Part 1
Mumble.
I got to see the cute look on the forehead glasses Class Reps face as she woke up.
H-huh? Everythings all wet inside my skirt Wait, what is this!? Im soaked with blood, I reek of roses, and Satori-kun is carrying bandit-style inside so kind of abandoned building!?
Ha ha ha. Are your mories still all mixed up, Class Rep? But not to worry. The scary part is over.
Yknow, Onii-chan, you should probably stop rubbing your cheek against her thigh with that refreshed smile and put her down. The view up her skirt is kind of incredible from straight ahead.
Wait, you can see that, Ayumi-chan?
Its like a parabolic antenna.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!?
She really started to struggle now, so I decided it was ti. I obediently lowered her from my shoulder to the floor. Heh, Im not the kind of guy to force people to do what they dont want. Although I will secretly make a Class Rep swimsuit dance file set!
The cursed coffin had fully t its demise after having the lid stabbed through with the end of several tal pipes and the head of so golf clubs. It was the perfect Kagami Biraki for such a montous occasion. The Class Rep had turned into a vampire from being exposed to a curse instead of being bitten, so she could return to normal if we destroyed the item producing the curse.
This was an extre exception. It was nothing but dumb luck that this was based on the Polish Vampire Princess. If she had been bitten by the kind of normal vampire you find walking around, there wouldnt have been any hope of returning her to normal.
I got along with my vampire older sister and zombie little sisteror I tried to. But I was not going to offer up myself or people I cared for. That wasnt my idea of coexistence.
With the cursed coffin destroyed and the Class Rep safely returned from Dhampir to human, we had no more business here. There was no abnormality on the X-ray screen, but I didnt want to stick around in the radiology departnt filled with machinery that might not be safe. Who could say what was leaking out of the rusted areas or cracked plastic.
We all left the basent and made our way to the first floor. Now that we were all together, the late-night abandoned hospital no longer felt scary.
Erika opened her mouth once we arrived in the large lobby on the first floor. The lobby was probably used for making appointnts, paying, and receiving prescriptions, so you wouldve had room for a basketball ga if you removed all of the benches.
So, Satori-kun.
Yeah?
What are we going to do now?
She was referring to the unseen person we guessed was still hiding in the Peace Committee Convalescent Hospital. We didnt know if they were young or old, man or woman, or even human or Archenemy, but since they had so thoroughly hidden their presence while interfering with our actions, they seed quite dangerous. I doubted it was just a brave boy on a test of courage who had happened across us and decided to help out. Their actions were just too perfect and it felt like we couldnt even track down a slight trace of their presence.
For example, if soone happened across a fire and ran into the burning building to save a child trapped inside, they wouldnt think about covering their tracks by wearing gloves, wrapping a towel around their mouth, keeping their hair inside a hat, and wearing a mask to catch any saliva.
And today had been nowhere near peaceful enough to unconditionally trust soone who was following us while hiding their identity.
Who had gone to the trouble of unlocking all the basent doors?
I was extrely curious about that, but
I dont want to have to redo all this because the Class Rep gets captured again. Whoever it was probably saw that we went out of our way to return her to normal instead of defeating her, so they might think of taking her hostage if they have business with us.
The abandoned hospitals Ghost managent program had showed no sign of understanding that, but this was probably a human or Archenemy. They would probably easily co up with the idea of capturing or the Class Rep before trying to deal with my vampire older sister or zombie little sister.
Hey, Onii-chan, about that
Yes. When the range of activity is set, like with the Polish Vampire Princess, taking Class Rep-chan back to her ho is enough to guarantee her safety, but wouldnt that be aningless if that isnt the case? I bet they would just break into her house and kidnap her there.
Oh, honestly! Wasnt there so traditional rule about vampires not being able to enter houses without permission!?
Well, yes, admitted Erika. But we dont know what kind of Archenemy were dealing with here. If theyre a werewolf or skeleton, that does us no good.
And we dont even know its an Archenemy, added Ayumi. It might be a normal human whos a normal murderer.
Dammit, that ans I cant relax yet! Whoever it was knew what we looked like and we didnt know the sa about them. So if we let them get away here, they could attack us at any ti afterwards. Would we be safe at ho? Would our schools get caught up in this ss? Would my parents or sisters be safe when they went out? Would we have to worry about that forever and ever? Screw that!!
Change of plans. Lets settle all of this tonight. Leaving anything undone will only lead to trouble.
But playing a ga of hide-and-seek against a single person in the large Peace Committee Convalescent Hospital would be difficult. For one thing, they had no reason to stay in the abandoned hospital. If they sensed danger, they would probably think of retreating. I had Maxwell and Laplace, but our manpower was enough to count on a single hand. I had even destroyed the controls for the hospitals deadly motocross bikes, so I couldnt use their caras now. Even just watching the exits would be difficult and splitting up could easily lead to one of us being attacked. That was a real concern for an intellectual type like or for the Class Rep with her regained humanity.
If we were going to split up, we would have to place Erika and Ayumi on separate teams, place on one team, and place the Class Rep on the other. Any other way would leave us with a non-Archenemy human team and that would lead to either death or abduction.
It was that or search as one big group. One big group was safest, but we would naturally make more noise that way and the search would take longer. And it could easily lead to the foolish situation where the target of our search fled through the back entrance while we were searching from the front.
What would we do?
What was I supposed to choose?
User.
But before I made up my mind, Maxwell interrupted with an SNS speech bubble.
I have detected so concerning movent on a video sharing site. I doubt it is unrelated to the current situation.
A video sharing site?
The first possibility that ca to mind was the unseen person filming us using a digital video cara or smartphone. But what for? Assuming they were human, were they revealing Erika and Ayumis ridiculous fighting skill to the world so they would look like a threat? That might have stirred up the masses half a year before, but it wouldnt work now. After all, it was just a few days ago that the Colosseum had turned Archenemy battles into a major show business and broadcast them nationally. So of it had even swept across the world via the internet. It was true that Archenemy battles were impressive, but everyone was already accustod to them. And as seen from the Bright Crosss collapse, the current trend was to see Archenemies as victims more than anything. Uploading a video ant to inspire a bigoted negative impression would only get the poster attacked in the comnts.
I gathered my thoughts and explained them to Maxwell, but hisno, her response was a surprising one.
No. That is not the intent here.
What?
I frowned. What else was there? Could they be trying to make Maxwell into a threat? Whatever the case, I used my smartphone to check the video in question.
There might have been more videos than there were people on this planet, but Maxwell guided to one with a red circle indicating rapidly rising popularity.
It was titled A Round of Applause is in Order.
We all gathered around and stared at the smartphone. It did indeed show the Peace Committee Convalescent Hospital. It was terribly grainy and blurry due to using night-vision, but what was being said plainly reached our ears.
However, the focus was not on my vampire older sister or my zombie little sister. Nor was it the Dhampir-ized Class Rep or Maxwell the disaster environnt simulator.
Then Ill create one.
It was .
I didnt know who, but soone was focused on , a human, for so unknown reason.
Im already living with Erika and Ayumi. Theres no problem there! So there has to be sothing! The answer is right there next to ; I just need to give it a na and a form!! It wont be a society where everyone fears the death penalty and it wont be a society where you think like youre making all your decisions but even the color of your underwear was decided for you! It will be sothing kinder, more just, and more normal!! There has to be a way for humans and the undead to get along!!
But why?
What value was there in this nave-sounding exchange of words? Wouldnt it be far more worthwhile to introduce the lifestyle or traits of Archenemies?
Do it, Maxwell. I regret destroying the Bright Cross without thinking it through, but Ive still decided to keep moving forward. I wont stop even if it ans blowing away that absolute guidance society! So do it!! Clean this planet of that thod where soone sits in their throne and looks arrogantly down on everyone else!!
I couldnt figure it out no matter how much I looked into the details.
But the answer ca from a surprising place. In order to view every centiter of the video with my eyes as wide as dinner plates, I had turned the comnts off. But once I replayed the video with them on, a flood of words rushed in.
Well said!!
Ive been keeping a low profile and hiding that Im a yeti this whole ti, but Im done with that. I feel like this new age is one I can live in.
That was a close one, nyah. I was just about to give up on humans.
I feel like we can trust this one, dont you?
I an, hes the sa guy who tore down the Colosseum and rescued the trapped Archenemies the other day.
Kyah! I want his babies!
Hes gotta be a giant kraken or sothing.
In all seriousness, I want him to act as an international representative. Could he maybe get involved in all of our troubles with humans? Like so kind of ambassador or sothing?
Japanese highschools is crazy! All wizards and psychics! I very very love!!
If you can type in Japanese, why can you only use such broken Japanese?
Thats obviously because shes actually a short, bob-cut kimono girl whos very shy. Open your inner eye and reach enlightennt, Warrior of July.
The best part is how he doesnt choose to support just humans or just Archenemies.
For humans and the undead, he wants to reward the good ones and punish the bad ones. Honestly, why cant all the other supposedly smart people do sothing so simple?
I cried when the boy refused to give up on the half-Archenemy girl and continued looking for the coffin! (sob)
Although he is sothing of a pervert.
They do say great n enjoy sensual pleasures.
That saying is the perfect example of how the winners justify their own actions.
Itd be a little too heavy if he went the self-sacrifice route and asked to be bitten too, so this is about the perfect distance to keep.
I want to call him colonel.
But he doesnt have a beret, eyepatch, or cigar!
Colonel!
Colonel!!
Wait, its already spreading!?
What the hell is this?
I felt like I was viewing the commotion from the outside. Was it really at the center of all that? Being buried in anonymous comnts made feel as distant as soone on the other side of the planet. No, it was as grotesquely hard to accept as learning a Martian was walking around in a disguise that made him indistinguishable from a human. Was that really Amatsu Satori? Where had I gone!?
The video was ant toraise Satori-kun up as a hero?
The Class Rep gave voice to her confusion.
And surprisingly, it was Ayumi who provided further information.
No. This might be more than just the video. The entire abandoned hospital incident was used to lionize Onii-chan.
So its ant to gather all the worlds Archenemies around Satori-kun? asked Erika. No, it might not be that simple. If they increase his reputation and then make a show of killing him, the shock will be even greater the more people have gathered around him. And that confusion could lead to Archenemies rioting all across the world at the sa ti.
Either way, this was bad.
It was a mystery how the videos uploader wanted the world to view , but it was only a matter of ti before this information matured and settled into the public consciousness. You had to strike while the iron was hot, but you had to let it cool once you were done. That ant whoever was hiding in the convalescent hospital had finished their job with this. They had no more reason to stick around, so they would escape without leaving any hint behind.
Maxwell! Who uploaded the video? Im sure it was passed through several proxy servers like usual, but work your way to the source anyway. Do you think you can get through it all?
Sure. Do not underestimate the processing power of the system you yourself built.
Theoretically, no route was completely untraceable. If it was, you couldnt get data from Point A to Point B. When a drama or movie said that sothing had been passed through foreign servers, that was not a technical limitation. It was mostly saying that several countries judicial branches would be involved, and that was a pain to work with. Not every country had signed international treaties ensuring cooperation on criminal investigations and things got even harder when it involved politically untouchable routes such as embassies or military satellites. If a single countrys police tried to trace the signal on their own, they would never find the answer.
However.
Those barriers ant nothing when it ca to Maxwell who would not ask for permission in the first place.
Fiber optic cable is used to travel around the planet a total of four tis and it makes a jump using five civilian zombie computers infected with a remote-control virus, but this is likely the origin point. I doubt there is anything further than this.
At tis like this, Maxwell did a perfect job since she was not led astray by emotion.
anwhile, I was driven to confusion by the result she gave .
What is this, Maxwell? Are you sure this wasnt just a relay point?
Sure. This is the origin point.
Yourekidding.
No one moved.
The divulged na was displayed at the center of my smartphone screen. It ca from the contract information for the smartphone used to post the video.
Amatsu Yurina.
Mystepmomfrom the remarriage?
Part 2
At first, I had honestly not gotten along well with the stepmother who had brought Erika and Ayumi with her. She had been too young to think of as a mother, but too old to think of as a big sister. She was beautiful and kind, but that was what made it so hard to judge the distance between us. I always got nervous around her and waited for her to speak to first, so I had to have been a pain-in-the-ass kid for soone who married into the family. Although she always played with without showing any displeasure with my behavior.
And my trouble with her had probably been rooted in the fact that there was another woman who the word mom more readily brought to mind.
My difficulties with her had vanished for an incredibly self-serving reason: parents day at school. That beautiful and kind mothers age was hard to judge and she could even pass for college-aged if she tried, so she beca the talk of our class and, for so reason, that improved my standing. While the other classmates parents found her embarrassing and criticized her use of perfu or wearing a pearl necklace, she had stood proudly tall and created a bright presence.
I had been proud to call her my mom.
A childs greed is a frightening thing indeed.
To be honest, its the sa with Erika and Ayumi, but when I look back, I feel like that could have ended very badly perhaps even in an outright disaster if that forehead glasses Class Rep hadnt been by my side. In that way, I was thankful for having a normal person as a childhood friend. I was glad I liked her, as embarrassing as that was to admit!!
But why would my stepmom do that?
I didnt understand.
So even though we had the answer, I began searching for a way to reject it.
O-oh, right. Maxwell, this only ans it ca from her phone, right? So maybe soone stole it. They could have chosen it intentionally to confuse us
No. Miss Amatsu Yurina dislikes having to morize a passcode, so she generally uses biotric authorization: fingerprint, vein pattern, retina, earhole, etc Each and every one of them is difficult to reproduce.
There might be an Archenemy that can do that, right!? Maybe they can freely change their appearance!!
They were all part of my family, but this felt different from when it had looked like my sisters had turned against . My image of an adult had been shaken. That was a powerful shock for a kid. During adolescence and during a rebellious phase, you might say adults dont play fair and teachers are out to get you, but actually seeing it for yourself was entirely different. It wasyes, it was exactly the sa as back then. I had believed my family was entirely safe and there was nothing to worry about, but I had realized too late that things had cooled to the breaking point between my parents and it felt like all of those happy mories were being rejected.
The creeping premonition of collapse was enough for to freeze up. I felt dizzy, I had trouble breathing, and an awfully cold sweat continually flowed from my forehead.
I felt like this went far beyond a sibling quarrel. The peace that supported my lifestyle was being threatened. Would it collapse again? Would I lose it all again? I couldnt bear that! I didnt want to see my family divided up as strangers over and over!!
anwhile.
Maxwell must have decided there was no convincing with words because she did sothing else. She selected a familiar number from my smartphones address book and made a call.
Yes.
Ill say that again: a call.
The lody of a perfectly ordinary pop song played so lightly I could barely hear it.
It seed to seep out of the darkness and from the abandoned hospital as a whole. But that was enough to feel like the word ho was falling apart via Gestaltzerfall. It hit directly in the heart instead of the center of my head. My chest ached like I had stepped out the front door and imdiately found a dump truck approaching from head-on.
She was there.
In the darkness.
Yurina-san?
I wasnt sure what to call her and I oddly reverted to the more distant form of address from shortly after the remarriage. My mind continued to reject it, but my heart had already accepted this fear. And my subconscious was probably telling to re-judge my distance from her.
I could have sworn I heard laughter from that highly viscous darkness.
She was a little taller than the average woman. Her white body had an even more ample build than Erikas. Her long, fluffy red hair was tied back with a hair tie. She wore a blouse so thin her black bra showed through and jeans so tight the shape of her butt showed through. That alone gave her a casual look and anyone would have believed it if they were told she was a college girl, but wearing an apron on top of that really made her look like a homaker. She was a strange person.
But.
That ordinary appearance was what made her feel so out of place in sowhere as out of the ordinary as the Peace Committee Convalescent Hospital. Her presence felt even creepier than taking a group photo and finding there were too many legs in the picture.
Just like back then, the look on her face was soft but sowhat troubled and very, very kind.
And she spoke with a comforting voice.
Oh? You can show your affection by calling mom if you want.
Part 3
This was no ti for a belligerent smile over finally facing a formidable foe. Why was she here? What was she doing? What was that video for? How was she involved in the relationship between humans and Archenemies? I had so many questions for her, but I couldnt even get my tongue to move.
My vision seed to waver and then I noisily collapsed to the floor. To the others, it would have looked like a guy collapsing from shock just because his young stepmother spoke kindly to him. And the girl I had feelings for was watching. It had to have looked comically pathetic. If our classmates learned about it, I could hardly complain when they gave so cruel nickna.
But that was my limit.
The core of my heart really had been torn apart.
And because they too were family, Erika and Ayumi understood my pain and exploded before I could.
What the hell are you doing, you old haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag!!!???
What the hell are you doing, you old haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag!!!???
With explosive sounds on the left and right, all the benches left in the lobby were blown away. A zombie and vampire were representative Archenemies which could threaten a city, country, or even continent depending on how they used their powers. And now they had given into their anger and were charging forward.
But.
And yet!?
Oh, dear.
Her voice was as gentle as soone thinking of leaving for the local supermarket and noticing it had started to rain a little.
That was all.
Wha-!?
Erikas body spun vertically through the air. Her gothic lolita dress and gorgeous blonde ringlet curls danced in a circle after a monts delay. And my redheaded stepmom, Amatsu Yurina, didnt even bother watching her daughter fall. She instead grabbed a surprised Ayumis collar as the zombie girl tried to slip in from below.
Uuh!!
She then forcefully spun herself around on her support leg and threw Ayumis small body into the air behind her like part of the hamr throw.
The two sisters collided in midair and collapsed to the dirty floor without any real preparation for the impact. A horrifically loud noise burst out. Amatsu Yurina probably could have attacked them again as they struggled to get back up, but she intentionally wasted that opportunity. As if to say she could supply a finishing blow at any ti.
And the action she took instead was simple.
She turned around.
That monster with a blouse so thin her black bra showed through and jeans so tight the shape of her butt showed through faced where I still lay pathetically collapsed on the floor.
Who the hell are you!?
I am Amatsu Taizous wife and Amatsu Satoris mother. I am the homaker who works part ti as a cashier and whose na is known at the afternoon mamas club. And that na isAmatsu Yurina! Tah dah!!
Yeah, right
There was no way she could be sumd up like that!
Even if a zombie and vampire were most powerful when it ca to infectiousness, they each had ten or twenty tis the strength of a human. They clearly werent an opponent a normal human could take on barehanded!!
I would have found it more convincing to hear this was a Little Grey from Mars wearing a disguise identical to my stepmom!!
No.
Wait.
She looked oddly young to call my mother. She had the abnormal physical strength to defeat a zombie and vampire at the sa ti. And more importantly, she had arrived along with two Archenemy daughters.
It couldnt be.
Youre kidding, right? It just cant be!
You
Heh heh. Are you trying to talk back to your mother? Are you going through a rebellious phase, Satori? If so, I welco it. You were a little too obedient during middle school, so I was honestly worried. Now, lets communicate to our hearts content via punches and kicks. Can you draw out your mothers ssssexy losing voice?
You were an Archenemy!? Mom!?
Archenemy. These days, that term is widely used to refer to the highly infectious undead, but did you know it originally referred to demon lords in general?
Amatsu Yurina grinned.
And this was a fierce, seductive, coquettish, and dangerous smile I had never seen from her before.
If Lilith, the mother of all succubi, ets your definition, then I would have to answer yes to that question.
Part 4
What-
mories are break-
My mindcant keep-
Khah!?
Agh!!
I didnt know how many tis it was now, but my mind refocused on reality when I heard Erika and Ayumis cries of pain. What had happened since then? Either my mories were too mixed up or they had taken too many unrealistic actions because I couldnt sort anything out no matter how much I went back over the information in my head.
Whatever the case, we were no match for her.
Erika and Ayumi kept trying to attack Amatsu Yurina, but each ti, they were defeated as easily as taking candy from a baby. I clenched my teeth, stood up, and raised a aningless cry as I charged toward her. Even now, my stepmom with her long fluffy red hair tied back with a hair tie did not hit . She simply reached out her slender hand and gently stroked my cheek. That caused sothing to happen and I found myself spinning wildly like I was caught in a tornado. Then I fell onto my back, knocking the breath out of . Lilith.
That was Adams first wife and the demon lord of infanticide and sex. She was a top ranker who had given birth to a great many demons and brought chaos to the world. Not only was she strong on her own, but she had filled the world with demons on the level of Azazel. And in Azazels case, the entire world had ultimately needed to be swept clean with Noahs Ark and the deluge. That was the extent to which Lilith could contaminate the earth.
Of course.
I didnt want to believe anything as ridiculous as a major player like that taking physical form and living on this tiny island nation!
The Class Rep may have been the calst one throughout. Maybe even more so than my stepmom. Because she was not part of the familyno, because she had seen the chaos of the divorce from the house next door, she may have avoided having the blood rush to her head.
Maam? Does that an thatSatori-kuns father didnt know anything?
Oh, cmon, Class Rep-chan. That man saw through it the mont we t: Quit feigning innocence, demon lord. Oh, we had quite the fistfight after that. But I t a wonderful man thanks to it. That drear seriously hoped for the coexistence of humans and Archenemies even as he worked as a Bright Cross researcher. That noble soul was just about crushed between his personal feelings and the organizations demands!! Ohh, how could I not find him so very adorable? The next thing I knew, I couldnt keep away from him. Oh, sorry. A woman like shouldnt be getting so worked up. You dont want to hear talk about my husband, do you? Oh ho ho ho ho.
She laughed casually, but I dug my fingernails into the dirty floor.
It had happened again. She had just revealed a hidden side to another mber of my family. My dad worked for the Bright Cross? He was on the side that had made Erika and Ayumi suffer? Id never heard a word about that!!
When I turned toward my sisters like a fierce dog on a chain, they refused to look in the eye.
They had known. Even if just in part.
They had suspected their mom was so kind of Archenemy and that my dad visited that research facility.
I was the only one.
Dammit! I was the only one in the dark!!
Dont give that look, Satori. While that man was innocently researching Archenemies at grad school, he was ensnared by a dangerous and exploitative corporation before he realized what was happening. Even inside the Bright Cross, he was part of the moderate faction that was constantly insisting they improve their treatnt of Archenemies. Even though it made him an outcast and the much younger mbers laughed at him. And he did receive his punishnt. When a portion of the Bright Crosss deeds ca to light, it created a devastating fissure between him and his beloved. Knowing his own actions had torn his happy family apart was so very, very painful for him.
What was this?
I had no complaints about my current ho environnt. I was glad Erika and Ayumi were a part of my family. I really was.
But on that day when my other mom had disappeared, it had felt like she no longer loved and only saw as a nuisance when she turned her back on at the front door. But my family falling apart had all beenhad all been!!
How muchhow much do the two of you need to screw with my liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife!?
I had given up on moving, but now a disconcerting straining sound ca from it. I had no idea how much stress I was placing on my body, but I managed to stand up.
anwhile, the demon in a blouse so thin her black bra showed through and jeans so tight the shape of her butt showed through lightly waved her index finger.
Now, now, Satori. You are the hero of forgiveness. Youre the hope of all Archenemies who will bind humans and the undead together. Dont get angry and clench that fist you barely know how to use. Not only will you ruin what I set up for you, but youll hurt your hand. When a beginner pushes themselves too far, theyll end up breaking their own fingers.
Shutup.
Satori, if you want to challenge your mother, then either use an openhanded blow or bring a weapon. Look, copy my hand here. Just hold it out like this and focus on shifting the strength from your legs to your hips.
Shut uuuuup!! What is with all this!? What are you trying to get us to do!?
You have to ask? Archenemy Lilith actually looked a little taken aback. The world is going to end soon, so I thought it would be nice to make so rescue preparations ahead of ti. Yknow, like building a giant ark before the flood.
What?
What, why, what?
What did she just say!?
Huh? You an you hadnt caught on? But there were so many signs. And, Satori, you were so delighted when you built that big disaster environnt simulator all on your own. So why couldnt you predict sothing as obvious as this Calamity?
With her tone, she might as well have been asking why I didnt do my sumr howork sooner.
But wait.
Wait just a second!!
What are you trying to start here!?
Like I was saying, were simply constructing the Absolute Noah in preparation for the upcoming ruin. Oh, and just to be clear, we have nothing to do with the Calamity itself. Also, this is a project using my face as an Archenemy a demon lord so it has nothing to do with your father, since hes a forr researcher for the human side. Ever since you destroyed the Bright Cross, hes been pretending to go to work and heading to the employnt center instead. You should thank him for being kind enough to not complain. Oh, but dont directly thank him. It would hurt his pride as an adult.
You an?
Is it true? Of course it is. Archenemies have existed forever, but recent reports say their numbers have increased dramatically in recent years. We cant worry about appearances when it cos to boarding the ark. Although I doubt even the undead could survive being exposed to the Calamity. That beautiful person breathed an exasperated sigh. By our reckoning, well be lucky to pick up 36% of the planets lifeforms even if Absolute Noah is completed. I an, the insect kingdom of Costa Rica has way too many kinds! And getting samples of things like deep sea fish wont be easy, so I seriously doubt we can get to it all before the ti limit arrives. Well probably have to compromise sowhere, but I want to make sure we find ti for the quetzals.
What about?
Yes?
What about humans? How many of them are you planning to bring onboard?
I had no idea what Absolute Noah was. Was it simply a giant boat, was it so kind of rocket, or was it a vast shelter deep underground?
The earth had a human population of 7 billion. Simply announcing that they were abandoning half of those would likely trigger nuclear war. That ant to divide the world in half and let one side go extinct, so anyone would fight back against it.
However, Amatsu Yurinas answer was truly frightening.
Thats the real problem there. I think it will be a few thousand in all.
Thats nowhere near-
What did she just say?
It was true that was the realistic limit of placing people on a single vehicle or craft! There was no way you could place 100 million, a billion, or 7 billion people on even the largest nuclear aircraft carrier or cruise ship!! Butbut this would an!!
Dont worry. Those with a connection to the project are given priority. Satori, your mother is the project leader and you would act as the hero of forgiveness who would kindly watch over all the troubles between humans and Archenemies that occur onboard Absolute Noah. Thats two reasons why there will definitely be a ticket with your na on it. That demon smiled. And you can rest easy because the 6.9 billion not chosen by the lottery wont just be abandoned. Well make sure to take genetic samples and keep them in microscopic cold storage, so there will be evidence of their lives. Of course, a double helix base sequence cant store mories or personalities, so that might be a bit of a problem. But it isnt like we cant do anything. Once the Calamity has passed and this planet regains its pure blue color, we can sow those seeds across the land once more. People are strong, so Im sure theyll cover the planet shortly thereafter.
No, not that.
That wasnt what I was asking.
Was she saying this answer deserved a perfect score with no room for criticism? Was she sweetly whispering in my ear, trying to get to agree by telling I alone was guaranteed to be safe?
If so, she really was a demon.
No matter how correct her logic was, she was a seducer at heart. She was soone who placed things on the scales and waited until my soul gave in.
What are you thinking?
About living peacefully with my family. It took a loooot of doing securing enough seats for all of you. But the next thing I knew, you all had important positions As your mother, all I wanted was to get my entire family onboard Absolute Noah.
That might be true.
Or she might have been using that noble goal to tempt .
She was saying she worked so hard and stained her hands with blood for her family and she was asking if I would make all that for naught. Just like accusing soone of being inhuman for not crying at a movie about a penguin and zookeeper being separated by war, she might have been using my conscious and kindness as a shield to trick into doing this.
To hell with that, mom.
But this was different.
True righteousness was not cobbled together like a winning hand in poker. You couldnt add Condition A and B together and then place C alongside them to earn 50 points worth of tears. A war movie? A penguin and a zookeeper? Who cares? No matter how emotional it might be, you could grimace the instant you sensed the cheap corporate side behind it all. There was no such thing as a reason why you had to force yourself to cry. If soone felt pressured into crying or laughing because it would seem inappropriate or self-restrained otherwise, would any real emotion appear inside them? Of course not. Then you could find no righteousness from sothing like that. After all, they wouldnt know why they were doing what they were doing.
I couldnt lose sight of it.
I couldnt lose sight of myself.
I couldnt let the mood carry away, drown out my own emotions, and make feel like I had to cry or I was doing sothing wrong. Peoples hearts were their own. Even if everyone else in the movie theater was crying their eyes out, you were free to yawn if you thought it was ruined by the wooden acting of the codian dubbing the voice.
Oh? This is unexpected. Are you rejecting it? But that leaves death as your only option.
Yeah.
Is this part of your rebellious phase? You really were too obedient during middle school, Satori. If you had been a little more wild back then, you wouldnt have screwed up when it really mattered here. A normal high schooler will feel humiliated by the path laid out by their parents, but they will know that taking the easy route and accepting it is the right thing to do. Especially in this case where anything else ans death is 100% guaranteed.
What was she talking about?
I didnt care about this Calamity, the fate of humankind, or my position on the ark.
Amatsu Yurina.
My stepmom.
I was saying that the path she had laid out was missing sothing crucial.
Because.
?
Because that wont let protect soone I care about. Nor will it let protect the world she cares about. Mom, did you really think your son would choose such a pathetic future!?
To be honest, I could barely stand and I didnt have it in to support soone elses life. But I knew I had to be standing protectively in front of a certain girl. Yes, my face felt warm, I couldnt look back. I was pretty sure my head would explode and I would die if my eyes t the Class Reps right now.
But I couldnt back down here.
Not on this.
No matter what happened. Even if it ant making an enemy of a true demon lord, one of the original Archenemies.
You certainly know how to act cool. Its obvious you have that mans blood in your veins.
Amatsu Yurina smiled thinly.
It was an enchanting smile that seed to bring out the greatest tragedy and misfortune to test the good inside you.
But do you really think you can have your way against a legendary-class demon lord? The ti for your rebellious phase is over, you brat. Ill teach you the harsh truth that nothing you can do will change anything. I hope you mature a little after running headlong into this immovable wall
Part 5
But what was Lilith really?
She was one of the world class demon lords, but she had no horns on her head or wings on her back. She did not breathe fire and her eyes did not petrify. I had lived with her for years, but nothing at all had made suspect she was an Archenemy.
That was just how human she seed.
Virtual reality had its upsides and its downsides. After being sliced and crushed as a garlic so much, I felt like I could sowhat suppress the fear of pain trying to hold back.
I could do this now. I could.
Or so I thought.
And yet.
Nevertheless.
She was overwhelming.
This was not martial arts or self-defense techniques. It was a seductive dance that sucked all the air out of an evening party.
I did weigh around 60kg. Over short distances, I could run about 20kph if I had to. That might not seem like much, but if I ran full speed into her without bracing for impact at all, it would provide the sa impact as a collision with a light scooter. My slender stepmom with a blouse so thin her black bra showed through and jeans so tight the shape of her butt showed through weighed less than 50kg, so it wouldnt surprise if she was knocked away.
But reality was different.
Amatsu Yurina spiraled around. Her red hair drew a large circle as it trailed after her like a tail light. Once I realized she had just barely dodged my tackle, I felt a soft sensation on my back. Of all things, we were standing back to back. And as if she were pressing against a revolving door, she actually added to my montum.
I passed right through where she had been, as if I had charged full speed into so fog or an illusion. And I slamd nose-first into a square column.
Khahh!?
Oh, that looked like it hurt. But each blow like that will give you depth, Satori.
Her gentle voice froze my spine. Before I could look back, I decided to crouch as if falling straight down.
That entire solid column shook and a large crack ran through its side. That had probably been caused by the long leg raised to face height. If that had hit the back of my head, it wouldve crushed my dulla oblongata like an empty can!!
Cold sweat soaked my body as I looked to my hand instead of checking behind . I glanced at the smartphone screen to see what advice Maxwell had for !
Warning: The left-
That was the limit. I rolled with all my might in the designated direction. At face height, Amatsu Yurinas leg had sent a crack through a column thick enough to support the lobby and this ti it moved vertically instead of horizontally. Her heel dropped down like a teor and tore into the linoleum floor.
And even though I dodged, I felt scorching pain running through my entire back. I clenched my teeth and checked the screen.
Warning: The left should be avoided. It is covered with the shards of a broken fluorescent light.
Dammit. Maxwells simulation is accurate, but I dont have ti to read the ssage and then move. This isnt a Nostradamus prophecy, so coming up with a fitting interpretation after the fact isnt good enough!
My stepmom did not make a follow-up attack.
She was also leaving my sisters and the Class Rep alone.
She was fundantally different from the Bright Cross or the people from the convalescent hospital. She was not trying to settle things as quickly as possible with the greatest amount of damage possible. She was trying to stretch this out so she could enjoy it so more.
Yes.
This was not a professional baring her fangs against a disobedient amateur high school boy. Quite the opposite. She was looking the stubborn child in the eye and showing him what the world of a professional was like.
Satooori. Ill play this ga with you today, but Ill give you the answer up front: you cannot defeat .
Its true I might be a confusing sort of Archenemy. Im not covered in dragon scales and I dont have nine tails growing from my butt. However, that is the real issue here. Erika, Ayumi, and even Class Rep-chan, who took a step toward becoming a hunter earlier, might stand a chance. But, Satori, there is no chance at all of you winning. Because
Lilith is still viewed as one of the demon lords and so theories say she controls sloth, one of the seven deadly sins, said Maxwell. But she is also said to be one of the first humans created by god along with Adam, thus predating Eve.
Human?
Yes. Amatsu Yurina made it sound so simple. Adam was created by god and Eve was newly created from his rib. That ans both man and woman are missing sothing and the ritual of marriage is used to make them whole again.
But that process does not apply to . I was not split off from Adam. I am loathed more than anyone, but I also possess the full set of what it takes to be human. Just like a living fossil drifting deep in the ocean. Hey, Satori, are you familiar with the concept of the Adam Kadmon? It refers to the original form of man or the ideal form of what humankind should be. To wield power equal to gods own, so magic cabals use ditation and isolation to cleanse themselves of the worlds impurities in order to reach that state. But since that form was split when the rib was taken and they were stained with original sin, anyone born from Adam and Eve would honestly have a very difficult ti accomplishing that. Although with modern dicine extending peoples lifespan, they might just barely be able to accomplish it if they continually trained themselves over a lifeti. That said
Warning!
It has nothing to do with since I remain whole and, even if I am wicked, I never once reached for the forbidden fruit. You are an incomplete human and I am a complete human, so there is no way you can defeat . So. While a vampire or zombie might have so chanceyou have none whatsoever since you exist in the sa human frawork as .
The trailing end of her beautiful words blurred.
Hell approached from dead ahead. And it took the form of a huntress licking her lips.
Wah!!
I rolled along the glass-covered floor to escape her falling heel, but before I could get up, I struggled in vain by grabbing a piece of plywood lying on the floor. It was probably leftover from covering up the windows.
But her hand easily broke through the wood I raised like a shield. My heart pounded wildly in my chest as I rolled along the floor with no concern for the injury that caused. My clothes and hair were covered in small shards of glass and Amatsu Yurina continued pursuit. She would use her hand or her foot.
Before long, I noticed sothing.
I was still alive, but it wasnt my doing. Nor was it thanks to Maxwell. I was up against a legit demon lord who could reign supre against all 7 billion people on earth and who so theories said ruled one of the seven deadly sins. No matter how much I resisted, there was no way an amateur high school boy could avoid her attacks just by rolling around.
Mom.
What is it, Satori?
Are you toying with ?
You could also say Im entertaining you. This isnt really the sa as a family party ga where you grab at each others hair, is it? Dont worry. As a demon lord, I excel at playing the host, so Ill make sure you arent bored. Entertaining a party of legendary heroes is a simple task.
This was the sa as a basic magic trick using playing cards. Her movents were normally far too fast to follow, but there were odd cracks in that speed just before a truly devastating attack. It was for less than a third of a second, but it felt odd, like a video lagging slightly. Basically, it was like she was giving a warning before she used a major attack. But if I had not cald down after the blood rushed to my head, I wouldnt have noticed and I would have assud it was all thanks to my own excellent instincts. I would have mistaken it for Hero Amatsu Satori releasing his latent talent after being cornered by Evil Demon Lord Lilith.
Dammit!!
In a samurai or kung fu movie, the overall quality of the product was just as influenced by the lead as it was the defeated villain and mooks. That was why my stepmom had described it as entertaining .
She was an expert at making you feel that a human could defeat a legit demon lord, that you were special, and that you were the greatest genius. And that would lead you to forget your awe of the inhuman and the necessity of hard work, stopping any further growth and making you grow rusty. That may have been why she was given as a candidate for the demon lord of sloth.
I couldnt let my eyes get used to this. I couldnt let it go to my head. It was the sa as the slow and gentle pronunciations in a conversational English lesson. If I let myself get used to that and then I was thrown into the middle of New York, I would never be able to keep up and I would be swallowed up by the deluge of words. So I had to maintain the accuracy of my internal clock. If not, I would be defeated by the inevitable discrepancy. As soon as my mind went blank, a single blow would end it.
I remained wary.
I understood what was going on.
But even that sense of understanding was a deadly poison.
A mont later, Amatsu Yurina had slipped right up to and she did not hesitate to produce a loud impact at my solar plexus.
Part 6
At first, I gasped for breath.
Before the pain and suffering could catch up, the soles of my shoes rose up from the filthy floor. Then my entire body flew parallel to the floor. I heard a dull and heavy sound as my back collided with the reception counter and my remaining montum bounced straight up. Then I fell behind the counter.
Khah!? Gh, ugh, ah, cough, cough!! Ghhhhhh!!
I couldnt breathe.
Even my cries were muffled.
Ah ha ha. Satori, this isnt like you.
I heard approaching footsteps on the other side of the counter.
You arent the main character of a shounen manga. When you encounter an incomprehensible situation or monster, were you the kind of person to start by clenching your fist? I know you know what would happen if you tried to fight a zombie or vampire.
Normally, you would start by hiding and observing. Wouldnt you use Maxwell to analyze everything from their actions and environnt to their words and legends? You know the value of a life, so you would never step out into the open until you had set things up so you could win. Isnt that right?
Could it be?
I had predicted that she played the villain so her opponent would get carried away, but was even that realization a part of it?
I might be able to win today. Amatsu Yurinas words stabbed into . I might be able to do it now. I might be able to cross that red light. I might be able to get this mahjong tile through. Thats not how it works, Satori. Probability isnt going to alter itself after the fact to work in your favor. Quantum theory isnt all powerful and it isnt going to help you out in your everyday life.
Sothing exploded.
It took a while to realize it ca from her kicking the entire plastic counter from the other side. The power cables for the lamps and computers on the counter were torn apart and whipped about. The obstacle was smashed, a heavy impact ran through my back, and I collided with the tal lockers lined up behind the counter.
More than having trouble breathing, I forgot to even cough this ti. I couldnt see what my stepmom looked like right now. My vision was sparking, so I couldnt tell if it was a beautiful woman standing there or if a horned monster had stripped away her human skin.
I was in trouble.
There was no strength left in my body.
The thoughts in my head, the fear tornting , and my desperate resistance may have all been part of so script.
I doubted my stepmom actually intended to kill . She had said as much herself. She was not even letting up onto that stage. This was not a fight to the death.
Had I screwed up at the very beginning?
For example, when you spot a monster wearing a hockey mask and wielding a chainsaw, you can choose to desperately hold your breath or casually call out to them. Had I made the wrong decision at the very, very start like that?
Gh, coughno.
I desperately worked to gather my mostly scattered thoughts.
That wasnt it. I hadnt made a mistake. After all, I couldnt go along with Amatsu Yurinas plan. I couldnt accept a future that only saved a few thousand out of 7 billion people! That was less than 1%! Humanity might not be destroyed. We might quickly retake the planet with reproductive power greater than cockroaches. But that was no reason to accept 7 billion deaths. I had to point out that was wrong! If no one else would say it, then I would have to switch the rails myself!!
What could I do?
What could I do from here?
I was not a legendary martial artist and I was not a hero with a demon lords soul embedded in my body. To be honest, I would have difficulty even standing up under my own power after being pumled to this extent. Sharp pieces of the plastic counter were scattered around like glass shards and the torn power cables were lying around. Grabbing those would not be enough to reach Amatsu Yurina, my stepmom. Even if I asked Maxwell to search for the traits and legends of Archenemy Lilith, I wouldnt be able to use that knowledge in any practical way.
But.
Wait.
What if?
What is it, Satori? Are you tired of trying to look so manly?
The demon lord in jeans and a blouse so thin her black bra showed through had walked right up to .
She slowly crouched down, bent over, and grabbed my hair with her slender hand.
Gah!?
You can give up if you want. Ill show you how passing out can feel quite good depending on how it happens, so dont fear. But as your mother, I honestly wanted to see you show off a bit more.
I needed an opening.
Sharp plastic shards and torn power cables littered the floor. To use one of them, I needed to make her mind go blank for even half a second.
Mo-
Mo?
Mom
What is it, Satori?
And.
I still could barely move, but I slowly opened my mouth and spoke.
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Amatsu Yurina frowned a bit.
But I did not repeat myself. That would defeat the purpose of it.
You said this isnt like , didnt you?
Wait. What was that just now?
But didnt it ever occur to you that everything was going a little too well for you? Almost like the entire world was gently guiding you in that direction?
My stepmom was no fool.
She had all the skill implied by the na Archenemy Lilith. But that was why she would definitely notice this tiny thing.
Had she seen my expression or my fingertips? It didnt matter. She would notice that my body was jerking to a stop at tis. Just like an online video lagging due to a poor connection.
So I had to say it.
I had to give the decisive statent.
When the Dhampir-ized Class Rep was too much to handle, we placed the headband-style dive device on her head to tear away her consciousness and protect her. Youre an even more formidable opponent than the Class Rep, so how can you be sure the sa thing hasnt happened to you? You knew my sisters and I had used that thod before.
Are that voice and your jerky movents so kind of bug or error?
With her long, fluffy red hair tied back with a hair tie, Amatsu Yurina remained crouched and looked around with my hair in her hand.
Kh!! When did you trap in the simul-!?
The Archenemys words were cut off. There was a simple reason why: My hand had silently crawled along the floor and grabbed one of the torn power cables.
Just kidding.
A horrific zap reverberated through the room and my own body jerked violently since she was holding my head.
Amatsu Yurina was a true demon lord. But at the sa ti, she was apparently a human made along with Adam. In that case, her bodily structure was no different. If she was strangled, tranquilized, or hit with an electric shock, she would lose consciousness like normal.
It happened almost too easily.
With no scream or cry, the beautiful demon lord collapsed to the side.
Part 7
I slowly breathed in and out while gradually tensing each of my muscles to see how my body was doing. Nothing seed broken or torn, but I had needed to use every trick in the book to avoid that. If I pushed myself again today, I was pretty sure all of my muscles really would snap.
Even after I finally got up, I stared blankly into the distance for a while.
What was with today?
My sisters had gotten into a fight, the abandoned hospitals Ghost had sent groups of killer motocross bikes after us while pretending to be Maxwell, the Class Rep had turned into a Dhampir and back again, it had all been broadcast online so I was being treated like a hero by the Archenemies, and then my stepmother in a blouse so thin her black bra showed through and jeans so tight the shape of her butt showed through had turned out to be a real demon lord. If I wrote this up as a blog entry, it would cause all of the readers to leave like a receding wave! I was supposed to be the normal one, but hadnt that needle rotated way too far in the opposite direction!? I know it isnt my place to say that, but still!!
I pulled the torn power cable from the outlet and used it to tie Amatsu Yurinas hands behind her back. Although I had no idea if that would be of any use against an incarnation of evil that did not actually appear in Genesis but whose shadow could be glimpsed here and there. At the very least, it was better than nothing.
S-Satori-kun?
Class Rep.
I sluggishly looked over while tying up my stepmom and I saw the Class Rep pushing up her glasses while soaked red with who-knows-whose blood. Erika and Ayumi were also approaching. It looked like everyone was safe. Even though this had been a fight between mother and son, I couldnt help but feel this was a miracle. How many tis had we slipped past certain doom in such a short period of ti?
I would ask if youre hurtbut it looks like youd have a harder ti finding a part of you that isnt hurt.
Fuguu. Just how immature is mom?
Oh, right.
Erika, Ayumi. Did you know that she was, um, one hell of an Archenemy?
Of course not. She kind of had the scent of an Archenemy, but we never would have guessed she was Lilith. Thats a legit demon lord.
Um, Im a zombie and Onee-chan is a vampire. And our hair color is black and blonde respectively. Onii-chan, you could imagine it was sothing of a complicated household before we joined with yours, right?
Well, more or less
My parents divorce was not a topic I enjoyed, so I had thought it was good manners to not delve too deeply into such things. But now that I thought about it, it was certainly possible that Amatsu Yurina was a stepmother for my sisters as well as .
But I could learn all that bit by bit. Erika and Ayumi would tell when they were good and ready. And if they never wanted to, I wouldnt force the issue. Plus, there was no need to ask them about it while we stayed in this creepy convalescent hospital. We had done everything we needed to do. We could deal with the rest after returning ho.
But was that really true?
For so reason, I felt like I was forgetting sothing. I had been putting it off because we kept finding ourselves in so kind of trouble, but there had to be so mystery remaining in the abandoned hospital.
Oh, thats right.
Why did mom co to this hospital?
She had relayed the events in the Peace Committee Convalescent Hospital to produce a reaction in the worlds Archenemies, but was there any real reason why she had to set foot inside the hospital herself? She could relay it all just by setting up a bunch of caras in advance and the Ghost had been fully functional to start with. She could have used the caras on the deadly motocross bikes.
For my stepmom, Amatsu Yurina, we may have only been one of her objectives. If I started getting suspicious here, there would be no end to it, but what if she did have more than one objective? What was the second objective that forced her to visit the abandoned hospital deep in the woods?
We had searched through the abandoned hospital from the top floor to the basent. This place had been used to research a spare plan ant to replace the threat and deterrence system guided by the death penalty implented by the Bright Crosss Colosseum. Instead of killing the Archenemies, they would externally control their movents, nip any cris in the bud, and endlessly tamper with the system ant to maintain order.
But did my stepmom need that? According to her, the world was ending soon and only the few thousand who could fit in the Absolute Noah would be saved. Amatsu Yurina assud that the current system would be smashed to smithereens, so she wouldnt need a system to control society. Just like a thod of getting a perfect 100 on a test was aningless once the school itself was blown up.
But what else was there?
The abandoned hospitals Ghost had possessed the Polish Vampire Princesss cursed coffin to test its thods. As the Class Rep had proven, that could be used to endlessly create vampires. But that didnt seem enough for such a great demon lord to seek it out. Archenemy Lilith was simply on a different level from vampires. It was like making Satan and a succubus fight. And if she only needed a vampire, she had Erika, a queen-class, at ho. She had no reason at all to go this far out of her way to procure a vampire.
In that case, was there still sothing else here?
Sothing fearso enough to catch the interest of a demon lord ntioned in holy texts?
Wait.
Satori-kun?
There is an area we still havent explored.
That was right.
Back on the basent floor of this hospital, hadnt the inner walls of the distorted rectangle of hallways been entirely covered in bloody writing and magic circles? There hadnt been any doors and it was possible any entrance had been filled in with concrete. What slept there? At the very least, it had nothing to do with the Polish Vampire Princess. We had found and destroyed the coffin elsewhere and that had saved the Class Rep from the curse.
All things had a beginning.
What had initially led the people at this convalescent hospital to seek out sothing as ridiculous as an absolute guidance society? No, what had they seen and feared that made them think that pipe dream was necessary? There had to have been sothing. And they had gone out of their way to seal it away just like an unmanageable contaminant spill being sealed up in a stone tomb.
What?
The next thing I knew, I was speaking to no one in particular.
What is in the basent?
No one was expecting an answer.
But a kind female voice provided one regardless. It ca from Amatsu Yurina, who had supposedly been knocked out by an electric current and had her hands tied behind her back.
Isnt that obvious? A true monster.
I didnt have ti to ask for clarification.
A mont later, the entire abandoned hospital and perhaps the entire dark forest surrounding it shook violently as if being thrust upwards from below.
I more or less understood.
My stepmom had wanted to do sothing before this happened, we had interfered with her schedule, and because she had been too late, the worst case scenario was erupting from the sealed part of the basent.
There was already no guarantee of safety in this abandoned building, so it could collapse at any ti with all this shaking. But that normal sort of fear was the furthest thing from our minds. Sothing much worse and much more brutal was arriving. And that robbed every other thought from us.
It was coming.
Sothing was approaching.
Thud, thud. That was all it was: thud, thud. The series of sounds was as accurate as the ticking of a clock and I quickly realized they were footsteps. They ca from the elevator hallno, from the ergency stairs installed there. This fear was far more horrifying than the collapse of the Peace Committee Convalescent Hospital. The fact that sothing like this could walk on two feet was sohow refreshing and almost elicited so out-of-place laughter from .
No one could move.
Not , not the Class Rep, not Erika, not Ayumi, and not even Demon Lord Amatsu Yurina.
And.
And.
And.
A smooth silhouette appeared in the abandoned hospitals main lobby
[keep watch] Random Conversation Data for AI Learning [from the ghost cat]
The most fearso Archenemy? Good question. Using the current definition, probably Echidna, Azazel, Lilith, or Angrboda. They all had many children that frightened even the gods. Angrboda created Fenrir with Loki and Fenrir devoured Odin, so that was probably the largest-scale upset possible. And with Azazel, god had to use Noahs flood to reset the entire world. The scope of damage is on another level entirely.
The ranking of Archenemies honestly has nothing to do with how sharp their fangs are or how toxic their venom is. No matter how powerful they are as an individual, an individual is powerless when faced with the whole. In that way, the most frightening individual would be one with the reproductive power to swallow up the whole and steal away the position of the majority.
Yes.
So of them are praised as demon lords, but when it cos to individual strength, human hunters might actually have the upper hand.
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