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"Phew..."
Raon let out a sigh of relief and clutched his trembling shoulders.
'The bet paid off.'
He had quickly devised and executed a plan to escape Greed, and it seemed to have succeeded. No, not only Lust, but seeing that Gluttony had also come, it was a sufficient gain to set up a new game.
-A bet?
Wrath frowned, unable to understand.
-What bet did you make?
'After Greed appeared, I spread the demon kings' powers that were scattered in the atmosphere outwards.'
This dimension was now no different from the Devildom, so the demon kings' powers he had wielded were scattered like lingering thoughts. Using Garunua's wind, he sent those powers outside to call the demon kings who could help him, and fortunately, that bet had worked.
-So you stirred the wind with your already exhausted strength.
Wrath sighed, finally understanding why Garunua had been used.
-To think you had such thoughts with Greed right in front of you, you really are...
He frowned, saying that even calling it crazy guts wasn't enough to describe it.
[As expected of my master...]
-Shut up!
Wrath slapped Zircon on the head. By now, he was starting to feel sorry for that demon.
'However, there was something even I didn't predict.'
Raon shook his head as he looked at Lust's pink eyes.
-Something you didn't expect?
'I didn't know Lust would be in the Devildom.'
He had forcefully sent Lust's power, hoping she would come, but she had emerged from the Devildom Pathway just like Greed. He couldn't understand why Lust, who had been traveling with Merlin, had come from the Devildom.
"I didn't expect you to call me first when I've been looking for you for so long."
Lust waved her hand with a bright smile, as if she was genuinely happy.
'Have you been looking for me for so long?'
Raon blinked as he looked at Lust.
'Why were you in the Devildom if you were looking for me?'
-Don't bother trying to understand that stalker. As this king said, she's the worst when it comes to directions.
Wrath shook his head, saying he might descend from the heavenly realm the next time they met.
"Do you have bead ice cream...?"
Gluttony licked her lips for a while, as if she were hungry.
"Of course, I do."
Raon pulled out a box of bead ice cream from his subdimensional space bag that he had prepared as a snack for Wrath.
"Oh..."
Gluttony took the box with a pleased look and immediately started eating the ice cream. She seemed completely uninterested in the current situation, as if her nerves were deadened.
-Aaaaargh! That's this king's!
Wrath grabbed his own neck and shook it, asking what he was doing.
'It's fine to give her this.'
Raon shook his head as he brushed Wrath's hand away.
'I didn't expect Gluttony to come too.'
In fact, the only one he had wanted to call was Lust. He thought that if she came alone, he could escape this crisis, but with Gluttony also coming, he could take a step further. Even if she came just because she needed money to buy ice cream, he was glad.
Lust and Gluttony. If these two demon kings were on his side, he could not only drive Greed away but also create an opportunity to receive their authority.
"I wondered when I saw the wind scattering, but..."
Greed licked his lips for a while as he looked at Raon standing between Gluttony and Lust.
"Did you plan this outcome? I like you even more."
His golden eyes gleamed as if he were even more greedy now. It seemed that the flames of greed were burning in his eyeballs.
"Leave."
Lust frowned, placing her hand on her sword as if telling him to retreat immediately.
"A little disappointing..."
Gluttony tossed the empty ice cream box into the air and stood in front of Raon. It seemed she was going to protect him from Greed.
"You didn't seem like the type who plays with women."
Greed hummed, as if trying to provoke Lust.
"How did you conquer that obsessive woman?"
He sneered, pointing at Lust with his long finger.
"What Lust shows me isn't obsession..."
Raon shook his chin as he looked at Lust, who had purity within her sensuality.
"It's affection."
"Wrath... Wrath!"
As soon as Lust heard the word 'affection,' she emitted a terrifyingly intense pink current. If he hadn't had Lust's authority, he might have been absorbed and suffocated by that power.
-You, crazy bastard!
Wrath slapped the back of his head as if asking what he was doing.
-What are you saying things like affection! Did you really get hit in the head with a sword!
'I'll leave the consequences to you.'
Raon shrugged towards Wrath as if asking him to take care of that.
-You, you will receive divine punishment! Neither God nor Demon God should let this happen!
Wrath shook his head vigorously, insisting that neither angels nor demons would do such a thing.
"Lust. You're having a big misunderstanding. That's not Wrath, but..."
Greed opened his mouth to calm Lust down, seemingly surprised by her reaction.
"Shut that stinking mouth."
Lust twisted her lips and unsheathed her sword, as if she wasn't going to be fooled by Greed.
"I may be called a womanizer, but I'm not as bad as you. You're terrible."
Greed shook his head as if he couldn't believe it. Realizing that words wouldn't work with Lust, he turned to look at Gluttony.
"Gluttony. Didn't you say you didn't have any money?"
Greed gestured to Gluttony, who was licking the ice cream off her fingers.
"Seeing how you like ice cream, it seems you've fallen in love with human world food. Then I'll give you money."
White gold coins fell like a waterfall onto his palm.
"You'll be able to enjoy yourself even with your appetite. No, I can even turn humans into slaves and build a country for you."
'......'
Raon frowned as he watched Greed tempt Gluttony.
'Did he realize Gluttony's relationship with me in this short time?'
Since he arrived here, all Gluttony had said was that she didn't have money, ice cream, and that she was hungry. To see through Gluttony's relationship with him with just those three sentences, Greed was indeed different from other demon kings.
"Gluttony. Don't listen to..."
"Your money smells unpleasant."
Before he could speak to prevent Greed from taking Gluttony away, she shook her head.
"Unpleasant smell?"
Greed's eyes widened as if they were surprised by Gluttony's words.
"Yes. I'll get money from Wrath..."
Gluttony showed a determined look in her eyes, as if to say she didn't need Greed's money.
'Eh?'
Raon let out a sigh as he looked at Gluttony, who had made a firm decision.
'Could it be that Gluttony...'
Did she come to save me, not because she was short of money? In fact, it hadn't been long since he had given Gluttony gold coins. Seeing that she came here even though it wasn't time to look for him yet, it seemed that she really came for him, not for money.
"...It seems you're only interested in eating and don't know much."
Greed smiled disdainfully as he spun a gold coin with his finger.
"There's no such thing as bad money in this world. The nature of money changes according to its owner."
He sent the gold coin he had taken out back to the darkness and looked up.
"Two monarchs..."
Greed licked his lips as he examined Lust and Gluttony in turn.
"It would be worth fighting, but the problem is not knowing when Wrath might appear. I have no choice..."
He slightly twisted his ankle as if he had no choice but to retreat.
'Zircon.'
Raon quickly called out to Zircon upon seeing this.
[Why, why are you calling me?]
Zircon, who had been cowering in fear of Wrath, slowly raised his head.
'Can you recover my body and mental strength even a little?'
[Hmm, it's difficult with just my power now, but there is a way.]
Zircon nodded, saying it wasn't easy, but there was a method.
'Then that should be alright.'
Raon nodded and took a step back. He looked back as he showed a very faint emotion of relief.
-Foolish!
Wrath shook his head as if he couldn't believe it.
-If you put on such a scared expression, won't he realize that you can't call this king!
He shouted as if asking what he was doing.
"So, it was like that after all."
A golden light bloomed over Greed's eyes as he looked at Raon.
"Wrath can't come out right now!"
He extended his long hand, revealing a desire that would never be filled.
"Kuhehe."
Although Lust and Gluttony blocked that hand, Greed had already made a decision, fixing his gaze on Raon with a chilling smile.
-Look! Foolish!
Wrath clicked his tongue as if it were pathetic.
-That bastard may not be able to defeat Lust and Gluttony, but he can pierce through them momentarily and reach you!
He waved his hand, saying that he might even be dragged to the Devildom.
'I did that on purpose.'
Raon shook his head calmly as he watched Greed gradually accumulating his greed.
-What?
'With two demon kings on my side, it would be too wasteful to let him go like this.'
If only Lust had come, he would have been satisfied with making Greed retreat, but now Gluttony and Lust were both in front of him. With those two, he could fight a favorable battle eight or nine times out of ten, so letting him go like this would be a loss.
'Now I can read Greed's psychology.'
If he had shown a confident appearance or provoked him at this moment, Greed would have quickly retreated, considering the possibility that Wrath might come out. But when he showed a scared appearance, Greed began to reveal his greed and look for an opportunity to grab him.
As Wrath said, he was a demon. And not just any demon, but the monarch of greed. It was clear that he was truly aiming for him, not just for money, but for everything.
"Two demon kings deserve that treatment, I suppose."
Greed licked his lips greedily and raised his finger.
"To put it simply, 100 million gold."
As his lips curved, a golden light poured out before his eyes.
* * *
"I knew you would come out like this."
Lust gritted her teeth and stepped forward. A pink flame flickered along the path her sword had taken, creating a massive wall.
“I'll be even hungrier now….”
Gluttony let out a short sigh and clasped her hands. A snow-white light emerged, suppressing the golden light that was trying to cross the pink flames.
The shockwave of the collision of the three demon kings' energies shook the entire dimension. The sky tore apart and a black lightning bolt fell, while the ground collapsed, swallowing up the piled-up corpses on the ground.
'Zircon.'
Raon retreated far back and called out to Zircon.
'You said before that you could recover my condition a little, right? How do we do it?'
[......]
Zircon looked at him for a moment before nodding.
[Eat the birthstone of Peridot that you obtained before.]
'Eat the birthstone?'
[Right now, Peridot's power is sleeping inside the birthstone. If you eat it, it will confront my power and recover your physical strength and mental power a little.]
He raised a finger, saying that was the only way.
'It's pretty big...'
Raon frowned as he looked at the Peridot. It's not that he didn't trust Zircon, but the gem seemed too big to swallow.
[Don't worry. It will melt naturally once you put it in your mouth.]
'Hmm, then...'
Raon looked at Zircon once before putting the Peridot in his mouth. As Zircon said, as soon as it touched his tongue, the gem melted like ice cream.
'Ugh...'
His eyes involuntarily closed and his back bent from the pain that felt like his heart was about to burst. However, the pain didn't last long. When he opened his eyes again, vitality had returned to his body, which had been so weak that he could barely move his fingers, and his throbbing mind had calmed down as if it had been sprayed with cold water.
It wasn't his full strength, but a state not too different from normal. To recover to this state with just a little pain, the power of the birthstone was amazing.
[As I said, it's a phenomenon caused by the collision of my power and Peridot's power. You'll be able to fight for a while. And...]
Zircon shook his head with a somewhat bitter look in his eyes.
[This is our farewell.]
'What?'
Raon opened his eyes wide as he looked at Zircon. It wasn't a lie that he said goodbye, as his spirit body began to blur.
[I've exhausted all my power, and Peridot has too. In this state, if the foundations of two birthstones collide, we ourselves will disappear and only power will remain.]
Zircon touched Raon's forehead with his finger.
[Of course, you won't be able to possess all our power from the beginning. It will very slowly become your power, like a tree taking root.]
'No, it's not about the power, but are you okay with disappearing?'
[Don't worry. If you die, we'll scatter again as two birthstones. And...]
Zircon slowly turned to look at Wrath. The melancholy in his eyes suddenly turned to anger.
[It's better to just disappear than to live with that bad-tempered demon bastard!]
-B-bad-tempered?
Wrath opened his eyes wide as if he couldn't believe it.
-That's how you reward me after I took care of you!
[Try to kill me! I'm going to disappear anyway! Muscle-head with only strength!]
-Are you crazy?
He swung his fist, but Zircon's spirit body had already scattered, so he didn't hit him.
[May you eat curses for life from your master!]
Zircon stuck out his tongue and scattered into a black mist.
-Aaaaargh!
Wrath swung his fist in frustration, but Zircon had already disappeared, so he was just punching the air.
'Tsk tsk, how badly you must have harassed him...'
Raon shook his head as he looked at Wrath.
-What do you mean harassed! This king was just showing affection...
'Stalkers always express it like that. Would he have run away if you hadn't harassed him?'
-Grrrr...
Wrath bit his lip, frustrated but unable to say anything.
'Anyway. Transfer your wrath and soul to me for a moment.'
-Eh? What kind of madness is that!
He opened his eyes wide as if he had heard something he shouldn't have heard.
'I need to pretend to be you from now on. So transfer your soul and wrath.'
-You, crazy lunatic! Why would this king transfer his wrath! This king absolutely won't do anything good for you!
Wrath swung his fist, telling him to stop talking nonsense.
'It seems you've already forgotten. Didn't you say you would do anything if Zircon didn't stay with me for your Wrath?'
-Eh...?
He trembled his jaw like a newly caught fish, as if he was only now remembering that promise.
'Now is...'
Raon grabbed Wrath's head and cracked a cold smile.
'The time to fulfill that promise.'
-Uugh...
Fear and shock took over the eyes of the Demon King of Wrath.
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