My head is throbbing.
My eyelids are so heavy that I can’t possibly open my eyes.
My consciousness is hazy, like being in a thick fog.
I wanted to fall back asleep and let go of consciousness, but I couldn’t do that.
“Uiiii…! I’m dying! I’m dying!”
“Ohohoho!”
The tapping sounds and high-pitched laughter penetrated my ears and shook my brain.
“Aaaam~ Nom nom!”
“Stop it! Stop it! Stop it I say!”
“Has the liver marinated well? I can swallow it like this.”
“Ugyaaaa!”
What on earth are they doing to make such noise?
Unable to contain his curiosity and irritation, Choi Hyun-seok slowly opened his eyes.
The sight that entered his eyes was more shocking than expected.
‘What are they doing…?’
Hemis is repeatedly putting Rachel in and out of her mouth with her snow-white hands.
Rachel seed to be desperately resisting, but who is she up against?
It’s just a aningless struggle.
“Ueeeee…!”
“Nom!”
After Hemis swallowed Rachel.
A mont later, she puts her hand in her mouth to take Rachel out again.
Rachel, collapsed on the floor, raises her hand while trembling.
“Sa, save …”
“My, what are you saying? Soone might misunderstand that I’m hurting you.”
“What you’re doing right now is harm! You devil!”
“This is amusent, it’s called play. Why are you acting like this when you’re enjoying it too?”
“Uaaaaa!”
Hemis picked up Rachel again.
Just as Rachel was about to enter the stretched-open mouth.
Choi Hyun-seok opened his mouth.
“… What are you doing?”
His voice cracks due to his dry mouth.
Hearing the voice, Hemis stopped and turned to look at him.
“Are you awake?”
“Hueeong! Hero! Please save ! The lip monster is trying to eat , no. She is eating !”
His head started throbbing more.
Was it simply because he wasn’t feeling well?
Or was it because of this ridiculous situation?
Choi Hyun-seok was certain it was more due to the latter.
“… I need an explanation. Why am I here?”
Choi Hyun-seok couldn’t understand.
He was definitely having a final battle with the Pope.
More precisely, it was buying ti for Park Hyun-a to escape.
Anyway, he fought against the Pope using every last bit of his strength.
And lost consciousness.
Death should have been the natural outco, so why was he lying in an unfamiliar cave with Hemis?
Could this possibly be the afterlife?
“I saved you.”
At her words about saving him, Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes narrowed.
‘Saved in that situation…?’
Choi Hyun-seok, who fought there himself, knew best how many enemies were present.
Moreover, the Pope’s power was beyond imagination.
Even for Hemis, it wouldn’t have been an easy situation to escape from.
He couldn’t believe that she had escaped from the middle of such a battlefield while carrying him when he was nearly dead.
‘The Pope would have tried to dispose of by any ans.’
Choi Hyun-seok absolutely couldn’t think that he had survived thanks to being put in Hemis’s mouth like Rachel.
“Did you do it alone?”
“I did mobilize so of my subordinates… Well, I essentially saved you alone”
Since her subordinates were power belonging to her, it seed right to consider it as doing it alone.
“Anyway, I brought you here and waited until you woke up.”
“… Thank you.”
Choi Hyun-seok had many questions but decided to learn about them gradually.
‘I feel like I’m dying…’
First, he needed to recover his tired body.
He could hardly maintain his sanity as his eyeballs felt like they were being pulled out and his head felt like it was about to burst.
“Um… Sorry, but I think I need to rest a bit more…”
“Rest comfortably. I’ll just keep playing with this fairy.”
“He, Hero! What nonsense is this! Get up right now! Hero!!!”
“Rachel… Please shut up… My head is ringing…”
“Alright.”
“Kyaaaa! Don’t do it!”
Choi Hyun-seok closed his eyes at the last sight of Hemis swallowing Rachel again.
***
When Choi Hyun-seok opened his eyes again, it was a day later.
He carefully got up from his place in much-improved condition.
“Ah, I really almost died.”
When he got up, he saw Rachel stuck to the floor like sli, half unconscious.
“What are you doing?”
“Don’t talk to …”
“Fine.”
When Choi Hyun-seok ignored her and tried to leave the cave, Rachel jumped up.
“What am I supposed to do if you really leave!?”
“You told not to talk to you.”
“Even so, that’s too much! Hero, do you have no blood or tears!? Conscience! Guilt! Compassion! Do you have no humanity!?”
“If you’re going to talk nonsense, I’m leaving.”
“Uiiii…!”
Rachel trembled with feelings of hurt and injustice.
She had endured such hardships staying by his side these past few days!
Of course, she hadn’t particularly helped in healing Choi Hyun-seok.
And the hardships she endured had nothing to do with Choi Hyun-seok either.
But still!
What’s important is that she suffered greatly.
Yet that cold-blooded hero doesn’t understand her feelings and treats her like leftover rice.
Her heart ached.
“Where did Lady Hemis go?”
“Hmph! I don’t know! She probably went to eat so innocent animals again! Like a barbarian!”
“That’s rich coming from soone who likes to catch and grill innocent animals. Anyway, I get it.”
She probably went to fill her stomach.
Choi Hyun-seok sat down and decided to wait until Hemis returned.
He needed to check his condition anyway.
“First, the hero quest.”
The first thing he did was check his hero quest.
The last quest he received was to stop the Empire’s Sacrifice.
By checking whether the quest was completed, he could also know if the operation was successful.
[You have failed the hero quest!]
[The Empire’s Sacrifice will be activated!]
The first thing he saw was the failure notice.
Choi Hyun-seok cursed with a sigh.
“So it ended up like this.”
Despite fighting so hard to prevent the Empire’s Sacrifice.
He failed.
What has happened to the continent now?
Various questions arose, but he continued reading the ssages for now.
There were more notifications after that.
“Hm?”
Choi Hyun-seok’s eyebrows twitched as he read the next ssage.
The state of the ssages was very strange.
[New hero, que[email protected] begin….]
It seed like it was trying to give a new hero quest.
Up to here was sowhat readable, but the problem was what ca next.
★☆#☆ Hero Que@#t! ★%@☆
This! No [email protected]# ti,
@#to, [email protected][email protected]
Wor[email protected]%#[email protected]@
Choi Hyun-seok blinked and rubbed his eyes with his hands.
“What is this?”
He couldn’t understand the content at all.
Like a corrupted computer file, all the text was broken and unreadable.
After staring at the ssages for a while trying to figure out what they ant, Choi Hyun-seok gave up and closed them.
‘The first line probably said sothing about ti running out. Could sothing have happened to the god?’
He made his own guesses, but couldn’t be certain of anything right now.
‘I wonder if older sister would know what’s going on.’
Park Hyun-a, being knowledgeable about various things, might know sothing.
At that mont of thought.
“Ah! What happened to older sister!?”
Did Park Hyun-a survive?
He tried his best to save her, but he wasn’t sure if she really made it.
‘If I had known Hemis would co, I wouldn’t have pushed myself so hard…’
That thought is aningless now.
Choi Hyun-seok made the best choice he could at that mont.
He has no regrets.
However, he desperately hoped that Park Hyun-a had survived as a result.
‘Failed to stop the Empire’s Sacrifice. System ssages are strange. Don’t know if older sister is alive or dead. Everything is terrible in many ways.’
He doesn’t even know how long he was unconscious.
Choi Hyun-seok called out to Rachel who was lying face down beside him.
“Rachel. How long was I out?”
“About 4 days? Maybe 5?”
“I was out longer than I thought.”
It’s been a while since he lost consciousness for such a long ti.
His body, far transcending human limits, usually didn’t break down easily.
This was proof of how much Choi Hyun-seok had pushed himself in the final battle.
“Are you up?”
Turning to the voice, he saw Hemis walking in from outside the cave.
“Yes. Thanks to you, my body has recovered a lot. Thank you.”
“No need to thank particularly. I just did it because I thought it would be interesting.”
Hemis said with a grin.
Maybe it’s because her face is pretty.
The smile that always felt bizarre sohow looks warm today.
“By the way, where did you go?”
“I went to check on the situation outside. I was curious about what’s happening on the continent.”
“Ah! Please tell too!”
Choi Hyun-seok brightened up.
Right now, information was what he needed most desperately.
Hemis had a strange talent for gathering information others didn’t know, so she might know well about the current situation.
“Hmm~ To summarize, the continent is on the verge of destruction. That’s how I would put it.”
“… That seems a bit too summarized.”
“I’ll explain in detail if you want.”
Hemis summarized the information she had gathered.
That people had turned into fanatics due to the Empire’s Sacrifice.
That most kingdoms except for a few had fallen, and even now an enormous number of fanatics were sweeping across the continent harming people.
“In my view, humans are finished. This is absolutely not a catastrophe that humans can stop.”
“… Is it that bad?”
“Of course. Even a stupid orc could figure that out with a little thought.”
Hemis seed certain of humanity’s destruction.
It couldn’t be helped, as the difference in power was too severe.
“Even if you gathered all remaining human armies now, would they barely exceed a million? But the opponent has at least 50 million. Maybe even over 100 million.”
Just comparing numbers, the power difference is fifty to a hundred tis.
And since fanatics possessed power exceeding regular soldiers, the actual power difference had to be considered even greater.
“You and I could gradually reduce their numbers if we stepped in, but by then there would be no humans left on this continent.”
“Hmm…”
Choi Hyun-seok furrowed his brow deeply and fell into contemplation.
Of course, he expected the situation wouldn’t be good, but reality was far more serious than that.
At this rate, humans are finished.
Lost in thought, he suddenly rembered sothing and jumped up.
“Lady Hemis. Can you contact the Demon King’s Army?”
“I do get regular reports from Motem.”
“Then I have one request.”
“What request?”
“I need to et Demon King Sidriel right now.”
***
“King of humans?”
“Yes! We captured her wandering in the nearby forest!”
Reidrun crossed his arms and looked at the human woman before him.
‘What is she thinking?’
The power emanating from the woman is weak.
She seed sowhat trained, but had a fragile body that would burst from one light gesture from Reidrun.
Up to here was understandable.
Unlike demons, physical power wasn’t necessary to beco a human king.
The problem was that this woman claiming to be king ca to the Demon King’s castle alone.
‘It’s one of three things.’
Reidrun ford three hypotheses about this human woman.
Either she had multiple lives.
Or she underestimated demons.
Or she was simply insane.
Personally, Reidrun wanted to put weight on the last theory.
Seeing how she didn’t even flinch while facing the energy he was emitting, this human clearly had so screws loose.
“Though you claim to be king of humans, this is demon territory. I have no intention of showing courtesy.”
“Do as you wish.”
“Why did you co here?”
“I want to et the Demon King.”
“The Demon King is not soone with such leisure.”
At Reidrun’s words, the human woman, Ian Del Chersi, shook her head.
“Even without leisure, ti must be made. This concerns the demons’ survival too.”
“That’s not possible. Make a formal request for an audience and co back.”
“…”
“I’ll forgive this rudeness just this once. Next ti, I’ll behead you without warning.”
Demons and humans had signed a peace treaty.
That doesn’t an humans can walk around demon territory like their own ho.
Moreover, coming without notice and asking to et the Demon King.
Even if the other party is a kingdom’s monarch, such rudeness couldn’t be overlooked.
“Go back.”
“I just need a mont.”
“Human. I told you to go back.”
“I cannot do that.”
Reidrun’s eyebrows twitched.
Such attitude despite his show of generosity.
The energy emanating from his body grew stronger.
Ian’s body began trembling.
Regardless of will, her body was instinctively reacting to the killing intent.
However, even while trembling, her eyes remained calm.
“We’re also running out of ti. If we miss the timing, my proposal becos aningless. You’ll surely regret refusing this eting now.”
Reidrun couldn’t understand.
He was emitting energy that should make her lose consciousness at any mont.
Yet the woman before him was still speaking with a clear voice and gaze.
This shouldn’t be possible for a human without any particular magical power.
‘So this is what makes a king a king.’
She seed to have so backbone, but this was the limit.
There would be no end if they accepted every such request.
Then what aning would principles have?
“I gave sufficient warning.”
Reidrun raised his fist.
The mont it strikes down, this human would oxidize into a splash of blood.
Whether knowing this or not, Ian still stood there, looking clearly at Reidrun.
“Your courage is admirable, but in this world, there are more things that can’t be accomplished with courage alone. Don’t resent .”
Just before the red fist struck down.
A familiar male voice was heard.
“Why don’t we hear what she has to say?”
Reidrun looked at the man with round eyes.
The killing intent he had been emitting until just now disappeared without a trace, and his face was full of joy.
“Choi Hyun-seok!”
“It’s been a while, Lord Reidrun.”
Choi Hyun-seok stood there with a slight smile.
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