At the End of Revenge, There You Are ~The Scum Who Killed My Beloved, Prepare Yourselves! I Will Drag You All to Hell... Wait, What? Why Are the Heroine and the Demoness Coming After Me, a Woman!?(GL) - Chapter 14

Time rewinds just a little—to the moment when the demon pulled me close… and, against my will, stole a deep kiss from me.

After that… the demon properly healed Yuzuha.

She even gave me time to explain—how I had come here and the conversation I had with the demon of the future.

But just as I was embracing Yuzuha, who had become overwhelmed with emotion and clung to me, the demon suddenly spoke.

…Why is she twitching around her temple like that?

“I’m sure you already know, but… it’s your sister.”

“…Huh??”

Yuzuha and I both let out dumbfounded voices in unison.

Clearly, we didn’t know—so I’d really appreciate a proper explanation.

Sister?

I don’t have a sister, so that must mean… Yuzuha’s? But Yuzuha’s older sister went missing in a dungeon years ago.

Wait…

Reincarnation?

“That’s exactly it. My mind finally sorted itself out. There are still some hazy parts, though.”

Her speech had become much clearer now.

“But… why?”

Yuzuha asked, her voice trembling, tears pooling in her eyes.

She must have realized it too—that her sister had likely died in the dungeon… and then turned into a demon.

“I went through the same thing as you.”

“Wait, what!?”

“The difference is, there were no demons in this ‘hidden chamber’ when I was trapped here… and no one came to save me.”

Her words hit like a sledgehammer.

The same thing?

Did that mean… she was also tricked by those bastards and dragged into this place?

And then… tortured to death?

“Sis… is that really you?”

“Yes… My appearance has changed a little, but I still have all my past memories. That’s why I recognized Akari when she introduced herself.”

So that’s why she said she came home…

“I made a contract with Akari because I believed she would save you.”

So that’s how it all connects.

I’d briefly considered the other possibility—that she was just luring me into deeper despair before devouring me, like some twisted fairy tale ending.

But…

“Is that what you want? No way. If I were to eat Akari, I’d want it to be in the other way~♡”

Give me back my fear and tension from earlier!

I don’t want to be physically eaten, but please, for the love of everything holy, don’t make that kind of declaration in front of your sister!

“Sis, stop! Akari is mine!?”

“Oh, come on. It’s not like you’d lose anything. Should we call it… a sisterly bonding experience?”

“Absolutely NOT!?”

Yuzuha and her demon sister started bickering, but I couldn’t find a way to intervene.

Also, can we please not?

Yuzuha alone already overwhelms me with how aggressively she teases me. If her sister joins in, I’ll probably die.

“Ugh… We finally reunited, so can’t you just be happy for once? You know, I had my eyes on Akari whenever she came to visit~”

…Is that why she suddenly interrupted when Yuzuha and I were hugging earlier?

If so… that’s kind of terrifying.

“I’m already at my limit just dealing with the fact that you were brutally murdered, and now you’re a demon—and you’re going after Akari?! My brain can’t process all this!?”

Even as Yuzuha furiously shook her head in protest, she still looked unbelievably cute.

Unfair. Absolutely unfair.

I wish I had even half her charm.

But yeah… I get where she’s coming from.

Just moments ago, she had almost been killed. In fact, she was killed—by her own sister, no less.

Wait.

“Hold on… Akari told me that you were the one who killed me, right? Why?!”

“To protect you.”

“…Huh?”

Yuzuha and I both froze.

Excuse me? That made absolutely no sense.

I wasn’t thinking that this demon is bad at explaining things. Please don’t glare at me like that. And stop trying to hug me.

Also, stop reading my mind!

“Oh, come on. We’re contracted now, so of course I can read your thoughts… But fine, I’ll stop. I don’t want you to hate me, after all.”

“…Thank you?”

I wasn’t even sure why I was thanking her, but I did anyway.

Her lips formed a slight pout—which was oddly adorable for a demon—but at least she agreed.

“If things had continued as they were, Yuzuha would have been killed, right? Even if, by some miracle, they let her go unharmed, those bastards would just do the same thing again. Probably without even trying to cover it up next time—just to silence her for good.”

“Ah…”

That… was true.

They had already shown their true colors to Yuzuha.

If she were to return alive, it would be a major problem for them.

“That’s why. To keep Yuzuha alive, I had to kill her first. Then, once I had a proper plan in place to save her, I could bring her back.”

So that was it.

That’s why she spared me when I called out Yuzuha’s name. That’s why she waited, why she spoke about contracts and expectations.

Now everything made sense.

I still wasn’t sure if this demon was truly Yuzuha’s sister, but at the very least, she had been acting for Yuzuha’s sake.

“Thank you… um… Sister?”

“You’re welcome. But you still don’t believe me, do you?”

“Yeah… It’s just… the fact that you turned into a demon is too shocking to process.”

And then, a new question arose.

Why?

Why does dying inside a dungeon turn someone into a demon?

I’ve never heard of that happening before.

“That… I still don’t really know myself. After I lost consciousness, I feel like something happened… but it’s all too hazy.”

I see.

It must have been something so horrific that she didn’t even want to remember it. That was the only explanation.

Even as a demon, she couldn’t recall it easily.

Something happened that was terrible enough to turn her into a demon.

She spoke to us with that bewitching, impossibly beautiful smile, but…

To me, that smile felt terrifying.

And deeply, deeply sad.

That being said— I’d really appreciate it if she didn’t start making advances on me.

I tried to subtly shift away from the arm creeping around my waist…

But in the end, she still pulled me into an embrace.