Chapter 240 – Showdown (7)
A faraway super-dimensional world.
It freely crosses the acceleration and deceleration of time, and it is impossible to even guess how much time has passed.
In a distorted sense of time, they die and resurrect endlessly and fight.
Scarlett’s body burns, and the demon king’s body is chained.
Then they resurrect as if nothing had happened, clashing fists and legs again, and violently trying to kill each other.
Kaga gak gak! Ting-!
Countless lights explode in the world of starlight with just a light collision.
Stars shattered and scattered like glass.
The strength and inaction of the two are already at a point where they cannot be compared to when they first started fighting in this world.
Two beings of equal rank, with infinite vessels that only one per world is allowed, met people who shouldn’t have met.
Grow without end
It shows a growth trend that is close to infinite, suitable for an infinite vessel. The fist that shattered mountains with one blow became a blow that split continents and stars.
The bridge that used to ride the wind and cut sound now accelerates like light.
It doesn’t stop.
However, Scarlett felt it.
‘… I’m a little slower.’
Very little.
To put it mildly, not even a speck of dust.
Scarlett and the Demon King. The two have already reached a point where physical strength is meaningless.
It was only that physical power followed belatedly on their authority and deity.
That’s why being pushed back in a physical fight is not a big problem in itself.
But what if that means—in terms of growth rate, a very slight difference?
Both are upward-sloping graphs, and look almost identical, but only slightly angled.
At first, there may not be a difference, but eventually, when pushed to the extreme, the difference widens.
Scarlett felt it.
‘Perhaps he feels it too.’
And there is no way that the demon king doesn’t know what Scarlett knows.
Even though they are constantly bumping into each other, they know that they are getting ahead little by little.
She’s faster than Scarlett’s in throwing her arms out.
She swings her legs faster than Scarlett.
It is faster for him to burn Scarlett’s body first than for Scarlett to pierce it with chains.
Of course, you can’t just go faster.
In a fight that revives even after death, one death is not defeat. Even if I smash his head first with my fist, my own head is blown away with the next blow.
However.
“Keugh!”
Quaang——! By clashing fists, half of each other’s upper bodies are blown off. After reviving almost simultaneously, Scarlett stepped back first, causing the battle to lull for a while.
‘… The more time passes, the more difficult it is to offset the authority.’
Yes.
The biggest problem was when this battle reached its limit—when the difference in rank widened to such an extent that Scarlett could no longer suppress the power of the demon lord with her own authority.
If that’s the case, helpless.
The time that has dragged on so far will be defeated in colorless.
There is a way out of this situation.
In the first place, why is Scarlett growing slower than the demon lord?
They are clearly of equal rank. The Demon King and Scarlett are strikingly similar.
Why though.
The reason is known right away.
‘… Everyone is holding up well.’
Libra’s contract.
Through it, Leticia and his women, who had signed a contract with Scarlett, grasped Scarlett’s condition through connection through the contract.
It was because Scarlett was devoting her power little by little to them.
He knows too.
No matter how weak the demons were after crossing the dimensional gate, Leticia and their immediate strength alone would not be able to deal with the greatest demons up to the 2nd rank.
That’s why I lend my strength to Leticia, Luna, and Iris.
Little by little, by connecting passes to the others around the three of them.
Because the demon king cut off all passes with demons to fight Scarlett, it is the exact opposite of the choice that made him endure the cost of crossing the dimensional gate.
The result of that choice was the difference between Scarlett and the Demon King.
“If you do this, isn’t it time to go back?”
“…”
And the demon king, who couldn’t have known about that fact, insinuated.
Recognize the things you are dedicating to them even now.
If that were the case, the gap that had been made so far would not widen further, if not filled.
Even so, it would be possible to avoid a merciless and futile defeat through authority.
So,
“Shouldn’t you fight me some more? You are my nemesis, no one else…”
“What the fuck, what a gay bastard… Whoa.”
Scarlett’s face contorted. Certainly, the words of the demon king were not wrong. In the end, the outcome of the Great War decides everything in this war anyway.
If Scarlett wins, the entire Devil World, including the Demon King, will be defeated.
If the Demon King wins, the Arcadia Continent, including Scarlett, will be defeated.
Even if someone dies in the process, it is only a minority in an all-or-nothing fight…
“For you.”
“Hmm?”
“It will be like that for you. You are more important than insignificant subordinates, and it is more important to fight even a little more with me, the only one equal to you… Also, I think it doesn’t matter who dies or not, as long as you, the Demon King, win.”
“Are you different?”
“Not different. I will never see any of my people die.”
“I don’t understand.”
The demon lord——Baal shook his head as if he couldn’t really understand.
“Heh, hehe.”
“What is so funny?”
“I remember our first conversation… Do you remember I introduced myself as Scarlett Chepes. They are receiving so much love that they are blessed with happiness.”
“It did.”
“You just introduced yourself as the Demon King. It’s not Baal who sits in the seat of the devil, just the devil…”
“… What did that mean?”
Scarlett decided not to say more.
In the end, she didn’t give up on her choice, and that would be a decision the Demon King would never understand.
Even I felt that it was a foolish choice.
With the sense of omnipotence that I felt intoxicated by the power that grew infinitely and endlessly, giving up that opportunity by devoting myself to something small enough to feel insignificant compared to that power.
“That is what love is.”
“Really, I don’t understand…”
Scarlett decided to accept.
Throwing off one layer, as she approaches a kind of conceptual existence closest to ‘infinity,’ she opens up to Scarlet Tzepesh the bond she has built beyond what she could have imagined.
That she loves enough to throw off her drug-like omnipotence.
After acknowledging that once, it was okay to be like the demon lord with an incomprehensible face in front of his eyes.
It wasn’t a sense that uplifted the whole body like omnipotence, but I felt something warm.
Since I lost my infinity, I feel like I won’t lose, even if I’m going to be defeated by my nemesis before long.
Even though I pierced a hole to the point where it wouldn’t be enough even if I filled the infinite bowl.
… Infinite.
‘Maybe I’ve been thinking wrongly up until now.’
After putting down her giddy sense of omnipotence, Scarlett suddenly had a question.
Indeed, her own strength, her sense of omnipotence that she wielded so far… Wasn’t it enough to be called infinite?
Leaving Scarlett in trouble, the Demon King muttered as if resigned.
“I didn’t know that my nemesis would collapse like this… I can’t help it. Before I become weaker and disappoint me, I will finish it with my own hands.”
The demon king draws scares.
The power of destruction that set the stars on fire took the form of flames and overflowed to consume Scarlett.
And it swallowed Scarlett’s body—.
*
“Hmm?”
Agares was taken aback.
The momentum of the two women, who had endured their attacks so far, had rapidly weakened.
“Kuu… !”
“Scarlett…”
Neither are stupid.
Rather, they are one of the best geniuses on the continent. That’s why they could quickly find out where the source was that was constantly giving them strength from within.
Leticia and Luna. Not only the two of them, but also Iris, Anna, Eileen… Everyone grew rapidly in battle, and suffered from wasted power because they did not adapt easily to rapid growth.
And it was Scarlett’s support that filled that void.
Even though he felt ashamed and humiliated at the fact that he was helping him in the final battle, the charter was developing quite advantageously because he was there to help at the right time.
In the first place, their rapid growth itself, through the power of the far-high Scarlet, was half-forced, and their talents quickly adapted to the path.
If it wasn’t for Scarlett’s help, I probably would have lost a long time ago.
And now.
Scarlett’s energy faded.
It didn’t matter too much that the power he was imparting was gone. I could somehow solve it now.
However, I didn’t feel the energy of Scarlett, which should be felt from the pass that was obviously connected through the contract.
What this implies is obviously——.
“… Gee, fuck!”
“… Calm down! There must have been something, a mistake… !”
“… Hmm. It looks like something happened, but you probably don’t know that the fight isn’t over yet, right?”
Agares, who had stopped for a moment, raised his greatsword with a trembling face.
In my heart, I wish they would come to their senses and fight him again, but looking at that face that seemed to have collapsed, I thought it would be difficult to do so, so I decided to stop dealing with it.
“Still, it was a fun fight for the first time in thousands of years. To go well…”
One island that descended like that——.
In this blow, those poor two women will die. If it’s the one with the best regenerative power, it may be revived, but with a face that has already collapsed, it may not even have the will to revive and die as it is.
So, let’s take a good look at the warriors who have been thrilling me for the first time in a while.
“… What?”
However, as he wished, those little things did not fall over.
Agares’ single strike was blocked so easily that it had never been done in previous fights.
“… I worry about this, fuck, and people… !”
“Huh, huh, when I get back, I should tie it up…”
The two women, who seemed to collapse completely, were burning their fighting spirit again.
“… Heh, heh, heh! I don’t know what happened, but those eyes! I like it! Alright, let’s compete again!”
Agareth burst into laughter and gripped his greatsword tightly.
*
“Now, what are you looking at?”
At the Demon King’s question, Scarlett’s palms spread wide.
〈 everything.〉
Support position.
His voice was muffled.
Just like when Scarlett heard Baal’s voice in the Great Grove.
