Part 4
Like a red flash that pierced through all.
Murderous blades that closed in on Kasukabe Yō stopped after grazing her face, a shadow possessing burning pupils appeared before her.
Perhaps, that was actually the incarnation of heat and passion.
Not only the clothes, even hair and eyes emitted flame; side view of a sinister face that people might mistake as a citizen in hell.
Noticing that it was the Jack she was acquainted with, Kasukabe Yō called out his name with a trembling voice.
“Ja…Jack…?”
“…Kasukabe-san. Lastly, I have a request.”
Last request.
Yō understood that it was not a metaphor, but truly a last request.
Yō nodded shakily, then Jack spoke with a cheerful smile like normal.
“「Will o’ Wisp」…Please take care of those children. They are all children that bear a sad past. So by your own hands, please guide them towards the righteous path.”
“Understood. I promise you.”
Towards the smiling face that encompassed all resolves, she returned with eyes filled with the same amount of resolve. Jack let out a light laughter in relief.
—— Yahohohohoho!!!
Letting out a laughter that prayed for the blessing of all children, Jack kicked the air with his flame springs. His posture was a red flash itself. Nothing else could describe it.
Jack’s air kick reached the maximum theoretical speed —— Sixth Cosmic Velocity, carved a deep wound in Azi Dahaka’s side abdomen.
“Geha!?”
The Three Headed Dragon let out the clearly anguished voice for the first time since the start of the battle. Although partly because of falling he couldn’t dodge, but that was not all.
Pure speed.
Undefendable sharpness.
“This speed, this slash! You…stepped into Demon Lord’s territory!?”
That was the worst possible deprivation imaginable.
Despite the lack of time to read the Geass Roll so it was unsure, but Jack definitely wrote a lot of rules that unconditionally granted Host advantages. People apart from poets doing this would create enormous logic error, it would only take minutes before the Game was forced to end.
Adding on, bloated spirit level would definitely self-destruct, even after death he would be punished by heaven. Guardian Saint Peter and Queen would not remain silent. This was equivalent to staining their trust to Jack who pleaded them that he would walk on the righteous path. They probably already listed Jack as a conquest target in the Heaven’s army.
But putting these behind his mind, Jack jumped back and forth continuously.
“Divine punishment is already within expectation! This body originated from evil! Then annihilating “Absolute Evil” at the end of this evil path is just as I wish.”
—— “Countering great evil with evil”. Jack’s eyes showed such resolution.
Heaven’s army would not rush here now anyway. Then at the end, adding a moment of glory on his brutal life would also be good.
The Three Headed Dragon was slashed some two hundred plus times before landing.
Every bleeding, every clone released, was all peeling away at Three Headed Dragon’s armor.
Azi Dahaka immediately used his single wing to perform an all-direction annihilation after finally landing, but it was like slow motion to the current Jack.
The knife, that was supposed to easily shatter like glass, was reconstructed, became even stronger from the reconstruction of the game, and shaved the flesh unstoppably.
On the other hand, Jack’s life was reaching its end.
“Ku, pain…!!!”
Sharp pain, like stakes directly hammered into the bones. Jack stopped in his track from the sudden pain, then started dashing as if to escape that pain.
“Not yet…let me, hold on a while longer…!!!”
There was no more bleeding. His body morphed into Astral, changing into an existence similar to light particles. Enormous energy was gained from this, now it was only left to exhaust it.
His agony was only an hallucination. The reason it continued to corrode his body, was because his painful memories from his own spirit were reflected on the surface of the Astral.
Watching him aching all over his body, the Three Headed Dragon raised his three heads and questioned.
“…”Countering great evil with evil”. That kind of thing, is it worth for you to throw yourself into hell?”
“Of course. That’s why I chose deprivation. Regardless of the price, I will not regret it.”
Wiping away fresh blood from the corner of his mouth, he howled to the Demon Lord.
Knowing all the consequences, he still chose to abandon everything.
Good deeds accumulated till this day. Accumulated trust. Countless smiles directed towards him.
Even if he could not be called an outstanding clown anymore, it was fine to close the curtain of his life as a serial killer. Because of such resolve, Jack turned into a Demon Lord.
“…Is that so?”
It was a voice that seemed to be considering Jack’s reply carefully. It was impossible to determine the feeling within it.
The Three Headed Dragon did not strike at Jack’s vulnerability, only watching quietly.
Then the words he spoke…carried a very tranquil tone.
“Very well. Then let me forgive you.”
“…What?”
He stopped his feet that were about to step out.
To the confused and surprised Jack, the Three Headed Dragon spoke seriously.
“As a member of Gods, I forgive you. If the punisher of evil is evil, there is only evil left after the deathmatch…That is too lacking in salvation. Hence, I, as an evil God approve of you. The path you walk contains a trace of justice. I will guarantee the brilliance of the blade that is stabbed at this "Absolute Evil”.”
That voice despite being tranquil, was a supreme and powerful oracle.
—— “I, am the absolute evil. You, act out of justice.”
Cross it, across my corpse lays absolute justice.
No matter how much fresh blood stained your life. Even if you discarded all the glories till today.
I promise you this moment of justice, this evil God declares so.
“…Hah, haha, hahahahahahahaha!!! This! An evil God will guarantee my justice? Uhu (Aah), this is great! It’s truer than anyone’s guarantee in the world…!!!”
How magnanimous was the oracle. How humongous was his caliber!
This was the caliber of the Demon Lord that carried humanity’s evil!!!
Flashing his canine tooth from a guffaw as if his morale was boosted. That laughter did not belong to Jack the Clown, but the laughter from him being his past self.
Severing his unforgivable past like someone else’s, Jack kept escaping by thinking “I(Ore) and I(Watashi) are different”, finally united himself as a whole now.
“Let me declare my title now! I am Demon Lord Pumpkin the Crown! Demon Lord Azi Dahaka’s heart…will be taken by Jack!”
The monster dashed like a red flash. Sprinting with the exaggerated speed of Sixth Cosmic Velocity.
The Three Headed Dragon waved his “Absolute Evil” flag, silently announcing death sentence.
“Avesta activate. Rival and return, “Another Cosmology”…!!!”
Against Jack that turned into the Astral body, the Three Headed Dragon also turned into an Astral body to counter.
In a battle of fifty:fifty, both sides crushed each other’s body as well as they dug out flesh and blood. Although Jack regained immortality, his Game did not have much time left.
Running like the starlight, Jack maintained his speed as a light particle and dissipated. The outcome from the battle between the two, was only Three Headed Dragon.
Jack’s spirit level already completely disappeared.
The proof of his path —— evil God’s heart had been peeled open.
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