I Have Become The Heroes’ Rival

Chapter 78

Translator: Kay

I spoke in a feeble voice.

“Without my angel, I will die……. Give him back.”

“What if your angel remembers this entire conversation?”

“Uh, will he remember everything?”

I tried to recall the things I had said to Leraze until now. As I traced through my memories, the devil looked at me pitifully and answered.

“No.”

“Ehhh, you’re confusing me.”

“This isn’t some form of double personality……. ”

I concluded that any further conversation with him was a waste of time. I retorted, “If Felix isn’t here, I have nothing to do with the devil then,” and turned my back without hesitation.

“Hey, wait a minute.”

Then Leraze grabbed the hem of my robe and pulled it with a swish. I helplessly lost my balance as an inanimate force that was hard to perceive pulled me.

I fell onto the bed where he laid and also inadvertently landed in his arms.

I glowered at Leraze without saying a word. I couldn’t understand how they could be so different despite sharing the same body. There wasn’t even a single speck of similarity.

The devil who brought this upon himself seemed considerably embarrassed. He alternately looked at his hands and me in his arms and asked in disbelief.

“Why did you get dragged over like this?”

Then should I merely stand there and let my clothes rip?

Due to this devil’s bastard, it didn’t seem long before I would collapse and die from my blood pressure.

Still, I, a good-natured person with deep compassion, decided to let go of this rudeness. He probably didn’t realize how weak humans were since he had been trapped in a bow all his life.

“That’s why he’s like that……. ”

I let Leraze’s mumbling go in one ear and out the other as I tried to get back up.

He hurriedly grabbed my arm.

It was undeniably less forceful than before, but it was still a rude touch that didn’t even have the slightest bit of consideration.

“He’ll wake up soon. A devil’s deal is accurate.”

Like a whimpering dog who wanted to say something, he seemed like he was desperately trying to convey that message.

I couldn’t understand why he acted like this and had to pull me over only to say such simple words.

Was he trying to reassure me? No, he was probably merely trying to lower my guard.

“Huh, I see.”

I nodded lightly, then pointed my finger at my forearm, which was caught by his hand, and asked dryly, “But can you let go of this?”

Although devils might like to grab others by force, humans found it quite unpleasant. As I explained that, Leraze’s brows furrowed.

I pressed my fingers on his forehead to prevent wrinkles from forming on Felix’s pretty face.

Of course, even if he had wrinkles or became a grandfather, Felix would still be beautiful.

Leraze’s eyelashes trembled as if my touch tickled him, and then he grabbed my hand.

With both hands unintentionally bound, I furrowed my brows as he did before.

“You touch me too freely.”

“…….”

“You only touch me without hesitation.”

Unquestionably, there was something like that.

As much as Felix cherished me, I cherished him too, so I couldn’t help but hesitate to touch him since I didn’t want to hurt him or give him a hard time.

Also, if I touched him just a little bit, my heart would beat wildly.

However, it became easier to touch him after Leraze opened his eyes.

A man who only looked like Felix but meant nothing to me. He wasn’t even a human being.

These unusual conditions combined made Leraze become the first man I could touch and treat recklessly. I even grabbed him by the collar.

But was the devil even considered a man? I heard that there was a gender distinction like humans, but it was a different species…….

“I’m preventing Leraze from doing stupid things with Felix’s body. I’m responsible for taking care of him while he’s unconscious. I have to take care of your meals too.”

The devil had been living as an inanimate bow, so he didn’t even know how to eat correctly. Due to his poor living ability, I had to take care of everything from one to ten.

Still, since it was Felix’s body, I was willing to take care of it without any hesitation. The devil naturally accepted my assistance as well.

That damn devil.

“By the way, I couldn’t point it out before because I was too busy, but you’re not actually Leraze, right?”

“I was separated from Leraze, but I’m still Leraze.”

“But I don’t think it would be considered the same thing if it was separated from the body.”

“……”

He lost his temper and said that whatever his name was, it would suit him.

“Call me the fragment of Leraze!”

“That’s too long. I’ll call you Larry for convenience.”

Of course, I desperately hoped that I wouldn’t see this devil anymore, but since Felix hadn’t woken up today, I figured I would have to deal with him for a few more days.

“Is that all right?”

If I kept calling such a dull-witted entity ‘Leraze,’ I might inadvertently start to underestimate the complete devil.

What if I accidentally come across the original, complete devil later down the track and let down my guard?

When I asked that while holding such needless worries, the devil stared at me with a blank expression on his face. He loosened his firm grip on me that had bound me like chains.

“That’s strange.”

“What?”

“Is it because you swallowed a quarter of his soul?”

I asked as I pulled a strand of silver hair off Larry’s cheek. Then as if his cheek felt itchy, he rubbed his cheek with the palm of his hand and spoke.

“You seem to like Felix’s body a lot. Perhaps I should just wait and see…….”

He was planning to do something.

I glanced at him with the eyes of an enemy.

This damn devil was only seeking a chance to devour Felix at once.

If it weren’t for Felix’s body……. I started to imagine something cruel in my mind.

He muttered to himself in a barely audible voice, “Why are you so upset…….?”

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How should I react if I faced the man who tried to bury me alive again?

After agonizing for a moment, I mercilessly smacked Ilypia on the back of the head as I had eagerly longed for before.

‘Muhaha, I’ve been waiting for this!’

The spirit, who was suddenly beaten up, murderously glared at me and bared his teeth, but he couldn’t attack me directly. It was because Claudia was watching him like a hawk.

After Ilypia, who resembled the King of Beasts, made a contract with Claudia, he became a dog on a leash.

But now that I thought about it, I realized that there was no such thing since the beginning.

At that time, the power of the spirit itself was strong enough to crush you by intimidation, but if you looked closely, he was more like a wounded animal than a beast.

His wounds hurt so much that he mindlessly gnashed his teeth everywhere.

Anyway, the spirit still had a rebellious look on his face, but at least he was relatively obedient to Claudia.

Having gained strong support, I clung to Claudia’s side with a smug smile.

After so much suffering, I couldn’t simply end it so neatly with just a single blow on the back of the head.

‘…….If you thought that was the end, you’re wrong. I’ll torment you until I get tired of it.’

My desire for revenge was strong. I had no intention of leaving that spirit at ease as it was.

Felix was still unconscious because of that spirit. He didn’t just faint, he had a quarter of his soul ripped out by the devil, so it would be odd for him to remain unscathed.

Felix told me that the more the devil gnawed at his soul, the more difficult it was for him to control himself and the stranger he became.

But if it was a quarter of it……. There would be a considerable change from the former Felix.

At first, I thought I just needed to accept it because it was still Felix, but I inwardly became more anxious. Day by day, I felt like I was on a knife-edge because I was afraid that he would never wake up.

‘It doesn’t matter if you’re tainted completely by the devil, and you even have that frivolous temperament. It’s fine, so please just wake up.’

As I lowered my head at the sudden depressing thoughts, I was interrupted by Claudia’s gentle voice that sounded like a command.

“Ilypia, I’m taking you out of the island.”

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