I Became a National ‘Disaster’ Level Monster

Translator: Marctempest
Editor: The Reader

Chapter 46: The Ugly Princess’s Guard Knight

“Did we defeat it?”

“?! Lorensky! Shut your mouth!”

The legendary spell that could even revive the dead.

Seeing Amaterasu with a huge hole in its chest, Lorensky relaxed. However, he soon realized what he had said and quickly covered his mouth with both hands.

But it was already too late.

Crack.

“The tree trunk…”

“…is surrounding the wounded area.”

They had aimed for the heart because it was an enemy in human form. No matter how powerful or regenerative an opponent was, if it was a living being, piercing its heart would be fatal.

But this thing…

“Is it unkillable?”

“No. It’s more likely that its heart wasn’t there.”

“Or it could be a heart that regenerates the moment it’s destroyed…”

Either way, the first ambush had failed completely.

Amaterasu no longer seemed to consider the three before it as mere insects.

“I will kill you.”

Creak. Crack.

The void giant began tearing off the extending branches, shrinking its size on its own.

Its body, which had been giant, was now reducing to human size, but the three watching it could only swallow their breaths.

‘Power is…’

‘Concentrating in one place!’

‘This is dangerous…’

The unnecessarily large volume was just to instill fear in the insignificant humans.

In contrast, the human-sized body was a form Amaterasu showed only to those it deemed ‘worthy of killing’.

Thus, Japan’s greatest and worst monster in history returned to its original form, the form of the evil god that was easier to move in.

Boom!

Slash.

Lorensky and Lancelot leapt to Amaterasu’s sides in that brief moment it took to reduce its size, ready to strike with their explosive palms and holy sword.

But.

“Nonsense.”

Branches shot out from Amaterasu’s body, piercing both of them before they could react.

“Sir Lancelot! Immortal!”

The speed was too much for them to react to. Both managed to avoid fatal wounds thanks to their trained reflexes.

“Urgh…?!”

“The strength…”

The branches, known as the forest’s predators, could absorb all the life force from whatever they penetrated. Amaterasu’s branches began to siphon the life energy from the two men they had pierced.

“You are a…”

“…!”

“Liar.”

“Jin-ah Lee!!”

Amaterasu locked eyes with Jin-ah Lee, who was trying to move to save the two.

At the same time, hearing those inexplicable words.

Slash.

“…Huh?”

In the next moment, Jin-ah Lee’s head flew through the air, severed by a swiftly swinging branch.

***

“Please… please put me down now…”

“No! If I do, Director Jin-ah Lee will kill me!”

In the amusement park, blocked off by massive tree trunks, Yoo Shi-hyun was running with Princess Kurumi on her back, searching for a place to hide in the semi-jungle-like environment.

But only for a moment.

“Stop… just stop already!!”

Princess Kurumi leaned back, causing herself to fall to the ground.

“Princess!? What are you doing, that’s dangerous!”

“That’s what I should be asking you!”

She shouted, shaking off Yoo Shi-hyun’s hand as she tried to lift her back up.

“Please just leave me alone! I just want to die!!”

“…!”

I can die.

Finally, I can escape this life where even a slight touch from others causes me pain and makes me vomit.

Yoo Shi-hyun, who tried to hold onto her, was just a hindrance in her eyes.

So, she lashed out sincerely, asking her to get lost.

But.

“No.”

“…What?”

“No, I can’t. I promised to use you as our company’s advertising model. I boasted about it to the executives, so if I come back with a dead princess, who will treat me as the next chairman candidate?”

“That’s your problem…”

“Right. It’s my problem!”

As if it was obvious.

Yoo Shi-hyun, lifting the exhausted Kurumi back onto her back, continued her selfish talk while running through the amusement park, looking for a place to hide.

“And don’t say things like ‘I want to die’ so easily!”

“……”

“We’re not just ordinary extras; we’re special! Special people shouldn’t die like this!”

“I’m… I’m not special… I’m a disgrace to my family…”

“No way! That makes you even more special!”

Yoo Shi-hyun, breathing heavily as she was getting tired, continued.

“Being a disgrace in a Hunter family? There’s nothing more ‘special’ than that!”

“I’m… special?”

“Yes! Absolutely! At least you’re much more attractive and unique than the ordinary cogs in society who pretend to be humble and make themselves seem average! That in itself is proof that you’re special!”

Mid-sentence, Yoo Shi-hyun tripped over some debris from the fallen amusement park.

“H-hey!”

Princess Kurumi tried to get off her back, feeling it was enough already.

But Yoo Shi-hyun held onto her tightly.

“And! And deep down, you don’t really want to die, do you!”

“…!”

“You say you have no regrets about life, but people who truly want to die don’t talk like that!”

Yoo Shi-hyun somehow got back on her feet.

Kurumi wanted to argue against her claim that she was lying.

But.

“Princess, did you sleep well?”

“I only drink once a week.”

“My little sister is a Hunter.”

“Sob… sob…”

She did have regrets.

Even though they had only recently surfaced, they were numerous.

She had so many regrets, enough to fill the world.

“Yes, I have…”

“See, when it comes down to it, you don’t want to die, do you?”

“Yes… yes…! I want to live…! I want to survive! There’s someone I must meet…!”

She knew it was a burden, but she wanted him to be with her until her dying breath.

She wanted him to grieve her death with her.

She wanted him to marry her, knowing she had a terminal illness, and create the fruit of their love within her.

She wanted to be with Shin-woo until she closed her eyes for the last time.

But.

Thud!

“Eek?!”

“Amaterasu…!”

People called it a wish, not a goal, because they wanted it but couldn’t achieve it.

Kurumi and Yoo Shi-hyun’s despair was personified as the nature god with antlers made of wood dropped before them.

Branches extended from his body, showing traces of blood and the aftermath of battle, while his skeletal head bore slight signs of an explosion.

Though there was no real damage.

“…! Pink-haired one! Run away and leave me now!”

“I-I want to… but… my legs…!”

Faced with a superior being revealing its true form, Yoo Shi-hyun, who was just an insect, could only tremble.

Then, with a casual swing of its arm, she was sent flying, her body limp as if dead after hitting the ground several times.

“No! Amaterasu!!”

“According to the contract. I will take all your remaining lifespan.”

“Why… why are you doing this to me?! What did I do wrong!!!”

Kurumi hated this creature before her for soon killing her.

She finally expressed her anger towards the god inside her.

It had stolen her ordinary life.

It had created victims like her for over 2000 years.

Why was it doing this?

Why did it continue to torment her family, still bound by the complex conditions of a curse?

As she cried out, asking why.

“Because humans are fun.”

“…What?”

“And tasty.”

That was it.

Though it had once been revered as a god, it was still a monster.

“You will all be raised by me forever.”

Such a monstrous reason.

“Shin-woo, I…”

The princess, who could do nothing about the impending death, seemed to end her story here…

“Uooooh!!”

…or so she thought.

“Huh?!”

As Amaterasu was about to absorb Kurumi, someone swiftly passed by and grabbed her, running away.

「…?」

Amaterasu tilted its head, feeling a sense of déjà vu.

Kurumi, meeting eyes with her savior, started to cry as her blindfold fell off.

He was the only regret she had left in this world.

“Shin-woo…”

Why did he come to this dangerous place?

He wouldn’t help; he’d only see bad things and leave.

Already, his forehead was bleeding from a minor injury he got when he fell.

He was a completely ordinary human.

Not even an E-rank Hunter, far from the Hunter families.

Yet.

“Princess, I came to rescue you!”

He smiled at her.

“Why… did you come… I’m about to… die…”

It was the answer she never expected to hear.

“I came to rescue you.” The words she most wanted to hear made Kurumi cry even harder.

She knew having Shin-woo around wouldn’t change anything, yet why did she become so selfish in front of him?

“Save… me…!”

“Yes.”

“Save me! Save me! Save me! I don’t want to die! I want to live! I made my first friend! I drank with her!”

“I know.”

“I have so much I want to do! I want to get married! Have a child! Live with my loved one in a happy family!”

Kurumi finally poured out her true feelings.

Like a princess in a fairy tale demanding her only guard knight to save her.

She should have told him to run.

She should have told him to use her as bait.

But in front of him, she desperately wanted to live and ended up revealing her true feelings.

And then, a warm hand touched her head.

”

Princess.”

“Sob… sob…”

“Promise me one thing.”

“A promise…?”

“Yes, a promise.”

The void giant was approaching them again, playing with its prey.

But Shin-woo focused on the moment.

“Everything you see from now on must be a secret. Got it?”

“A secret…?”

“Then I’ll save you. I’ll defeat that monster and make it give back all your stolen lifespan.”

“!? How will you…?”

“Die.”

Behind Shin-woo, Amaterasu reached up, ready to strike down the insignificant human before it.

The princess tried to warn him.

At least to push him away to die in his place.

But then.

“Uoooooooh!!”

A black storm erupted from his body.

「…What?!」

Simultaneously.

Crunch!

The black fist pierced through, splitting Amaterasu’s upper and lower body as it was blown back.

What stood before the ancient evil god was no longer an insignificant human.

It was an existence on par with it.

Serving the illegitimate, ugly princess.

An equally ugly.

“Uraaaaaa!!”

A guardian knight, a monster in human form.