Chapter 61 – 61. A True Warrior Who Repays the Favor.

Grape spilled Magi.
I couldn’t see it with my eyes, but Ash perfectly grasped the flow.

It captures momentum and spreads mana.
I traced where Grape’s magic went.

“Aaaaa! Can not be done! Fuck you, no!”

Grape interrupted by screaming.
It was a scene where you would faint if you did not know the inside story of the head rolling around.

“Puppy, wait a minute. I’ll finish it soon.”

Ash opened the inn window and jumped out.
In the inn room, Grape and I were left alone.

I grabbed him by the hair and put him on the table.
He glared at me with his eyes wide open.

“Do you think I look funny too? Uh?!”

Grape wakes up Margie.
The vicious life pierced his skin.

“Oops!”
Baka-!
“Shut up… !”

I quickly hit the guy.
He stabbed his head down with the intent to kill.

There was no hesitation.

“Oh…”

The blow was so hard that Grape’s head was drenched in blood.
It was to the point where I was worried that I might have lost it.

Checked Grape’s status.
Fortunately, he was using magic to restore his head.
It is not dead.

I let out a sigh of relief and looked at my hand.
The sudden spike made my palms wide open.
It also seems a bit tingly.

I got goosebumps.
No matter how it was, I didn’t know that I would slam Grape to the floor without even a moment’s hesitation.
I’ve never hit anyone before.

‘… It’s something I can’t help but live.’

Rationalization came quickly.

Ash, who had been watching over me, went to see errands for a while.
For now, I have to protect my own safety.

‘I have to be careful.’

If Grape tries to do it again, I must stop him.
Ready to kick anytime, anywhere, in any position.

Grape’s head trembled.
She was drooling as if she had come into shock.

It was dirty, so he didn’t even touch it.
After putting it in a corner, I waited for Ash.

Not long after, Ash returned.
He thought he would bring another warlock’s head, but he was empty-handed.

“Are there any coincidences like this?”

Ash seemed to be in a good mood.
It must have been fun while killing the black magician.

She thought so and waited for her words.

“Do you know who I met when I went to kill the warlock?”

Ash said proudly, she giggled.

“I met her sister who helped her return.”
“Did you help her regress? Who?”
“There is one called Chloe.”

Chloe, a name I’ve never heard of.
It meant not running into Luke.

Ash was right in her words.

“When she went around learning black magic to save her puppy, she was the older sister she met then. She was Chloe, and her sister was in a similar situation to me, so she was able to get along. Although, of course, she fought a little at first.”

Even with Grape in the corner, she didn’t hide anything about regression.
There was no reason to hide it.
Because Grape, with only his head left, became an idiot who couldn’t even cover his excrement and urine.

‘… I don’t fight in the first place.’

A few dirty scenes passed by.
I shook my head, barely brushing off my displeasure.

Ash chattered.
To the joy of having found her older sister she knew, she acted like a girl.

“Because she didn’t tell me about her past, so I didn’t know where she was? But this is how we meet.”
“I think she likes her a lot differently than usual?”
“Yeah, of course not. I was able to regress thanks to her sister, but I met her again…”

Ash looked up at her ceiling with a sad expression on her face, as if recalling her old memories.
At first glance, she felt like she was bruised.

“She wanted to pay off her debt if we ever met again. Just as I became happy, her sister let go of her sadness, and she started a new life comfortably…”

Ash’s words sounded positive.
From the original story to this place, I was more surprised because she was an Ash who would never be like that.

“You seem to be a really grateful person.”

She had no choice but to admit that her older sister was as precious as Kang A-jin before her return.
It was just a different direction.

‘The fact that she helped Ash return should be seen as the person who saved me, right?’

Many things have changed because of her return.
Even now, minor histories are being revised.

In the first playthrough, Ajin Kang was raped by Gertong and suffered many humiliations…
I was able to escape that fate.
Because it was thanks to Chloe, her gratitude welled up.

“Yeah, so I’m trying to help somehow.”

Ash nodded her head.
I could feel his determination in his expression and voice.

I suddenly had a question.

“But what are you trying to help?”

The Ash I know is a woman driven by necessity.
She helped only when she thought it would help her.

In the original work, that point was further highlighted because of Luke.

‘I’m playing the role of a hero, albeit little by little…’

I want to help my older sister.
Shouldn’t there be something I can help with?

In other words, it meant that an older sister she knew was going through a difficult situation in many ways.

“Hmm, well…”

Ash stroked her chin.
She couldn’t help if she didn’t need it, she didn’t seem to think of it.

“Because it’s better if that doesn’t happen in the first place…”
“Do you know what happened to him?”
“Of course you know.”

Ash replied confidently.

“Her sister Chloe lost her son. She is a child she barely made with her loving husband…”

Chloe gave birth to a child.
It wouldn’t matter if her womb was healthy, but it wasn’t intact.

She said that long ago, when she was little, she was kidnapped by a warlock.
She was extracted by a warlock, and the horrific experience left Chloe with permanent scars.
Her womb was broken.

There was no way that a child born from a womb engulfed by demonic spirit would be fine.
In fact, the baby did not live long.

Her husband also died shortly thereafter.
She didn’t hear why, but she seemed to know.

Perhaps, it is because of the constant exposure to the demonic energy that the child exudes.

Left alone, Chloe became a warlock to save her husband and son.
She was her only move left.

“… Because the church considers death to be natural.”

What Chloe is trying to do is to go against reincarnation.
There was a high probability of hostility from the side of the church.

Because of this, she has chosen a difficult path.

‘Is that why I didn’t run into Luke?’

She took a completely different path from the warlocks who dreamed of destroying the world.
Since there was no need to collide with the warriors, he survived even after the demon king Baal was subjugated.

“Did you succeed in saving him in the end?”
“No…”

Ash’s expression suddenly darkened.
It seems that her teeth tremble when she thinks of that time.

“But it’s okay. I got a clue from the dog’s horse.”

Ash grinned.

“It just doesn’t have to happen at all.”
“It’s okay if you solve it from the root.”

For example, stop Chloe before she gets kidnapped.
Then there will be no uterine damage itself, so the child will not die.

“Because that’s impossible, another way…”

A method flashed through my mind.

“Recovers the womb contaminated with demonic energy. Then a healthy child will not be born.”
“That’s right. Dog, are you smart?”

This, it seemed, was the way he thought of it after hearing my words.

However, there is a problem.

“It wouldn’t be possible to treat it with normal methods.”

In the case of humans who do not know how to handle demonic energy, they cannot recover the contaminated area on their own.
Because of this, most of them, except for black magicians, are defenseless against magic.

But can it be restored with divine power?
The answer was ‘no’.

Most of the wounds caused by magic are physical injuries such as penetrating wounds.
But in Chloe’s case, it wasn’t physical damage.
Should I say damage to the soul or aftereffects?

Contamination by magi extraction was different from other wounds.
This was a wound that could not be healed even with divine magic.

“My sister told me how.”

Ash looked around her room, looking for something.
She picked up the head of the grape that was stuck in the corner.

Grape still recovering.

“It wasn’t until Chloe became a warlock herself that she was able to purify the contamination. To be precise, she didn’t purify it, but extracted all the remnants of demonic energy from her body and threw it out of her body.”
“… Ah.”

Ordinary people are vulnerable to magic.
Even a person who knows how to handle mana cannot do anything about magic.

But what if you are a black magician who uses magic?

The current Chloe is not a black magician.
I don’t know how to use black magic itself.

Instead of her, she needs a talented person who can completely remove her demonic energy.
The black magician, the black magician who can come right away, Grape.

“Hey, wake up.”
Damn, mate!

Ash slapped Grape on the cheek.
It hit me so hard it made my cheeks tingle.

‘… Hitting my butt… It was a real joke.’

The skin on Ash’s face stretched out every time he grated grapes in his hand.
Scary to recover, the wounds increased again.

“Uh, ah, ah… ! Stop, stop… !”

The broken head has been restored.
However, the cracked cheeks remained the same.
Blood drips from Grape’s mouth.

“Didn’t you say that if you do something stupid, you’ll end up dead?”
“Oh, I didn’t do anything!”
“I didn’t do anything, but did the dog hit me?”
“It’s true… !”

Grape protests as if he is unfair.
I got goosebumps because I felt like I was genuinely resentful.
It was the mindset that a simple threat was nothing.

“Okay, I have something for you to do.”

Ash brought the point.
Ash, like Grape, was a woman who enjoyed intimidation.

She couldn’t even use her axis of intimidation to point the holy sword at her throat.

“Hey… !”
“Let’s go for now.”

We headed to Chloe’s house.