We Defeated the Demon and Disbanded Without Any Conflict

76 – past_saint_5

A shrieking scream penetrates the tightly closed ears.

I see nothing and hear nothing. He muttered as if hypnotizing himself.

It was scary. That shrill scream continues to ring in my ears.

I hate silence. I hate screaming even more. I think the darkness will eat me I feel like my whole body is shaking.

Every time helplessness wrapped around my body, I always muttered the same wish and prayed on the spot. It was the same this time. Because that’s all I could do.

‘Please save me.’ ‘Please let me out of here.’ ‘Please let me see the light.’

I tried to focus on prayer, but the current situation, which is far from silence, did not allow it.

fishy smell.

scream.

gritty touch.

A red color that dyes the blinding white scroll.

“Save me.. Help me..”

The wish that was muttered inside becomes a plea and escapes from the mouth.

It was the opposite of what he had just prepared for death. Unknowingly, I was letting my inner thoughts come out of my mouth.

I don’t want to die. I want to live. I don’t want to die feeling unhappy. i want to be happy

“Ouch..!!”

At that moment, I felt something strong grabbing my neck.

The breath, which was already panting, cannot enter the lungs and stays at the entrance of the airway before exiting.

Die. I thought.

“This b*tch, it seems to be important.”

A voice that seems to scratch inside me speaks a language I know well right behind me.

The existence that made ‘Mother’ like that was holding my neck.

I feel a strength that I can’t even imagine. Maybe even a little bit of force on this grip would break it.

I couldn’t see ahead. I didn’t know what the man was doing.

But I could tell. You must have abandoned me and ran away. It was natural. Because the country would have been like that too.

I wanted to live more than ever before real death. It was the moment when the aloofness toward death was revealed to be a complete lie.

“Look straight, human. You are the seed of all unhappiness.”

seeds of unhappiness.

It felt like my heart was breaking down when I heard what I was thinking.

I am unstable. There was a bunch of people to mature just by listening and learning there. An existence like a blank sheet of paper with only one letter written on it.

That’s why I was shaken here and there to the point where I couldn’t even be sure of my own resolution, and I was foolish enough to shed tears believing the devil’s whispers.

The demon slowly moved its sharp claws to unblock my eyes.

When those cold fingernails occasionally touched the back of my neck, I felt my whole body stiff and tense without realizing it.

the man saw

He dropped his dagger and took a posture with both hands slightly raised.

In the distance, the ‘Director’ could be seen sitting down and bleeding near the heel.

The devil approaches him with a mean laugh.

Grabbing me by the scruff of my neck and showing off that I can kill at any time.

“There was no hero. Was it abandoned?”

“I’m doing something else.”

“You think it’s better for the warrior to come here, don’t you?”

“I was entrusted with the important task of passing the time.”

With nothing to protect himself, the man was confident. I know you’re fulfilling the important task of ‘passing the time’, but if you’re defeated before the hero arrives…

It seems that he made the devil’s body flinch in order to become a man’s confident attitude. He seemed to think that he was acting like that because he believed in something.

But that’s for a while. The demon grabbed me by the neck and approached him.

And at that moment, a person walked through the open door.

“I wonder if I messed around without checking that?”

As if taking turns with a man raising his hand and stepping backwards, he confidently appeared without even thinking about hiding the sound of his ironclad clattering.

A knight with flowing golden hair that was tied into one piece, eyes as deep as a lake, and fully armed with armor.

She took off her helmet as if she had run in a hurry, but because of that, her appearance is directly visible and it feels even more lofty.

Maybe that person is a warrior. The atmosphere itself felt was different from others.

The person who creates an atmosphere of reassurance that seems to solve everything.

Even though he was a demon who had witnessed the hero with his own two eyes, he did not intend to leave the terrible smile on his face.

“Hero. Do you know what I have done?”

The hero did not answer the devil’s words. I just aimed the tip of the iron sword I was holding at it.

The devil smiled and pointed at ‘Mother’ with an exaggerated gesture.

“Look at this. A lot of people in this city have already been like this. You’ve seen it too, I think.”

“Your hobby is bad.”

“It’s chaos. It’s exactly what we want and what the Demon King wants.”

“So? Is that your ability? Turning people into monsters…”

“Then, what are you going to do?”

“Can I turn it back?”

“That, if you kill me, you’ll know.”

The devil laughed and hid himself. It disappeared from sight in an instant, as if it melted into the shadows.

I wasn’t the only one surprised by that. Perhaps this kind of technology was unheard of, but the hero and the man were searching around to find it, which had disappeared in an instant.

“..- .. …”

the man said in that previously incomprehensible language.

As the hero nodded, the man and the hero began to move together.

‘Mother’ looked down at me. Her previous benevolent appearance had completely disappeared, and she was wearing a ragged body with unfocused eyes.

She raised her hand. As if trying to hug me.

Inadvertently, I approached ‘Mother’. And I was able to come to my senses only when I realized that her hand was about to break me.

I was able to avoid it by accident thanks to slipping on the blood pooled on the floor. But if that arm were to be stretched out once more, my life would be over.

Something caught on the fingertips that supported the floor. It was the dagger that the man had thrown away earlier.

When did you back down here? I didn’t think so.

─That.. that..

‘Mother’ makes a bizarre sound that cannot even be made by a human voice anymore.

Could this be my unhappiness? Because I am the seed of unhappiness Because he is a pathetic child who does not even have the courage to take his own life even though he is the host of infecting misfortune.

So, am I really better off dead?

Will I end up with the hands of ‘Mother’ who first gave me warmth like this?

I gripped the dagger tightly. It was a problem that could be solved by simply cutting the ‘mother’ in front of her with it. ‘Mother’ was strong but slow, and had such tender skin that her flesh would fall off even when she was still.

But I couldn’t. The warmth of the memories seemed to bind my hands.

Am I really dying? like this? With only feeling full of unhappiness?

..No, no. I hate it…

I want to be happy too…

“Hey.”

A voice was heard. the man’s voice.

“Should I save you? If you save me instead, we’ll become your teammates.”

That voice asking for my intention in a short sentence. A third helping hand from the same person.

I refused at first. The second was accepted, and the third was conditional. But if you refuse here, everything is over.

He had already nodded once, so there was no hesitation.

I could guess what he meant by ‘seek’.

I covered my ears and closed my eyes.

I found darkness and silence myself.

─That’s…

It didn’t take long. The man who cut open the tender body of ‘Mother’ with a single stroke and gave me complete rest looked at me and held out his hand.

I couldn’t see what kind of expression he was making.

“Follow.”

I held the hand of a man whose name I didn’t even know.

like possessed.

My hands were shaking a little. Was it scary, or was there another reason?

His body was covered in blood and he escaped from the place where ‘Mother’ had brought him.

Outside there was nothing but mayhem.

The chaos the devil had spoken of was true. It seemed that someone had said that this place, called Fell Verne, was safe, but it seemed that it was not.

Houses and shops were on fire, and people were walking the streets crying and screaming.

Some people had already thrown away everything that was left of them as human beings, and they were acting like ‘mothers’.

The people who looked like their family clung to them who had become monsters, but they were also seen losing consciousness after being stabbed by the monsters who had already lost their reason.

That was the first sight I saw while being led by the hand of the hero and his first mate.

Instead of darkness, I saw a burning street, and instead of silence, I heard the voices of people crying.

I couldn’t feel solitude because I had someone I could trust by my side. However, without being able to adapt to the abysmal street, I was led dumbfounded and helpless.

I walked the streets that had become such a mess. Some people pointed fingers and cursed at the hero and the man. It was a screaming cry of ‘why didn’t you save me sooner?

The hero and the man hurriedly walked down the street as if nothing had happened.

They stopped walking while being hit by all sorts of swear words and occasional flying stones. It was a place full of people who had become monsters.

The man let go of my hand.

“Your light group. That’s called holy power. It’s the power to heal people’s pain.”

“..why did that happen to me..”

“You’ve been chosen.”

“Why are you telling me that now?”

“I’m saying you don’t have to be so scared. You were chosen by the hero.”

The man smiled and pointed at the hero in front of the crowd of monsters.

“We need your strength. We’re new to the adventure and unstable.”

“Ha.. but I have a weak body… and a poor past… and I can infect unhappiness just by being by your side…”

“I’ll never let you think that way.”

“But… if that happens, the ‘Director’ and ‘Director’ will…”

“I’ll take it out. I’ll make sure you don’t think of those human idiots again.”

His words sounded like a blow to the head.

yes. I was stuck.

Like a princess trapped in a tower, she was waiting endlessly for a savior, not even resisting. And he said directly that he would take me out like that. Like a prince from a book.

The moment I opened my mouth with a slightly more excited expression, I heard the sound of hitting the hard armor.

“lane..!”

The man hurriedly ran there, calling out what he assumed was the hero’s name.

I could see the warrior being beaten by people who had turned into monsters without any resistance.

As if hesitating for something, the warrior stood upright and received their attacks with one body.