125 – Accept
The wind shear melted into the wind.
Leading the wind shear into the air, Serena stared blankly at the completely overturned landscape as if trying to undo the destruction she had done.
Even if the Giant Death Worm that the thieves were bluffing about was a real monster, it was certain that it would have been swept away and died in the aftermath of the destruction.
A savage hand picked up the neatly severed demon’s head. The red vine stems swayed weakly on the cut surface where the head and body were neatly separated.
In line with Serena’s stride, blood dripped down and created a dented circle on the scorched wasteland.
Serena, who came right in front of me, knelt down on one knee, bowed her head, and set the demon’s head in her hand to the ground.
Her golden hair, free of dust, shone brilliantly in the sunlight.
“What the lord commanded, we have certainly completed.”
Even though the body from the neck down disappeared without a trace, the demon was still alive. The eyes, which were split vertically like goats, moved nonstop.
Well, it was a strange thing if he died just because his head was cut off even though he had a name like that of the Great Devil.
“Good work, Serena.”
“I just did what I had to do. You don’t have to praise me, lord.”
“But I have to say something. How about wind shear? Is it useful?”
Nothing hung from Serena’s waist anymore. If you wanted to, you could wear it around your waist with the wind shear manifested, but there was no reason to do so.
Serena’s thoughts and will will soon become a sword.
“Yes, lord. It is a very good sword.”
It wasn’t an expression that added rhetoric to this or that, but considering Serena’s personality, it was actually close to a high praise for wind shear.
Even the world eater, which was a demonic sword that could cut through pretty much anything even without mana, was evaluated as a mediocre sword.
Unlike the World Eater, which shuddered and thirsted for blood at every opportunity, the wind shear obeyed its owner thoroughly and, conversely, handed over all kinds of help, so it was a natural result.
“I’m glad it’s a good sword. If there’s anything else you’d like, let me know. We still have a lot of weapons.”
“Thank you for your words.”
What he just said was not bluff, it was real. If you take out all the weapons sealed in the Mage Tower, there will be enough left over even after arming both the Royal Knights and the Royal Wizards.
I decided not to think about whether I could make those people completely my own instead of being eaten by the armor I was handed over.
Supporting the severed side of the neck with the palm of his right hand, he lifted it up and brought it to eye level with the severed head. Dark pupils that were torn vertically turned towards me.
I could feel the vine stalks digging into my palms to suck up my blood, but I didn’t mind. Anyway, this guy can’t pierce the super regeneration ability. Of course you won’t be able to absorb me.
If I was defenseless like this, I would have thought that he would try to make a last resort, but the devil was unexpectedly calm.
“Then why did you make a pun that didn’t make sense?”
“What do you mean?”
The devil’s voice was still flat.
“As for the justice of my death.”
“It was to fulfill the contract.”
“I’ve heard that word so many times, why don’t you stop? If you’re just going to talk nonsense about how you tried to rob my body to fulfill a contract, then I’ll just tell Serena to blow your head off and we’ll be done. “
Even if it takes years, decades, or hundreds of years, I don’t care if I can find it in the end. Because the time given to me is infinite.
“The contents of the contract were the act itself, in which I gave you death by any means, and obviously I said the best way I could think of. It was you who accepted it without listening to it. And you The choice was left to me, and I did not put any restrictions on not using any particular means. What went wrong?”
“How many times do I have to tell you that that’s nonsense? I’ve learned quite a bit about how demons steal human bodies. That thief who snatched World Eaters and took his body away from you is still alive and well. The pain of having his head cut off is sin. Feeling it. Did you really think I wouldn’t know that? I don’t want to be robbed of the initiative of my body without being able to live or die, I just want complete death literally.”
Not only the constant pain from the severed neck, but also all the pain that was delivered by the body being cut, cut, and bursting was the responsibility of the thief who had lost his body, not the devil.
It’s just that the consciousness is locked deep in the heart and is not being expressed.
“That was the contract. I’ll do more if you need an explanation.”
“You keep explaining things, don’t you understand that the prerequisites are wrong in the first place?”
I tightened my grip on the severed part of my neck. Dark red blood flowed between his fingers and formed on the back of his hand.
“Okay, let’s say you took my body and descended. You took my body and descended, and you were going to do all kinds of shit with it. If I take over, it will be impossible to kill you, so it’s perfect, and the super regeneration ability isn’t as strong as the one I have now, so even if I’m subjugated by humans, if you die, I’ll definitely die too, so the contract has been fulfilled. Am I wrong?”
“Exactly. Then why don’t you follow my way.”
“It’s bullshit.”
The devil’s question was dismissed in one word.
“That bastard’s plan will work just fine. Did you forget all your old memories while stuck inside the World Eater? Did you forget all of your failed attempts to descend into my body? It’s impossible to take my body right away, but what? Are you trying to fulfill the waterway contract?”
In the end, this damn body was the problem. It was because I accepted the demon’s attempt to descend on my body as damage and restored it to its original state.
Contrary to the absurd judgment that defined even the growth of muscles or mana circuits as damage, the descent of the devil had enough elements to do so.
It’s like the whole body is wrapped around the red vine, and all the blood in the whole body is dedicated to the nutrients needed for the vine’s growth.
Of course that is that, and this is this.
Serena’s right hand seemed to have seen my stern expression, but a vague shape of a wind shear appeared on Serena’s right hand, but it quickly disappeared as I shook my head left and right.
“So, is there anything else?”
“What do you mean?”
“You say this is the most efficient method? Then you’re saying that there are more inefficient methods as well. Tell them all. Right now. Depending on your answer, you might be able to turn a blind eye to what you tried to play a prank on me with. .”
“It’s not in the contract.”
“Don’t freak out.”
It is often said that the devil is a being who destroys the world and brings chaos, but this was half right and half wrong.
It’s all because the human who signed the contract with the devil unnecessarily gave room for other interpretations at the time of the contract.
In short, I mean, don’t give them room to play with terms, like this devil bet on how to kill me.
As long as you followed those precautions, the devil wasn’t that scary. The only problem is that it’s really damn hard to do.
Didn’t this guy right away stumble upon the definition of death I had said before and somehow try to interpret it in his favor?
“The contract is—”
“Serena.”
Serena’s body moved very briefly, leaving a faint afterimage. A wind shear was already in his hand.
Right above the demon’s eyes, in human terms, a small solid horizontal line appeared where the eyebrows would pass.
The top of the head tilted along the solid line, and soon a small hemispherical cluster of vines fell to the ground.
Some of the demon’s heads fell to the ground and soon began to dry and twist, spitting out a sticky red liquid.
“I made it clear to fuck off if you’re going to say something disrespectful, you fucking contract freak. How come you only have one reference to his contract in your repertoire?”
At this point, I began to wonder if he was doing this on purpose.
In less than ten minutes at most, I had no idea how many times the two-syllable word contract had been mentioned.
I was just repeating what I said and adding explanations, so I just wanted to destroy the World Eater like a chimney.
It was the moment when I was about to give the final warning, thinking that if I mentioned the same contract this time, I would just throw it to Serena and send it back to where it was originally.
The devil’s pupils swelled like crazy.
Goat-like pupils widened to the point that they almost covered the whites of the eyes, and the jagged-toothed mouth opened as hard as it could, exposing the loathsome inside of the mouth.
Serena slashed the demon’s head much faster than I could question it. In the blink of an eye, Serena approached me and struck the devil’s head with her sword.
When he let go of the head he was holding on to with that tremendous force, his head flew straight in the direction Serena struck.
Only then did the question of what had just happened pop into my mind. Of course, his head had already started flying off.
“What is this-“
Suddenly, the head that was flying far away stopped moving as if someone had snatched it from the air.
Serena, who created a wind shear in her right hand, got between the demon’s head and me. Blue mana flowed all over his body.
His pupils no longer showed any whites, and his mouth was open half the size of his face. A groaning, groaning sound came from his throat.
Its gaze was fixed on me.
“My lord, I feel something is not right. Please stay behind me.”
“Don’t worry. I felt it too.”
Something felt strange. I twisted my body slightly as I felt a cold hand squeeze my heart.
If there was any sign of him acting outrageously like that, my heart should have been pounding at the thought that I might be able to die from it, but the thought of being uneasy came to my mind first.
This was the first time ever.
So did Serena. Rather than being wary of the unknown as usual, he instinctively sensed something unpleasant and was wary of it.
While Serena and I were perplexed by this strange sensation, the floating head slowly opened its mouth.
“Accept it.”
