The day I stopped being Leila Vermillion, that is, the day I woke up as The Red Night.

I was standing up in the middle of a bright red village.

So my first taste was the taste of red blood, delicious as sweet fruit, spreading in my mouth and moisturizing my throat.

The first time I felt it was in my hand, the feeling of pulling and chopping meat and crushing bones.

The first time I saw it was a meat chunk that 'I' was a man who had eaten a thousand cuts and a bunch of houses that were burnt out and black when I busted them.

And the first person I met was a girl who was a friend of Leila Vermillion.

She didn't have one arm. My stomach meat was choosing. It looked delicious. And with a squeaky, distorted look, he was crying.

"Ray... why... why... we were friends... why did this happen...!?

A girl who's dying and doesn't even know the name she said that to me standing up. A 'apparent' girl who was a friend.

I was aware that I was a demon then. And I didn't remember when I was human. Completely, I had been reborn as a 'Red Night'.

So all I could see was that crying girl as bait.

A girl who comes fluttering closer and stretches out her remaining arm to me. I pulled that stretched arm and cut it a thousand times and ate it. The girl didn't scream.

"Ray...... Ray......! Why...!!

The girl looked like she wasn't even in pain anymore.

He was crying in tears, looking into my eyes and repeatedly groaning, 'Why?'. But I said as I leaned my neck towards the child.

"Mmm, you're not tasty at all."

And I divided the girl's upper and lower body into two parts. My upper body falls all the way to the ground and my lower body stays standing.

I leaned closer to my torso and knelt beside it. Then the child, who was already dying, shrugged slightly, pointing her eyes towards the void, losing a little light, perhaps even though she was blind.

"... Leila... Vermillion... Absolutely... Yu... sa, na... no..."

That's when I found out my name.

And at the same time, there were no more people to know 'Leila Vermillion'.

At that time, I wasn't interested in friends either, and humans were only bait to prey on. Well, I never thought of anyone who wanted to take special care of it or hesitated to eat it.

But not now.

I think I changed when I met you. [M]

- First of all, I became a 'demon tribe'.

- Next, I had a special interest in you unlike any other human being.

- Like Finia or Liesche, buddy? done.

- I'm starting to have feelings for you that I don't understand.

- And I'm... I'm lost when you tell me I'm 'in love' with you.

I don't know anymore.

I don't know 'love', so I got scared. I don't know 'special' so I wanted to run away.

My chest got messed up, my heart rang unprecedented, my blood boiled about hot, my chest tightened about bitter, and I felt tight about you.

This is' special '? This is' love '?

If so, isn't Sole a painful thing? 'Cause it's weird that you like it but you don't cut it so much. It's strange that you can't look directly at it even though it's important. It's' love 'that's painful?

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

But if Sole is' in love ', I'm... - What am I supposed to do?

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Demon King. Leila had raised her guard with exasperation to the first demon king to face her.

The demon king was present at the clock tower, the tallest building in the city. Perhaps only men of inspection and maintenance should enter, at the top of the clock tower… there was a demon king in that place with a panoramic view of the city.

Leila came here to perceive the signs of the Demon King with her 'Red Night' instinct, which she held in her body. Behind it was a leachet, and when I found it, I vanished the signs and hid, as the orange noise told me.

The Demon King was invincible as he looked down at the orange noise he was fighting. I'm whining about bumps and stuff. And for a moment I turned my gaze toward Leila and the others.

It is noticed.

Leila, who understood it, leashes the leachet under the orange noise.

"Leishe, I need you."

"... okay, don't die"

Leishe snorted at Leila's words and followed the scene. He ran down the stairs, down the clock tower all at once, and left under the orange noise.

And Leila dared to show herself to distract the Demon King. If Leila is the usual, she can't act like she's the one who made the leachette go or made the choice to become the one.

Ning Ro, let Leishe stay and go under the orange noise.

And yet why - that, even Leila herself, doesn't know.

"- but apparently he's not into the Demon King... which is quite unfortunate, but then let me kill him here - hey? Would that be fun, too? It's Red Night."

The Demon King grins invincibly as he sees the orange noise he is fighting, not Leila, says so in a sincerely sorry voice, and turns his gaze to this side.

Leila and the Demon King's gaze matched.

"Demon King... Right"

"Oh, it's been a long time - no, it was your first look... now you're named Leila Vermillion"

Leila has no face-to-face experience with the Demon King. This was the first time we met.

But from the Demon King, Leila Vermillion... No, she's already met "Red Night". Nevertheless, Leila can't say anything about knowing that fact.

However, he only raised his guard so that he wouldn't miss every step of the demon king.

……

"Don't be so vigilant... I'm interested in you now... you who were that halfway demon have become a complete demon tribe for what happened... probably because of that second one... how is it not funny inside"

The Demon King laughs invincibly and rises against the alarming Leila. And open your hands to dazzle the magic that you have in you. Leila's body shivered as she swung at the flurry of magic.

It was fear. It was a normal reaction when I saw an overwhelming presence above me.

"Well... there's one purpose you've come here for, isn't there? Let's play a little."

There was an insurmountable difference in strength.

Technology, status, how to fight, tactics, that kind of thing has nothing to do with it. Wins and losses seem to have been dictated since before we fought - if you say so, 'the difference in fate' was there.

"But well, my enemies are human beings, not demons. There's no more reason to fight than to be the same demon."

"... what does that mean?

"It's easy... if you're hostile to me, let's kill you. But if you're going down to my gate, that's it... as the King of the Demons, I'll welcome you in."

The Demon King turns to Leila and reaches out.

I was giving him the option to be one of us, hostile or not. In other words, it shows that we are forced to choose whether to live or die.

If you want to live, take this hand. If you don't take this hand, die here.

That's the thing. The Demon King doesn't care about his people, he just doesn't take the lives of his men. Be your own strength or not, that's all.

Except I won't kill you because you're the same demon. So even if there were demons hanging on death, it wouldn't help, and if there were demons that have been hostile, I'd kill them without hesitation.

Even though the Demon King is one of us, he is not merciful.

"Come on, what do we do? Leila Vermillion... will you take my hand... or will you be a mutilated corpse..."

Leila looked at the hand of the extended demon king and thought.

If you take this hand, you can live, you don't have to die, then you can take it.

But I tried to take that hand for a moment, and there was an orange noise on my head or a leachet face past me. Layla's hand stops perfectly.

If I take this hand, I can live. But isn't orange noise dying? What about Liesche? I thought so.

- Don't you regret it?

Chloe's, I thought I heard those words.

- Take this hand, tight, you die, Leishe dies, I 'only' live and stretch, no regrets? Can I laugh and live happily ever after...?

And I thought of it. Next door, time without orange noise. Give me the bloody face of the leachet that hung the blast. And before the two bodies, I thought of the look on my face that lay.

Nature, and the self in its imagination, will have the same look, but Leila doesn't realize it. Just blurred, the expression in that imagination was clearly on my mind.

Because - the look on my face that came to mind, it looked familiar.

"That time... it's the girl's face..."

The first person I met...... Leila Vermillion's, a girl I was friends with, a face that floated to the end of the period. Desperate for the world, saddened, even now... a crying face.

"Mm-hmm? What's up?

A demon king puts his eyebrows down and gives a strange look to Layla, who leaned down with his outstretched hand.

"... well, I did... I wonder if that kid felt this way too..."

Layla understood how people felt for the first time. When you haven't lost me, the first person you've killed. The first person I ever ate when I had myself. That girl's, the face of despair that lost her family, acquaintance and friends.

I didn't know what it felt like then, but now I do.

"... no, I can't take that hand"

"... What's the reason? If you don't take this hand, you're going to die, but why would you choose a hostile path with me?"

"I have a tough one."

In Leila's words, the Demon King rounded his eyes properly and gave him a look like he had been washed away by his intentions.

The Demon King took a few seconds to accept the meaning of the word, and another few seconds to understand.

And when you fully understand the word, you put that hand that you extended and the other hand on your own belly -

".................. hahahahahahahahaha!! This is painful! I mean, you pick that second one over this demon king!! They are quite in love with humans while they are in the Devil Nation!! Hahahahaha!!"

- I laughed out loud. I laughed fun-filled, like I was in a bump.

I am in love with a human being named Orange Sound, while being a Demon. That fact was hilarious. I kicked the Demon King's invitation for just one human being.

I've never seen a demon clan hostile to a demon king before for that reason.

"Ha ha ha ha... uh, it's been a long time since I've laughed so far...! Pleasant, that's really funny...... so are you, but those second guys are really funny! Everywhere you go, you're attracting my interest."

When the Demon King's laugh came to rest, the Demon King said so with pleasure. Then Leila got just a little grumpy about such a demon king. Because of the orange noise, I felt as though I had been ridiculed.

So I say a little grumpy.

"... so funny? Is that a bad reason?

Bad.

"Huh!?

But the word is truncated with the cold words of the Demon King. The Demon King, who had laughed until earlier, said so with a lurking smile, a ruthless gaze and a stabbing intimidation.

I denied all of Leila's reasons, the words.

"Okay? I'll tell you first, you're a demon, and he's human. No matter how rushed you are, it can't happen that these two races are bound."

"Oh no...!

"Can you say 'no' enough? You think you can be with humans now? Taste it, you've eaten a lot of humans, haven't you? He must have killed you, didn't he? You killed and ate a man who loved him, a man who had hope for the future, a man who had not been born in this world for long, just as' bait ', didn't you?

Says the Demon King. Step into Leila's eyes and look at Leila with a gaze that sees through to that back of her red eyes, releasing the pressure to squash her mind from the top, I say.

- Some lovers would have tied up with their loved ones and tried to grasp the happiness ahead.

- Some young people would have believed in their own potential and were running towards the future.

- Not long after I was born in this world, there would have been babies who didn't know the beauty of the world.

- Some weak people would have known nothing but the despair of this world without feeling anyone's love yet.

"You've crushed, chopped, shredded, folded, and eaten all those types of humans as you desire them, haven't you? Unconsciously, you've torn love apart, destroyed friendships, closed the future, given despair, satisfied your own desires, I guess? He bathed in red blood, chewed up hard meat, and was like a beast, right? You must have been feeling the pleasure, huh?

".................................!

"No, no, I'm not denying it - Sole is the Demon Clan! 'Bad Guy' for man, who kills man, fights as he desires, and wields despair against man, that's the Demon Nation! What you've done is right, I guarantee it. That desire hidden within you, the way you live, you're absolutely right as a demon!

- But (just) do.

The Demon King affirms Leila in high spirits, puts in such a conjunction, and cuts the words.

Leila is overwhelmed by the sight and words of the Demon King, unable to move her rigid body.

Expanded temper was also out of fear of the Demon King, and had already disappeared, exposing himself so defenseless that he seemed to be able to kill with one of the Demon King's fingertips.

But the Demon King goes on to say more as he sees Leila full of such gaps.

"But it's incorrect for humans - they treat criminals as dangerous monsters in the worst possible way, like they've trampled on ethics. Disgusted, Exclusive, and Unacceptable Demons (Bakery Things)"

"I... you know...!

"Not on purpose, it doesn't go through, Leila Vermillion. The price for killing, killing, enjoying, and obtaining pleasure similar to madness is" rejection. "And no matter how you deny it, the 'monster' is you to man."

Leila denies the Demon King's words with her anxiety and denial full of expression. No, I want to deny it. I want to, but I can't.

What I did, I can't take it back. For humans, Leila is a monster, and she is unacceptable. That's an insurmountable reality.

"Do you think such a monster is now more acceptable to a human being who has forced a scattered atrocious outrage? How much love have you torn apart for your own pleasure? No, that's not the problem -"

The Demon King smiles invincibly with his hands on Leila's face, who is unable to move. And

- Leaving numerous pieces of love ripped apart, do you seek 'love' from humans?

That said, I crushed Leila's red right eye that was opened - with that finger.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Leila's, she screams so much that her throat is ripped open. Gakugaku and his body tremble, and Leila's hands grab the Demon King's arm.

But the Demon King's hand is so powerful that he can't shake it off, Leila's right eye crushing fingers scratching his crushed eyeballs.

"Hahahahahahaha!! You sound good, Leila Vermillion! This is what you've done to humans, isn't it? And this is the Demon Clan!! You should remember that pain well! If you do, you might be a loved one in the next life!

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!? I want to hurt, Idai. Ouch, no, no!!!

And Layla, whose right eye is so scratched that it does not fully retain its original shape, is once released from the hands of the Demon King.

But he squatted on the spot and screamed unnecessarily, suppressing his right eye, which was overflowing with blood. Relax, and the wreckage of his right eye fell to the ground.

Seeing Sole, Leila was utterly terrified of the Demon King standing in front of her. He was spiritually cornered, denied, and crushed his right eye before overwhelming force.

Once, as I did to the orange noise...

"Hey, Leila Vermillion."

"Hi... Ko, don't come... don't come...!!

"Are you afraid of me?

"- Huh!!?

Layla tries to escape from the Demon King as she crawls, keeping her right eye down. But the demon king grabbed his neck and lifted Leila's body into space. Plapla and Leila's feet wandered through the universe, and the blood flowing from her right eye transmitted her body, dripping from her toes to the ground.

And to the words of the Demon King, Leila makes a cry without a voice. White skin fades away because blood is lost, or because you are frightened by the Demon King, or both. My spirit is cornered by fear, and Leila's teeth are shaking with beeping noises.

The undeniable words of the Demon King and the severe pain inflicted before the overwhelming force had completely crushed Leila's heart. That's so much so that I'm not even willing to resist.

"You're even more so now. You're not a loved one, you're not a loved one, because you are, aren't you? That's all you've done."

"Hih... stop... no more...!

"Do I distract you? Hahahaha! That's okay, but just out of sight, this reality will stick with you for the rest of your life...... still, you say you want to live with that second guy?

"Ah... -"

That's what the Demon King said, releasing Leila's neck. Leila's body drops to the ground. And at the same time,

- I heard Layla's heart break completely.

From the red left eye of the safe person, the light disappeared. He's not dead, he's alive, but Leila's heart has been completely broken.

The demon king cuts his gaze when he sits down and gives Layla a look like he's lost interest. And then turn your back on Leila and walk away from Leila.

And Leila's body behind it fluttered... and fell back...

- Are you kidding me?

With those words, he was taken by one boy.

And at the same time as the words...... the Demon King visioned himself with the 'death' footage (vision)...... no, 'made'.

Twitching and the intimidation of a reaper that erodes your heart. Chills running on my spine.

- What the... this is me, scared...!?

Ba and I turned around well and at the same time took a great distance.

"Looks like you've been doing a lot of things for Leila..."

There he was, the boy who the Demon King saw this morning, with different colors in both eyes, a good looking boy with a thin laugh.

The difference is the intimidation I fear, the demon king I didn't feel this morning, and the eerie signs of thin, laughing suspended by the vicious.

The boy, lifting Leila, who was falling without force, moved toward the edge and put her to sleep. Then he rises loosely and turns his gaze to the Demon King.

"... I'm surprised, what happened to that beast?

"I'm dealing with Leishe... how could you have done worse to Leila than that, I promised Leila after this? If Leila dies like this, she won't be able to sleep at night because of what she's talking about."

The boy creeps as he slowly walks toward the Demon King.

"It's a dead matter, isn't it? So take responsibility... will you die a little?

The words contained more... anger than ever before, behind the back of the expression.