My Wife Is the Devil

2 – Cecil Lionelta

They always tell the truth.

That is why the foolish lambs fall prey to their temptation and become corrupted.

Servants of the Lord who believe in God.

Please do not listen to what they say.

Those who listen to the devil’s words will always face destruction.

-Excerpt from Chapter 3 of Telmere’s Word-

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Cecil Lionelta.

A lovely woman who was born and raised in the central church of Darkana, the capital of Lyriam.

Waving long, light brown hair reminiscent of a rich wheat field,

When you look at her with her big eyes and sharp nose, you feel her world to the fullest.

Everyone will feel the same way as a parent looking at their child.

At first, Julius was not much different from other people.

But as her lovely courtship continued, he gradually began to feel her love for her.

On that day eight years ago, he disobeyed the word of the Lord and ended up committing an accident.

I couldn’t receive everyone’s blessing, but

We had a small wedding.

Inherited bright eyes similar to Cecil and the gorgeous blonde hair of Julius.

I also have a lovely daughter.

Was it too much happiness?

The Lord gave Julius such a great ordeal.

On that day five years ago, Julius’ world shattered.

The nightmare of that day settled on his heart like a curse.

He eventually couldn’t bear it anymore and ran away. Profanely

I consider it to be the will of the Lord.

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“Haa… Haa… It’s fall and it’s already this cold. “I really thought I was going to freeze to death.”

I saw her come into the house on her own and joke around.

Julius felt his mind turning blank.

She left his side on a day she certainly did not want to remember.

Now, what kind of harmony is this?

Could it be that the Lord took pity on her and caused her to perform a miracle?

Julius, who had been holding out hope in vain, finally looked straight into her face.

He realized his own foolishness.

Bright and neat.

The light that illuminated Cecil’s soul did not fade despite the world’s storms.

Blue eyes.

Look at the eyes of the woman in front of me now.

She has the same blue eyes as Cecile, but her clear energy is nowhere to be felt.

Feeling the sticky, yet glued gaze on me.

Julius eventually suppressed his anger and opened his mouth.

“…What kind of ridiculous thing is this? You damn devil.”

Just looking at his tightly clenched fist makes me feel pious.

A pure energy blooms.

The devil glances at the sight and opens his mouth.

“Why is there any need to be so serious, Julius? Don’t be like that, just enjoy this moment.

Look, this is the living wife you never dreamed of.”

I looked at the devil as if it were disgusting, covering his mouth and smiling.

Julius was so angry that he tried to use divine power, but he had no choice but to stop due to the devil’s next words.

“Is it true? ‘The devil does not lie.’ Isn’t that a saying that also appears in your favorite Bible?

This body is really your wife, let’s touch her hands once. Can’t you feel her?”

At the devil’s words, the energy that had been blooming in his grasp suddenly dissipated without a trace.

The devil gently grabbed Julius’ hand and placed Julius’ hand on his cheek.

“Close your eyes and feel this warmth, this scent, the body of your beloved Cecil.”

I no longer listened to the devil’s words that I would not feel comfortable even if I tore him to death.

He felt the woman he had missed so much from her warmth coming from her hands.

My faith is shaken.

My Lord, who always gave only trials.

Please inflict pain on me so that I do not swallow this sweet poisonous vessel placed in front of me.

Blood flows from the lower lip, which is bitten hard.

Julius, who came to her senses, roughly shook off her demon’s hand and glared at her and spoke.

“…Her resting place must be strictly managed by the Church of Telmere, so why did you dare to turn over her body when you could not even throw it away?”

“Ah.. Ah.. Poor child, humans are originally an untrustworthy race. I trusted them too much. “It’s cute, hehehehe.”

“What on earth do you mean!”

The devil, seeing his face slowly turning red, whispers.

“I was asked a favor. “From someone in the church, someone who really hates you.”

I feel a chill slowly spreading through my heart.

A poisonous snake flicks its tongue at the Lord’s servant who is confused.

“Let’s make a bet with me, child of Rom. Don’t you want her precious body back?”

“…What do you want?”

“It’s simple. “It is the devil’s traditional method that has been passed down since the light of creation illuminated this earth.”

“… ….”

It eventually came out from the devil’s appetizing lips, which was stroking Julius’s cheek as if it were an appetizing fruit.

“It’s a very simple game: I seduce and you resist. If you last a year, I’ll count it as your victory, hehehehe.”

Those who commit heresy usually say, I thought I could win.

The lambs escape from the embrace of the Lord and throw themselves into the serpent’s mouth, saying they will be different.

Julius, who killed numerous heretics and demons, also threw himself.

Even though he knew that he would also collapse.

***

A small room at the end of the first floor hallway.

In a room with a broken window that I used to sneak into Grandpa Mila’s house with my neighborhood friends as a child, a tall man with loose blond hair looked at the light coming through the cracks in the wooden-paneled windows. I was lost in thought.

This heretical act that happened last night will never be forgiven by the Lord.

He accepted the devil’s wager and saw the pure divine power still blooming from his hands.

I tried to guess the will of the Lord.

Heresy inquisitors who purify heresy and demons in the name of the Lord.

They burn evil with the holy flame they received from God Rom in their hearts.

If you are a heretic inquisitor, even if your family is possessed by the devil, you must show the majesty of God by burning the body without hesitation.

Worse yet, failing to burn the body of a woman who has already died is like inviting her into heresy.

How would the people of the cult that call themselves the Terror of Lyriam react if they found out about this?

He slowly stood up with a dry smile on his lips.

I can hear some commotion outside from earlier.

Except for Julius, the only thing left in this house is this damn devil b*tch.

Are they preparing an evil spell in the morning?

I greeted Julius, who opened the door with the hope that Cecil would not do something like that.

It was a sight filled with pure white foam.

In the middle of the living room, a devil with his sleeves rolled up and soot on his cheek was diligently mopping.

“…What are you doing now?”

Julius, who saw a scene so absurd that he even forgot his anger towards the devil for a moment, spoke to the devil as if he were dumbfounded.

“hehehehe, can’t you tell when you look? “I’m seducing you right now.”

The devil looked back at Julius’ words, straightened his back, placed his hands on his waist, and opened his mouth with a triumphant expression.

“I’ve never heard of a devil courting with foam and rags.”

“…? Of course, in all my years, I have never heard of a group of people in the world who use rags and lather their way into courtship. You are such a fool, child.”

Julius fell into even more confusion when he saw the devil smiling leisurely as if he was treating him like a fool.

“Then why on earth did you make such a fuss this morning?”

“Don’t human men feel love from their wives who diligently do housework in the morning? In order to tempt you, I decided to become the so-called wise mother and good wife. Do you like them?”

Julius silently lifted his head and looked up at the ceiling.

The large bubble cannot withstand its weight and falls onto his cheek.

Julius wiped the foam off his cheek.

I slowly spoke to the devil who had an innocent face.

“Cecil…”

” Why? When you look at me, do you think of your wife? “Don’t hesitate and enjoy that feeling to your heart’s content. If anything, you can hold it in your arms.”

“Cecil was not the kind of woman who would get this crazy in the morning.”

After hearing those words, Julius went outside, leaving behind the stiffened devil with his arms spread out.

-Squeak.. Bang!

The door closes roughly and there is only silence in the house.

As the bubbles from the ceiling fall on the devil’s head, the devil slowly blinks his eyes a couple of times and opens his mouth.

“…? “What on earth don’t you like?”

The devil, who had been struggling with his stiff posture earlier, soon returned with a confident look on his face and shouted, lifting his mop upwards.

“Yes! Since it was morning, of course they should have prepared breakfast, but I missed it! hehehehe, I realized why I didn’t like it. “Now you won’t make any more mistakes.”

In the middle of a dark, chaotic house, there was a devil wandering around.

A long time ago, it was called the Emperor’s Nightmare and spread misfortune.

She is one of the 24 demons abandoned by God Rom…

She was a beginner who had never seduced a man before.

***

Julius left the house in shambles and walked down the path.

I could no longer bear to see the abominable devil acting like a fool, so I impulsively left.

Is it because she is taking on her own body? The way she speaks, her personality, her mood, and what she does are different, but when I see the devil, I feel as if Cecil has come back to life.

She suppresses the temptation that secretly invades her mind. She must prevent her body from falling into the hands of evil demons. Even if she commits heresy and falls into hell.

To strengthen his resolve, Julius headed to the church, but he was caught by the villagers he met along the way and had to mechanically say hello until lunch was almost over.

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“…Then Rom, the God-giver, cast out the devils into darkness and gave his grace to the sun so that they could not bask in the sun for the rest of their lives.”

When we arrived at the church around lunchtime, the doors were wide open.

As I carefully silenced my footsteps and entered, I saw children huddled together and Priest Emily writing a passage from the Bible on the blackboard in front of them and passionately preaching the word of the Lord.

“… All of the heresy inquisitors have a holy flame in their hearts and execute demons according to the will of the Lord. Come on! Let’s stop here today, so don’t be distracted and go straight home and have lunch. Got it?”

“””Yes!”””

The children sitting in front of the blackboard responded loudly to the sound of class ending, which they heard while they were busy, and then quickly passed Julius and ran out of the church.

When Julius saw that scene, he remembered his childhood and smiled slightly.

Emily, who had already come in front of him, looked at him and spoke happily.

“Aren’t you just like you used to be? “When I hear the sound of lunch, I start drooling and rush out. It’s just like seeing you and Cryle.”

Julius, who heard that voice, smiled bitterly and answered.

“I was more quiet. “The fuss was the Cryll guy’s fault.”

Priest Emily, who heard that sound, opened her eyes and looked up at him.

“You’re not saying this seriously, are you?”

“…I am always sincere.”

“… ….”

After that, I was sweating trying to stop Priest Emily, who was crying and trying to drag her to Priest Brukin, saying she thought something was wrong with her brain.

Is this a punishment for getting involved with the devil and going against the will of the Lord?

It was a very tiring day.

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In the end, after she forced herself to raise the corners of her mouth and make a quivering funny expression, Priest Emily felt relieved and went to work.

After looking at the priest’s retreating back for a moment, Julius returned with an expressionless face and knelt in front of the large statue of the main god Rom placed in the church.

Then, with his head bowed respectfully and his hands clasped in front of his chest, he confessed his sins to his Lord.

‘Lord, yesterday I committed an irreparable sin that I should not have committed as a heretic inquisitor.

The punishment for my sins will be death.

But please, if you have pity on my wife Cecile, please let me suffer so that I will not succumb to false temptations, at least until the day when her body is returned to me in its entirety.

Please allow me to postpone my punishment even for a moment.’

Since he had already accepted the bet with the devil, he had crossed a river that he could not return from.

But he prayed and prayed earnestly that he could get back the body that Cecil had left behind.

The flame in my heart still burned brightly.

***

After finishing his prayer to God, he opened his eyes and saw a black-haired girl next to Julius looking at him.

“What are you doing next to me earlier, Thalia?”

In response to his question, Thalia twisted her silky hair and hesitantly opened her mouth.

“Well… I was going to invite you to have lunch with me, but come… No, you were praying, so I waited next to you.”

If she had any business to do, she could have just called, but Julius, who looked at her strangely timid appearance since childhood, looked at her for a moment and shook his head.

“If you have any business from now on, just call me, Thalia. “Even though we haven’t seen each other for a long time, aren’t we family?”

“Ah… Yes! “Senior, would you like to have lunch together?”

Thalia, who was staring at Julius’ face blankly, blushed her cheeks and answered in a panic.

“What about Priest Brukin and Priest Emily?”

“They said they don’t eat because they have a lot of work to do. “I hear news that something is going wrong at the Central Church, but they don’t tell me anything about their internal affairs…”

Is this about the disappearance of Cecil’s body? Julius decided to look into this matter later and got up and started walking towards the outside of the church.

“It’s late, but let’s have lunch together, Thalia.”

“Ah.. Yes! Let’s go together hehehehe..”

Thalia clung to Julius’s back like a puppy and followed him, letting out a strange laugh.

A man with a blunt expression and a woman like a puppy clinging to him behind him.

The villagers who saw them passing through the streets couldn’t help but smile happily.

Ten years ago, the alley leader walked around here and there holding the hand of a little girl, although his personality, age, and position may have been different.

In their eyes, those two will still be mischievous here in Kente Village.

***

-Just right

The beautiful brown-haired woman gracefully snaps her fingers once and her bubbles disappear without a trace.

Soon, the black threads creeping up from under my feet ate away the soot clinging to my body,

Pure white skin begins to show off its glow again.

No matter how long I wait, the foolish servant of God shows no signs of returning.

Where is he wandering around like that, abandoning his lovely wife?

The devil smiled slightly and slowly opened the door to the mansion.

Before her was a path with the sun shining down on it.

Looking at the poor fallen leaves barely hanging on the branches, humming her tune and taking each step with her steps, the devil joyfully set out in search of her husband.