The Duchess and the Devil - Chapter 95.1

Judith quietly turned to him, not knowing why he was doing this. In fact, the Duchess wanted to be alone with her husband a little longer. Laying her head on his chest, she looked at him sternly.

“Clumsy,” Derrick laughed. “I tried to make myself as similar as possible,” he added when he felt something strange.

– Why?

“This way you’ll get used to me faster.”

Judith looked back at the situation when the couple met again in the banquet hall. She recognized him not by his appearance, but by his gaze and actions.

“If it’s you, I’ll recognize you and get used to you anyway,” the Duchess whispered, still in the demon’s tight embrace.

Looking at her husband, Judith decided: the time had come for the conversation that she had been putting off all this time because of the unexpected joy of reunion.

– Do you know what happened to Hannibal?

“Isn’t the fact that I’m here the answer?”

The demon tried to destroy Derrick, but now he was alive and well. At the same time, their evil enemy was destroyed. Judith was horrified when she thought that those visions in the church were sent not by her husband, but by Hannibal. And although she had faith in her heart, sometimes she also had doubts. However, now, having heard the answer, my heart felt lighter.

-Can you tell me what happened?

Derrick was silent for a moment, as if trying to figure out where to start.

“We got rid of human bodies at about the same time.” It would rather be said that we were thrown out by the force of annihilation. Hannibal absorbed the King’s power, so it could…

His voice was now calm, despite the severity of what had happened.

“In any case, I was able to survive,” Judith’s heart began to flutter at this moment, “since my servants intervened at the last minute.” It completely damaged my soul, so I had to spend a lot of time healing.

—Are you okay now?

– Yes.

– But it would be better if the servants came earlier…

– It’s because of my instructions. I told them not to interfere.

Hearing this, Judith jumped to her feet. This was a situation in which his life could have ended. And the Duchess did not understand why the demon made such a decision.

– Why? If they had come earlier, perhaps everything would have ended much better.

“The demons in the area were very unhappy with me. The demon rank is completely divided by strength. And this must have been surprising: I, the commander, need the help of servants. Moreover, I did not want to part with you, which also left its mark on their opinion.

The Duchess felt her patience gradually coming to an end. It could explode at any moment. These demons thought of humans as lab squirrels. Therefore, Judith could not understand Derrick’s logic, they were completely different.

“I decided to finish everything and come to you after that.” And to do this, I had to suppress the demons in the entire area. Abandoning people without any reason is treason, so if you do this, you may find yourself in danger.

A little amazed, the Duchess listened carefully to the demon’s voice.

“So, first of all, I suppressed their dissatisfaction. This way I was able to regain some of the trust that I had lost.

Derrick then talked about what happened after, how he devoted himself to a quick recovery and about taking the throne of the demon kingdom. At the same time, the devil created the human body using magic, placing a curse on it. Judith couldn’t imagine what the Duke went through while he was away.

And when she realized that Derrick had been struggling in his own way all this time, she felt incredibly sad. Strange things came to mind.

— Invitation to the temple. It was you, wasn’t it?

– Who else could it be? At that time, I could not go out because my body and soul were not clearly intertwined. But you called me so desperately that I simply had no other choice but this.

Judith remembered the day at the temple as clearly as if it had happened yesterday. Before the priest appeared in the chapel, she cried out to the demon, and not to God, feeling the most terrible despair. The Duchess’s heart, tense with anticipation, was tinged with pain, as if it had been torn to pieces. If she knew all this, she would not have driven herself into such a deep and dark swamp.