After a moment, as the dust settled, a man in a black coat was visible, with Shin Yuseung pinned under his foot, groaning as he tried to get up and escape from the man.
"Jihye... over there, Lee Hyunsung and the others are rescuing people, right? You go and help rescue some other people too."
"...You don't need me to say 'be careful,' right?"
"Hmph... of course... just go already. This bastard keeps groaning, so it's hard to keep him pinned down with my foot...."
"Got it! I'll go ahead!"
Immediately, Lee Jihye ran off to help rescue people and left this place, and now what remained here was me and
"Grrrugh...!!"
only the calamity Shin Yuseung, pinned under my foot.
"Ah! Sorry~ Are you okay?"
I asked Shin Yuseung that while moving my foot away, and at the same time, Shin Yuseung attacked me, but
"Yop!"
"Keugh!"
I lightly dodged that attack and then struck Shin Yuseung's head with a hand chop at about 190 strength level, causing Shin Yuseung to vomit blood and fall face-down on the ground.
"Cough... keh... cough... ugh... what the... just a hand chop... why is it so... strong?"
After holding his head in pain for a while, Shin Yuseung finally came to his senses and tried to quickly distance himself from me, but
"Aigoo~ Yuseung, is this tag now?"
"What!? When did you—!?"
With Wind Path Raphael activated, my speed was incomparable, and Shin Yuseung, caught up in an instant, was slammed into the ground.
"So... is this it? They said you're the strongest among the five calamities... but is this all you've got?"
At my provocation, Shin Yuseung slowly got up, glared at me while grinding his teeth, then smiled as if he had a good idea and said,
"Indeed, you're incredibly strong compared to other incarnations.... Even so...."
—Grrrrr!!!!!!
—Kwaaaang!!!!
Numerous flying species, estimated to be around grade 6 to 7, began emerging from a monster gate that opened in the air, and their numbers seemed to be at least in the hundreds.
"Can you really defeat this many monsters?.... Tear him apart!"
Upon hearing their master's command, the numerous flying species simultaneously descended towards me, baring their teeth, but
"How pathetic... to think those trash mobs are the monsters you can summon.... Really, it's so pathetic I want to die...."
"What?.... What's that—"
Fwoooooosh!!!!!
The flames of a colossal black dragon, amplified by the Black Flame Half-Gauntlet, shot up into the sky, and the flying species descending towards me were burned so fiercely beyond even that, turning to ashes and scattering into the air.
"Haam... is that it?"
Grind....
Seeing hundreds of his flying species turn to ashes and scatter before his eyes in an instant, Shin Yuseung ground his teeth while glaring at me and asked,
"What the hell are you?.... I don't remember seeing a strong person like you in the world line of the 41st regression.... Tell me... what the hell are you!?"
At Shin Yuseung's question, I shrugged and, right in front of him, casually stretched my body and said,
"If you want to know, 1 million coins."
"....Huh?... Seriously?.... Are you joking now?"
"So what? If you don't like it, defeat me and ask.... Well...."
[The exclusive skill Wind Path LV 4 is activated.]
[The exclusive skill White Cloud Fierce Energy LV 7 is activated.]
[The exclusive skill Blade Dance LV 7 is activated.]
"But the chance of you beating me is 0%...."
I lost.....
"Haam~ I thought it would at least be a warm-up... but it's not even a warm-up?.... Really... below expectations...."
And so miserably, so utterly miserably, that it was questionable whether it was even a fight from the start, I was defeated so wretchedly.
"Come at me.... with all your strength, prepared to die, without holding back.... Well... can you even come at me?"
The man said that to me and then sat down next to me.
[Many constellations are astonished by the overwhelming difference in skill.]
[The constellation 'First Sword of Goryeo' admires the incarnation's swordsmanship skills.]
[The constellation 'Prisoner of the Golden Headband' giggles and pulls out his hair.]
[The constellation 'Secretive Plotter' looks at you with complicated eyes.]
[The constellation 'Demon-like Judge of Fire' feels sympathy for you.]
[The constellation 'Black Flame Dragon of the Abyss' says it's already over and finds it boring.]
[The constellation 'Walker of Boundaries' looks at you with pitying eyes.]
I barely managed to turn my head and glare at the man.
I had been overwhelmingly defeated by that man who sat calmly next to me, a calamity.
He slashed me with beautiful sword strikes as if dancing,
dodged all my attacks with incredible speed like a gale,
calmly withstood my Beast King's Breath with toughness like steel,
and turned all the monsters trying to attack him with numerous flames shot from an overwhelming magical power like the deep sea into ashes.
He's strong....
With my current self.... no... with myself, there was a massive, solid, and powerful wall that I could never overcome.
'Can I... defeat that...?'
I quietly glared at that wall... at that man.
"What? Want to come at me again?"
At the man's words, as if humoring a child's play, I felt anger welling up in that moment, but the man looked at me with sympathetic eyes.
'Why... why are you looking at me with those eyes... why are you looking at me like that!? Why are you looking at me with sympathetic eyes!? Why the hell!?'
The words 'Don't give me that pathetic sympathy!!' surged up to my throat.
But at the man's following words, the words that had surged to my throat vanished vainly.
"Let me tell you in advance, in the 41st regression, I don't know what kind of hell you went through... all I know is... that at the end of that regression, you wandered the labyrinth of the world line for 1000 years.... It must have been hard... painful... and agonizing... you must have been alone and lonely for such a long time that everything became meaningless, right?.... Of course, comfort from a guy like me who knows nothing... would have no value to you....."
Each of the man's words began to dig deep into my heart, and every time I listened to the man's story, it felt as if something heavy accumulated deep in my heart was gradually disappearing.
"....Shin Yuseung.... it might sound like deception... it might be a story you don't want... or an action you don't desire...."
Then the man got up from his seat and looked around.
Before I knew it, many people had gathered around, and they were looking at the man, waiting for him to speak.
The man looked at those people, then saw a man in a white coat with a face seemingly shrouded in pale mist walking from afar, supporting the captain whose face was swollen, and upon seeing that, the man turned to look at me and declared to everyone here,
"I will not kill the calamity.... Of course, there will be those dissatisfied with my actions, so those who are dissatisfied with this, raise your hands...."
Immediately, the man's right arm grew as large as a giant's right arm, and the man swung it around while saying,
"I'll beat you to death until you accept it...."
At that declaration, no one raised their hand.