The Devil Who Grants Wishes - The Devil Who Grants Wishes chapter 122

122 – to the sky (4)

[You want to go out? Okay, let’s go.]

[Really…?! Go, Gaia. thank you!!]

At first, I was just happy.

Because I was finally able to go out of the Great Forest.

No matter how refreshing it is, I was finally able to escape from a world full of green paper and brown pillars.

As soon as I heard Gaia-sama’s answer, I imagined all sorts of things.

What the outside will look like, where and where the Great Forest and the outside will be different, why the hell the people of the same country say not to go outside the Great Forest, and the reasons.

[I’m going to put myself in the right position for the generous treatment—-]

[But keep in mind that once you leave, you will never come back.]

[…Yes?]

But that joy didn’t last long.

After listening to Gaia-sama’s words that followed, I felt the world suddenly turn upside down.

Remember that once you leave, you will never come back. What does this mean? Isn’t that a roundabout way of saying don’t go out?

It was almost as if if the person who said these words had been someone other than Gaia-sama, I wondered if he would be picking me up.

[Go, Gaia-sama…]

[Why is that?]

But no.

Gaia-nim answered that if she went out innocently without such intention, she would not be able to return.

There is no other intention.

For Gaia-sama, it is an absolute truth that elves like me cannot return if they leave the Great Forest, so Gaia-sama simply answered by reciting the truth. There is no malice at all.

[Why… why can’t I come back once I leave the Great Forest?]

[Because that is the fate of you, the vault of life. The safe of life exposed to outside fraud cannot be accepted back into the ark of life.]

Right after realizing that, I couldn’t do anything.

I just trembled and didn’t know what to do when I saw Gaia-sama’s reaction.

[I’m sorry! I’m really… really sorry…!!]

[…?]

I apologized to the extent that all of my beautiful hair was washed to the ground for rudeness to Gaia-sama.

However, that apology did not work at all for Gaia-sama.

No, Gaia couldn’t even understand why she was apologizing.

[Then why don’t you go out?]

[Yes…?]

[Didn’t you say you wanted to go outside? So I respect your will and ask you to go outside. Then shouldn’t we go out soon?]

[That’s… what the hell…]

From Gaia’s point of view, she only showed mercy.

If it is not mercy, then what is it when the meekness of granting the wishes of a poor creature, a wish contrary to one’s own destiny?

I asked for a wish and received mercy, and refusing that mercy again was the greatest insult and provocation to Gaia-sama, so I had no choice but to leave the Great Forest on the spot.

And the scenery of the world that was not the great forest that I saw like that… it was literally hell.

[what’s this…]

The dry land where vegetation is natural and not even moss can be found, the sharp red stones that have not been weathered at all by rain and wind, the warm sunlight suddenly turns into a sharp arrow and scratches the whole body mercilessly, and it is clear that the rain is pouring down. Even though it was raining, the fresh soil smell that could be smelled in the Great Forest was gone.

At that moment, I wanted to return to the Great Forest by any means necessary.

He mobilized all possible means and methods, and in the end, he had to sell his soul and borrow the power of the devil.

[My body no longer has the frauds of the outside world! So, I can live in the Great Forest again—- hee hee hee…]

[Get out of here right now.]

And even so, the price of returning to the Great Forest was Gaia-sama’s ruthless refusal.

No, can we call this a refusal?

Rejection and acceptance are possible only in an equal or equivalent relationship, and Gaia-sama did not recall the concept of rejecting a lower being and just acted as if it were natural.

[Poor child, you have thrown off your morale and put on your demonic energy. You have abandoned me and served the devil.]

[Oh no! Not at all! Serving the devil, what the hell

[It became an excuse. I will have mercy on you, my creature and once my servant, purify your demonic energy, and tear the demon that deceived you to death. However, you will never come back here again. That is the mercy and punishment I bestow upon you, Irene.]

After Gaia-sama’s words were finished, the demon that was waiting to take my soul was immediately seized by Gaia-sama’s grasp, and its body was cut so that it could not be recognized, and it died as it was.

I, who was watching the scene from the side, trembled at the sight of endless misery, and then trudged out of the great forest again.

[Haa… haaa…]

After that, he literally wandered the world.

I walked until my legs gave out and I collapsed on its own, and when I got better, I got up and walked again.

Her long hair, which boasted a beautiful shine, was tangled and cut short over the course of her journey, and her pointy ears were also cut off when defending herself from an attack.

But it wasn’t sad or painful.

Because more pain was already filling my heart.

[uh…? This smell of wood—what!?]

And after walking for such an endless amount of time, at some point, the soil that was merely red turned black, and the red stones became white, just like those seen in the Great Forest. The world, where vegetation and moss could not be found, was just full of green light everywhere, as if it had never been.

The moment I realized that, I returned to the great forest, trembling like a bowstring.

Assuming that Gaia-sama’s punishment was finally over, choked up with emotion, she burst into tears at the thought of being able to live with everyone again.

However, the Great Forest was no longer the home of his people.

[You… who are you? oooh, the smell…]

[That’s what I want to ask! You guys… who the hell are you!!]

The people living in the Great Forest were just something that resembled their own people, and Gaia-sama’s energy was nowhere to be found.

Realizing that, I felt frustrated and despaired as if I had been left alone in the world.

I had been left alone for a long time.

……….

“… haaa.”

Your face is cold.

No, it’s not cold, but should I say sticky?

Tsk… To dream of that time again. It’s been a few years, damn.

“Ehh…”

Standing up slowly, I wiped the water from my face with the clothes I was wearing.

In the process, the clothes are lifted up, creating a very strict scene, but there is no one here except the young elf, Aren, so there is no need to worry about other people’s eyes.

No, even if there were other people besides Aren, I wouldn’t have bothered. Look, what are you going to do, it’s nothing to be ashamed of.

“Hey… are you okay?”

“Yeah, it’s okay. If you have water, scoop it up.”

“Yes, four…!”

Perhaps nervous about my completely changed energy, Arn moves his body as if he had met me for the first time.

Seeing that he cares about my feelings even in the midst of that, he is a really nice kid.

Totally different from a year like me.

‘…Is it really okay?’

It would not be a coincidence at all that I had a dream at that time.

After being punished by Gaia for making a deal with the devil and being kicked out of the Great Forest, again going to the devil for help?

If Faust demands something in return, am I obliged to comply?

At that time, they borrowed the power of the devil to return to the Great Forest, and now it is said that they are borrowing the power of the devil to protect the Great Forest, but regardless of the intention, in the end, the use of the devil’s power remains the same.

At that time, I borrowed the power of the devil, saying there was no other way, and now I am trying to borrow the power of the devil, saying there is no other way. Really, I have not changed at all.

Tuwook

“Thank you. You should at least drink cold water—yes!?”

When I felt a presence next to me, I thought that Arn had brought water, so I reached out, but the feeling I felt at my fingertips was completely different from what I had imagined.

It felt like touching frozen metal, and it gave me goosebumps that made the hairs all over my body stand on end. Responding to the demonic energy coming through my fingertips, my body jumps up and stimulates the trauma of being abandoned by Gaia-sama again.

“…Where are you touching now?”

And it seems I’m not the only one confused.

When I hurriedly turned my head, Faust was there with a frown on his face, looking at me and firing words.

Judging from the position of the hand I just stretched out and the height of Faust… uh… um…

“I really didn’t know, sorry.”

“…”

He hurriedly lowered his head and apologized, while rubbing his fingers on the dirt floor to wipe it off.

Faust looked at me like that and couldn’t decide what to say, so he just silently looked down at me.