Chad watched as the children he had taken hostage hurriedly ran out of the school grounds.

He belatedly checked his surroundings. As expected, the children were gone.

“When did they even sneak them out!”

“When you let your guard down.”

Mela answered instead of Giselle as she entered the room. She held a large greatsword with both hands, taking an attacking stance.

“Ladies who weren’t invited keep coming without manners.”

Chad held daggers he had tucked in his waist with both hands. Seeing that, Rukna Golden sneered.

“Hey, Chad. Have you forgotten the swordsmanship scores you got during your school days?”

“Shut up, Ruka. Don’t underestimate a mage. I didn’t get second place for nothing.”

“No. I’m talking about my scores, not yours.”

“Ruka’s scores? Why would I know that.”

“I see.”

Rukna Golden picked up a long piece of wood that was on the floor instead of the broken sword.

It wasn’t difficult for Rukna Golden, who ranked next to Matian Wiegratz in mace techniques, to mercilessly beat Chad’s body.

“Damn it. Did you just train like an idiot at the temple without praying?”

Chad wiped his nosebleed and smiled bitterly.

“That’s why you’re always second place, Chad. Matian would have seen through the opponent’s skill level in an instant.”

“Don’t compare me to that guy!”

The blood stains on the back of Chad’s hand rose like black haze and became needle-thin weapons that suddenly flew towards Mela’s shoulder.

Mela, who was caught trying to launch a sneak attack, grabbed her shoulder.

He wasn’t an easy opponent to handle after all.

“How dare a lowlife like you compare me to Matian?”

How dare you. How dare you!

Chad was already anxious as the plan went awry. He easily lost his composure and was engulfed in emotions. His eyes glinted with madness.

“Everything always gets messed up because of you. Everything ends in failure!”

“You failed not because of me, but because of you. That’s why you can’t beat Matian, because you keep blaming others.”

As Rukna repeatedly provoked Chad, the thin patience he was holding onto snapped.

“The bitch who breathed thanks to my curiosity doesn’t know her place!”

I will definitely get rid of you with my own hands. This time, I’ll give you a painful death!

He repeatedly made long cuts on his palm with the dagger he had, like a madman.

Crimson blood flowed from his slashed palm, dripping down his forearm.

If there was no sacrifice, he could use black magic with his own life force as collateral.

The blood that began to pool under his feet moved on its own, drawing a black magic circle. A black slime-like thing rose like a pillar from the center of it.

“Why don’t you beg for your life, Ruka.”

It completely covered Chad’s entire body and became one with him.

Three pairs of eyes blinked randomly on his head, and his arms transformed into tentacles like multiple whips.

Puhaha! But seeing that, Rukna burst into laughter rather than being scared.

“You’re laughing?”

“Ah, sorry. It’s just that out of all the monster forms, you seem to prefer only the tentacle type. Contrary to your appearance, your taste is quite consistent.”

“…Just die, Ruka.”

Chad, who had swollen in size, swung his tentacles in all directions. Walls collapsed and the ceiling was torn off, turning into a mess.

Mela stepped forward to protect the slow-moving Giselle. Rukna emitted holy power to keep Chad in check.

Chad tried to grab Rukna, not caring whether his body was purified by holy power or not.

Then one of the tentacles succeeded in snatching her ankle.

Ugh! Rukna, who lost her balance, fell to the floor.

He tried to drag Rukna’s body and put her into the cabinet. Its interior was connected to a suspicious dark space.

Rukna propped herself up with the piece of wood, trying not to be dragged into it.

Then she discovered the words ‘Rukna Golden’ engraved in the corner of the cabinet.

It was the name she had carved during her school days, vowing to never be trapped in such a place again.

‘It wasn’t just any cabinet he brought.’

How did he even remember and obtain this?

“You put a lot of effort into tormenting people. If you had trained during this time, you would have become the top student.”

Rukna smiled crookedly and struck his tentacle hard with the piece of wood.

She hit it so hard that the wooden stick wrapped in holy power broke in half.

Ugh! While Chad faltered for a moment.

Mela didn’t miss the opening and cut off one of his arms with her greatsword.

“Ack, damn bitches!”

Chad couldn’t maintain the black magic due to the rush of pain.

The black mass that had enveloped him peeled off and he returned to human form.

He tried to use magic one more time, holding the cut part of his arm.

But this time, Giselle’s flames interfered with his magic casting.

“Get lost, you pieces of trash!”

Chad raged, spitting blood from his eyes, nose, and mouth.

Black evil power spewed from his wide open mouth, but he, who had already exhausted much of his strength, couldn’t fight against Rukna’s holy power.

“No. This can’t be. I am the protagonist of this world!”

Chad struggled to the end.

Before Mela, who had readied her sword, could strike the final blow, Rukna asked for her concession.

“I’m sorry, High Priestess. Could you yield that bastard’s neck to me?”

“Unfortunately, I also have many grudges. Then you take the head. I’ll carve out the heart.”

“Then I’ll take care of the hair!”

Giselle, who was hiding in the corner supporting the two with magic, chimed in.

The three women exchanged some kind of signal and struck at once.

“You can’t even lay a finger on my body… Kuhuk!”

Chad, who was trying to squeeze out his life force to attack, stopped breathing.

Strangely unable to breathe, he looked down and saw a broken piece of wood piercing his body that had been protected by evil power.

“You…!”

“Why are you surprised? It’s only natural since I’m stronger.”

Rukna dusted off her hands.

At the same time, flames flared up from the top of his head, burning all his hair.

“Become a bald corpse!”

The culprit was Giselle. She was taking revenge on Chad who had cut Rukna’s hair.

Ugh, no! Don’t! Chad’s eyes bulged as he writhed in pain.

“This wasn’t in the prophecy book. This isn’t a proper future. I, I am the protagonist of a new world!”

Chad, who was about to face death, trembled and knelt down. It was humiliating.

He couldn’t accept such a clownish end.

“Protagonist my ass. You didn’t leave anything in this world.”

“That can’t be… At least not to Ruka, right? You’ll have to think of me for the rest of your life. The scars I left on you will be eternal.”

“Scars? There are none.”

Rukna bent her knees to match eye level with Chad.

“Matian cleanly fixed it with the power of love.”

“…What?”

“You’ve disappeared forever from my mind and from this world, you son of a bitch.”

The bald look suits you well.

Rukna ridiculed the now bald Chad and drove the piece of wood stuck in his heart even deeper.

Chad, who usually enjoyed the pain of others, couldn’t endure it as soon as the tables turned.

He struggled, telling them not to mock him, then rolled back his eyes. The moment his body went limp.

A huge piece of metal sliced through the air with a whoosh. Mela had cut off Chad’s head.

Not horizontally, but vertically. From the top of the head to the toes.

“Eww! Gross!”

Giselle covered her eyes with both hands, watching Chad’s body become messy through the gaps between her fingers.

Mela, who had actually cut him in half, trembled as she held the sword and wept.

“Finally… I finally got my revenge, sob!”

Every night, she had imagined this and fell asleep hugging her sword.

Whenever she wanted to give up everything, she vowed to tear that bastard apart first and then die.

“I did it. I, I did it, wahhh!”

Rukna hugged Mela tightly.

Giselle, who witnessed Mela and Rukna’s affectionate embrace, also offered consolation.

Then she subtly separated Rukna, telling her not to hug just any woman.

The three women were savoring their victory for a moment.

A huge black arm suddenly protruded from inside the cabinet. Rukna’s group quickly stepped back.

That arm fumbled and grabbed Chad’s corpse, then dragged it into the cabinet.

The cabinet that had been emitting a dark aura turned to dust and disappeared.

“What just…”

“Is that it?”

The three exchanged glances and ran out of the dormitory without hesitation.

This was the signal.

The demon’s egg had finally come out into the world.

[This is the timeline separator]

In the center of the square, a large black hole appeared above the altar where the holy sword had been embedded.

It looked like a giant ostrich egg and was a portal connecting the demon world and this place.

Demons excited at the thought of trampling humans giggled as they crawled out from there.

At first, the Imperial Army was taken aback, but soon they fought well. Since the last demon war, demons had remained the same, but humans had evolved.

The size of the Imperial Army was not large, but they effectively slew demons in cooperation with the priests.

The problem was the Demon King called the Black Sage.

According to records, it lived eternally and was unaffected by any level of holy power.

Also, dozens lost their lives with a single gesture of its hand, and the land lost its vitality with each step it took.

‘Does the Demon King appear last?’

Matian wiped the blood from his sword after slaying a demon and checked the direction of the academy every so often.

Would she be safe? He wished she would just pass by, pretending not to know about this side.

Even if everyone in the world died, he wanted at least her to live. He wanted her to be safe without a single injury.

“Hey, Holy Sword.”

[……]

“Damn piece of scrap metal.”

[You should call me Bisvir.]

“You don’t call me Master either.”

[We really have the worst compatibility. But she’s fine.]

“What do you mean by that.”

[I answered in advance because you ask about Rukna Closet’s whereabouts with a very high probability when you call me.]

Matian just nodded silently. As the holy sword said, he had called the holy sword to ask about Rukna’s well-being.

Relieved, he mechanically swung his sword and took the lead whenever a demon appeared.

From demons the size of a house to demons with hundreds of eyeballs, he demonstrated his skills as a weapon master, utilizing various weapons.

Before long, clouds covered the sky and thick raindrops began to fall.

The water droplets that had beaded on Matian’s armor became streams and flowed downward.

Dreams on such days were terrible. But today, he was strangely afraid that the dream might become reality.

Matian recalled the voice in his dream and gripped the sword handle again.

Then, a cabinet suddenly popped out of the black space.

The cabinet with Rukna Golden’s name engraved in the corner was the same object Rukna had been trapped in before.