Reborn As A Tyrannical Demon Lord
Chapter 124: Infinite Stairs

Right on this day, it's a new day. I didn't choose to change the flow of time and move to the time when we were at rest.

But we went to the human world and returned to the demon world in one week's time. Marie and I went back to school like normal people, but tried to keep their nature.

Not being present for a week without news and missing any lessons. But what I mean by lagging behind is being left behind by presence, not being left behind by magic. It is clear my strength is now much stronger to subdue the demon realm.

And here I am now, the future demon lord who is re-living his days as a student of the demon magic academy. My friends met me with a lot of questions. About where I've been, what's happened and more.

And somewhere, it was Eiji who greeted me with a casual expression, as if he didn't miss me. No problem, maybe it was his new attitude after joining the organization of this academy and becoming a popular student so he started to forget his old friend.

At the next turn of the road, I collided with the teacher I knew before. His name is Alin, I sometimes call him Alin sensei. Only he had the name, until he finally spread the title to other teachers.

I know Marie's a liar. Speaking of his primitive self, I'm sure he's not so primitive if many of his other avatars exist in other worlds as well to meet me.

Other worlds may already have some technology, may already have a fairly sophisticated civilization, or may be medieval. The avatar self is connected to its true self from which all avatars originate. Of course he controlled all the thoughts of his avatar at the same time.

And he must have long understood about cell phones, the internet, cars, or the civilization of the human world. It's just that he lied and never told me that his other avatar was created to live with my other self as well.

Back with the moment in front of me, his entire paper fell down again just like before. Yes, I saw a map that was firmly sealed so that the contents would not be uncovered. I just saw him fall and pointed one finger at me to get all his papers neat back in place.

"A, Aiden. Long time no see well, hehehe."

He said with trembling.

"Em, I see, by the way, why is sensei's leg shaking like that? Are you sick?"

"Ee–ahahaha, no, no. Sensei is fine." He said as if strengthening himself.

"Good then. By the way the map is good too, let me guess something in it."

"Eh? Whatchu mean?" Ask her with a nervous face.

"Marie, I'll introduce you .. my big fan."

Marie: "..."

I immediately pulled the map without touching it, made it open and floated all the contents. All are my photos and there are over eight hundred photos.

"seen? Alin sensei is a big fan of mine, I don't know how anyone can admire my usual self."

Marie: "Ehh?"

"No! Nah! No!! Marie, she's a fraud, this is a photo taken for the registration form of the demon world game at that time" she said with a reddened and trembling face.

"What right?? Then, why are you still keeping it?" ask me by making fun of him in the crowd.

"Aiden please stop, I'm embarrassed." He said while bowing his face.

All the passing students looked towards us, I really did not like all these eyes. I'll make them all forget what they just saw. Actually I don't like it when looked at, if anyone dared to look at me, I would blow his eyes in an instant.

"Aiden~ let's go." Marie said in her tone of voice like how she called me everyday in such a tone.

We walked into the other hallways of the school. He held my hand to her, not wanting to let go of me.

"You knew? I'm not happy when someone else has your picture. I almost killed that guy!" he said while angry.

"Then why didn't you kill him?"

I asked her, because this is the first time she has been able to withstand her patience.

"Because I used my magic to erase all those photos, when she reopened them all. He would only see a plain polaroid without a picture, hahahaha."

Oh, he's evil too. I could see that Alin sensei would cry sobbing when he knew that all my photos disappeared from his bag. And he'll get so upset that he coughs and pretends to be sick so he doesn't get into school. I've seen this part, in a sea of shards.

Suddenly Marie stopped walking and made me stop walking as well.

"Aiden, there's something I have to say."

Marie said with a serious look on her face.

"What's that?"

I could see nothing but hear the breath of a creature. Whose breath is this? Inside the sea of shards, I didn't see the part of me that was brought to a place like this, this deviated from the groove.

Then everything began to change clearly even though it was dark, I stood on a firm plain. Then walk until it hits something hard as well. At that moment, the place became even clearer.

A red-eyed dragon like a hell pond was seen in front of me with its huge demon horn. And he is Inferno.

Such huge rocks are everywhere with something I don't understand.

"Welcome to the border of Vebernhae, Mr. Aiden." Inferno said while bowing his head to me.

"Vebernhae's? What is this place?"

A voice then sounded.....

"Vebernhae, this is the place where we Scarlet demons live. And this is where the boundary between the entire demon realm is boundless with Vebernhae." Say it with white hair and eyelashes.

"The vallerie? You all here?"

"Yes, we're all here. Just like how the queen controls her avatar, this is where we are the real ones, and this is where we stay to control all of our existence" Isabel said.

"Where's Marie?" Ask me.

Valerie replied again m, "Queen? You can meet him at Vebernhae, he's been waiting for you too long."

"Vebernhae, what's that place?"

As I asked, the sound of footsteps could be heard from the other direction, not Isabel's steps, not Valerie's, and not all of them, but Virditas was even here, instead, and all ten scarlet ibls are with me.

A black-robed and horned man came wearing an iron-clad suit like a knight, his head was wrapped by an iron helmet covering his entire face, and the iron horn was also connected to his helmet.

Every part of his body was covered with iron, and on the outside he was covered again by a black robe like a torn cloth.

"I haven't introduced myself to you yet. I am Kureya Seigen. I am the home of the venerable Scarlet Demon, and I am the immortal one serving for our beloved demon queen, Haumea Scarlet." Say someone dressed this solidly.

He answers and explains what the name means, Kureya is the meaning of dark space, and Seigen is the meaning of boundary. Then that's how Haumea created herself. Kureya was the embodiment of this place itself, a place that was considered to be home by all Scarlet Demons, while all of these demons remained silent with her explanation, including Valerie.

And this is the place called Vegen, which is the place that is the boundary between all the layers of the demon world and where the demon queen is.

This was a place that was beyond all layers of the boundless demon world, just like how something was above infinity. And this person was either a man or a girl, a woman or a man, yet many voices were joined to him. Like I was talking to a hundred people simultaneously.

He walked up to take me to something, while all the Scarlet Demon and Inferno walked behind me. Up ahead there is a place like a red sea, and this place is like a hell land that has a beach with red water. Seen so far away there, the waves are wild waves that washed away, besides the color is red like blood.

In the middle, also in front was a luxurious staircase like the stairs that were in the witch's house. But not in the slightest. The ladder was headed straight up and like there was no end to it. Adorned by demonic motifs around its handle.

He said that this was an infinite staircase leading to Vebernhae lifting the throne of the demon queen. If Vegen is a place outside of the violet cube, then Vebernhae is a realm that really far surpasses all possible infinities of the contents of the violet cube. The place where Haumea considers all things that exist in the demon world including vegen is nothing but a story inside her violet cube.

Marie was suddenly on this staircase, the stairs that rose to the top without end. I intend to ask him about what he's doing. From the higher rungs, he started to descend to the lower rungs and extended his hand towards me from there while saying....

"Let's go up."

She wore her red dress again, her horns also looked the same as usual, as I walked to step on the first rung of stairs, I turned my gaze back, to all of them.

"You ... What about you? You guys aren't coming with me?" Ask them all before grabbing Marie's hand.

"Sorry, we all can't. Vegen is our only place, and this is our limit, other than the demon queen." Valerie said while bowing her head.

They all bowed respectfully to Marie this time. Valerie wasn't even kidding a bit. Could this be a different Marie again? Their hands and feet were all shaking.

"Mr Aiden, they can't, everyone, the limit of all ordinary demons is only in the violet cube, even we who are brought to our knees here, in Vegen who is outside the violet cube, in the Violet cube, none of us can dream and imagine the real form of our queen, and what her throne looks like." Speak of this man on a black pilgrimage.

"So then, by the way .. I can walk myself up without holding your hand." I said to Marie in the red dress.

"Don't insist, I've tried to pick you up well." Say it with a dirty face.

Forced, I climbed up while grabbing her hand, and walked up to each step of the stairs. I don't know how long it will take to keep going up, this staircase still looks endless, so I asked her how far it is. But he answered "Unlimited" because this ladder never ends. Like every rung of the ladder is like a layer of the world in a violet cube as well.

I ran, ran fast to exceed any speed, not even 0 seconds would match my speed. The movement to pierce through all space and time with just my usual footsteps. And when I stopped at the top, this staircase still looked like there was no end. From the very beginning, I was already at the top, where Valerie and the others were already unimaginably far away. However, in front of me Marie was already there first seen walking up leisurely.