The World's Greatest is Dead

What the hell?

Peng Dojun had suddenly barged in. And on his back, I could see Peng Doyeon.

“Help her...!”

His voice was urgent. Hearing it, I looked not at Peng Dojun but at Peng Doyeon. She was drenched in cold sweat, breathing in ragged gasps.

Ah.

I understood the moment I saw her. I had wondered why she had ended up like that.

It flared up again.

Her divine possession had flared up badly. Whatever had been barely holding it back had burst all at once. To be honest, even calling it “holding it back” was laughable.

What had I done that was so impressive? I had not done anything like that. I had only patched things up as a stopgap measure. I had not expected it to turn out like this.

“...What happened?”

“...Help her.”

“No, if you just barge in and tell me to help, how am I supposed to help?”

At least explain properly. It was not something I could do easily just because he said help. To begin with, why had he come to me?

When I asked in bewilderment, Peng Dojun bit his lip and said,

“...My sister told me to go to you.”

“...Lady Peng did?”

She did? Peng Doyeon had said that? My eyes widened. Right now she seemed too out of her senses for me to ask her anything.

Peng Doyeon had said that?

I looked at the unconscious girl with strange eyes.

Well, look at that.

Had she known instinctively? Or was there some other reason? Interesting. I had thought she had talent in this direction.

But I had not expected her to use that move here.

“Can you help her?”

Peng Dojun asked in an urgent voice.

“...I don’t know.”

“If I knew that for certain, I’d be a physician. Put her down first. Let me check.”

“...”

Peng Dojun slowly laid Peng Doyeon down. I examined her where she lay.

VMMMMMM—!

Power entered my eyes. My soul reacted faintly as I looked her over.

I can see it.

I could see it. The soul energy flowing through Peng Doyeon’s body. The alien shape beginning near her heart and wrapping around her body.

The gods are angry.

The petty gods were angry, and the temper of the real one inside her was twisted. Why?

Strange. Could that one, who had been quiet until just before, really become this enraged?

Seeing that, I asked Peng Dojun,

“What did you do?”

“...What?”

“You did something, didn’t you? I’m asking what you did.”

“...”

Peng Dojun’s eyes shook.

His expression said, How did you know? Which meant I was right.

The gods that had been staying still could not have twisted up like this for no reason. Something had definitely happened. Otherwise, there was no explanation.

“That’s—”

“Answer properly. We don’t have much time.”

“...I went to a shaman.”

“What?”

What had he gone to? My eyes narrowed at Peng Dojun’s words. A shaman? He had gone to a shaman?

“...You went there to fix this?”

“Yes.”

“Hm.”

Then I had my answer. The problem had started there.

“...No wonder they’re angry.”

Going to a shaman was fine. I did not know exactly what method he had tried to use... no, actually, I had a rough idea.

“Did they try to get rid of the divine possession?”

“...!”

Peng Dojun flinched. Apparently I had guessed right. Well, for it to end up like this, there really was no other answer.

The problem was—

“...Even if they were going to drive it out, what were they thinking, doing it like this?”

The person must have been remarkably incompetent. Whether they performed a divine-descent ritual or something else, there should have been several methods.

With numbers this high, it would be strange if any ritual or whatever actually worked.

If it were only petty gods, maybe. But the vast being inside her would never permit that.

They had only provoked it instead.

They probably weren’t a very impressive shaman either.

If they had been skilled, this would not have happened. Since it already had, they must have just jumped straight into a ritual.

Had they not even identified what kind of god was inside her?

Are all shamans in this era like this?

Probably not. Bow Ghost alone had shown that their abilities were not simply inferior. So why had they done something like this?

Hm.

I narrowed my eyes. It was odd. The act made so little sense that it felt strange.

For now.

It was not something I could just leave alone.

The god is furious and raising hell in there.

Her inside was practically a battlefield. At any rate, they really were narrow-minded things.

They were squatting in someone else’s house without permission, so someone tried to chase them out. And they got angry over that?

What arrogant bastards. As expected, I did not like the sight of them throwing their weight around.

For now—

I had to save her first. That was the only thing to consider right now. However.

“Young Master Peng.”

“Yes. Is there a way...?”

A desperate tone. Hearing it, I looked at him.

“What will you do for me if I save her?”

“...What?”

Peng Dojun’s eyes widened at my words. It was a blunt question. For a moment, he seemed flustered by it.

“...What I will do for you.”

But he quickly regained his composure. As expected. This man—

He’s colder than he looks.

He looked like a wild boar, like a man who only liked brawling, but he was not.

He fights more calculatingly and coldly than anyone.

Among the Seven Prodigies I knew, his fighting style was the most calculated. For someone like that, a question like this would not provoke anger.

“What do you want?”

Rather, it was more likely to function as a way to break through the situation. As if proving that, Peng Dojun changed the atmosphere.

“What do you want from me? Say it.”

“It’s not as if I want anything that huge. But first, let me ask you something.”

I tapped the floor a few times and said,

“Are you certain I can cure your sister?”

“I don’t know. But I believe it. My sister told me to believe in you, and you are someone who can be believed.”

What a short and slightly uncomfortable kind of faith.

Hearing him, I laughed softly.

“Yes. I can probably save Young Master Peng’s sister.”

“...Then...”

“But. As I said earlier, I have several conditions.”

I raised one finger.

“First. This matter must not be leaked. If I can place a restrictive seal on it, I will.”

The fact that I could cure Peng Doyeon, and both the process and result of curing her, would be kept secret. I intended to place a restrictive seal so it absolutely could not be spoken of.

“Second.”

A second finger rose.

“Young Master Peng will go to the Demonic Cult with me.”

“...”

Perhaps he had expected that. Peng Dojun did not look particularly surprised.

“No matter how I think about it, Young Master Peng is the right fit. I may add others as well, but Young Master Peng must go.”

“...Hm. And?”

Last. The most important part.

“You will never mention this matter again. And even if something goes wrong, none of it is my fault.”

“...”

Three conditions. In a way, the second one was ultimately the important part, but I said them anyway. After hearing them, Peng Dojun stared at me. What would happen? Would he accept?

While I watched him in question—

“...I accept.”

He accepted faster than I had expected. I was the one who ended up surprised.

“You still have more time to think.”

“There may be time. But.”

Peng Dojun looked at Peng Doyeon.

“Does this child have that much time too? I do not think she does.”

As expected, a cold judgment. And it was the correct one.

This side is urgent.

A god was rampaging in her, so there was nothing more to do. I nodded.

“Then I’ll consider that settled—”

I placed my hand on Peng Doyeon.

“Leave.”

And said it at the same time.

“What?”

Peng Dojun’s eyes widened. Leave?

“The treatment happens when it is only me and Lady Peng here. I am not taking objections.”

“...”

“We don’t have much time, do we?”

Hearing me, Peng Dojun rose with anxious eyes.

“...I’m counting on you.”

After saying that to me, he went outside.

“Yes. Don’t worry.”

The moment only the two of us remained—

All right.

It was time to try this again after a long while. I had not expected things to turn out like this.

How long has it been?

I could not remember. It had probably been a long time. A very long time.

The last time I hunted a god was ages ago.

God-hunting.

The act of catching gods, exorcising them, and erasing them. I had done it now and then in my past life, but I never imagined I would end up doing it again even now.

I would have preferred not to, if possible.

But if it’s gotten this bad, what choice do I have?

Looking at Peng Doyeon, I let out a sigh.

Then I closed my eyes.

VMMMMMM—!!!

The soul energy that began at my heart slowly flowed in. Before long, it met Peng Doyeon’s flesh.

GRRRRKKK—!!!

Energy collided with energy. The energy on that side screamed at me not to come closer. As though it dared to refuse me entry.

How insolent.

It was trying to block me? They were nothing but petty gods. The one inside was only watching, yet worthless things like these had stepped forward.

It was not even funny.

Get lost.

CRRRRUNCH.

I pushed my soul in and forcibly tore through. The petty gods moved aside. Their level was too poor to stop me.

I dug in. Like that, my soul entered Peng Doyeon’s interior. A tingling force brushed against me in a chaotic spray. The petty gods were nothing more than an itch. They were not what I needed to pay attention to anyway.

What mattered was the one beyond them.

Once I dug inside, it did not take long before I felt it.

[Who are you—]

A voice. An old, scorched voice reached me.

A guest.

[A strange thing has entered without knowing its place. This is my land.]

My land, my ass.

I laughed.

Why is this your land? The actual owner is right here.

How dare it talk nonsense? When I spoke, the energy inside trembled.

[Insolent. Do you know who I—]

No need to know who you are.

I had no interest.

You’re going to die anyway.

I did not place meaning in pointless things. My advancing soul stopped and set foot in one place.

[Do you need help?]

The Heavenly Demon asked. I shook my head. I did not need it. There was no need to receive help for something like this.

A vast presence could be felt where my soul had arrived. When I looked ahead—

Big.

Two enormous eyes were staring at me.

[Ignorant thing. What did you come all the way here intending to do with a human soul?]

What else? A person is dying, so I came to treat her.

I slowly loosened up. Since I was in soul-form, I did not know if saying I loosened up my body was correct.

In any case, I loosened up. Right after doing so lightly—

The owner of this house contacted me.

I told the god,

If you’re not going to pay rent, get out.

[...]

The intense gaze curved like a crescent moon. The smile in those eyes was deeply unpleasant.

[And if I do not leave?]

At the question, I tilted my head.

If it did not leave?

Then I’ll throw you out. A freeloading bastard who doesn’t even pay rent shouldn’t be staying in someone else’s house.

[Ha.]

It laughed. Its contempt was plain.

[Throw me out, you say... Very well.]

GIIIIIIIIING.

The space began to press down.

[Try it, then.]

The god spoke.

It was the answer I had wanted.

You gave permission first, didn’t you?

I smiled brightly.

Most gods who said things like that ended up kneeling before me before long.

And I thought this time would not be very different.

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