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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Chaos
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“S-Sophieeee!!”
As soon as Grick opened his eyes, he screamed his daughter’s name and looked at the bed.
But on the bed, where he had expected his daughter’s corpse to be, there was nothing.
There were only bloodstains that had overflowed from the surgery.
“Aah… Aaaaaah…”
Grick wailed as soon as he saw the empty bed.
If only a corpse had been left behind, he could have taken care of it, but now he couldn’t even find the body.
Like the Bishop who would take the virgin’s corpse somewhere after raping it, the Archdemon of Hell had surely taken his daughter somewhere after violating her.
Creak!
Just then, someone opened the door and came in.
It was a stunningly beautiful person he had never seen before in his life.
However, the atmosphere of the beautiful person looking down at him was rather androgynous.
It was to the point where it was confusing whether they were a man as beautiful as a woman, or simply a woman with short hair.
“Are you awake?”
However, judging by the deep, low-pitched voice, it was definitely a man.
Soon, he swept the cluttered items on the table into a sack and spoke.
“The miasma in your body should have been purified. Fortunately, your daughter possessed a special ability, so we were able to cleanly erase the miasma.”
“…!!”
However, as soon as Grick heard Ed’s words, he shot up from his bed.
It was because Ed had clearly said, ‘your daughter erased the miasma.’
Doesn’t that mean his daughter was still alive!
“M-My daughter is alive! Where is she?”
Grick immediately approached Ed and asked for his daughter’s location.
Ed, still sweeping the items on the table, gave a short answer, ‘Outside.’
Grick immediately ran outside and looked for his daughter.
“……!! Sophie!!”
Soon, Grick found his daughter, who was infusing Holy Power into his collapsed subordinates.
He immediately ran to his daughter and hugged her tightly, and Sophie also hugged her father, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time.
“I’m so glad you’re safe… so glad you’re safe…”
Grick shed tears of joy that his daughter was alive.
Sophie also hugged Grick and conveyed her heartfelt emotions.
“But Sophie. Wasn’t the Archdemon of Hell the one who kidnapped you?”
However, as soon as he confirmed his daughter’s survival, doubts began to creep in.
His daughter’s stomach had surely been cut open and she had been violated by the Archdemon of Hell, so how could she be so healthy, and how was she here?
Soon, his daughter explained the whole story.
“Edgar Fix-nim saved me.”
“……Edgar Fix?”
Edgar Fix.
There was no one in the Empire who didn’t know him.
Wasn’t he the first person in history to become a Count from a commoner?
To commoners, he was an icon of success and a myth.
That was why Grick also knew Ed well.
“…….I see. Then where is Edgar Fix-nim? I must at least offer my thanks.”
The lifelong benefactor who had saved his daughter from the Archdemon of Hell.
Grick asked for Ed’s whereabouts to express his gratitude.
However, his daughter’s answer was unexpected.
“If it’s the Count-nim… I believe he just went into our house… Did you perhaps not see him?”
“……?”
He came into the house?
Then does that mean the beautiful young man from before was Edgar Fix-nim?
Grick asked Sophie if his guess was correct.
“Yes. He’s an incredibly handsome man. I was surprised too.”
“……”
Grick stared blankly at his house.
According to the rumors he had heard, Edgar Fix-nim was a charismatic middle-aged man with a stylishly grown beard, but he was completely different from the rumors.
To think that the beautiful young man, who didn’t even look like he had come of age yet, was Edgar Fix.
Creak!
Just then.
Ed opened the door and came out.
In his hand was a sack full of items related to the demonic cult.
Grick hurriedly approached him, knelt down, and said.
“I heard you saved my daughter’s life! Thank you! I will never forget this kindness for the rest of my life!”
The benefactor who had saved his daughter from none other than the Archdemon of Hell.
However, Ed handed over the sack with an indifferent expression and said.
“Burn all of this.”
“……Yes?”
“I said burn it all. Not just this, but burn all the items related to the demonic cult.”
“……”
Grick accepted the sack with a dumbfounded expression.
Inside the sack were all the items of the demonic cult that he had once revered like a god.
“…Yes. Of course, I must burn them. I shouldn’t have gotten involved in something like this.”
Soon, Grick smiled bitterly and clutched the sack.
He shouldn’t have followed a crazy religion that raped the corpses of virgins from the very beginning.
Hadn’t he almost lost his daughter because of it?
‘He gave up too quickly, though?’
However, to Ed, Grick’s appearance was unexpected.
It was not easy for someone who had once tasted miasma to abandon it.
And for good reason, miasma had a strong addictive quality.
There were even those who, even after leaving the demonic cult, couldn’t overcome their addiction to miasma and fell back into the demonic cult.
Because they couldn’t forget the intense pleasure of obtaining miasma.
‘Did I stumble upon something good.’
However, Grick showed no signs of miasma addiction at all.
This meant that Sophie’s Holy Power was of a considerable level.
It meant that her powerful Holy Power had cleanly erased even the addiction symptoms of miasma.
“B-But… how did you deal with the Archdemon of Hell…? A-According to the scriptures, the Archdemon of Hell has the power to destroy the world…”
Just then, Grick began to ask the questions he had been curious about.
He had heard rumors that Ed was strong, but he didn’t think he was as strong as the Archdemon of Hell.
There was no way such a young man could face that demon…
“Ah. The Archdemon of Hell?”
Just then.
Ed looked at Grick with a chilling smile.
Then he summoned the suit, which was divided into several parts, from his inventory and continued.
“Is the Archdemon of Hell you’re talking about perhaps this form?”
As soon as Ed’s words ended, the individual parts summoned from the inventory began to attach themselves to Ed.
Grick watched as the individual parts connected to each other to complete the suit, and slowly began to open his mouth.
His face gradually became dyed with astonishment.
Soon, he turned around and shouted.
“Sophieeeee!!! Run away! Run away right nowww!!!”
The Archdemon of Hell who slaughtered his subordinates while cackling.
That horrifying sight had become a trauma for Grick.
It was a symbol of violence that he never wanted to face again.
“Hmm. Should I clear up the misunderstanding first?”
However, Ed’s cruel appearance was only when he was facing an enemy with miasma.
Now that Grick had returned to being a complete human, it was time to clear up the accumulated misunderstandings.
So, Ed shot Grick with a web-shooter to restrain him, and then said to Sophie.
“Sophie, explain to your father. Why I came here.”
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3 hours later.
Grick, who had understood the whole situation, was gathering the villagers who had regained consciousness.
He had called them to the widest field, saying that he had an important announcement for everyone.
“What on earth happened…?”
However, to Grick’s subordinates, everything was a mystery.
Indeed, when they came to their senses, the miasma was gone, and the demon that had been slaughtering them had also disappeared.
They were certain that just a moment ago, their limbs were being cut off by him and they were screaming, so what on earth could have happened?
On top of that, why wasn’t the chief giving any explanation and just telling them to assemble in the field?
“As of today, we will be withdrawing from the Salvation Cult.”
However, that kind of question was nothing.
As soon as all the villagers gathered, the chief dropped an unbelievable bombshell.
“Ch-Chief-nim!”
“What does that mean!”
“What are you talking about right now!”
Protests erupted from all over.
Withdrawing from the Salvation Cult was no different from saying they would surrender to the nobles.
Moreover, wasn’t he the chief who had united everyone to fight against the nobles and reclaim their rightful rights?
Why would such a chief say something like this.
“The new lord is coming here.”
Just then.
The noisy atmosphere that followed Grick’s words subsided for a moment, but it was only for a moment.
So what if a new lord was coming?
“And the new lord’s esteemed name is Edgar Fix. In other words, he is the one who became a noble from a commoner.”
However, if that new lord was Edgar Fix, the story changed.
Wasn’t Count Fix the first commoner-born noble in history?
“Chief-nim.”
But just then.
A young man stood before Grick with sharp eyes.
He glared at Grick and said.
“Are you saying, Chief-nim, that you’re quitting the Salvation Cult just because the new lord is a commoner? Even after being so tormented by the nobles?”
The young man’s rather sharp point.
At this, the subsiding atmosphere began to heat up again.
Everyone agreed with the young man’s words and shouted that all nobles were an untrustworthy lot, so they needed the power to protect themselves.
“I’m talking about the slaughterer who wiped out this village earlier.”
But at the chief’s following words, everyone fell silent.
As soon as he mentioned the chainsaw slaughterer who had wiped out the village in just 10 minutes, everyone froze.
“That slaughterer is actually… Edgar Fix-nim.”
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