Dungeon Defense

“ …………. ”

I couldn't say anything.

I looked behind me reflectively. Barbato was there, too. Barbato's expressionless, cold expression, as always. Looking back at the door, Barbato frowns and looks up at me.

“What? Why are you looking back? Were you fucking her? You made a girlfriend because you couldn't stand that bird anymore. You sick son of a bitch. Do you want me to come back later? ”

It was different.

There were crucially other parts.

Barbatos welcomes you with horns hanging from his head. Evidence of the Demon King. The greater the Demon King, the greater his pride, was not found by Barbatos at the door.

It was cut clean, to be precise.

“…… Ah. This?”

I noticed my gaze and Barbatos touched the horn's cross section. She smiles shyly and beautifully. The sound I used to make in my dreams. The laughter of Barbatos.

“No, no, no. I'm not allowed to be free. ”

“ ……. ”

“That's it. ”

And so it was.

A quick word.

What does it mean in one sentence that cannot be called a summary? I can't imagine how much Barbatos had to give up to get away with it.

“Huh?"

Barbato tilts his head.

One day, I was touching Barbato's face with both hands. I feel it. The tenderness of the bare flesh is conveyed warmly through the palms of my hands. The sensation knocked something in my heart. Something as fragile and thin as thread was cut in half.

“Barbatos.”

I patted her cheek.

“Barba…… toss……. ”

“ ……. ”

Barbatos stares at you dazed.

I kept muttering her name. It seems to be broken down like an Orgol that can only make one sound. Even if I try to think of other thoughts in my head, even if I try to question them, they sink into some turbulence.

“Barbato……. ”

She smiles slowly.

“Yes.”

“…… Barbato……. ”

“Yes, Dantalian. ”

Barbato wrapped his hands around my right hand.

She digs a little cheek into my right hand. Just like you're trying to tell me what your skin feels like. Slowly, gently, I ran away.

“I'm here. ”

“ ……. ”

The thread in my chest was completely torn.

I broke my knee. The cloak that covered me slipped down in the winter wind. When the wind blew on the skin covered in knife marks, it hurt too much. Endlessly cold air. But there was something wrapped around his head.

“Idiot.”

Barbato presses my head against her with both arms.

“What else did you do, and then you turned into a rag. This is the one who's been through so much. I searched the entire continent to find you, but why are you more screwed up than me...? ”

If not mistaken, Barbato's body trembles as well.

“Why did you hide it so well again? Thanks to you, you're wasting your time. Do you have any idea how long I've been walking around? I couldn't find it no matter how much I looked. Yeah. I didn't even get lost. Really…… really……. ”

I barely raised my head. Barbato still smiles thinly. However, tears were flowing. She laughs and cries at the same time.

“... I'm so... glad you're alive. ”

That's what he said.

Thank you for being alive.

That's what Barbato said.

“You've put up with it, Dantalian. ”

“ ……. ”

And I had to burst into tears.

Like a newborn child.

* * *

Dantalian is dead.

After hearing Ivar's abuse, Barbato loses his horse for a while. I lost my face, not just my words.

Ivar sighs and looks down at Barbato with a refreshed face. You were like Laura de Farnese. You, too, have contributed as much to the fall of the Dantalian Emperor as the De Farnese Armed Forces, perhaps even more.

He deserved to be hurt.

It was natural to curse yourself.

‘Though I am destined to be executed. ’

That alone was not enough.

The De Farnese Military Register will continue to suffer as long as it lives. Because Ivar Lothbrok himself will whisper a cunning word to her. No matter how hard the military secretary tried, no matter how glorious his accomplishments, Ivar Lothbrok never intended to compliment her completely.

I will inflict such pain on the Demon King Barbatos.

"The fact that King Dantalian is dead will be your greatest pain!" ’

Barbatos' face is filled with despair, proving that Ivar's idea was right. Soon she lowers her head and shakes her shoulders. Ten minutes. Twenty minutes passed. Nevertheless, Ivar was never tired of watching the Demon King bowing his head.

“... Nothing. ”

Barbatos mutters.

Ivar narrows his eyes.

“What did you say? ”

“Dantalian can't be dead. ”

There was a sadistic laughter in Ivar's mouth. Denial of the phenomenon. It was a quick reaction when I was shocked. In the end, Barbato, who boasted of being the proud Demon King, had to moan like an ordinary woman in front of his beloved's death.

“No. His Holiness is dead. Not only that, but by guys like you. ”

It wasn't a living soul, even if it was alive.

Dantalian will live in agony for all eternity. No escape, no hope. Staying in the middle of hell by quietly disappearing from the world. That was your will.

Ivar couldn't stand it.

I will never see King Dantalian again. This was agonizing. Definitely agonizing. However, since agreeing with Dantalian's plan, Ivar has tasted even more bitterness by another fact.

Why should only His Holiness suffer?

It was irrational.

That was absurd.

It was unfair.

Everything that Dantalian preaches is his responsibility. But wrong. It was strange, no matter where you look, to have one person take responsibility for everything. It's just a statement of will, a rhetoric driven to express one's will.

“Regret all you want. Please be desperate. What you have done...... You'd better realize at least who your petty scheme has driven to their deaths. ”

Ivar Lothbrok was troubled by the curse.

Suffer for those who deserve it.

A fair purgatory for all.

How did Dantalian die? Why Dantalian killed himself with Daisy. What led him to his destruction. Ivar Lothbrok explained in detail. The first sinner is Laura de Farnese. But the second sinner is you. Ivar emphasized this without forgetting.

Ivar Lothbrok was willing to curse all those who chose this path because of ignorance and prejudice, even though they could choose a different path.

“Barbatos. You are an ugly creature. ”

“ ……. ”

There was silence.

Barbato's shoulders are no longer trembling. Ivar did not expect his opponent to be aware of the reality and to stop trembling. It was too positive an interpretation. On the contrary, the movement would have been cut off because he had completely refused to accept the reality.

“No.”

But when Barbato raised his head and looked at himself,

Ivar Lothbrok saw her golden eyes facing this way exclusively.

“Dantalian can't be dead. ”

“ ……. ”

What are you talking about?

Ivar Lothbrok could not understand. I couldn't resist reality, so I lost my mind. Was she that fragile? Ivar said coldly.

“The king is no longer with those who deny what you say. Admit your sins appropriately. It's the yoke you have to carry until the day you die. ”

“Don't make fun of me, puppeteer. ”

Barbatos looks Ivar straight in the eye.

“Kill yourself with a stepdaughter? Leave Laura alone, leave me alone, and he dies first? Ha. If you're going to lie, do it right. You made a crucial mistake. ”

“…… Have you already entered self-justification? There's nothing I can do about it. Very well. Live with that lie for the rest of your life. Perhaps you are the end that suits you. ”

It was when Ivar turned to leave the barracks.

“Dantalian never commits suicide. ”

Ivar stops.

“I misunderstood my stepdaughter and brought her to death. Sad. There's nothing more painful for him than a misunderstanding caused by ignorance. A useless-headed man can't stand the mistake of being mistaken. ”

Barbatos is dead.

“But that's only half the story of Dantalian. ”

“ ……. ”

“Did you kill your stepdaughter? Then the son of a bitch named Dantalian is the one who's going to blame himself even more fiercely. I'll tell you again, maid. Dantalian would never-- never choose suicide. ”

Ivar comes to Barbato with his expressionless face.

“What justifies your delusions? ”

Barbato twists his lip.

“Because he's already suicidal enough to kill himself. ”

Barbato knew. Barbatos is the only one who has recognized Dantalian's ideals.

The fact that Dantalian is having endless visions.

When Barbatos cries and asks you to run away with him, Dantalian insists. He insisted that it was just an escape from responsibility. Throw away the peace as a dog. Every word Dantalian uttered at that time was remembered by Barbato.

That is why Barbato was able to affirm it.

“Death is a peaceful luxury to him. And to die with my beloved adopted daughter. Quite the fancy way of saying it yourself. ”

“The gap that suits your lie……. ”

“You're alive, Dantalian. ”

Barbatos said with confidence.

A single tear flows silently from the edge of her eyes.

“He's still alive. ”

“ ……. ”

Barbato bows his head and kisses Ivar's foot.

“I implore you. ”

I gave up my pride, and every time I spoke a sentence, I kissed Ivar's feet with care. Barbato raised his voice in his lifetime, not even to Baal.

“You don't have to tell me where you are. Knowing you're alive, that's enough. If I was a dog, I'd be a dog. If I become a slave, I will become a slave. You can curse my Demon King to keep his horn from growing forever, but that's okay. ”

“ ……. ”

“If you destroy my heart, if you destroy it 16 times, your magic will be reduced to nothing. I will gladly accept your destruction of the source of magic. I don't need any evidence as a wizard. It doesn't matter. It's okay to take anything. So... ”

Barbato said.

I pleaded earnestly with a voice mixed with tears.

“So, please... please let me find him. ”

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