I Became the Burden of a Conscienceless Party - I Became the Burden of a Conscienceless Party chapter 153

153 – The Turning Point (4)

Turning Point (4)

I’ve been feeling really bad since I had that dream about the Pope.

It can’t be good, because Belphegor was fooled by that madman.

Just after the Second left the audience room, Belphegor covered one of his eyes with his palm and thought.

She is not a god. She is only a monarch.

That’s why it’s not perfect.

It also has a fatal weakness.

“These ragtag bunch of kids.”

Second thinks of her as an absolute powerhouse, but that’s wrong.

Her power is limited.

You can’t fight for long, and the more you fight, the more burden you feel.

From the beginning, she had no intention of embracing the power of the gods.

The purpose was to bring down an existence that was beyond the standards of a heavenly being, but she already had power that was difficult to handle.

It was inevitable that he would possess the power of a god.

I hit the back of the head of the god of heaven, but I was afraid of the consequences if I left him alone without taking away his power.

-They say that great power comes with a great price. However, those who possess great power often have trouble exercising that power.

-I’m fine?

-Don’t you often ask? Actually, that’s what it is.

However, he had no intention of taking all that power. Belphegor also knew that if he took such a great power alone, it could cause problems.

The reason we didn’t consider that assumption was because the Pope suggested dropping the angel and taking his power.

If I had known that his purpose was for Belphegor and not the gods, I would not have agreed.

But she did not notice. She dismissed the Pope’s antics as the actions of a madman blinded by the intangible power of God.

In a way, it was the actions of a madman, but it was far more horrific and planned than she had imagined.

-Anyway, the fact that the god I serve is also unable to handle that power is the same.

The Pope explained:

I gave her one last chance to notice before I did it.

She couldn’t even fully digest her own power, so how could she possibly contain all the power that even the Heavenly God couldn’t digest?

The Pope knew that, so he didn’t take power for himself, so that power could be concentrated in her hands.

In the end, everything went wrong when the Pope did not withdraw his divine power.

For her, boredom is a process of stabilizing strength.

However, there are still limitations.

“ha…….”

A power that Belphegor finds difficult to handle.

A strength that does not stabilize no matter how much you sleep, lie down, and rest.

That limit is getting closer.

“We have to end this in a short fight.”

As I took my hand off my eyes, crumbs fell down.

A body that is starting to crack.

Belphegor, who confirmed this, ignites a blue flame to forcibly close the wound and erase the scar.

The inside is already in tatters, but the outside is disguised as if there is no problem.

She is insecure.

Yes, if it were to explode, it would burn down not just this area, but the entire Demon Realm, and purify the entire ‘realm’ of the Demon Realm. That would be the only way to save the Demon Realm.

“Even if I die, I can’t die like this.”

There is no more opportunity. The environment of the Demon Realm has become so desolate that children are no longer born, and the Demon King’s army cannot become any stronger than it is now.

In other words, this was the last chance for the demons to take over the human world. That’s why the soldiers flocked there.

“It won’t be as you wish, Pope.”

A bomb with a lit fuse.

Belphegor, full of venom, quietly prepared for war.

“We will take over the human world and reclaim everything we have forgotten.”

Yes, if we drive out everyone in the human world and take over the entire territory.

Even if that time comes when a bomb called her explodes in the demon world.

“Either we all die, or we all live. The choice is yours.”

It wouldn’t matter if it was a remote place where ‘everyone’ had left and it had become an empty field.

***

The warrior party walked through the demon world looking more tense than usual.

There were things I could learn through the villages I passed through several times.

The atmosphere was chaotic and they were all hungry.

What is surprising is that there are no additional conscriptions or levies even though war is imminent. Of course, even if there were levies, the question would be whether there would be anything to take.

“It’s quiet.”

The movements of the Demon King’s army are certain, but for the other members, there seems to be no significant changes in their lives.

‘Is it because of the characteristics of the demon tribe that they are not interested in other people’s business?’

Esmeralda and the warrior party walked through the forest, thinking that in some ways this might be even better than the war preparations in the human world.

“Is this the right way?”

“Well, on the map, this way is the shortcut.”

“You didn’t just spread out a map and draw a straight line, did you?”

“Isn’t that the fastest way?”

“Oh my, you idiot.”

Esmeralda grabbed Jim’s head, who had declared that he would find a way.

When I was in the human world, I thought I was good at finding my way around, but when I entered the demon world and tried to find my way around, I realized that I only looked at straight distances without regard for obstacles.

In the human world, most of the roads were well-maintained, so it didn’t matter… … .

“Eww! Bugs! Eww! Poisonous plants! Eww! Even a crawling spaghetti monster!”

The Demon World is literally the Demon World.

Even if they chose a safe path to move on, they had to choose dangerous places along a straight line to walk, so the warrior party could not help but become more tired as the days went by. Furthermore, they were not even able to camp after entering the forest.

Because all the surrounding terrain was extremely dangerous.

Of course, most people complained of fatigue, but some thought differently.

“… … .”

For Milia, who had a keen interest in learning, everything around her was new.

She stared at Tina, who was shaking off the poisonous insects and plants clinging to her body, then quickly unleashed her tentacle magic.

“cute.”

Then Tina tried to communicate with the crawling spaghetti monster that particularly scared her.

Gulp.

The moment tentacles and spaghetti noodles meet, a bond is formed between two species that do not understand each other.

Crunch! Crunch!

But that’s only for a moment. Millia’s tentacles swallow the crawling spaghetti monster whole.

The moment the spaghetti monster, which was writhing as if screaming, was completely digested by the tentacles.

Millia looked around to see if there was anything similar, and was able to spot something human-shaped not too far away.

A woman in a clown costume.

It was as if he had crawled all the way here with his injured body, as his bloody tracks were engraved from the opposite direction where he had fallen.

Gulp.

Without any suspicion, Milia wrapped her tentacles around the fallen woman as if it were a given.

“Test subject.”

That one short sentence explains why she lifted the woman up.

As a person with a strong sense of morality, Millia has a mindset that anything she finds in the Demon World can be used as a test subject regardless of its form.

But, that’s okay.

“Stop moving.”

Because there’s a great teacher named Esmeralda who single-handedly supports a kindergarten called Brave Party.

She caught sight of Milia working in an unseen place in an instant and quickly stopped her actions.

In short, it stopped when I hit it.

Because that’s the fastest.

“it hurts.”

Milia also didn’t complain much, as if she was used to the situation, but just held down the affected area with her hand.

“I just picked up something… … No, what is this?”

The moment Esmeralda saw what was wrapped around Millia’s tentacles, she backed away in horror.

“Third?”

Corps Commander Third.

The Demon King’s army’s out-of-spec troops, who were supposed to be the most effective on the battlefield, were lying on the street.

To be honest, it’s hard to believe. Esmeralda was able to deal with him easily because she had the Emerald Tablet, but her abilities were blatant fraud.

“Let’s kill him.”

The first to react to Esmeralda’s words was none other than Garnet.

She was defeated so thoroughly by Third that she felt humiliated.

It was completely played with by means of trickery rather than strength and skill.

The fact that Third had saved Garnet’s life didn’t matter to Garnet at the time. What mattered was that she had been fooled.

So I wanted to kill Third.

“I’m glad I’m alive.”

A meeting naturally unfolded as Garnet opened the gate.

The second one to voice her opinion was Milia, who had usually been passive and busy burying the issue.

She suggested saving Third, but her choice of words could be misleading, depending on how you hear it.

“I think I have to live.”

Irina also argued against the execution.

Normally, she would have insisted that the first thing to do was to eliminate at least one more dirty race like the Demons, but she was actually quite cool-headed.

“The situation is suspicious from the start. Rather than killing him for no reason, we should keep him alive and extract information.”

A rice cake that rolled in.

While everyone else was thinking along those lines, Irina couldn’t help but feel creeped out.

Wasn’t that the third one?

There is a being who has taken her down, and it is too dangerous to set out without knowing who it is.

“Thank you for your opinions. I didn’t intend to discuss it like this, but I will gather everyone’s opinions and come to a conclusion. Do you have anything to say?”

“Me, me?”

“Then is there anyone else besides you in the direction I’m pointing right now?”

“Oh, there isn’t any.”

Suddenly identified as a prisoner, Twelve stammered and crouched quietly, just like he did in his school days. It seemed that he was adjusting well to being a prisoner.

“Okay, I get the gist of it.”

“Esmeralda! I don’t think you’ve heard my story yet.”

“Yes, Tina. Go ahead.”

“Can you please let me down?”

“I’ll do that later.”

Tina is being dragged away by the moving vines, but isn’t there something more important going on right now?

“I am…….”

“Mr. Jim, that’s enough of your opinion. Or do you have something important to say?”

“no.”

“Okay then.”

Esmeralda nodded in satisfaction at the perfectly collated opinions.

The warrior party that she had led alone until now began to operate through rational discussion and debate.

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Of course, the content was extremely personal, but at least Irina gave an answer that suited the current situation.

That’s enough.

The warrior party has grown.

“Then let’s save him. I don’t want to kill someone who has collapsed so helplessly.”

That day, a clown named Third, no, Lacrimara, joined the warrior party.

Of course, it wasn’t her will.