chapter 19
19. As for me
‘Mr. A guy with no money. Buy it later.’
‘Yes? Ah… Write…Yes, I’ll go to work instead.’
‘No! I’m going to work with the Chief Prosecutor!’
I saw a man jumping here and there. The visuals were jumbled together, and although the man’s appearance changed from time to time, I could tell that it was all the same person’s story.
Is this a dream?
It was my first thought at the strange sight, but soon I found my bewildered face and realized it was not a dream.
That’s a memory.
I managed to recognize myself. It’s been so long that he’s completely forgotten about it.
Even while I was pondering how I lived in my previous life, I showed myself running around helping someone or solving problems.
Some people were grateful for my good intentions, while others were babbling behind my back that I was leaving without even knowing the subject.
If you ask yourself if it was a good hogu, the answer pops out that it is not.
I didn’t carelessly do good deeds or help others without purpose or reason. I moved because I judged that there was merit to the end.
Why do you shoot rice at your friends? I buy it because I know that I am not a person who will eat and bounce.
Why did you leave the part-time job? My pocket money runs out quickly because I spend too much money.
Why are you working with the Haengbo-gwan? Because there was a lot of falling congo.
The reason why the princess had to escape…Um. Because I couldn’t bear to kill people?
The reason why the guards didn’t run away after going down the sewers. Sorry I sent them to a dangerous place?
To help others with all sorts of excuses. I felt that I had lived a very wild life.
Anyway, I was proud that I wasn’t the type to live at a loss. When I saw it from the perspective of three people, I wondered if it was a similar Hogu kid.
If I wanted to take revenge on the succubus even when I was reincarnated, I had to reincarnate as a being who could take revenge by returning to the original world, not a fantasy world.
In a corner of my heart, there was a handful of strange understanding that I was trying to live by eating everything.
Tsk. If only I had a little better judgment.
How nice it would be if I was born as a nobleman or a warrior, rather than a demonic incubus.
I was born as a bad incubus and suffered like a dog.
Yes. At least I wish I was born as a dragon. If it was a class more similar to the Doha Prius. Wouldn’t it have been easier to twist?
“Ugh…”
I felt bad as if I had absorbed 5 bottles of soju. As a bonus, I even had a headache that felt like splitting my forehead with a chisel.
Did he come to his senses after fainting?
I tried to put my hands on my throbbing back neck, but for some reason it didn’t move.
After tossing and turning a few times, I realized that my hands were tied behind my back.
My legs were not restrained, but the headache was so severe that it was difficult to think or judge properly.
I had no time to think about where I was or what situation I was in.
Still, as I calmly caught my breath and closed my eyes, I could feel the headache slowly subside.
I opened my eyes and looked around.
The air felt on my skin was damp and stuffy. It was a dark vision, but strangely, the two bright eyes clearly looked at the things hidden in the darkness.
Innumerable pillars were erected endlessly at regular intervals, and I could see people tied to each pillar.
There were well over a hundred people, each hanging from a pole, and at the end of the field of view, an old iron bar was visible, creating an atmosphere like a prison door.
The people chained to the poles had their eyes open, but something vague looked like a wooden doll with no self.
It was only clear from their wide eyes and haggard complexion that their condition was extremely dangerous.
The creepy thing is that every time the people who are tied up breathe, an unpleasant feeling of purple smoke leaks out of their mouths.
To see it as smoke, its appearance was close to that of a viscous liquid.
I don’t know where the purple thing is going, but I got a very bad feeling.
Observing my surroundings, the headache disappeared without me knowing, and on the contrary, I felt that my body was getting more and more energized.
To add a lie, wouldn’t it be possible to transform like a Super Saiyan if you recover more energy here?
“Ugh…!”
With a strange sense of confidence, I put strength into my arms. I tried to cut the rope nicely like the main character in the movie, but it was as expected.
That kind of happening didn’t happen, and I sighed at my aching wrist from being rubbed and clamped by the rope.
And then. The iron bars, which had been tightly closed, began to open with the creaking sound of iron friction.
What appeared were unidentified people wearing black robes.
A total of 6 robes moved, swaying, followed by other people slithering like zombies.
The armor worn over the red clothes and the sword at the waist occasionally collided, creating a loud clicking sound.
“Guard Captain…?”
It was the captain of the guard and his crew who went down into the sewer.
It must have been me who was caught first. Perhaps they, who had been wandering around the sewer belatedly, were caught and caught by the unknown robes.
The robes took the guards to an empty pillar where no one was tied, and the members, including the captain of the guard, attached themselves to the pillar and bound themselves with the ropes tied to the pillar.
Bound to the pole, they soon lowered their heads as weakly as the others, and turned into a blank look with their mouths open.
The robes approached the guards, grabbed their heads, and started muttering something, and soon something purple and unpleasant leaked from their mouths.
The robes that had installed the guards on the pillars gathered together again. There was a tall robe in the middle, and the rest of the robes stood around him, probably because he was the leader.
“Kama-sama. As expected, escalating the situation beyond this…”
“That’s right. As long as the guards have been touched, an investigation will surely begin.”
“I need a bigger sacrifice to open the rift, but if I catch more humans here…”
The lobs gave their opinions, but somehow the atmosphere didn’t look so good.
A negative opinion was evident in every word he heard, but Captain Rob stomped his foot forcefully as if he didn’t like those words.
As the space shook with a thump, the rest of the robes immediately shut up.
“Fifty years. Fifty years have been spent in the damned underground. My patience is at an end.”
Have you been trapped in these damp underground channels for fifty years? That’s pretty sad At least if it were a ring, the sunlight would come in.
“Open the rift, summon the army, and we kill the emperor. Then the center of humanity will collapse, and we can bring the whole world before the hero or the great sage can get his hands on it.”
Captain Rob took out a cloth from his bosom. As the overlapping cloth was removed layer by layer, the object stored inside eventually appeared.
A flat stone the size of an adult man’s palm that sparkles like a jewel. The black stone, like a black hole, seemed to absorb all light and was black with primal darkness.
Rob carefully lifted the black stone and, to his surprise, it slowly began to float and rise, as if it had a will of its own.
And as Rob muttered something, the purple smoke that had flowed from people’s mouths shimmered and gathered towards the stones.
As the stone ravenously gobbled up the smoke, Rob found me lying on one side.
“There are still sacrifices left.”
Don’t come. Don’t come please don’t come
I prayed earnestly for a rare miracle to happen to me, but the gods did not listen to my prayers, perhaps because I was born as a demon.
The robe finally came right in front of me and put a hand on my bowed head. Cool sensation. It was like putting ice on your head.
“Wake up.”
I thought it was a command, but a heavy pressure squeezed my heart.
I feel like I should follow Rob’s words, but I feel bad because of the repulsive feeling of why I should do that.
“…Wake up.”
As I sat there, unresponsive, Rob gave me another order.
I felt the unpleasant pressure on my heart once more, but the repulsion in my chest continued to grow stronger as the mood worsened.
I didn’t listen again this time, so Rob’s hand, which was holding my head, seemed to be angry.
“After. Get up…”
A pain in the head. The humiliation of being treated badly. The feeling of beggar touching my heart reached a climax of discomfort that wrapped around my whole body.
The moment when the repulsiveness against Rob, who was steadfastly playing tricks on me, reached its peak.
“You bastard!!”
I jumped up and kicked the robe hard.
For an instant, I saw the black robe dissipating like smoke, but before it completely dispersed, the robe I kicked back returned to its original form and fell as it rolled backwards.
The robe I got stuck on the floor didn’t get up even after rolling 4 times on the floor.
Rather than being dead or passed out, he appeared to be in a state of brain freeze, not realizing what had happened to him.
“f*cked.”
I was angry and exploded, but as my head cooled down and I regained my reason, the reality came into my eyes.
I was about to run away, but the other robes were also standing there staring blankly at me.
It seemed like they were also taking some time to understand what had happened.
Well, it took less than 10 seconds, but the first thing that came to my senses and moved was the robe that had been kicked over by me.
Rob came to his senses only after he brushed himself off and stood up, and the rest of the robes hurriedly ran to him and supported him who was already standing upright.
“Kama-sama!”
“Let go, let go!”
The man called Kama, whose face was exposed with his robe removed, shook off his men’s hands and met eyes with me as I was wondering what to do.
The dead skin, like a corpse, had the same color as the muddy purple that oozes from people.
The red eyes, like those of a snake, were so ugly that the pupils could be seen widening and narrowing.
Familiar appearance. It was a face I often saw when I ate and drank in the demon realm in the past.
“Asmodians…?”
Kama flinched at the words he muttered unconsciously. She then narrowed her eyes and came towards me with her slow gait.
“Kama-sama!”
One of her men called out to him, but Kama ignored her men and continued walking towards me. He stopped right in front of me and looked at me with his head slightly tilted.
I was frightened by his behavior as if he was observing me, but at the same time I felt a strange sense of incongruity.
I think I saw this guy somewhere…I can’t remember…Who was it?
While I was experiencing memory confusion, the expression of the demon facing me was also changing in real time.
From a face full of doubt and anger with furrowed eyebrows, the impression gradually opened and it became like me, and then it started to open its eyes wide with the corners of its mouth rolled up.
At the moment I wondered if he had gone out of his mind as he kicked me at his constantly changing condition, the demon placed his chin on my shoulders.
On his brightened face, positive emotions such as great pleasure and joy toward me were conveyed.
The moment I tried to turn my head to avoid his twinkling eyes, I couldn’t help but wake up to a word from the demon that I heard in my ears.
“Brother!!”
What are you talking about? What did i just hear?
Before I realized and recognized the reality, the demons who called me older brother hugged me tightly.
I shuddered at the indescribable wet feeling held in the demon’s cold embrace, and my eyes met with the rest of the robes visible over his shoulder.
Everyone was asking me who I was with puzzled eyes, as if it was difficult for them to accept the current situation.
And suddenly. Outdated memories flashed through my mind, breaking through the fog and flying in front of my eyes.