46. The tip of my sword is dark and the handle gives judgment
[The atmosphere is definitely different here.]
We finally entered the fourth floor.
The scaled human on the first floor, the mirror image on the second floor, and the devil’s tower on the third floor. If the space we saw earlier was designed to release monsters and drive out intruders, the fourth floor was a little different.
Dark and complex structure. Instead of lighting, there are spider webs emitting red light everywhere. At first glance, it looks like a trap, but if you have an excellent eye, you will soon realize it.
Those spider webs are only threatening in appearance, and if you look closely, they take the shape of various furniture and structures. Yes, just like there are people who live in that spider web.
“Definitely.”
[Huh?]
“I can feel the presence.”
“I’ll catch you!”
Since it is a sword, it is a little disappointing that the range of perception is narrow. As if the other two felt something I didn’t, chocolate shot out across her hallway.
Shortly after, Choco returned with a man at her side. Eight small spider legs growing out of the cheeks and twitching are also human beings.
“What are you guys? □How are you here?·······”
Every time he opened his mouth to talk, there was a noise in the middle of his speech, and he couldn’t hear it. I glanced at the attire. A black robe, worn by wizards and shamans.
It was clearly different from the monster downstairs. Demon Contractor. Foolish people who were not satisfied with manipulating the powers of the other world through sorcery, and accepted the devil itself into their bodies.
“Be quiet!”
“Kuuk!”
Of course, it seems like he signed a contract with Jomulaegi at the very least, seeing that he was dragging on one of the chocolate honey chestnuts. However, the lack of combat capability was rather good news for us.
[Now, you’d better answer meekly. If you don’t want to be stripped of what’s left of your humanity.]
He may not be the culprit behind this situation, but at least he has something to do with it. He seems to have a weak personality, and is a perfect target for digging up information.
“Why are you doing this to me? Save me!”
The crackle and crackle in his voice got even worse as he gibberled in embarrassment. Cream, frowning as if the sound was very unpleasant, hit him once more.
“Quiet.”
Choco’s honey chestnut was so devastating that it looked like cuteness, and the guy couldn’t even scream and gave a sigh. However, as soon as the cold blade fell again, he had no choice but to raise his head in pain.
[Now, now. Calm down. If you answer well, I won’t kill you painfully.]
“Hi □! Is it □ anyway?”
[Ah, what is it? Did you prefer to die painfully?]
I don’t know what the villains did until now with this kind of kang. At my will, Cream drew his knife closer, and blood trickled down his throat.
[Now, tell me everything. Your identities, occupations, and techniques. All.]
“□, I will talk!”
It’s good that things are easy. When he felt a fishy pain in his neck, the weak sense of defiance in his eyes was easily dampened. The guy moved his mouth as if he was about to spill some information.
At that moment, a voice was heard from across the corridor covered with red spider webs.
“I can’t do that.”
[Who are you!]
A person who didn’t even notice Cream, let alone me, appeared. As our gaze focused, the opponent who bowed swiftly in an exaggeratedly elegant manner finally showed his face.
A clown’s mask with eight sparkling eyes. Taking advantage of the moment that our attention was sold to him, the clown reached out. At some point, a red spider’s web was ejected from the hand that was not holding anything.
It was a mistake that I was distracted by him and relaxed. The red spider web, which swooped in at her speed, didn’t attack Cream, but rather snatched at her petticoat she was holding her knife at.
[······What is that idiot? Weren’t you a colleague?]
By the way, Cream was in a state where she was pushing me to touch the janitor’s neck. What if your body gets pulled in that situation? He arrived in front of the clown with his throat half cut.
Of course, the cream was hanging from her hand, with one arm and shoulder torn off from her grip. Cream threw it away, frowning her.
“hahahaha, don’t get me wrong. I love my men quite a bit.”
First of all, with that remark, it became clear that he was the culprit behind this incident. The clown spoke with a smirk and smirk, and stretched out his eight steeply clipped hands to recklessly pull out the red spider web.
Of course, Cream, who wasn’t looking at it, threw ice spears, but most of them were blocked by the corpse of a junkie, so they couldn’t even harm the clown. The clown’s hands moved busily and sewed up the corpse.
“What?”
Cream opened her eyes wide as if she sensed something in her. Immediately after, the corpse of the supposedly dead junkie seemed to squirm for a while, but her red thread wrapped around her body and her body began to recover.
A phenomenon closer to rewinding time rather than simple regeneration or recovery. The ice spear that pierced her body was pushed away, and the flesh that Cream had thrown away flew away and clung to her body.
“Now, wake up. You cannot die without my permission.”
“······Keuheuk! Thank you, priest.”
Soon after, the decapitated corpse came back to life, walking and moving. Truly a miracle of resurrection. However, Cream’s expression when he saw it was sullen.
“Cheating.”
“hahahaha, my sister has a good eye.”
“Don’t call me sister.”
Cream also expressed her intentions more strongly than usual, as if feeling displeasure from the clown for no reason. It has to be. Looking at the type of power it handles, the opponent is a demon contractor.
That’s a high-ranking person that can’t even be compared to a jobber. Being neither completely in our world nor completely in another world, the incompleteness evokes a sense of rejection like an unpleasant valley.
“You are saying something disappointing. Well, I may have been hasty in my remarks, but don’t you know the future?”
“No, no, no, no.”
[That’s right, you arms!]
The mask of the clown who was smirking was also cracked as his face came in every time he said something. The expression that clearly looked like it was carved out of metal swayed wildly.
“·······Huu. Isn’t it time to get to know each other before talking about that? You’ve already heard about the hero, so let me introduce you first. I am······.”
“Why are you listening to me?”
However, the moment the clown managed to set the mood again, Choco, who had been crouching behind Cream, burst in. After three interruptions, this time the clown’s mask really cracked.
Oh, that’s mad. At the same time as the atmosphere turned upside down, Choco’s body bounced off at a faster speed than he had jumped in. A huge figure emerged from the dust cloud.
“······Before that, let me give you one piece of advice. You’d better keep your pet on a leash. It looks like the owner doesn’t even know and keeps asking questions.”
“It’s none of your business, no.”
A little while ago, the jester who had been lying on his stomach next to the clown had become a gigantic giant and supported him with both hands. Red spider webs pulsated like veins all over the giant’s body.
And the ends of the long blood vessels protruded out of the body and were connected to the clown’s fingertips. As the clown jumped from the giant’s hand, an angry shout came from the other side.
[I don’t think only you can transform-!]
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And what came out of the dust was a huge beast with a height of 3 meters. Even if their eye level is lower than that of a giant, they overwhelm them in terms of overall size.
Unlike its huge body and destructive power, the giant couldn’t handle its body properly and struggled. The beast that knocked down the giant in an instant blew its red mouth and chewed his head.
[Why don’t you take care of your pet while you’re teaching?]
“I would have told you. You can’t die without my permission.”
However, Choco, who swallowed the giant’s head, immediately showed an abnormal reaction and vomited up his flesh. The flesh that escaped from the beast’s stomach returned to its owner and regenerated his head.
If it’s like the devil. Since it is not a perfect demon, it does not get physical immunity, but it is under the influence of a certain law, so it cannot be killed by normal attacks until it is destroyed.
Well, that doesn’t mean he’s completely invincible. Realizing the giant’s nature, Choco, instead of swallowing it, swung his forepaw and shattered the creature’s head as it regenerated.
Even if you don’t die, it’s useless if the brain that moves your body doesn’t do its job. It was the moment the clown reached out as he watched his pet suffer so badly.
“Yap.”
Choco was fighting hard, but Cream couldn’t stand still. Usually, her fighting method is accompanied by lights and noises with all kinds of divine powers, but the hero was also good at stealth maneuvers.
In that brief moment when the clown’s gaze turned to Choco, the cream, which had been narrowing the distance little by little, exploded. Even though the earth pushed away the body, there was not a single noise in the movement.
“Oops.”
And then, in an instant, I pierced his chest.
The clown’s mask cracked, and pieces of metal fell into crumbs. However, more than the clown, I was astonished that I stabbed the clown. This guy
[No blood, no soul?]
Somehow, I thought I was too confident in front of the hero, but my body was fake. The clown flexibly bent his joints in a motion that is absolutely impossible for humans to escape from the sword that pierced him.
The red spider web hanging from the ceiling seemed to be stretched out, so I snatched the clown and fixed it to the ceiling. In that state, he spoke in a much lower voice.
“······Tests my patience.”
However, Cream, who was in a combat stance, ignored the clown’s words that were out of range of attack. She immediately turned her body and charged at the giant Choco was crushing.
Three powers swirled faintly around her body. A precursor to the white darkness that even annihilates the law. In Cream’s hands, I hurriedly sent out a mental wave.
[Wait! You are holding me right now!]
“So, how?”
[Wait. I have a way.]
Of course, the cream will control the aftermath well, but I’m still anxious! Above all, it was a good opportunity to show off my skills to the owner.
Darkness crept up from the blade. Originally, the sword body was pitch-black, so it didn’t show much, but I felt an incomparable energy flow through my body.
[Trust me, just cut it!]
Cream did just that.
“Foolish thing, my subordinate could die like that…”
The blood vessels extending from the giant’s body, the red spider webs, were still connected to the clown clinging to the ceiling. A blade black as night cut it apart.
– Life and death judgment (SS) activated!
– Ignore the enemy’s instant death evasion effect.
That’s my third ability as a demonic sword.
Erosion of souls, casting specters, bringing unavoidable death. The enemies so far have been weak enough to not need to take out this trait, and it didn’t work against demons who had no concept of death in the first place.
But what if that boundary is halfway between the devil’s contract? The law of the other world can no longer postpone death, and when the body dies, the part that was a demon also loses its parasitic place.
[Poop, why don’t you say it again? What was the fire?]
At the same time as cutting the thread, Choco once again broke the giant’s head. The giant’s corpse, once human, no longer moved.
The clown’s entire mask was covered in countless gold and cracked. Feeling the anger flowing through the cracks, I rather laughed at him.
[Come down, you asshole. I’ll make you the same way.]