Volume 2 - CH 361

When the weather suddenly change from hot to cold then hot again, nothing I can do but wondering “can you just choose one already?”

Chapter 8-33. Let’s Talk

Everyone except Uchikage sat down in the provided chairs.

It would be hard to deal with the situation right away if we were sitting on stones.

Maybe it doesn’t make sense between these guys.

Anyway, we were given a place to talk.

This devil.

I can tell that she is in a good mood because of our willingness to talk to her, although she has not yet let her guard down.

However, this devil knows everything.

Houen and I saw right through that.

“Before we talk, may I ask you one thing ……”

“What is it?”

“Atrak is ……”

“I saw him die. He was trying to tell me something, but all I could hear was the blur on his voice.”

“So he told you that much. What a wonderful accomplishment for my husband.”

“……, are you not grieving?”

Lurimkos seems to be accepting her husband’s death with joy.

Just from her tone of voice, too.

She seems to be saying that she is very happy about it.

“I’m sorry ……. I’m not very good at expressing my emotions, so I’ve been using this face to mend my situation.”

“Is that a curse too?”

“I think this one is different.”

While laughing lightly, she drank up the tea that had been left on the table.

After quietly putting down the cup, she puts her hands on her lap.

Then I ask her.

“What is the devil’s purpose?”

“I cannot tell you.”

“What is your relationship with the first White Snake, Hiwa?”

“I cannot tell you.”

“What is their relationship with Lequam?”

“A coincidence of interests, I suppose.”

It seemed that information about Lequam was not a problem for these guys.

That guy really wanted to destroy his own research lab.

Although, there wasn’t much on the devil. ……

“More details.”

Lequam wanted to destroy the kingdom of Salettana. With his magic. That is why he had been researching. Roughly speaking, he wanted to test his power.”

“And why did you and your people join him?”

“As I said before, our interests were aligned. The destruction of the Kingdom of Salettana was the devil’s plan, too. As for the territory of Bamil.”

Alena tried to stand up.

But I stopped her.

She glared at me, but nothing would change if I did something about it now.

“Calm down.”

“But, they are…..”

“I know. But please bear with me.”

Making a move here is a terrible idea.

This devil has a wide range of attacks.

Up to that place where the wind has stopped, it is likely to be in the range of this devil’s attack.

One skill only.

It is breaking the event that the wind blew, and it is also breaking the phenomenon of the drop in temperature.

If you want to attack this creature, you have to go far enough outside of it.

Otherwise, we would lose our heads in a single blow.

“Why didn’t you run away? We made sure to give you time to get away, and took the appropriate measures.”

“Lurimkos. Don’t ruffle my hair.”

“My apologies for that. But I was curious. ……”

“Please don’t confuse your sense of values with ours.”

“…… my apologies.”

She apologized in a surprisingly straightforward manner.

What in the world is this person ……?

Sometimes she gets emotional, other times she apologizes in a sudden calm manner. ……

I don’t get it.

But if you ask her, she will answer you.

Whatever she’s thinking,…… that devil with the brainwashing ability wasn’t lying, was he?

The Houen, who had been holding his head in her hands, exploded with emotion.

He slammed the desk and shook the dishes.

“What the …… hell is wrong with you people,……? There’s so much I don’t understand! What’s the curse! What’s the purpose? Was it to kill us that you called us here after all? That man wasn’t lying to us, but he was lying to us!?”

“You mean Iubola?. No, he did not lie. I am trying to bring you safely back to Bamil territory.”

“Then tell me! I don’t know if you are the enemy or not! If you have a reason for not telling us, then tell us!”

“If I tell you, we will die. That’s the curse.”

“How do you break the curse then!?”

“Nothing.”

Again, Houen slammed the desk.

He muttered bitterly, ‘There is no way to break the curse’.

No matter what we do, there’s nothing more we can ask.

The curse of this inability to utter a word.

If there was no way to break the curse, there was nothing more we could do.

In the end, we knew nothing.

A wasted trip was a waste of time.

So what are we supposed to do now?

There is nothing to do but to stop what the devils are trying to do.

Whatever the reason may be, we have to stop …….

Then Lize raised her hand in fear.

“Can I ask you just one …… thing?’

“Not just one, but any number of them as long as I can answer.”

“Ah, yes,……. Um, …… what do you, or rather the devils, think of human beings? Do you hate them? Do you like them?”

Everybody wondered what kind of unreasonable question was being asked.

Such questions, there is only one answer.

The devil is trying to destroy humans.

I have no idea why, but …….

Lurimkos seemed to be greatly impressed by the question, and for the first time she showed an expression of surprise.

After that, she smiled beautifully and said.

“I adore them.”

A smile that was completely different from her previous smiles.

A smile that was real, not fake, and she smiled at us.

Our thoughts stopped as we looked at her beautiful expression, as if she were a mother caring for her child.