## Chapter 1405 – The Approaching Darkness

That’s right.

It’s not real Korean.

To me, the language of this world sounds just like Korean. From my perspective, I think I’m speaking Korean, and what I’m actually saying feels like Korean too.

“But in reality, I’m speaking the language of this world.”

I perceive the language of this world as Korean.

Everyone thinks in their native language. When they hear a foreign language, they immediately translate it into their native tongue. But what I’m experiencing isn’t even the feeling of a foreign language being translated in my head.

I feel the language of this world itself as if it were Korean.

It was a long time ago.

When I first fell into this world, I didn’t feel any difficulty in communication. It felt like everyone was speaking Korean. People living in this unfamiliar world were speaking in a language that was extremely familiar to me.

If I couldn’t communicate, I probably wouldn’t have survived for more than a few days.

It was fortunate that I survived, but…

“…”

Anyway, back then, I was quite afraid of this.

It’s not even a foreign country. It’s another world. To understand the language of such a world, and to hear it as Korean on top of that, was definitely a terrifying thing.

It was clear that some being had applied a bizarre sorcery to me.

Hunger. Pain. And longing for my original world. The despair of being dropped into an unknown world. And on top of that, the fear of language. Back then, I lived in a lot of fear, anger, and hatred.

So, naturally, I was eventually able to endure the fear of language as well. This world was too tough to live in while wallowing in fear. There were too many things to hate.

At some point, I just compromised. I pushed away the fear of language with the thought that “well, that could happen.”

As I lived like that, I was able to endure those things, and since then, I had hardly thought about them. I deliberately ignored and forgot them. The more I thought about it, the more fucked up it became, so I didn’t think about it at all.

“That.”

To face it again like this.

It feels somewhat strange.

ㅡScratch.

I immediately took out a pen and paper.

After killing the Titan Twelve Warriors, the Lich’s subordinates, and the Black Knight yesterday, I had been wanting to test this out. The outside world might be a mess, but I should test this at home today.

ㅡScribble scribble.

I start writing.

I had a lot of opportunities to write here. Especially when I was working as a Quasi-Priest or Paladin, I had a lot of reports to make to Kadia. I was writing reports all the time.

“…”

As I write, the paper fills with letters.

They were clearly the letters of this world. I had no problem reading or writing them. Even though I had never learned this separately. It feels as familiar as seeing Korean.

“Good.”

And I took out a new piece of paper.

I translated what I had just written into Korean and transcribed it.

ㅡScribble scribble.

I was about to write, but…

“Oh, shit.”

At some point, I was drawing pictures.

I couldn’t properly write the consonants and vowels of Korean. And so, what was drawn on the paper was… a picture that was hard to understand. A picture that looked like something had collapsed. A scribble that wasn’t even a letter.

“I see.”

It’s difficult to read or see.

If it were a work of modern art, there might be room to look at it carefully, but this was just a scribble without any rules or anything. Let’s try writing my name in Korean. I couldn’t write it. It’s beyond not remembering. I don’t even understand it. Because I can’t write letters I don’t know.

I have forgotten Korean.

The language of this world has replaced it.

“…”

Isn’t that really amazing?

Since when was it? I remember clearly remembering it in the early days. No, when was the last time I wrote this? I don’t remember. I must have written it once in a while, but was it really proper Korean? Did I write something strange and recognize it as such?

I leaned back in my chair and looked up at the ceiling.

“Hmm.”

The dimensional rifts that the Lich was recklessly tearing open.

That bastard really tore open dimensional rifts like crazy. To summon all sorts of monsters. That’s probably the purpose.

I probably got caught up in it by bad luck.

There’s no way that I, Kim Geuntae, from another world, was intentionally targeted and summoned to this world. If he had intentionally summoned me, there’s no way the Lich wouldn’t have recognized me. He would have known I was here.

Therefore.

My coming to this world was just an accident.

And out of 6 billion Earthlings, I was the one who got caught. Such an exquisitely perfect coincidence. A really coincidental hole in the dimension. I was right where that hole extended to. That’s why I got caught. I came here.

It’s an incredible probability, but it was inevitable from the moment the Lich started tearing open dimensional rifts recklessly.

The sequence of results from rolling a die hundreds of times would be a probability that is literally astronomically impossible. Let’s think about picking just one person out of 6 billion people. Someone is bound to be picked. The person who is picked will complain about how they broke through the 1 in 6 billion probability and got picked.

What happened to me is that kind of thing.

I came to this world across the dimensional boundary with such bad luck, and as I came, I was exposed to the Lich’s magic and had the language injected into me. Considering what happened this time, this hypothesis made sense.

When I first came to this world, I was just a nobody. Even the Great Demon Beasts of another dimension can speak this language with the Lich’s magic, so why wouldn’t I?

The Lich’s magic penetrated my brain without any resistance and injected the language.

Magic that I was exposed to when I was a nobody. Me, an ordinary person with no resistance. So the Lich’s language magic was perfectly engraved in my brain, and it became a natural thing. That’s how I grew up with the language injected by the Lich.

Even though I’ve become this strong, I didn’t even notice it.

Because it was magic that had perfectly taken hold when I was a nobody. The Lich’s magic had already become a part of me. Like it’s perfectly natural to have five fingers. A natural part of me.

“That person’s seal.”

That was it.

Because I was an existence exposed to his magic, was he able to use such a sorcery? If so, why hadn’t he noticed me all this time?

There are several hypotheses to think about regarding this.

First, the physical distance was too far. I don’t know where the Lich is. Just because such magic entered me when I was a nobody, there’s no way the Lich in that distant place could have noticed.

Second, I became too strong.

Because I became strong, the Lich couldn’t read it. But the reason he found out now is? Because the Lich has become strong enough to approach this Kim Kat, he was able to discern it?

This also makes sense.

The Lich has acquired an absurdly strong power. So he was able to realize his magic that was in me. Is that what it is? Or maybe he inferred it after seeing that his special sorcery worked well on me.

“Fuck. Shit. It’s so complicated.”

Ah, fuck.

I burned the paper I had written on and got up from my seat.

There’s no end to thinking about it.
It’s just a thought that leads to another.

“Fuck it all.”

I shake it off.

“I am the Heavenly Demon Kim Kat.”

Even if all of this is true, there’s no way the Lich bastard can do anything to me. He can’t easily break through my intense power. The Heavenly Demon doesn’t need to worry about this kind of thing.

The power I’ve cultivated from the state of being under the Lich’s magic to this moment.

It is strong. Of course, those guys easily broke through my power, but yesterday I won. That’s all that matters. Winning is all that matters.

“The Heavenly Demon Kim Kat has no fear.”

Well, in the end, even the fear I had been holding onto was nothing once I faced the truth. The truth about the language that was so terrifying was just this? What do you want me to do? If I kill him, that’s the end of it.

The language is no longer important. The only important thing is that the Lich has created a weakness in me, and I can use it.

I shake off useless thoughts. All I have to do now is figure out a way to fight and win.

“Teeheehee.”

I feel relieved when I think about it.

The Lich’s magic. That is the seal. Perhaps this seal was a means of controlling powerful beings like the monsters of another world. To be able to inflict additional damage with his own attacks. Let’s think about it in that context.

The Lich has become stronger.

I assumed that. He has become considerably stronger, so his attack works very well on me who has the “seal.” If this bastard was a nobody like in the old days, this wouldn’t have happened… but now he’s definitely different.

To kill him, I have to respond properly.

* * *

Surprisingly, the Great Invasion has subsided since that day. Meteorites have not fallen, and the Great Demon Beasts of another dimension have not been summoned any more. Powerful undead also do not appear.

All that is happening is a worldwide attack by native monsters.

Of course, these could be dealt with by the existing forces. The Lord’s soldiers. The Holy Knights of the Order. And the Royal Knights and Wizards.

They are coping well in their own way even in this desperate situation. Of course, it was thanks to the Valkyries of the battlefield who were working themselves to the bone.

“Kat. It’s good to rest a little at times like this.”
“Is that so.”

It’s not bad to rest either.

That’s what it means to be in a lull.

Right now, the Lich has found out information about me. The guy who fought me was probably a competent subordinate of the Lich. As he died, he somehow passed on information about this Kim Kat to the Lich.

The Lich who is hiding somewhere in this world.

That Lich knows that I.
Have his seal engraved on me.

So he’s probably figuring out a way to kill me.

Honestly, the Titan Twelve Warriors are enough to destroy the world. But I killed them in 10 seconds, so from the Lich’s point of view, he would have set me, not others, as his main enemy. He must have strongly thought that he could not achieve his goal unless he destroyed me.

But now that he knows that there is a weakness in such a powerful main enemy, it is most important to put other things on hold for a while and focus on creating a means to kill me.

Therefore, the next fight will be devastating.

There is no time to rest unless it is now.

“You have to rest at times like this.”

So I was currently lying down with my head on Claudia’s lap.

“I haven’t used my body in a while. Ah, is it because I moved after a long time? I’m a little stiff.”
“Hehehe, is that all it is, just a little stiff after killing those things?”
“That’s all it was to this Kim Kat.”

Claudia quietly touched my face.

“Haa… really. When Kat killed those big things in one shot, I was so surprised that I couldn’t even speak.”
“Real Sword Severance is like that, Claudia. It cuts everything. Well, I can’t beat the Titan Warriors or anything.”

I said that, and Claudia quietly listened to me and asked.

“…Kat. Isn’t it hard?”

No.

It’s not hard at all.

“It’s okay. This is just like morning exercise.”

I can rest if I just kill those guys, so there’s no time to be tired.

“Hehehe, it seems like a really intense morning exercise.”
“A demigod does intense morning exercise.”

I answered that and closed my eyes.
I feel good resting.

“But… Kat.”
“Hmm?”
“It’s the first time. Since Kat became like this, it’s the first time you’ve been hurt so badly.”

Ah.

“What is it, Claudia? Are you worried?”

Well, yeah.

After coming back then, I vomited blood for about an hour due to internal injuries. The Lich’s sorcery was the opposite of me. The aftermath was a bit strong. Fortunately, only Claudia and Risha saw it.

“Yeah. I’m worried.”
“Hehehe, I told you I’m okay. What’s with just vomiting a little blood.”

It’s a bit amazing that a demigod vomits blood, but it can happen when fighting. Of course, I’m fine now… no. I’m not completely fine, but there’s not much difference in power.

“They didn’t seem as strong as Kat.”

I could feel a lot of worry in Claudia’s voice.

“But… what reason could there be for Kat to get hurt so badly?”
“That’s.”

Because I am an existence from another world.

“…”

The fact that I am an existence from another world.

I thought that there was no need to say this. I am no longer Kim Geuntae who lived in Gyeonggi-do. I am the Heavenly Demon Kim Kat of this world. I have defined my identity that way since a long time ago. I was reborn here.

It was all thanks to Claudia.

I was reborn in this world because I met her. So… the fact that I was originally from another world was not important at all. That’s what I’ve been thinking.