Nice To See You, To The Point I Want To Kill You! (2)

Only after reaching the still-burning campfire did I release the grip on Unos’s hair.

Around the campfire, Katarina, with a startled face, hiccuped while observing my mood.
Arun simply stared at me blankly.

Soon, I sensed Hyo-ju’s presence struggling to approach behind me.

“Prayer of Healing.”

The divinity within gently touched the icy part of my heart and spread out from me.

The energy of the drug that Katarina had scattered crackled, and the purple smoke that had spread everywhere became faint.

“Hey, trash.”

I addressed Katarina coldly, with eyes devoid of any emotion. She flinched, cautiously lifted her head to look at me, then quickly lowered it again in shock.

“Acting crazy, you madwoman. You can try messing around, but if you get caught, you’ll lose an arm first. I won’t kill you easily. So, I recommend trying without worrying about your life.”

Leaving the vigorously nodding Katarina behind, I turned my gaze to Arun.

Even though my eyes weren’t shooting lasers, he took a step back in surprise as soon as my gaze reached him.

“You… I haven’t decided whether to kill or spare you yet. So, it’s best to stay still if possible.”

“…Yes.”

I nodded lightly at Arun’s timid response and turned my body around.

I faced Hyo-ju, who was trembling, clutching her tattered clothes tightly.

Fortunately, she could find shoes at the campsite, but there were hardly any decent clothes left. Moreover, her entire body was covered in bruises.

“Tsk. Wind of Healing.”

Once again, the divine energy enveloped Lee Hyo-ju with the warmth of a spring day and then dissipated.

Startled by the brief warmth, Lee Hyo-ju opened her eyes and looked surprised.

I opened the inventory, took out an outdoor jacket, and handed it over.

“Put it on. You must be cold.”

“Th-thank you…”

Without listening to the thanks till the end, I turned around and walked toward Unos, who had fainted on the ground.

I quietly observed the one lying on the dirt floor, then let out a small laugh before lifting my right leg and bringing it down on his neck.

Thud!

The sound of the ground shaking was followed by a rustling noise.

“This bastard is still up to his old tricks behind my back, huh? Did you think I’d just leave if you played dead? Hmm?”

“Gasp… Gasp… Why on earth…? Do you know me?”

“Of course, I know you well. You pretend to be righteous and caring in front of others, but you’re a real piece of trash, aren’t you?”

“Wh-what?! No, I’m not!”

“Really? Let’s say you’re not trash. Then there must be a reason, right? A reason… Just because?”

“Just because?”

“Yeah, just because. I just don’t like you. From your name to your face?”

The look of surprise on his face was despicable.

A total of 94. There were 94 representatives of our Legion in the last battle.

He tossed away the lives of 94 comrades like trash to save his own skin, and now he looked at me with eyes questioning how I could just kill someone.

“You madman. ‘The Battlefield of the Gods’ is a place where you have to kill other representatives anyway. It’s not that killing is allowed, but unless you’re grouped into a special category, it’s a place where you ‘must’ kill everyone. Isn’t that why you made up that ridiculous ‘love story between the God of Sky and the Goddess of Time’? So you could quickly grow through the representative of Aetas and easily kill other representatives. Am I wrong?”

“Eikk!”

“So if you’re devouring representatives with such nonsense, I’m just doing it for the heck of it.”

The look in his eyes, which had been glaring at me with frustration as he lay unable to get up after being thoroughly beaten, changed. He lowered his head and brought his hands together above his head.

A posture of complete submission.

“Sp-spare me… Please…”

Yeah, you were always this kind of scum. The kind of trash that would do anything to cling to life when things looked unfavorable.

Thank you. For remaining unchanged and still being trash. For allowing me to torment you as I please.

Nice to see you, to the point I want to kill you!

“Ah… Fine, I’ll let you live for now.”

Representatives don’t die easily. Even if they are magic-type ones, they don’t die from mere punches lacking divine power. Probably not? Maybe?

After beating him for a while and feeling a bit relieved, I took a deep breath and mercilessly twisted one of Unos’s arms.

Crack.

“Aaaaaaah!”

Seeing one arm twisted grotesquely, the balance seemed off. But since he was a former comrade, I should at least balance it out.

“D-don’t! No, please!”

Crunch! Crack! Crack!

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!”

When I twisted both his arms and legs in bizarre directions like a broken wooden puppet, Unos, who had fainted, regained consciousness from the pain, and his scream echoed beyond the campsite, resonating through the Monster Belt.

I laughed pleasantly at his suffering and pressed my right palm against his chest. Then, I stirred up Force from my core and pushed it into his chest.

Neutralizing an opponent’s divine power is simple. You insert a different type of divine power into the opponent’s divine power core and make them collide.

Of course, since the opponent is rarely defenseless in such a situation, this method isn’t used often, but Unos is defenseless right now.

The divine power he uses is Mana, while the one I’m pushing in is Force.

“No, don’t! Please, don’t! Don’t! Nooo!! Please, please! Damn it! Aaaaargh!!”

Realizing what my action meant, he pleaded desperately, and I laughed at him.

The Force and Mana I pushed in began to collide.

Perhaps due to the Force and Mana repelling each other internally, Unos, who was struggling despite his limbs being twisted grotesquely, foamed at the mouth and rolled his eyes back as he fainted.

Satisfied with the sight of the figure I had created with my own hands, I stood up to find Arun and Lee Hyo-ju had moved several steps further away from me.

Katarina, the trash, had turned even paler and couldn’t stop crying and hiccupping at what she witnessed.

When my gaze turned to her, she suddenly knelt down, clasped her hands together, and began to plead earnestly.

“P-please save me. I’m more useful than that woman over there. I’m really good at night work too. So, I-I, oh! Right. I’m the representative of the Goddess of Time, Aetos.”

As her rambling continued, my face hardened, and she started spouting lies as if they were truths.

She even got the name of the Goddess of Time wrong. Aetos, she said.

Next to her, Lee Hyo-ju was glaring at Katarina with an incredulous expression, and Arun was glaring at her as if he wanted to kill her, unlike before.

“Oh, really? You’re the representative of time? Hahaha.”

“Yes…? Ah, yes! It’s true.”

“Is that so? Then try it. Stop time.”

“What?”

“My eyesight isn’t so bad that I can’t tell if you’re moving with time stop or just moving physically. Try stopping time for a moment and move. It’s one of the unique powers of the representative of time.”

“Th-that is…”

Seeing Katarina’s restless appearance, Arun gave a puzzled look, and Lee Hyo-ju looked at her with contempt.

I slowly approached Katarina, grabbed her by the hair, and lifted her up.

“Kyahhh!!”

As her head was lifted, her eyes met mine at the same level.

Looking into the eyes of the pathetic woman, I infused my voice with force and spoke.

“Listen well, trash. From what I see, you’d make a perfect prostitute. When we get to Exorsus, I’ll decide whether to sell you at a slave auction or just kill you, so shut up, you pathetic excuse for food waste. I’m already annoyed having to use divine power to purify the aphrodisiac you threw into the campfire. I might just cut off an arm and a leg and drag you along. Got it?”

“Aaaah! It hurts! It hurts, it hurts!”

“Answer.”

“Kyaa! Yes, yes. Sob, sob.”

Crash.

I roughly threw the crying trash woman to the floor and turned my gaze to Arun.

Startled, Arun took a step back, but then, as if resigned, pulled his foot back and stood calmly.

“You… wait for now.”

“Yes…”

I dragged the unconscious Unos and Katarina by their hair near the campfire, took out water from the inventory, washed my hands, and tidied up.

Then, Lee Hyo-ju hesitantly approached and cautiously opened her mouth.

“Um…”

‘Oh, right, Lee Hyo-ju was here.’

I was so intensely excited that I momentarily forgot about her. Who was the reason I followed them, and who made me intervene?

“What is it?”

“Those two, please kill them.”

“Me? Why?”

“Well, you saw it too! You saw what they did to me!”

Is she scared of my cold demeanor? She emphasized the unfair situation she faced in an unusually high tone for her.

“And?”

“How could you…?”

“First… shouldn’t you start by saying thank you? If the omitted words after ‘how could you’ are something like ‘how could a person say such a thing’ or ‘how could you do that to a woman,’ don’t bother saying it.”

“Well, um…”

“Next. Even prey has ownership. Perhaps you didn’t know due to being flustered or experiencing a bad situation, so I’ll explain it for you. Those two who were harassing you, ‘I’ killed them, and that guy and that woman over there, ‘I’ personally neutralized them, and ‘I’ postponed dealing with them. I’m neither your subordinate nor your slave, and we have no connection. So, where does your confidence come from that I should follow your unilateral orders or requests?”

“St-still…”

“Still, what? Are you trying to say something ridiculous like I should do it because you’re a woman?”

“…No.”

Reflecting on my past life, my biggest regret was that I always acted like a pushover for the women in the same legion.

Compared to before entering the ‘Battlefield of the Gods,’ I’ve changed so much that it’s like a complete transformation, yet I still acted like a pushover when it came to women.

Was it because of that regret? Even though it was a request from Lee Hyo-ju, the woman I once loved, I felt no inclination to help and was rather annoyed.

“And your attitude when asking for a favor is all wrong. It was ‘me’ who gave you the clothes you’re wearing now, and ‘me’ who pulled you out of that miserable pit. But you’re giving me orders? You’re no different from that trash woman over there, Time’s representative.”

“Ah, no! Huh?! How-how did you…?”

“I saw it. The scene where you disappeared and reappeared as if teleporting. At first, I didn’t intend to intervene. It’s not unheard of for a woman to enjoy herself with several men. But then I felt a disgusting stimulant, and seeing you run away, I intervened. And now you’re ordering your savior… Tsk.”

I clicked my tongue, mixing a bit of falsehood into my words, and began to move, grabbing the hair of the two scoundrels.

Lee Hyo-ju, who had been quietly observing, let out a sound of “Oh, oh,” but didn’t stop walking.

At that moment.

“Uh…”

“What is it?”

Arun hesitantly approached, bowing deeply as he spoke.

“May I serve you?”

“Me?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“I have received grace, and I wish to do so again. My heart… my chest is pounding with the desire to do so. Please allow me.”

“…Fine. Fix that cringey way of speaking.”

Even though Arun’s cheesy words made my fist clench for a moment, I didn’t refuse the request. After all, once we entered Exorsus, we could each go our separate ways.

With the sound of two pairs of footsteps and the dragging on the ground, I continued walking.

The day was already breaking, and soon the sun would appear.

After moving some distance from the campsite, suddenly, a stream of messages began to scroll in my vision.

“Look at this? I comply.”

At the same time, my view changed, and I found myself in front of the campfire again.

Only Lee Hyo-ju was left alone at the campsite.

She couldn’t gather her thoughts for a while.

Yes, the man who made her heart race.

The very man she met on Earth had rescued her from hell.

That’s why. That’s why she asked for a favor she wouldn’t normally request. Perhaps she wanted to rely on him.

“Still what? Are you trying to say something ridiculous like I should do it because you’re a woman?”

The man was clearly about to say ‘nonsense.’

His sharp criticism stung Lee Hyo-ju’s heart more than being compared to that trashy Katarina woman.

She stuttered over a question she would have confidently answered before.

When she finally snapped out of her thoughts, only the dying campfire and the eerie darkness of the forest welcomed her.

Staring blankly at the gradually fading flames, she suddenly thought that the fire resembled her.

Simultaneously startled, something fell behind her. A thick black jacket.

Since it was a man’s outdoor jacket, it came down to her knees like a dress when she wore it.

As if entranced, she picked up the jacket and draped it over her shoulders, feeling a warm sensation.

Holding the jacket tightly with both hands, Lee Hyo-ju strengthened her grip with a determined look.

After concentrating for a while, a bright light emanated from her eyes, spread out, and then disappeared. Her main power manifested.

It wasn’t a childish effect like rewinding a video. The surroundings instantly changed to the point she had in mind.

Just before the man left the campsite, it was the moment when he calmly delivered a sharp rebuke to her.

The dying campfire was rekindled, and the man who stirred up her tender emotions, Arun, as well as the two pieces of trash she wanted to kill, all appeared before her eyes.

Everything had returned.