I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake. Chapter 71

I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake.

Chapter 71

Caesar grabbed the excited Gloria’s shoulders.

“I understand you’re angry, but wait for now.”

“Master. But they’re just children.”

“Don’t you trust me? Just wait.”

Gloria finally removed her hand from the sword handle.

The men who brought the children aimed their guns at Caesar and Gloria asked.

“Are you here to jump?”

“Towards the setting sun.”

The guys exchanged glances with each other briefly, then one man spoke.

“Are you still using that old code? It changed recently?”

“It’s because it’s been a while since I crossed over.”

“Who introduced you?”

“King.”

At the mention of King, their expressions became slightly ambiguous.

“That guy hasn’t been active in Homigraph for quite a while?”

“That’s why I used the old one.”

“Well, that makes sense. Now then, would both of you raise your hands?”

Caesar and Gloria both raised their hands.

The guys slowly approached.

“A sword, huh. Must be a knight. Stay still until I disarm you.”

“Sure.”

When they reached within 3 meters, Caesar used psychometry.

-I’ve guided all the people who were introduced by Boss King.

-But there are people I don’t know?

-These guys are up to something.

Oh well, we’ve been found out.

Caesar’s hand moved like lightning.

Crack!

The neck turned 360 degrees and the closest guy collapsed with a thud.

It happened so suddenly that the other guys blankly stared at their falling comrade.

Gloria naturally reached for her chainsaw sword.

“Gloria. Let’s see how that chainsaw sword works in actual combat.”

Gloria drew the chainsaw sword from her back.

And activated it.

Wheeeeeeee!

The guys swallowed their fear at the sharp mechanical sound they’d never heard before.

“I was going to anyway.”

Gloria pressed down her helmet and charged.

“Shoot!”

Ping!

The bullet ricocheted off Gloria’s helmet and flew into the sky.

“Shoot where there’s no armor! You idiots!”

Gloria doesn’t have the dynamic vision to see bullets like Caesar.

But Caesar taught Gloria how to avoid getting hit by bullets as much as possible.

-To be honest, it’s better to dodge bullets shot by amateurs.

-They don’t even know how to aim, so you never know where the bullets will go.

-But it’s different with skilled ones. Where their eyes are looking is definitely where the bullets will come from.

Click!

-Of course, for normal people, it’s impossible to dodge or block right when you catch their line of sight.

-But you’re not a normal person, you’re an Aura user, right?

-If you practice well, you’ll be able to dodge or block them.

-So shall we practice?

Gloria focused on one man’s gaze.

The direction he was targeting was Gloria’s forearm.

A part not protected by steel.

His hand overlapped with Caesar’s in her vision.

Bang!

Gloria twisted her shoulder in an instant.

The bullet heading for her forearm bounced off her shoulder plate.

“The, the bullet…!”

A thrilling sensation ran down her spine and spread throughout Gloria’s body.

The satisfaction when the results of brutal training paid off in reality was indescribable.

Bang! Bang bang! Bang!

Gloria blocked more bullets with her armor as she charged.

The heavy impact of incoming bullets hitting felt like receiving a pleasant massage.

Gloria swung the chainsaw sword held in both hands.

Wheeeeeeee!

The heavy chainsaw dug into the man’s side like the teeth of a hungry alligator.

“Aaaaaaaargh!”

Although Gloria had trained at Great Mountain, it had only been about three months.

In other words, even for an Aura user, it’s almost impossible to break someone’s spine and sever their waist with a single cut.

However, the intense rotational force of the blood-craving saw teeth had the power to make the impossible possible.

Slash!

The sensation of cutting through a person was similar to slicing through elastic slime with a knife.

At first entry there was heavy resistance, but with more force it dug deep, crushing the cervical spine and scattering internal organs.

Perhaps that’s why?

Gloria’s helmet and armor were covered in sticky blood and flesh.

Blood dripped from Gloria’s helmet.

“Ah, a demon! That’s a demon’s weapon!”

Gloria leaped like a tiger toward the frightened men.

The guys tried to resist but at this distance, guns were nearly useless.

Especially against a knight wearing sturdy armor, they were even more useless.

Gloria was a natural fighter who could take down and kill mafia members even without wearing such armor.

Even without Caesar’s teaching, she knew how to fight multiple enemies and how to effectively neutralize opponents.

Gloria swept past them, cutting through thighs and ankles.

The expression ‘cutting through’ was very accurate, as body parts exploded and flew high into the sky when they touched the saw teeth.

Every time the noisy saw teeth made contact, it created a blood spray that truly made her look like a red demon.

“Stop!”

Gloria’s hand stopped like a broken clock spring.

Gloria’s fierce eyes turned toward the kidnappers’ hands.

The pistols in their hands were aimed not at Gloria but at the children’s heads.

“If, if you don’t stop, we’ll kill the children!”

Gloria gritted her teeth.

“…You cowardly bastards.”

“Put down the sword right now! Or we’ll really kill them!”

Gloria’s eyes met the child’s through the gap in her helmet.

The child was too terrified to even scream.

No, they probably didn’t even have the strength to scream.

Their fragile flesh was torn and bleeding from all the whipping they’d endured.

At that moment, Caesar stood beside her.

“Gloria. Why are you hesitating?”

“…But the children are there.”

“If you kill those three, other children can live. It means saving more children with minimal sacrifice.”

Gloria felt like she could hear steel scraping against her heart.

She knew that much.

But how could she make such a cold decision while looking at those children’s eyes that were expressing their desperate will to live?

Gloria found it unbearable.

“What would you do, Master?”

“Want me to show you how?”

“…Yes.”

“Why do you think they took the children hostage?”

“Obviously to survive.”

“Then the solution is surprisingly simple.”

Caesar threw Thunder.

Crack!

Thunder struck the surrounding trees.

As the trees’ sides exploded, wood fragments scattered everywhere.

Unable to support their heavy weight, the trees began to fall with a chilling sound of destruction.

“All you need to do is stimulate their survival instinct.”

“Huh? Huuh?!”

Unable to resist the inevitable force of gravity, the criminals all threw away the children and ran.

Boom!

As dust flew high into the sky, even the moonlight, which had been the only spotlight for this tragedy, disappeared.

In the middle of the forest where nothing could be seen in the thick darkness.

Wheeeeeeee!

The kidnappers could feel with their entire bodies that the steel’s screaming sound was getting closer.

“Hiiiiieek!”

The men looked around for children to take hostage but couldn’t see any.

They could only watch as the blue-eyed demon approached through the dust.

“Aaaaaagh!”

The sound of men’s heads and waists being severed crossed through the forest.

Gloria killed the last fleeing man and looked back.

As the high-flying dust settled, Caesar’s figure was revealed in the moonlight.

Caesar had blocked the falling trees with his body and managed to save the children.

“See? That’s how you do it.”

Gloria could only stare blankly at Caesar’s smile in the moonlight.

***

“Check each child carefully to see if they’re alright.”

With those words, Caesar grabbed the surviving men by their collars and headed toward the crumbling cabin.

“Ughhhh…”

They were all half-conscious, having each lost a limb to Gloria.

There’s almost no information to be gained from interrogating guys in this state.

There’s only one way to make them come to their senses.

Caesar injected morphine into their wounds up to the lethal dose.

The powerful narcotic painkiller flowed through their veins, offsetting the pain.

Of course, this doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt at all, but at least they should be able to understand Caesar’s words to some extent.

After some time passed, Caesar grabbed one guy by the collar and spoke.

“Hey.”

“Pl-please spare me. Please…”

Slap!

The man’s head turned.

The pain was faint.

He just felt a numb sensation of his molars rattling loose.

“If you don’t answer my questions properly from now on, I’ll kill you in the most painful way possible.”

Caesar pointed at the two men rolling around.

“Remember you have two more chances besides yourself, so you better spill everything you know. Understand?”

“Y-yes, I understand.”

The man barely managed to nod while tears of fear streamed down his face.

Caesar used psychometry.

“What’s the route for illegal entry into the Kingdom of Dior?”

“If you go about 10km north from here, you’ll meet the Dior Kingdom’s border guards. Just need to bribe those guards.”

The location of those guards kept coming into Caesar’s mind.

“And there’s no problem taking children like these?”

“It’s… Been a regular thing…”

“You’re trash that deserves to die.”

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”

The guy’s pupils started to dilate.

He had lost too much blood and the morphine was working too strongly.

Time was running out.

“Can I go to those guards alone?”

“Only people whose faces they know… Are let through… Alone… If you spare me… I can help…”

-Those whose faces… Aren’t known are all killed…

-This route is for our use only…

This has become complicated.

They only let through people whose faces they know.

More thorough than I expected.

“Then why did you take those children?”

“Got a… Request…”

“From who?”

“Baron Brahe… Needs children for… The freak show…”

Freak show?

Could it be the freak show I know?

The circus that uses people and animals that have grown deformed?

But no matter how I look at them, these children aren’t deformed.

How are they going to use these children for a freak show?

Caesar dug deeper with psychometry.

-Aaaaaah!

-No! Please no more aaaaaah!

Along with the children’s screams, horrific scenes came into view.

Scenes of deliberately dismembering children’s limbs or confining them in small containers.

“…You goddamn bastards.”

Now he understood why they were taking the children.

They had figured out that ‘creating’ deformed children was cheaper than finding them.

The guy’s eyes were gradually losing focus.

“Please spare me… Spare…”

Finally, he couldn’t hold on and collapsed.

Caesar looked at the other two guys.

They were going through similar procedures as this one.

If he had known security would be this tight, he would have kept at least one alive.

Both Gloria and Caesar had gotten excited when they saw them taking the children hostage.

Before they died from excessive bleeding, Caesar completely shattered their skulls.

After calming his excitement, Caesar thought rationally.

‘Going alone might be possible.’

The border guards’ security network was quite tight, more than expected.

To enter as safely as possible, it seemed he would have to change his face to one of these guys.

Needless to say, if Caesar changed his face, it would be impossible to move with Gloria.

It would be openly revealing to Gloria that he was a doppelganger.

Then what should he do with the remaining children?

Should he abandon them?

At that moment, Gloria approached with the children.

“The children’s condition isn’t good at all.”

Gloria showed the back of a child who was wheezing and sweating.

The child’s wounds were quite old, with blood and pus stuck to their tattered clothes.

The others didn’t seem to be in good condition either.

Judging by Gloria’s expression, she wanted to save the children as quickly as possible.

“Master, I have a request.”

“You want to save the children?”

“…Yes. I wanted to go through with it… I’m sorry.”

“Remember what I told you before? That in these chaotic times, we need knights who can uphold their own justice. Do you think saving these children is the right thing to do?”

Gloria thought for a moment, then nodded.

“Yes. I think saving the children should be the priority.”

“Then follow your heart. I’ll go to the Kingdom of Dior.”

Gloria looked at the children and nodded.

“Thank you.”

“Instead of thanking me, hurry up. I’ll help you load the children onto the boat.”

Caesar helped Gloria lift the children onto the boat.

Whether the boat was bigger than expected or the children were small, all 18 children fit on the boat.

Then, one child grabbed Caesar.

“Excuse me… Sir Knight. Have you… Seen my mom? She said… She would come for me…”

Once one spoke up, other children started talking too.

“My dad too.”

“My uncle said he would come get me soon too.”

“Said they needed to earn lots of money….. Said we’d only be apart for a while…”

Caesar didn’t dare to use psychometry.

He didn’t have the courage to peek into the pain of loss and separation these kids had experienced.

Caesar soothed his boiling insides by patting the children’s heads.

“Let’s treat your injuries first, then talk.”

Caesar pushed the boat with all his might.

The children closed their eyes while clinging tightly to Gloria’s arms, legs, and body as if in their mother’s embrace.

“…Take care.”

“You too.”

After Gloria disappeared, Caesar turned around.

Now it was time to choose a suitable body to use.

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