Dungeon Defense (WN)

I glanced carefully at the status window.

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Name: Buffet e Laniera

Race: Vampire (Puppet) Body: Ivar Lodbroke

Attribute: Evil (-20)

Level: 34 Reputation: 4522

Job: Merchant (A)

Tong Sol: 30/30 Power: 42/42 Power: 71/71

Politics: 59/59 Charm: 76/76 Technology: 10/10

Likeability: 100

* Title: 1. Executive Candidate for Kunkusa

* Capability: Transaction A, Accounting B, arithmetic B

* Skill: -

Current Psychology: 'Laffith Lazuli seems to be in a bad mood. He must have a grudge against me. It must be because you've been naked before. Ugh, that narrow... ’

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The name must have been written on the buff.

Stats were also very different from Ivar's body. But the most important part - like Ivar, 100 was displayed. What this meant was clear. With tricks like dolls, Daisy couldn't fool me.

If Laffith had been so fond of me, he would have shown up unfiltered in the status window. But Daisy has always been fond of zero. Lapis's hypothesis was simply rejected.

“I see. ”

“Yes?”

“No. A soliloquy. Well done, Ivar. ”

Ivar bows his head.

In the beginning, there were too many holes in the Daisy Doll. Suppose Daisy were to replace the doll or something like that. How could that be possible? Daisy was not a puppeteer. It was an almost impossible hypothesis....

Once again, the Likeability System is ironclad. It was like a fortress that could not be taken down with all sorts of strange and cunning schemes.

There was no way I could have misjudged one. In fact, the scenario that Daisy liked me and everything that's been unfolding has been blocked in principle.

But...

“ ……. ”

I turned my gaze and looked at Laffith. From now on, Lapis keeps his head down. If I give up here, Lapis will definitely no longer require inventory. You'd think she'd already asked me to do so much on her own.

Let's rethink this.

Review the possibilities again.

Daisy is a warrior. In other words, she is the protagonist of the world. How likely is Daisy the only exception to the likelihood system? …… No. Then why is Luke properly labeled with affection? If Daisy has a problem, Luke should, too.

Think.

‘I am the master of all the Maras, the 72nd Demon King Andromalius. ’

‘Great one. I dared to rely on that tolerance. ’

Revive all memories related to Daisy from start to finish. Find out if there were any strange spots, any evidence, or circumstances to prove Lapis' hypothesis.

‘Because I need to remember that I am the scum who brought death to my brother. ’

When we first met, Daisy was full of life, too.

My voice was heard and my confidence was easily shown on my face. Surgery, however, changed the mood from the beginning of a procedure that engraved a slaver on the heart. I sank deeper and colder.

If Daisy had been so fond of me, it was before the surgery. He didn't clearly hate me back then either. But I was angry at the pain of the torn flesh and the pies of the heart, the evil that enslaved me forever…….

‘Course not. ’

And attempted assassination.

A case where I tried to put a dagger in my neck while this one fell asleep.

‘Your bitch is trying to get herself killed. ’

‘No, I swore to kill you. ’

So, where else could you have killed me? I'm sorry. ’

In fact, there was a strange angle to the case. There was only one part of Daisy's behavior that didn't make sense.

‘Blow it now. When did you wake up? ’

‘Since the sunshine today. ’

It was the time difference.

The night I woke up feeling alive for Daisy. Daisy, on the other hand, woke up much earlier than I did. Before I woke up, Daisy managed to sneak out and try to assassinate me, and then she stopped pretending not to know.

There was no reason to wait until Gu Tai wakes up and tell me that he tried to assassinate me.

But Daisy purposely said, "Absolutely not." Induced me to wake up. Excited and provoked, like advertising that he could do something this dangerous without hesitation.

‘Who is Jack? ’

What if it's not?

Do you always have nightmares? He was constantly muttering people's names. It had repetitive names. Jack, Hawk, Orland, Reef……. ’

What if it's the opposite?

‘And Mother. ’

If you tried to assassinate me and then tried to get up, but you couldn't get up for some reason.

"I am surprised that there is a mother like you. ’

If the shocking reason for holding Daisy's body so still was the moment when I wasn't even aware of what was happening because I was still asleep.

That.

Something like that.

There's no way that's happening.

― ― ― My head was white.

“ ……. ”

My right hand shakes a little.

That's ridiculous. There's no way that's possible. However, there is one possibility in the bay. I haven't denied that possibility yet. So it's a test. We have to test it thoroughly.

I clasp my fingers firmly with both hands. It was to suppress hand tremors.

“Ivar. I have one more favor to ask. Would that be okay?”

“I will gladly do it a thousand times at your behest. ”

“When the Unsubordinated Demon Kings plotted treason. ”

As I always did whenever my heart fluttered, the voice coming out of my mouth was colder and darker than usual. It was proof that I was desperately acting. Clumsy and cold always meant smoke to me.

“You made a few puppets that looked just like me back then. ”

“Yes, in order to deceive the Unsubordinated Demon Kings, I made all the dolls that resemble you in threes. ”

“With one of them destroyed, there should still be two left. ”

Ivar nods with a somewhat suspicious look.

“I kept it in case it was used for assassination. One was hidden in the City of Dread and the other in the Imperial Palace. ”

“Can you get it now? ”

“Of course.”

“... Please. And Ivar, you, too, come back to the mainframe. ”

Ivar leaves the Oval Office.

The same time has passed. I looked down at the floor and didn't think of anything. I don't know if it's the right thing to say. Time has been stretched like a flicker.

“Your Grace, we have a colonel here. ”

Ivar comes back with a doll in the back. It was hard to fathom how much time had passed. In fact, you would have been there in five or ten minutes. But it felt much longer to me. I opened my mouth.

“I will transfer the consciousness to the puppet for a moment. Help me.”

“Yes, Your Majesty. Please forgive me for being rude for a moment. ”

I once controlled a doll with Ivar's help for a short time. It was during the reign of the Unsubordinated Demon Kings, including Balepor. At that time, I was killed as a puppet and returned to the main body as if nothing had happened.

“It's going to be a little futile. ”

Ivar puts his palms slightly on my forehead. My palms were cold. I closed my eyes.

A moment later, a disgusting insult arose. It was as if my hands and feet had been infinitely shortened and all fell into the range of skulls. The distance itself disappeared from my body, how long my hands were stretched out.

“That's it. Your Majesty.”

I slowly opened my eyes.

The landscape of the Oval Office came into view. It's no different than before. But my body with the prosthetic foot was sitting still in the chair. This is the second time I've ever carried a consciousness into a puppet. It was not a pleasant experience.

“ ……. ”

My heart beats ominously.

From now on, I enter some experiments.

If Lapis' hypothesis is correct, this is the final possibility. Except for this, there was absolutely no chance Daisy cheated me. Even if I betrayed Laffith's expectations, even if I grieved Laffith, I would coldly deny her faith.

I look at Ivar face to face.

I vomited a single word in my mind.

‘Status window.’

…… silent and completely static.

You hear nothing, and nothing rises into the air. I tried my best to stay calm. I muttered in my mind once again.

‘Status window.’

But nothing came up. Even though I whispered the same word calmly again, several times I persistently repeated it, nothing came to mind in the air. Ivar, who had just received my gaze in front of him, was shy and pink in his cheeks.

“Hey, Your Majesty. When I look at her, I'm ashamed of her. ”

“ ……. ”

“Your Grace?"

My hands are now beginning to tremble out of control.

I turned my head and looked at Lapis this time. I shouted at Lapis, still bowing my head.

“Status window.”

Nothing.

Nothing has changed.

“…… Ah. ”

It was a very small groan, but at the same time a weak scream. That can't be right. Impossible. Fragmented and negative thoughts fill my mind.

I couldn't recognize my opponent's liking with a doll.

The status window itself does not come to mind.

In other words, the liking system only worked towards the Demon King 'Dantalian'. When my consciousness moved to the doll, I could neither read the Mage's feelings nor exert any dominance. Of course, reading emotions, exercising control, it was the Demon King's only privilege.

Even if Ivar and Laffith love me.

I don't see the shame of liking the person who moved from the body of Dantalian to the body of the doll.

Because all they love is the Demon King Dantalian.

― ― In that case.

If someone.

‘Miss Daisy always paid attention to Dantalian. ’

‘Especially I was curious about what Dantalian had done in the past. What kind of life did you have before you met yourself? What time did you spend? We've been collecting information to find out. ’

If someone finds out the truth.

"I am surprised that there is a mother like you. ’

I'm not actually Dantalian.

If you realize that you were not born naturally by magic without a mother or father, but were originally a human being other than the Demon King with one mother.

‘What is your name? When I first met you in the village, you claimed to be Andromalius. And then Dantalian. And then Jean Bolé. ’

So the body of the Dantalian is just a doll.

The name of the Dantalian is an alias.

I'm just acting as an actor in this world.

If only you knew there was another me out there once.

If it's someone who's favoring me, not Dantalian.

‘What should I call you? ’

A breath came out of my mouth.

Now I realize.

I fully understood what Daisy's last words meant to me at the public execution.

"Father, please accept the fact that there is no" I "in this world. ’

‘Admit that your wickedness is a trivial acronym. Of course, it would be impossible for him to make this choice. I know, because if I could do that, I would run away immediately. ’

Daisy.

The girl who was supposed to be a warrior.

My only heir and adopted daughter.

"If you want to be the Devil of the World, then I am the Devil. ’

― ― ― I knew I wasn't Dantalian.

So I investigated my past diligently.

Maybe Daisy found out soon enough. Years ago, 1505 continental power suddenly emerged from the Devil King Dantalian at a certain point in time. And I came to be convinced that my sleep period referring to Mother was as evidence.

Only she recognized me in this world.

“Ah... ah... ah... ”

Daisy wasn't wearing a doll.

On the contrary, I've lived with a doll named Dantalian.

Not the liking of the Demon King Dantalian, but the liking of me upright, was invisible.