Chapter 68: Is There Salvation Even for a Murderous Girl? (1)

Chapter 68: Is There Salvation Even for a Murderous Girl? (1)

Chapter 68: Is There Salvation Even for a Murderous Girl? (1)

Caron finally realized his folly.

Make the Black Fangs understand that there are certain foes in this world that one must never provoke?

It was him who needed to learn that lesson.

No matter how much it was the only way to maintain the power and fame he had built up over the years.

He should never have meddled.

Once he recognized the disparity between them, he should have given up on everything and fought just to survive.

But...

“Ah...”

Regret always comes too late, only when mistakes can no longer be undone.

‘It’ greedily devoured the divine power that swirled around Caron.

The immense power he had prepared for the showdown with the Black Fangs was being absorbed in an instant.

If ‘It’ consumed all of his divine power, the next target was obvious.

So Caron struggled.

The exit was still far away.

A terrible pain coursed through his entire body, contorting Caron’s face in agony.

Yet, Caron did not stop moving forward.

Nothing else mattered now.

Honor, wealth, authority.

All of it lost its value in the face of the one thing that truly mattered—survival.

Power? Who cared about that?

He just wanted to live.

But... as if denying even that, ‘It’ clung to Caron.

His head spun.

Just being near it was eroding his sanity.

Yet still, Caron gritted his teeth.

And then... he looked at his left arm.

He had realized.

Why ‘It’ was dragging him down.

It was power.

‘It’ was greedily consuming only his divine power.

So, to survive... he had to give up everything.

The Holy Marks implanted from the talented children.

The marks, proof of divine favor, which allowed him to perform miracles.

It had taken the sacrifice of hundreds to barely acquire these marks, due to the issues arising during the implantation process.

But now was not the time to worry about such things.

The Holy Marks embedded in his spirit were slowly fading. Caron forcibly separated the marks from himself.

He desperately hoped that this would satisfy ‘It’ and make it release him.

But...

“Is it... still not enough...?”

He had offered up his most powerful asset.

Even if he returned to reality, the power of the vanished Holy Marks would not return.

Despite such a sacrifice, ‘It’ still refused to let Caron go.

A compulsion surged within him.

The urge to throw everything away and sing a hymn of praise to ‘It.’

For now, Caron was barely protecting his mind with his remaining divine power, but that too was reaching its limit.

But he couldn’t allow it. He couldn’t die here.

He had to survive.

No matter the cost.

To do so... he had no choice but to discard everything.

The only way to survive was to relinquish all the power ‘It’ desired and flee.

Caron clenched his teeth once more and relinquished all the divine power he held.

All the strength he had accumulated to rise to the rank of Cardinal, he sacrificed to that monster.

I come from a time when the idea that all preferences should be respected was prevalent, and I considered myself to have an open mind.

But there’s a limit, no matter what.

If this is the sexual preference of the body I’ve possessed...

And if my mind, as it becomes more and more in sync with this body, ends up being tainted by such bizarre, perverted tastes...

‘This is driving me crazy.’

Just imagining it is horrifying.

This is why, when I woke up from that dream with a strange sense of pleasure, I was plunged into deep anguish.

Thinking about how to verify my purity, and the fact that I’m even worried about something so bizarre, is giving me a serious reality check.

As I was sighing deeply, trapped in that cycle of thoughts, it happened.

“......?”

Suddenly, a familiar sound reached my ears.

Before I knew it, a message window had popped up in front of me.

Conditions have been met, initiating first transformation.

Due to the vast amount of absorbed divine power, the transformation process will take some time.

You have obtained the Holy Mark of the God of Light (Apostle Level).

The rank is too high, initiating rank degradation.

...Rank degradation has not occurred.

Investigating reason....

The obtained Holy Mark has undergone modifications, optimized for implantation.

The Holy Mark will be implanted in tandem with bodily transformations.

Advisory to the user.

I am not your enemy.

Follow the predetermined destiny. It is impossible to save everyone.

As always, dozens of messages flashed before my eyes in less than 0.01 seconds, only to vanish with a strange noise.

So, no information was left for me to digest.

‘Well, I didn’t expect anything different.’

At this point, it wasn’t surprising.

This wasn’t the first time something like this had happened.

If anything, it would’ve been stranger if the status window had worked perfectly.

‘Looks like I’m not getting any sleep tonight.’

Though that strange issue about preferences had already been erased from my mind.

Now, I had something else to think about.

Why did this pop up now? Was it somehow related to that dream? There were so many things I needed to figure out.

It seemed that tonight wouldn’t be a restful one. The world itself was conspiring to keep me awake.

I finally got up from the bed and turned on the light.

Where should I even begin investigating this?

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t grasp anything, but I couldn’t just leave it unattended.

After some deliberation, I reopened the status window.

It was the only thing I could investigate right now.

‘As expected, it’s still the same.’

I had hoped it would’ve recovered a bit by now, but the status window was still broken.

Maybe it would fix itself at some critical moment.

That was my gut feeling, but for now, it was just taking up space.

I was about to dismiss the status window from my view when...

I noticed it.

Something clearly out of place.

Amidst the jumble of broken text, there was one part that was relatively intact.

I carefully tapped on it.

And then, at that moment... a familiar yet unfamiliar traits window appeared.

■■’s Rank

The qualification to stand above everyone else in this world.

...Was this the original description?

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