04. Uncomfortable Cohabitation (2)

“Certatus… ?”

Baek Ji-soo kept his barrage and glared at the devil who occupied Kim I-jin’s body.

The names of the twenty-eight greatest demons and the seventy-one demons she knew flashed past.

Nowhere was the name of the demon named Kertatus. It was also the first time I heard the name of the demon of struggle.

‘Is it a devil that is not great for a plausible name… ?’

Then it might be easier than I thought to get rid of Kim Yi-jin’s body.

[“Yes! Kertatus! Demon of struggle! Hell’s best fighter! Even an insignificant human must have heard of my name, right? Now, break these chains! If it’s now, I’ll tear it up so it doesn’t hurt!”]

Originally, he had no intention of releasing it, but Baek Ji-soo had no intention of loosening the chains.

“That’s the first name I’ve heard of.”

Baek Ji-soo raised his cane and slowly walked back. He was to retrieve the three-person sword.

It seems that the leadership of the body has now passed to the devil, but if the devil’s power is suppressed, there is a high probability that Kim Yi-jin will regain the initiative.

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Just looking at that state, I wondered if Kim Yi-jin was still awake.

I just hope that he remains conscious and watches the situation.

[“What? You don’t know my name? This Certatus? … How long has it been since I fell asleep?”

“I only have one thing to tell you.”

Baek Ji-soo picked up the three-person sword that fell on the floor and aimed it at the devil.

She’s not a swordsman, so it was difficult to resonate with her three-person sword enough to use her unique skill, but it was possible to hold her sword and aim it.

“If you poke it with this, it will hurt enough to make you want to die.”

Of course, since it was Kim Yi-jin’s body, I really didn’t intend to stab him.

But it must be threatening enough for the devil to see.

“Go back to where you were right now. Otherwise, I will beg you to kill me.”

In the world 10 years from now, Baek Ji-soo has dealt with demons so many times that he is tired of them.

Although their forces were too strong to save the world from destruction, that didn’t mean that Baek Ji-soo and her forces were helpless by the devil.

In this time period, no one was as skilled at torturing demons as Baek Ji-soo.

[“Ha! How dare you threaten me with a human subject? Do you know that I can’t untie even one of these chains?”]

The demon that took over Kim Yi-jin’s body gave strength to her entire body tied to her chains.

Charleureung! The chains were pulled tight and made a clicking sound.

[“Huh… aaa!!”]

Tsar Tomb… Charrureung! The chains of light made of magical energy sway dangerously as if they would break at any moment.

‘This much power while being tied to the bar… ?’

At this rate, the chains would really break, so Baek Ji-soo hurriedly put the tip of the sword of the three-person sword to Kim I-jin’s chest.

Chiiik-!

[“Quaaa!!!! This fucking bitch yeee!!!”]

Certatus screamed very loudly when he touched it lightly.

As expected, it was so reliable that it was called the sword of exorcism.

“… Now you know That there is no place for you in that body.”

I don’t know if the performance will be this good, so Baek Ji-su glares at the devil with a cool expression, hiding his slightly bewildered feelings.

“If you don’t want to die tied up and tortured, you’d better go home.”

In the aftermath of the three-man sword, the demon was chained and limp.

He opened his mouth in a rather languid voice.

[“Huh, heh heh… go back? Where? Human bitch. I think I misunderstood something… I’m not really possessed by this guy.”]

“Isn’t it Possession?”

Baek Ji-soo gently frowned at the devil’s unexpected remark.

[“Yes. My soul has already become one body with this guy’s heart. If you want to get me out, you’ll have to take this human kid’s heart out? I don’t know how long a person without a heart can live… Khehehehe.”]

“… ….”

It’s not that I possessed it, but that I became one with the devil.

The situation was much more serious than Baek Ji-soo’s expectations.

“You are a demon without a body. That bead was your soul.”

At this time, the devil can’t come out of the tower ‘yet’.

Only minimal intervention is possible outside the tower, such as occasionally possessing demon worshipers or sending down one’s own avatar. This is because no more causal law was allowed in the world.

With that minimal intervention, the world is becoming more and more messed up….

So I thought that was the case even now. It is said that when a demon dies, its soul remains, but this is because no demon with a dead body has yet existed at this time.

But it did exist. The hundredth demon that does not belong to the ninety-nine demons that rule the tower.

Why didn’t I think of that? If the absurd thing that turns mana into magic is possible, then you must have already known that only the devil could do it.

‘I put too much faith in future knowledge….’

He has the knowledge of the future that he did not know.

That was the reason for the misjudgment.

If I had known that the devil’s soul would cling to Kim Yi-jin, I would never have left him alone like that.

“Kuh… !”

Remorse is too late no matter how fast it is. Baek Ji-soo raised his cane as he forcibly held on to his heart that was about to collapse with guilt.

“Give up. You cannot claim that body!”

As long as I am, I will never let you do that.

If necessary, even with the help of the master and sister-in-law.

[“Occupy and sleep, and this body is already mine. What can a human bitch like you do? Huh? What can the owner of this body, a human child, do now!”]

Chiihii-!

[“Keuhhhhh!!! Stop it, you fucking bitch!!!!”]

The effect of the three-person sword made by Kim Yi-jin was more certain than the stick margin that Baek Ji-soo learned.

Certatus laughed at Yi-jin Kim, saying what he could do, but Ji-soo Baek did not agree.

Because of the three-person sword he made, Kim Yi-jin was able to keep from being possessed by the devil.

[“Heo Eok, Heo Eok… If only my body was intact, I would have sneered at that trash-like black and smashed it… This Kertatus humiliated such a human… ?”]

“… ….”

[“Wait… If I just recover my strength, I will repay you for this humiliation hundreds of times!”

It would have been nice if I could have dismissed that statement as just a bluff.

Baek Ji-soo, who knows about the devil better than anyone else, knew that he should never let those words go unnoticed.

No matter how much the three-person sword is a counter to demons, the sword itself is at most an A-rank equipment.

At that level, even though it may work for semi-S-class demons, it doesn’t work for real demons.

Not to mention, a twenty-eight-year-old archangel is powerful enough to stand up to an archangel. I will accept with a smile the power of a fair amount of resistance.

Even if you half believe in the devil’s words that he was the strongest demon in hell, if you can recover that power, at some point the three-person sword will no longer be effective.

Because when the darkness is too thick, the light cannot overcome the darkness.

You must kill the demon right away before it recovers more power than it does now in Kim Yi-jin’s body.

That way is the best. Reason says that’s right.

‘No… can not.’

That means the same thing as killing Kim Yi-jin.

Now, the boy who barely escaped death must be killed again.

The boy who saved his own life and countless others.

Baek Ji-soo did not have the confidence to bear the weight.

‘How… What should I do?’

Think.

Think about it, Baek Ji-soo.

I clenched my fists tightly and chewed my lips. How can I get the devil away from Kim Yi-jin?

‘Should I put the three-person sword in my hand again?’

But what if there is an irreversible fatal wound on Kim Yi-jin’s body?

Once he regains his strength, Kertatus will not return quietly.

Even if I managed to put the devil to sleep once more, I wouldn’t be able to hold the three-sword in my hand.

Kim Yi-jin will have his own life, and even if that is possible, someday there will be a limit to suppressing it with the power of the three swords.

What would Kim Yi-jin do?

If so, what kind of answer would you have come up with?

I suddenly remembered what Kim Yi-jin said in front of the beads a few days ago.

‘Then can’t that be stopped?’

A change of thinking.

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Just as you can stop if you can’t get rid of the marble, if you can’t get rid of the devil, just let Kim Yi-jin take the initiative.

The reason why the devil has the upper hand right now is because the devil is stronger than Kim Yi-jin.

Then what if I made Kim Yi-jin stronger than the devil?

‘It’s worth trying.’

Above all, there is nothing to lose even if you fail.

Although her mana would have been significantly reduced, it didn’t matter at all to Baek Ji-soo now.

[“You… You, human bitch!? What are you going to do now?”]

Baek Ji-soo grabbed Kim I-jin’s hospital gown top, which was tied with chains.

Her little fingers began carefully unbuttoning her buttons one by one.

The devil talked about something, but it didn’t reach Baek Ji-soo’s ears at all.

I had hoped that Kim Yi-jin would remain conscious until just now, but now I desperately wished that he had lost consciousness.