《The World isn't as Ugly nor Beautiful as You Think》The Devil of Malice's Cry
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Silence.
The three princesses of Hell are standing right there confronting Franz, Leak, and the Alfi Imposter. They are throwing cold gaze to each other.
"Why aren't they doing something?" Herman said as he is wondering why.
"You, inferior humans. Are those heads of yours full of violence?" Levi said in a sarcastic tone.
"But, aren't they supposed to try to kill each other?"
"Use your head, pal. Power is not everything on a battlefield."
"She's got a point," Varz added.
"I got it." That makes him down. "I am sorry."
"There, there, let's see how they fight for you. You might find something to learn from them." Levi smiles at him.
"Thanks, Levi," Herman said.
"Don't mention it. If Alfi were up, he would say the same, don't you think?"
Herman and Varz smile at her.
"Yup, you are right," Herman said.
"He asked me to take care of you if something like this happened. But, I am sure, he will be all right." Levi averts her gaze to the laying Alfi right there.
Kartika, meanwhile, is getting jealous by Levi as she can't do anything. First, they are separated by bubble up above. Second, it's not the right time to quarrel over a dirtbag like Alfi. And third, is it possible for someone like her to claim that he is hers? I don't think so.
"Arrghh! What a bore!" Leak suddenly launches his black roots from his body to the trio.
"Gotcha," Asmodeus said.
"It's about time, eh?" Levi said.
The roots are burnt up as they were almost got the trio. And there is a glimpse where some of the roots are being burnt on Asmodeus' right hand.
"Belphegor!" Asmodeus exclaimed.
"Right, right, I got it," Belphegor replied as she sighed.
Belphegor then starts enchanting a runic spell.
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Her sigil is glowing light blue, and something like a light blue glowing ball appears on her head out of the blue. Seeing that, Asmodeus throws those roots to the ball. The roots are entering the ball turning it into the red one with something like black roots can be seen inside it.
"Get it! Belphegor!" Asmodeus exclaimed.
"In your dreams," Belphegor said casually.
"What the fuck?!" Asmodeus is getting upset by Belphegor's impudent response. "What's wrong with you!" Belphegor did get Asmodeus' nerve.
"You blasphemous beings!" Leak launches his black roots to Asmodeus.
As they are almost getting her. She grabs them with her hand and sets them on fire by spitting some from her hand. The flame is spreading through the roots to the source ending up burning Leak that he rolls on the surface as his body is being devoured by the flame.
"Hot! Hot!" Leak exclaimed as he is still rolling on the surface with such a condition.
Asmodeus lights a fire on her hand and throws it to Belphegor. The red ball on her head suddenly moves and takes the fire with it as it flies surrounding Belphegor's body and shoots it to the imposter.
*POOF*
He vanishes the flame by hitting Tipit against it.
"Did you forget that I can take control of any of your blows with the ability of mine, Asmoda?" Belphegor tempted her.
"Then, how about this?!" The triggered Asmodeus is shooting so many flames to Belphegor.
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"Tee hee, number is not the case, you know?" Belphegor then starts enchanting a runic spell.
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The red ball floating before Belphegor is flying swiftly catching all the flame thrown by Asmodeus and launching them to Franz and the imposter.
Franz and the imposter keep dispelling the 'blows' launched by Belphegor by hitting them with their weapons. Franz dispels it by hitting them with his sword while the imposter obviously does it with Tipit.
''WILL BOTH OF YOU QUIT GOOFING AROUND AT A TIME LIKE THIS?!!!" Mammon exclaimed as the duo gets her nerve.
"Take this!" The triggered Asmodeus just keeps throwing flames to Belphegor as she ignores Mammon's wrath.
"Well, at least, our combo can be considered META(Most Effective Tactic Available), don't you think?" Belphegor added casually.
Suddenly, Franz and the imposter has been close enough to Belphegor who seems to let her guard down. She seems as if she does not see they are coming to beat her tiny body off.
Yet,
Suddenly they fall to something like a trap hole that might have been set up by her just in case something like this to happen.
"What a bunch of idiots," She said.
The red ball then spits so many smaller red balls without knowing when to stop resulting in burying them alive.
"Asmoda, your turn," Belphegor said casually.
"Don't tell me what to do!" Asmodeus flicks her finger and something like flame appears on the surface on her right side.
The flame is spreading on the surface coming to the hole triggering a great explosion from the hole that they can see a great flame soaring to the sky.
"Told ya, we don't need to be vigilant for the likes of them," Belphegor said casually.
"Is that how they fight?" Herman seems to be impressed by seeing how they fought.
"Well, just like how you fight, don't you think?" Levi said casually.
Herman then remains silent. He recalls how they fight overall. And, yeah, they, especially Alfi and Varz, always have a fight in the middle of a battle regardless they manage to defeat their opponents.
Suddenly, a giant blue snake soaring to the sky from the hole and its appearance startles them. It is so big that it seems 80 feet height and the scale is dazzling.
"Looks like you are still able to entertain me, eh?" Mammon smirks as she cracks her hands.
"Basilisk, eh? I just know that it can be this tall." Belphegor said.
"It's not. Looks like that swordsman can create a snake as he likes. No wonder why lord Lucifer told us to stay vigilant when we encounter the people who use this power so-called Doki-doki." Mammon said.
Basilisk is just 3 meters in height.
"Hee, is this mighty Mammon afraid of this mere giant snake?" Belphegor. tempted her.
"Looks like I have to tear this shitty mouth of yours!" Mammon picks Belphegor up by grabbing Belphegor's head with her hand really hard.
"Time out, time out, you'll crush my head before you can tear my mouth off!" Belphegor pleaded in pain.
Mammon lets her go resulting in her ass bumping on the surface.
"Then, what's the big deal if it's that big. We just need to destroy it, right?" Asmodeus said in an underestimating tone.
*WOOSH*
That giant snake emits something like a purple flame from its mouth to the trio. They seem to be ready to deal with that strange flame, yet, at the same time, something is coming to them from behind, and...
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*BAM*
The flame is being absorbed by Asmodeus' open palm. And, at the same time, Belphegor managed to stop that thing by summoning something like 2 meters polar bear plushie. Yup the bear holds that thing.
Meanwhile, the purple flame is still being absorbed by Asmodeus's hand, Mammon then jumps and sends it flying by launching a heavy fist to its head that it's being sent to the back that they can see the tail of that giant thing. The flame vanishes already, and she then shoots the purple flame that comes from the one she absorbed to the snake, burning it up alive.
"Say hello to my new toy, Leak.' Belphegor said.
"You bastard!" Leak emits a flaring flame from his body to escape from the plushie's grip.
Well, the plushie got burnt down to ashes instead.
"Guess I have to play with you for a while." Belphegor averts her gaze to Leak with a smirk on her face.
"How about this?" Suddenly 4 other plushies are emerging from the surface and they hold Leak's body with their strong hands.
The glowing purple flame vanishes out of the blue and the giant snake is coming to them at an incredible speed. Seeing that, Mammon is coming to it ready to launch her fist to it. As they are close enough to each other, Mammon sends it flying by launching a heavy uppercut to its head. Not only that, but she also takes a leap to the sky, and, right now, she is right in front of it in the midair.
"Yo, don't you dare to die on me, okay?" Mammon said in excitement as she clenches her right hand.
Her sigil is glowing yellow, the red face set on her left shoulder is glowing red, and she starts enchanting a runic spell.
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Mammon swiftly pummels its body with her flame fist barrage without knowing to stop that she keeps pummeling it as it falls crashing the surface that Mammon finds herself on its body under the surface.
Dark.
She knows that she could end up like that is because of her brutal barrage that crushed the surface.
"Tsk, speaking of a letdown" Mammon sighed as her sigil and the face stop glowing.
"Hey, Mammon! You're alright there?" Asmodeus asked from the surface.
"Who do you think I am anyway? Of course, I am. I am gonna jump to the surface!" Mammon grumbled.
As she grumbles, She feels as if the body is moving and something like a hot iron appears from it piercing her leg.
"*ARGGH!*"
The cry does come from Mammon from the hole. Everyone startles and wonders what just happened down there.
"Mammon! What happened there!" Asmodeus exclaimed in panic.
Mammon feels the heat from the iron that impaled to her leg, not to mention that... It feels like the iron absorbs her Mana.
"Guess I underestimate them, eh?"
The snake slithers really fast that Mammon got thrown to the side with a great injury on her leg that she can't stand up. She can see her cream trousers get red on her injured leg part. She can smell blood and flesh musk from it. Looks like her leg has been torn up from getting beaten up by that snake and the hot iron. If a mere human experience such a thing, he won't have a chance to stay alive. But still, Mammon is still in pain. She thinks that the hot iron that impaled on her leg isn't a mere iron.
It is coming to her at a high speed with its mouth opened up without her realizing it. Unfortunately, Mammon let herself being swallowed by that snake.
"Mammon!!!" Asmodeus exclaimed.
It soars to the sky crashing the surface before it. And, at the same time, Leak manages to burn Belphegor's plushies down. All of them see a lot of black roots come out from his body that they can't see his body anymore as the roots are concealing his body. The black roots ate soaring to the sky and they can see Leak's head sprout out from the end of the roots.
"PLAYTIME OVER! NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! I, LEAK, THE DEMON KING, WILL PERISH ALL OF YOU!" Leak enraged.
"Hey, Asmoda. Will you be okay if I don't give you a backup? I guess I still want to play with this self-claimed demon king." Belphegor tempted her.
"Just do what you want. I still have a business with this shitty snake!" Asmodeus exclaimed as she gets irritated.
Now, Belphegor and Asmodeus, each of them are confronting a bizarre were-snake.
"What just happened?" Kartika still can't believe what just happened to Mammon.
"Looks like she has found a good match for her," Levi said casually.
"How can you act so cool?" Kartika is getting irritated by how Levi behaves.
It seems like she doesn't care about what just happened to her comrades.
"Huh? You got a problem, ma'am?" Levi is getting irritated by hearing Kartika's tone.
"Aren't you worried about her?! Your friend was just devoured by that giant snake!"
"Then? What do I do?"
"Do you have decency? Your friend was just devoured!"
"Hahaha, yeah right, what a shame, eh? an arrogant devil like Mammon gets devoured that easily." Levi said in an underestimating tone.
"What's your problem anyway?" Levi's nonchalance gets Kartika's nerve.
"Didn't you hear them? They came here by themselves and asked us not to interfere. Now, you see what happened to them. Speaking of pathetic, right?"
"Say what?"
"If they say they don't need our help, it means they know what they are gonna face in this battle. In a battle, every possibility can happen. You may end up winning, and, of course, you may end up like Mammon. A battle is not a simple thing like kicking one's ass with your strange power. In a battle, something out of expectation may occur."
"Ugh." Kartika doesn't have anything to argue.
"In a battle, there is one thing you have to know. You have to be ready to die in a battle. There's no way for someone to win on every battle he encounters. Someone involves in it, someone dies on it. Did you know why Alfi can fight without any hesitation on his face at all?"
Silence.
No one is able to answer her question.
"Is it because he is the Alfa? No! Is it because of his duty as the Alfa? No! Is it because he has the courage to protect his friends? No! Before I tell you the answer, do you think becoming the Alfa is a miracle bestowed upon someone by God?"
No one responds to her, yet they are still intrigued to hear her out.
Who expects that Kartika's babbles could end up an intense conversation.
"Becoming the Alfa. It's not a miracle, it's a curse." Jeje said.
"Alfa is an entity loathed by the world and the light race. I also heard that he is not the son of Adam and Eve." ßenlong added.
"Wh... What? What is that supposed to mean?!" Kartika can't believe to what Jeje and ßenlong said.
"To make it simple, his life is nothing but full of misery," Levi explained. "I've watched him ever since we met for the first time. He always had misery coming from his surroundings. Insults, bully, intimidations, violence, even attempted murder. Can you believe that his parents even did try to kill him so many times? Alfi, he fights not because he is ready to die, but he doesn't care whether he dies or not." She added.
"You are just exaggerating, Levi," Kartika said in a reluctant tone.
"Do you think I am just bragging, Kartika? Do you know why he always acts like an idiot while he is with you guys? Do you know why he dares to put his life on the line just for protecting you? Guess I don't need to tell why as I am sure you do know why!" Levi exclaimed as she gets irritated.
No one dares to speak, especially Kartika. They do know why Alfi really appreciates his friend beyond the normal extent. They sympathize with him for living such a miserable life. He does appreciate them as he doesn't need to live his life all by himself.
"And, Kartika..." Levi's voice somehow turned into a serious one.
Kartika gets startled as she hears it.
"I do hate you. If only you weren't there. If only you didn't meet him. He wouldn't need to go through all of this."
"What? What do you mean?"
"Don't act like a fool even you are! Didn't Megumi told you about that?!"
Kartika then recalls the event Levi meant. Megumi did tell her about if he didn't meet her at that time, he would put an end of his life. Realizing that, Kartika gets triggered.
"What is that supposed to mean? Do you think he'd rather die to stay alive?"
"If he just lives to suffer, why take a risk by staying alive? If no one loves him in his miserable life, then I'll give the love he deserves to have!"
"You are wrong! He won't have misery in his life any longer! He has found a bunch of good friends in his life right now!"
"And those 'good friends' are the one worsens his life, right?"
Kartika then remains silent.
"Getting heaped by a diamond mountain, getting sunk, getting controlled by someone else, getting struck by lightning, getting beaten up by Fatal 6? I don't understand what made him do that? For preventing him from loneliness? Or there is someone special in his life? I, I just can't let him live in such a cruel life of his! I won't let him suffer ever again!" The Sigil on her nape is glowing green and she emits a great amount of green Mana out of her body, and...
POP
The bubble imprisoned her popped.
She falls free to the ground, and suddenly a pair of stingray pectoral fins grow from her body's side. Levi then flies to the bubble imprisoned Alfi.
"Alfi, I vow to myself that I will give the love you deserve to have in your miserable life. Therefore, please let me kill you!" Levi turns her head into a needlefish's head ready to pierce his body with such a sharp snout.
As she is about to pierce his body, Kartika suddenly appears letting her body getting pierced by Levi's sharp snout.
They are shocked by what just happened as they didn't notice when Kartika got out of the bubble.
They fall to the surface. Levi lets go of her snout and her head turns normal as she lands smoothly by turning her feet to squid' tentacles.
Meanwhile, about Kartika... Her body falls crashing the surface.
"What the Hell are you doing, Levi! I'll kill you if you dare to kill her!" Asmodeus exclaimed while dealing with that giant snake.
"Hey, Asmoda. Let's ber. I root for Levi, and you root for Kartika. the loser must tarnish Levi's ass!" Belphegor exclaimed while dealing with the enraged Leak.
"Shut the fuck up!" Asmodeus exclaimed.
"Do you still persist to get in my way, Kartika?" Levi said in a serious tone.
Kartika tries to stand up with all of her might as she is panting.
"I won't let you kill him," Kartika replied while panting.
"You are just recovered. He did ask me not to hurt you. But, I have to deny it. It's all for his sake." Both of her arms have turned into a pair of black swordfish which each of them has been tied by electric ells.
"I won't let you kill him! This can't be compared with anything he has gone through in his life!" Kartika exclaimed. "I... WILL PROTECT HIM AT ALL COST NO MATTER WHAT EVEN IF I HAVE TO PUT MY LIFE ON THE LINE!!!"
"Shut the fuck up!" Levi is coming to Kartika ready to impale Kartika's body with her electric arms.
Kartika swiftly shoots a blue ray from her gun to the surface to make a thick smokescreen. She then takes the chance to make a distance from Levi.
Levi then runs in every direction at an incredible speed to hit Kartika. Kartika swiftly dodges every Levi's blow coming to her while running to Cocong. As she is close to Cocong's bubble, she takes a leap and lands on the bubble.
"Kartika, what are you doing?" Cocong asked in wonder.
"Shut up!" Kartika jabs the bubble really hard that it pops.
Kartika and Cocong are falling. She grabs his head and his body turns into a wooden greatsword full of spikes on the blade. She lands by sticking the sword to the surface.
"I need your help, Morning Wood!" Kartika exclaimed as she pulls out Morning Wood from the surface just like pulling out Excalibur from its stone.
"Don't get too cocky, you inferior being!" Levi appears right before her out of the blue ready to slice Kartika with her arms.
Cakra then comes out from Kartika's pendant and launches a fist at Levi. Levi swiftly crosses her arms to guard. Even so, his fist is strong enough to push her to the back for a few meters.
"I, I will protect Alfi!" Kartika exclaimed.
Kartika shows her determination to protect the one she loves most to the woman who shares the same feeling.
"I, I just want to set him free from his miserable life!" Levi exclaimed.
"If his life is full of misery as you said, then I will suffer with him!" Kartika exclaimed.
The woman who wishes for his death meets the woman who wants him to stay alive.
The battle that determines the fate of the one loathed by God has begun.
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