chapter 117
117 – Titles
“Like the disciple said, let’s forget about them for a while.”
Ashera said, and White nodded her head.
Let’s forget about the 12 Devils for a while, because I agreed with the words themselves.
…… But.
“…… That, Asherah.”
Is there something I didn’t like?
Subtly frowning, White cautiously opened her mouth.
“Anything to say?”
And whether or not she knew White’s intentions, Ashera just tilted her head calmly.
White hesitated for a moment at that attitude, but soon regained his composure and parted his lips again.
“…… Name, I mean.”
“Yes?”
Facing Ashera, who blinked her eyes once and asked back, White continued her words with a slightly reddened face.
“…… You kept calling me by name until just a moment ago, so why did you go back to the way you were now?”
“Ah.”
Ashera clapped her hands at the words she spat out with great difficulty.
At the same time, the corner of her mouth is pulled up and a bright smile is drawn.
As she moved closer to White, Ashera gave her a playful look.
“Do you want me to be called by your first name?”
“…… That.”
White couldn’t answer the question that flew by.
What on earth should she reply to such a direct question?
When I said yes, I was afraid of the aftermath, and when I said otherwise, I was confused.
Naturally, White made a worried expression on her face, and Ashera’s smile gradually deepened.
“If you want to be called by my first name, say so.”
“…… Yes?”
Hearing Ashera’s voice again, White lifted her head.
After she worked her head for a moment to interpret her words, Ashera continued her words.
“I want to be called by name, please. If you plead with me as if clinging to me, maybe they would listen?”
“… ….”
And with those words, no matter how white he was, he had no choice but to frown involuntarily.
…… Perhaps it was because a lot of important things had happened recently, it seemed that her tendency, which had not been seen for a while, was activated again.
White pulled her back slowly.
She then opened her mouth and took out her answer.
“…… Come to think of it, I don’t think it’s necessary to be called by name.”
“Yes? I beg your pardon?”
Ashera grins and asks questions.
But White knew that smile never meant anything good.
“… ….”
White held her silence, unable to open her mouth again.
But the more she did, the more Ashera was just happy.
“Come on, tell me. Didn’t I specifically allow you to call me by my first name? So, now is the time for the disciple to obey me.”
“… ….”
“Hurry up?”
Continuing urgency.
White pressed her mouth shut.
And since Ashera’s gaze became more and more persistent.
“Aren’t you going to do it? Really?”
With a smile like that of a cow demon, Ashera folded the corners of her eyes into a half-moon shape.
White blamed herself inwardly for Ashera’s gradual narrowing of the siege, and for his own foolishness in getting caught in it.
She said that it was none other than himself who gave her the excuse.
“… ….”
White glanced at Ashera.
She stared into her golden eyes as if she was glancing at her, making her invisible.
A very subtle, faint smile emerges from the corner of his mouth.
Apart from the fact that the current situation is embarrassing and difficult, I also had such thoughts in my heart.
…… Good thing.
Because she wasn’t consumed by her guilt any more than this, because she didn’t suffer for what he’d done himself in her vanished time frame.
I was very relieved, and at the same time extremely fortunate.
I don’t reveal that kind of intention.
However, the rising smile could not be blocked.
“hahahaha… ….”
At last, White’s lips squeezed and a shallow laugh leaked out.
“…… Something?”
Ashera tilted her head, frowning her subtly.
“Why are you laughing all of a sudden, disciple?”
And at the same time, she asked White.
White did not answer.
She just captures Ashera with her deep eyes and shows off her gentle smile.
“Nothing, Master.”
At some point, the title had returned to its original state.
…… However, even so.
She is neither White nor Asher.
Both of them could instinctively intuit.
Not too long, probably soon.
The moment will come when we will affectionately call each other by name.
And that moment, maybe.
Obviously–
*****
Kooung!
At the northern end of the continent, the old castle of the demon king exists there.
There, a man and a woman appeared with a red glow.
The enemy demon lord Shasar and the purple demon lord Violet were their identities.
Whee Oh Oh-
An unnatural wind blew, making the hair of the two demon kings flutter in the air.
It was Violet who spoke first.
“…… I’m sorry, Shasar.”
With her head bowed deeply as if to discredit her, she spat out her words of apology to Shah Sar.
“It was my mistake. I can’t imagine that the magic of corruption would be discovered.”
“…… Hmm.”
At Violet’s words, Shasar let out a strange nasal sound once.
Violet only slightly raises her eyes and looks at Shasar.
It was an action to gauge whether he was angry.
But soon she noticed.
Unexpectedly, the fact that he wasn’t showing his anger.
Of course, he wasn’t a man who showed his emotions easily.
At least Violet could tell.
As of right now, Shasar’s nerves were focused elsewhere.
What are you thinking?
Violet remembered.
…… About the existence of the black demon lord Asherah and her disciple, a boy.
“… ….”
Suddenly, my body trembled once.
It was a reaction based on fear, but I do my best not to reveal it.
It was an unpleasant reaction to being caught by Shasar.
Just like that, Violet was waiting for Shah Sar to open her mouth with her head down.
“Violet, do you know that?”
“…… Yes?”
Shasar suddenly uttered those words without warning, and Violet responded with a question mixed with doubt.
Shah Sar continued her speech.
“Ashera is not a woman who has a deep relationship with others. Even her subordinate, Serpia, who was almost the only one of her, didn’t mean much to her.”
Of course, it was the deepest relationship.
Adding that, Shah Sar raised one corner of her mouth terrifyingly.
“…… Ashera made her disciple. It’s not just a teacher-teacher relationship, it’s a relationship that goes beyond that.”
The scene he then recalled was when he himself grabbed the neck of a boy named White Clifford.
To be precise, it was the expression Ashera had at that moment.
“…… hahahaha, I’ve never seen him look so bloody.”
How funny it is, Shasar covered his mouth and let out a laugh.
In his eyes, those red pupils were already shining with deep desire.
“It wasn’t just a bluff. If I had snapped the boy’s neck at that moment, Ashera would most likely have tried to kill me.”
“… ….”
Silent Violet.
First of all, she was fainting at that point, so there was nothing she could do but listen quietly.
But she didn’t seem to be waiting for a meaningful response from her, Shah Sar just shrugged her shoulders and continued her words.
“You lose face in many ways. At least the emperor of the empire would declare war on me. Rather than grabbing Ashera, I had no choice but to retreat…….”
The laughter that had flowed quietly gradually began to bear madness.
Violet’s head sank deeper.
“…… What should I do?”
Shasar muttered quietly.
Red energy gradually flows from his body.
And.
Quarrr!
The red mana that became a stem and spread all over the place eventually became a red thunderbolt and struck all over the place.
“… ….”
Shasar’s red eyes began to sag deeply.
“Convening all 12 demon lords. Bring those who didn’t respond to the last meeting. Those who do not come, I will cut their throats myself.”
And at his cold voice, Violet had no choice but to nod heavily.
“…… All right.”
It was right after Violet answered that.
Hook!
With a flash of red, Shasar disappeared in an instant.
“… ….”
Left alone, Violet bit her lip.
I slowly turned my head and looked around.
…… It was once, only once.
Shasar scattered the lightning.
But, it was.
…… At just that one turn of lightning, at the fiercely pierced red lightning bolt.
Everything around the old castle has been devastated.
Whoop-
After exhaling briefly, Violet pressed her eyes together.
First of all, as he ordered, I summon all the 12 demon kings.
All he had to do was obey his orders.
“…… There will be bloody winds.”
A slight hint of uneasiness appeared on Violet’s expression as she mumbled.
…… For some reason, it’s different from what happened before.
This time, it didn’t seem like everything was going smoothly as Shasar hoped.