Chapter 197 – 197. Helen, You Remain

Arriving safely at her drug dealer’s shop, Helen is faced with an unknown being she has never experienced before.

‘What the hell… Is that bastard..?’

The moment she saw her Paimon, Helen felt a tingling sensation down her neck.

Even without using her Crisis Sensing skill, she could tell.

‘If I go against the planting… I will die.’

In the face of the fear of her death, she could not control the trembling of her body, and it was the biggest trembling of her entire life.

My intuition screams at me to run away from here at once. He said that just talking to that thing is straining his mind.

Paimon didn’t bring his body directly because he wanted to be picked by the trade partners and died, but his incarnation alone was harmful to humans.

“Kuh…”

As her mind-contamination set in, Helen felt her stomach rumbling and her head spinning.

However, she couldn’t figure out why she was feeling dizzy. Whether it was because she was seeing something she wasn’t supposed to see, or because of the oddly sweet scent that wafted from her store, she couldn’t tell.

She just wished that this situation would end soon.

“Nu.. Nuna.. Keueouk…”

In the end, Roy, who could not stand the feeling of vomiting, vomited blood on the floor. Helen was quite shocked by the sight, but she was oppressed by the demon’s intimidation and couldn’t take care of her younger brother.

Jackson, who had been watching Helen and Roy while wiping the glass, came up to them and put his hands on their heads.

Then, while causing her headache, the whispers and the demonic energy that was pressing on her optic nerves and blurring her eyes were relieved with a smile.

“Paimon-sama…”

[Hmm. I made a mistake. It’s been a while since I’ve been out.]

Jackson lowered his head as if begging for it, and only then did the energy that weighed on the two completely disappear. Helen, whose tremors gradually subsided, and Roy, who straightened his posture while wiping the blood from her mouth.

Jackson smiled and asked the two of them.

“Are you all right?”

“Ah.. Yes.. Thank you. I live thanks to you.”

When Helen thanked her, Jackson chuckled.

For some reason, Helen thought the smile was a bit harsh and creepy.

“Whoop whoop. Both of you are new customers to our store. I’ll give you a drink to enjoy lightly.”

Soon after, Jackson served Helen and Roy some obscure cocktails.

Roy naturally thanked Jackson and tried to drink a cocktail.

At that time, Helen, who was sitting next to Roy, strongly pinched the back of his hand, and she muttered as she clenched her teeth.

“Hey. Don’t eat.”

“Huh? Why?”

“Hey you bastard. Do you remember the warning?”

“Uh..? Ah.”

Only then did Roy put down the grape juice he was holding.

You must never accept or consume food given out by drug dealers.

Seeing the drug dealer smiling kindly, Roy almost drank the cocktail he handed him without any suspicion. Had it not been for Helen’s warning, her stupidity would have ruined her life.

When Roy put down his glass, the smiling bartender looked at the two with an expressionless face as if he had never laughed. His eyes, which seemed empty somewhere, were a little creepy.

Helen seemed to be losing her mind. There was nothing normal about the black market. She was all twisted and disgusting and full of unbearably dangerous things.

‘Crazy bastard… Why do you keep staring at me?’

Thinking that it was strange that he had two heads attached to him, Helen tried to ignore his unusual behavior. The important thing now is not the two-headed bartender.

In order to get out of here quickly, Helen focused on Paimon, whose eyes hurt just by looking at her. Then Helen asked the Devil a question.

“You called us. The one who sent the anonymous monster… Is it you? Right? We came to the right place. Please tell me that Because I feel like I’m going crazy now.”

A monster who showed up at their base with a bloody letter. Due to the letter delivered by the monster, Nick’s colleagues learned of the existence of the black market and were able to jump into the black market to save the cracked ankh.

Helen wanted the demon in front of her to be the one who sent the monster. She really desperately wanted to make sure that no misfortune would happen, that it would turn out that she was a different person, or that cracked ankhs never existed in the first place.

The rest of the people who came in together didn’t even know if they were alive or dead, and even they themselves were getting more and more distraught. It was time for hope, thought Helen.

‘After all, I was able to meet the person who sent the letter.

Helen tries to predict a bright future. She vowed that if she could get out of here safely, she would never return to this terrible and disgusting place.

At that time, Paimon, who was quietly observing Helen and Roy’s condition, opened her mouth.

[I never asked you guys to come, but I was the one who sent the letter.]

Paimon kindly answered Helen’s question. It was because it was a situation where time could not be delayed with useless conversation.

He knew That the apostle of the evil spirit is gradually approaching.

So there was no time for small talk or sharing. It would be difficult if the apostle of the evil god intervened now. It was beneficial for everyone to give and receive something quickly and part ways.

[There’s no time, so let’s get right to the point.]

Paimon immediately pulled out a small box from his bosom.

[Now, here. It is what you are looking for.]

Inside was the cracked ankh that Nick’s colleagues had been searching for. Helen wanted to take over the cracked ankh in Paimon’s hand. However, there was no way the devil would readily give something away without any conditions.

[If you want to receive this, there is one condition.]

Paimon’s purpose is to establish a relationship with the Pantheon. Tired of the tyranny of the evil gods, Paimon planned to join the pantheon at this point. Because he judged that the side had a better chance of surviving.

It was a fair decision. In the first place, the ten thousand demons are far inferior to the ten thousand gods.

Most of the evil gods were destroyed or sealed, and the name of the one who was one of the three main gods was erased from history. Moreover, even the causal rate was still being pushed back, and even the main player was aiming only one. In Paimon’s view, now was the right time for him to join before he was born.

“What are the conditions?”

[For either of you to make a contract with me. That is my condition.]

To plant the devil’s clown next to Savior. That was Paimon’s goal.

[Whoever picks up this box makes a pact with me. Who will be my servant.]

A box held out in front of Helen and Roy. It was a structure in which the person who picked it up naturally made a contract with the devil.

Being able to sign a contract with the strongest demon without any complicated procedures was a simplified method and simple conditions. It was also a situation that someone might desperately want.

However, neither of them was willing to step out. It was common sense that they had already had experience fighting demon possessors several times, and that if they were wrongly involved with demons, the end would not be very good.

It was very embarrassing for them to come to make a deal with the devil in the first place, but now they asked me to sign a contract at all, so I was very embarrassed.

Yes, no one would willingly say that they want to be the devil’s servants without going crazy.

“I am..”

That’s why Helen tried to shoulder the karma herself. Because that’s my sister She always wanted her sister to protect herself and this time she wanted to protect herself.

But Roy was faster. He caught his sister’s wrist as she reached for the box.

“Sister. I’ll do it.”

“What?”

“I do.”

“Hey… I’m making a contract with the devil. It’s better for me to carry the useless me.”

“Your sister is always like that.”

“What?! What’s that like! Let go! Because I will! You just have to carry me on your back!!”

“Oh, okay. I do.”

Helen is such a woman. Even before the end of the world, she always wanted to carry everything herself. While she is a body that cannot be. Roy didn’t like his sister’s acting full of responsibility.

‘I can’t even walk properly, and I always sit in a wheelchair…’

Even so, she always comes first. Roy thought of her Helen as an older sister who was much nicer than he was. That’s why he always hugged his sister.

So, this time too, he decided to shoulder the burden in place of his sister. He picked up the box without hesitation.

“Sister, I am the porter. It is right for me to carry it.”

“Hey! You..”

“Demon. With me. Let’s make a contract with me.”

In an instant, the squirming text came out of the box and burrowed into Roy’s heart like a curse.

Roy’s job has changed. From porter to clown. Roy smiled at his sister, who was looking at him worriedly.

[The contract has been concluded. Get out of here now There is someone who is after you.]

“Are you following us?”

[Okay. An existence that turns your heroes into obsolete people and encourages the destruction of the world.]

“No way..”

Helen then reactivated her Crisis Sensing, which returned her cooldown.

“Ro, Roy… We have to run away right now.”

“What?”

“It’s the same energy as before.. It’s coming here.”

Aim was coming.

Paimon stretched out his hand towards the two of them.

[I’ll send you to the twisted alley. Find a door with a keyhole there. Never go above ground or underground.]

Soon after, Paimon blew them both down a twisted alley.

In any case, the most important thing was for the person with the cracked ankh to escape alive.

******

-With my daughter

“Ha ha.. Ha.. What the fuck!!”

It was late again.

There was no one in the store already. Except for Jackson, who was cleaning the glass.

“Come on. On drag and rush.”

“Jexon.. Ha. No.”

When I asked her where she went, it was obvious that she would not answer. It’s an unwritten rule in the black market not to leak information about customers. The poacher kept his mouth shut, but there’s no way the drug dealer will tell you. It was obvious that I would have a drink or something and ask.

Waste of time is a no-brainer. Because I have to quickly catch and slaughter the cubs who ran away even after hitting the Geumgang Ankh.

‘It’s likely that I’m not here anymore… I’ve gone down a twisted alley.’

Ella said it was an anonymous demon who sent her letter. A demon capable of sending letters to reality must have the power to blow those with cracked ankhs into twisted alleys.

“I’ll come after Jackson. Cheshire, into twisted alleys…”

“Yes, let’s go quickly.”

Unfortunately this week, you may not be able to buy goods from slave dealers and drug dealers. It’s more urgent to recapture the cracked ankh first than to stop by two places.

Soon we transitioned into a twisted alley.

******

“Nuna.. Ha ha.. Ha.. I can’t see the door.”

“This…”

Even with a sense of crisis, it was not easy to find a way out. Crisis detection only finds a way not to go. The two had already been wandering in the twisted alley for 10 minutes.

And then Jo Jun and Cheshire, Ella and Bella appeared in the Twisted Alley.

“If Ayla had been there, she would have found it right away…”

“So, can I bring you now?”

“No. Then I guess it’s too late. Let’s find one. Ella and Bella go over there and we go this way. Answer me if you understand my order!”

“Yes!”

“Understand!”

Ella and Bella decided to show him that they had become Jo Jun’s subordinates. In the first place, the girls weren’t very loyal to Nick, so they didn’t have much resistance to betraying the team.

Meanwhile, Roy and Helen once again confirm that Joon is getting closer.

“Crazy bastard.. It’s already been around here. Roy… Just run. Because getting caught is the most important thing.”

“Okay..”

They ran away from Joon, who had a sense of crisis. Thanks to that, they passed the exit door next to the corner.

About an hour passed like that. The two, who once lost their way out, continued to go round and round the twisted alley, and Jo Jun and Cheshire, Ella and Bella followed the trail of the fugitives and gradually closed the distance.

Then, finally, Helen and Roy ran into twin sisters.

“Ah! Ella!! Bella!! You were alive too!”

“Brother Roy!!”

“Sister Helen!! Everyone is safe!!”

“Brother Roy!! What about Ankh? Did you find the cracked ankh?”

“Of course I got it! Now we just need to find a way out!!”

“Wow!! Oh my god! Roy oppa, let’s go together now!”

“Okay! I’ll go there!”

Roy was overjoyed at the thought of reuniting alive with the twins he had a crush on, so he approached them without question.

Her twin sister also smiled and waved her hand at Roy, who was getting closer.

At that moment, Helen, who had been feeling something in her since she had closed her eyes, grabbed Roy’s wrist. The cooldown of the Crisis Detection skill has not yet returned.

Her innate abilities, which she had from her day, were now activated again.

“Roy. No.”

“Huh? What else?”

“You have to get away from them.”

“What?”

“Hurry!!!”

Sensing her strangeness, warned by Helen, Roy panicked and fled from her twins. My sister’s words are absolute. Because her abnormal sense of danger has risen almost to the realm of foresight.

“Shit. That bitch noticed again!”

“Helen, that damn bitch…! Scream. I have to call the master.”

Helen and Roy were caught by the hounds. As the two escaped, the twin sisters chased after them, shouting loudly that the alley should be washed away.

“Found!!! Here!!!!”

“Master!!! Here it is!!! Here!!!!!”

The screams of the two close to screaming.

“June. I hear a shout from the other side.”

“Yes? This! It was the other way around!!”

The siege narrows.

Here, when Helen and Roy are captured, the trend actually leans towards the cultists. Perhaps the pantheon will go through a huge loss of causality and cry and eat mustard to bring Nick back, or he will face the worst situation in which he must abandon Nick and find a new savior.

At that point, you can expect to win the real Manma War.

“Door!! It’s a door!! Roy!! There!!”

However, victory was not so easy to achieve.

Helen finally found the door. Roy ran with all her might. Eventually they reached the door leading outside and Roy searched his pockets for her key.

“Nuna, let’s go out now!!”

The door is open. Liberation is at hand.

“Kyaaaaa!!!!!”

And then Helen screamed and was dragged behind her.

It was because just before the two of them left the door, a bundle of tentacles protruded from the entrance of the alley and grabbed Helen, who was on Roy’s back, and pulled her.

“Where are you running away! You bastards!!!”

Joon appeared. He immediately shot the Abyss Maw at Roy. Head is the target. I was thinking of cutting off his head and killing him.

However, that was stopped by Helen’s skill. The trajectory of the Abyss Maw, which aimed at Roy’s head, was twisted.

“Aww!!! Sister!!!”

“Roy just run!!! The saintess will heal you!! FUCK RUN!!!”

Helen’s desperate cry. Deepmaw chewed up Roy’s right leg and swallowed it.

A leg cut off in an instant. Roy struggled in pain and jumped through the door, leaving behind his captured sister.

The cracked ankh was in Roy’s inventory.

“Shit.”

Joon-ho missed one. He also missed the guy he had to catch unconditionally.

He growled as if he were going to chew on the captive Helen.

“Hey, bitch. Where did the cracked ankh go?”

At Joon’s threat, Helen looked at him and laughed.

She couldn’t use her legs, but Helen was a very strong woman.

“Flaw. HahaWhat is he saying now. Asshole I can’t speak your language.”

At Helen’s ridicule and ridicule, Joon drew the ceremonial dagger from her waist.

“Smile? Bitch bitch… You’ll have to beg for the fucking life.”

A little more than usual torture began.