The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 461

Chapter 461

Ellen can’t stay long in the ecliptic.

They must be reintroduced to the field immediately after completing the minimum task. It was partly because of the situation in the empire and partly because of Ellen’s own will.

After a short talk with Bertus, Ellen headed to the Spring Palace as always.

Quite a few people couldn’t even come near the Spring Palace. Of course, Ellen wasn’t bothered by that.

Arriving at Charlotte’s bedroom in the Palace of Spring, Ellen was able to see Bertus exactly as she had seen before.

The princess was sitting on the bed, hugging her knees and staring blankly out the window.

Charlotte de Gradias in the form of a demon.

The state of being assimilated with the demon king’s soul. It was said that she became like this because of the demon king’s soul, but perhaps because of that, Charlotte was weakened even though she had almost stopped eating, but she did not die.

“shallot.”

“… … .”

At Ellen’s low call, Charlotte slowly turned her head to stare at Ellen.

Red pupils with vertical slit pupils.

Eyes that would make anyone feel eerie, but Ellen could only read sadness and regret from those eyes.

Looking at Ellen, Charlotte buried her face between her knees.

Ellen watched Ellen silently as the dried up tears soaked Charlotte’s camisole.

Everyone has no choice but to regret even though they know that regrets can’t produce anything.

If only I had believed in Reinhardt.

Numerous tragedies derived from that word were the cause of the desperate events that unfolded to mankind.

Reinhardt disappeared and humanity faced its downfall.

That’s why the two had no choice but to reconfirm each other’s sins whenever they faced each other like this.

Ellen can still do anything. You can even do something like save people.

However, Charlotte was unable to do anything other than lock herself in the Palace of Spring, unable to even show herself to the crowd.

Ellen slowly walked over to Charlotte and sat down by the bed.

Then he carefully hugged the frail Charlotte.

“Soon we will be able to destroy all warp gates on the continent.”

“… … .”

“And if you slowly get rid of all the monsters on the continent, this will all be over.”

“… … .”

Ellen says something she can’t even comfort herself, hoping Charlotte can somehow relieve her guilt.

“Then people who have lost their homes will be able to find them again.”

The dead cannot come back.

“Everyone finds their place… … . You will be able to live as before.”

The lost hometown cannot be returned with anything.

“It will take a long time, but if you do it little by little… … . Everything will be back as it was before.”

Broken relationships can never be restored.

“So, let’s try harder. A little more… … . A little more… … .”

As she spoke, Ellen finally remembered the many things her words were ignoring and bit her lip fiercely.

I could feel the taste of the blood on my torn lips.

“… … .”

“… … .”

“we… … .”

Ellen’s voice finally trembled.

“Can I be forgiven… … ?”

to Reinhardt.

to the whole world.

I want to be forgiven, but I know that I cannot be forgiven.

Charlotte cried.

Ellen couldn’t even cry.

* * *

The more Ellen faced Charlotte, the more miserable she felt.

Originally, it was not a good relationship, but after the situation turned out to be like this, Ellen and Charlotte went beyond the relationship of a guardian knight and a master, and became a strange relationship in which each other shared guilt.

It was a relationship bound by sorrow and guilt.

They were projecting the same feelings to each other.

That’s why Ellen couldn’t turn away from Charlotte. Even though she knows that she can’t improve Charlotte’s condition, even though she knows that she can’t get any answers, Ellen visits the Palace of Spring when she returns to the ecliptic after spending days of devastating battles.

that the situation is improving.

always said that

Strictly speaking, it’s not a lie.

Progress from the worst to the lesser evil can only be said to have improved.

He said he saved a few people today.

It wasn’t a lie either.

I just didn’t say how many died.

He also said that he drove monsters out of the ruined city.

That’s not a lie either.

I just didn’t say there wasn’t a single person alive in the ruins.

I didn’t tell a lie, but I didn’t tell a miserable truth.

Even knowing that Charlotte could fully read the other side.

In such a story, Ellen left the Spring Palace and the Imperial Palace, leaving behind Charlotte, who had not changed at all.

From the hill at the entrance to the imperial palace, Ellen could see the temple across the river Irene.

The temple, which was in disarray due to the meteor, had already been restored.

The cradle of human resource development, where the world’s best talents gathered, has now turned into a military base that trains combatants.

With the intercontinental link cut off, the Temple now conscripts and trains those who show even the slightest talent for combat among the refugees.

Temple, who used to be screened out and paid expensive tuition, now gives weapons to those who want to fight, teaches them how to fight, and puts them into the field.

No matter how much moonshine exists, most of them are put into the battlefield as soldiers and die countless times without even realizing their magical power enhancement.

Existing students of the temple, who were carefully selected, are active in battle, but the majority of the newly recruited were just fools with a vengeance.

What even those idiots needed was the current situation of the empire.

There were many people Ellen saved, but Ellen knew that there were countless people who longed for the hero who saved her and volunteered as combat soldiers and died like ephemera.

Temple, the cradle of talent, was now breeding fire moths.

Fortunately, none of Ellen’s classmates in the Royal Class died.

It’s terrifying to have to express that as a relief.

And having to use the expression ‘yet’ was terrifying to Ellen.

time is night.

There was some time left before the next operation was dispatched.

Afraid that people would recognize her, Ellen put on a hood.

Ellen was now afraid of fame, not tired of it.

Ellen, who was quietly walking down the avenue of the ecliptic, felt a certain presence behind her.

There are many people, but it seems like someone is looking at them.

such a celebrity.

When I turned my head, there was no one there.

“… … ?”

It seemed that something was clearly watching him.

Ellen walked down the street again with a strange feeling.

* * *

I didn’t wait expecting to see Ellen.

Just like I was busy, it was clear that he was having a busy time without blinking his eyes.

However, as soon as I arrived at the imperial capital, I heard people on the street talking about the return of the hero.

Ellen is in the ecliptic.

Just in case, I stood blankly near the entrance to the imperial palace.

waited quite a while

so i could see

He was wearing a hood, but he could see his face.

I saw Ellen with a colder expression than before. And there was an indelible tiredness on his face.

Maybe I could have talked.

I wonder if we could have had a normal conversation if we talked to each other.

But quite a bit of time has passed.

I don’t know what Ellen is thinking.

Ellen played a key role in getting me out, but I don’t know what she’s thinking now.

You may hate me, or you may be sorry for me.

It’s a time when I can’t say how you’ve been, but I wanted to be able to talk about anything.

I wanted to catch up and talk.

But Ellen is not the Ellen I met as a student in the Temple Royal class.

Ellen Artorius.

The hope of mankind and the opponent of the demon king.

Just as Ellen can no longer be a Royal Class student, I am no longer the Royal Class student Reinhardt.

It’s just between the division between the hero and the demon king.

we shouldn’t meet

Talking about it is also something you shouldn’t do.

I don’t know when the upcoming fate will be pushed right in front of my nose, but the conversation we have will only make each other more painful in the end.

So I was satisfied with just looking at it from a distance.

no.

Not satisfied.

I haven’t seen you in 2 years

I can’t be satisfied with just that much.

I wanted to watch more.

However, since I couldn’t do that, I don’t think I’m getting along well, but I confirmed that I’m getting along somehow, so that’s it.

I walked the ecliptic

Only pain could be read on the faces of people who were stricken with death, poverty and hardship.

Since the gate crisis also occurred in the ecliptic, even the residents of the ecliptic did not lose anything.

Most people have lost a parent, a sibling, a child, or a family member.

There were people who went somewhere because they had to live in despair.

There were definitely those who were the only hopeful ones amidst the despairing faces.

-The warrior is back!

-Looks like you killed a lot of monsters this time too.

– Will you defeat the Demon King someday?

I could read hope in the faces of people talking about Ellen.

Hatred and anger towards the Demon King.

An existence that sublimates those negative emotions into hope.

Warrior.

In this zodiac gradium overflowing with depression, anger and hatred, Ellen was the one who gave people the least hope.

Driven by fear and hatred, they were, as always, generating stories and rumors.

-The Demon King is returning to the Dark Land and collecting the monsters at the gate… … .

-The monsters roaming the continent are said to be no more than the tip of a hair compared to the main body of the Demon King… … .

– No matter how brave you are… … .

Among the crowds of the imperial capital, it seemed that the consensus was that I not only commanded the gate monsters, but also believed that I had led them to complete the reconstruction.

Dark Land?

I haven’t been there since I made a circuit to absorb the forces of the demons on the border.

-The hero also has two holy relics, but the demon king also has two… … .

-If the hero had fallen for the devil’s trick in the temple… … . I’m afraid to even imagine.

-That’s why the hero revealed the identity of the demon king a long time ago. The warrior knows everything. You are not the one who will fall for the devil’s nonsense.

It was known that I had infiltrated the Temple in order to capture the hero, Ellen Artorius.

what is a crowd

After sharing the words of their imagination like snacks, they start to believe in them before they know it.

It is not even known who started spreading fake truths whose sources have disappeared.

I had become the ruler of the strongest dark land in history, rebuilt.

They fantasize freely, fear arbitrarily, and hate arbitrarily.

there is no such country

There is a country in the Edina Archipelago in the far southern sea beyond your eyes, and there are humans and demons, not monsters at the gate.

Come to think of it, the reality was even harder to believe.

The demon king lives with humans.

If I hadn’t been the demon king and had been one of them, I would have told the person who picked up such nonsense not to give a damn.

First of all, the fact that I can control and control the monsters of the gate was a common saying among all the bullshit.

Since I caused this situation, of course the demon lord seemed to imagine that he would be able to control the monsters at the gate.

If that’s possible and I truly hate humanity, why can’t I imagine that I would have invaded the ecliptic long ago and wiped it out.

The truth is always meaningless because if someone makes such an opinion, another rumor will be created to refute it.

And it wasn’t just me that the rumors were targeting.

– Couldn’t the emperor actually be manipulated by the princess?

-Yes, otherwise there is no reason to leave the princess alone.

-No matter how important the princess is, it’s suspicious that the princess who was cursed by the demon king is not being released.

-If the princess is in good shape, she should at least show her appearance, but she’s never been like that, right?

It is even said that the reason why the empire does not execute Charlotte is not because the emperor is actually being manipulated by the princess.

-Eyyyyyyy, if the hero was there, he wouldn’t have stayed still… … .

-That’s true, but… … .

In the end, Ellen was acting as a brake on this problem as well.

People believe in the omnipotence and omnipotence of the demon king, but that’s why they also believe in Ellen’s omnipotence and omniscience as an adversary.

If the princess was really corrupted, why would Ellen, the guardian knight, stay still?

That’s why the story and atmosphere of having to execute the princess seemed to maintain a precarious balance without reaching any extreme.

-The princess says yes, but the three enemies… … .

-Those bitches to kill… … .

Liana de Granz.

Olivia Ranze.

Harriet de Saintoine.

The three students who became my side and ran away from the temple together.

In the world of humans, they became traitors to humanity, called the Three Enemy.

Perhaps those three were human beings, so they became symbols of hatred more than me.

* * *

Refugee camps are located on the Edina Archipelago and also on the Ecliptic.

However, Edina Archipelago was able to expand indiscriminately to all existing territories because there was nothing to worry about monsters.

In the ecliptic, that is impossible.

You can’t arbitrarily increase your living area, and even if you do, you can’t keep it. You never know when the monsters roaming the continent will attack you.

So the empire does not intervene in any way regarding the expansion of the refugee camp, but people continue to flow in.

Let’s enter the vast refugee camp with clumsily built shacks. I couldn’t help but feel a bizarre delight.

When I first arrived at the Ecliptic, I entered Elerith’s shop, and then a few days later I saw a group of beggars under the Bronzegate Bridge.

Beggars living in shabby shacks, strewn about and smelling of alcohol.

Rotary Club.

The scenery of the past where those people who had now died and disappeared stretched out to the horizon.

A vast land of beggars that unfolds as soon as you cross the border of the imperial city.

That was the reality of Gradium, the great and splendid capital of the Gradias Empire.

The poorly built shacks were neither soundproof nor windproof, and they were not built to the standard, so people could be seen lying there.

The smell of filth, the smell of something rotting, and flies and other flying insects hit my face.

Edina’s refugee camp couldn’t be said to be in good shape either, but it wasn’t as dire as this.

There was smoke from a fire somewhere, so I approached to see if there was a group kitchen, but it wasn’t at all.

It was smoke from burning corpses.

Is there a contagious disease? But there are priests to deal with the disease, so it shouldn’t be that serious.

Did he simply starve to death?

Cheeky-looking children were playing near the smoke of burning corpses.

Even in this situation, I could feel the contrast between the brightly smiling children and the miserable faces of the people burning the corpse next to them.

Rather than hell, what can I say?

It was like seeing the scenery of a life forced to adapt to hell.

I decided not to think like that.

if it wasn’t for me

I wish I wasn’t alone

I couldn’t help the thought creeping in on my reflex.

“… … .”

Zodiac Gradium was hell.