Abandoned Retired Warrior Decides to Return to Farming

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rain pours down like a torrential downpour

There was no sign of stopping whether there was even a hole in the gloomy sky.

Even the church close to the imperial family was obscured by the rain.

Unlike the splendid imperial family, the outside was covered with darkness and rain, making it difficult to notice what was happening.

As if they were going to cover up what happened today, the force of the rain only grew stronger.

“Ugh…”

Just before the second part of the banquet was about to start, Serin grabbed her stomach and made a painful noise.

Next to it were plates piled up like a tower.

“Serin, don’t do that, go to the bathroom.”

“Ugh, lord, lord. You don’t have any finesse…”

“No, you’re even sweating.”

Is it because I ate too much?

I was dressed up, but my hair was all wet with sweat.

Cael wiped it with her sleeve and worried, but Serine did not wake up.

“Oh, no. Part 2 is starting soon. Chu, dance. I came here dressing up like this to dance…”

“You can go and dance. I won’t dance and I’ll be waiting.”

Serin shook a little at those words.

“I, really? Are you really not even dancing?”

“Yeah, I’ll be waiting with Lucia, so come quickly.”

“Uh, uh. Ha, but…”

“Look at the sweat. It was decorated beautifully, but everything is going to be a mess.”

Unlike usual, Kael smiles in a friendly tone.

Seeing that, Serin was relieved and smiled at the same time.

“Well then, I’ll be right back.”

Cael nodded his head as he saw Serin getting up.

“Gee, do you really have to wait?”

“Okay, so don’t worry and go slowly.”

Serin headed to the bathroom only after hearing that, but Mary, who was watching everything, covered her sly smile with her hand.

‘Fufu, I must have looked very lowly, Cael.’

To make Serine go all alone.

Demon lord, since you made that woman, who you can definitely call an inevitable existence, on your side, you should be proud of it.

But obviously you didn’t say that.

I’m looking forward to seeing Serin’s pretty face messed up.

‘Besides, the more losses, the better.’

Still, the existence of the Demon King bothered me, but if I secure a hostage called Serin now, things will be much easier in the future.

Then Kael will have no choice but to accept the offer, and he can do whatever he wants, manipulating him like a puppet on the throne.

Experiments, torture or even murder.

‘Now would be a good time to do that.’

You never know when Serin will have another chance to be alone.

Because returning to the inn disturbs not only Kael, but also the Imperial Knights. Mary stood up without hesitation.

His feet were given first aid by the healer and he was able to move to some extent.

“Cael. I’ll let you know soon what the cost of one inattentiveness will be.”

Mary laughed and quietly walked out of the room.

Then I went down the stairs hidden in the basement of the imperial palace.

Eventually, Mary entered the laboratory, and the thick smell of blood greeted her.

Experimental data stacked on the table. Blood clotted on the floor. And the corpses that died during the experiment, tied to the wall.

Some of them had been mothed and rotted, leaving only bones, but Mary didn’t care.

“Then let’s start right away.”

Mary, who was muttering like that, was going to cast the transfer magic, the target was already decided.

One is Mary, and the other is…

“Huhu. Just thinking about it makes me happy.”

How will Seren react?

It was at that time when Mary thought so and was about to activate the magic.

tuk, tuk-

The sound of rain is heard from somewhere.

The sound of cold water drops.

Is it raining outside? Still, the sound was exceptionally clear.

Touk, tuk, tuk, tuk-

It still doesn’t stop and keeps falling.

It was strange to think about it, but Mary suddenly had a question.

The sound of rain can’t reach this basement right now because of the soundproofing magic, right?

So what is the real meaning of this sound?

Hearing it close, even very close, it gives the illusion of falling right behind you.

·······No, is this really an illusion?

First of all, is this really rainwater?

“What are you thinking so seriously about?”

A familiar voice is heard without warning.

Mary looked back at that low and low voice.

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kael. He stood there as if it were natural.

Blood was dripping from his clenched fist.

“Whew, whoops….”

Mary smiled involuntarily.

Those are the words that Kael said at the banquet hall a while ago.

But unlike then, there was no emotion in those words.

He didn’t laugh, he didn’t sarcastically, and he didn’t show his leisure.

I just spit it out.

There was no other way to describe it other than this.

“I kept telling you not to cross the line…”

With that voice, Kael glanced over the papers on the table.

It was like looking at experimental data.

“But it was all meaningless.”

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kael turned to Mary.

“In the beginning, there was no such thing as a good thing for four years.”

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kael’s shady eyes stared at Mary.

Anger, sadness, hatred, disgust. Those eyes were filled with negative emotions.

It was colder, cooler, and more eerie than the sound of rain.

“Fufu… so? What do you mean by that?”

“·················ogue.”

Still, for some reason, Mary laughed.

Even though he is an opponent who can trample him like an ant in front of him.

It’s the first time I’ve seen him get so angry with a colleague.

For some reason, my heart was pounding.

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kael saw everything. The experiments he had done so far, what he called evil deeds.

I’ve been experimenting with people of all ages. Some of them had children and some had children.

That distorted expression on Kael’s face when he saw it, his emotions. It was lovely.

Five years ago, when I was betrayed, several times, if not, hundreds of times better.

fufu. He is also my best material-

“Are you laughing?”

thud-

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kael slammed his fist on the test paper.

Seems indifferent and disgusting.

“You are smiling, Mary. It’s not enough that you betrayed me, so you’re blatantly laughing even though you’re doing something like this?”

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kael looked around.

A corpse with skin peeled off, a corpse with pitted eyes, a corpse without claws and nails, or a corpse with all of them mutilated.

Even looking at it one by one, his expression didn’t change.

“Mary, I know where your spare time comes from.”

Having said that, Kael picked up a test paper.

With that fluttering piece of paper in his hand, he approached Mary and cut her skin.

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Mary’s blood seeps into the paper Cael holds.

At the same time, blood ran down Mary’s arm along the wound.

“···········?”

But Mary felt no pain.

She didn’t even feel that her foot was broken in the first place, so she couldn’t be afraid of something like this.

“Cael, what are you doing now?”

Mary grinned at him.

I wanted to blow my ankles like Serin, but that was all.

After setting the mood like this, in the end, Cael became Cael-

“Mary, do you remember what you said earlier?”

“yes?”

“You said that magic can only be broken with stronger magic.”

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kael looked towards the stairs and spoke softly.

“I will return that word now. I’m sure you’ll need it soon.”

“What?”

jerk-

At that moment, I heard footsteps from above.

A guest other than Cael came to this place that no one knew about.

Mary looked up as if possessed by something.

Someone is coming down the stairs.

jerk-

The hem of a red dress was fluttering there.

“Dispel”

A spell that is shouted before it even appears.

The purple light flashed with Lucia’s indifferent smile as she came down the stairs.

By the time she came down,

Shoot aah

The sound of rain starts to be heard little by little.

That meant the soundproofing magic had been lifted.

The corpses that had been tied to the wall by magic were also falling to the floor one by one.

Slowly, slowly, Mary’s magic was dissolving.

But for Mary, that wasn’t the point.

“Ouch!”

be bitter Cael felt a terrible pain in the area where the paper cut.

Even though it had only been cut on paper, Mary was more bewildered than ever.

“Ahhh?”

I hurriedly tried to block it with my hand, but it sting even more.

Thanks to him, he spit out words that he had never spoken out of his mouth in ten years.

“Oh, it hurts. hurt? Is this me… sick?”

Mary shook her head in disbelief.

The magic that negates pain, it has never been released before.

In the last ten years, Mary’s magic has never been dispelled.

Especially after sealing the Demon King, no one had more magical power than her.

So I took it for granted. Even though he knew that the Demon King was stronger than him, he never thought that he would dispel the magic.

Overwhelmed by the rest and peace he had enjoyed for a long time, he completely forgot the possibility.

Thanks to this, I struggled with the stimulus I had forgotten for ten years.

As much as it was a stimulus I thought I would never see for the rest of my life, the pain I felt returned to my stomach.

Now Mary felt the pain, but she could not accept the situation.

“All right, again. Order again… Come on, wait a minute. Before that, it hurts so much… Lee, first of all, the healer…”

There was no longer Mary’s relaxed appearance.

I cried like a child and couldn’t get my head around it.

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kael approached Mary like that.

In his hand was a stack of papers.

“Mary, I definitely told you to look forward.”

“Hey, Kael. Come on, wait a minute…”

But Kael didn’t even pretend to listen.

His eyes looking down at Mary were darkened.

At the same time, outside, a classical performance announcing the second part began.