CH 10

“Ugh… I’m tired.”

Sellonia was on her way back to her house after leaving the cafe.

She didn’t know the time was passing, and as she chatted for a long time, the sun was already going down.

“I’m glad you’ve got some good friends.”

Ella had a very satisfied face, as if she liked the ladies.

Sellonia liked them too.

After getting to know them, they didn’t seem to have a bad temper, although their never-stopping mouths hurt her ears a little.

Absolutely not because they cursed at Ian and Grace on her behalf.

“When are you going to invite them?”

“Sooner or later.”

She also made another appointment with them.

She noticed they were quite curious about the duchy, so their next meeting with her was to have tea at her own house.

It wouldn’t hurt to spend her leave of absence with friends.

Because she dreamed so much of ordinary days like going to restaurants and having casual conversations.

It was also the first time she’d chatted with girls after possessing the body.

She was always with Ian, Reyev and McLion.

She thought it wouldn’t be bad to live with these small daily routines.

“Miss! I’ve been curious about it before, what does the Demon King look like?”

“Demon King?”

“There are only rumors, but the only ones who actually saw it are the saviors. I wondered if it was so hideous like a monster that it was hard to see with my eyes open.”

The unexpected question automatically made Sellonia’s mind recall the day when the four of them worked together to defeat the Demon King.

On the day they reached the spire, the Demon King they finally encountered was covered with black scales beyond recognition.

It was a gigantic monster with a height that seemed well over 3 meters.

Its appearance, which couldn’t be called a person or an animal, resembled the mythical animal, Pamola, with two long, pointed red horns on its head.

Its face was covered in black light, so she couldn’t see it properly, but its red eyes, which burned like an unquenchable ember, were beautiful.

“It was terrible.”

“As expected, I thought so! I was curious because according to rumors that I hear from time to time, I heard that it charms people with its good looks.”

“…”

Although Sellonia’s lips twitched for a second, she didn’t say anything.

After all, she was the only one who saw its true face. And it’s a past thing.

The moment she was rubbing her tired eyes in the dark outside.

“Neiiiigh!”

Suddenly, with the loud sound of a horse, the carriage that was running came to an abrupt stop.

Sellonia and Ella instinctively held on to the handle, so they didn’t jump out.

Startled, her heart beat rapidly.

If she didn’t hold the handle, it would have been 3 weeks before she could heal.

“Are you alright, Miss?”

Ella held onto her thumping heart and looked after Sellonia’s well-being.

Sellonia nodded her head and quickly checked the outside through the carriage window.

“Grrrrr.”

Beasts appeared with a cry.

“Ah, that…”

For a moment, a look of despair appeared on her face.

The beasts that came out of nowhere surrounded the carriage. They seemed to be at least fifteen.

“P-Princess. W-We’re going through the woods…!”

The coachman uttered a trembling voice outside.

Come to think of it, this road wasn’t the way back home.

The sun was setting, and they seemed to have entered a side road to quickly return to the mansion.

Not on the main roads used by people, but on the side roads connected to this forest road, sometimes hungry animals would appear.

So it’s a road they don’t use often, yet of all things…

“Can’t we break through?”

“T-That’s what frightens the horses, so they don’t even think about moving…”

“No. We have to break through somehow.”

They must not get out of the carriage. Else they will be bitten by the beasts.

“Shit…”

Sellonia bit her lip hard.

Her father asked her to be accompanied the knights, but she was so annoyed of people following her, so she refused.

She should have come out with a sword…

“W-What should we do?”

Ella, who was terrified, had her shoulders shaking.

She could have done a few on her own, but there were too many of them.

“Princess… I apologize, I can’t…”

The coachman wept.

Although she couldn’t see the front because she was inside the carriage, they seemed completely surrounded by beasts and couldn’t move the carriage.

‘If we stay like this, they’ll bite everything…’

Let’s think, think.

Sellonia rolled her mind, biting her thumb nails in nervousness.

Right, perhaps…

“Can we go through if I solve only the beasts in front?”

“I-I think we can try!”

“Then I’ll try to deal with the beasts right in front of the carriage, so when I give you a signal, run right away.”

She immediately got up from her seat. She had to do something rather than stay still and get bitten.

“Miss…”

Sensing the danger, Ella grabbed her by the hem of her skirt.

“Don’t worry.”

Sellonia smiled and removed Ella’s hand from her.

Ignoring Ella’s continued disapproval, she opened the carriage door.

Looking out of the carriage, she saw that the number of beasts was greater than expected.

It seemed that along with the pack of wolves, even the hungry wild dogs roaming around had gathered.

“Grrrrrr.”

As soon as the wild dogs saw her, they lowered, ready to attack her at any moment.

They growled and showed very sharp teeth in their exposed mouths. If you get bitten, your flesh will be pierced and torn to shreds.

Her lips were dry.

‘It’s okay, as long as I move quickly.’

She moved forward very slowly.

Her heart leaped so fast that it sprang out of her mouth, but as she edged out to a position where her vision would be secured, she immediately reached out to the beasts who were surrounding the horse.

Before long, the healing light that stretched out from her hand in a straight line attacked the wild dogs.

The power of fire was stronger than expected, and four of them fell down at the same time.

“Now!”

Sellonia cried, turning quickly to get into the carriage.

However, the beasts were faster.

One of the wolves and several of the wild dogs charged at her with their mouths wide open.

“Raaawr!”

“Miss!”

The roar of the beasts mixed with Ella’s desperate voice.

The moment she had no choice but to get a sharp fang in front of her eyes.

Boom!

There was a loud roar that deafened her, and a black light struck her.

At the same time, a strong gust of wind blew her body and threw her somewhere.

“Uuugh…”

Falling to the dirt ground, she groaned at the throbbing pain in her back.

She couldn’t confirm it with her eyes, but after flying several meters, it seemed that her body hit a pole or tree and landed on the ground.

“Ugh…!”

She tried her best to get up yet she couldn’t, probably because she hurt her back.

All around her, nothing could be seen because of the huge amount of dust.

The only thing she could hear was the roar of animals that made her ears fall off.

She had no way of knowing the situation, and she felt frustrated, but suddenly the noises were cut off and silence came.

No more animal cries were heard.

However, a huge silhouette was visible through the haze of dust.

Did this person help me?

Sellonia frowned and tried to see the silhouette.

The dark silhouette was gradually approaching me. Loud footsteps echoed through the ground as if walking in a cave.

Soon, the black shoes came to a halt in front of her face.

“Ouch…”

Selonia swallowed the pain and slowly raised her head.

The identity of the gigantic silhouette was revealed through the lifted dust.

“Beast…?”

A small voice came out of Sellonia’s open mouth.

Because the man looking down at her with his bright blood-like red eyes, was the one who swallowed the night.

The man called the Beast of the Night.

Contrary to her surprise, the man was slowly lowering his body without making any expression.

Gradually his face came closer to her vision.

At that moment, a cold wind blew his bangs behind his forehead, revealing his full face.

“…”

Sellonia gasped in astonishment.

That face was too familiar to her.

She seemed to have seen him somewhere when she ran into him at the cafe.

But…

“Y-You’re s-supposed to be dead, but how are you alive…!”

“You know me.”

His bright red eyes, which hadn’t reacted to her voice that flowed out of her own accord in surprise, flashed.

“Tell me. You, you know me.”

He brought his face closer and growled.

How could she forget?

She cut that man with her own hands.

That Demon King.

Sellonia lost her mind, unable to meet the red eyes that filled her field of vision.