Chapter 203

but……

"Well, you will...leave Tsemaat Town tomorrow, right?"

"I've said it many times."

"Well..."

Lucifer sighed and put on a smile with great effort.

However, parting with the "adventurer" is not something she often experiences.

After a few breaths, she felt that her heart, which she had held for only two hours, was beating a little slower.

Although they were adventurers who were led here by no one, the two of them brought her different experiences.

"Will is going to the capital to meet your princess. And Shona..."

"I am from Qiming Star. I can go wherever he tells me to go."

"Shuna..."

"Well, since you are going to the capital, let me give you one last reminder..."

Lucifer approached Will, covered one side with her hand, and whispered in Will's ear:

"There is a very bad aura of the oldest demon on your body. It seems that someone from Castlevania Zero left some traces on you."

"!?"

"As the 'Tenth Castlevania', I no longer know where the 'Zero Castlevania' is now. In theory, it should have been eliminated, but the traces of the marks seem to be like this. When you arrive in the capital, you must be careful. "

"Um."

Will nodded.

"Then, in human terms, I wish you a safe journey. If you miss me at any time, you can come to the 'Tenth Castlevania' to find me - if this place still exists by then."

"No problem! See you next time!"

Shona waved her hand.

Lucifer watched them disappear into the night streets.

but……

This "separation" seemed to be a happy thing for her.

As the "Queen" of the dungeon, forming friendships with adventurers is rare but interesting.

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"Castlevania Zero sounds like a very cool 'starting' name."

Will tied together the rag of Lucifer's curse and the piece of iron. He looked at the piece in the moonlight that would become a gift for Treya.

Because Treya did not explain the relationship between Entak's swordsmanship and demons very late in the original work, and did not describe the existence of the "Devil's Pot" in detail, all the things linked to the concept of "Demon" were almost invisible to Will. It's all new information.

He should have thought that since there is a tenth Castlevania, there should be a Zero Castlevania! After all, programmers always start counting from zero!

"Phew - I'm back from taking a shower. Go to bed early today. Aren't you going to take a shower?"

Shona didn't know how she found the shower facilities in the Adventurers Association. According to her, this was built because there was a swamp dungeon in the history of Zermat Town, and everyone had to come back to take a shower after entering.

"Yeah. Speaking of which, Shona, when you saw the 'most feared thing' in the dungeon, did you also see something?"

"Did you see it?"

"After all, you who are usually very, very energetic feel extremely mentally exhausted in an instant. Hmm... You wouldn't be like this normally, would you?"

"..."

"So what is it? Something that can scare even you, Xiuna..."

Will wanted to know, because it would help him understand the "protagonist" better.

"It's something I'm not afraid of."

"What is that?"

"Well..."

With a smirk on her face, she moved closer to Will in an instant, not covering up her body under the towel at all.

"For a person like me, what do you think I would be afraid of?"

Will felt that Shona, who usually answered frankly about everything, must be perfunctory with him, but...

"Okay, have a good sleep~"

——She seems to want to prevaricate this matter to the end.

"Okay, good night."

…

Seeing that Will was indeed lying down, Shona sat under the moonlight and looked at the palm of her right hand, which was particularly white in the moonlight.

She lied, a rare lie, but regarding her life experience, she never really described her earliest "life experience" in her memory.

She looked at her palms in the moonlight. Perhaps the moonlight was too cold, making her palms pale.

I don't know why, even if she stacked all the mental resistance magic, she couldn't block Lucifer's move.

Sure enough, in front of the spiritual empress' full strength, she was still relatively weak.

She has long known what her "fear" is, because it has always been her nightmare. Even now, when she looks at her palm like this and is distracted, she will fall into that nightmare.

The most "fearful" thing is...

One's own "birth".

That was her earliest memory. Unlike most "human beings" born naturally, her earliest memory was very clear because she had a basically fully developed brain at that time.

The moment I opened it, there was no memory in my brain, just like a blank piece of paper.

but……

She saw it...

Holding the knife in his palm, both hands were filled with blood, dripping down along the ends of his palms.

Right in front of me——

Lying on the ground of the last level of the deserted dungeon was the blood of the "Emperor" of the dungeon.

She kept on swinging her blade at the emperor's "flesh" without restraint until more blood...

flowed over her toes.

Chapter 233 "Am I the biggest obstacle in 'fate'?"

Zermat Town.

Will greeted the first ray of sunshine.

Carefully lifted the old blanket with a smell of dust on his body, and tried to get up from the sofa without making any sound.

He took a sneak peek and saw that Shuuna was covered with a blanket, and seemed to be sleeping soundly with her back to him.

Great!

He had discovered before that Shuuna was "vague" about her next destination, and felt that she was determined to follow him.

Of course, she was very strong. Although taking her to the palace would inevitably make Treya jealous, if there was really a crisis, he could indeed hold her thigh!

"Alas..."

But all this was based on the fact that "Shuuna was a character that did not exist in the book."

Now, there is no doubt...

She is "Xiu", and he...maybe because he wrote a letter to her and established a wonderful "friendship", now he has a 99% chance of standing in the "gay friend position".

No wonder the favorability is flowing to his side, this protagonist is not on the right path at all, and he didn't even meet those three people!

So...

Traveling with Shuna, the risk becomes much greater.

The "gay friend" in the original work died in the dungeon exploration with her.

He doesn't want it, there are more and more uncontrollable flags!

However, along the way, including the years of correspondence with "Mr. S", he really regarded Shuna as a "special person".

So, he wanted to sneak away while Shuna was sleeping.

Because he didn't want to say no to Shuna again after he had driven her away once and met her again.

That would be too cruel.

But, what was even more cruel to him was…

Xuna was really the protagonist whom he had deliberately intended to defeat with Plan B, the “blackened loser”—no wonder this was his second level of fear.

He left a letter, a letter to “Mr. S”, and put it under her luggage when she went to take a shower yesterday.

In that letter, he still signed the anonymous “W” and still called him the anonymous “S”.

As long as he stopped here and went back to the beginning, he felt that he could deceive himself very smoothly!

Deceiving himself that the “protagonist” disappeared, from now on, the focus of the story was him, and he would no longer be firmly held by the protagonist.

After all, he really had to face the people whose favor he had filled up—just like facing Leah.

In this way, he could deceive himself…

Those who had a good impression of him were…

The heroines who did not belong to the story, did not belong to “fate”, and did not belong to Xiu, as written on the last page of the rewards of the “Task System”.

In this way, he had the motivation to respond to them.

Will looked back at Shuna's back for the last time.

"Goodbye, I'm going to finish my own story later."

He said softly.

"... You are not the protagonist, I can treat you as non-existent..."

However, when he turned around after saying this.

His brain seemed to suddenly flood with some memories with a sense of "déjà vu" -- Are you looking forward to a heroine...

-- She is a powerful and mysterious heroine.

-- She is a heroine born for you!

...

Strange.

Will stopped.

He felt that in his huge mixed memory of two lives, for the first time, there appeared a memory that he "remembered" but couldn't remember where he saw it.

And it was a very clear memory, such a clear memory should not appear "for the first time".

"Who do you say does not exist?"

Then...

The moment Will turned around, he seemed to see a "horror story".

Shuna's fingers were holding the letter he gave her, leaning against the door frame.

"Ah?!"

Will turned his head, and at this moment, the pillow, which seemed to have finally collapsed, slid down from the sofa in a mess.

"I usually get up early - you and I have lived in the same room for so many days, when have you ever gotten up earlier than me? You are so confident."

Xuna seemed to be right.