The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 370

Chapter 370

After the Funeral.

The Duchess seemed to be talking to her relatives, and we took Liana to the annex and told her to take a warm bath in case she caught a cold.

We said nothing. I didn’t know what to say.

The story of why the devil did such a thing is not something that can be shared here.

Knowing the truth, I was under heavy pressure.

Revolutionary forces are not lost.

It falls into the hands of Owen, and he is a prach.

There was a situation in front of us that didn’t even sound like the revolutionary forces were being used.

A force seeking to overthrow the system comes under the command of the system. Is this possible?

The situation sucks, but I can’t help but agree that Berthus was overly smart.

If the revolutionary forces were wrongly touched at an odd timing, the worst outcome could be that the entire empire went wild in exchange for the removal of the leaders.

Bertus disguised it as an attack by demons and decided to annihilate the leaders of the revolutionary forces.

And in preparation for the revolutionary forces falling into chaos, Owen was arranged to be the next revolutionary leader.

Owen will turn this incident into a real problem at the negotiating table with the demons, and we will use force. That’s how it calms down the inner turmoil.

And in the long term, it will gradually weaken and annihilate the revolutionary forces, or cause infighting to dissolve them in the air.

It was used perfectly.

It was to the point where I wondered if there was such a way to break down the revolutionary forces without making a big fuss.

I wasn’t the only one who could use the name of the demon force. The empire that had the demons captives was also able to do something by disguising the actions of the demons.

Bertus was inspired by my killing of Leverrier Ranche.

“be careful.”

“huh… … .”

Liana came down to the reception room in a light outfit.

Liana was sitting on the couch hugging her knees and staring blankly ahead.

We didn’t say anything for a while.

No one could open their mouths.

midnight. A moment of silence passed and everyone went to bed. Only silence lingered in the space where not too long ago they had gathered together and had a friendly party.

Most of the friends couldn’t leave the annex of the Duke of Grantz because of the thought of taking care of Liana.

* * *

A cold winter rainy night.

– Fachik! Paperweight!

Cliffman was awakened by a strange sound coming from somewhere.

No, I didn’t even sleep. It was just a state of wandering somewhere between sleep and consciousness.

Cliffman got out of bed and headed into the hallway.

Because I knew whose voice it was.

In the drawing room on the first floor of the annex with the lights off.

– Pajik! Paperweight!

Lyana, who was sitting blankly, was repeating generating lightning in the air.

“… … What are you doing?”

At Cliffman’s words, Liana raised her head and stared at the stairs where Cliffman was standing.

“… … just.”

Liana with a gloomy expression lowered her eyes and said so.

As if Liana de Granz, who was always confident, outgoing, and always mischievous, had disappeared.

Liana was there with an expression full of melancholy and frustration.

Cliffman carefully descended the stairs.

Then he sat across from Liana.

Liana looked at Cliffman and smiled faintly.

“You must be tired.”

Cliffman was shocked by Liana’s smile and words.

It wouldn’t be a laughing matter.

It’s not a situation where you can say such kind words, but Riana laughs in this situation.

Cliffman is unfamiliar with Liana’s appearance.

However, Cliff does not know that people become kinder in this situation.

I was unconditionally on my side.

I didn’t treat him with respect.

I thought it would last forever, so I treated it carelessly. Only after that person disappears, Liana becomes sincere to a person.

in regret

Because I realized the obvious fact that no one can be forever to you and you can’t be forever to anyone.

treat people with respect

“Thank you everyone for today.”

That’s why Liana becomes kind.

Regretting all the days I wasn’t kind.

“… … .”

“I’ll cheer you up in a little while. Don’t worry too much.”

Cliffman stared at Liana, who seemed to be a completely different person because her tone of voice had changed.

A boy named Cliffman doesn’t talk much in the first place.

Dealing with people is also difficult. While being swayed here and there by this monstrous girl, I wanted to get better at least a little bit, but I was always in the same place. I still feel uncomfortable with people, especially with girls.

It didn’t get better.

Cliffman doesn’t even know how to treat people casually and normally.

But now Liana is not normal. Cliffman doesn’t even know what to say in this situation.

But it’s strange.

Originally, it was difficult even to look directly at Liana’s face.

When someone stared at him, he was in a hurry to break out in a cold sweat and turn away from that gaze. In particular, Liana tends to stare into her eyes, and Cliffman couldn’t stand it. If you avert your eyes, why do you keep avoiding your gaze?

I don’t know why it’s hard, but when Riana looked at her, it felt like someone was tightening her heart.

But now.

Cliffman looked at Riana, but Riana couldn’t see him.

It’s not awkward to look at.

I don’t know what to say in this situation.

They don’t know how to treat them normally, but of course they don’t know how to comfort them.

but.

Just because you don’t know doesn’t mean you can’t.

Even if you don’t know, you can try.

You can do something to be normal and you can do something to comfort them.

I just don’t know if the attempt was a success or a failure.

Cliffman now.

“liana.”

“… … huh?”

“alcohol… … . Would you like a drink?”

I wanted to comfort Riana de Granz.

Liana looked at Cliff with her eyes wide open as if she hadn’t expected such words to come out.

“… … .”

alcohol in this situation.

It’s a moment when I feel like I shouldn’t drink, but Liana stares at Cliff.

The boy’s eyes, wide open to the point of being burdensome, are looking at him. Trying to do something for now so as not to turn away somehow.

Looking at the boy’s eyes that seemed to have the greatest courage I’ve ever seen in my life.

“Yeah, that’s good.”

Liana smiled lightly.

* * *

A boy and a girl sip drinks in the middle of the night.

There was no such thing as a snack with strong whiskey.

A girl who lost her father drinks.

The boy who wants to comfort the girl also drinks. It was the kind of night where you might be deeply drunk, but maybe it would be better to be like that. There are certain moments when you would rather anesthetize yourself and let them go.

There was no conversation whatsoever.

Every time Liana passed a sip of whiskey, she looked at the window of the annex.

The main building was visible through the glass windows of the winter rain.

Cliffman didn’t ask what he was thinking. However, on the other side, he quietly passed the drink little by little according to Liana’s tempo.

“My father ran away to marry a commoner he met at the temple.”

“… … okay?”

Cliffman listened to the story calmly. As usual, he didn’t stutter or panic.

Liana bit her lips lightly as if biting off the edge of a laugh that leaked out of her mouth, and then continued the story.

“huh. In the end, it failed and I was caught, but if it succeeded, I would not have been born.”

“… … I see.”

“Neither Mom nor Dad told me what kind of person she was. Because she’s just a blemish in my father’s life and a blemish in my mother’s life as well. Do you want to die or live a normal life?”

Liana quietly passes a sip of whiskey.

“After my father was arrested, the family forced me to marry him. It’s a rush to get married, and there are rumors like that. I couldn’t find a good place to marry. That’s why I married my mother. An aristocrat with no domain and only a title. With the second daughter of the Countess Relayon.”

Anyone who has dipped their toes in the social world knows this, but Cliffman is not an aristocrat. That’s why I couldn’t know anything about the family secrets that Liana was talking about.

However, Cliffman was silently listening to the story.

“Mom would have wanted to like Dad, but Dad couldn’t have liked Mom. Then, of course, Mom can’t like Dad either. It creaks from the start.”

“I was like a medium that forced me to continue that shaky marriage. I don’t even know how I was born. I was born anyway. It’s a little bit like a scapegoat, how can I say it? If there is a day when the two of you fight a lot, my story will eventually come out. Even if you look at Liana. even look at me My mom says that, and my dad says that too. When it’s time to make some drastic decision, my story always comes up. So, with Liana, are you going to do more here?”

“I was sick of it.”

“You think I’m the only achievement in each other’s lives?”

Liana sips whiskey.

“Anyway, I hated both Mom and Dad. I hated my mom because she tried to meddle in every detail of my life, and my dad seemed to let me go free, but I hated him because he blatantly wanted me to live the life he couldn’t live. After all, if Dad had been good to Mom from the beginning, Mom wouldn’t have become such an evil person.”

“My mom is openly a problem, but my dad pretends not to be a problem, but in fact he was the biggest problem.”

“So I hated my mom and I hated my dad. I really thought I hated it.”

After pouring whiskey into a glass, Liana quietly rolls the liquor into the glass.

“But I think I liked my dad more than I thought.”

I thought you hated it.

Because of the regret that rushed in the moment I couldn’t see anymore.

Because of the regret and guilt that flooded in because the words I said without knowing it was the last were the last words I said.

“I’m a bastard, just like you guys say.”

Liana was crying with her eyes wide open.

“Everything… … . I regret it so much… … .”

Cliffman stared at Liana, who was crying while staring blankly at the glass, unable to drink with the glass down.

“why. Why the devil? my dad… … . All in all, there… … . Why did you have to do that? Why did my dad have to die? He may not have been a good husband, but I think he was a good father to me. Even though I couldn’t love my mother, I think it was right that she loved me. Still, I think you loved me as much as I did. I thought of it as an excuse to rationalize my unhappy marriage. so… … . suck. town… … . after… … . and. He was a good man, my dad. Be nice to people and don’t do bad things. good… … . I was a person… … .”

Cliffman was still watching the crying Liana.

Duke Grantz was a good person externally.

He wasn’t a good husband and he didn’t think he was a good father, but he wasn’t such a bad father.

Liana says so in a world where her father has disappeared.

You can’t bring back what was lost.

If so, you have no choice but to ask for something else.

I can’t understand why I had to lose, so I think about why I had to lose.

“I so… … . so… … . because he’s superpowered If it were me, would you be able to take revenge? can you fight curious. what is my strength can it be like that curious… … .”

plural.

sleepless night.

Liana was firing a bolt of lightning, vaguely imagining revenge.

because he’s superpowered

I can’t pick up the words I spit out, and I can’t turn back time.

It might be possible to dream of revenge on the demon lord who stole his father.

Liana was sitting blankly alone, checking her abilities. Although he himself is a supernatural power, supernatural power is a very rare ability.

Demon King is such a huge name.

Even the name Duke Grantz is too small in front of the name Demon King.

Wasn’t that why he was ruthlessly trampled on?

On a rainy winter night, Liana was wondering if she would be able to stand up to the huge name of the Demon King.

Although he is a powerful psychic who handles electricity, it is unknown how strong the demon king will be.

That’s why Liana is in despair, regret and vengeance.

He was predicting himself fighting the demon king in fear.

Cliffman looked at Liana like that.

“I will help you.”

quietly said so.

“… … uh?”

“I will help you. I.”

At those words, Liana stared at Cliff with her teary eyes wide open.

are two small

Standing up to that huge name won’t change much if we work together.

“It will be less difficult if we do it together.”

Not that it would be easier, but that it would be less difficult.

Those words were oddly realistic.

Because it’s strangely realistic.

Cliffman’s sincerity was so deeply felt in those words.

not just saying

If you risked your life on the difficult task of killing the demon king, you could feel the sincerity that you would risk your life together to make that difficult task a little less difficult.

“Why are you… … ?”

I could risk my life, but why should you risk your life?

In response to that question, Cliffman gulped down the full bottle of whiskey at once and let out a hot breath.

“You are my friend.”

Those words were the first words out of Cliffman’s mouth.

At that, Liana stared at Cliff with a puzzled expression on how to respond.

Liana stared at Cliff as if she was a little bewildered, and finally smiled.

“There must be something stronger than that.”

“… … .”

“But if you are like this… … . You’ve grown a lot.”

A stronger word than the word friend. At that, Cliffman’s face reddened.

“thank you.”

Just as Cliffman emptied the whiskey glass at once, Liana also emptied the remaining alcohol in the glass at once.

And then.

-Rurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

dumping the bottle on the floor.

Liana’s eyes were wide open, but there were no more tears.

“I won’t be drinking for a while.”

Until you kill the Demon King.

Liana smiled weakly and said so.

* * *

The funeral is over and we all return to the Temple.

Liana also returned to the Temple.

Liana wasn’t looking for vigor.

but.

-ha… … .

– If you are tired, let’s rest.

-no. do more

– No, rest. If you force it, it will only hurt your body.

-Still a bit more… … .

– I know better about this. rest.

-uh… … ? ah. huh… … . okay. I’ll rest then.

Liana started training early in the morning.

Ellen and I were watching from afar as Riana and Cliffman ran together.

Physical fitness is a condition that has no disadvantages. And, strictly speaking, Liana was on the weak side in terms of physical strength. Even if it wasn’t as good as Charlotte, it couldn’t compare to a properly trained melee combat student.

Liana was not particularly enthusiastic.

Powerful psychic power He had the psychic ability to grow on his own, and that was enough.

The family was also wealthy, so there was nothing to worry about after graduation.

We are only interested in playing around with everything, and weren’t we disappointed that we were living too hard not too long ago?

Riana de Granz, who did that, disappeared.

-ha… … . ha… … .

-Be careful on the ice.

-huh.

Liana, whose eyes were venomous, was chasing after Cliffman, who, originally, couldn’t even follow his toes with his teeth clenched.

It was Liana who forcibly dragged Cliff, who was clumsy in interpersonal relationships, and tried to fix that personality somehow.

Now Cliffman didn’t seem to stutter or be ashamed of his dealings with Liana.

Rather, only Cliff was teaching Liana something.

A common goal wiped out Cliffman’s shame and Liana’s insincerity.

Each of their chronic problems disappeared.

through someone’s death.

through the purpose of revenge.

Ellen and I watch Liana chasing after Cliffman, sweating in the middle of winter.

“I thought that the demon king would be a distant story.”

Ellen looks at me.

Tuan’s champion.

And the owner of two holy things.

Ellen seemed to have thought that the story was only for us.

The Demon Lord is a symbol of fear for most people, and there is nothing like experiencing it directly or having an impact on my life.

However, Duke Grantz was killed by the Demon King.

Someone around him suffered direct sadness and pain due to the demon king’s actions and changed because of it.

“Reinhardt.”

“uh.”

“I am angry.”

Ellen’s eyes were shaking.

Do we have no choice but to admit that the Demon King is a truly evil being? Because this situation is difficult to accept.

Ellen seemed to be angry because she hated the demon king who destroyed her friend’s life.

Although it is bound to be different from their anger.

“so do i.”

The one who is the most angry has to be me.

“let’s go.”

“huh.”

we run together

Even if the grain of anger differs from the target of true revenge.

We build the day together.

At the end of a day of running together and a series of daily routines, until something to greet begins.