The Primordial True Ancestor, Nihilus Karmashia 4

“…What’s the basis for your claim?”

“Did I have any need to lie like a human?”

At Nihilus’s words, Alice nodded involuntarily.

Lying was a privilege of intelligent beings and an extension of life, but True Ancestors, who had everything from birth, fundamentally lacked sociability.

Naturally, they didn’t feel the need to lie in the first place.

Why lie?

If they needed something, wouldn’t it be enough to just extort and kill?

The other party is in trouble, or I’m in trouble?

In that case, consider whether you lacked strength.

Why should I consider the other person’s position? Why should I hide my true feelings?

Even Nihilus, who had lived the longest among the True Ancestors and had watched humans, developing empathy and self-awareness, would have no need to lie.

Alice and Oriana were overwhelmingly stronger than her, so she wanted to beg for her life?

There was no way.

Nihilus had the power to blow up the entire layer from where she stood.

Even if that were the case, she wouldn’t have begged for her life or tried to avoid the crisis with lies.

‘Yeah, it wouldn’t be a lie.’

However, Nihilus was clearly a villain by ordinary human standards.

Some greedy and arrogant king, whose name was unknown, instilled the ego and desire for extortion into Nihilus, an energy mass who knew nothing, but the number of lives she had killed and extorted would form rivers and seas.

And all those actions were done with her own ego and will, so she couldn’t be called anything but a villain.

However, Nihilus regretted it.

That’s why she decided to stop.

When she increased her retinue, descendants, children, and family, her loneliness subsided, but even to her eyes, those children were repulsive.

It was as if she was reminded of the time when Nihilus first set foot on this land and indiscriminately sucked the blood of others with ego and reason.

She felt disgusted as if that vulgar and primitive pleasure was resurfacing.

But as time passed, her descendants didn’t improve and remained stagnant, stuck in the ancient beings…

In the end, she was saying that she would take back all the True Ancestors, her children she had spread out of loneliness, her clones, children, and descendants.

All the True Ancestors who resided together in the Abyss.

“Alice, I don’t know your true identity exactly. I just feel that you are lovely, and I get the feeling that you resemble the Demon King who called me very much.”

“…”

“At first, you were a doll made of steel and porcelain shards. Now, you stand before me in human form with blood, flesh, and cells made of metal. The smell of blood, the texture of flesh, and the cells are different, but you resemble the Demon King who called me so much.”

The one who called me.

The one who made me reside in this land.

The one who should have given me obligations.

The one who died before doing so.

Only then did Alice vaguely understand why the True Ancestor Nihilus had tried to kidnap her, even proposing to the administrators.

“Tell me. You who resemble the Demon King. My lovely one. What should I do?”

“…I’ll ask you just one thing.”

“Anything.”

She thought they would just be fighting each other fiercely, but she never expected to meet such an old connection again.

Even the calamity was someone who was called and followed her in her previous life.

“What were you going to do if I hadn’t shown up here?”

“…Honestly, I’m tired now. The Demon King who called me didn’t come, and I was tired of a life where I only get taken from. So, I was going to return.”

“Return?”

“To the primitive state where I knew nothing. To my original self. To dismantle all ego and reason and become just an energy mass with the property of extortion.”

Abandoning ego, reason, and the human shell also meant returning to a calamity.

And if Nihilus, whose ego and reason had flown away, returned to the chaotic energy that the Demon King had first summoned, what would happen?

At least Ark would have to face a huge calamity that could no longer be negotiated or talked to.

“But you appeared. It’s a strange thing.”

But the Demon King appeared before her eyes.

“Honestly, I didn’t even expect it. Bringing you here under the pretext of a deal with the administrators also failed, and if I were to walk to you myself… I could vividly picture one or two layers going to hell.”

“A True Ancestor caring about people, that’s a rare sight.”

“I told you. I’m tired of it. Taking someone’s life, and writhing in the vulgar pleasure of sucking blood like my children, is now disgusting and tiring.”

The True Ancestor, who had been looking up at the sky for a moment, smiled and looked down at Alice.

“Killing the maggots who call themselves descendants of Beelzebub is for a similar reason. They were already deeply stained by us, and they received our blood… I was trying to collect all those who had our blood connected to them.”

“And then you were going to return to your primitive form?”

“That’s right.”

Nihilus’s attitude somehow looked like a resigned religious person.

Was it because she had seen all sorts of things and had been with those who had turned from beloved children into disgusting descendants?

“So, Alice. I’ll ask you. My lovely one. You who resemble the Demon King who called me. What should I do? I’ll ask you one last time before returning to the primitive state.”

At those words, Oriana also looked at Alice.

It was a look that said, ‘What are you going to do?’

It wasn’t a matter to be decided lightly.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that it was a matter that would determine the fate of Ark.

The True Ancestor was almost the only quasi-sentient calamity that could negotiate and talk with Ark.

But that Primordial Calamity declared that she would absorb all the bloodlines and descendants she had sown and return to the primordial chaos.

It wouldn’t be strange if the entire Ark exploded.

It wasn’t a matter to be decided easily.

But Alice decided not to think deeply.

‘Just do what my heart tells me.’

Alice was always like that.

Even now, she impulsively decided all her actions without thinking or planning thoroughly.

It was the same in her Demon King days.

She just did what she wanted, and as a result, she ended up saving people, became a human demon king, and before she knew it, she was called a savior even though she was a demon king.

Of course, the ending was bitter because she was betrayed and killed by humans, but even so, Alice just wanted to act as her heart told her.

“Will you become my wife?”

“……”

“……?”

【…What the fuck?】

At those words, Oriana and Nihilus’s faces froze stupidly.

Even Theresa forgot her AI tone and even cursed.

The sight of their always intellectual and imposing faces becoming stupid at the same time was quite a rare sight.

Ha!

Only then did Alice realize what she had said.

Ah, that’s right, she blurted out these words because she didn’t think and didn’t filter her words.

Alice immediately began to rattle off words as if to make excuses.

“No, well, what should I say… You’re a villain and a mass murderer by human standards, but you also said you regret your actions… Just looking at your current appearance, you seem completely detached and like a suicide volunteer with no regrets in the world… If you return to the primitive state, you’ll just return to an energy mass, and giving up your ego and personality there is the same as suicide, and if you commit suicide, Ark will have to face a chaotic energy storm of extortion, right? So, a lot of people will die, and it seems like that’s not what you want either… No, besides, you said you’re tired and disgusted with killing people, right? So, even if you lose your personality and ego, it doesn’t seem like you’d become such a murderous energy storm… But telling you to just become my subordinate and live like this doesn’t seem genuine for some reason, right? And we haven’t known each other for very long, so it’s a bit much to say we’re friends, but you’re also pretty, and it seems like you can live without sucking other people’s blood, so I was wondering if it would be okay to just live like an ordinary human next to me, so I made this proposal… No, sorry, it was a bit disorganized to suddenly ask you to be my wife, right? But the reason I’m saying wife isn’t because I like you. I also have a bit of a sense of debt because the old me called you. So, I feel like I have to take responsibility. Wife is not a relationship based on affection that arises from love between people, but it’s just a meaning that I will take responsibility for your future life. But I don’t dislike you that much either? First of all, you’re pretty, you’re pretty, um. Yeah, you’re pretty. Um.”

Nihilus, who had been listening to those words quietly, raised the corners of her mouth.

She didn’t know why.

Why the corners of her mouth went up.

She was just listening to Alice’s words quietly.

Why?

In fact, Nihilus had never properly faced the Demon King, Alice, in her previous life.

It was true that she was called to her, but she died before imposing orders and obligations on her.

But for some reason, the child named Alice in front of her.

The lovely child who resembled the Demon King so much made her think that maybe she was the Demon King, and once she had that thought, Nihilus’s empty heart seemed to be filled for some reason.

An emotion she had never felt when she was with her children and descendants.

So, Nihilus said with a smile.

“I accept.”

“You crazy bitch.”

【You crazy bitch.】

Theresa and Oriana shouted at the same time.

“Uh, uh?”

Alice, who couldn’t imagine that Nihilus would follow her words, had another blank face.

“But I’ll correct one thing.”

“…Wh-what?”

“The wife is you.”

“What.”

“The husband is me.”

No, what?

“And.”

At that moment, flesh and blood began to melt from under Nihilus’s feet.

Maggot flesh, True Ancestor’s Blood, luxurious frames and furniture, decorations hanging in the Dunhill Family head’s room.

Everything melted and began to become a huge pool of blood.

“I didn’t intend to do this…”

Heehee.

Nihilus’s mouth was already torn and laughing.

“If we’re a couple, shouldn’t we be in an equal relationship where we can kill each other?”

To put Nihilus’s words simply… it meant, ‘I can just marry you, but it wouldn’t be fun, so let’s kill and be killed once.’

To summarize further, she would test whether they were worthy of being a couple.

To shorten it further, let’s fight.

The way True Ancestors establish and decide their opinions?

It was a primitive form of violence.

For True Ancestors, dying a few times was nothing more than a daily routine.

At those words, Alice cursed inwardly.

She should have just kept her mouth shut.

【Fucking seriously! HUMAN!!!!】

‘……’

This time, Alice kept her mouth shut at Theresa’s contempt, disgust, and curses.