Chapter 63 (1/2)

”What did you say?”

”Didn't you hear me? I said I was the one who killed your parents.”

”No, you didn't.”

”Fufu. Yes, I did.”

It felt as if my consciousness was fading away.

I tried to understand Lisa's words, but my head was rejecting them.

If true, I find it difficult to accept.

”The only thing I liked about you was the way you were telling me you loved me while I was scoffing about murdering your parents behind your back. Fufufu, that was hilarious.”

I felt the strength in my legs fade away.

It can't be.

No way.

Lisa would never do that.

”Master! Be careful!”

“!?”

Kaede hugged me from behind and used her healing wave magic.

I felt a beautiful white hand grab my arm as I was about to sink into darkness.

”Thank you... Kaede...”

”Don't worry.”

I stood up again and took a deep breath.

Calm down, calm down.

Don't get angry.

My mother and father were not killed yesterday or today.

I accepted their deaths a long time ago.

More importantly, I need to know why Lisa killed them.

”That beast is too annoying.”

”Um.”

When Lisa's cane pointed at Kaede, I immediately stepped in.

I managed to deflect her fire spell with the great sword as a shield.

I was relieved when I saw that Kaede was safely behind me.

She is very powerful.

Just as one would expect from a level 800 demon king.

Fighting that powerful magic makes my legs tremble.

”Wow, now you're obsessed with that slave. Can't you tell me that you love me once more? Tell me one of those stories of those useless days when you were making a futile effort to protect and treasure me. Come on, Toru, I want to hear those miserable stories.”

”That doesn't interest me. Tell me why you killed my parents.”

”Ho... Okay.”

Lisa sat on a nearby carcass and crossed her legs.

”Since I'm your ex-lover, I'm going to tell you the truth - don't you feel special?”

”Stop your nonsense and speak at once.”

”I see you are impatient. As you know, the biggest threat to me as demon king is the hero. But it's not how you would think. The hero's job specializes in battles against the demon king. “

Lisa spread her legs apart again.

”But even if you get rid of them, they'll come back in a hundred years. It's too much trouble. I can't deal with them all the time. So I thought, why don't I make them my friends and keep them around?”

.....Is that the reason?

It is unknown how long Lisa will live, but if she has a long life, she will fight the hero many times. That's why she thinks it's safer to manipulate the heroes of this generation so as to prevent the appearance of future ones.

But why are my parents involved there?

”First I had my subordinates who can see the future predict where the heroes would appear. Then I moved to the same village, pretending to be an innocent girl, but the important thing was that Sain had an unbalanced sexuality that couldn't be dropped with ordinary color tricks.”

Lisa keeps talking.

”That worried me. It was a problem of calculation. Sain is the kind of guy who likes to steal other people's belongings. So I decided to change my plans, and that's where you come in.”

”I was a stepping stone so you could get Sain.”

”Yes, but simply reaching out and making Toru fall in love wasn't enough. I had to make you vulnerable, dependent, break you so that I could be the light of your life, be your refuge after going through a terrible tragedy in which your parents lost their lives.”

I was so angry that my teeth were about to break.

My parents were killed so that I would be fobbed off as a fool. All because my enemy wanted someone else.

Everything I held dear was being trampled on.

My life was ruined because of this woman.

”But what I didn't calculate was that Sain would get the 'Demonic Eye of Seduction'. It's really a problematic ability.”

”Nei and Soara weren't in your plans, were they?”

Lisa laughs at my question.

”That's why I said it was a calculation problem. Thanks to you, it took me a long time to get rid of them. I needed Sain to trust me, I can't let him focus on two people I don't care about. I am the only person he can trust. And if he doesn't believe those words, my whole plan will fail.”

But there is a contradiction in what she says.

There was a woman standing near her, her new companion.

I wonder if that woman was also outside of her calculations.

”So, what about that woman?”

”Uhm!?”

The woman who looked like a priestess takes off her ring.

From one moment to the next, her figure changed and she became a huge, muscular demon.

”Eh!?”

For some reason, Sain was upset. 　 The demon man cast an embarrassed glance at Sain.

The demon blushed, rubbing his buttocks.