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A boy with three holes in his head, spewing out a disgusting liquid along with blood.

His arms and legs seemed to be hanging loosely.

And then.

He smirked.

“This is insane.”

He aimed the gun at the boy’s heart and pulled the trigger, but even as the bullet pierced through his heart, the boy still raised an arm that was not restrained.

In that hand.

A knife, whose creation time was unknown.

“Danger…!”

Thud.

“Ughhh!!”

The blade deeply pierced into Yuju’s side, who was holding onto the boy from behind. As Yuju pulled out the knife, blood gushed out, and she slumped to the ground.

The boy then swung the knife towards Yuju’s neck.

In an attempt to block the blade, Yuju quickly put on armor on her neck and forearm and raised her arm, but.

Clang.

The knife that should have been deflected.

“Huh?”

Instead, it sliced through Yuju’s armored arm and into her neck.

“Taylor!”

Dakota barely managed to block the attack with his claw.

Yuju, now missing both arms, looked incredulously at the empty space under her elbow.

And then.

Splat splat.

Seeing blood gushing from her face, she belatedly screamed in agony.

“Ah, it hurts!! My arm, my, my arm…!!”

“Quickly, evacuate Yuju to a safer place!”

I shouted as I aimed my gun at the boy. Despite the hail of bullets and Dakota’s attacks, the boy moved swiftly, dodging them all.

“Where to!”

Lager coordinated with Dakota to try to overpower the boy, swinging his halberd quickly and sharply.

As Lager brought down the halberd vertically, Dakota aimed merciless blows with his claw, and I approached the boy, firing bullets, but.

The boy’s movements had become so fast that they left afterimages.

Moreover, he dodged attacks with terrifying accuracy.

His cutting power had become even more fearsome.

As we hesitated, the boy swung the knife with force.

“Ugh?!”

Dakota’s claw was cut into pieces like branches, sending sparks flying.

Lager tried to block the attack with his halberd, but.

“Impressive.”

The boy sneered and struck Lager with both knives.

Thud!!

“Ugh…!”

Lager gasped in confusion as he blocked the attack, but the force was so strong that his knees buckled.

And the relentless attacks proved too much for the halberd.

“Ugh…!”

“A gap.”

Lager collapsed, his thigh sliced open.

“Godin army…!”

Dakota rushed to protect Lager, but with his broken claw, he was at a disadvantage.

Unable to defend against a dull attack, Dakota.

“Crack, ugh….”

Had no choice but to allow the knife to pierce under his throat.

As the knife was pulled out, blood gushed out, and as Dakota knelt, crimson blood poured from his mouth.

“Ugh, ugh, Godin army….”

Watching Dakota call out Lager’s name despite his fatal wound, the boy smirked. Just as he was about to swing the knife towards Dakota’s neck.

Thwack!

The boy’s attempt to decapitate Dakota was thwarted by a deflected blow. In the commotion, the boy turned towards me and threw the knife he was holding.

“Oh, f**k.”

Thud.

With an unpleasant sound, I fell. A sensation of something flowing steadily from my chest began, and it started to burn like fire.

“Ale, ale…!”

Ah, damn.

Ah, ah…

A sword pierced through the left side of the chest.

Every time the heart beats, blood spurts out. It feels like strength is draining along with the blood.

Oh.

Ah…

Am I dying?

“Hey, run, escape. Everyone just quickly. Run away.”

Despite shouting in his own way, he stopped at the point of struggling to open his mouth. The boy with silver hair approached Lager with a sneer, grabbed his arm, and thrust the sword into him.

“Hey, wait, ah, wait. You…”

“Wait and see. I just thought of something fun.”

With a chuckle, the boy began to slowly insert the blade into Lager’s shoulder, making a sinister sound.

“Is he the protagonist? You know it’s all over if the protagonist dies.”

Following the despicable laughter, the knife slowly cut Lager’s arm.

Lager’s face contorted with pain as he tried to endure, his lips trembling and blood flowing quickly.

“You, damn it, you’re going to die. You won’t let go of that? Let go, you bastard…”

But I’m bleeding too much.

That bastard.

That bastard, really.

“Calm down and listen to me. I’ll spare one of you.”

The boy paused with the knife and grabbed Lager’s hair, looking at me.

“If you die instead, I’ll just cut off his arm and end it. If you die, everyone here will be at peace and the protagonist will be saved. Isn’t that great?”

“…Oh.”

“Or.”

With that, he detached his luck and stabbed the wound on Lager’s thigh that was already cut by the sword.

“Ah…!!”

“I can bring you into my world, and there’s a way to kill the protagonist.”

Like Yuju said.

I don’t know the principle, but it seems possible.

I laughed.

“You have to lie with a straight face.”

There’s no such way.

Yuju was able to join as a character because she had ‘love for the work’ in her heart.

If I enter the world that bastard created with such a shitty mindset, I’ll probably have to live as a monster for the rest of my life. I’ll pass on that.

And above all.

If I have to choose between the two lives, there’s no need to hesitate, it’s easy.

“Don’t mess with my husband’s life. You monster, you bastard.”

Of course, I’ll save Lager.

Maybe Lager would make the same choice.

I raised the gun with all my strength.

The boy swiftly moved towards me, riding the knife embedded in my body, and then…

Swish.

He swiftly cut off my right arm holding the gun.

Blood splattered, and something feels off.

It doesn’t feel real.

It’s like I’m shouting ‘ouch, ouch’ or something.

It sounds incredibly distant.

I’ve bled too much.

After all, this was supposed to be my life on the line, right?

I looked up at him.

After gathering bloodied saliva, I spat with all my might at his face and grinned.

“Your mother must have given birth to a bastard like you and fed you seaweed soup…”

Thud.

Before the insult even finished, his two knives struck my body. From the shoulder to the hip, my body was deeply cut, spilling blood as I fell weakly.

Consciousness.

Slowly faded.

But at least I was honest to the end.

Lager, I’m sorry.

If I knew you would turn out this way, I wouldn’t have stubbornly resisted coming here.

I always liked you.

You liked me too.

It’s so regrettable that we wasted so much time avoiding each other and even here, we wasted time circling around each other.

Still, even though we teased each other in a short time, got married before dating, and even did some newlywed things.

We had a lot of sex like newlyweds…

But I’m glad to have told you that I love you before dying.

It was a pretty good life…

[Ultimate goal: Fallen into a female]

[Current score: 9,155 points]

[To sacrifice your life for the man you love, as a female, is very righteous!]

…Wait. I’m not dead.

[Special reward for surpassing 9,000 points]

[Unleash all abilities of the human-like demon, Ael Cloie.]

I couldn’t help but feel a little confused by the strange notification.

Wait, what just happened?

Me?

Without a chance to respond, I found myself standing up again.

With a discomforting sound coming from my back.

The devil’s wings, wide open like a bat’s, spread out.

It was a design that perfectly matched the tail.