Episode 490: The hunting dog runs (1)

[…] … I remembered why I brought you back.]

Piggy's voice was trembling slightly.

At the same time, memories of the past appear in Bikir's mind.

Those were the same events that unfolded before and after the regression.

'When did we bully you?'

'This is all about becoming friends. 'I'll be seeing you for a long time.'

'Hey, why are you crying? 'Have you decided to make us bad people?'

'Hey. Don't cry. 'Get me a drink.'

'Aaaah! Oh, it's so dirty! 'It's all splattered on your stocking!'

'Whahahaha! Did this crazy guy throw up? 'You've been so glamorous since OT!'

'From now on, your nickname will be Tojan! Piggy the puke!'

'I'm going to call you a puke until I graduate!'

In his last life, Piggy couldn't stand the school violence, dropped out, became a low-level civil servant, and lived a difficult life.

With his parents, who even took on debt to send him to the academy.

Afterwards, when the Age of Destruction opened and the great war against demons began, Piggy volunteered to go to the front and implemented numerous supply strategies and information analysis and collection plans, contributing greatly to the human Allied Forces.

He was a respectable comrade in arms.

Although he left disappointed in the world and in himself, he was a strong man who overcame his trauma and joined the Allied Forces after seeing the hellish tree rise in the academy, the imperial capital burn, and his juniors and civilians die.

However, just a few months after the war began, Piggy was assassinated.

Bikir still clearly remembered the devastated expressions on his parents' faces when they saw their son's cold body.

So Bikir regressed and twisted the causality.

'Try being annoying in the academy one more time. 'At that time, I will not only kill you, but also your father and mother.'

The Hound of the Night terrorized the bullies who had been harassing his friend and prevented them from repeating the same evil deed.

That small act of kindness rolled like a snowball and ultimately created such a big change.

The result is the ultimate darkness, driving a sword into the heart of the mightiest devil!

[I guess I, on the other side of the world line, also thought of you as my only friend.]

Piggy's words reminded Vikir of Piggy's last moments before returning.

Bikir had recovered Piggy's body even then.

At the time of the assassination, Piggy was not dead.

When they first discovered Piggy bleeding to death, many people just turned away.

The excuse was that there was a war going on and the situation was very urgent.

Treating one of the great hero's minor wounds was more urgent than the time and effort spent saving his dying blood.

That would have been the way to save more people.

The world is efficiency.

The world turns into gears of causality, and each of those large and small gears has its own position, role, and value.

In a situation where everyone turned a blind eye, the small and insignificant cogwheel grew cold.

In distrust of the world, loneliness, extreme cynicism and pessimism.

Right then.

There was a hand that closed Piggy's eyes.

Wrinkled and scarred, covered in sticky blood, and completely covered in burns and knife marks.

… … But very big and warm hands.

A boy I had met at the academy a very, very long time ago was there.

Piggy looked at Vikir with narrowed eyes.

It's definitely a face I remember. The servant of the boy who shared the same room in the academy dormitory.

The hand that silently gave me medicine when I was crying after being beaten.

During the trip, whenever no one was around, he quietly sat next to me.

If you're eating alone, before you know it, you're sitting across from me and looking somewhere else.

Even on days when I failed an exam, on days when I missed my mom so much, and even when I thought about ending my life like this, that boy would occasionally appear and offer comfort.

And after a long time, even at the last moment of his death, whether by coincidence or necessity, the boy's hand was covering his eyes.

The only boy who treated me well throughout my school days.

Even though it was only a small, fleeting act of kindness, it remained as big and warm as the sun in Piggy's heart.

Suddenly, Piggy remembered the voice he heard when he was taking the midterm exam at the academy.

Now that I think about it, it was clearly a boy's voice from beginning to end.

'It's okay now.'

The boy said as he closed Piggy's eyes.

It had a greater effect than any other magic existing in this world, making the pain in both body and mind disappear in an instant.

The sadness of birth, the guilt toward parents, the sense of duty as a child, the burden of school, the loneliness of not being able to make friends, the world that ultimately ignores you, the pain of your body, one word that relieves it all.

'… … Please go to a comfortable place.'

It was the 'comfort of a friend'.

And the moment Piggy heard Vikir's voice across the time axis as an auditory hallucination, Vikir also heard an auditory hallucination that he often heard.

'… … 'He's a good person.'

I remember it clearly now.

Those were Piggy's last words from the past, beyond the time axis, or rather, in his own memories.

After the regression, this was the identity of the hallucinations I heard every time Piggy's blood was poured into demons such as Amdusias, Cimmeries, Andrealphus, and Flauros.

[Many people say that humans are black-haired beasts.]

"… … ."

[The people I have experienced are animals that remember the kindness they received.]

Human Piggy looked at Vikir and smiled broadly.

"You are a good person, Bikir."

That smile was truly bright and bright enough to brighten the world.

Even Piggy, who left the wide open door of destruction unclosed in his distrust, cynicism, and pessimism toward humans, could not be as cold as Bikir.

It was impossible to ignore him.

Just like the intangible string that was connected between Seere and Camus in the past, the residual thoughts left behind by Piggy became a strong and strong bond of fate that was connected to Vikir, who went to another world line.

There is a faint hope that in that parallel world, there might be a slightly different ending.

As a result, Bikir regressed. No, he skipped a parallel time axis.

Through Piggy's arrangement, Andras chose and summoned Vikir.

It can be said to be the result of a collaboration between Piggy from this world line, Piggy from that world line, and Andras of this type.

A small act of kindness inadvertently shown to someone who seemed insignificant created a miracle and saved the world.

… … And of course, there were those who could not understand this improbable and unreasonable coincidence.

[Say something that makes sense! Who are you mocking with this kind of bullshit development!?]

Andras. Jack Meridew.

He awoke early on by hanging himself with the umbilical cord while still in his mother's womb, and made strenuous efforts from his childhood to get rid of the blood he had born in Heaven.

Sending snakes to the cradle, deliberately forcing them into dangerous places, kicking them out of the family, etc... … .

[I didn't know that that lowly bitch would run away from the palace, but I should have just killed her right away. Ugh!]

However, Piggy shook his head.

[If it weren't for you, I would have died on my own. [I am] immersed in all kinds of distrust of humanity and hatred of the world.]

[…] … !]

[If someone had just said to me, 'You're a good guy,' it wouldn't have happened that way.]

Piggy seemed to be recalling himself from another world line.

however.

[On this side of the world, I have been able to know and understand many things about humans. Because I learned that my family, friends, and people around me are all valuable and precious beings.]

The classmates I met at the Colosseo Academy were Tudor, Sancho, Bianca, Sinclair, and Dolores.

And the countless colleagues who joined forces in the Naraksu, Tochika's comrades who endured the burning thirst together.

Piggy entered the coffin with their faces in his heart.

And of course, Piggy chose.

[I will close the door.]

Andras's two selves are divided into 'the one who opens the door' and 'the one who closes the door', respectively.

The door that Andras opened cannot be closed by Andras. It must be closed by Andras.

Conversely, Andras cannot open the door that Andras closed. It must be opened by Andras.

Only Piggy can close the door that Jack opens.

Only Jack can open the door that Piggy closes.

In the end, the only thing that seemed to be happening was that if one of the two was missing, something irreparable would happen.

Tsutsutsutsutsutsu… …

The door that Andras had opened was being closed by Piggy.

[No-no!]

Andras screamed, but it was already too late.

Denggung- denggung- denggung- swoosh! Pow!

As the door closed, the bodies of several giant demons that were slowly pulling out of the portal above were cut off.

A snake that eats a nebula, the leader of bugs, the king of vampires, a scorpion that spits out thick poison, a woman who is beautiful on the outside but you don't know what's inside, an anglerfish that eats the desert, the priority of all rotten things, a centipede that wraps around a mountain, A man walking under the sea, a giant tearing up the earth, a lion drinking fire, a bird with wings that cover the sky, an executioner at the graveside, a rotting corpse lying in a swamp, tentacles digging deep, etc... … .

… thud! … Quack! … Grumble!

Parts of the demons' severed bodies fall to the ground, causing an earthquake.

[Ugh… … Ugh… … !]

Andras trembled with anger.

Even at this moment, the 62 portals were slowly closing.

[That can't be possible! If you want to close it, I'll keep it open!]

Andras squeezed out his remaining magical power.

Tsutsutsutsutsutsu… …

If Piggy opens and Andras closes, the result is the same anyway.

From now on, the key is who has more magic power and who can interfere with the door faster.

but.

"Aren't you forgetting me?"

Andras felt his heart, which had been split into two pieces, now split into four pieces.

Vikir was standing in front, driving his sword into Andras' heart.

… Pow!

Vikir continued to stab Andras' body.

Kazanbai has been destroyed and Asmodeus is far away in the hands of Circo.

Only one of the twin swords that symbolized Andras remains, and even that has now been destroyed.

Moreover, Andras, who was unable to take Piggy's soul and body, ended up with only half of him left.

In such a situation, there was no way that Vikir, who had developed as many as nine teeth, would be pushed aside.

Puffpuffpuffpuffpuffpuff!

Andras' body was falling apart in real time.

The hunting dog biting the prey's neck felt victory.

Then, the force is increased even more to break the prey's neck vertebrae.

… … That moment.

"!?"

Bikir's eyes widened as if they were torn apart.

Black blood splattered from Andras' body.

It flows into the body through Bikir's wound.

Tsutsutsutsutsutsu… …

Just as Piggy's blood shocked the demon, Andras' blood also caused a strange phenomenon in Vikir that had never been seen before.

[Didn't I tell you? I inherited the lineage of the founding legend, Emperor Shi Huangdi.]

It is not the blood of a demon, but the blood of a human.

A relic of an ancient hero who was said to have the most unique abilities in human history and was able to rise to the top of all mankind with his unique abilities.

It was his ability as a member of the royal family, or rather, the Golding family, a clan of prophets.

[Now, this is a spoiler. From now on, I will show you your future.]

Andras laughed, holding Vikir's arms tightly.

[…] … Aren't you curious about how your life, which has been entangled with the devil all your life, will end?]