My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero’s - Chapter 157~Prologue~ Part 2

「This is the end!! —-『Roaring Thunder』!!!」

The demon said a phrase that one used when one released their ultimate technique, and swung the hand that he held up toward the sky down.

Disoriented by the strong light, a shock ran through that hand that was held out in front.

Everything was dyed white, and then it returned to normal.

Clouds of dust danced in the air.

「…haa.」

After the clouds of dust settled, someone among the demons gasped.

It was natural that they would do so.

Far from being blown away, he wasn’t even injured when he took a direct hit from an attack that would have completely annihilated a several meter tall monster.

When they saw such a human, they finally understood just what they were dealing with.

That face that still had a few points of childishness left was colored in disappointment.

Those eyes were a dull black, as if the darkness of this world was held within them.

The man sighed, and lowered his slightly numb right hand.

「Are you looking down on me?」

「Of course not. If it were a normal human, they would already cease to exist.」

In front was not the horizon, but a line of monsters.

As if that wasn’t already enough, there was a sea of monsters, as far as the eye could see.

There were nothing but monsters that were several times taller than those from the lowest level of the dungeon.

The only ones in front of the monsters were the demons and man.

It was a situation where, if they were a normal human, they wouldn’t have been laughed at even if cast away their embarrassment and honor to run away, let alone pleading for their life.

Despite this, a scornful laugh leaked from the man’s lips.

Perhaps it was because they saw the scene just now, but a few demons retreated several steps backwards.

「You, are crazy. You are a monster that couldn’t even be called a human anymore.」

The demon whose forehead was full of sweat said this when he saw the man who was giggling during such circumstances.

The man did not get angry, he just accepted those words.

「Aah, if that’s what you said, then that’s how it is. However, ever since I came to this world, the one who made me go mad was you. Naa, Abe Mahiro.」

The man deliberately called the demon’s name in a way that was done differently in this world.

The demon who lost his calm raised an eyebrow.

The man raised the arm that he had lowered up to his chest, and fired off a few words to invoke his magic.

「『Shadow Magic』」

An unprecedentedly large and deep darkness overturned the world.

Within that darkness where one couldn’t even see those who were right next to them came baffled voices everywhere.

「I have to thank you for turning me into a monster. Thanks to you, I could kill that man. And regret it. I will not forgive you.」

The man raised both hands up to the sky, as if taking everything in.

「Lord, I will be the one to personify all the evil in the world——『Divine Punishment』.」

The moment those words left his lips, the darkness took on various appearances.

There were screams everywhere.

「Be consumed by the thing you fear and die.」

In an instant, the only one standing in that place was the demon.

Even the remaining things that couldn’t even be called pieces of flesh were eaten up until nothing was left.

What should’ve been a war, and what should’ve been a battle where demons were unilaterally advantageous, turned into a one-on-one because of a monster.