The Devil Who Grants Wishes

‘…you’re gone.’

Aegoceros stands blankly in Faust’s room, making judgments about the situation.

What the hell just happened?

Faust, no, I thought you weren’t a demon by birth, so you wouldn’t know how the devil lives, and that’s why you’re asking me such a basic question.

But… it wasn’t.

The master moved to the soul trader using the same magic that other demons use to respond to summons. So familiar and skillful.

[Demon, please save my mother because you can leave my soul as much as you want…]

‘…I can hear you now.’

Does it even make sense to notice the wishes of those who are trying to sell their souls before I even hear them and move on?

If someone wants to borrow a wish in exchange for a soul, it is telepathically transmitted to some nearby demons after a while, and the telepathy is received by all demons within range at the same moment.

This can also be seen as a law of the world, so that no one can ever break it. If you want to go, the only way is to overpower other demons by force.

But how on earth did the master grant his wish before the other demons?

Of course, the owner may know some tricks as much as he is a great evil who can freely control the space… But even so, what is surprising is surprising.

And yet, you didn’t even know how the demon was summoned… Did you test me? No, it wouldn’t be… Well, I don’t know.

‘Anyway, you are truly incomprehensible.’

Even though he is so strong, he reacts to a low-level soul trader, I can’t quite understand.

I haven’t looked at the quality of the soul trader, but just looking at the contents of my wish, isn’t it just a dumb bastard who doesn’t have any strength at all?

Why the hell did you go away in response to such a wish? Do you think the loss of mana used while teleporting and granting wishes will be greater than the gain from acquiring souls?

Do you just want to collect a lot of souls regardless of the consumption of magical power?

Anyway, I don’t think I would have gone… Aw, I don’t know. you’ll have an idea

Hang on

“…”

But what is this?

Suddenly, a flowerpot rose from the ground, and a flower with a thick and long stem came out of the flowerpot.

No, not flowers.

Although it looks like a flower, it has a strong magical power. Above all, there is no way flowers can move like animals.

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Tuk-tuk-

“…Hmm.”

Teeth grow on the petals, and the flower stalk turns into a worm’s mouth.

As saliva drips from his mouth, at the same time, a tumor grows all over his body, transforming into a bizarre figure.

I don’t know what you’re thinking, but I’m sure you’re hostile to me.

“A beast disguised as a flower, or a monster, what’s going on with me?”

Whether it is a monster made with only magical power, a beast that has mutated under the influence of magic, or because the magic structure is very complex, it is very difficult to identify, but at first glance it probably looks like a monster.

It’s rare for a beast that only mutates by receiving external magic power to harbor such powerful magic. It’s almost as good as me.

“Cree…”

“…don’t want to say anything.”

If it was a monster, he could talk, but he only made animal noises, so you have to look at me like an idiot. I have a very bad personality.

If I divert my nerves in the slightest, I will attack me with that flower-shaped mouth.

Well, if you want to fight, you have to do it.

What kind of monster do you dare?

[Junior, you are not polite to your senior.]

“…?”

As it is a monster, I expected that it would be able to communicate telepathically or anything, but I didn’t know that it would utter incomprehensible words.

Junior? senior?

what a bullshit

[I served Faust-sama before you, so I am your senior.]

“…”

Right…

As the owner, I know for sure.

I couldn’t tell right away because the master’s magical power was so strong around me, but this flower holds the master’s magic.

No, it’s not the level you’re holding, it’s exactly the same.

Then, both the state of the magic and the quantity, this must be a monster created by the master with magic.

[Be polite to your seniors.]

But even so, the words of the flower are so absurd.

First, do you want to show respect to flowers for serving their master? I?

No, my master is strong, so I even got my head banged. Do I have to be submissive to flowers just because I became the master’s servant before me?

First of all, I am not serving the master, but serving the master himself.

“To judge superiority by first becoming the master’s servant, there is no such thing as stupidity. As a matter of fact, superiority is decided by force, not first-come-first-served basis. In this case, I will be your senior.”

To ask the devil to decide who is superior or inferior on a first-come, first-served basis is nonsensical.

If I become a snake, I will ask you to become the head of the snake, and I will take the head among your servants.

Of course, as it was made with the master’s magic, it would be strong to some extent, but anyway, it’s a monster, so for me, an Arc Demon—

Cheeky profit

“–Kuh-huh?!”

At that moment, a flower suddenly rushed towards me and tore my arm like a piece of paper. It’s like eating well-cooked meat without any resistance.

was not even visible. Literally, in the blink of an eye, his arm was torn out in an instant.

What’s this…!

I don’t have a physical body, so I’m just being bitten by these physical bits?

Tuk-tuk-

‘Blood…?’

Even the torn part is bleeding.

It’s a body made of magical power, but blood is flowing, are you dreaming?

Besides, the severed arm isn’t even regenerating.

Even though I concentrate my mind and drive in my magic, I just keep bleeding— I wonder if my magic is bleeding…?

!

At that moment, the severed arm spit out of the flower’s mouth.

His teeth are quite sharp, so his arm is full of cuts, but it looks like he hasn’t chewed it since he’s in good shape.

[Be polite, be polite.]

This flower is very strong in contrast to its extremely poor appearance.

If the flower’s mouth was at my heart and not my arm… Damn it.

There’s no way.

“…see you senior.”

[excellent.]

But now I’m losing to flowers, what the hell is this… ha.

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[Uhhhh…thank you…thank you…!]

[Never make a wish to the devil again.]

Ooh, I’m dizzy.

If this time too, if he summoned me for a different reason, such as asking for money or power, I was going to have fun with him, but I couldn’t because my wish was too wishful.

It was definitely a state that could not be solved with the power of a child alone.

‘Still making a wish to the devil, what are you thinking?’

Had it not been me but another demon had come, something terrible would have happened.

Neither I nor Faust are completely convinced of that.

Since the child’s only wish was to save his mother, he must have revived his mother as an undead, or just gave her life and made it worse than death.

I was brought in, but I’m glad I came, not another demon.

‘…what?’

It’s surprisingly not that bad, is it?

Up until now, I’ve felt pretty bad about being dragged into making a wish every day, but come to think of it, if it wasn’t for me, another demon would have gone, right?

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Man, thinking that way makes me feel a little bad, saving victims from the devil.

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‘…?’

At that moment, Faust’s body reacted.

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My heart is pounding, I feel sad, I feel compassion, and I feel regret.

It’s not a feeling the devil can feel.

‘…no way.’

It’s been two years since I possessed Faust’s body, but I still can’t control Faust’s body.

Not being able to speak coolly on my own terms, and having an unnecessarily high posture fixed.

If that’s the case, isn’t it that I just didn’t notice, and that I can’t control not only words and posture, but also other things?

‘When I tried to subdue the denomination, the magic went to my neck even though I didn’t aim for the neck.’

When the aim was wrong and the priests were beheaded by mistake, I wondered if I got the zero point strangely, so I immediately tried casting the magic again, but the zero point was perfect.

At the time, it was just ridiculous because things were progressing so fast that I couldn’t pay attention to them, but now that I think about it again, I am very suspicious.

What if Faust’s will was strong not only in his words and posture, but also when he used magic?

If you think about it that way, the front and back are right.

No matter how bad the priests were, I didn’t want to kill them, but Faust just wanted to kill me, so the magic aim went to my neck.

Just like I’m against Faust and can’t control my words and posture.

‘The most basic setting of Faust… he made a wish to the devil, and then the devil grants him a wish and corrupts it.’

As it was supposed to be released in two years at the earliest, I never got the setting right down to the details, but the setting of a wizard who once made a wish to the devil and fell into despair was definitely captured.

If you combine the inability to use magic at will, the emotions you just felt, and the settings that form the basis of Faust…

“Do you not want to make victims like yourself?”

Until now, if someone made a wish to the devil, Faust was hitting the player before the other demons were summoned.

So that the devil cannot go to the victim.

lest the victim be unhappy with the devil.