116 – Devil – 1
The World Eater, with its real scabbard in front of its eyes, emitted waves full of ominous tones.
A trembling full of joy passed through the handle. I squeezed the handle with both hands, as Serena does, but the vibration showed no sign of diminishing, perhaps because I wasn’t Serena.
Serena, who was looking at me with worried eyes, carefully opened her mouth.
“My lord, if you allow me, I will do it for you. It is too dangerous at this rate.”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m not dying. I’m just doing this because I’m excited because it’s been a while since I’ve regained my original self.”
“Hey, lord…”
“Serena, who do you think brought these things here?”
It was Charlotte who built the mage tower to gather all these selfish weapons in one place. However, it was definitely me who brought the weapons to be stored inside.
To be precise, Charlotte, who saw the weapons I brought, said she would build a separate mage tower.
“I’m the one who collected these and put them in the basement. I’ve experienced what happens when I catch a demonic sword like this in the past, so don’t worry too much.”
“If my lord says so, I will comply.”
Serena took a few steps back as if she had managed to convince her. In fact, even if you didn’t understand it, if I ordered you to stay still, you would have obeyed meekly.
With the other hand, I grabbed the World Eater’s scabbard, now half-floating in the air. When the groove on the scabbard was tilted toward the tip of the sword, a light force of attraction occurred between the two.
It felt like my arms were being dragged by the sword and the scabbard rather than me being joined.
With a click, the blade completely disappeared. The vibration stopped. Silence filled the cramped room.
Serena subconsciously took a posture to draw the sword, but then realized that her waist was empty and hesitated. It seemed that he sensed the ominous energy rising from the World Eater.
Suddenly, I felt a tingling sensation in the palm of my right hand holding the sword. It was a signal that this demon sword was about to eat my right arm.
Something like a red vine stalk pierced my palm and protruded from the back of my hand.
The red vine protruding from the back of my hand split into four smaller vine stems in the middle, each piercing through my hand, tightly intertwining it with the sword.
The vine that had secured my hand completely to the handle that way now burrowed into my forearm. The target is probably my right arm, or even my entire body.
Of course, it couldn’t pierce my super regeneration ability. As my body recovered, the vine stems that pierced my forearm and back of my hand were violently thrown out.
The vine stems pushed out into the air swayed in the air for a while as if they had lost their way, then withered and disappeared.
The red jewels embedded in the World Eater shone. The entire sword glowed reddish, painting the cellar red.
An ominous whirlpool swirled around the sword. All the wind flows generated in the basement were concentrated in one place.
The whirlpool was clear to the point where it could be seen with the naked eye.
Serena frowned as she checked the flow of the wind, which mixed with the red light emitted from the jewel and took on a bizarre appearance.
It’s like I want to separate that from me right now. I said it’s okay, so I can’t bear to go out.
A voice like scraping metal came from within the whirling whirlpool.
It was a voice that did not exist at all.
“Was it you?”
“What are you doing, you’re just saying this. I should rather have the complaint. Did you forget that you tried to rob my arm as soon as it was combined with the real scabbard for the first time in a long time?”
“Isn’t it you who made me look like this?
“I wonder if red flag was a word that was meant to be used at a time like this. Not according to my knowledge. At that time, I made it clear that I would absolutely not care whether you took my soul or do anything, so try killing me. You’re the one who couldn’t stop them from being separated. Then, isn’t it your karma that you became this idiot?”
When he mentioned why he had become like this, he let out a low voice in a flat voice. Because everything I said was right.
Beside me, Serena stared dead-eyed into the maelstrom surrounding the World Eater. The fact that he had just pierced my arm with a strange vine must have been very irritating.
“My lord, is this the true face of the World Eater you spoke of?”
“No, not yet. I’d say it’s just barely enough to be able to talk to humans. He’ll need a lot of sacrifices to fully descend. But just now, you tried to sacrifice me and failed, right? That’s how it is. Well. But honestly, even if he descends as a sacrifice, there’s nothing special. He’s a pure swindler and a liar?”
At my words, the voice inside the whirlpool became more ferocious. The pitch of the sound was still perfectly flat, but it was laid even lower.
“It’s rude. Be polite.”
It’s a bitch to set an example. I didn’t lose and faced it.
“I’m not in a position to be polite to you. I’m not as good as you, but I’ve lived quite a long time. And one more thing. Even though I gave everything to kill you like that, all of them failed and ended up in the basement. What? Be polite? Don’t demons always have that much conscience?”
“I definitely gave the advice to try something else.”
“Yes. And I’ve listened to that advice ten times. If you try ten times and fail ten times, then there’s something wrong with you.”
“There are still many ways left.”
“There must be many methods left. None of the remaining methods are effective. Do you know how much blood and flesh the humans have sucked on under the pretext of killing me? There’s one. If I’m going to do something stupid like extracting souls again, I won’t even try.”
I let go of the grip that held the World Eater, and it clattered and fell to the basement floor. The whirlpool was still at about our eye level.
Originally, you should not let go of the World Eater until you completely encroach on your right arm and cut it off or die, but I am an exception.
Because his arm was about to be encroached on, but he was forcibly released due to his super-regeneration ability.
“There are many ways to use it. I will let you know when I prepare the sacrifice.”
“I just told you. There’s a difference between a usable method and a valid method. Why did I tear you in half and dump you here in the first place? Didn’t you leave me here to think of a way to completely kill me while being held in a mortgage? It’s not something like guts and guts, or something like that. Or did your intelligence go down because of the torn halves?”
“Don’t be stern. I told you to be polite—”
The words heard in the whirlpool could only come to that point. It was because Serena had picked up the World Eater that had fallen to the ground, suggesting she would die.
Serena grabbed the handle of the World Eater with both hands and started pouring a huge amount of mana into it.
Due to the enormous mana rushing in, the whirlpool swayed here and there.
“You are the one who should be polite. What are you doing to my lord?”
“…”
At that vicious warning, the devil shut his mouth. Serena’s eyebrows twitched slightly, and she grabbed the scabbard and handle with different hands.
And started pulling in the opposite direction.
The light emanating from the red jewel became even stronger. The ominous energy that had gathered like a whirlpool scattered the momentum like a scream.
Serena’s hand trembled as she grabbed the scabbard and handle and pulled them out, as if the separation was not so easy for Serena.
As if the blood wasn’t flowing properly, the already white fingers turned even whiter. The tremors soon spread to his entire arm.
Soon after, the shape of the blade was revealed little by little.
‘That’s it.’
And I was exclaiming inwardly as I watched Serena forcibly separate the World Eaters from the side.
Serena’s action may seem like a simple drawing of a sword, but when you consider that the demon within is resisting with all its might, refusing to separate, it was incredibly absurd.
Although it is said to be in an incomplete state because it has not been long since the union was formed, it means that the demon that has descended halfway here is being cut into two pieces with only one’s own physical strength.
In a word, it was a similar action to priests purifying demons.
If the priests had succeeded in purifying the demons as per the standard, the World Eaters would have separated themselves into swords and scabbards.
But what Serena was doing was the opposite. It is not to purify the devil and separate the sword and sheath, but to separate the sword and sheath to purify the demon.
If other priests heard it, it would have been frightening.
‘I’m sure Christine can do it too.’
In terms of physical ability, Christine, who is almost equal to Serena, who uses mana, should be able to do it without difficulty.
No, it was possible, and it was clear that the demon would scream and be ejected into the World Eater just by leaving Jago and approaching it.
If Christine is determined and emits divine power, wouldn’t it be possible to purify the World Eater itself?
While I was thinking these silly thoughts, Serena pulled the gearco World Eater halfway out of its scabbard.
The World Eater made a sound of metal rubbing against each other and screamed continuously. The strength of the vortex surrounding the blade gradually weakened.
Serena took a deep breath, inhaled, and finally gave strength. The World Eater, unable to withstand the pulling force from both sides any longer, was dragged from side to side with the final groaning sound.
The light of the red jewel turned off and returned to its original color. The swirling whirlpool filled with ominous energy vanished in vain.
Serena, who accomplished the absurd feat of physically purifying the demon, exhaled a long breath.
He was holding the World Eater scabbard in his left hand and the World Eater in his right hand.
Its breathing was very calm. To the extent that I couldn’t even imagine that I had succeeded in such an outrageous cleanup just a while ago.
Serena got down on one knee towards me. Then, bowing his head deeply, he supported the base of the World Eater with both hands and held it out to me.
“I know my lord told me not to intervene, but I couldn’t stand the rudeness this dared to do to my lord. I will gladly accept any punishment for daring to disregard my lord’s words and act on my own.”
The world eater placed on Serena’s hand was trembling weakly, probably from the effect of being forcibly ejected from reality.
‘That’s why I don’t have to uselessly build up my pride.’
Right next to me, the being who had been carrying me around for almost ten years, holding me down and brandishing me with force, was watching me with both eyes wide open.
After lightly patting Serena’s head with the meaning of not worrying about it, she accepted the World Eater again. As I held the World Eater in my hand, Serena brought out the scabbard as well.
When he took it over and put the two together again, the jewel glowed and the whirlpool quietly swirled.
He was more calm than when he first appeared. Confirming that the whirlpool had taken its previous shape again, I opened my mouth.
“Did you just experience it yourself? Don’t even think about using halfway methods. Serena is much stronger than you.”
“understood.”
This time, the polite answer came back. The physical purification seemed to be quite effective.
“Yes. Now we can talk a little bit. I shouldn’t have listened to you so obediently before. Then I wouldn’t have to go through the experience of being forced into the sword again.”
“is it.”
“That’s right. Now, I’m asking again because I think I’ve got a bit more of my mind to listen to what I’m saying.”
paused for a while
“Did you find the way you said to kill me?”
