The Devil Who Grants Wishes

‘Uh… what, why?’

It was time to leave soon, so I had been walking near my house for a while, but the surrounding scenery has changed a lot compared to when I first came.

It’s only been 8 months since we moved in, so we still have plenty of free time, but the environment has been polluted too much by the Magi.

The moist soil turned to red sand, and the trees were stuffed alive and died.

The dead trees still retain their green freshness, but that freshness is nothing more than an artificial freshness created by not rotting.

gurgling- gurgling-

Replying to @George

It’s not even just dead.

Some of the dead trees have changed into undead trents and are moving like animals, and the soil that has turned to red sand is coming together to form golems and sandmen.

The corpses of the insects gathered together and became slime, and the clear lake turned dark red.

The carcasses of fish float on the lake, but the fish melts and becomes a single body with the dark red lake after a while.

‘…that’s bullshit.’

So far, I’ve moved 14 times at one-year intervals, and I’ve never been like this before.

Doesn’t this look like it’s been there longer than a year?

Even now, it’s only been 8 months. The erosion of the environment is so fast that this happens in eight months.

‘Are you coming to a place that is a little lacking?’

The high-level areas such as the Dragon Mountains and Blood Marsh, and the great coral reefs and elven forests where natural mana is very strong, these places were able to absorb the magic energy I emitted for about a year without any problem.

However, the forest here has a lot of natural mana, but it lacks a lot in many ways compared to those, so it seems to be very easily affected by my magic.

‘Uh… I made a mistake.’

Among the high-level areas and areas with very strong natural mana, I did not choose the place to move to because it was a difficult environment for Lucia to live in, and I did not expect the result to come back like this.

I’d rather go back to a place I’ve been to before.

Except, of course, the places I’ve been to within the last 10 years may not have been completely neutralized.

‘Then let’s see… Where are we left? First of all, starting with the Silver Wind Hills, then the elven forest— huh?’

At that moment, while looking at the landscape, contemplating what to do next, a strange thing is suddenly caught in his sight.

Someone is coming up through the huge canyon that Lucia had just used her magic to create.

No, it is correct to say that it is being pulled, not that it is coming up.

‘Flowers and… Elves?’

what else is that

The flower that uses the root that has grown through the pot as a foot is dragging the elf with its tentacles.

The elf didn’t even move at all because he had passed out. The elf’s hair is dragged to the floor and soiled with muddy sand, but the flower doesn’t seem to care at all.

“Kik-!?”

“…”

And as always, as soon as I realize I’m looking, the flower returns to its ordinary flower shape in an instant.

The roots that came out of the pot went back inside in an instant, and the pot that had a hole in it was also filled with cleanliness as if it had ever been. The elves who were being dragged by the tentacles are simply left unattended on the ground.

Waves-

“Hmm…”

As always, the flower is desperately acting as an ordinary flower.

That… I feel it all the time, but I don’t know why it’s still like that. Did you find out already a long time ago?

Eh, I don’t know. You haven’t harmed me in 15 years, so don’t worry.

First of all, what the hell is this elf here— huh?

‘I think I saw it somewhere.’

I’ve stopped paying attention to flowers and looking at the elves, but somehow I’m familiar with it.

His whole body was covered in muddy sand and flower saliva, and he was in a very bad condition, so he couldn’t see the elf properly, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that he had seen this elf somewhere.

‘Would you like to wait until you come to your senses? Wash yourself a little before that.’

By calling Aigo– No, Aigo is a man. How do you tell a man to wash a woman?

Then Lucia… this isn’t it either.

It would have been a lot of hard work to clean up this muddy, infested elf, but I can’t make Lucia do that.

That said, it is too much to use time retrogression for only washing clean, and it is difficult because there is no reference zero coordinate… um…

‘I’ll have to ask Irene.’

It would be better to leave it to Irene, who is also an elf of the same s*x.

It must be a lot of hard work, but… That’s right, wouldn’t it be better to pay a lot?

………….

“…Faust, this is not a matter of remuneration.”

But Irene immediately rejects my offer.

Obviously, now that I think about it, I think it was too much of a guess.

To be honest, I also don’t want to wash the whole elf with sticky, smelly saliva, no matter how much money I get paid.

Irene, who doesn’t get tired of financial issues, must be similar to me.

Ugh, why the hell did I ever think like that?

“First of all, this elf looks very young, where did you get it from?”

“He broke into my territory.”

“…you’re still alive.”

Did you live well, then I should have killed this elf?

Wow, Irene.

I’m a little offended.

After seeing you for a long time, I thought we had a lot of sympathy, but it’s sad. What the hell do you think of me?

“…Haa. Yes, I see. I’ll wash you. However, once this elf comes to his senses, please forgive her and spare her life.”

“Forgive me… Yeah, I got it.”

Perhaps reading my gloomy mood, Irene took a deep breath and then granted my request. The words that followed were a bit harsh, though.

No, do you play drums and janggu by yourself?

Why am I killing him?

If I had planned to kill him in the first place, I wouldn’t have brought him here.

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Aaah!!

Kreep… Kreep…

Monster flowers are everywhere.

No matter where I turn my head, there are only monster flowers with their mouths wide open looking at me.

It’s like looking at me and eating again.

I can’t… save me…

Run… I need to run away… Where the hell is this… Ugh… Ugh…

No… Please…

blah blah

At that moment, his vision was filled with teeth in an instant.

The teeth and the drooping saliva on the bright red throat maximize the visual fear.

hh…

Eat it. Eat it. Eat it.

no. Please… someone help me.

help me. ask me to live please save me

Ahhh!

“Ahhhh!!”

As he screams, his vision suddenly darkens, and the scene he sees is completely reversed.

Instead of a terrible space full of mucous membranes and teeth, there are only wooden walls and soft bedding.

“Ugh… uh…”

Where…?

It’s the first place you see

It was the first time I saw this bed on which I was lying and the clothes I was wearing.

My head is very throbbing, but my whole body is drenched with sweat, so the discomfort is not a joke.

What the hell is this… ah…

ah ah ah ah…

It was a dream. All.

Yeah, there’s no way there’s such a bizarre starfish. Why the hell did I have such a terrible dream?

“…

Panting for breath, I looked around, and there was a starflower in the room.

In the past, I would have thought casually as it was a common flower… But now, after I had such a nightmare, of course I can’t think of it that way.

A throat with teeth close together comes to mind. Even if you don’t want to think about it, you fill your head as you please.

no.

get out. tell me to get out

Get out of my head right now

good profit

“Hey!?”

At that moment, when the door to the room opened, Lena screamed in horror.

Although it wasn’t a flower that appeared beyond the door, there was no way for Rena to confirm that.

Up until a few hours ago, she was a proud adventurer and noble elf hunter, but she became a little girl, frightened and trembling, and Irene and Faust just stare at the scene in absurdity.

**********

“…a flower.”

The elf, who introduced herself as Lena, slowly explained what she had been through.

It was literally everything from receiving a request, investigating a changed forest, and eventually being overpowered by a monster flower that appeared.

“Yeah, that… yes, ni…”

It seems that Lena has not yet recovered from the aftereffects.

It could be enough.

The flower regarded Lena as an intruder and subdue it, and the process of subduing it seems to be quite radical and terrifying.

Even if I’m used to it, the flower that has turned into a monster is so ugly that I don’t want to look directly at it, but the first time I saw Lena, it must have felt like I was being mentally tainted. Oh, I’m sorry.

“That… did you say Irene-sama?”

“Yeah, what’s going on?”

“Maybe Yonsei- Oh, no… nothing, nothing…”

“…”

Hey, it looks like the ptsd is pretty solid. You can’t speak properly.

It’s going to take a long time to heal mentally.

‘By the way, where did you see it…?’

I must have seen Lena somewhere, but I can’t quite remember. It’s like feeling déjà vu.

Ummm… Well, if you can’t remember even though you’ve been trying to remember this, then it wouldn’t be a very important person. Let’s just ignore it