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Published at 3rd of October 2022 07:30:29 AM


Chapter 23

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[The Evil King of the Night Sky]

“Mm…”

Iris woke up in a dim place similar to the reception hall of the ice castle ‘Niflheim’.

She was seated in a chair made of cold ice, her hands were restrained with chains connected to the ceiling, and a golden spear was pierced into her abdomen, sewing her and the backrest.

Did my bleeding stop because my blood was frozen by the cold air? The blood I lost might look less than I thought, but on the other hand, seeing that the wound does not feel cold nor hot, it might be more serious than I imagined – so she thought.

(Is this… in the inside of the ‘Tower’? I have never seen… a place like this before…)

“This is a secret place deeper in the center of the ‘Tower’, known only to some. Although, there may be no one other than Anubis and I know of it at the present time.”

What appeared before her, whose condition could already be said to be on the verge of death, was a 2m tall giant man.

The man had one side of his head shaved, but on the other side he had long purple hair that reached his feet, thereby wrapping not only half of his face, but also half of his body.

He carried a huge battle ax on his back, and his upper body was a slender one that could be said to be toned rather than trained.

However, the swirling red tattoos engraved all over his body gave the man a presence that made him look more than two times larger, making him look imposing and ferocious.

Moreover, those tattoos even ran through his head, reaching even his face and ears. And perhaps to adjust the imbalance of his head, he constantly tilted it to the side that was shaved.

Iris had her breath taken away at the strange, but imposing manner of the queer man.

“Don’t be so vigilant. This is a long-awaited reunion, is it not?”

“Who… are you…?”

“What the hell are you… no, how could you say so, Iris. You are asking who I am?”

The man who instantly had an angry expression at Iris’s question grabbed the spear sticking into her and pulled it out roughly.

The pain and heat that should had disappeared returned, as though running through the opened and gaping wide hole in her body.

Iris groaned and screamed to relieve that pain, even by a little.

“Gah!? Guuu~~h!”

“Why did you scream! Does it hurt!? Even though you’ve hurt my feelings, you dare to say it hurts!? You!! You!!”

The man hit Iris many times with the spear furiously.

The literally senseless violence accelerated the speed of the fire of her life dissipating.

“Hah, hah……! No, wait. I see, Anubis. This is your doing isn’t it, Anubis! Damn you, you abominable younger brother! Iris is innocent!”

“Gagh!?”

While the man screamed with a resentment filled voice toward the sky, he pierced the spear in his hand back into Iris’s abdomen.

The movement of the spear that returned to its original position made her felt a pain as though it was digging around in her insides due to it rubbing with her wound.

Iris spat out the blood that had risen from inside her.

She could not help but wonder why she was still alive even though she had been treated cruelly so far.

“In that case, allow me to tell you. No, you have to know. My name is Babi Niflheim. Anubis’s older brother and your father.”

“What kind of, nonsense, are you spouting?”

“Did that guy say that your father was dead? No, you got it wrong, it was all a lie!! He robbed me of you! My belonging! Selfishly!”

Iris could not understand what Babi was saying.

She was told that her father had died in a battle with a wolf monster called the End.

It was said that when Anubis and the others lived on the world of the living, he fought to the bitter end while protecting the people running about trying to flee, and lost his life.

Once in the past, when she was taken to the real world, Anubis gently recounted that story to her, thus she became proud of her father whose face she did not even remember.

She felt that the warm place, namely the real world, was a treasure that her father protected.

That was why she aspired to become a guard that would protect the order of the ‘Netherworld’, so that she could protect someone else.

Inside her heart, she thought of her father as her ‘ideal’ and deified him.

That was why she has sought a way of life that would not embarrass her ‘ideal (father).

“Ahh, irritating! Not only did he rob me of you, but he even rewrote your memory! How could he do such a thing to his older brother, to the father of his niece!? He is evil, too evil!”

“…U, gh.”

“And you, for whatever reason, how could you forget me!? Who do you think you belong to! Why can you not remember me!? You are a bad child… you are a really bad child! Even if you fall into the evil hands of Anubis, it is your ‘duty as my daughter’ to never forget me!!”

That was why she could not understand the man before her who called himself her father.

She did not want to admit that such an ugly being was her family.

The sinister ‘heat’ he gave off burned her eyes.

She closed her eyes tightly to escape the pain, only to realize that the blade-like ‘heat’ even pierced into the back of her eyelids, making even her heart go creaking.

“Well fine. You have some faults, but the cause of it all is Anubis. Thus, now that you are back under me, everything will be fine as long as you carry out your duty.”

“Relese, me…!”

“Silence. Don’t move.”

“Agh, ghaaaaaaaahhhh!!”

Babi clutched Iris’s head.

His unrestrained clutch caused his fingers to dig into her temples, causing her severe pain.

Even though she shook her head to resist, he increased his power as though to say he does not allow it. All Iris could do was screaming.

“Alright. Hey, Iris. What is the name of the man who kidnapped you? What is the name of the man who raised you?”

“aahh——W-what…?”

“I will let that slide, so quickly answer me!! Do you intend to make me repeat myself!! Remember!! Say it!!”

“It is——? Eh? Hg!?”

The name did not come out.

It was ‘ (Anubis) ’ who raised me to this day.

……Who is ‘ ’? Do I forget because of the pain?

No, that’s not it. ‘ ’ is… why? Why can’t I remember it?

Iris even forgot about the pain she felt until just now, and was just stunned at her memory that suddenly missing.

‘ ’ should be an important and respected existence for her.

However, she could not remember not only their name, but also their face, their figure, and what kind of person they were.

Even though she just talked to them a few days ago, her memory about that person was gone, as though there was gaping wide hole in her memory.

“Such a thing, why!? How!? What, what did you do to me!?”

“Alright, alright. It is gone now, is it not? That’s good, that’s good. You do not need to remember ‘ ’ anymore.

“Why, why, can’t you hear me!? Their name is!? Why!! Why!!!”

She could not even register the words Babi said.

Despaired and frightened, she rampaged to escape Babi.

However, her reckless actions only eroded her own strength, made her wound widen and the chains that bind her hands to dig deeper.

“Release me! Don’t touch me! Return it! Stooop!”

“No. There are too many unnecessary things in your head for you to return to your family. I have erased everything so you can return to be my daughter. This is necessary, do not be selfish.”

Babi smiled at the frenzied Iris.

Even though he called Iris his daughter, he slowly and politely erased her memory of ‘unnecessary’ things from her head, as though he enjoyed her suffering.

“No!! Noo!! Someone, someone save me!! Save meeee!!”

“Don’t be rebellious like that. Even if you inherit my stubbornness, you will die soon with that sort of wound you know? And that is no good, okay?”

Unnecessary, unnecessary, this is unnecessary as well.

All you need is me, your father; live on remembering only that.

An endless mass of ego, the Evil King of the Night Sky

‘Babi Niflheim’ guffawed while enjoying the screams of the crying Iris.




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