236 – 68-2. The devil and the devil.
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Something went wrong.
After beating Magic Hat’s head, I swallowed the bitter water while watching the scenery around me change.
Mekkehan smoke and shimmering embers.
Screams erupted from everywhere, and I saw the battlefield where everything was burnt in front of me.
“This, what the hell..?”
The university behind us began to collapse. As if it never existed in the first place.
─Ku-gu-gu-gung!!
Grand Hearts Academia disappeared with a tremendous roar.
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[The hero and the wizard ran away from the battle.]
Then, the status window appears again right in front of my eyes.
There was definitely noise earlier. Now, it was output normally as if it had been that way.
‘It’s just like a game..’
A sentence seen in the sequel .
The timeline of the game is in the future rather than now, so the academy is gone.
[The problem was that they thought their love was weak.]
A list of dry words.
It was the same sentence that appears when a forced event occurs in which everyone but me dies.
“Licht. My body moves on its own.”
“Mr. How the hell did this happen….”
Like a rewinding clock, history as I knew it was repeating itself.
Kainel grabbed Ariel’s hand and started running.
Their appearances were after they changed into the heroes and wizards I remember 10 years later.
“Wait, Kai..! Let go of this hand!!”
“I am not doing that!”
Kinel struggled to move according to his will, but it seemed to be of no use.
As fate would have it, the warrior couple left the academy and ran away.
‘Can’t… Change fate?’
I doubted my eyes as I watched the backs of the warrior couple running away.
What was the problem?
Is it because I failed to achieve the grand route?
I didn’t think this would happen, as I’ve definitely resolved the traumas of Kinel and Ariel this time.
[Because of this, the party that lost the strongest power was wiped out.]
It is clear that Magic Hat, which is still shining white, has committed something.
I quickly swung my sword at the demon whose neck and head were separated.
“Lee, Licht. This….”
“My disciple. What did that drunk man do?”
No matter how hard he struck the sword, he couldn’t stop the nearby comrades from collapsing.
One by one, they cough up blood and collapse.
“Did he hurt you before?”
“This is something strange..!! Drake!!”
Is it unavoidable even with an ultimate skill like a three-dimensional magic circle or dragon slash?
I saw Dennis, Drake, and Laplace, who were not hurt at all, change into scarred figures.
“..I can’t do this. It shouldn’t be like this.”
Same situation near the ending of the sequel, . There was one thing I guessed while watching this scene.
If the game was modeled after this world, there would be only one reason why the grand route ending was not implemented.
‘Originally, I couldn’t kill Magic Hat.’
For this reason, when I caught Magic Hat, who was the demon king in the game, there was no way there was an ending.
In reality, it must be the demon king who is not dead.
“This… Is the power of a demon. No, maybe more than that.”
As if to prove it, the ones who didn’t collapse were the people who didn’t fight Magic Hat in the sequel, “Black Heart”.
There were only Emperor Locke, the player Ki-seok, and Grand Duchess Sophitia.
“Suhyeon-ah. This… looks like a game.”
“Because I know. Attack that guy! Hurry!!”
Looking at the phrase on the status window that kept popping up, I screamed.
[I couldn’t even erect a tombstone.]
No.
[Because everyone couldn’t even get a corpse.]
No.
I denied reality by constantly swinging my sword.
“Soo, Suhyeon-ah.. I’m sorry..”
A voice calling me with crying.
I looked back and found Fine under the rubble of a burning building.
“Suddenly… the magic didn’t work…”
“……!!”
She is wearing the same outfit as the nameless saintess. Seeing her crying in a pure white outfit was an expression I could never forget.
“I’m so sorry I couldn’t help you..”
[Among them, there is only one nameless saintess—.]
When I saw the text appearing on the status window, I immediately cut it off. If it stays like this, it will really be the same as it was in the game.
“Pine..!!”
I immediately summoned Gugom and pulled the handle. Then, with a dull crunching sound, the wreckage of the building floated up and down.
“Are you okay? You’re not hurt…?!”
“Yeah.. I’m fine. Thank you..”
Fortunately, he was not seriously injured. Blood breathes a sigh of relief in my arms.
How did this happen?
“Sorry. If I had done just a little more, I could have really killed him!”
At that time, a voice came from behind me and Fine.
“Magic Hat. Did you guys do that…?”
“Yes! Because you didn’t achieve the grand route!”
A magician with a pure white appearance from head to toe. It was Magic Hat, the demon king of truth who had now become a demon god.
It seems that I took advantage of the gap I went to rescue Fine, and put my head and body together.
“Thanks to that, I was able to overlay the original world line I remembered!”
A guy who spreads his arms wide and laughs like a madman. The world line he remembers, what the hell does that mean?
Because the demon’s power can affect other worlds. Did you use that to bring in a parallel world?
‘No. Then I wouldn’t say it was the ‘Original’ World.’
A couple of warriors run away because they can’t overcome their childhood trauma. It was like seeing a parallel world when I wasn’t there.
“Do you remember now? Husband?”
“What on earth do I need to remember?”
Questions and answers ran parallel lines. Magic Hat tilts its head as if looking at me strangely.
“After the nameless saintess died, you could have killed me!”
The demon laughs while pointing her finger at Fine, who has changed into a saint’s outfit. She seemed to know her nameless saintess.
“It would be correct to say that it is the power of love. I was so envious of that!”
Listening to that, I guessed something.
The words Ki-seok said before this fight. And while looking at the status window that was visible before my eyes.
‘Did I ever meet Fine when I was a saint?’
Dream-dream. In other words, amnesia.
What if I really met the nameless saint and defeated Magic Hat?
It made some sense that he was obsessed with me. It’s because I talked about soul succession earlier.
“Even with the ability to overwrite the world with the truth, to be defeated by sublime love!”
“Could it be that I met you and killed you, and time was rewinded?”
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with an answer beyond this, so I yelled at the changed Magic Hat.
“Yes! Probably! I don’t know what kind of wish you wished for!”
“..Then you can kill it again.”
Because powers disappear when the caster dies. If that guy really overwrote the world line I fought against, then just kill him again.
“No, you are already late. Husband.”
I fired my sword at him, but before long the attack was blocked with a single hand movement to chase away the annoying flies.
‘What power..!!’
Kwaaang—! It crashed into the wall with a groan.
I could feel the bones all over my body cracking, and my internal organs ruptured, causing blood to pool.
Even in a situation where it was difficult to move his body, he grabbed the sword again and tried to wake up.
“I even copied the ability of Starter, God of Light!”
My mouth was tearing open and I could see the face of the demon god smiling. The magic hat came right in front of my nose as it fluttered through her pure white hair.
“I don’t think anyone in the world has worked as hard as I have.”
A demon who speaks softly.
“Ke-heo-eok..!”
At that moment, thick and hot blood flows. A sharp dagger lodged in her abdomen, causing her face to frown in pain.
“I used all the powers of the Cult of Heroes to eliminate the hero I love.”
Magic Hat glared at me with her fishy laugh.
“You brought that saintess right in front of me as if you were laughing at it. This is the second time.”
I wonder if the pretending to fight was just entertainment. The Demon God started to beat me as if to take out her anger.
“So, I changed my mind. When you’ve already lost one life, what more can you lose?”
“In the world.. Why..”
She looked at me who was sitting on the ground, and Magic Hat smiled at her words, and she even licked the blood that came out of me.
“If only I could become a woman and monopolize the love of Licht-sama who killed me….”
The demon looked back and looked at Fine. Her guy smiled grotesquely at her.
“I was wondering how much fun it would be..!”
Fun. I’ve been killing and trampling on people for no reason.
“Do you think that.. Will be your will..?”
“Eh, huh?!”
The demon’s movement to approach Fine, who had become a nameless saint, stopped.
The shattering ax blade slashed his arm again, leaving crimson drops of blood on the ground.
“I must have forgotten my luggage. Magic Hat.”
“Oh, isn’t it Emperor Locke?”
If Magic Hat is the future that should have been overwritten here, Roque Grancia doesn’t belong to that.
“I didn’t expect to be blocked like this. Originally, she would have threatened Empress Belin as her hostage….”
Magic Hat smiles again while looking at me. No matter how I looked at that creepy smile, I couldn’t get used to it.
“Okay. I will show you what I can do.”
Then he made a joke to see if he wasn’t intimidated.
“If you have the abilities of both the god of light and the god of darkness, what is possible?”
She opened her mouth to the dark-haired woman who was casting a healing spell next to Drake.
“Sage Azmodeus.”
Two people I couldn’t keep a love line from.
I wonder if this could not be prevented because the grand route failed.
“No, now we call it Deus Ex Machina.”
At a single word from the magic hat, the sage’s whole body twisted grotesquely and changed into the form of the demon he saw in the book.
A black monster made of machinery and flesh.