126 – Black Blood Demon
The unexpected situation made me and Serena freeze for a while.
Serena seemed to be more wary and hostile towards the demon’s head, which suddenly started acting bizarrely, but I was more embarrassed.
It was the first time I had ever acted like this, even though I had faced that demon more than 10 times.
Not only that, but even in the old documents compiled from the testimonies of people who claimed to have met the devil, there was no mention of a demon on the verge of extinction suddenly floating in the air alone, eating everything before and after, and talking nonsense like ‘accept it’.
“Accept it.”
The bastard’s head spoke again. No, rather than speaking, it was more accurate to say that a voice flowed from somewhere inside the mouth.
I don’t mean to say that I’m talking about a situation where you just let out your voice without even moving a word with your mouth wide open.
Serena, who stopped me and pulled out the wind shear, was ready to swing the sword in her hand and sever his head.
The energy emitted by that devil was at a level that made even me, who had no special powers, feel uncomfortable except for the fact that my lifeline was a little too tough and I couldn’t die no matter what I did, so it was a natural reaction.
Serena, who has a much better intuition than I do, must have more intense emotions.
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Just looking at the fact that Serena, who didn’t blink an eye at the great devil right in front of her, was wary first, it was enough to guess the danger of that severed head.
His goat’s eyes couldn’t get bigger, so they swelled like they were pushing his eyelids out. It was to the point where I thought it might explode.
Even in the midst of this, the fact that the corners of the eyes and the vertically torn pupils were fixed on me without an inch of error added to the bizarreness.
“Can you step aside for a moment, Serena?”
“Master, haona…”
“If you’re worried about me, you don’t have to. I’m not the kind of person who would die over something like that, right? Just looking at it, it looks like you have something to say to me, but then you have to step in. I wonder what the hell you’re trying to say while changing into something like that.”
My reaction was more positive than I thought, so I gently wrapped my arms around Serena’s shoulders and gently pushed her aside.
Serena was obediently pushed away by my gestures, but the sapphire eyes looking at me were filled with worry. I stroked her hair a couple of times to mean okay.
I hesitated for a while because I felt something instinctively uncomfortable, and there was no reason why I should avoid it.
If that was a situation caused by the intervention of an entity strong enough to make even Serena wary, it was something I should rather welcome with open arms.
It’s like something that can truly kill me has descended in place of the bloody contract-loving demon who’s not even helpful.
“Accept it.”
His third recommendation followed. It was an invitation that I didn’t even know what to accept.
“Accept, what?”
“He who is coming soon.”
“He?”
“Yes.”
The devil’s head was frozen as if time had stopped, except for the eyeballs that swelled up to the point where they popped out of the eyelids, but the voice directed at me was still there.
Whether that guy’s eyes explode or not is not my concern, but rather than that, the expression the devil used just offended me.
With him, if the guy who called himself the archevil who held a high position in his own way at the first meeting uses honorific titles, what does it mean to be a demon lord in his head now?
In the first place, the position of the demon king was uncertain even if he really existed. Even when I asked the devil, he only returned ambiguous answers. Or just keep your mouth shut.
“What if I accept it?”
“You will get eternal life.”
“It sucks, really.”
As soon as I heard that, swear words came out as a reflex. It was a speed that would be believable even if it was sent straight from the neck without going through the brain.
At first, I thought, what the hell did I just hear?
It’s nothing else, but you’re going to shove eternal life on me?
“I don’t know what the hell is controlling that severed head, but I’m only going to say it once, so listen carefully.”
If the guy in the demon mentioned eternal life with the purpose of mocking me, I wanted to say that he accomplished his purpose admirably.
“Eternal life doesn’t mean anything to me. I don’t know for what purpose you offered me a damn life where I couldn’t die of my own will as a condition of exchange, but if you say those words in front of me one more time, I’ll be fine.” It’s going to rip your mouth off, so buy it on your own. Do you understand? If you thought that I’d be seduced by the word eternal life like other humans and would just accept it without knowing how things were going, you’d be very wrong to look at people wrong.”
“If there is a meaning, it is. That is natural order and providence.”
“Does bullshit come out of the devil’s mouth these days? I have a lot of talent, but it’s a pity that I don’t have the ability to understand animal speech. It’s a pity that even if anyone hears bullshit, it can’t be interpreted.”
“You know nothing. Accept Him. You may have eternal life.”
“It doesn’t work from a while ago, but it continues–“
“He’s got all his strength back.”
The demon’s eyeballs, which had grown until just before the explosion, returned to their original size in an instant. Buried in the vine stems, it is so large that it cannot be properly identified.
I couldn’t even follow what happened. I just confirmed the fact that at some point the devil was standing there regaining its true form.
“This is His last mercy and salvation.”
A mass of flesh boiled from the cut in the neck and slowly began to take on the shape of a demon.
A body entwined with red vine stems appeared, arms and legs grew from the body, and wings sprouted from the back spread wide.
The vines intertwined with each other in his right hand, growing in size, and soon took the shape of a sword with a red gem embedded in the handle.
It was the World Eater who was pinned to the ground when Serena cut off the demon’s wrists. I turned my head. The seat where the World Eater had been lodged was empty before anyone knew it.
“Accept it.”
Black blood flowed from between the vine stems that wrapped around the demon’s body.
Black blood spread out and the atmosphere began to rot in an instant. The grains of sand around the demon turned black.
“……Black blood?”
“My lord, step back. I’ll take care of it.”
There was no reason to stop Serena anymore, so I quietly stepped behind Serena. My head couldn’t keep up with what was happening in front of my eyes.
Why did the devil repeat the word to accept it all of a sudden, who the hell was the devil talking about, how did the devil’s body grow back, and why did the devil who had shed red blood until a while ago suddenly bleed black blood?
First of all, it was clear that an entity higher than that demon had intervened. Otherwise, there would be no way something like this would happen.
No matter how much he is called the Great Devil, he was beaten to dust by Serena on a rainy day, and eventually got his throat cut and dedicated to me.
If I had that kind of power, I wouldn’t hide it until I reached this situation, but I would have shown my strength from the beginning and fought.
The problem was, who the hell was that superior being?
I couldn’t remember hearing of a being with the ability to make Serena instinctively wary, resurrect dying demons far more powerfully than before, and turn red blood into black blood.
If there was a guy like that, he would have asked me to kill him long ago. After trying all sorts of ways, the last resort I chose was the plan to raise the person who would kill me.
And the most important thing was different.
The black blood flowing from that devil’s body right now. That black blood kept getting stuck in my heart. As far as I know, there’s only one person associated with black blood.
‘no way. It can’t be.’
I shook my head and erased that possibility. Once it happened, it was the worst possibility, but it was also a possibility that could never happen.
Not as much as that. never.
I couldn’t.
I killed him by sticking a knife through his heart with my own hands, confirmed that he had completely stopped breathing, and watched with my own eyes as even a handful of black blood left after his body completely melted away.
So, it definitely shouldn’t have been.
“My lord, what will you do?”
Serena wrapped herself in mana, aimed her wind shear at the demon, and was fully prepared to run out at any time.
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Just before, I had something to ask about during the fight, so I gave the order not to kill, but to cut off the head, so I’m sure you’re asking whether this should be the case this time too.
“Just kill it. I don’t need that anymore. If I let him live, I don’t think I’ll get anything more, and I don’t think he’ll be able to answer my questions. “
“Yes, lord.”
“instead.”
Serena, who was on the verge of charging at the demon while infusing mana into her wind shear, stopped when she heard me.
“Kill it without leaving a speck of dust behind.”
The demon flapped its wings and soared into the air. Because of that, black blood splattered in all directions and turned the wasteland into a land of death.
Serena’s eyes flashed.
“I’ll accept it.”
