Chapter 280 – Chapter 12 – Breakup
The sword spirit residing within the holy sword.
It would be nice to meet you, but I couldn’t be happy in the current situation.
Because.
[JOOeeeeeIN!!!!! You’re really back ahhh!!!!!!!!]
“Ughhhhh.”
This ego. He was very talkative and his voice was so loud that it was quite distracting.
Moreover, it even has a passive ability that refuses to be used by anyone other than its owner, so as long as it has an ego, it cannot be used by anyone other than me.
[Really, how long has it been!! I barely woke up again, but the world was said to have been destroyed, and the owner had disappeared! Do you know how embarrassed I was?!]
“Many things have happened in the meantime.”
[That bitch Erdel kept trying to do strange things to me, so I sealed myself before I got dirty… When I woke up again, the owner was right in front of me? It’s even more delicious than before, isn’t it cool?]
“I think my pronunciation was strange just now.”
[It’s my mood.]
“… Were you feminine?”
[Hmm… It was made that way, right?]
… I know that the holy sword’s sword spirit is created and refined through the user’s experience, but why the female body was created was still a mystery.
Since he can’t materialize anyway, his voice and personality end up being feminine.
[But what really happened? Has he really changed a lot from the owner I remembered? Aside from looks, where has all the divine power gone? Except for the owner, it’s a corpse, right?]
“It was stolen.”
The divine power generated infinitely by the contract with Erdel was the basis of my combat power at the time
Since that was the fuel that powered the Holy Sword, it was not unreasonable for the Holy Sword to remember it that way.
It’s actually close to the truth.
[No, how did you fight with a child who can’t live without an owner? If her master dies, is she going to die with her or learn necromancy to save her?]
“I know very well.”
It is actually like that.
They are following us to other worlds and causing chaos.
“It’s a long explanation… Do you have the ability to destroy divinity?”
[Uh? I haven’t told you yet. How did you know? Ahem. Even if this body competes with that Mystiltein…]
“Okay, OK.”
If you leave it like this, I’ll compare it to all kinds of weapons, so it’s easier to stop here.
“I’m running out of time, so I’ll explain quickly. Erdel has now become a god and is chasing me as his avatar. So, I plan to use your god-destroying ability to chase Erdel out.”
[This is a story that really makes you curious about the middle process?!]
“I’ll explain later when it’s all over. I don’t have time.”
“Huh. Hah. Huh.”
Right now, I could see that Dang A-young, who was carrying me on my back, was slowly approaching the limits of her physical strength.
“… Can’t someone else use you?”
[You know that other people can’t use the Ego Sword.]
“Erdel let me use it sometimes.”
[That is a special case where two souls are intertwined. There’s already a contract with the owner, so you can’t use it unless you’re the owner. Now that the contract with Erdel has ended, there really is no one but the owner.]
“Tsk.”
It seemed like this was inevitable.
It’s not like this guy is particularly grumpy or stubborn.
Since it was born with a sword that cannot be used by anyone other than its owner, it cannot be corrected unless it is completely remodeled from the root.
‘I guess I can’t help it.’
In this case, I had no choice but to finish it with my own hands.
In Jungwon, which is far from the gods, it is now difficult to find weapons related to the death of gods.
-Kwakwang!! Quad deuk!!
“You’re a warrior!!!!!!!”
“Damn you, you monster.!”
“Don’t give up.! Unless you’re going to give that guy up like this!”
It seemed difficult for the teachers to stop Erdel right now.
So.
“Good job now, Ayoung. You can stop.”
“…! …!!”
There is no need to run away anymore.
Even though Dang A-yeong was panting hard and couldn’t speak, she could feel the meaning.
“Not. Not.”
“It’s okay. It’s not what you think.”
They probably took it as a sign that they wanted to give up before the damage got worse.
When I think about what Ayoung Dang did to me, it wouldn’t be surprising if I misunderstood that he was a man with such a sacrificial spirit.
“I’m more selfish than Ayoung thinks.”
I never lived that altruistically to begin with.
He has lived by prioritizing his own safety over others.
If that was really the case, he would have been tricked by Erdel and gone to that world a long time ago.
“… I must come back.”
-Fussuk
As Dang A-young said that, she stopped in her place and fell down, and I carefully let go of her and adjusted her posture.
[Are you okay, master? Erdel was crazy before, but he seems even more insane now.]
“It’s okay.”
In the first place, breaking up with an ex-girlfriend must be done properly.
Didn’t we make it vague for no reason, and now we have come to this division?
… Actually, to be honest, she wasn’t even dating in the first place.
-Wooow
[This is.?]
“You have to do this to have a conversation.”
[Sigh. The owner I knew was not the kind of person who would drive a nail into a woman’s chest like this.]
After using the small amount of sacred power flowing from the holy sword to prepare the device, I approached the direction where Erdel was approaching.
“Ah.!! Hero!!!!! You are a hero!!!!!”
“Have you finally gone crazy?! Run now!! I didn’t bring you here and raise you just to let you go like that!!”
Erdel’s expression brightened noticeably and looking at her teacher’s rare indignant expression, everyone was probably thinking the same thing.
… Don’t worry, Master.
I am.
“Stop. Erdel.”
-Sereung
“… Hero?”
“What now.!”
Because I know Erdel better than anyone else.
The holy sword in my hand.
It was natural for the sword to be drawn because it had no sheath, but the direction the blade was pointed was not natural at all.
“Hey, hero? You’ve used that joke before, right? It’s not funny. Things like that.”
Because it was right near my heart.
“Well, I really don’t plan on stabbing you either. Erdel, if you don’t come over.”
“Well, even if you say that.”
“This is a performance anyway.”
“Yes?”
-Wow…
I just took out the device I made with the Holy Sword outside for Erdel to see.
And Erdel’s reaction when he saw that was…
“… Hero?”
It’s like it’s hard to believe your own eyes.
He was looking this way with a blank expression.
[Haha! Are you watching, stalker! My master hates you this much!]
“It looks familiar, right? It’s a technique you made yourself. Although it’s a little modified.”
I used it when I was a warrior
A technique that allows you to unleash the sacred power in your body at once to deliver a wide-range or reduced-range blow.
“Are you crazy? If you use that now…”
“I’m going to die. Of course.”
Of course, as Erdel said, I currently have no divine power, so if this spell is activated, I will 100% die.
The blood vessels all over my body are torn and blood is flying out, painfully.
“Don’t worry. If you don’t get any closer, it won’t activate.”
“… Ugh.”
“It doesn’t work right now because there is no trigger, but if it comes in contact with divine power, it will activate without any time to stop it. You probably don’t know what this means.”
An exception is made because the sacred power of the holy sword is used to maintain this technique.
Then, in this world, the only source of divine power that I can contact is Erdel.
And I know Erdel well.
More than anyone else in the world.
Maybe even more than Erdel himself.
“The purpose is to take me away, not to kill me.”
“…”
“If I die in this world, I will be sucked into reincarnation again… Maybe then my connection to this world will be stronger, and I won’t be able to try the same method again. Right?”
-Kkdeuk
The sound of Erdel grinding his teeth can be heard up to here.
“… But that doesn’t mean you can’t try at all, right? It may be close to impossible, but… I might find another way later. The possibility that my summon will be activated first is also not 0.”
“… I don’t know you, Erdel.”
“Tsk.”
“That you are surprisingly lonely. And that the only pillar that has supported you in that hopeless situation until now is ‘being able to bring me back.'”
“… You already let me go once.”
Now I remember.
At that time. When I succeed in defeating the king of the undead and die.
Erdel was able to grab me and save me at that time.
[Hero!! Come to your senses!! You can still buy it! Please.! Please…!!]
[Er. Del…]
[Joe, just wait a moment! Even though the damage is severe now, I will take my half off again! No, I can give you more… Everything! So please.]
[… Now… Stop… I want to rest…]
I tried to dissuade Erdel, who was ready to uproot the divine power within himself to save me.
Because I was already tired.
Because I had no confidence or motivation to continue my life any longer.
I still could not forget the expression on Erdel’s face when he heard those sincere words spoken to Erdel for the first and last time in hundreds of years.
[… All right! Go away! If you don’t like me that much, just leave again! For that long time…! The answer you’ve been waiting for.! If it’s going to be like this…]
[… I’m sorry.]
[… If you had at least answered ‘I don’t like it’… I would have been able to give up… More neatly…]
Maybe it was my attitude that made Erdel like that.
I assumed that it would be useless to talk about it.
“You know what I was thinking to survive in a world where there is no hero, no other life, and even death has disappeared.”
“… Okay.”
“The answer given to me… To the world that the hero protected… To me who sacrificed myself to give the best rest I could… Is this…”
I also don’t feel comfortable.
However.
“After all, it was you who summoned me to that world as a hero.”
“… Since when did you know?”
“Warstein told me. After verification, I realized it was true.”
The reason why I, who was not good enough to be a hero, was summoned to that world as a hero.
Because Erdel, the human closest to the goddess, desperately wanted it.
“I was curious how long they would hide it. In the end, they didn’t tell me until the end.”
“… Ah. In the end, is this what the words of love that started as a lie are like?”
I approached Erdel with a sword.
The spell would have been activated the moment Erdel generated divine power, but the spell was quietly waiting.
-Sereung
“… If I leave like this, will you forgive me?”
“Too much damage has been done for that.”
The damage to innocent people was so great.
So much so that I can’t forgive you with just a few words.
“I should at least have a sword stuck in my chest.”
“… I feel like I already have about 100 swords stuck in my chest.”
“Ah, that’s right. I haven’t paid enough for my crime yet.”
-Pugh.
The holy sword pierced Erdel’s chest as gently as its reputation.
The part where a human heart would be. The holy sword, which was accurately inserted into the core of the incarnation, displayed its abilities without hesitation
-Bloody enemy
“… Hero. I loved you…”
“… Hello.”
This time, I nodded and let go of the sword.
-Paaaaang!!!
Pieces of light fluttering white.
Nevertheless, I could not feel even a hint of divine power.
“…”
-Sreuk.
“Okay, is it finished?”
“What just happened.”
“Okay, is it over?”
I looked back with a smile at my precious people who were now coming towards me with a puzzled expression.
“It’s over now. Thank you for your hard work.”
“Oh, no… It ended so easily? That woman?”
“In the end… That’s the way it is. In a love fight, the person you fall in love with first has no choice but to lose. It was that kind of fight from the beginning.”
In the end, what matters is my attitude.
Erdel could never defeat me.
Even in this world full of lies, I was truly embarrassed when he threatened me with my life.
“Erdel said, ‘If I can’t have it, I’ll destroy it!’ I can’t do the same thing.”
-Sick of it.
“… Why, why are you looking at me?”
“For now, let’s talk about Soyeon later.”
“… Huh?!”
“… Soyeon?”
“Oh, no, Master. That’s not it.”
I left her embarrassed at hearing her name for the first time in a long time and approached her teacher.
“… Somehow it feels different from the student I knew.”
“Once you’ve experienced the world, shouldn’t you grow up?”
“So. Are you satisfied with leaving this mess open?”
“Ahaha.”
“Tsk. Well, I guess there’s no need to go back into the mountain.”
“Anyway, there’s nothing to gain by going in now. If you’re a human, live like a human and enjoy your limited lifespan.”
Yeo So-cheon intervened during the conversation with the teacher.
“… Yes?”
Wait for a sec. Human?
“That’s it.”
“Wh, wh, wh, what have you done?! Why are humans.”
“It’s noisy. Do you mean I have to watch you grow old and die?”
“Are you being honest? It was so beautiful to see humans loving each other, growing old, and then dying. Wow!”
… Master and Ye So-cheon disappeared in flames like that.
I think I saw a blue electric current at the end, so I guess I was able to run away on my own.
Then.
“… Ayoung?”
“Ahhh… Now, wait a minute. Joe, it’s good… But it’s really not good for the heart… My heart feels strange right now… Just for a moment, just like usual…”
“You don’t like me calling you Ayoung?”
“Aggrrgh.”
Dang Ayoung sat down, clutching her heart.
I thought it would be really dangerous if things continued like this, so I decided to stop playing around.
“I came all the way here to know what to do if Soje gets hurt.”
“… What are you going to say?”
“… Wait a minute. I think I forgot something.”
It’s like I’ve forgotten someone important…
“… Everyone looks quite happy.”
-Spooky!
‘This is crazy.’
The air in the intestines suddenly fell.
Why did I forget?
“After fighting a strange skeleton and getting trapped in an even stranger place… How do you feel when you barely break through and see women who seem close to my friend laughing and talking?”
“Oh, Heavenly Demon? That’s not it.”
“She did not give permission for her to speak to you. She is a Tang family girl.”
It is dangerous if things continue like this.
I barely made it this far, but I can’t afford to get a game over now.
Despite my shame, I ran straight to the Heavenly Demon
“Eight!”
-Side!
He hung on the Heavenly Demon’s shoulder and kissed him.
Even though he is a tall Cheonma, his body is held upright, so I can’t kiss him with just his tiptoes.
“Well, I’ll explain what happened later. Where should we sit and talk first, ma’am?”
“…”
“Other people are human too, but I’m also exhausted right now. I want to take a nap somewhere warm and hugged by my wife. But aren’t you tired?”
It was the final blow.
“… She was just tired.”
-Warm.
“The guests are probably very tired, so we’ll talk about it in detail tomorrow. I’ll have someone show you to the room.”
“Yes, yes.”
Was it a good thing that two proud people disappeared in the chase?
We were able to safely go in to rest.
