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Chapter 304
An Overwhelmingly Large Part
Gokma.
The largest lump of harm Godwin left behind, and the man who serves as the backbone of the demon remnants.
And the man who must be killed first.
Right now, it couldn't be any worse.
Having drawn out all his mana on top of internal injuries, with rampage after rampage, Ferda's mind was in a state of exhaustion.
Ē n u m a. i d̀
Ferda had reached a true limit where he could no longer muster any strength.
In such a situation, the demon leader appeared before his eyes, yet no hostility, nothing, boiled up.
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Ruri quietly entered a combat-ready stance.
Prepared to sacrifice herself, accepting fatal wounds if necessary, just to make Ferda escape.
Both of them, naturally thinking reinforcements had arrived, found Gokma's behavior strange.
He didn't say a single word.
Е n̄.u m̄а
He merely glanced around like a spectator.
As if trying to grasp the situation.
Gokma's expression grew increasingly cold.
The demons who had thought reinforcements came tensed up along with him.
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"Gokma-nim, we followed Bershmuts-nim—."
Gokma snapped his fingers at the head of the man making excuses.
Ẃ еb_n̆ о̆ v.ѐ l̊ Е n̊ ūm̂ à
Pang!
A head bursting like a watermelon.
At the message not to make useless excuses, they shut their mouths.
But Gokma's target moved to the man right next to him.
He repeated the exact same action on the man beside him.
Pang!
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What settled in was bewilderment.
Pang!
Only then did they understand.
From the moment Gokma arrived here, he never intended to let them live.
Realizing that fact, they tried to hurriedly leave.
But Gokma's magic wasn't soft enough to be avoided with such petty tricks.
Еnü m̂ a .іd
He left no room, slaughtering every last one of his own kin.
His massacre stopped only when Ferda, Ruri, and Gokma were the three left.
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"...What the hell are you doing?"
Ferda asked.
For both Ferda and Ruri, that action was incomprehensible.
Why did he kill his own remaining kin instead of cooperating with them?
Е̃num а.. i̊ d
Gokma's answer was simple.
"The command I gave them was very simple."
He rolled his fingers, speaking slowly and calmly.
"You lot, wait there quietly on standby. That was it. Standby. If they knew the meaning of that word, everyone would know it meant to stay put inside the World Tree. But what did they do? They attacked your father. A dog that doesn't listen deserves to be boiled, doesn't it?"
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It wasn't that they killed Ferda's father that was the problem—it was that they disobeyed his command.
"So you're saying the current situation... has nothing to do with you?"
Ẽ n̂uḿ a
It felt like a pathetic attempt to cut ties.
He laughed at Ferda's words.
"There is a connection. As long as I'm a demon, the relationship between you and me cannot be severed, now can it?"
His gaze looked remarkably friendly.
Ferda didn't like that gaze one bit.
"Don't look at me with those eyes... wide open like that."
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Ferda growled.
With his emotions exhausted, his expression only showed a half-hearted anger.
"Why are you so angry?"
"That... you're asking because you don't know?"
"The Rosnova family was a nightmare for you, wasn't it? Even if Bershmuts acted on his own, they were people who denied your existence since before you came of age."
"You bastards... stole my future."
Е̄ǹ um а̃.іd
Ferda screamed as if in anguish.
"Whether they apologized to me, or I proposed reconciliation, or I poured out curses and swears...!! You bastards took that away!!"
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Even at Ferda's emotional appeal, Gokma didn't waver.
Absolute reason understood it.
"I see... what bound you was a trivial opportunity. Then getting rid of it was the answer, wasn't it."
Even speaking so lightly grated on Ferda's nerves.
Ė n̄ ü m а
He wished that power would descend upon his body once more.
Even if he died, if he could take that bastard with him!
"Even so, the fact that he acted on his own doesn't change. This isn't fair."
He held up his index finger.
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"So I'll give you one necessary fact."
Like I'd be curious about that shit.
W̊ е́ b̌ n о v̀е̊ l̀ Ѐ nû m̈а.
Before the words could even leave Ferda's mouth, he spoke.
"I'm a demon, yet my skin is pure white. Haven't many speculated about what I did to achieve that?"
In reality, he had the heteromorphic appearance of a demon with white skin.
Erica speculated that Gokma's white skin was likely a side effect from altering demonic power.
But there were no traces to prove it, so it was merely a possibility.
"The answer to that isn't far. Pure White is a power only He possesses."
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White permitted to only one.
Ferda speaks that name.
"Blancaros...?"
The Lord of Order and Birth, Blancaros.
"Yes. I received Blancaros-nim's blood and underwent the second Ascension Ritual."
Blancaros joined hands with demons?
É n̊ümа̀ . і d
Or do demons move according to Blancaros's will?
All sorts of speculations ran wild.
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"Why?"
He finally asks him.
In Ferda's state, he didn't even have the strength to think for himself.
He answered very simply.
Ӗ n̊ uḿ ā .і̃d̊
"Because I am Blancaros-nim's conscience."
Blancaros's Spawns number three.
Hand, Mouth, and Eye—that was all.
Yet here he is introducing himself as conscience.
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"That's bullshit..."
But looking at the current situation, it couldn't be dismissed as impossible.
Ẁ е̇ bn̊о̌ ṽê l .E.n ûm̌ а
Even if he wasn't the conscience, he could be entangled with Blancaros.
An unprecedented gathering of dragons.
An unprecedented demon intervention.
An unprecedented neglect.
If he had been in cahoots with Blancaros from the start, things clicked into place to some extent.
The thought that he was approaching the truth became fuel, bubbling up in Ferda's heart.
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It felt like tears of blood would pour out again.
"Save that emotion for later. The place to face our conclusion isn't a trivial spot like this."
That made the heat rise even more.
A rebellious spirit refusing to dance to his tune stimulated Ferda.
Gokma opened a rift again, just like that.
He tries to disappear.
Ѐnúm a
"Don't run!"
Ferda shouted his throat raw.
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"You son of a bitch! Come here and fight me right now! Let's fight until one of us dies!!"
"Ferda-nim!"
Ferda trying to lunge forward, and Ruri grabbing and stopping him.
Gokma looked back at Ferda one last time.
Ë nům̈ а̇ .і̊ d̈
Gazing at his face, Gokma left his final words.
"In the end, you were just a single human, Ferda Rosnova."
And with that, he vanished.
As he disappeared, Ruri's voice was pleading with Ferda.
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"Not now. Ferda-nim... please, I beg you, don't lose your reason."
The voice filled with excitement gradually calmed as Gokma vanished.
En ūm̀ ǎ .і̃ d̃
The boiling heat cooled once more, and Ferda felt that recoil again.
Ferda lowered his gaze to the floor.
The floor was full of water droplet marks.
Is it trying to rain?
No.
The sky was indifferently clear.
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They were transparent tears flowing from his two eyes.
Tears had been falling for a long time.
Probably since before Gokma said you're only human.
"Ferda-nim..."
Seeing Ferda's state, Ruri made a sad expression.
Not wanting to show his face to her, he curled his body up even tighter.
Wӗb̃ n̄õ v el Еn u ṁа_
Eremvalt Rosnova is a stranger.
In the future that hasn't happened yet, he half-killed Ferda and drove him out.
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To Ferda, he was a father no different from trash.
But even so, he was his father.
For 18 years of life, he lived calling him father.
And
W̆е̄b̃ n̊o v е̄ l̈ È n̆ ù m̂ а̄
Today, his father died.
Family disappeared.
The house crumbled.
"Keuheup..."
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A part of Ferda cruelly vanished.
"Keuheuheuk..."
Ẅе̌b̃ ǹ о̀ v̌е̂l Ӗ n̄um а
There was no reason to hold back the overflowing emotions.
Ferda finally let it all out.
* * *
Ruri entered the Lonely Mountain and gave a return report to Valdrova.
"Ruri, you're back?"
Valdrova's face was lively and beaming.
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Today she had a meeting with her friend Ludmilla.
"Yes, I've returned."
"You know, today. I heard a funny story from Mila. It goes like this..."
Valdrova's words gradually trailed off.
Ruri, realizing it belatedly, focused on Valdrova's words.
"Please speak."
W eb ṅ о̀v̄ еl̀ Ēn̊ ù ṁ а
"Never mind, thinking about it a bit more, this story seems kinda pointless so I won't tell it."
Valdrova changed the subject.
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"Come to think of it, you went with Ferda-ssi, right? If Ferda-ssi's back, should I go see him?"
"Ferda-nim is..."
Ruri's words momentarily cut off.
"Ruri?"
Eňû må . i d
"...Ferda-nim went to Blancaros-nim's mansion."
"To Blancaros? Why?"
Valdrova's expression gradually lost its smile.
"Did something happen to Ferda-ssi?"
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"..."
Valdrova asks, but Ruri couldn't answer.
W ė bǹö v е l̇ Еnū m а
Ferda had told her not to speak of today's events.
That was also a word spoken out of concern for Valdrova.
Ferda only ever wished she wouldn't have a hard time because of his business.
"Answer me."
Valdrova said that.
The person who usually only said it's okay not to speak asked Ruri a favor.
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Ruri is Valdrova's attendant.
She couldn't not answer.
"The people of the Rosnova family were massacred."
"Rosnova family... then Ferda-ssi's...?"
Valdrova also received no small shock.
Ruri inwardly regretted it.
W ё b n̆о̆ v́ě l Е̂ n ūm̈ а̇
The sight of her losing her smile and just fidgeting with her dress pained Ruri.
"Ferda-ssi..."
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Valdrova finally shed tears.
"Ferda-ssi... must be having a really hard time."
"Not particularly."
Ruri replied in a dry tone.
W̌e b̌ n̂ öv̀е l̊ Е̊ n û m̈ӑ
Valdrova lifted her head.
"I... see?"
"Yes. Those people treated Ferda-nim as a headache early on, even holding rituals wishing for his death. What reason would Ferda-nim have to feel affection for such people?"
"There... was such a thing."
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"Yes. So after cleaning up all the demons... we're on our way back."
She ended up lying without batting an eye.
Еñ um̊ а
Valdrova wore a dubious expression.
She was sharp, so she probably already knew that wasn't it.
But she didn't press further and closed her mouth, so Ruri didn't answer beyond that either.
Guilt weighs on her.
She wanted to run away right now.
"I'll take my leave now. There's something I need to do..."
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"...Yeah, go rest."
Ruri slipped out the heavy iron door as if fleeing.
Walking a few steps outside, she eventually leaned against a wall and slid down.
'Ferda...'
She recalls the image drawn by those three letters.
A weirdo who showed a bit of psycho tendencies, seemed to like getting hit.
Ẃе̂.b̃ňô v̈е̊l Е n u̇ m̊ ӑ
But even that appearance was just a happening that occurred because she was immature.
He was a superhuman on a white horse.
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He changed the neglected Far East, and successfully built a village where humans could live at the mountain's foot.
He succeeded in exploring the Devil's Land that was said to be impossible to pioneer.
Not just the Empire, but outsiders acknowledging Ferda increased.
He wasn't negligent toward Valdrova, his future partner, either.
Ẽn̈ ùmà. і̇ d̈
He gave her a sense of stability Ruri could never give.
He made her a friend.
Days she laughed increased.
He was strict with himself.
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He never showed exhaustion toward the increasing workload that came with change.
He consulted on what he didn't know, clearly weighed gains and losses, and pushed forward with conviction on what he was sure of.
Ẅе̄ bnӧ v̇ е l̂ Е́ n̈ ŭ ma
He lived a regular life, was stricter with himself than others, becoming a model for all nobles.
Ruri saw the moment that superhuman collapsed.
Twice, even.
The first time, abandoned by family. The second time, lost family.
She saw the moments where the word 'human' fit best—only when he was with Valdrova.
Ruri had told Ferda.
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As Valdrova's attendant, she would not tolerate weakness.
Filtering out people unworthy of a dragon was precisely her job.
Ferda is weak, a human who will collapse someday.
But that wasn't a problem.
Thinking of what he'd built, she thought it could happen and let it pass.
What she feared was separate.
W.е b̀ nov̀ e l Е̄ ṅ ũm̈ à
Ruri remembered vividly.
When Ferda shed tears of blood and poured out curses, the form he created.
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It wasn't simply becoming a giant.
'Dragon.'
It was unmistakably the overwhelming presence, the Dragon Fear, that only a dragon could create.
Ruri was also unusually someone who could wield Dragon Fear.
Е n̈ ú m а. іd̊
But since she was a dragon spawn, it wasn't completely impossible.
But Ferda is human.
Humans and dragon spawns might as well be different species.
'That too, I guess could happen.'
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She could think his mental limit caused that delusion.
But the overwhelming presence she felt while being grabbed kept forming into a three-syllable name.
Ėn̂ ûm̂_а..і́ d
'Godwin.'
An existence whose overwhelming presence her instincts named Godwin, though she'd never seen or experienced him once.
Godwin is the continent's public enemy.
Valdrova's greatest enemy, killed by her hands, and ultimately the largest part of her tragedy.
He told Ruri.
If the day comes he harms Valdrova, please stop him.
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'If that day comes, I...'
What would Ruri do?
She didn't want to imagine.
The name Ferda had become far too large a part of Ruri.
* * *
Ferda used warp magic to throw his body toward the White House.
Е̌n̊ üm_ă
His internal injuries weren't healed yet, using 4th-circle magic was practically suicide.
It was a reckless act, but Ferda didn't care.
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He already knew he wouldn't die from that much.
"Huu... huu..."
Ferda took deep breaths on the spot and raised his head.
The White House is visible.
W_е b̊n о̌vе̂ l̆ Еn̊ u m̀å
He walked toward it.
Walking a bit further, someone flew from the White House.
Blancaros's Hand, in charge of reception.
He greeted politely and spoke.
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"Greetings, Regent-nim. What business brings you here?"
Ferda answered.
Е̊ nu̇m̆а
"Go to your master and tell him I want to discuss your conscience."
