Damn Reincarnation

as complete nonsense, Kristina began treating Eugene’s wounds.

His cloak, which had been lying on the floor, began to crawl over to Eugene.
Once the cloak was stuck to his side, Mer poked her head out of it.

Eugene wasn’t able to understand why the glare that Mer had in her eyes as she looked at him felt so cold.
Even so, as if it was only natural, Mer rested her chin on Eugene’s stomach so that he could stroke Mer’s hair with his trembling fingers.

“Please stay still.
The treatment for your hands isn’t finished yet,” Anise, who had swapped with Kristina, instructed.

As Anise’s hand was enveloped in Light, Eugene’s broken bones glued themselves together, and his torn muscles and nerves were reconnected.
Eugene twisted Mer’s hair into coils with his now much more comfortable hand.

“Where has Molon gone off to?” Eugene belatedly asked.

Although he didn’t know how long he had been unconscious, Eugene felt like not too long had passed.
They hadn’t even left this space yet; they were still on the other side of Lehainjar.

“He’s left to catch the Nur,” Anise replied.

Eugene gave a surprised, “What?”

Anise explained, “Before you woke up, Nur seemingly reappeared on the outside.”

“Is that so,” Eugene replied in a low voice.

Anise blinked at this muted response.

She then put on an ill-natured smile as she leaned her head over Eugene, “Aren ’t you worried about Molon? That idiot might have lost his mind again after catching the Nur, so he might be out there somewhere, causing harm to himself.”

Eugene scoffed, “If it was earlier, I would be worried.
I’d have also said something to you as well, asking why you allowed Molon to go on his own and why you didn’t go with him.
However, there’s no longer any need for that now.”

There wasn’t a single speck of doubt or worry in the words that Eugene had just uttered.
He had said it all drily as if he was only stating the very obvious.
Though their brawl hadn’t lasted very long, by crossing fists with Molon’s barbarically limitless strength, Eugene had gotten a feel of Molon.

Booom!

The ground started rocking up and down.
Molon had fallen from the sky, holding the carcass of a huge wild boar over his head.
Although the monster was already dead, Eugene could instinctively sense that that wasn’t just some huge beast, monster, or demonic beast.

“Eeek—” Mer’s shoulders trembled in fright, and she fled back into the cloak.
Eugene wrapped the cloak around his body, and while barely being able to raise his head off of the ground, he stared at Molon.
Molon, who was holding a Nur the size of an entire house with just one hand, bared his row of shining teeth in a smile as he met Eugene’s gaze.

“Hamel!” Molon greeted him.
“You’ve woken up!”

There was none of the madness that Molon had shown when he had decapitated the Nur in the Great Hammer Canyon or when they had seen him smashing his head against the ground.

Molon continued speaking, “Anise said that you would be okay, but I was truly worried.
After all, the wounds you had when you fainted were so terrible.”

“Those were all your fault,” Eugene complained.

“My fault? You’re wrong, Hamel.
You’re the one who attacked me even though I didn’t want to fight,” Molon corrected him.

Although this was the undeniable truth… Eugene still wanted to refute him somehow.
While chewing on his bottom lip, Eugene thought about what he could say in response.
However, no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t think of anything other than resorting to personal attacks.

Just as Eugene was about to seriously consider choosing his swear words, Molon grinned and called out to him, “Hamel, I’m going to get rid of this corpse up there.
Would you like to go with me?”

Eugene grunted, “Hah?”

He hadn’t expected that Molon would say such a thing first.
As such, Eugene honestly let out a noise of surprise.
After staring at Molon for a few moments, Eugene smirked and nodded his head.

“Of course, I want to go with you, but right now, my body isn’t moving the way I want it to,” said Eugene.

Although she had already healed all of his injuries, even Anise’s divine magic couldn’t take care of Ignition’s recoil as well.
As such, Eugene currently wasn’t able to move his body as he pleased.

Naturally, Molon was also aware of Ignition’s recoil.

“In that case, I’ll just have to give you a hand like I did in the past,” Molon proposed as he tossed the gigantic Nur all the way to the mountain ’s peak.

Watching as the Nur’s corpse flew into the distance, Eugene gaped for a few moments before finally asking, “If you can just throw them like that, why do you insist on carrying the corpse all the way up to the peak?”

“No real reason.
Usually, I’m not in my right mind, so I just throw them away wherever.
Whenever I start thinking there are too many of them, I just collapse the mountain on top of that.
If I do that, then everything becomes neat and tidy in no time,” Molon explained with a chuckle as he gestured to their surroundings in explanation.

Due to the fight between Eugene and Molon, the whole mountain had seemingly collapsed, but now there weren’t any traces of their battle left.
There still wasn’t any snow, but the bizarre scenery that had reminded them of their time in the Devildom those hundreds of years ago had also changed to a rather ordinary-looking scenery of a regular mountain.

This was because the mountain that had previously been eroded by the miasma had collapsed and had been remade anew.

“Well then, let’s go together!” Molon declared with a cheerful expression.

It seemed like there weren’t any traces of his previous insanity left in his heart.
However, they didn’t know if or when Molon’s heart might be corrupted with madness once more.
Something that already collapsed once could one day collapse again.

But for now, at least, it didn’t seem like it would collapse.
Molon pulled Eugene up and supported him.
Then he also extended an arm to Anise.
Anise grinned and clung onto Molon’s arm.

Molon’s feet kicked off the ground.
In a single leap, they flew up high into the sky.
Eugene and Anise gazed down below as they clung to Molon’s arms.

What they saw was the enclosed scenery of a mountain.
This was the other side of the Lehainjar.
The mountain where Eugene had just been had collapsed and had been restored, so it looked like an ordinary mountain, but the rest of the scenery hadn’t undergone the same process.
Their environments were still similar to the Devildom.
The corpses of the Nur could be seen here and there.
Traces of Molon’s self-harm could also be seen.

“There it is,” Molon whispered.

Eugene and Anise raised their heads.

They had already climbed higher than the peak of the mountain.
In the north, they could see Raguyaran, the End of the World.
The landscape they could see from here should be different from what they would see outside.
However, Eugene could comprehend why the Raguyaran he could see from here was called the Land that Should Not Be Crossed and the End of the World.

There really was nothing there.
All there was, was gray land, gray skies, and gray air.
Everything was gray and empty.
However, it wasn’t actually empty here.
At the base of the mountain, in the outskirts connected to the Raguyaran, countless corpses of Nur had been piled up there.

“In the past, I always threw the Nur’s corpse over there,” Molon explained.

Boom.

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Molon’s feet landed on the ground.
He put Anise and Eugene down for the moment, then picked up the boar-type Nur that he had thrown here earlier.

“I don’t know where the Nur come from.
I don’t even know what the Nur are.
However, Vermouth said that the Nur come from the End.
Because of that, I thought the deceased Nur should also be thrown back to the End,” Molon further elaborated.

The Nur’s corpse flew into the sky.
The huge corpse flew over several mountain peaks and fell into the Raguyaran.

Molon said absent-mindedly, “At some point, I just stopped doing this.”

Anise was supporting Eugene.
Without looking back at them, Molon just stared into the Raguyaran.

“Hamel.
Anise.
I hated coming to the peak for this moment.
At some point, I became afraid of climbing up to this peak.
I didn’t want to see Raguyaran.
The Raguyaran that can be seen from here is different from the Raguyaran that can be seen outside.
But in some places, it’s the same.
I didn’t want to see Raguyaran.
I didn’t want to see the End,” Molon confessed.

“Molon,” Eugene called out.

Molon continued speaking, “I might be strong, but I was lonely.
The years have weakened my warrior’s spirit.
However, Hamel, it’s fine now.
You didn’t tell me your reasons for it in detail, but from your fist, I felt that it was for my sake—”

“That fight doesn’t count,” Eugene suddenly spat out, cutting Molon’s words short.
“Just think back to three hundred years ago, Molon.
You had an exceptional physique, so you were also skilled in bare-handed fighting, but I honestly wasn’t that skilled with my bare fists.
So even when we were both in our primes, if we had only fought with our fists, I still wouldn’t have been able to beat you.”

He needed to acknowledge what couldn’t be denied.
As such, Eugene continued speaking quickly.
He had no intention of giving Molon any room for rebuttal.

“However, what do you think would happen if I had a real weapon in my hands? Starting from my previous life, I’ve always been an expert in all kinds of weapons.
There’s no comparison between me fighting with a weapon and me fighting with my bare hands.
So which do you think is the real me? It’s only when I’m holding a weapon that I’m really fighting seriously.
Especially since I currently have the Holy Sword, the Moonlight Sword, the Demonic Spear, and the Annihilation Hammer.
I also have Vermouth’s Storm Sword, Devouring Sword, Thunderbolt Pernoa, and the Dragon Spear.
It’s only when I’m able to use all of them that you can see my real skills.
Although you might be able to show your skills off with just a single, crude ax, I can ’t show my real skills without the right weapon.”

It wasn’t a lie.

“If I had just a single crudely-made knife in my hand, the outcome wouldn’t have been so obvious.
After all, facing your barbaric fists with just my bare body and parrying them with a sword would place completely different burdens on me.
With my refined techniques, I would have been able to divert all of your attacks without even damaging the edge of my blade, and in the end, I would have been able to slice open your body.
You understand what I’m trying to say, right? Our fight just now wasn’t fair.
I haven’t really lost to you.
So that fight doesn’t cou—”

“That’s not true, Hamel,” Molon replied with a rarely-seen serious expression.