chapter 208
The Decisive Battle (7)
A hell where I don’t know how long I’ve been wandering.
The feeling of liberation from getting out of there was brief.
“You waited···?”
It wasn’t long before I was able to personally realize the meaning of the words he had uttered.
“···!”
My body, bound by black tentacles, did not move a single part of my will.
Nothing, not mana, not starlight, not divine power, was created.
As if a patient with dehydration symptoms,
Just like that moment I experienced in a world filled with rage.
I was in a state where I couldn’t do anything.
And he was really waiting for me.
The moment I escape from the Avici Hell.
“Didn’t Yeo-ga know? Ahae, the one who opens destiny, couldn’t open up even a small hell that Yeo-ga had created.”
The evil spirit has returned to his original form as a warrior.
“Long ago, when I first started to exist as a woman, I used to look at children and wonder.
“Why don’t those children immediately satisfy their hunger even though they have food?”
“Also, why are you counting and bragging about the things you have to drink when you have them in front of you? You can just eat them, you can just drink them.”
The guy chuckled and started walking towards me very slowly.
“I was curious about that, so I ate them greedily. So I came to know naturally.”
“Ah, these kids endured all their desires for just one dinner. They invested time and effort for just one dinner.”
“It was something I really didn’t understand, but I was curious at the time, so I followed them. Well, that’s what happened.”
His grotesque tongue licks his swarthy lips.
“For the first time in my life, I feel grateful to my children. The taste and flavor definitely deepens as time and effort are put into it.”
Did I just fall into reminiscence?
The evil spirit was giggling with a childish expression.
“Ahae is a supper I have endured for a very long time.”
His pitch-black eyes pursue me with lust.
I try to move my body, but I am bound and cannot make any movement.
‘no.’
If I continue like this, I’ll die.
“I have waited for this moment. When the flesh of justice and courage swells in the child who has overcome all trials! When the blood of hope flows more abundantly than ever after breaking out of hell!”
A black aura that instills fear rises in the b*stard’s right hand.
“I waited and waited! When I took out that heart that was throbbing with despair and bit into it! The juicy, scream-filled flesh that would burst out!”
The guy comes with his right hand out.
Time passes slowly.
‘I have to do something.’
I try my best to cope with death that is right in front of me.
Try to raise Mana and complain to the stars.
You can also try talking to Libra.
I don’t know what caused it, but tiny cracks began to appear in the tentacles that had bound my body.
But that wasn’t enough.
At this moment, my death sentence is certain.
‘shit···!’
What’s lacking is time. A moment that doesn’t even last a second.
I’m dying here because that little bit of time is not enough.
-Wow!
-Poohak!
As soon as I thought that, I heard the sound of something breaking and flesh being torn.
“uh···.”
I feel uneasy and dumbfounded.
No pain is felt in the body.
-Quadduck.
Naturally, the black tentacles are torn off. The body moves.
Something begins to appear in my field of vision.
“S···.”
The subspace that broke in front of me.
A woman with platinum blonde hair popped out from there.
She looked at me with clear, yet sad eyes.
Blood pouring out of my lips.
A hollow chest, held in a hand filled with black energy.
And then you act like that.
“Master···!”
Time flows slowly, as if it has stopped.
The accident stops.
“Ughh …
Starting from the hand that pierced the Master’s chest, the evil spirit is momentarily enveloped in pure white light and suffers.
“Ah, ah, no···!”
Tears flow down before they even well up.
A feeling like passion sets my heart on fire.
Her weak index finger touches my forehead as my whole body trembles like an aspen tree.
“My disciple···.”
“Ah, ahh···.”
-Bam.
“It seems like this is the last time, so let me be honest this time.”
“Ma, don’t say anything. Please···.”
Even though I know that she has already been sentenced to death, I speak with a glimmer of hope. Stop talking.
“many···.”
The corners of her eyes draw beautiful curves just like in my memories.
“I loved you so much… really so much.”
“Ah, ah, no….”
“As your teacher, I will give you one last teaching.”
She tilts her head toward me with difficulty.
Her lips cover mine. I feel the golden key enter my mind along with the warm heat.
The momentary sweetness passes, and her lips that had been covering mine part.
“Don’t let that dirty guy get to you and go your own way. Do you understand?”
I’m speechless.
I wanted to believe that this would not be the end, but I had a feeling that it would be the end, so I nodded like a child with my face soaked in tears.
“please···.”
She smiles faintly and taps my forehead with her index finger again.
“Grow up.”
With eyes that are losing their vitality, he looks into my eyes until the end and spits out.
“My disciple, my··· love···.”
“No, no···!”
-Poohak!
The moment she was about to say something, the evil spirit’s hand was pulled out from her chest.
But still, her body does not fall to the floor.
-Whaaah.
It just becomes a pure white light, illuminating the world filled with darkness for a moment.
I reach out and try to grab the pure white light.
Even though I know it’s not true.
Even though I knew it was already over.
I hoped I could feel a little more of her warmth.
But of course, I couldn’t catch anything in my hand.
The warmth of the teacher, the smile of the teacher.
Master’s love, Master’s lips.
Nothing.
“···.”
There’s no denying it. I lost.
My most precious thing.
“—!”
I hear the voice of an evil spirit saying something.
I don’t understand what you’re saying. No, even if I do, I don’t want to listen.
The only thing that bothers me is that he’s still smiling.
-Whaaah!
Apart from the complicated emotions that seem like they could explode at any moment.
The key that passed through the Master’s lips merges with the energy of the honeymoon stone inside me.
-Pizza!
Mana is created.
In the black sky, starlight comes down and shines on me.
“···.”
What I immediately see with my eyes is the corners of the mouth of an evil spirit that I want to tear apart.
“asleep.”
And I lost my reason.
-Whoaaah!
-Whoaaah!
Before I knew it, the two swords in my hands were being swung indiscriminately.
Starlight, brighter than ever before, collides with the primordial magic.
-Wow!
-Crack!
The shield of the black aura shatters without warning.
The walls made of black sewage crumble so easily.
“—? —-!”
The guy mutters something in confusion and steps back.
I’m chasing that guy.
There is no such thing as consciousness in this process.
There is only one ideology that moves my body.
‘Kill me.’
Whether he’s an evil spirit or whatever, it means nothing to me now.
There is only one thing that is important. At this moment, at this moment, that b*stard is someone I absolutely must kill.
“— — —-!”
-Whoosh!
-Whaaah!
A man who senses danger materializes in his true form and attacks.
Pitch-black darkness filling my field of vision, and crimson eyes shining within it.
A black tidal wave of sewage rushes toward me.
-Whooosh!
-Whoaaah!
The tidal wave split. The split black waves melted, flowed, and froze.
My body had already passed this point.
“—–!”
I jumped high and swung my sword without thinking.
What extends from the thrusting sword is my broken world.
My own world that I once showed to my teacher.
A world that I really wanted to show you after it was completely completed.
But now, everything has fallen apart, and only the murderous intent towards one being remains in the world.
The ultimate secret technique of the Divine Sword style.
Breaking nothing.
“Ah, no···!”
This is the first time I’ve heard his voice in its entirety since I lost my mind.
-Seo Geo-eok!
My broken world cut through even that voice cleanly, and with a quiet cutting sound, it tore apart the primordial evil.
“···!”
The moment the black world splits apart, the tiny body of the guy is briefly visible.
He tried to say something while mumbling, but he too was swept away by my broken world and disappeared without a sound.
-Clang.
The sound of the sword being pulled out and placed back into its scabbard echoes through the quiet air.
The black sky is falling.
The lightning that was striking disappears one by one.
All the black slush that had been sticking to the ground evaporates.
Sunlight poured down from the sky that had suddenly turned blue.
Life begins to return to the land that was once filled with death.
“It’s not over yet…”
In the midst of all this, the voice of an evil spirit can be faintly heard.
“The undying existence that opens. Once again, this world···!”
The spirit of an invisible being screams in my ears.
“hey.”
I know because it was Berheim.
This is not how it disappears.
If things continue like this, the b*stard will survive like a cockroach, expand his flesh, and one day try to devour the world again.
“You by any chance.”
But I am not Bergheim now.
Camel. He inherited everything from his master.
“Have you heard of a honeymoon stone?”
-Suddenly.
I grabbed the soul of the guy who was wandering in the air, carrying the thoughts of the old ghosts.
“Ku …
“Why? It’s your karma, you little punk.”
I brought his soul to my chest.
“Do you hear these voices, waiting so desperately for you?”
“No. There’s something wrong with this…”
“Shut up and listen carefully.”
I spat out each word as if I was chewing on the b*stard’s soul.
“You’re not the only one who’s been waiting for dinner.”
「···!」
I didn’t want to listen to any more of his nonsense, so I just poured his soul into my mouth.
Wagjak wagjak.
I chewed it as much as I could and then swallowed it.
Then, I felt a tremendous energy swirling inside.
I don’t know for sure, but the evil spirit is probably facing the worst ending a evil spirit can face.
“Whew.”
Realizing that the evil spirit was now finished, I spat out the unpleasant phlegm that had been building up in my mouth and started walking.
Towards the door where a vaguely shaped man was waiting for me.
Maybe, really maybe.
Because maybe I haven’t really lost anything.
No, it has to be that way.