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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Vine
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“J-just kill me…”
The demon woman was kneeling before me, her expression one of complete resignation.
I thought I just had a dream from my past life, but this is all her doing?
“Luke, you’re safe.”
“Suddenly?”
What do you mean “safe?”
Am I a warrior in some Joseon Era drama that you know of?
“Didn’t you have a nightmare…?”
“A nightmare?”
I did have a dream, but was it a nightmare?
Actually, it was a fun game after a long time.
And there was a newbie there?
If there’s a newbie that hot, how can that be a nightmare?
Luna gave a glance to the demon woman kneeling down before me and said.
“What exactly did you do in the dream…?”
“Nothing much?”
Just made a newbie beat the naked Melania with parries on the 8th try.
“J-j-just… kill me…”
“Alright. Go to heaven. I’ll make sure you are recognized by the Korea National Association.”
If you managed to clear the naked Melania with parries, then it’s a clear acknowledgement.
Even though I’m proud of you, it’s your fate to become experience for me because you were born as a demon.
“I wish you’re born in Earth next time.”
If you’re a girl who’s good at gaming, you’ll be popular with men, right?
You should try making videos on Youtube after you’re born on Earth.
I took out my sword from my inventory and cut off the demon’s head.
“Ah… Finally…”
Whoosh, the demon’s body turned to ash.
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Lilith? It’s the first time I’ve heard that name.
So, not all demons appear in the story?
Maybe she got her head cut off by a main character somewhere during the academy’s general war.
As I was spacing out while looking at the notification window, Yui and Luna approached me.
“Luke, what do you plan to do now?”
“About what?”
“The Crown Marquis. Considering the situation, he’s clearly part of the plan, right?”
“Oh. Right.”
At this point, if you aren’t an idiot, you would know that the Marquis was an accomplice.
His strange obsession with us.
A behavior that you wouldn’t expect from a noble to a commoner.
That’s right. We were lured.
“See? I was right. I should have just killed him back then.”
Slit-eyed masterminds are always the culprit, I tell you.
People always realize it too late and regret.
If you don’t do anything that you will regret later, that’s it.
“…I thought you were saying something strange back then.”
“Wow… Yui, you thought so too?”
“U-um… To be honest, it’s natural to think that you’re acting crazy if you use violence on people you just met…”
“Tch. Well, what do you guys know?”
I’ve seen slit-eyed characters in countries with well-developed psychology, so I know, but what would you two know, who don’t even know what anime is?
It’s all my fault for being too good.
“It’s okay! You’ll be like me next time now that you’ve experienced it!”
“Your expression looks annoying…”
“It’s just your imagination.”
I sheathed my sword and put it back in my inventory.
“Then are you going to head to the mansion now?”
“Yeah, I have to.”
If I hadn’t been able to sleep at all, I would have taken a nap before going, but I’ve had enough sleep now.
We left the room and went down the stairs.
At the first floor, the employee who had guided us was slumped on the counter, asleep.
When we got out of the inn, the first thing I saw was the pink mist that filled the marquisate.
It looks like it was a doing of that demon I just killed, but since it was still there even after she died, it seems like it’ll take a while for it to disappear.
“Wow… It really is on a grand scale.”
“Yeah… Were they planning to feed all the residents of the territory to the demons?”
“Yui, even if it looks delicious, don’t eat it.”
“Ah, I- I won’t eat it…!”
Ah. She wasn’t a little kid.
But to try and kill all the residents of her own territory.
The Marquis really decided to go all out, huh?
I wonder what kind of amazing ability he got from becoming a demon that made him give up his position.
Oh? That means it’s okay to kill the people here, right?
If no one knows, I could just kill them all and steal the experience and put the blame on the Marquis?
‘No. What if he runs away?’
He looks calm right now as if he’s certain we’d lose, but he would try to run away if he sensed anything wrong.
Of course, I plan to chase him to the end of hell even if he does run away, but it would be annoying.
Once I’ve decided what to do, I had to go straight there.
I don’t know what kind of demon she was, but there was no obstacle on the way to the marquis’s mansion.
They even put all the soldiers to sleep, so the entrance was completely empty.
So I confidently entered through the main entrance.
It wasn’t difficult to find the Marquis.
All the lights were off, except for one place in the mansion.
It was as if it was saying ‘I’m here~’.
*Thud!!*
When I kicked the door of the office open, I saw a startled marquis.
He seemed to be trying to escape, hurriedly packing his things.
“H-how did you get in here!?”
“Through the front door!!”
“No way… Did that person really lose…?”
“Don’t be too discouraged. You were up against me, after all.”
Nowadays, even the strongest people are being defeated, so what are you so surprised at, a mere demon.
Anyone who heard that would think that a demon god has been defeated.
That’s why all demons are weirdos.
What’s up with their faith when they’re just some demons?
“Kuuk… Since it’s come to this!”
Squeak! Crunch!
The Marquis’s back bent as if he was about to transform.
“Jet Kick!!”
“Keuhuk!!”
So I gave him a Jet Kick.
“W-what do you think you’re doing! This is an important moment!”
“No, honestly, who wants to see a demon transform? Readers will hate it.”
Talking about skin color, appearance, and the magic or whatever.
Just the description of the transformation process takes a few hundred characters.
I’d rather hit him one more time instead.
Nowadays, people don’t even wait for magical girls or heroes to transform, you know?
Then why should I watch a nobody transform into a demon?
No way. I’m skipping it.
“And I don’t have the time to waste catching a guy like you. I have other things I want to do.”
*Click!*
As I flicked my fingers, a crisp sound echoed through the room.
“”…?””
Luna, Yui, and even the Marquis, who was watching my actions, looked at me as if I was a weirdo.
“What are you doing, Luna, Yui. Go catch him.”
“…”
I don’t know why they look so dazed when they’re doing what they should be doing.
To even call it a battle, it was nothing.
In the first place, the Marquis wasn’t a strong person.
If he was strong, he wouldn’t have made himself a demon’s underling, he would have come to kill us himself.
Even if someone like that turned into a demon, their combat ability would go from 1 to 2, max.
“Kuhuk…!”
The Marquis was quickly defeated.
He kneeled after being hit by Luna and Yui.
“Just wait a minute…! You guys must become demons too! Soon, that person will come! And then, all humans will die!”
“That person, that person, you keep saying. Are you a fanboy or something?”
You’re putting a flag over your head, man.
That’s what the guy who said that said before he got his head cut off.
That demon god has become such a pushover.
They don’t even have anyone to suck up to them and they get some guy like this.
He’s probably trying to persuade us somehow, but unfortunately, there’s only one god I believe in.
“Arla kalata tora!!”
*Thwack!*
“Keuhak!!”
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“Why did you ask me to catch him instead of killing him right away?”
“I had some questions.”
I had thought of trying it out at least once, but if I did it on Earth, I would get arrested for murder, so I couldn’t.
“Luna, Yui. Are you holding him properly?”
I wondered how much pain I needed to inflict for him to go into shock.
Today, I plan to inflict so much pain on the demon, till he goes into shock.
With that thought, I first broke the demon’s fingers.
-Snap! Snap! Snap!
“Hic!! Hguhaaaaaak!!!!!!”
All ten fingers at once, not one by one.
How many experiments do I have to do, why would I break them one by one?
Besides, there’s no way he could go into shock with just one finger.
“Hooh… So fingers are nothing, huh?”
“He just screamed pretty loud…”
“Yui. That level is nothing.”
What we need to do is to inflict so much pain that he wouldn’t even be able to scream.
Screaming means what?
He’s alive.
So I’ll raise the level of pain until he dies and can’t scream.
After his fingers, it’s his toes.
It’s hard to bend toes sideways, so I bent them upwards.
So the toenails touch the top of his foot.
-Snap!!
“Haaaaaak!! Stop it!! Stop it please!!!”
“Silence Punch!!”
“Keuhak!!”
He was too noisy, so I shut his mouth.
The damage from Silence Punch was so strong that his teeth flew out, but now that I think about it, one thing I had to do is gone, so that’s a good thing.
“So his teeth and toes are fine, huh?”
In recent fantasy novels, they swing their swords even when their internal organs are all over the place, but that’s something only superhumans can do.
The Marquis before me was a normal person until a little while ago, but maybe his endurance increased because he became a demon?
Well, it doesn’t matter.
It just means I can experiment for a longer time.
Fingers, toes, teeth.
Next up are his ears.
“Luna. Cut off his ears.”
When he heard me say that, the Marquis’s pupils began to shake.
“Should I just cut off one side?”
“Of course, both sides.”
Luna took out her sword from her waist and cut off both of his ears in one go.
“Heeeeeooooonng!!!”
“Pfft. Hey, stop being funny. This is a serious moment.”
Who even screams like ‘Heeeeeooooonng’?
This guy must be trying to distract me by acting funny.
“But Luke, won’t he die from excessive bleeding if you keep this up?”
“Tch! I didn’t think of that!”
There’s no other way!
I took out a flask from my inventory.
“Hey! Drink this! It’s a potion!”
As I opened the lid of the flask and held it in front of the demon, he greedily drank it all, still wanting to live.
“Yeah, yeah. Drink it all. It’s a potion that’s going to kill you.”
“…Luke? Isn’t that not a potion?”
“No, it is a potion.”
A truly deadly potion.
The demon, who had drunk the potion, coughed once and vomited blood.
Blood was spewing from his mouth, his nose, his eyes, and all the holes in his face.
After spitting out blood for about 10 seconds, the demon suddenly stopped moving as if he was a doll whose strings were cut, and never moved again.
“He only went into shock after his organs were melted.”
I learned something new today.
“…He just looks dead.”
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By the way, the experience points from the marquis who became a demon were trash.
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