The Devil Who Grants Wishes

Where did I go wrong?

Since when have I been making the wrong choice?

I do not know. No matter how much I think about it

He rescued the villagers who suffered from the beasts, and defeated the bandits that were rampant.

He was deceived by the king’s unspoken rumors and almost participated in a coup d’état for the slaughter of good people, but realized the truth and turned his sword to drive out the king.

‘It was all the right thing to do…’

It was an act for the sake of justice and the cause, regardless of who saw it. If I hadn’t, a lot of people would have lost their lives.

Now that I have looked back on the days gone by, I have not done anything wrong.

But… then, what is this devastation that unfolds before my eyes?

If I had only made the right choices, this wouldn’t have happened, right?

“Calm down… Huh…?”

not moving.

No matter how much I shake my body, no matter how much I cry, everyone doesn’t move.

It’s just lying on the cold ground, dripping hot blood.

‘Ugh… Ugh…’

okay…

Come to think of it, I was wrong.

No matter how well the intentions are, it’s wrong for a bitch like me to be arrogant. It is wrong to say that it is useless.

Someone better than me, someone stronger than me should have received the oracle of mission.

“Why are you doing this? Do you have any problems?”

The devil standing with his back straight is talking to me as if he is worried about me, but his expression is not at all.

It has the face of a child playing with a chick.

The face of a child who kills while playing with life for no reason, no resentment, just pure malice.

“…”

I’ve had a lot of experience hitting the wall so far. It was like that when I was trying to convince those who had been part of the robbery, and it was like that when I was defeated once because my beast was so strong.

But… what is this?

Can you call this a wall?

No matter how courageous, how strong, no matter how hard I try to find a breakthrough, I can’t seem to find a way to break through this demon.

This is not a wall. It’s just a nightmare from which you can’t wake up no matter what you do.

shudder

“…what? Are you still thinking of fighting after seeing this?”

But… I still can’t give up.

If I give up, others will suffer.

If you give up, that’s it.

“…I’m asking the obvious.”

“Hmm… Well, it’ll be fine. It’s a feeling I’ve been taking for a very long time, so it would be better to blend to the limit if possible.”

They don’t see me as an enemy.

yes, it’s bound to be

I haven’t done any damage so far, so of course I don’t look like an enemy.

“Don’t be too arrogant, no matter how strong you were, you wouldn’t be able to protect your comrades. They died just because they were weak, not because you were weak.”

“Shut up…!”

“Isn’t this a problem because someone just accepts you as a colleague and carries you around with you? It’s really rubbish to hold onto your ankles while you’re alive and torment your mind when you’re dead. Isn’t it?”

no…

They suffered only because I was weak.

If I had been stronger, this wouldn’t have happened.

“To defeat you… on a mission— Ki Haak…!?”

Stomach pain.

In an instant, the sky and the earth turned upside down, and then the bones of the bones screamed.

“Ah, uh…”

“Come on, take a look.”

The devil grabs my hair lying on the floor and lifts it up, then forces me to see what I don’t want to see.

The whole field of view is full of corpses and blood.

The colleagues I couldn’t protect were not just a cold corpse, but so horribly wretched that it was hard to keep my eyes open.

“Didn’t I keep telling you. They didn’t die because you were weak.”

“I, I… I…”

“They’re dead because you brought them. Don’t get me wrong.”

The reason they died… because I brought them…?

uh, uh…?

I understand.

The devil’s whispers were understood.

“Indirectly, but technically speaking, you can see that you killed them.”

“Oh no… I…”

“Isn’t that what? Are you going to turn away from their terrifying and wretched mogol?”

…right.

the devil is right

My colleagues died because I was weak, and at the same time I brought them with me.

If I had been strong, if I hadn’t partyed with them, everyone wouldn’t have died in such a horrific way.

“Ah… uh…”

“Ummm… the collapse is too fast?”

deaf

Until recently, the voice of the devil that had pierced the eardrum and ripped through the brain was barely audible.

The guilt feels like it’s going to break my heart.

It’s so hard to breathe. My whole body trembles. Eyes are trembling

Ahhh…

“It’s rare to find someone with an outstanding soul like you. Please don’t break it-“

spatula

“–Kuh-huh?!”

But… I still have to move.

It’s not about getting a mission.

If even me kneels here, the deaths of my colleagues will be meaningless.

Now that the attack works… I wish it would work a little earlier.

soo much

“Hey, hey…!”

The demon’s forearm, cut off by my sword, falls to the ground and becomes muddy, and the demon sees it and is angry with an indescribable expression on his face.

Not only that. A very sharp magical energy bursts out of his body like a whirlpool.

“I was trying to quietly raise them as livestock…! How dare you do something like this?!”

“…”

that’s interesting.

Even though blood is oozing out of my broken head, my body doesn’t listen properly because my joints and muscles twitch, my ears are deaf, my eyes are out of focus and the world is blurry… Rather, my mind feels clearer hey

Is this what the glare banjo is?

blatantly

“…

He used his sword to block the demon’s claws that had turned into swords, but it was in vain. My arms tremble and my posture shakes.

Not only that. The sword is cracking.

Not yet, not yet.

Just one more chance, just one more chance.

This time, I was aiming for the neck, not the forearm.

Clang-!

“…!”

But, unfortunately, the sword can’t stand it any longer.

He endured the black devil’s claws to the limit, but in the end, he could not overcome the level difference and was broken into pieces.

“…”

Fragments of the sword were scattered all over the body and penetrated the flesh, but strangely, no pain was felt.

I hate to admit it, but…

“You’re not angry just by killing me. I’ll make you live forever. Even if you become a monster that loses its self while saving your life somehow!”

I wanted to win.

I wanted to defeat the devil at any cost.

By winning, he wanted to prove that the deaths of his teammates were not in vain. He wanted to atone for the sins he had committed against his colleagues.

If possible… even by selling your soul to the devil.

But now there is no way left for me.

“I took out the intestines alive, and I was fine-“

Keying-

“-What?!”

‘…?’

At that moment, a red magic circle was suddenly drawn right in front of me, and the devil was startled.

The devil, who had the momentum to kill me right away, radiating life from all directions until just a moment ago, stands tall and just opens his eyes as if he ever did.

what…? Wasn’t that magic circle made by the devil?

‘Then what is it— uh…!?’

It didn’t take long to resolve the curiosity about the magic circle’s identity.

As the magic circle was slowly completed, a new demon came out of the center of the magic circle.

“…this is another spectacle.”

A pale-faced demon with red horns, wearing dark red armor, looks around and makes an unrecognizable monstrous expression.

…the new demon.

Ha ha ha ha ha…

Even if I had defeated that demon, it was useless as a new demon came out.

What is it, then my colleagues must have been killed somehow—

“Are you the one who summoned me?”

“…What?”

At that moment, all of a sudden, the devil makes a strange noise and shows his interest in me.

What are you talking about?

summoned? I?

“I don’t know who you are, but that girl is mine. Don’t look into it and get out of it.”

“…I’m not spoiled.”

“I can’t understand it with words-“

Peeing!

‘…?’

what?

The demon, who had been screaming in anger until just now, stopped in an instant.

It is not a simple analogy.

Literally, he stands still with his mouth open and his hands outstretched. It is like looking at a statue in a dynamic posture.

“The disruptor is gone.”

It’s not just the devil.

Even the stone fragments and dust that fell from the ceiling, and the terrain that had been eroded and twisted by the devil’s magic, everything came to a standstill.

What’s this…

Time… stopped?

“Tell me your wish.”

“wish…?”

“Yeah, didn’t you call me because you had a wish?”

“…!”

Surely, even if I sold my soul to the devil, I had the thought of wanting to defeat that demon.

But… it’s really coming.

It was just a random thought that came to mind, but to catch it and come to me like this.

It is said that the devil whispers in the most desperate and desperate moments… That’s right.

…great.

“Give me strength.”

“It’s power…”

This demon is strong. In terms of the outward spirit and magic, it is more than enough to overwhelm that demon.

Then… if you sell your soul to this demon, you will get the power to defeat that demon.

I can’t make the deaths of my comrades into dog deaths.

“Yeah, what would you like to do when you got the power?”

“I want to prove that the death of my comrades was not a dog death by killing that demon.”

I was given a mission oracle and sold my soul to the devil… What would the goddess say when she saw me?

would you be sorry? would you despise? Or… will you send me to hell?

I do not know.

But at this point, one thing is certain: I have to defeat that demon.

“Can you endure any pain?”

“It’s already going through.”

“…Yeah, I got it.”

After saying those words, the devil suddenly swung his hand in the air, and then he drew a sword out of the air.

Seeing that the sword is coated with magical power, it is not an ordinary sword. Perhaps something is engraved with magic.

And the magic… Of course, it must be to bring out souls.

Surely, as the devil said, you will feel great pain.

“Take up this sword.”

“…Could you pierce my heart with this and offer your soul?”

“No, I will teach you the basics of swordsmanship again.”

…yes?