Dietrich entered the dungeon where Illeon was trapped. Next to him was Seliya, holding a cage containing Popo.
The torch hanging on the wall gave off a soft glow.
As they entered deeper into the prison, they saw Anderson and Illeon locked behind bars.
“Your Excellency Duke Calypso.”
Anderson bowed his head deeply toward Dietrich.
“Has anything new happened without me?”
"Yes."
Just as Anderson had seen Dietrich for a long time, Dietrich also learned something from watching Anderson for quite a few years.
“...”
Dietrich's eyes landed on Anderson's slightly trembling eyelids.
Anderson seemed to have a lot to ask, but in the end, he didn't ask anything.
“You can just leave now.”
Anderson responded to Dietrich's command.
“...All right."
Anderson left.
Illeon, wearing a restraint, was trapped beyond the spot where he left.
Illeon, who was inside the cage, looked at Dietrich and Seliya and smiled, lifting his lips.
“What’s the situation outside?”
Dietrich answered dryly when he dared to criticize me.
“You don’t need to know.”
“I’m sure the newspaper today published the fact that you imprisoned me. I’m sure no one doesn’t know this by now.”
Although Illeon was cut off from the outside world, he acted as if he knew everything about the situation outside.
“Even if you burn the Great Temple or kill me, you will not be able to completely destroy Abelon. In the first place, do you think the sizes of kingdoms and empires can be compared?”
Illeon added, leaning back.
“You can never defeat me.”
Seliya glared at Illeon.
“Do you think it’s a battle where you win and lose? It's not like that. Since you destroyed our kingdom, all we have to do is do what must be done.”
Illeon's eyes slid down to Selya.
"Princess."
It was a sticky, sticky voice.
“Do you blame me?”
“...”
“Do you blame me for taking everything away from you?”
Illeon's eyes took on a strange glow as if he was hoping for resentment.
Dietrich stood in front as if protecting Seliya.
As Seliya disappeared from sight, Illeon's eyes became cold.
“You are in prison now and there is nothing you can do. Whether you ordered a maid to spread the word in advance or reported it to the newspaper, those things pose no threat to us.”
Illeon rolled his eyes at Dietrich's words.
“Is that really the case?”
Illeon slowly closed his eyes.
“You can watch with your own eyes the destruction of Abelon from here.”
Illeon laughed quietly at Dietrich’s words.
***
After confirming that Illeon was in prison, the two returned to the mansion.
"Popo. I won’t leave you alone anymore.”
Seliya hung Popo's cage in her sleeping room.
She was relieved to see him in front of her.
Seliya left the door to the cage open so that Popo could come and go freely.
Puduck! Puduck!
Popo seemed to like Seliya's room and flew around.
“Do you like it that much?”
Dietrich narrowed his eyes as he looked at the silver cage hanging in Seliya's room.
“Do you have to bring it into the room?”
“I think he’s anxious because he can’t see me.”
Seliya shrugged her shoulders as if to see what was the problem.
Dietrich shook his head.
“I don’t know if this is a new house or someone else’s house.”
“He was captured by a maniac, so please tolerate this.”
Dietrich looked like something he didn't like.
“Besides, you gave me Popo as a gift.”
“...”
As Popo was enjoying his freedom, flying here and there, he turned to Seliya and she said.
“Popo, how about finding a partner for you later?”
Popo's eyes slowly turned towards Seliya.
"How is it? Good?"
Popo nodded, brushing his beak up and down.
"OK, fine. I will definitely find you a pretty female.”
Seliya rolled her eyes as she promised Popo.
“Female, female!”
Popo followed Seliya's words and flapped her wings.
Seliya said, loving Popo.
“I guess it’s good to have a partner.”
“...The males.”
Dietrich shook his head.
***
Seliya was tired so she closed her eyes on the bed for a moment.
But suddenly she felt someone looking down on her.
It was a gaze so intense that she could feel it even with her eyes closed.
Seliya slowly opened her eyes in displeasure.
She saw Popo exactly where she had the best view, and he was looking at her.
"Popo?!"
Surprised, Seliya opened her mouth.
“Female, female!”
Popo shouted the word 'female', and suddenly Popo lunged at Seliya, flapping its wings wildly.
The guy disturbed Seliya by wagging her beak.
Popo, who had caught Seliya out of his wits, jabbed his beak hard into his bulging breasts.
“Female, female!”
"Popo! Come on?"
Seliya pushed away Popo in surprise. But Popo was persistent.
Dietrich appeared after opening the door to the room and quickly snatched up the gun.
“If I just open my eyes, I will get four months.”
Puduk! Puduk!
Popo, caught in Dietrich's hand, flapped his wings and tried to escape.
“This guy. It’s not Popo.”
Dietrich furrowed his eyebrows.
Popo, who was caught by Dietrich, tried to bite Dietrich, but it was not enough.
Puduk! Puduk!
“There is something else in Popo’s body.”
"What?"
Seliya opened her mouth.
“Does this guy still look like Popo?”
The thing that was running wild in Dietrich's hands was not Popo, but something else.
Popo's black eyes had suddenly turned golden.
Seliya remembered seeing snake-like golden eyes that expanded and contracted repeatedly.
“You crazy Arthur! What on earth did you do to Popo!”
An enraged Seliya screamed at Popo.
Dietrich twisted Popo's neck, which was fluttering like crazy, and used his strength to pull out something that had entered its body.
Dietrich felt something writhing in his hand.
"Damn."
Dietrich cursed and furrowed his eyebrows.
“It is Arthur’s soul.”
“?”
“Since he died and can no longer use his human body, he borrowed Popo’s body to lust after you.”
“...What?"
Seliya looked at Popo, whose neck had been twisted by Dietrich, with a look of disbelief on her face.
“It looks like he took care of it before he died. Somehow, he seemed so fine. It was all a trick.”
Dietrich used his fingertips to try to pull Arthur's soul out of Popo's body.
“Seliyaaaaaaa!”
Then, a deep male voice came out of Popo’s mouth.
“Naaaah, I won’t die. Never."
It was a voice that did not match Popo's cute and adorable appearance at all.
It was so bizarre to see Popo spitting out those words with his neck twisted.
Seliya's eyes trembled.
“Kkkkkkk.”
Popo's creepy smiling eyes were focused on Seliya.
Doing something like that with Popo's body?
Seliya could never forgive Arthur.
"Stop! You crazy guy!”
“Kkkkkkk. Hahaha!”
Despite Seliya's cries, Popo laughed even more bizarrely.
Looking at that behavior, there was no doubt that Arthur had entered the body.
Quack!
Dietrich held Popo's body tighter.
The guy was struggling, as if trying to make his last struggle, trying to get out of Dietrich's hand.
But since it had the body of a bird, it was just a bird.
Arthur's spirit, unable to overcome the limitations of the current, struggled until the end.
“You are mine, I will definitely take you. You seem like a good thing.”
Dietrich placed his hand on Popo's head. And then, he squeezed with all his might.
“Kaaaaaaak!”
Arthur's torn scream echoed from Popo's throat.
Popo, whose body was trembling, soon hung his head and fell limp.
"It's okay. You need stability.”
Seliya looked at the helpless, limp Popo with her empty eyes.
“Let’s get rid of this cage first.”
Dietrich pulled the silver cage down from the ceiling as if he didn't want to see it.
"Popo... Is Popo dead?”
“...”
“Poor Popo...”
He met a bad owner and got kidnapped. He ends up like this because he was bullied by Arthur.
Seliya felt very sorry for Popo.
“It won’t die.”
“?”
“It just needs stability. It’ll be back, don’t worry.”
Seliya looked down at Popo, who was motionless, with a worried look on her face.
Just looking at the arm, it looked like Popo was dead, as he wasn't even making a sound of breathing.
“It will survive.”
Dietrich spoke as if to reassure Seliya, who was looking at Popo with her face filled with worry.
“You don’t have to worry.”
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