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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Wjin
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“So you’re saying you’re my fan?”
Her statement wasn’t easy to accept.
It was a Demon King declaring herself a fan of a hero who had killed three Demon Kings.
Although it was questionable whether she could be considered a Demon King.
Anyway, she and I moved to her office to have a more detailed conversation.
Even if no one could see us, the multipurpose training ground wasn’t the right place to continue this conversation.
Sitting on her office desk, she smiled casually and said,
“Yeah, I became a fan after investigating your achievements so far.”
Certainly, my record of killing three Demon Kings in the past few years was impressive.
But the important thing was, what did that have to do with her becoming my fan?
“But you’re a Demon King.”
“Just because we’re all Demon Kings doesn’t mean I’m them and they’re me.”
Now I was sure.
This person perfectly matched the Freya from Seo Yoo Rang’s knowledge.
She was individualistic even among the individualistic Demon Kings, a woman who always insisted on doing things her own way.
Of course…
“But why become a fan?”
There was no reason for her to become a fan.
Of course, I would be happy if she had a favorable impression of me, but I didn’t expect this kind of favor.
I wanted her to explain a little more.
But what she brought up was a story that sounded out of place.
“Hmm, to tell you the truth, I was a little sad when Libero died. I learned swordsmanship from him when I was young.”
That was strange as a reason for her to become my fan.
No, it would be more natural to think the opposite.
“Then why…”
“Because he didn’t look sad at all when he died.”
He didn’t look sad when Libero died.
I recalled his last moments.
He was certainly smiling.
‘Why was he smiling?’
His end was certainly miserable.
He had killed countless heroes against his will and died at the hands of his own disciple.
Nevertheless, he smiled at the last moment.
“What do you think is the biggest weakness of the Demon Kings?”
Another out-of-place question.
In the end, I gave up on arguing and answered her question.
“Weakness?”
Of course, each Demon King had their own weaknesses, but if I had to pick a common weakness…
“Heroes, and Sacred Relics?”
She shook her head and held up two fists.
Then she bumped her fists together.
“No, that’s just fighting fist with fist.”
Then she opened one fist wide.
“What I’m asking is a definite weakness that can turn the tables on those fists.”
A definite weakness for Demon Kings?
If there was such a thing, the Demon King subjugation would have been over long ago.
And even if there was, I didn’t think I would find out about it so easily.
As my doubts grew, she said,
“The weakness of the Demon Kings is time.”
“What?”
Time?
That was the opposite of what I knew.
Time was the Demon Kings’ greatest weapon.
“Aren’t Demon Kings immortal beings who are not affected by time?”
She made a bitter expression.
“Of course not. They just don’t die, but they still live in the same time as you.”
She spread her arms wide.
“And the most important thing while living through that eternity is purpose. Time without any purpose gradually eats away at the Demon Kings… and eventually breaks them completely. Libero was one of those Demon Kings.”
His purpose was to reach the end of swordsmanship.
But the moment he became a Demon King, he realized that he could never reach the end of swordsmanship.
Libero wasn’t the only Demon King like that.
“Most of the other Demon Kings are the same. They all become Demon Kings with some purpose, but most of those purposes are either meaningless or impossible. So they all live with false purposes.”
False purposes.
They varied.
“For example, Gnaeus’ purpose was to amass wealth. There’s a guy holed up in a back room whose pleasure is voyeurism. And most of the others… aim for the destruction of this world.”
Only then did I understand why she said time was their weakness.
And why she brought up this story.
Freya’s eyes lit up and she said,
“To those who were living with such false goals, Libero’s death was a new stimulus. The new generation of Demon Kings wouldn’t have seen a Demon King achieve their goal and die, unlike the early Demon Kings.”
“So that’s why you became my fan?”
But that fan feeling seemed a little different from the definition I knew.
“Yes, so…”
I sensed that something was going wrong again.
“Kill me too!”
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The Demon King’s Castle.
Among them, a room in the most secluded place.
In the dark room, only the light from a crystal ball illuminated the purple-haired girl.
“Hmm…”
The crystal ball was filled with a hazy color.
That was because the place she was trying to see was the Holy City of Haelen.
With a few exceptions, the Holy City of Haelen was the only place she couldn’t see.
“Is there no way to see it somehow?”
She had already given up after many attempts.
But recently, she felt like trying again.
Of course, it wouldn’t be easy just because she tried again.
As she was struggling with the crystal ball,
The 59th Demon King, Ael, who had been watching her from behind, said, unable to watch any longer,
“If that were possible, humanity would have been destroyed long ago.”
She was right.
If Violet could see inside Haelen, where the headquarters of the church was located, she could have already destroyed the church.
But that wasn’t the case.
Nevertheless, the reason she was trying again was because there was someone she wanted to see.
“How should I put it? I felt it when the early Demon Kings left, but after seeing Libero go, I feel a strange sensation.”
“What does that have to do with the 15th one?”
“It’s just my intuition. I’ve seen the Demon Kings before me leave, you know. I have a feeling that she might be next.”
Ael let out a chuckle.
“You’ve become a prophet after staring at the crystal ball all day. But there’s no way that bat will die. The 2nd ranked hero is on her side.”
“No one expected Libero, who was so strong, to fall to a disciple who used the same swordsmanship as him.”
Everyone had expected that Libero wouldn’t last long.
He had endured for a long time without any real purpose.
And the end of such Demon Kings was usually similar.
‘Complete mental breakdown, followed by being killed by heroes.’
Everyone expected Libero’s end to be like that.
In fact, it almost came to that.
But his death overturned all those expectations.
He ultimately faced death with a smile.
“That’s true, but…”
Ael said, frustrated.
“Honestly, I don’t even know why they keep such a wayward one alive in the first place. If you think about it, there are plenty of spies in the church other than that one.”
“…”
“And besides. If there’s anyone who could be leaking our side’s information, she’s the most likely candidate, isn’t she? I definitely think she was involved in the incident with the 71st Demon King last time, too?”
That wasn’t just Ael’s opinion.
Most of the other new Demon Kings shared the same thought.
From their perspective, there seemed to be no reason to keep the 15th Demon King alive.
Of course, there was a clause that Demon Kings shouldn’t interfere in each other’s affairs.
But now that the Demon King Council had more authority than that clause, if there was still one reason why she hadn’t been sanctioned yet…
“Still, she’s the only Demon King who can enter the Holy City of Haelen. That alone is enough reason to keep her alive.”
She took her hand off the crystal ball and wiped the cold sweat on her forehead with her sleeve.
The result of this attempt was also a failure.
The powerful barrier around the Holy City of Haelen was so strong that it was a wonder that there was even a Demon King who could enter it.
“Anyway, what were we going to look at?”
Come to think of it, there was a reason why Ael came to her room.
Ael’s expression brightened.
“Let’s see what happened to that house we saw last time!”
“You mean the house with the twin sisters?”
It was the house they had been watching with the most interest lately.
Violet changed the location the crystal ball was pointing to.
Then, she said, looking at the scene that unfolded,
“But is this right?”
“Honestly, even as a Demon King, I don’t know.”
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