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Chapter 6 Episode 31 – Last resort 4

Philia faced her enemy. A huge whirlpool of blood, a powerful force felt within it. There is an enemy over there.

“enemy… . Kill it. I have to kill him.”

Her body had already undergone complete transformation. The skin visible through the torn clothing has become hard like armor, and sharp protrusions protrude from the arms and legs.

The red marks extending under the bloodshot eyes looked as if they were shedding bloody tears.

“Protect… . I have to protect it… .”

Philia has lost her reason and has become an unideal demon, both for Patricia and others. Her mind was filled with thoughts of only killing enemies and protecting someone.

The swirl of blood gradually became smaller. All the extended tentacles were recovered, and the scattered red flesh also slowly crawled and was absorbed into the vortex.

Karjen, who appeared from among them, walked lightly with her red hair and bright red dress fluttering.

“It’s full of annoying bugs.”

She called those who got in her way bugs, but in reality, she could never belittle them.

It is no longer senseless to attack by blindly extending tentacles. All the flies that such an attack would be effective at are already dead.

Now is the time to handle them one by one.

Karjen stretched out her finger. And a small blood bead protruded from the end.

The blood beads floating in the air strongly condensed, and a sharp thorn was sent flying towards Philia.

Kaang–!

Philia reacted quickly and swung her sword to cut off the thorn, but the considerable force was enough to disrupt her posture.

“I will make you realize the difference in power.”

Blood beads protruding from all over Karjen’s body. The number is roughly over a hundred.

There were only three humans who survived this attack in their entire lives of over a thousand years.

Karjen was sure. The person in front of me falls far short of those three.

“Die.”

The thorns spewed out from the blood beads filled the sky and poured down like a torrent of rain. Even the dodges were calculated and the entire area around Philia was devastated.

The rising clouds of dirt cleared, revealing a land densely studded with thorns with no space to step on.

Surviving the merciless rainstorm seemed impossible. But Philia was still standing there.

“How are you alive?”

In an incomprehensible situation, Karjen fired a thorn again.

The thorn that flew right in front of Philia’s nose bounced off the spot, and only then did Karjen realize.

Some invisible shield is protecting her.

thud-. thud-.

The sound of heavy footsteps coming from the other side.

A huge man clad in armor who appeared with the surviving knights in a hail of red tentacles.

Karjen intuitively realized that the barrier that protected Philia was the power of the man wearing armor.

“Eliminate the enemies of Our Lady!”

Knight Louren shouted.

The demonized knights rushed in all at once.

Karjen stretches out her tentacles to stop them. However, the tentacles were also blocked by the barrier and could not stop the knights.

Crunch –.

Annoying. It’s so annoying.

I lost a lot of blood due to the thorn being shot.

In order to replenish it again, someone must be killed.

However, the barrier is harder than you think, so it cannot be broken through with clumsy methods.

‘I never wanted to write again… .’

In the end, is it impossible to escape from the past? Karjen smiled bitterly and stretched out her hand toward the sky.

A soft red light connected Karjen’s hand and a star in the sky. The star twinkled red and soon disappeared. Eventually, a translucent crystal ball appeared in Karjen’s hand.

It was the soul and core of a god that a god on earth must have.

The bright red core dug into Karjen’s palm. A red light leaked from the wrist to the chest, beyond the skin, revealing its path, stopping near the heart.

Afterwards, Karjen’s body began to change.

Fox ears sprouted from his flat head. My hands got bigger and my fingernails became sharper. A rich tail protruded from its back. One, two, three. The tail, which continued to grow, stopped only when it reached nine.

nine tailed fox. A fox with nine tails. Karjen’s true self and an afterimage of her buried past.

Quack!

Karjen caught one of the knights who was charging ahead. Although my hand was blocked by an invisible barrier –.

Quad deud deuk—!

As I tightened my grip, a crack appeared and it soon shattered.

Wow!

Karjen grabs the knight’s head, rips it off, and swallows it whole.

“After seeing this, you all must die.”

Her true self, which she vowed to bury forever. The fact that she took it out meant that Karjen was cornered.

But she didn’t care.

Everything that happened tonight will be buried in the ground.

*

*

Things are going strangely.

Special knights suddenly appear, Philia and Mars. Karjen’s defeat deepened due to these two.

However, as if she had awakened at the moment of crisis, Karjen suddenly turned into a nine-tailed fox. It began to show off its overwhelming power again.

Of course, knights are opponents that cannot be underestimated. At least it would buy me time to talk to Patricia.

“……Now that it’s quiet again, shall we finish talking?”

Patricia burst out laughing at my suggestion.

“I am more obsessed with knowledge than I thought.”

“I hate being manipulated without knowing anything.”

“Well. For people like us, the lack of information is fatal.”

Patricia sat on the back of the giant rat and crossed her legs.

“How much did we talk about?”

“Hint. I said I would give you a hint about your purpose.”

“It was like that. Hehehe. Actually, the hint has already been given. When I first met you face to face, think back to our conversation.”

“Are you going to believe that nonsense-filled conversation?”

“It’s not a lie. It’s mostly true. I approached you honestly in my own way. I think I’d be disappointed if you didn’t trust me.”

Conversation during the first meeting. I recalled that conversation again.

She asked me to subdue the demon lord, Rusk.

And he babbled nonsense about saving humanity.

At the time, I thought it was just nonsense to trick me, but to say something like that even when almost everything has already been exposed… .

Shouldn’t that be considered true?

‘…My head hurts.’

Patricia had said. She is the real Virgin Mary who will save humans in place of the incompetent Virgin Mary.

It’s strange if you think about it.

No matter how corrupt the Holy Mother Church is, does it make sense for it to be ruled by a monarch who can be seen as their enemy? Can we say that it is purely because of Patricia’s outstanding resourcefulness?

Also, was Raphael stupid enough to go along with the plan to destroy humanity?

I had the feeling that something was fundamentally wrong.

“You… . Are you really doing this to save humans?”

“……”

Patricia smiled silently. A genuine smile that is not fake.

“Why… . Why on earth?”

She is an invader from the dark world. The master of the black world, under the command of the God of Chaos, came to conquer the earth.

But why are we trying to save humans?

‘Were different orders given to each monarch? No, that’s not to say that the other three were all trying to destroy the earth. There is no reason to conflict with each other by issuing different orders in the first place.’

So, is that just Patricia’s dogma?

“Do you want to know why?”

“……Okay. I’m dying to know.”

“Hehe. I can’t tell you easily… . I’ll give you another hint.”

I’ll explain it to you in a simpler way, but now you want to do a riddle with me.

“The hint is… . Yeah, that would be nice.”

Patricia extended her index finger and pointed at herself.

“……You said it was a hint?”

“Okay. If you think about who I am, you will know.”

“You say it’s a hint, but it’s more confusing?”

“You will be able to figure it out. clearly. Well, there will be a lot of time in the future. Think slowly.”

After finishing her story on her own terms, Patricia slowly turned her head and looked at the battlefield.

“It looks like that side is slowly coming to an end.”

As she said, the battle was almost coming to an end.

Either one side or the other, the time has come to settle the matter.

*

“Protect… hey… . Save… .”

“What an annoying bitch. Now die.”

Kwaduk!

Karjen’s tail turned into a tentacle and ate Philia’s body.

Complete victory… . There was too much loss for that to be true.

From the time I was forced to sign the contract until now, I have lost almost all of the blood I had been secretly storing up. That’s how strong Philia and Mars were.

Although he supplemented his blood by consuming their corpses, it was not enough to deal with the remaining Patricia.

but-.

“I will kill you.”

Karjen’s heart was already strong. Kill Patricia.

You must pay the price for bringing up your past.

But one bigger problem remains.

‘Siegfried.’

A human with the highest blood, and the former master who ruled over him.

The power he has is stronger than any human I’ve ever seen… . No, it was the most powerful of all the beings I had ever seen.

Karjen clenched her trembling hands.

The battle with Zeke that comes to mind and has now become a trauma. Until now, he had encountered many beings stronger than himself, but he had never felt as helpless as when he fought him.

At the same time, other memories came to mind.

Memories of holding myself in my arms and stroking me in the form of a small fox.

Memories of constantly feeding me blood while grunting.

In a cheeky way, I remember occasionally looking at myself as if I was cute.

Obviously those memories were humiliating, but they weren’t necessarily bad.

The warmth I felt again for the first time since I was exiled from my hometown.

Maybe hanging out with that man for the rest of his short life would be a good form of entertainment in its own way.

Karjen thought so and took a step forward.