The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 695

Chapter 695

The battle didn’t last long.

A total of thirty-five.

Reinhardt’s sword, holding the middle of the rament, pushed Ellen with half-swording, piercing the gap in the reverse action and slamming her entire body into the sandy beach.

-bang!

The fight ended with Ellen riding on the chest of Reinhardt, who was half-slung on the sandy beach, and placing Rament’s blade at the nape of his neck.

The blades and faces were close enough to touch each other.

“He is dead.”

“… … That’s right.”

At Ellen’s words, Reinhardt nodded.

As if she wanted to hear Ellen’s words just now, she even laughed at the suppressed subject.

The battle was not long, but thanks to the fight between the two men who had already become monsters, the sandy beach was devastated.

“Are you going to do more?”

Ellen asks with the lament pointed at her neck.

“no.”

There are things you can tell from the moment you cross swords.

Ellen couldn’t help but know that Reinhardt didn’t even think he would win in the first place.

Ellen knows.

Even if you do it a hundred times, a hundred times.

Ellen knew she would win.

So Reinhardt would have known.

Standing up from Reinhardt’s body that was crushing him, Ellen lifts Reinhardt up.

“I can’t win as well as you.”

You cannot defeat Ellen with the sword that Ellen gave you.

that’s still

“Do you really have to beat me?”

“Actually, I don’t really want to win.”

Reinhardt laughs.

“I just like this.”

“… … .”

“It doesn’t matter if you win or lose.”

Reinhardt looks at the calmly rolling waves.

Pushed, broken, returned, pushed again, broken, and returned.

Looking at that eternity-like surge.

“It just matters that we can do this.”

It wasn’t about winning or losing, he wanted the fact that there was a moment where swords could be crossed like this.

Even if I win

I have the following.

there will be another one after that

That eternity in a place that has nothing to do with victory or defeat.

He said he wanted a series of these moments.

Reinhardt says

Ellen doesn’t know how Reinhardt subdued her.

How did you do it?

I still couldn’t beat myself.

How the hell was I able to subdue and save myself back then, who was possessed by a vengeful spirit that was stronger than now?

Ellen still doesn’t know.

Reinhardt didn’t seem to have any intention of saying anything.

In the end, Reinhardt confirmed what he wanted to check.

Ellen and herself Who is stronger.

Ellen is stronger.

It was confirmed that the gap could still not be filled.

It’s okay to lose forever, so I hoped to win just once.

After that one victory, I knew that I would only lose like before.

“As you probably know, you are officially dead.”

Finally, Reinhardt said what he wanted to say.

Hearing that, Ellen’s breath stopped.

The thought of telling the truth made me afraid.

I choke and panic because I don’t know what I’m going to hear.

The Demon King caught and executed the fake hero.

I don’t know what kind of play it was.

But the warrior died.

It became like that.

“I forced the representatives of the Dominion to come and see the public execution. You look good.”

Reinhardt giggles and laughs.

It’s bad taste.

I couldn’t help but feel that way.

Representatives of the Human Dominion were forced to watch their hopes brutally executed.

It’s brutal, but the effect will be sure.

The dead thing is probably something like a doll.

It wouldn’t be difficult to make something like that.

“With this, the dreaded Brave Cult will be calmed down, and the Dominion will slowly disintegrate.”

“… … .”

“There will be no more people projecting false hopes on you. You don’t have to feel pressured by that.”

Those who arbitrarily raise prayers that Ellen cannot even hear, asking to save mankind who are groaning under the oppression of the demon king, will disappear.

Now that the hero, the symbol of hope, has died, it is impossible to do such a thing even with an empty chant.

“You are no longer in the world, no one will need you, no one will ask you to do impossible things. The hero was defeated by the demon king. And died. That’s it.”

“… … .”

“People will forget you.”

Reinhardt looks at Ellen.

“Then what excuse do you want to run away from now?”

“… … .”

“Setting aside the fact that you can’t run away, you want to run away again.”

At those words, Ellen bit her lip and bowed her head.

“You don’t think you can stand being with me.”

You can see it all in the face.

I know without saying

I am suffering from this moment itself.

In the end, Ellen had no choice but to open her mouth trembling at those miserable words.

“sorry… … . I’m sorry for my… … .”

No matter the reason, no matter how reasonable or how necessary it was.

It is true that he left without even having a conversation with Reinhardt, who finally saved him.

It is true that five years have passed since then.

That time changed a lot.

“… … .”

“I’m sorry, can you stay with me now?”

Ellen couldn’t help but open her mouth.

Do you still have a seat for me?

What part do you still have left to devote to me?

I wanted to say yes, but I just couldn’t.

don’t worry too much

To the subject who left on his own feet, to the subject who was finally caught trying to run away like this.

Now that the situation has been resolved, he casually said that he would stay with us.

Changing your attitude like flipping the palm of your hand.

To understand everything while sitting in this peaceful prison.

isn’t it too much

Isn’t that too selfish?

“Can’t you?”

“Black… … . eww… … . ugh… … .”

In the end, Ellen gritted her teeth and began to cry.

Even if it can’t be done.

I can’t say either of them.

I’m sorry to say no.

I’m sorry to say that I want to do that.

I made excuses and at some point I just ran away.

In the end, even after being caught like this, I feel so sorry for myself that I am crying.

too hard

so lonely

Because I’m so lonely.

that every day was just painful.

I want to say that, but I can’t bear to say it.

In the end, after a break of 15 days, the two have a proper conversation.

A conversation without tears.

“I don’t know… … . I deserve this… … . I don’t think… … . I guess I won’t… … . I deserve… … . I don’t think… … .”

“Who the hell gives you that qualification?”

“I don’t know. ha but… … . I don’t think this should be… … . Something like me… … . Something like me… … . I don’t think so… … . i to you… … . What I did to the world… … . Hey… … . But with what qualifications do I… … . What shame did I… … .”

Reinhardt grabs Ellen’s sobbing chin with cold eyes and forcibly raises her head.

“Yeah, it seemed like this.”

“I thought you couldn’t stand being with me after all.”

“Either remorse or guilt. Or because they’ve been away for too long or whatever.”

“The reason you left me in the first place was actually something you could do.”

“The reason you left five years ago was actually just attached to it. You just couldn’t stand it yourself.”

“I didn’t leave because I had to.”

“You just left because you wanted to leave.”

“If you just wanted to be by my side in the first place, you could have done that. There were way too many to count. You know that.”

If he wanted to be with Ellen in any way, there would have been.

It’s just that Ellen couldn’t allow it on her own.

So left.

Isn’t it proof that he refuses to allow himself to be with him even now, when all other reasons for leaving have disappeared?

“You just can’t allow yourself to do that.”

“Because I think you are the cause of all of this”

“I think you who betrayed me don’t deserve it.”

“You know I don’t want that, and you know I don’t blame you. It’s just that you can’t forgive yourself.”

“That’s why you’re crying like this right now. Even now that it doesn’t matter if you’re with me, you’re just forcing yourself to do penance out of vague guilt.”

“It doesn’t make anything better by making yourself suffer. It doesn’t change anything.”

“Where is the reason or necessity to do so?”

“That… … . There is none.”

At Reinhardt’s words, Ellen tightly closed her eyes.

“me too… … . I know… … .”

“I am doing this… … . I know nothing I’m doing is helping anyone… … . Rather, it only hurts you and me… … . know.”

“I am pathetic and I am stupid and stupid… … .”

“But I don’t know… … . I wish I had believed in doing a little better back then. I can’t erase those thoughts… … . i can’t forgive myself So I don’t want to forgive myself for my actions, so I can’t because of my actions… … .”

“I don’t think I should be with you. I don’t know what to do with this vicious circle… … .”

“I know it’s not all because of me, but I can’t say it isn’t. If I’m even a little comfortable, if I’m happy even a little bit, I can’t stand myself like that… … .”

“I can’t even imagine that… … .”

“I know I’m like an idiot, but I know… … . I know the dead can’t come back with things like this… … . I know that nothing can be bought with guilt and nothing can be undone… … . I know, but I can’t let go… … . I just can’t… … .”

“I know that the more I do this, the more I hurt you… … . I don’t know. I think I just went crazy at some point… … . That’s the right idea… … . I can’t… … . I think it’s broken… … .”

“Sorry. I’m sorry I ran away and betrayed you. I’m sorry for not trusting you. And I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you that I’d be with you because I wanted to run away even after this happened… … . however… … . however… … .”

“stop. stop. I understand your heart.”

“… … .”

Reinhardt catches Ellen, who is spouting guilt mixed with bullshit.

The demon king speaks silently to Ellen, who is sobbing with her eyes tightly closed because she feels guilty for even making eye contact.

“Do you know what the mansion you were in until today and this uninhabited island mean?”

“… … huh.”

A prison created to create a situation in which escape is impossible.

Putting it in a place where it is impossible to escape at all.

“Because it’s clear that you are like this. We have prepared a place like this.”

If you can’t change your mind, I’ll lock you in a place from which you can never escape.

This is where the idea became a reality.

“I’ve been thinking a lot about what to do when I see you again.”

“Obviously it will be like this. You won’t be able to stand up for yourself.”

“This is the result. This is the result of thinking with Harriet and me.”

Ellen flinched at the name she hadn’t heard in a long time.

“I’m not even a wizard, so how could I have sent you here in the first place?”

The bizarre trap he fell into and the space shift he couldn’t even notice.

Ellen couldn’t help but know that it was, in fact, Harriet’s doing.

“Because it’s clear you’re going to say something like this. Because it’s obvious that you’ll scream like a dog and run away.”

“Because you are that kind of guy.”

“Cruel, but.”

“Leave me alone, you will be more cruel to yourself than this.”

“It seemed like there was no other way.”

The reason is probably good.

Harriet had a hunch that Ellen Artorius would run away for the rest of her life, and the Demon King knew that the moment Ellen left.

Aren’t I still crying, saying that I shouldn’t be like that?

just be harsh on yourself

If you think you don’t deserve to be happy, how can you choose to be happy?

The Emperor knew that Ellen’s fundamental mindset would not change, so she would eventually try to run away.

So I tried to force it.

keep it locked up

imprisoned

I tried to forcibly tie him to a place where he couldn’t escape, and this is the result of that thought.

A small island and mansion in the open sea.

I thought the way to stop Ellen’s self-torture was to lock her up in a place where I didn’t know which way to run.

You just have to deliver the supplies you need, and even if you don’t slowly understand this life, you will have no choice but to accept it.

After that, you will accept it with resignation.

Reinhardt’s words clearly see what he is thinking.

I couldn’t possibly refute that statement that I would keep trying to run away.

Ellen herself now knows that the reason is good and that she will just run away, citing any reason.

“By the way.”

“When I actually did it… … .”

“I think this is strange.”

“No matter how you think about it, tying it up like this, locking it up, imprisoning it.”

“It can’t be like this.”

“so… … . First of all, I made a place like this, and you who live here… … . I watched… … .”

“Because that’s what happens.”

“Because you are trapped in a place like this right in front of my eyes.”

“I can’t sleep well, seeing you weeping.”

“I don’t think this is either.”

“I don’t think it’s like this.”

“It will only hurt you more in the end.”

The Demon King lets go of Ellen’s chin.

Wasn’t he suffering even after actually being in this environment?

I shouldn’t accept this.

I knew I couldn’t run away, so I stayed blankly.

I was just suffering.

I was doing another self-torture.

The self-torture that I shouldn’t be happy.

Although I will resign myself to being trapped and accept it.

It was clear that he was getting sick.

The Demon King looks at the crying Ellen.

Confinement will keep Ellen in this place forever.

However, Ellen will get sick, curled up, unable to forgive herself or understand herself.

This may be the lesser evil, but not the second best.

It’s just a story about holding a blue bird in a cage and taking it out and touching it whenever necessary.

That’s why the demon king had no choice but to reach the idea that this was not the case when he saw the reality that had become his way.

“Darkland is destroyed and the previous demon king dies. After arriving at the ecliptic, I couldn’t live as a demon.”

“There was a limit to disguising it with magic.”

“It was impossible to live as a demon.”

“I needed a human figure to live among humans, and that is what you know about me as Reinhardt.”

“so.”

-Ah,

the shore with waves.

In a prison named Island made for just one person.

The demon king carefully. He takes something out of his left ring finger.

Ellen sobbed, but stared blankly at the figure of the demon king.

“This ring, which allows me to blend into the world, is the most important thing that has made all of this possible.”

ring.

Ellen knew for the first time that Reinhardt was wearing a ring like this.

Because it was a camouflage ring, even its shape could be hidden.

Reinhardt, who has returned to the form of the demon king, quietly holds Ellen’s left hand.

“I created a world where I could live in the form of a demon. I don’t need it anymore.”

“So, you know, you can’t live anywhere that way.”

“Because it’s not okay for someone who looks just like the dead warrior to wander around the world.”

“I can live as I am now.”

“Now you can’t live as yourself.”

“Then I will give it to you.”

“Because now you will need it more than I do.”

“And I will send you back.”

The demon king carefully puts the ring on the ring finger of Ellen’s left hand.

The ring, which seemed to be a bit out of size, became the perfect size for Ellen’s finger.

At the sudden act of putting the ring on, Ellen looked blankly at the demon king and asked while trembling.

“this… … . what?”

“The stuff I could be Reinhardt and the cat.”

“… … .”

Dreadfiend’s ring.

As the last Archdemon, this ring was actually the thing that made everything possible.

But now it’s no longer needed.

So now I give it to someone who can’t live in the world without this.

Trying to spend a lifetime in captivity, but eventually admitting that it was wrong.

“It’s good for me too.”

“For people like you to rot in a place like this, in a way, it’s a bit of a loss.”

“Like this time, I gave you very important information. will do something else Something of your own.”

“It will be good for you and for me.”

“I will not hold you.”

“therefore.”

“You are free.”

It gives complete freedom, the exact opposite of confinement.

I decided to give up the chance to hold onto it forever.

“With this, people won’t know you’re Ellen Artorius, and you won’t have to go looking for empty places like you are now. You can just melt into the world as a normal person and live as a normal person who is nothing.”

If you live as someone else, Ellen really disappears from the world.

You can walk in and out of the city normally, get a status, and live your life pretending to be a completely new person.

“Do you understand what I mean?”

Ellen is dazed and looks at the unknown ring on her hand.

“After you get out of here, if you want to get away from me, if you want to hide, I will never be able to find you anymore. If you make up your mind and run away, I will never see you.”

The Demon King, who found the hero, rather gives the hero a means to escape forever.

If Ellen decides to hide, the demon king will never be able to find a hero.

“But as such, it is also something that can come to me whenever you want.”

It’s something that could run away forever.

However, if you use it a little differently, it is also an item that you can go to see Reinhardt at any time.

It is impossible to even move around the ecliptic in the form of Ellen Artorius, but it is possible with the power of the ring.

Whether to use it as an escape route for eternal escape.

Whether to use it as a key to a meeting that can always be met depends only on Ellen’s mind.

The demon king carefully grabs the tips of the left fingers of the hero who is still lost in his spirit.

“therefore… … .”

“I won’t put you in a place like this.”

“I won’t force you to do anything else.”

“Where you want to go, what you want to do. I will give you complete freedom to do everything.”

“I’ll ask you just one thing.”

“Either every few months.”

“Once every few years.”

“Because it’s good.”

“Sometimes.”

“Really sometimes.”

“Come see me.”

“That’s fine.”

“Enough… … . Because that is enough.”

“Because I don’t ask for more.”

“You and I don’t necessarily have to do great things together.”

“Like now, practicing swordsmanship.”

“Even making something to eat.”

“It’s just that everyone gets together and talks about nothing like before.”

“Because it would be nice to do something so simple and insignificant like that.”

“Sometimes we can be together.”

“There is no more desperate reason not to do that.”

“You said you knew.”

“He said he knew you were weird.”

“Because I will only want that much from you.”

“Now you allow yourself that much.”

“therefore… … .”

“The self-torture that only makes you and I suffer from each other… … . Let’s stop now.”

At those words, the tears that had barely stopped finally escaped.

“Ugh… … . ugh… … . Black! Hehe!”

That’s just about it.

It’s not even asking for too much.

“This is not such a difficult request.”

It was the same with the demon king who was clenching his teeth.

It is the same as the demon lord who is holding back his anger and passion.

It was the same with the Demon King, who somehow made eye contact with Ellen, who was crying, and strained her eyes.

“like that… … . Will you do it?”

He locks up the hero he finds and then releases him again.

Give gifts that can be bought freely.

I’ll give you something you can leave forever.

I ask you not to leave forever.

Not to hold on, but to let go.

I just make one promise.

It’s not too thick or too hard.

Let’s connect one thread that won’t break between each other.

It’s too hard to allow yourself to face me and you don’t have to face it all the time if you feel guilty.

see you sometime

Do you think you can do that?

Can’t you allow yourself that much.

Isn’t it too harsh for the two of us not to allow even that?

You don’t have to be so harsh, do you?

‘Cause it’s over now

I wonder if you can allow yourself that much.

That’s what the demon king said.

Knowing that she would die in her arms if she forcibly hugged her, she created an environment where she could live fully in the world.

return to the world

Live doing what only you can do, as you have done so far.

Whether it’s to pay for your sins or for any reason, it’s okay to go looking for a place where you need to be.

But sometimes.

When you are tired or having a hard time, or if there are moments when you are so lonely that it hurts.

Sometimes it’s good to come back and rest.

Tolerate that much.

You can live if you want to live eternal punishment.

Because the moment when you can pay for your sins will never come.

Allow for a very small occasional rest.

In the end, in front of the demon king, who chose to let go even though he could get rid of his obsession and have what he wanted.

No more deterrence can be exercised.

With a heart full of gratitude and gratitude.

I have to answer.

So, Ellen somehow managed to get rid of the expression that had always been unsightly.

Trying to make you smile.

“Ughhhh… … . huh… … .”

And in the end, with tears and laughter mixed together, the expression became more messed up.

-Shoot ah

at the beach with waves.

On the beach where the waves will crash and break forever.

Promise another eternity.

like that.

the warrior.

“please… … . please… … .”

with the devil.

thin though

will never break

“I will.”

They made a small but eternal covenant.