Volume 4 - CH 39

Act 4-39: Nightmarish Lullaby

The sphere-headed undead, Maru, snickered carrying the blonde-haired girl on its back. They would be rewarded by the rotten king for accomplishing such an easy job. They had estimated that the Rotten King would possess the blonde girl’s body and would easily destroy Ares.

After Ares’ fall, this world would fall under Rotten King’s control. Humans would become livestock for them, both in name and reality. They could literally do anything with them, it wouldn’t really matter whether they break the humans, kill them, or eat them. There was nothing better than that kind of high-quality livestock. They imagined the moment when they would chop up a couple in front of the other, or when they force a mother to choose between her two children, that was the best entertainment for Maru.

（Uhm, I can’t wait for that to happen♪）

As the Rotten King’s subordinate ran while humming, the triangle head beside him spun. Yes, it spun, literally.

「…」

It halted in reflex upon seeing that and took the distance from triangle head and yet, triangle head of his subordinate kept spinning nonstop, followed by their body spinning in the reverse direction.

『S-Sankaku?』

When Maru asked timidly, the head of the triangle head, called Sankaku, suddenly separated off from their neck and spun in mid-air. Something like white mist then oozed out from its body.

『HIIIIIIIII!?』

Maru retreated, raising a scream and yet, something caught their head from behind.

『Heya, where are you going now?』

Chills ran down its spine the moment they heard that bone chilling voice of a woman, and when they tried to turn their head around, Maru saw that the culprit was none other than the blonde-haired woman it carried.

「—!?」

Maru ended up raising a mute scream. That was natural since blonde-haired woman’s innocent smile split until her ears, and pair of sharp tusk peeked out from the split. No matter how they think about it, that tusk, and the crafty smile of the woman wasn’t that of livestock(human). In short, the woman herself wasn’t even a human to begin with――

Thus, Maru tried to shook of the woman from their shoulder.

But――

『W-Why I can’t shake her off!?』

Yes. Despite her slender arm that look like it was going to break at any moment, the power of her grip was no joke.

Something like human-shaped mist came out from Sankaku’s body and then stretching their arms. That moment, Sankaku’s body crumbled down to dust.

「N-No way…」

Maru could only let out a hoarse exclamation upon seeing that.

Impossible! This is impossible! We, the direct subordinates under Rotten King-sama were supposed to be endowed with divine protection of 【Restoration】, we were be able to recover immediately whenever we got sacked. And yet, Sankaku got killed so fast? Does that mean Rotten King-sama’s divine protection aren’t functioning properly? Rotten King-sama is an evil god. He didn’t bound by the logic of this world. Only an existence of similar level could negate the effect of his divine protection. In short, this blonde-haired woman and the human-shaped white mist are――

『GUGIII!?』

The moment Maru reached such conclusion, the blonde-haired woman pulled its head with terrifying strength unbefitting of her slender arm.

And then, the human-shaped white mist also approached maru.

――They’re too terrifying!

Maru lost everything the moment human-shaped white mist touched them. Any intelligent creatures could accept this result normally.

And yet, for some reason, they failed to detect the presence of such evil being. At the end of their life, Maru felt a malice that far surpassed even their Rotten King from the human-shaped white mist and the blonde-haired woman.

They realized that they’re dying slowly while being tortured by the extreme pain from their wound.

（H-How did it come to this!?）

Due to the divine protection of the Rotten King, Maru and co. could recover instantly from any wound, and supposed to never felt any pain. And yet, now they were tossed around by extreme pain that carved slowly and carefully, bit by bit on their body.

They raised a bestial scream as they felt the terror of the pain that was akin to their limbs being torn off, something that they had long since forgotten.

Amidst their cracked field of view,

『I see. You guys has been protecting Our Supreme Ruler’s dearest person all along huh…』

A tall man with an intimidating face appeared before them and the human-shaped mist extended its hand toward Maru. Maru fell into a never-ending nightmare the moment that human-shaped mist’s hand connected.