The Devil Who Grants Wishes

What else is this child…!

I thought it was all over now, but the crazy bastard summons the devil to live?!

‘It was an attack of conversion.’

There are many ways to deal with demons, but the most important thing is that they are all the same.

That you should never give the devil a priority.

This is because demons use completely different magic from the ground up and completely deviate from the laws of the world even from the magic they possess, so it is very difficult to know the omens if the devil uses magic.

If you give it an advance attack, defeat can be decided in an instant.

Above all, all demons have twisted personalities with different standards of morality and feed on evil emotions. If you stay still, you’ll be better off dead because of poor quality work.

That is why, if you encounter a demon, it is normal to hit the strongest attack with a question-and-answer dance and defeat it.

But… it failed.

It’s literally a complete failure.

[Teeing-!!]

‘Ttt…’

It was an attack with all my might, but it was blocked in vain.

No, is this supposed to be blocked?

Unless I’m mistaken, that demon didn’t really do anything. I mean, he just stood still and was hit by my attack.

Does that mean that my arrows aren’t even worth defending…!!

bruh

‘Ugh…!’

It’s a new thing now, but… This demon is strong.

Even just looking at me, my heart is pounding and my legs are shaking. My body cries out against my will to run away.

Until just a moment ago, only anger filled his head, but not anymore. As anger disappears, fear fills the empty space of emotion.

…things got messed up at the end.

Matthias, you freed the devil to live… you bastard going to hell.

“What are you doing!! Hurry and kill that bitch!!”

“…?”

But something is strange.

That devil, he’s just standing there doing nothing.

Matthias Judging from the young man’s expression, this was clearly not agreed upon in advance.

Of course, the devil never listens to people’s orders, but even so, once the contract is in place, he pretends to listen.

I hope you don’t have a contract… that’s not it. Seeing that he was already bleeding profusely, I’m sure he signed a contract.

But why is it not moving? Maybe he’s already working on something…

“Do you dare give orders to me?”

“town…!”

As soon as the devil opens his mouth, the atmosphere in the room changes in an instant.

Up until now, if you just kept your mouth shut and gave people a sense of intimidation, this time it was as if the intimidation was transformed into a sword and hammer and attacked the surroundings without mercy.

The edge of the field of vision turns black in an instant, and at the same time, the fine hairs on the whole body tremble and goosebumps rise.

…not.

This demon wasn’t doing any tricks. They just don’t like to listen to other people’s orders.

If it’s a contract, why is the devil obeying it like an absolute immutable law?

no way…?

“…the devil, did you make a contract with Matthias?”

“contract?”

‘I…’

Common sense is that you shouldn’t have conversations with the devil. Most demons can use word magic, so mixing words is no different from committing suicide.

But why the hell am I…

I talked to him as if it was natural.

Have you already been possessed by the devil?

The devil can’t answer normally, so why would he do that?

“No, I didn’t.”

“Hurry up—what…?”

“…”

But the devil is surprisingly docile to answer my questions.

Even if it were a normal demon, he would have made fun of me with all his sarcastic sarcasm.

“What are you talking about! I, didn’t I summon you and sign a contract!”

“It was accurate until summoned, but I didn’t sign a contract.”

I wondered if it was a lie, but from the reaction of Matthias, it seems that he really didn’t sign a contract.

I’ve been summoned, but I haven’t signed a contract yet.

Okay, so there’s still a good chance it’ll work out-

“What is that… Queek, then let’s make a contract now! I’ll give you my soul, so be my strength!”

‘this…!’

Matthias, who is shivering like a villain with blood on his hands, says so, and then swings his hand with a hole in his hand and sprinkles blood on the devil.

…Damn it, it was so fast I couldn’t react properly.

I should have shot the first shot at Matthias, not the devil…!

The possibility of a good solution is now completely gone.

“Come on, write the enemy… I, the bitch…”

“…?”

But why is that bastard like that?

Matthias’s face, who had been relieved thinking that it was over until just now, turned black in an instant.

It was not a simple metaphor, but literally, as if pretending badly or had food stuck in his throat, his complexion changed suddenly.

Not only that. Contrary to the dark complexion, the white was dyed bright red.

…I hope this is-

“Uh, uh, come on…”

Whoops!!

“…”

After a moment’s eyes turned bright red, Matthias, who had been fine until just now, disappeared out of nowhere.

…No, technically speaking, Matthias has spread all over the room, so it doesn’t matter.

‘It smells… oops.’

mana runaway.

A phenomenon in which a load is placed on the body due to reasons such as those who are not able to receive more mana than their body limit.

In general, accepting more mana than the limit doesn’t make it this far.

It’s just mana refluxing out of the body, a little bit of vomiting, or a nosebleed. Mana runaway caused by excessive mana can be fully cured if post-processing is done well.

But… this is completely different from such a trivial excess of mana.

To use an analogy, it can be said that the water of the lake is compressed and crushed into a small teacup.

Not even clean water, but water that rots and stinks.

“Hmm, weak.”

And the reason why Matthias became like this is, of course, the devil.

That demon… refused the contract with Matthias.

why?

The reason the devil responds to the call must be to eat the soul… If you kill Matthias before signing the contract, you won’t get a soul, right?

“…don’t you want the soul of Matthias?”

“Do you think I would want the soul of such a weak thing?”

Hey, be honest too.

It’s a very dignified and very blunt answer, but on the contrary, because of that, trust is piercing the sky.

Above all, from the appearance to the magical energy that vibrates the air and flows through it, it doesn’t make sense that the person who makes Arcdaemons into demons, not high-level demons, grants their wishes to obtain only one human soul.

It’s like the sound of a rich man picking up pieces of bread from the ground and eating it.

Then… Why did you answer Matthias’ call?

Unless it’s to extort souls through a contract… just to manifest in the real world…?

“…Go back, there is no place for a demon like you here.”

If that’s true, then a big deal isn’t usually a big deal.

Although the fact that the devil has already been summoned is different, it is very rare that the devil manifested for other purposes rather than for the purpose of making a contract with humans.

And all of them, with no exceptions, brought a terrible disaster to the world.

Damn, what should I do?

rumble

“-?!”

At that moment, the demon who had been standing still suddenly begins to move. With each step you take, the light shimmers and the air vibrates.

…are you coming to me?

Hurry up to respond

pass-

“What is this…”

The bow is rotten.

No metaphor, it was really physically rotten and rotten.

The bow, which lost its elasticity due to rot, could not withstand the tension of the bow string and was cut off at the waist and split in two.

“OMG…”

have to move You have to hurry back.

But… I can’t move.

His body, which had just been trembling and clamoring to run away at any moment, became as hard as ice and did not listen to his words.

With the exception of the slightly black edges, the view that had been kept clean was now very blurry because it was covered with tears.

“Hey, uh…”

squeaky-

No, no…

I don’t want to die like this-

“It’s ugly.”

But when the devil looked at me like that, he made a slight impression as if tired of it, then just ignored it and went out through the hole in the wall I had entered.

He didn’t die… didn’t he?

what…?

soo much

When the sense of coercion that had filled the room until just now disappeared, the legs, which had been completely frozen and immovable, completely lost their strength and collapsed as if they had ever been.

It must be painful because I hit my butt on the hard stone floor, but I can’t even feel it because it’s such a small thing compared to what just happened.

“ha ha ha…”

How much effort have you made so far, how many things have you been through… that you were afraid of the devil and didn’t even resist…

Was I so weak and so cowardly?

It’s like they’re calling me a weakling with tears running down my cheeks.

How many tears have you shed? Soaked all the way to the floor… Sheh… Huh?

“…”

These tears are strangely warm.

The color is not transparent.

[Chuha-kun.]

For a moment, the expression that the demon had just passed me by came to mind.

I, I, this, ugly…

Ah… uh…