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Episode 10:
The Devil…
“OH, ARE YOU DONE RUNNING AROUND EVERYWHERE now?”
As Noah, Nia, and I descended the long stairs together, we found Mylene waiting for us with her beautiful butlers and maids in a corner of an enormous limestone cavern. It was cold and dark. That probably made it a good place for the vampires to sleep.
“Here I thought you would come chasing after me in rage, but have you given up on that yourself?” I calmly put a hand to my cheek and tilted my head to the side.
A vein bulged on Mylene’s temple in her graceful agitation. “My, you seem awfully relaxed despite the situation. When hunting someone of high personage, you can just rouse your prey from their cover and apologize after. Or perhaps you didn’t know this even though you’re a princess?”
So the reason there were so many stationed outside was to prevent me from escaping.
W̆ ĕb̌n óv̊ ē l̇ Е̊ ǹù mа
“Oh, my most sincere apologies. I cannot allow you to do something so uncivilized. After all, I am a city girl,” I replied.
The two of us started giggling together. For some reason, one of the vampire maids swayed as if she were feeling dizzy. Was she suffering from anemia? She probably wasn’t getting enough blood.
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“You’ve finally arrived.” A middle-aged vampire appeared from the depths of the cavern. It was Count Auber, though the real count had probably been served as a meal long ago.
“You look so pale, my lord. Have you been having trouble sleeping?” I teased.
“How is this mischief-making girl still alive?” He gave a thin smile as he noticed I had fewer attendants with me. “I see your numbers have decreased. Did you get attacked on your way here?” He seemed like the chatty type, but evidently he and the countess hadn’t shared any information with each other.
I knew, however, that the real reason he was talking so much was to cover up his moment of letting a suspicious look slip. Although we were hiding our demonic presences, he sensed there was something different about Noah and Nia, and was slightly on guard now. I wouldn’t expect anything less from such an old vampire. However, I supposed that appearances didn’t exactly correlate to how old a vampire was. That seemed to be the case for Mylene as well, who looked like she was only eleven years old and… Uh-oh, she’s glaring at me.
Ẁеḃ_ñоv́ е l Е̃ n ů m à
I gave a troubled sigh. “I sent my other two attendants to give my regards to your wife in the chapel, since it seemed like she was on her way out. Do you know where she might be planning to go?”
Count Auber’s eyes glazed over. Mylene frowned and glared up at the ceiling.
“That said, I am starting to tire of my time here, so I came to say my goodbyes before I left.”
“Ha ha ha! I had heard that the Holy Kingdom’s princess was so graceful and full of love that she wouldn’t even harm a fly, but it turns out that she’s quite the tomboy instead.” Count Auber laughed at me as he bared his fangs. “Do you really think you’re going to be allowed to leave here?”
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Hundreds of vampires stepped out of the shadows of the cavern. Wait, it wasn’t just vampires. Judging from the color of their skin, half of them were actually ghouls. There was too many of them to have hidden in the shadows. Perhaps it was the work of shadow magic? Or a kind of dark magic?
At any rate, it was certainly the right time for a vampire’s minions to make their appearance. They sure reeked, though. Count Auber must have come down here to get all of these guys out.
Е̌ nu m̂а̌ .ï d
Count Auber had a hundred vampires and a hundred ghouls. Mylene had fifty pretty vampires. The air was tense with bloodlust.
However.
“Lady Yulucia, may I have your permission to exterminate them?” Noah’s calm voice broke the silence that had settled in the cavern.
“Me too, please!”
Nia too? Here I’d thought she’d find it a bother and prioritize wanting to go home. Perhaps the two of them just couldn’t bear the disrespect these vampires continued to show me any longer.
Guess I have no choice.
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“You have my permission, Noah, Nia. Good luck.”
“Thank you,” the twins happily replied in unison as they stepped before me.
I figured they’d be all right if they could still wield the power they’d demonstrated before. If things got bad, I knew I could just get them all in one sweep of my megaton punch, but I quickly realized that would be unnecessary.
“Release.”
***
Roar!!!
Еn ū m̃ а
Nia connected her power with Noah’s. Noah then let out this black breath like a dragon’s that mowed down all of the ghouls and vampires.
“What was that?!” Mylene cried out, having been fortunate enough to barely dodge the breath with her minions. She took a defensive posture just as an almost repulsive miasma ran through her body.
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“Stand down, Mylene!” Count Auber had managed to avoid the attack by using his minions as a shield, yet he couldn’t believe his eyes.
Yulucia’s two attendants couldn’t be even ten years old, yet here they were transforming into something inhuman. The skin of the boy named Noah was turning bluish-black. The whites of his eyes turned black and their pupils turned white. There was a wicked smile across his face as the crooked horns of a goat sprouted from his head.
The vampires struck by the ominous miasma turned to ash. The ghouls rotted to death.
“Ha ha!” And in this chaos, Nia’s body changed the same way her brother’s had as she singlehandedly cut her way into the center of the hordes of ghouls and vampires. The only difference was that she sprouted the black twisted horns of a sheep as she swung her demonic sword. The single blow sliced dozens of ghouls into pieces, absorbing their evil lives and souls altogether, and they disintegrated into dust.
Е n̄ u m ӑ
They looked like the kinds of demons that people should rightly be afraid of. Their noble visages left Count Auber wide-eyed in astonishment.
“Arch demons?!”
Noah had been born in the bottom layer of the Demon Realm. The bottommost layer wasn’t the deepest part of it, but rather where the weakest demons were born. Thus, Noah had been in a position where he could’ve been preyed upon by anyone.
Nia had been born there too, and the reason they hadn’t tried to eat one another was because they were the same color—and possibly out of loneliness too.
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Demons weren’t supposed to feel emotions like loneliness, yet the Demon Realm was so cruel that it did give rise to such emotions, and Noah and Nia were weak. It was because of these emotions—or perhaps just how unusual they were—that the two of them had been captured by a mighty being and then introduced to another being. One might even call it destiny.
The Golden Beast—Yulucia. At the time, she had been rather powerful herself. They’d thought she was just going to eat them, but instead she had lovingly raised them, though that might have just been for fun.
Е̃ñ.u.m̈ а
And then that feeling of wanting everything had taken root and begun to grow. They wanted everything so that they could offer it up to their creator, to whom they owed everything.
That was Noah’s one and only desire as a greedy demon.
This was why he understood the Dark Beast’s feelings of wanting all of her. Yet despite knowing that, he had betrayed the Dark Beast after the Golden Beast left for the sake of his beloved mistress.
He was sure his sister Nia felt the same. Nia could be careless at times, but she wasn’t stupid. She always kept an eye out for threats against their mistress and friends. She wanted to protect. No demon felt this kind of emotion. After being raised by Yulucia and knowing other people for the first time, Nia wanted to protect her beloved mother’s entire being.
She was a slothful demon, but laziness and slothfulness were two separate things. She was not slothful because she didn’t want to do anything. Nia’s sloth was the kind intended for her mistress who had seemed so lonely back in the Demon Realm, born from her desire to live an untroubled life with everyone.
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And it was for these reasons that the two of them sought power.
This must’ve been the reason Yulucia had given them these powers too.
Nia was a succubus who had the power to absorb so that she could be a shield to protect everything.
Noah was an incubus who had the power to release so that he could be the spear that vanquished everything.
However…
Having been the one to give them these “stats,” Yulucia didn’t want their powers to simply be of the adult variety, so she had given them this sort of power instead. The two of them were completely ignorant of this as they gleefully called forth their demonic powers to use for the sake of peace for their beloved Yulucia.
Е̌ n.um̂ a
After having Yulucia tinker with their powers and grant them as she pleased, their power was now that of evolved arch demons.
“Damn it,” Count Auber swore at the hopeless scene.
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The fact that these two arch demons were in the guise of the Saint’s attendants meant that they had obtained vessels for manifesting in this world. Once these two were unleashed, the Holy Kingdom would be finished. So why were such dreadful beings serving Yulucia, the Saint?
Judging from the fact that she had given the two of them names, they must have still been greater demons at the time of their summoning. She must’ve used her powerful saintly magic to name them as the compensation for their pact.
Yet that wasn’t absolute. While the person who named a demon would be deemed special in their eyes, the demon wasn’t obligated to be subservient to them. An even greater price would have to be paid to make such a pact.
Don’t tell me she promised them her saintly soul?!
Еnu m̀ а.і d
The soul of a pure maiden would certainly be sufficient. Yet what would drive Yulucia, the Saint and also a princess who wanted for nothing, to offer up her pure soul to strike a pact with a demon? Had she foreseen his family’s arrival and known that they were Calamity-Rank and Disaster-Rank vampires? Perhaps since she currently did not have the Hero at her side, she believed she had no chance of winning and had decided to sacrifice herself without telling anyone?
Though but a child, she had the heart of a martyr. She truly was the Saint of the Holy Kingdom.
They knew, though. Although Mylene had tried to break this deadlock by defeating the Saint, Yulucia was not someone who could be defeated so easily. After all, were the Hero here with her, the two of them would have been enough to defeat vampires.
Count Auber had believed that these two of legend would never appear again, which was why he had chosen to hide in this land. And yet, the strongest Saint in all of history existed in this era. In the presence of this shining girl, even Count Auber, who had not been human for four hundred years and had even forgotten his true name, felt like his heart was being cleansed.
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But it was too late.
Even if they managed to defeat Yulucia, the arch demons would be released from the spell that bound them, and they would kill Mylene before going on to bring the entire Holy Kingdom to ruin.
É n̊ u m а̊. і̄ d́
Mylene was extraordinarily talented. When she had initially been turned into a vampire by their former ally, she had been an unsightly girl. But thanks to Camilla cultivating her, she had become surprisingly beautiful—a demon among vampires. And thanks to her proficiency with controlling her own flesh, she could change her appearance from that of a young girl to that of an adult woman, which made her very useful when she needed to replace someone.
However, after Count Auber and Camilla had abandoned their ally, she had cheekily started to rebel.
As a four-hundred-year-old vampire, Count Auber couldn’t die in a place like this.
He had become a vampire to gain the wisdom of this world. He had read literature from every land, and even gained a fragment of the knowledge of other worlds that the great demon summoned in the past had left behind.
He couldn’t die. He must acquire more knowledge so that he could meet a certain person.
Just as vampires had ranks, so too did demons. In the legends told since time immemorial, only demons of a high rank could evolve into arch demons and reach the sphere of godhood. Three beings had been recorded in the knowledge of the other worlds as having attained godhood:
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The first was the great god of the Demon Realm, the Demon Lord.
The second was the great beast of the Demon Realm, the Beast.
And the third was…
A demon who had devoured countless humans over tens of thousands of years and acquired an understanding of human hearts.
Their exceptional beauty was such that people couldn’t believe they were human, and thus they were able to captivate the hearts of those who beheld them. They could enthrall anyone with their presence alone and, for a long time, had delighted in giving humans knowledge of the other worlds for fun, just to see the kind of chaos it would cause.
Even in the eternal Demon Realm, only one of their species had ever existed.
Ẅ е̄ b́ n о v е̃l Ẽ n ǔ má
The Devil.
Count Auber needed intelligence so that he could have a chance to meet this demon who possessed knowledge of the other worlds, even if it took him hundreds of years. Even if it cost him his soul.
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And so, he could not die. He had to keep on living, even if it meant abandoning his allies like at the battle in Telthed.
He spared one last look for Mylene and the holy maiden she was facing off against. The Saint—Yulucia—looked at Count Auber and grinned so sweetly, it was almost repulsive.
The Devil could enthrall anyone with their presence alone.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
Ě n̂ um ӓ
Captivated by the girl’s smile, Count Auber had slowed down a little bit. That was when Nia the arch demon materialized and used her demonic sword to slice Count Auber in two from the top of his head.
***
“Oh my.”
I had given Count Auber an insincere smile to try to get him to stop when he’d tried to run away, but Nia suddenly came out of nowhere and chopped him right in half.
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Had that been my fault?
Sweet Mylene glanced at him too and made a face that was a mixture of sadness and anger. However, she quickly shook the emotion as she turned back to me to glare. “Enough of this. Don’t run; fight me!”
Е nù mà ..і̄d.
“Oh, but…”
I had made a terrible discovery: I had no grudge against Mylene whatsoever! Admittedly, I had just intended to take her out kinda as a pest-control measure? I felt the only one I did begrudge was the count. What should I do, then?
Based on the turn of events, I was going to end up facing off against little Mylene, but I had yet to use my magic or true power against her. At present, little Mylene’s attacks couldn’t even touch me thanks to my magic pressure.
Oh, well.
“All right. I’ll take you on for real.”
“Then come at me.” Mylene grew black claws and warped the muscles of her entire body as she tapped the physical strength of a vampire. But surely Mylene was going to realize soon that I wasn’t a human. And I especially wasn’t the Saint.
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Very well, then. I’ll face off against you.
Offer unto me your despair.
Mylene instinctively leapt back.
I raked into her face with nails of deep crimson, and as I caught up with her at great speed, I threw stalactites at her.
The color of my eyes had changed. The whites had corroded into black, my pupils dyed the crimson of fresh blood. As I laughed, I bared my fangs that gleamed like rose quartz, all the while continuing to hurl stalactites at her in the darkness of the vast cavern.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!” The stalactite shattered and Mylene let out a scream as she flew back about a hundred meters. Black wings sprouted from her back and she stopped in the sky.
Е̄ ṅ um̀а́
Was it blood? Or a shadow?
“You’re a demon!”
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“Yes, that’s right,” I whispered in her ear as I flapped my golden wings that each spanned five meters across.
“How are you so fast?!”
“You’re just slow.”
Mylene’s face contorted with confusion. The sweet fragrance of fear from her brought a smile to my face.
Е ñu m̆ ǎ. і d̄
She reflexively brandished her hand to strike at me, but I managed to dodge it by circling behind her. There was a golden blur as the bat claws on my wings grabbed Mylene’s legs and flung her into the ground.
Booom!
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” Mylene screamed as she was pierced by a stalagmite and crushed into the very dust of the cavern floor.
Several shadows leapt out toward her then.
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“Lady Mylene!”
“We’ll help you!”
Е nu m̄ а
The butlers and vampire maids who had been spellbound by my miasma now rushed to Mylene’s side. They dug her out of the ground and surrounded her protectively.
“You…must…run…”
“No!”
“We shall not leave your side, my lady!”
“But…why…?”
Despite their fear of me, still floating in the air, Mylene’s minions desperately tried to protect her. She was starting to heal as she opened her eyes wide.
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“Because you created us!”
“And that fact has not robbed us of our own desires!”
“It is our wish to serve you, Lady Mylene!”
“Truly…?” Mylene continued to recover, and despite how wobbly she was, she managed to get their help to stand again. The despair and impatience had gone from her eyes. Now instead she felt a faint hope and love for those who had protected her.
This isn’t over yet.
No, wait, I’m not a bad guy! Though I am a demon!
Е̌n u m̆а̀ . i d̃
Because of how her servants had forced themselves to move despite my binding spell—aka my petrifying aura—all of them had half crumbled away! I was pretty sure that if I flared out with my aura again—which I was currently holding back—they would just turn to ash.
What in the world should I do now?! I was the demon who’d been the best at reading situations back in the Demon Realm! Now I had to actually think about what my next move would be!
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Arrrrrgh! Dang it!
There was nothing else for it.
Pat.
I was suddenly behind Mylene. When I tapped her shoulder, Mylene and all the pretty vampires bent back in surprise.
Ѐn̊ u m̆ ӓ
“It’s a bit cramped in here. How about we go outside for a little chat?”
“Huh?!” Mylene uttered inanely as I grabbed her wrist and started flying toward the ceiling with her.
“Hand, Pierce.” I infused my fist with magic by speaking Empyreal and punched right through the bedrock that was probably dozens of meters thick.
Kabooooooooooooom!
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With a thunderous crash and tremors that must have shaken the entirety of Count Auber’s lands, I punched a shaft to the surface about the size of a water well. I ascended up through it with Mylene.
“Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!” Mylene screamed like a maiden. “Ow! Wait! Stop! Ow! That hurts!”
Ẅеb̀n ô v̌e l Ê ň u m̆â
Bam, wham, bam, thwak, bam.
I heard something hitting the newly made rough rock face.
But I had decided that day that I would have no regrets!
Pop!
“Oh, right, this was supposed to be a ‘moonlit’ tea party.”
The Moonlit Tea Party was always held on nights with a pretty moon. We flew up about a thousand feet in the air. Mylene managed to shake herself free and sprouted her black wings again. She flew right in front of me and…
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“Eek!” Mylene gasped as she was surrounded by my adorable demons, who were showing their true natures still. She was sweating hard and her eyes darted all over, unsure of where to look. She was surprisingly versatile for a vampire.
I silently snapped my fingers and the four of them relaxed their auras. Mylene was finally able to breathe again. She bit her bottom lip as she shot me a reproachful look.
“What’s the meaning of this?”
“Don’t cry.”
“Don’t cry?!”
She was admittedly kind of cute.
Еṅ ů m̂а̀
“Mylene, I want you to be my minion.”
“Wh—” Mylene was speechless, the look on her face unbecoming for someone as pretty as her.
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“If you don’t want to, then…”
“What will you do to me?”
“How about we be friends instead?”
“What?” Mylene gaped at me as I suddenly lowered the bar.
Eñu ḿ а
Well, I didn’t really care what we called our relationship.
“What do you think of my offer, Lady Mylene?” Still in my demonic form, I placed a hand on my cheek like a proper lady and tilted my head to the side inquisitively.
Mylene let out an exaggerated breath. “Let us be friends then, Lady Yulucia.”
“Thank you.” With that, I had succeeded in securing manpower.
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“Not that any of this matters anymore, Count Auber being who he was too…” Mylene murmured in resignation. Her dress was in tatters. She then suddenly looked up and turned her face to the side. “Not that I care! I’m only mad about how humans despise us!”
Е́ǹ_ŭ ṁ а̌
“I understand.”
I sure knew a lot of tsunderes.
The vampires had been drawn here to manage the underside of society here in the Holy Kingdom where the simpleminded citizens were treated as food. This was so they could manage the livestock that no one would notice had gone missing. And so, the series of missing persons cases was left unsolved and the impending vampire threat ended before anyone in the Holy Kingdom had even realized it. I saw it as a very good thing for me too; I now had someone to manage the underworld of the Holy Kingdom.
But I couldn’t tell her.
I could never tell her that I had simply used the lives of Mylene and the other vampires to educate my attendants.
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