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“Hee… heehee… heehee hahaha.”

Kunat, or rather, the nameless female demon, was laughing while lying face down on the floor.

Rather than laughter, it seemed more like an absurd emotion was escaping with the wind.

She struggled to turn her body over on the dirt floor and looked at me.

Her large breasts, stained with dark red blood on her bright red skin, were heaving up and down rapidly.

“You crazy Priest bastard.”

“Looks like you’ve thrown away all pretense of politeness now.”

“If you were so… curious… why didn’t you just ask?”

“Oh shit, didn’t think of that?”

“Ugh, you should have asked first, you uneducated fool!”

“I learned it, but that’s between people. I don’t really enjoy talking with demons, so why bother going around when there’s an easy and fast way?”

“You madman. Then what we’re doing now isn’t a conversation?”

“That’s what I’m saying. Talking to you is like shit, so hurry up and spill, unless you want to see something even more terrible.”

“This crazy bastard is threatening a demon?”

“Threatening? There’s also the cautious expression of a transaction proposal, why use such a harsh word?”

“En… joying this… aren’t you… you impertinent bastard… daring to, as a human…”

Even as she writhed on the floor, she showed a condescending attitude towards me.

Well, I expected it.

Demons originally consider humans to be toys made of feed.

Insignificant beings that they play with and then eat when they get hungry.

I thought this one might be a little different since she had been maintaining a gentlemanly attitude for quite a while,

but no surprise, she quickly revealed her true colors just by being pushed into a moment of crisis.

I sneered and looked down at the demon.

“I heard you enjoy pain.”

“As I thought… you belong in Hell… more than Heaven.”

“Is being told by a demon that I belong in Hell a compliment or an insult? I’m confused.”

“Kehehehe”

I put the tip of my boot under her jaw and lifted her head up.

“Enough with the jokes. Now tell me. Who are you?”

“I’m your mother, you fucking bastard.”

“Oh,”

I took my foot out from under her chin and shook it back and forth in front of her eyes.

“Say hello, this is your father.”

And then I stomped on her face as if to crush it.

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After some squabbling, she, who had thrown up all the alcohol in her stomach, slowly caught her breath and sat up.

Her face was swollen and torn in places.

She spat out black blood between her chapped lips and said.

“I have the name Kunat, just like you have the name Billy.”

“I keep hearing you say Billy, Billy, but I don’t even know if that’s my name.”

“Your name is Billy… William, to be exact. No surname. A farmer who farms on the lord’s land doesn’t have a surname.”

“Stop beating around the bush with bullshit that I can’t even tell is true or not.”

“Hehe, you’re definitely Billy. It’s as clear as the fact that I’m Kunat.”

“Looks like you need to be kicked by your father a little more to speak properly.”

I lifted my heels slightly, threatening her.

She glared at me with half-closed eyes and spat out blood on the floor once more.

As expected of a demon, her blood smelled of acrid sulfur.

“Kunat, that’s definitely my name, if I were to add the explanation you want, it’s one of my many names.”

“Many?”

She nodded and rubbed her stomach.

“Foolish Kunat has become my flesh and blood.”

“… What?”

She slowly raised the corners of her mouth, revealing her teeth and smiling.

Black blood was stuck between her unnecessarily white teeth.

“I am Kunat, Kunat is inside me, and my name has twenty-two more in addition to that.”

“…”

I stood still, speechless.

If someone else saw me now, they might ask why I was standing there so blankly.

But I wasn’t just standing there blankly.

I was frantically searching through my memories.

Ancient books about demons.

Records of secret exorcism rituals shared among priests.

Demon hunting reports from the Order that have not been released to the world.

And the countless appearances of demons that I have personally seen, heard, and experienced.

After rummaging through my head for a long time, I finally had to admit it.

This is a demon I don’t know.

“…”

In any material, in any document, in any experience I’ve had in my life,

I had never heard or seen of a demon that devours demons.

Realizing that what I was dealing with was an unknown being, I slowly took my foot back and stepped away.

Kunat, no…

‘It’ began to open its teeth, smiling broadly as it watched me.

“I see you’re curious about who I am, what I am?”

“…”

“Don’t worry, unlike you, I’m not narrow-minded. I’ll tell you slowly.”

The wings that sprouted from both sides of its waist slowly touched the ground, and as if someone was pulling its entire body with strings, it stood up straight.

It ran its palm over its mouth.

The hand went straight down its chin to its neck, wrapped around her chest once, and then slowly flowed down to its waist.

The dark red blood that had been splattered all over its mouth and upper body disappeared as if absorbed into its bright red skin.

It glanced once at its own bloody vomit spread out on the dirt floor, frowned, and said.

“To make me drink the Goddess’s piss,”

“…”

“I already knew you were violent, but I didn’t think you’d be so mischievous as to play such an evil prank.”

Seeing that it had regained its relaxed tone, it seemed that it was now completely free from the effects of the Holy Water.

About thirty minutes or so.

Ha, only thirty minutes,

In fact, with a normal demon, it would have writhed in pain as soon as it swallowed the alcohol and immediately abandoned its body and fled to Hell.

Of course, this demon showed no signs of returning to Hell no matter what I did, so I had a hunch that it would somehow endure.

But, I thought it would at least cause some permanent damage,

but to recover in just thirty minutes.

I think I now know why she just smiled while being abused by me while she was in the body of a cat.

Did it say it enjoyed pain?

My Holy Power must have been only at an enjoyable level for her.

Haha, damn it.

What the hell did I summon?

It’s my fault for being arrogant even though I knew what would happen if I messed with a demon.

I swallowed hard, trying to hide my trembling voice, and opened my mouth.

“You mean you ate Kunat?”

“That’s right.”

“… When?”

“About 100 weeks ago in Hell time, about 2 years ago in human time?”

The last time I saw Kunat was three years ago.

In other words, the Kunat I met a long time ago and she are different beings.

“So, what I summoned wasn’t Kunat…”

“Oh my God, Billy. It’s me? I’m Kunat, I’m Belphegor, Bael, and Omri, and I’m also called Felladi, the red-horned goat, and the maiden with leathery wings.”

“…!”

“Are you going to tell me to say all twenty-three of my names? I can’t even remember them all?”

Some of the names she rattled off sounded familiar.

There were famous demons I had seen in ancient demon dictionaries, and heinous demons I had seen in the data.

For example, the maiden with leathery wings.

According to the Order’s report, that demon starves humans to the point where parents eat their young children, and then leaves behind a painting of the scene.

“So, you’re essentially a collection of all those demons?”

“Ah, just because I ate a demon doesn’t mean I get stronger. Humans don’t get as strong as elephants just because they eat elephant meat, do they? So, don’t even think about eating me.”

She chuckled and then suddenly twisted her body, making a frail, girlish expression.

Then, she ran the back of her hand over her forehead, creating exaggerated tears and said.

“So, I’ll still be easily hurt and scream at your rough touch. Sob sob.”

“…”

“I won’t do anything to ruin your secret sadism, so don’t worry. Father Theodore.”

“… Crazy bastard.”

Get a grip.

You must not forget that the person in front of you is a demon.

Not everything that comes out of a demon’s mouth can be true,

It might be half lies, or it wouldn’t be strange if it were all lies from the beginning.

There’s a possibility that it’s just a normal demon with a little resistance to Holy Power,

It’s true that it ate Kunat, but the other demons might be exaggerations,

… It might be a lie that it doesn’t have the power of other demons.

Damn it,

My head is getting complicated.

That’s why you shouldn’t talk to demons.

“Billy.”

I don’t know when she got so close, but she slowly put her hand on my shoulder.

Her palm gently came down on my shoulder first, and then her fingers, from pinky to index finger, tapped and fell on my shoulder one by one.

It was clear that I was leading the situation, but in an instant, the situation was reversed.

“Why are you so scared? Don’t worry, I have no intention of harming you.”

“… Why.”

She smacked her forehead and said.

“Why, this person! We have to rule the world together! This human world… no. This land that demons will rule in the future!”

“Why, me…”

“Because you’re a natural enemy to demons.”

“To endure even after drinking that alcohol… You’re hilarious,”

“And I like you very much.”

“Ha…”

The situation was reversed?

No, I was just mistaken, I never had the initiative even once.

I thought I was using this demon to relieve stress, but I was wrong.

She was just playing along with me from the beginning.

“Ah, of course, I shouldn’t forget your cute Nuns either. They’re fun to watch.”

“…”

“But today’s prank was a little too much.”

She lowered her voice and said.

Her fingers on my shoulder gradually began to pierce and dig into my shoulder skin.

She slowly brought her lips to my ear and began to whisper.

“Don’t worry. I’m not that angry. Your rough side is charming, isn’t it?”

Kunat licked the inside of my ear in a circular motion with her long tongue.

Goosebumps run all over my body.

It felt like an ice stake had been driven into my heart.

“I’ll forgive you with about a tenth of the pain you usually give me. Isn’t that generous?”

I slowly opened my mouth.

“… Hey.”

“Huh?”

“What should I call you?”

She giggled and replied.

“Just call me Kunat, I’m already used to that name.”

“Okay… Kunat.”

“What’s wrong. Billy.”

I took out a small needle hidden in my sleeve and stabbed Kunat in the chest.

“You have bad breath.”

“…!”

Kunat stepped back in shock.

I punched the needle stuck in Kunat’s chest with my fist, pushing it in even deeper.

The needle had completely burrowed into Kunat’s chest.

“This is… Bolina’s Needle…!”

“I know.”

Saintess Bolina.

A religious figure who lived so long ago that our religion had not yet spread widely in the world,

The Goddess herself descended and revealed her appearance in her dream.

After waking up from her dream, she embroidered the image of the Goddess she saw in her dream for the rest of her life, leaving behind over ten thousand works, before which mankind did not know the appearance of the Goddess.

The embroidery she left behind was the only work that depicted the image of the Goddess to this day.

At the time, demons tried to dissuade her to stop this and tormented her by causing her family to die in accidents, etc.,

but each time, she endured the demons’ temptations and torments by stabbing her thigh with a needle.

As a result, she was revered as a Saintess after her death, and the needle was imbued with miraculous and divine power, and has been passed down as a precious treasure and legacy of our Order.

“You… Why… this…!”

I scratched the ear that Kunat had licked and replied.

“Then, do you think I would have been demoted to the countryside without receiving a retirement gift?”

“… Keueuk!”

“You’re not the only one with hidden trump cards.”

That needle is a Holy Relic that continues to emit Holy Power in itself.

As it was used to ignore the tricks of demons, the needle also had a property that repelled demons.

No matter how powerful Kunat was, she wouldn’t be able to be okay with a needle that constantly emitted Holy Power more potent than Holy Water embedded in her body.

In fact, Kunat was in pain, unable to take out the needle that was deeply embedded in her chest, and was only stamping her feet.

“And, who licks someone’s ear with a mouth that just vomited? You bastard.”

“… Keueuk… Billy, you…”

“Time for some family education.”

I kicked Kunat’s chest as if pushing her away with my foot.