Genius Blacksmith's Game

One hundred times.

Grout had come to believe that Master Blacksmith Hyun’s artifact-making ability was absolutely necessary.

He had a reason he needed forgiveness not from Hyun, but from Sage Arte, and because of that, he had to help with one hundred classes.

At first, Grout had thought it would be an extremely easy task.

Then he became material for “demon anatomy.”

“Opportunities to dissect a living demon are rare. So don’t handle him carefully. Handle him however you like.”

“.......”

Bound to an iron table by telekinesis, Grout was bewildered.

Aren’t they usually supposed to tell them to be careful......?

Arte took out a saw and smiled wickedly.

“This demon can regenerate forever anyway.”

“Woooow.......”

“Waaah!”

“The nation of Hyun might be the only place where you can dissect a demon alive.”

“The nation of Hyun is the best.”

“I call the hand.”

“I call the foot.”

“I call the chest.”

“What about you?”

The children looked at their friend, and one child who had taken out a little child’s axe flicked his tongue and smiled.

“I call the pee-pee place.”

“Ooooh.......”

“Ooooooh.......”

“I did want to chop it up really finely and observe it!”

“......???”

Grout.

Born a demon, he had now seen children more demonic than he was.

“No, not there, not there, no......!”

CRAAAACK—!!!!

His mind went hazy at the sound of something splitting in two, and he heard one child’s voice.

“Hee...... So this part looks like this?”

“.......”

Would even a demon say a line like that?

In that way, Grout had been helping with the children’s classes.

Demon anatomy was something that should have grown familiar the more it continued, but it never did.

“Hehe, today I’m going to chop down with this axe.”

A giant axe, about the size of an average child.

A child holding it grinned.

Where the hell do they even get things like that!

Just when he thought he might get used to it, the children changed their method of dissection and learned in all kinds of ways, keeping Grout in constant pain.

But then something surprising happened.

......It wasn’t just for revenge?

At first.

Rather than saying the children dissected him, it was more accurate to say they rummaged through him and played.

After anatomy class ended, while regenerating on his own, Grout felt the wretched state his body had been reduced to.

But by the twenty-fifth time.

“Arteries are weak, and if you touch them wrong, the bleeding won’t stop, so when you meet an enemy, you’ll be able to win with minimal force.”

“If the Achilles tendon is cut, they can’t walk. If you want to slow an enemy down, you can cut this part like this.”

“It looks like humans gather their magic here. If you stab this spot, they won’t be able to use magic, so wouldn’t that mean they can’t use mystical power either?”

The children were actually learning.

Something strange happened to Grout.

As they grew more accustomed with each passing day and awakened to knowledge, he felt something he could not understand.

That’s right!

You finally understand arteries!

Exactly, yes. If you stab there, they won’t be able to use mystical power!

Haha, the brat who couldn’t understand it until just recently is getting pretty good, isn’t he?

It was a feeling he had experienced for the first time in his life, and he was not used to it.

Anatomy was not the only class.

Grout helped with many classes.

“We need the corpse of a Twin-Head Ogre.”

“Find demonstone, known as a demon mineral.”

When he carried a huge Twin-Head Ogre on his back and set it down in front of the children, they leaped with joy.

“Wow!”

“We get to study a Twin-Head Ogre!”

“Oh my god!”

Watching the children overjoyed enough to jump, Grout merely shrugged.

And demonstone.

When he brought back that mineral, which was no more than Rare-grade and overflowing in the Demon Realm, the children gathered close around it and stared.

“Wow.......”

“Demonstone, that’s amazing.......”

Grout felt that inexplicable feeling again.

What the hell is this feeling?

A smile formed on his lips without him understanding why.

Grout denied that smile and reached this conclusion.

It is because, after these brats grow up and meet death, my joy will be even greater!

Grout was a demon.

One’s birth did not change.

Stupid children, stupid Arte!

The way he obediently listened and accepted this.

They could not even dream that, behind their backs, he was researching a way to massacre them without anyone noticing!

Should I poison them?

If they go on a picnic, should I lure a horde of monsters over?

There was no way sharp-eyed Hyunsoo did not know.

They dissect me, study me, and grow with that!?

Refusing to admit that his own feeling was joy at seeing the children grow, Grout kept deceiving himself and waiting only for the day he could present the children with despair.

But that chance came sooner than expected.

A chance to do it not with his own hands, but through someone else’s!

The Academy.

“Where is the principal?”

A man with a huge, powerful frame entered, a greatsword slung over one shoulder.

He’s one of my kind.

Like him, the man had the eyes of someone who had killed many and risen through it.

“When an adult speaks, you answer.”

His emotionless voice showed that he made no distinction for children.

Finally!

Grout was delighted.

He had plenty of excuses.

In truth, the man had entered and killed the children himself.

Now this fucking bullshit ends!

He would no longer have to be dissected.

He would no longer have to catch monsters for the children.

He would not have to find demonstone, nor have his hair yanked by a little girl asking for shoulder rides, and the roughly seventy remaining times he had to help with the Academy children’s classes would disappear just like that.

“Let’s see how long you keep refusing to answer.”

Lying on the iron bed, Grout smiled.

Heh heh.......

Until the man raised his greatsword over the head of the little girl who had asked for shoulder rides.

But why does this feel so fucking awful?

When the man’s greatsword came down.

Grout grew even more confused.

Because, by instinct, he was blocking the man’s descending greatsword with his own blood.

Why am I......?

And Sword King Baku was flustered.

What in the world is this? Is there a powerful person inside?

His doubt came from the immense force that had restrained his unmoving greatsword.

“Who are you? Come out. If you do not.”

WHOOOOOOOM—!

Looking at the unidentified chain of blood stopping his greatsword, Baku sharply scanned his surroundings.

The target had been someone whose presence he had not sensed at all.

Why is there a powerful being of this level at the Academy?

The nation of Hyun.

From what he had heard, it was a newly founded nation.

Powerful people were rare in a newly founded nation.

Especially someone with enough power to reach the level of a legend like him.

FLARE—

When he drew up his strength, the power of the mysterious blood chain vanished and disappeared.

Then Baku twisted his waist and took a stance to sweep his greatsword horizontally with all his might.

“I will kill all of you.”

Grout, who had simply been lying on the iron bed.

Why did I block it?

He could not understand his own action.

Then.

He instinctively knew that the moment that greatsword swung once, the children in this room would be massacred.

Grout gave up thinking.

To begin with, I am a demon.......

An uncontrollable, wildly unpredictable being who did not know what he would do.

He simply recalled it.

Hyunsoo’s order to protect the children.

At that moment.

KWAAAAAAANG—!

The greatsword of the third Sword King, who had once protected Goyad, swung out massively.

SHATTER—!

The aftermath of its power drew a line across the building, shattered the windows, and he had been certain that power would have cut the children in two at once.

However.

What?

Baku’s eyes shook.

Nearly a hundred shields made of blood were protecting the children.

Blood? He uses blood?

And then he sensed a presence.

CLATTER, CRACK, RUMBLE—!

On the iron table.

The nearly hundred blood shields clung to the being lying sprawled there.

SPLAT, SPLAT—

His body, which had been messily dissected, recovered at a rapid speed. Organs returned to their places, pieces of flesh joined together, and smoke rose.

HISSSSS—

The demon Grout revealed himself in complete form.

As always, his appearance was beautiful and elegant.

WHOOOSH—!

The sword of the demon Grout, summoned as he appeared, added intimidation to that elegance.

A prickling chill ran through Baku, and he was bewildered.

Why is there a demon at the Academy?

It would not be right to call him a Great Archdemon, but he was certainly a demon.

The demonic energy rising from him and the blood surging around him bore down on 3rd Sword King Baku.

At that moment.

SWAAAAAAH!

The blood scattered in every direction pushed the children to one side.

Baku gripped his greatsword tightly and asked,

“Who are you?”

The demon Grout pondered that question.

If it had been any other time, he would have answered, “I am Grout, the Blood Demon.”

But his current position was completely different from that.

“I am a temporary teacher.”

“......???”

Sword King Baku was flustered.

A demon was a temporary teacher?

What bewildered him even more was the martial aspect.

This thing is merely a teacher?

He did not know why the demon was here.

However.

RUMBLE—!

Sword King Baku found this nation hopelessly chaotic.

So he loaded immense power into his greatsword.

No, that is a temporary teacher?

His mind clearly rejected it.

And yet, the demon had been at the Academy and had protected the children.

Judging only by that sight, he really did seem to be a temporary teacher.

Baku moved.

BOOOOM—!

In an instant, Baku’s swift sword created a sonic boom.

RUMBLE—!

Its weight was greater than that of any other Sword King.

To begin with, among the Sword Kings, he was the one who had created Sword King’s swordsmanship with a greatsword of tremendous destructive power.

“Sword King’s swordsmanship. Chapter One. Bisection.”

KWAAAAAAAK—!!!

The demon who had been so impressive a moment ago was split apart.

SLAAAAASH—!

A stream of blood surged from the demon split in half.

At the blood spurting out like fireworks, Baku gave a hollow laugh.

Was I mistaken?

Had he awakened after too long a time and lost the ability to distinguish the weak from the strong?

Ah, he saw.

Was he a low-ranking demonkind?

A mere low-ranking demonkind. For whatever reason, such a thing could be made a temporary teacher at an Academy.

Because it was insignificant, worthless demonkind.

But then.

The scattered blood soon transformed into hundreds of awl shapes.

Along with it.

FWOOOOSH—!

Hundreds of awls rushed at Sword King Baku all at once.

BANG, BANG, BABABANG—

Baku, smashing them apart, grew flustered.

Grout’s body, which had been split in half, re-formed.

When hundreds of drops of blood floating in the air flowed into his body, his body joined together and the wound regenerated perfectly.

“Haaaaa.......”

As Baku was bewildered by the bastard letting out another elegant breath,

“Boom.”

Grout murmured the word aloud, and Baku, who had been knocking away hundreds of blood-red awls, was startled.

KWAAAAAAANG—!

Hundreds of awls exploded at once and sent Baku flying.

But with his weight behind his strength, he was flung back and then came to a stop. Looking at the demon chasing him, he once again showed his skill.

“Sword King’s swordsmanship, Chapter Two. Sky Strike.”

The skill name sounded somewhat absurd, but it was different.

It meant striking the greatsword upward to the end of the sky.

From below to above.

KWHAAAAAAAK—!!!!!

The world was cut vertically.

The demon, cleaved by the greatsword from bottom to top.

His death was declared.

Whew, that was dangerous.......

As Sword King Baku let out a somewhat relieved breath.

“......Hey.”

The body split in two.

The two faces, divided precisely, smiled.

“I don’t die.”

The scattered blood seeped into him, his body rejoined, and the cut line healed.

What is this?

Sword King Baku was shaken.

“Sword King’s swordsmanship, Chapter Three. Shatter.”

RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE—!

The power that split an enemy into hundreds of pieces tore the temporary teacher before him to shreds.

But the blood gathered once more, and those hundreds of pieces reattached with wet splattering sounds and regenerated.

“Hehe.......”

“Sword King’s swordsmanship. Final Chapter, Rampage.”

And so he performed a buff that empowered his entire body.

He cut off all four limbs, then split the head that was regenerating.

BOOOOM—!

In that state, Baku smashed that head to pieces.

But.......

“Hehe!”

His body regenerated again.

Only after repeating that for about the fourteenth time did Baku finally understand.

“Hehehehe?”

This temporary teacher.

Wherever there was blood, he was absolutely invincible.

“.......”

Baku belatedly realized that he could never kill the demon before him.

What is that?

Suddenly, the demon took something out.

A saw and a scalpel?

Then he smiled lewdly.

“Hehehehe, actually, I wanted to try it too!”

Watching him laugh maniacally, the 3rd Sword King and legend Baku looked puzzled at his words.

What did he want to try?

Soon, the demon Grout licked the scalpel with his tongue and smiled.

“This class will be anatomy.”

“.......”

Sword King Baku.

At this moment, he regretted crawling out of his grave.

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