Chapter 93 – 93. Demons

A huge wall weighs down the city.
The castle wall that seemed to never collapse, the huge clock tower, and the magnificent church. All of them are covered in one barrier and begin to disappear.

When the barrier reached the bottom, there were only three types left in the city.

The demons who opened the barrier, the paladins who can cut through magic, and John.

‘Crazy, what’s the devil all of a sudden….’

Johan quickly threw himself into the rubble to hide himself. All the buildings around it were compressed, and even the people walking around the streets turned into square meat cubes, making it difficult to hide, but fortunately there were people who drew the devil’s attention.

“This, this cruel demon…… ! I will never forgive you!”

Paladins trained to hunt witches. As if the black demons they wielded were also fatal, the demons smiled at the paladins and flew high into the sky.

A paladin can contain the power of a god in its blade. A blade imbued with the power of a god can cut through magic and even demons.

However, a sword cannot cut down a flying bird.

“Cowardly child! Come down!”
“Come down!”

Paladins used crossbows and bows to aim at the flying demons, but arrows that did not contain divine power could not pierce the demon’s magic.

Fluttering—— The demon flying in the sky smiled lightly as he saw the paladins struggling here and there beneath him.

[There are no bugs. And I hate bugs. That too.]

Paladins who couldn’t use their magic, but they didn’t have to fight directly. Of course, the devil was so powerful that humans couldn’t even match his physical ability, but just as no human would fight wasps just because they were stronger than wasps, the devil had no intention of sticking to a paladin with a stinger to fight .

Whiik – Following the devil’s hand, the buildings that were compressed into square cubes floated up. The buildings that floated were shot straight toward the Paladins.

The Paladins swung their swords at the building like magic, but there was no way the blades of the sword would get stuck in the super-dense compressed building.

Pooh-! It was only after one paladin, who was swinging his sword against the building, was squeezed into the building and lost his life, that the other paladins evaded the attack by rolling on the floor.

[Yes, just roll on the floor like that. Like a worm Show how you fit.]

After that, the building continued to fly. The devil just had to wait until all the paladins died, waving his hand.

They were paladins who reached the limit of human beings, but they were not enough to reach the demons who used magic.

It wasn’t until after all the paladins had died, that the demon drew his attention by gently scratching his nails with his other hand.

[You there.]
“…… !!”

John, who was moving so as not to be caught by the devil, flinched at the devil’s call to him. When he didn’t answer, thinking about the possibility of bluffing, the devil dared to pinpoint the direction he was in and opened his mouth.

[How did you survive? Are you also a paladin?]
“Not really……Then what will you save me?”
[I can’t do that. Because it was an end-to-end contract.]

As if the devil had no interest in how John lived, he spread a huge barrier and struck it down. Just like he did when he first appeared.

Seeing the barrier slammed against him, John gave up and took no action. Thinking he had given up, the devil turned his attention away and turned his head away after feeling the presence of him.

[You…… What did you just do?]
“Will you save me if I tell you?”
[Um-no. I just find out.]

Once again – the devil’s magic blasted at John. However, the moment the magic touches them, they begin to crumble like melting snow.

Seeing his magic dispelled, the demon smiled broadly.

[It’s not a paladin. That way- what are you?]
“The witch’s apprentice.”
[Oh, witch. Okay. If you’re a witch, maybe. If it’s those mutants cursed for using magic unsafely.]

Seeing the demon with interest, John asked again just in case.

“So, will you save me?”
[No]
“Then don’t be frustrated and attack me.”

John lightly beckoned, and the demon who received the provocation pressed John in the same way he had previously used with the paladins.

The movement of real matter through the use of magic. Even if the magic was nullified, the physical phenomena created by the magic could not be eliminated.

Buildings weighing hundreds of tons, compressed to a size of several meters, are blown over. John gave up trying to stop it. She’s not a witch, and she can’t stop the supermassive mass.

However, it could have been avoided. Even the Paladins who reached the limit of human beings said that it was impossible, but isn’t John a being who transcended that human limit?

‘Come-.’

His optic nerves burned, and mana rushed toward the nerves throughout his body. Soon after, magical powers endowed him with transcendent vitality.

John avoided all the buildings flying towards him and ran to the place where the bodies of the Paladins were. He picked up some swords there and threw them at the demon.

The devil, who maintained a leisurely smile until he dodged the building and threw the sword, erased his laughter immediately after the sword thrown by John pierced the barrier and pierced his heart.

[Human, human – I will kill you!]

Perhaps the fact that he was hurt by a human who looked at him like a bug was more shameful than the fact that he had shed blood, so the demon went mad and scattered magic.

As the crust, which had already been compressed to high density, was compressed again, Yohan realized that something blocking his movement had disappeared.

“Hey, if you twist it, follow me.”
[What?]

Then, immediately use Margaret’s teleportation scroll to move to the cabin.

Seeing John disappear in front of him in an instant, the devil chased after the reverberation of his magical power his.

[A disciple of a witch?]

Pudeudeuk-!

After compressing the city into a small ball, the demon flew towards the place where it felt its magic.

* * *

“Master—!!”

Returning to the cabin, I anxiously searched for Master. Master, who was lying in the living room and resting, came running to my urgent voice, and I took her in her arms and revealed the shameful things I had suffered.

“…… So, you went to the city, and the devil came out and tried to kill you?”
“Yeah… To eat my ass, to tear it to pieces and kill it… I managed to escape somehow, but he said he would pursue me to the end….”

I didn’t actually say that, but I exaggerated the demon’s actions as much as I could. He did not explain how the demon destroyed the city and how many people he killed.

To the witch, things like that were as uninteresting as the great earthquake in Africa. The important thing for them is ‘me’.

It matters how dangerous I was and how much I almost got hurt.

“Yeah, that’s what I mean. The devil… Huh, whoop-hehe—”

Indeed, my intention worked, and Master began to burst into laughter with a strange laugh. With that smile, I looked at Master with a worried expression.

“Master, it is dangerous.”
“Don’t worry. Because Master is the strongest. —And, isn’t it that I’m not the only one here right now?”

Evangeline said that and looked around. Hearing my words, the four witches preparing for battle were looking this way.

Seeing their warlike expressions, I lowered my head and smiled.

‘As planned.’

I wasn’t afraid of the devil anymore. The boy’s future is just pitiful.

* * *

After moving John to a safe place, the witches gathered together and started a meeting.

“Demon…… Does something like that even exist?”
“So, are you saying John is lying to us?”
“I’m saying this because I’ve never actually seen it.”

The other witches also nodded at Hecaterina’s question. The fact that these girls, who have lived for more than hundreds of years, are creatures that have never been seen in reality means that their existence is questionable.

How many people would immediately believe in a creature like a dinosaur that has been proven to exist but does not actually exist? The witches also considered the possibility that John had misunderstood something.

“Regina.”
“—The city he had been to actually collapsed.”
“So, does that mean demons really exist?”
“I don’t know if it’s a demon or a witch, but it seems to be true that I’ve encountered a being powerful enough to destroy the city.”

At those words, the witches let out a silent voice. Among them, only Evangeline could use magic powerful enough to destroy a city.

Of course, it wasn’t that the others were worse than Evangeline, but each of them had their own specialties, didn’t they?

And it was true that if a demon could at least destroy a city, it would be very difficult to deal with.

“Hecaterina.”
“…… What?”
“Drink this.”

Evangeline said that and handed a potion to Hecaterina. Realizing immediately what it was, she grinned and looked at Evangeline.

“Are you okay? Could I betray you?”
“You can’t betray me now. Who would suspect a witch who looks like a female looking at John every morning?”
“…… Fuck bitch.”

Hecaterina said that and drank the potion Evangeline gave her. Immediately, the magic that bound her body her melted away like snow, and her mighty magic her returned.

If it had been the same, she would have immediately killed everyone in this place and fled, but Hecaterina did not do that.

Evangeline smiled at Hecaterina, who was calm even after the curse was lifted, and immediately explained her next plan to her.

“First of all, find a way to intercept the devil while protecting John…….”

So the witches waited for the devil to come for hours or days. In the meantime, the curse of the witches even returned.

However, no matter how long I waited, the devil did not come.

As if it never existed in the first place.

* * *

[My, I’m so vain…… ]
“That’s why, I can’t believe in such old-fashioned magic forever. Is it not?”
“…… Yes.”

The devil was crawling on the floor in front of the two witches.
The twin witches, who looked strikingly alike except for the length of their hair and the size of their breasts, kicked the devil in the head and returned to their posts.

“Ah, where can’t a man who can make our hearts beat?”
“…… Yes.”
“You can’t say anything but yawn? Why do you always give short answers?”
“……… Yes.”
“Hey shit!”

Seeing the two witches arguing, the devil went back to hell.