I’m Going to Destroy this Country

Survival Origin.

Right, trusting this thing has never caused harm. Rather, it’s not an exaggeration to say I became the Demon King and survived all kinds of crises thanks to it.

Moreover, now that I’ve become human and can use 100% of the power of survival, it should exert power incomparable to when I was the Skeleton King.

I’ll need this power when dealing with gods and the Pope.

Yes…

So I trust it…

Flash flash flash flash!

‘Aaaaargh! But still, this isn’t right!’

Isaac rolled around clutching Melissa’s flashing diary.

He tried to move it away slightly, wondering if it might not be the diary but some other object, but-

Flaaaaaaaaash!

As if to say there’s no way, the diary emitted a majestic light.

In the end, when Isaac banged his head against the wall, Shuri looked at him very strangely.

“That’s what you brought from the Imperial Palace, right? I’ve been curious about it but you never show it. What kind of book is it? Let me see too…”

“No!”

Isaac finally ran away with the diary.

‘Damn. It’s painful enough to read, you think I’d show it to others too?’

He headed straight for Eshua’s library. It was an area only the family head could use. He had been given special permission.

“Whew, no one will come here. Since I’m only going to read it once, a place where I can do research at the same time would be good.”

As Isaac took out the book, Whisper twitched as if excited.

[Hehehe, are you finally going to read it?]

Shut up, I’ll rip your mouth.

As he turned the cover, the wild colt-like light that had been going crazy finally calmed down smoothly.

And when he opened the first page, familiar handwriting appeared.

-I, Melissa Eshua, the 81st Saintess, swear to carry on the will of my predecessors and eliminate the Skeleton King.

What oath, you couldn’t kill me.

-I’m different from my weak-hearted predecessors. As the blood of dragons, not humans, I will surely crush that evil baldy.

You failed!

You couldn’t crush that evil baldy!

-I met the Skeleton King I had only heard about for the first time. As I heard, he was a petty, ugly, smelly skull.

Damn it, if I smell, don’t come!

Why do you stubbornly keep coming to catch me!

‘Moreover, how old was this kid when she first came to meet me?’

[Looking at the handwriting, it seems she started writing from a very young age.]

Well, come to think of it, Melissa was quite young when she first met him. Not as young as an 11-year-old Saintess, but about 13?

But considering that half-dragons grow rapidly to a teenage appearance in 5 years and then age very slowly, she might have been much younger than she looked.

-Damn it, I couldn’t settle things with that worm-like Skeleton King today either.

Well, as you go to later pages, the handwriting gradually becomes more adult-like.

At the same time, Isaac was greatly relieved.

‘Whew. At this level, there’s nothing to worry about.’

Just looking at the beginning, I can tell Melissa’s anger well. And how much she hated me too.

‘I have to face Melissa from now on, what if it turned out to be the same as the other Saints? Do you know how embarrassing that would be!’

But fortunately, it didn’t seem like the part I was worried about would come out.

Yes, really fortunate…

-Unexpectedly, he had some good points.

Huh?

-He said his name was Isaak. Somehow his name keeps sticking in my mind.

Huuh??

-I wonder what Isaak is thinking. Suddenly I’m curious about his thoughts.

No, wait a minute?!

-I thought he was just a dirty skeleton, but it seems he has some cool aspects too.

Hey!!!

Wait, wait, wait wait!

This shouldn’t happen! Hey!!!

You idiot, don’t take a liking to him! Hey, he’s the Skeleton King worm! He’s trash!

Isaac screamed, but Whisper snickered as if he knew this would happen.

[Puhub, as expected, she’s starting to take a liking to Master.]

No way! This is… right, I mean it’s that!

It’s that effect where a bad guy does one good deed and people see him differently! Just curiosity!

-Isaak called my name for the first time. I still can’t forget his voice.

Aaaaargh, damn it!!!

She finally crossed the river… No! No! There’s still hope! This is, you know, being unable to forget because it’s amazing that a skeleton spoke…

-I keep thinking about what Isaak is doing now. I wonder if he thinks about me a little when I’m not around?

Aaaaargh!!!

No! Don’t go down that path!

-I like Isaak. Even now, I want to see him.

Isaac finally collapsed with a feeling of coughing up blood.

Thud!

“Kuhuruk huruk kuruhuruk huruk. (Damn it… Even you Melissa, betraying me…?)”

At the sight of his master seeming to lose his soul, Whisper was dying of laughter.

[You have to keep reading, the information you’re curious about hasn’t come out yet, has it?]

Isaac staggered as if coughing up blood.

‘I don’t… need it! This is enough now!’

[Huh? Are you okay? Didn’t you say you sensed a crisis for Master in Leia’s letter?]

Because the Survival Origin is visible only to Isaac’s eyes, Whisper doesn’t know much about this. He just judges that the crisis his master senses is 100% certain.

[Isn’t the answer to that in Saintess Melissa’s diary?]

At the words that he should read to the end, Isaac coughed up blood.

Forget it. For a manly man, that little danger! I don’t need to foresee it! I’ll just face it head on! When the time comes, I’ll deal with it physically!

[Master, didn’t you say only perverted paladins deal with things physically?]

Forget it!!! I’m a person from a paladin family now!!

If push comes to shove, I’ll also… Huh?

Flash!

What’s this?

When Isaac just declared I’d rather die, the survival light suddenly started flashing on a specific page… What’s going on?!

Flames shot out of Isaac’s mouth.

‘You bastard, you could choose which page to point out?!’

You should have told me earlier, you jerk!

I lost my eyes!

‘I didn’t want to know things like my grandmother’s first love being me!’

Isaac clutched the diary with trembling hands. He quickly turned the pages. The shining page was about halfway through.

-I had a chance to kill Isaak, but in the end I couldn’t. He was in the middle of saving a human child. In the midst of a battlefield created by the gods. When everyone was frantically searching only for demons, he alone was saving a child that the gods and we should have protected.

Isaac sighed as if remembering at those words.

Ah, come to think of it, there was that time.

When the god’s angels invaded, humans got caught up in the fight. I think it was a nomadic tribe, a father and son were being sucked into liquefied ground.

It was a place that had turned into a land of death, with the overwhelming power of gods and demonic energy mixed together. A land where humans absolutely couldn’t survive.

Anyway, if it was then, it’s true it was a chance to kill me. Because it was a place where I couldn’t use my power due to the strong divine energy.

If Melissa’s attack had come there, I would have been annihilated.

-The gods said. Because you missed a golden opportunity, the Skeleton King survived. That you should have killed him while he was showing mercy to that human father and son.

-That because of your one action, countless lives in the future died. That because of you, they couldn’t punish evil. Do you know who raised you while enduring losses?

-Who is the real evil? Who really trampled on human land…

…

-Another opportunity came. I couldn’t kill him this time either. No, I couldn’t kill him. I question the gods.

…

-Oh God, is the Skeleton King really someone who must die? Is he truly an evil that shouldn’t exist?

…

-Isaak suddenly disappeared. The gods said that because you foolishly couldn’t deal with the Skeleton King, they are trying to deal with him directly.

…

-…I hope Isaak survives. Now I just wish he was alive.

…

-Isaak returned after 70 years. But he disappeared after cursing Eshua. They say many children of Eshua died because of that curse.

-God’s protection has disappeared. Is this all the price for me doubting God? Will God forgive me only if I deal with the Skeleton King?

-Everything is my sin and punishment. In the end, I gained the Saintess’s power by eating my father according to custom, but I failed to fulfill my responsibility as a Saintess. Eshua’s suffering is all my responsibility…

At this, Whisper clicked his tongue.

[Tsk, those god bastards. They really went too far.]

‘Well, that’s how they are.’

[Could it have been the Blue god who tormented her?]

‘No, the gods mentioned here are more likely to be the Gold gods. Because she would have met the Pope.’

[Still, Master, you’re not coughing up blood anymore?]

‘How could I? The love has ended.’

Isaac pointed to the diary, raising his nose proudly as if to show off.

-Eshua asked me to come back again, but I can’t believe it. I can’t believe Isaak left such a cruel curse on humans and disappeared. It’s unbelievable. It’s hopeless.

Whew. Yes! Finally this embarrassing love story is over!

It’s fortunate that her affection and obsession cooled down thanks to the fake Skeleton King.

With this, Melissa will also come to her senses…

-I will find him. I will definitely find him again and confirm his feelings.

What, man?!!

-I will chase him to the ends of hell, grab him by the collar and confirm his true feelings!! I will confirm and put things back!

No, what are you putting back!

Why is the obsession developing in a strange direction?!!

Just forget it!

[First loves usually last a lifetime. Puhehehehe.]

Won’t you shut up?!

But Isaac gritted his teeth while tilting his head. While other parts were one thing, there was a part that particularly bothered him.

-In the end, I gained the Saintess’s power by eating my father according to custom…

I understand gaining the Saintess’s power.

For good reason, Saints underwent a formal enthronement ceremony when they became 9th rank. In that ceremony, they received power from God and awakened, gaining superhuman power that could kill the Skeleton King.

Then a 9th rank Saintess would gain 10th rank power, finally having the strength to fight the 10th rank Skeleton King.

Just as the Pope has divine technique to summon gods, that also boasted tremendous power as the Saint’s ultimate technique. By the time of Melissa, the last Saintess, even I would think ‘oops’.

‘But what does ‘eating my father’ mean?’

[Wow, these priest bastards, don’t tell me human flesh?!]

‘There’s no way. It means something else.’

Isaac chuckled.

It’s intuition, but I’m convinced this is what those petty Pope’s family bastards are aiming for.

‘I have a guess, but I should properly confirm with Grandpa.’

If my guess is right, I’ll have a trick to outwit those bastards.

But it was then.

[Aaah, Master! Let’s read the last page too! Hehehehehe.]

Whisper drooled towards the last page and laughed like a pervert.

[This this, they say first loves are never forgotten, so if your identity is revealed it’ll be just… Puhehehehe! Aren’t you curious? Hurry and read it!]

Damn it, I won’t read it! You brat!