Damn Reincarnation

ove to hold….] Tempest cautioned.

“Those idiots had been using it, so I’m sure I will be able to use it.” Eugene chuckled as he reached out his hand for the Demon Spear.

300 years ago, Hamel and Molon wanted to become the owner of the Annihilation Hammer and the Demon Spear.
Hamel tried holding it several times, but every time he did, he felt like he was going to go insane.
So, in the end, he gave up on being the owner of those weapons.

Was he not worthy enough? The thought had crossed Hamel’s mind.
The Demon Spear, the Annihilation Hammer, and the Moonlight Sword only accepted Vermouth as their owners, not accepting anyone else.
Only Vermouth could use those ridiculously strong weapons.

Hamel and Molon were also strong, but they weren ’t as strong as Vermouth.
If someone needed to meet special qualifications to become the owner of the legendary weapons, only Vermouth met those qualifications.

Hamel had thought so 300 years ago, but Eugene didn’t think so right now.
The Council Head owned the Demon Spear.
The Annihilation Hammer was owned by Dominic.
Were they more qualified than Hamel and Molon? If ‘qualifications’ meant talent, then absolutely not.
The only thing that made Doynes and Dominic more special than Hamel and Molon was their lineage as the Great Vermouth’s descendants.

‘…Even the Moonlight Sword,’ Eugene thought.
 

He could now hold and swing the awful sword with ease, maybe because he had reincarnated as Vermouth’s descendant.

Eugene stood in front of the Demon Spear.
The ominous Spear was tenaciously emitting darkness, dyeing the ground black.
After glaring at it for a moment, Eugene unhesitatingly reached out to grab the Demon Spear.

Ooooo!

Trembling, the Demon Spear in Eugene’s hand howled.
His head spun; his mind was confused.
He was in more pain than he had been when his left arm was crushed by Eward’s attack.
As he gritted his teeth to stop screaming, Eugene pulled out the Demon Spear stuck into the ground.

He came out of the hole and approached the Annihilation Hammer.

[Sir Eugene…? You are okay, right?] Mer asked in fear.

Without answering Mer, Eugene extended his crushed left hand and grabbed the Annihilation Hammer.

When he grabbed the Hammer, Eugene’s view was covered with darkness, but he wasn’t surprised.

Glaring at the darkness, he took a step forward.

The darkness shook hard as it gathered up in one place.
Although it didn’t have a specific form, this ominous darkness made every living being instinctively shudder.
Eugene was familiar with this darkness.
The ‘darkness spirit’ had previously existed in two pieces: one was in the Demon Spear and another in the Annihilation Hammer.
However, the pieces now united and became one ‘darkness spirit.’

The spirit was the remnant of the two Demon Kings — the Demon King of Carnage and the Demon King of Cruelty.

When he became conscious of the remnant, Eugene’s mind became unstable again.
Staggering, Eugene grabbed his head.
The truth of black magic, which had made Eward be in the raptures of happiness, was about to be engraved in Eugene’s mind.
However, this engraving wasn’t the same as accumulating knowledge.
If that truth remained in his mind, the darkness spirit would take over his body, regardless of Eugene’s will.

It meant that Eugene would become a representative of the Demon Kings, whom he hated with all his heart.
On top of that, the Demon Kings had already died 300 years ago.

“Get lost,” Eugene spoke harshly as he took one more step forward.

Woosh!

The white flame wrapped around Eugene.
As he kept marching on, the flame mane around Eugene flew in the air.

He dropped the Annihilation Hammer and the Demon Spear.
Before they touched the ground, Eugene pulled out the Holy Sword and the Moonlight Sword from the Cloak.
Eugene had no intention of tolerating the existence of that ominous, horrible being, much less using its power.

The converging pale moonlight and holy light lit up the darkness.

Ciel Lionheart was intoxicated, but she didn’t experience hallucinations.
It had already been three years since she started to train as a Black Lion.
She never skipped her drug-tolerance training, so her tolerance was pretty high.
Her mind wasn’t fragile, either.

However, her body was powerless; her mind was groggy.
The darkness spirit not only shackled Ciel but all sacrificial offerings.
The spirit then dragged their minds into deep darkness.

Everything felt like a dream, but Ciel knew what had happened wasn’t a dream.
Still, it didn’t seem real.
She couldn’t interfere, only able to watch.
She saw a reality that felt like a dream.

“…Where is…Eugene?” Ciel asked with trembling lips.
It was difficult for her to speak.
Her head ached, and her body felt heavy like wet cotton.

Her eyes kept closing on their own, so Ciel forced them to stay open.
Among the people who had been captured as sacrificial offerings, Ciel was the first to regain consciousness.

“…He is okay…right?” She pressed her uncle, Gion Lionheart, for an answer.
With worried eyes, her uncle looked down at her, unable to pull himself together.

Gion had realized something was going on in the forest.
After he discovered that a large amount of demonic energy was accumulated elsewhere besides the center of the forest, the entire Black Lion Order marched into the forest.

Dominic knew the Black Lion Knights well.
They were too obsessed to make only the Lionhearts as the Black Lion Knights.
As a result of their obsession, there wasn’t a single priest or a paladin in the Black Lion Knightly Order.

The barrier had been meticulously made by the Demon King’s remnant and was truly powerful.
However, since the Black Lion Knights didn’t have the Holy Sword and the Moonlight Sword, it was impossible for them to break the barrier.
Even the captains on watch duty gathered up in one place to break through the barrier, but it wasn’t easy to break this kind of barrier with pure physical force.

Gion included, the Black Lions hadn’t arrived at the scene of the incident because they had been able to break through the barrier.
No, they had arrived because the barrier had been destroyed when a brilliant light filled the darkness.

“…He is injured, though….” Gion nodded, heaving a long sigh.
After hearing his answer, Ciel raised her head with difficulty and searched for Eugene.

With a haggard face, Eugene was sitting down on the ground.
His bloody left arm was a mess.
It wouldn’t have been strange for Eugene to have fainted already.
Instead, he looked the same as he did when the semiconscious Ciel saw him inside the barrier.

“…Are you okay?” Ciel spoke with a trembling voice.
Her voice was small, but Eugene heard her.

Looking at Ciel, Eugene grinned.
“Do I look okay to you?”

He was not gonna lie; he wasn’t fine.
Without Kristina, Eugene would take at least a week to recover from his left arm injury and the internal injury he had sustained as a rebound from Ignition.

“Don’t try to stay awake.
Just sleep.” Eugene suggested to Ciel.

“…I, I’m fine.”

“I know you are not okay.
It’s all over, so you don’t need to stay awake.”

“…I have to… I want to say something to you.” Ciel didn’t change her mind.

She could finally relax, but she was beginning to choke up with emotions.
Thinking that this was how she would die, she was scared.
Although she wished someone would come and save her, at the same time, she also wished for no one to come.
Yet, neither of her desperate wishes had come true: Cyan, Gargith, Dezra, and Genia had come one by one… and failed to save her.
Everyone had been overpowered and captured by the darkness.

However, Eugene hadn’t come.
Despite everything, she thought that it was fortunate.
She hoped that Eugene had run away and gone outside the forest to ask for help.
With the smell of blood filling her nose as Eward drew the magic circle, Ciel had gradually become unconscious.
Then, when she was about to faint, she saw Eugene’s flame.

“…You saved me,” Ciel quietly spoke after she calmed herself.

“Don’t say it now.” Eugene shot her down.

“Why?”

“Thank me later.
I’m going to hear it when you and I are both fine.
You can say thank you then, very politely.”

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“…No, I don ’t want to.
Hear it now…!”

“No, I’m not gonna hear it now.
You can thank me a hundred times now, but I’m not going to hear it,” Eugene said with a cheeky smile.