Will You Cry for Me If I Die? - Chapter 3

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Chapter 3

I tilted my head once.

I never even thought that someone might hear my voice.

No matter how loudly I spoke, my words had never reached anyone when I traveled through the ceiling.

Still, I felt a bit uneasy.

So I began singing energetically, just like I did whenever I traveled through the ceiling after reviving in our manor.

“It’s a monster! A monster! Run away! If it touches you, you’ll become a monster too!”

It was a bit strange that no one avoided me even when I sang. But at least there was no more of that earlier ‘pft’ sound, so it was fine.

How much time had passed like that?

Having reached my destination on the 4th floor, I slid down the wall smoothly.

And as soon as I came down, I tried to walk, but ended up tumbling forward with a thud.

‘Huh?’

Strange.

I was the one who fell, but it felt like the air around me flinched.

* * *

Anyway, it seemed like my body had gone limp from suddenly entering a warm place.

My knee got damaged from the fall.

“Blood.”

I thought I heard a faint scream from somewhere.

“This is troublesome. It’ll smell now.”

After muttering gloomily, I just stood up abruptly.

And I quickly surveyed my surroundings.

“As expected! There’s no one where the direct line is!”

There needed to be no people since it was about to get noisy.

Not from my voice, but from something else.

Fortunately, there were no people, and only motionless suits of knight armor were lined up along the corridor.

Nothing else besides that.

No crying people, no fleeing people.

It was fortunate.

Though it did seem oddly like the helmet parts of the knight armors were facing toward me.

I took a solemn deep breath, then began checking the doors.

And.

“Found it!”

A nameplate with the Lord’s name written on it.

When such a nameplate is attached, it means it’s the Lord’s office, or bedroom, or anyway, the Lord’s room.

Moreover, upon closer inspection, I could sense two different types of human mana from beyond the door.

The target was definitely in there.

“Hmm. If I infiltrate right away…?”

I checked my two hands.

They weren’t completely frozen, but they were injured from climbing through the ceiling, so it would be difficult to move them much more.

“Damn…”

Should I just die once?

But if I died, I’d have to wait three whole hours.

I’d already wasted 2 weeks getting here, and now I had to spend three more hours?

The Lord might be destroying the underground research institute where I’d been.

“If I climb with these hands, I’ll fall… If I fall, I’ll die. What a waste of time!”

So I abandoned the plan to break down the door and infiltrate through the ceiling.

‘In that case.’

The surroundings felt oddly quieter, but I was too busy devising my next plan to pay attention.

I dragged my barely moving legs and approached the door earnestly.

“Make them open it!”

I began knocking on the door as I always did.

Bang bang bang bang!

“Open the door, demon!”

Even if they couldn’t hear my voice, they should be able to hear the sound of me knocking on the door.

There was no guarantee that the demon beyond would open it just because it was noisy like our family members did, but…

Then I suddenly remembered what the nanny’s daughter used to say to her younger sibling.

“When God closes a door, a demon opens another door.”

Ah. Another door.

“…Open the window, you demon!”

If it’s a god or demon, maybe they can hear a monster’s voice too!

Just in case, I changed my words while earnestly knocking on the door.

* * *

Bang bang bang bang, thud, crash bang!

“The door’s going to break. Your Excellency, isn’t it noisy?”

“Not really. But why is it knocking on the door while telling us to open the window?”

The Lord of Winter, who had been handling work inside, asked curiously.

The aide answered with mixed feelings about whether to laugh or not.

“Well, I’m not sure. Should I open the window for now?”

“What are you talking about when we worked so hard to heat the room? You’re useless. What do you know?”

“Taking your anger out on me just because you stayed up for two days. Your Excellency is getting old too.”

“Perhaps you don’t have enough work?”

“I stayed up with you too. Please go easy on me.”

There was one reason they had stayed up for two days.

That strange baby.

The baby in question had entered the Ikaros Domain two days ago.

Riding in a retainer’s merchant carriage.

‘Judging by how it talks, it’s definitely human.’

Since humanoid monsters had begun appearing recently, they couldn’t be completely at ease.

But it spoke too well to be a monster, yet didn’t seem ordinary at all to be a normal human child.

‘Surviving this winter without even a coat doesn’t make sense.’

After deliberating, they decided to bring the baby inside, assuming it was human.

With the Lord and retainers keeping close watch for the time being.

The retainer who brought the child had actively advocated for this.

‘We did bring it in, but.’

Bang bang bang bang!

“Open the window, you demon! I am an assassin!”

Haha, that kid really.

The aide smiled calmly and spoke to the Lord.

“Ah. I just learned something.”

“What?”

The Lord lifted his cool and beautiful face as if he’d been waiting. Even if he pretended otherwise, he was paying attention.

To that strange, pitiful child.

“That kid has no talent for singing.”

“…”

“Oh, and that it has better stamina than it looks.”

Honestly speaking, they already knew all of that suspicious baby’s intentions. There was nothing to dig up. It had climbed up to the 4th floor while babbling everything itself.

It was absurd how brazen it was, but it was also true that there was no need to observe it further.

All that remained were things to learn through meeting face to face.

But what was it doing now?

The aide said with a bright smile.

“Will the door break first, or will the child get hurt first? That’s what you’re curious about right now, isn’t it, Your Excellency?”

The Lord looked quietly at his cousin and aide, then flicked his pen nib at him.

“Ugh!”

And while finishing his work, he said.

“Bring her in now.”

It was time to face that bold assassin.

The aide jumped up as if he had been waiting and opened the door.

And he gently caught the baby who couldn’t overcome the momentum from pounding on the door and tumbled forward.

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“Open the window…!”

I tumbled forward with both fists still clenched.

‘I’m going to crash!’

My hands and feet wouldn’t loosen, so I couldn’t quickly brace myself against the floor.

I thought I was going to smash my head on the floor and widened my eyes.

While glaring intensely at the approaching floor. But then.

Thump.

“…?”

I couldn’t immediately understand what had happened and blinked my eyes.

The first thing I noticed was a scent.

A faint smell different from the scents I had smelled in our Family.

‘This is the smell of cold wind.’

It was the smell I had been catching since entering Ikaros’s territory.

As I sniffed curiously, blue fabric naturally came into my view.

Blue clothes. A person?

“A demon!”

“The demon you’re looking for isn’t me, but over there.”

“…Huh?”

I hesitated.

Because he had just answered me.

But before I could say anything, the person in blue clothes supported my bottom and swiftly moved to a different spot.

“Count Eden. Go organize a year’s worth of waterway inspection records. You can finally finish the work you’ve been putting off.”

After standing there dazed, I quickly turned my head at the new voice.

And our eyes met.

With the white demon sitting in front of the desk.

I momentarily forgot even to blink.

“Hey, what kind of joke is that? That’s work for three people. And this child was calling Your Excellency a demon, wasn’t she?”

“So I’m trying to act like a demon, do you have a problem with that?”

“Uhahaha! …Brother, are you serious?”

At that moment, I was recalling something someone had said in our Family.

“Those barbarians are cursed beings. You can’t find anyone who looks human among them. Those damn monsters! Acting all high and mighty like they’re the best! Ugly monsters pretending to be something!”

“Cursed ugly monster?”

For the first time, my confidence in the knowledge I had began to waver.

The demon I saw in person had a voice like cold wind, was sparkling, and was very tall even while sitting.

Silver hair with blue-gray eyes, snow-white skin and pale lips.

His nose protruded nicely, and the eyes looking at me even had stars in them.

“Demons are actually pretty!”

“Well, that confirms you’re not a monster. A monster wouldn’t call me pretty.”

The demon said while slightly raising one corner of his mouth.

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