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“You, how did you get this power?”

She asked with a deathly pale complexion.

Seeing his face reflected in her trembling eyes, Yupheon felt his entire body elevated with an inexplicable euphoria.

After arriving in Yetrisha, the first thing he discovered was her worrying over Niel’s body.

But now her attention was directed at him, which wasn’t a bad reward for saving with his own hands a man he always wanted to kill.

“Are you curious, Jella?”

Yupheon asked impulsively.

He thought he couldn’t hide it for long anyway.

But he wanted to delay the moment of her discovery as much as possible.

The reason he saved Niel Alpenhayer, who would have died if left alone, despite risking being discovered by her, was simple.

Though he always wanted to kill the man, it was problematic if that man’s death became a sacrifice for her.

Because he hoped that the annoying man who had luckily secured the position of her fiancé one day would mean nothing to her.

“Because I killed God.”

Perhaps what consumed him at that moment was a strange jealousy filled with needless competitiveness and triumphalism.

Niel Alpenhayer, you’re not the only one who can die for her.

I can do that too.

No, I already have.

So I want to be something to you, and you alone.

Don’t give even a grain of worry or a thread of concern to that weak man who can’t even die for you.

Just look at me alone, like you are now.

Please see this poor Yuphe, who died for you.

So Yupheon stared intently at her face as she looked at him blankly, and with curved eyes, he said with a smile:

“The d*mn god who gave the oracle to kill you.”

Her red lips parted slightly in shock.

So prettily. Making him want to devour them.

So beautiful and lovely.

***

7 years ago.

‘Let’s kill God.’

With that determination, Yupheon discovered in the restricted section of forbidden books, accessible only to the Pope, the method to meet God. But just because he could meet God didn’t mean that he, a mere human, could easily kill God.

He was absorbed in the passages related to the “Death of the Evil God” that appeared in the holy scriptures.

[The God of Life, Arne, killed the evil god who ruled the world and became the master of the entire world, and thus the world attained peace.]

The evil god was still a god after all. So the fact that the evil god was killed meant that there must certainly exist a method to kill a god.

Then how did Arne kill the evil god? How did he manage to kill such a powerful god who had ruled the world?

“Yuphe, what are you thinking about so deeply?”

Yuria approached him as he stood lost in thought in a corner of the noisy banquet hall.

“Don’t be like that, let’s go over there together, shall we?”

Just as Yuria linked her arm with his, Arne’s voice echoed in his head.

-Look into her eyes and smile prettily. With the eyes of a man in love. So that everyone gathered here can see.

“Hmm, sure.”

As he mindlessly followed the voice’s command, his body suddenly stiffened.

‘Ah, could it be? Is this it?’

Enchantment. The strange power Arne had given to Yuria. If this power worked not only on humans but also on fellow gods…

‘Since Arne’s true form could produce more powerful effects than Yuria… he could have used this to enchant the evil god…’

While his mind continued to race, he was being led by Yuria when suddenly she stopped walking.

-Protect her. From the witch of Shunaibel. Protect her and drive away the witch.

Yupheon’s expression instantly hardened. Looking up, he saw Jella in front of him.

“Yuphe…”

Yuria clutched his clothes and trembled.

Yupheon took Yuria’s trembling hand and hid her protectively behind him. Then he addressed Jella in a cold voice.

“…I told you not to threaten Yuria.”

“Threaten?”

Jella raised one eyebrow with an expression of disbelief, then turned away as if she didn’t even want to deal with him.

Cail Aleret looked at him with a strange expression before following after her.

Yupheon stared at their retreating figures.

He was a bit concerned, remembering how exhausted she had looked just moments ago.

“Thank you, Yuphe. If it weren’t for you just now… I was so scared.”

“Sure. But Yuria, I have something I need to do for a moment.”

Yupheon made an excuse and left.

At the end of the long corridor, he could see Jella’s resting room.

Just as he was standing there, unable to approach closer, clenching his fist, the door opened and Cail Aleret left.

After standing in the same spot for a while, Yupheon unconsciously opened the door and went inside.

And there he found Jella asleep, leaning against the sofa.

Her face, with eyes closed in sleep, was as peaceful as he remembered from long ago.

Her soft breathing tickled his ears.

Yupheon carefully reached out and stroked her hair.

“I’m sorry, Jella. Please wait just a little longer.”

It was a sorrowful confession that wouldn’t reach her in her sleep.

“When I kill that damned god…”

[You want to kill God?]

He froze.

Yupheon’s hand, which had been arranging her hair, suddenly stopped.

[Shall I tell you how to kill a god?]

A strange voice was heard.

[The God of Enchantment, Arne, envied the Creator and killed him through enchantment. Afterwards, he became the main god of this world, governing life.]

“What…?”

Yupheon’s face turned white.

No. According to the scriptures, Arne was not the God of Enchantment but the God of Life, and what he killed was not the Creator but the evil god.

As if reading his mind, the voice continued its explanation.

[Arne’s essence is ‘enchantment.’ In ancient times, he enchanted pure souls on earth, devoured hundreds and thousands of lives, and became a half-baked god.]

“……”

[The foolish Creator was enchanted by such a being and kept him by his side.]

“……”

[Having done such a foolish thing, he had nothing to say when his position as the main god was taken and he was recorded as the evil god.]

The voice burst into wild laughter.

Yupheon was confused by this truth that differed from everything he had known, but even amidst the confusion, he calmly asked for the information he needed.

“So. How do I kill a god?”

[Arne’s heart. The life force he obtained by devouring hundreds and thousands of pure souls in ancient times is condensed and contained there.]

“……”

[If you split Arne’s chest and take out his heart, he will face death as a god.]

“Death as a god?”

[Yes, just like that foolish Creator who is now called the evil god…]

At that moment, the door opened with a click.

“Your Majesty, I brought water…”

Cail entered with a tray containing a water bottle and cup, then his expression hardened when he discovered Yupheon beside the sleeping Jella.

“Step away.”

“……”

But Yupheon stared blankly into space as if he couldn’t hear Cail’s voice.

At this, Cail gritted his teeth and pointed his sword at him.

“Get away from her right now.”

Only when the sharp blade was held to his neck did Yupheon finally come to his senses.

“Ah…”

When normally he would have thrown a few sharp words at Cail, calling him an arrogant slave, he ignored Cail and stood up abruptly.

This was not the time.

Yupheon immediately left the banquet hall and returned to the Grand Temple.

He needed to verify if the voice’s words were true.

And after long dedication, he discovered previously unknown facts in the ancient Hersha clan’s documents.

Arne, the main god governing life.

In reality, he was neither a god nor anything else but a mass of enchantment that stole the lives of pure souls to ascend to godhood, and not content with that, became the master of this world.

“To think we’ve been worshipping such a being as the main god, Father would be shocked if he knew.”

Yupheon chuckled and closed what he was reading.

Afterwards, having completed all preparations, he finally took out his own heart and offered it on the altar.

His soul, which reached the divine realm, enchanted and caught the god off guard with that beautiful face that could bewitch even a god, just as Arne had done to the Creator, and proceeded to carve out the god’s heart.

It wasn’t particularly difficult to flatter and win the heart of a god deeply immersed in narcissism.

Winning others’ favor with a pretty face was one of the things he did best.

Yupheon could become a cheap pr*stitute for Jella anytime, enduring the rising disgust.

With sweet words like “I love you so much that I offered my heart to come here,” “I want to be your eternal servant here,” “Please allow me to be yours,” he gained a place by the god’s side.

Having finally carved out the god’s heart, he breathed slowly in the pungent blood that wasn’t his own.

‘Is it all over now…’

His ears were still stinging from the god’s voice, which had been screaming curses at him even while dying.

Having killed the god, the oracle would also have been nullified.

By now, his physical body left on earth would have met death with an empty heart, but he had no regrets as he had achieved his sole purpose.

Yes, he had no regrets.

No regrets…

“I miss… Jella…”

As longing for her suddenly burst forth, his eyes grew hot with tears.

He had no regrets, and he would surely make the same choice if he could go back, but… he missed her.

The fact that he could never see her again tormented him.

Suddenly, he felt the beating of a heart pulsating in his hand.

It was Arne’s heart.

Yupheon stared at it quietly.

‘If I have that, could I go see Jella?’

Arne’s heart was closer to a nucleus that had condensed thousands, millions of lives rather than an organ constituting a body.

He instinctively felt that the moment he touched it, he would no longer meet death as a human but would become something else.

Perhaps this time, he would truly be filled with long and harsh regrets.

But, just once.

If he could see her just once more.

Even if he had to fill very long moments with regret, it wouldn’t matter if he could see her just once more.

“Jella…”

Yupheon embedded that red nucleus into his empty soul.

At that moment, his soul twisted and was reassembled anew.

The truth of all creation shook his mind, and Yupheon finally became a being other than human and awakened again in his dead body.

But when he opened his eyes, what awaited him was…

“His, His Holiness…! His Holiness has opened his eyes!”

“Oh, His Holiness! What a miracle…”

“The death of the villain Jella Shunaibel has brought His Holiness back to us!”

…her death.