Episode 82
Moment.
The air seemed to freeze.
It wasn’t because of the cold chill that Terrias radiated, but rather, a chilly silence fell between them.
Sylvia, who had been glaring at Samuel as if she would bite him to death, opened her mouth.
“Ha, are the bugs trying to distort even the things they did now? Right now, what you guys did in the Harak Territory is recorded in its entirety.”
“It’s not us who are distorting it, but humans? It was humans who killed the demons first, and you were the ones who started the war.”
Samuel also did not lose to Sylvia’s words and responded.
The more they argued, the more complicated it was in my head.
Let’s recall the settings I made.
The gate is not only able to pass from the demon realm to the human realm.
It is a story that can cross over from the human world to the demon world.
Then, if the strong of the human world went over to the demon world.
Would they have treated demons with differences from humans as the same person?
‘… … That’s not it.’
It is possible that demons who crossed over to the human world through random gates attacked humans first.
It was a setting I had made up, so it’s a clear fact that demons who crossed over to the human world attacked humans.
One question existed.
‘Let’s recall the contents of Saitan’s class.’
『Starting from one day, humans with strong powers attacked the residents of the territory all over the place, and in the end, two large-scale air raids by humans occurred.
While trying to determine the exact damage due to so many casualties, the Human War begins due to the invasion of the human world. 』
The position of the demons is that the powerful humans who came to the human world and the demon world attacked the demons bit by bit, and one day, the humans suddenly started a war.
The point of view of humans was that the demons killed humans first.
However, I didn’t think that the humans who went to the Demon Realm would have made up a friendly gaze towards the demons.
This can be seen by thinking of Count Leon, who destroyed the family of Samuel, who had never even invaded the human world.
So it’s complicated.
Because it was the moment when it was revealed that the demons were not completely evil.
Samuel growled again and spoke to Sylvia.
“Humans are shameless until the end, why don’t you admit your faults!”
Samuel’s fever seemed to reach the top of his head at Sylvia’s remarks about driving demons into evil.
I, who had been listening to the conversation, removed my closed lips.
“… … It must be because it benefits you.”
“what? What do you mean?”
Samuel frowned as if he didn’t understand.
Without answering, I sorted out the thoughts that suddenly popped into my head.
When the gates connecting the human world and the demon world were popping up like that.
Which one was the one that benefited?
Compared to the human world, is it the demonic world with fewer strong people?
‘or not.’
Is it a human world that has built a tremendous power based on six families?
The answer was so simple.
There was no way that people who were superior in technology, skills, and even armed forces suffered losses.
Isn’t that what the outcome of the war tells us?
Artifacts and elixirs that exist in the demon realm. And even slaves called demons.
The human world, especially the six families, accumulated enormous wealth through the Great War.
Even at this point in time when war broke out and many treasures were stolen, isn’t the value of gold and silver coins, which would be a huge amount in the human world, unusually low in the demon world?
From their point of view, the Demon World… … .
golden land.
isn’t that in itself
Did my words bother you?
“You say we went to war for profit? Make sense! How bad it is… … .”
Sylvia gritted her teeth and denied Samuel’s words.
I suddenly became curious about the reaction of Terias, the heir to Count Leon, one of the six families.
The moment I turned my head like that.
“… … .”
The figure of Terias, who was looking down at Sylvia with unfocused eyes with her mouth firmly shut, came into my field of vision.
He was wary of something.
I found something out of place in Terrias’ attitude, so I opened my mouth.
“You are hiding something.”
“… … hmm.”
Swims-.
Terrias scratched his neck in response to my question.
Then he looked at Sylvia.
Sylvia stared at Terias’ heavily sunken expression.
“Terias! Kill those worms, disgusting… … .”
before you even finish talking.
Took-.
Her silvery hair rustled to the floor.
With a head torn off in an instant.
Terias would have been his lover. He had boldly killed such a woman.
why.
Before I had time to think of such questions, a bleak chill came over me.
Terrias again deployed an ice storm towards me.
I narrowed my eyes at Terrias’ sudden change of momentum.
‘… … hypersensitive reaction.’
Didn’t Terias continue to show a relaxed atmosphere?
However, the current appearance seemed to have a corner where something was stabbed.
okay.
If you think about it, it’s a strange thing.
Compared to demons, humans who are superior in everything could not have invaded the demon realm only for revenge after being harmed meekly.
‘Is it some kind of probability?’
Doesn’t it make sense for a superior human to suffer enormous damage from an inferior demon?
A setting full of holes, saying that the human I created was always good.
And the reason why humans gained huge profits in the Great War of Man and Demon, and even in the latter half of the story, the main character and his friends invaded the demon realm and waged a war of conquest.
Terias must have known about that connection.
Even I, the writer, don’t know about the settings… … .
He probably knew something because he was the heir to the six families that were involved in the war.
‘It can’t be helped that I don’t know.’
I discarded all the settings I had made at the beginning of the series.
Together.
… … For some reason, those settings were blurred and I couldn’t remember them.
Like a ‘fog’.
Maybe it’s because it’s been too long since I made and threw away the settings.
Or it may be true that my imaginations have built this world, but I do not know because I have not recorded and described everything.
sure thing.
Feeling a little bit better now.
Between demons and humans, I couldn’t tell more and more what was good.
The officials of the six families knew about the secret of the war and were trying to hide it.
And it was clear that it was not ‘line’.
It was time for me to dodge Terrias’s ice attack.
“… … Why are they killing each other all of a sudden?”
Samuel’s voice, full of questions, resonated far in the unexplored area.
As a result, Terias’s face turned blue.
Did Samuel’s words out of ignorance act as a mockery of himself?
“hahahaha.”
I couldn’t stand the situation and burst into laughter.
Then, with a smile on his face, he answered Samuel’s question.
“Isn’t it because you’re not proud, to the extent of killing your lover?”
“What Cerberus is that?”
Samuel asked, frowning as if he didn’t understand.
I didn’t have time to answer.
Terrias’s ice storm had arrived just before our eyes.
I hurriedly deployed my sword and countered Terrias’s ice storm.
Chae-chae-chae-chae-!
Hit the ice crystals flying from Terias’s hammer with your dagger.
And he used his telekinesis to slow the storm.
‘… … It’s not easy though.’
But it was the same as being overpowered.
It would have been easier to fight back if he had lost his temper and went on a rampage due to the situation just now.
Terias was rather unleashing a calmer attack.
In the end, he decided that it would not be easy to block Terrias’s hammer and exchanged positions.
appointed.
movement.
My model was moved to the stone behind Terrias.
I quickly swung my dagger.
however.
puck-.
Terrias’s kicking was a little faster.
Hit by a kick, I was thrown far away.
If Terrias showed his sincerity, he could even respond to ‘Location Exchange IV’.
So, I asked about it.
‘As expected, it is impossible to capture and interrogate Terrias.’
Also, Terias is one of the new stars in the human world.
Even if you know the secrets of the remnants of the old era, you probably don’t know much compared to the heads of the six families.
But with my skills, I couldn’t defeat Terias, let alone capture him.
For now, we have to focus only on giving Terrias a blow.
‘A blow that even Terias can’t overlook.’
I already had that ability.
That’s why if I could make a small gap, I could survive in this place.
so that.
“Samuel, please help.”
As I fled from Terrias’s hammer, I barely uttered a word.
flinch.
Samuel’s eyes turned to me.
appointed.
movement.
I exchanged positions and moved to Samuel’s side at once.
It may only be a few seconds, but it was enough time to tell Samuel what I wanted.
“Tie him so he cannot move.”
“… … I get it.”
“Then, excuse me for a second.”
I threw myself at Terias while holding Samuel in my arms.
Then, in my arms, Samuel squeezed out all the mana and began to develop his abilities.
Hundreds of thorns began to grow on Samuel’s arm.
It transformed into a four-pronged rope and bound Terias’ ankles and wrists.
“Kuk!”
In an instant, confirming that Terrias’ actions had solidified, I swapped positions with his hammer.
A very fleeting moment.
As Terrias’s hammer fell to the ground, I manifested a sword stroke and swung it.
An attack with all remaining mana condensed.
Squeak-.
This was enough to pierce the self-defense gimmick wrapped around Terias’ body.
but.
“The worm kid did a trick.”
Terias, who noticed his own numbers, concentrated on self-defense, so the dagger ended up slicing through the shoulder blades.
Eventually, the moment Terrias’s hammer was retrieved onto his hand-.
Something jumped out of my arms at the speed of light.
“… … !!”
Terias’s pupils widened greatly.
closely-.
A venomous snake bit his shoulder and started injecting poison.
Terias was bitten by the poisonous solitude that ingested the homunculus and transformed into a living being.
puck-.
It was only for a while that I felt the joy of having struck a blow.
The hammer returned to Terrias hit my body roughly.
My ribs were crushed because I was completely exposed, and the bones pierced the skin and protruded outward.
Cool.
Dark red blood spurted out from the corner of my mouth.
In that situation where even breathing is difficult, I
“… … As you said, I am a bug.”
He made up a laugh and just spoke to Terias.
“One thing, just remember this.”
that worm.
It is a single poisonous insect.
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