“Yes. That’s right.”
Heavenly Demon then dropped her sword with a thud.
There’s a murmuring sound from the immortals above, but I know this isn’t giving up on the fight.
Thump.
When Heavenly Demon raised her foot and stamped on the ground, a violent earthquake occurred.
Rumble.
The Heavenly Demon Divine Cult’s main building shakes, and the flames attached to the building grow uncontrollably.
And the sword she had just dropped from her hand rose to Heavenly Demon’s eye level. The sword trembles along with the world.
Thud.
Suddenly all vibrations disappeared.
But everyone here knows that doesn’t mean it’s over.
Because the vibration of the sword rising in the air didn’t stop.
And Heavenly Demon stepped on the sky and rose into the sky.
She really walks up as if climbing stairs in empty air where there’s nothing. And Heavenly Demon’s sword follows her, vibrating violently.
During that time.
No one attacked Heavenly Demon.
Heavenly Demon rose higher than the highest roof and stood.
As soon as Heavenly Demon stopped walking, as if they had been waiting, or as if it would be dangerous to watch any longer, the immortals floating in the sky or standing on the roof each launch their attacks.
There are lightning strikes, winds blowing, fire coming out, and water coming out.
But none of them reached Heavenly Demon.
When Heavenly Demon looked at her sword, the sword soon stopped trembling and slowly began to move. But its speed was so slow that it seemed unable to block all the incoming attacks.
At least that’s how it looked to me.
Short, concise swings.
Each time it cuts through the air, the small attacks flying in either disappear or bounce back and fly towards the immortals.
More than two attacks are defeated with one swing.
No matter how many attacks are flying in, if you deflect them in order, it’s just a task. Moreover, even things that shouldn’t be able to be cut like flows of water and wind disappear as soon as the sword moves.
Under the sky full of dark clouds, perhaps due to the smoke from the burning Heavenly Demon Divine Cult, she stands alone confronting the immortals.
As if giving up her life voluntarily, when she approaches and swings her sword at immortals who don’t run away, they lose their lives.
Eventually, even the last immortal rushing towards her loses his life and disappears after handing over warmth to me.
She won.
Half of the Twelve Great Immortals right below the leader called Primordial Heavenly Lord in the Heavenly Religion.
In addition, immortals who prided themselves on being able to fight in their own way died. But it’s still too early to feel relieved. I saw an extremely dangerous object in their memories.
But I realized too late.
Suddenly, the empty air is cut as if fitted to a square frame.
In the middle, Heavenly Demon looks around and swings her sword, but the three-dimensional space shrinks to a plane, making the sword’s movement ineffective.
But Heavenly Demon’s sword cuts through the gap that has become a plane and escapes.
From Heavenly Demon’s perspective, the space around her remains the same, but pitch-black darkness spreads out beyond the cut surface.
Taiji Diagram.
It’s a powerful weapon that unfolds in the form of a scroll treasure to contain the enemy, and when rolled up like a robe, the target inside disappears.
But she can’t get out. The sword uniquely cuts through the space where the outside is visible, but Heavenly Demon’s body can’t go out as if there’s an invisible wall.
Heavenly Demon looks at the person unfolding a human-sized scroll far away.
She shouldn’t have any information, but she immediately found the culprit who made her like this.
Immediately after, the sword flew at high speed and stuck into the head of the person holding the scroll.
She won.
I thought so, but Heavenly Demon’s vision instantly turned to darkness.
The last thing that entered Heavenly Demon’s eyes was a boy next to the man who died with his head blown off, holding and folding a scroll with Heavenly Demon drawn on it.
Grasping the location of the Taiji Diagram, I instinctively ran towards it.
Meanwhile.
Heavenly Demon swings her hand in the air several times.
The first couple times she hits empty air, but then she hits a solid wall. And that wall gradually approaches Heavenly Demon.
Heavenly Demon soon stops swinging her hand and exhales a long breath.
Then after inhaling again, she exhales slightly and stops.
She rotates both hands widely, turning the right hand up and the left hand down, bringing them together in the middle, then reversing the order, and a clearly shining dark purple light came out.
Yes.
It’s light.
Through Heavenly Demon’s eyes, Heavenly Demon’s light is visible.
Could that appear outside of a person?
Wasn’t light the soul?
No answer comes to my question.
Heavenly Demon pressed with both hands from left and right as if praying.
Whether it has volume or pressure, her palms didn’t touch. But Heavenly Demon’s hands shine bright white.
And each time the light shines brighter, the light in front of her gradually becomes thinner.
While watching, thinking she’s doing something amazing, something seems strange.
The sensation disappears from the tips of Heavenly Demon’s fingers. Looking at her fingers with Heavenly Demon’s unfocused gaze, fingers that have turned into bright white light are falling off like dry clay crumbling.
Those pieces sparkle in the air and disappear.
Eventually, by the time not just her hands but up to her elbows have disappeared.
The dark purple light has become a single thin straight line.
No, before doing anything, I need to get Heavenly Demon out of there.
When the Taiji Diagram is completely folded, the space where Heavenly Demon is will disappear.
If I find and take it before Heavenly Demon breaks down further, I can pull her out again. I know how to use it. When she killed the first owner, I read the memory.
I ran with all my might.
Before long, I see a boy folding the Taiji Diagram that looks like a scroll. He’s forcibly holding down the scroll next to a corpse with its head gone.
The moment I thought I should approach and snatch the scroll.
Suddenly Heavenly Demon properly opens her eyes and the thin line moves like a sword. Though she has no hands, it went in front of Heavenly Demon as if there were invisible hands.
“Hehe, I didn’t know Soo-oh would rise higher than me. So it’s a heart technique, not a divine technique… Right. That’s right. It was enough to put one’s heart into the sword. However, I can’t practice this heart technique because I’ve already given my heart to someone.”
Holding a thin strand of light in the darkness, Heavenly Demon talked to herself.
“Instead, I’ll leave behind the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique.”
No.
That wasn’t talking to herself.
Words conveyed to someone.
Heavenly Demon, who spoke to someone in a place where no one could hear, grabbed it and swung it down from above.
One Stroke Heavenly Demon Divine Technique
The sky split.
A sharp wound was left in the world, cutting through empty space.
In the blink of an eye.
In that short moment, along with the powerful Taiji Diagram treasure, the boy holding it disappeared, and in that place, the deep darkness that appears when I apply too much force ripples.
The only difference from me is that unlike me with dirty surroundings like shattered bulletproof glass, there’s only a clear cross-section as if drawn with a ruler.
Splash
The sound of something falling was heard from afar.
Heavenly Demon’s sensation.
The sensation of her body hitting something.
For a moment, I looked up at where Heavenly Demon had disappeared. The top of the roof. Something that looks like Heavenly Demon is rolling down from under the roof.
I run quickly, but Heavenly Demon’s falling speed was faster.
She falls down, hitting the roof several times.
And not long after, I arrived at the place where Heavenly Demon fell.
I see a woman with dark purple skin dying with a considerable part crushed, like a corpse that fell from the top of a building.
Blood is spreading in all directions around her.
And small raindrops are falling from the sky.
They say it usually rains where there’s been a big fire. Dust that has risen high in the sky condenses water droplets and falls down.
So.
I arrived in front of Heavenly Demon, who has no chance of survival, just before becoming a corpse.
“Heavenly Demon.”
When I called her name, Heavenly Demon coughed repeatedly.
I approached, knelt down, and raised her head.
“Did you see?”
“Yes.”
I saw it well. It’s engraved in my memory too. Short but intense enough to send the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique to someone immediately in the future.
“I guess I was destined to die from falling. It’s exactly the same as when I was reborn.”
Looking at it that way, maybe so.
The day Heavenly Demon became a woman. Heavenly Demon was dying after falling from a high place like this. Heavenly Demon opened her eyes on my lap, looked up at me, and moved her messed-up face.
Her body is such a mess that I can’t tell if it’s a crying expression or a smiling expression, making it difficult to figure out what emotion she’s looking at me with.
Heavenly Demon put strength in her chest and opened her mouth.
“Friend. Don’t cry.”
“I’m sorry, Heavenly Demon. This is rainwater.”
Unfortunately, my heart isn’t generous enough to cry. Sadness or anger immediately disappears, buried under the screams of wanting to do something about the cold.
“You’re too naive for a monster, friend. If you’re going to hide it, try deceiving a bit better.”
But Heavenly Demon said the strange thing about me crying, then closed her eyes and inhaled.
“Born as a man, I saw the extreme of martial arts, and born as a woman, I felt the depth of love. Having experienced all the joys a person can have, now I’m about to leave this place. So, friend. Live according to the wish you prayed for with your mouth. That’s the last spell this human leaves for you.”
After exhaling her last breath, the straight line that rolled to her side gradually blurs. It handed over only a small warmth, then unraveled strand by strand to become thin threads, soon turning to dust and disappearing.
Swoosh
The rain turned into a downpour and poured on the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.
Until the corpse lying in front turned white.