## Chapter 1439 – Heavenly Demon Kim Kat

“Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ahhh…!”

Elise’s face turns bright red as she clenches and unclenches her small hands.

She tries to cover her face, avoids my gaze, and mutters incomprehensible words, unable to stay still.

Switching between pitch black and Hongik Ingan?
Elise really does have talent.

“Th, that is…! Th, that…!”

I simply smile and watch Elise. She fidgets, performing bizarre movements like a drunk person dancing alone, but it’s understandable.

Elise is.

Confessing to me?

And it was a confession blurted out like a will, thinking she was about to die? But she’s alive? The incredibly sharp superhuman. God. Heavenly Demon Kim Kat has grasped the entire situation the moment Elise confessed to me. So I just watch.

Because

This place is.

Only Elise and I. A pure white space with just the two of us. This is the interior of the Heavenly Demon Barrier. A space that no one can invade without my permission. I’ve banished the black people, the Korean-American merchants from LA, and the Wright brothers and the Evil Spirit Brigade to the other side.

This is such a mystical moment, I can’t share it with such bizarre things. Anyway, what’s important now is this quiet. This isolated space.

“Elise. Say it again.”

So Elise can’t escape now. There are no interlopers. Just like you can’t take back words you’ve already said, she has to move forward.

“Th, that’s…!”

ㅡStep.

As I take a step towards the hesitant Elise.

“Aah!!!”

Elise retreats, taking small steps backward, as if trying to defend herself, holding her palms out.

“What’s wrong, Elise? Do you not like me getting close?”
“N, no! It’s nothing like that! Please don’t misunderstand!”

ㅡStep!

Elise shouts, making an X with her arms.

It’s a truly pure and innocent reaction. And then she tried to come towards me to make excuses, but ㅡpoof. She stopped in her tracks and slowly retreated again.

“Elise?”
“M, more than that! What on earth is going on! This white space! I can’t believe it! This kind of space…!”
“Elise…”

Even if you run away.

“Don’t change the subject.”

It’s no use.

Trying to act surprised by the white space now won’t work at all. She seems to think she’s being clever, but it’s not working.

“You have to say what you said earlier again, right?”
“A, aah…!”

Her eyes widen.
Elise covers her mouth.

Her face has already gone beyond beet red, almost looking like a red giant star. Extreme embarrassment. Is that it? Actually, this kind of reaction is something I’ve seen a lot of so far. Elise has always shown me this face. But… that was actually.

Elise.

It was because she was in love with me.

It’s so surprising because it’s something I never even imagined.

I’m just filled with new emotions.

“P, please! I beg you! Saint! Please don’t do this to me! I don’t know what’s going on at all! I don’t even know why I was healed! I thought I was definitely going to die!”

Extreme confusion.
Elise just shouted.

“Maybe I’m already dead! The afterlife! Is this the afterlife! Or is it a hallucination I’m seeing right before I die…!”

It was definitely a dramatic situation. Elise was dying. It was only because it was Elise that she was holding on. If more time had passed, she probably would have died.

In that situation, I came and saved her, so it’s perhaps natural for her to think that way. But I could tell. This is just… running away from reality because she’s too embarrassed.

“This is reality, Elise. The me in front of you is definitely a real existence. Isn’t that right?”
“U, ugh…!”
“You see, Elise. I want to hear what you said earlier again. You said that there were a lot of interruptions until now, so you couldn’t say it to me, right?”
“Th, that! No! It’s not like that!!!”
“It’s not?”
“N, no…! That’s!!!”

In extreme confusion, Elise makes incomprehensible movements. Her trembling body twists strangely. It even reminds me of a manga I saw a long time ago… where a bunch of muscular macho guys came out and just fought while striking bizarre poses.

“Th, that’s! How should I put it! Ah, no! It’s not that it’s not, but…! Should I say it was just something that came out incoherently because of the great shock…!”
“Hehehe, you were talking too well for that, weren’t you?”
“Haa!”

ㅡJump!

The surprised Elise jumped about three meters.

“S, something was hazy! The pain of death…! I don’t even know what I was saying… It just felt like my inner thoughts were bursting out randomly without being organized…! H, hic…! S, Saint! Please! Please give me time!!!”

Time?

This is quite something.

I’ll have to help Elise directly. What’s needed now is. To empathize with Elise. To listen to her and… derive the answer I want. I’ll make her say those words again with her own mouth.

“Okay. You must be very confused. I understand. Of course you need time.”
“Ah…!”

Elise’s face brightened at those words. It brightened so much that she momentarily became extremely happy and even gathered her clasped hands towards her chest.

“It must have been very painful and difficult, right?”

As I say that and slowly approach.

“Th, that..! That is… H, hic…!”

Tears stream down from Elise’s eyes.

“Y, yes. V, very… It was painful. It was also painful to see people dying in between… There was nothing that wasn’t painful…!”
“Yeah. Of course it would be painful.”
“But…! I endured it, believing that the Saint would eventually solve everything…! But in the end…!”
“The power of darkness covered you.”
“…Yes.”

ㅡStep.

I stand in front of Elise like that.

Elise was bowing her head.

“I thought it was the end… I just…”
“You thought it was all over now?”
“That’s not it. I believed that the Saint would eventually protect everything… But… I wasn’t as strong as the Saint…”
“So you foresaw death.”
“…”

A moment of silence descends.

“How was it? What was it like to face death?”

She almost actually died.
Elise despaired.

“Death itself… wasn’t scary… but… I just… I just wanted to see the Saint one last time…”

Elise said that she only thought of me until the very end.
She said that.

“That was so… sad… I… I was still happy to meet the Saint at the end… so…”
“Then you shouldn’t cry, you should cheer. With a smile.”
“But I thought I was definitely going to die!!!”

ㅡPoof.

Elise looks up at my face and shouts loudly.

“Because I know my body’s condition best!!! I sensed death!!! The only thing I was holding on to…! Was just the thought that I might be able to see the Saint one last time…!”

With a tearful face.

“And then you play such a prank on me again!!! Saint is really!!!”

To Elise, who is complaining to me.

“Elise.”
“Why are you calling me!!!”
“It’s not a prank.”
“Y, yes?!”
“I’m not joking.”

I said in a low voice.

“I did this because I wanted to hear Elise’s words.”
“…”
“What did you say? You’ve liked the Saint since a long time ago…”
“Aaaaaah! Please don’t!”

ㅡPoof!

Elise, stepping back, reached out her hands to cover my mouth. But I don’t readily let her. I laughed, dodging all of Elise’s mouth-covering attacks while stepping with a divine evasion.

“Hehehe, didn’t you know you were recovering?”
“How would I know that!!! I just thought it was something that made my heart feel comfortable in the face of death…!!!”

ㅡStep.

I stop like that.

“Is that really all?”

I asked, grabbing Elise’s outstretched wrist.

“Th, that’s…! Actually…!”

Elise, whose wrist was grabbed, flounders and talks incoherently.

“Actually?”
“Th, just… S, since the Saint is next to me… I’m happy…”

Because I’m next to her.

She’s just happy?

“You were so happy that. The feeling of your body recovering. You just thought it was natural, right?”
“…Yes.”

Yeah.

I wanted to hear these words…!

“…”

A moment of silence.

ㅡTremble, tremble.

Elise just bowed her head and trembled.

“Why, why!”
“Hmm?”
“Why do you always drive me to such extreme situations…!”

Elise complains to me in a trembling voice.

“Extreme situation?”
“It’s been like this since a long time ago! The Saint always made me embarrassed and laughed!”
“Hehehe, I guess so.”
“Don’t laugh!!!!!”
“Ah, I got it. I got it. I won’t laugh.”
“Why did you do that!!!! Why!!!!”

Well.

Because it’s fun.

“Back then. Uh. That’s it. Elise is my Divine Friend. So I wanted to see you react like this.”
“You have truly bizarre and grotesque tendencies!!!!”
“Hehehe, grotesque. So Elise.”
“Ah…!”
“What do you think of this me?”

I release Elise’s wrist that I was holding and ask that.

“…!”

Elise, whose wrist was released, retreated three steps away from me. Elise, who retreated, seemed to be trying to say something. While mumbling.

ㅡTap, tap.

She lowered her gaze, tapping her index fingers together.

“D, didn’t you already hear everything… earlier…”

An extremely cute reaction.

“Still. I want to hear it properly. Not like ominous words like a will. But in proper words.”
“A will…”
“What you said earlier was no different from a will. Elise is alive now. So. It’s a living word. A word from the living.”
“You’re making up some strange words again…”
“Elise.”
“…”

Silence.

And.

“A, I understand!!!”

Elise shouts as if making a bold promise.

“A, actually!”

Actually?

“Actually…”
“Uh. Actually.”
“A, actually I…”

Progress is slow.

“H, haa…”

A sigh escapes from Elise’s mouth. Her face was already red, her eyes were filled with tears, and she was restless.

Soon.

“Y, yes… Looking back… No.”
“…”
“I, for quite a long time…”

For a long time.

“H, have… As a man… L, l, love… H, ha…”

Love Kim Kat…!

“L, l, love… Love…”
“Ha…!”
“Ha… Ha… L, love… Ha… Ha… Ha, ha! Hein! Bain!!! Divine!!!!! Divineeeeeeeeeee!!!”
“What!!!”

What is this!

At that moment, Elise shouted Divine as if screaming!!

“Divineeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!”

Then there’s no choice!

ㅡStep!

I immediately took a stance to spit out my voice! If she heard Divine! It’s only natural to shout Friend too! Just as I raised my head and was about to spit out my voice!

ㅡFwoosh, fwoosh, fwoosh, fwoosh!

Isn’t Elise turning around and running away!!!

“No!!! Elise!!! You’re running away!!! Did you deceive me!!!”
“I, I!!! I need more timeeeeeeeeee!!!”

Elise runs away to the other side of the barrier.

There’s no choice.

ㅡThud.

The moment I lightly stomped my foot.

ㅡPoof!

A wall was created in front of Elise!

“N, no! Suddenly a wall appears!!!”
“Elise. There’s no place to run.”
“This is ridiculous! What kind of space is this!”

ㅡFwoosh!

Elise, who turned to look at me, slowly retreated with a frightened face. ㅡThud. Soon her back touched the wall. Now there’s no place to run. ㅡFwoosh. I rolled up that wall and wrapped it around us like a fortress.

Of course, it’s possible inside the barrier.

And I.

“Elise.”

I slowly walked towards Elise.

“Kya, kyaat! D, don’t come! Saint! H, here! Here is actually some special space! The moment I say those words! People who were hiding somewhere appear as a group! Isn’t it that kind of space! That’s why I can’t do it!!!”

She really has a rich imagination.

“There’s no need to worry. I’ve cleared away all the interlopers that Elise hates.”
“Such preparedness…!”

ㅡStep.

I stand in front of Elise again like that.

“A, augh… H, heuuugh… C, cough… Th, that is… Saint…!”

Let’s wait quietly.

I quietly watched Elise, who was restless for a while.

Still, there’s no place to run anymore.
Perhaps she finally recognized that.

“I, I…”

Elise said.

“I’ve… Y, yes, from a long time ago… Continuously…”

With a bright red face.

In a barely audible voice.

With tearful eyes.

“…I’ve loved you.”

Elise said that and then.

She bowed her head deeply.

“Yes… I, I’ve said everything…”
“…”

What I felt from there was.

A strong possessiveness.

I want to have her, I thought. I wanted to possess Elise. Like my other women. I wanted to make her mine and make her look only at me forever.