BXBX NOVEL Chapter 254 - Halcyon (1)
He screamed in pain.
It was unfair.
He couldn’t handle the emotions he was feeling at the moment.
‘Why.’
Balrog was someone who had reported everything. Why hadn’t he reported that?
“Why… why…?”
He began feeling anger, resentment, and confusion toward Balrog.
“Do you think that appearance is disgusting?”
[Of course. There’s no way there’s a more disgusting demonic monster than that.] Balrog answered without hesitation.
KangWoo fell into trouble.
He began thinking that maybe he was under an illusion, so he used the Authority of Resistance, but the beauty of Halcyon was still blinding.
‘Fuck.’
He remembered what Lilith had said.
She’d said she couldn’t understand human beauty standards, but she didn’t find them disgusting.
‘But…’
He looked at Halcyon.
She had the perfect balance of human and demon.
It was the seductive appearance of a succubus that often appeared in manhwa.
‘Although she’s flat-chested…’
Who cared?
For example, Echidna was also flat, like a wasteland.
“Do you find how humans look disgusting…?”
If he found Halcyon disgusting, he should’ve found how humans looked disgusting.
[No. I can’t differentiate what humans are beautiful, but I don’t find them disgusting.]
“Then it doesn’t make sense.”
He became even more confused.
“Then why does Halcyon…?”
[Isn’t that horrible life-form ‘mixed’?]
“…”
Flames finally sparked in KangWoo’s head.
“Ah.”
He finally understood.
‘If how a demon looks at a human being is like how we look at fish…’
From a demon’s point of view, Halcyon was as if a demon had been fused with a fish.
Imagine if there was a creature with the head of a fish and the body of a human.
Of course, it’s true that, from a human point of view, it didn’t matter how it was mixed—it probably wouldn’t be as disgusting as a demon found it.
They weren’t human—their values and standards were different from people’s.
‘No.’
He more or less understood what happened.
He understood that, from a demon’s point of view, a ‘mixed’ life form could look as disgusting as a creature with tentacles that oozed yellow pus.
But…
But still…
Even if he understood…
“Fuck…”
He couldn’t help but find the situation unfair.
How was it different from having spent 30 years in prison for them to free you and say, ‘oops, it seems you were innocent all along’?
The only difference was that, instead of 30 years, he’d spent ten thousand years in prison.
‘Yes. Let’s say that there’s nothing I could’ve done for the first nine thousand years…’
If Balrog had made the proper report, he could’ve spent at least 900 years with someone with such blinding beauty as Halcyon.
“Sniff.”
He couldn’t help but cry.
It was unfair.
He remembered all the nights he’d struggled with Lilith.
‘If I knew there was a demonic monster as pretty as Halcyon…’
Of course, that didn’t mean he would’ve tried to forcibly put his hands on Halcyon.
In the first place, Halcyon was too strong, and secondly, he would never put his hands on someone just to satisfy his needs.
But still…
‘I could’ve at least tried to make her an ally.’
At that moment, he didn’t feel he needed an ally.
Just seeing her from a distance would’ve been enough to make him shed tears of happiness.
[As expected, it seems like you also have difficulty facing that disgusting demonic monster.]
“No…”
[I’ll…! Ugh! F-for the Demon King…!]
“I said ‘no’, you motherfucker…”
“Ugh, BLEH!!]
Balrog’s puked out everything he had inside.
He was a demon who didn’t need to eat, so instead of vomiting, a black, sticky liquid came out of his mouth.
“Ah…”
KangWoo grabbed his hair.
“Fuck my life.”
It was something that was in the past already.
Even if he found it unfair, he couldn’t turn back time.
He couldn’t change the past.
“Sniff…”
He looked at Halcyon, who was bent down and crying.
It wasn’t the time to think about if Halcyon was beautiful or not.
‘Why is she crying?’
He couldn’t understand it.
KangWoo slowly walked toward her.
He heard her mumbling something.
“Sniff… Y-you…”
She looked at KangWoo.
“Wh-who are you?”
“…”
She shook as if she were scared.
There were tears in her eyes, and her body was trembling.
‘What?’
She was completely different from his image of an ancient demonic monster.
KangWoo narrowed his eyes.
He wasn’t sure how he should react.
“Ah, I… I understand. Y-you’re also trying to m-molest me, right?”
Halcyon’s voice trembled.
She slowly got up.
* * *
A dark-red demonic energy came out of her.
‘What’s up with her?’
He frowned.
He couldn’t understand Halcyon’s reaction.
“S-sniff. Wh-why are you trying to h-harass me? I… I’m scared.”
‘Right now, you look scarier.’
“I… I don’t know where I… I am. E-everyone is trying to h-harass me.”
‘Does she really have intelligence?’
He heard that ancient demonic monsters had intelligence, but it was hard to say that of Halcyon.
‘Should I see if I can talk with her?’
KangWoo opened his mouth and spoke in a low voice.
‘Are you Halcyon?’
“Huh…? D-do you know me?”
“I’ve heard a lot about you.”
It seemed like he could talk with her.
“Y-you’re also trying to harass m-me, right? E-everyone hates me, anyways. Th-that’s probably what you want. Y-you’re going to bother me.”
No.
‘It’s impossible to talk with her.’
KangWoo laughed in disbelief and looked at Halcyon.
It was as if he were looking at someone with a victim complex.
Her reaction made him think what they said about ancient demonic monsters having a mind was a lie.
“Sniff. E-everyone is too m-mean. I… I didn’t do anything wrong.”
She shed tears.
“It… it isn’t like I… I wanted to l-look like this.”
Halcyon shook while crying.
Her eyes started to turn white, and grotesque tendons became visible around them.
Her white hair began floating, and…
BOOM-!!
She stomped on the ground and sent the earth flying.
Halcyon’s body shot toward KangWoo in the blink of an eye.
“Why… is everyone?!!”
She raised her arms and extended red claws toward KangWoo’s neck.
“Tsk.”
Paf-!
He raised his leg and kicked Halcyon’s stomach.
BOOM-!!
She rolled a hundred meters away and stood up again, swinging her claws upward.
A dark-red demonic energy was shot toward him.
‘Authority of Defense.’
He raised a wall of demonic energy and blocked the attack, but her dark-red demonic energy tore the wall down, so he lowered his body and dodged the attacks.
“Wh-why is it that everyone hates me?!!”
Paf-!!
Halcyon flew hundreds of meters in less than a second and kicked KangWoo.
He bounced away into the ground.
He felt like he’d been kicked by something weighing a couple of tons.
“…”
KangWoo narrowed his eyes as black blood spurted from his mouth.
‘Even if she looks like that…’
An ancient demonic monster was an ancient demonic monster.
Her physical specs couldn’t be compared to an archduke’s.
“Good.”
The ends of his mouth went up.
It wouldn’t have been that fun if Halcyon didn’t look like a frail girl.
‘Now…’
He finally believed her to be a monster.
KangWoo lowered his body.
Halcyon rushed toward him and swung her claws.
“Sky Break.”
He pulled his right arm back, took a step forward with his left leg, and swung his fist.
A huge amount of demonic energy clashed.
A huge, 30-meter crater formed as dirt and stone went flying.
It was as if mythological giants were clashing.
BOOM-!
The forest was nowhere to be seen anymore, and it was as if it had been struck by an earthquake
“Haa, haa, haa!”
Halcyon flew while breathing heavily.
KangWoo followed her and reached toward her.
She was trying to fly away, so KangWoo grabbed her leg and smashed her into the ground.
“Cough!”
With a huge explosion, screaming came out of Halcyon’s mouth.
– Tap, tap.
He walked toward her.
“H-how?”
Fear appeared on Halcyon’s face.
KangWoo walked toward her, a cold expression on his face.
The physical specs of an ancient demonic monster were clearly superior to those of an archduke, but…
If the target of comparison was him, it was another problem.
Halcyon probably had better physical specs than him, but he had an incredible amount of Authorities and an overwhelming amount of demonic energy.
“Well. It wasn’t bad.”
KangWoo looked at the wound he’d received from Halcyon.
The part that she had wounded wasn’t recovering.
‘Is it poison?’
There was no way to know.
KangWoo clicked his tongue while looking at the wound.
‘How bothersome.’
Crack. He tore down the part of his skin that Halcyon’s claws had hurt.
Black blood poured out, but that was only for a few moments.
As if one were looking at a video in reverse, his body started to regenerate.
“Wh-who a-are you?” Halcyon asked in a fearful voice.
Tears were falling from her eyes.
“Who knows?”
He had no reason to tell her.
KangWoo slowly raised his hands.
‘Authority of Flames.’
A fire that seemed like it would devour the entire world began gathering around his hand.
“Eek! S-sniff. I… I’m sorry. P-please don’t harass me. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
“…”
He had no intention of killing her—there were many things he wanted to ask her.
‘Seeing her current state…’
He wasn’t sure if it would be worth asking her a few things.
“Tsk, although her face is pretty…”
Who would’ve guessed that Halcyon was so crazy?
‘Still, this is better.’
He began thinking he was glad he hadn’t met Halcyon before.
“Yes…?”
Halcyon raised her head.
“I… I’m pretty?”
At that moment, tears began to drip from her eyes.
“Ah, ugh, aah.”
Halcyon touched her cheeks with her hands while trembling.
“H-he said I’m pretty.”
Her eyes looking at KangWoo became full of a chilling madness.
“I… I finally heard that I’m prettyy!!!”
Her hair began floating into the air.
“KYAHAHAHA!!!”
The ends of her mouth went up, and a burst of mad laughter came out of her mouth.
‘What the fuck?’
KangWoo looked at her in disbelief.
‘Why is she acting like this?’
A chilling sensation spread through his back.