Lady Devil - Chapter 204

Griselda took a step back, her face gradually stiffening. Even her eyelids slowly widened. In her direct line of sight was the door gap, open about two finger joints wide. And through that dark gap, tap tap. Four bronze claws quietly slipped in and grasped the door. Yes, they were beast claws. The torch shadow illuminating the doorway suddenly distorted at the presence inside.

“…Time?”

Johannes asked with difficulty. That voice, as if stabbing down pain, came from far above Griselda’s crown, which often heard it described as pole-like. The boy’s voice, still youthful and familiar to her ears, from such a high place. Griselda, turned pale blue, slowly, slowly raised her face. Pushing her chin up, high.

Eyes met where they shouldn’t have.

“Can it be solved… by mere time?”

“……”

“More than anything… more than anyone… she needs my apology.”

The open gap was narrow. The devil only showed one eye through that narrow gap. That was rather tragic for Griselda. A black devil imitating a child’s voice. If there hadn’t been the door as a shield between them, and if she had rather witnessed the devil’s full form. Perhaps she could have reflexively fled even before being frightened.

Griselda had been tightly closing her mouth for some time now. While her whole body was trembling, her legs were stiff and she couldn’t even flee. In the end, without being able to give a single answer, she just had the image of the devil’s long black eyelashes trembling finely imprinted in her eyes. The monster behind the door seemed to slightly lower its head. Griselda heard something rough and hard scratching against the door. Was that the sound of the devil’s horns she had seen long ago?

“Inette will never feel at ease.”

“……”

“Unless I beg for forgiveness with tears before her… and prove that I can no longer harm her, she will surely remain frustrated like her mother and be wary of me for the rest of her life. She would fear me.”

“……”

“I’m certain. She’s the only one who can tame and discipline me. So for her wellbeing, I need… her… Yet at such a time, I can’t even get close.”

The devil’s already half-sunken eyelids closed tightly then. The pupil that had been like a crack among shattered silver fragments disappeared like that.

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