The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 104

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Chapter 104

“Please, just stay still! Why do you keep betting! Stop gambling!”

The hallucination suddenly shattered.

Reality came crashing into my mind.

This hallucination was my wish that Delmia had inserted.

Being loved in a harmonious family, growing up without worries.

However, the detailed process had errors because Delmia had set it up.

‘Delmia never had a gambling-addicted father!’

So she could insert the phrase ‘what are you betting’ into a happy moment.

I glared at Delmia’s eyes while fuming.

“Stop it.”

Only then did I come to my senses and speak properly.

“You’re not even giving real happiness.”

Honestly, I had thought it wouldn’t be bad to sleep forever in the fantasy I wanted.

But this was just fake happiness designed by Delmia.

I swallowed my anger and commanded once more.

“Stop it now.”

Delmia’s red eyes suddenly widened.

I took a step closer and spoke calmly.

“This is just deception. Please stop.”

Then suddenly a moment came to mind.

I think I had said this same thing when Wolf-dog was causing a ruckus.

That’s when it happened.

“Ah.”

Delmia blinked her eyes.

“…Hmm?”

She looked around and slowly flapped her wings as she descended to the ground.

“Bri… sa?”

Delmia cautiously called my name.

“Harrison’s partner from the Academy… right?”

It was a cautious voice that seemed very embarrassed. It was exactly like the appearance I had seen before.

“Yes, sister.”

“Ah…”

Delmia looked very confused. Then she blushed and looked around.

“First, is there something, something to cover myself? Why am I wearing such clothes? This is too, too immodest…”

Of course, I was also very flustered.

Just making eye contact once and telling her to stop… could it be resolved this easily?

Of course, I had only followed Leopold’s advice, but was it this simple?

“Brisa… sorry, I’m really sorry but this, the tail and wings, do you know how to get rid of them? They’re so heavy and uncomfortable…”

Cancel the easy part.

Cancel saying it was resolved too.

Delmia had only regained her senses. Nothing had changed.

Rather, she was looking at me like some kind of guardian and feeling confused.

Nothing was resolved, and it felt like I had one more thing to take care of.

“Looking into your eyes seems to have brought me to my senses… but I don’t remember anything… ah, I really hate these clothes.”

Delmia, who had been an aspiring priest, was suffering from her own appearance.

So I untied Alpheus’s cloak and handed it to Delmia.

Delmia hurriedly covered her body and crouched down.

“What is this…”

After that, she looked around with fearful eyes and started sniffling.

“Who, who exactly was controlling me…”

I let out a deep sigh.

‘One mountain after another, really.’

Alpheus did not wake up.

All the people inside the forest didn’t wake up either.

The giant transparent leaves that had been swaying also stopped again. Really, nothing had changed at all.

“What… what exactly am I?”

Delmia muttered while wiping her tears.

“It feels like something that wasn’t me was rampaging inside me. I don’t know what it was. What… what have I become?”

“Hmm.”

I approached Delmia and handed her a handkerchief while explaining.

“I only saw briefly, but you were controlling people with dreams and such. You made all the people here like this.”

“It seems like that?”

Delmia hiccupped.

“I, I don’t remember well… but sometimes when I came to my senses, I was outside the forest. My family said something but I couldn’t understand… Then when I came to my senses again, time had passed.”

In the midst of all this, she was still incredibly beautiful.

When her earlier viciousness disappeared, she looked more purely pretty. Even though her features hadn’t changed, her atmosphere was completely different.

“Do you know that feeling of not being able to completely control yourself?”

Delmia said gloomily.

“Exactly that… feeling… What exactly was I…”

But the more I thought about Delmia’s earlier appearance, the more something seemed about to come to mind.

The revealing outfit, black wings, devil-like long tail…

Wait a minute.

“That half-human half-demon turns the Southern Region into the Land of Calamity and makes us all suffer.”

A being that was human-like, but demonic.

Delmia was human, but half of her was definitely possessed by a demon.

“Hmm, it was half fish, half human, something like that in appearance.”

Of course, Delmia wasn’t half fish, but half of her had the form of a demon…

Such beings don’t exist in this world now. But in my past life’s memories, there was a word that referred to such beings.

“Uh… hmm…”

When I didn’t want them, words from my past life would suddenly pop out!

There was definitely a game with such beings too!

‘Wait.’

I squeezed my eyes shut.

‘Game screen. Right. I played a game with such beings. Let me remember that game screen.’

Among the imaginary half-human half-demons that appeared there…

‘Ah.’

I remembered.

I grabbed Delmia’s hand and said without realizing it.

“Sister, so it seems like you were a dream demon all this time.”

That was just an answer to the question ‘what was I’.

I had blurted it out without thinking whether Delmia would know the term or not. Just like how I had casually said words from my past life until now.

“Dream… demon? What’s that?”

I racked my brain again to explain about dream demons. At the same time, a letter from my pouch fell out. It was the letter Leopold had sent through Wolf-dog.

It contained the warning to be careful of Marquis Naisar House, along with the mysterious folklore content sent from Sebon.

[Solomon was the son of David and king of Israel.

He could grasp the essence by knowing the true name of beings.

Solomon used this power to summon demons.

The moment their true names were revealed, demons were no longer free.

Solomon bound them and assigned them roles like building temples.]

Actually, earlier, I didn’t show it in front of the people, but I was startled while reading this legend.

Solomon, son of David, Israel…

These were words I had encountered in my previous life.

“Dream demon? Who the hell is that, Brisa?”

Before I could get lost in thought, Delmia asked with tears welling up in her eyes.

“A dream demon is, well, an evil spirit that dominates dreams to torment humans. Also called a succubus…”

I struggled to somehow draw out the faint memories of my previous life.

True name?

The demon’s real name?

Did dream demons have names too?

…I think they did.

When Leopold and I investigated the Santa legend, there was content like this.

[Legends are not the work of a single author, so names are not fixed. Existence is defined not by names but by recognition, and is passed down to future generations according to the faith of those who remember.]

If I’m the only one with memories of another world, then according to the characteristics of legends…

‘If I remember that being’s name and believe it’s recorded in history books, that will be established as the true name.’

If I recognized that ‘being’ by the ‘name’ that many people had given it, that would become the ‘true name’ in this world.

My previous life self definitely knew the name that was often attached to dream demons.

The familiar demon name usually borrowed from Jewish mythology in games or fantasy novels…

“The name was…”

I muttered while looking into Delmia’s red eyes.

“I think it was Lilith.”

But at that moment.

Delmia’s eyes widened and the ground began to shake with a bang.

“…That’s right.”

As wind suddenly began to whirl around, Delmia muttered with vacant eyes.

“That’s right, I was something like that.”

Alpheus’s cloak that had been wrapped around her slipped down.

At the same time, the transparent leaves that had been firmly forming the dome began to shake.

“I really… really hated it!”

The sunlight that couldn’t enter until now and the winds that couldn’t blow rushed in, and my body began to float gently.

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