Evade the Hero and Flee! 180 #20. This World Doesnt Want to Leave Alone (9)>
#6 Their circumstance: Belegreas circumstances
Is this really right? Am I really doing the right thing?
There, there. Sign right here.
The human hand sneakily sliding forward held a piece of paper containing an incredible amount of magical power.
Isnt this?
Thats right, its a Geass scroll. I only have two of these things left, but lucky for you, Im prepared to use one!
How strange. Geass scrolls were produced in tiny numbers by the temple of the Creator God and nowhere else. Even the demon kings treasury held only five such scrolls, yet a regular human being possessed two of them?
No, wait. He couldnt have been a normal human being in the first place since he managed to get here. Even so, him coincidentally possessing a Geass scroll right this mont didnt make any sense.
Could it be that all this had been prepared in advan Ha-euk.
Smack.
Smack
.
I was left with no choice but to tremble when a small hand lightly smacked the ground.
Too much talking~, sis.
Those words were spoken by a little girl with long silver hair. And this girls small fist smacking the ground made tremble in pure terror. , who had been trained for a long ti by my father the forr demon king!
Y-yes
The human man pushed a pen forward in my direction, and my constantly-trembling hand sohow managed to grab it.
No, this was wrong. Without a shred of doubt, this contract had to be a deal with the devil. No, more like an evil god!
This contract must be filled to the brim with every vile, disgusting and unreasonable demand I can imagine.
W-where should I sign?
However, I had no choice but to sign such a contract with a forced smile on my face.
Im sorry, Old Man kel. I think Im beyond saving now.
Hey, that wont do. Its supposed to be a contract, so you should have a look-see at least once. Itll get annoying if you start so other nonsense later on, you know.
Y-you think so?
Hahaha
With a cramped smile on my face, I began reading the contract laid out before my eyes. This was a Geass scroll, to begin with once signed, no one could go against it, so was he forcing to read it just to make even more miserable?
Eh?
But when I started reading the contract, I imdiately discovered sothing strange about it. This contract, it was surprisingly a legit-sounding one.
I had been expecting it to say that Id beco this mans puppet in his quest to eliminate Aggreahrt, and then hed rule over the demon world, but
But this contract featured exacting and detailed conditions regarding how hed like to live like a regular farr in a small corner of the demon world, how I must help him achieve that end, and how I shouldnt try to get revenge or treat him unfairly just because he happened to be a human being.
In other words, this human wanted to help him and his group settle down and live a normal life in the demon world in return for making the next demon king.
Sure, there seed to be all sorts of annoying-sounding additional clauses but, all of them were for the eventuality of soone discovering their real identities as humans.
If its like this
What do you think? Its not bad, right?
Y-yes.
Unlike how they suddenly started beating up for no reason, the contract details written down on this Geass scroll were not bad at all. No, wait. Id say these conditions were actually advantageous for .
However, the most important aspect of these conditions is that you shall make the next demon king. Is that even really doable?
Indeed, the crux of the contract on this Geass scroll was with becoming the demon king. But to do that, we had to sohow deal with the problem of defeating Aggreahrt and bringing the moderate faction under one banner.
Of course it is, the human man replied confidently.
You have a way to defeat Aggreahrt? You do?
Ah, wait. It might be possible.
If this silver-haired girl next to him sohow managed to get close to Aggreahrt and sohow landed just one hit on him!
No matter how strong Aggreahrt was, hed be rendered completely useless afterwards.
Yes, she was that kind of a lifeform (?), wasnt she?
Perhaps they had noticed my rising anticipation, triumphant expressions began filling up their faces while looking straight into my eyes.
Of course we cant defeat him.
I beg your pardon?
I was sure that a flabbergasted expression showed up on my face just then.
Just what was wrong with this human? How could he say sothing so idiotic with a triumphant look on his smug face?
But, didnt you just say you will make the next demon king?!
That I did. But I never said anything about fighting and defeating soone. Love and Peace, baby. Lets love peace, shall we? [1]
The man said so incomprehensible things to and brushed aside my concerns with that smug grin.
You, you really are
Anger rushed up to my head, and I nearly blurted out so harsh words, but my lips clamped shut automatically after spotting silver hair strands dancing dramatically in the winds.
Thats because Anyone could tell that the mont I raise my voice would be the mont the silver-haired girls fist lands on my face.
You told there are certain conditions to becoming the next demon king, didnt you?
Yes. Winning the election and getting the temple to acknowledge you. However, its impossible to succeed in either of those.
The sole remaining descendent of the Succubi was nowhere to be found. Not even a single piece of information to go on. Not only that, the gamble called demon gods blessing had such terrible odds that anyone not deed chosen would die instantly.
No matter how dire my situation was, I didnt wish to choose the demon gods blessing as my last resort.
Can you see that carriage over there?
Yes.
These humans were riding on that carriage.
The human man pointed at the carriage, where two humans with dazed expressions were looking back at us, and said sothing strange to . My daughter is riding in it.
Yes?
And my daughter is the descendent of the Succubus race.
Yes???
I ended up thinking that I mustve misheard him because of how laid-back he sounded while revealing that shocking truth.
Who was riding on what carriage now?
Are you really telling that the sole remaining descendent of the Succubus race is inside that carriage??
Since my daughter is inside, yeah, youre spot on.
Are you telling the truth?
My voice grew louder without realising it.
Just how badly did I search for her all this ti!
So many of our agents had to be sacrificed for a chance to cross Ruibellas walls, and after a few barely managed to pass through there and did their best to gather information, they still couldnt find a single trace of a Succubus anywhere.
But to think, she was actually inside the demon continent all along!
Oh, and its not just the descendent of the Succubus race inside that carriage. Theres a dragon, too.
You, you!
However, his follow-up words woke up and made realise that he was lying to . In fact, this man was making a fool out of right now.
Yes, he was deriving so kind of a perverted enjoynt from the sight of my hopes being lit again. For that reason alone, he lied about the descendent of the Succubus riding in that carriage!
Just kill already. Rather than becoming your plaything, I will simply kill myself!
I chose to bite my tongue and die. I stuck my tongue out to show him how serious I was only for him to cut off before that.
Hey, even if you bite your tongue, we can still heal you. And that healing will co from
Arus hand is a healing hand, see~?
Whoosh, whoosh-
I quietly pulled my tongue back inside after watching the silver-haired girl make whooshing noises while shadowboxing.
Hes not lying.
If you want to live, you better believe him.
I didnt bite my tongue because of her but the pair of a man and a woman far behind the smug-faced older man shaking their heads at , their eyes of pity clearly visible. I might have imagined it, but I thought I could hear their voices, too.
The older man asked a question. Besides all that, princess, why did you even try to bite your tongue out of the blue?.
Are you serious?
I truly disliked being led around the nose by this man, but it wasnt like I had a say in the matter. I couldnt see a way to escape, and this silver-haired girl was far too close to my side, after all.
The justice was far away, while the fist was near now I fully understood what that old saying ant.
Huh. I only spoke the truth, you know?
The older human man said that, then got up from the spot. He headed to the carriage, and along with a young pink-haired girl in tow
Dad, who is she?
A big sister that will accompany us from now on. Now, child. Greet her. And Kkokko, its fine to greet this human no, I an the demon lady, too.
Hi, big sis! Im Alice!
Hi~. Im Kkokko!
The pink-haired girl and a drake was what I wanted to tell myself, but that lizard-like lifeform with wings speaking like a human could only be
S-seriously?!
H-hold up! Just what kind of a dragon rides around in a bloody carriage!
Besides all that, what is the real identity of this old human?! Could he be a dragon in disguise? A dragon travelling the world for fun or sothing?
Are are you a great, noble existence, sir?
Existences calling themselves great and noble while even giving the gods the cold shoulder treatnt I began trembling from the fact that one such existence was standing right before my eyes.
A great and noble existence? My foots great and noble. Im just a normal human. However, the man rubbished what I said with an annoyed voice. Ah, wait.
We do have soone that did kill the so-called great and noble existence all by himself right over there. Mister hero himself.
I followed the mans pointing finger and turned my head to spot a blonde man by the carriage. He and another woman had been watching with eyes of pity for quite so ti now.
Hes a hero?
Yes. A hero affiliated with the Order of Nature.
This situation was getting further and further away from the realm of my understanding.
What is this? The sole descendent of the Succubus race that Ive been desperately searching for, a hatchling dragon and a hero from the Order of Nature What were the odds of such a group travelling together like this?
Not stopping there, what were the odds of such a weird group running into , the forr demon kings daughter, out in the middle of nowhere???
Was such a thing even possible?
N-no, wait. Before all that
Just who, or what are you?
This man, this existence, that the sole remaining descendent of the Succubus race referred to as her dad
The pain that couldnt have belonged to this world. The pain that defied all attempts to describe and the vile, sinister silver-haired girl capable of dishing out such pain
This man was accompanied by such a demonic creature!
And on top of that, the hero from the Order of Nature was travelling with him, too?
Finally, that man even used a Geass scroll to make a contract with the daughter of the forr demon king, telling her that hed make her the next demon king. All I needed to do was assist him with starting a farm in so remote corner of the demon world.
Was this man before my eyes really human?
Maybe, kel made an error with his magic formula, which caused to black out during the transfer magic and now, I was simply having a nightmare.
No, that couldnt be right. That pain from earlier was so horrific that it simply had to be a reality, not a dream. That pain touched in my soul, after all! My dreams werent vivid enough to let experience sothing that terrible.
You wanna know who I am?
Yes.
I was dying of curiosity from this mans true identity. A man who defied all attempts to figure out who he was!
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Just what kind of an individual was he that all these incredible beings were accompanying him like this?
Could he be a dragon, after all? If not, a transcendental existence referred to as one True Hero that surpassed the other heroes, who quietly retired in his old age? [Important T/N at the end of the chapter]
If thats also not it, then maybe a trainee holy man wandering around the world to beco the apostle of so god?
So many thoughts flitted in and out of my head non-stop for a while there. I was confident of not getting shocked no matter what this man introduced himself as next.
And so, as I stared at the man with just a tiny bit of anticipation building up inside my heart, he triumphantly revealed his true identity to the world.
My na is Yes, itll be Marcus! An exceedingly normal farr!
Say what?!
A a farr?
Stop making fun of !
My dear daughter, Im a farr for sure, right?
Ng! Dad is a pro farr! And Im an expert farr!
W-what are you two even talking about??
The supposed descendent of the Succubus race smiled brightly and agreed enthusiastically with the older man. What kind of farming were they partaking in that they need to have a dragon and a hero accompany them like this?!
N-no, before that!
R-right! What do you an, youre Marcus?! Even a moron can tell thats not your real na!
A person can change their na, you know.
Ng! Even Kkokko was called Bbi-yak and Chicken in the past, big sis! [2]
Really, mama?
Ng!
Just why was this father and daughter duo looking at like I was the weird one here? Could it be that I really was the weird one? Or was this down to the cultural differences between humans and demons?
Nope, definitely not.
They are the abnormal ones.
Ah.
My gaze started to swim around the surroundings after the stares of the weird father and his daughter assaulted . I eventually stopped at the spot where the young man and woman had been looking at with eyes of pity for so ti now.
For so reason, I felt like I could clearly understand what they wanted to tell simply by looking at their expressions and the light flickering in their eyes.
Please, please tell that Im not the weird one here, please?
Yes. That man is the weird one, not you.
To be more specific, its not you, but everything connected to that man is weird.
Two of them nodded at in silence.
The hero acknowledged by none other than the Order of Nature directly confird that this old man was not right in the head. So what Ive been sensing all along must be true.
That Im the normal one, and this man is insane!
But the problem was
Alrighty, then. The explanations are over and done with, so its ti to seal this deal.
That I was being forced into a contract with such a man!
G-good sir, cant we, like, pretend this never happened?
My instinct was telling that I need to beco the next demon king to save the demon race, but it also told that I must never, ever accept this humans help. The mont I do, sothing huge would happen, thats what it said!
Alright, start signing.
Dont worry~ Be happy~ and sign already~.
But I was still too scared of the silver-haired girl who suddenly placed her small hand on my shoulder.
Just when would that small fist start pounding on again, I wonder?
Im sorry, Old Man kel. I thought about this one more ti, and I still think its too late for now.
My trembling hands rose up. The older man and the silver-haired girl began smirking like villains while watching .
I knew deep in my heart that I was making a terrible decision. But I didnt have enough power and could only seal this contract just as they told to.
And so, this was how I t the one referred to as the revolutionary of the demon world Marcus the scamming human.
[1]: Love and Peace bit was written in English in the raw.
[2]: Bbi-yak is a romanised onomatopoeia for the sound chickens make, while Chicken bit was written in English.
[Translators note: Until now, all instances of the Korean term ?? have been translated as hero so that the translation can stay more or less consistent with the previous translators efforts. However, that term originally should have been warrior.
In this chapter, the author revealed that the concept of ?? (hero) does exist in this world. Which creates a conflict with how its been translated so far.
The solution I ca up with is to keep using hero for ??, which will apply to all the heroes from different religious orders, and when the ?? (hero) shows up for real in the future chapters, itll be Hero, capitalised, as a ans to differentiate. Thank you for your understanding.]
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