My Childhood Friend the Demon Knight Hates Me - Episode 41: Reiss Edition
41 Reiss Edition
By the time I arrived there, it was already too late.
After Suria was kidnapped, in the yard of the church, the spirits of light in the shape of birds were just flying in the moonlight without seeming busy.
I had no time to regret my failure because I didn’t make it in time.
I wore a cloak that I had roughly grasped covering the hood deeply to avoid the moonlight, and ran all the way through the dark night. I traced the sign of Suria to the spirit of water, located it, and moved my feet, hoping for her safety, ahead of the apostles who had gathered in response to the news.
The crystal was rapidly turning cloudy as it accumulated the power of a raging demon to match my passion for her, but I didn’t have time to pay attention to it.
When I finally arrived at the warehouse, I pushed the door open and called out the name “Suria!” That was the first time I’d been able to do that.
I cut the black butterfly that the man shot with a sword, placed all of my blood-simmering anger on the blade, and cut it with the intention of killing the man. Before I could duck and make a follow-up attack, I noticed Suria staring at me blankly, and I dropped to my knees in front of her.
“Reiss…”
“Suu…, stay safe…!”
I said the nickname without thinking and breathed a sigh of relief that she was not seriously hurt.
It was the first time I had seen Suria cry since the day I made her cry.
I reached for her cheek to wipe away her tears, but once again, she pulled her arm away just in time.
Even at a time like this, I couldn’t touch her.
Instead, I checked the moonlight from the small window, took off my cloak and handed it to her. Please forgive me for apologizing, “I’m sorry, I was late.”
After that, I had a short conversation with the demon possessed man, who was looking at me curiously, and then I continued my battle with him. One couldn’t help but be irritated by a man who referred to himself as ‘the same’ as me.
… I didn’t become a demon possessed by choice.
Thanks to the summoning of the spirits of water, I was able to move freely without having to protect the victims from the black butterflies, and I avoided the attack of the black blades that fell on me and narrowed the distance towards the man.
However, his impatient tactics caught me off guard and shattered the spirit crystal I was wearing.
“Tsk.”
I distorted my face bitterly and clicked my tongue briefly.
I’m not sure if this was a reaction to the fact that I’d been suppressing it until now. The power of the devil began to rampage in my body at once, and my body, which was about to take the initiative, tried to change the tip of the sword which was aimed at the man towards Suria for a moment.
I deliberately let the enemy’s blade hit me, and the pain brought me back to my senses. I managed to bring the man to the ground, using only my energy to restrain the demon again.
I thought the game was over.
However, the demon’s rampage began from here, as the man seemed to had been forced to sign an incomplete contract.
A man sunk into the black swamp.
He repeated the name of the precious person he wanted to bring back to life, and his struggling body was slowly being dragged into the demon’s stomach.
The apostles and Suria, who had finally caught on to the situation, looked at him with pity in their eyes, but I did not feel any emotion.
I didn’t feel any sympathy for the man who voluntarily accepted a hideous demon.
Refusing to be rescued by the apostles, I reclined against the wall in the corner to avoid the moonlight. I held my chest to calm my inner demon, and as I caught my breath, I watched the man’s demise emotionlessly through the black hair that stuck to my forehead.
I was a bit surprised when a woman jumped into the swamp from among the victims to save the man.
As I recalled, the woman, who had been a mentor to the spirit princess, seemed to be the lover of the man who had committed the crime, and they were about to fall into the swamp together.
That was where —- Suria came in.
“What a bad after taste… Phew (Spit)!”
I told her to throw it away, put on the cloak I gave her, and ran barefoot toward the swamp, and I gave her an unvoiced restraint.. Before I could force myself to sit up and stop her, Suria was already attempting to use the Queen’s treasure sword to knock out the black swamp.
I had lost track of it.
At times like this, she was the only person who could ‘move’ for someone else.
I could predict with a little thought that she would be willing to do something rash to help the woman with whom she was briefly involved.
Even though I knew that my voice would never reach her, I called out her name like shouting, “Suria!”
Eventually, the screams of the demon with desperation reverberated through the warehouse, and Suria’s plan had succeeded. The black swamp disappeared without a trace, and the man who had committed the crime was safe.
The black swamp disappeared without a trace, and the man who had done this was safe. However, Suria, who seemed to have used too much of her spiritual power, slowly collapsed on the spot. Her golden brown hair in disarray, as if a thread had been cut.
I wanted to go to her side right now and take her body in my arms.
I had lost the fetters of the spirit crystal, and I still hadn’t been able to suppress the threat of the demon that was still stirring, so it was impossible for me to even get close to Suria.
I didn’t feel any pain from the cut on my body. I had sworn to keep her out of harm, but now, I was caught up in a situation like this, and because of the demon, I couldn’t even care for her, and my inadequacy was just painful.
I just held my chest, bit my lip and stared at the apostles and water spirits rushing towards them from afar.
—- It was a little late for that.
It was really new, but I couldn’t help thinking.
I was not even sure why I couldn’t be near Suria.
Why couldn’t I even spin a single word that would open up her heart?
Why couldn’t I?
“D*mn..!”
Immediately before she fell, I felt like I met her eyes, but I looked down towards my sharp wounds on my chest from the top of my clothes.
I couldn’t even touch her, I was just a miserable and cursed man.