Another dimension…? So the Demon King went to another dimension and went around killing people?”

[Strictly speaking, she’s the only one… Hmm, anyway, I found some records of her past that seem to have a lot of information. How about taking a look?]

“···Yes, her original record had too little information… At best, it was about food tastes…”

“Shall we take a look?”

[Hehe, I understand.]

The goddess smiled and stretched out her hand to me.

Warm light obscured my vision.

*

It was an unpleasant experience.

I’ve seen a lot of past records so far, but this was the most unpleasant record.

I thought I wouldn’t be very impressed by the past because I was used to seeing cruel scenes often.

‘Leukjeok… Jeokjeok···’

“Keuuuuu!”

People were chewing people and eating them.

She took a big bite on her calf, and blood ran down the corner of her mouth.

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen my past self get eaten.

However, this was my first time seeing such an explicit scene.

The woman who was called a ‘saint’ in this world was eating me as if she didn’t care that her expensive-looking gold-embroidered clothes were stained with my blood.

At first she tried to cut it with her knife, but she thought for a moment, then strengthened her own teeth and gently a bit into her flesh.
There was too much blood on her to be considered cute as she chewed and chewed her mouth full of meat.
She awakened me, who was about to pass out with her blood foaming in my mouth, and made me see the scene of her eating clearly with her holy power.
It was truly a series of torture.

I don’t know how long it took, but after almost all one leg was eaten, he used magic to make the leg look fine.

Anyone who sees her as she looks warm, like the light emitted by the Goddess of Luck, and works magic for me in a sacred manner under the cozy glow of light, will think she is a saint herself.

If I hadn’t been bloodied…

She smiled with satisfaction and continued one-sided communication for several days.

Of course, I didn’t seem to have time to answer.

Time passed by inexorably, and when the saint had grown a little more, she appeared.

The devil, Baekga Eun, has appeared.

Even when she saw me, she showed interest as if I was a stranger.

As her heart was dying, the white hair and dark clothes, completely different from her saintly counterpart, began to pray to her blindly, as if she were her own savior.
She seemed interested, so she hid several times to watch her saint’s actions, and when her saint disappeared, she appeared and comforted her past self.

“Ah, ah… Demon King…”

“Yeah, yeah… Was it hard today too?”

“It hurt less thanks to the Demon King being by my side… Please be by my side tomorrow too…”

“I will always be by your side.”

After a while, after she became an adult, she started attacking me from the past.
At first glance, it seemed like a fresh and loving relationship, like the first night of newlyweds, but it ended with him biting her ear, biting her lip, and chewing on her finger.
It was extremely cruel.

In the end, the Demon King’s patience exploded. The devil also formed a relationship and whispered love, then killed the saint and stole me and ran away.

At the end of the world, where no one can come, the Demon King and I lived and loved each other, but the Demon King deliberately hurt me and reminded me of the pain of the past, and I lived happily for a long time, reflecting on my love for the Demon King…

“··· Is this a happy ending?”

[···After living for several hundred years, you lost a fight with a hero who came from another world, took you away, and you committed suicide…]

“Stop! Please stop… I’ll know it’s a happy ending…”

[···]

This Demon King’s record was an opportunity to remind me how important my mission is.

*

A few days passed and the day of the performance arrived once again.

I got up from her seat earlier than last time and waited for her in the aisle.
This time too, she was walking at a distance.

“Hello”

“···Yes”

“Please accept this”

She looked at me like I was strange and accepted the flowers I gave her.

It was a white rose.

“···Thank you.”

“I enjoyed the performance today too. This time it felt completely different from the previous performance.”

“···Yes”

I deliberately brought up the topic of the performance, but she gave a short answer as if she was not interested and tried to leave.

“···See you again.”

“···”

She left without saying a word.

*

I watched a performance that lasted several weeks.

This time, I reserved a different seat than before.

Even though it was the same stage, the feeling was completely different when I saw it from different places.

This time I bought flowers and waited at the place I always waited.

I gave her flowers a few times and barely spoke a word or two, but she still didn’t want to know my name or why I was waiting.

“Hello”

“···Here we come again”

“It’s the last performance soon. Wouldn’t it be a shame to miss it?”

“···”

“I had a good time today.”

She looked at the flowers I held out and spoke to me.

“···I don’t have any more room in the house.”

“Oh, have you saved everything? Thank goodness.”

She looked at me smiling shamelessly and accepted the flowers.

She met my eyes and spoke her words.

“···Do you have a lot of money?”

“I’m a salaried worker, but it’s okay.”

“… I guess you make a lot of money.”

“Actually, I don’t earn much. But I wanted to see Ga-eun on stage.”

“···I’m not even the main actor”

“Hmm… The prima donna is amazing, but in my eyes, Ms. Ga-eun is the closest to a swan.”

“···”

She was still looking into my eyes with her big eyes.

Her eyes were a beautiful brown.

“You did much better than the first performance I saw.”

“···Yes?”

Her gaze wavered slightly.

“After watching the same performance several times, I could see who was making mistakes and who was doing better.

“The movements you showed today were the most beautiful in the performance so far.”

“Even I, a beginner, could see how much effort you had put in. Thank you for your hard work.”

“···”

She seemed to be embarrassed by my praise, so she lowered her head and walked away a little.

“··· Next week”

“···Yes?”

“The last performance is next week.”

As far as I know, there are still two or three episodes left before the curtain falls.

“···My last performance is next week.”

“···”

“… Come see it because it’s the last time”

“···Yes, I will definitely come to see it.”

With those last words, she left.

*

Her last performance has ended.

She watched me wait from afar and then approached me.

“I had a good time today.”

“···Thank you”

“Please accept this”

“···”

She looked a little surprised when she saw the bouquet I brought her.

She took the bouquet I gave her and spoke to me.

“···It’s the last time”

“···”

She gave me a look as if she had nothing to say.

“… Please accept this too”

“···”

I handed her the business card I had prepared.
She said while taking the business card I gave her.

“CG… Enter?”

“I would like to formally greet you. “This is CG Entertainment team leader Kim Cho-in.”

“I came here to scout Miss Baek Ga-eun.”

“···”

Her pretty eyebrows furrowed slightly.

As she stared into my eyes, she sighed briefly and spoke.

“Huh… Scouting is a serious story, right?”

“···Yes, that’s right.”

“Let’s go”

“···Yes?”

“I’m not going to stand here and talk.”

“···Yes”

*

She wet her mouth with her tea and opened her mouth, looking into my eyes.

“So… The reason you’ve been coming to see me for the past few weeks is to sign a contract with me?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“···Do you know who I am?”

“Yes, I know.”

“···Great. Then, how did you find out?”

I would have come to scout her, but it seemed more like a situation where I was interviewing her.

“Recently, while I was scouting for new talent, I saw Baek Ga-eun’s photo on a program and decided to do it.”

To be exact, I was caught searching for her from the beginning, but it wasn’t a lie.

She narrowed her brows at my remark and gave me a sharp look in her eyes.

“···What if I refuse?”

Then I’m screwed.