## Chapter 483 – Killing Demons
“A quiet place, you say… Sir Knight, you’re something else.”
As I said this, pointing a finger at her, she suddenly started twisting her legs, biting her lower lip, and speaking in a seductive tone.
“Could it be that you’re finally thinking of embracing me? Hehe, I’m all for it. Let’s go to a quiet inn nearby. I’ll cater to your every whim.”
What the hell.
“I was going to listen to what you had to say, but you’re back to your bullshit. I’m leaving.”
“Ah! Wait! I was just joking!”
“Do you think we’re in a position to joke around with each other?”
“Sir Knight, please! Don’t get my hopes up like this and then leave! Why isn’t my seduction working! Why!”
Anyway, Hildegard seemed genuinely interested in talking to me.
If her goodwill was real, then the information about those demons would be worth hearing.
ㅡA great warrior knows how to use the enemy.
Even while rejecting and despising the enemy, if there’s something to learn, they learn it.
That is the true way of Fusion Confucianism.
Of course, she might be planning to use the information as an excuse to ask me to embrace her or some other nonsense, but the ruthless Kim Kat is a man who knows how to suck out only the necessary information from the enemy and discard them easily.
She was also asking me for a conversation while taking full precautions.
Let’s listen to the story, seize an opportunity, and then launch a surprise attack.
“Then shut up and lead me to a quiet place.”
“Hmm… Shall we go to a quiet restaurant?”
“How do I know you won’t put something in my food?”
“If you’re suspicious of me, you don’t have to eat, do you?”
That’s true.
“Then let’s go.”
I kept a reasonable distance from Hildegard as we moved. It looked like I was following her. After walking for about ten minutes, a small restaurant appeared.
It seemed like a diner, but it felt too small to talk about demons. In such a small place, the people nearby might overhear the conversation.
Hildegard gestured as she entered.
…Let’s go in for now.
If I could get some good information, I could eliminate more demons.
The lord’s reward money and the church’s artifacts were quite tempting.
ㅡCreak.
As soon as I entered, Hildegard was sitting at a corner table. She waved at me with an exaggerated gesture.
“Sir Knight! Come this way!”
Besides the two employees, there was no one else in the restaurant.
Was it a slow time of day?
Anyway, I went to sit across from her.
“It’s so nice to be here like this. Thank you so much for trusting me and coming along.”
“I’m not trusting you, so just rattle off what you know first. If I like it, I’ll listen to everything, and if I don’t, I’m leaving.”
“Hehe. Just a moment. Let me order something.”
Hildegard called the employee and started ordering this and that. The menu was the usual fare: sandwiches, stew, bacon, and the like.
She ordered a lot, as if she was hungry.
“But isn’t talking here a bit much? Are you planning to whisper or something?”
“It’s okay. Look.”
ㅡTap, tap.
Hildegard called back the employee who was about to take the order.
But something was strange.
The employee’s eyes were glazed over.
Hildegard stood up and waved her hand in front of the employee’s eyes, but there was no reaction. He just stood there like a doll.
This bitch, could it be!
“He’s currently under my hypnotic magic.”
I had a feeling that was the case.
“This way, you can get a free meal. Isn’t that great? The humans here are weak. They can be easily manipulated.”
This fucking bitch?
“What? You wanna die, you bitch?”
“Huh?”
Hildegard looked puzzled at my threat.
“You fucking bitch, you dare try to freeload in front of me? If you don’t pay, I’m sticking a dagger in your head, story or no story.”
“Huh? Why?”
“You fucking bitch, if you’re going to eat, you have to pay. Are you crazy?”
As expected, this bitch was a demon.
She needed to be dealt with as soon as possible.
If these kinds of guys were rampant, the city’s self-employed would all go bankrupt and commit suicide like wandering rats.
“Uh… uh?”
Hildegard looked clueless.
Perhaps, for demons, using their abilities to gain benefits was a perfectly natural way of life.
“Gah!!!”
I immediately scolded her.
I, Kim Kat, am a man who knows how to endure.
I came to hear information, so I would suppress my anger.
“Ah! Calm down, Sir Knight. I’ll pay… Hmm, Sir Knight. You’re more virtuous than I thought?”
“You see that now. More importantly, have you been eating like this all the time?”
Hildegard hesitated for a moment, choosing her words carefully.
“…To be honest, yes. But it seems like you don’t like it, so I won’t do it anymore. Okay? So please forgive me.”
“You should be asking the restaurant owners for forgiveness, not me.”
“Do I have to? The only person important to me is you, Sir Knight, not those people. But if you want me to, I’ll ask them for forgiveness too.”
“…”
It was a waste of time to discuss morality with a demon who had different common sense than humans.
“Then do that. First, tell me everything you know. It seems like demons are rampant outside the city right now? What’s going on?”
“Really… You keep trying to get to the point. Let’s start with the introduction first. Just a moment. It’ll only take ten minutes. Talk to me about something else. I want to talk about personal things.”
“Ugh, fuck.”
Seeing the guy smiling brightly made my anger surge.
ㅡWhoosh!
I impulsively drew my dagger and threw it at the space between his eyebrows. It was my secret hidden blade technique. The dagger flew at an extremely fast speed, but it wasn’t so fast that the succubus couldn’t dodge it.
“Eek!”
She reflexively turned her head and avoided my dagger.
ㅡThwack!
The dagger, not losing momentum, lodged itself in the wall of the restaurant.
“Dodge? This bitch dodged?”
“You’re really throwing it? You’re really throwing it now? I thought we had built some trust!”
The guy screamed in horror.
“You would have if you had started with the demon story!”
“Ugh, really…! I feel like I’m going to cry, really!”
“You fucking bitch, I feel like I’m going to cry blood! I was going to listen to your story, but you keep talking nonsense, you bitch!”
The fact that she kept trying to change the subject felt like nothing but a trick.
I won’t be fooled by a demon!
When I stood up, Hildegard reflexively used mist form and ran towards the kitchen. This time, I was just getting up to retrieve my dagger.
“…Sir Knight. Why do you hate me so much?”
She said irritably, using the chef, whose eyes were glazed over like a doll, as a shield.
It wasn’t just Hildegard that I hated.
I just hated demons.
“You’re a demon.”
“Do you hate all demons?”
“I fucking hate them all.”
“Why do you hate them all?”
“Because demons are bad.”
“I’m not bad.”
Originally, no bad guy ever realizes that they are bad.
“Bullshit. You’re fucking bad, you moron. Don’t you remember when we first met? You were going to crush my friend to death. I’m barely holding back from killing you right now, so are you going to keep talking nonsense?”
“That’s…”
When we first encountered each other, she did something terrible to Elise. She said violent things like she was going to crush her to death and tormented my closest Divine Friend.
That was something worth dying for.
“I’m really sorry. But I didn’t really mean it back then. I was just trying to lure you out, Sir Knight. And you were the one who attacked first, weren’t you? But I’ll apologize anyway. I was really wrong. I’ll never do that again.”
Hildegard began to apologize to me as if she was appealing to me. When I thought about it, most people from other worlds never apologized when they did something wrong.
The fact that she could apologize meant that she was basically decent.
ㅡHowever, if you accept a demon’s apology, you become a demon.
“Sir Knight… Please believe me. I just want to win your favor. I’m sorry if I made you angry. I wanted to talk about other things, but if you want, I’ll tell you the information I know from now on.”
“…This bitch.”
I put my dagger back in its sheath and sat down.
“You should have said so from the start!”
When I answered readily, Hildegard, who had been staring blankly at me for a moment, clapped her hands.
ㅡSwish.
Then the employees who had been frozen in place began to move again.
The chef started cooking, and the employee quickly cleaned the empty table.
“Then shall we start the story?”
“Yeah!”
She regained her smile and carefully came to sit across from me.
“So, Sir Knight. You’re planning to kill the demons that have crossed over here and receive a reward, right?”
“You know it well. That’s exactly it. But why are they crossing over? Did a gate open or something?”
“Yes. That’s right. There’s a gate open in that area right now. All sorts of guys are using that gate to cross over.”
I knew it.
“Who opened it? Don’t tell me… you opened it?”
I was suspicious of the succubus in front of me.
Hildegard was an existence that seemed capable of opening gates at will.
When I suppressed her with the Heavenly Demon’s Descent and hacked her to pieces after receiving a Holy Enchant, she eventually opened a gate and ran away.
The reason she reappeared was also because she could open gates.
“I only brought myself and a few small fries through the gate I opened. The other demons opened the gates themselves and crossed over.”
“Opened it themselves?”
That didn’t make sense.
If demons who were about to die at my hands could open gates willy-nilly, then this planet would have been overrun by demon bastards long ago.
Of course, that might not be the case, but that’s my logical thinking. Although demons aren’t logical beings.
No. Wait a minute.
This bitch seems to be hiding pretty well in the city… Could it be!
Maybe the human world has already fallen into the hands of demons!
“Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!”
The shocking truth, like being struck in the back of the head with a mace, forced me to scream while tearing at my hair!
“Oh my god! Why, why are you suddenly screaming?!”
Hildegard shouted in surprise.
ㅡHaa.
After spewing out the scream, I felt refreshed. A more rational judgment than ever before gripped my brain.
“…Hoo! I’m saying this because it sounds like bullshit, but if any Tom, Dick, or Harry can open a gate, there’s no reason for demons to suffer, right? Don’t you have collaborators among humans? Like demon summoners.”
In the first place, if you can open a gate, there’s no need to open it near where people live.
It’s better to open it in a slightly remote place, cross over, increase your numbers, and then act. With the Holy Knights bursting with blue light and proving their faith through demon hunting, there’s no reason to play around near here.
That means that even if they can open the gates themselves, there’s a reason why they can only open them here, or that heretics opened them.
Whatever the case, the reason they appeared nearby is because the gate only opens here.
Of course, they might have just done whatever the fuck they wanted, but the guys I killed seemed to have some kind of purpose.
The guys who infiltrated with a purpose wouldn’t make such a judgment.
If not, the location of the gate is randomly assigned, or they opened it without knowing there was a city here, or they opened the gate while underestimating the church, not knowing it would be so powerful.
It’s a difficult problem.
Anyway, that’s all I can think of.
“That’s right. If all demons could open gates, there would be no need for such suffering. But it’s true. Other demons are opening the gates themselves and crossing over.”
Hildegard said definitively.
“Why the hell can you suddenly open gates willy-nilly?”
“That’s… I don’t know.”
“What, you fucking bitch?”
“No, no! Really! I really don’t know! I just discovered that gates were opening in this area from some point on! I’ve been researching that all the time and that’s how I crossed over!”
“…Gates started opening in this area?”
If what she said was true, it meant that a gate that wouldn’t normally open was opening in this area for some reason.
Naturally, gates connected to hell don’t just open easily.
To do such a thing, you would need some kind of professional means and powerful force.
ㅡBut for some reason, gates have become easier to open in this area.
That’s why the demons threw away the detailed reasons and realized their long-cherished desire to invade the human world.
Each with their own purpose.
The question wasn’t solved, but I understood.
“Well, maybe humans who want to use demons have made it easier for gates to open. But that’s not important to us demons at all. The demons of Pandemonium are beings who grow stronger through humans. Even if there’s a risk, the opportunity to cross over to the human world is attractive? Look at me. I came out like this and met you, Sir Knight, didn’t I?”
ㅡHehehe.
Hildegard smiled seductively.
I didn’t know how much to believe, but I thought it would definitely be beneficial to listen to the story to the end.
