[ The story is completely fictional, it has no relation to reality. ]
Name: Alex The Demon King
Author: Niloyer Core
Part: 66
(Tower of Gluttony)
The Queen of the state has returned, with this joy, the entire state has started the celebrations. The people of all the states are very happy to have their Queen back again. Except for a few officials, the presence of Queen Maria is making everyone feel festive. And those few officials have started the meeting.
-->>We waited for an age. But this one thing ended our entire plan.
-->>Who would have thought Princess Maria would come back again, I thought they had both gone to Mara somewhere.
-->>But does she have the ability to be Queen? Our former King made the worst decision.
-->>She is not qualified to be a queen. How can someone who has spent an era away from her own people rule over us?
-->>But he has the Guardian Mark. We can't go against the Mark.
-->>Yes, whoever has the mark can become the King or Queen of our secret kingdom. Only the weak will accept this.
-->>Yes, the Minister was within our grasp. If Maria hadn't shown her face, the entire Secret Kingdom would have been within our grasp.
-->>I have a plan that will bring both the Queen and the Secret Kingdom into our hands.
-->>Hahahahahaha
Everyone started laughing together. Their plan was not good at all, but it was not likely to be fulfilled either. They had chosen their special meeting place in a closed room that no one was supposed to know about. But the next day those people were nowhere to be seen. It was as if they had disappeared somewhere overnight.
-->>You didn't do anything, did you? (Maria)
Maria started telling Almond about it. The two of them were walking towards the throne room together. In the morning, Maria heard that some important officials had been missing since last night. And that was why her first suspicion fell on Almond and not on anyone else.
-->>Dude, I know nothing about this. (Almond)
-->>Then you must have hands. Are they still there or are they gone? (Maria)
-->>I don't understand how you can catch my lies? Nothing happened to them, they are just trapped in my prison. (Almond)
-->>If I can't catch a lie from a playboy like you, is there any guarantee that I would have had to live with so many women? (Maria)
-->>What kind of talk is this? I only love you.(Almond)
-->>How many thousand girls have you told this to so far, mister? (Maria)
-->>Only you.(Almond)
-->>If you can't find a place to vent. Anyway, what's up with my Alex? (Maria)
-->>Our son is perfectly fine and is getting stronger very quickly. You don't have to worry about him. (Almond)
-->>Well, Almond, if Alex ever finds out that....(Maria was about to say something, Almond stopped Maria)
-->>You know that Alex is our son. No matter what his mind or thoughts are, in the end he is our Alex. (Almond)
-->>But what if he ever doubts his identity? I mean, what if his past memories come back? (Maria)
-->>You're just thinking. At first, you must have noticed that Alex didn't tell our parents. But what's happening now? He accepted us a long time ago, so you should stop thinking about it. (Almond)
-->>Why are you saying everything so naturally? You know I can't lose my Alex a second time. (Maria)
Almond didn't say anything else. He just put his hand on Maria's shoulder and tried to comfort her. Maria entered the throne room, causing both of them to fall silent. Maria sat on her throne and Almond stood next to her. This had been Almond's job since Maria was little. Almond would go wherever Maria went as her bodyguard. Even after getting married today, he couldn't forget that job.
"Everything is complicated. If I tell you anything more about the boy's secret, Maria will eat me whole." (Elmond thinks)
Maria got busy with her royal duties. And Almond stood by. It would be wrong to say that he stood by. Almond created his clone and left it with Maria. With his real body, he went into an unknown place. Although the place was unknown to others, it was a very familiar place to Almond and Alex. Almond came to the top of a building. Standing on the top of the building, he saw a huge tower.
-->>So this is the Tower of Sloth. I didn't think I would need so much speed to come to this same place again. How many years has it been today, twenty-five or twenty-six. Yes, I won't come here as long as my heart is old. (Almond)
Almond started walking. He stepped into a room in the building on which he had built the inter-dimensional barrier. Everything inside the room was neatly arranged. Almond looked at everything carefully. There were several pictures on the wall, most of which were of two couples. Almond stared at them for a while and started talking to himself.
-->>The boy had a pretty good life here. (Almond)
The boy was seen smiling beautifully in the pictures. Almond looked at it for a while. Almond started to come inside. Inside the three-room apartment. A bedroom, a kitchen and a drawing room. Almond entered the bedroom from the drawing room. There were several things, four or five computers on a corner table. Which Almond pretended not to see. There is a small drawer on the right side of the bed. On top of which is an alarm clock, some necessary medicine tablets. Due to the passage of time, they are almost on the verge of decomposition. There is also a picture in an album on top of the drawer. Almond stopped in front of it and picked up the picture. He stared at the picture. It was a picture of a girl of twenty or twenty-two years old. Although if she were alive now, she could be called an old woman. Almond looked at the picture for a while and said,
-->>I don't know if you'll ever forgive me, but I shouldn't have left you like that. Especially in that situation. (Almond)
A drop of water fell from the corner of Almond's eye. And as soon as it landed on the picture, light began to come out of the picture. A yellow light surrounded the entire room. Through that light, the girl in the picture began to take shape. The girl turned into a yellow light. Before the girl could say anything, Almond grabbed the girl and kissed her on the lips. As soon as Almond let go, the girl started crying. He wiped her tears with his hand and said,
-->>How did I come to life?
The girl began to look at her hands, feet, and body. Almond didn't have to tell her anything. She understood what had happened to him.
-->>I just woke up your memory. It won't be for long. Look....(Almond)
-->>I know what you're going to say. It wasn't your fault or mine. So let's not talk about it in this short time. How is our son? I'm so unfortunate that I haven't even seen his face.
-->>Maybe you'll be surprised to see him now. Because he's changed a lot. (Almond)
Almond took the hand of the girl in front of him with his hand. And he started sharing some of his memories with the girl. The girl started crying when she saw her son in the memories. There were some questions in her mind, but she still couldn't hold back her tears. Almond took her hand and brought her into the drawing room.
-->>What I showed you is our child's current condition. And this was his previous condition. (Almond)
Almond started showing the pictures he had given. Where Hridoy and his wife are together. Seeing Hridoy's smiling pictures, his mother fell on her knees and started crying. What could be the most unfortunate thing for a mother? There can be no one in the world who is more unfortunate than a mother who carries a child in her womb for ten months and ten days and dies without being able to see the face of that child. Hridoy's mother is in the same situation.
The mother never thought she would see her son like this. That's why her tears were no longer holding back. The girl was able to guess at least a little what Almond meant by showing two types of people. So she didn't say anything else about it. The lights around her started to disappear, and she realized that she didn't have time anymore.
-->>I don't know what's happening to my son, Almond. But I do know that as a mother, I couldn't be there for my son and I never will be. So if anything happens to him, I will never forgive you.
-->>I promise you, Riza. I will never let our son suffer again. (Almond)
-->>Yes, you have that trust, so what name did you give our son? The one I gave him or the one you gave him?
-->>Heart Adirama de Joffard von Alex. In short, the heart here and where he is now known as Alex. (Elmond)
-->>So you used both names. I'm very happy now.
His memories began to fade into the unknown and along with them the yellow lights began to disappear. Almond was looking at that. He couldn't be near this girl in the end. Like thousands of girls, he had forgotten her, but when he remembered, everything was over. The girl was no longer alive. She had given birth to a son and died. Since the boy's condition was so serious at that time, he couldn't come into contact with Almond. Almond had nothing to do. He named the boy Heart and appointed a Guardian and left this world. Because the reason Almond was in this world was going to be the cause of the boy's death.
-->>I'm sorry Riza, you used to trust me blindly and still do, but I couldn't tell you the truth yet. But don't worry. Even though I couldn't be there for our son then, that has changed now. I won't let him suffer any more. (Almond)
Almond took the photo from the album with him and headed back to the roof. As he entered the roof, he said once more,
-->>Although I could not fulfill your wishes. But I know our son will be able to do it. And you just wait for some time. You will see that we can be together again. You, me, our child and one of your sisters. (Almond)
As soon as Almond finished speaking, he started running at super speed. During his run, the inter-dimensional barrier broke and it connected to another world. Through it, Almond went back to Maria.
"Oh, my energy is starting to decrease day by day. Where I could travel to thousands of worlds in the blink of an eye, I'm having a hard time traveling to just one because of my limiter. I feel like I should maintain my energy by focusing less on the world for a few days." (Almond thinks)
Almond moved his clone away from Maria and stood in that spot himself. Maria was still talking about the necessary things.
-->>Are you okay?(Maria)
No one could tell from Almond's physical condition that he was in a bad state, but it was impossible to escape Maria's eyes.
-->>Yes yes I'm fine. Just a side effect of the limiter. (Almond)
Almond whispered the words softly into Maria's ear. Almond had been feeling unwell for a while. And it didn't take Maria long to realize this. She immediately canceled all the necessary meetings and took Almond into their room.
-->>I told you before not to use your original power. I know you are a powerful being, but this limiter can kill you. (Maria)
Seeing the thought in Maria's eyes, Almond tried to comfort Maria. But Maria didn't listen to him,
-->>Look, I'll tell you for the last time, don't use your original power. If you do, neither I nor Alex will talk to you. (Maria)
-->>Well, Dad, it's okay. (Almond)
-->>You take rest, I will make you some medicine pills. (Maria)
Maria went to prepare some medicine pills. Meanwhile, Almond lay in bed. He lay there thinking about something from the past.
Flashback,
Almond met Wish Maker AKA Demon King. Where Wish Maker was fulfilling three wishes of a person in front of Almond. Seeing this, Almond removed his limiter and directly grabbed the Demon King by the throat. Demon King, who was a high-level god, did not expect to meet a person like Almond in such a world. His calculation was going badly, because Almond immediately understood the identity of Demon King and was also trying to kill him.
-->>Please don't kill me. I don't have any previous powers, so killing me would be a loss to your own honor. (Demon King)
-->>It's really ridiculous that the Demon King, who once almost killed all the gods, is begging me for his life today. (Almond)
-->>Please. I have lost everything. So I don't want to lose my last possession. My sin list has grown so much that I am helping others to erase some of it. (Demon King)
-->>How? By taking out the sins of others? (Almond)
-->>If you let me go, I can fulfill any of your wishes. (Demon King)
-->>Now has the Demon King started bribing others as well. (Almond)
-->>I can fulfill any wish except bringing the dead back to life and making someone immortal. (Demon King)
-->>Any wish? If I could put the soul of another person into the body of a dead person, would I be able to do that? (Almond)
-->>You know you could have done that yourself in Xblock. But here no one can do this except me. Not even you. (Demon King)
Almond let go of the Demon King's neck. The Demon King fell down trembling. He didn't expect to survive, because the person in front of him was like a ferocious lion that never gives up on its prey.
-->>Then I will fulfill your wish. But it will take me time. (Demon King)
-->>I want to see my living son in the body of my dead son. And it must be very soon, otherwise I will destroy you and these beautiful pillars of yours, wherever you may be hiding. (Almond)
Almond said this while pointing towards the huge tower. And then the Demon King left that place.
The flashback is over.
Almond was lying down. He began to say to himself,
-->>Everything was my fault. Maybe if he knew about everything, his heart would not be able to forgive me. Because his beautiful life was ruined relatively early because of me. But if he hadn't done the thing, he would have been bound by them at some point. Maybe he wouldn't understand my reasons and behavior. But in the end, everything is for his own good. (Almond)
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To Be Continued
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