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Raoul and the Queen of Dragons began exchanging blows.

Even though they were exchanging punches until blood was flowing out, the Queen of Dragons burst into laughter, as if she was enjoying it.

The pain he gave, the pain that only he could give, was so ecstatic.

“Fight harder… Fight harder… Fight harder… So that I can touch my life… So that I can feel alive just a little bit more…!”

“I want to ask. Why do you obey the Demon King?”

“I don’t want to die in vain to a mad king. Isn’t it natural to want to die with some meaning?”

The reason why all the demons followed the Demon King was extremely simple. Overwhelming power. With that alone, he could control everyone and make them his servants.

Those who did not listen were repeatedly kicked and their flesh was cut off until they did. They wielded violence without hesitation until all the demons surrendered.

“So the Demon King can kill you too.”

“But the one who caused me pain… the one who made me feel something for the first time… is only you, Raoul… There’s no need to be jealous…!”

“Considering your strength, it would be inevitable, but considering your obsession with me, it must mean that there is something peculiar about my fighting style.”

“Please give me more pain, Raoul… Touch my skin with your painful hands…!”

“I don’t understand what you want, but for now I’ll just do my best to kill you.”

“Now let’s enjoy it… this feeling… the joy of pain that reaches the sky….!!!”

It was a truly heterogeneous conversation.

The two people who were not listening to each other simultaneously hit each other in the face.

It was a blow that could have easily destroyed a building, but for the two people at the time, it only gave them a little nosebleed and didn’t do any real damage.

So both of them thought at the same time. To damage that or the beloved lover, a slightly bigger attack is needed.

“I feel dirty. I guess you had the same thought.”

“What a wonderful feeling. Our thoughts are in sync. This is proof that we are destined to be together.”

“To kill you and get rid of you…”

“To bring out more of your power…”

The Queen of Dragons took in a mouthful of cold that could freeze everything.

Raoul began to twist the air little by little, his hands vibrating violently.

“I guess I should do this much.”

“I have to show you this level of skill.”

The Queen of Dragons breathed out a cold air that could even freeze the Demon King, and Raoul shook the air, scorching the surrounding area.

Because of the shaking atmosphere, the cold air spread in all directions, and only the other dragons fell down frozen.

“Your coldness must be killing your subordinates, so you must feel very miserable.”

“It’s wrong to be weak, so why should I be miserable…?”

“Now I have one more reason to hate you.”

“That’s too bad. I already have more than enough reasons to love you.”

Raoul couldn’t really understand her.

And like everyone else, Raoul detested her for being an incomprehensible being.

To Raoul, she was nothing more than a monster.

“Go die quickly. I have to kill you and go back to Leila.”

“… If only you could do that. My companion.”

Around that time.

Leila unleashed her power without restraint, slaughtering countless demons and other demons on her own.

She was said to be strong enough to pull five large ships, faster than an arrow, and had defenses like a rock.

It was not an enemy that could be approached by the sorcerers and witches who were obsessed with witchcraft and dealing with spirits.

The nearly 5,000 demons were killed without even being able to land a single effective blow on Leila.

“… Please, in your next life, live a life far from the battlefield.”

After briefly wishing the souls of the demons rest in peace, she was finally left to confront their queen alone.

“If you surrender, I will spare your life.”

“Ha… I’ll spare your life… Do you think that crazy king will leave us alone?”

“Don’t worry about that part. We’ll win.”

“The likes of you…? That’s not a living thing, it’s a natural disaster.”

“This is a long story. Anyway, you’re saying you won’t surrender. Then the only thing I can give you is death.”

The Queen of the Demons had a look of terror on her face.

The Demon King she remembered was a cruel man. He had her son executed alive for the sole reason of opposing the war, and then personally dismembered and killed those who had supported him.

Anyone who sees the sight of over ten thousand rotting corpses would be gripped by fear.

“Let him face death as it is.”

The Queen of Umma was a great sorcerer. When she used her sorcery, the heads of giant snakes rose from the ground and began to attack Leila.

Of course, Leila easily evaded them and reduced the number of snakes one by one. Blood gushed out every time she swung her long sword, which was longer than the snakes, and when she swung her chainsickle, the heads of the giant snakes were cut off like pudding.

“Unfortunately, I have a younger sister at home. Me and Raccoon too. People who have younger sisters can’t die easily.”

She turned her chainsickle into an axe and chopped off the head of the last remaining snake.

“So, is this the end of the talent show…?”

“Things that aren’t even human… What did you do to my body…”

“I just had a few surgeries and a few injections of strange drugs?”

They were beyond common sense.

Even though their bodies were far beyond human level, they went to the battlefield without any selfish desires.

They were the kind of people who would give up their lives over and over again for their country, for the people they had to protect, and for each other.

What the Queen of Umma felt from them was not patriotism or heroism, but pure madness.

“You got caught up in a fight between crazy guys…”

“I should say it straight. Are we the ones suffering like this because of the war started by your crazy king?”

“If you trace the cause back to your disgusting emperor, isn’t it? Why did you stir up a beehive that was sitting still?”

“That’s… It leaves people speechless.”

Leila kicked the Queen of the Demons down, then transformed her weapon into a rapier and aimed it at her neck.

“… Honestly, I don’t know about the other guys.”

She poured out her heart.

“I feel sorry too.”

That is why she blocked other heroes whenever they tried to wipe out the race after subduing the demons.

Even though they have harmed humans, the devil and the emperor are the ones responsible, so we should not blame them.

He often clashed with Prince Asher, who believed that the demons should be massacred, but since he respected his friend’s opinion, he was always able to end up in failure.

Even Penelope respected Leila’s opinion and only executed the vampire hordes, showing mercy to the innocent.

“Then now…”

Meanwhile, Leila, who had a keener sense than anyone else, was able to sense that an arrow was flying, piercing through sound and perception, reversing cause and effect, and piercing all things.

And the arrow was aimed at Raoul, not Leila.

If it had been aimed at him, he could have easily avoided it, but the arrow aimed at Raoul was different.

Raoul was currently engaged in battle with the Queen of Dragons. He was so focused on her that he couldn’t possibly detect the arrow.

“Damn…!”

She quickly transformed her weapon into a bow and arrow, then quickly drew the string and shot the arrow, hitting and shooting it down.

She showed off her magical ability to shoot arrows with arrows, but the moment she pulled the trigger, she showed her weakness.

The Queen of Evil placed her hand on Leila’s chest and cast a spell.

“…!”

“You can call us cowards. We actually think that way too.”

The medium for invoking the spell is the souls of the soldiers killed by Leila and the life of the queen herself. So many soldiers and the queen deliberately offered themselves up for death just to activate the spell.

“But we’re scared too… that crazy king…”

The Demon King said.

If you don’t follow, you will be slaughtered, including the queen and her troops, as well as the common people.

That’s why the terrified queen had no choice but to resort to such measures.

“Curse of hatred… Eat his body. Driven mad by the thirst for his kin’s blood… Satisfy that thirst until he falls to his death.”

The spell, cast through the medium of countless souls and one gigantic life, was absolute.

An absolute curse that no one can break.

The spell, which was activated with a bright light, began to eat away at her soul in an instant, and she fell to her knees and tried to end her life, but even that was not permitted.

She was not even allowed to take her own life, as she had to quench her thirst until she collapsed and died.

“Ra…Ul…”

Even as the curse ate away at Leila’s soul, Leila worried about Raoul to the end.

He couldn’t help but feel sad, knowing the favor he had to ask of Raoul and the repercussions that would come with it.

“God… my last prayer… my last prayer while my soul is still… even a little bit mine…please…”