## Chapter 1358 – Friends
And so, I walked along the forest path with Elise.
Since it had been a long time since we’d met, naturally we had to spend some time in the city. There’s no weirdo in this world who would come all the way to meet someone and then immediately turn back.
Anyway, I explained that I could just pick her up and fly in an instant, but Elise warned me that such flamboyant behavior was now forbidden.
“Why do you dislike it so much? Everyone would love it, Elise.”
It doesn’t make sense to dislike flying.
On Earth, there was even a person called the Wright brothers, known as the artificial great demons. The fathers of bombers and fighter planes. He loved flying so much that he ended up creating the airplane.
“What do you think people will think if the Saintess spreads her wings and flies?”
“They’ll sing about the descent of an angel.”
“That’s the problem, exactly that! I don’t want such flashy performances anymore!”
She still doesn’t like it, Elise.
“Hehehe, Elise.”
“Why are you laughing?”
“Do you really think you can be freed from that performance?”
“What do you mean?”
“Even if I leave, you, Elise, and that song will remain in people’s hearts forever.”
“Th, that means…!”
“Yeah. There’s a high probability that such performances will happen periodically in the future.”
The Heavenly Demon Musical.
It’s a world where there’s nothing to enjoy and a gloomy atmosphere hangs heavy. The world was already fucked up, and then those demon bastards thoroughly wrecked it. Of course, they were defeated, but that doesn’t erase the scars they left behind.
At this moment.
People in despair wanted something to intoxicate them. They wanted things like that. The exaggerated reaction to the appearance of an angel is also like that. The more people are cornered, the more people are on the verge of despair, the more they are enthusiastic about something. Especially if it’s a being that looks as holy as an angel…
Therefore, they want a festival.
Because they want to erase their anxious minds by being enthusiastic.
They’ll want a festival where they can forget everything and just be intoxicated and enthusiastic. I will gladly make Elise the center of that festival. There’s no big reason.
Just.
Just because Elise is embarrassed by such a position.
That’s the only reason.
If Elise is embarrassed, that’s enough.
So, purely by my force.
I’ll push her into that position.
“I can’t handle such a future!”
Elise clutched her head.
“No. You have to handle it. You have to handle your own life yourself.”
“Don’t say such strange things! It sounds good at first, but it all stems from you, Saint! When we get back, please request that it be stopped immediately!”
“No can do.”
Absolutely not.
“Why not!”
“This Kim Kat is the hope of those people. Those who saw me? They’ll want to hold a festival. And the center of that festival. That’s you, Elise!!!”
“So why is it me!”
Because you’re visually appealing.
Above all, Elise, as a member of the Radiant Cross Society, worked hard to rescue people. And Elise is friends with me. That’s all there is to it. Elise was a very good party person.
An inhuman beauty. She saved people as a priest. And she’s friends with this Kim Kat. Isn’t that the perfect condition?
“Because I want it!”
“That’s absurd!”
“This Kim Kat is originally an absurd being.”
“Really…!”
Elise was dumbfounded.
“Saint, you are a strange and bizarre person!”
“You know that now?”
“I knew it from the start…!”
Well, that’s obvious.
Anyway, I chuckled and teased Elise as we continued walking. Elise’s face turned red or she shouted, reacting sensitively to each of my jokes. It’s fun to tease her because she’s a priest.
“Saint, you’re kind of…”
“Hmm?”
“You seem different from ordinary people.”
Elise’s words.
“Extremely pleasant… and also bizarre… so strange that I can’t even imagine you as a hero with unique superhuman powers.”
“Elise…!”
I covered my mouth with both hands!
“What are you saying that’s so embarrassing…!”
“Why are you embarrassed when you felt something positive in my words just now!”
“So it’s not positive?”
“Th, that is… strictly speaking, it is, but… anyway. Saint, you seem to have different values from ordinary people. I’ve never seen someone like you in my life.”
Well, that’s simple.
“Of course. This Kim Kat is a special person.”
Kim Kat is special. Unique. Not ordinary. Not commonplace, and transcendent. Great. Amazing. I think all these wonderful words exist to describe me.
“Heavenly Demon Kim Kat is the strongest. A god. Invincible. That’s me. It’s natural that you’ve never seen someone like me. No. I’m unique. You won’t see someone like me in the future either. Throughout the past, present, and future, there’s no one like me. Also, there’s no one comparable to me except for me. That’s Kim Kat.”
Infinite self-love.
Transcendent confidence.
I am naturally such an existence.
So I flaunt it.
I live in a state where I’m always writhing with the feeling that I love myself so much. I have transcendent power, and I have eight big-breasted beautiful wives who praise me every day while showering me with love.
With such women, how could I live while putting on a pathetic appearance? I reveal and flaunt everything about myself.
“That’s an amazing amount of confidence…!”
“Yeah. It’s only possible because it’s me.”
“I’m a priest, so I don’t really like arrogance, but as for Saint, I don’t think the word arrogance exists.”
“That’s also true.”
Elise nodded.
“But… the Saint from before felt different from now. Of course, even then. I thought you were unique.”
“The old days.”
“But I think the fundamental parts are still the same now.”
A person’s roots don’t change easily.
“Hehe.”
Elise said that and smiled.
“And in fact. That appearance of revealing infinite confidence like now… I feel it’s so magnanimous. As expected. Is that what it’s like to reach transcendence?”
“No. It’s not just because of transcendence. The reason I’m magnanimous is just because I’m Kim Kat.”
“That’s also true.”
With a smiling face, Elise affirmed me.
“Literally, Saint, you are a strong savior…”
Elise, who trailed off, said hesitantly.
“…Also kind and beautiful.”
“Kind and beautiful, huh.”
There couldn’t be a better way to express me than that.
“You know me well, Elise.”
“I also like that you’re not humble.”
“Hehehe, is that so.”
ㅡGurgle, gurgle.
As we walked, a stream came into view. I continued to walk along the stream with Elise.
“Saint… you can really say you have a sublime spirit.”
“Your praise is long today, Elise.”
“There were so many things I wanted to say all this time.”
Me too.
“Anyway, why sublime? Tell me the reason in detail.”
I like hearing things like that.
“Saint, you’re trying to use your power for this world, aren’t you? There are various kinds of powerful people in this world. Many nobles take it for granted to rule and exploit if they have power.”
Well, that’s not just in this world.
It’s like that in every world.
If you have power, you rule and exploit. Companies in developed countries also make huge profits by exploiting children in third world countries. They’re doing the same things they did in the age of imperialism two hundred years ago. Now they do it without a second thought under the guise of legality.
Not only that, but if you have the power of economy and authority, you can transcend the law. When I looked at it, this world and modern Earth weren’t much different. Only the form is slightly different.
“Of course, it’s quite difficult to define them as evil. Usually, it’s because they pursue a better life, a more comfortable life, with the power they have. Nevertheless, Saint… even though you have the power to overwhelm all of that. You still have the mind to help people, don’t you?”
“That’s why I’m truly sublime.”
Personally, I was a person who hated war and violence.
Memories from 21st century modern Earth.
Memories of living in Korea.
I, who hated war and violence, was actively involved in an anti-war community. Actually, it wasn’t really active, I was just immersed in an internet site. Well, it wasn’t anything special. Everyone hates war and violence. Everyone bursts into fierce hatred as soon as the topic of imperialism comes up in social studies class.
But now I had become an incarnation of violence.
I think violence is not a bad thing depending on the situation. No. Rather, it’s even sublime. Violence wielded justly is beautiful. It’s the meaning of life. I even feel murderous at the thought of suppressing such sublime violence with laws set by others. Public power is also violence? How dare you try to monopolize violence just because you’re a country. In front of this superhuman hero, such arrogant concepts are just the cries of a fool.
I love the violence I commit. I don’t care about the thoughts of the beings who are subjected to my violence. Kim Kat just acts as he thinks. In that rule-of-law country, I remembered it once again.
“…”
Nevertheless, I still hate war.
In war, there can be no violence that is wielded justly. To be precise, it exists, but it doesn’t originate from one’s own will… This thought has flowed to a different place.
“That’s right. Just the fact that you can use that powerful power for others. Saint, you are sublime. When some people gain absolute power. They wish to rule over everything. They resolve to smash everything they don’t like.”
“I do too.”
“Yes?”
“I do too.”
“Saint?”
“I’m going to build a kingdom too. And I’m going to suppress and smash everything that I don’t like.”
No one can resist this superhuman hero Kim Kat.
I know because I have powerful power. Laws have no meaning to me. Likewise, things like democracy have no meaning to me.
“Those who go against the justice and morality that I have set. Evil robbers and demons. Heretics who drive people to ruin. Those guys just die.”
“Ah! Yes! That’s right!”
Elise, who seemed a little embarrassed for a moment, shouted.
“That is also the power and will of the Saint used for the sake of the people! The evil absolute being I’m talking about… is a concept that makes everything its slave.”
“I hate slaves too.”
I still get the urge to freak out when I hear the word slave.
Slavery… must be abolished. I don’t like it. It is said that criminals are carefully selected and made into slaves, but even so, it is impossible to crack down on all the illegal slave trade that takes place in the shadows. Once that happens, there is not much way to tell who has become a slave unfairly in this uncivilized world.
I’d rather make it illegal. As soon as I see someone owning a slave, I’ll smash them.
ㅡThump, thump.
After that, Elise continued to give me various praises and asked me many things. I laughed and teased Elise, continuing the conversation.
“Ah, Elise. By the way, is there anything going on in Krasheim these days?”
“There’s nothing special. There’s been a slight deterioration in public order, but… it’s within a manageable range.”
“That’s a relief. Is Lady Isvant doing well?”
“If you’re talking about the Lady, I know she’s residing in Krasheim now… Saint! Don’t tell me!”
Suddenly, Elise looked at me with wide eyes.
“Are you now thinking of extending that hand to Lady Isvant!!!”
“Hey, hey. It’s not like that.”
What is she talking about again.
The Lady’s screams are still vivid in my ears. I feel like I’m going to bleed from my ears. When I looked at it, the man who married that Lady is definitely Van Gogh. And not a voluntary Van Gogh, but an involuntary Van Gogh. Gogh who cut off his ear because he couldn’t stand the noise.
Anyway, I don’t have any particularly romantic contact with Lady Isvant.
I just think it’s enough to be alive as comrades.
“Copson. Elise. Have you seen Copson?”
“Ah. If you’re talking about Copson, I’ve seen him when he was controlling the refugees.”
“Oh!”
That bastard!
He was alive after all!
“He was mixed in with the refugees. I recognized him because I was far away, but it didn’t seem like Copson saw me.”
“Well, it’s good to have confirmed his safety.”
If that bastard Copson is mixed in with the refugees, he’ll be living well on his own. He’s probably working somewhere in Krasheim right now.
Elise has seen him, so I should look for Copson next time.
And I have to find everyone in the martial arts guild too. Liztina has requested it. That older sister wants to take care of her subordinates after all. Later, when the time comes, she said she would call both Mariel and Lisette and use them, so I have to let them know about that. I don’t know about the others, but I hope that bastard Mariel will be like that. I have to scold him every time I see him.
I don’t really like that bitch Lisette either.
