## Chapter 1438 – Heavenly Demon Kim Kat
“Divine Friend.”
Elise’s final face comes to mind.
That mindset of willingly throwing herself to save even one more person. It was clearly close to Fusion Confucianism. Truly noble. Like all the clerics of this world, Elise is a noble Divine Friend.
When you think about it, wasn’t it thanks to the 1 silver Elise gave me that I lived well in Isvant? And here I am. It’s only natural that I care about Elise.
“…”
She’ll be safe for sure.
Risha said so.
Before the battle intensified, she took some protective measures for the nearby groups of humans. It didn’t extend too far, but she created a few gates and cast some defensive magic.
The situation was so urgent that she couldn’t do it perfectly, but she warped quite a few people, so Elise must be among them.
“More than anything.”
I blocked most of that fucking testicle lich bastard’s attacks. The place where we fought seriously was quite far from where I separated from Elise.
The area around where we fought was devastated, but not other places. I could tell as I flew. There are places where the trees are blackened and dead because of the lich’s power, but it’s not spread transcendently wide.
Elise is definitely alive.
“Heavenly Demon Divine Art, Heavenly Demon Color Search.”
I create a sense like a thin membrane and spread it wide. A technique humans can’t do. I spread my senses with a feeling of becoming one with space itself, conducting a wide-range search.
First, I need to find the aura of clerics.
I focus on finding Ijzermart’s divine power, Verde’s divine power, and the divine power of other Outer Gods.
But.
“…”
I can’t feel it.
The auras of the clerics are not detected.
Are they all dead? No. Still, that level of battle occurred. Due to the aftermath, they could be battered and their power weakened. Just the spread of the lich’s power would fuck up most people.
The same goes for clerics. If they’re weakened and frail, I can’t sense them either.
“Forget this.”
I give up on tracking the auras of the clerics. I immediately search for traces of Risha’s power. Traces of the magic Risha used. That’s what I’m looking for.
ㅡ…
Widespread and very diverse. Because it was a situation where a magical war broke out. But this Kim Kat is a Heavenly Demon who can pick out what he wants from those numerous pieces of data at once, and also find it.
ㅡPaaat.
Candidates are immediately narrowed down.
I flew directly towards them.
“Oh.”
I see groups of people. But the situation is not good. After examining them with transcendent vision, most of them are blackened and dead. Elise? No. Survivors… there are some. There are those who are still breathing.
But what I need to find first is Elise.
ㅡPaaat!
I immediately move to another area.
“Yeah.”
There are survivors. Then there’s no way the strong Elise couldn’t have endured. Thinking that, I found several groups of humans. Scattered across a wide area, they were all fucked up, and there were many deaths.
But I pass them by.
What I need to find now is Elise.
Thinking only of that, as I’m flying.
“Elise…!”
I was soon able to find Elise! ㅡThump! Tension rises. There’s no need to think any further. I flew straight towards her.
ㅡShwaaaaaaaaaak!
ㅡKugugung!!
I gently land and clear away the dust. All I feel is Risha’s aura, which has been partially destroyed and its traces are faint.
“…”
“Ugh…”
“…”
And a faint sign of life.
There were 27 people here, and they were all fucked up. Not in the sense that they were physically broken. Because they were exposed to the lich’s power, their skin was blackened like plague patients.
Me and my women had transcendent power, so it wasn’t this bad. But these are ordinary people.
“Ugh, ugh…”
More than half were dead.
But even among ordinary people, there are those who are alive.
Then.
Of course, the clerics.
I walked among their corpses. There was one corpse that looked like a cleric. A middle-aged man. Judging by his attire, he’s from the Brass Holy Cross Society. He was one of us.
ㅡ…
He was dead with his mouth wide open, completely blackened… A thought flashed through my mind.
Clerics are all beings who have accepted the power of the Outer Gods. The Outer Gods wanted to protect this world. Because this world itself was their trough. The clerics, who knew nothing, shouted for justice and served humans.
That is the true nature of the gods and religions of this world. The clerics saved humans more than anyone else, and saved people from demons trying to steal their souls, but the result is obvious since the god is like that.
The lich hated this world.
He always wanted to kill the Outer Gods.
So, his power.
“…”
It’s more effective than necessary against clerics with the power of the Outer Gods.
It was a natural consequence.
“…”
I went to the woman with crimson black hair and knelt on one knee. Her hair, which was originally red… had turned crimson black.
Like that. Kneeling.
I look down.
“…Elise.”
I reach out and touch Elise’s face.
I touch and caress it.
“You’ve become a soot sprite.”
My heart sinks. It turns cold. It felt like my voice was blocked. If Elise wasn’t breathing here, I would have just screamed and gone crazy. Because losing a Divine Friend has that kind of meaning.
The only reason I’m not doing that now is.
ㅡSnore… Snore…
Because I can feel a faint breath.
“Divine.”
Before I shout out Divine Friend loudly.
ㅡRustle.
Elise’s eyes flutter open.
With a very difficult feeling.
“S, Saint… Cough, cough…”
A hoarse and dry voice. Like a person suffering from an extreme sore throat. The voice of such a patient. ㅡTrickle. Blood flows from between her lips.
Elise.
Was dying from the lich’s power.
It seemed that the lich’s power, which hated the Outer Gods, amplified the damage by burning Elise’s divine power. The divine power remaining in Elise’s body was extremely small.
An aura that’s even difficult to sense.
Therefore, the current Elise is not strong.
“Haa… Haa… The sky… is very blue… As expected… Of course, if it’s the Saint… you would drive out the darkness… T, thank you… Co, cough… C, cough…”
Elise reached out as if trying to grab the sky.
Elise might die. From the moment I thought that, I didn’t think about anything else. Elise is saying something, but I can’t hear it at all.
“T, this must be… salvation… A, as expected… S, Saint… Cough. You are… the savior… of the world…”
I immediately grabbed Elise’s hand.
“Elise. Yeah. I’m here.”
“A, ah… A, aaaaah…!”
From Elise’s eyes, which seemed moved.
Tears flow down.
“C… Hicc, m, my mind… seems to be fading… Even though I’m seeing the Saint like this… A, ah… I’m going to… return to Ijzermart-nim like this…”
I immediately change my vision. What I see is a stream of divine power. A very faint line was connected to Elise. The divine power sent by Ijzermart.
ㅡPaaat.
I swing my hand and cut it off. I completely sever the connection between the Outer God Ijzermart and Elise. The same measure I took with Kadia. Of course, there’s no such thing as listening to Elise’s will here. Elise had devoted her whole life to the Holy Light Cross Society, and I cut off that way of life in an instant. Without hesitation or wavering.
I’m going to save Elise.
I’ll just cut off the divine power.
If she says anything, I’ll just explain it properly.
“Sniff, sniff… S, Saint… Sniff… M, my body… I, I can’t move properly… I’m just in pain… I can’t take care of other people anymore…”
Her trembling voice was filled with deep sadness and… despair. Elise also sensed her own death. I will never let her die. I just held Elise’s hand tightly and did what I had to do.
ㅡWhirlick.
I cut off the supply of divine power. And I place my hand on Elise’s chest. In that state, my power. Slowly. I push it into Elise’s inside.
ㅡTsupat.
Secretly.
Very carefully.
So that Elise doesn’t notice and get surprised.
Absolute stability is important now.
“Hic… Hic…! H, huuuh…! N, now I… no longer…!”
“Elise.”
“Sniff… Hng… C, sniff…! S, Saint…! I, I can’t… Hicc! S, stop crying…! Sniff!”
“Don’t cry.”
I let Elise hear my voice as she’s crying. ㅡTsuzzut. My power that entered Elise’s body quickly extinguishes the lich’s power. The skin that had turned black returns to its original state. White and beautiful skin.
“I’m here.”
From here on… it’s easy. I just need to promote Elise’s recovery with my power and senses. My power that entered Elise’s body can be controlled as I please. Of course… since she just received my power, I can’t achieve the same efficiency as I did with my women.
But I can do it.
No.
I will do it.
Because that is the Heavenly Demon.
“And say it. Divine.”
I’m going to heal Elise…!
Thinking only of that!
“Hic… Hic…! D, Divine… Heh, hehe…”
A small smile flows from Elise’s mouth, who was crying at the word Divine.
“Heh, hehehe… F, friend… It’s a friend… A, ah… This must be the last time… S, Saint is always… C, cough…!”
Smoothly.
I heal Elise. Slowly so that even she doesn’t notice. But Elise’s skin had already completely returned to normal. Because extinguishing the lich’s power was very simple.
But the current Elise was just an ordinary person who had just accepted my power. And she’s very tired and soaked in pain.
I have to do my best…!
“R, really… I, I didn’t… like that very much…”
Elise was just babbling and crying with tears streaming down her face. I focused even more on the work. I don’t have time to listen to Elise’s voice…!
“I’m just… not just friends with S, Saint…!”
ㅡPaaat.
And.
The work was completed.
“Saint… Saint…!”
Good.
I’ve avoided a dangerous level with this much. I’ve properly recovered her. From now on, if I just let her rest and teach her how to handle my power… she’ll be able to recover and get up. Only then. Only after that judgment, I feel a little relieved and start to see the surrounding environment.
Elise’s appearance and voice are also properly recognized.
I wiped the sweat flowing from my forehead with my arm.
Yes!!! I saved Elise with my power!!! I wanted to roar, but I couldn’t in front of the patient, so I just suppressed this crazy joy inside!!! Yeah! There’s no way Elise would die!!! And even if she’s trying to die!!!
“Good…! It’s done! I’m relieved now…!”
I just need to save her…!
“Sniff, sniff…! C…! I, I am Saint…!”
“What? Elise?”
What is it?
Looking again, Elise was in a very passionate state, crying with tears streaming down her face and making her last will. The last will of someone who sensed death. But it’s okay now. She doesn’t seem to realize it yet, but the treatment is already complete.
I extinguished all of the lich’s power, and I anchored my power to restore her self-healing power and stamina.
Elise came back from the dead.
“Saintuuuuuuuuu!!!”
Look.
Isn’t her voice more energetic than before? It wasn’t a dying voice, but an extremely healthy and loud voice. I listened to Elise’s words with the feeling of seeing the birth of a new life. I have to listen to all of this. If it’s the Divine Friend’s will, I have to listen to it all unconditionally.
“Saint, I like and love the Saint as a woman!!!!!!”
Huh.
“T, that’s the state I’m in…!”
What did you say.
“But I can’t…! I can’t…! See the Saint anymore!!! I’m very afraid and sad about that!!! I’ve never properly conveyed my feelings…! I’m really…!”
Accompanied by sobs.
A passionate voice bursting out.
“I wanted to say it even at the end…! I also wanted to be with the Saint… that…! Sniff, sniff! B, but… Hic…! Every day there are interruptions…! And strange things happen when I just try to talk!! People appear in groups from somewhere! I don’t know what’s going on!! Are you all doing this on purpose! What are you all anyway!!! What were you that you kept bothering me!! Where were you hiding and suddenly appearing!!! I know I shouldn’t think this, but I wanted to destroy everything!!! You didn’t let me convey my feelings until the end!!!”
Elise.
“But now I can’t do that anymore!!! It’s gone!!! N, now I’m…! I’m just going to die and return to Ijzermart-nim’s arms…”
“No. Elise.”
I.
Stood up from my seat.
“Get up.”
“W, what? What…?”
“I said get up.”
“G, get up, what does that even mean…”
A voice in confusion.
I calmly conveyed the truth.
“The treatment is all done. Get up. Our Elise is healthy now.”
“T, treatment? What does that even mean…”
Elise, who was suspicious.
“…Ah.”
Looks at her body.
ㅡSwish.
Raises her upper body.
ㅡSwish swish.
Rubs her eyes.
“…”
Then she looks at her hands, touches her hair, looks at the sky. After looking at me. ㅡChurk. She awkwardly gets up from her seat.
“Hmm.”
Elise, who got up, nodded her head once while looking at me and smiled brightly.
“It’s a refreshing and blessed day, Saint. Now. Now that everything is over, let’s go save people with me…”
“Elise.”
ㅡKuuung!
I immediately stomp on the ground.
ㅡHwaaaaaaaak!!
I deploy a barrier.
“Aht!”
The fierce flames that spread out in a circle from my feet instantly dyed the space white. Only me and Elise are in this space.
“Elise.”
“Y, yes?! S, Saint?! What is this…!”
There’s no use pretending.
“Say it again.”
“…!”
