7th Demon Prince Jilbagias’ Chronicle of Demon Kingdom Toppling - Chapter 91.1 - Be Yourself

91.1 Be Yourself

――I want to recruit Lyla as my ally.

I made such a suggestion to Ante.

『It’s too soon. And too risky.』

But, Ante disagrees with me.

I knew that. This was indeed too soon and risky.

But, I had no choice.

… Yes. I really had no choice.

The time was running out.

†††

――That day.

The day I reunited with Claire.

Toward me who barely recovered from the shock that shook my soul――

『Ah! His Highness, could it be that you’re surprised to see such an adorable human? :P☆』

『Hey Claire! He’s a viscount you know!? The only one who can act overly familiar with him is me, a count you know!?』

『EH, A VISCOUNT!? HOW RUDE OF ME!!』

『In the first place, he’s a Prince alright!? You should’ve known about that!』

Claire just stuck her tongue out and said 「Tehe~☆」 to Enma who scolded her for forgetting about her position.

Yeah, she always had that lively tone.

The fashionable pink room, the tea set, and two human-like beauties.

Not to mention that one of them was my childhood friend who had already grown up.

Claire changed her expression playfully from time to time―― Teasing Enma just like she did a really long time ago.

I almost lost my sanity and forgot about my duty.

『Cough. Today is the day when I can finally invite you to Our base――』

But, Enma regained her usual composure after taking a si[ of the tea.

『Now it’s time to do what we can’t do on the surface. It’s time for the next lesson, Jil-kun.』

And spoke with a wicked grin on her face.

――This was the den of undead located deep underground.

And in regard to something that couldn’t be done in front of privy eyes――

The initiation of the abominable heretic art had only just begun.

『I’ve prepared a goblin for today.』

『Here you go! A healthy and lively goblin!』

Enma acted as the lecturer… While Claire acted as her assistant.

When we moved to another room, I found a goblin being chained. He was gagged and rolling on the floor. He tried desperately to escape with bloodshot eyes.

『Rest assured, this one is the goblin who deserted his post. So it’s legal.』

Meaning that we would have fun with this goblin today.

『Then let’s start with the art of pulling the soul out of a living creature――』

『Roger tha~t! Let me do i~t!!!』

Claire raised her hand energetically.

『Sure you are. Claire loves goblins after all.』

『Wait right there, Master! Stop saying something misleading in front of a man!』

Claire pouted before it turned into a grin.

Her eyes were―― Glowing with sinister wiles but not quite right either, it was more like it was filled with madness.

『The thing I love is―― Slicing and dicing the living goblin.』

Thus, Claire recited the aria without hesitation and used a hand made from the magical power of darkness to drag the soul of the goblin out of his body.

I could see the semi-transparent soul of the goblin.

His limbs were bound by the magical power of darkness, his eyes were darting non-stop――

『Necromancy doesn’t have an instant effect but, as you can see, if a weaker being or those with low resistance to magic can be killed so easily with a hand curse. His body is still alive though.』

It was just as Enma had said, the physical body of the goblin started twitching non-stop.

『Now let’s see what’s going to happen when the soul is returned.』

『Ye~s!』

When Claire slammed the goblin’s soul back into his body, his body stopped twitching and rolling on the ground.

『Fuu! Fuu! Guga, guuu!』

The goblin then looked up at us, trembling in fear as he breathed heavily.

『Aha. It seems that even this stupid, imbecile creature has understood that he just died!』

Claire was looking down on the goblin with a refreshed smile on her face.

『Hey now! Are you scared? Is that… Painful?』

She leaned forward, asking that question to the goblin.

『… Don’t worry. This is just the beginning.』

I caught a glint of joy running in her marble-like eyes.

『I mean, Dear Master has finally permitted me to do everything I want today!』

――And it was just as she said.

The spell to drag out the soul. The spell to stop the heartbeat. Spell to bind the soul. Spell to give pain to the soul. Spell to inflict pleasure. Spell to erase sense. Spell to destroy ego――

『Ahahaha! Look at that face, His Highness!』

Claire was laughing happily as she bound the limb of the goblin’s soul and twisted it further into like a vise with the curse of darkness.

『――Hn! ――Hnn!!』

The goblin’s soul tried his best to resist. He shouted frantically. His twisted soul was twisted to the limit till it almost changed its’ shape―― Due to torture that can only be described as something beyond imagination――

『You have such a bad hobby. In my case, I avoid the cases in which I have to inflict unnecessary pain but… Well, I think I can understand why Claire does this. Depending on the situation, I might use the same method…』

Enma muttered while looking dumbfoundedly at her pupil.

『But he already reached his limit. Time to end this, Claire.』

『Ye~s.』

Claire replied with a slightly disappointed face.

『――』

And then pulverized the soul of the goblin.

Then, Claire opened the 【Gate of the Spirit Realm】, the dreg of the soul then sucked into the gate as if the gate was some sort of drainage.

『Done! Simple and easy right, Your Highness?』

Seeing Claire smiling innocently like that――

――I recalled that she was sure,

A mischievous girl who loves to pull a prank at every single opportunity but,

But, she wasn’t the kind of girl who would laugh innocently,

As she pulled… The insect’s limbs…

Claire was… Enma’s subordinate, an undead with ego.

In short, she had the same idea with Enma――

『 Humans are, better off dead than alive.』

The fact that she arrived at such an extreme thought spoke of her suffering.

I really didn’t want to imagine what kind of thought she had at the last moment of her life.

†††

When such a thing happened, I knew that I couldn’t act like usual.

Like an idiot, I lost focus in everything I did.

Though that wasn’t the real issue.

Thus I made up a seemingly foolish reason, like head over heels with an undead.

Well it wasn’t entirely a lie since the shock did shake my soul.

My reasoning was easily accepted since everyone did see me as sort of an oddball since a long time ago.

―― I attended a necromancy lesson as if nothing happened.

It might be better if I never saw her. I mean, I should’ve stopped taking necromancy lessons altogether.

But… That choice didn’t exist in my dictionary.

『Your Highness, these spells can be easily memorized by using rhyme since they resemble each other!』

『Hee, I’ve never expected that there’s such a method.』

『Right! This method makes it easier… Right?』

『… The speech is clear. And the change isn’t that big a deal.』

『Hee, as expected of Your Highness! You’re just as open-minded as Master had said!』

No matter how much she changed.

Claire was still the same way as I remembered her.

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