Final Volume: Chapter 3: Conclusion

What's Achieved

Conclusion

Only a short time has passed since the Demon King and Aleph clashed.

Despite this, the battle was beginning to go in Aleph's favor.

All of the Demon King's attacks were countered and had no effect on Aleph.

Countless black bullets are fired from the black staff, but they are knocked down as if someone had read their plans.

["What's wrong, Demon King?! It wasn't like this when you killed me."]

"That's ridiculous... Are you saying you can predict my movements? Just a mere human being."

"You demons...every single one of you are too careless!"

Drawing power from Arondight, Aleph fires a laser beam of light from the sword.

It's a powerful technique that vaporizes Karma's right hand and other powerful monsters.

"Don't get too cocky! Dark Barrier!"

The Demon King chants the spell and extends his right hand, causing a black barrier to appear in front of him.

The laser beam hits the barrier, but disappears without penetrating it.

["It's as tough as ever. ...In the end, I wasn't able to penetrate it when I was alive."]

"Fuh, my defense is perfect. There's no way you weak humans can break through it."

A relaxed smile appears on the Demon King's face once again.

If there was no way to break through the barrier, there was no way he could lose.

"It's about time we ended this. I will let all of you disappear together."

With that, the Demon King floated above the room and began chanting a spell.

The air trembles, and the area is stained with dark magical power.

"Is this annihilation magic...?"

Annihilation magic boasts overwhelming destructive power. It is a powerful large-scale magic said to be used by demons. Even among the Four Heavenly Kings, there were several who could use it.

Moreover, if it belongs to the Demon King, its destructive power is unimaginable.

Aleph aside, the other three would disappear without even a trace remaining.

"Let's charge in. If that thing gets shot, I don't care about the other two, but my Chris!"

["No, there's no need for that. Aleph, I want my power back now."]

In contrast to the panicked Aleph, Chefs makes a calm suggestion.

"Give back your power? What are you going to do?"

["It's simple. Put all the power I've given you into me and throw it at the Demon King! I've been waiting for this moment, when he'll use his annihilation magic! When he's relying on the barrier... and is defenseless!"]

Believing Chefs' terrifying words, Aleph pours all of the power he has been given into the holy sword.

In any case, since there is no other way to help Chris than to believe in him, Aleph has no hesitation in his actions.

He put all his strength into throwing the holy sword towards the Demon King.

The moment he let go of the holy sword, Aleph's surging power suddenly disappeared.

This is because the hero's skills and the skills of the various humans he had eaten had all disappeared.

Meanwhile, the holy sword, with all its power poured into it, heads towards the Demon King with an incredible amount of heat.

It moved freely...it was no longer just a sword but more like a living thing.

"Hehehe... Demon King! I wanted to kill you with my own hands! No, that's not true! I must kill you! For the past few hundred years... I have only thought, thought, thought, thought, thought about you, the person I hate, aaaaah!"

"You crazy sword... but you cannot penetrate my barrier. Give up."

Even as he chanted the annihilation spell, a dark barrier was cast around the Demon King.

Its strength was several thousand times greater than the defensive magical protection Chris could use.

It was an absolute barrier that no single human could possibly breach.

Chefs and the barrier collide!

A tremendous impact hit the area, but it did not penetrate the barrier.

"You see it now! Someone like you is nothing in front of me--"

Just as the Demon King was about to tell Chefs that it was useless.

--There was a crack in the barrier.

"Wh, what! This is impossible!"

["Kukkakakakaka! I'm just nothing... is that what you said?"]

The cracks continued to widen, and then――――with a tremendous sound like something had shattered, the barrier was pierced, and the holy sword, which had turned into a deadly blade, pierced the Demon King's defenseless body with great force.

"Gah...! It can't be! My barrier... will be defeated so easily."

["Ah, it tastes like the Demon King's flesh. This is what I've longed for for so many years... the taste of my hated enemy."]

"Argh! You think being stabbed like this will be enough to kill me?"

["...I don't think so. That's why Demon King... I want you to die with me."]

As Chefs said this, the holy sword began to glow intensely.

Suddenly, the Demon King was hit by a bubbling, boiling sensation inside his body.

...along with a pain so intense it's hard to put into words.

"Gugaaaaaah! You, you can't be...!!"

["Hehehe. Let's die together...right!"]

The Demon King's body and the holy sword pierced through it continued to glow - and then instantly exploded! The holy sword used all of its skill and power to self-destruct inside the Demon King's body, so that it would die along with the person it pierced.

After a while, everyone hear an explosion and the sound of something falling from above.

It was the sound of the Demon King floating in the sky being unable to withstand the explosion and falling to the floor.

When the explosion stopped and the smoke cleared...there was the Demon King, bleeding black from all over his body and looking like he was about to die, and the holy sword, although full of cracks, still stuck into the Demon King.

["...It's over, Demon King. I have completely destroyed your body. So much so that no amount of healing magic can heal you. ...I defeated the Demon King... Kukakaka. I am the true hero... I am the one who defeated the Demon King... the "Hero" Chefs! Hehehe... Hahahahahaha――――"]

Chefs' laughter fades away mid-way.

While he was laughing, the holy sword Arondight broke into pieces.

At that moment, Chefs' will and the holy sword Arondight completely disappeared.

And Aleph was once again a man without skills.

"Ugh! Ah... No way. I never thought that the madness and obsession of the man I killed hundreds of years ago would cause me to suffer like this... Humans are truly frightening creatures..."

Just as Chefs said, the Demon King's condition was devastating.

It was likely that he would soon die.

"Gah! Gah... Hero A...leph... I lost my life... Chefs lost everything. And yet, you, a fellow hero... are the only ones who have gained everything. Don't you think that's a bit unfair...?"

Demon King Ouma asks, looking at Aleph.

His eyes were bleeding black blood, but they conveyed a determination that demanded he pay the price too.

"Wh, what...? Are you going to kill me?"

With the skills of both the hero and those of those he had eaten gone, Aleph no longer had any means of fighting back.

Even if he just a near death demon king, if he attacks, all that awaits Aleph will be death.

"I can't die! I want to end this battle... and marry the Saint... and Chris! I can't let that dream be crushed in a place like this!"

Although he spoke confidently, Aleph had lost all his strength and was overcome with an immense sense of anxiety.

It's no wonder, though, since if he die here, his happy future will be closed off.

"In that case, I will take from you the happiness that you were supposed to spend with your beloved saint."

The Demon King's finger points at Aleph, and then a small black ball is released from its fingertip.

Aleph tried to avoid it, but his body was unable to react in time due to lack of skills.

The black sphere was then sucked into Aleph's body.

"...? Wh, what are you planning? It's nothing."

Although Aleph prepared himself for death when it came into contact with him, there was nothing particularly abnormal about his body.

Aleph is confused and doesn't understand the meaning of the Demon King's actions.

"Hehehe... You'll understand soon enough. There is no future for you... to be happy with the Saint. Hehehe... haha ..."

The Demon King's laughter fades away mid-sentence.

His body, destroyed from the inside, reached its limit and... and he died.

The Demon King, who had plunged people into fear and chaos for a long time, was defeated surprisingly easily.

Although the Demon King's last words had piqued Aleph's interest, he had no idea what he meant by them, so he stopped thinking about it and walked towards Chris, who was still leaning against the unconscious Aria.

Effectively the end.