151 – Epilogue 1. Apis realized it belatedly.

primordial world.

Soil to embrace greenery.

Water, the source of everything.

Even fire to heat life.

It was an unknown white giant who first set foot in an unstable space where even light and darkness did not exist.

No one knew what kind of intention the transcendent being had in visiting there.

sense of duty. remorse. Maybe it was mere curiosity, wanting to see the barren land with no one paying attention.

However, the giant buried his torn off flesh into the ground to make the soil, endlessly shed blood to make the soil drip water, and cut and scatter my hot heart into pieces to create a blazing fire.

It was around that time that colorful lives and deaths were born in such a dull, gray world, and the existence of humans that the giants modeled and combed after their own forms proliferated like mushrooms after rain.

The giant, who took good care of them, gave them courage and even trials to hone that courage.

The black pit where the giant’s flesh was buried later came to be called a dungeon, and the maggots that were infested throughout it came to be called monsters in the future.

The weapons that the giants gave to humans as strength to face such trials were their own souls and bodies. It was a mission and a name.

A saint and a warrior.

The giant looked with great satisfaction at the performance of his alter egos, who fought resolutely against all kinds of adversity for their own survival.

The joyous appearance seemed to be watching a child who was absorbed in a role play while holding different dolls in each hand.

I used to feel a bit regretful when a doll I liked had to be replaced at the end of its lifespan, but it was a new transition and there was room to enjoy it.

However, after repeating such play for tens, hundreds, or thousands of years, the giant soon came to think of this.

I’m sick of it. Called.

No matter how limitless the number of games is, if you play with them endlessly, you will eventually get bored.

I enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed it.

It was at that very moment that the giant, who suddenly had such a thought, tried to return to the original place, calmly turning his back on the world he had cultivated with his own hands.

Chunk!

A heavy chain gripped the giant by the ankles.

When the giant glanced down for a moment in a curious mind, the creatures that he had considered mere puppets to soothe his boredom were daring to suppress their very existence.

The emotion that comes beyond the restraints entangled in my own body is an inexhaustible desire.

Their shameless actions of sticking their teeth into the creator without hesitation for their own comfort made the giant’s heart boil.

But the name of that emotion wasn’t anger.

Yes, it was the joy of knowing that the boredom I had felt would be overturned in an instant.

By completely tearing their own souls to pieces and hammering them all into a human body, they were trying to tame themselves and the being they praised as a god.

A delightful smile spread across the giant’s lips.

He could have done so if he wanted to shake it off, but the giant decided to give himself up to them without any resistance.

The smile on the giant’s mouth did not fade in the slightest even while his soul and body were being torn into many pieces.

It was all too natural for him.

With this, it will be clear that there will be no time to feel bored for the next few hundred years or so.

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”Therefore, completely liberating the soul and body of the gracious God, who was oppressed by sinful mankind, from the bondage of this world, and punishing the lowly creatures who dared to rebel against God. That is the noble longing we wish to achieve. It is a holy mission.”

”ha·····.”

It was a waste of time.

Apis frowned with an annoyed sigh that seemed to contain such intentions.

A gloomy interrogation room with only faint candles lighting up the darkness.

The reason why Apis was having a private conversation with the assassin who had arrested the recruit a while ago in that suffocating space was no different.

First of all, now that the blessing ceremony is nearing its end, the author who once tried to assassinate the hero did not know what kind of unexpected action he would take this time, so it was to monitor it.

Second, it was because of the thought that before she left the monastery, she might not be able to get any information about her background from the assassin who had managed to secure a new recruit.

However, to the displeasure of such efforts, Apis was unable to obtain any of the answers he wanted.

”Don’t talk about that long-winded nonsense, the location and arrangement of the organization you belong to. Seek the number of people. Are those blunt ears decorative? tell me if you need If you think two ear holes aren’t enough, I’ll drill another one myself.”

”oh. I think that would be difficult. piercing your ears With a body that has sworn chastity to God, I want to refrain from such masculine behavior.”

Despite Apis’ menacing tone, the woman’s leisurely demeanor did not disturb him one bit.

The whole body is sealed in the cramped prison uniform, and even the eyes are covered with eye patches.

Because of this, the only part of her body that was free was her lips, which had been gagged for a while.

Furthermore, if Apis’ predictions were correct, she would have been tortured by the rough-tempered interrogators shortly before Apis came here.

Bloodstains and peeling fingernails strewn about Apis’ golden eyes.

After briefly glancing at the intricately shaped instruments of torture whose purpose was difficult to guess, they twisted toward her face again.

It was suffocating.

Even though it would not be strange for an ordinary person to have worn out their minds, the woman’s attitude was as calm as a calm lake.

”Are you so curious about me? Hot-blooded elf? like. If Mr. Elf promises to do just one small favor of mine, I swear to God that I will answer anything you ask.”

”····· Hello Mr. Fire.”

”The Savior… Please bring Priest Rageis to this place right now.”

”Hey, that’s it. go away.”

Apis, who rejected the assassin’s offer with a single stroke, stood up on the spot as if he had nothing more to listen to.

It was because her intuition, which had been trained by living alone for hundreds of years after being expelled from her hometown, was crying out at an unprecedented pace at this moment, alerting her to a crisis.

You must not let this woman meet with Rage.

That was the only thing she could affirm with confidence in the current situation, where there was nothing to be sure of.

”ha. You really do too much. I don’t want much, I just want to mix a word with him. What kind of scheming can I do when my whole body is tied up like this? Does Elf-san have no human affection?”

”I don’t want to be pointed out about being human by a bastard who secretly broke into someone’s house at night and tried to stab and kill a sleeping person.”

”Hmm, that’s also true.”

Apis barely suppressed the urge to strike an arrow into that smirking brow.

The pain would obviously have no effect on that woman.

The ignorant anger only made her more elated. Deciding that it would be best to ignore the attention-seeking seeds, Apis kept her mouth shut.

”Anyway, that’s how it is. Aren’t you being too strict? It’s true that I almost killed him at one point, but that’s in the past now. It’s just the past. isn’t it? I don’t know much about the laws of the Elves, but the common sense of this system is that human sins can be washed away as long as they are not severe.”

”Because it’s my theory that those who believe that their sins can be washed away aren’t even qualified to say such a thing…”

”Whoops, you’re a truly heartless person…”

It was just then that Apis, who had tidied up her clothes for a moment, turned to the doorknob, as if she had grown tired of the woman’s demeanor, in which every word she said provoked contradictions.

”Why is Mr. Elf so unwilling to let him and me meet? Did you even have a crush on him as a man? Is that so?”

”ha·····.”

Apis looked back annoyed at the absurd nonsense that wasn’t even worth replying to.

Then, in the spot where the woman had been tied up just a moment ago, the woman was nowhere to be found, and an extraordinary scene unfolded in which Reis, dressed in rather loose clothes, was standing there.

However, there was no emotion of agitation in Apis’s unwavering eyes.

Apis is the ability of that woman to make others dream sweet dreams. It was because he had already known that he showed hallucinations and that he had powers.

smile.

Seeing the hallucination of Reigis smiling kindly at him, Apis inhaled and exhaled pathetically.

”Trying…”

”what? Doesn’t it work?”

”If it’s a warrior, I don’t know. That sort of trick doesn’t work for me. Algan?”

”Hmm…”

A woman’s disapproving voice flowed from Reiges’ mouth in the fantasy, and right after that, Apis, who showed a delightful smile, opened the door wide and kicked in without hesitation.

again and again. His bold steps through the quiet corridor overflowed with fierce confidence.

Apis thought that even if he got the street number wrong, he found it wrong for a long time.

Because Apis’ love for Reigis was closer to caring for his family than admiring him as a man.

Moreover, Apis himself was even convinced that there was no one other than the warrior who would become his mate.

I don’t know if it comes to estrus again.

It was just laughable that he tried to do such tricks on himself, who had built a wall with his sexual desires.

It was then.

In Apis’ mind, a forgotten fact came to mind.

”yes? Wait a minute, come to think of it…”