It's been tens of thousands of years since I've been this mad.

　I hate the knight in front of me.
　I hate the wise man, Hurt, who created the knight.

　I hate him with all my heart.

　Oh, I have an idea.
　I'll do the same for him.


　When he came to our holy city, he was carrying a woman with him.
　One of them looked familiar.

　The d*mned Tina-Halibel.
　She was one of the brave party that defeated my fellow demon Beleth.

　Beleth had reigned in the human world as a demon king at the behest of the evil god-sama, spreading fear and despair throughout the world.

　Although he was lower in rank than me and his own power was not much, he used his subordinate demons well and efficiently destroyed the human kingdom.

　I was impressed by his skill.

　It was defeated by that woman, Tina, and a brave man from another world.

　At that time, due to the devil's heart being disturbed, all of us demons who are connected to him with our souls had a grudge against the brave woman and against Tina.


　Halt, who destroyed the daughter I had prepared for.

　Evil God and Tina, the enemy of all demons.

　I came up with a way to drown them both in despair at the same time.


　Let's capture them both and force them to impregnate and raise a child.

　I will keep them alive under my control until they are the same age as Lobelia.

　Humans are happy creatures.

　Confined and repressed, they can still get used to it after a few years in that situation.

　They forget that they are kept by the devil and begin to feel happy.

　I'm going to destroy that temporary happiness.

　I'm going to kill that baby I raised for 16 years right in front of them.

　They'll tell me to kill myself rather than my children.

　I'm going to ignore those words and I'm going to kill their kids.

　They'll be shocked.
　They will be sad.
　They will despair.
　They will be terrified that their loved ones will be next.

　Or else it will be trivial.

　I will make you regret from the bottom of your heart that you messed with the devil's things, that you challenged him.


　Hurt had more than one other woman with him besides Tina.

　I'll do to them what I did to Tina and Hurt. I'm gonna make them sorry they were with Hurt.

　Even if they had nothing to do with Hurt, it didn't matter.

　As long as Hurt's face is twisted in despair, that's all that matters to me.


　I want to see Tina cry and beg for her child to be saved.

　I want to see the women who were with Hurt grieve, and I want to see Hurt's heart break.

　I want to eat their emotions at that moment.

　I want to eat their souls while enjoying the despairing faces of Hurt, Tina, and the women.

　The exquisite souls of the wise and the heroes who have risen to the top.
　I'm sure they will be delicious.

　Strangely, I feel a surge of power.

　Is this the anger?
　Is this the feeling of enjoying revenge?
　I've long since forgotten.

　No, it's not just anger.

　Maybe it's because I've spent a thousand years exercising my demonic power in human form, but now that I've released my true power, my power has increased incomparably more than before.

　That's not all.

　Dozens of reincarnations had been repeated dozens of times.
　In all of them, I have increased my abilities to the limit value of a human.

　A mage, a gladiator, an archer, an archaeologist, an assassin...

　I can still use all the techniques and magic available in those positions. My demon self, who was originally overwhelmingly powerful, got the techniques.


''This is good.''

　This should help.

　I moved in front of the Knight of Fire, who stood to protect the saint.

　The knight intercepted me, but the attack was too late for me, having released my demon power.


''It's not like this.''

　In my hand is a mass of magical power that seems to be the core of the Knight of Fire.

　The moment the knight attacked me, I pulled this out of its body.

　After the nucleus was extracted, the flame knight dissipated on the spot.

　It's only the magic of the human race, is this still the extent of it?

''Oh, no...''

　He thought he was going to be saved.
　The saint was exuding fear.

'I don't need you anymore since I no longer need to baptize you... well, you'll have to stay there for a bit.

　You approach the giant crystal in the center of the Great Temple.

"What are you doing?　Wait, you can't do that!　Stop!

　He knows what I'm going to do.
　Of course I'm not going to stop.

　I poured all of my demonic power and all of the skills I've cultivated as a human being into striking the abominable crystal that protects the Holy City.

　A large crack appeared in the crystal that had been protecting the Great Temple and the Holy City for thousands of years.

''d*mn, it's as hard as you'd expect,''

Oh, no...

　Although it didn't completely destroy the crystal, it did stop its functioning.

　As you can see from the state of the saint, the holy wards that covered and protected the holy city had disappeared.

　Was it as easy as this?

　If that was the case, I could have destroyed the Holy City on my own without creating a daughter.

　Looking back, I spent a lot of time and effort on my daughter.
　I don't think it was all in vain.

　Life with my daughter was fun in its own way.

　Once again, my hatred for Hurt for killing my daughter thickens.


''Well, now that there's nothing left to protect you guys... what do we do?''

..........

　The saint was letting loose.
　The lack of response is also boring.

''──Higu.''

　He put his hand on the saint's neck and lifted himself up.
　Her neck tightened and she let out a pained cry.

'Your soul, which has served as a saint for so long, must be delicious. But if possible, I would like your soul to be blackened with despair before I eat it.

　The saint's heart is already broken.
　But this guy's soul will still be delicious.

　Let's hurt it, humiliate it, drive it, and torment it to the point where it begs me to kill it.

　Maybe even kill him a few times.

　Maybe we can force the next saint to come back from the dead and have him revive her, and we can have lots of fun with it.

　Oh, this is a wonderful idea.

Yes. "Yes, you can have a baby with Halt. How about that?　If you obey me, I'll let you live too.

　Only for a decade or so.


You'll never be able to beat him.

What?

　As soon as I heard Harte's name, the light returned to the saint's eyes.

　I'm convinced that the wise man can defeat me - I can read his strong and clear intentions.

　There is no help from the creator God - the heart of the saint, which was broken when I made her understand this, has recovered by relying on that wise man.

　Expectation, hope, courage - the saint's heart was full of positive energy.

　It's disgusting.
　The heart that had been humbled so hard to break has completely recovered.

　It will take a lot of work to blacken the heart again.

　It's too much work.

I've changed my mind. I'm going to kill you now.

　He raised his left hand high to fasten the saint's neck and summoned a dark sword in his right hand.

　This is a demonic sword that will stain a person's soul and deviate from the circle of reincarnation if he or she is terrified at the sight of this sword.

　Those who are fearful of this sword and are cut down will not be able to be revived, even if they use resurrection magic immediately.

　And yet...

　The saint was not afraid.

　She believed in the future.
　She is full of hope.

　No, don't look at me like that!

"DIE!

　A magic sword to the heart of a saint...



"...Guh?

　The saint who should have been in front of me disappeared.

　Not only the saint, but also my left arm that was around the saint's neck also disappeared.

　My left arm, which was around the saint's neck, also disappeared.

　I feel pain.
　It was the first time I had ever experienced this since I became a demon.

　Even when I was blown away by the flame knight, there was damage, but I didn't feel any pain.


　A young man carrying a great sword as tall as his body was standing there holding a saint.

　That guy - that wise man cut off my arm and took the saint away from me.

　The wise man spoke to the saint with a voice full of hope and courage, the two emotions I hate most in this world - he said.

I'm sorry to keep you waiting, but it's all right now. But it's all right now.