Chapter 175
Chapter 175
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 175
Chapter Title: Flies and Mosquitoes
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Silver-white hair, sky-blue eyes.
Thud.
And an overwhelming presence.
It was the arrival of Go Yohan, a being who needed no introduction.
Gulp.
The demons swallowed hard like humans as they stared at him.
Tremble.
The angels' pupils shook.
They were demons and angels.
Beings incomparable to humans, who had lived immortally through eons.
Even for them, with their vast experiences and knowledge.
Shiver.
This moment was one where they faced unprecedented terror.
"W-Wait a second."
It was the instant one of the demons opened his mouth toward Go Yohan.
Bang!
It was a demon with two horns, having revealed his true form.
But in an instant, only his head had vanished.
"......"
Silence descended once more.
"Bugs..."
True to his name, Go Yohan spoke without emotion.
"...are buzzing."
"......!"
Though their faces twisted as if their pride had been wounded by his words, they couldn't open their mouths.
'We'll die.'
The demon whose head had just exploded hadn't even left dust behind.
In other words.
Gulp.
It meant annihilation, not a death from which revival was possible.
A being who could bring death even to those who boasted immortality and had lived through eons.
"Have flies and mosquitoes teamed up against me?"
Go Yohan's voice.
Swish.
No sooner had the words ended than the demons and angels—called bugs by such names—glanced at each other.
"I'm curious."
Then Go Yohan uprooted the ground, shaping it into a chair-like form before lounging atop it.
"Which would win between flies and mosquitoes."
"......!"
The meaning was easy to grasp.
Especially for the demons, who were all too familiar with such situations.
What Go Yohan was saying was.
'Kill each other.'
He would just watch.
"I-If we win... you'll spare... "
Yet another demon mustered courage to speak.
Bang!
But the price was once again the shock of his head exploding.
No one even breathed anymore.
Whether it was their own lives that mattered, their assigned missions, or whatever else.
Gulp.
They still harbored a desire to live.
Whoosh!
The first to act was an angel.
Unfurling a single wing behind her back, she extended a hand toward a demon.
In her previously empty hand, a pure white sword blade materialized.
Slash!
It cleaved the demon's body in half.
But it was different from Go Yohan's strike.
Sizzle!
The demon's flesh, sliced by the angel's blade, didn't fully tear apart. Instead, something black like smoke filled the wound and clung tightly.
From within it.
Spurt!
The demon's reaching hand tried to rip into the angel's shoulder, but it only left a minor scratch.
But that was merely the beginning.
Boom!
Followed by an explosion.
Slash!
And the sound of cleaving flesh.
It was the moment the demons and angels began their desperate struggle for survival.
While individual angels held a slight edge in power, the demons outnumbered them.
And among the demons, powerful ones.
Rumble!
Seized opportunities midway through, stabilizing the battlefield.
What was amusing was.
Tap, tap.
Not a single one thought to charge at Go Yohan, who sat leisurely, merely tapping his fingers.
"I get what Sis meant now."
Go Yohan stretched languidly as he spoke.
"She said fights between nobodies are the most fun."
Smirk.
Before long, the battle's victor was decided.
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The outcome didn't come as easily as expected.
The demons' thirst for life was beyond imagination, and the angels' individual strength exceeded expectations.
But what made the fight even more brutal was Go Yohan's interventions.
Flick.
With just a finger snap, he overturned the tide when one side held the advantage.
Twisting space at the moment a fatal blow was about to land, he created an opening instead.
The opponent, startled by the ensuing counterattack, took wounds, only to be forced back into the fray by the onslaught.
It was as if Go Yohan were saying.
'More fiercely.'
And.
'More desperately.'
He said nothing else.
But it felt like he was forcing them to witness the plight of humans toyed with in their own hands.
Boom!
Finally, the battle reached its conclusion.
The result was.
"Hah, hah..."
A draw.
They had fought so viciously, covered in wounds with no part of their bodies unscathed, yet not one had died.
The reason they stopped wasn't because one side was annihilated, but due to a certain conviction.
Swish.
This fight would never end.
Unless Go Yohan willed it, he would intervene at any time, and his minor meddling ensured no victor would emerge.
"Y-You... will spare... "
Bang!
Another demon's head exploded.
And.
Pierce!
Two sword blades pierced each other.
The angels.
Former allies plunged swords into each other's hearts in an instant and collapsed.
As they turned to dust, it seemed akin to annihilation.
"As expected, utterly vile scum."
Go Yohan rose, remarking that even this was a 'death' from which revival was possible.
Grip.
He seized them as they tried to vanish.
As they gazed at him in shock, having foreseen their own deaths.
"You think you can't die by my hand, right?"
It was already proven that Go Yohan could annihilate demons.
But due to the incident with Shin Min-gyu, it was thought impossible for him to annihilate angels...
Crunch!
Space was crushed.
"So I wanted to check."
Go Yohan said.
"Shin Min-gyu, was it? I captured quite a few of you winged ones because of that."
"......!"
"Things that can't feel death are just too unfair, aren't they?"
A glow of light appeared in Go Yohan's hand.
"Uh..."
What burst from the angel's mouth was.
"How?!"
A cry of shock.
That was divine power, permitted only to gods and those granted permission by gods.
"Finally feeling like chirping, huh?"
And the price for opening her mouth was.
Boom!
Being engulfed in white light and exploding to death.
One angel's form vanished clean away.
"......!"
The remaining angel's eyes bulged as she froze in place.
Sizzle.
Go Yohan's form, which had vanished.
Boom boom boom boom!
Sounds like fireworks erupted behind.
It was the death knell for the demons who had survived to witness the scene.
"That face."
Go Yohan said, standing before the surviving angel.
"The one that says you're scared out of your mind."
Smirk.
Overwhelmed by his gaze, looking down from above.
"As expected. You're not servants of God."
Grip.
Her throat was seized, yet she couldn't move.
"If you truly served the Goddess, you'd remain composed even now."
Squeeze.
As his fingers pressed her throat, cutting off her air, the angel's face contorted.
"You shouldn't fear death. You should rage at failing to fulfill the Goddess's will."
Drip, drip.
Blood trickled from where his fingers dug into her skin.
"You're no angels."
Go Yohan said.
"You're just humans."
Boom!
In that instant, the last life in this space faded.
"Yggdrasil."
At Go Yohan's words, fallen leaves seemed to scatter from all directions.
The demons and angels who died here had been annihilated, but he stood to gain more than expected from them.
And that would prove useful later.
"Whew."
A petty scuffle that could be called revenge.
But what mattered was.
"Move me."
That his mind felt much lighter.
'I as well...'
A thought crossed Go Yohan's mind, but he soon shook his head.
"Goddess. This is all thanks to your grace."
Flash!
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- No more reactions from demons or angels can be felt within South Korea.
There were no longer any impure beings inside the sanctuary.
"Those things can never be let off guard for a moment. You never know how they'll hide or where they'll possess."
Go Yohan said.
"Don't slack on surveillance. Process them immediately if spotted, or report it."
"Got it."
At that moment, Yggdrasil appeared before Go Yohan.
On the day the magic tower was built, when she revealed herself, people had begun calling her the Goddess.
In the past, he might have scolded them for blasphemy, but now he let it slide.
It was quelling the public outrage over the angels and the distrust toward Go Yohan himself.
-The Goddess protects South Korea!
-Leader! Leader!
With the Apostles away, such public sentiment was greatly aiding in stabilizing the situation.
And.
Step, step.
Yggdrasil began striding toward Go Yohan.
"Hm...?"
Go Yohan, lost in thought for a moment.
Grab!
Yggdrasil seized both his cheeks with her hands and squished them.
"...What are you doing?"
Go Yohan looked at Yggdrasil with a dumbfounded expression.
"You've really changed a lot."
"......?"
"You're staying quiet even when a lowly thing like me is called your Goddess."
"That's..."
"You're not pushing me away even when I fondle your cheeks like this."
At those words.
Shove.
Go Yohan pushed Yggdrasil away.
"Tch, I shouldn't have said it. If I'd known you'd shove me off, I'd have kept going longer."
"So right now..."
"It's cute."
Go Yohan paused as he was about to speak.
"It seems like you're coming to understand what I am."
"Enough."
"Give me a reward."
"What?"
Go Yohan looked dumbfounded again.
His opponent was Yggdrasil, the World Tree of Travania.
To the elves, she was truly worthy of being called a Goddess.
And yet she was.
"A... reward?"
Asking him for a reward.
"My help was huge this time, right?"
"Y-Yeah?"
"Without me, it would've been a bigger headache. Though you'd have handled it fine on your own."
Perhaps due to the earlier shove, her last words were barely audible.
"So."
Whoosh.
Yggdrasil drew close and said.
"Give me a reward."