I Became a National ‘Disaster’ Level Monster

Translator: Marctempest
Editor: The Reader

Chapter 44 God of the Forest

Gashadokuro.

The ability of the monster, one of the Kitsune Family’s death gods, was extremely simple.

It forcibly expelled the bones of its target from their body.

“Terrifying…”

The traditional Japanese martial art of Aikido, which focused solely on evasion and defense.

Lorensky thought this while watching Princess Kurumi, whose technique combined this art derived from Jujutsu with the power of Gashadokuro.

A woman dancing atop a mountain of bones.

Despite being from a hunter family, she possessed an unbelievably great talent.

‘She seems to have just reached adulthood, but her future is bright…’

However, she was still a rookie.

“Huff… Huff…!”

She appeared to lack the stamina to summon monsters and use Aikido simultaneously, and so Princess Kurumi grew tired as monsters rushed past her towards the civilians…

Snap.

Crack.

…it was Lorensky’s role to deal with all of them and clean up perfectly afterward.

“Princess. You seem tired. Would you like to pass the baton?”

“I’m… I’m fine…”

“…Is that so?”

At first, it might have been different.

As time passed and the endless swarm of monsters kept coming, small wounds that couldn’t be entirely deflected began appearing all over Princess Kurumi’s body.

Even so, she refused to step down from the front line.

As if she wanted to die honorably while protecting the people.

‘…! Whatever her plan is, if we leave her like this, she’ll soon die!’

The original goal was to secure the princess’s safety.

No matter what, it seemed too dangerous to leave her any longer, so Lorensky planned to forcibly send Kurumi to the rear and take the lead himself.

At that moment.

Crunch.

“Huh?”

“…What?”

The swarm of monsters, which he thought would only gather at the entrance of the amusement park.

Crash!

Broke through the giant dome’s ceiling, appearing like a disaster from the ‘sky.’

“F-from the sky…!”

“A monster?!”

Little demons with bronze skin, like a cross between bats and small goblins, spread their wings and quickly swarmed the amusement park’s ceiling.

Seeing this, everyone on the ground, whether hunters or civilians, froze with stiff expressions.

“My mother is at the top of the gyro drop…!”

“I have kids in the hot air balloon hanging from the ceiling!”

The moment the sky, which was thought to be the safest, turned into the most dangerous area.

“I’ll handle the sky somehow, so everyone calm down…!”

Lorensky tried to rally the people in the amusement park’s center, who were slowly falling into chaos.

He could explode beneath his feet and take off, after all.

The monsters had a trait of reacting first to the large clusters of human presence rather than scattered individuals.

So, at times like this, it was better to gather together to draw the monsters’ attention…

“Grandmother!”

“Son!!”

…but that was only the best course of action.

“Wait, everyone, please…!”

“Shut up! I have three daughters!”

“My grandmother has a fear of heights!”

Realizing that monsters had appeared right next to elderly or young children, civilians who hadn’t been trained naturally lost their reason.

By the time Lorensky hurriedly grabbed one person, dozens had already scattered, each running towards their own family.

“…! Damn it! If you don’t stick together, it’s meaningless for me to fly around! You idiots!!”

Thud.

“…?! Damn it!! This is why I can’t do ordinary hunter work!”

And now, even Princess Kurumi, who had knelt down before the endless swarm of monsters, appeared to have reached her limit.

For an individual civilian to rescue their family from airborne monsters was an exceedingly rare occurrence.

Most of them would end up being caught and devoured without even touching the ground.

“At this rate, at least the princess…”

Both the ground and sky had been completely overrun by monsters, more than anticipated.

Lorensky himself was in an indoor space, and considering the civilians’ safety, he had almost sealed his own powers.

Since protecting everyone was no longer feasible, he aimed to secure Princess Kurumi, their primary objective, and ran towards her, drenched in sweat.

But… suddenly, he stopped.

“…What is this?”

And it wasn’t just Lorensky.

The little demons that had been flying towards the elderly and children in the rides.

People running to protect their families.

Even the monsters that kept pushing in from the entrance.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and simply tensed up.

Because of ‘it,’ which was about to descend here.

“…! Could it be… that I, once a national power in the Soviet Union, am feeling fear…?”

Lorensky realized that it was ‘fear’ that had stopped his actions.

However, he couldn’t believe it.

No matter what trials, even in front of a national disaster-level monster, he had stood proudly in the lead.

It felt like facing an unbelievable reality.

But then, seeing the void giant slowly emerge from Princess Kurumi’s shadow.

“…!!”

Lorensky finally realized.

What he was feeling now was a natural ‘physiological phenomenon’ for any living being, like feeling thirsty and drinking water.

***

Risking one’s life for the weak humans.

As a descendant of the hunter family, wasn’t that the most honorable way to die?

Anyway, she had about a year left to live.

Besides, she felt she couldn’t endure the long time of a year that lay ahead.

If she had to live forgetting something she wanted to keep forever, it would be better to die like this.

After parting with Shin-woo, Kurumi’s already non-existent will to live had now reached a level where she wanted to erase it completely.

‘If I keep pushing myself like this, I’ll eventually die from exhaustion.’

Surely, focusing solely on combat, she would die without even knowing when.

Besides, after dying, she would be a ‘hero’ who died saving people.

“Huff… Huff…”

Fighting while coughing up blood, she thought she would smile until the moment of her death.

Crash!

“…?! From the sky?”

Seeing the winged monsters breaking through the dome’s ceiling, she lost even the last bit of hope.

“Aahhhh!”

“Save me!”

People who had scattered to protect their families began to be picked off by the monsters one by one.

With not a single civilian left to protect, she was about to fall into despair.

At that moment.

「Re. lease. Me.」

A greater despair spoke to the princess.

「Then. I. Will. Grant. Your. Wish.」

“My… wish?”

「Yes. Wish.」

Princess Kurumi’s current wish.

That was to die nobly, a so-called ‘honorable death.’

“…What’s the price?”

「All. Your. Remaining. Life.」

“…!”

As expected, it wanted all her remaining lifespan.

It must have wanted to devour her all at once, but due to an ancient contract, it had been sucking her life out bit by bit.

「An. swer?」

No matter how much resolve one mustered, when the time came, fear was inevitable.

That was death, the end for all living beings.

Moreover, this entity was Japan’s strongest and worst monster, which no one in the Kitsune Family’s history had ever been able to control.

There was no way to bluff.

Summoning it would almost certainly mean losing her life as a price.

Besides.

「I. Will. Save. You.」

“……”

「I. Will. Free. You. From. Your. Painful. Life.」

It was a god nestled in her heart, who had seen, felt, and experienced everything with her during her lifetime.

Hence, this ‘evil god’ pretended to care for Kurumi, waiting for the moment she would willingly give up her life.

“…Alright.”

Abandoned by her father.

Her only family, her mother, died neglected.

Living a life of merely existing as a sacrificial offering, and finally pushing away the only man who could have been her light.

For such Kurumi, the fear of drinking from a poisoned chalice was almost non-existent.

“Save everyone in the amusement park.”

「……」

“In return, I’ll give you everything I have left.”

With those words, Kurumi felt the warm energy of life drain completely from her body.

Crunch. Crack.

It, having taken most of the princess’s remaining life force.

What was called the void giant in ancient times, emerged from the darkness of the princess’s shadow, receiving the fearful gazes of all living beings.

A monster in human form, woven from trees.

As if starting photosynthesis, absorbing all the light around it, darkness began to spread around it.

At the same time, a powerful energy, in the shape of a small sun, appeared behind it.

It looked like a god of nature, with the sun at its back.

…No, it was an ‘evil god’ swallowing nature itself, a ‘natural disaster’ beyond human control.

“What is this…!”

「……」

Amaterasu.

Standing in front of it, Lorensky’s whole body stiffened.

It was unbelievable.

He had thought the strongest creature he’d encountered was the pitch-black monster at the Korean headquarter.

But this was on a different ‘dimension’ altogether.

He couldn’t even think of attacking it first.

It was simply a monster.

「O, Oooohh!!」

Suddenly, Amaterasu raised its wooden arms high and roared like a chorus.

Simultaneously, the tree trunks growing beneath it began to grow wildly, quickly expanding beyond the amusement park.

Piercing through all monsters in their path, whether in the sky, on the ground, or underground.

“The monsters…”

“They’re withering away…?!”

The tree trunks even extended beyond the gate where the monsters were emerging, fulfilling the contract by annihilating all of Kurumi’s enemies, transcending dimensions.

This happened within less than a minute of its appearance.