04. Uncomfortable Cohabitation (24)

“Collock! Cough Cough! Heo-eok… !”

Yuna put her hand on her bruised throat and coughed violently. As her lack of oxygen was supplied to her brain, her hazy vision barely became clear.

Philip’s screams ringing in his ears. I had never heard him scream in such agony.

When she looked up to see what was going on, she saw a face that was both familiar and unfamiliar.

“… Kim Ijin?”

Her face and physique hadn’t changed from the one I saw a few hours ago, so why couldn’t I be sure?

You suddenly appear with a scythe in a place where you shouldn’t be? Of course there are, but that’s not all.

What can I say? The appearance was different. A hairstyle that exposed the forehead as if it had been applied with pomade, an expression that became more ferocious like a beast in the wild, and a rough gesture. If he was an ordinary and healthy student during the day, now he is a good example of a bad student.

In a nutshell. He seemed like a very bad man.

Boom!

“Kuhhhhh!”

Philip rolled on the floor with an inelegant sound. It’s an ugly look, but it saved him from having his head cut twice.

The boy who looked like Kim Yi-jin laughed cruelly as he retrieved the black scythe that had been tucked into the ground.

“Avoid that? Hmmm, I thought I felt strangely bad. You sold your soul to the devil.”

“You… Are you that kid? What is it? I, I became a body that cannot be attacked physically… !?”

Unless it’s an Aura, you can’t hit an irregular being simply by using magic. It doesn’t even look like there’s any magic, so why the hell? Philip couldn’t understand the situation.

“Hey. Take out your magic and cool it down.”

Kim Yi-jin, who easily handled a scythe that was larger than his height like a toy and turned it round and round, soon showed a slashing posture with both hands. Like a reaper to harvest the deaths of evil beings.

“Because I want to see who signed the contract with you.”

From the scythe held by Kertatus, black magic rose like a haze. Only then did Philip understand why his arm had been cut off.

‘Don’t… Margie!’

A Magi can catch the same Magi. But then what? Are you saying that boy is a devil worshiper? If so, why is he attacking himself, a fellow devil worshiper? Solving one question leads to another.

The thought did not last long. The death god was approaching with a scythe, but there was no time to think leisurely. At the same time as Kertatus rushes in and swings his scythe, Phillip also spiritualizes his body and quickly backs away.

Philip appeared far away after turning into a black mist like the wind and flying away. His right arm had already regenerated.

“Die!”

At the same time, he takes out a knife from the inside of his butler’s uniform and throws it. Three in the right hand and three in the left. A total of six knives fly towards Kertatus.

“Hey!”

Kakang! Kakaga River!

Simply cut all the knives by spinning the scythe in a circle. One of them bounces into the air, then spins and falls down. Kertatus caught the falling knife with one hand.

A faint magic that leaves Phillip’s hand and disappears shimmering. But that was enough. Because this was the energy he knew.

“Ha. You were Imago’s contractor.”

An imaginary demon, Imago. I never thought that gloomy, eerie bitch was still alive.

Certatus felt joy and ecstasy. Imago is also one of the traitors who stabbed herself in the back and ate my flesh. I don’t know what kind of honor he saved his life so far, but if he’s still alive, he’ll tear them to death with his own hands.

“Now that you know roughly, quit now.”

When Kertatus filled his knife with demonic energy and flicked it with his finger, the knife was fired leaving a black trail like an afterimage.

Speed like a flash of light. Philip couldn’t react to the speed and was pierced through the stomach.

“Quaaagh!”

“Eomsal is. Are you going to die like that?”

Since you have contracted with the devil as well as the Awakener, one life force will last like a cockroach. You can tell just by looking at how he regenerated his right arm a moment ago. This is already a body that is hard to see as a human being.

However, even if he becomes a non-human body, he is a guy who can’t stand the pain and drags on. He gained a strong power, but the person who handled it was just plain ordinary.

That was natural. Even before becoming a devil worshiper, Philip had risen to this position with the high amount of magical energy he was born with rather than polishing his fighting skills to the limit. Due to her arrogance, carelessness, and negligence due to lack of persistence, Yuna was considered unsuitable as an escort and was excluded from the escort duty, but Philip did not acknowledge it and blamed it on Yuna and Chae Yeon-seo. That was the starting point of making a pact with the devil.

Of course, Kertatus didn’t know that. He was just less excited that it was a mediocre battle for a fighting demon.

“Whew.”

A flashing black trail. Philip couldn’t follow that speed with his eyes. The moment he noticed, all of his limbs had been severed.

“Turn off… Aww! My arm! Legs aaah!”

It was so loud that I was about to sigh. If you are a man, you should show the spirit to attack even if your limbs are cut off, even if you are crawling.

When I thought about that, I was much better than a kid. Even with his heart pierced, he did not give up the fight until the last moment. He even took a shot at himself. As the host of this body, a demon of struggle, it’s just a passing grade… No, fuck What are you thinking?

Anyway, there was nothing more to see. Kertatus decided to just end it.

Perhaps he read the emotion in his eyes, Philip opened his mouth with a terrified expression.

“You, what are you… What the hell! Suddenly appearing and disturbing… Who sent it? Are you the president? Don’t stick to those, those who are at the end of their lives, and rather transfer to the vice president. Twice what you paid… Oh no! Triple! The vice-president will give it to you no matter how many times!”

Is it a negotiation because you think you can’t do it by force? Do I have to cut off the head to be sure to kill it? The moment he was about to cut Philip’s throat with such a sullen expression.

“Wait! Don’t kill me!”

I heard Yuna’s urgent voice.

But the scythe was already falling downwards.

Fuck! The sound of sharp blades ripping through human skin and muscle could be heard. The scythe pierced Philip’s abdomen precisely. Phillip couldn’t even scream at the blow that was imbued with the strong demonic energy, and only let out a strange sound with his mouth open.

“Hey.”

A ghastly voice was heard.

Kertatus was glaring at Yuna with her eyes full of murder.

“Don’t order me.”

“Hick.”

Yuna felt goosebumps all over her body and something tightening in her heart. Live real This was the first time she felt like she could kill a person with just her gaze.

But I couldn’t give up like this. I don’t know why Kim Yi-jin has changed so much, but if he kills Philip now, the evidence of his uncle’s crime will just disappear.

“It’s not an order, it’s a request. Lee Jin, please save that man.”

“Binary? Oh, you crazy bitch.”

“Eh… ?”

Crazy… What? Yuna’s thoughts froze at the extremely explicit language. I won’t go so far as to say that this is the first time she’s heard swear words, because she hasn’t lived her smooth life either. Even in the recent fairgrounds, I encountered all kinds of double curses from panicked hunters and civilians.

But this man was the first person to spit double curses at himself in front of him like this.

She is the only daughter of your dear friend Claprot. She saw only the best food, ate only the best food, and surrounded by countless servants, and was loved and cherished by the chairman as her late daughter.

Even so lifelike… Strong… hot? It was the first time anyone looked at him with his eyes.

So, at this moment, Yuna didn’t know if this pounding heart was fear or some other emotion.

Certatus, in his own way, was in a bad mood because he had been mistaken for a boy and a person, and he had been hindered from doing what he was trying to do. He did not like to listen to other people’s orders. He was, whoever it was. He even had a fight with the demon god because he didn’t want to listen to orders, so it could be said that the Demon Realm recognizes his goddamn personality.

‘Oh, that’s it. This girl is also safe, so now I just need to retrieve the demon.’

I used up a lot of demonic energy while going on a wild rampage, but now all that remains is to absorb the demonic energy of the Death Side step by step.

There was even an additional income. This Phillip or this guy also made a contract with the devil, so he must have a pretty good magic. He could recover even more power if he absorbed even the demon’s demonic energy.

Coming to think of it that way, it wasn’t completely useless. Kertatus laughed and tried to move his heart to retrieve Philip’s demon energy, but his expression stiffened at the sudden feeling of discord inside his body.

‘Oh, wait. Already… ?’

Ijin Kim was about to wake up.

It took much longer than expected to save Yuna, and Kim Yi-jin woke up much sooner than Kertatus expected. Already one of her right arms stopped listening to her. Certatus had no choice but to release the scythe from his hand against his will.

“Keuugh!”

“Huh? Uh, what’s going on? It’s okay?”

Whatever the girl next to me was talking about, Certatus grabbed my heart and tried to regain as much control as possible. Kim I-jin, who was trying to wake up, and Kertatus, who was trying to put her back to sleep, clashed intensely inside.

“Gp… Gee, Mr… Heck!!”

“Kyaaah!”

Certatus vomited blood. It was because, while trembling all kinds of shit about getting his body back, he unknowingly touched his nervous system wrongly and suffered internal injuries.

‘No… no! What kind of luck is this!’

If you miss now, it will be a long time later to take away the body of a youngster. No, the child’s vigilance has grown so much that it may be difficult to even attempt this. Kertatus somehow tried to put Kim Yi-jin’s mind back to sleep.

The attempt was only half successful.

The consciousness of Kertatus, who could not regain control of the body while calming Kim I-jin’s mind, fell deep inside Kim I-jin. However, Kim Yi-jin, who had regained control, was again forcibly put to sleep in the hands of Kertatus.

As a result, Kertatus, no, Kim Yi-jin, who regained his body, lost consciousness and collapsed on the floor.

In Yuna’s eyes, Kim Yi-jin seemed to have fainted from vomiting blood.

“Binary! Binary!? Wake up!”

A girl shaking the boy’s body vigorously in amazement.

The turmoil of the night ended just like that.