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Chapter 415: Lack of a Memory
"Evangeline, is the vault taking a long time to open? I'm not in a rush, but I want to finish what I came to do quickly," Pandora asks me calmly as we make our way through the corridors.
"No! We'll be there soon, Pandora! The vault isn't even that far from my room, and the room doesn't have real security because no one can open or damage the vault," I say excitedly, sniffing her underwear to enjoy it while we walk.
[Hey! I want to smell Pandora too!! Switch with me! Don't be stingy!! You may have been the one who got it, but we're a team! I want to experience it as well!] The other Evangeline speaks to me urgently.
"No, please stop talking! I want to enjoy the moment! Don't ruin this," I use magic and whisper very softly so only she can hear me, not wanting Pandora to think I'm crazy for talking to 'myself'.
[This is so unfair!! Why do you do this in the best parts! I have to enjoy it while the scent is still fresh and perfect! Stop being so mean to me!] She speaks irritatedly as we descend a staircase, Pandora following me silently while the other Evangeline talks to me.
[Okay, I've already understood that you won't switch? At least let me taste it afterwards! Let me lick her all over! You have to be fair! If you're going to steal all the scent for yourself, then you at least owe me all the taste]
"...Tsk, okay, I'll let you taste it later! Now change the subject!"
[...What do you think about Pandora being the Demon King? I didn't even imagine it, although she's always been detached from other beings, and now this strangeness makes a bit more sense] She asks as I think.
"Nostalgia...her aura is strange, frightening...but I feel like I know it...but it's not the same...I feel like I should remember where this aura reminds me of...but I have no idea," I murmur to her.
[Me too! I feel like we should know this monstrous aura, but something seems wrong? I can't quite put my finger on it, I just feel like it's weaker and less destructive than what we should remember] She speaks as I agree.
[It's the same type, but it's not exactly the same thing! It's like seeing a strawberry pink lipstick, and a cherry pink lipstick! Both pink, but obviously different even though they're the same type!]
"It's strange, we've never seen Pandora with this aura before, so what does it remind us of? I really feel like it's important...but I can't remember...I can't remember anything related to it," My mind just goes blank when I try to remember.
As if there should be a memory there, but there isn't, it's not even that the body doesn't remember, it's that there's really nothing there, as if this memory that I know I should have isn't really mine.
[Yes...maybe that's why she doesn't scare us? We've always found people like Pandora interesting...maybe this forgotten memory is the reason?] She speaks while I agree.
"Maybe...but it doesn't matter! Because I got this for my collection! Her fresh panties! Her scent is so good! And the panties even have her strong scent, so she's been wearing them for at least a few hours!" I say excitedly as I stop in front of a large door.
"Pandora, we're here," I say, dispelling the magic and speaking to Pandora while hiding the panties in my dress for later, using magic to preserve the scent and taste of her.
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"Pandora, we're here," Evangeline says to me as she touches a door and uses magic to open it with a loud sound of locks and hinges.
"Great," I say, as the door opens and inside the room there is a giant vault with a metallic texture, but I feel the chaos magic again, it seems that just like the hero summoning circle, the royal family's vault is also chaos magic.
I approach the vault, get into a fighting stance, and punch it with mana, using a lot of force. Everything around trembles and the castle itself is shaken by the punch, but the vault doesn't even budge.
"Pandora, just wait a moment...the vault needs to be 'fed' in order to open, and you won't be able to break it," Evangeline says as she approaches the vault and sticks her hand into a side opening.
"Ghfmm," She lets out a sound of pain as I approach and look at the opening, seeing her blood starting to flow, something has closed on her hand, injuring her with a very deep wound.
'Ah yes...now it makes sense that the vault needs someone with pure royal blood...the vault literally needs the blood, not just the lineage.' When I heard about the vault, I thought the 'pure blood' referred to the royal lineage.
However, it is literally the pure blood of the royal family, and not the royal lineage itself, so I probably really couldn't open this vault without Evangeline's help.
"Evangeline, how do you move the vault?" I ask, seeing her blood dripping down the vault wall and onto the floor.
"We can't, we can't move the vault or the hero summoning circle, and that's why everyone always builds the castle near these two, since we can't remove them from here."
"And that's also the reason why the structure of all the surrounding kingdoms is used to defend this kingdom, precisely so that no one can reach us," She says as she pulls her arm out of the opening, it's covered in blood and has bite marks as if very sharp teeth had closed on her arm.
"Well, it's open I guess, I never really understood how the lock on this works and they never let me open it before," She says, tearing her dress and bandaging her own arm that is dripping blood. She soon steps away and starts muttering things, but I ignore that and go to the door, pulling it open with magic since there's no handle.
'I never thought I'd see this so easily...Elena made it seem like it was almost impossible to access this place.' As soon as the door opens, I feel spatial magic and notice that it's gigantic in here, and I see scrolls, papers, and books everywhere.
There are mountains of papers, many with different signatures, along with preservation magic, and the scent of old paper is also abundant here.
I enter, seeing that in the end the vault is just a place of records, which really disappoints me. Elena made it seem like this vault was a super mysterious and special place, impossible to open.
And although it really was impossible for me to open without help, the reward is still quite meager, I'm glad I didn't bother trying to find a way to open this place or I would have wasted time.
"Oh, is this all there is? What a letdown, huh?" Evangeline enters and speaks, seeing that it's just papers.
'Well...my master will probably like this as a gift...' I start using the darkness to steal everything from here and teleport it to my master on his island, he likes this kind of historical records and information.
"You know, I always thought there would be a weapon in here...I mean, I know records are important, after all, it's the history of this kingdom and countless previous kingdoms...but still, just papers was way more boring than expected..." She speaks, looking at the vault being emptied.
'Well, they must have important magical records and special magics that are only here...considering the age of the hero summoning circle, this vault must have millions of years of records' Evangeline doesn't seem to care, but I understand the value of these records, that's why I'm sending them to my master.
"Evangeline, you know that opening this vault for me is treason, right?" I say, watching her reactions.
"I imagine so, but tell me, Pandora, who's going to execute me for treason if you're going to annihilate this kingdom?" She asks logically, and she's right, no one will do anything to her because I'll protect her and destroy this kingdom.
"You're right, no one will do anything," I say as I finish sending all the papers to my master.
"Pandora, a brief question...why are you going to kidnap me? I'm not important enough to be used," She says as I think about what to say, I can't just tell her that she's the reincarnation of a goddess and that she's my aunt.
"...Hmm, I'm going to give you as a gift to my mother," I tell her with a smile.
"But your mother is dead...and...ah...yes, you're not just the Grand Duchess, you're the Demon King, and a very unique one...you're the daughter of...of...WHY?" She finally realizes and shouts a shocked 'why'.
"Yes, I'm going to give you as a gift to the Goddess of the Abyss...but she won't kill you, don't worry...I think," I don't know what my mother will do to her, since she's the reincarnation of my mother's sister, so my mother will probably take good care of her.
"...Hmm..." She stops and ponders what this means.
"...Is she like you?" She asks genuinely curious while I think about my mother, who is very beautiful.
"Yes, she's beautiful, as beautiful as me," I say as I exit the now empty vault, with her following me.
"Okay...well, I guess I don't have a choice, so I'll just hope to stay alive long enough...and I hope the goddesses wear some really interesting underwear..." She mutters the last part, which annoys me a bit since she's actually thinking about getting her hands on my mother's underwear.
"Before you take me, can I have some time to collect my collection of your things?" She brazenly requests this.
"Of course, I have time, after all, the humans out there will be massacred for some time," I'm confident that we won't have any problems, so I allow it.
"Thank you, ah yes, and Pandora, that elven princess left the kingdom when the war started, and I think soon elves will start moving to go after you," She speaks with uncertainty, since she doesn't know much about the war.
But she's right, elves and dragons will soon try to go against me, but I'm not worried.
"Without a hero, they're just numbers that I'll increase in my count of dead people, so I don't need to worry, now let's go, I still have two more people to kidnap, and two people I have to take with me." It's Ren, Beta, and Amiya's two servants.