Chapter 197 - Beelzebub

Presently, Kyle is buying all kinds of pancakes from a certain shop. The delivery request didn't say how many pancakes he should deliver, but since it said 'All kinds of pancakes if possible.' He decided to buy all the possible existing types of pancakes.

While buying pancakes, he tried eating some and it wasn't bad, might as well eat pancakes now and then, after preparing everything done, it is time for him to go deliver what they requested of him, he was quite expectant of this trip for some reason since this is a world(Universe) that he had never heard of seen back in his previous life.

Kyle rode his motorcycle and teleported after going straight for 100 meters.

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Inside the portal, Kyle is waiting for his system to bring him to the other side, usually, it only takes an instant for his system to teleport him in the world where the person who requested deliveries from him lives, but right now something is different from the rest of his trips and that's he's been in the portal stuck for a full minute now.

Though he finds it strange, what matters to him right now is how beautiful the sight outside the system portal is. They look like countless galaxies but it was way too big to be called one, little did he know that each of them we're different universes. 

While he was admiring the view outside the portal, all of sudden his system started ringing like crazy, this was the first time that this happened!

[ ERROR! ERROR! THE GUARDIAN OF THE 'HELLTAKER' UNIVERSE IS INTERFERING WITH THE PORTAL! ERROR ERROR! ]

"What?!" Rather than being afraid he was more confused, didn't the system say that usually, 'Guardians' are neutral parties? Then why is it interfering with the system's portal?

[ HOST BE READY FOR THE EMERGENCY LANDING! ]

Before the system could teleport him somewhere, he saw something coming over his location, it was a humanoid creature that had 12 dark wings behind its back, and even though that 'thing' is far away from him, it made his entire being shiver after that, he was teleported somewhere.

At that moment is where he first met a 'Guardian' and it was something that he would never forget for the rest of his life, it's mere presence made him shiver as he had never been in his life, so far it was the strongest being that he met so far, meeting such existence made him think someone with the same strength as Lucoa is nothing more than a bacteria to such being.

No wonder, the system said that it was an embarrassment for him to be compared to those 'Guardians'.

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In a place where you could only see pure darkness, there was a man who was floating unconscious, near him was a broken motorcycle shattered into pieces.

Aside from the man, there is a weird insect creature that had just arrived near the unconscious man, and that weird insect exclaimed in surprise.

"My word! There's a person beside me in the abyss?" 

Then the weird insect creature approached the unconscious man, it observed him for a moment and said.

"A human? How did a human appear here?" It asked a question about why would a human appear here in the abyss, where anyone who went in will be trapped inside for all eternity.

But that question didn't last for long inside the creature's mind, because it didn't really matter, right now because of this human it won't be alone in this horrid place!

It's been a million years since it met a living being, after all, if it was before it was trapped inside the abyss, she would no doubt eat the human alive, but right now eating him would be no good.

So it decided to take care of the human until he regains his consciousness, all of a sudden the weird insect creature's body became smaller and smaller until it became similar to that of a human.

To be specific a human female, except she had two horns above her head, and a devil's tail.

"Fumu, it's been a while since I've changed into this form, but with this, it would be easier to carry this human and also he won't find me scary compared to my insect form."

After that, she dragged her toward the castle that she spent a little over a hundred thousand years to make, after all, it's hard to find natural resources inside the abyss.

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A few hours later, the human, who is obviously Kyle, finally regained his consciousness. He slowly opened his eyes and he saw a glowing rock above him, he was confused for a moment before he remembered what happened, he instantly stood up from the stone bed that he was lying on.

"System! Are you there? Where in the world is this place?" He Immediately asked this question.

[ Host, you are currently in the realm called abyss, were once a living being with a soul went inside, it couldn't get out no matter what. ]

"That's pretty scary though, anyway another question is which universe I am currently in?" 

[ You're currently in the universe of 'Helltaker' ]

Knowing that, he sighs in relief, honestly, he thought that he went to some other universe when the system said it would take an emergency landing, but it seems the system landed in the universe where he's supposed to deliver in.

"That's good... but still judging from the current situation even though you landed me in the right universe, I should be pretty far away from my customer right?"

[ That's right, host. ]

"Anyway, who put me here? It would be too unnatural to say that I landed in this bed." 

Before the system could answer his question, he heard a woman's voice behind him.

"Oh! You're finally awake! That's good! That's good!" 

There was genuine happiness in her voice, then he shifted his attention toward the person behind him, and he saw a woman with pale skin, red eyes, two white horns above her head, and was wearing a red blazer.

Anyone who isn't an idiot or blind, would know that she's not human, there's a big difference between natural and artificial, and her's are definitely not the latter, but the former.

Instead of asking questions like 'are you the one who helped me?' or similar, he said.

"Thank you." He directly thanked her, because it's fairly obvious that she's the one who helped him.

"Oh? What an unexpected response! Here I thought you would ask 'Where am I?' Or 'Who are you?' something like that."

"Well, you're not wrong but I'm not that clueless."

"Then, do you know who I am?"

"No."

"Right~ then let me introduce myself, I am Beelzebub, The Great Fly, The Sovereign of Pestilence, The Warden of Decay, The Queen Crimson, The Mistress of the Flies or whatever, you humans call that."

"Alright, then nice to meet you Beelzebub."

"Fumu? Do you not know me?" She asked with confusion.

"I do, you just introduced yourself ago didn't you?"

"No, not that you are now probably aware that I'm a demon, so are you not afraid of me?" 

"Should I be?"

"Not really, in fact, I like this."

"Then we're all good."

"Indeed, you're pretty weird for a human normally they would piss off after knowing me."

"Never said I was though."

"What did you say?"

"Nothing, anyway aside from me and you, is there anyone in this place?" 

Beelzebub shook her head and replied. "No, other than you and me, there is no other living in this place."

"Hmm...is that so? Mind if I ask you a question?"

Beelzebub is pretty happy being asked, this was way better than being alone, so she's cool to answer any of his questions.

"Sure, sure good on, no please do."

Hearing her response, he couldn't help but find it weird, then he asked.

"Then, how long have you been staying at this place?"

"1 million years, no I think 2? I'm not too sure, I stopped counting in the first 100 thousand years." She wasn't sure when, she just stopped thinking about it.

Knowing this information, he understood why she was acting like asking a question was a big deal, no wonder she's like that, it's because she's far too lonely.

"So, why are you here in the abyss?"

"Ho? So you do know this place, so you didn't come here by accident."

"No, I did come here by accident. I just happen to know this place." He said.

"Is that so? It doesn't really matter if you're telling the truth or not, it doesn't change the fact that you can't get out of this place, anyway as for your question, I was exiled." Beelzebub didn't feel like making up things, since they are both stuck in this place forever, it doesn't really matter if she tells him everything about her, secrets don't mean anything inside the abyss since it's pointless to hide it anyway.

"You were exiled? What did you do?"

"Oh? You're curious? Let me tell you, this great one story! I did not regret doing such things!" After that, she started telling her amazing deeds to Kyle.

(End-)