Chapter 31. The Tyrant of Magi, the terrifying Purge King Natsuki Subaru!
[One year ago, at the residence of the von Einzbern house.]
[The cold eastern wind stirred, white snow blanketed the ancient castle.]
[Inside the castle, it was dark and empty, so silent it made one's hair stand on end.]
[A young girl from an ancient magi family was kneeling in fear on the ground, her entire body overtaken by terror, sweat dripping endlessly from her forehead.]
[Chills down the spine...]
[Trembling...]
[Despair...]
[At this moment, all the absolute confidence in her own beauty, the speech she had carefully prepared before coming to the von Einzbern house, the plentiful bargaining chips in her hand...]
[All of it felt like a ridiculous joke.]
[Her mind went blank, unable to think...]
[The moment she saw that brutal silhouette, she instantly understood she was merely a discarded pawn.]
[The girl lowered her head, the figure seated at the head of the round table clung to her mind like a nightmare that would not fade.]
[Upon the throne, the Purge King looked down at her from above, smiling gleefully.]
["Speak, what is your purpose?"]
["To, to form an alliance with you, to receive tactical support from Von Einzbern."]
[She crawled on the ground, her throat trembling, as if her soul had frozen.]
[The man thought for a moment, then stepped down from the throne, took out a silver coin in his hand, and smiled: "Requesting assistance from the Opheus clan, is it? I accept."]
["Th-thank you!!"]
[At first she was stunned, then burst into tears in disbelief, kowtowing repeatedly.]
[Whirl.]
[In the air, the sound of a spinning coin echoed suddenly at high speed.]
[With it came a dazzling beam of light falling down.]
[The girl reflexively caught it.]
[—It was the tails side.]
[She stopped breathing, stunned as she looked upward, completely frozen.]
["Another untrustworthy one..."]
[The tyrannical and despotic king said coldly: "Deal with her, Berserker."]
["GRRRAAAAOOO!!"]
[Next to the Purge King, a fierce, wild-haired giant roared, overflowing with violent aura.]
[He raised his stone axe high, and in the girl's eyes full of despair, brought it down without warning.]
["BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM...!!"]
[Amid the shockwaves of compressed and exploding air, the magnificent Einzbern castle gradually collapsed.]
[Among the ruins, with countless shattered walls, a beautiful corpse sliced in two lay in a pool of blood.]
[The man calmly observed everything unfold.]
At that moment, the entire world fell silent.
Every nation.
Every people.
Countless individuals stood stunned, frozen as they stared up at the blood-soaked, brutal sky.
City of Chiba, Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Bureau.
"To decide someone's life with just a coin toss..."
"What the fuck does he think human lives are!!"
Isayama Yomi erupted in anger, furiously drawing the divine sword Shishio and slashing fiercely toward the Celestial Curtain.
——Slash!
A radiant sword aura like a red lotus cut straight through the sky, soaring toward the Celestial Curtain.
Mid-flight, without spiritual energy to sustain it, it quickly dissipated completely.
It at least helped her vent a portion of her rage.
...
Town of Hoori, shrine.
The divine sword embedded in the stone pedestal let out a humming sound, and a small green-haired spirit girl flew out from Murasamemaru, stomping her feet in frustration.
"Berserker falling into the hands of someone like that, it's truly a precious gem buried in the dirt, aiding a villain!"
...
Tokyo, "Master of all yokai", the great youkai Nurarihyon furrowed his brows tightly.
"That brat of a magus really was born evil."
"What a pity we're not in the same world. Otherwise, this old man would personally bring you…"
Just as everyone was furiously denouncing him—
The Celestial Curtain slowly zoomed in, revealing the true face of the brutal Purge King.
["Berserker is still the easiest to use…"]
[By the edge of the blood pool, the man spoke indifferently, dressed entirely in black.]
[His hair was disheveled and unkempt, dark circles covered his eyelids as if he hadn't slept in years, his left eyelid drooping while his right eye was wide open and hollow, one big and one small, empty and lifeless.]
[He gave off an extremely weary impression, surrounded by a faint aura of despair.]
[Not far away, two homunculus maids with intertwining blue and pink hair pressed their chests together, holding hands and exclaiming in shock.]
["Rem Rem, Subaru-sama is using Berserker as a plaything again, how pitiful."]
["Nee-sama nee-sama, Subaru-sama is bullying Berserker again, how inhumane."]
[Their voices were perfectly synchronized, as if two freshly manufactured pink-and-blue radios.]
[The Purge King fell silent, quietly casting a glance at the two.]
[In an instant.]
[The two adorable maids tensed up, hand in hand retreating into a corner of the room.]
["So scary, feels like Subaru-sama is about to cut off our heads, Rem."]
["So terrifying, feels like Subaru-sama is going to slice us in half, Nee-sama."]
[Though they were homunculi from the von Einzbern house, they seemed no different from cute high school girls.]
[Youthful and lively, sometimes a bit noisy.]
[Until he calmly raised a finger to his lips and softly blew.]
["Shhh~"]
[Immediately, the entire ruins of the von Einzbern castle fell into absolute silence.]
[Even the birds flying across the sky dared not make a single sound.]
[——This was the might of the "Purge King".]
[He was the current head of the von Einzbern house, commanding an elite army of rigorously trained homunculi, undefeated in battle, having launched devastating assaults on the four major conglomerates in Japan.]
[He killed entirely on whim, with a death toll of one hundred twenty-seven thousand six hundred and two.]
[He was infamously ruthless, a true "Tyrant of the Moon Light World"!]
[His name was — Natsuki Subaru.]
"I'm a tyrant...?!"
Celestial Curtain, a hikikomori boy sat up in shock.
What kind of situation could possibly lead to him becoming such a monstrous figure in a parallel world?
Commanding a supernatural army, snapping fingers to annihilate conglomerates, a brutal criminal who's killed over 100,000 people…
Don't tell me he lost his parents at a young age or something?
Other people turning darkside might become ten times stronger — when you turn darkside, you're ten thousand times stronger?!