## Chapter 1417 – The Approaching Darkness

The more I think about it, the more ridiculously funny it seems.

Inter-net? Seriously?

When I go visit Earth later, I need to teach Risha how to use a computer and a smartphone. No joke, she’d definitely be a 100% eagle-eye typist, pecking away at the keyboard. Probably take her forever to type a single word.

And she’d be incredibly amazed every time she searched for something.

Ah, but to do that, I’d have to teach her Korean… Though it wouldn’t be too difficult.

I’ve forgotten some Korean too, but if I go back and study a bit, I’m sure I can relearn it. Crap, would the Demigod Demon King Kim Kat be daunted by learning some language from another world? My brainpower is practically at a demigod level now.

Anyway, if I relearn Korean, teaching my women some basic conversation wouldn’t be a problem at all.

Honestly, it sounds like it would be fun to go.

Speaking of Earth, I’m also thinking about food. The food here is good if you go for the high-end stuff, but it can’t beat the taste of MSG.

They have something like chicken here, but it’s nothing like the taste back on Earth.

“…”

My mouth is watering, I think.

The sauces and cooking ingredients made by those big corporations. They’re everyday things in that world, but they’d be delicacies in this one.

You could practically consider them the ultimate gourmet cuisine.

Just take ramen, for example. That damn ramen soup. Suddenly thinking about it makes me want to eat it so badly I’m going crazy. Crap. I should be slamming down a bowl of ramen right about now.

“Hey, but if that’s the case, can’t we just learn the technology for that internet thing when we go and make it here?”

That’s what Karin said.

Developing the internet and computers… Just hearing it sounds impossible. It might be possible if we had enough time, but those kinds of scientific technologies are created through the accumulation of knowledge from genius scientists over long periods.

“It doesn’t seem easy. The basic infrastructure itself is different. But it’s probably possible if we spend the time. It’s all people living in the world, after all.”

I don’t know how long it would take, though.

“If it doesn’t work out, shouldn’t we just get the dwarves to do it? We fought those guys in the past, so if we make up some excuse and kidnap them, they won’t have a way out. They’re good at making things, right?”

Riztina casually suggested kidnapping dwarves.

Of course, that’s a great idea!
Those damn dwarves!

I’m the kind of guy who’s ready to treat someone like crap forever if they’ve pissed me off once! Those dwarf bastards just have to do whatever I tell them to do.

“That’s right. Why don’t we kidnap those damn dwarf bastards and tell them to make it? The dwarves have pretty good technology anyway. They might be able to absorb the technology from that world somehow. And if they say they can’t make it, well, we just beat the crap out of them.”

Everyone burst out laughing at Karin’s bold suggestion.

“That’s such a Karin-like idea!”
“Hehe. But Karin’s right. What if they can’t make it? They have to make it if we tell them to.”

This is so funny, I’m going to die.

“Hehehe, I think so too. I haven’t forgotten a single thing about how those dwarf bastards acted back then. They have to do what we tell them to, or they’ll die.”
“Kyahaha, my husband holds grudges a bit.”

Anyway, it’s a good idea.

If we can steal the technology from that world while we’re going there, there’s nothing wrong with that. But the important thing is whether I can be bothered to do such a troublesome thing. Well, I’ll have to think about that later… Ah, crap. I really want to eat ramen.

I only thought about wanting to eat stuff like that right at the beginning after coming to this world, but I cut it off sharply because there was no hope. But now that I think I can go there, my desires are exploding.

“Come to think of it, I haven’t talked about Earth food.”
“Huh? Food?”
“Yeah. Food. The food there is really damn good. It’s so much better than here. Thinking about it is bringing back memories.”
“What?!”

Riztina shouted at those words.

“Come to think of it, there was food! How delicious is it for you to say that!”
“I-is it that good…?”

No one hates talking about food.

Everyone showed great interest.

“Well, over there, how should I put it? They can artificially create flavors, you know? There’s technology for that, so the food itself is very delicious and stimulating.”
“What, what the hell are you talking about? Artificially create flavors?”
“Yeah.”
“How is that possible? Does that mean they can make something taste like meat even if it’s not meat?”
“Similar.”

Whether it’s artificial sweeteners, synthetic flavorings, or MSG.

You could say they can almost artificially create flavors.

“Then we absolutely have to try it! Come to think of it, there must be fancy restaurants over there too, right?”
“Hehehe, there are.”
“Absolutely! We absolutely have to go!”

Riztina shouted, and everyone agreed loudly.

“Agreed!”

Isn’t eating the best part of traveling?

“Ugh. Then let’s go up and rest. We have to work again tomorrow.”

At those words, Hilde tilted her head and said.

“Kat-nim? Rest? Kat-nim has to work from now on, though?”
“For the Demigod Kim Kat, nighttime work is no different from resting and healing.”
“A-as expected…! Kat-nim is the god of semen, no! The god of sex!”
“That’s a title I kind of like.”

God of sex?
Lustful Demon?

No joke, I really like it.

* * *

Anyway, I rested well, so it was time to return to my livelihood.

That bastard Lich turned my livelihood into a 24-hour shift as a guard without any rotation. Crap. A Demigod Demon King standing full-time guard at the guardhouse 24 hours a day? That was as unbelievable a reality as the Inter-net.

But there’s no choice.

That bastard is causing trouble here and there, so if I’m not constantly on standby, it’s almost impossible to respond.

“Damn it.”

As I returned to the familiar place, what greeted me was the pitch-black darkness hanging in the sky. As a result of resting for a day, it didn’t seem like any new monsters had popped out of there.

The women who had been warping around in all directions to gather information also said they hadn’t found anything unusual.

In my opinion, it seems clear that Lich is preparing for the final showdown. He’s figured out that he can strike me now. If so? He must prepare thoroughly to land a proper attack.

That’s what he’s doing now.

Calculating coldly for victory and engaging in a thorough battle. He can’t achieve his goals as long as I’m here, so he has to start that battle as soon as possible. In that situation, he wouldn’t think of wasting his strength unnecessarily.

Of course.

The lull won’t last long.

“Crap.”

But damn it.

If that Lich bastard thinks he can catch me just by plotting those kinds of tricks, he’s greatly mistaken. Just because he can wound this Kim Kat doesn’t mean he can beat me. All the enemies so far have been like that.

Every one of the guys I’ve faced has been a powerful being who could kill me, but in the end, they couldn’t break me.

It doesn’t matter what tricks you use.
I’ll smash you to pieces.

Anyway, I need to catch and kill that damn bastard quickly, stabilize the country, and then go to Earth for a vacation.

* * *

However.

“Hmm.”

Even though quite some time had passed since then.

“The attacks have stopped completely.”

There were no attacks worthy of the name.

“Hasn’t there been anything since that day? I’m going back and forth right now, and aside from localized battles, there’s nothing special going on. It’s like the invasion itself has stopped.”

Riztina next to me told me what she had found out. There’s definitely nothing. There’s no movement, as if the attacks have completely stopped.

The same goes for the darkness hanging in the sky.

“I was expecting it. It’s better for them to gather their strength and attack once than to keep chipping away. That’s what they’re aiming for.”

They even brought out those 5km-tall undead giant soldiers, the Titan ancient warriors or whatever, but they couldn’t stand up to me. They might trample the world, but they couldn’t trample me.

Rather than doing that again, they’ll just focus on devising a way to kill me.

“Hmm… Is that really the case? Then they might be aiming for the next opportunity?”
“The darkness in the sky bothers me, though.”

I pointed to the sky.

What was covering half of the sky was an absurd darkness. The darkness that was created by Lich’s sorcery didn’t exist in the real world, but existed somewhere in another dimension, so it was present in that spot from anywhere in the world.

In other words, whether you look at the sky here, or go to the dwarf kingdom and look at the sky, the darkness looks exactly the same.

Maintaining something like that would probably be difficult.
It’s probably a kind of great magic.

As long as that’s activated, Lich can’t drag things out for long.

“That looks like the ultimate sorcery, and there’s no way a bastard who’s deployed something like that would aim for the next opportunity. If anything, that darkness is his trump card. There’s no next time once it’s exposed. Either I die or he dies. Only one of the two.”
“…”
“Hmm?”

As I was talking, Riztina closed her mouth.

“Why?”
“No… I just thought. I guess you’re really cold-blooded when it comes to battles. I think that part of our Kat-ssi is so cool.”
“Hehehe, you’re stating the obvious.”
“I want to quickly resolve the Lich issue and go to Earth to play.”
“Me too.”
“But.”

But?

“I’m honestly a little worried.”
“Why? Are you worried I’ll get hurt again?”
“That too, but. Didn’t the people’s livelihoods get completely screwed up because of those bastards? There’s no place that isn’t struggling right now. People are dying all the time. Development is out of the question. If something big explodes here… honestly, the aftermath will last a long time.”

No.

This older sister already.

“It’s okay. We can rebuild quickly as long as we’re here. Don’t you know the all-purpose handyman Demigod Kim Kat?”
“Hehe, I know.”

It was then, as I was stroking Riztina’s head.

ㅡWhirr.

Risha’s gate was created in the air.

Soon, Risha came out from inside with a very calm attitude.

“Oh. Risha’s here?”
“I have come to give a regular report.”
“Okay. Let me hear it in that beautiful voice.”
“Hehe, really. You say that every time I see you.”

Risha, who smiled, began to report.

“I am currently monitoring the dimensional rifts… but there is nothing special at the moment.”

Monitoring the dimensional rifts meant detecting when another being opened a gate. Risha’s increasing skills had already reached that point.

We thought that we would be able to backtrack Lich’s location with that, but it seemed that there was nothing in particular at the moment.

“Why. You haven’t detected anything yet?”
“That is the state for now.”
“Hmm… Then does that mean those bastards aren’t using gates right now?”

Risha manifested that ability recently, so we don’t know how the Lich guys operated the gates when we were fighting. Anyway, seeing that it’s quiet now, can we assume that they’re preparing something else?

“That is highly likely, but they may be using gates in a different way than I do.”
“Ah. Then the method is different, so it can’t be detected?”
“That is correct.”
“I guess. Well. There must be various types of ga-ates.”
“If you keep making fun of the pronunciation, I will transform.”
“Please spare me, at least when we’re fighting. I’ll lose the moment Risha transforms.”
“Hehe, be careful.”

Ah.

“Really… Risha. It’s really amazing that you can transform into a child. Can I do that too?”
“Unfortunately, only I can do that.”

No, Riz-nuna?
What are you going to do by transforming?

I looked at her with that kind of gaze, but Riztina just smiled.

“Anyway, Risha. Is there any news from the other side?”
“It is the same as I. I can say that there is nothing special at the moment.”

It would be nice if it was quiet.

Anyway, I spent some time with Risha and Riztina. It’s boring to just stay put. We should talk since the three of us are together.

“Then I will return now.”
“Okay. Go and rest properly. You can do well, right?”
“Hehe, I am not a child. I can do everything on my own.”

At my words, Risha began to manifest the gate while smiling.

“I think you’re right about being a child…”
“Quiet.”
“Yes.”

The gate was completed like that, and the moment Risha was about to cross over.

“Hmm? Ah… Ah! Aah!!”

Suddenly, Risha screamed!

“Why!”
“What’s wrong!”

I immediately deployed my power and pulled Risha towards me to protect her! Then Risha shouted loudly.

“N, not an attack! Detection! A detection has occurred!”
“What!”