LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 178
“Don’t want to know? How Lev Denec finds his memories.”
Liris’s intervention with a bright expression.
A stillness fills the cafeteria.
“Is there a way for Lev to regain his memories…?”
Of course, if there is, I want to implement it right away, but…
It’s not easy to believe her words.
After all, it was Liris Larochelle who pressured Aria to kill Lev.
But Aria, the person in question, asked flatly.
“There must be something you want?”
“…”
Liris maintained a quiet smile, then answered.
“Just as I thought, we communicate well, Aria Bluebell.”
“…Get to the point.”
“It’s simple. Just lend Lev Denec to me for one day.”
“Just…?”
“Yeah. I want to talk to him one-on-one.”
“If you mean to harm Mr. Lev, stop.”
Aria shot back at Liris’s proposition with a serious expression.
According to Violet, Liris is currently under a restraining order from approaching Lev and Aria.
So this condition is akin to leaving fish in the care of a cat.
But Liris wasn’t backing down either.
“Well, it’s up to the junior. It seems like you won’t mind if you refuse?”
Liris only looked at everyone with a refreshing smile.
*
“…I’m going crazy.”
A few days passed since I realized my memories had vanished, and I reaffirmed Selena’s feelings.
As expected, memories of Aria and Yeriel have not returned.
– Lev, even if they don’t come back, we can build new memories! We have more days ahead, right?
– Take it slow. No need to rush.
My favorite heroine, Yeriel, and Aria both like me.
They care for me.
But I don’t have time to think about why they are showing such interest in me.
Of course, I don’t dislike either of them.
It’s just that I feel foolish for not being able to keep up with their uncontrollable feelings.
– Thank you, Yeriel.
– Yeah…! Lev.
I try to interact with them based on what I’ve heard from around me… Trying not to hurt them as much as possible, but that isn’t easy either.
I feel sorry for not being able to become the Lev they love.
‘My heart is uneasy.’
Therefore, the time I spend with Selena has increased recently.
She understands my worries entirely; thus, she feels the most comfortable…
– That’s all for today.
She also drew a line as if she was being considerate of me.
– Don’t look at me like that. I said I’d wait on my side.
It seems like Selena thinks she’ll maintain this stance until I regain my memories.
‘Memory loss… This is more annoying than I thought.’
At this rate, we might all get exhausted,
So, for everyone’s sake, I eventually had no choice but to accept Liris’s request.
Knock knock.
Having made a bit of preparation, I cautiously tapped on the door of her dormitory.
About ten seconds later, the door opened.
“Just as I thought, it’s you, junior.”
“…”
“You thought well. Memories with them are precious, right?”
Liris’s attire was… to put it in one word, seductive.
With long black hair, she wore a red negligee that would drive any man crazy.
“Don’t just stand there, come in.”
Following her, who held a wine glass, I stepped into the room.
“Sit down.”
“…”
As she pushed me down onto a soft velvet sofa, her next words were quite shocking.
“Let’s kiss.”
“…”
“I know you still remember me…” uhm.
I immediately stood up, grabbed her chin, and pressed my lips against hers.
Skin contact with the one who tried to kill me.
Thinking about the heroines I like makes it bearable.
And I turned her around, sitting her down on the sofa.
Liris exhaled hot breaths as she followed my lead.
“Good job. Did you practice with them?”
“…”
“Yeriel, Aria. Which one felt better?”
When I didn’t respond,
“Don’t tell me you have a preference for that elf girl…”
Sneak sneak.
Liris grinned and started pouring wine down her cleavage.
The already red negligee turned even brighter.
And alongside the hot scene, two cold words fell upon me.
“Lick.”
A mere human gives an absurd command to a Demon Lord.
Of course, I could handle this much.
If I could share the emotions that Aria and Yeriel first felt, this wouldn’t hurt me at all.
I immediately bent down, extending my tongue, and began licking her curves.
“Hmm. The junior who used to defy me… has turned into a good little puppy again?”
Slurp.
“How is it? Tasty? I have quite a nice body, don’t I? Not lacking compared to those two, right?”
The moderate volume pressed against my tongue, but I didn’t want to think about it too much.
“Tell me… how does it feel to submit to a woman who tried to kill you twice?”
I wiped my lips with the back of my hand and said with indifference.
“I don’t really feel anything.”
It was the truth. My heart was incredibly calm.
-…
Did Liris sense a shred of sincerity in my expression? She suddenly pushed me away.
“Ah, this is boring.”
Then she poured wine into her glass and began gulping it down.
“Junior.”
“…?”
“In the end, you really were a Demon, weren’t you?”
“Well, it turned out that way.”
“…!”
At my nonchalant reply, she carefully set her glass on the table.
“Just as I thought… it was true…”
There’s no need to lie now that we’ve come this far.
Besides, since I’m the Demon Lord, it wouldn’t matter if it was revealed.
“…Then I…”
The moment ago, Liris, who had been so aggressive, now started tapping her index finger and began to gauge my reaction.
“I refuse.”
“!!!”
Without waiting for her to finish, I stood up.
I wouldn’t create Demons with my own hands anymore.
I’ve been mercilessly hunting Demons, so creating them is absurd.
As I boldly moved toward the door, Liris, with her negligee’s shoulder strap slipping down, started to cling to me.
“Wait, just a second…! You came to find your memories, right?”
“There might be other ways.”
“All I want is to become a Demon…! Isn’t that a fair price for my memories?”
“Ha.”
I found myself kneeling before Liris, who was clinging to me, and tapped her forehead.
“You haven’t changed at all.”
“Uh…?”
Her being a Demon fanatic is already established in Hwanseangaka.
Since childhood, she had been betrayed by many humans, which led to a hatred for humanity.
And when she met me, her story twisted, and instead of bringing the Holy Sword, she brought a Demon Sword… but still, she was originally human.
Even in the first world of [Hwanseangaka], she ended up well as a human, so she is still human here.
“Now you can stop hating humans.”
“…Why! Why should I!!! What gives you the right!!!”
“You’re becoming that kind of person.”
“What…?”
I rummaged through the set-up of ‘original Lev Denec’ and began to speak.
“I liked you at first and joined the student council, didn’t I?”
“…”
“But you used me, just like your past self was used.”
“Sh-shut up…! Are you trying to take revenge?”
“No. I’m thinking of breaking my chains here.”
“!”
“If new victims arise, revenge breeds revenge, and there will be more people like you… it’s already annoying how many Demons there are…”
“…”
“I’m telling you as a Demon, but unfortunately, this world doesn’t differ much between humans and Demons.”
Thinking of the chaos of envy and betrayal I’d experienced just trying to ascend in this hell called Pandemonium, it can’t be entirely false.
“So what about me…? There’s no one on my side here…! How am I supposed to live…!”
“That’s good.”
“What?”
After I said that, I tossed several documents from my jacket pocket to Liris.
Flap!
“…There’s no one. The people who troubled you, they’re not in Claris.”
“…!”
These were the identities of the humans intertwined with Liris’s past that I asked Dustin about.
I had confirmed that, thanks to Scarlet’s efforts, some had been killed, while the remainder were locked up in the imperial prison.
“So, from now on, you should live like a human. Accept the punishment you deserve.”
Liris remained silent, appearing utterly flabbergasted.
“…You mean to tell me that what you’re saying to me is more important than you regaining your memories…?”
“I don’t particularly think you’re great, but I guess that’s how I feel. I despise the unsettling.”
This was my last courtesy toward Liris, who had always been an ambiguous heroine.
Like how I explored every area while collecting everything in the game, I didn’t want to harbor resentment toward anyone.
“……”
Liris sat down, staring blankly into space for a while,
Then she rose slowly as if she were a ghost.
And from a pretty box adorned with jewels, she pulled out something wrapped in cloth.
Swish.
When she unveiled the cloth, what appeared was…
“…?!”
The Demon Sword that Aria had used to stab me.