Chapter 44
Chapter 44 – The Devil King’s Name (1)
Translator: HH Editor: ShaSha
It was long .
After a long time, I finally reached this place .
[The penalty due to your skill is being induced . ]
[The trauma of the enemy that killed you is being reenacted . ]
Now, it was time to talk about a certain nightmare .
In the battle of the 12th floor, when I was swept away like a raindrop,
[The intensity of the penalty is Medium . ]
It was what I saw after being killed by the Devil King .
[It is Ghost Road . ]
Trauma .
The nightmare of the one called the Master of Nightmares .
[Penalty opened . ]
[The trauma of the monster Devil King of Fall Rain is being created . ]
I stood alone in a burning village, right in the middle of the sea of fire .
No .
-Burn her!
I might not have been the only person here .
At least I had Bae Hu-ryeong . The person that was really in hell all alone, was on the other side .
-Burn the witch’s nest!
Estelle .
The saintess from the countryside .
-Don’t show mercy . They’re all monsters that have been cursed!
-Don’t miss a single person!
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Estelle couldn’t understand .
She couldn’t speak .
Because she couldn’t understand, her mouth just moved without making any sounds .
Why?
Why were humans burning humans?
They were parents who had said they were thankful to her . Babies that had received new lives from her . All of them were massacred .
-It’s what the sir wants!
Soldiers who had appeared out of nowhere destroyed the village,
-His Majesty has ordered it!
And knights who had different insignias brought their swords down .
-The Pope has said to the heretic who dares to call herself the saintess…
-The owner of the forest had ordered this, so spirit, please… .
-The Queen of Mermaids has given us magic power to… . .
-Us warriors have come to keep the promise of the volcano! Alright, dragons! Let’s shoot fire to… .
They all revealed where they were from, but Estelle still didn’t know who they were .
Who were they to burn humans?
-Ahhh, ackk!
-Save me!
They surrounded the village like they were catching prey . There wasn’t a way to escape . There were some families who tried to leave the village, but they were slaughtered once they were caught .
The only escape was the square of the village .
They were pierced by spears, chased by swords, injured by arrows, beat with canes… . .
People continued to crowd the square .
-Cough!
In the middle of the village, there was a paradise that they had made themselves .
Estelle looked around in the smoke-filled air .
-Just endure it a bit more . Just a bit…
A father hunched over . Between the space between the ground and the father, there was an empty area . His child hid in that space . The father was hit with the fire instead of his child and swallowed smoke for his child .
The father died first .
The child was able to live a minute more than his father .
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-Just a bit more… .
An old couple held each other . Were they trying to die together? That was what Estelle thought . But when she looked closer, that wasn’t the case . There was a newborn baby between them .
-Just a bit… .
When the fire spread, the couple screamed . But they didn’t fall apart . Their arms were burnt from the flames . Even when they turned to ash, the old couple was holding each other . It wasn’t an embrace for their last memory, but to protect the small child .
The couple died first . The sobbing of the newborn baby ended after a minute .
One by one, the screams in the square paused .
The family that had become rich due to their farm, the old man who had woken up early in the morning to work .
-Why… . ?
There wasn’t a citizen who was untouched . There were people with cancer, people with blindness . Because there were so many diseases in the world, Estelle swallowed all of them .
But her heart was blacker than,
-How… . . ?
When she swallowed all those diseases .
She was surrounded by smoke .
She burned from the fire .
She quietly tried opening her mouth .
-······ .
In her mouth, she could smell something burning .
Estelle realized that her heart was a bit more black . For a day, the village burned up . For a day, Estelle burned up .
Crunch!
Estelle’s hand scratched at the ashes . No one bothered her . The soldiers had all left seeing the village in flames . All that was left was the remnants of the paradise it was .
-Lepandor… . .
There was a corpse of a father .
-Dajena… .
Under the father, there was a corpse of a child .
-Solape…, Joe… . Ugansha… .
She dug .
-Mobaijan… . . Topho… . Anna… . . Garchoff……
With her bare hands .
The remnants of the village . The ashes on the remnants . Her fingers turned black, and her red blood turned black . Estelle continued to dig .
-······ .
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And she ate it .
The flesh of humans .
The bones of humans .
The ashes that didn’t have flesh of bones .
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The scent of human flesh wasn’t pleasant anymore . She couldn’t feel any hunger, or beauty . It just smelled burnt . But Estelle still ate it . She swallowed it . Even though it was hideous .
Estelle’s mouth was dirited black .
Estell’s teeth turned black .
-Poor thing… .
Her intestines filled with pus, and the blood spread turned into a solution to cover her entire body . It wasn’t just blood . Something else was flowing from her eyes .
It probably weren’t tears .
If they were tears, why weren’t they clear?
-Poor things… .
So it was wastewater .
The wastewater that the humans had used and thrown away had come to her .
It had gathered in her heart .
-Poor things… .
The wastewater didn’t stop flowing .
-You,
The wastewater flowed .
-You, you and you are all humans .
It flowed in her mind .
-You were all born as humans, and knew the beauty and tears of life, so why? Just why?
It spilled all around her .
-Were you called monsters? Wasn’t it enough to know beauty and sadness?
It flowed around her .
-So you remain as humans, and these… . my children will remain as monsters? Is that your world?
It flowed as rain .
-In this world, is it just you who deserves to die? Was it only you that was allowed to have beauty?
Her heart echoed, crying .
-Then now, you prove it .
The rain poured .
-Prove it to me .
The rain poured .
-I’ll curse you .
Because the rain poured .
No village would burn from flames .
My children . My blood . The color that took my heart .
I lost the color of my blood, so only wastewater flows through me, but the rain is red, and proves the existence of my blood .
-Be swallowed in your evil .
The rain poured .
The rain .
-You,
The rain,
The rain poured .
-You made me like this,
Continuously .
-So I will make you like this .
The rain,
Because the rain poured .
-Gong-ja .
Blink .
-Awake .
A voice .
-This isn’t your hell .
Hearing that low voice, I opened my eyes .
[Trauma reenactment complete . ]
[Confirm that the identity has been maintained . ]
[The penalty is finished . ]