Kidnapping the Hero Party

51. Subjugation of the First Demon King of the Hero Party (1)

51. The first demon lord subjugation of the hero party (1)

nightmare.

Please, a dream that I hope not to come true.

Cruel things that you could not have imagined happen inside it, and you may even fall into the illusion that it is real.

And now.

Hare was experiencing such a nightmare.

churn- chuup-

“Ahhh… !! Ah, uncle… !!”

I can see my vision and Aina’s vision clenching their lips and mixing their tongues in front of me.

Hare looked at it and screamed in pain.

Seeing that his face was covered with tears, it seemed that a long time had passed.

He didn’t even turn his head, and he continued to look at it.

‘More than that, I do have memories of kissing Aina and I accidentally in the past, but it wasn’t like that… ‘

A kiss that happened accidentally.

We ended up being short-lived, but we didn’t do anything dirty and greedy like that.

Probably, the scene was formed based on Rust’s memory, not mine.

That low-level succubus must have eaten quite a lot of men before he ascended to the position of Demon King.

‘Bitch like a dog.’

Watching Aina and Ina’s Hwanjoo kiss in person didn’t make me feel very good.

‘I’ll have to deal with this uncomfortable feeling with Rust. First of all, the rescue of the children comes first.’

You must wake up from this dreadful nightmare before your mind is devoured.

I knelt and walked towards the weeping Hare.

Even though Estiya and I were nearby, she did not notice the presence.

He looked like he was half out of his mind.

“Ah, uncle… My, please look at me… I-I’m going to die… If you don’t see it, you’ll die… Oh, if you don’t have an uncle… I, I have no reason to live… My, please stop kissing me… Look at me man… ”

My welcome that doesn’t even give me a handful of eyes.

Hare ignored my words and craved attention from my vision, who only coveted her own desires.

However, there was no reaction that I desperately wanted.

Hare seemed to despair once more at that appearance.

Is it because of that?

Hare took out the wooden dagger tucked in her waist.

And then…

“If I, if I die… Only then will you respond… ? My heart hurts so much man… It makes me want to cut out my heart… Well, I can’t take this pain any longer, mister… ”

tuk tuk-

Hare shed tears and gripped the dagger backwards.

The sharp end of the sword was pointed at her heart.

The action behind it was an expected move.

‘This crazy.’

Was there anything like this in the content scorched by black fire in the answer sheet?

Because it is a wooden dagger, it cannot pierce the heart, but it is an action that can cause pain to the body in reality.

And, the heart is a more dangerous area.

I went right up to Hare and grabbed her arm.

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“Hare. What are you doing now?”

“Ah, uncle… ? You looked at me… ? De, finally… ? My, I’m about to die, so you’re watching… ?”

A voice that seems to coexist with sadness and joy.

Although tears are flowing from her eyes, Hare has a bright smile on her lips.

As I expected, she wasn’t sane now.

“Ah, without you… Lord, I thought I was going to die… I’m glad sir… ”

“… ”

… It must be a temporary action.

It must have happened because I mistook that illusion for me.

So, we have to help Hare come to his senses.

to wake you up from your dream.

I spoke firmly to her.

“Hare, you were just having a nightmare.”

“yes… ? What does that mean, man… ? When you left me and kissed another woman… ”

“… Look over there. That’s not me.”

Hare turned her head at my words.

There, the ghost stopped kissing and stared at us with regret.

He lost the form he had followed, and remained in the form of a demon.

-I could have been in my dreams forever-!!

– I’m sorry… It would have been nice to be with you…

The shape of their faces was like mud, and they were crumbling illusions.

As if their mission was over, they melted away and disappeared.

Seeing this, Hare said to me in a surprised voice.

“Ku, I thought the dream was right… ? I-that wasn’t my uncle… ? Kissing another woman in front of me… ?”

“Yes, you were seeing an illusion. The me from earlier was an illusion, and that woman…was also an illusion.”

“That, that’s it… ? All, I’m glad… ”

Phew-

Relaxing her tense shoulders, Hare let out a sigh of relief.

Then, he met eyes with the dagger he was holding in the opposite direction.

“Ugh, ugh…!!”

She immediately dropped the dagger to the floor and screamed.

Clink-

“Oh, no… ! mister… ! Bar, forget everything I just said… !! I didn’t say anything… !! that that… I just threatened you once… ! Poetry, as an experiment… !!”

I am not who I was before!

I said this once as an experiment!

I’m serious!

Hare was afraid that he would get scolded by me, so he started making excuses.

“I, I… ! I’m erasing my feelings for you… ! Lord, I didn’t want to die… !!”

Hare desperately began to make excuses.

Maybe it’s because you know my personality.

The act of giving up one’s own life.

That’s an action that a hero party should never choose.

I quietly recited towards Hare.

“Hare.”

“Heep-!”

“I won’t scold you. However, remember this one thing.”

From now on, don’t give up your life on your own.

If you take your own life, thousands of people will die.

‘That’s the weight of a warrior’s party.’

A party of warriors who had to save the world took their own lives.

That shouldn’t happen.

“Do you understand, Hare? From now on, don’t make such stupid choices.”

“Let’s party, I don’t know… Mo, I understand life… ! I won’t do that again… I’m sorry, uncle… ”

Well, I guess you still don’t understand the meaning of a warrior’s party.

Hare wouldn’t have even received that kind of education in the first place.

You must defeat the Demon King this time and properly explain the party.

‘Because I haven’t experienced it myself in the meantime, I wouldn’t have understood it.’

Estiya, who was holding my hand, also agreed with me.

very violently.

There was madness in her golden eyes.

“Even if I hate you! That’s right! You can’t die yourself! How many children wanted to live rather than die!”

“uh… ?”

“These children are all dead, so they can’t speak… Everyone must have wanted to live! Obviously, I didn’t want to die! I wanted to live!”

“Uh, uh… ?”

“So… We have to live for them… Understand… ? You have to be very happy on behalf of the children.”

“… ”

Is it because of the aftermath?

Estiya also looks abnormal.

Hare was trembling with fear.

Maybe it would be better to stop Estiya.

“Stop it, Estee. Hare would have understood. Right, Hare?”

“B, yes…! I understand… ! I guess I don’t have to listen anymore… !”

“I’m glad you understood!”

Hare, who witnessed the madness of Estiya himself, seemed to have come to his senses in an instant.

I wasn’t crazy from the beginning, but…

You can see that we are a little farther away from the abnormal.

‘In a way, I quarreled with Estiya, who can be seen as the most abnormal in the party, so I’m sure I’ll regret it.’

Anyway, that’s what we’re talking about.

Does it mean that hare woke up from a dream?

A door to someone else’s dream appeared in the air.

I looked down at the two who seemed to never let go of my hand.

“For now, let’s quickly go somewhere else. Other children are also having nightmares.”

“Everyone, the other kids… ?”

“Yes, Luna and Saten will still be in nightmares.”

I don’t know what kind of nightmare they might be having.

Ha-re had just attempted to take her own life.

Probably 100% chance it’s not good.

That’s why, you have to quickly wake up from this dream and annihilate the demon lord, just like you said in the answer sheet.

I held the hands of the children who seemed to be relying on me and opened the door.

kiik-

“here is… ”

A shabby cabin with the door open and spread out.

This is the house where Saten used to live.

I remember reading her past, so it comes to mind vividly.

The gloomy and lonely environment of Saten’s growth.

Looking at the shabby hut, Hare and Estiya whispered quietly.

“It’s so much better than my house… ”

“I was an orphan and had no home! Are you a noble?”

“Be quiet, kids.”

No matter how good the environment in which I grew up is better than myself.

The lack of emotion that person feels is indescribable.

Only those who have personally experienced Saten’s past like me can know.

The past that gradually loses its emotions and becomes a puppet.

Perhaps the last survival instinct was activated, but Saten escaped from there…

“… I can feel the presence inside. It’s getting fainter.”

the fading fades

The moment I thought about why it would fade.

‘no way… ‘

I ran towards the hut.

“Ah, uncle… ! Go, let’s go together… ! I, please take us… !”

“brother… ! Go, don’t go! I mean, I’m scared! Save me!”

Leaving the kids chasing after them like penguins.

I hurriedly opened the cabin door.

Quaang-!

Saten sat in a chair.

and.

The presence was felt, but there was a reason it was fading.

“Finally, this is the first guest. Come on in, Mister.”

“… Saten, what are you doing now?”

“Oh, you mean this?”

Saten showed me what he had in hand.

It’s a food I’ve eaten once in the past.

It was the food she suffered quite a bit from.

“… Why were you eating poisonous mushrooms, Saten?”

Saten was chewing a poisonous mushroom with an expressionless expression that seemed to feel no pain.

It was an act outside of my common sense.

Obviously, something must have happened.

“Why are you eating poisonous mushrooms? You won’t feel hungry here. Were you deceived by the illusion?”

“no. according to my will. I ate myself. There was no welcome.”

“Then, why-”

“That’s why I ate it.”

“uh?”

There were no welcomes or hallucinations.

As I felt as a child, I was alone.

By the way.

“Somehow, my heart keeps stinging. I ate mushrooms. I want to be sick somewhere. When I was young, if my heart hurts, eating mushrooms didn’t hurt.”

“… After eating mushrooms, the reason my heart did not hurt was because my body was in pain.”

“Yeah, it was painful at the time. I can’t feel the pain now, so I don’t feel sick. I ate it just in case. And yet, the chest pain persists.”

Saying that, Saten slurped blood from her mouth.

If you leave it like that, the poison will spread all over your body and you will die soon.

I went right up to Saten and felt her veins.

“… First of all, don’t let the poison spread with magic. It’s a dream anyway, so when you wake up, you won’t feel anything in your original body.”

“Yes, thank you. mister. But, the uncle is coming. Miraculously, the pain stopped.”

“… Yes, Saten.”

Looking into Saten’s black eyes, which expressed gratitude.

I thought to myself.

Why did Saten not see hallucinations and visions?

Was it possible to show despair to the extent that there was no need to show it?

Was the experience of being alone in the past the most frustrating?

‘… I don’t know exactly.’

However.

Only one thing is known.

What is saten’s pain.

What emotions were you starting to feel?

‘loneliness.’

Feelings that have always been with her since childhood.

A feeling I haven’t felt since I was kidnapped.

The door, which had been tightly closed, began to open little by little.

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As Saten touches her cherished jewel, she whispered softly stroking my hand.

“How amazing. I’m with you, so it doesn’t hurt.”

It looked as if Saten’s emotional cells had begun to wriggle.