I Want To Die One Day Before You - Chapter 84
Of course, there would be no results. Their ruler was already dead.
Shall we confirm it now?
“The head of the Demon King.”
“Y, yes?”
“Bring me the head of the Demon King who I beheaded.”
At Rufus’s command, the hesitant captains quickly sent soldiers to fetch it.
A blood-stained sack was brought before Rufus.
With the support of Doctor Fertina, Rufus, who had sat up, looked inside the sack. The grotesque head of a monster was rolling inside miserably.
Though it might look like the head of the Demon King to human eyes, it was not.
The head of the third prince of the Hevania Kingdom, Tarek, was here.
“Haha.”
He couldn’t help but scatter laughter.
This was really, better than expected.
No, rather.
“Excellent. Very good.”
Staring intently at the monster’s head, Rufus’s eyes sparkled.
He wanted to leap out of this bed right away. He wanted to inform the king, who had once killed Sarubia, and mock him of this fact.
I killed your son.
I, the one you so despised, have killed the son you cherished so terribly!
In the midst of this silent outcry.
A pain as if his chest was being split open struck Rufus.
“Ugh…”
Caught off guard by the sudden pain, Rufus clutched his heart.
“Lord Rufus? Lord Rufus!”
Doctor Fertina hurriedly checked on Rufus’s condition.
“Are you okay? Your complexion suddenly…!”
“…It’s nothing.”
After catching his breath, Rufus returned the sack.
Why was this happening?
Rufus was confused by a pain he had never experienced before in his life.
It wasn’t just a simple pain. Deep inside, his dynamically beating heart was complaining of an alien pain.
Doctor Fertina comforted Rufus.
“The captains have treated your injuries with magic, but you haven’t fully recovered yet. So, you need to be careful for a while.”
With that, Doctor Fertina handed Rufus a bottle of medicine.
“What is this?”
“It’s a recovery potion. You’ve lost a lot of blood, so it’s best to take this to regain your strength a bit faster.”
A bottle filled with green liquid. It was a common medicine Rufus was well acquainted with. It looked exactly like what Doctor Dean, the exclusive doctor of the Inferna Barony, used to make.
Rufus was about to express his gratitude and drink the medicine when…
Chirp chirp!
A sharp chirping sound came from somewhere. Rufus reflexively looked up, having been annoyed by that bird sound for the past few weeks.
“Why is there a sparrow inside the tent?”
Doctor Fertina looked up at the tent ceiling in admiration.
Through a small opening in the tent left for ventilation, a sparrow was visible. At first glance, it seemed like an ordinary sparrow, but Rufus knew all too well who it was.
Needlessly fluffy and plump from whatever it found so delicious to peck at.
‘Iruel?’
Rufus involuntarily frowned. After being chased out of the tent, Iruel had somehow transformed into a sparrow and returned. What was he trying to do?
Chirp chirp! Chirp chirp chirp!
The sparrow, making eye contact with Rufus, squeezed out an increasingly sharp cry. It even began to jump around frantically.
By this point, Rufus felt something was off.
Something was strange.
The doctor glanced up at the tent ceiling.
“Lord Rufus, isn’t that sparrow a bit too noisy?”
“It does seem so.”
Rufus stared intently at the sparrow. The sparrow, flapping its wings desperately, seemed to be trying to say something. The tips of its feathers were pointing at the medicine bottle in Rufus’s hand.
“……”
Rufus froze.
Suddenly, a terrible thought crossed his mind and disappeared.
Could it be?
Could this medicine bottle in his hand be…?
“Hm, that sparrow is quite bothersome.”
Doctor Fertina, after giving the sparrow a brief look, turned to the waiting soldiers.
“Does anyone have a bow? Let’s shoot down that sparrow.”
“Oh, no. There’s no need for that.”
Rufus hurriedly stopped the doctor. Shooting Iruel with an arrow? Of course, he had thought dozens of times that it would be nice if Iruel were dead, but actually killing him would be a problem. Iruel was still a useful pawn.
“But the patient needs absolute rest. Anything that disturbs that should be eliminated.”
Doctor Fertina, having received a bow and arrow from a soldier, began to prepare to shoot. Rufus was shocked at the sudden appearance of the weapon.
“No, that’s not necessary! The sparrow will fly away on its own if we wait. Let it be!”
“No, from my experience, birds always return to the area they roam. It might reappear later. It would be better to shoot it down now.”
Why was this doctor so extreme?
Rufus forcibly took the bow and arrow from Doctor Fertina’s hands.
“Doctor Fertina, forget the sparrow… Anyway, I’m feeling a bit tired. I’d like to rest quietly by myself…”
“Oh, of course!”
Doctor Fertina stood up.
“Everyone, since Lord Rufus is a bit tired, let’s conclude our conversation later.”
After soothing the captains and soldiers, Doctor Fertina bowed to Rufus. Then, she added one more thing.
“Make sure to take the recovery potion! I’ve cast a holy spell on it!”
“……”
Rufus watched as the people left the tent.
Chatter from outside the thick tent fabric drifted in. Rufus’s name was mentioned occasionally.
Probably everyone was curious about Rufus’s well-being.
Rufus Inferna, the hero who beheaded the Demon King.
The renown of the Inferna Barony would surely rise to unprecedented heights.
“Lieutenant.”
Flit-flit—
With fluttering wings, a sparrow landed on Rufus’s bed. Soon, a young man with ash-gray hair appeared.
