I must kill you

The lord of calamity was uncharacteristically blushing.

Since she is so white, the blush on her cheeks stands out.

‘pretty… … .’

It’s the first time I’ve ever seen such a beautiful existence.

At this moment, no one will think of the devil when they see her holding her hands together.

[As expected, the king of kings… … . You are the first person to drink the tea I gave you without asking anything.]

Although she looks so beautiful, her essence is a demon who cursed Hoorn to make him unable to die and eventually take his soul.

If you have common sense, wouldn’t it be natural to be wary?

“… I can’t see with those eyes I drank it after making sure there was nothing in the tea.”

I thought I was looking at the car for a while, but I wonder if I checked it then?

‘It’s a huge eye… … .’

To be able to grasp the curse of a monarch-level demon in such a short time is an eye that cannot be compared with my current 『Seeing Eye』.

“Stop talking about that overlord.”

[What else can I call you, who stole the planet from Roden and took the initiative from the Divine World Alliance, which managed the Earth?]

‘You stole the planet from Roden?’

I don’t know why, but Roden looked at me every time we met and said, ‘Taker’.

However, it seems that ‘I’ really stole Roden’s planet.

‘Why the hell?’

Having already seen the tremendous power of ‘I’, there is no doubt about the ability.

What matters is why you had to do it.

Around the time my head got complicated, ‘I’ opened my mouth.

“It was good for him too.”

[I know that well. Now that the entire universe is being tossed around by ‘foreign beings’, in reality, only the seven worlds you rule over are managing to survive. Your performance is phenomenal. However… … .]

She looked at ‘me’ with deep eyes and continued.

[You know that that won’t last too long.]

‘I’ did not deny her words.

“That’s why I run so hard.”

[is it.]

‘I’ spoke in a low tone, revealing a little strength, perhaps not wanting to see the smiling Lord of Calamity.

“Do you think hell will be safe forever? Don’t be conceited.”

[I don’t do anything arrogant.]

‘I’ looked at the still smiling Lord of Calamity for a while, then shook my head and asked.

“What do you want from me?”

[Something like you. I intend to actively cooperate with you.]

“why?”

[As long as you endure, our time will increase.]

As he answered, the Lord of Calamity shook his hand. Then a four-horned demon appeared beside her.

‘Horn.’

I thought he must have had a lot of trouble because he was captured by the monarch, but he is surprisingly good looking.

The Lord of Calamity put his hand on Horn’s head and said.

[I will reap the curse of immortality and belonging that was planted in you.]

Horn looked at the Lord of Calamity with disbelief. What I’ve been dreaming of for a long time has come true, so I can’t help but be dazed.

Morton is also blinking with a dumbfounded face.

The only one who wasn’t embarrassed was ‘I’.

The Lord of Calamity smiled prettily and asked such a ‘me’.

[Did you expect?]

“no.”

[But you seem too calm.]

“Even if you didn’t break it, the curse would have disappeared anyway.”

If she didn’t, it would mean that ‘I’ would have lifted the curse myself.

[Well, with your external power, it’s possible.]

The first thing I heard came out.

‘If it’s an external force… An outside force?’

what else does that mean?

One thing is for sure, external force is not an ordinary force. If it were, the Lord of Calamity wouldn’t have put on such a dreamy expression when he mentioned it.

‘I’m curious.’

I want to ask right away, but it’s very frustrating because I can’t talk to ‘me’.

“It is not a power that can be used at any time. You have to save as much as possible.”

At the words of ‘I’, the Lord of Calamity laughed in satisfaction.

[I think you did well to release the horn’s curse. You shouldn’t waste the omnipotent power that can block the ‘existence of the outside world’ in a place like this.]

Almighty Power.

At least I know that external force is a force that can be eaten by ‘existence of foreign gates’.

[Like I said, I want to help you. Do you want something?]

“I wonder if the current me can get help from someone, but I’ll think about it.”

In a way, this is an answer that may seem overconfident and conceited. It’s even more so when you consider that the person you talk to is the Lord of Disaster.

However, the Lord of Calamity seemed to accept it casually.

Rather, he seemed a little happy.

[Today, our meeting led to a string. Feel free to ask for anything you need.]

“okay.”

Nodding my head, ‘I’ raised my body.

[Do you want to go?]

“I have a lot of work to do.”

The Lord of Calamity held out his hand coolly.

[It was nice.]

“… me too. See you again.”

After holding her hand and shaking it a couple of times, he came out of the crack. Morton and Horn also followed.

[I now… Can I go and see?]

‘I’ nodded, and Morton disappeared with a sly face.

Now all that’s left is ‘me’ and the horn.

Horn lowered his head slightly.

[Thank you. I became free thanks to you.]

‘I’ just looked at that horn and didn’t say anything.

‘What’s the mood like?’

Horn also tilted his head and asked if he felt something was wrong.

[Do you have something to say?]

‘I’, who had been opening his mouth, let out a small sigh and opened his mouth.

“It is not easy.”

[What do you mean?]

“Horn, I’m sorry.”

[So what? Hey, did you do anything wrong to me?]

‘I’, who had been silent for a moment, said something shocking.

“I must kill you.”

[…] What?]

Horn was startled.

I was surprised too.

‘If you’re going to kill me, why did you find the Lord of Calamity?’

‘I’ lowered my head, looked at the ground, and opened my mouth.

“I have reached my limits lately. At this rate, I realized that I couldn’t stop the ‘existences from outside the door’. therefore… … .”

[Speak.]

“That’s why I chose to erase my weakness.”

Horn burst into a sigh.

[It sounds like you are going to kill me to get rid of the causal law that has been connected between you and me.]

“right. You, who even made a soul contract with me… It’s too big a weakness for me.”

[…] I understand you.]

can you understand that?

I couldn’t understand the horn.

[By the way, I have a question.]

“Say it.”

[If that’s the case, I’ll just let the Lord of Calamity hold me captive. Why did you come all the way here?]

That’s what I think is odd.

[Anyway, the ‘existence of the outside world’ hasn’t set foot in hell yet. If you were worried about causality with me, wouldn’t it have been better to just leave me alone?]

“it is not so.”

[No, I don’t know why the Lord of Calamity showed such a gentle attitude, but he’s not like that. It’s not that I’m afraid of other lords for no reason. You just got lucky. If you were the usual lord, you might have fought with you who invaded your territory.]

“Maybe it was.”

[…] Did you think that even if a fight broke out, you would be able to subdue the Lord of Calamity without any damage?]

‘I’ shook my head.

“Her curse must have resulted in at least one limb rotting away.”

[Didn’t you know that until you met in person? Is that why you came?]

“No, I got it.”

[Then tell me. Why did you come to meet the Lord of Calamity even when you were prepared for everything?]

The corners of ‘me”s mouth rise slightly and the eyes narrow.

It looks like he’s laughing, but he’s not laughing.

I could see that ‘me’ was smiling bitterly.

However, the time that the bitter smile was maintained was only an extremely short time.

‘I’, who quickly returned with an expressionless face, raised his head.

“I wanted to give you freedom, even if I kill you when I kill you.”

Horn’s pupils shook greatly.

‘That’s what it was… … .’

If ‘I’ hadn’t visited the Lord of Calamity, Hoorn would have died at the time set by the curse, and his soul would have been in the hands of the Lord of Calamity.

It seems that ‘I’ wanted to give Horn such a rest after death.

‘thank god.’

It is true that when I first heard that he would kill Hoorn, I doubted whether he had become too evil. But the truth is… Still, ‘I’ was maintaining my nature of caring for my people.

[This is true, I never thought the day would come when I would be moved by the person who would kill me.]

‘I’, who had been making eye contact with Hoorn, who burst into laughter, asked.

“Do you remember the incident where you fought a guy like a scale in the third Pandemonium?”

[Hahaha, it’s a scale… … . When I think of what he did, I can’t think of a better word. Of course I remember. I almost died because of that Demon King.]

Scales, Latun, Loki.

With those words, I could tell that what they were talking about was what was happening at the gate.

‘There must have been a demon world too.’

I thought that would be the case when I saw the Demonic Beast Phoenix was around it.

“I think that was the first time I felt an external force. Of course, I didn’t know at the time that it was an external force.”

[Could it be that the power that came out when the marble he had exploded was an external force?]

“okay.”

[It was… … . But why are you talking about that all of a sudden?]

For a moment, I felt something flashing.

‘This is a story told to me.’

Even in the first vision, ‘the me there’ spoke to herself as if she had seen me.

-You can turn it back.

The ‘I’ at that time was definitely staring right into my eyes.

There is no way that ‘I here’ can’t do what he can do.

In the end, ‘I’ was conveying information to me in the form of a conversation with Horn.

‘Keep telling me.’

As if my thoughts had reached me, ‘I’ opened my mouth.

“Did you know that there were several such marbles in Roden as well?”

The good Horn answered right away, as if he was curious, even though he had a puzzled expression on why he was telling us this.

[I don’t know.]

“A marble was placed one by one in the Superman Association’s examination room.”

[Looks like you’ve heard of it. Did you say it was an ancient crystal ball?]

“right. It is an instrument that gives information about the awakened superman. The scholars of the Dark Kingdom studied the crystal ball for a long time. I couldn’t understand the mechanism of how the crystal ball could read the superhuman’s information and send it out. But no one has been able to explain it clearly.”

[Is that because the source of that power was an external force?]

“okay.”

There is an external force in the marble… … .

This is really important information.

[But didn’t those crystal balls break at some point? I remember being upset because of that.]

“That time coincided with when the Demon Lord of the Scales burst the marbles. Something seems to have been synchronized.”

[Hmm… Too bad. If the demon king hadn’t exploded the marbles, wouldn’t that mean that all those crystal balls could have become your power in the future?]

“right. Too bad.”

I knew what ‘I’ was trying to say to me.

‘You’re telling me to stop the demon king from exploding marbles.’

And the fact that ‘I’ was saying this now meant that the marble could be prevented from exploding, depending on how hard I tried.

Even after that, ‘I’ and Horn continued to talk.

Valuable information kept coming out of their mouths.

I tried to remember them, and when some time passed, silence flowed in the space filled with the two voices.

[You can stop now. The resolution was made a long time ago. do you know I’ve always wanted to die I wanted to find rest.]

“… Things are different now. Do you still want to die? later… You may.”

Horn didn’t worry.

[Things have changed, but my heart has not.]

Unlike ‘I’ who keeps looking down, the four-horned devil was extremely aloof even in the face of death.

[I will die now.]