118. Knife Bread
After the demon disaster at the academy, for some reason, a few high-level demons begin to flock like crazy.
It looked like something was about to happen. No, to be precise, it has already happened. Those fighting on the front lines knew that fact.
“It’s really going to be all over the place… .”
“It’s already f*cked up, huh?”
The summoners muttered as they watched the demons filling their eyes. I’m going to end my life here. Fortunately or unfortunately, life did not end so easily.
But fighting happened every day. Little by little, the wires were pushed and pulled, and big and small fights took place.
In the daily warfare, the Summoners have become overly accustomed to death by dying and killing the demons. Even if a close friend died in front of me, there was no emotion.
Over-adaptation provoked distraction. In the same situation that happens every day, he acted like a machine, drooping without doing anything about the summons on the front line.
The machine does not perform any action other than the prescribed action. So did the summoners who became war machines. The demons tried to infiltrate in a way they had never done before, and they succeeded.
It took less than a week for a few high-level demons to sneak into the realm of humanity.
* * *
After the demon disaster, the inside of the academy became too quiet. The cadets, who were always friendly, responded sensitively to each other, and the sharp atmosphere was sharpened even more.
That was not very good. Such an atmosphere is bound to become stressful in the end, and stress is one of the causes of accelerating demonization.
‘I can’t beat everyone to be friendly.’
Friendship comes from leisure. It’s not easy to give someone a hand if you don’t have enough money, either physically or mentally.
Paradoxically, the children who were likely to become demons began to be bullied even more because of it.
[Because you can’t understand human beings?]
The fairy in the subspace whispered so. If you know that you’re going to become a demon, shouldn’t you treat them kindly rather than torment them as you really want them to be?
It was the same with the human race on Earth, and the inhabitants of this world did not show such generosity and compassion.
Come on, if that had been easy, the One whose lifelong dream was to love one’s neighbor and show mercy to one’s enemies would not have appeared.
‘I’m not going to bother you really badly.’
[why?]
‘Because even within the academy, we are aware of all those things.’
Of course, you can’t save the bullied cadets, so realistically, it was best to isolate them from other cadets.
Ian now realizes that it’s really a speed battle. Before mankind could bite each other due to internal strife, they had to somehow defeat the demons.
I had to remind people that the only enemy of mankind was the demons by killing demons and spreading their major.
Unfortunately, it was not easy to see demons worthy of majoring. Isn’t it a rare existence even on the front lines?
‘I’d be more grateful if the demons came to kill me.’
With that in mind, I had a meeting with the children. The inside of the academy was so gloomy, even the children who were always energetic and energetic were also very depressed.
Ian looked at them and forced a smile.
“Guys- why? Smile. Laughing is all that remains.”
He smiles and smiles face to face with the children. Seeing that smile, even the children forcefully put a smile on their face.
It’s okay to force Laughter releases all kinds of hormones needed to relieve stress in the human brain. Things like enkephalin and cortisol.
So, once the hormone was released, Ian started discussing how to get out of this gloomy mood.
“Ian, what can I do?”
“Well—not at all as far as I know.”
At least in the game, there was no way to stop demonization. I didn’t know what would happen if Anna’s special skill, Wish the God, was used, but the special skill was not a skill that could be used several times a day.
I couldn’t use it on all the academy cadets. In order to do that, Anna had to be completely excluded from combat power.
It was a huge loss of power to exclude her from her power as a 3-star pet, who can now level up and defeat advanced demons without any problem.
“Up to all of you who are here right now, I can somehow cure you, but beyond that, it’s impossible.”
“That is… .”
“We need to get rid of the underlying problem.”
As a result, what could be done was prevention, not treatment. Eliminating the cause of disease to eliminate the possibility of humans becoming demons.
And it is said that everything in this world related to the devil eats the dregs of the demon king.
If you kill the Demon King, even that terrible disease will eventually disappear.
“Well, right now, it’s not something we can catch if we want to… You just need to manage your stress and live your life as usual. Understand?”
“… yes. okay.”
“You know, right? Listen well. If you are stressed and swayed by just the few people in front of you, you will cause the entire human race to die.”
We are great beings who will kill the Demon King and save mankind. Don’t forget that-.
Hearing the warning, the children nodded and began to play as usual. So, Ian began to chatter, which he did not understand very well.
As it turns out, men are not allowed to intervene in women’s conversations. From the consensus to the topic of conversation, everything was the opposite.
At this time, I wished I had at least one friend of the same gender, but… If you don’t, you can only be satisfied with what you don’t have.
“Now I will wear winter clothes again.”
“I know. It feels like I was wearing summer clothes yesterday, but it’s already getting cold.”
As the children said that, they started stroking their bare forearms. The sun was warm, but it was often shady and excessively cool when the wind blew.
Thanks to that, if you’re going to have tea time outdoors, it’s natural to bring a coat.
As the stories blossomed, the children ended up telling stories they shouldn’t have spoken.
“Next summer… You can see it.”
“-hey.”
“Ah, Mi, I’m sorry… .”
next summer. It was a long story now. Isn’t summer just over and fall is coming?
It’s only been about half a year, but so many incidents and accidents have happened. one year ahead. The children began to tremble at how much bigger things they had to go through.
And, a desire began to spring up in the heads of the children who predicted death. The desire to reproduce and leave offspring.
clap-. Each of the children licked my lips and looked at Ian.
‘Suddenly goosebumps… .’
Realizing that her body was getting goosebumps, Ian patted her forearm and curled up. What a creepy thing all of a sudden… .
[…] Hey, summoner. You may-.]
[Oh, sister! Shh!]
Feeling the noise in her head, Ian took revenge by shaking her head in annoyance.
* * *
God created the summons system and entrusted its management to the church—the role of the church was only to manage the system.
When it became difficult to find in the records when the Pope or the saints heard the voice of God, the Pope, who finished his prayers diligently today, heard the alarm ringing in his head.
─o… … cow… … yes… he… … .
At first I thought I heard it wrong. But that voice became clearer and clearer as time went on.
-Dragon-Sal-Danger-Danger-.
And when those words were completed in one word, the pope wept and admired the will of God. Then, this fact was communicated to the emperor.
Indeed, the emperor knew very well who the hero was and why he was dangerous.
Ian Clark, Noah Melie. Didn’t they send a death row inmate who looked exactly like the two of them to the demon side?
Considering the magic of the demons and the spies they secretly planted on the continent, they must have figured out the identities of the two by now.
So the emperor immediately dispatched the Imperial Knights to protect them. All of them are summoners and masters of escort who are in charge of the knighthood.
Since Ian and Noah are both summoners with powerful summons, it would be enough to have a meat shield to give them a chance to summon them for a while.
* * *
“Shi… foot.”
stabbed
Ian let out a smirk as he looked down at his pierced belly button. Every time he smiled, blood gushed out.
“master!”
“host!”
Immediately, Ian’s summoned beast came out and slashed the demon that had stabbed Ian’s stomach with a spear.
However, it is already too late.
—Kick, key kick. Success – so, easy.
An insect-shaped demon with dozens of blades all over its body fell down with a smile. The demons lost their lives on the spot, but in terms of the gains of the whole demons, it was a superior benefit.
At the very least, an exchange between a high-level demon and the hero Ian?
It shouldn’t have happened. It actually happened.