The Devil Who Grants Wishes

244 – The Story of Bugs (2)

“So, you don’t know the cause of those bugs?”

“Yes…”

After defeating the insect attack, the knights and adventurers who realized that it was pointless to fight against such an overwhelmingly strong Lucia are obeying Lucia’s words. To be precise, it was obeyed.

Imagining a future in which their souls are stolen by Lucia, such an overwhelmingly strong demon, the knights and adventurers respond to Lucia’s words with an attitude full of despair.

‘Why are they like this?’

Actually, Lucia, who was watching it, was wondering why these kids were doing that.

Because he is a special devil who did not go through the normal route, that is, he was not corrupted by despair by the devil or born as a devil from the beginning, but was merely transformed by demonic energy, Lucia does not really want their ill feelings. No, to Lucia, who has a human heart in the first place, other people’s negative emotions such as fear, sadness, fear, and jealousy are just something unpleasant.

More than anything, Lucia can’t even imagine that they are scared because they think their souls will be taken from her.

Lucia, like her father Faust, thinks that even if he wins people’s souls, he has no use for them. He doesn’t even understand the concept of receiving a soul in return for granting a wish in the first place.

Her father, whom Lucia had seen so far, never did anything like that.

From Lucia’s perspective, it was just like granting a wish for free, and as Lucia grew up seeing such things, what they were afraid of was simply something incomprehensible, the cause of which could not be determined.

“…Well, I understand. I’ll have to find the cause first.”

Lucia quickly decides that there is no way she can get any help from idiots who can’t even speak properly and are hesitant.

Lucia, who stopped paying attention to the squirming people, looked at the horizon where the bugs were rushing towards, and then flew towards it at high speed. The people left behind looked at Lucia and tried to say something, but Lucia flew away faster than they could open their mouths.

If Lucia had had some spare time, she could have listened a little, but unfortunately, Lucia does not have that kind of spare time now.

‘I don’t know what those b*tches will do to my dad while I’m away.’

As much as she needs to resolve the matter as quickly as possible and return home, Lucia does not choose any means. Above all, since Lucia has the “Right to take on Faust” Tonight, it would be a disaster if work got delayed and she had to go home late. He has to wait 9 more days and there is no way he can bear it.

Unless he is to console himself alone with a sense of defeat, he must deal with the commotion of the bugs.

For Lucia, who is so honest and upright, there is no option to go back without granting her wish. Didn’t the father whom Lucia had seen in the first place come back after granting her wish, even though his methods may have been twisted?

It would be better to completely wipe out this area with great magic and destroy it along with the insects. I can’t go back without granting at least a little of my wish.

“Here we are.”

Leaving behind everyone who is dumbfounded because she cannot follow the flow of the story, Lucia flies at a speed exceeding the speed of sound and breaks through the corpses of insects, eventually reaching what appears to be the source of the insects.

Countless insects are popping out from the entrance of a huge cave, which she openly says is suspicious. The appearance and species of the insects are so diverse that at first you may doubt your own eyes as to whether you have seen something wrong.

It is accurate to say that it is not ants that come out of an ant cave, but all kinds of bugs, including dragonflies, caterpillars, rhinoceros beetles, stag beetles, spiders, caterpillars, and centipedes.

“…Gross.”

And Lucia frowns as she looks at those bugs.

When I just swept away countless bugs with a magic mine, I didn’t look closely at the bugs and my vision was blurry, so I wasn’t particularly impressed, but now that I was observing the cave where the bugs were coming out, the story was completely different.

Lucia, who has nothing but an overwhelmingly strong and quite twisted sense of self towards her father, Faust, but otherwise the heart of a girl, cannot bear the abominations that blanket her vision.

To other people, the monsters and beasts that Lucia loves are dozens of times more disgusting and hideous than those bugs, but Lucia thinks those bugs are even more hideous.

Quaaa!!!

“Keeek!!!”

Lucia, realizing that that cave is the cause of the waves of these bugs, stops observing and begins to take action.

The huge carpet of flame burns up all the bugs that fill the ground, and the huge pillar of flame goes straight into the cave and burns all the bugs that would be filling the cave.

Not long after, the bugs that filled Lucia’s field of vision disappeared everywhere.

“The effect was good, but… Ugh…”

Lucia frowns as she smells the burning insects filling her nostrils and walks towards the cave.

I really didn’t want to go in, but if I don’t solve the source of this wave of bugs, my wish hasn’t been resolved, so Lucia has no other options.

…………

“…This.”

And as Lucia walked into the cave, she began to doubt her eyes.

Of course, this cave was not an ordinary cave, so I went in with some preparation, but even so, I never dreamed that it would be this unrealistic.

This cave was created by cunningly avoiding and bypassing all existing laws of physics and magic. This… Is like a divine technique that is impossible to follow unless you are completely familiar with all the physical and magical laws that exist in this world.

Thinking that Elias would be happy to see this sight, Lucia steps forward little by little, preparing to open her portal and run away if anything goes even slightly wrong.

“Keeek!!”

“…”

Even though disgusting insects block her path and the smell of burning insects taints her nose, Lucia, who is very nervous, does not show any signs of disgust unlike before.

Showing off such a look is just a luxury she can afford only when she is clearly superior, so right now Lucia is just being serious.

Lucia walked through the cave for a while and eventually discovered something huge in a large cavity.

It’s a bug.

It’s also a bug with all kinds of things unpleasantly intertwined with it.

“…What is this?”

It seems as if all the bugs existing in the world were gathered together and made into a ball. The beam of light that protrudes from that bug ball touches the wall of the cavity and eventually creates the bugs that it has been killing so far.

This is not a simple summoning or creation of a golem. It is literally no different from creating life out of thin air as if it were something that occurred naturally.

‘This… I can’t handle it, I should at least call some other kids… No, I should call my dad instead-‘

[Oops, wasn’t he an intruder but a guest?]

“–Ugh.”

After witnessing a miracle that never happens in reality, Lucia, who is about to leave this position, hears a voice filled with an overwhelming unknown.

It is not the mystery caused by the unknown that can be understood like the God of Light and Seraphia, but the feeling of emptiness caused by the unknown that cannot be understood fills Lucia’s five senses.

Lucia carefully moved her gaze in the direction where her voice was heard, and at the end of her gaze, there was only one small, pure white caterpillar.

However, Lucia does not consider it to be just a small pure white caterpillar. No, not only Lucia but anyone else would not be able to call that caterpillar a bug.

The overwhelming unknown that emerges from that caterpillar is enough to make Lucia’s senses feel the fear caused by the unknown.

[Welcome, I must show hospitality to the daughter of my close friend.]

“Ugh…”

However, despite Lucia’s feelings, that white caterpillar does not harbor any hostility toward Lucia. Even though it was certain that Lucia had killed all of the countless bugs she had created.

“…Friend?”

[Yes, Faust. A close friend who gave me a new life. Lucia, aren’t you his daughter?]

“…”

Even though she did not introduce herself, Lucia can’t do anything to the caterpillar who acts as if she knows everything about Lucia and who seems to be manipulating reality to her will.

Just as the caterpillar guides, you sit in a luxurious chair that appears out of thin air in a cave that resembles a palace and are treated to a sumptuous feast.