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Volume 5 Chapter 4 Part 9

The black beast tilted its head to the side as if it had no idea what Izayoi was talking about.

It was a completely genuine gesture, the one that contained no lies or falsehoods in it.

Even though he was in a lot of excruciating pain, Izayoi still managed to clench his fist while remaining extremely cautious about how this entire situation was going to proceed.

「If you are not {Urobos’s} leader, then what I the hell are you? A Divine Spirit? One of the Dragon species? Or maybe you really are a Celestial Star Spirit?」

While it pondered Izayoi’s questions, the black beast emitted the last bits of its black wind. The roaring gusts blocked the starlight once more, the celestial bodies in its eyes were completely fixated on the three problem children and it began to laugh with a wide enough grin on its face that it could have easily swallow the entire mountains whole.

「You are asking me who I am? Ahahahahahaha. . . very well then! If you really want to know the answer to that question so badly, then I shall give it to you!」

「「「. . . . . 」」」

「I am one of the pillars of the Great Celestial Spirit of the Blue Star! ! ! Both the one speaking on behalf and acting as a proxy of the star that you all call mother! ! ! 「The Enemy of the World」, and the one destined to wipe out humanity off the face of the earth! ! ! I am the enemy of every human in existence. . . . .「The King of the Murderous Species」! ! ! !」

「WHA. . . . .? ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !」

「 . . . …THE FUCK? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?」

「DID HE JUST SAID MURDEROUS SPECIES! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !」

Izayoi, Asuka and You looked at each other while raising their voices in shock.

Murderous Species is an umbrella term used to describe whose entire reason for existing is 「to kill human beings」. Such species do so not because of their survival instinct, out of fear or so that they may consume them to satiate their hunger. No, they are killing humans because that brings them pleasure. A typical example of such Murderous Species would be a Peryton, a kind of Eudemon that combines in itself the physical features of both a stag and a bird. They are exactly that: one of the Eudemon species who kill humans just for the act of killing humans, not because killing humans is something necessary for their race to survive. Minotaur, a beast that engaged in unnecessary cannibalism out of nothing but blind rage would also be counted among the ranks of the Murderous Species alongside many different types and races of monsters. However, even if this thing in front of them was really another one of the Murderous Species, then they all had to admit that they have never seen the one who would be as powerful as him before.

「You seem to be surprised by my words, but I fail to grasp what is so surprising about anything that I just said. After all, Perytons, one of the species of mythical beasts native to the region of the Lost Continent of Atlantis were originally created by {The Youngest Child of Gaia}. The Murderous Species and Celestial Star Spirits are basically two sides of the same coin. If only Seiten Taisei had accepted her mission and killed her foolish younger brother, then maybe I could have woken up sooner as well! ! ! ! ! !」

Seiten Taisei. . . another name of  a half Celestial Star Spirit「Sun Wukong, The Great Sage Equaling Heaven」. Thinking about. . . .  they have definitely heard such a story before. The Demon King of Confusion was born as Sun Wukong’s younger brother, born with a mission to devour humans.

「I swear. . .. she has always been nothing but trouble, that one. Even though she was nothing but a plaything in the hands of the Gods, in the end she still chose to side with humans and Gods even though she knew full well that she would have had nothing to gain from it. She could have made things way easier for herself if she just killed that fool and devoured his viscera, but just like any weakling, she allowed herself to be swayed from the path she was destined to take by something as trivial as emotions.」

Kill her younger brother and consume his viscera. 「The King of Murderous Species」 talked about something so horrifying as if it was some kind of duty, or a completely natural thing to be done. This made both Izayoi and Asuka feel anger so great that their whole bodies began to shake uncontrollably.

「Ha . . . ! You know what, Miss Rich Lady? For the first time in a long, long while, I feel like I have stumbled upon a real fucking piece of shit of a guy with whom I just know that we will not be able to understand one another. How about you?」

「I agree with you. I do not know if he is a Celestial Spirit hailing from earth or not, but in my opinion, anyone who does not see the murder of their closest family as a tragedy and has the nerve to call someone a weakling and ridicule them for listening to their emotions. . . . . . . is really a worthless scum who would be better off dead!」

Now both of them could tell that they were genuinely getting fired up with enthusiasm. So what if their opponent was a Celestial Star Spirit? So what if he could not be harmed through ordinary means? What he said just now was enough for Izayoi and Asuka to firmly conclude that they hate that beast in the same way that it hates them. At the beginning there was still some hope that maybe they could have understood each other if only they did not immediately jump at each other’s throats, but that single sentence it spoke and the pure, unrestrained malice behind it have completely eliminated any and all possibility of that being a viable option ever again.

「The King of the Murderous Species」opened his star-shaped eyes wide and laughed, and then disappeared.

「Oh fresh, young children of humanity! I can no longer feel the presence of the Star Particle Bodies chains weighting down on this land, and I am sure that means that {The Youngest Child of Gaia} is going to awaken in the near future, and that my turn is going to be next! So until that time comes, make sure to not let yourselves be eaten by others so that we could have a proper fight that all of us will be able to enjoy to the fullest. Kakakakakaka. . .! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !」

And with such a maniacal laughter, the black wind then completely dispersed. All that was left in its absence was silence broken only by the sound of the gentle nightly breeze. But it was only when the sounds of the leaves rustling on top of the trees and the night animals coming back to life after emerging from their hiding spots have begun to be heard around them once more that Izayoi looked up into the heavens above and let out an exceedingly heavy sigh.

「So. . . that was a genuine Celestial Star Spirit? And the 「King of Murderous Species」at that?」