0 – Regression

The world comes to an end.

The dimly burning flame will not stop until the whole world is reduced to ashes.

“Is this the end?”

Traces of a brutal battle stained with blood all over.

Not even that was left, everything was gone.

Like a ship sinking in the sea, it collapses quietly.

What remains there are tangled emotions of anger and despair.

It was over.

Even in the final war where everything was staked, he was defeated by the Demon King.

The demon king of fairness, who was said to be the most gentle and peaceful ever, became the most evil demon king the moment he took off his mask.

In the end, he accomplished the task of destroying the world.

“Is this the result?”

I once agreed with the Demon King.

He rose to the position of an executive, taking on the guilt without rest under the Demon King, but it was the back of the Devil’s head that came back.

The demon king who betrayed everyone and destroyed the world was the first to disappear as if he had no regrets.

and look ahead

I was a special case, so even if I had survived until now, there was still the last survivor on the other side of this world.

There was someone approaching with staggering steps.

Blood-stained yellow hair, blue eyes, an ideal appearance that would be believed even if it was sculpted by a god.

But now she is a poor girl.

Adversary of the Demon King.

So warrior.

“You are still alive.”

One arm was missing.

one eye is empty

There was a large hole in the side.

A large weapon penetrated from the shoulder and pierced somewhere inside the body.

The only thing that looks fine is the two legs.

Having seen the battle from the beginning, I know why such traces remain.

The wounds made under thorough calculation.

Each one is fatal, but the pain left behind to be satisfied if you can still hold the sword and wield it.

The warrior who fought such a fierce battle was defeated in the end.

However, because he was a warrior, he survived to the end.

When all of the hero’s companions, whether it’s the saintess, the archmage, or the swordsman, are all dead.

She alone survived.

I answered the warrior’s question.

Again, a cursed power that only I have.

It is because it is ‘immortal’.

“It is an immortal body.”

“I know that. Argal the Undead.”

“Then why did you come to me?”

“Because you were the first to fight the demon king.”

I look at the blue eyes that only one side of the hero has left.

Even after losing like that, even as the world approached destruction, her eyes did not lose their light.

Is there still hope left, or is it because he is a hero who is a symbol of hope and justice?

That’s why those eyes hated me.

The hero has no choice but to hate me.

She killed and tortured her colleagues according to the order of the devil, and committed all sorts of sins, so she is a criminal who deserves to be judged.

He dabbled in black magic, which he regarded as a sin.

He killed his parents and siblings.

I made a contract with a powerful demon.

Even if he was betrayed by the demon king, he was a helper who contributed to the destruction in the end.

I felt it when the warrior approached me.

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Just before she passed away, she came to judge me.

– Serung.

The holy sword was still emitting a brilliant light.

Even as destruction approached, it did not lose its strength.

If that’s the case, can I sever my immortality?

Pointing his sword at me, the warrior asks.

“I will ask you one last time.”

“any amount.”

“you are… . Do you regret it?”

“…”

It was a question that touched my heart.

This is not an expected question.

penance.

Forgiveness.

contrition.

It wasn’t like that, I just asked if I had any regrets.

It went on and on endlessly.

After committing all those sins, the questions I received after going on without a hitch were nothing.

regret it

“I never did. In the past, now and in the future.”

“I will ask again. Don’t you have any regrets about all the lives you’ve lived?”

“Hero, you ask a strange question, I do not regret anything. The reason she fought with the demon king was because she betrayed everything and tried to destroy the world, not because she regretted it and did everything she could to stop the demon king.”

“Is that so?”

The warrior withdrew his sword.

As she gave the hero a curious glance, the holy sword she held began to emit a strange light.

“Argal, use the opportunity given to you again. If you go back… . I hope that mindset will change.”

“Wait, what do you mean, hero? What are you planning to do?”

“This is my last chance. It can only be used by others. But you are the only one left in this world. Because he is an immortal who can still maintain life even after being destroyed.”

Tears flowed from one of the hero’s eyes.

I translated the words of the hero with a half-broken head.

“Does going back mean going back to the past?”

“That’s right.”

“Why are you giving me that opportunity?”

Whether the hero had such authority is second to none.

In the first place, he was an invincible being who received power from God, so it is likely that he had at least one such power.

Against an unforgivable sinner and foe, it was incomprehensible to waste such an opportunity.

If you don’t do that, even if this world ends as it is.

“This is the final struggle.”

“I just can’t understand it.”

In the first place, it was not a relationship that we could understand each other.

The thoughts of a hero who devoted himself to others and sacrificed himself and me, who was an executive in the Demon King’s Army, couldn’t possibly be the same.

It must be the hero’s heart to want to prevent destruction even by returning the enemy.

“I promise you one thing.”

But I couldn’t miss this opportunity.

I accept the hero’s decision very greedily.

“No matter what happens, the demon king, I will kill that child.”

“That alone is enough.”

The hero’s face, which had been hardened from the first time they met, was vague.

Smiled.