성황의 아이들 [2]

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214. Lycan Slope Road (8)

What you see before your eyes is a vast and majestic snowy landscape.

Beyond the sheer ice canyon, tall coniferous forests covered in snowflakes stretch endlessly to the horizon.

Eventually, as the first dawn broke, the elegant silhouette of nature slowly turned golden.

'The scenery is really nice. There's no way back... ... .'

Seongjin, who was sitting on the cliff with a helpless feeling, opened his mouth while scratching the ear of Max, who continued to stroke next to him.

"Hey, Max."

Wong wong!

"I somehow get the feeling that you don't like her, but can't you just invite Louise here one more time?"

Then, ki-ing! Whip!

Max seems to have understood what Seongjin said, but he puts his ears back slightly and whines. Is it because of my mood? It's like, 'Why are you saying that?' I also felt like I was being blamed.

"... "Do you hate it that much?"

Then the wolf dog, which was staring at Seongjin with bright eyes, stuck its head in and licked the wound on his hand.

The bleeding had already stopped a long time ago, but the dog's sharp teeth marks were clearly visible on the hand that had been bitten quite deeply.

What does this mean? Looking at the amount Max was doing, I don't think his intention was simply to attack.

[hmm. Although it is very weak, I feel like a kind of thought circuit is connected between you and that mongrel dog through that wound.]

The Demon Lord, who had been contemplating the wound for a while, spoke in a slightly sullen tone.

[Maybe it has something to do with the way the Lycanslopes control the family. That mixed breed dog left a kind of 'imprint' on you.]

'... 'Max made me one of his subjects?'

Seongjin asked, tilting his head.

'It doesn't seem like anything has changed, does it?'

Then the Demon King got scared and shouted.

[Will that work? Whether you belong to a demon or a demonic beast, relationships connected through thoughts are not always one-sided. Although this is a relationship led by that mongrel dog, the superiority relationship between you and that bastard is very obvious just by looking at it! Think about it, Seongjin Lee. You are having a spiritual conversation with this great Demon Lord, but you are not particularly under the control of my thoughts, are you?]

Well, I see.

I thought that because I was a member of the family, I would become something of a puppet. Just like the Lycanslopes follow the Lord's orders.

[That mongrel dog wouldn't have expected something like that, right? That guy forcibly cut off the connection with the Lycan Slope by simply creating a new imprint with you.]

Come to think of it, didn't Max try something like this before?

Even though I was hit hard by Louise and failed.

-Your Majesty, the wolves of the Sigismund Territory travel to and from the Demon World. Therefore, you should not allow wolf dogs, which are descendants of their blood, to bite you.

The fact that Louise, who was always quiet, overreacted at that time may mean that she knew Max's intentions from the beginning.

'Then why didn't they stop me from even trying?'