That night, in the drawing room of Grand Duke Ethel's residence.
Kenneth was teasing Chession.
"Grand Duke, I didn't see you like that, but you're secretly cute."
"Be quiet."
Kenneth stammered with a very handsome face. This was because, during the conversation, he learned in detail what Chession had misunderstood.
"But why is the Grand Duke so cold? My body is chilling."
"It's because there are a lot of ghosts near you."
"Yes? A ghost?"
"All the ghosts in the Grand Duke's residence have flocked to you. To see your handsome face."
"Ha, haha. Grand Duke, I didn't see you like that, but you know how to tell cute jokes."
"I'm not kidding."
Kenneth looked around for no reason. While rubbing the goosebumps on both arms.
"Well, there are witches and demons in the world, and of course, there are ghosts. But are those ghosts pretty?"
The eyes of the ghosts all turned to Chession. Chession replied with all his might for the peace of the house.
"...Yes."
"I think the answer is a bit slow."
"I don't lie about this."
"You look ugly."
"Think as you please. By the way, little Duke, you might be crushed by scissors tonight. Because the ghosts seem to like you."
"Haha, I know you're lying to scare me because you don't like me."
At that moment, Iris came in through the open window. She barely managed to get out of the ghost slayer's pottery, and she was quite exhausted.
Chession rushed to her.
"Iris! Why are you like this? Did you meet a witch when you came here?"
Kenneth looked at Grand Duke Ethel talking in the air and clicked his tongue. He thought he couldn't tell if he was crazy or not.
***
It was late at dawn, and Kenneth fell asleep in the guest room.
Chession couldn't sleep. He was going to wait for Mori to return.
'Mori, are you okay?'
Gremory wouldn't lose to Lace, who lost her weapon, but he was worried. Maybe she's struggling.
Just as he was staring blankly out the window, he started to hear a dog barking from somewhere. It seemed like a very large dog barking fiercely.
'What kind of dog is that? There are no dogs in the Grand Duke's residence?'
The barking of the dog grew closer and closer. Feeling puzzled, Chession looked out the window.
And he witnessed it. A scene where a huge blue wolf monster jumps over the fence and rushes into the garden.
"Charlie? What's wrong with him?"
For some reason, Charlie, who was very angry, ran across the garden fiercely. Lightly piercing through the knights who restrain them.
Charlie broke in and sat down at the entrance of the mansion. Then he began to bark and wait as if he were protesting.
The servants, who were awakened by the barking, rushed to the first floor one by one. Chession also hurried down to the first floor. Before he could show up outside the mansion, Charlie barked fiercely.
"What the hell is going on? Please explain."
Bang bang!
Charlie bared his teeth and pointed to the writing he had written on the ground.
"The lake is polluted. I thought it would be like this. I told you no!"
"Oh my God... Charlie, calm down for now. I'll try to solve it somehow."
"There's no way to solve it! The forest spirits tried like crazy and failed! But how do you purify it? Just put out one of your arms. That way, the monsters of the forest will be satisfied!"
Growl!
Charlie opened his mouth and rushed at Chession. Chession blocked Charlie's teeth with the sword summoned by magic.
"Don't do this! There must be a way! I will purify with all the holy relics in the Grand Duke's Territory... Ugh!"
Charlie's huge teeth began to twist Chession's sword. Charlie gradually lost his temper, and Chession wondered whether to fight back or not.
Alice, who was watching, took a broom and parted Charlie on the head.
"Oh ho! What an ignorant beast! Will tearing off my arm solve the situation?"
Growl!
Charlie changed his goal and rushed at Alice. At that moment, Chession summoned his sword and stood in Alice's way.
After stopping in front of the blade, Charlie calmed down his excitement.
"You clearly said that you would be responsible if the lake were polluted. Put out your arms for a while. And never come into my forest again."
Alice poked her head over Chession's shoulder.
"May I check the condition of the lake? The lake was polluted by the Princess of Iberia, who was attacked by witches. If the witch's energy melted into the lake is the cause of the pollution, then I, as a witch, may be able to solve it."
Wow!
The mad Charlie turned his head. It meant that he didn't like it. Alice did not lose.
"Hoho. Think well, Charlie. Maybe I can solve the problem that the forest spirits can't purify even if they work for a hundred days, right?"
...Boom.
Charlie barked timidly. When he thinks about it, it's true, but he didn't want to admit that he was angry until now, even if it was because he was hesitant. He didn't want to entrust the Important task of cleaning the lake to an evil witch.
"You only have your chance, Charlie. If you keep coming out like this, you won't solve it either. Of course, I can't even give my lord's arm. Hoho."
Charlie closed his eyes tightly and let out a sigh. Although the current situation is very annoying, the first priority was to use the power of witches or whatever it was to purify the lake.
"If you can't purify it, I'll bite your arms."
"If you can, let's do it. Hoho~"
Alice, who had laughed at Charlie, hid behind Chession. The liberated Charlie whined as he covered his eyes with both front paws.
***
After temporarily turning off the activation of the relic shield to unleash the witch's power, Chession rode with Alice and quickly moved to the verdant forest.
The entrance to the forest where they arrived. A lot of sensitive monsters and spirits roared.
Woof!
Charlie, who barked, winked to follow him. Alice and Chession passed through the inhabitants of the angry forest and entered the forest path.
That's how they arrived at the Lake of Purification. The water in the lake, which should have been immaculately clear, had turned a cloudy gray.
Alice lowered her posture and looked closely at the hazy lake.
"Well, I definitely feel the aura of a witch... It's strange."
"What?"
Chession approached Alice and asked.
"No matter how you look at it, it looks like the energy of a demon god."
"What? The demon god is bound to the demon world and cannot descend to the human world."
"The demon god has a lot of strange magic tools. It may have affected the human world."
Did it react to Alice's presence? In the middle of the lake, a dark shadow began to swim. The shadow instantly transformed into a distinct human form and began to rush frantically towards Chession.
Just before the shadow reached out to Chession, Alice snatched it coldly.
"Ugh! What the heck? Let this go!"
Serietti's alter ego, which melted from Iberia, was grabbed by Alice's hair.
"Have you forgotten that there is no witch in the demon world who can beat my reflexes? Hoho. However, your strength is very weak for a demon god. Are you an alte rego?".
"I don't know, let this go right away! It's an order!"
Serietti's alter ego was scrambling in Alice's clutches.
"I don't like it. If you let it go, you'll harm our lord."
"Damn, dare you betray me and stick to Gremory? Do you think you'll be safe even then?"
"As you can see, I'm very safe. Hoho."
Chession approached the stiff Serietti.
"I have something I want to ask."
"Shut up and give me Gremory."
"I heard that you have already eaten a huge number of witches. I think it must have covered the amount needed for the worship that you drank, so why do you still continue to eat witches and target Gremory?"
"It's all because of her!"
Like a maniac, Serietti's alter ego began to murmur in blank eyes.
"It's all because of Amelia. If she hadn't been born as my twin, she wouldn't have touched her body-changing black magic, and I wouldn't have become a demon god!"
"What is that..."
Serietti's alter ego only screamed with an incomprehensible meaning. Alice exploded from her clutches, annihilating Serietti.
"I thought it would be difficult to get a proper answer, so I just killed it. Are you okay?"
"..."
"Your Highness?"
"Huh? Uh."
"What are you thinking so seriously?"
"Alice."
"Yes!"
"Never tell Mori what happened on the lake today."
"Yes? Why?"
"Don't ask, just don't do it."
Chession was contemplative. It was because the words he heard from Marvas kept running through his head.
'Your lover, Gremory, is also one of the demon god's vengeful soul fragments. If you want to get rid of the demon god, you must kill your lover.'
He thought it was the devil's trick, so he tried to forget it. However, the reaction of Serietti's alter ego that he had just seen changed his mind.
'If those words are the truth, not the devil's jokes, what will happen to us?'
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