Hyaku Ma No Aruji

Just moments before Salman reappeared to his people.

In an isolated space, it was my mother's face that first came to the bottom of Salman's obscure consciousness.

"You are the son of a cursed bloodline"

During Luther's doom, the young self and mother were let out of the country by Luther's last king - that is, by the hand of his father.

Honestly, I don't have much memory of my father.

I just think that's how it was a family thought to the extent that we let ourselves escape the country.

- Mother, you probably shouldn't have been queen.

Tumultuous days.

Waves of resentment are too hard for a person to endure alone.

- Because you were a normal person.

Still, she protected herself to the end.

Even when he was attacked by the ghosts of his country and first expressed the power of Zestis, he finally embraced himself with trembling hands, with a complex expression.

- Enough.

She must have been afraid of Zestis.

She must have remembered how creepy she was for the tattoo engraved on her arm, although she loved her father.

- That's normal.

"But I guess I'm like Luther too."

When consciousness awakened, the sight that was spreading in front of me was Selene kneeling with her burning fatherland.

The man who inspired all of this is showing up in front of us through the ages.

"Are you finally back"

……

A pale light of gold covers around Selene's body.

There was just as much light when I looked at my hands.

With a blurry view of it, Salman grasps his condition.

The wonder and the mind were calm.

"... Zestis was apologizing."

"What?"

Salman heard another voice in his dreams until just now.

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"I'm sorry"

It was as if a small child were the first to become aware of their sins and apologize to their parents.

- Don't look at me like this often when I scold Lyna and Mina once in a while.

The next thing I saw was a young child.

The appearance resembles selenium.

Probably based his appearance on the clearest carved memories for 'him'.

- I know. You wanted to protect your family, too.

When I remembered my mother's face, I realized, strangely enough, that the thoughts at their root were the same.

The only difference is that 'he' - Zestis had power.

"I'm sorry"

Salman answers in his heart to Zestis, who crooks and distorts his face and nags in tears from his eyes.

- I'm not a party. I can't tell you to 'forgive' me.

The face of Zestis, who saw this one as he sought salvation, stains his grief.

- But you're still alive.

This is how I get a host named myself and live in this world.

- So take it back from now on.

Let's live a proud way so they can nod when they apologize.

"A proud way of life...?

- What did you want to do? I want to apologize for what it was like for someone.

"I..."

Zestis looks at both his hands seriously.

Then I looked at Salman again, and said:

"I wanted to protect everyone"

- Who's everybody?

"The people who gave birth to me. that family. I've always wanted to protect everyone and be with them. The man who gave birth to me gave me that wish."

- Is that your wish?

'Yeah. I want to protect everyone, too. When everyone's laughing, I'm glad I was born. "

- Right. So, am I included in that 'everyone'?

So Zestis frowned a little angry.

'Naturally. Zeus is my family. "

- Ha.

Right, and Salman somehow went crazy and laughed.

"Why are you laughing?"

- No, I'm sorry. No offense. It's just that my thoughts have been ridiculous.

I was just afraid, I didn't try to know.

If I hadn't lived in Zestis, I could have lived normally.

But being able to survive as a Demon King right now. And the fact that there are people around you who seem to want to 'protect' you.

Sour or sweet, all the bitterness and joy - I couldn't have gotten it without the Demon Fist (Zestis).

- I did something wrong to you.

'I don't mind. That's all I did. But that's why... oh, yeah, you know what?'

Fuji and Zestis will look bigger.

Boys to youth.

He looked like an adult, and somehow that was similar to Salman.

"Am I supposed to protect Zeus this time?"

As he noticed something, Zestis opens his eyes.

"I protect Zeus. Protect your family. And someday... '

The words that Zestis tried to say, Salman understood.

And Salman also had budding thoughts about Zestis.

So Salman said earlier.

"One day, we'll laugh together"

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"Should I return Zestis' words to his apology on this occasion now?

Serene, who was kneeling, rises.

After I paid for the clothes, I said so out of sight with Salman.

"I don't know. What do you want, Selene?"

"I don't feel comfortable."

When I heard that response, Salman's arms trembled slightly.

But when I heard the next word, the tremor stopped.

"Sooner or later, let's hear it in person in The Heavenly Sea of Souls. I can't hear Zestis now. [M] Besides, there's a creepy Reaper will intervening in me right now. I don't want Reaper watering our encounter."

"You're a tough guy, too."

Salman sighs.

But 'Zestis Now', which dwells in his arms, also seemed to know what Selene was trying to say.

So that's it for the story.

"I have a lot to say to you, too, but I'll tell you that sooner or later. In the meantime - I took care of him."

"Hmm, what do you look proud of? Things haven't changed. There's no difference between me and your combat experience, and there's a constraint on the full manifestation of Zestis."

"Length of life."

"Yes."

Man's life is supported by the constant action of his guts and brain.

I'm not sure what the "power of life" that Zestis is turning into a spermatozoa refers to.

But if people are also all made up of formulas, then maybe there's a formula there for living beings to work as such in the first place.

"It's too early for people to understand. We need to go back as far as the genesis of life. You go deep, you go crazy."

"Like a palladion, or"

"I wonder if that man's mad cause is there as well. Instead of being insane, he touched a" world ceremony "that he should not know about, and so" God's corrective ceremony "worked directly on his spirit."

Apparently this man named Selene was a genius.

At the time of his death, he should have been much younger than himself, but he is far more profound about the technique than he is.

And that involves the backbone of a ceremony like I've never even heard of from Melea or Lilium.

"The Dark War era is really riddled with mysteries. If I had all the information from that era, I'd probably look a lot different in this day and age."

"Anyway, you're going to die sooner or later if you don't defeat me. Just to escape my attack, the deadline for life will come and you will be sent to Heavenly Sea."

So call me soon.

All I said was that. Selene spread her arms.

"Right, though?

Salman holds both his fists there and puts them forward.

Then an even more blurry light was emitted from his fist to respond to that voice.

"Zestis......?

That's an obvious increase in power.

In other words, more light that cannot be emitted without sucking life out of Salman.

Salman himself had a peeled face, but Selene looked at the amount of light and rounded her eyes a little.

"Uh, this is probably the only feeling I know, but apparently this guy isn't sucking up the power and power of life from me anymore."

Before Salman lost his sanity, there was a feeling he was sucked out of something, especially from the bottom of his body.

But right now, I don't have that feeling.

"I'm not as excited about the technique as you are, but I don't know why."

So now the light wheel that was floating on Salman's back became huge, and countless more lines ran from there into space.

It's like a surgical formation, but its size and complexity are off track.

"Ooh... I just don't understand this at all..."

Salman turned around gently and looked at it, but gave up quickly.

Even more gigantic than when Merea activates the Great Surgery Ceremony.

But it still spreads in a beautiful circle.

Exquisite everywhere, then the bottom is unknown, just like "The Art of the Son of God".

"- Ah."

And Selene, who saw it, spilled a bewildered voice.

"... haha, it's a rebellion, Zestis"

Selene laughed.

"You drew it so that I could see it coming. Kuck...... haha!

Selene just laughed so hard that she couldn't finally get over it.

"Rebellion period, against you?

"No, it's not. That is a period of rebellion as the Son of God. In other words - to God (...) is the opposite (...)."

"... ah?

"It's a formula that represents the circulatory mechanism of life."

"Hey, wait, you're gonna suck something"

"Zeus, you were born in a hell of a transition, too. I rather sympathize with Zestis when he defies God head-on."

That's what Serene told me. Salman gradually starts sweating on his forehead.

"You'll probably need a certain vitamin for activation. However, circulating the vitamin within the procedure ensures that the host's life is not taken any further.... you're also amplifying it. Are you converting velocity energy? No, it could be an amplification mechanism due to positional differences using star gravity. … This circulatory mechanism is also likely to be involved in the operational ceremony of life in the world related to the" Heavenly Realm of the Soul "…"

"Hey, tell me so I can figure it out"

"Oh, in short -"

Selene points to Salman and says.

"To keep you, the host, from dying prematurely, Zestis has probably developed his own surgical formula by stealing the surgical theory used for this planet's" Operation of Life ". As a result, you need to give Zestis a certain vitamin to activate, but after that, Zestis will generate the sperm of his own accord, so no more life will be cut off than is necessary to fully unlock the power of Demon Fist."

"... when I hear that, I feel like I'm defying the world ceremony."

"Regardless, I am. Look, the space around you would already be distorted"

Selene's finger now points to the big ray behind Salman.

When I looked there, I saw a slight distortion of space around the spread light wheel.

For a moment there's a crack mixed in that distortion, something like red and black lightning running from the other side.

"That's probably a fix for the world. The rituals that Zestis is now developing are against the way things are done in this world."

"What? Then why can this guy still use that technique?

"Because it also incorporates a formula that constantly neutralizes that modification formula. You're beating your parents head-on, so to speak. When this happens, you might as well call it the Son of God."

Zestis.

To abandon his status as a well-behaved Son of God and protect his host, his family, he became a rebellious demon to God.

Selene added, 'Isn't it perfect for you, called the Demon King,' but Salman can only smile back at it.

"But it won't last very long, and I'd rather not let it last longer than anything else. While the correction ceremony is headed for the Zestis ceremony, it's troublesome when it starts working directly for you, the host. Of course Zestis knows that. So by now, you must be stuck with 'hurry'."

That's what selenium stands for again.

"This is the last time. And then if you go beyond me yourself, that's it."

"The one who lived in the Dark War Age makes it easy."

I also set up Salman as I said.

Eventually the battle between the two ends.

It is not certain that Selene's palms were not added there, but his face - somewhere satisfied.