Dungeon Defense (WN)

The ducs were rather surprised by Pymon's presence.

No matter how hard I apologized to you, you wouldn't feel true to the ducs.

Pymon, on the other hand, said differently. If the pions who are so popular with the Masters bow their heads, the ducs come to life. It was called politics.

I was fully prepared.

Ivar decides to take Pymon's place, and Daisy decides to take mine.

Ivar and Daisy appear to be just an immature girl, but considerable in combat strength. Fifty battle dolls on one side, controlled by a puppeteer. The other was a warrior armed with Baal's Great Sword. You could say it's the best. There was no more reliable bodyguard than these to protect my identity.

“Dantalian. I'm worried. ”

However, my sincere State Department did not take concern.

“The machete is never favorable to Dantalian. ”

“Why, are you afraid the Grand Duke will try to assassinate me? ”

“Dantalian was already in danger of being assassinated once. ”

Lapis opened his cloak to me.

“It's true Miss Ivar and Miss Daisy are capable. But if the situation is.... ”

“What if there's no situation. ”

I gently grasped Laffith's hand.

No wonder she was worried. When I was about to be assassinated on the horse, it was Lapis who was hurt on my behalf. I was fine with her covering me up. But this time I went to the market without Lapis…….

“Everything I risked getting assassinated was a stage that I planned and created for myself. Lapis, I may die someday, but not this time. The Grand Dukes aren't stupid either. Smart enough, stupid enough. ”

“…… these days. ”

Laffith opens and closes his lips.

It was very rare for Lapis to stop talking about everything accurately and neatly. I generously waited for Laffith's next words.

Laffith closes his eyes. And he wanted to catch his breath, and he looked me straight in the eye and said,

“My mother was a selling circus. ”

“ ……. ”

“A Circus whore and an unknown human being. I was a hybrid of the two. Within the first night of my birth, my mother abandoned me and fled somewhere, and I grew up preaching to the village stables. ”

Lapis never told me about his past. I also never talked about things in the past. It is because we do not need it, and we have agreed to it implicitly.

It was the first time Laffith brought up an old story……

“They thought of me as some kind of curse and shame. A whore to be mistreated. It was born in the bloodline of man, which is thought to be the most inferior. Untouchable citizens were talking about me. There was never a day when I didn't eat food scraps, and there was never a day when I didn't cover myself with rags. ”

I was guessing.

I didn't know that she was a prostitute, but from the time I heard that she was a human hybrid, I knew Lapis would have had a difficult childhood as an enemy.

So I didn't ask on purpose.

I decided I would never let Lapis talk to me if I talked to him. We had a relationship. My curiosity in this relationship was extremely minor.

“One day, the villagers fainted because they got hit in the head by a flying stone. When I opened my eyes again, I couldn't tell how many days had passed by, lying down. I was just very thirsty. ”

Lapis unties his hair.

My hair, which was tied in two prongs, loosened. Laffith turns his head slightly to the side. The back bone, which had been covered in hair, was revealed with your fingers. There were clear scars.

“My eyelids were heavy. Something stuck to my entire neck and it was sticky. I crawled to the stream and drank crazily water. Suddenly, my face was shining on the surface, and then I realized that my upper half was covered in blood. ”

“ ……. ”

“I craved power for the first time that day. ”

Laffith looked at me as quietly as ever.

“The Kunkuska Chamber of Commerce was the only group in the market that judged them by their qualifications. Of course, there was implicit discrimination in the Chamber of Commerce, but I didn't care. First of all, it was my goal to gain a certain position at the Chamber of Commerce. ”

Dantalian, Laffith said.

“It's no coincidence that I'm in charge of Dantalian. In the Kunkuska Parliament, I was treating Dantalian as a bumpkin. The merchants above me refused, refused and refused, and finally it was their turn to return to me, the bottom. ”

I made a bitter smile.

If you think about it, it was very rude to give the Demon King a girl who is a hybrid of Circubus and Human. Usually, the Demon Kings had a dedicated group of people who were classified as nobles in the horse system, such as Homo or Cat.

On the one hand, it's the number 71 scarecrow.

The other is an untouchable member of the magic system, a human hybrid with a circumcision courtesan.

It was a perfect match.

“I immediately resigned from the staff. The reason is simple. If Dantalian gains power in the future, I was also there to escort him. It was a computational approach, and it was a choice to satisfy my democratic appetite. ”

As if I had only one accomplice.

I was also the only one who had a chance of becoming Laffith.

We used each other. We were all very clear on that. In other words, we were partners, not soldiers. There was a reason I gave up everything only to my own Lapis.

“When Dantalian devised Operation Minerva and said he was going to wipe out all the Humans and all the Demon Prince soldiers, I thought, 'Great.' because in the midst of the chaos, if Dantalian gained power, I also gained power. ”

“…… Ah. ”

“When Dantalian decided to trample on human villages and cities, when he decided to slaughter and slaughter more, even self-inflicted, I nodded every time. because we knew it was a shortcut to power. ”

- That's right.

“I'm an accomplice to Dantalian. ”

We were accomplices to what we did.

“I have never, ever, ever watched someone die for Dantalian. I will never kill anyone for Dantalian again. I, Lazuli, a mother without a face and a father without a name, am facing my life only with my face and my name. ”

Lapis said that without a lie.

Her feelings for me were purely sincere.

“I know you've been drinking every night since you whipped Miss Laura. It doesn't matter if you hide wine under the bed. We already know that you removed the floor to the south-west of the bedroom and set up a small liquor store in it. I demolished it last night. ”

“Haha.”

I laughed because I was amused.

“You did a really good job of quitting drugs. I want you to stop drinking. ”

“Got it."

I nodded.

“Don't try to take responsibility for everything on your own. ”

“Ah.”

“I, too, will endure. So.”

“I will never die. ”

Lapis folds his hands together and bends at his waist.

“Please go, Dantalian. ”

* * *

The elderly man spreads his arms wide.

“It is a great honor to have you in my humble abode, Your Grace. ”

He was one of the Grand Dukes who ruled the Serpent's Hell. He was also a duke who maintained a fairly good relationship with me. I reached out my right hand toward the lower waist of the Grand Duke.

“Long time, Grand Duke. I don't know how many years it's been since I visited you. ”

“Haha. Five years have passed since the dawn of time. ”

The Serpent Duke shakes hands politely as if he were empty-handed.

Earlier, I used to secretly shoot SM footage of Barbato to blackmail the ducs. At that time, there were seven Grand Dukes who witnessed the Memoria video.

All seven were excluded from the last purge.

Originally, there were 26 Grand Dukes. Eleven of the Dukes that were last cleaned up. There were only 15 Grand Dukes left, and seven of them were sharing their 'secrets to carry to the grave.' The Serpent Duke, of course, belonged to seven.

“Oh, King Pymon! ”

This time, the Serpent Duke was even more exaggerated. For Pymon, who was holding my arm, the Serpent Duke bent his lower back to almost kiss the floor.

“As the humble seed is the glory of Man-Mah, the spokesman of the weak, I present to you the owner of the Lord, the witness of all honor and promises. ”

The Serpent Duke winked skillfully.

“Of course, if you give him the opportunity to add one to your designation, he will say, 'It is an honor to see' the most beautiful of all the Demon Kings. '”

“Hehe. Thank you for your sincere hospitality, Your Majesty. ”

Pymon smiles softly. Pymon's smile was really beautiful.

“After all, the continent is foreign. Even if it's desolate, our home is here. While our Demon Kings are leaving their hometowns to preach, the Grand Duke has always kept the house safe for the witches to return. That Pymon sends his personal thanks for his dedication. ”

“Your Royal Highness, again, Your Highness. ”

Pymon reaches out his hand. Then the duc knelt down and kissed Pymon's hand on the back.

Here, you can take a peek at the political posture between me, Pymon, and the Viper.

First, the Serpent Duke greeted me first, not Pymon. This was a semi-publically quoted by the Serpent Duke, "For Sosin, the Dantalian Emperor takes precedence over the Pymon Emperor."

Second, however, the Serpent gave me a short hello while giving Pymon a long hello. By greeting me for the first time and greeting Pymon more glamorously, I was trying to balance things out a bit.

Third, Pymon returned the same long remarks to his good work. Moreover, I reached out the back of my hand to induce a kiss. Though I greeted him for the first time, the one who received the example became Pymon. Ultimately, from a third party standpoint, the Serpent Duke shined as if he had welcomed exactly two of our Demon Kings equally.

“My Lady Dantalian. Lord Pymon.”

Yes, it is.

In this position, much more is exchanged behind the scenes, whispering, confirming each other's opinions, and acknowledging each other's skills than is always revealed outwardly.

Unlike the Demon Monarchs who are immature in politics except for a few, the Grand Dukes are fundamentally politically dense.

“Welcome to the Palace of Sosin. I'll take you to where the other dukes are. ”

This was the mantra.