Silver Dragon Chronicle
Episode 30
In an instant, Jehwa rushed at Diadelin.
Crash!
“Keuk!”
The moment she looked at Jehwa with a deathly pale face, Diadelin let out a sigh of relief as she saw the guard knight blocking her path.
But that too lasted only a moment…
Bang!
She was forced to make a blank expression as she watched the guard knight fly through the air.
Thud!
Diadelin’s face contorted in shock as she watched the guard knight crash to the ground.
How on earth could he send a Demon Count flying in a single blow? After even clashing with her?
“I-is this really the power of a Demon Marquis?”
And the power of a high-ranking Demon Marquis at that!
When Jehwa’s gaze turned to Diadelin, her body shuddered.
Those eyes filled with madness proved that Jehwa had lost his reason.
Without realizing it, she took a step back.
In all her hundreds of years of life, had she ever felt her life threatened like this?
Pure, primordial killing intent and madness…….
“Kikikik!”
Clutch!
“Keok!”
In that instant, Jehwa’s hand grabbed Diadelin by the throat.
“Uuugh…….”
Diadelin’s face gradually turned pale as the crushing pressure on her throat made it impossible to breathe.
Yet it seemed dying from a broken neck would be faster than suffocating to death.
Crack!
“Uuugh!”
Her face twisted in terror.
“Ahahahahahaha!”
Finding that sight so amusing, Jehwa broke into a great laugh with an innocent smile.
“Ugh…….”
It was when Diadelin sensed death with an expression on the verge of tears.
“Hahahahahahahahaha……. Ha……. Ha…….”
“……?”
“…….”
Jehwa, who had been laughing like a madman, gradually began to stop, and soon fell silent.
Thud!
“Cough! Cough!”
Freed from Jehwa’s grip, Diadelin coughed as she looked up at him.
Whooooosh!
A wind blew suddenly.
In that wind, Jehwa’s long hair fluttered. And his black hair, which held a silvery sheen, gradually turned silver.
Diadelin’s eyes grew wider and wider at that mysterious sight.
“It’s been a while.”
Eunjehwa spoke softly to Diadelin with a gentle smile.
“Eunjehwa!”
Diadelin recognized him and shouted with a shocked face.
“H-how…….”
Diadelin stared blankly at Eunjehwa with an expression of disbelief.
She had thought that Eunjehwa, the Silver Dragon Prince, and Jehwa, whom she had fought moments ago, were the same person.
She had merely thought he had lost his memories and become human, but that was not the case.
“C-could it be……. Were you a different personality?”
“Correct.”
At Diadelin’s words, Eunjehwa answered with a smile.
“To be precise, Jehwa and I are one, yet also different.”
“……. I see.”
At Eunjehwa’s words, Diadelin muttered with a face full of malice.
“Is your soul’s affinity identical? What a peculiar case……. You didn’t reincarnate. You’re parasitizing the body of someone in this world who possesses a soul with the exact same aura as yours.”
“Parasitizing……. That’s a bit unpleasant to hear?”
“I’m simply stating the facts.”
At Eunjehwa’s words, Diadelin frowned and spoke.
“Well, think whatever you want.”
“…….”
At Eunjehwa’s words, Diadelin’s face contorted mercilessly.
“Right……. Why would a guy parasitizing someone else’s body come to see me? Did you come to mock me?”
“How did you get here?”
“What?”
“This place and that place are completely severed worlds. When I came here, my connection to my physical body was completely severed. It was merely a spirit body created from my soul’s memories that was barely protecting my soul.”
A soul that has lost its body cannot remain in the mortal world as it is.
Seen that way, Eunjehwa was quite a peculiar case.
Due to an unexpected accident, his soul was ejected from his body and happened to flow into this world.
In the process of being cast away, Eunjehwa’s soul created a spirit body to protect itself, allowing his soul to remain in the mortal world.
Of course, he had eventually reached a state where he could no longer maintain the spirit body and had fused with Jehwa, but still.
Anyway, Eunjehwa’s current wish was only one. To return to the Dragon Realm and meet his mother!
He had promised his younger brother—to his younger brother, Jehwa.
He said he would give him everything……. his body, his power, his position, authority, and wealth as the prince of Eunnara in the Dragon Realm……. And he said he would show Jehwa the existence called “Mother.”
His ever-so-kind mother……. He might not be able to meet her, but his younger brother could find happiness.
Now that he was Jehwa and Jehwa was him, if Jehwa became happy, he could be happy too.
That was why he had to go back.
But since such a case had never occurred before, the path ahead had been bleak, and it was then that Diadelin, the Flame Princess of the Demon Realm and daughter of the Flame Demon King, appeared.
That was a ray of hope for Eunjehwa.
“How did you get here?”
“Ahahahaha!”
She realized. That she held the hilt of the sword…….
“Well now……. How did I get here?”
The Eunjehwa she knew had been someone with a very weak disposition.
Confident that Eunjehwa would be unable to attack her, she spoke.
“But I don’t feel like telling you?”
“Really? Then die.”
And Eunjehwa raised his hand.
Diadelin shrieked in terror as she watched him.
“W-wait! I meant for you to hesitate a little! Why are you suddenly trying to kill me so mercilessly!”
“You said you don’t want to tell me? What’s the point of struggling if you won’t teach me anyway? I should just kill you.”
Diadelin was at a loss for words.
No, why had that coward Eunjehwa changed so much? Furthermore, wasn’t his stubborn, childish insistence strangely similar to “that guy” she had seen just moments ago?
“Farewell.”
“W-wait!”
Seeing Eunjehwa speak with an expressionless face, Diadelin screamed in terror once more.
Eunjehwa hesitated at those words. Looking at him, Diadelin made an expression on the verge of tears and spoke.
“I’ll tell you, so don’t kill me.”
For some reason, she seemed much more wretched and unlike her former self.
Soon, Eunjehwa withdrew his energy and spoke.
“And one more thing.”
“What?”
Completely overwhelmed by his momentum, Diadelin looked up at Eunjehwa with a helpless expression and asked.
That appearance was exactly like a drenched mutt……. No, a puppy.
“Let that one live.”
Eunjehwa pointed at Sawollin with a slightly cold face.
Although his belly had been pierced and he had been on the verge of death, Jehwa had frozen the wound, so he was still barely breathing.
Mixed into that frozen wound was Jehwa’s intense desperate wish for him not to die.
That was what had barely kept Sawollin alive until now.
Suddenly, Diadelin felt something unpleasant.
“Hmph!”
She snorted and sharply turned her head away.
“What is that supposed to mean?”
When Eunjehwa asked with a puzzled expression, Diadelin pouted and spoke.
“I don’t want to.”
“Hoo?”
At Diadelin’s words, Eunjehwa’s eyes turned cold.
“You made him like that, so why don’t you want to?”
“I don’t like him.”
Diadelin puffed out her cheeks and sharply turned her head away once more. Seeing her, Eunjehwa’s face contorted viciously.
“Want to die, or want to heal him?”
“I’ll heal him.”
Under Eunjehwa’s threat, Diadelin hurriedly rushed to Sawollin to use healing magic.
She looked terribly pathetic.
Watching Diadelin’s retreating figure, Eunjehwa furrowed his face with an exhausted expression.
“Eek!”
Iseolhye made a startled expression seeing Diadelin running over, and Unwonnam was also greatly wary of her.
But Diadelin ignored the two and quickly approached Sawollin. She sat down beside him and used healing magic.
“Recover.”
No matter how much black magic she used, it made no sense for her not to have healing magic.
In an instant, Sawollin’s wound began to heal.
She had no mana left to fight, but she had enough to heal Sawollin.
By the time Sawollin’s face had become much more at ease, Diadelin quickly turned back and said.
“He’s all healed up.”
“Then spit out how to return.”
Eunjehwa tossed the Demon Count he held in his hand and spoke.
Diadelin hesitated as she looked at such an Eunjehwa…….
“What?”
Eunjehwa brushed his hair back and narrowed his eyes.
“How did you change so much?”
Diadelin, who had been pondering for a moment, asked with a serious face.
“What do you mean?”
Eunjehwa scoffed and asked back, and in response to that question, Diadelin spoke.
“The Eunjehwa I knew was a coward, a sickly weakling, frail, stupid, and utterly pathetic.”
“Hoo…….”
At Diadelin’s words, a vein bulged on Eunjehwa’s forehead.
Sensing the threat to her life, Diadelin quickly opened her mouth.
“But you’re different now. You’re like a completely different being.”
At her words, Eunjehwa, who had been silent for a moment, smirked and spoke.
“I wanted to become strong.”
“Huh?”
“After the accident, I hated my weak self. I hadn’t really cared before, but I gradually grew to hate myself……. Then one day, I met a kid.”
That was right. He had met a kid. A human kid who resembled his own childhood self so very much…….
‘I won’t die……’
But he was the exact opposite of his own frail childhood.
Even in that cold weather, even when his entire body was frozen and on the verge of death, the child did not abandon his attachment to life.
He did not know where the child had appeared from, nor what kind of life he had lived.
The child could not remember anything.
However, what was certain was that the child was strong.
Watching the dying child, Eunjehwa vowed. That he would become strong. And he saved the dying child before his very eyes.