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“Or have you heard any stories?”
He hadn’t heard any stories from him. After returning from the Demon Realm, his Hyung did not tell Seon-woo anything. So Seon-woo also didn’t ask his older brother.
He closed his eyes and covered his ears, not wanting to relive his Hyung’s past suffering, having experienced the harshness of the Demon Realm himself. As for his Hyung, he struggled to get through the painful days.
He thought it was something he should have done, but on the other hand, he also felt a bit regretful. In fact, he thought he should have listened to more stories even if he dug them up.
That was why Alberg’s words turned Seon-woo’s insides upside down.
Seon-woo gritted his teeth without even realizing it.
“Stop it.”
Hyeon-woo sighed and stepped forward.
“I didn’t do anything.”
Alberg said so, but he didn’t let go.
“You provoked my brother.”
“I was a little mean. They don’t act as if anything has happened just because they are of only one bloodline.”
“He’s not only that. He’s my precious little brother.”
“I know. That’s why I was only a little mean.”
Indeed, demons have cruel hearts. He and Alberg were no different.
“You can’t do that.”
“Alright. I’ll put up with it.”
Alberg decided to take a step back at Hyeon-woo’s words. He came all the way to the other world to meet him, but he felt bad because something that bothered him was next to him. Among humans, it was impossible for people of the same lineage to become partners, even though they were younger siblings.
Who was the man who was standing beside Hyeon-woo, looking at him as if on high alert?
“Is that part of your bloodline too?”
“Who? Do-jin Hyung? No, not this one.”
“Then.”
“No. Do-jin Hyung is also a precious person to me.”
Alberg grumbled at Hyeon-woo’s words.
“You have too many precious people.”
“It’s just a few.”
“Isn’t it two?”
“That’s usually said to be few.”
As the two of them were having a conversation, Ga-jun interjected.
“Am I not included in the precious person?”
“Do you want to be included?”
Hyeon-woo looked at Ga-jun with eyes filled with disgust. Seeing him do this even after being beaten up like that, he was not normal either.
“It would be nice to be included.”
“Wake up from that dream.”
“Aha, then that means this one is nothing.”
Alberg narrowly opened his eyes and looked at Ga-jun.
“No venting your anger out. Don’t kill anyone I know. No, just don’t touch anyone.”
“I think that would be a bit difficult.”
“If you don’t like it, don’t.”
Instead, he himself would no longer deal with Alberg. Hyeon-woo looked at him with his arms crossed.
“I get it. In the end, whoever likes more loses.”
“No, that’s what I mean.”
Hyeon-woo raised his eyebrows and asked.
“You said you liked me?”
“Yeah. That’s why I visited so often.”
“You fought every time you came.”
“It was a light greeting.”
“Really?”
Although full of energy, Alberg’s words were true. If he had tried to fight in earnest, Hyeon-woo would not have survived intact every time. He was the person who liked him, so he was fine with it because he controlled his strength to some extent.
“Okay. Let’s just say it is.”
“Let’s say so. It’s an important story.”
“It doesn’t matter because I have no intention of becoming your partner.”
“Why!”
Alberg looked at Hyeon-woo with a disappointed expression.
“On the contrary, why do you think I will become your partner?”
“That’s right. Courtship without consent is only violence.”
Do-jin chimed in from the side.
“We got along well though.”
“No, we didn’t? I don’t like fighting very much.”
“What do you like then?”
“I like taking a nap in peace.”
“I like that too.”
At Alberg’s words, Do-jin also opened his mouth.
“I like it too.”
“Hyung, I like taking naps too.”
“A nap? That’s nice.”
In addition, Seon-woo and Ga-jun also added their words. Seon-woo said yes, but why did Ga-jun intervene? Hyeon-woo waved his hand at him.
“Be quiet over there.”
“Why am I being scolded here?”
Ga-jun spat out a nonsensical sound, but he neatly ignored it.
“Enough with the partner stuff and tell me how you came here.”
“If you wish so.”
Alberg shrugged his shoulders and continued with what he was talking about earlier.
In the Demon Realm after Hyeon-woo disappeared, Alberg, mad with longing, ran rampant like a mad demon. Due to the nature of demons, it was fine if there were only one or two crazy people. The story would be different if the person who ran wild was the number one in the Demon Realm.
As the situation was like that, the fairy also quietly disappeared. Hyeon-woo, the last remaining person, was also sent back to his original world, and the contract with Demon Realm was concluded, so she had returned to the Fantasy Realm.
“Haa.”
Since even the fairy with the talent to connect worlds disappeared, there was only one way left: Opening a portal using sacrifices and magic. The only problem was that Alberg did not know the coordinates of the world where Hyeon-woo was.
Because of that, Alberg spent every day full of sorrow.
“It seems like a useless story up to that point.”
Hyeon-woo, who was listening to the story, clicked his tongue.
“Listen more.”
One day, Alberg, who was rampaging as usual, found an open portal under an old tree located deep in the dark forest.
“Alberg-nim?”
Standing in front of him was Kania, the 8th ranked demon.
“This is something else!”
Blocking her portal, Kania struggled to somehow block Alberg’s approach, but she couldn’t. Eventually, she was thrown away with her leg broken, and Alberg stood in front of the portal.
“Where does this portal connect to?”
Kania clamped her mouth shut.
“If you don’t want to talk, you don’t have to. After all, what remains is time.”
Alberg tortured Kania on the spot. Both her mother and her father were high-ranking demons, so she, who was strong from an immature age, was not resistant to pain. Thanks to that, he was able to figure out the identity of the portal shortly after.
“Earth, a portal to the Earth!”
“Earth.”
The world Hyeon-woo lived in. He often uttered the word Earth.
Immediately he tried to push his body through the portal, but to no avail. The power the portal allowed him was too small. Cania would have been able to pass through, but for Alberg, it was impossible.
He was strong, so he couldn’t go to meet the person he wanted. It was absurd. Still, Alberg did not give up. And he had a belated realization.
‘Can I reduce it if it overflows?’
Now, the passage to the other world was blocked, but it was said that there was a time in the past when entry and exit was free. At that time, the demons divided their powers and left them in the Demon Realm to go to another world.
It’s a kind of alter ego.
“Can I do that too?”
It was a strange story.
“Usually, the shared power is hidden and protected. But I didn’t have to. Even if you share it, you won’t lose to other demons. And by sharing power in this way, we can keep our existence unnoticed by the inhabitants of the world outside of the Middle Realm.”
It would be a headache if the fairies or angels found out about this. Alberg said confidently.
“So, for now.”
Hyeon-woo’s words were followed by Do-jin.
“Someone opened a portal on Earth.”
Hyeon-woo received those words again.
“Alberg came over instead of the demons that were originally going to come over.”
“Somehow I feel bad.”
Alberg looked at him with a dissatisfied expression.
“Is it easy to open such a portal?”
“It depends on the existence that had to be passed over. It’s difficult to create a portal through which I can pass through.”
“Then, how did you?”
“You need some sacrifices equivalent to the person.”
“So…. some demons were sacrificed?”
“No, from Earth.”
“So they killed some humans?”
“How many?”
Alberg raised his finger and said with a smirk.
“At least 10,000 people.”
“What if the person who opened the portal had strong magic? So, about a dragon?”
“Then it falls to a thousand.”
His head hurt. If that was true, he didn’t know when Tiamat would try to summon the demons again. Of course, he knew that killing a thousand people in the city center was not easy. Mana was also not something that could be drawn indefinitely.
But what if the massacre started in another country at war, not in the city center? If you make a new portal with it. Could he stop that?
“Can’t you stop it?”
“By killing the person who opened the portal?”
“No. First of all, you had the highest rank in the Demon Realm.”
“I’ll have to listen to you if you tell me, but well. Wouldn’t it be impossible if the beliefs were different? Besides, I don’t think Cania is the ringleader. So it’ll be a higher-level demon. In the Demon Realm, there are demons who live without stepping forward even though they have the ability.”
In the past, there was a demon king designated by demons in the Demon Realm. The demons obeyed God’s will and followed him. However, during the war with the Celestial Realm, both the demon king and the celestial king died, and as a result, the gods also fell asleep, and no more kings were born.
A new order had arisen.
“That’s right. I heard such a story from a fairy.”
He didn’t even think about it right away because he was in a hurry.
“But if you want, I can do anything.”
Alberg approached Hyeon-woo and held his hand. And while he was careless, he put his lips on it. Do-jin freaked out and grabbed Hyeon-woo’s hand, but it was already too late.
Alberg looked at Do-jin with a smile. However, what was contained in the finely folded purple eyes was an obvious murderous intent.
‘It’s annoying, but I can’t kill him.’
Because Hyeon-woo said no. That was his complaint, but he had no intention of going against his word right now.
‘Because becoming your partner is the priority.’
So he just laughed.
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Credits:
Translator: Hoshi Miya
Editor/Proofreader: Davine, YaagRabRag
HM: If you ask me…. I have nothing to say abt this chapter. Wwww
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