Chapter 86 – This Guy Is Right! No Way, Two! Three! (2)
– Ragna Armageddon! Can you hear me?
Hel awakens in her new body, and I ask her to restore her broken line. And as soon as it was reconnected, the voice of the Luminous Goddess, heard after a long time, was somehow a little urgent.
“Yes, Mr. Luminus. I can hear you well.”
-Huh, finally reconnected. The situation is urgent, so I will deliver it concisely.
“Yes? What suddenly…”
– Hero Luke’s condition is not very good. If we keep going like this… We might lose the will to fight and give up!
“…”
For a moment, I wondered if I had heard her wrong. You give up? After you retrieve three of the four Chaos Fragments that are your goal, defeat me and kill the Immortal Dragon, everything will be over.
“…After.”
Anger rises. However, it was not the time to get angry just yet, and she was not the target of her anger, so I bit her lip and asked the goddess of rumors again.
“For now, I’ll head to Luke’s place, so please brief me on what happened while I was gone and what state Luke is in now.”
-I know. Once you return to the mansion…
I put my hand on the emergency warp magic circle that was hidden on the floor of my room, leading to Mystrina’s mansion, and as I breathed magic into it, I received everything Luke saw and heard from the goddess Luminous. And that was a bad judgement. Hearing his condition, it was because he couldn’t control his anger from the middle.
Arriving at the Mansion of Mist, I left Mystrina to clean up and immediately followed Ruminus’ guidance to where Luke was.
Are you ruined because of your own bad choices? So you don’t do anything, sit back and keep making meaningless apologies?
It’s very damn sick.
Seeing Violence in a state of misery at the mansion of an old aristocrat who had lost its owner, and the despairing hero kneeling in front of her, I couldn’t contain my anger any longer and threw my hand out.
It was the first time. To wield violence for the purpose of hurting the other person only with pure anger toward someone, not for any other purpose. From the beginning, I had a personality that didn’t enjoy direct fights and violence, and even though I was a villain, I was a generous person who couldn’t get angry enough to forgive a few mistakes or mistakes unless they approached me with the intention of taking my life or eating my back. I was feeling such anger that I couldn’t possibly go over without beating the rotten youngster who was acting like a child who couldn’t be done right in front of my eyes.
The more people who don’t get angry, the more frightening they look when they’re angry. Not being angry well means that you have a high threshold for holding back your anger, it doesn’t mean that you don’t know how to get angry.
In that respect, I truly admired the hero. Because in my life, I never thought I would feel so intensely angry with someone. Thanks to that, I found out how much my handover point was. Of course, I have no intention of saying thanks for that.
The fist wrapped around the darkness struck the shield made of divine power, and the shock was transmitted to Luke’s chin. Luke seemed rather taken aback by the pain that was being delivered despite his defense, but he soon corrected himself again. Did he say Selena taught? Seeing that the idiot has grown to that level in that short amount of time, she must be a good person not only as a warrior but also as her teacher. Of course, she’s pathetic to the point that that disciple can’t even look at her.
“Such a pathetic bastard. What? Did everything fail because of me? Don’t you know if I’m a hero? Fuck, are you a kid? Huh?”
It wasn’t an attack through magic, but an extremely simple attack that strengthened both arms with dark magic and just pounded them. The hero, who was taken aback at first, realized that the attack I was using was different from usual, and was wary of magic flying from the side or behind, so I raised my defense by collecting one piece of the divine power I had spread out, He entwined himself even more, increasing his attack power and swinging his fist.
“Is there anyone in the world who always makes the right choices? Everyone fails. It’s just a matter of whether or not they can stand up again after failing.”
“What do you know…!”
“Fuck, is your brain a goldfish? Did you forget that I brought our fallen family back to life?”
All human beings are afraid of failure. People who say not to be afraid of failure are people who can try again even after failing. People fear failure because they don’t have the opportunity to try again after failing. A person who loses everything the moment they fail even once and a person who can try again until they can succeed even after failing several times can never understand each other.
“And you say you don’t know if you’re a hero? You who were chosen by the goddess are the hero, or who is the hero? What you’re saying is different from the fact that the goddess who chose you doesn’t even have eyes for people properly?”
“Then what should I do? There are people who have suffered because of me, and there are people who have suffered because of my sins, so I just ignore them?!”
Kang! Caang! With the cry of the warrior, the golden curtain became stronger and stronger, but I hit the thin barrier with a dark blue darkness that was now thicker than my body.
“Who told you to ignore it? Do you think that if you do nothing but just whine, ‘It’s all my fault!’, Then your sins will disappear? I mean look, you idiot!”
Kwajangchang! A one-sided battle continued, where I attacked from my side and the hero defended, and eventually Luke’s defense was shattered. Luke backstepped out, opened up the distance, and pointed at me with the tip of the sharpened holy sword. As if to warn you that if you approach, you will pierce my heart right away.
Actually it is possible. The warrior guy’s defense is poor, but he can’t ignore a single stab. Of course, the power of the stab itself would be stronger on my side, but the hero’s side is more focused on speed than power. If I approach without proper defense, a sharp blade reinforced by my only weakness, divine power, will pierce my chest without a chance to counterattack.
However, I am always ready. On the contrary, I have a personality that doesn’t feel safe if I don’t prepare thoroughly, so I have a second and third means ready in any situation. It is still the same today.
The moment I took a step forward, the hero moved. In a world where everything seemed slow-motion, he was the only one who moved at a normal speed.
A swift and sharp stab, like a flash.
However, his blade did not pierce my chest.
“It’s big…?!”
Luke, who rushed at me at the speed of light, fell to the floor at the speed of light. It was a ridiculous gesture, like something out of an old comedy movie. With his head slammed into his floor with great force, Luke looked down at his legs, trying to figure out what the hell had happened to him as red blood dripped from his nose.
Several lines of darkness wrapped around Luke’s legs.
“How… How? In terms of speed, I’m sure I’m higher…!”
“How fast are you doing?”
Bawk! I said, kicking Luke’s face as hard as I could.
“If you can see the expected path like that, it’s natural to be able to prepare in advance. Isn’t your intelligence already so low that you can’t even think of that much?”
“…Aaaaa!”
Booung, boom! Wedge liquid!
A sword attack swayed by momentary emotions, with no hesitation in the thought of killing the opponent. It was fast and sharp, but its trajectory was too conspicuous.
“Is it true that you wield it randomly like that?
“Shut up! Shut up! You don’t know anything about me, don’t talk like that!”
Weeeee! Like a wasp’s stinger, a sharp blade pierced me right into my throat. I grabbed the blade with a hand clad in darkness and snatched the holy sword from his hand.
“Yeah. Fuck, I don’t know about you. But you don’t know about me either, do you?”
Clink. I threw the darkened holy sword on the floor and grabbed the hero by the collar and lifted it up.
“So, please, stop being childish, and quickly wake up, you foolish warrior.”
“Keuuuuu…!”
“…Ha, I really didn’t want to write this.”
I concentrated and recalled the sensations of using Whispers of Corruption.
The human mind is a sunken lake in which numerous thoughts and emotions are complicatedly intertwined, and what I can do is to catch one of those sunken things and bring it to the surface. Although in the process the sand on the bottom rises and the water becomes dirty, now is not the time to worry about that.
In my head, the hero’s psychological state appeared as a lake. Many things had sunk in the lake. A sense of justice, a sense of duty, responsibility, guilt, etc… There are so many of them. Compared to ordinary people, the brave guy had a lot of sense of responsibility and guilt, so he was the type that had a hard time living his life. It was okay to compromise and rationalize with himself, but he dared to be harsh with himself and tried to fix things without missing even the smallest things… I felt so frustrated and at the same time, like a true warrior.
Yes, no matter how pitiful it is, this guy is a vessel for the brave. It’s just that now, because of the terrible sight, his mind is so traumatized that he is confused for a moment about which way he should go. My hand, which normally brought out socially unacceptable selfish desires, grabbed something else this time. From the bottom of the lake in the hero’s heart, I caught and pulled up a particularly large and shiny thing.
Justice.
The value that members of society must pursue a fair and just state in order to form and maintain society.
It is not human emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, and desire, but something that is injected from the outside along with morality or guilt. A realm closer to reason than instinct. Originally, this is an area that I would not have paid much attention to. However, in order to raise the hero again, I raised his sense of justice that had sunk deep in his heart again.
“Ugh…!”
Luke lost his mind after not being able to withstand his mental load, and I went back to Violence after hanging the holy sword-Unikor on Luke’s waist.
Leaning her body against the collapsed wall, unable to move because of her grotesquely distended belly, leaving her arms and legs free of her bones and skin, she raised her head to look at me. I couldn’t find the look of the woman I knew anywhere. After she fell at Luke’s hands, she expected that she would find herself in a miserable situation, but she never thought it would be so. There was a saying that was close to a joke that she was more human than a devil, but seeing this, I couldn’t dismiss it as a mere joke.
Violence’s condition right now… Is very serious. Due to her rapid-growth magic, the fetus, which had grown too fast, greedily sucked up the nutrients it should have received from her mother over several months in a day or two, and because of that, Violence’s life was in danger. If left as it is, she will not be able to live, whether she successfully gives birth or miscarries on the way.
And even if she had a successful birth, she said the child would never be normal. In fact, Violence’s now swollen belly was close to double that of a normal pregnant woman. It wouldn’t be strange to say that she didn’t have a baby inside, but an adult male.
Did you say that a mage from the Mage Tower cast this spell? If I hadn’t destroyed the Mage Tower, that guy would have already been kicked out of the Mage Tower. Rapid growth magic is a magic that is allowed only for experimental animals and plants, and even that magic is very unstable and is famous for having many side effects. In addition, this rapid growth magic only increased the growth rate excessively without setting a growth limit, so if left as is, the baby that came out of her body would already be a mature adult physically.
The mind is a baby, but the body is an adult. In addition, there is a high probability that disorders will appear in several areas. This is… It’s such a messed up magic that even a person unfamiliar with magic can quickly figure out that something is wrong. I want to argue with the guy who made it, but I can’t argue with the guy who is already dead.
“Hey, Violence. Can you hear me? If you do, close your eyes twice.”
Flash. Flash.
“Your hearing seems to still be intact. Thankfully. Okay, you have several options. First, I will send you to heaven with the child in your belly. You can close your eyes comfortably without suffering.”
Violence seems to find the first option very attractive. I’m not done with my words yet.
“Next, you give up either you or the child to save the other. You can kill the unborn child in your womb and bring you back to life, or you can kill you and save the child in your womb. Of course, I know You would never choose this option.”
Violens stared at me with eyes that seemed to ask why she bothered to say something she already knew. As expected, after becoming a villain, it seems that his mouth has become a little too light.
“Then, the third one. Saves you and the child in your belly.”
In fact, there is no reason to save Violence. She wasn’t very close, and even if she spared me, there was no way she would repay me for it, so she had no direct benefit to me. Nevertheless, the only reason I save her is because of that tofu mental hero.
In order to make sure that the pathetic warrior who keeps complaining that the enemy he defeated suffered such a miserable situation because of him does not lose his will and despair again, I am making up for his mistake.
It’s not like I’m taking care of a mistake that I didn’t do, this isn’t a senior who supports the successor… It’s not like we’re in a relationship like senior and junior in the first place, but if it’s necessary to finish this damn play properly, I have no choice but to do it.
“Blink for as many options as you want.”
Blink x3
I was worried that I wouldn’t blink once, but fortunately Violence blinked three times. Yes, that’s how you are Even in any miserable and arduous situation, to survive as persistently as a cockroach with only one useless high desire to put everything under one’s feet one day. I liked that one act of being honest with one’s own desires.
“Due to your personality, you don’t have any attachment to the extent of sacrificing your life for the undesirable child in your belly, but it’s embarrassing to kill the life inside your belly to live alone, so you must have chosen number 3 out of necessity. For reference, option 3 There’s one thing I haven’t told you about.”
Tup. I put my hand on Violence’s shoulder. Her pupils toward me quivered unsteadily.
“Don’t worry. It will hurt enough to kill you, but you won’t die. Well… The pain is only for a moment anyway.”
I injected darkness into the body of Violence, who had lost the fragments of chaos and became a powerless ordinary woman.
