Descent (2)

The day I would meet Chastity Sister again.
I had been looking forward to this day with bated breath.
Not only did I have a mountain of questions, but...
'She was the one who thwarted that Kkan-peu's tricks.'
The 'Debug' of the Non-virgin Deletion mode.
That thing was designed to make non-virgins explode.
And the virgins I had been with were no exception.
But who was it that resolved that?
The Non-virgin Deletion Exception Handling.
It was Chastity Sister's masterpiece.
I couldn't help but be grateful.
'And besides...'
It wasn't as if that was the only trap the Kkan-peu had set.
First, she manipulated reality to make a dagger look like a rifle.
Then, after I broke through that and entered the Happy Ending route, she killed me and erased every trace of me from people's memories.
Every single act was nothing short of atrocious.
If Chastity Sister hadn't stepped in, what would have happened?
I didn't even want to imagine it.
'Ah, Chastity Sister. I believe in you, the GOAT.'
Within my hazy consciousness.
Naturally, thoughts of Chastity Sister surfaced.
Adding the exception function to the Non-virgin Deletion mode.
Nullifying the 'Lee Hyun Deletion' common sense alteration.
Reverse-summoning that Kkan-peu bitch who tried to kill me...
-Du-dung.
[Skill - '¿Ã€ºÃªÃ§Ã†® - °Ã‹¼±']
The sound of a drum accompanied the corrupted text of the skill.
This was Chastity Sister's trademark.
Which meant this, too, was her arrangement.
The Vertical Slash and everything else I gained through this were all thanks to her.
I couldn't help but be grateful.
'As soon as I open my eyes, I have to thank her...'
I forced my heavy eyelids open.
It would have been nice to linger in this dreamlike state.
But I had things to do.
Now, let's get up and handle the situation...
-Bureup.
"My friend!!!! Are you awake!!!!!"
"......."
'Give me back my eyes, you biological gay-pic terrorist.'
Why did the first thing I see upon waking have to be Baal-nim's face?
I felt like gouging my eyes out just to wash them.
But, fortunately.
That thought vanished in an instant.
"Do not move, child."
"......!!??"
I hurriedly turned my head.
Chastity Sister was looking down at me from beside my head.
Reflexively, I tried to push my body up, but-
"Sister... Keuh-heu-euk!!?"
'It hurts!!!!'
The moment I moved, an agonizing pain surged through me.
It hurt even more than when I was struck by the Holy Spear yesterday.
What is this? What's happening?
"My friend. I know you just woke up and don't understand the situation, but calm down a bit. I shall explain everything to you."
As I whimpered in pain, that fucking gay bastard started flapping his trap.
The story of what happened while I was unconscious.
Perhaps because he was of the Demon Race, his explanation was incredibly concise.
'Fainted. Transported. Treated.'
The moment I saw Chastity Sister, I had collapsed.
Immediately after, I was transported to the Temple.
My battered body was treated there.
"For your information, three days have passed since you fainted."
"......."
Still not fully healed after three days of treatment?
Well, it made sense.
The Temple must have exhausted all its power on the 'Holy Spear.'
Everyone's divine power would have been sucked dry, and Lumine-nim probably hadn't recovered yet either...
'That's right, my wife and my comrades!!!'
"What about the others!!?"
My thoughts were interrupted as I bolted upright and shouted.
Chastity Sister and Baal-nim gave bitter smiles.
"Though the pain of your bones shattering fills your body, your heart looks to others first. Even heaven and earth will find your spirit commendable."
"My friend, do not worry. Everyone is safe."
"Do they... not remember me, or...?"
"There was no sign of that. It is all thanks to this lady."
"......Haa."
Thank god, there really aren't any problems.
I feel like I'm going to cry.
No, actual tears are starting to flow, jureureuk.
'Te-ee-eng... Mama...'
"First of all, thank you. I haven't forgotten my gratitude toward you for even a single moment."
I finally managed to voice my belated greeting.
Chastity Sister smiled benevolently.
"There is no need for thanks. Rather, I should be the one expressing gratitude. Thanks to you, I was able to break free from a three-hundred-year binding."
"...Wait a moment."
I adjusted my posture.
My intuition as an aspiring web novel writer was screaming.
This wasn't a story to be heard while sitting uncomfortably.
And indeed, it was so.
"My friend, I shall explain first. To begin with, the one called the Goddess..."
Baal-nim began his explanation.
To summarize, it was like this:
The 'Goddess' who originally protected this world.
The Goddess had been fending off the invasion of the Demon World.
Naturally, the Demon Lord, the King of the Demon World, couldn't have been happy about it.
The Demon Lord went to fight her the moment he crossed the wall.
"I do not know how they fought. All I know is the result: the Demon Lord was defeated."
The result was the Demon Lord's defeat.
The Goddess succeeded in protecting this world.
Even though she must have consumed a vast amount of power blocking the interference from the Demon World, she stood firm.
From this world's perspective, it was a happy ending, but...
If it ended like that, it wouldn't be a Dark Fantasy.
Unfortunately for the Goddess.
That was when the Kkan-peu intervened.
"That vile bitch, she cowardly targeted the Goddess right after the Demon Lord's fall!!!"
An unexpected ambush by the Kkan-peu.
The Goddess lost her life right then and there.
Having been caught off guard immediately after her victory, she must have been helpless.
It was Baal-nim's conjecture, which bordered on certainty.
"You said you didn't see it yourself, so why are you so sure?"
"One look is all it takes. The level of those who crossed the wall properly, like me or my friend, is entirely different from those who happened upon power beyond their station by chance."
"What does that mean?"
"You saw her just now, so you should know, right? Didn't you feel contempt the moment you saw that bitch?"
"......Ah?"
Come to think of it, the moment I first saw her, I did think she was a total bitch.
Her very face just felt suspicious.
"No, but still..."
"What he says is indeed true, child."
"Sister?"
"I shall take over the story from here."
Anyway, it was Chastity Sister's turn.
She gently stroked my head.
And then she...
Suddenly pulled a genre drift.
"First, her name is 'Dirne-nim.' She is someone I used to train with in the same Immortal Realm."
"......Immortal Realm?"
If it's the Immortal Realm, that's that place.
The place where immortals hang out in martial arts novels.
Where only the truly strongest of the strong go.
Is this right?
The atmosphere suddenly turned into Wuxia?
"Uh, Sister, by any chance, are there concepts like martial arts in your world? Or internal energy?"
"You know it well. It seems it is because you have inherited the legacy of the successor."
"...Ah, yes."
No wonder the sound effects were drums and the font looked like brush calligraphy from a martial arts novel.
Sister was from a martial arts world.
'What is this sudden worldview mashup...'
"Ahem. Anyway, what about that fucking bitch Dirne-nim?"
I decided to let it slide for now.
What mattered now was the Kkan-peu.
Why a fantasy race ended up in a martial arts world, and then came here.
Sister's expression turned serious.
"She was... an extremely anomalous existence even in our world."
She began to tell the story.
The one who called herself the 'Great Elf' Dirne-nim.
She wasn't originally from that world.
She had simply crossed dimensions by chance.
Originally, she was a being from a dimension where the World Tree existed.
"Back when I was training in the human realm, her name was already widespread. She was known as the Eternal Life Cult Leader."
The Kkan-peu had become a cult leader.
An appearance that didn't age for a thousand years. Strength proportional to that. And so on.
Everything combined, the number of followers who believed in her grew and grew.
"Thanks to that, she finally opened the path to the heavens and achieved Ascension."
"Ascension means..."
"You call it crossing the wall, and Dirne-nim refers to it as transcendence."
Anyway, thanks to that, the Kkan-peu went to the Immortal Realm.
She crossed the wall and became an immortal.
That was why Chastity Sister had welcomed the Kkan-peu in the Immortal Realm.
"At that time, I did not know how she had achieved such cultivation..."
"Wait, you said Dirne-nim was already famous when you were training in the human realm. Why did you reach the Immortal Realm first?"
"I achieved Ascension in a hundred and twenty years, but Dirne-nim spent another two thousand years in the human realm... She only entered the heavens around the time strange foods like Carbonara were appearing."
"......."
'Oh, Information-Communication Wuxia.'
There were some things that were hard to just brush off, but anyway.
"Was it because of that? A snake took root in the depths of her heart."
Upon seeing Sister, the Kkan-peu went into a frenzy.
She degraded her as a mere novice monk and couldn't hide her jealousy toward the other immortals.
To use a metaphor fitting for an aspiring web novel writer.
She was overflowing with malicious jealousy.
"In the end, she laid her hands on forbidden arts once again."
The result was Dirne-nim's impulsive action.
She got caught doing the same things she did in the human realm.
And that horrific act was...
"She used humans as Elixir Pills and consumed them."
"...What?"
"Pitiably, she harmed ordinary people who knew nothing of the Way to use them as Elixir Pills... How resentful those innocent souls must be."
Descending to the human realm to devour humans.
The number was at least in the tens of thousands.
My jaw dropped.
The Kkan-peu was on a completely different scale.
"No, what the hell. Does your realm even go up by boiling and eating laypeople?"
"Such karma is nothing more than a drop of water in a vast sea; it only serves to further tarnish one's own mind."
"Then she did it even though it was meaningless? That's an immortal...?"
"That is why we also cast her out from the Immortal Realm."
Naturally, there was an uproar in the Immortal Realm as well.
The moment she was discovered, they exiled the Kkan-peu.
They told her to 'Get lost, JOAT.'
"Does that mean... perhaps?"
After hearing this far.
I looked at Baal-nim and Sister with a sense of dread.
No way, right?
Could there be such an unfair situation in the world...
"It is said that the one called the Goddess was standing right where she was exiled. It was a time when she was catching her breath, exhausted from fighting the Demon Lord."
"That was 300 years ago. That must have been the moment the human world fell into the hands of that long-eared bitch."
"This is fucking crazy."
You folks in the Immortal Realm, isn't that a bit much?
If you're going to exile her, you should have stuffed her in a pineapple under the deep sea or something, not taken her to an all-you-can-eat buffet.
My expression naturally soured.
Sister gave a troubled smile.

"I am sorry. We tried to send her to the place where the World Tree resides, but it seems Dirne-nim's desire led her here."
"...Tsk. Well, it can't be helped."
Honestly, it's a bit annoying.
But I can't really argue after seeing those inverted nipples.
'More importantly...'
"Ahem, ahem!!"
I cleared my throat.
Now that I've heard the full explanation about the Kkan-peu, it's time to ask the important question.
The thing I had a bit of a hunch about...
It was time to ask about my 'Modes.'
"The fact that you were dragged here means, as I thought...?"
"It was Dirne-nim's revenge. Everyone who was in the Immortal Realm was turned into Elixir Pills by her hand."
"...My god."
"I barely managed to protect my soul, but the other immortals were absorbed by her. Even their immortal arts and authority were stolen."
"......."
So, to summarize.
The modes that were so blatantly posted in the community notice.
As it turns out, they were a kind of relic, snatched away after she boiled and ate the immortals.
A sigh escaped me involuntarily.
It felt very uncomfortable.
"Don't tell me the Non-virgin Deletion mode and the Vertical Slash are also your..."
"That story will be quite long, so let us save it for another day."
Perhaps sensing the heavy atmosphere.
Chastity Sister clapped her hands together.
As a bonus, she gave Baal-nim, who was just staring blankly, a thudding hit.
"You should understand by now. Dirne-nim is our mortal enemy, and she is an utterly evil being who brings no benefit to you either."
"I don't fully understand, but it sounds like we just need to kill that long-eared bitch."
"I understand perfectly. Dirne-nim is a fucking bitch who needs to be torn apart."
I also straightened my waist.
To summarize in one line: the Kkan-peu is the final boss.
My fighting spirit flared up...
"...But uh, how exactly do we kill her?"
'You said she's a god.'
My fighting spirit was about to flare up.
But it died down instantly.
"By any chance, Sister..."
"I have regained some of the immortals' power through the Karma you gave me, but many are still bound within her grip. It is too much for me alone."
"Then what do we do?"
And so, the question.
Divine Sister, what can we, who don't even have superpowers, do?
The answer that came back was definitely not something like 'Just bring some popcorn.'
"Only you can accomplish it."
"No, but how?"
"Though this one was born evil, he has repented and wishes to lend you his strength. First, accept his help."
Then, Chastity Sister cast her gaze.
Toward the fucking gay... no, toward Baal-nim.
My head snapped around.
Baal-nim smiled brightly.
"I shall capture the Demon Race for you!! If the two of us join forces, there is nothing to fear, so use them as nourishment to become stronger!!"
"Baal, my best friend!!!!!!"
Damn it, I love you, you fucking gay.