## Chapter 1248 – Savior of Hell
“Then I assume you’re ready to talk now, Dantalion.”
He had finished regenerating everywhere except for the abdomen where the arms were still planted. Of course, he did, since I’d been holding back, barely tapping him.
This kind of beating was just a gentle caress. An attack as comforting as a mother scolding her child with a light smack.
In other words, I had to lower my strength to that level to have a conversation with this great demon while applying the `appropriate amount of violence`.
Truly astonishing power.
A power that could confidently be called a Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva who had eradicated hell countless times.
Anyway, with a power that could one-shot a Colossus if I went all out, there was no way a great demon weaker than Andromalius could withstand it.
“Hold on a second. Wait. Leave those two arms planted in your stomach alone.”
“Wh-what!”
“Leave them alone, you bastard!!!”
This bastard still doesn’t understand my warm intentions!!
“I’m telling you to empathize with the countless souls you’ve tortured, even if it’s just through this!!!”
Did you think I was doing this cruel thing for no reason?! I know that sticking arms into someone’s stomach like this isn’t normal, even if they’re a demon!
But it’s necessary!
I’m doing it because it’s necessary!
This kind of bastard needs to know what the meaning of his actions is!
“Feel that pain and grotesque sensation! You need to empathize with the souls!”
“Why… Why do I need to empathize with the souls… I can’t understand at all…”
“Shut up!!! Before I pull out more arms and plant them!”
“I won’t regenerate them!”
“That’s what I wanted to hear.”
Looking down at this demon, I felt a deep sense of loathing burning within me…! This bastard completely doesn’t understand the meaning of empathy! He’s a new generation psychopath!
ㅡHow they violated the souls of humans!
The Belgians massacred the Congolese! They tortured and killed everyone, regardless of age or gender!
But even after killing them, their evil deeds didn’t end! They desecrated the corpses, claiming they would torture the souls of the Congolese as well!
A prime example is the Belgian version of Korean can spinning.
They strung up the heads of dead Congolese people, poured oil on them, set them on fire, and spun them around wildly in a murderous and disgusting game. The Belgians kidnapped innocent Congolese boys and girls and cut off their heads just to play this game.
Why did they specifically use the heads of boys and girls?
Because the game rules gave higher scores for smaller heads. The Belgians massacred the children of the Congo just for the sake of game scores. They couldn’t empathize at all. They just wanted to hear louder screams. To drive the Congolese further into despair. They killed children while displaying endless malice.
This was a historical fact, and even in this day and age, Belgian traditionalists are campaigning to revive this cruel traditional culture, and are even gaining enthusiastic support from the public. It’s a world where you can’t tell who the demons are and who the humans are…!
“Then I’ll start the questions.”
“Wait a second.”
“What?”
“If I answer those questions, will you spare me?”
Is this bastard serious?
“Are you telling me you want to live right now?”
Is this great demon daring to beg me for his life?
“Y-yes, I am.”
He answered, avoiding my gaze.
“Hehehe, it seems this bastard still doesn’t grasp the situation… You’re not in a position to negotiate. Your life or death depends solely on my mood.”
“…”
A fool who doesn’t know that has no choice but to die.
“So shut up. Asking things like that just makes me want to kill you more.”
I don’t really have any intention of letting him live anyway. I should kill all the great demons I can. This Pandemonium and the demons living here are a serious threat to our human world.
Just this bastard alone enjoys torturing souls as a hobby.
This kind of thing shouldn’t exist.
I want my children to live in a beautiful and lovely world. I want the women who trust and embrace me to raise their children in a more beautiful world! For that, I can kill all the demons!
Because that is the power that sustains my love!
The desire to show my children a better world! When I put that into practice, other people will eventually benefit from it as well! As a result, the world will be filled with love.
That is who Kim Kat is.
“…I understand.”
“Good thinking. Anyway. How exactly do you demons handle souls?”
“…Souls?”
“Yeah.”
A question about how to handle souls.
This is the only reason I’ve kept this great demon alive.
“Souls… It’s so natural that… it’s hard to explain.”
“If it’s hard, I’ll have to hit you.”
“Why are humans interested in that?”
The bastard quickly changed the subject when I raised my fist and started talking about violence.
“Humans don’t have the ability to handle souls like us demons, do they?”
“Shut up and talk.”
“…We demons are born with the ability to handle souls. Most demons are.”
Then, Hilde interjected.
“Mr. Kat. Succubi don’t really have that ability.”
“That’s true.”
“S-succubus!”
Dantalion, who had finally noticed Hilde, shouted in surprise. Hilde glanced down at him for a moment, then spoke in an extremely sharp tone.
“Shut up, great demon. I don’t want to hear you talking about me.”
“…”
Dantalion closed his mouth at those words.
“Yeah. Don’t worry about anything else. Just answer my question.”
“Souls… Human souls are. Our greatest nourishment and our most meaningful and useful resource.”
That seemed to be the case.
“Why do souls have such value?”
“Value… That’s a difficult question. But souls are the most effective way to increase our power and satisfy our desires. That’s why we demons are obsessed with souls.”
“No, I mean. Why do souls have that kind of power?”
“…That’s…”
“You fucking great demon, you don’t even know that?”
“W-wait a second!”
Fucking hell, there’s not a single bastard who knows anything properly.
“I don’t know about the origin of souls! We just use them!”
“Ha, fuck.”
“Instead, I’ll tell you everything I know about souls!”
“Tell me.”
He spoke urgently, almost stuttering.
“I, Dantalion, as a great demon, have even explored the topic of souls. Where do human souls come from, and where do they go? First of all, human souls go to a being called God after death. But where do those souls originate from? No one knows about that.”
So he knows they go to God.
“Where souls come from… Why they possess such power… No one knows about that.”
“Hmm.”
“That’s why we demons don’t think about it. We just take the souls and use them as our power.”
This bastard.
He talked at length, but he doesn’t know anything. Well, whatever. I didn’t come here to explore the essence of souls.
“Then show me how you handle souls.”
“…I understand.”
Dantalion raised his upper body.
And.
ㅡZhiiiing.
He created a magic circle, and then, ㅡPaaat! Something like black smoke crawled out of the magic circle. The smoke soon gathered into a round shape.
“This is a human soul.”
“Looks like it. Did you extract it yourself?”
“I don’t know the source. Here in Pandemonium, souls that have lost their owners often wander around. I just recovered one of those.”
“You’re not lying to avoid getting hit, are you?”
“It’s not a lie!”
“Okay.”
It seemed that there were more souls subordinate to Pandemonium than I thought. He explained that it was common for souls like this to wander around in Pandemonium.
From long ago, or perhaps even recently.
For some reason, souls that had become the property of demons remained in Pandemonium, and those souls couldn’t escape and just became toys for the demons.
“We are born with the power to take these souls. I don’t know why, but… like this.”
ㅡPachik.
When Dantalion infused his power into the soul.
ㅡZhiiiing.
The soul vibrated.
“Haa…”
He looked at it and took a long breath. He seemed to feel quite good. So, in the end, souls are something that demons can use like a drug?
That’s very strange.
Why is that?
“I can… absorb the energy that the soul emits.”
“What did you just do?”
“I stimulated it by injecting a little of my power… That’s how you extract the energy.”
“Is it infinite?”
“It’s not infinite. At some point, the power required to extract the energy becomes greater than the total amount of energy. Then the value of the soul disappears. But. Even so… there are many demons who want it.”
“Okay. Do it more.”
“I understand.”
Dantalion fiddled with the soul and gave me detailed explanations according to my instructions.
How to extract souls from humans. How to find wandering souls. And how to torment souls to obtain energy.
Usually, demons receive human souls through contracts. I don’t know much about it, but it seems that they can only extract souls and make them their own through that `contract`.
This is the normal way.
But strong demons, such as high-demon class demons, can destroy the mental strength of weak humans and extract their souls.
Even if they haven’t done anything wrong.
Even if they haven’t borrowed the power of demons.
Even if they haven’t lived a life of sin, they will have their souls taken away.
ㅡIt’s absurd and unreasonable.
For example, if an ordinary person is mugged and killed, it’s a very unfair thing. It’s a disaster to be suddenly murdered. It’s terribly unfair, but if you get caught, you have to die.
But.
When you die, it’s over.
But demons are different. Just because they have a slightly stronger and more unique power, they can not only kill innocent people, but also take their souls. A soul that has become the property of a demon. Suffers eternally according to the demon’s mood.
“Okay. I see.”
“…”
Dantalion stopped his actions.
I listened to his explanation and confirmed it with my own eyes, but I still couldn’t grasp how to manipulate that soul. How do you interfere with a soul?
ㅡSeize.
I snatched the soul from him and tried to infuse my power into it. But nothing really happened, and I didn’t feel anything.
I can easily kill ghost-type undead.
But I can’t do anything with souls as I please.
It seems that this requires a little more time to explore.
“Then Dantalion.”
“…”
“Let’s go to a good place.”
“A g-good place! Weren’t you going to spare me!”
“I intended to kill you from the beginning.”
“…!”
He tried to run away in horror, but he couldn’t be faster than me. I grabbed the ankle of the bastard who was trying to fly away and slammed him into the ground.
ㅡKwaang!
“Keuhak!”
You pathetic bastard.
“Kuh…!”
Dantalion groaned and screamed.
“O-other demons will find out about you! No matter how strong you are, you won’t be able to face all the demons of Pandemonium!”
“Hehehe, do you think the demons of Pandemonium will unite over something like this?”
“That’s…!”
I don’t think so.
“And even if they do unite.”
This Kim Kat.
“I can do it.”
“…”
“Because I’m someone who can destroy this entire hell by myself. Kim Kat is that kind of person. Remember that.”
“…Just who.”
ㅡThud.
I grabbed Dantalion’s neck. As I unfolded my power while grabbing it, a pure white flame erupted from my hand.
“Kuaaaaaaaak!!”
That flame is transferred to Dantalion.
His body burned pure white with it.
“I will sever the karma of your evil sins with my infinite love.”
“Kuaaaaaaaaaak!!!”
“And thus, disappear forever, Great Demon Dantalion.”
Dantalion will no longer be able to live while torturing human souls.
This is the infinite love of Kim Kat, the God of Love.
I used my love to annihilate this evil and terrible great demon so that he could no longer commit sins.
