238 – 68-4. The devil and the devil.
Deafening heavy rain.
Cold drops of water were running down my cheeks.
‘I thought I could change my fate this time….’
A battlefield where all of my comrades died.
Grand Hearts Academia was burnt down to the point where not even the remaining fire was left.
‘Pine…’
I was sick of not being able to protect even one person.
All she could do was reach out her hand towards her now that she had disappeared.
‘What is a black knight? What the hell…’
Belated regrets came flooding back.
If I had been a little stronger, would I have been able to protect everyone?
“Whoops, sir. This is the power of the Demon God.”
The same pure white hair as Fine.
The magic hat showed off her fluffy wolf ears and tail.
“Now I am completely identical to Fine Grancia.”
Slightly high voice.
Magic Hat started talking softly with a nostalgic voice.
“If this is enough, you can love me..? Knight?”
Even the sound of the slow footsteps toward me was similar to Fine.
If the appearance is the same, can the heart be the same?
‘Absolutely not.’
No matter how many times you call me with the same voice, the same title, and the same face as Fine, I get different emotions.
No matter how much I imitated her appearance, it was different from the Fine I remembered.
“Because it even absorbed all the memories of the nameless saintess!”
“…….”
A magic hat that speaks as if it is proving itself.
No matter how much she imitates Fine Grancia, she doesn’t seem to know that she can’t become that person.
“Now, everything the saintess didn’t do for the knight…♡”
The demon was taunting Fine while licking his lips with her tongue.
Please, please. Please don’t ruin the girl I remember.
Koo-ung!
At that moment, a dull sound came from far away.
A pitch-black greatsword wrapped in black rose vines.
“Oh, what? That… Can’t it?”
The magic sword I used to kill him in the game fell from the sky.
As if it answered my wishes.
***
Blanc broke into a cold sweat as he watched the weapon drop from the sky.
A ghastly aura felt from the sword.
Blanc hit her back, feeling her own throat drop and fall off.
“How did the demonic sword Horizon come here..?”
I was one step forward.
Blanc frowned at the sudden appearance of an uninvited guest.
It can’t be like this. Clearly, the current world has already fallen into Blanc’s hands.
The previous world line was overwritten and all of the Black Knight’s colleagues were killed.
She took everything of the nameless saint Phinegrancia to herself.
But, what is that thing she sees in front of her eyes?
The weapon that killed Blanc before fell from the sky as if she had answered her master’s call.
‘I interfered with the world line that I control..?’
Even her successor, herself, remembers that this did not happen.
Thinking that something is seriously going wrong, he is about to reach out to Lee Soo-hyeon with a sinister hand.
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A black rose vine rose from the ground and grabbed Blanc’s arm.
“This is so..!!”
A vine that blooms with roses that give off a strong scent that takes your breath away.
Blanc struggled to cut it, but the thorns only pierced more and more.
“…Why, why is it not cut!!”
In the end, he had no choice but to get out of the situation by cutting off his own arm himself.
The rose vine lost its goal just like that.
The melted heart sword stuck to Lee Soo-hyun, who couldn’t move his whole body.
‘What the hell is going on right now..?’
His arm, which had been pricked by a rose thorn, did not regenerate, and Blanc, who was dripping with blood, doubted his own eyes.
The ability hasn’t been activated for a while.
A wound like this should be covered with the authority of lies and healed like new.
“I am a god. A perfect Demon God who has attained omniscience and omnipotence..!!”
Raindrops falling hard.
Looking back on it now, I was appalled at not being able to control even this weather.
How long have you been in this situation?
“…What do I know?”
It was then. A man’s voice was heard through the sound of rain.
“My Prince..? How..?!”
Seeing Lee Soo-hyun standing with the demonic sword Horizon as a support, Blanc opened his eyes wide.
At the same time, the rose vine disappears around the black knight. Apparently, that rose had saved him.
“It doesn’t matter whether you are strong as a demon or not…”
“Oh, no.. That means..!!”
Lee Soo-hyun, who was staring at the magic hat, turned the handle of the magic sword.
─Crunch.
Then a metallic sound resounded.
Horizon’s sword was separated piece by piece, taking the form of armor, and was placed over the man’s body.
“I will fight until I kill you. Magic Hat.”
Lee Soo-hyeon transformed into a heavily armored black knight, just like Fine wore glass armor.
“As if it is true that you are strong.”
He was reciting almost the same sentence he had killed Blanc before.
“De, Deus Ex Machina..!! Attack him now!! Stop it!”
Looking at the scene, the demon became desperate and called the wise man to attack him.
“Because my heart is also sincere.”
On Lee Soo-hyun’s magic sword, with only the handle remaining, white flames soared to form the shape of the blade.
“Thoughts. Horizon.”
Quaaa!!
With just one sword strike, Deus Ex Machina was split in half, and the wise man in the shell was knocked out.
“Perhaps the one who survives to the end is the real one.”
Finally, having lost everything, the Black Knight pointed his sword at Blanc and declared war.
***
Loss of a loved one.
Did you say that was the condition for a hero to fall into the demon king?
‘The Demon King of Faith.. No, it would be more accurate to say that he had no thoughts. Because I have nothing to protect.’
Thoughts and thoughts.
A demonic sword that is said to be able to cut even the horizontal line where the sky meets the ground.
I wonder if he became a demon lord instead of a hero so he could even use authority.
“This can’t be like this! It’s different from the Horizon I know..!!”
I was able to save even the wise man who had turned into a Deus Ex Machina.
As he cut through the Magic Hat with his sword, he was bleeding and unable to heal his wounds.
“…I have to use my trump card too.”
A magic hat that shuffles playing cards.
The demon on the defensive was preparing for the last push he could.
“I’m sorry, driver..”
“Because I couldn’t help you…”
Then, in countless world lines, the sight of Fine dying unfolded in front of my eyes.
“..Pine?”
Fine, dressed in a pure white saint’s dress and covered in the rubble of a burning building, has a painful expression on her face.
“Now, if you don’t want to see these saints die, surrender immediately!”
The worst thing a Demon God can do that can reach other worlds.
Magic Hat brought Fine from another world line here and was killing it.
Why are you doing this?
“Come on..”
“Run away…”
She screams in pain with a crackling, rumbling sound of a building collapsing.
I raised my sword high at the sight that was difficult to see with my eyes open.
“Yes. Throwing away the demonic sword Horizon….”
Kwaaang—!
Immediately, he slammed his demonic sword into the ground, closing all the other world lines he had opened.
“I can’t do this!! You must suffer the same!!”
“……”
As I looked at the disgusting guy’s face, I firmly gripped the handle of the sword once again.
Every time I take a step, confidence arises within me.
Than I’m weak. Than that guy is strong.
My heart for the sake of Fine, my resolve to keep the promise I couldn’t fulfill.
It was moving me.
“Even if you manipulate time and space, you can’t stop that sword..?!”
He tried to avoid my attack by turning time around, and he tried to hurt me by distorting space.
Everyone was blocked by the one Horizon I was using.
‘Maybe it was a gift from Fine in another world.’
Even now, the scent of roses emanates from the demonic sword.
The thing that saved me from being unable to move was a vine with black roses in bloom.
Kooung—!!
I flew high into the sky and aimed at Magic Hat’s neck, swinging her sword.
Ki-geek, ki-gi-geek. Magic hat holding my sword with a sound.
I wonder if it’s too much to turn into Fine now, he was a Demon God who returned to the form of the Demon King I remember.
“My, I’m being pushed back..? I, who has the power of a god…?”
As if destroying evil, the light was rising stronger from the blade of the flame.
“It can’t be.. It can’t be..”
“It can’t be..!!”
The expression of the guy who was gradually being pushed back from power was greatly distorted.
Seeing the Magic Hat, who was said to be an omnipotent god, struggle with her, her body was like an overturned insect.
“Lies!! It is a lie!!”
What can I say to the Demon God who is screaming loudly and struggling to deny reality?
“No, that is the ‘truth’.”
In the first place, only this existed.
Suddenly—.
Slicing through the wind and raindrops, a silver flash drew an arc, and I succeeded in decapitating Magic Hat.
[Lee Soo-Hyun subdued the ‘Demon of Truth, Magic Hat’!]
A phrase similar to the one you saw right before receiving the beta tester email. A golden status window appeared before my eyes.
“I did it.. I did it..”
I looked back with relief that I had finally caught the Demon God.
“Everyone is relieved now…. Ah.”
However, games and reality look different.
The burned land and the situation where the comrades died did not change.
[The hero and the wizard ran away from the battle.]
Originally, when the caster dies, the power should be released. It seems that what the demon has done cannot be undone.
[The problem was that they thought their love was weak.]
“Why..?”
[Because of this, the party that lost the strongest power was wiped out.]
“Why..?”
I thought everything would be solved if I grabbed the magic hat.
[I couldn’t even erect a tombstone. Because I couldn’t even salvage the corpse.]
“You got it..! You defeated me!!”
However, the status window I saw before kept repeating the same phrase over and over again.
“Isn’t it necessary to bring everything back to life!!”
I screamed at the raining sky. Even if I cry and shout because my throat is about to burst, nothing comes back.
[Among them, only one nameless saint could not even be listed on the death list.]
“…Pine.”
I closed my eyes tightly as I looked at the Diamond Queen card in my bosom.
I just barely met you. It’s only now that we’ve finally gotten to know each other.
“This… Is not a happy ending…”
As I was hit by the cold snow all over my body, I let out a devastated sigh.
Is there really no way?
The weather was turning into winter, turning the raindrops into snow.
A pure white color similar to divine power.
“… Not yet.”
At that moment, an idea flashed in my head.
The god of reason in charge of divine power. A temple of healing that was active in the demon war.
“It might be possible there.”
I will save everyone, even at the cost of my own life.