episode_0104

Some time after the day when the secret negotiation between the hero and the devil took place.

Frey knelt before Demon King Kanos. The continent was angry, but the powerless anger was nothing more than the cries of the weak. Continents were defeated one after another.

Kanos has captured his loyal right-hand man, Oscar. Several false accusations were made under the authority of the devil.

In a trial where the prosecutor, defense attorney, accuser, and judge were all Canos, all Oscar could do was fight with force. And that was also what Kanos wanted.

Because I wanted to see Oscar’s level before returning the Joker as promised to Frey. The power of Oscar, who is said to be the world’s second-largest man. And his growth potential.

“Fuck you! Kanos! I don’t know what trick you’re trying to trap me with, but there’s no way I’ll just accept such a sloppy trick!”

“Your will is not important. The fact that I ‘will’ means that the future in which you will be executed is determined. That is fate.”

“Eat taffy! fate? If that’s fate, I’ll chew it up and eat it! Oh, should I take out your gold tooth? Do I have to sell it to a pawn shop and use it for surgery expenses?”

“Oscar. Try your best.”

Sharak-.

“Who is Oscar? Now I am chaos!”

“… Did you use the joker card?”

Oscar tried his best to kill Kanos. A natural disaster occurred where the sky split open and the earth collapsed.

Every time Oscar lifted his finger or swung his fist, an explosion occurred. Like a monkey, Oscar ran around the battlefield, jumping here and there.

Kanos, who was in a position to punish it, did not give his best from the beginning. Because his purpose was to find out Oscar’s objective level.

Grumbling-!

“Aaagh!”

“Oscar, no Chaos. Struggle. As much as you can.”

“What a guy! You’ve already exceeded the devil’s standards! Even the devil will tremble when he stands in front of you!”

“Is that the end?”

“You’re welcome! I still… Cough! Oh, damn Merlin. Well, I still have seizures because of this magic… !”

10%, 20%, 30%, 40%… . Every time Kanos increased his power output, cracks gradually formed in space, and Oscar’s body shattered.

Eggs and rocks. The stark difference became increasingly clearer.

When exactly 1 hour and 25 minutes had passed since the fight broke out, and when Kanos’ output reached 50%, Oscar was finally defeated. At that time, there was a bit of strangeness and anticipation in Kanos’ eyes.

His limbs were torn apart and his body was completely ruined. Oscar said with a heavy breath.

“… Run crazy… ! How strong are you? !”

“50%, is that about right? This is my first time using this much force.”

“The Demon King, a creature of the Demon God, exerts power beyond that of a Demon God… ! Is it really the devil? Your identity… !”

“Shh, close your mouth. Oscar Lucifer. You will now be escorted to Tartarus.”

Kanos’ cold sentence. A grin appeared on Oscar’s lips.

“Hahahaha! okay! If this is enough, I should die! But make no mistake! I will die, but death is not the end but the beginning! I will come back someday! And Kanos, I will bite your neck off!”

After saying his last words, Oskar Lucifer, Grand Duke of the Northern Demon World, was trapped in Tartarus. With a sentence of 111 days.

About 104 days had passed since then, and the daughter of the religious order, Saint Mary, who had been resisting the millions of devil’s forces alone, was finally captured. Canos sent Saint Mary to Tartarus at the Tower of Babel. Just as I had planned with Frey.

Three days before the execution ceremony of the man and woman, Frey went to Tartarus to visit them. Frey portrayed herself as a warrior suffering from jealousy and inferiority complex, and some of the actions she committed during her time at the Academy gave legitimacy to her mask.

He even pulled out a knife, pretending to be consumed by anger. There was no intent to kill. Frey’s purpose was to make the relationship between Oscar and Maria more intimate.

She took on the role of a villain, and the result was successful. Oscar set out to remove the ‘double mask’ of the warrior who was teasing Maria, and Maria even took out the shield of the sun for Oscar.

Of course, Oscar, who did not have much contact with Frey, was different from Maria, who was always with Frey. Maria felt a ‘sense of discomfort’ from Frey’s behavior. Afterwards, that sense of discomfort reached the level of speculation that Frey was behind the regression.

Oscar sensed Maria’s discomfort. However, because I did not ask directly, I was unable to interpret it accurately and misunderstood it.

Although Maria knew about Frey’s ‘double mask’, she acted naively as if she knew nothing. I thought that if Frey went on a rampage, Oscar’s own life would be in danger.

The day after Frey’s visit, Kanos also went to Tartarus to visit. It was to make them, or more precisely, Oscar, aware that he was the ‘enemy’. In the process, I was criticized by Maria for wearing the mask of a politician and powerful person that I had no intention of wearing.

On the day of the execution ceremony, Freyr and Kanos went to the Temple of Time. He then summoned Kronos, the god of time, and waited for the 111 days he had prepared to be fulfilled.

They rewind time to the point where Oscar and Maria are executed at the same time. The subjects of regression are four. Demon King Kanos, God of Time Kronos, Joker Oscar and Hero Frey. But they didn’t know. I never thought that Saint Mary would be involved in that return.

“Ho? An uninvited guest jumped on the wave?”

“Kronos? What does that mean… ?”

“What they mean is that the Virgin Mary boarded the time travel train. I have a good feeling. I can’t believe they spotted us in that short period of time. The world is really fun after all.”

“Well, like that… ! What would you give in return!”

“I need to think about that from now on. Hero Frey de Siegfried, you must fulfill your promise to this body. Don’t worry about unnecessary things.”

“Qu… !”

Kanos, who stood above Kronos, was outside the law of causality, but the others were not. In particular, Frey, who was destined to bear Oscar’s causality, had to accept a price that was not light.

“It is 500 years from now. How old were you?”

“… I’m twenty-eight.”

“Roughly, you can think of it as living the life you have lived about 20 more times. don’t forget The moment you are defeated, even just once, the causality will be distorted and the lost time will be restored to its original state. That is my ‘constraint’.”

“Losing is not acceptable.”

“The place you are going is the New World. It is a blessed land. When speculation is over, the body will be restored to its original state on its own, but the mind will not be restored. Clench your teeth and be prepared. The fate of the world rests on your shoulders. The causality is determined by me, the god of time, but its weight is fixed. That’s not my territory.”

“… .”

“It means that I am rooting for you, young warrior. I, the ‘god’ created by this world’s faith, will ultimately be destroyed by that damn devil if you cannot endure the law of cause and effect. So, I chose to make the causality as light as possible. Well, at least it’s the lightest of the heavy.”

Hearing a few heartfelt words from Kronos, Frey headed to the God World and Kanos to the Demon World. Oscar also returned to the demon world of his childhood, and Maria, a soul with nowhere to go, was confined to the spirit world.

So, the world.

In order to bury the losers’ episode and create an episode where all the protagonists of this world win.

Back to the past.

*****

“… That’s it for now, Maria.”

“… .”

“I’m sorry, I sent you to Joker and ordered him to damage your eyeballs… Even if I have ten mouths, I have nothing to say. If you want to curse, curse. If you want to hit me, hit me. No matter how you take revenge, I will gladly accept it.”

Frey’s calm confession came to an end. Although his tone wavered as his emotions rose and fell from time to time, Frey endured his rising emotions until the end and confessed his past.

Frey’s golden eyes closed like a child awaiting punishment after misbehaving. She was now afraid of Maria’s resentment that would follow.

However, Maria’s response was very different from what Frey expected.

Ugh-.

“… ?”

“Great and merciful Lord, your precious and poor sheep… I grew weak while supporting my noble will. Please grant us your merciful grace, pour down healing spring water, and provide us with a place to rest.”

A neat voice reciting a prayer rang out. A cloud of white divine power bloomed and seeped into Frey’s wounds. It worked smoothly, as if lubricating the creaky knees had been applied, and vitality was injected into the girl’s tired body.

Surprised, Frey raised his head. As far as she could see, there was Maria, looking at Frey with an infinitely generous smile.

“How could you decide to do such a dangerous thing without consulting me?”

“Please forgive me… ? I did that to you… ?”

“If you don’t know how to regret your mistakes, the ‘past’ is something you have to constantly reflect on, but if not, the future you move forward in is more important.”

“But… Maria, the wounds you received… Besides, you too must have suffered for the past five hundred years… .”

“Anyway, only the warrior will do it.”

Mary did not get angry, scold, or lose her temper. Instead, he wrapped Frey’s tired body with an infinitely generous smile.

“You were injured. So much so that it cannot be healed even by divine power.”

“Oh, this? are you okay. In the God Realm, all wounds heal quickly anyway. Even if you rest for just a few hours, these injuries will quickly get better… .”

“No, I mean the soul. You were hurt a lot.”

“… .”

Frey’s trembling eyes met Maria’s straight white eyes. As if those round eyes were burdensome, Frey lowered his head. Maria raised her hand and took her bowed head in her arms.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

“… !”

Just one word. It was only seven syllables at most, but it melted Frey’s frozen heart. It would have been nice to think of it as an oasis that appeared in a wasteland where not a single drop of rain had fallen.

It was a lonely fight. Every day, I fought monsters I had never seen before, and was slowly chipped away like a rock being chipped away by a nail. A sense of pressure and responsibility that bordered on fear weighed on my shoulders. The ‘condition’ of not being defeated even once was accompanied by a greater weight than one could imagine.

Days of repetitive fighting just to fight. As it continued for years, decades, and even centuries, Frey’s soul inevitably wore away. I couldn’t help it. Because solitude is like a leech that eats away at the human soul.

As Frey won, the gods became more enthusiastic and cheered for her, but that was not what Frey had hoped for. Because they went crazy and brought monsters to attack Frey at the same time.

Above all, the pressure was the biggest burden.

The life of the continent rests on his shoulders. The gods continue to send strange and unusual monsters of unknown origin into the arena, but the situation does not get better. As experience accumulated, I learned the know-how to easily subdue monsters, but the know-how was not omnipotent.

There were times when he won with only his teeth while his limbs were shattered. In a situation where the upper body and lower body were separated, there was a time when I barely managed to decapitate an enemy with a blow of sword energy. A close match where life and death are at stake. Frey has been through it countless times.

It would be a lie if I said that I never once felt like I wanted to let go while going through such hardships. Whenever Frey had such thoughts, he would erase the distracting thoughts from his mind.

You must not back down, hesitate, or give up. Because I am not here now, risking my own safety or honor.

The lives of the entire continent are at stake. What if I lose? The moment I thought that, all kinds of despairing imaginations began to unfold. I had to erase those primal thoughts.

‘You cannot accept defeat’ was the same as ‘You must use your whole heart even when swinging your sword.’ While ordinary people get strangely nervous and feel pain in their abdomen when going for an interview or taking an exam, for Frey, every moment was an exam.

If you get even one question wrong, the test is over. Maintaining sharp concentration for an eternity was a pain that no torture could compare to.

The pain that no one recognized…

“Now I will help too.”

“Black, huh… !”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

Now, for the first time, I meet someone who understands me, empathizes with me, and cares for me.

Grumble-.

Transparent water droplets poured from the warrior’s eyes.

The little girl cried for the first time in five hundred years.