118 You are to Blame! (1/2)

Else's words took Konrad off-guard; he had not expected their relationship to be so deep that she virtually knew everything about him! However, he didn't lose his composure.

”Hahahahaha!”

He burst into laughter while nodding in approval.

”True, overwhelming differences. But tell me, who is to blame for this?”

Konrad began, causing rising discomfort within Else's heart.

”Good, I was abused and trampled wherever I went.

Good, I was forced into the palace and castrated to become a eunuch!

Good, I was caned to death due to refusing to be your proxy's boy toy!

A lifetime of indignation, sorrow unending! That is what being good brought me.

That being the case, why can I not be evil?!”

Konrad roared, using the memories of the previous body's owner to fuel his ire. With just those words, he could see distress flash within Else's eyes. Hence, he pursued.

”Even after being harmed to this degree, I have never harbored hatred, only tending to my work, and wishing for a peaceful life. However, you wouldn't let me off, persecuting me, and allowing your goons to batter me to death!

If my bloodline didn't awaken at the critical juncture, I would have truly died full of grievances!

That being the case, why can I not be selfish, wicked, and slaughter does who offend me?”

”I had nothing to do with that!”

Else cut, struggling to maintain her composure. Konrad knew very well that she most likely didn't have anything to do with the caning. However, only by pushing the blame on her and squeezing her guilt could he get out of this unscathed.

The deeper her affection for the previous Konrad, the easier it would be.

”Nothing? Hehe, how queer, if not for you, why would your proxy have me caned to death? We'd never met beforehand and absolutely had no grievances. Were it not for you, why would she attack a low-level eunuch?

With those words, Konrad hit home. Indeed, if not for Else's attention, her proxy, Tamara would have never used her Origin Sight on a low-level eunuch. If not for Else's care, she would not have become so wary of his demonic blood, fearing they'd all become implicated if it were ever revealed and a link between the two established.

Therefore, for all intents and purposes, although she didn't order it, Else was the cause of the previous Konrad's death. And she knew it very well. Therefore, for the first time since her arrival, she floundered, riddled with guilt and not knowing what to say.

”The awakening of my demonic blood was both my salvation and my chance at rebirth. Since then, I've sworn to never again live the ignominious life of an ant! To never again be subject to other's whim! To take what I want to, how I want to, and without care for anyone besides me!

What I hated, I will love! What I loved; I will hate! And with my demonic blood to lift upward, I shall trample anyone that stands in my way and delight in all the abilities of my infernal lineage!”

Konrad's indignation bark and flaring eyes shook Else's soul. For a moment, she shut her eyes, and although he couldn't read her mind, it wasn't hard to guess what went on within.

”Since you know so much about me and my lineage, you should also know who my demonic blood comes from. It didn't just provide me with new abilities. More importantly, it gave me the crucial experience I needed to blossom into the demon you so desperately needed!

How preposterous that I've not even knocked on your door to calculate what you owe me, that you knock on mine to spout drivel!”

Else wanted to say that the true reason why she accepted taking him into the palace was that she again wanted to have him by her side; to say that she would never harm him and only wanted to protect him, that in this world no one loved him more than she did.

But as she clawed on the chair arms, struggling with her inner guilt, the words couldn't leave her lips.