2nd Round Villain

47 – – 400, Paladin contracted with the devil – 1

“The Lord is coming.”

“My glorious Lord is coming.”

“The horn of blessing resounds to welcome the Lord…”

“The day when the grace of the Lord falls on the earth one by one -.”

“On that day, my Lord is coming walking the path of love-.”

A woman’s sweet voice sings quietly. Holy Song. A sacred song that praises the Lord, the heavenly gods, and the saints. When such a song met with a beautiful voice, the sparrows who heard the song spontaneously chirped with excitement.

Common chants are characterized by raising the pitch and singing loudly. Because we have to show how great the faith and faith of those who believe in the Lord are.

But the woman’s song was infinitely calm, unlike a chant. As if it were a sin to dare to sing hymns. The woman babbles a hymn helplessly.

The yard where the warm sunlight shines instead of the grace of the Lord.

A peaceful scene that does not match the demon forest, which is always full of violence and wild duels.

In the middle of the yard was a swaying rocking chair. A woman sat on a rocking chair, singing.

The woman had her hair hanging back in a brown ponytail. With a greatsword on her lap. The woman held a handkerchief in her hand and carefully polished the blade.

As if it had been painted by a famous artist, it looked like a masterpiece. As if praising the beauty and warmth of nature.

It was to the extent that it left the viewer in awe of how he could be so neat in handling a monstrous object called a great sword.

“The Lord is coming… To save all things… .”

The woman’s voice faded. The chant was coming to an end.

Thanks to this, the two outside beings watching from afar frowned.

“Ki-ing… Nice to hear… .”

“Kick-kick, Aruya. Can’t you sing better than that?”

“sing? I’m sorry! Kwong Kwong Kwong! kkong kkong kkong kkong! like this?”

“Hey, yumma! don’t bark! Then what if she finds out!”

A suspicious-looking tall man with a white mask on his face, a white suit and a magician’s hat.

“Kyung… He told me to bark… .”

“I told you to sing, when did I tell you to bark? is that a song Is this bastard profaning the sacred song?”

“Ugh-,”

“evil! hey! It hurts, it hurts!”

“Young demons are bad. Really bad.”

Hana, an adult wolf beast with ears resembling a wolf’s mane protruding from the top of her head, and a fluffy tail behind her legs.

It was an odd combination. Demons dressed in unusual costumes that are hard to see anywhere, and wolf beastmen wearing dolphin pants. It was vastly different from the general demon tribes who treat beastmen like slaves.

“Ah-oh… Just this wolf child.”

“Why, what, what.”

“Huh… Are you a teenager these days? Why did you become such a rebel?”

“Kyung. That’s not something you would hear from a young demon.”

“Come, come. Something has finally come.”

The two disparate beings continued tiki-taka as if they were quite friendly with each other. Skirmishing was the main focus of the conversation, but neither of them was genuinely angry.

“No, but Aru, why do you keep calling me a young demon? I’m 109 years old now, 109 years old. A full-fledged adult.”

“Kyung. I’m already used to it.”

“I’d rather call you Captain. In the past, Zalman was called Captain, but why has it become rare these days?”

“Kong! When did I do that!”

“Eh, what would you say to a wolf going through puberty? hmm… But do wolves also go through puberty?”

“Err… ! I’m not a teenager! Knock-knock!”

“What are you saying, this sensitive boss?”

“Grrr-!”

“Oh, hey man. Calm down. It’s all a joke, a joke. Do you know Aru? If you get angry here, do you really become sensitive?”

“Ki-ing… .”

Although, there were several occasions when the skirmishes almost turned into fights.

They haven’t had a single fight yet. ’till now.

Realizing that he could not defeat the demons around his horse, the wolf beastman moved his gaze back to the woman.

The woman was still engrossed in polishing her sword.

The wolf beast opened his lips.

“Are you going to ‘hunt’ that human this time? What is it?”

Oscar Lucifer, a 109-year-old demon wearing a mask, answered in a voice that seemed excited.

“No, this time I will ‘embrace’.”

*****

A hundred years have passed since he returned from the guillotine in the plaza, entered the forest and met Aru.

It was the 314th year of the imperial calendar, the current year. There are about 400 years left until she enters the ＜Eden Academy＞ that the saintess said.

To enumerate what we’ve done so far… No big deal. He only built up his strength by hunting fairly strong monsters and absorbing their energy, or by absorbing health food like Horus’ eggs.

Thanks to that, the magic was also built up. Compared to the heyday of my previous life, it’s new blood, but I’m ten times stronger now than I was in the ‘Imperial Year 314’ of my previous life.

Thanks to that, the range of communication with the saintess through the rosary became much wider.

Scrub-.

[Oh no! Foot, puheuh… ! He, please stop… !]

“Kick-kick, don’t you like it? Why should I quit?”

[Now Joker is doing something very wrong, such as harassing others and getting pleasure, so you have to stop immediately… !]

“What is he saying now! While the saintess is having fun too! Otherwise, there’s no reason for you to be laughing like that!”

[This, this is just an unavoidable physiological phenomenon… .]

Rub-.

[Ahahahaha! Aha! Boo, please stop!]

In this way, it became possible to synchronize the saintess’ whole body senses with the rosary. Now I’m using that to viciously tickle him. Kww.

The saintess was surprisingly tickled a lot. I often use that to play pranks on the saintess like now.

Of course, this is just a joke. I didn’t even commit what the saintess sincerely told me not to do. I’ve never heard anything like that before.

The saintess spends an extremely boring time all day long. This tickle is just a consideration to blow away her boredom. Even the saintess knew that fact, so she didn’t reject it outright.

[Ugh… Scrape your belly a little bit. It was so easy. Don’t tickle strange places like the armpit.]

Scrub-.

“here?”

[Haaa… thank you. It’s done now.]

“Kuh-kuh, are you awake?”

[Thanks to Joker. Thank you for your kindness.]

“It’s nothing, but what?”

[The more trivial things are, the more valuable they are.]

As I scratched the middle part of the rosary with my fingernail, the voice of the saintess became more comfortable.

But do you feel tickling even in your original soul state? It makes me curious, but if the saintess is itchy, it must be tickling. Because the saintess has a personality that can’t lie.

“Kyong-k-k-k-k-k-k-k! I’m done!”

Aru said, raising his sweaty body. Aru’s body, which had been flimsy and without a single muscle when they first met, had become a solid body full of small muscles before he knew it.

Because I trained to the extreme every day.

“oh! Aru! good job! You did really well!”

“Gureureung, won’t you give me some meat? These days, I only praise them and don’t give them meat. kong.”

“Hunt yourself, man. And didn’t I tell you not to talk to the saintess when I communicate with you?”

“Ki-ing… Bad, changed. Even though it was bad at first.”

“whatever. Run one more lap. Then I’ll give you bread.”

“Kong? bread? What about meat? Why bread?”

“When the meat runs out, it’s time to talk about meat. If you twist it, save it yourself.”

“Ki-ing… I’m sorry… .”

Aru, who has just completed 100 sit-ups, pushes the training intensity even harder. The reason is simple. This is because Aru is going through the 3rd stage of growth these days.

Wolf beastmen should be trained strongly when they are growing up. Aru is already close to being an adult wolf beast, but after safely passing through this third period of growth, his body will become very strong. It’s definitely a happy occasion to become stronger, but there may come a situation where you can’t laugh when you can’t control your own strength.

In order to prevent such a future, he must constantly roll his body to induce Aru to get used to his overflowing power. That’s why I roll Aru.

Aru disappeared from sight to run one lap, and I turned my head back to the rosary. It was to talk with the saintess for the rest of the time.

[Did King Lang leave?]

“Oh, gone. You may speak now.”

[Yes, the Joker said a few days ago that he was going to meet someone. I can still hear how they were excited about seeing ‘humans’ for the first time after returning.]

“You remembered all of that.”

[After communication with Joker is cut off, it is my daily routine to rewind only the contents of that day’s communication.]

“Tsk, I mean, who would go through such hardships? Because of a guy like me.”

[Don’t say that. Joker is the noblest person in the world.]

“Gig-kick, the only person who praises an evil species like me so much is the saintess.”

Right, that’s what I said.

It was a hint that I gave in passing.

“Does the saintess know? Demon Forest is a place where the dimensions of the Pandemonium and the Continent are mixed.”

[yes. So, one of the Five Kings resides in the ocean of the continent.]

“that’s right. That’s why humans often come to the forest… very rarely It’s definitely not a place I want to come to because it’s a place where Masurim can come. It’s a hideous forest that even the demons don’t like.”

[By the way, which person do you want to meet?]

“Even the saintess must have heard the name. Paladin Beatrice. know?”

[…] !]

The sound of the saintess swallowing empty breath, heard over the cross.

Even the saintess seems to know. The strongest paladin of the time, Beatrice Constantino.

It was the 310th year of the Imperial calendar, 4 years ago. The Holy Church, which has always boasted the largest scale on the continent, faces an unexpected crisis.

It is the invasion of Tuguk, one of the Seven Kingdoms, a country that worships Olympian gods and worships war as a sacred act.

The Empire, the Military State, and the Tuguk. These three countries are proud of their military power to the extent that no other country in the continent’s history can compare, but among them, the world often ranks Tuguk as the number one armed force. Of course, at this point the military doesn’t exist yet.

It is not for nothing that there is a saying that ‘the empire is the best in terms of numbers, and the military is the best in terms of technology, but the military quality is overwhelming.’ Tuguk is a crazy nation that enlists soldiers from all over the country at the age of seven and serves them as pure combat soldiers until they are sixty.

Of course, when it comes to civilization and other fields, Tuguk lags behind the most.

This crazy country, which believes that only ‘battle’ is an honor, denies national power to military power, saying it doesn’t care about useless things like that.

Such a nation waged war against the Holy Church. No matter how much Holy Knights and white knights were possessed, the country itself was not enough to prevent the fight-crazed Tuguk. In the end, the Seongguk is in danger of collapsing thousands of years of church history as it rushes to the Seonghwangcheong in just a few months.

At that time, in the last ‘Battle of Seonghwangcheong’, which Tuguk gathered all his forces and caused.

The war situation was reversed.

The first knight commander of the Holy Kingdom, Beatrice Constantino.

With a huge bastard sword in his hand, a powerful paladin who single-handedly turned the tide of war itself.

Thanks to the Holy Knights who appeared like a comet, the church escaped from the crisis, but Beatrice was not welcomed by the Holy Kingdom.

It was because the mighty power that Beatrice showed as she swept through the enemy lines was not divine power, but the power of the devil. It was proof that Beatrice had contracted with the devil for some reason.

In the end, Beatrice, who was referred to the Inquisition and burned at the stake, escapes from the church at night. In the process, he killed the pope of the time. That might be the reason why the saintess’ breath trembled.

[Was Beatrice in the forest? I hadn’t heard of that… .]

“I guess so. According to the original documents, it was the last record of Beatrice, the paladin, who fled from the church around this time and went into hiding. That’s all I know.”

[yes? Then how does Joker-sama know that Beatrice is in the Forest of Magic… .]

“You can feel it. The game of the forest has changed.”

Masurim is a forest of strong weak meat. Four of the five monsters called King Oh rule the north, south, east, and west, and among them, moderately strong people like me live while eating their respective regions.

However, a few years ago, the southern map of Masurim began to change. Shall we say that the balance of power has collapsed?

There is no such thing as a certain force being overtly killed, but the fierce beasts that are said to be strong are leaving the south and moving to other areas of Masurim. This is the phenomenon when an irresistible force entered the South.

And, at this time, the only person who can enter the forest is Beatrice, a paladin who was exiled after making a pact with the devil.

“Oh, and I already went with Aru to check. Beatrice was right. He was polishing his bastard sword. I even built a house to live on.”

[okay… But what are you going to do with him? Are you going to hunt and absorb energy like before?]

“no? who’s going to die How to beat a human who is right against the country in the current state. At least another hundred years will pass.”

[yes? Then what purpose do you want to meet?]

“You have to put into practice what the saintess taught you. It means nothing if you just know and don’t practice.”

[…] yes?]

“Embrace.”

A moment of silence lingered between the saintess and me. The saintess murmured in a volmental voice.

[Miss Beatrice… Are you a woman… ?]

“of course? Her name is Beatrice, but she can’t be a man.”

[It’s a woman again… are you okay… With only four hundred years left… Yep… .]

“… ?”

A saintess muttering incomprehensible words. I checked the time and prepared to turn off the comm spell.

A bright yellow sunset is sinking over the horizon. At the time when the sky turned light blue, I called Aru in a loud voice.

[Are you going to contact us today?]

“It should be. I can’t let go of a giant like Beatrice.”

[There is no guarantee that he will be on Joker’s side.]

“Trust me! If you say you can’t do it, just make it happen!”

The saintess seems displeased with Beatrice, whom she has yet to meet. understanding goes. Because he was a paladin who killed the pope and contracted with the devil. Of course, the saintess would feel rejected.

[ha… Can’t we just stay calm with Aru?]

“Hmm, are you jealous right now?”

[It’s not that there’s no such reason, but it’s because I’m worried. A paladin contracted with the devil is too dangerous.]

“I must have forgotten, but I am a demon who once commanded demons.”

[Not now. I didn’t have a one-on-one meeting with Beatrice-sama, but I thought I’d meet you blindly. No matter how much I think about it, it seems too reckless.]

“I was always reckless. It is my job to find miracles in it.”

Twenty minutes of communication time is almost up. I tried to break the communication spell. The saintess urgently grabbed me and whispered.

[Haaa… All right. What Joker wants, I won’t stop you.]

“Thank you for understanding.”

[Instead, just keep one thing in mind.]

“What?”

[First is safety, second is safety, third is safety. i love you.]

“Kick-kick, yes I get it. I love you too.”

pop-.

Communication was lost. Watching the sky go dark, I started to paint my body with mud. In the meantime, Aru has returned.

“Kong! What are you doing?”

“Come on, you too.”

“What? What are you doing!”

“Can’t you see? You’re getting dirt all over your body! Do it too! This is an order!”

“Kyung… Weird demons… .”

Aru grumbled a little and dutifully carried out my order. Covered in dust, Aru and I became crumpled teeth.

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Ji profit -.

“Cheer, what is it? What else are you doing?”

“You’re tearing your clothes! Ahhh, why is this wolf so careless! Tear up a little bit too! Make you look like a castaway who has rolled over a rough place! This is an order!”

“Kuuuong… bothered… .”

profit, profit-.

With this, Aru and I became the perfect castaways, covered in dust rags and ripped to the clothes. I grabbed Aru’s wrist and headed for the house I had seen during the day.

After about ten minutes of walking along the forest road, I came into view of a cabin shining alone in the dark forest at night. I deliberately grabbed Aru’s wrist to make him out of breath and ran to the cabin with all my might.

Tak Tak Tak Tak -!

Tsk, maybe it’s because Aru and I are growing so well, our lung capacity is so good. In other words, the breath is too fine. savagely.

There’s nothing you can do about it. I just fill it with my acting skills. With Aru’s acting ability, which has grown quite a bit while assassinating strong people, and my acting ability as an original actor, I would be able to easily fool a naive paladin.

“Come on, Aru. You’re pretending to be tough from now on. don’t talk too much Fit me unconditionally. can you?”

“Kong.”

“Shhh, let’s start. quiet.”

I stood in front of a small wooden cabin. This is the hut that was watched during the day. Inside this, there is a paladin who made a pact with the devil.

“Big, big, big.”

After clearing my voice for a moment, I hurriedly knocked on the door. The wooden door rattled violently.

Bang bang-!

After a while, the door creaked open. The smell of fragrant pies wafted from inside the door and tickled the tip of my nose.

“Who are you?”

A woman stood at the half-open door. It was a woman with brown ponytail hair flowing around and wearing neat everyday clothes. It’s an appearance that doesn’t match the bold and stiff image of a paladin.

Despite the urgent beating, the woman doesn’t seem to be surprised. No doubts, no embarrassment, nothing can be felt from the woman’s expressionless expression. It’s like, no matter who comes, like someone who has no interest in the world itself.

Against that gray expression, I gasped and shouted.

“oh! As if a moonlight fairy had descended, beautiful lady! I came to Masurim with my precious friends. I am a lost castaway, Oscar! Please give us poor and pitiful us a warm shelter for the night!”