chapter 3
3 – #003 There is a justification for imprisoning the hero.
All the warriors were imprisoned.
Except for one person, the undertaker.
The one who imprisoned all the warriors was none other than the saintess.
She imprisoned all the female warriors except for the undertaker, and this was soon criticized by many in less than a night.
“No, saintess! How can you imprison the warriors in the dungeon! And that brutally!”
The entrance to the dungeon where the four heroes were sealed.
The saintess took her place as if guarding her entrance, and several priests approached and clamored in front of her.
“It’s not polite to treat the warriors who saved mankind like that!”
“Yes! Especially if you imprison them in that way, ‘they’ can become enraged if you do something wrong.”
“Yes. Even one…Is already coming to the church. Throwing away the government!”
Many people shouted with full of concern, but the saintess did not deviate from the entrance even one step.
Hey!
Where are you going to bite your teeth!! Come out right now!!!
A scream like a scream came from inside.
It was clearly the cry of the female warriors who were imprisoned in the dungeon itself, where demons and heretics were interrogated in the past.
We killed the demon lord, but it comes out this way!
It was the rage of the warrior that made the priests tremble in fear.
“Gentlemen, don’t worry. It is the will of the Goddess that detained them, and this is also my will.”
The saintess pointed to the inside of her, speaking firmly to those who argued.
“According to what the goddess said, the demon king sowed his seeds to the female warriors.”
“Ugh…!”
Those who tried to argue with her saintess were frightened by the name of the demon king and stiffened as they were.
“Eh, the devil’s seed…?!”
“Yes. The demon king wants to borrow their bodies to resurrect.”
Is it true?
No.
The saintess lied.
At someone’s request, she arbitrarily created a justification for imprisoning them.
“So I imprisoned all four of them. I might have… Conceived the Demon King.”
“That, that!”
The people of the church were turned upside down in an instant.
“But the warriors tell a completely different story…?”
“Don’t be fooled. They’re not normal right now. There’s a possibility that the devil’s factors are already in their stomachs, and they don’t know about it at all.”
“Heo-eok…! Under the influence of the demon lord, you might have conceived the demon lord…?”
“Even the Demon King is desperate to survive.”
The saintess put her hands together and prayed.
“I just hope that those words are misunderstood by the goddess. Or, I just hope that the demon lord will perish from the inside of her belly through a purification ceremony here. So we can’t send them out. They… Will become the mother of the demon lord. Because you can.”
“So… Are you saying you can become a ‘witch’?”
“Yes. Just as the Holy Mother conceived a goddess, one of them could become a witch who conceived a demon king.”
“Such!”
Being a Demon King is a symbol of fear.
So far, countless people have died, more than half of the continent’s population has died, and even 103 of the 108 warriors summoned from the other world have died.
Demon King’s Army is also a Demon King’s Army, but the Demon King’s Army is those who are united around the Demon King, who is an absolute evil being.
If the demon king who managed to defeat was reborn, there would be nothing more terrible for mankind than that.
“Isn’t everything, everything supposed to be killed?! Just a hero or something…!”
“Calm down. How do we kill the warrior?”
“If you kill until you die…!”
“It’s impossible. The only thing that can kill a hero… Is the demon. You’re not calling the demon to the church, are you?”
“Keugh…!”
Heroes never die.
People in this world may be able to injure the hero, but they cannot completely kill the hero.
In the first place, they are the warriors who defeated the demon king.
Many say they have defeated a demon king, but a hero is a hero.
“I’m still in the stage of concern, so I just sealed it in the dungeon, and I can’t confirm right now whether I really conceived the demon king.”
“If you confirm with magic…!”
“They are ‘heroes’ who are protected by the Goddess. They are the ones who cannot be helped by our magic.”
“Keugh…!”
Confusion increased, but everyone believed the saintess’ words.
“One year. If a child is born, it will take a year. And if there are signs of a swollen stomach, there is a possibility that the demon king will be resurrected as a child. So let’s watch it until it is born.”
“Wouldn’t killing be the best thing?”
“Did you forget? Two of the warriors… Are ‘their’ wives.”
“Ah…!”
At the saintess’ words, the priests tore their hair as if they were confused.
“Emperor of the Empire, Grand Sword Master, owner of the Magic Tower. It could be their child. The same goes for other people. It could be someone who is not pregnant, or an ordinary child who is not a demon king. A miracle sent by the Goddess It could be a child. It’s a warrior’s child.”
The priests are in a dilemma.
“Are you pregnant or not? If there is a child, will it be a child of a hero or a child of the devil? Only the goddess, and only ‘time’ can know everything.”
If the saintess’ words are true, the safest and surest way is to seal four of the last heroes for one year and see the progress.
“Saintess. Among the warriors, there were some who called the saintess ‘a liar’…”
If what the saintess said was ‘true’.
“There are those who say that the saintess is imprisoning them for some other reason. It is to threaten the Empire, the Mage Tower, and all sorts of powers by taking a hero who has served her usefully as a hostage.”
“Threats?”
“The woman I love is being held hostage, and there are many people willing to give anything the Order of the Goddess demands until she is rescued.”
“…….”
No matter how much the saintess was a person who directly listened to the goddess, the positions and power of the warriors were sometimes strong enough to overturn the prestige of the Goddess Church.
“Don’t worry. I have no other intentions. I just want to see if there are any traces of evil left in their arms.”
The saintess did not budge.
“We humans need time.”
* * *
We confront instigation and fabrication with instigation and fabrication.
‘I think the devil’s eye drip is really terrible.’
When I said I needed time, the saintess held a witch drip against them.
– Right before the demon king died, he cursed the female warriors!
-Some or all four of the female warriors may have had a child with the Demon King!
-Let’s wait for a year and see if we have the devil’s child or not!!
The saintess’ strategy was effective, and people were immediately persuaded by the saintess.
Of course, what kind of nonsense is that? The people imprisoned in the dungeon are screaming like crazy.
However, no one listens to what they say.
-Hero. Please understand. The resurrection of the demon king is scary even for us…!
As much as the fight with the demon king was so hard and intense, it is the people of this continent who take off the crane if it is the demon king.
Yes.
The battle with the Demon King was very difficult.
To the extent that 103 names of ‘tombstones’ with exactly 108 names written on a tombstone on one side of the temple I visited for a while are erased.
“…….”
Each one is a name I buried with my own hands.
Even if there were people I couldn’t bury, I took their belongings and built a grave for them.
Those who were friends.
Those who were motives.
Those who at least once played soccer.
People I knew only by name.
And those who rode something like a thumb for a while.
They are all dead.
The only survivors were me and four women.
Kiki.
I raised my dagger and drew a line through my name.
“Undertaker? What is that…?”
“Because there is no need for warriors in this world anymore.”
The priests who were watching me from behind were horrified and approached me, but I completely erased my name from the tombstone.
“The ‘Undertaker’, the warrior of the goddess you speak of, no longer exists. I am going back to the original world.”
“That’s…”
“Heroes are no longer needed in this world, are they?”
At my words, the priests showed signs of discomfort.
People in this world cannot be killed.
An apostle of the goddess that only demons can kill, only those who have the demon king’s mana.
“I don’t like being in this world forever. It’s probably the same for you. Those who don’t die, have great power, and can continue to grow stronger. There are people who worry that such people will rule this world. Yeah, I know that too.”
“But Undertaker…!”
“Not you, but there are definitely those who think so.”
Hounds are boiled and eaten after hunting.
If you don’t want to be boiled and eaten, you have to leave.
Or be a pet dog, not a hunting dog, like some of the women down there.
“I’m leaving. I’m going to find the ‘place of return’ the goddess said. My goal now is to find it and return to the original world.”
“Are you serious?”
“Of course.”
There might be a difference in who you go with.
“Who is the saintess?”
“He left the entrance to the high priests and went to rest.”
“Then…I need to go in for a bit.”
I was just about to leave.
To be honest, you can just go like this.
“Oh, Mr. Undertaker. What’s going on here…?”
“I came to check on the condition of my ‘colleagues’. I received permission from the saintess.”
“Okay. Since it’s a ball, there won’t be any big problems, but…”
But.
“Please be careful.”
“Ah.”
Just one person.
There is someone I would like to meet and talk with.
Jeobeok, Jeobuck.
As soon as I went down into the dungeon, the sound of my footsteps responded from within.
One side of the prison divided into four sections.
“…What?”
I met ‘her girl’.
“Hey, Yuri Chae.”
“…You!”
Before I fell into this world, the woman who was my ‘girlfriend’.
“Hello?”
“You, can’t you…With me…?”
“For me to come here and say this, I think it’s f*cking stupid, but I have to do it.”
I took out a ring the goddess had given me, put it on her middle finger, and pointed it at Yuri Chae.
“Just as you threw me away like garbage because I’m a funeral director, I’m going to throw you away too.”
“You, you…!”
“Even if I go with someone else, even if I can’t go back.”
Never.
“I won’t go back with trash like you, even if I die.”