Chapter 190: The Angel Who Receives Observation Class (13)

Episode 190: The Angel Who Receives Observation Class (13)

What kind of being is the Demon King?

Humanity’s greatest enemy, a perfect being whose origins are unknown, a nightmare that erases nations.

Just What exactly is ‘that’, who possesses such various titles.

Not too long ago from now.

Humanity’s greatest minds gathered and conducted a war simulation. That simulation calculated the outcome of an all-out war between humanity and the demon army, if the Demon King were to be completely summoned to this world.

A total of forty million simulations were run, and not once did humanity emerge victorious against the demon king.

So the scholars thought,

What would the odds be if only the Demon King himself, excluding the rest of the demon army, was summoned to this world.

Over one hundred million simulations were run, surpassing the previous forty million. And humanity still didn’t win a single time.

The demon king, the moment he was summoned, would invade the Central Superhuman Academy and eliminate the professors who tried to confront him, one by one.

With swordsmanship superior to Park Jin-ho’s, he slays Park Jin-ho. With martial arts that surpasses Lusa’s, he pierces Lusa. With an authority higher and more divine than Rebecca’s, he turns Rebecca into salt. With marksmanship that’s more precise than Hexi’s, he hits Hexi. And with an abyss darker than Merrill’s, he ambushes her from behind.

The time it takes to reach this point does not even surpass an hour.

Having effortlessly murdered all the professors, the demon king slowly strolls through the Central Superhuman Academy and begins eliminating the students.

And lastly, he offers the Headmaster a chance to surrender, and the Headmaster always reciprocates that offer with self-destruction.

With the Headmaster gone, the Demon King would proceed with the world’s destruction as if he no longer had any lingering attachments. The method was simple.

The same method that the Demon King’s avatar once used at Mariana Camp. To blow the Seven Trumpets and complete one song.

When the Demon King personally blows the trumpet to announce the start of the song’s finale, everyone would join in the final chorus.

That song that the oppressed and suffering people of all ages and genders had been singing since ancient times, each person’s loneliness and despair, sadness and anger, desire and sin becoming one voice.

It would herald the end of this world.

“Demon kings cannot hear this song, even though it’s the very song they’re singing. Why? Because they lack the ability to hear the Song of Karma.”

In the darkness that spreads brilliantly as if illuminating this world, someone muttered in a voice full of compassion.

“So they, despite it being the song they’ve been singing since they were born, asked us angels who was singing this song.”

That elegant voice,

It lingered in Leffrey’s ears all too comfortably.

“And then claimed that the heavens were singing this song to try to destroy them.”

Shuffle—shuffle—

A sound as if someone was carefully walking across freshly fallen snow.

Considering the floor was covered in deep darkness, it was truly a strange sound.

“Such nonsense. We weren’t the ones who created violence and plunder. We weren’t the ones who created slavery. It was *they* who corrupted karma and composed this terrible, unbearable song. All those cruel, miserable, and harsh things. All of it was something humanity did to itself. This is *their* song.”

A tearful voice.

It was as if the voice was choked with tears, struggling to contain its rage.

“That’s how the tower was built, and Heaven fell, and I thought that all of my kind had perished, but.”

Thinking about it more, it was true. Why did humanity possess an angel’s corpse. And were they truly unaware that reviving an angel’s corpse through necromancy was a holy desecration?

“I’m so happy you’re alive, my little Leffrey.”

“…Demon King.”

The Demon King was smiling before Leffrey.

The Demon King who appeared this time was far too girlish.

Pitch-black hair that reached down to the shoulders, and a gothic lolita outfit with exposed white shoulders fluttering.

A black base with white frills.

And a neat bonnet covering the head.

Perhaps because he was originally a being boasting androgynous beauty, this feminine attire suited the Demon King too well.

“Why are you here? I didn’t call for you.”

“I’m a being who answers all calls. Especially if it’s your call, I can respond anytime.”

Twirl—The Demon King spun around once, her dress fluttering.

“Leffrey. You’re in pain.”

A voice was dripping with sympathy.

“In the end, humans have made you suffer like this.”

Leffrey tried to determine whether the emotion contained in his voice was true or not, and realized that it was a pointless endeavor. He could only lower his head and push the Demon King away.

“Yes, it’s because you tormented this world that things turned out this way.”

“Me?”

“It’s because you killed people and made their lives difficult that things turned out this way!”

“…Do you really think so?”

The Demon King spoke with a gentle smile.

“Do you really believe I am the one who caused your pain?”

The demon king gently took Leffrey’s hand. That grip, so weak yet so strong, that Leffrey couldn’t shake off.

“Is it entirely my fault for making this world dark?”

“But…!”

“Leffrey, think carefully.”

The demon king gently pressed his ear against Leffrey’s chest.

Thump thump—

Leffrey’s heart began to race again.

“Who is the true demon king that seeks to destroy this world? And who is the true hero who tries to stop it?”

“…”

Leffrey thought carefully.

He tried to think about what humans had done without any prejudice.

The sins that were committed by the people in that false church called the New Truth Church because of their desires.

He contemplated the emotions of why Leffriel tried to judge this world immediately upon opening his eyes.

He empathized with the pain and suffering that took place in the Superhuman Management Bureau, the large guilds, the superhuman families, the nations, and all those other groups.

However, they proclaimed.

That they were the true protectors of humanity, that they were heroes who stood up to the Demon King, that they were the embodiment of justice in this world.

And those words always ended with this.

“That they’re the true heroes…”

They called themselves heroes because they fought against the demon army, because they were hostile to the Demon King. And these human heroes, in the name of unavoidable sacrifices, nonchalantly killed people, sold off humans as human resources, and destroyed the environment claiming it was for arming the heroes.

Just who is the hero, and who is the demon king?

While Leffrey pondered this question, the Demon King was listening to Leffrey’s heartbeat with a blissful smile on his face.

Thump—thump—

“I’m so happy, the heartbeat of a living angel.”

The Demon King muttered with genuine delight, eyes brimming with tears.

“The sound that tells me I’m not alone.”

The demon king, who had knelt to press his ear against Leffrey’s chest, looked up at him with a smile.

“It was so lonely, protecting this world alone in the darkness.”

Nuzzle, nuzzle—

The demon king nuzzled his cheek against Leffrey’s black uniform.

“Actually, distorting your summoning to come to this world was an act that came with many burdens… ”

Squeeze—The demon king’s small hands tightly grasped Leffrey’s back.

“But seeing you truly alive, such losses seem like nothing.”

The Demon King says.

“I’m truly happy.”

“Me too.”

Leffrey stroked the sobbing Demon King’s hair.

The more he caressed that dark and murky hair, the more he could feel it.

That the Demon King and himself were of the same kind.

And that the Demon King was a senior who had walked the same path as him.

In a world that can no longer be known.

Even the fact that once, in a time now long forgotten, the Demon King had despaired and fallen to this very moment.

“Th-Then.”

The Demon King spoke shyly.

His cheeks blushed, trembling as if he was a girl who had just received a confession.

“Come with me to the Demon King’s Castle.”

A dimensional rift opened behind the demon king’s back.

The bottom of darkness from which there is no return once entered.

Although it was a place Leffrey had feared so much, strangely now that place looked so comfortable.

‘If I go there, will I no longer be in pain.’

Will I no longer have to keep making these choices.

Will I no longer have nightmares.

‘If I’m there, could I fall asleep comfortably.’

The demon king whispered.

“You don’t need to do anything. Just wait here safely while I purify this world.”

Leffrey simply listened to those words with a blank expression.

“Come, let’s go.”

The Demon King led Leffrey with a gentle demeanor.

Step by step, Leffrey walked towards the rift, following the Demon King’s guidance.

The Demon King had somehow donned a cloak and was wearing a golden crown that looked like tree branches.

Wearing a crown that seemed to be made of golden branches, the demon king looked like a young queen ruling over that world.

“Leffrey, that’s just darkness that will disappear when morning comes.”

At that moment, he heard a voice.

A voice that Leffrey had been waiting for so much, yet not at the same time.

“So don’t be too scared.”

At the end of Leffrey’s gaze, a magical girl was smiling. Lifting the brim of her witch hat to proudly reveal herself, that girl’s name was.

“Soya.”

And beside that girl, with sparkling sharp cat eyes, was a pink haired girl who stepped forward as if to protect Soya.

“Wol.”

“Hmph, boy, you, you made this too troublesome! Are you a loser? Do you have no friends? Why are you doing this alone? Know that I’ll punish you to tears when this is over.”

Although her attitude and tone seemed angry, she couldn’t hide her tail that stood straight up in the air out of joy.

“Interference.”

The demon king casually waved his hand.

At that moment, dark karma began to surge.

It was a karma on a different level than the one they had encountered before, so powerful that even Leffrey, who was standing next to him, tense up.

The avatar had possessed an unbelievably powerful karma.

And now,

The demon king’s main body possessed a karma that was simply unbelievable.

A power on a completely different dimension.

The moment that power began to surge according to the Demon King’s fingertips.

“You shall cease to exist from this moment onward.”

The Demon King muttered this.

And Soya and Hongwol’s existence was denied.

All the choices that had led to their existence became twisted and negated by the demon king, who controlled all cause and effect in this world.

The day Soya’s and Hongwol’s parents fell in love.

“Negated.”

The moment they were born.

“Negated.”

The miracles that had gotten them through crisis.

“Negated.”

The choices that turned those two girls into heroes.

All of it.

“Negated.”

Into a dark color, into an abyss where nothing exists.

“I’ll negate everything of you, you parasites.”

Into dark karma, a completely black fate where white karma doesn’t exist.

This was the demon king’s basic attack.

The so-called basic attack that was an instant-cast skill.

A skill that consumed almost no cost and could be used almost infinitely.

The demon king called this basic attack, ‘Smearing.’

Because he was simply painting them black.

Seeing the two girls disappear in an instant like that, the Demon King who’s standing beside Leffrey muttered.

“Now, Leffrey. Now that the parasites are gone…”

“Unforgivable.”

Feeling rage and hatred,

“Unforgivable. Luciel…!”

Leffrey concentrated karma in his hand.