SSS-Class Suicide Hunter - Chapter 121
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Chapter 121 Hero. (3) >
Chapter 121.
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Translator:
thursdays
Editor:
Yahiko
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After hearing my request, my colleagues didnât say anything for a long time. Maybe they were looking back at the lives they led. Their days that were stained with purges.
ââŠYouâre asking us to take the harder path, really.â
After a long period of silence, the Black Dragon Master opened her mouth.
Her voice was nearly lamentful.
âPeople can become skillful with practice. If they try, they can become a moral person too. They can become powerful by working hard. But itâs nearly impossible for someone to be competent, moral, and powerful. Itâs simply too hard⊠Itâs truly a difficult path.â
âSomeone told me that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.â
I held out my hand to the guildmasters.
âIf so, the road to heaven must be paved with countless sins.â
There would be countless people who become jealous of us. There would also be many who make trouble for fun. People who want power would fight, and those who come to agitate the Towerâs inhabitants would appear.
Such people existed.
Many of them.
Evil is both common and strong.
âBut that isnât a reason for us to give up. Letâs show a slightly better world to the people who have forsaken the outside world to come here.â
I pushed out my hand again. It wasnât so that we could shake hands.
It was a pose for multiple people to join their hands at once.
Like a sports team cheering together before a game, I quietly extended my right hand toward the guildmasters.
ââŠâŠâ
âAha.â
While the Black Dragon Master hesitated, the Heretic Questioner reached out his hand first. Touch. The Heretic Questionerâs palm joined the back of my hand.
âI donât mind! Itâs appealing if the ones in charge have moral legitimacy. And Death King is the only one who can gild us with morality. Itâll be a waste to miss this opportunity!â
âAhem.â
The Venomous Snake put his hand on top.
âIâm now the successor to the Righteous Sect. The old man is always nagging me to think about the sectâs mindset or whatever when he sees me. Well, I guess Iâll participate out of respect for my master whoâs staying behind.â
âMm.â
The Crusader laid her hand on top.
âIâve been using my skill since before this conversation began.â
Lie detection.
âNobody here has let false words escape their mouths. And more than that, Kim Gongja. I know that you ran through [The Chronicles of the Heavenly Demon] and [The Tale of Sormwyn Academy] with an upright heart.â
ââŠâŠâ
âI believe in your truthful attitude, I believe in your true love, and above all else, in your character. All revolutions fail. But I will at least devote my life and soul to make our revolution be remembered as the most spectacular failure.â
âMhm.â
The Count extended her hand.
âI canât keep up with the romanticsâ tale. But whatever. Iâm just following the crowd. I donât want my precious stocks to fall. Letâs do our best, everyone.â
ââŠâŠâ
Lastly.
The Black Dragon Master hesitatingly put her hand on top.
ââŠI canât promise you much. I canât guarantee our success. I canât throw away the tools Iâve used so far. But⊠All right.â
Black eyes swept over us.
âIf we fail. If someone among us must die⊠I will be the first to do so. Iâll promise you that.â
âThen Iâll also make you a promise.â
I smiled.
âI wonât let anybody here die. No matter where. No matter when.â
âYouâre making an absurd promise, youâŠâ
The Black Dragon Master smiled bitterly. However, she did not take back her hand.
The six of us.
Our hands were gathered.
âMm. Very well!â
The Librarian smiled as he swam through the air.
âDeath King. Black Dragon Master. Heretic Questioner. Count. Venomous Snake. Crusader. I designate these six as characters of [Me and Our Scapegoat]! When you open your eyes, youâll be in a world that met its discontinuation at its height. Be careful. Itâs very different from the Apocalypses youâve encountered so far!â
The Librarian opened the book. Poof! Light flowed from the pages of the Apocalypse and onto our overlapping hands.
âThe difficulty of this Apocalypse is A-Class!â
The light wrapped around us.
âUnlike last time, I canât bestow many blessings upon you. The Constellation of this Apocalypse is alive. Alive and reigning over the world. You will enter as a sort of invading army in this Apocalypse. Naturally, the Constellation will be hostile.â
The Librarian laughed lightly.
âDeath King, the Constellation will treat you, especially, as a foe!â
âA foe!â
Before I could understand what the Librarian meant, our vision was completely covered with light. Actually, I didnât have to try to understand what the Librarianâs words meant.
As the world turned white, before we even opened our eyes to greet the new worldâ
[The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness detects invaders.]
A cutting voice flickered through our brains.
The voice continued like a tidal wave or an urgent siren, ringing one after the other.
[The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness issues you a warning.]
[The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness intends to eradicate the invaders.]
[The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness declares war on you!]
Me and Our Scapegoat.
[The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness abhors you.]
This fairy tale was ruled by the Constellation who invaded Ravielâs world.
3.
In a story with a hero and a demon king, the demon king is always careless.
The demon king never reveals his full power at the start. He sends off the weaklings to fight the hero. The hero, who is weak at the start of the story, grows by defeating increasingly strong opponents.
Until the hero finally confronts the demon king.
-Iâve been waiting.
The Constellation of this fairy tale was different.
-How dare you oppose my master!
This Constellation bared its venomous teeth to us from the beginning.
The first in our party to detect the crisis was my Holy Sword.
[Shiny detects the presence of her sister sword!]
The hilt of the sword shivered at my waist as if to announce the crisis. Though our visions werenât clear yet, Shiny hastily shouted.
[Shiny confirms that the properties of âThe Evangelist of Everlasting Happinessâ matches the properties of the âSacrifice Swordâ!]
[The Evangelist of Everlasting Happiness is the fourth sister sword left by Lefanta Aegim, âSacrificeâ!]
As soon as Shinyâs warning finished, my eyesight returned.
A blue sky.
Our party was falling through the sky. We had been floating shortly after being put into this world, so we hadnât realized it. However, our bodies were quickly dragged down by gravity.
Whoooosh!
The wind brushing our foreheads. Blood rushing to our heads. We were plummeting down.
âMm!â
At that moment, the Heretic Questioner grabbed my forearm. The wind was pushing our party apart, but he had caught me in a moment. The Heretic Questioner squeezed my waist tightly with his legs. Then, he made a hand sign.
âDeath King, hold my right foot! Donât ever let go! Sacred Technique, Transmission!â
I clung onto the Heretic Questionerâs right foot as he had instructed. The next moment, the Heretic Questioner had moved to the Black Dragon Masterâs side.
âBlack Dragon Master!â
âYes! Hold out your leg!â
The Black Dragon Master grabbed the Heretic Questionerâs left foot like it was obvious.
âAha.â The Heretic Questionerâs laughter mixed into the wind. I thought that the sound of his laughter made the gravity that threatened to crush us feel lighter.
âSacred Technique, Transmission!â
The Heretic Questioner, in turn, brought in the Count, the Crusader, and the Venomous Snake. We clung onto the Heretic Questioner like baby pigs to a mama pig. In this situation, the Venomous Snake seemed very upset and yelled,
âHey! Why am I the last one?!â
âItâs because youâre the most useless one here! Chen Mu-mun master! Our power wonât be affected even if youâre gone!â
âYou shitty priest!â
With five people clinging to him, the Heretic Questioner couldnât make his hand signs. He had no space. He had no time. Even now, the ground was getting closer and closer.
âGood job, kid!â
However, the Black Dragon Master shouted as if she had only been waiting for all of us to be gathered.
âEveryone, say you consent to my skill! Quick! Hurry!â
âYes!â âI agree!â âGot it!â âI agree.â âFuck, sure!â
âTeleport!â
Six people moved together. An instantaneous teleportation. Unlike the Heretic Questioner, who had to form hand signs, the Black Dragon Masterâs skill could be activated with just contact.
It was the skill she had used to oppose the [Devil King of Fall Rain].
Thus, we safely landed on the ground.
-I wonât let you go!
But the ground was not safe at all.
-Sing, my apostles!
Ten thousand. Maybe a hundred thousand. Maybe millions.
In the horizon stood those in the shape of âchildren.â Each of them was the same as the Apostle who invaded Ravielâs world. Possibly millions of children surrounded us in layers.
-La.
And they sang.
-La. La.
-Lu. Lala.
-La.
A million a capella tunes, all at once. A hundred thousand low notes, a hundred thousand high notes, and a hundred thousand whistles overlapped. The children danced in a circle like they were happy. With each step, the ground reverberated.
Boom. Thud. Boom.
-La.
This was the A-Class difficulty Apocalypse.
A world that saw us as the enemy, was not careless, and tried to destroy us with all its might from the very beginning.
âKeugh!â
The party hurriedly pulled up their auras. However, it wasnât enough. We were facing an all-out attack less than a minute after being transmitted to this Apocalypse. A wave of happy dreams, difficult to handle with just oneâs aura, violently struck us.
âCount!â shouted the Heretic Questioner. âGive me money!â
âDamn it, my bank account is going to breakâŠ!â
âYes! Itâll be better than breaking your head!â
âA 15 percent interest! Compounding!â
âI wonât take it unless itâs free!â
âWhat? Thatâs ridiculââ
âNisha!â the Crusader yelled.
At first, I didnât know what âNishaâ was referring to. I realized it when I saw the Crusaderâs gaze, directed at the Count. Nisha was the Countâs real name.
âShut up and take out your wallet! Iâll kill you!â
âUgh. Damn it! Withdraw, boundless!â
The Count took out a pouch. The pouch had a snail pattern on it. She undid the gold ribbon to open the pouch and flipped it upside down. Clink, clink! Countless gold coins spilled onto the floor.
âChange owner! Heretic Questioner!â
âAhaha, thank you!â
The Heretic Questioner quickly made a hand sign.
âSacred Technique, Devotion!â
A light burst from his hands. The white light encased the pile of gold coins, which became dust and disappeared. In its stead, the aura around us became unbelievably strengthened.
âSacred Transfer: Aura reinforcement and mental attack immunity! Reinforcement targets: Count, Heretic Questioner, Death King, Black Dragon Master, Crusader, Venomous Snake. Reinforcement time: Uncertain. Gold will grab our hands. Technique complete!â
âHeeeeooooaaaah! Hiagh! My money!â
The Count screamed. Gold coins continued to pour out of her pouch, and as soon as they did, they became light and evaporated without a trace. She seemed so shocked that cat ears popped out of her head.
âMy money! Nya! My lifeblood! My money, which is more precious than blood!â
âAha. Should I donate my blood?â
âI donât need it! If I go bankrupt, the Tower will also go bankrupt! You got it?! If you donât want to eat dog food for breakfast tomorrow, go and attack already!â
Falling from the sky. A million songs. We succeeded in escaping the incessant crises.
Only now could we look at the main culprit who attacked our party.
-Tsk. Do you have enough skill to devour Idol, Compassion, and Prayer? Attempting to hide the senses and attackâŠ!
The Constellation floated in the air.
Like the Prayer Sword, it was red all over. However, it was slightly darker than the Prayer Sword. The little child covered in dark red blood trembled in the air.
-But itâs no use! Leader of the traitors! My loyalty to Lefanta Aegim shall never break. I will kill you and ensure you donât get in my masterâs path!
Sure enough.
I grabbed the hilt of the Holy Sword and pulled it out.
âRaviel became a Constellation by stabbing her heart with a fragment of [The Guardian Goddess].â
This meant that even a fragment had the ability to make a Constellation.
If so, then it would be possible for the fragment itself to become [a new Constellation].
The Sacrifice Sword evolved from being a fragment of [The Guardian Goddess] to [The Evangelist of Eternal Happiness].
-Apostles! Eliminate them!
And the Sacrifice Sword was still loyal to Lefanta Aegim.
Unlike her sisters who had been helplessly absorbed by me, the Sacrifice Sword had been amassing her power. She had ambushed me as if she had been expecting me to come. That was what had happened thus far.
ââŠâŠâ
I glared straight ahead, gripping the Holy Sword.
Literally hundreds of thousands of troops thronged on all sides.
Instead of yelling, the apostles sang, and instead of stabbing us, they danced. However, their songs were more threatening than any shout, their dance deadlier than any spear or blade.
Our forces were six people.
The enemy was innumerable.
âCount-nim.â
âWhat is it?!â
âYou still have a lot left in your wallet, right?â
This was the best moment for me to act.
âWhat?â
âPlease shoot this stage up big time.â
As the Count blinked, I quietly chanted.
âHundred Ghosts Reincarnation.â