The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 351

Chapter 351 The

Demon King’s Palace was very large and huge, so it took quite a while to go around each floor. Most of the rooms were empty or dusty, as everything worthwhile had been taken.

It looked like a library or warehouse without books, but there were also spaces that were wide open and empty.

There was also a throne where the demon king was supposed to sit. The audience room was bigger than any other audience room I had ever seen.

As expected, it must be because the demons who enter here are of different heights.

After going around the first floor, I went around the upper floors. I also passed the place where I found the magic scroll.

Of course it was empty.

And as I walked along the corridor, I had no choice but to arrive at the place naturally.

prison cell.

“… … .”

“here… … .”

Charlotte nods.

“Yes, that’s where I was locked up.”

A place full of terrible memories.

“I have to go in here… … . It doesn’t sound like anything good.”

Charlotte seemed hesitant, then tried to turn around.

There are no remnants of the demon king here, only trauma.

– Beetle

“Your Highness!”

“ah… … .”

Charlotte suddenly stumbled while walking and was supported by Tana.

“are you okay?”

A cold sweat broke out on Charlotte’s forehead as she approached.

Is it affecting the body because the traumatic memories are being revived?

“It’s nothing… … . I suddenly lost strength in my legs… … .”

It was not a memory that could easily be forgotten, and it would have been even more difficult since he even returned to the scene. Tana entrusted Charlotte, who was looking forward to her, to me.

“I beg of you for a moment. Let’s find a place to rest.”

“yes.”

Charlotte leaned against me, holding my arm, and Tana ran down the aisle.

“ha… … . ha… … .”

Charlotte was gasping for breath, as if she had just run.

“Do you think it’s dangerous now?”

“no… … . It’s not like that… … . just… … .”

It wasn’t that the power caused the seizure, but it seemed like a symptom similar to hyperventilation. Charlotte took a few deep breaths, then her breathing stabilized.

“I thought it wouldn’t be that good… … . It’s hard too.”

He only told me that he was the one who killed everyone in the camp. I let Charlotte lean her back against the wall and let her arm out.

how long has it been

“I found a place to rest. Let’s go there.”

Saviolin Tana seemed to have looked upstairs and said as she came towards us.

* * *

After passing through a few more hallways and going up a few more floors, we arrived at a space that looked like a bedroom.

No valuables were to be seen, but the furniture remained intact. After opening the window and dusting off the sofa, Saviolin Tana and Charlotte lay down on the sofa.

Charlotte gave a vague smile.

“Sir Tana, it’s not painful.”

“You should get some rest though. Didn’t you walk quite a bit today?”

“… … Haha, that’s right.”

Charlotte was lying on the sofa, breathing.

It was a strange feeling, not knowing if I should be worried that it was a traumatic attack or if I should be grateful that it wasn’t an attack of power. Saviolin Tana was looking around the bedroom.

“I was in a hurry to find it, but here it is… … . It seems to be the bedroom of a person of high rank even in the Demon Castle.”

“… … ah. I see.”

There are no valuables, but all the large furniture remains. Seeing that they were all high-end items, Saviolin Tana’s statement that it might have been the bedroom of a person of high rank even in the Devil’s Castle seemed quite plausible.

no wonder.

I feel weird.

“Tsk… … . Because they were all looted indiscriminately, I can’t tell whose bedroom it was. Of course, it may not be that important, but… … .”

Tana seemed to think of the possibility that this might be the devil’s bedroom. In fact, it was a bedroom that was safe to think so.

The Four Heavenly Kings or the Demon King.

and.

someone else noble.

-Dreuktana

was opening the closet or rummaging through the drawers to see if there was anything left in the room.

Charlotte abruptly lifted herself up from the couch.

Saviolin Tana rummages through the drawers.

All the things that could be money would have been robbed and gone, so there would be nothing special.

But somehow.

A strange feeling of uneasiness burned through me.

-Every

time Saviolin Tana opens a drawer one by one.

A strong sense of incongruity, as if something might be discovered.

It was as if the warning of feeling pricked my heart with a needle.

– drooling

“… … ?”

Saviolin Tana opened the dresser drawer and tilted her head.

“There are definitely things that don’t seem like money left.”

She took something out of a drawer.

At first glance, the luxurious wooden case lid was open, but the contents remained intact.

It was an object that looked like someone was going to take it and left it there after looking at the contents.

“biscuit… … That’s it.”

Charlotte was staring at the biscuit, eyes wide open.

I clenched my teeth to the extent that my molars sat down in order not to make any expression.

“Would you like to give me that?”

Charlotte, who has become frighteningly calm, says so quietly.

“Your Highness must have been hurt.”

“I’m not doing it to eat.”

“… … yes. Here you are.”

Charlotte stares at the biscuit that Tana brought, wrapped in a wrapped biscuit, in her hand.

Biscuits individually wrapped.

Charlotte stares at it.

biscuit.

him at that time.

‘You must be hungry, but at least eat this.’

‘you you… … . you?’

‘I’m fine. Eat you first.’

‘You too… … . You eat too.’

biscuit.

The biscuit in the same packaging found in the bedroom of someone thought to have been inhabited by a high-ranking demon.

Charlotte unwraps the biscuit and breaks it in half.

“majesty!”

– Wow!

Charlotte took a bite of the biscuit despite Tana’s insistence.

what did you feel

Charlotte will never be forgotten.

Even if I forget everything, I will never forget the shape and taste of the biscuit I ate.

I don’t know if I felt the same taste then.

but.

Tears rolled from Charlotte’s eyes as she bit into a biscuit.

“under.”

Charlotte knew something.

“haha.”

“… … majesty? What on earth are you doing like this?”

There were suspicious circumstances, but in the end, something I didn’t want to believe and tried to deny.

Denying the unbelievable truth also has a limit to the end.

Even this biscuit is not definitive proof after all.

But too much has accumulated.

Evidence and suspicion piled up.

piled up and piled up again.

Biscuits individually packed in a luxurious case.

Do you think something like this can’t roll around everywhere?

Charlotte’s thoughts would eventually lead to a certain conclusion.

“Heh heh… … . Hehe. under. flaw.”

“majesty! Why?”

It is now an irreversible certainty.

“Huh huh! Hehehe!”

Charlotte laughed like a madman with her back bent.

I think it’s right, but I still feel like I’ve been doing it.

It seemed that even the vague thought that it might not have completely disappeared.

What is Charlotte thinking?

In the end, does he think that he was only used to help the next demon king escape?

I couldn’t find out.

“Hehehehe! Heh heh heh heh! Hehe! Ugh! ugh! Hehe!”

However, Charlotte’s laughter eventually turned into sobs.

* * *

“… … There is a slightly larger bedroom inside, which is presumed to be the Demon King’s bedroom.”

Said Saviolin Tana, who had looked around all the nearby rooms and looked unsure of what to say.

Charlotte asked to see if there was a larger bedroom nearby.

There is only one room further back than this bedroom.

Due to its scale, it is thought to be the bedroom of the Demon King. I don’t know what the architectural philosophy of the demon king’s palace is, but what does the second luxurious bedroom right next to the demon king’s bedroom mean?

Charlotte sat there blankly, with a box of biscuits in front of her.

This, too, was not definitive evidence, but it seemed to Charlotte that it was psychological evidence for a final reassurance.

Charlotte had known for a long time that Valie could not have anything to do with the demon lord.

However, the successor of the Demon King has recently started his activities.

Charlotte gave no explanation, but Tana seemed to know what Charlotte was thinking.

I was silent.

No matter what I said, I couldn’t comfort Charlotte now, and even if I could, it didn’t seem like it was my job.

“Your Highness, why… … . I don’t know if you do, but it’s just a biscuit after all. this is… … . No matter what Your Highness thinks, it’s hard to use it as a basis for certainty… … .”

Saviolin Tana was about to say something, but stopped.

She doesn’t know what these biscuits mean to Charlotte.

After hearing Tana’s words, Charlotte nodded slowly.

“Maybe.”

Charlotte says so calmly.

“just… … . I have given up now.”

Charlotte stopped advocating for Valier in her heart now.

“The child who saved me is either the son of the demon king or the successor. I wanted to believe that no, but now I won’t.”

This may not be strong physical evidence, but enough evidence has accumulated to put up a wall in Charlotte’s mind.

The child he saved at that time is the successor of the demon king and is the main culprit of the demon raids that took place in the ecliptic.

Charlotte is sure.

“I just kept asking questions. Then why did you save me… … . why… … . Did you bother to save me when you could have run away alone? … . That’s why there’s no reason to save me just because it might not be. So I guess not… … . I wanted to believe.”

When I left the castle with the teleport scroll, I was in a situation where I had to run away. But I risked my life with Dyrus and came back to save Charlotte.

It must have been because of that that Charlotte tried to trust me until the very end.

If you are the successor of the Demon King, there is no reason to risk your life to save Charlotte. I would rather have let it die.

I, who hates the Empire as much as Artorius, has no reason to save Charlotte.

That was Charlotte’s last psychological barrier to thinking that Valie might not be the devil’s son.

But that has now collapsed.

“now… … . I think I know. Why did that child save me?”

So now Charlotte thinks.

The reason why the devil’s son had to save himself.

A good rational reason to risk your life.

Charlotte sees me this time.

“What dwells in me is either the demon lord’s power or the demon lord’s soul. Because that’s it… … .”

Charlotte murmurs blankly.

Seeing Charlotte muttering like that gave me goosebumps.

She seemed to know what conclusion Charlotte would come to.

“You didn’t save me… … . What saved me… … . It wasn’t.”

Charlotte stares blankly at the biscuits and speaks slowly, in a voice tinged with betrayal.

“It dwells in me… … . The demon king’s soul… … . I was saved… … .”

As long as she was certain that Valie was the devil’s son, that was the only reasonable conclusion Charlotte could reach.

I can never reach the idea that I saved it simply because I wanted to save it with good intentions. Because there is no reason why the son of the demon king should save the princess of the empire.

lost the war

the devil is dead

There is no way that the demon king’s son doesn’t know that the princess is being held here and that the demon king’s soul dwells in her.

So, not to save the princess, but to save the demon king’s soul within her.

He has no choice but to come to the conclusion that he risked his life to save the devil in the heart of the empire later.

“Hehehe. If you think about birds… … . It was natural… … . Of course… … .”

Charlotte laughed blankly, as if she couldn’t understand herself, who hadn’t come to this conclusion before.

to that Charlotte.

You are misunderstanding that it is not like that.

I just didn’t want you dead and then I didn’t even know who you were and I didn’t know anything like that was sleeping inside of you.

I wanted to say.

It felt like someone was squeezing my heart.

Uncontrollable misunderstandings grow, but they are so rational that I cannot deny them.

No.

I wanted to say that I have been watching you and have been working hard to protect you, and that I am still working hard.

However, if he reveals his identity, he dies.

If I reveal that I am Valier, all Charlotte will feel is betrayal.

The many lies that have been told to Charlotte so far are also a problem, and the way Charlotte’s thinking develops is also a problem.

Even if I control Charlotte’s symptoms, I might think that it is for the sake of the complete resurrection of the demon king.

Certainly, if Charlotte had not been stopped on the day Charlotte ran out of control, there would have been sacrifices, but Charlotte would have died in the end.

Having no one see how desperately I fought that day helped me hide my identity in the end, but it also gave me the problem that Charlotte herself had no idea how truly I fought for Charlotte.

Since I started to doubt Valie, if I revealed that I was Valie, all my actions as Reinhardt would be to save the demon king.

“ha ha ha… … . haha… … .”

In the end, I couldn’t say anything in front of Charlotte, who laughed helplessly.