Episode 216 My neck becomes your scabbard (1)
Corpse Queen.
The skull mask covering her face was removed.
Inside was a very familiar face that hadn’t changed much compared to when she was 8 years old.
Big eyes like a deer. Eyes that were always moist when looking at her. Dark eyebrows, a sharp nose, and tight lips.
If there’s a slight difference, it’s that most of the breast meat on her cheeks is gone, all the freckles on her face are gone, and the color scheme of the black and white jaundice has changed.
Morgue Camus.
She was looking this way with the exact same expression as the last one in Vikir’s memory.
A face covered in tears and runny nose, an expression that couldn’t even speak anymore, a throat that had become sore.
From the moment when she said goodbye to the ‘Octagonal Madame’ in the sea of red and black mountains, she seemed to have stopped time.
“…”
Bikir was silent for a moment.
Why didn’t you know until now?
The main villain. main enemy. black curtain.
The road that I ran without rest with the thought that I had to kill the devil and stop the era of destruction.
With the appearance of Tensangsi right in front of my eyes, I completely ruled out any trivial thoughts or supervisors.
He was only focused on killing his enemies.
Is that why? Vikir was able to recall at once all the questionable parts that he had been missing or that he had deliberately avoided thinking about.
Kamyu’s sudden change of heart after searching for Bikir without missing a single day for several years.
After leaving the good house of his uncle ‘Morg Adolph’ with whom he was so close, he entered the dark house of his uncle ‘Morg Snake’ with whom he was not on good terms.
Afterwards, after declaring closed training, Kamyu severed all ties with the world.
Coincidentally, there was an anomaly that appeared at this point.
A mysterious woman who took the place of Morgue Snake, who should have been the ‘king of corpses’. The queen of corpses whose identity was unknown during her lifetime.
She cherished Morgue Roget, who died in the war against the enemy and the natives of the Black Mountain, by turning him into an undead.
It also had the remains of Ahheman, which should have been abandoned in the waters of Red and Black Mountains.
Come to think of it, even when we first met, there were a lot of strange things.
The Corpse Queen was strangely enraged when she saw Balak’s archery, probably because of the memory of losing Bikir and Rose in quick succession.
And the fact that he flinched at the sight of the Baskerville style swordsmanship at the end and that he held Rosé back when he fell unconscious were all signs.
Bikir asked, trying to stay as calm as possible.
“Why did you become the eighth number? What is your voice like?”
[…Maybe it’s because I’ve been crying for several years since you disappeared, so I’m completely locked up.]
The voice of the corpse queen, or Camus, was much more husky than before.
How many times must I have cried, screamed, struggled, collapsed from exhaustion, fainted, woke up, and wailed again and again.
Her neck was already tattered.
Camus said with tears falling from her black and white eyes.
[You idiot… I thought you were… dead… I’m trying to find your body…]
So I’ve searched the enemy and the floods of the Black Mountain for the past several years. do you mean without missing a day?
……Well, it’s understandable up to that point.
However, Bikire had to touch her forehead with her hand at Camu’s words.
[So… I tried to bring you back to life.]
Black magic. The art of reviving the dead.
Was that the reason why he left the Myeongdang and joined the Dark Party?
Certainly, Morgue Snake, the leader of the Dark Temple, is a master of black magic.
Before he returned, he also signed a contract with Seere, the eighth city, in order to reach the ultimate in black magic.
Come to think of it, I also remembered the testimony I had heard from Highsis Middlesis Lowsis in the past in Red Awl Castle.
‘If it’s Camus, I’ve entered the closed-gwan training now.’
‘……Closed?’
‘Because he broke up with Uncle Adolf.’
I heard that Camu has changed a little since the time he stopped searching.
His condescending personality died a lot, and he became less talkative.
Then, suddenly, Morgue Adolph announced the resignation of the best party in the Supreme Council.
Morgue was shocked internally as he was Camus, who followed Adolf, who was his uncle and leader of a good party, like a parent, but Adolf did not express any official opinion about it.
I just silently watched as Camus, who had defected, joined the dark party standing at the opposite point of the good party.
Knowing how sad Camus was after ‘that night’ in the flood, and how much she blamed herself and suffered, she would not have dared to stop her.
“…”
Bikir frowned.
Kamyu, who abandoned everything and chose the path of the black mage to revive the dead himself and make himself undead.
If she was originally destined, why did she become like this?
Bikir asked in a low voice.
“So you’re saying you made a contract with the devil because of me after all? Why?”
[Are you asking because you don’t know that?]
“I’m asking because you don’t know. They say it became the 8th city to find my body and turn it into a dead man.”
[…When you say that, it sounds a bit like that.]
After thinking for a while, Kamyu nodded and admitted. Then he articulated his position clearly and concisely.
[If death separates us, I wanted to be together behind the scenes.]
Soon, a little silence passed between the two.
“…”
[…]
The Night Hound and the Corpse Queen take off their masks and face each other face to face.
It was Vikir who broke the awkward silence between the two.
“…But in the end, demons must die.”
The ball is the ball. living privately.
No matter how heavy an individual’s personal feelings may be, they cannot be weighed against the fate of mankind as a whole.
In the end, the composition became clear.
A man who must kill a woman to prevent the end of the world.
A woman who doesn’t mind if the world perishes as long as she can be with a man.
[…]
Camus has no answer.
And then her lips parted.
[Okay.]
Bikir’s eyes widened slightly. That’s because the answer was completely unexpected.
Surprisingly, however, Camus did not feel much agitation.
[Since joining hands with the devil, I guessed that my life wouldn’t end so well.]
Kamu and Bikir’s eyes met.
Camu took a step in front of Bikir.
And stretched out his shoulders and chest.
[Now kill it.]
“…”
Vikir hesitated for a moment.
One of the ten times said that he would offer his head with his own foot, but why did he hesitate?
The faces of countless comrades passing through my head.
However, despite the sense of guilt and indebtedness, Baalzebub, the magic sword on the wrist, does not budge.
Before long, Camus opened his mouth again.
[What are you doing? Kill?]
“…”
[Kill! Kill it!]
In an instant, her voice rose.
Kwak! Patter- Patter- Patter-
Runaway emotions and fluctuating mana. Around it, a shower of fire and iron skewers began to fall.
Tears welled up in Camu’s eyes and dripped down her cheeks.
[okay! Of course you don’t like blackened witches like me! Kill it now and put it out of your life or not! My ex-girlfriend who gets in the way is going to die right here, so how do you live well with your current girlfriend, Seong-nyeo, an innocent bagel!] ”
???”
It was a completely incomprehensible reaction to Bikir.
What is your ex and what is your current girlfriend? Why is the name of Saint Dolores mentioned again?
I knew there was a fatal misunderstanding, but it was a difficult situation to explain.
In addition, it seemed that the demonic energy flowing from Camus was getting stronger and stronger.
As the time approaches midnight.
Kamyu poured out all the mana in her body, and then sat down and started to cry.
[My bad baby! The saying that we meet after a long time, the devil must die? Who’s not from Baskerville? You bastard!]
“…”
Vikir stood still and didn’t say anything.
This is the third time I have seen Kamu’s tears.
When we first met at the age of 8, then when we got older and met again at the Red Fang Castle, and now.
All three times, Bikir could not offer any consolation to Kamyu’s tears.
And Camus seemed to be accustomed to this, and after a while, the tears stopped on her own.
[……Yes, I know. You have no talent to comfort me.]
It seems that a similar conversation took place when I lost my second cousin to the Rococo tribe.
Rosé, who was next to Kamyu, who was still teary-eyed, hugged her and comforted her.
yet.
…tuk!
Kamu took out an old booklet from his bosom and threw it in front of Bikir.
[This is my diary.]
“…”
[Read it at least once even if I disappear. There are a lot of things I can’t bear to say just by looking at your face.]
Of course, even if Bikir answered this, Kamyu would not be in this world this time.
“…”
Bikir picked up the diary that had fallen to the floor.
The weight of the bookshelf made only of paper is quite heavy.
It was the weight of the time a woman carves into a man the feelings that will remain as questions forever with no answer.
Before long, Camus loosened his front lip.
The bone armor splits left and right, revealing a white neck in the middle.
[ruler. Do it now.]
“…”
[It’s fine with you. No, only you are qualified.]
“…”
[Anyway, at the point of signing the contract with the devil, Hosang gave up. Maybe I’d be happier going to your hands.]
Kamyu came to Bikir and quietly knelt down.
Then he took Bikir’s right hand and brought it to his throat.
[My neck will become your scabbard.]
Camu’s lips touch Bikir’s right arm. I could feel the small trembling breath.
“…”
Vikir was still unable to move.
Ten demon lords who crossed over from the demon realm to the human realm. A huge gate they will later open. The era of destruction that will come because of this.
Before the gate opens, all ten demon lords must be killed.
… Back!
Bikir tightened his hand.
Camus was looking up at Bikir as if he was prepared.
But why? Bikir’s hands do not move.
It was because of the feelings that lurked at the bottom of the abyss in the heart that even Vikir himself could not know.
Suddenly, the description of the Baskerville Type 7 popped up in Bikir’s mind.
In order to reach the extreme of the -6 expression, you have to throw away your emotions.
-But to open the door to the 7th, you have to have feelings.
In order to reach the top level of a graduate, you must become a steel-like being who has thoroughly killed your emotions.
However, in order to reach the highest level, Sword Master, you have to revive the emotions you killed.
Bikir has lived a life like sharpened steel.
A killing machine that operated only on orders, excluding all emotions. dog of death.
All my life I have loved no one and have never been loved by anyone.
That was a fact that was proven even before Dantalian. Except for the camaraderie, there were no ties that connected Bikir to the world.
but.
But such Bikir was agitated now.
A girl knelt in front of him and opened her arms and chest to receive her sword.
As I looked down at that mysterious face, I felt a weak emotion that I didn’t even know existed.
No matter how heavy an individual’s intuition is, it cannot be weighed against the fate of mankind as a whole.
…… However, in the end, a iron man becomes a superman in front of such a heavy supervisor.
A wall began to appear in Bikir’s field of vision.
The sword master’s wall of being able to cut into two pieces by cutting down even an abstract concept or soul without a shape in the extreme of swordsmanship that could cut anything was hovering in front of his eyes.
And right at that moment.
…suck!
Pain was felt in the lower abdomen.
This sensation of something hot breaking through.
[…… Huh?]
Kamyu put on a dazed expression for a moment.
An iron skewer extended from her hand and pierced Bikir’s belly.
at the same time.
Tsutsutsutsutsutsu…
A black mist began to rise behind Kamyu’s back. It was forcibly manipulating her body.
[It’s midnight. Little girl.]
An eerie voice comes out from a crack in the fog that is torn like a mouth.
< 'The Eighth City' Seere >
Risk Level: S+
Size: ?
Discovery Location: Deep inside the Gate of Destruction, ‘The Serpent’s Womb’
– also known as ‘The Eighth Corpse’.
One of the ten plagues leading to the natural enemy of mankind, incomprehensible and unkillable.
“Lives and beasts will perish.”
– 『Ten Commandments』 10:上 –
It was the voice of a demon that was stuck in half of Kamyu’s consciousness.
