episode_0049

Boom! Kwarreung!! Kwakwangkwang!!!

Every time I swung my sword, a shockwave exploded. A huge physical force created wind pressure.

Sometimes, when the sword touched the clouds, the clouds scattered in all directions.

I was swinging my sword without any hesitation.

“Gyaaak!”

“Hey, warrior! Calm down! Calm down!!”

“Whoaaah!? That was really dangerous just now!!”

Every time, Enen would scream and dodge like a fly.

Is this really what a goddess is like? Her evasion skills are top-notch.

Of course I had no intention of quitting.

I felt something boiling inside me like fire. What on earth was this?

The answer came out quickly.

anger.

Overwhelming anger that has been building up for half a year!!!

That anger was endlessly consuming my body and the path of my sword.

As long as I do not extinguish this flame that has bloomed in my heart, I will swing my sword forever.

“One. Let’s just get one.”

“If you get stabbed by a sword, a normal person dies!”

“You’re not a human, you’re a god!!”

So we ran wild for a while as if we were filming a skit.

When I swing my sword, Enen dodges with all his might.

I really wanted to try it at least once… but unfortunately, I was the first to get tired.

After swinging it about 300 times, the steam suddenly disappeared.

Yeah, what the hell is this? It’s not too late to give in after listening to the conversation as she said.

As I stopped my sword, Enen fell to the ground in a pitiful state, gasping for breath.

“Hehe··· Heh··· Heh······.”

At first glance, it’s hard to believe that she’s really a goddess. If it weren’t for her sophisticated appearance, she would just look like an unsophisticated woman.

I looked at the goddess lying on the floor and said nervously.

“Okay, stop panting and let’s have that conversation you were talking about. I have a lot of questions for you too. Hurry up and get up.”

“··· The meeting I imagined wasn’t this rough.”

She grumbled and got up from her seat.

The way his mouth stuck out made him look like a brat, but surprisingly, the words that came out of his mouth were sharp.

“So, that’s what I’m most curious about. Why did you have to become a warrior with those curses?”

“······ You know very well.”

I couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed.

I didn’t know I was that close to the answer.

Perhaps she was thinking to herself, too. To give me the answer.

“I know, so I don’t think I need to explain. Why on earth did you put a curse on me? And what was the reason you chose me as a warrior in the first place?”

There are many things I am curious about. There are many things I do not understand.

It seems that the lump in my chest was much larger than I thought.

“Please take your time asking questions. I have set up this space today to answer all your questions anyway.”

She seemed to know what I was thinking as she spoke to me to calm down.

Then he continued.

“First of all, I’m sorry for putting up those curses. It was something I couldn’t help doing.”

“··· What?”

I said through gritted teeth.

Anger flows out of his mouth like poison.

“You couldn’t help it? You fucking idiot… You’re a god. And you say something like that?”

“···Yes, that was the best for me. I had to give up something to secure the cost.”

But when I heard the following words.

I had no choice but to calm down my anger. I felt like I had to listen to it first.

I asked back.

“Cost?”

“Yes. Cost. To put it more easily, it’s an equivalent exchange. Should I call it a transaction? Like giving money to a merchant and buying something. ”

She continues.

“When I called you, you were already out of change. I wanted to give you strength, but I couldn’t because there were too many restrictions. So what I needed was··· to sell something to raise funds.”

“Is it fate that I sold back then?”

“That’s not exactly what I wanted. It’s just that you ended up paying the deposit.”

She pointed at me with her finger. More specifically, at the skills inside me.

“Things you have. Various skills including the power of Heavenly Wisdom and Sacrifice. Those are pretty expensive. They were precious to me too.”

How is it? Do you understand?

She looked at me as if asking,

I asked, scratching my head nervously.

“I understand what you’re saying. But I don’t understand. Why on earth do you have no change?”

This gentleman is none other than God.

When I asked her that question in that manner, she answered hesitantly.

“That’s… The previous generation of warriors and the previous generation of warriors caused quite a bit of trouble. In your language, you could say they took a shit, right?”

She said with a sigh.

“The previous warriors were like that too, but the previous warriors were really shitting themselves. This time, we were determined to defeat the Demon King and supported them by focusing on the cost, but we were annihilated by the first Four Heavenly Kings, not to mention the Demon King. Oh my, we suffered so much damage because of that······.”

He continued speaking calmly.

“At that time, 101 heroes, 130,000 knights and holy knights, and 1.2 million soldiers were killed due to the invasion of the Demon King’s army.”

Civilian deaths were far higher, she added.

Although he spoke in a calm tone, I couldn’t help but be speechless for a moment.

It was a huge number.

So much so that I can’t even imagine.

That was the result when the hero was defeated by the Demon King’s army. The burden that the hero was supposed to bear was carried by everyone else.

“That many people died just to restore the half-released Demon King’s seal. It was best to only kill one of the Four Heavenly Kings and tie him back up in the Demon World.”

I could not help but imagine what the war would be like.

It must have been a bloody war. Corpses were piled up like mountains, and cries could be heard everywhere.

In despair, people would have struggled to survive, not for hope.

Certainly, it was a horrific sight.

But before I could empathize with that, I had a question.

“You.”

I asked the guy about that curiosity.

“What did you do?”

“Yes?”

“Isn’t it something you can step up and help with? You’d be more than enough.”

He is a god in name only.

And she had an overwhelming advantage against monsters and the Demon King. The power she possessed, divine power, gave additional damage to the Demon King and his aides.

Wasn’t it thanks to her strength that she caught the dishtowel right away?

When I asked her this question, her face became gloomy.

“I··· can’t do it.”

“Why?”

“A long time ago. Because I made a contract with the Demon King.”

“Contract?”

“Yes. A contract that I cannot personally enter into, in exchange for sealing the Demon King and binding those guys to the Demon World.”

She asked me.

“Why do you think the Four Heavenly Kings and the Demon King attack in order?”

Expressed doubt.

“Isn’t that strange? Why would you have to block the path of a warrior who will surely become a threatening enemy one day? In other words, if all the Four Heavenly Kings come and attack you, you will die without being able to do anything.”

“That’s all because of the contract you made.”

“That’s right.”

She gave a slight affirmative.

I nodded.

Until now, I thought it was just a function implemented in the system. It seems like there is a contract that I don’t know about.

I didn’t know there was such a background.

It was exciting to hear the backstory of the game.

Still, my reason calmly sorted out the situation.

So, what I’m saying is that I’m a warrior who was summoned to clean up the shit of the previous warriors and the previous warriors.

Thanks to this, the next causal relationship could be easily found.

“That must be why the Demon King’s army has strangely become stronger.”

“You’re smart, as expected. That’s right. Last time, I used up too much power… so the Demon King’s army’s seal was released a little more than planned. ”

“···So, in a word, I got a chance, right?”

I asked sarcastically.

For a moment, she tilts her head as if she doesn’t understand.

“Yes?”

“That’s right. Isn’t that what I’m saying? I have to work hard to clean up what the previous warriors couldn’t handle?”

He had no choice. He had no power because of the contract.

In the last war, many people died. Although they tried to cover it up with many words, in the end, there was only one truth.

That means I have to shoulder all the debt that arises because of it.

Unfortunately, I was not a person with enough emotion to feel sad about the deaths of many people in the past.

I kept cursing at the guy for a while.

I spent a long time wondering why I had to shoulder this burden, why they were pushing the work onto me when they couldn’t manage it properly, and so on.

She didn’t even panic, and just listened to me silently. After a while, she opened her mouth again.

“Don’t worry. I’m not asking you to do it with your bare mouth.”

“······.”

“The Demon King. Catch the Demon King. Then I will grant you your wish.”

Shudder.

My body trembled for a moment. If it was common, it was a common suggestion.

Giving something as a reward for defeating the final boss is something that has been touted as a reward in numerous creations.

But, despite that, I couldn’t help but be drawn to the magic of the word ‘wish’.

“Then, is it possible that my body and the curse can be cured?”

Thanks to that, I asked her with a trembling voice.