episode_0078

“Everything that happened here was Athena’s plan, who desperately wanted you to be ruined.”

“….What did you say?”

“It was her command to make you incompetent and useless.”

He looked at me with a wide-eyed smile, as if he didn’t care at all about the injury to his arm.

I stared blankly into space for a moment, dumbfounded by his words.

Athena.

Athena gave me such an order…?

no.

No way.

I chuckled at Bordin.

“What are you trying to do?”

“Huh?”

“Are you trying to sow discord?”

..You have to say something that makes sense.

It’s embarrassing, but I know how much Athena loves me. I also knew how much she cherishes me.

There’s no way she would do anything to harm me.

It must be Bordin’s evil trick.

“It’s no use, Bordin.”

Let me speak confidently to Bordin.

He stared blankly at me for a moment, then made a face of interest.

“That’s interesting. Are you choosing to escape?”

“I said it was useless.”

“How can you be so sure?”

I look at him confidently.

“Of course.”

He said with a confident look in his eyes.

“I trust Athena, whom I love, rather than a criminal like you.”

“Kuhehehe….This is fun. This is very fun.”

Bordin turned to Alina and said.

“The plan seems to have failed, Alina. The young lady says she has no intention of leaving this place.”

“…..”

Alina looked at me with a confused look for a moment, then closed her eyes tightly and turned her gaze back to Bordin.

“I will respect the young lady’s choice. Master, please give up now.”

“Don’t refuse.”

“….Yes?”

While Alina was momentarily confused, Bordin twisted his broken arm a few times and then realigned the twisted bone.

“Alina. There are more than a few reasons why I don’t agree with your plan.”

Bordin, who had returned to normal, clenched his other hand a few times and then immediately held it out to Alina, raising his fingers one by one.

“First, you trust the palace too much. They are not as good as you think.”

He glanced at me and said,

“Second. You underestimate Athena too much. She will not stop at anything for her own desires, even if the opponent is the palace.”

As Alina watched silently, Bordin continued his speech.

“Lastly. Did I tell you to give up revenge?”

Perhaps sensing something was wrong, Alina raised her sword and took a guarded stance.

“No, no, no. Telling me to give up revenge is like telling me to die.”

“It’s already over, Master.”

Bordin, who had already lost a considerable amount of blood.

Despite the fact that the situation was not relaxed, he spoke calmly to Alina.

“Alina. Didn’t I always say that?”

Crunch-

Bordin bit his own teeth, and the sound of something breaking in his mouth echoed throughout the room.

A purple liquid began to flow into his mouth.

“It’s always a good idea to have some kind of countermeasure.”

“….!”

An ominous aura began to gather around his body.

Alina sensed the crisis and quickly ran to him.

“The surprise attack may have worked, but do you think you can beat me in an all-out war?”

Bordin easily subdued her with one hand, then swung his foot and struck her leg hard.

“Ugh!”

As Alina fell to her knees on the floor, wincing in pain, Bordin immediately kicked her away.

Alina hit the wall and fell to the floor.

“Alina!!”

I quickly ran to Alina and checked her condition.

Fortunately, there didn’t seem to be any serious injuries, but it looked like he was having trouble getting up properly.

“Miss..”

But she forced herself to get up and took hold of the sword again.

“It’s my mistake. I’ll buy you some time, so run away.”

She was still worried about me, as if she didn’t care at all about her own injuries.

…Why on earth are you doing this to me? Alina.

I looked at Alina for a moment, then sighed and laid her body back down on the floor.

“..Miss?”

“…..Just rest a little, Alina.”

“Yes? But-”

“I’ll figure it out.”

When I interrupted Alina and spoke firmly, she looked at me with a puzzled look.

Leaving her behind and turning his gaze to Bordin, he could see that his condition was not normal.

His appearance was so grotesque that it could not be called human.

Purple tentacles writhed grotesquely from his severed arm, and his eyes were not human in shape.

The cornea was tinted black, and the pupils were red and inverted.

It was a scene I had seen in a novel.

The appearance of a demon. No, to be exact, the appearance of a human who has been transformed into a demon.

It was exactly the same symptom as what would appear if a non-demon being were to become a demon.

“…You’re truly outstanding.”

Bordin mutters as he looks at his own arm that has now regenerated.

I hurled sharp words at him.

“…Have you touched the magic?”

“Wow. Do you know about Magi?”

There’s no way I wouldn’t know.

Because it was something that appeared in a novel.

Magi.

In the novel, it is explained that magic is a power received from the Demon King or a Demon King of the rank of Vice-Army Commander or higher.

It was said that if you receive magic and become a demon, you can use not only their outstanding physical abilities, but also some of the abilities of the master who created the magic.

But there is no such thing as a free lunch wherever you go.

Although I was able to gain great strength in a short period of time.

Magi had one big drawback.

“Have you given up on humanity?”

Not only will you inherit the power of the Demons, but you will also inherit their violent nature.

If you inhale the magic, you will become so hungry for killing that you can consider your life as a human to be over.

‘Who on earth gave you that magic?’

Since he wasn’t a character in a novel, there was so much I didn’t know about Bordin’s actions.

From the royal seal to the magic.

If he was such an influential figure, it would be normal for him to have been mentioned. Why is there no mention of Bordin?

“I gave up on being human….”

Bordin examined his body for a moment, then looked at me and answered my question.

“I have never once thought of wanting to live as a human being since my wife died.”

As he extended his hand forward, purple tentacles began to swarm and rush towards me.

A large number of strange and disgusting tentacles.

But these tentacles look like something that would make a normal person run away in fear.

Phuong-pung-

It burst so easily with my kicks and punches.

Although the feeling of the tentacles touching my flesh was unpleasant, I bit my lip hard, placed my feet on the ground, and ran forward with all my might.

“….!”

I quickly walked towards him.

Bordin’s two red eyes, which were looking at me, grew wide, as if he hadn’t anticipated my speed.

When I threw a punch at Bordin, he reflexively raised both his arms to block it.

“Cough!”

bang!

With a sound of bones breaking, his body flew like a bullet and crashed hard into the wall.

I spoke softly to him as he was vomiting blood.

“Now that you’ve become a demon, I won’t let you off.”

Bordin, who raised his strangely bent body without any trouble.

“…I knew it was strong, but…this is surprising…”

I raised my fist again towards him and took up my stance.

Around my body like that.

Golden and blue lights were swirling violently.

“You’d better be prepared.”

* * *

“Ugh!”

‘This can’t be happening.’

Bordin didn’t understand the situation at the moment.

Kwajik-

His own arm flies off.

Kwaaang-

One punch shatters his body into pieces.

Thanks to the influence of magic, regeneration is possible immediately, but this will surely reach its limit at some point.

‘Did the calculation go wrong?’

I knew it was strong.

After all, he was a person with unique abilities.

Besides, I heard that he also inherited some of Athena’s powers.

But she was as strong as I expected.

I prepared thoroughly.

This magic was obtained by risking one’s life in case the poison failed.

This is not the magic of a normal demon.

It was a magic created by the immortal king Bellum himself, one of the commanders of the legions next to the Demon King.

It was a power that was barely obtained by promising the downfall of a hero.

Although his body and soul would be terribly damaged, he would have gained the power to use Bellum’s abilities directly.

She was only able to regenerate her body, and no other attacks were effective against her.

‘…What on earth is that blue mana?’

A blue aura that is much more concentrated than Athena’s mana that surrounds her.

Clearly, the reason he is being pushed back is some unknown force.

If I continue like this, I’ll end up dying in vain.

I couldn’t end the revenge I had been preparing for for years like this.

At that time, I was wondering how to resolve this situation.

Squeak-

I heard the restaurant door open softly.

When I turned my head to look, what caught my eye was a girl.

“Mom..what’s going on-…….huh?”

A young and immature child who has yet to shed her girlishness.

It was a girl I had seen before.

When Athena returned from her journey, she brought the child with her.

Athena had clearly said that he was an orphan whom she had taken in out of pity from Karman.

“..Mom..P.I..?”

When the child saw the young lady, he began to become very agitated.

“Ma…Maria..”

The girl also appeared very flustered when she saw the child.

The brain was spinning quickly.

It didn’t take long to make a decision.

‘I don’t know what our relationship is, but it’s good.’

If you take a child hostage.

This situation may provide a breakthrough.

After thinking about it, I ran straight to the child.

It didn’t matter if it was inhumane.

Anything would have been done to make Athena despair.

“No..Marie!!”

A girl running towards him with an urgent expression to stop him.

“Kuuu. It’s late.”

As luck would have it, I was the one closer to the restaurant door.

Thanks to that, I was able to get to the child faster than the girl.

“I’m sorry, kid.”

Without hesitation, I extended my tentacles to the child with a look of bewilderment.

Then the tentacles began to wrap around her.

But the moment I tried to catch the child.

Her head suddenly turned around and looked at herself.

“Is that you?”

“!!!”

When I looked into her bloodshot eyes, fear took over my whole body.

I felt as if I was standing before a transcendent being.

My instincts were screaming at me to run away, as if warning me of a life-threatening danger.

“What is this..!”

But before I could even turn my feet.

A magic circle appeared beneath him.

Without time to feel pain.

Jeokjeok-

His own body was split in half.