The sky is crying. The earth is shaking. To the awakening of the Demon Queen ~

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"No. No. No. No. No. No. No. This is not what she promised."

Rob refused to believe what was going on. Where above the sky, there floated a dark creature which could provoke the Catastrophe.

"Whose promise?"

Someone asked him. He faced the questioner and found an old man with two spears in both hand. A very familiar old man. 

"Father."

The giver of life. The guardian and the main foundation of a family, father. 

"We finally get to meet again after all this time. Although the timing and the situation are not proper. Robert Yu-zen."

The giver of a child's name. The Father. The same man who saved Robert earlier.

"Though I'm glad you are still you, but you need to answer my question earlier. Who promised you, to make my granddaughter a research subject? And what did they promise, if the research was successful?"

Roger looked up at the black, winged figure who was still in a non aggressive state.

"It's already s..."

Robert said something that Roger didn't hear it clearly. 

"What is it, son?"

"It's successful."

Robert said that while lowering his head deeply. That made Roger a little clueless.

"The research is successful?" asked Roger. 

"She said, if I successfully injected the Blood of the Demon King, I could create a demon who can surpass the 'Springe of the Surface's Sun'."

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[Springe of the Surface's Sun: During the day, the Hunters who lives in Surfaces are required to work. At night, they will all feel very tired and will sleep until morning. This daily life continues as long as they are still alive. If they got sick with that daily life, they will try to find a way out of the Surface City, without getting any results; they just go around town without being able to find the way out. At night, they will feel very tired and will sleep until morning. The phenomenon that traps the hunters forever that now being called, Springe of the Surface's Sun.]

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Roger sighed. It was as if he had just heard sweet promises from a bank promotion that would only blackmail them.

"Well, in this case, it can't be helped. Plus, that promise sounds applicable. However, aren't there any other subjects that you make as the guinea pig? But, why is it only Aina that seems successful?"

As the father of Robert and grandfather of the Demon Queen, Roger tried to stay calm and listen to all the explanations his son could explain.

"They all died. But, that girl, she could survive because, she was born in this world."

All other subjects failed; they died because they weren't the real Abyssal Terra humans.

"Just like the Demon King, Aina was born in this world. So Aina's body was able to accommodate the power of that vile creature because they were humans born in this same world?" Roger tries to clarify.

It sounds simple, in fact, very simple on a very complex matter.

"What a terrible thing to hear today."

Ars shook his head at the harsh reality.

"Ars?"

Without Roger knowing it, the greedy boy was already behind the two of them, and it seemed that he had heard their conversation from the start.

Not only the greedy boy, but the Vigorous Maiden is there too, and the Maiden seems wanted to break into tears after listening to their conversation.

"Why?"

Robert suddenly stood up after knowing Ars was with them all along.

"Why?!"

He ran to Ars in anger and asked one thing.

"Why what?" asked Ars back, doesn't feel like have any sin.

"If you escorted me properly, this wouldn't have to happen!"

It is true. It happened because Jared triggered the awakening of the Subject of Demon Queen. Jared blew his war horn, which somehow triggered the demon soul of the subject.

Allowing the two young men to have time to talk, Roger took a moment to go somewhere.

At Robert's complaint, Ars walked to the complainer, pat the complainer's shoulder, then smiled arrogantly and give a response. 

"That, my friend, because I knew from the start that your research subject wasn't created to fight against the Springe of Surface's Sun. The Springe of Surface's Sun is an absolute fact that you can't win against it. "But I used a Demon King's blood to create her!". On that, I don't know who the fuck this 'Demon King' everyone is always talking about. But, one thing for sure, that guy is a demon, and do you know what purposed a demon is born? To destroy the world, this world. So how the hell that subject of yours you can turn it into a tool to help us? The answer is, it can't, and you have been fooled."

"Ars! Stop!"

Elisa could not bear to see Ars destroy the mad scientist from within.

The mad scientist – Robert, fell into his knees in disbelief. 

"Is that necessary?!" asked Elisa in anger.

Ars sighed at Elisa's anger at him. "Think of it as a punishment for him. After all, he's the villain of this volume. Although, well, the tragedy that had befallen him was truly unfortunate."

Elisa approached the mad scientist and check his situation. 

The light within his eyes faded like his soul vanished from his body. The mad scientist is dead inside.

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"Ainaaaaa---!"

In the midst of the Demon Queen and Hydra's stance, someone was calling out the real name of the Demon Queen.

"Ainaa---------!"

She continued to call out that name even though his throat had been damaged. Her voice had run out.

"Girl!"

Someone came to pick her up.

"Father!"

She came to the old man with an extremely tormented expression.

"Father, please! Save Aina! She's up there! I have been calling her, but she didn't listen to me! Please! Save her!"

She is crying, asking, begging the old man to save the Demon Queen.

Roger couldn't bear seeing his daughter-in-law in that pain. So he hugged his daughter-in-law to calm her down.

"Don't worry, I will save her, but you have to get away from here."

That way, Roger took his daughter-in-law away from Ruins of Ancient Cognity. 

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The Green Tree Family is running from the battlefield. Green Boy, who was big and fat before, became long and thin; in speed mode.

"This battle had turned completely chaotic!"

Hwang expressed all the feelings that his colleagues felt.

The Hydra is still waiting for the Demon Queen to completely transform. That's why they can run from the periphery to save themselves.

"Seonbae, what do you think of why didn't that nine-headed dragon attack the Demon Queen right away? Even though the Demon Queen is still not moving."

Hwang asked Jade like a child asks; 'Why don't all the monsters in the power ranger series attack the power rangers right away when the power rangers make changes?'

"Probably due to the Demon Queen's energy instability."

Even from a distance, they could feel how much energy the Demon Queen had. But all that energy is in an unstable state. Like a potion in a lab, that could explode if the process was interrupted.

"If the Hydra attempt to attack under that condition, there is a high chance that an energy explosion like before would occur. And we don't know whether the attack that will be able to defeat that demon or not. When we will also get a big loss."

That was the clearest explanation Jade could come up with. However –

"Damn, I don't understand. That was so complicated."

"In essence, we will most likely die as well."

"Damn."

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The Vigorous Maiden. The Mother of the Demon Queen. The Mad Scientist. The three of them had been evacuated to a location further away from the Ruins of Ancient Cognity, beyond the territory of the northeast. But they could still see the Demon Queen and the Catastrophe Beast. They can still watch the fight.

They also find a tree in the shape of a human, like the Grandfather Tree, running away from the battlefield.

"You finally want to decide the content of your contract?" asked Ars to old man Roger. 

Before answering, Roger first looked at his son- and daughter-in-law. Both of them fell into despair. 

The boy looked down in silence. The daughter-in-law is still crying over the Demon Queen, she is accompanied by the Vigorous Maiden.

Then he looked to the Demon Queen. 

"Death and life."

Roger only gave those two words to Ars. 

Ars immediately accepted that two words and answered: "And the payment?"

Roger took off the necklace he was wearing. An ordinary necklace which has a hanger.

"The fuk is this?"

"That's Spear Saint's loose teeth."

"Da fuq bruh!"

Ars immediately threw the dirty object onto the ground. 

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One day in the past / 

"Roger, here, my loose teeth."

"Why?! Why you do this to me?!"

"Hahaha! Don't be that exaggerated! I cleaned it up before giving it to you."

"But, why?!"

"I got a vision. That you, my most trusted friend, will one day meet the Chosen One. That person was with the Vigorous Maiden. It happened at the same time as your death. But before you die, I entrusted that thing to you. Give it to the Chosen One, tell him-"