Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 330 Mission: 07-4 The End
"I didn't expect that guy to have the spirit of a god of death... I really got tricked."

After being hit by a stick and falling into the shattered house, Izayoi turned his head with difficulty to look in the direction of "that gift game", spat out a mouthful of blood, and laughed bitterly.

"By the way, isn't the composition of this spirit a bit too complicated?"

Then he completely relaxed his body, staring calmly at the dark night sky and sighing softly.

Weser, holding a flute, landed beside him with a serious expression, turned his head and looked in the direction of his master without saying a word.

"Why don't you do it?" Izayoi urged.

"It doesn't matter whether we take action or not until it's over over there." Weser said in a heavy tone, slowly leaning against the wall and folding his hands.

If Nero and Pest could not escape from the game, then Weser alone would not be able to win the game. He could not abandon the cathedral district and charge the contestant's base camp.

"Huh... so you want to chat with me?"

"Yeah. I heard about your story. Did you solve the mystery?"

"Want to hear my wonderful reasoning?"

"No need. I just want to persuade you to stand on our side sincerely."

Izayoi shifted his gaze: "Why so sudden?"

Seeing his puzzled look, Weser scratched his head in annoyance. "I just think you're a good fit. You're capable, intelligent, and most importantly, you're very spontaneous. After all, you were arrested by the guards just as you were about to participate in the festival."

"You are a good judge of people."

"So you agreed?"

"No."

Izayoi flatly denied it: "Being a demon king does sound interesting, but I still think defeating a demon king is more challenging."

Weser gave a helpless smile - he never expected that the reason why Izayoi refused was because he felt that "being a demon king was not challenging".

Izayoi, who loves challenges and also loves creating them, is a natural match for the former owner of the Grimm Fantasy Grimoire Group.

If that person hadn't died, they would definitely get along well.

"Okay, okay." Weser shook his head and asked, "What do you think of that game over there?"

"Hey, hey, hey, you're asking your enemy how to crack the game? Are you sane?" Izayoi, with a bruised face, had a teasing expression on his face.

"You will tell me," Weser asserted calmly. "Partly because this game is 'uninterruptable,' and partly because if you don't tell me, you'll suffocate yourself to death."

"...You're so good at judging people. So good that it makes me a little angry."

"Because I've seen guys pretty much like you."

"Then I hope he doesn't run into me, or I'll make him look like a fool."

Izayoi looked at the two people who were desperately suppressing the "instincts" coming from the Death God's spirits and gave his own answer.

"At this point, the only option left for them is to kill Cain."

Because Cain's gift game was supposed to be inaccessible to him, and this was clearly evident from the fact that the game leader was not Cain himself.

In other words, the very fact that this game had been launched meant that a Death God had taken the leadership position, meaning that he intended to complete the game. And now, under Asuka's command, Cain accomplished something he had previously been unable to do, causing the organizer's authority to "run wild."

"So what will be the result?"

Izayoi was silent for a moment, then replied, "In the worst case, he'll probably die."

Since Cain had discussed this with Asuka in advance, it meant that the two of them were in a "cooperative" relationship.

Cooperation means that only one party can make sacrifices. Cain must have prepared a method to ensure that both Death Gods were taken into account, that is—

"He definitely cheated," Izayoi concluded. "And even if he cheated, even if the 'Sevenfold Retribution' seal didn't work on the Shinigami, don't forget one thing noted in the oath at the beginning of the game."

That is to require both parties to "swear by their own spiritual qualities" to ensure the fairness of the game.

So when Cain cheated, the game leader gave Cain the gift of death to allow him to win the game, which would inevitably backfire on him due to the oath.

“…”Weser frowned, lowered his eyes, and looked away with difficulty.

"You're right." He agreed with Izayoi's inference, "There's a familiar smell about him... If I'm not mistaken, it's the work of the 'Pioneer'."

"So, he helped the Rat Catchers and earned the merit of 'opening up' from them?"

Upon hearing this, Izayoi couldn't help but laugh out loud: "It really is karma!"

As he laughed, he spat out another mouthful of blood mist from his mouth.

The Bible does not describe Cain's final fate, but it does record his descendants. As the son of Adam and Eve, the third human being born, Cain, sentenced to exile, would have married, had children, founded a city, settled there, and passed down his descendants. Therefore, if the recorded Cain ultimately died of old age, his achievement, which atones for his sins, would have been to "open up new lands."

So is it possible that Cain, who never died and wandered for a thousand years, did not complete his "development" and therefore no god of death came to take his soul?

Given the Hakoniwa's policy of "housing objects that don't belong to the correct history," this is quite possible. In history, if someone's death at the wrong time causes a major historical shift, that person is often summoned to the Hakoniwa for various reasons. Izayoi has heard that several Oda Nobunaga who survived the night at Honnoji Temple have visited the Hakoniwa, each time reportedly causing considerable unrest.

Weser didn't laugh. He stared at the battlefield not far away, at Nero and Pest who were struggling to hold on, and said:

"I don't want to talk to you now. Please get some sleep."

"You're impatient—"

The heavy flute crashed to the ground, stirring up a cloud of gravel and dust. Izayoi's laughter, which had been a bit jarring to Weser's ears, abruptly stopped.

Looking at Izayoi who had completely fainted and quieted down, Weser sighed.

No one had ever thought that when everything seemed to be settled and the outcome seemed irreversible, it was this man who seemed to pose no threat at all who delivered the final blow to Hamel.

"What will become of it..."

The resolute man in military uniform with spiky hair held his head and let out a cry of frustration.

If he had known earlier, as the servant of the god of death, he should have tried to kill Cain even at the cost of his own death.

However, it's too late now.

The church bells slowly began to play the final elegy.

(End of this chapter)