The Hero Disciple Is Back - Chapter 96



95. That’s how it’s been done and it will continue to be that way.

“Coolook!”

Returning to the Demon Realm and back to his original state, the King of Fighters immediately vomited out the pitch-black blood characteristic of the Demon Race. It was the result of using too much strength while suffering internal injuries from trying to escape the hell of headbutting by forcibly exploding his demonic energy. In addition, since he was under the restrictions of the human world, he was unable to make fine control, which inevitably worsened his internal injuries.

“shit!”

The King of Fighters couldn’t help but feel dirty. If he had returned to the Demon World in this state after killing a lot of humans, he would have felt better… But in the end, he returned without killing a single human. This kind of horrible humiliation was something he had never felt before.

“Did you have a good trip?”

The Four Heavenly Kings appeared, cutting through the darkness. The Black Knight King, armed with pitch-black darkness from head to toe, looked at the Fighting King.

“What? Why are you here?”

“Did you think the heavens wouldn’t know?”

“… So you’re going to punish me?”

The great heaven said, “I will leave the judgment to you. If you think punishment is necessary, punish it. If you think it is not necessary, do not punish it.”

And the king made his decision.

“I don’t think it’s necessary.”

“…what?”

“Your face looks like you’ve been punished enough already.”

He himself was not the great heaven. Therefore, he could not know everything just by looking. However, he was also a king who had walked the path of the asura. Therefore, he did not have the foresight of the great heaven, but he could see something. When he saw it through that, the king of the tomb was already being punished.

Of course, the Demon King’s Army was not a place to be taken lightly. Anything had to be dealt with decisively. That was how the organization was run, and the iron-blooded staff and the Four Heavenly Kings were always at the forefront, speaking out so thoroughly. But both of those demons ended up dead. They no longer existed. Therefore, the attrition of executives could not be tolerated any longer. That was the decision made.

Before that… .

‘I see. Did you find it too?’

Even when the same luck came, each person felt it as good luck or bad luck in different ways. It was something that could vary depending on one’s subjective opinion.

The most important thing is that, whether you feel lucky or unlucky, it has already become something you cannot separate from your life.

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“Hahahahaha! I almost died!”

“Does this make you laugh?”

Sarah looked at the mercenary king Balik as if she was dumbfounded, then shook her head. She thought she knew enough about how tough he was to the point of being crazy in the infinite regress… . She couldn’t help but think that she had underestimated him.

Leah also ran straight to her after feeling a strong magic reaction, but now she immediately turned back. The reason was that she had to turn back before Jade got suspicious. That was why only Sera and Balik were in this place now.

“Then you should laugh. Since you survived without dying. And you survived completely healthy and satisfied with your body. Doesn’t that mean that all that’s left is to become stronger? That’s something you should laugh and be happy about! Hahahahaha!”

“… That’s amazing.”

Sarah couldn’t help but be truly amazed. He had experienced a state of things that was literally beyond his reach. But, far from being frustrated or despairing, he was burning with determination.

‘I guess I need to learn that kind of thing.’

The hero of infinite regression has something to learn… It was such a strange thing to say… It wasn’t that he did infinite regression because he was good at it, but in the end, since he had never defeated the Demon King before, the Demon King said it wasn’t fun and told him to make it fun next time, so he did regression.

It was natural that there were some shortcomings.

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‘We’re dealing with a monster that has reached the level of a god… It’s only natural that there will be some shortcomings even if we regress infinitely.’

That is also the reason why he allowed the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King to be called kings like himself. His realm was already at a level where he should be called a demon god, not a god or a demon king.

‘If I had wanted to, I could have burned everything in this world and become a god by being left alone.’

In the end, if he were to burn everything in the world, literally starting with the human world and even the creator gods who created this world, and be left alone, then what else could he be but a god? After all, only a god could kill a god. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he would have proven his karma and status as a god simply by killing the gods and remaining alone in this world.

But the Demon King didn’t do that.

Each time, he chose to revert the warrior to his divine state with his immense power.

…I know.

‘Even if you’re left alone and act like a god, nothing will change in the end.’

Creating the world doesn’t change anything.

Because he himself was the one who completely burned the world to the ground in the first place.

‘Does the Demon King have the power to create the world in the first place?’

Even if he is a demon, wouldn’t it be impossible?

‘Perhaps the creation of the world was impossible, so regression was chosen.’

Or even if he could create the world, his true nature is to destroy and trample on everything. If he really becomes a demon, he would create the world himself, trample on the world, destroy the world, and then create the world again… That would be a vicious cycle of paradox, and the only way would be to suffer forever. Knowing this, the Demon King chose to return.

‘… So in the end, the Demon King is also a victim of God?’

It would have been better if I had never been born in the first place… .

It was born and then forgotten.

By the creator gods.

‘What were they thinking in the end…?’

The God of Wandering wasn’t a very responsible god. He did intervene at the end, but it was only for the sake of his own saintess… It wasn’t exactly his responsibility or duty as a god. Still, it’s fortunate that the God of Wandering did something… I don’t know what the other gods are doing, and among them, the high-ranking gods who had the most influence on this world seem to have created that Demon King.

In the end, there was a god who was destroyed because he gave birth to a demon king who didn’t know what he was thinking, and there was a world where there were overwhelmingly many futures where all the creator gods died and the world was destroyed… No, ironically, it was because the demon king chose to return that the worst ending was avoided. In the end, it is all thanks to the demon king that the gods are alive today. In the end, can the creator gods of today, who ended up being destroyed by the beings they created, really be called gods?

‘Was this world that disliked to that extent?’

Or is it the trial that the priests sing about so much? What can be gained by inflicting a world-ending trial that would kill even the gods?

‘If they didn’t like this world in the first place and wanted to overthrow it, they should have done it with their own hands.’

Let’s think like that

The words that priests often say come to mind.

What I am saying is that humans should not dare to do the foolish thing of trying to look into the thoughts of God.

‘If God is so good, why don’t you just turn him over?’

If you die, you’ll be able to meet the Grim Reaper or whatever. At least, wouldn’t the Grim Reaper be better than the Creator Gods who don’t show up even when the world is about to end? They do show up, right?

“What are you thinking about?”

The mercenary king watched quietly and then asked the question.

“… I just don’t know what these gods do.”

“Aren’t you just going to watch from up high like you always do?”

“Even if the world is going to end?”

“Isn’t that right? Well…. Didn’t the author, who was called a madman, drink alcohol while laughing out loud, saying that it was good as a snack while watching his own country fall?”

“… That’s a novel.”

“Huh? He wasn’t a real person?”

… It wasn’t strange to think that he was a real person. He was considered one of the most representative works of classical literature, and the nobles would often mention the work and tell stories as if it were a great lesson… . There were quite a few people who thought the story was a true historical story. Furthermore, he was a mercenary king who had no interest in literature, let alone battles or politics, so it wasn’t strange to have such an illusion.

This was not surprising, considering that in a world where the opportunity to study is a privilege.

“Ahem. Anyway, what is that…? Well, it doesn’t matter, right?”

“It doesn’t matter?”

“I’ve never felt like God was helping me when I was on the verge of death. As always, I have to figure out my own way to survive, right?”

That was truly a foolish question and a wise answer.

If you know that God will not help you anyway

Just try harder to take matters into your own hands

That was the only problem.

‘Perhaps the Creator Gods… are simply watching the destruction of this world with joy?’

If that’s really the case, then aren’t all gods just people with serious mental illnesses?

With those thoughts in mind, I finally emptied my mind.

They live by their own hands, just like ordinary humans do. Humans have always been like that and will continue to be like that.

“Let’s go back now.”

“Yeah, yeah. I need to get some rest and work hard to get stronger. I’ll win next time!”

The mercenary king stretched his body and got up. Sera couldn’t help but be truly impressed by his tough mentality, to the point where she wondered if he was really someone who had almost died.