The Devil Who Grants Wishes - Chapter 232



232 – Story of the Kingdom (3)

“ㄴ, what are you!!”

The regent, who was facing me, finally screamed loudly.

If you were going to overpower the enemy, you should have been so courageous from the beginning when you saw me. But now, what’s the point? I’ve already seen him shaking with fear.

“As you can see, it’s a devil.”

“Well, you know very well that I’m not saying that!!”

When I answered the regent’s question honestly, the regent screamed loudly again, probably because he thought I was making fun of him.

Well, it’s true that I’m teasing, but this reaction is still quite unexpected.

Until now, everyone who saw me for the first time was scared and trembled, but this regent still knows how to argue with me, right?

Hmm… I don’t mean to look at it this way, but if I had met him on the street, I would have given him a gift or something, but it’s a pity.

“If you say it that way… You can say that he is the one who will punish you.”

“Punishment, punishment?”

“Yes, my contractor wants it.”

“What on earth is that… Ugh…!”

Contractor, the regent blinked in confusion at the word that came out of nowhere, and only then did he notice the presence of the boy king behind me.

The terror and fear that filled his eyes when he saw me disappeared in an instant as soon as he saw the boy king, and soon only anger filled its place.

“Are you out of your mind now? How dare you, how dare you summon the devil?!”

The regent, who lost interest in me, looks at the boy king and expresses his anger.

No, he is exactly pretending to express it.

Hmm, this guy is quite perceptive. So, was it possible to plan something bold like usurping the throne?

‘When I heard that I was signing a contract with the Boy King, my pupils shook slightly. So, this situation right now… I’m trying to gaslight the boy king and get him to beat me.’

Definitely, it is a good method because you can never defeat me with regular methods. Why isn’t the summoner’s main strategy to attack the summoner’s body rather than attacking the summoned beast? It’s roughly similar to that.

If you can control the contractor by persuading or threatening according to the regent’s intention, you can prevent the devil who is contracting with that contractor from doing something.

Looking at the situation, this boy king has lived a life subordinate to the regent since he was young, so he can expect more of the effect intended by the regent.

Of course, I didn’t receive any compensation, so it’s not a contract, so I can really do whatever I want even if the boy king is handed over to the regent… Still, it looks interesting, so I’ll just wait and see for now.

“Now this kingdom will be destroyed!! If you know what you have done, stop it right now!!”

“Didn’t the Prince Regent try to kill me and usurp the throne? How can he pretend to be just?”

“Shut up!! What I did only ends with one person dying, but don’t you know that the crime you committed will end only when hundreds of thousands of people are sacrificed? Or are you just pretending not to know!?”

“Ugh, ugh…”

Wow, you say that the assassination you did was an act, and the boy king’s actions were a sin. Your choice of words is really clever.

It would be like rat poison to a boy king who has not yet fully become an adult.

“In return for a wish, the devil takes the soul of the person who made the wish. If you stop what you are doing right now, such a terrible future will not come and only you will die. Think about it carefully.”

“No, no… If the regent hadn’t tried to kill me first, then this demon would also-“

“If just one of you dies, everyone in the kingdom can enjoy a happy life!! You selfish bastard!”

Wow, without giving him a chance to refute, he goes on without a break and tries to twist the boy king’s thoughts into whatever he wants.

The more the regent spoke, the more the boy king’s anger toward the regent who tried to kill him gradually faded, and he began to feel guilty about the people of his kingdom.

Hmm… Well, let’s leave it at this. Anyone can see that it was the regent’s fault, but you have to have such an upright personality to fall for something like this.

“Hurry up and cancel your wish- huhu?!”

“Well, I heard what you wanted to say.”

I cover the regent’s mouth, which was talking with spit flying, with my hand and lift it up. I feel bad because my hands are covered in dirty saliva.

Ugh, now that I think about it, I should have just used magic instead of lifting him up with his hands.

“Now, wait a minute, devil…”

“Stop. I will do what I have to do.”

The boy king, who has come to sympathize with the regent, urgently tries to stop me, but my sharp answer makes him keep his mouth shut.

Are you afraid that all the people in the kingdom will die as the regent said…? Well, I’m glad I came here. I will have to intervene to prevent further cases of wishes being granted to the devil in the future.

“As expected, I can’t just leave you alone.”

“Eup, eup!!”

All of the servants and guards who were accompanying the king were disarmed and sent to Aigoceros for education. Those who had committed worse crimes had no way to be rehabilitated, so they were simply put in restraints and sent to mines and salt fields. I threw it away.

But… This regent is the worst of all the bad guys.

I am shocked that people in the world do such things thinking that they are truly morally right.

If this regent were to become a devil, unlike me, I think he would truly act befitting the image of a devil.

Just!!

When I snapped my fingers once, it seemed like a huge shock wave suddenly came out of me, and then the shock wave swept through the regent’s body and instantly quieted down.

And after the shock wave disappeared, the regent I was holding literally disappeared without a trace.

“This is…?”

“The regent was sent to where he should be.”

But, well, I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t understand mining and salt farming.

The nature of the crime is so bad and the mentality is so shocking that it seems unlikely that they will be rehabilitated through the mines and salt farms, but if they are not rehabilitated, they will just have to be kept in the mines and salt farms for a longer period of time. If this doesn’t work, send them to a more difficult place.

If there is something that cannot be done with money, it simply means a lack of money, and if there is a person who cannot be rehabilitated through hard labor, it is simply a lack of the amount and intensity of hard labor.

“Now you’re the only one left.”

“Ugh… Ugh…”

When I carefully wiped the saliva off my hands and turned around to look at the boy king, the boy king’s expression became something that is truly difficult to describe in words.

All kinds of negative emotions, including despair, guilt, and pity, are all mixed together.

… If Keros were here, I think he would be really happy. I don’t enjoy bad feelings, so I’m not impressed.

“Please save me… The ship, the people…”

Wow, you really believe what the regent said.

No, I’m not saying I believe it, but common sense tells me that what the regent said is correct. There is no way the devil will retreat like this. Of course, I don’t have such thoughts.

Chin

“Ugh…”

“I’m going back. The servants and guards who aren’t guilty will be retrained and I’ll be back soon, so if you wait a little longer, you’ll be able to lead the government the way you want.”

After saying that while placing his hand on the head of the boy king, who was trembling with fear, he opened the portal and prepared to return.

The boy king still doesn’t seem to know what’s going on, but he still seems to feel one thing for sure.

It’s not the end. There is hope.

If I were an ordinary devil, I would have changed in this situation and let those excited emotions plummet once again, causing me to experience an emotional downturn… But I’m not interested in that.

Ugh… I’m glad I got through this wish too. I need to go back quickly and rest with the kids.

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“This… What the hell…”

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So… Things passed by so quickly.

It is difficult to guess what has happened so far. It feels like I was dreaming.

But the extremely quiet hallway, the ruined gate of the regent’s office, and the royal palace where all traces of humanity have disappeared are all very clear to me that I was not dreaming.

‘What should I do…?’

I don’t know what to do.

A day has passed since that day, but there is still no one in the palace. The guards who roamed the castle as always, and the servants who brought food.

I’m hungry… I didn’t eat anything from yesterday to this morning… Ugh.

Rumbling!!

“Your Majesty, I brought you food!!”

And at that moment, the door opens and a bunch of servants who brought food appear.

I know the faces of those servants well. Right now, I can see many of the servants who were there when they poisoned me yesterday.

But their expressions are completely different from what I know. The expressions on their faces seem as if they are greatly frightened, as if they are facing death right in front of their eyes.

“I’m so sorry about yesterday, yesterday!! Please have mercy!!”

“Long live His Majesty the King!! Long live!!”

And then the servants put down the food on the table and then banged their heads arbitrarily, expressing endless apologies to me. His expression was like that of a deer being chased by a tiger, as if his life would be lost if I did not accept his apology.

Even though I can’t see their faces properly because their heads are stuck on the floor, I can clearly see what expressions everyone is making right now.

I don’t know why everyone suddenly changed like this. Those bastards who served the regent as their true lord and showed no respect for me at all.

“You probably didn’t put poison in here again, right?”

“Well, that’s… No!! Definitely not!!”

It was just a joke, but the attendants who were bowing towards me started shaking when they heard that. Seeing that they are even crying, you can clearly see what happened to those servants who were captured by the devil.

[The servants and guards who are not guilty will be retrained and will return soon, so if you wait a little longer, you will be able to lead the government as you wish.] The devil, no, the devil, said that, right?

Hmm… It definitely turned out the same. It’s not that these people’s crimes are bad, they just did what they were told.

“I’m going to eat. Okay, everyone be quiet.”

“–Four!!”

Dear devil, it would have been nice if you had at least told me your name.

Well, if we meet someday, we’ll meet again. I’ll have to ask the attendants later and find out more about the devil.

Should we wipe out all the churches that sympathized with the regent and trust the devil instead? Ah, anyway, did this go too far?