## Chapter 447 – Those Devilish Bastards
The swamp of despair was deep and dark, obscuring everything.
This was the true power of a demon.
A celestial power that a warrior of the earth could never reach.
—I can’t fly.
The legendary Wright brothers weren’t here now. Even they flew into the sky after countless trials and errors, so it was only natural that I, who hadn’t put in that effort, couldn’t fly.
—I can’t fly because I don’t have wings.
Yes, right now I was just wingless.
Wingless Kim Kat.
—Swish, swish.
Kim Kat, without wings, fell like that, dropping into the pit of the abyss. The pit was filled with nothing but endless despair. I struggled to escape that dark space, but as expected, the sky was high.
“Ah…”
I can’t get out.
“This is fucked.”
All I could think was, this is royally fucked.
Darkened vision. A heart filled with nothing but anger. But no matter how angry I got, no matter how frustrated I was, I couldn’t fly. Because I’m not an airplane. Because I don’t have wings. Because I’m not the Wright brothers.
Only those thoughts swirled endlessly, slamming into my brain.
Despair upon despair. Helplessness upon helplessness. There was no answer, and the sky was high. I had to save Elise. I had to kill that damn succubus.
“But… how?”
A hollow cry echoed in the empty space.
“How can I fly?”
The succubus is in the air.
Hildegard is floating in the sky.
I can’t fly because I don’t have wings.
—Thud, thud.
Despair existed as high as the sky—
“—Wellaaa now.”
Just then, a bizarre voice came from behind, along with the sound of footsteps. The voice, spreading like a phantom, was faint but clearly remembered.
“…!”
I was surprised as soon as I turned around.
“You, you’re Mersin!!!”
“Hehehe, what a pathetic sight, now isn’t it?”
“You son of a bitch! Why is Mersin here!!!!”
It was Mersin who had appeared.
A Taoist with grotesque features, wearing an unusually blue robe. The one I had crushed in one blow in the past, and who had occasionally appeared in the depths of my heart ever since, smiling slyly.
“Reeaaally, how pathetic. To be crushed by you in one blow, and yet here you are, face down in a place like this.”
“Damn it…! I have nothing to say!”
—Chuckles.
Mersin laughed at me.
It was only natural. Right now, I was Jima Kim Kat. A foolish human in a position where it was okay to be laughed at by everyone. I lowered my head, clenched my fists tightly, and listened to his laughter.
—Thud, thud.
The sound of footsteps came again.
I raised my head.
“Spirits and humans can harmonize. But… what about demons?”
“You, you’re Martelis!”
Next to appear was the spiritist Martelis, whom I had killed with one blow in the past!
“Why is this bastard here!”
What the hell!
What on earth is going on!
Am I seeing things!!!!
—Wheeze.
—Swish.
—Whoooo.
Next to appear were Bulverza, Dryad, and the Kobold Guardian. As familiar faces appeared, they quickly began to surround me. They greeted me in their own incomprehensible languages, while simultaneously laughing at me.
“You damn sons of bitches…!”
—Laughter.
“Damn it! Are you laughing at me!!!!”
—Screeeeeeeeeech!!!!
Enraged, I screamed while searching for a way to overcome this situation. Could I fly? How could I reach Hildegard?
Worries and laughter mixed together like paint dissolved in water.
The mixed colors soon turned black and melted into the darkness.
The answer.
Nothingness.
Just like this black space, there was no way to fly. Tell me. If someone knows the answer. Please tell me.
Because I have to save Elise.
—I’ll have to beat these bastards up to gather ideas.
I made up my mind and strode forward to beat up the little shits.
That’s how our eyes met.
“Why are you worrying about something like that, now? The answer is simple. It’s already in your heart, now.”
“Yes, there’s always an answer. For spirits, for humans. There’s always an answer.”
As soon as I raised my fist, Mersin and Martelis began to nod, spouting such nonsense. Seeing these morons talking nonsense even after death made me think they deserved to die.
“Then where is that answer, you bitches!!!”
What they were saying was incomprehensible.
“Do you want to die again!!!!”
The answer is in my heart?
There’s always an answer?
Yeah. Anyone can say that.
Just say it.
“You damn useless bastards!”
I screamed.
“Not even with the Chief’s Gait!”
I can’t fly with the Chief’s Gait.
“Not even with the Heavenly Demon’s Descent!”
The same goes for the Heavenly Demon’s Descent, the secret footwork of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art. Right now, my abilities were weak, so the limit was sergeant jumps, high-speed short-distance jumps, and bizarre evasions.
I still can’t fly.
“I can’t reach her! Damn it, it’s not the Heavenly Demon’s Descent, it’s the Jima’s Descent!!”
I can’t reach her because I can’t fly.
I can’t pull her out because I can’t reach her.
The Flying Star Strike didn’t work.
To bring him down, I have to fly first. But there’s no way to fly anywhere. I can’t bring her down without flying.
Is there a way…?
“That’s it.”
The last to appear was.
“That’s the answer.”
—The Wright brothers.
“Yo, you’re the legendary Wright brothers…!”
What appeared before my eyes were the legendary Wright brothers, whom I had seen in biographies as a child! The suddenly appeared, riding a mini-sized light aircraft with pedals, looking down at me as they approached.
Did they know the answer!
“What do you mean by that… Please tell me! Wright brothers!!!”
I have a way to bring down that succubus…!
“Think in reverse, Kim Kat.”
“In… reverse?”
Think in reverse?
It’s in the air. Floating in the sky. I have to fly? I have to fly and pull her down? Think about this in reverse? Reverse something I can’t fly?
—A fleeting question.
Conclusion.
I can’t approach the succubus with the Heavenly Demon’s Descent.
Then.
—Spark.
A sparkling idea has always brought humanity to a higher level. The Wright brothers in front of me had done just that. To pull up here meant to pull up literally, not in any other sense.
Pulling humans into the sky.
That was the Wright brothers’ achievement.
“Ah.”
That’s why he gave me the answer that I should do it in reverse.
“That’s what it was.”
I have to think “in reverse.”
I can’t fly. Then, if I think in reverse, can I fly? Unfortunately, that’s not it. I have to think in reverse again.
—In reverse.
An overturned sky.
If you think about turning the sky upside down, the answer is simple.
“Make that side.”
Come down.
“Isn’t that it.”
—Smirk.
The beings surrounding me stopped laughing and finally smiled.
—That’s it.
Yes. If the sky is turned upside down, then the beings in the sky will fall to the ground. I don’t need to fly. Making that side fall is the answer.
But how do I do that? Haven’t I been thinking about that all along? I can’t make it fall because I can’t fly. Isn’t that question constantly tormenting me?
“There’s no need to be obsessed with flying.”
The true truth of Fusion Confucianism. The operation of mana. And my potential. The ability of the body. The Chief’s Severance, which used all of that in a concentrated way. And the Heavenly Demon Death Beam.
The fragments of it remained in the deepest part of my heart.
“The warrior.”
Lives with the weight of the lives he has cut down on his shoulders.
Excluding the suddenly appeared Wright brothers, all the beings here were beings I had cut down, beings I had killed. I don’t care about their resentment or grudges. I picked out the bastards who deserved to die and killed them. The experience of killing those bastards became my mana.
But.
That weight must be pressing down on me.
—The weight of the lives cut down.
“It’s heavy.”
—Gooooooo.
“It’s pressing down.”
It’s pressing down, but I don’t feel it.
Then where do they exist?
“It’s pressing down heavily.”
The true truth of Fusion Confucianism awakens within me. The abnormally exploding mana rises from within. A realm that I was able to build because I had been killing enemies. I believe in it.
“Heavenly Demon Divine Art.”
What awakens as a result is.
—The true Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
“Kuh-ah-euk…!”
I can feel the light. At some point, I was in the forest. The black space of despair had disappeared, and the fresh greenery of the late summer welcomed me.
“Saint…nim…! Cough!!!”
Elise’s scream was clear, and the succubus’s laughter was also clear.
“Hehehe! You were thinking about something, and you’ve finally made up your mind!”
“Shut up.”
“Huh?”
I have found the answer now.
“Heavenly Demon Divine Art.”
—Concentrate mana.
Extend your legs and step on the ground.
“Heavenly Demon’s Descent (天魔君臨步).”
—Kugugugugugung!!!!!!!
As a result, it presses down on the existence in the air.
“Kyaaaaaaaack?!?!?!?!”
How dare you make Elise suffer in front of me.
Are you out of your mind to press down on her body?
“M-my body…?!”
—Crack!
Heavenly Demon’s Descent (天魔君臨).
Spatial Overwhelm (空間壓倒).
“What on earth is this…!!!”
The earth shook and the ground trembled. At the same time as the earthquake, the succubus’s body, which had been teasing us in the air, trembled like a cicada magnet and gradually fell to the ground.
That’s right.
Originally, the Heavenly Demon’s Descent is a martial art that overwhelms and subjugates the world. The heavenly demon, the ruler of all demons, appears and walks on the earth, and all beings bow their heads and kneel.
—I do not acknowledge any existence above me.
“I can’t move…! Kuh-heuk! It hurts, stop. Stop…! Kyaaaaack!!!”
The warrior lives with the souls of the beings he has killed on his blade and shoulders.
Mersin, Martelis, Bulverza, Dryad, Kobold Guardian. And all the other souls of the beings I had killed. Each one would be infinitely light, but for me, who had already climbed a mountain of corpses, that weight was heavier than anything else.
“My Heavenly Demon’s Descent.”
Is a collection of such weights.
—Kugugugugugung!!!
That heavy step pressed down on the succubus’s body, which was flying in the sky. There’s no need to fly. Just bring that side down. This was the manifestation of that true realization.
“Didn’t I tell you, little incubus? I’m Heavenly Demon Kim Kat.”
“What on earth are you talking about…! Hu, huh! But what are you going to do! Even if I come down, the knight can’t kill me!!”
The succubus was already lying on the floor. No, she was trying to get up in that state. Indeed. Does she have pride as a demon?
—Fwoosh!
“There’s nothing I can do now!”
At the same time, Hildegard’s wings, which had been standing crookedly, became blurred. The disappeared wings immediately transformed into pink smoke.
The sorcery of pleasure and seduction.
I could feel an energy that couldn’t even be compared to the techniques I had shown earlier.
“Our clan’s secret technique honed in Pandemonium! There’s a penalty, but… I have no choice but to use it here! If I take a man with strong energy like you, my power will also become stronger! I’ll gladly invest in it!”
The smoke reaches me.
The smoke stuck to my skin and immediately seeped inside, stabbing my heart and brain. It was a sorcery that directly touched the mind—
“—Bullshit!!!!!!”
Of course, it doesn’t work!
“No seduction, sorcery, or illusion can break me! I reject this evil secret art from my side!”
Even if it’s the succubus’s secret technique, it can’t penetrate my mind!
“The faith and beliefs I have won with my own hands can never be violated by a Satanic devil like you!”
I have survived for years in the bottom of this hellish other world, killing people! The wild other world with nothing, no foundation, was a hellish abyss deeper than anything else for me!
“This kind of sorcery is nothing compared to the pain of that time, you bitch!!!!!”
“A, a secret technique that doesn’t work…!”
—Dejaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!!!
I shouted the Chief’s Roar and called Elise.
“Elise! Holy Enchant!!! Now is the last chance, Elise!!! The Heavenly Demon’s Descent will be released soon!!! Then it’s over!!!!”
I already understood instinctively. The Heavenly Demon’s Descent can’t last long!!!
“A, understood!!!!”
—Pfft!
“Hic?!”
When Elise prayed as if spitting out blood, a sacred flame was added to the blade. Hildegard was still standing, but she couldn’t escape.
Because the weight of life was still pressing down on her!
My friends are holding her body tightly and pulling her down!
“Die, succubus!!!! This is the power of the Heavenly Demon!!!!!”
I squeezed out my last strength and charged towards her!
“K, kyaak! Stop! Stop! Don’t come, kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!!!!!!”
—Slash!
And so, the shining blade cut through the succubus’s body.
“Keuhak, kyaak…! Kkyaaaaaaaaaack!!!!!”
The consumption of power is too great! It feels like my mind will fly away to the other side at any moment! But once is not enough! I continuously slashed at Hildegard’s body!
—Slash, slash!!!
Her body was being torn apart every moment, and her form began to collapse.
Can I kill her now!
If I can’t finish him off before I lose consciousness, before the Heavenly Demon’s Descent is released, I lose this fight!!!
“Dejaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!!!”
I put that wish into my slashes! Between slashes! I shouted, and the succubus screamed! Her body is disappearing!
“Definitely!!!!”
At that moment, Hildegard, with only her head and part of her upper body left, shouted fiercely. —Vwooooom! And what was being created behind her was a black hole!
It’s a Demon Gate!!!
“Someday, I will definitely lay you down under me!! Definitely!!! I remembered your face! I remembered your name! I remembered your existence! I will definitely come and!!!”
—Shhshshshsh!!!
“I will take all of your energy!!!!!”
In an instant, Hildegard’s remains were sucked into the Demon Gate. It was like dust being sucked into a vacuum cleaner.
Soon, the gate that had completely swallowed her form disappeared.
—The fight…
Is it over?
“Keu… haak!”
At the same time, my knees collapsed.
“Saint-nim! Saint-nim, are you okay!!!!”
“Eliseeeeeeeeeeek!!! I think I’m going to dieeeeeeeeeeeck!!!!”
Damn it, I can’t stand up anymore because I’m shaking. My vision is darkening. My mana and strength have drained away, and I can’t feel anything. Whether the binding spell was released because Hildegard was reverse summoned, I could feel Elise running over and catching my body.
“Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeng!!!”
I’m getting sleepy.
