EP.97 28-3. Where Life is Certain, There is Love
I opened my mouth towards the man with striking blue hair and white glowing eyes.
“Professor Dennis, please evacuate Phine and the others.”
“I can’t, it’s too dangerous. Does Licht intend to take on Head alone?”
“Well, besides me, is there anyone here who can deal with ‘Omniscience’ and ‘Ignorance’?”
“That’s…”
Dennis couldn’t easily answer me. Well, I guess he would be surprised after hearing the Demon Lord shout just now.
“This is absurd!! There can’t be another hero with the same concept!!”
It meant a complete Demon Lord counter had emerged. Come to think of it, that guy had said something similar during the battle with Magic Hat. I guessed he even nullified lies back then.
“I’m fine. If it were any other time, I wouldn’t know but…”
I spoke while making eye contact with the golden eyes of the glass knight. Thankfully, she looked alright. At this rate, she wouldn’t become the ‘Nameless Saintess’.
“…Right now, I thought I could kill that bastard for sure.”
How dare he touch our Phine while I was here? The fact that he even tried to use ignorance to make her completely idiotic made the hand gripping the sword clench tighter.
“Licht, are you angry?”
“No? I’m perfectly fine.”
“No, you look incredibly angry.”
Oops, Phine caught my emotions. Unlike the oblivious me, how could she be so perceptive? She was even wearing a helmet, so my expression should have been hidden.
“I’m a little angry.”
“..I see.”
I chuckled for no reason. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t realized even though I’d been by her side all this time. Actually, I wanted to scream ‘Aaaargh!! I’m sorry!!’ here, but.
“Then we’ll just keep a little distance from Licht.”
“Thank you, Professor.”
“Since I need to help you whenever you’re in a critical situation.”
Since this was an emergency, let’s do that later. Even if the order was delayed, my karma wouldn’t disappear.
“Licht. Together…”
“Fight together? No, you might still have aftereffects.”
“I don’t want you to carry everything alone anymore, Licht…”
Don’t say things that weaken a person’s heart. If I wanted to prevent you from becoming the Nameless Saintess, I had to get rid of the Demon Lord, Head Eike, in front of me for sure.
“…”
I was momentarily speechless. There was no time to delay any longer. At this rate, everyone would be swept away in the battle with the Demon Lord.
“…Professor Dennis.”
“Understood. Take care.”
At my signal, the blue-haired magician activated a three-dimensional magic circle and teleported everyone around us, except for Head and me.
“Licht…!”
Even as she left, she reached out her arm and tried to grab me. How could she be such a kind person?
Just leave it to the Pure Love Dark Knight. Even though I look like this, I’m an expert at catching Demon Lords.
Since I was here, space coordinates wouldn’t be reverse-calculated. I slowly walked towards Head with Kiyu in hand.
“Hero, did you even know what you’ve done?!”
“Well, what did I do?”
On the sports field where a downpour was chasing.
“You’ve thrown away the last resort to prevent the fate that will befall the future!!”
“Fate my ass.”
In the pouring rain, two men who could never narrow their differences were antagonizing each other.
[A ‘Contradiction’ has occurred in <Knight Heart>!! Lee Soo-hyun, please stop the battle!!]
At that moment, a transparent status window appeared before my eyes.
That developer was doing this again. He had done the same thing last time when I tried to save Phine. I should have noticed that our Phine was next to me from when I succeeded in the Fallen Route Glitch.
‘I’m such a dull person. I shouldn’t have blamed Kainel.’
I had thought I knew everything about the person I loved, but that wasn’t the case. After all, love isn’t something to be interpreted or judged with words or sentences.
To be honest, if our Saintess hadn’t been here, I might have already fallen for Phine Gransia. The glass knight’s heart was warmer and kinder than anyone else’s.
She was the person who had risked her life to pull me out of my trauma just now. How could I not fall for someone like that?
‘No, had I already fallen for her?’
My heart was already more than partially captured by Phine. In fact, I’d been putting up an iron wall since I was possessed, in case the female characters got tangled up with me.
Unless there was a clear coupling like Ariel or Charitines, I didn’t often interact with them, and even then, I left during important moments.
‘..Come to think of it, it was the same during drinking parties and festivals.’
I knew she was a woman back then, so I could have just acted as I always did.
Drinking together, giving her a piggyback ride, all things I wouldn’t normally do, but I couldn’t help but feel compelled to not leave her alone.
When I was with Phine, my heart raced, and I was often moved by her kindness.
“..If there is fate, there must also be a ‘fate’ that can overcome it.”
I walked forward, looking straight ahead. If the story went according to the original, she would become a saintess and might come to like me.
But that wasn’t love. At least, it was embarrassing to call it pure love.
“That’s sophistry..! This isn’t a problem that can be solved with such wordplay!!”
“I am a dark knight. A person who must drink countless cups for the sake of the person I love.”
If I hadn’t been there, what would have happened to the circumstances of Head’s attack on Grand Hearts Academia? Charitines would probably have been properly kidnapped this time.
‘So that’s why the contradiction message hadn’t appeared when I cleared the [Sunset Rendezvous] dungeon.’
A chill ran down my spine. That meant that everything except for the last Magic Hat incident and this Head incident had gone according to the creator’s intention.
[A contradiction has occurred in the original work, <Knight Heart>..!]
[A contradiction has occurred in the original work, <Knight Heart>….]
[A contradiction has occurred in the original work, <Knight Heart>….]
The transparent status windows overlapped and blocked my vision, so I cut them down with Kiyu.
“If fate is what makes that person unhappy, I will cut it down as many times as it takes.”
With a rustling sound, the status window was cut in half.
The unpleasant collection of letters disappeared in a flurry of light. After all, the fact that the creator’s warning had come in this way meant.
‘If I just kill that Head, our Phine won’t be forgotten among people.’
It was like proof that I could twist the flow of the original or the sequel. I wanted to see her as a princess instead of a saintess, living her original life.
She was a person who looked prettier with a smiling face than with a sad expression. The reason was simple.
If I killed even Magic Hat like this, I’d be able to get her mother, Bellin Gransia, back too.
I wouldn’t listen to these warning messages now.
“No one can stop my ‘prophecy’!! Many people will die or get hurt. I’m just trying to minimize that!!”
“Is that really a prophecy?”
Head, as if making a final struggle, glared at me and shouted.
“Hey, Demon Lord of Omniscience.”
“What is it, boy.”
“Did you know who would win if you and I fought?”
At the question, he shook his head. I guess he wouldn’t.
“..I don’t know.”
“Why don’t you know? Weren’t you the ‘Demon Lord of Omniscience’?”
“...”
The Demon Lords’ authorities and abilities were not this perfect. The Demon Lord of Omniscience, unable to give even a simple answer accurately, looked confused.
“…So you could be wrong, but you’ve been weighing people’s lives with such flimsy judgment?”
“No. I’ve already checked it seven times. Destruction cannot be stopped.”
He gritted his teeth. He had checked it seven times, what did that mean. Could it be that.
“Head, were you a regressor?”
“How did you..!!”
It was obvious, in the first place, wasn’t the ability of Omniscience contradictory? In the original <Knight Heart>, he had said in his will, ‘Let’s meet again in the time of prophecy.’
Since I was a possessor, it wasn’t strange for a regressor to appear. In the first place, even the Heavenly Demon appears, so what.
“I wasn’t in that regression, was I?”
“That’s right, so if the boy lent his strength, even more lives…”
“Fuck off. Who are you to wag your tongue? Shouldn’t you say, ‘I’m sorry for killing people with something that wasn’t certain until now’ first?”
This made it clear. Without ever doubting that the future he had seen would not change, he had mercilessly turned that blade on others.
“Then what should I have done? I’ve already fought on the side of the Ten Greats, and I’ve betrayed the Demon Lords.”
Head smiled a distorted, insane smile and spoke to me. Something was missing.
“I tried to change the bleak future seven times. Lee Soo-hyun from another world, you should know better than anyone!!”
“One major premise is missing, Head.”
In some ways, you could say that he was a person similar to me, but that Demon Lord and I were different from the start. That difference was.
“If you had given up on regression from the start and risked your life, wouldn’t something have changed? Omniscience disappears.”
I’m a person who can risk my life for the person I love. From the start, my life was as good as saved by Phine Gransia.
It was okay if she didn’t become the Nameless Saintess. Phine was just Phine. I couldn’t hurt her with my one-sided love.
I would get hurt instead. I wouldn’t see her get hurt before dirt went into my eyes.
Phine was a person who had to become happier in the future. This was right rather than falling into the hands of the Demon Lords like this.
“..Negotiations are over. Hero.”
“Oops, did I hit the nail on the head? I’m so sorry.”
He frowned and pointed a red revolver at me. Bang, the firing sound echoed through the battlefield. Head fired a bullet at me.
“I’m not a hero, but a dark knight.”
Using Kiyu, I turned my body into a water droplet and dodged his bullet once. The academy where the rain was pouring.
In that rain, the Demon Lord and the Dark Knight were pouring out all their strength to kill each other.