Chapter 50

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Chapter 50 – I’ll Take Your Heart

Iwer had broken her oath of obedience, and blood was dripping from her throat.

Taking advantage of Bella’s blank stare at her, she leaped to the wreckage of the collapsed Demon King’s Castle.

Bella had only ‘a question mark’ floating in her head. Whether her head had gone bad or not in the demon realm, it happened so quickly that it was impossible to judge the situation at all.

“What…?”

Kiehl, who put her heart in, was bleeding quite a bit, unlike when Iwer showed it.

He was about to lose his consciousness at the pain that was digging into his chest, so he bit his teeth tight and gazed at Bella.

“This… what’s going on?”

Her teeth rattled between her lips, and her eyes lost focus. Bella grabbed her head with both her hands.

“No… it can’t be….”

As the eons of her life here approached her nose, she was terrified. It shouldn’t have been like this.

“What else has changed…?”

At that time, when the warrior did not appear even after waiting for a long time in the First and Second areas of the Demon King’s Castle, the generals opened the door.

“Princess!”

“The hero is over there!”

Hearing the sound of the demons screaming and approaching, Kiehl then grabbed Bella’s cloak. Eight years ago that day, he had no power, but he could take her with him now.

“Bella, together…”

His heart was clogged, and only tears flowed down like a waterfall.

“Together… Let’s go to the human world…”

“Kill the warrior!”

Over their shoulders, ignorant demons were shouting as the ground trembled so much as they approached.

Bella looked at him and bit her lips, barely swallowing the tears that were about to come out.

Why was she doing this, to blame Kiehl…?

Because she understood his feelings so much. It was that she didn’t even know what it was like to find her birth mother, who was separated when she was young. Rather, she didn’t know that it would hold her ankle.

The subordinates rushed to Kiehl’s without knowing the circumstances.

Bella stood up slowly, and her cloak, which Kiehl was holding, slid off her shoulder.

Kiehl looked at her eagerly.

Her body, which was hidden by the cloak, was very thin. She spread her arms slightly to the sides, and black wings that appeared to be three times the size of her body spread out from her back.

The demons, who saw her, all stopped while trying to rescue her. No, they had to stop.

“Run away!”

Zanbar warned his troops, though already, his men were panting with blood flowing from their eyes.

“Damn, that warrior…”

Zanbar turned into a leopard, barely holding on to his overwhelming magic power, and struggled to stop Bella, step by step.

However, he frowned as she saw Kiehl holding Bella’s cloak under her feet.

“No way… Young Master?”

“Zanbar! Please, cut off my hand! Hurry!”

“Iwer?”

Zanbar abruptly cut off both of Iwer’s wrists.

“What the hell is this?”

“Ah. I saw a very thrilling scene with my own eyes.”

Iwer blushed with satisfaction and twisted her body.

“Because our Young Master is really smart.”

Zanbar thought that Kiehl had come to catch Bella, and he was shocked.

Although Bella was now spreading her wings with ease for the first time in her life since she came to the demon realm. Her hair fluttered, and the entire Demon King’s castle wobbled except for the tiny space where she and Kiehl were.

The ceiling of the Demon King’s castle began to collapse, and a large chandelier fell on the Demon King’s throne.

And, the space where the two were right in front of the throne gradually rose from the bottom.

The screams of the demons crushed by the collapsing rubble could be heard behind Kiehl’s back. All of a sudden, the ceiling of the Demon Castle fell to the floor, and a large moonlight shone in the dark sky from behind Bella.

Her skin, which was very thin, was shining in the moonlight.

Bella, who was the only person in the high space, exhaled her breath deeply as if satisfied.

“It’s quiet now.”

Bella’s fluttering hair came down calmly. She closed her eyes slightly and smiled brightly.

“Isn’t it really pretty here?”

“…Pretty.”

Even though the wings were blacker than the dark sky, in Kiehl’s eyes, they were just as beautiful as she was.

“I was angry and broke this castle a few times, but each time, the moonlight was beautiful.”

“….”

“Even though I want to show you something pretty again, there’s nothing else to see in the underworld.”

Bella smiled bitterly and folded her own wings.

“Who told you to do something so reckless? It hurts.”

Originally, it was a devil’s technique to put a human heart into a demon. Those who have a heart would die if they were separated from the heartless for a long time. It was just insurance to keep the demons from breaking their promises.

“Why are you doing this?”

Kiehl mumbled mournfully with his heart numb than his torn chest.

“Bella doesn’t want to be with me…”

“When did I say I didn’t want to be with you?”

Bella opened and folded her hands repeatedly to avoid the tingling when she touched the wounded area. Kiehl grabbed her right hand and clasped her fingers slowly. When she wanted to pull it out, he stroked her fingers one by one as if he had caught them.

“I’ll do whatever Bella wants, so stay with me.”

While enduring the pain like this, she wanted to reach her heart that wanted to be with him. His slender fingers brushed Bella’s knuckles, tapping her deep heart.

‘I also… I want to live like a human being.’

Centipede-type demons wriggling under the rubble behind Kiehl’s back. Bella didn’t want to live with them anymore. Even if others possessed the novels, they possessed people like the duke or the count. Why does she have to live in this hellish place…?

So, she really wanted to go…into the human realm.

‘What has changed… I should check it out.’

The day she thought everything would end was the day it started again…

Bella replied quietly, touching Kiehl’s cheek with her hand, “…I’ll go. So, don’t cry anymore.”

“Really?”

“Yes. Let’s go back to the human world together.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Kiehl spoke as if waiting.

“Then, please swear.”

He gazed up at Bella with a clear look, unlike when he was crying until now.

She was freaked out by his appearance, but she thought it was a little cute and laughed before grabbing Kiehl’s cheeks with both hands.

“I am tired of the vows I made back then, so I cannot make any other vows.”

“…Then, I won’t give this heart back. You’re going to change your mind.”

Bella reached out her little finger to Kiehl with her hand on her cheek.

“I’ll promise.”

However, Kiehl didn’t give up easily on this gamble with his own life. He turned his head.

“Not without the heart, it might be dangerous.”

It was something Bella didn’t know.

Jenkins thought it was none of his business since he was half-demon. However, he could not predict what would happen if the heart of a demon was put into a human body. Most of the time, it was the other way around.

Bella immediately took out the summoning team and called Iwer.

“Iwer, give me my heart. I’m going to the human world…”

Bella muffled her words when she saw Iwer’s severed hand.

“I can’t.”

“Crazy…”

Whoever pulled the heart out had to take it out as well.

“It will be no big deal! I tried it on guys I liked, too.”

“…Why?”

“They would die if I wasn’t by their side, so they followed me diligently.”

“You are so crazy, too…”

Bella frowned and clicked her tongue.

“Bring me a bandage. I need to treat Kiehl.”

“If it’s a bandage, there’s the closest one.”

Saying so, Iwer pointed to Bella’s chest with her severed hand. It was because to look like a man, she took off her top and put on a bandage.

“….”

“….”

Silence fell for a moment, and with a clattering sound, Iwer set out to find her tongue, which had been cut off.

Kiehl grabbed Bella’s arm and pulled her closer to him. He just wanted to hug her now, without saying anything.

“Yes?”

Nevertheless, he was surprised that Bella gave strength, and he couldn’t pull her any further. He couldn’t figure out how this kind of power was coming out of those thin arms because she was not like the Demon King.

Kiehl’s heart was pounding when he couldn’t even hug her the way he wanted to.

‘Really…’

Kiehl looked up at Bella.

“Hug me.”

“You…”

Bella was quite embarrassed to see his eyes widen and asked for a hug. Even though he looked like a little child whining, at that moment, Kiehl didn’t look like a little child to her.

‘You… You are no longer a child.’

She often hugged him when he was young, but now, he was an adult.

“…Hug me.”

Still, seeing him and her tenacious foolishness, Bella suddenly spread her arms out. Seeing this pretty face of his hurt and weeping, her heart kept getting sad and weak.

Just like when she first met him.

Unlike in his childhood, when he was particularly small, she was embraced by him rather than hugging him. But, for a while, it was strange. Bella slowly closed her eyes at Kiehl’s familiar scent. How long had it been since this peace, breath, and warm embrace?

She slowly closed her eyes and sighed heavily.

‘…First, let’s check what has changed because of me.’

She was going to go to the human world and somehow finish it like the original. In the novel that she had read countless times, Kiehl and Rosanne were already in love. She thought that their feelings for each other wouldn’t be twisted.

‘Yes, as long as it has a happy ending with Rosanne.’

She thought it would be better than when she touched Kiehl’s important settings.

Kiehl, on the other hand, wanted to hold her tight as if crushing her. However, Bella was too skinny, and he couldn’t because she was now too small for him, so he just cherished this warmth so as not to scatter.

— “The Young Master must move strategically!”

Recalling what Iwer said, he gazed at Bella in his arms with cold eyes.

— “What else has changed…?”

‘Bella, I’m sorry.’

Bella’s breathing tickles his chest.

‘I’m not going to go with that damn talk.’

The two people know the novel had different content, but now they are being comforted by the warmth of each other that they have been dreaming of for a long time.

Nevertheless, after a while, Bella’s position in his arms was getting more and more awkward. He hugged her so much that for the first time, she felt a tickling sensation on her fingertips.

‘Well… Guess I’ll have to move away now.’

Moreover, it felt strange to touch Kiehl’s soft arm against her skin.

“Uh… Well, Kiehl. Stop now…”

“I don’t want to. I will never let you go again.”

At those words, he hugged her so tightly that it took her breath away.

‘Really… How long is he going to hug me?’

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