The Devil Who Grants Wishes - Chapter 213



213 – Final Battle (8)

“Ugh…”

I feel very dizzy. The headache is so painful that it feels like I’ve hit my head with a hammer dozens of times.

If you shake your head even slightly or try to think, a headache will occur in response, preventing you from completing the action properly.

Where is this…?

Except for me, no, the place where we are, the world is literally covered with stone and glass. It’s like something you see in a dream… That’s right.

We were fighting against the God of Light.

“Ugh…”

“The head…”

“Ugh…”

“This doesn’t work…”

One by one, we are coming to our senses. Seeing him wake up with his eyes scrunched up and making a dying sound, he looks surprisingly ugly, but seeing him go through that process really gives me goosebumps.

I wish my dad wouldn’t have seen this scene… Ugh.

“Everyone… Ugh… Seems to have come to their senses.”

The pain as if my nerves were being pricked with needles hit me, to the point where I couldn’t speak properly. I can barely speak without holding my head in between.

The last thing I remember is… A huge explosion of light… Pfft.

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[Lucia!!]

The scene of my father quickly putting a protective shield on me flashes through his mind.

Definitely… With this destructive power, the shield that I, Celestine, and Irene created would not have been able to stand up to it. If it hadn’t been for the additional protective shield that Dad had deployed, we would probably have become the lumps of glass and stone commonly seen in the surrounding landscape.

Ugh… How strong do you have to be to be able to barely block the damage and still feel the impact like this?

It feels as if you are in a barrel made of iron and have been randomly hitting it with dozens of hammers. My ears are ringing, my head is dizzy, and my mind is blank.

‘First of all… First of all, I have to find my father… Where is my father… Ah!’

As I desperately tried to suppress my pounding head and looked around, I saw my father standing in the distance.

There is nothing else.

The spirit of light that we fought for just now is nowhere to be seen, and only my father is standing there.

Now that I think about it… Where did the spirit of light go?

The divine energy of light that had filled the surroundings until a moment ago has disappeared as if it had never existed from the beginning. This means that the overwhelming divine and divine power that made me frown has disappeared.

Even if you move from place to place for a while, it would be normal for there to be a certain amount of divine power, or something like that, but there is literally none.

What on earth is this?

Unlike the spirit of light, it does not emit divine power, so that is clearly my father…

Is it true that my father defeated the Spirit of Light by himself…?

Huh?

‘Are you really my father?’

A huge question passes through my head.

He definitely looks like his dad. It was to the extent that I, who had always looked only at my father, was immediately convinced that he was my father.

But… What is this feeling?

The more I look, the more it seems like he isn’t my father. Even though he looks exactly like my dad, it feels like I’m seeing something in my dad’s image.

“Ah, Master Faust!!”

“It’s here!!”

The children turn their heads to follow where my gaze goes and shout when they see their father, or rather, something in the shape of their father, at the end.

Everyone is dizzy and would probably get a headache if they screamed, but looking at them screaming like that, it looks like they really want to get their father’s attention.

And when I saw the back of something that was clearly listening to the children’s voices, I was only then able to be sure.

That’s not my dad.

If I were a father, I wouldn’t listen to my children’s voices and treat them so coldly.

Immediately turning my back towards the direction where the voice is coming from, I will force a smile that I cannot even smile to try to reassure them as much as possible.

No… You fools, no… No.

“Don’t go…”

“Yes?”

“…Raise your weapon.”

When I stumble and approach something that looks like my father, the children listen to me and tilt their heads.

A look full of questions turned towards me, as if the fight was over and why they had to take up arms.

…Pfft!

Gooooo

“This is…”

“Not only the body but also the equipment is recovering… No, time is rewinding.”

There is no time to explain. He quickly uses time reversal magic to make everyone’s wounds disappear.

If I use this method, all the experience points I had accumulated in my body and soul before rewinding time would disappear, so I tried not to use it unless it was an emergency as much as possible… But now that it is an emergency, there is nothing I can do.

Everyone must be kept in top condition.

“Lucia, what are you doing? If you do this, all the experience you gained from fighting the God of Light will be lost–“

“Raise your weapons.”

“–Yes.”

Iris, who had been asking me for an explanation with her neat posture as if all my headaches had disappeared due to my time reversal, soon closed her mouth tightly.

Iris just felt my serious expression and my words, nodded her head and raised her sword.

That sword… My father made it in Elias using fragments of angels as materials.

If it’s the fragments of angels… It can definitely cause great damage to the devil’s body. Just like it did to the God of Light a while ago.

Cheolkkeun-

It’s not just Iris.

Celestine, Len, Irene, everyone listens to me and raises their weapons and takes a fighting stance. In the meantime, Celestine is helping me recover from my injuries.

Everyone doesn’t understand why they have to take a fighting stance, but they still believe what I say.

…I have really good colleagues, no, friends.

“Faust’s adopted daughter.”

As we tensed and maintained our formation, something in the distance, in the shape of our father, who was just showing his back, opened his mouth and spoke.

That voice… Contains both my father’s voice and the voice of someone familiar to our ears.

And that someone is someone we have tried to write about many times.

“Noah…!?”

“Oh, no… Noah. How…”

The two elves, Lena and Irene, who have very bad feelings towards Noah due to Gaia’s incident, reflexively open their mouths and are shocked.

Of course, it’s not just those two.

Everyone, including me, Iris, and Celestine, is very confused and shocked.

I’m not sure what happened… But did Noah take over her body when his father was greatly weakened due to his fight with the Spirit of Light? Pfft…

“Let’s make a deal. Once everything is done, I will obediently return your adoptive father’s body.”

“…Give it back?”

“Yes, as can be seen from the cases of many gods, including Gaia, if I obediently abandon my body and leave, I will not cause any harm to the body or its original owner. But… No matter what I do, If you try to stay in the body, you, no, you have no choice but to kill Faust.”

What Noah is talking about is the annihilation of the creatures that his father so desperately wanted to prevent.

Even if we were to call it annihilation, it would only be 99%, not annihilation (沒殺) in the dictionary meaning, but that is still enough to call it annihilation.

I… To be honest, I don’t mind as long as my dad is there.

As long as I have a father, it doesn’t really matter if the world is destroyed.

But that’s probably not what Dad wants. Even if I were to save my dad by doing that, I can’t expect him to praise me.

No, I would rather scold him harshly.

“…Ugh.”

When I think about that, I am so scared of the option of making a deal with Noah that I find myself trying to say no without realizing it.

Looking around, it seems I am not the only one who has these thoughts.

…Yes, that’s right.

“Wrong.”

“What?”

“I am a wife, not a foster daughter, and a husband, not a foster father. I am mistaken, but please know that.”

“…”

Dad’s face becomes perplexed.

It seems as if he has accepted information that his head cannot process, and he is making a very mysterious… And cute expression.

How great it would have been if it had been my father who was in there, not Noah.

In that case, you could probably do this dozens or hundreds of times by yourself while reminiscing about this.

“Lena.”

“Yes.”

Even though I just called Lena’s name, Lena seemed to immediately understand what I was trying to say.

After putting an arrow on the bowstring, pull it back and aim at Noah.

It’s not an ordinary arrow either.

This arrow was carefully crafted by numerous wizards, including Dad and I, Celestine, Irene, and Elias, while waiting for the final battle.

“What are you doing now…!?”

The arrow burns with blue light and soon becomes an arrow made of pure mana.

Noah, looking at it, sees us opposing him, and is still very embarrassed, as if he never thought we would be like this.

Did you really think we couldn’t attack Dad’s body?

hahahaha, then really… I can’t say anything other than a stupid idea.

I don’t know if it was such a drastic attack, but I often used moderate attacks on the bed.

“We’ve dealt with you a lot so far, Noah. We know that if we just beat you to death until you lose consciousness, you’ll have no choice but to fall out of your father’s body. So… Don’t tell lies or anything, just be gentle. That’s right, so hurry up and get out of daddy’s body.”