The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman 1114

 Chapter 1114

 

“Come here.”

Raon grabbed the arm of the exhausted Gluttony and sat her down on a small rock. She was dragged along without the slightest resistance, as if she trusted Raon completely.

“Just what in the world happened to you.”

Thanks to Wrath, I roughly knew the situation, but I wanted to hear the clear details from Gluttony’s own mouth.

“I don’t really know either….”

Gluttony, sitting on the rock, swung her legs as if splashing water.

“To me, everything was just food. Trees, rocks, the ground, the sky, demons, and even humans.”

She let out a short sigh, saying she only ever put things in her mouth and swallowed them.

“Things like taste never mattered. Just this hunger….”

Gluttony rubbed her stomach with her small hand.

“I only wished for it to be erased. I simply swallowed whatever came into my mouth.”

As if recalling her past hunger, she slowly closed and opened her eyes.

“He knows that.”

Raon nodded with his arms crossed.

“Tell me what happened after you met the King of Essence in the human world.”

Imitating Wrath, he jerked his chin.

‘This is the important part.’

I wanted to know exactly what kind of change had taken place in Gluttony after meeting me.

“You taught me about bead ice cream, and even told me how to eat it.”

Gluttony looked blankly at Raon and tilted her head.

“That’s right.”

Raon nodded, then glanced at Wrath.

‘Wait a second! Come to think of it, I wasn’t the one who taught Gluttony about bead ice cream, it was you.’

Huh…?

Wrath let out a breath of air in confusion.

‘After driving Greed away, you personally took Gluttony to the ruined bead ice cream shop. Don’t you remember?’

After driving Greed away, Wrath had taken Gluttony, who had been scooping up dirt to eat, and fed her bead ice cream.

Ah!

Wrath widened his eyes as if he finally remembered.

That’s right? It was the King of Essence who fed her!

‘And when she tried to swallow it whole without chewing, just like with everything else, you even smacked the back of her head and taught her to feel the taste!’

Gluttony had swallowed the bead ice cream in one gulp as if scooping up dirt, but thanks to Wrath’s teaching, she had tasted flavor for the first time and shouted how wonderful it was.

Th-then, Gluttony ended up like this because….

Wrath’s chin trembled as he looked at the depressed Gluttony.

‘Yeah. Not because of me, but because of you.’

Raon nodded calmly.

Damn it all!

Realizing this wasn’t the time to laugh, Wrath clutched his head.

“At first, it was so good. Because I could keep eating ice cream. Because it was so delicious.”

Gluttony looked at Raon and nodded, as if to express her gratitude in her own way.

“But little by little, I started to feel thirsty.”

Gluttony raised her small hand and touched her pale white neck.

“The more ice cream I ate, the stronger that thirst grew. I don’t know the reason. I kept eating delicious things, so why was I feeling thirsty?”

She shook her head, saying she couldn’t understand her own feelings.

“You never felt that thirst before?”

Raon narrowed his eyes and motioned with his chin.

“Not once. Not when eating trees, rocks, the ground, the sky, demons. And even when I ate humans, I never felt anything like thirst.”

Gluttony nodded, saying that for the first time she had felt something called thirst.

“I ignored the crushing thirst in my chest and kept eating bead ice cream, but at some point my hands wouldn’t reach for it anymore. Only then did I realize why I was feeling thirsty.”

She picked up bead ice cream with weeds on top and put it into her mouth.

“I wanted to eat newer flavors, more delicious ice cream.”

Gluttony exhaled deeply, saying that from the gluttony she had carried since birth, something new had been born.

“And that too, in the flavor I wanted.”

While eating a bead ice cream that looked tasteless to anyone, she formed a wry smile.

“As expected….”

Raon nodded at Gluttony’s words.

‘Gourmet taste was being added to gluttony.’

Bead ice cream basically has so many varieties that ordinary people who only eat it occasionally find it hard to get tired of.

However, since new flavors only come out very rarely, Gluttony, who buys and eats bead ice cream in large amounts every day, finally adapted to all the flavors and, becoming sick of them, seemed to be searching for new ones.

“Help me. To make new bead ice cream.”

Gluttony bowed her head, saying she wanted to try making bead ice cream herself.

“Hmm….”

Raon couldn’t answer right away and furrowed his brows.

‘Can I really do this?’

Although I was good at basic cooking, making something like bead ice cream, which required specialized skills, was difficult.

And matching Gluttony’s taste would be even harder, so I couldn’t give an immediate answer.

‘Maybe mother, or Helen, or Judiel could do it. But still….’

It seemed Gluttony wanted to do it himself.

Gluttony wanted to make bead ice cream with his own hands and eat it. That was why weeds, dirt, and pebbles were placed on top of her bead ice cream now.

Really, all Demon Kings are nothing but troublesome bastards.

Wrath did not sneer as before, since he knew he was the one who had influenced her.

And he also found out why she got stronger.

‘Stronger? Ah, right, he did say that earlier too.’

I remembered how Wrath had asked why Gluttony had gotten stronger when I found her.

Even for a pathetic demon king like Gluttony, she has already reached the realm of the absolute, so growing stronger from there is no easy matter.

Wrath frowned as he pointed at the shrunken Gluttony.

That bastard has clearly grown because gourmet taste was added onto the damned instinct of gluttony!

He let out a dry laugh, saying that when you live a long time, all sorts of things happen.

‘Then… could Gluttony become even stronger than she is now?’

Raon smacked his lips as he looked at Wrath.

If that useless glutton rabbit makes a delicious bead ice cream the way she wants, then it should be possible.

Wrath nodded, saying it would be enough if she satisfied her own desire.

‘That’s a good thing, isn’t it?’

I could tell from the current situation alone that Gluttony held a great liking for me.

If I helped Gluttony, then without a doubt she would join the war against the archangel, and in that war she was sure to be of great help.

‘I absolutely have to do this.’

If Gluttony, in a good mood, were even to hand over his authority to a suitable person, it would become an even greater gain, so doing this no matter what was the right choice.

“Alright.”

Raon stretched out his hand to the gloomy Gluttony.

“Let’s make it together. New bead ice cream.”

*   *   *

Nadine bread…?

Wrath roared in disbelief.

What kind of madman puts Nadine bread on bead ice cream!

He grabbed Raon’s head, saying he must have completely lost his mind.

‘Can’t be helped.’

Raon looked at the Nadine bread placed on the ice cream and scratched his cheek.

‘The only food I have right now is Nadine bread.’

Since just one Nadine bread could keep me full for a whole day, there was no need to carry other food.

“Hmm….”

Gluttony tilted her head, then put the bead ice cream topped with Nadine bread into her mouth.

“…Weird.”

After chewing the Nadine bread ice cream a few times, she shook her head.

“The bread’s taste completely covered up the ice cream….”

Gluttony frowned, saying the rubbery flavor of the Nadine bread was so strong that she couldn’t taste anything from the ice cream.

Oooh! That useless glutton rabbit finally said something that makes sense!

Wrath nodded in delight at Gluttony’s words.

She really has awakened to gourmet taste!

He patted Gluttony’s head and laughed in satisfaction.

“I want to eat something newer, something tastier.”

Gluttony, seemingly wanting to create and experience a new flavor herself, once again began combining ingredients with the ice cream.

But although she had awakened to gourmet taste, she still didn’t know much about flavor, so she continued using strange ingredients.

In particular, mixing ice cream with things like tree bark or pebbles was hard to watch.

Th-those precious things….

Wrath’s chin trembled as he looked at the bead ice cream being ruined in Gluttony’s hands.

Stop her quickly! The King of Essence can’t endure it any longer!

He gnashed his teeth, saying he wanted to descend and beat Gluttony up.

“Don’t tell me… you came out here to look for ingredients that would go with ice cream?”

Raon narrowed his eyes as he looked at Gluttony.

“That’s right. I came out to find ingredients to make new bead ice cream. Since there are many things in the forest.”

Gluttony nodded calmly, saying that was correct.

“How about this?”

She reached out her hand to place a lump that looked like animal droppings onto the ice cream.

“Stop!”

Raon urgently ran over and grabbed Gluttony’s wrist.

“This place won’t do.”

Shaking his head, Raon thought of the only person who could save Gluttony from this.

“Come with me.”

Raon grabbed Gluttony’s wrist, pulled her up, and raised her chin.

“There’s someone who has everything you want.”

*   *   *

“Peaceful, and nice….”

Dorian let out an excited breath as he sprawled onto the soft bed.

“I don’t know what kind of work we’ll be doing here, but it should be better than at Seipia or Habun Castle.”

At Habun Castle, I had been terrified because of the monsters’ changes and the Demon King on the verge of exploding, and at Seipia I had been struck with fear because of the unknown clouds and fog.

But House Arianne was peaceful, and Raon had gone out alone, saying he would take care of matters himself.

There was no chance of meeting a Demon King, no danger, so I simply felt good.

“Today I’ll get a proper rest, and tomorrow I’ll look around the area to find decent supplies….”

It was the moment when Dorian slowly closed his eyes and was about to drift into sleep.

Thump, thump.

A dull knocking sound came from the window beside the bed.

“Wh-what the….”

Dorian’s jaw quivered as he sat up.

“This is the ninth floor though?”

Hearing someone knock on the window of the ninth floor made his heart feel like it was about to drop out.

On top of that, his perception sensed no presence at all, which made him even more flustered.

“A g-ghost….”

“Quiet and open up.”

Just as he was about to scream, a familiar voice came from outside the window.

“Huh…?”

Blinking, Dorian got out of bed and pulled back the thick curtains covering the window.

“Sir Raon? Sir Raon, why are you here…?”

The person outside was Raon, who had said he was going to look for a Demon King. He was holding onto the railing, staring at him.

“Walking up was a hassle.”

He spouted his usual nonsense and jerked his chin as if to say open the window already.

“R-right.”

Dorian swallowed dryly and opened the window.

‘Really a strange man.’

Even after seeing him for over ten years, I still haven’t gotten used to this man’s peculiarity.

“Here, take this first.”

Raon lifted his unseen left arm and pushed forward a white-haired, red-eyed child he had been holding.

“Ah, yes!”

Dorian blinked blankly, then took the child in both hands.

“Huh? This kid. I’ve seen her before….”

“That’s the Demon King. The Demon King of Gluttony, Gluttony.”

Raon spoke the Demon King’s epithet gently, like naming a kitten.

“Gyaaaaaaah!”

Only then did Dorian realize that the child Raon had been looking for was the white-haired, red-eyed one, and he threw Gluttony onto the bed.

“Wh-why are you doing this to me!”

He shouted for his life to be spared and shook his head frantically.

“Hmm.”

Even though she had been tossed onto the bed without warning, Gluttony looked at Dorian with clear, composed eyes as if nothing had happened.

“Is this the human who’s going to teach me a new taste?”

“That’s right.”

Raon nodded as he sat on the edge of Dorian’s bed.

“A n-new taste? I really don’t have any taste at all!”

Dorian frantically waved both hands, pleading not to be eaten.

“I thought it would be easier this time, but what is this again!”

He teared up, lamenting that there truly wasn’t a single easy day.

“Who said anyone was going to eat you?”

Raon knocked him on the head, telling him not to spout nonsense.

“Ugh, then what?”

Dorian clutched his head and sniffled.

“Get out the bead ice cream you have right now.”

Raon crooked his finger at him.

“Ah, yes!”

Dorian nodded and took ten boxes of bead ice cream from his belly pocket.

“Oh…?”

Gluttony’s eyes widened in surprise at the sudden appearance of the bead ice cream.

“Gluttony. What kind of taste do you want the ice cream to have?”

Raon jerked his chin at Gluttony.

“Hmm….”

Gluttony rubbed her fingers as if in thought, then raised her head.

“I want it to be salty.”

She blinked, saying she wanted salty ice cream.

“Dorian. Take out all the ingredients you have that can make it salty.”

Raon crooked his finger at Dorian.

“Ah, yes!”

The thought of supplying something seemed to erase his fear, and he immediately reached into his belly pocket.

Fwaaah!

Within seconds, he pulled out dozens of different kinds of salt, salty vegetables, and even fruits.

“This is sun-dried salt. It’s made from the sea, and because the grains are coarse, it’s often used for pickling. Besides the salty flavor, it also has a slight bitterness.

This one is rock salt. It’s the kind left behind in mineral form after seawater evaporates. The grains are larger, and it’s much saltier.

And that one comes from the mountains…”

Dorian not only took the salts out but also placed them on top of the ice cream while explaining them.

“Ahh….”

Gluttony couldn’t hold back and ate the ice cream topped with salt bite by bite. Her eyes began to glimmer faintly.

“You….”

Gluttony nodded as she grabbed Dorian’s wrist.

“I like you.”

“Eh? M-me? I really don’t taste good! I’ve got no meat, it’s all fat!”

Dorian’s face froze, turning pale.

“Hmm?”

Meanwhile, Raon smacked his lips briefly as he watched the scene.

‘Could this be….’

 

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