My Childhood Friend the Demon Knight Hates Me - Episode 43: Final Edit
43 Final Edit
Translator: Lioness
Editor: Arya
It was like waking up from a long dream.
As soon as I opened my eyelids, I noticed that my cheeks were wet.
I saw Reiss’s memories. I understood everything, and had known his deepest feelings.
Before I knew it, I was crying silently, dissolving the overflowing and unspeakable rush of emotions into tears.
“… I wonder why tears shed by a child for someone else seem so heartbreaking.”
The Queen, with the green forest behind her, extended her snow-white like fingertips and scooped up a drop of my emotion. “I’ve lived too long as a spirit to shed any more,” she said with a wistful smile.
“Well, what do you want to do from now on? As I told you once, it would be difficult to separate the devil from this knight even with my power. The devil has taken root within the knight too deeply. I want to do as much as I can. I want to save this knight at my will. ”
“Queen…”
“ Because I am not a god who does all things, there are lives that cannot be saved. But I want to reach out as far as I can towards people like this one, who value life and fear death, but would risk their lives for those they love.”
The Queen’s golden gaze fell onto Reiss’s black hair, who was still in a slumber.
For a moment, when I heard the Queen’s words, Bell’s roar passed through my brain. “Why didn’t the Queen save her sister,” he screamed, but… if she could, I am certain, the Queen would have already done that.
You could tell by just talking a little with her.
This spirit queen probably loved the existence called ‘human beings’ forever.
“However, it is also true that I cannot do it alone. I will need your help to save Reiss, Suria.”
“Me?”
“But that method puts you at risk. It’s a very dangerous method. Do you still want to do it? Do you want to save Reiss?”
Did I want to save Reiss, the Queen asked me again.
I squeezed the cold hand with mine that was connected to Reiss’s beside me.
A hard, broad hand holding a sword and one size larger than mine. The fingertips, which seemed to me to be wounded and painful despite its strength.
How painful it must have been!
I wonder how much pain he endured.
How much pain did Reiss endure as he continued to resist the demon and spit the words… “I hate you” at me?
Just by imagining, a sore feeling rose from the back of the throat, and the eyes were loosened again.
But I couldn’t cry anymore.
I wiped my tears roughly with my white sleeve and locked eyes with the Queen.
I’d already decided that I’m ready for this.
“… I want Reiss to live. I want to save him. I’ll do whatever I can to make that happen.”
If Reiss had been fighting to protect me all these years…
Now it was my turn. No matter what happened to Reiss, I won’t let him die. I’m not going to let that Demon inside you win.
— and.
“We will definitely return together to the church in King’s Landing …… no, to the realm of Arleveil.”
I’m sure that… Reiss had always wanted to go back to that place, where he really belonged. To that territory where my father lived, where the Ricola flowers gently bloomed, and where we grew up together.
I pulled my lips together tightly.
The sound of leaves softly touched my ears. The surface of the water swayed with the silence. The spirits around me hide their breath and watch the brief silence that lies between me and the Queen.
“I knew you would say that,” the Queen said, brushing her silvery-white hair up softly, still smelling the sweet scent of flowers.
“I will tell you how to do it now. Whether you succeed or not, depends largely on you. If you fail, you will die. Will you still do it?”
“Yes.”
When I nodded without a second thought, the Queen lifted her glossy lips and smiled.
***
I stroked Wraith’s black hair, which was silky and shiny in the light.
Sitting by the side of the fountain, with my white dress as a Spirit Princess spread out, and Reiss’s head on my lap, I was now waiting for him to wake up.
“… It feels like it has been a long time since I combed your hair like this.”
Even though I knew he wouldn’t answer, I let out a mutter softly, casting my own shadow on his neat face.
We were the only two people in the light pouring through the trees.
The presence of the spirits would be a slight hindrance to what we were about to do. For that reason, I asked Uur and Queen to disappear for a moment.
Beside me, the Queen’s treasure sword was stuck in the ground. This was something I needed, so I kept it nearby.
To separate Reiss from the demon and save him.
The preparations were in place.
The only thing left to do was to get Reiss himself to cooperate with this ‘method’ when he wakes up.
I’m not sure if Reiss would approve of a method that would endanger my life, so I took the role of persuading him first.
I heard that the queen applied a very strong chi to put the demon inside the Reiss to sleep, so even if he wakes up, there would be a little time before the demon wakes up. In the meantime, I had to tell Reiss about the situation and let him ‘release the demon’ himself.
It’s just as well, because I had a lot of … things I wanted to talk to Reiss face-to-face, without lying about them.
“Hey, Reiss. There are so many things I want to say to you when you wake up.”
His smooth black hair slid down from between her fingers.
In the past, when we were reading a book together under the shade of a tree, the memory of Reiss who sneaked a lap pillow from me who had fallen asleep before we knew it, flashed through my mind.
You were unusually flustered when you woke up, weren’t you?
When I thought back on it, I found it funny and out of place, so I loosened my mouth.
The sleeping Reiss’s face was less stern, younger, and calmer than ever.
The thought of what was about to come made a thin layer of fear crawl up my spine, but I couldn’t wait to talk to Reiss.
The lush green grass was a little cold against my bare feet. Reiss’s body was just as cold, with no body heat.
But I already know the heat you had been hiding from me.
Reiss. Hey, Reiss
I want to call your name over and over again now.
The truth was, Reiss had been calling me —-
“…….”
“—- Reiss?”
For a moment, I became nervous and was flustered.
Not long after, Reiss loosely pushed up his eyelids and caught me with his bloody-red eyes.