I’m Going to Destroy this Country

Whisper continued reading the diary.

[Hehehe, ‘Isaak. Where are you, Isaak!’]

At that pervert-like recitation, veins popped on Isaac’s face.

‘Kid, won’t you stop reading?’

But Whisper didn’t stop reading the diary. He even imitated Melissa’s voice.

[‘Ah. Just once would be fine, let me see your face again!’]

‘Haa. This bastard, I’ll really annihilate…’

[‘I finally met Isaak who disappeared from the human world.’]

Huh? Who did she meet?

Isaac raised one eyebrow at the unexpected phrase.

‘Melissa met the Skeleton King?’

[‘It was very brief, but we talked.’]

I haven’t met any humans since going to the divine realm, who did she see?

[‘He didn’t recognize me. He was like a different person. Who are you?’]

Aha, so she met that fake Skeleton King bastard?

At the same time, Isaac snorted. Well, it’s praiseworthy that she noticed something suspicious about that fake, but no one would know. That the real Skeleton King is here…

[‘I met my youngest grandson. He said his name was Isaac.’]

Huuh?

[‘I only saw him through a crystal ball, but he’s such a lovely child.’]

…Wait, this is talking about me, right?

He flinched because his name came up, but it didn’t matter. After all, unlike intelligent magicians like himself, Melissa is one of those muscle-brained idiot paladins.

‘There’s no way she could know my identity anyway…’

[‘Isaak gives me a nostalgic feeling. As if I’m seeing Isaak.’]

“Aaaaargh!”

[‘It’s strange that he could survive by eating the Skeleton King’s flesh, but fortunate. No, rather he seems to have become healthier. As if he regained his own power…’]

“Aaaaargh!!”

[‘Could Isaac possibly be Isaak?’]

Stop it!

Isaac rolled around clutching his head.

‘Damn it, she was suspecting after all!’

No, before that, where was there even room for suspicion? How perfectly I acted as the cute grandson…

[‘His way of speaking to Shuri is very similar to Isaak’s.’]

Damn it, Shuri? Was that Shuri bastard the culprit?!

I just need to crush that bastard?!

[No, Master. The culprit is Master…]

‘No. It’s still okay! There’s no suspicious circumstance…’

[‘Maybe Isaak’s soul has taken residence in my youngest grandson’s body?’]

Isaac almost coughed up blood, pughh.

[Master, are you okay?]

‘I-I’m fine.’

Common sense-wise, does this seem like something that could happen? In the first place, even gods couldn’t do this…

[‘Knowing Isaak’s personality, he would have surely made a fuss when being sealed by the gods. Thanks to that, the seal might have gone wrong and he could have entered a different body.’]

Damn it! This kid, was she actually there?!

[Master, you’re sweating profusely?]

Isaac rarely had a pupil earthquake. What is this? If Melissa really noticed…?

-But such a thing can’t be possible. A Demon King entering a Saint’s body, it’s something that physically absolutely cannot exist.

Even if such a thing happened by chance, the body would be destroyed or the soul would be annihilated. They absolutely cannot coexist.

In the end, Isaac collapsed face down in relief. You really surprised this skeleton. Honestly, at this point this diary is a real Skeleton King exorcism book.

‘Damn those Blue family bastards.’

I don’t know who put me in this body, but I really won’t let them off.

It was right then.

Clunk.

“Isaac, were you studying?”

“!”

The Blue family head Elai entered the library. He seemed to have come to see his grandson, finding him admirable. As proof, he was holding a gift in his hand.

“These are letters I exchanged with the Pope when we were students long ago. They’ll help you figure out things like handwriting. And this is the history book of family heads… What? Why are you curled up like a turtle?”

“Grandpa.”

“?”

“I hate Grandpa.”

“…?”

Why suddenly?

But Isaac, kuhk, cursed the Blue family.

Right! Come to think of it, this is all because of grandfather and Melissa! If these two hadn’t married, this body wouldn’t have been born!

If that hadn’t happened…! I! I! By now I would have entered this body… and wouldn’t have suffered such humiliation…!

So Isaac, who had made up his mind, said:

“Isaac will become twisted.”

“…?”

Weren’t you already twisted?

“I’ll really become twisted!!!!”

“…??”

Why on earth???

Moreover, if you become twisted again from an already twisted state, wouldn’t that make you normal?

* * *

“So why are you saying you’ll become twisted?”

“…”

Why, you ask? I’m going to find the bastard who put me in this body and give them a punch.

Isaac looked at Elai with a twisted expression.

“Why did Grandpa get engaged to Grandma?”

The family head seemed exasperated. What is this kid asking?

“…Are you suddenly curious about that?”

Yes! Because I was born in this body because of you two! Who was it that gave this body the name in the first place?!

“There was no Saint in Eshua at the time. It was also the family’s decision, but I chased after her. The Pope wanted to match her with his own blood, but she refused.”

“Grandma…”

“Well, Melissa’s first love was probably the Skeleton King.”

Isaac almost coughed up blood. But Elai didn’t seem to think much of it.

“Saints themselves grew up like that. It can’t be helped. They’re born, learn about the Skeleton King their whole lives, and die being raised as weapons only to kill him.”

He was rather very curious about the Skeleton King.

“The Skeleton King was probably much more of a common sense person than we think.”

“!”

Elai said that although he had never actually seen the Skeleton King, he could roughly grasp his image as a ruler from the Saints’ testimonies and Eshua’s records of the Skeleton King.

“He must have been an outstanding ruler. If only he hadn’t been an enemy, I’d personally like to meet him.”

He’s already in front of your eyes, you know?

“Of course, that’s only up to 150 years ago. The current Skeleton King has become a psychopath.”

Damn it! That’s not me!

‘Ha, forget it.’

Still, thanks to seeing Melissa’s diary, I gained important information that will help with transcendent tier.

‘I should be able to reach transcendent tier by using the principle of Saint awakening.’

But to do that, I absolutely must confirm this.

“Grandpa. What does it mean that a ‘father’ is needed for Saint awakening?”

At that moment, the air turned ominous.

“Who did you hear that from?”

Elai’s gaze was unusual. His gaze of secretly adoring his grandson changed to wariness. For good reason, it was top secret information.

But Isaac rather flashed his eyes.

“I found out through my own investigation. So tell me. I’ll have to know anyway when I become family head.”

“…”

Above all, Isaac’s course of action will change depending on Elai’s answer. It could be the decisive key to make the Pope and gods eat shit.

In the end, Elai let out a light sigh.

“Fine. You’re already the person who will lead this family. It won’t hurt for you to know.”

“!”

“But you must absolutely never tell anyone. Not even Shuri or your uncles.”

Isaac nodded.

Elai’s explanation that began like that was quite shocking.

“10th rank is originally the realm of gods.”

Right, I know well. How did I reach 10th rank?

Actually, even 9th rank is amazing. The limit of humans is about 7th rank. Even at 8th rank, one can’t be considered a pure human anymore.

The Five Great Families are exceptions because they’re special bloodlines born with God’s blessing.

’10th rank would be about Demon King or Dragon Leader level.’

And how does one transcend that 9th rank realm.

“When potential Saints reach the minimum qualification of 9th rank, they undergo a formal awakening ceremony.”

Right, I was curious about that awakening ceremony. What on earth is it for the father story to come up, and for the Pope’s family to come out like this?

‘Well, my rough guess is that they kill the father to prove their qualification…’

“They offer the potential Saint’s blood relative as a living sacrifice to God.”

…Damn it, what?!

Isaac doubted his ears.

Living sacrifice?

Don’t tell me these bastards are talking about human sacrifice??

Soon Elai answered with an unpleasant expression.

“The principle is that when God eats the living sacrifice, he awakens the Saint with that power.”

Isaac was dumbfounded.

Are you using black magic, you bastards?!

And you call yourselves gods?

Even I don’t use humans as sacrifices!

No, more than that, was there such a technique? Isaac held his brow.

“Wait a moment. By blood relative, who…”

“Up to parents or siblings. Usually it’s the parents, unless the parents are dead and only siblings remain. In Eshua, when a girl is born, we must always tell the parents this fact.”

[Kya, so there’s almost no case of parents sacrificing their child?]

“Among those parents, the one with Eshua blood becomes the sacrifice. If I had a daughter, I would have become the sacrifice.”

At the same time, Isaac had an ‘aha’ moment. Because some figures came to mind.

‘The current potential Saintesses in Eshua are Leia and Kaya? Anyway, just those two.’

And their fathers are…

“Wait a moment. Then Benjamin uncle and Noel already know this rule?”

“Yes. They both already know. I told them when their daughters were born.”

“Then…!”

“Of course, we let them choose. After hearing that fact, it’s their choice whether to raise their daughter as a Saintess or marry her off. Well, there’s never been a case in Eshua’s history of not raising a daughter as a Saintess.”

It meant that not giving Saint education in a saintly family was foolish.

In other words, it means both Benjamin and Noel are prepared to become sacrifices themselves…

‘Noel? That bastard is trying to become a living sacrifice himself to make a Saintess?’

Are you kidding? That guy who was so greedy for the family head position is going to throw himself into the sacrificial waters?

‘Ah, is he planning to sacrifice his son since he has a child?’

Well, alright alright. Though it’s not certain, that’s more likely for that guy.

‘In Benjamin’s case, there’s also his other child Joseph, but… he’s absolutely not the type to sacrifice his child.’

Though Benjamin is strict about money matters as he’s in charge of Eshua’s finances, he’s a person very fitting for the Blue. He has a great sense of duty too.

In other words, it means Benjamin is prepared to become a living sacrifice himself to awaken Leia. Raising his daughter to the best of his ability until the time comes. Even knowing that the day his child comes of age is the day he dies.

At the same time, Isaac felt like all the puzzle pieces were fitting together.

‘So this is why Leia hid that she became 9th rank so much?’

Because she knew her father would become a sacrifice?

Isaac asked to confirm:

“Do Leia or Kaya know this fact?”

“The Saintesses don’t know. They find out after becoming formal Saintesses. Usually the one who becomes the sacrifice leaves a final letter for the Saintess.”

Well, if they knew, they would have run away saying they won’t become Saintesses. No matter how great their sense of duty, it’s common sense that it’s impossible to choose awakening while knowing they’re sacrificing their family.

‘Then Leia must have found out in advance through some opportunity.’

It’s an understandable part why she was so happy when I said I would eliminate Saints.

Of course, that’s not what’s important right now.

“Grandpa. You’re not thinking of sacrificing Uncle Benjamin, are you?”

“…”

At Elai’s silence, Isaac screamed internally.

Damn it! No, my source of money! He can’t die!!

‘Honestly, there’s no one in this family with better financial sense than Benjamin!’

Lilai is…! He has no self-interest, but he’s the type to completely fail if he manages money and does business!

The rest aren’t much different from Lilai, they’re Skeleton King idiots with rock bottom financial sense!

The only ones with some money sense are those of the Pope’s bloodline and Leia’s twin brother Joseph, but that guy thinks of tax evasion first!

If Benjamin dies, won’t Noel and Goel join hands and quickly embezzle the family’s money?! Would they be loyal to a family that killed their father!

No, before that!

‘Do you know how precious money sense without self-interest is in this world?!’

Benjamin is very smart. I heard he was offered a scout offer to be this country’s finance minister before, but he refused.

Such talent should of course be worked to death under me!

‘Why do we have a financial management department!’

Moreover, do you think he’ll do things that only the Pope’s family will like?!

“Grandpa. Please reconsider. Not Uncle Benjamin!”

No, really not!

I don’t want to be the family head of a beggar family even if I become family head!

Then Elai said:

“Don’t worry. Both Leia and Kaya are still 8th rank. There’s time.”

“!”

Could it be he doesn’t know Leia is 9th rank?

“Grandpa. Leia is…!”

“I can see. That she’s hiding it herself.”

“!”

The family head may be hoping there will be no Saint in this generation.

No, if not that then-

“It seems this living sacrifice form of awakening ceremony didn’t exist from the 1st generation. It must have been modified at some point to gain stronger power. So before those two become 9th rank, we’ll find the original form of the awakening ceremony…”

“No! There’s no time. The Pope found out Leia is 9th rank!”

“…What?”

As the family head’s expression hardened, Isaac quickly tattled:

“You probably don’t know because the letter only came to Leia, but it seems the Papacy has already made an official announcement. They say they’ll hold the enthronement ceremony at the Papacy.”

Elai seemed extremely pissed off. Usually such things are supposed to be notified to the family head first.

“Has this bastard gone crazy? How dare he proceed with this without my permission?”

His eyes rarely showed killing intent.

Reading that, Isaac poured oil on the fire, deliberately asking as if he didn’t know while knowing the answer:

“Does the Pope know about the living sacrifice ceremony too? Aah, well. He’s human too. No matter how much he was made a fool of by Uncle Benjamin with the Supreme God, he surely wouldn’t do this while knowing, right? People have morals.”

At those words, Elai raised the corners of his mouth as if detestable. There’s no way the Pope wouldn’t know about each family’s ceremonies.

Sure enough. Isaac’s oil pouring seemed to work as Elai flashed his eyes. He must be even more furious after noticing the Pope’s intention.

“That fake bastard is having a fit and crossing the line.”

Isaac grinned.

“If he’s fake, he’s the younger brother. Doing this to his brother’s friend.”

Yes! That’s it! Well done, Grandpa!

He glanced at the letters with the Pope he had brought. Originally he was only going to go for handwriting analysis etc. moderately.

“There’s no need for the investigation of the Pope to be moderate. It’ll become certain if we confront directly.”

Yes! Smash him!

The family head soon turned around as if telling Isaac to follow him.

“Summon all the knights of the Blue knights. It’s war.”

Yes! It is a war of faiths! Fight, fight!

Meanwhile, I’ll pick out the nuts and eat them, thanks to Melissa’s diary!

The Demon King laughed evilly.