My Lord Who Is Being Prudent! [EN]: Chapter 297

297. The Truth Kyle Faced (2)

The statement that Kyle harbored a demon.

And that it wasn’t just Kyle’s problem alone.

That meant.

It was as good as saying that the other Arnaizes also harbored demons.

‘What is this…’

That’s why Cyan couldn’t help but be greatly bewildered.

Furthermore, he was even starting to doubt if his current thoughts were correct.

“……”

However, watching Kyle’s silent figure, Cyan could tell that it was all true.

A heavy silence descended.

Not only Cyan, but also Kyle and Karze.

No one in this place opened their mouths.

How much time had passed like that?

“At first… I didn’t know either.”

Kyle broke the silence and slowly opened his mouth.

“But from a certain point on, I could feel it. That the demon hadn’t disappeared.”

Karze listened to Kyle’s words without saying anything.

Cyan also stared at Kyle with wide eyes.

“I was able to recognize the existence of the demon latent within me.”

Kyle, who possessed a more outstanding sense of energy than others.

Kyle was the first to recognize the existence of the demon dwelling within him.

And it was then that Kyle realized.

“I once acted with demons. The reason was the same as now. Moving to another dimension. At that time, the demons told me that they were also beings from another dimension.”

A memory that Cyan had seen.

But a memory that Karze didn’t know.

Karze’s eyes slightly widened.

“But that was a lie. It was all a scheme to deceive me.”

Kyle turned his gaze to the side.

As he stared blankly at the air, a strange emotion permeated Kyle’s eyes.

“Demons were not beings from another dimension. Demons existed on this continent from the beginning. To be precise… it would be more accurate to say that they existed within us.”

The demon lords are rooted in the seven deadly sins.

Pride, greed, gluttony, lust, wrath, envy, sloth.

And these sins are the fundamental sins that beings possess.

“They are the evil that is born by parasitizing our existence.”

This meant.

“As long as the existence is alive, the demons will not die either.”

The existence of demons that continue to resurrect.

This was why they were defined as immortal beings.

[Why didn’t you tell me that from the beginning?]

“Because I didn’t think my comrades would be consumed by demons.”

[You thought that if they knew this fact, your comrades would be exposed to demons? And that I, as a dragon, was less at risk of being exposed to demons? So that’s why you came to me instead of Elodie?]

The strongest life form that reigns over all things.

A dragon that is the unity of soul and spirit.

Demons parasitize the sins of existence, but dragons were beings that transcended that.

[Is that why the demons hunted my kind first?]

“I’m not sure, but I think that’s probably the case.”

Kyle nodded calmly and continued.

“That’s why I thought it was something I had to solve alone.”

[What was the reason for finding a way to go to another dimension? Was there really a need to do that?]

“I thought I might fail. If I couldn’t deal with the demon latent within me… I would become a terrible sin.”

[Even if you failed, you were thinking of acting in another dimension so as not to harm this continent.]

“That’s right.”

Karze was silent for a moment at Kyle’s nodding appearance.

After a brief silence.

Karze opened his mouth again.

[What happened after that? Don’t tell me you were planning on never returning to this continent?]

“……”

And Kyle didn’t answer this question.

What he was thinking… couldn’t be known.

This was Kyle’s memory, but he couldn’t know the facts he hadn’t spoken.

But perhaps… Kyle also seemed unsure.

The certainty that he could deal with his demon there.

Even if things were successful, the certainty that he could return.

That’s why Kyle didn’t tell the other comrades.

In the past, as the leader of the Demonic Cult.

As the Heavenly Demon.

Like that time when he tried to bear all the screams of the world.

Kyle tried to bear all the sins himself.

In the end.

Kyle was trying to return to his original world.

To be precise, he didn’t know if it was his original world.

But he was trying to go to another dimension.

He was trying to deal with the demon there and return.

Even if he were to be defeated by the demon there.

He researched the movement of other dimensions with Karze in order not to affect this continent.

But now.

[Muriel came to me and told me. That the demons hadn’t disappeared. It seems that they have settled and permeated into themselves.]

Kyle’s thinking was wrong.

Unlike Kyle’s thoughts, the Arnaizes were being consumed by demons.

Kyle’s concern eventually became a reality.

Kyle’s face, which was always calm and expressionless.

But it wasn’t like that now.

Complex and confused emotions were clearly revealed on Kyle’s face.

A heavy silence descended once again.

After a long time, Kyle slowly opened his mouth.

“… I’ll meet Muriel once.”

At the same time, Hwaaa! A flurry of white light once again covered Cyan’s vision.

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The flurry of white light that covered his vision.

Cyan calmly organized his confused mind.

The memory from just now was truly shocking.

And within it, Cyan was able to learn the truth that Kyle had so desperately sought.

The reason why Kyle left his Arnaize comrades.

That was because he couldn’t do anything about the demon within himself.

It was to prevent the demon from being released and harming this continent.

That was the reason why Kyle left his comrades and Leia.

This was the truth that Cyan had been searching for that Kyle faced.

But there were still unresolved questions.

What exactly is the demon that consumed Kyle?

And why couldn’t Kyle deal with that demon?

Furthermore, what is the demon that consumed the Arnaizes?

‘Where did you meet the Mobile Lord?’

As the questions were resolved, another question arose.

There were still unresolved questions.

Cyan swallowed all those questions.

He stared at the scenery in front of him as the flurry of light slowly subsided.

In front of the scenery that finally came into view.

A woman with transcendental beauty resembling Aria.

“Kyle…”

Muriel, the Arnaize who was called the Goddess.

Muriel looked at Kyle who had come to find her.

Was it the joy of meeting an old comrade?

Muriel’s eyes, looking at Kyle, contained several complex emotions.

Kyle faced such Muriel and opened his mouth.

“I heard you were looking for Karze.”

“I knew it… you were with Karze.”

Muriel nodded as if she knew it.

Kyle didn’t give an answer to that.

He just quietly stared at Muriel.

To be precise, the demon inherent in Muriel.

Kyle was watching that demon.

And he didn’t ask.

What demon consumed Muriel, and how it was consumed.

Kyle didn’t ask.

He already knew the process, and he could recognize the existence of evil by sensing the energy.

“Kyle, I can’t deceive you.”

Muriel gave a small smile.

The smile that harmonized with her transcendental beauty was truly no different from a goddess.

Muriel lowered her gaze slightly, looked down at her white hand, and continued.

“From a certain point on… I started to feel it. And what I started to be sure of was from the report that demon followers seemed to have infiltrated the Papal States.”

A truly shocking report.

At first, she didn’t believe it, but she still needed to investigate.

Demons had disappeared, but there could be those who followed them.

There could be those who used the power of evil.

So Muriel said she investigated those who were suspicious.

Holiness is a concept at the opposite end of evil.

Muriel was able to discern the power of evil to some extent.

“But… I couldn’t find it.”

But Muriel couldn’t find any traces.

“So I thought it was a false report. Demons have disappeared, and even if there are followers, using the power of evil is another matter.”

It was glossed over like that, but strange things continued to happen.

The atmosphere of the Papal States began to become quite strange.

From a certain point on, they stopped holding mass and prayers.

They began to worship an unknown altar with strange rituals.

Furthermore, mysterious disappearance incidents occurred constantly.

Muriel pointed this out and stepped forward, but it was useless.

Even the Pope did not sanction it and began to fall into it.

As a result, the entire Papal States began to be completely dyed.

The Papal States was definitely strange.

It had almost transformed into a den of demons.

“But I couldn’t feel it.”

But Muriel said she couldn’t find any other signs.

Even though it was clearly visible and happening right in front of her, she couldn’t find anything strange.

She couldn’t see strangeness as strangeness.

She couldn’t recognize suspicion as suspicion.

That meant one thing.

“There was… a demon inside me.”

It meant that Muriel herself was getting strange.

It meant that she herself was already tainted with evil.

Muriel had no choice but to admit it.

Because she herself was already consumed by evil.

Muriel couldn’t find the existence of evil.

“I… what should I do now.”

Muriel looked at Kyle with eyes that wanted an answer.

She looked at Kyle like a lamb seeking God.

And looking at such Muriel.

“……”

Kyle didn’t give any answer.

Silently and colorlessly, he just looked at Muriel.

And as much as it was thought to be heartless.

“I’ll come again.”

Kyle turned his back and slowly moved his steps.

“It may not be just me! No, it probably won’t be just me!”

Muriel shouted at Kyle who was leaving.

Kyle stopped walking for a moment.

But he didn’t turn his head to look at Muriel.

“I’ll meet them once.”

Kyle just left the place.

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The next Arnaize that Kyle met after leaving Muriel was Elodie, the forest keeper and archmage of the elves.

And as Muriel feared.

And as Kyle feared.

“Can you… kill me?”

Elodie was also in a state of being consumed by a demon.

Elodie asked Kyle to kill her.

This was what Cyan had once seen in the Mobile Lord quest when he visited the Dark Elf village in the past.

At the time, he wondered what the hell it was all about.

Elodie asking Kyle to kill her.

But now that he knew all the truth, Cyan could understand.

Elodie couldn’t control her own demon.

Therefore, if the demon inherent in her were to be resurrected, she would think that it would become an unbearable evil.

In fact, that happened in Cyan’s era after a thousand years.

The power of the demon eventually corrupted Elodie’s power dwelling in Instiz.

And that, along with Dyson, drove Aslandiz into madness.

The evil that was about to become the worst and most heinous.

Elodie was wary of that.

That’s why Kyle was deeply troubled.

But Kyle didn’t grab the sword in the end.

As much as it was thought to be heartless.

“… I’ll come again.”

He just left the place with these words.

That’s how Kyle visited his comrades one by one.

And there was not a single exception.

“Kyle… have you come…”

Morkru, the divine craftsman, greeted Kyle with unfocused eyes.

“Munch munch, Kyle. Do you want to burp! eat too?”

Noemi, the Supreme Celestial Master, greeted Kyle by constantly putting food into her mouth.

And the last Arnaize that Kyle visited.

The leader who made the current Arnaize possible.

“Charlotte.”

Kyle quietly called Charlotte’s name.

And watching this scene.

‘That’s the time.’

Cyan was able to recall that this was the last chapter of the memorandum written by Charlotte.

The point in time when Kyle came back to find Charlotte.

But the records that Cyan had confirmed at the time did not contain the contents after that.

The story after that did not exist, ending with the content that Kyle had come back to find Charlotte.

And now.

“Kyle…”

The truth of that time was unfolding.

Charlotte looked at Kyle with empty eyes.

But the emotions reflected in the emptiness were not empty.

“What… what kind of face do you have to come find me?”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t know things would turn out like this…”

“Sorry?”

Charlotte let out a burst of laughter.

It was sarcasm or ridicule.

A mockery containing abnormal emotions.

“Do you even know what you’ve done to us?”

“……”

“Do you even know what happened to Leia because of you!!”

“What… what does that mean? Why Leia…?”

Kyle’s eyes widened.

Charlotte gave another sneer as if she knew it would be like that.

“I knew it. You didn’t know anything?”

Charlotte gnashed her teeth and continued.

“You didn’t know anything. You didn’t know anything. Because you didn’t care about us in the first place.”

It was strange.

The emotions felt from Charlotte now.

“You were always like that.”

It was bizarre.

The appearance seen from Charlotte now.

“We were never in your eyes. Have you ever thought of us as comrades?”

“I sincerely thought of you as comrades. And Leia too…”

“Don’t be ridiculous! If that were the case, you should never have done that. You alone. You alone! You should never have lived with your own good taste!”

Also familiar.

The energy felt from Charlotte now.

‘This is…’

“Charlotte, you…”

Cyan’s thoughts and Kyle’s words overlapped.

The other Arnaizes were all in a state of being consumed by demons.

But they were not yet completely consumed.

But Charlotte’s appearance now.

“If it weren’t for you… if I hadn’t met you…”

Charlotte was already.

【”We wouldn’t have become like this!!”】

Completely consumed by the demon.

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwang!!

Sticky magic power like blood burst out from Charlotte’s whole body.

That was the power of evil inherent in Charlotte.

‘This is…’

Also, it was the power of evil that Cyan had once faced.

The demon of envy, Enviria.

The demon of wrath, Iraria.

The two jet-black monarchs seen from Durak.

But Charlotte was different from Durak.

Durak was eaten by the power of the two monarchs and became a hideous monster.

But Charlotte was a knight who had reached the realm of Exceed [a level of mastery].

【”You… you ruined everything, Kyle.”】

Charlotte was perfectly controlling the power of the two monarchs.

Beyond perfectly controlling it, she had the power under her control.

【”I hate you… Kyle.”】

But that was no longer Charlotte.

A mind swallowed by anger.

【”If it weren’t for you, I could have been even better.”】

A consciousness where reason does not exist, blinded by jealousy.

That’s why Charlotte was no longer Charlotte.

Even more so, she was not the Arnaize who saved the world.

The existence of evil swallowed by the demon.

【”I wish you would disappear from this world.”】

Charlotte drew her sword without hesitation.

Kwaaaaaaaa─!!

The space around Charlotte was violently rippling.

The rippling phenomenon of distortion completely shattered the space.

The fragments of the broken space.

It became numerous sword strikes and clawed all around.

It is different from simply swinging a sword to create a sword strike.

A bizarre phenomenon in which the space itself changes into a slash and attacks.

An intangible energy with no substance tore everything apart.

The secret technique of Elan Dur used by Durak.

Charlotte’s sword, Zodiac Sword.

‘It’s different.’

But it was on a different level than at that time.

This is a real sword used by a knight of Exceed.

It was the real power.

Can Cyan of now block that slash?

It was on a different dimension and level to the point where such doubts arose.

But.

Kang! Kakang─!

Even that terrible slash could not reach Kyle.

In the scenery where the space itself is being shattered.

Kyle was deflecting all the incoming slashes.

“Come to your senses, Charlotte! Don’t be swallowed by the demon!”

Kyle shouted at Charlotte.

He shouted with a voice containing desperation and some kind of earnestness.

But just as Charlotte’s slash could not reach Kyle.

【”If I hadn’t met you…!”】

Kyle’s cry also did not reach Charlotte.

【”If it weren’t for you…!”】

Charlotte’s momentum only grew stronger.

Accordingly, the power of evil that bloomed also amplified.

Charlotte and the two monarchs [powerful demons].

An existence that has already become entangled and one.

‘……’

That’s why Cyan couldn’t say anything.

Because he knew what the ending of this memory was like.

Cyan had also experienced the same thing as this memory.

Just as Cyan could not save Durak.

Kyle also could not save Charlotte.

“I’m really sorry… Charlotte.”

That’s why Kyle had no choice but to cut down Charlotte in the end.

Demon Soul Asura Sword.

Form 1.

True – Asura.

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The world of nothingness being swallowed.

Clang.

Charlotte’s sword flows down.

Charlotte’s gaze slowly falling down.

Kyle’s sword was piercing Charlotte’s chest.

Charlotte’s eyes, looking at it, trembled without rest.

Charlotte’s trembling eyes turn forward and look at Kyle.

The vitality and the power of evil escaping.

The power of evil was no longer felt in Charlotte’s eyes that were showing.

“Ah…”

Charlotte staggered and knelt down with a thud.