The Devil Who Grants Wishes

121 – to the sky (3)

“Come on, sit down quickly. The finest furniture I’ve carefully selected and a variety of desserts are prepared.”

“…”

It’s cold.

A dagger flies into the chest and pierces it.

The words that enter the ear canal must be warm and soft, but the more you listen to them, the more you get goosebumps all over your body. I want to get out of this place as soon as possible.

Above all, that gaze.

It is like the eyes of a tiger with a deer 300m in front.

It’s a prey that can be easily subdued, but it’s like the way you approach it carefully so you don’t get noticed until you can definitely take your breath away. to be.

It’s as if when I sit on that chair, chains suddenly come out from all sides and tie me up, or if I eat that tea or refreshments, the scenery changes in the blink of an eye and I feel like I’m lying in bed.

“…Thank you.”

As Aigo said, saving someone to die for instead is an act that should not be done in terms of common sense, so I did not adopt it, but there was no reason to refuse to increase the number of people to protect everyone, so I am following it.

First of all, I came to the demon realm using the horn Belial gave me like this to make a proposal to Belial, the strongest among those I know… What, scary, scary.

Until now, since I became Faust’s body, I had never felt a sense of fear, but I felt that feeling against Belial.

It is not the fear that comes from being threatened with life, but the fear of something different.

“hehehe… I know that’s not my goal, but I can’t stand it because I’m looking forward to it so much.”

“…For that purpose?”

“Yes, you didn’t come to grant my wish, did you? You came to make a wish for me.”

And the being that creates such fear in me sees through what I am trying to do in an instant through great insight.

It’s a wish… Yes, that point of view isn’t wrong either. Certainly, from Belial’s point of view, I must have come to make a wish again.

“You’re trying to fight Cerapia? All the demons you’ve spread in the world are screaming at Cerapia’s holy power.”

“…Yes, I need someone to protect everyone when I fight Cerapia.”

“He protects me… Hmm, that’s a bit different from what I thought.”

After taking a sip of the tea and setting the cup on the table, Belial speaks in bewilderment, as if she had heard a sound like fat.

For a moment, I thought it was some kind of shaming, or that I was just pretending not to be ignorant in order to gain the upper hand in the conversation, but judging from Belial’s reaction, it seems like he really didn’t know.

Even though he already knew that Serafia and I were going to fight, and that I was going to invite Belial there.

So… did Belial think that I was trying to protect the children?

“Why is it different?”

“Yes, the West-sama I saw with my own eyes was never such a person. Of course, since Lucia is a child whom West-sama picked up and raised herself, it’s not that I don’t understand those feelings… But what about the people around her? Why are they protecting her? If you fight Serapia while protecting Lucia, you won’t need my help, right?”

Belial’s question filled my ears.

It’s not meant to be sarcastic or anything like that, of course. Just a pure question.

“…But I’ll have to protect them. They’re the kids who believed in me and followed me.”

“Hmm… As expected, it seems that the memories of being a human still remain strong.”

Belial, who makes a slight snort, looks me slowly up and down with deep eyes and says.

…As expected, at the level of Belial he drank, he could immediately see through Faust’s past.

“I don’t want to do it with my body, but the piece of reason I had as a human is righting Seobang-nim’s actions. Shall I solve it?”

“No. So will you accept my offer?”

“You should say it’s a wish, not a proposal.”

Belial made a high-pitched noise as she tapped the teacup on the table with her fingers.

Since this is an act that does not benefit her at all, even correcting it as a wish rather than a proposal, the current Belial is not a woman who has always clung to me, but is showing off the majesty of a charismatic demon.

“The price should be higher than when you make the divine power into a crystal.

“…That’s right, I’d like to hear it, but what do you want?”

“Well… I can’t say exactly what I want, there are so many things I want from the West. Hmmm… Marriage is already a fait accompli, so I leave it out… Forced affection doesn’t contain any affection at all, so I leave out this one… . Oh, how about this?”

Belial, who had been sitting on the other side of the table for a while, jumped up and eventually crossed the table and came towards me.

…No, anyway, what do you mean by fait accompli? I don’t remember agreeing at all, but you’re calling me Seobang-sama on your own.

“Sign a master/servant contract with me.”

“…master and servant?”

“Yes, I think that’s the most obvious at this point.”

It’s a slave contract.

…Hmm, that’s a bit like that.

Although he said he wanted Belial’s help, Faust, who was sleeping in his unconscious, would never allow him to go under Belial, who was weaker than me.

Above all, I also have a bit of pride.

“If I become a servant of the West, I will be able to share my feelings with the West anytime, anywhere, receiving the same blessing as that engraved on Lucia. Isn’t it a perfect master?”

“…Wait a minute, are you saying you’re going to be my follower?”

“…? Yes, of course, isn’t it? How can a wife possess Mr. West?”

At that moment, the words Belial spoke as if it were natural were enough to disturb my mind.

What are you talking about?

In exchange for a wish, why do you become my follower?

He stared at Belial, wondering if he was joking or misunderstanding something, but Belial didn’t joke or misunderstand anything.

It just blushes, ashamed of my gaze.

…I can’t quite keep up with the story and the stream of consciousness, really.

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“You came unexpectedly early. Then, I can’t believe that—it’s not.”

Aigo greets me right away when I return to the underworld from the underworld using Belial’s severed horn.

At first, Ago doubted whether I had failed to capture Belial because of the excessively fast time, but soon felt the energy of the demonic stomach wrapped around my body and widened my eyes.

“The demon stomach is still with Belial-sama, but it wouldn’t be strange if the demon stomach were moved at any time. Congratulations on your success, new master of the demon realm.”

“…It’s questionable whether this should be considered a success, but for now, Belial was successfully captured. The celestial Cael is not underworld, so it’s very good that he can run rampant as much as he wants.”

“Success, of course. If we don’t call it success, the viscera of the countless demons who have challenged Belial for thousands of years will be twisted.”

no, you don’t have to say that.

Ugh… It’s a headache, really.

“Then, is the recruitment of personnel over?

“I think that’s generally the case… But I’d rather get rid of the variable anyway. I don’t know how much more I’ll collect, but I’d like to at least take Irene with me.”

“You mean that elf? Well, he’s strong in his own way. But he probably won’t be that dramatically strong…”

After hearing my answer, Aigo slightly tilted his head in doubt.

Aigo, who has even had conversations with Irene a few times, seems to have a hard time imagining that Irene is a strong enough character that I personally targeted and recruited.

But my eyes are right.

“No, Irene is strong. Even you who have surpassed the Demon Lord cannot guarantee victory.”

“You can’t guarantee victory… Hmm, when you say that, Irene definitely looks different. Around the time I fainted from being attacked by Belial-sama, Irene must have done something worthy of Faust-sama’s eyes.”

Irene is strong.

Aigo cannot guarantee victory, and the current Elias, not the Elias after the story has progressed a lot, can be defeated very easily.

If it hadn’t been for that level of strength, I wouldn’t have endured all the aftermath of fighting Belial and stood firm in my place.

On the contrary, even in the aftermath, Irene observed Belial’s fight with me as much as possible and even struggled to find out our weaknesses. Irene is definitely strong.

Even if you flinched momentarily when you first met me, would you have finished the deal pretending not to know like a professional? It must have been because he had his own self.

I’m not quite sure why a character who didn’t even exist in the story is so strong, but what can I do if it’s real.