The Devil's Origin

23: Kobold. (NSFW)

On that day, we held the funeral for the werewolf's older brother on the other side of Maou's castle.

The older brother's name was Regina and the younger one was Lexus.

I held Lexus's grieving body and apologized to him so many times like I was chanting a prayer.

Even though I already promised Lexus that I would protect Regina in the end... I had failed.

"Maou-sama, please lift your head. It can't be helped since the opponent was the hero himself. Maou-sama is not at fault at all." Lexus said, that even though his face was stained with tears, he was still able to smile at me.

"Thank you, Maou-sama. You were able to locate my brother's whereabouts and retrieve his body back so I could hold a funeral for him and see him one last time before our final goodbye."

I raised my tear-stained face as Lexus continued.

"I beg of you, please help me avenge my brothers. Please give me a family, strong enough to defeat my brother's enemy."

At that moment, I saw how Lexus's eyes were dyed in hatred toward humanity.

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The mating between me and the werewolf was filled with grief and anger.

As if he was being drowned in hatred, Lexus bit my arms off and ate my entrails.

It was a pain that I had never felt before, the feeling of my body being eaten while I was still alive.

Lexus kept on screaming for his deceased brother, his shrieking howl could be heard through the forest.

I was able to produce 20 werewolf eggs and gave it all to Lexus.

That was the only thing I could do for him.

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"Young master."

Even without looking, I knew Velke was very angry.

"I know what you're going to say," I interjected.

"Then tell me why? Why didn't you call out to me? Why you didn't call for any help even though he hurt you beyond reason like this??"

After Lexus had finished mating with me, he started crying when he realized what he had done to me.

The werewolf was so blinded by hatred that he let his body move according to the anger boiling inside him.

Velke came to check up on me and nearly killed Lexus when Velke saw the state I was in.

I lifted my left arm and stroked Velke's cheek as I explained, "Lexus. He was blinded by hatred so please don't blame him. It was inevitable."

"I don't understand why it was inevitable. I could prevent him from hurting you."

"Since you also lost your family to the hero, you understand Lexus's hatred as well, right? Like what I said, it was inevitable."

"Young master..."

Velke put his hand over my smaller one and continued," Young master... I still don't understand why you let him hurt you so bad like this.."

"Velke."

"Every time I saw you getting hurt... It was as if I was in hell. My heart aches, it was so, so painful for me to see you hurting. Why must you let yourself get hurt like this..?"

"Velke..."

"I want to take you away, away from the demon kind, from the human, from the hero. I want to hide you in a place where no one can find you."