The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 338

Chapter 338:

If you guys don’t cooperate, I’ll stick to the five main religions, and I’ll hold grudge against this and start hunting Lord vampires.

Lucinil stares at me with his arms folded in amazement.

“Do you think you’ll be able to get back here alive if you say that? Aren’t you worth your life? Do you think even if you have Tiamata, we won’t be able to close our eyes and pick off your head?”

“Ellerith will do something for you. Until now, no matter what happened, he did it somehow.”

“That low!”

The one who was most perplexed by my words was Elleris herself.

Because I don’t think I was expecting it to go out like this.

“… … Aren’t you trying to eat your life too raw?”

“Shouldn’t you try? You are free to try to kill me, but you will have to be prepared for what will happen next if I somehow escape.”

I speak fiercely, but I don’t really intend to fight, so I reverse summon Tiamata.

I know that it’s not a good way to touch their ego.

But in the end, I had no card other than threats.

There is nothing to give, and there is no reason for them to cooperate.

If I can get them to help me by throwing away all my pride and kneeling down on the floor begging, then I can.

But even then, cooperation will not be obtained.

So the best I can do is this.

“To put it into perspective, the Odae Main Church has a lot of power and scale, so joining that side is beneficial. However, the reason why I came to the Council first was because, after all, this is the closest neighbor, so it’s not polite to come first. And if I put on the mask of being the champion of Tuan and become the mascot of the five main religions, I will inevitably have to build a relationship with them, so I can’t.”

There is a bigger customer, but even if I think about it, it seems like trash to say patronizingly that we came here first with the mindset of others.

Galarche made no secret of his displeasure, and neither did Lruenne.

It seemed that the two of them had already grown hostile towards me for making such an outrageous statement. It was the same with Lucille.

“We cooperate.”

but.

Out of the blue, Antirianus has expressed his willingness to cooperate.

Everyone was bewildered.

“… … uh? yes? I beg your pardon?”

But it was me who was most perplexed.

no.

why?

“Why are you surprised? You said you want to cooperate, and I will cooperate. You are a great being.”

Antirianus was looking at me with a sullen smile. Lucinil looks at the old gentleman nervously.

“Antyrianus, what dirty trick is that?”

“Isn’t that just fun? Didn’t Tiamata, one of the holy relics of the five great gods, even fall into the hands of Archdemon?”

The old gentleman smiles at me.

“It means that you can feel the malice of the gods.”

A demon who became the first owner of Tiamata in history. Even Archdemon.

“Even if the demon king loses everything in vain, even if he achieves everything he dreams of, there will only be fun things, so how can we not follow him?”

I could feel the deep malice in Antirianus’ eyes.

The misfortune, happiness, sadness, and joy of others.

Such malice to appease the boredom of eternal life by viewing it.

“Are you insane? Antirianus.”

At Galarsh’s words, Antirianus just grinned.

I could see why Elerys had told me to beware of Antirianus. He was the only road vampire who said he would cooperate with me.

It’s good to hear that they cooperate anyway, but I didn’t expect it to be released in such a strange context.

“If a person who has lived for such a long time is sane, wouldn’t that be more of a problem?”

Antirianus’s words, saying that since he has lived a long time without being able to go mad, every decision he makes is bound to be that of a madman was surprisingly persuasive.

“That’s why the Toyo clan and the head of the household, Antirianus, will cooperate with the Demon King. Wouldn’t there be more interesting things happening than the Demon World War? So, touching the demon king will be considered touching me.”

“I really don’t know what he’s thinking? Isn’t that right, Lluen?”

“… … Is it a day or two?”

It seemed that this was not the first time Antirianus had done something like this. Antirianus decided to cooperate and tapped the table with his index finger.

“Anyway, we immortals have plenty of time. You don’t have to decide everything in one sitting. So wouldn’t it be okay to talk slowly over a few days?”

Antirianus stares at me and says so.

I read the intention to take a short break, cool my head, and have a little conversation separately.

That’s good for me.

There’s nothing more frightening than a favor without reason.

The favors for no reason are pouring in, so it’s more like he’s strangling me.

I felt such a strange pressure.

“you! This bullshit Archdemon kid. Please talk to me.”

Lucinil pointed a finger at me as if it was rather good. Ellerith looked at me and nodded as if she was fine.

It feels like the nicest kid in this place has come to hate me the most.

* * *

Because of Antirian’s mediation, the council’s meeting was put to a halt. No matter what his intentions were, it was clear that his agreement to cooperate had a ripple effect and the atmosphere changed.

Leaving the conference room, Lucinyl asked to follow and then took the lead without saying a word.

A homunculus vampire with silver hair and red eyes.

lord of demand.

Ellerith had said that Lucinil would be the least harmless of them all, but it was clear that he was the most upset, once it was revealed.

“Where did you learn such nasty things? Did the Demon King teach you that?”

I ate something similar to padlip, but I didn’t even think about the previous demon king, so I didn’t get angry.

“How can nature do such a thing?”

Lucinil took the lead and looked back at me in front of the window, where a blizzard could be seen through the window.

“There’s nothing good about you doing that.”

Lucinil looks at me quietly and speaks calmly.

“It doesn’t matter if Antirianus or I agreed to cooperate with you, Lluen or Galarche would be really angry.”

“It must have been. But do you have any stars? After all, this is the only thing I can do.”

“It’s a demonic reconstruction, it’s Nabal, and I might die before that.”

The ending where he was killed while threatening the Lord Vampires is an absurd development. However, I was convinced that Elleris wasn’t so wrong in the end when Lucinil spoke as if he was warning rather than angry.

“I was interested in being the heir to Valier, but I will remember you from now on as a strange guy who is very arrogant, unkempt, and full of confidence despite his lack of confidence.”

Because I have a flawed personality, Lucinil seemed to have a very negative perception of me.

“But you should know that the reason I decided to cooperate with you, who made such a bad first impression, wasn’t because you were pretty, but because I personally owed Elleris.”

But apart from that, Lucinil seemed to have agreed to cooperate with me.

A debt owed to Elerith.

I didn’t bother to ask what it was. I didn’t even seem to be able to answer. Lucinyl glares at me biting her lip in annoyance.

“Chet Elleris must have known I would do this.”

I don’t know what debt I owe. However, the reason Elleris obediently let me into the Vampire Council was because she knew that Lucinil would reluctantly respond to a request for cooperation due to a debt he owed. Saying it would be harmless seemed to be in a similar vein.

The head of Demand and Toyo.

Both promised to cooperate with me for their own reasons. Lucinil nods his head with his arms crossed.

“Anyway, with this, three of the five families have been promised cooperation, right? So isn’t that enough? Why don’t you go back without bothering me any more?”

It seemed that I had decided that if I continued attending the council, nothing would be better than getting on the nerves of Lluen and Galarsch.

“If you’re going to do it, shouldn’t you try all the persuasion?”

“Somehow it seemed so. Like a shameless bastard.”

Lucinl clicked his tongue and sighed.

“Follow me.”

Lucinel pulled me back as if it wasn’t something to talk about here.

Leaving the palace building, Lucinil walked through the deep snow.

-Whee oo oh oh

Of course, when I walked through the snow, my feet fell out and I couldn’t even walk properly in the end.

“Hey.”

-Paang!

Lucinil stretched out his hand once, and the shockwave exploded, blowing the piled up snow in all directions.

“The Council was probably built in the wrong place. Why did you build a palace in a place like this where it always snows? Do you not understand?”

“… … The head of the household must not have been there when this palace was built, right?”

“This place was built so long ago that there are Sundays and Mondays. I don’t even know when that was. Of course, I did a lot of renovations. It must have been really clunky in the beginning.”

Lucinil grumbled, saying that he had nothing to do with the Council location selection. Through the blizzard, Lucinil leads, and I follow.

“I don’t know if this expression is correct, but I want to know the order of career. Can you tell me?”

“career? Are you asking how old you are?”

“yes.”

Lucille spreads her fingers as if it’s not really a secret.

“As you can tell by looking at it, Lruen is the first. Next is Galarsh, then Elerys, and last is Antirianus.”

Lucinil and I left the main palace and arrived at a space that could be called a detached palace.

“Oh, even the miscellaneous spirits keep sticking around here. Why is the real place like this?”

-Uhhhh… … .

Lucille clapped her hands as if she was mad at the sound of ghosts crying from all directions, and the ghosts disappeared as if they were scattered in the air.

It’s a bit bizarre to say that vampires don’t like their homes.

“It’s not even a ephemera, and even if I chase it out, it keeps getting twisted.”

A space like a drawing room in a royal palace. Lucille sat down on an old sofa and I sat across from her.

“I don’t know what kind of plan Antirianus is, but he wants to persuade Lluene and Galarsch, too, right?”

“If you can.”

“You Archdemon kid. We’ve all lived so long that it’s hard to fathom, even if we all have some deviations. Is that right?”

“Is that right?”

“How did all of us become vampires?”

It is impossible to be born as a vampire.

All of them have a state before becoming a vampire. Lluen would have been an elf, Galarche would have been an orc, and Lucien would have been a homunculus.

“Isn’t that all different?”

“It can’t be all different.”

Leaning her chin on the armrest of the sofa, Lucien glances at me.

“It’s because I don’t want to die.”

The Great Five Lords Vampires.

The only reason they became vampires was because they didn’t want to die.

I didn’t expect that there would be a great reason, but it felt a bit strange that it eventually converged for that reason.

“Antyrianus said he became a vampire after contemplating whether to become a lich or a vampire. Do you think living with bones would be more uncomfortable than living without seeing the sun? But if you become a Lord Vampire and want to see the sun, even though it’s painful, you can see it, so you’re pretty lucky. Anyway, I became a vampire because I didn’t want to die.”

no.

That’s kind of creepy in its own way, yeah.

“I was a homunculus. A homunculus is an unstable magical creature. I was quite exceptionally stable, but I didn’t know the specific life limit, and death would come one day, and I was so scared to face it. So in order not to die, I tried every method and the last thing I chose was to become a vampire. Just like I don’t want to die.”

Lucille sees me.

Then, when he was about to say something, he shut his mouth.

“Anyway, the specific reasons are all different, but in the end, I became a vampire because I didn’t want to die.”

Although he did not explain the circumstances of Lluen, Galarche, and Eleris, Lucinyl says that the refuge of those who feared death was vampires.

“So your threat is, in some ways, the way that works best for us. Because what we fear most is death.”

The only thing that works for the immortals, who have probably had everything they wanted for a long time, is the threat of life and death. because they are afraid of death

“But that is only possible after all, to a certain extent. I mean we really lived a very, very long time. It’s not like we were the only family heads, and the families have changed several times. How do you think it happened?”

“… … I don’t know.”

“There’s no way vampires like us were hunted down or killed.”

I read something in Lucinil’s eyes.

“Is it suicide?”

“huh.”

ennui.

“Most of the cases where the heads of the five families were replaced. There are other cases, but you don’t know that.”

Powerful vampires living in hiding far away from the world can’t be killed. Because they don’t reveal their existence to the world apart from being strong.

So there is no way the family heads can be replaced in any way other than giving up their own lives.

“What is it, then you are not afraid of death after all?”

I became a vampire because I didn’t want to lose my life, but in the end, if it’s a road vampire who feels bored with life after living too long, then in the end, I can’t get anything by threatening my life, right?

“No, the opposite.”

Lucinil smiles softly.

“I’ve lived that long, and even though I’m tired of living as much as I’m tired of living… … .”

There is sadness in the vampire’s eyes.

“There are reasons to still live.”

So, coming back, the current head of households must have at least one reason to live.

The fact that he hasn’t given up on life yet is proof of that.

Lucinil was giving me information.