Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 308

When I was lifted from the endless despair where not even a glimmer of light could be seen, how could I possibly express the overwhelming emotion?

“I’m alive!”

“Huhuheong, Mom!”

People screamed.

Heartfelt tears streamed down their faces.

Those tears held every emotion imaginable: the pure joy of survival, the sorrow for those who had departed, the gratitude for those who had saved them, and the rage towards the cause of this disaster.

The heart was a tangled mess, unable to discern even one’s own feelings.

Relief mixed with anxiety, fear for the future mingled with reassurance.

If these emotions were to erupt in the wrong way, they could quickly escalate in a negative direction.

Because in the face of great tragedy, it is only natural to seek someone to blame.

It was then.

“Th-there!”

People pointed to the sky, having discovered something.

Light was descending from above, piercing through the mist.

The people held their breath, captivated by the mystical and beautiful sight.

The light illuminated the Saintess riding the Divine Beast, like a halo.

“Ah….”

Soon, a voice echoed from the heavens.

*My proxy has saved the human realm.*

“I-is that the voice of God…?”

“It’s the real voice of God!”

“Oh, God…!”

The anxiety in people’s hearts began to dissipate at the voice of the Absolute.

*You humans must use this event as a mirror, guarding yourselves against being tainted by darkness.*

*If my proxy had not risen with high spirits and displayed courage, this world might have been destroyed by the hands of a false god.*

*Worship my proxy and follow her as your guide!*

“Uwaaaaaaah!”

“Saintess! Proxy of God!”

“The Saintess has punished evil and saved us!”

“Long live the Saintess!”

People cheered and praised Ruatisha.

However, Ruatisha, riding on Nike, looked down with a somewhat uneasy expression.

“Hmm….”

“What’s wrong?”

At Sidrian’s question, Ruatisha opened her mouth with a subtle expression.

“No, it’s not Aftanes’s voice.”

The voice echoing now was much cooler, more dignified, and more majestic than Aftanes’s.

Of course, Aftanes, who had fully regained his former self, possessed divine majesty….

‘But maybe because of how he’s been until now, he feels subtly frivolous to me.’

But if it’s not Aftanes, then who is it?

As Ruatisha looked down, she noticed the celestials wearing triumphant expressions.

‘Those guys!’

I didn’t use up all my Cash to remove the constraints of causality so they could do that.

‘It’s a relief that people’s anxiety seems to have subsided quite a bit, but….’

Everyone, the angels are scamming you!

* * *

A little while ago.

Inside Kiyas Edel’s cocoon.

“Ugh, damn it! This is so disgusting!”

How can dying be so disgusting?

I grumbled and shook my hands.

Kiyas Edel’s swollen body burst, splattering sticky, unpleasant fluids everywhere.

“Thanks, Sid.”

Thanks to Sid’s ice wall, I avoided being completely covered in that filthy fluid, but it was still unpleasant.

‘But with this—’

Kiyas Edel was dead.

Completely, so that not even the smallest fragment would exist in this world anymore.

As proof.

[Congratulations!]

[You have defeated the Destroyer.]

[First Achievement!]

[You have surpassed the limits of a human body and achieved something that only a being with divinity could do!]

[Your achievement has saved this world!]

[The Celestial Realm, the Demonic Realm, and the Spirit Beast Realm pay their respects to you!]

[Peace comes to each realm with the death of Kiyas Edel!]

[The excessive malice that had accumulated in the Demonic Realm thins to its original concentration!]

[The demons of the Demonic Realm, corrupted by malice, regain their original forms!]

[The shrunken territory of the Celestial Realm expands back to its normal range!]

[Now, the voice of God can be transmitted from the Celestial Realm to the Human Realm as before!]

[The ecology of the Spirit Beast Realm is normalized!]

[Young spirit beasts will now be born naturally!]

[The small and large distortions that existed in the Human Realm disappear.]

[The divine power of the priests is restored, and the mana of nature no longer stagnates and sleeps.]

The notification that didn’t appear when Kiyas Edel was executed after acting as Liliel or Lilael popped up.

‘And….’

I turned my head.

“Churattiel.”

I called out and realized my mistake.

After hearing the demon call her Churattiel, Churattiel, I unconsciously picked it up.

Anyway, Churattiel was huddled in a corner, trembling.

She seemed to be trying to hide her appearance with her torn and broken hair.

As a result of giving her body to Kiyas Edel, Clattier’s appearance could no longer be considered human.

Her skin had lost its original color, with some parts wrinkled and others swollen.

The traces of twisted bones and hollow eyes.

The moment I took a step towards her.

“D-don’t, don’t come closer!”

“……”

“I-I, I don’t know! I, I’m just, just…. I, I was deceived too! It’s not my fault!”

It was amazing that she could say such things after coming this far.

Shouldn’t she at least show some remorse at this point?

‘Well, if she were the kind of person who knew that, she wouldn’t have cooperated with Kiyas Edel in the first place.’

It was Clattier who turned people into monsters and made them devour each other, spread malice to kill people, opened gates to summon demons, and more.

It was Kiyas Edel’s ability, but it was Clattier who used it.

As I got closer, Clattier screamed, “Kyaaaa!”

“A-are you going to kill me? I’m a person! Y-you’ll become a murderer!”

“Didn’t you call me a murderer before? You deliberately caused a disaster and massacred hundreds or thousands of people.”

“Th-that’s….”

“It doesn’t seem like much will change if I kill just one more person here.”

I smiled and raised my hand. Black aura climbed up my hand.

“……!”

Clattier, terrified, cowered as if shrinking and backed away from me.

“N-no. I, I don’t want to….”

Seeing her pathetic appearance, I was truly speechless.

It felt like seeing what happens when an ignorant, foolish, and self-centered person gains power beyond their capacity.

People paid too high a price because of someone like her.

“Your sins will be judged fairly in front of the people. And you will have to take all the responsibility for your sins.”

“What…? I, I’m not guilty!”

At that moment, Sid wrapped his arm around my shoulder.

“Don’t look at that filth, it’ll rot your eyes. She’s not even worth dealing with yourself.”

I nodded and raised my head.

As Kiyas Edel disappeared, the cocoon that had been maintained by her power collapsed and scattered.

I looked at the malice scattering into the blue sky, then lowered my gaze to look at Sid.

“Sid.”

He was looking at me silently.

As if he had been looking at me all along.

“……”

Is this what it’s like to have so much to say that you don’t know what to say?

‘If it weren’t for Sid, I….’

I wouldn’t even be standing here right now.

The one disappearing from this world would have been me, not Kiyas Edel.

Tightly—

Sid held my hand tightly.

My heart swelled with the warmth touching my fingertips.

Even at this moment, I could feel Sid’s soul with every breath I took.

It was the result of my soul and his soul being bound together and subordinate to each other.

‘It’s so strange.’

Being with someone all the time and always being able to feel each other should be exhausting and frustrating.

But is it because the other person is Sid?

I didn’t feel that way at all.

Rather, I felt a sense of stability in the perfect unity.

Sharing a soul with another person, living together, was so fulfilling.

Sid was feeling the same emotions I was feeling right now.

The overwhelming feeling that you can feel without speaking, but can’t bear without speaking.

I quietly looked into Sid’s eyes and opened my mouth.

“Si—”

“Mama!”

With a resounding shout, Nike came running as if to body-check me.

And it wasn’t just Nike who was entering the collapsing cocoon.

“Cotton ball!”

“My little sister, was it hard being alone?”

“……Get away from my youngest.”

Ixion, Ares, and Zeon.

And—

“Dad.”

My dad’s expression was indescribable.

He was smiling, but that smile contained countless emotions that I couldn’t dare fathom.

My dad, who had approached me, moved his lips as if to say something, then pressed down on my head.

“You… did it.”

The meaning contained in those words was so deep.

I couldn’t bear to look at my dad’s face and lowered my head.

If I met my dad’s eyes, I felt like I would burst into tears.

“I knew you’d do it, squawk! Whose master are you!”

“Nike’s Mama!”

Hermes Squawk fluttered around me, and Nike rubbed her nose against my waist.

In the end, I laughed.

“You’ve been through a lot.”

I was so worried that my dad’s eyes were dark and his handsome face was rough.

“Yeah!”

I hugged my dad tightly like when I was young.

My dad smells so good.

‘Hehe.’

“What, me too!”

“Our youngest has been through so much, really.”

“You did great, my sister.”

Even my brothers joined in and hugged me.

We embraced each other like a warm croissant with many layers.

‘It feels so good to be like this….’

A feeling that tickles my heart and warms me from my toes.

But on the other hand, I also felt another emotion.

‘This is—’

When I raised my head, I saw my brothers subtly keeping Sid from approaching.

I immediately let go.

“Everyone, thank Sid too. I would have died if it weren’t for Sid.”

“You almost died?!”

Ixion asked urgently.

My other family members also rushed to check my condition from head to toe.

“No, I didn’t die, I’m not hurt, and I’m safe.”

To be exact, the injured parts have all been restored, but, well.

“It’s all thanks to Sid.”

The family members, who had been silent, said to Sid.

“……Thank you.”

“Well, I’m also. A little. Thankful. I guess.”

“……I have no choice but to admit it.”

“You did well.”

It was a bit much, but I could still feel my family’s sincerity.

‘Sid is satisfied too, so should I just let it go at this point?’

For some reason, Sid was very satisfied.

‘……What are you thinking?’

“Lulu, that’s….”

Following my dad’s gaze, I turned my head and saw Clattier shriveled up like a deflated balloon.

“Don’t worry. I’ll take care of it.”

Uh, why does the phrase “take care of it” sound so scary?

Dad’s eyes are turning over?

“Don’t kill her.”

“Okay.”

Dad nodded without asking back.

‘Um, he didn’t understand my words to mean he can do anything but kill her, right.’

I had a feeling that’s how he understood it.

I looked at my dad and shrugged.

Well, what does it matter?

‘She needs to be punished.’

The reason I told him not to kill Clattier is definitely not because of pity.

I’m not going easy on her either.

‘How many people died because of her.’

Today’s events wouldn’t have happened if Clattier hadn’t accepted Kiyas Edel.

She killed so many people and made them lose their families for her own selfish desires.

‘So she needs to stand in front of those victims and face the consequences of her actions.’

The cocoon was almost gone now.

I climbed onto Nike with Sid and went outside.

* * *

“Oh, so that’s what it looks like! It’s even cuter and prettier than I imagined!”

“What are you doing, you filthy demons, touching her?”

“Lulu is staying still, so why are the celestials making a fuss?”

“You weren’t even interested in this child! On the other hand, we celestials…!”

So noisy.

I was stuck between the celestials and demons with a sulky face.

“Human, why did you drive us out? Are we worse than the demons and celestials?”

“I’m truly disappointed….”

And even the spirit beasts were whining in the garden.

“No, look at your sizes! If you come in, my house will collapse!”

Unable to bear it any longer, I jumped up and shouted.

Then, one by one, the spirit beasts began to transform into human forms.

I thought it was only possible in the mental realm, but it seemed possible in reality as well.

“Is this enough?”

As they climbed over the window and swarmed in—

‘Uwaaaaaaah!’

I want to be alone!

Even outside the mansion, people were gathering, saying they wanted to see the Saintess.