[You, maybe… How did you even know that? But it’s not good to pretend to deal with the gods who rule the souls!]
“……I do not care.”
Toulouse was incredulous.
‘It doesn’t matter that you lose to the gods? That’s, like, you know! Ugh!’
‘That crazy bastard, are you completely insane?! I should have expected this, damn it!’
In fact, in this last regression, Toulouse tried his best, but he couldn’t stop Rixus from killing Berylia.
When it learned that Rixus was trying to kill Berylia, he was afraid that Johann would ‘directly’ sabotage his plan.
However, surprisingly, Johann seemed to accept her death graciously.
But, in fact, it was not accepted at all.
‘This crazy bastard, he didn’t accept it…’
Even if Berylia was dead, he didn’t give up!
Toulouse was about to explode, so he followed Johann and cried out.
[If we pretend to deal with the gods, something will go wrong with our plans…!]
Not only the god who ruled the souls would be stimulated, but the rest would be too.
But no matter how much Toulouse argued, Johann only remained silent.
Soon after, the door of Marsephone began to slowly open.
Toulouse made a resolution in the moment, soon its eyes began glowing seriously.
Then he cried.
[Aaaaah, hurry up! Then quickly take my heart!]
Johann finally laid Berylia on her back in front of the Black Fountain and said,
“All preparations are complete.”
Toulouse’s ‘final form’ was completed by joining the halves of its heart to Johann’s.
Only then could its own power be fully manifested on earth.
The heart that Johann would have was the incarnation of Toulouse itself.
[It’s going to be painful, Johann.]
Soon, the Black Fountain began to boil and fill with a black aura.
Caw— aw aw aw aw!
The crows of the earth were flocking to the archduke, preparing to welcome the new emperor.
The magical energy of the demonic spirit slowly flowed out of Toulouse’s mouth, and it was tightly packed into a sphere.
It didn’t take long for it to be swallowed by Johann’s open mouth.
“…Keurgh.”
Johann spit out hot, black blood.
The sensation of the whole body expanding as if it would explode at once. The feeling of being burned alive. And the pain of bones dismantling and reassembling. All at once, they came at the same time.
Johann lost his life for a while and died.
And he was resurrected. Trampling the ashes of death…
A true ‘incarnation of evil’.
The destructive power and infinite vitality that swirled through the whole body were in the category of a god’s.
The king of demons, the emperor of the five continents.
It was just before the birth of the new ‘Johann Toulouse’.
But Toulouse did not sit back and watch it happen.
“!”
Toulouse, who had suddenly escaped from the form of a crow and regained its true form, grabbed the still unstable Johann’s neck with a large hand and lifted him up.
[I didn’t want it to be like this.]
“This, what… what?”
[Johann, I felt it. After all, humans are just humans. ]
“…Ack!”
Breaking some of his bones, Toulouse added contempt to its black feathered face.
[Humans are always caught up in meaningless ideas and ruin things. Like justice or love.]
Stupidly.
Toulouse’s voice lowered.
[I’ve always hated that.]
Thud—
Johann’s body was thrown on the floor like garbage.
Toulouse’s nails grew like sharp blades. He spoke arrogantly.
[I was going to let you act as my ‘fuel tank’ in the new world… It’s sad!]
At the words ‘fuel tank’, Johann looked at Toulouse with eyes burning in anger like an active volcano.
Then Toulouse burst out laughing.
[What, huh, did you really believe you would become an emperor?! A lowly human… Of course I am the emperor! You idiot!]
“……Ugh.”
Toulouse began to slit Johann’s chest alive. Its long, sharp claws parted through his skin, revealing his literal insides.
Badump, badump.
A black heart was beating in the crimson muscle tissue.
[Isn’t this heart all I need anyway?]
“….…”
In the meantime, the eyes of Johann, who still had life attached to them, were on the woman, who was lying pale.
Complex compassion, anger, and burning obsession to the end engulfed his black eyes.
Johann’s trembling lips moved upward quietly.
A moment of self-deprecating laughter.
Johann quickly grabbed the black heart in his chest.
[!]
Toulouse’s eyes widened.
Badump, badump.
Johann, who grabbed his heart in an instant, gathered the last magical energy remaining in his body and squeezed the heart— Boom!
[What are you doing…Ah, ah, ah, ahhhhhhhh!!!]
Toulouse’s painful screams filled the sky.
Having achieved his purpose, Johann’s eyes closed gently for a moment.
Their seventh try at their ambition to devour the world was shattered on the brink of success.
It was the wretched words of the wicked.
“Ha…”
As if waking up, Johann returned to reality, and he breathed deeply.
He squeezed his clenched fists in front of the broken and falling portrait.
His dark, terribly dark eyes were eaten up with anger and became as red as his blood.