Chapter 227
That trash claiming to be a part of me was smiling unpleasantly.
“Hehehe. A different existence?”
“Yeah.”
I couldn’t consider that thing to be the same existence as me.
Since I had returned to this world, we had to be different existences.
“That’s not wrong either, because you’re a half.”
Why does it feel like there’s no logic to her words?
“You keep calling me a half and talking like I’m some unfinished product, and it’s a bit disgusting, you know?”
I was starting to get annoyed.
I am not an unfinished product.
“In a sense, you are perfect, yet an imperfect existence.”
“Are you going to keep spouting bullshit?”
She really was an existence that provoked people’s anger just with strange words.
Did my past self really throw people into confusion with that?
“I’m telling you, you’ll know once we become one.”
“I’ve definitely learned that the past me was a bitch with eighth-grader syndrome.”
Right. That was it.
The past me had world-class eighth-grader syndrome. I just had to judge it like that.
“Why do you keep rejecting me?”
“Obviously. People naturally want to forget their dark pasts.”
What kind of idiot would try to drag out their past again?
Not me. I’m not that kind of idiot.
“You’re not even human.”
Stabbing me with facts like that only makes me angrier.
So I threw her over my shoulder and slammed her headfirst into the ground.
Crash!
“You need to get beaten up a bit.”
Smack! Thwack!
I beat her face to a pulp.
Seeing as she was just a fragment calling me unfinished, I couldn’t forgive this.
Should I scissor her? Should I try it?
No, if I do it with a part of myself, wouldn’t that still be masturbation?
Even so, masturbation isn’t really my thing.
“I’m telling you, hitting me like that will only hurt your hands.”
This is a tough opponent. It is remarkable to have this kind of reaction even after being beaten up like this.
“That’s because I naturally like hitting things.”
If so, I should keep hitting her.
“I like getting hit, and you like hitting. Don’t you think we’re a fantastic combo?”
“It’s ridiculous that I even met a bitch like you in an other world in the first place.”
Who would have known that an existence from a dimension beyond would be my fragment.
At my words, she blocked my fist and grinned.
“That reaction is too mean.”
That gloomy smile was really an eyesore.
I really should just slice this all away.
As I drew my sword, the fragment had already stepped back and raised a scythe.
“Mean, my ass.”
I ran with my sword and swung it to cut her head off, but I failed because the fragment blocked it as if she naturally knew it was coming.
She smiled creepily even while fighting.
“Didn’t you say we’re different existences anyway?”
“The problem is that I feel disgust. I really hate you.”
Claiming to be me while smiling gloomily like that just put me in a bad mood.
“Really? I really like you, though. Isn’t it self-hatred? If we’re halves, how about we coexist like halves should?”
“You make me sick. You’re nothing more than a part yourself. Aren’t you spouting bullshit about coexistence?”
Clang!
The scythe and sword clashed against each other, sparking fire.
Neither side was pushed back.
I said she was just a fragment. But I was being pushed back by that fragment and couldn’t do anything.
Isn’t this dangerous? She’s stronger than I thought, so this won’t end.
What is Author Yu Eunha doing? Shouldn’t she reveal a bit of my power here?
“Mmm. Still, it would be better for the two of us to merge, you know?”
“Stop talking nonsense.”
The sword and scythe clashed several times.
Every time they clashed, the atmosphere shook.
At this rate, Mari or Elise might get swept up in it too.
Now wasn’t the time to be saying such useless things.
“I said it earlier, but it’ll be dangerous if I explode, right? But you don’t have the power to completely subdue me. Isn’t that right?”
Right. I don’t have the power to subdue her.
To be honest, yeah. Speaking objectively, that’s true.
I don’t have the power to subdue her right now.
“So?”
“It’s a win-win for both of us.”
The fragment sneakily fondled my breasts.
This bitch is touching my breasts now.
With a very seductive face, she touched my body and leaned in close.
Isn’t she even scared of the sword?
“You want us to become one?”
If this is really a pure intention, is that it?
Is it like in some manga where they merge into one and become stronger?
Even so, doing it with something like this is a bit…
What if we merge for no reason and it feels uncomfortable?
“Do you think you can do everything all by yourself?”
Is that even a question?
“That’s why the heroines…”
“heroines? You’re afraid to entrust things to them.”
Right. I am afraid.
Their destinies changed because of me.
I deliberately made them strong, but they might die.
For variables are always bound to arise.
I didn’t want to hear anymore, so I rushed at the fragment again.
Clang! Clash! Clang!
The sword and scythe clashed again.
“So what if I am? Do you seriously think my goal will be achieved more easily if you’re here?”
“It could be.”
“You seem to know nothing since you’ve been alone in a ruined world. Even without you, I can defeat all the Sins by myself in the first place.”
The Sins had been miserably defeated by me so far.
There were at most two Sins left.
They had all been defeated by me or had been on my side up until now.
There was no need to get stronger through some weird fusion.
But that thought disappeared with the fragment’s next words.
“Do you really think the Sins are the only enemies?”
Huh?
“What? What do you know?”
Does she know about the Sins too?
“Who do you think created the Akashic Record?”
It couldn’t be.
Did I create the Akashic Record myself and then destroy that world too?
No. That’s impossible.
If the past me had really created the Akashic Record, Author Yu Eunha would have told me.
I don’t have any memories in the first place.
I have memories from earth, but I remember very little about the other world.
If what that fragment said was true, then besides the Akashic Record, I…
“No matter how strong Dahaka is, she’s not a god. There’s no way she could have created the Akashic Record.”
“Do you really think so?”
No matter how vague an expression you make, I won’t fall for it.
“Yeah.”
“Didn’t the Akashic Record speak as if it knew you?”
“How the hell do you know that…”
“You know what it means, right? In the end, the main body created it, you know?”
No. That can’t be established in the first place.
The Akashic Record knows about the past, future, and present, and the parallel worlds of all possible variables.
Naturally, it could be seen as knowing about me in advance.
I shouldn’t fall for those words.
“That can’t be true!”
I brushed off the fragment’s words while deflecting the rushing scythe.
“Oh my. Is it really not?”
“Shut up.”
First of all, this existence is ultimately me.
I couldn’t just kill her recklessly either.
So, instead of beating her until she completely loses her form and then becoming one, I just have to take the lead and swallow her.
“Our fighting styles are similar. When do you think this will end?”
If I swung the sword to the left, she moved the scythe to block it.
If I swung to the right, she slightly turned the scythe to deflect it.
She blocked not only the sword but also my attacks with fists and feet as if she knew they were coming.
“What the hell.”
“There’s nothing to be surprised about. I’m not stronger than you. I told you. This is a useless endeavor. Our fighting is a stupid thing to do.”
“Do you have time to talk?”
Smack!
While she was talking, my fist struck the fragment’s cheek.
An effective hit finally landed.
How dare she talk while fighting me.
I’m not merciful enough to wait for a transformation to finish or for a conversation.
I just strike unconditionally.
I knocked her down and continued to strike her face.
Smack! Thwack!
“No matter if you’re my fragment, if you don’t listen to me, you’re just an enemy to be killed.”
I beat her up for a while and completely smashed her face.
Of course, doing this wouldn’t kill her. But the fragment was a mass of demonic energy. If all the demonic energy dispersed, she would disappear too.
I was beating her for a long time when this stupid bitch raised a hand and blocked my fist.
“Well, I’m telling you it won’t work like that.”
She was blocking, but there was no strength behind it at all.
“When your demonic energy is already decreasing.”
The moment your demonic energy runs out, I will swallow all of you.
Will you still be able to act so relaxed when that time comes?
“Will I?”
She didn’t fall easily, and the more I hit her, the more sticky liquid dripped and mixed into my body.
I wondered what the hell this was. Looking closely, I realized she wasn’t ordinary.
Since I was rejecting her, she was slowly splitting herself apart to be swallowed by me.
Was she simply trying to become one?
Or it could be the opposite.
Should I just accept this?
What was certain was that it was different from the demonic energy I had to absorb.
Left with no choice, I pushed her away.
“Such a cheap trick!”
The increasingly sticky black liquid was painting over my body.
“It’s a win-win, right? Becoming one again.”
“That’s sophistry.”
There’s no benefit for me, is there?
This won’t do. If so, I just have to blow her away cleanly.
I don’t know how much damage the United States will take. But I have to end this quickly.
Because if this bitch escapes from here, it’s over.
The fragment stared at me quietly with her crushed face, and then her mouth tore open to the bottom of her ears.
“That won’t do. In that case.”
Could it be,
The fragment spread her wings and flew up with all her might.
She was trying to run away.
The direction was towards the gate entrance.
In short, she might be planning to slip out like that and cause another Great Cataclysm on earth.
No, since she’s just a fragment, would the scale be small?
Even so, she would blow away a continent.
I couldn’t just leave her be like that.
If I could save the world by sacrificing just the United States, wouldn’t that be satisfactory?
“Where are you trying to run? I’ll finish this in one go!”
Light dwelled in my body.
This was the dragon form that had destroyed earth in the past. My body gradually began to change into the form of a giant dragon, not Little Yongyong-i.
This was my first time in dragon form with this body.
Unlike my previous Dahaka days, this form was made of magic power and demonic energy.
I didn’t know how effective it would be against that fragment.
Even just now, she was someone who attacked me using cheap tricks.
“Even so, to get that serious about killing a part of yourself, isn’t that too mean?”
Before I knew it, the fragment’s form had also become a dragon.
Did that mean she was going to go all out against me?
Or was she pulling another weird trick?
I’d have to fight her to find out.
Whiiirrrrr
I gathered a massive amount of energy outside my mouth.
The beam was stronger than when I compressed White Flame. I fired a beam with a destructive power thousands of times greater than that.
It was a beam capable of destroying a Continent just like that.
Fortunately, I adjusted the angle before firing, so there was no worry of it flying outside the Gate or blowing up the continent.
Pshwaaaak! Kabaaam!
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
Right. This is it.
I wanted to hear a scream like that.
Well, I don’t know if the aftermath will reach Korea, but still, I feel sorry for the US.
Anyway, with this, I could breathe a sigh of relief.
Right. That’s what I thought.
“Did I get her?”