Ch.164The NPC Who Sees the End of Trials (3)

Ah, shit! My arm!! It hurts like hell?!!

“This is driving me crazy!!!”

-WHAM!!

[The tentacles of the Deadly Sin are approaching.]

While trying to dodge the invisible tentacles, I ended up taking a direct hit from that bastard’s fist. I blocked it with my arm, but damn. My arm’s broken.

And the bastard who easily blocked my punch displays a status window before my eyes, blocking my vision, and immediately swings another fist at me.

I twist my upper body with all my might, barely avoiding his punch, and my eardrums ring from the sonic boom of air being torn apart.

I’m screwed, he found out. He discovered the difference in our physical abilities. I’m really going to die…!!!

[Mission failed…]

-SMACK!!

“Huff, huff. Shut up, you son of a bitch! Who says it’s a failure?!!”

I kick and shout at the status window that’s declaring failure when I haven’t even done anything yet. The being who has taken over Luxuria’s body just stares at me emptily.

Fuck, I’d prefer the lust-filled eyes from earlier. Those eyes now seem to be seeing right through me…

[-Character: Tutorial NPC- Level: 552 Name: Jack. Age: 19.]

[HP: 124,255]

“…What?”

[3 more attacks.]

Suddenly seeing my level and HP appear, I freeze for a moment.

What’s going on? The only attack I took was the punch that broke my left arm…?

-⎯⎯⎯⎯!!!

Seeing my HP drastically reduced, I hesitate for a moment, and the creature doesn’t miss the opportunity, mechanically throwing a punch straight at my face.

Wait. Wait. WAIT?!!!

-BOOM!!!

“Urgh?!!”

Throwing myself sideways with every ounce of strength I have, I barely avoid his punch, and immediately roll to the side to dodge the tentacles pursuing me.

And then.

[HP: 81,123]

“This is insane…”

I definitely dodged it completely. Yet my HP has been drastically reduced, and I feel a chill running down my spine.

Wait a minute. Could it be…

-BOOM!! BOOM! BOOM!!!

Invisible tentacles fly at me, but based on my memories from my past life, I’m dodging them all properly.

Yet the HP on the status window before my eyes continues to decrease dramatically. This can’t be right. No way…

[Your death is inevitable.]

“……”

I understand immediately upon hearing his words. I’m the NPC who guides the protagonist and player to the Demon of Lust in ep.4.

And the one who kills me is the Demon of Lust.

Yes, the reason my HP is being shredded even though I’m not being hit is…

[Your role has ended.]

“Ugh!!!”

-WHOOSH!!!

Feeling like I’ve been struck by lightning at the cleanly displayed status window, I forcibly deflect his punch with my remaining right hand.

Ugh, I deflected it properly, but the impact feels like my right hand might be broken too…!!

[HP: 30,794]

My body can’t withstand the air pressure from his fist, causing me to float slightly, and the status window displays my HP as if the next hit will be the end.

‘Fuck. FUCK. This is, this is really too much…!!!’

Even if I was created as an NPC guide, is this right?

The protagonist. Just because that woman with the Holy Maiden position is here, my usefulness is over? So that’s why my HP is being shredded even though I’m not getting hit properly? Then, the final blow…

[This is the end.]

After his status window appears, time flows slowly. And I immediately understand intuitively.

This is it. The flashback before death.

I’d seen on YouTube in my past life that people experience the world slowing down when they’re certain of their death, but I never thought it would be real.

Floating slightly in the air, I roll my eyes downward to see something rippling emerging from the ground.

Yes, it was like this in the original game too.

The Seven Deadly Sins. The hint that the Demon of Lust wields invisible giant tentacles was revealed when blood stained the transparent tentacle that pierced my stomach.

‘Fuuuck. Is this really the end?’

I don’t want to die.

I haven’t seen Ira grow into a beautiful young woman, or enter puberty. I haven’t even leveled her up enough to survive properly.

And if I die, Ira will definitely cry until she collapses. If there’s another boy beside her, ugh… I don’t think I could bear that even in hell.

And I haven’t properly shown my interest in Reina Ragni yet, and Gor told me to look forward to it. I had fantasized that she would definitely become a stunning beauty waiting for me.

‘…Am I going to die without seeing any of it?’

Rolling my eyes again, I see the Seven Deadly Sin of Lust moving slowly in a punching stance.

…Why, why does this guy look like a grown-up version of Ira, and why does the Holy Maiden resemble Ira too? I still have so many things to do, to think about, to solve.

‘No. There’s even more now. But am I going to die so pathetically here?’

I gradually feel something large and sharp touching my abdomen. Ah, damn. Seems like the flashback is ending.

What an absurd ending. Reincarnating, escaping. And the end I reach is ultimately the game’s NPC *stab* ending.

I really don’t want to accept it, and I can’t accept it. I think I understand what it means to be unable to close your eyes even in death.

As the dull sensation in my abdomen begins to intensify, I feel my flashback ending and time returning to its normal speed.

Ah, damn it. I shouldn’t have interfered. If I had known this would happen, I should have told the Holy Maiden to handle it herself.

For nothing, for nothing, for nothing.

‘Because the face looked exactly like Ira’s, I tried to stop it without killing and now this…’

-SQUELCH…

“Ugh, ah…”

Just as I was about to cry out from the sensation of my abdomen being pierced and the overwhelming sense of injustice.

“What the hell do you think you’re doing?”

-WHAM!!!

My jaw gets hit by something and snaps shut, and my neck jerks violently in a direction it has never been bent before.

Wow, my stomach is being pierced but why does my jaw hurt?

*

“Stupid kid. Why the hell are you hesitating to hit the face and vital points, trying to get yourself killed?”

After kicking the face of my descendant who was about to have his abdomen pierced by an unknown attack, sending him flying far away, I lock eyes with the demon who stares emptily at me for interrupting what it was doing.

“…Luxuria. Well, you’ve changed quite a bit from when I last saw you.”

“……”

There’s no response from her like before.

When I first met her, even after being attacked by me, she smiled charmingly asking if I would be given to her or if I would take her away. Now her face doesn’t move at all, and she no longer flaunts her figure provocatively.

She really has become a different person, or rather, a different demon.

“You won’t even talk to me now? Earlier, you were trying to seduce that guy who looks exactly like me. Does that mean our promise doesn’t matter anymore?”

There’s no verbal response to my words. Or rather, should I say her response came in the form of action?

-Swish.

“Tch.”

-WHOOSH!!!

As her hand moves, something invisible like what targeted my descendant earlier attacks me, and noticing that the kid had been judging based on something he saw, I was able to dodge the attack somewhat narrowly.

“Is this your true power? Or is it the power of whoever has taken over your body?”

I continue talking to her while dodging the successive attacks. At least the situation isn’t bad since her target has completely shifted from my broken-armed descendant to me.

However.

‘How the hell did that kid dodge all these attacks so easily?’

I continue a precarious tightrope walk, using the sensation I feel just before the attacks reach me as a guide.

Clearly, one hit would send me flying just like my descendant. I dodged with all my might and.

“Damn. Just dodging continuously isn’t going to work.”

Finally, after dodging the seventh attack, I spring forward off the ground.

For some reason, my descendant was very hesitant to hit her face or vital points.

Arms, shoulders. Wings. Legs.

All the places the kid hit were attempts to stop her attacks, block them, or subdue her. However.

“I intend to keep you with me. So understand if your face gets a bit messed up in this situation.”

-BANG!!!

I jump in front of her as she recklessly swings her fist at me charging head-on. And then.

-SMACK!!!

“!!!”

“I’ll take responsibility for you even if your face gets ruined.”

I drive a kick into her face, grab her long, silk-like beautiful hair as it flutters.

-CRACK!!!

“!!!!”

I smashed her face with my knee.

The sensation transmitted to the end of my knee tells me that if she were an ordinary person or beast, her skull would have been completely crushed and she’d be dead.

“As expected of a Great Demon of the Seven Deadly Sins, I suppose.”

One eye, free from the attack, stares at me emptily from the face impaled by my knee.

Hmm. So this level of attack won’t kill her.

That’s good.

“It was the same with Miho, but I do prefer females with a bit of resistance.”

She immediately swings her hand at me while I have her hair in my grip, but I quickly rotate my body to avoid both the invisible tentacles and her attack. And then.

-CRACK!!

“And when your hair is grabbed during a fight, it’s better to surrender quickly.”

I pull on her hair, switching our positions and lifting her into the air.

In front of her, completely defenseless and floating in the air, I split my legs into a straight line and.

“This fight won’t count as a marital dispute. Remember that if you can hear me.”

I strike her chin, smashing her face into the ground, educating her on what to be careful about when living with me.

“Luxuria of Lust. I truly love you. When you come to your senses, let’s get married.”

Thinking that even her bloodied face is lovely, I recall how I was jealous when she called my descendant “darling” earlier.

Indeed, I’d prefer if I were her only darling.

With such feelings, I confessed to her.

“KYAAK!!!”

-BANG!!!

As if moved by my confession, she howled and swung her wings and arms simultaneously, trying to embrace me.

“If this is your answer, I would be delighted.”

And I too, in response, clenched my fist tightly and drove punches without hesitation into her solar plexus, chest, chin, and face.