Blood Demon of the Past Life – Chapter 212

Chapter 212: The Last Story （3）

The act of physically intervening in reality.

This meant giving up the Agent’s rights.

The power of Transcendence was revoked, and from now on, Luca Bellino existed as a human, not an Agent.

‘Is there a reason for me to go this far?’

No.

If Kang San goes berserk like this.

And if this world is destroyed, the moment I overcome that brief disgust, I can get another chance at revival. But would that be meaningful? Since returning to the time after Sophia’s death, Luca Bellino had been losing meaning in a life like this. She mechanically moved on with a sliver of hope, accepting the thought that maybe she was wrong from the beginning.

Like Kang San said.

Even if she, who had been defeated and given up, repeated time, nothing would change.

Then, rather than ruining other worlds, she wanted to see a world succeed at least once.

Bang!

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

“Mr. President!”

“Mr. President, are you alright!?”

Beyond the door.

There was a loud noise.

There was no time.

Luca Bellino quickly rushed towards Peng Mujeong.

Kwaang━!

Kwarururururung.

“This crazy bitch, what the hell is she doing!”

Peng Mujeong’s face was stained with bewilderment.

The power of the previous life.

He had hidden it from Eric Roberts, and he blocked Luca Bellino’s attack, which was unleashed by manifesting that power. He couldn’t understand it at all. There was no reason for her to attack him, in his common sense.

Whiri━

Bang!

“Keuk.”

He swallowed a groan.

Despite not having the power of Transcendence, Peng Mujeong was unilaterally pushed back by the intense and destructive swordsmanship.

Luca Bellino spoke fiercely.

“Why am I doing this? Because it’s disgusting.”

Kakakang!

She pushed him.

Even while speaking, she didn’t give Peng Mujeong a break.

“Me, and you too. All beings like us are disgusting. To achieve our goals, we are repeating the tragedies we experienced in this world as well. People die, and even as we watch them wail, they are merely seen as people who must die, like a quest in our eyes.”

“You crazy bitch, why are you spouting such emotional nonsense now!”

“Kang San went to find you.”

“What?”

Flash.

Puck━!

“Kuagh!”

Peng Mujeong screamed.

His chest was cut, and he knelt down.

An overwhelming difference.

Luca Bellino’s power was so strong that it could not be defined by the standards of this world.

Her struggles, repeated tens, hundreds, thousands of times, granted her power on a different dimension, even excluding the power of Transcendence.

“I clearly warned Kang San about this situation. I told him that he would go berserk, so he should somehow deal with you without meeting you. But he still went. It must have been his determination to overcome the inevitable fate, knowing it was inevitable. He knew that if he couldn’t handle you, he would fail, just like we did.”

“……If, if I die, the result will be the same. Kang San will think that I hurt him.”

“I know.”

Swoosh.

She put the sword to his neck.

If she flicked it away, this fragile human would die.

Peng Mujeong’s soul would not get a chance and would wander for eons before belatedly facing a new reality.

It’s a very easy and simple thing to do.

Therefore.

“That’s why I won’t kill you.”

Thud.

She threw the sword away.

At the same time.

Kwaang━!

Crack.

The door broke down, and a group of people appeared.

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There was no time to react.

That would be the case by the standards of ordinary humans, but Luca Bellino intentionally did not react.

“M, Mr. President!”

“Attack━!”

White House security guards.

In their eyes, she would look like the culprit.

Kang San, who had collapsed on the floor and was trembling, and Eric Roberts, who was kneeling with his chest cut.

It’s not internal strife.

It was a picture of an unknown assassin appearing and attacking both of them.

Tang━!

Tatatatatang!

Bullets lodged in her body.

Such things couldn’t end her life, and Luca Bellino turned her head with a calm gaze and looked at the weapon being swung towards her. Explosively surging magical power. She didn’t avoid it this time either. No, rather, she eliminated the magical power surrounding her body and made her condition as weak as possible.

Slice!

Her arm was cut off.

Puk━!

Her back was also cut, and blood splattered. She stumbled and collapsed, and a spear pierced her chest.

Crack━!

Thud!

She fell to the floor.

She didn’t let out a groan.

Coughing up blood from her mouth, she met Peng Mujeong’s gaze while lying down.

“……You, you are…….”

His eyes were filled with shock.

He didn’t expect Luca Bellino to give up her life.

It was an unexpected scenario, and Luca Bellino felt the strength rapidly draining from her entire body.

‘Why did I struggle so desperately to live?’

Her past life flashed through her mind like a kaleidoscope.

Whenever she destroyed countless worlds and gained a chance at revival, she repeated the plan she had perfected by endlessly refining it. Laying the foundation for growth, gaining talented companions, anticipating disasters and responding in advance. People always called her a hero. At first, she felt overwhelmed by the situation, but the emptiness grew as she realized that her husband and Sophia were not among the same faces every time.

If she goes to the afterlife.

If she goes there and meets her family.

Could she be proud?

She couldn’t imagine herself being truly happy in front of her family while receiving the resentment of countless souls she had destroyed.

Kang San was right.

It was wrong from the beginning.

She shouldn’t have been defeated, and she shouldn’t have given up.

Luca Bellino looked at Kang San with fading eyes.

“Treat the President quickly!”

“Kang San-nim is also in critical condition!”

It was noisy all around.

She reached out her hand.

Squeezing out the last of her magical power, she unleashed a mysterious power towards Kang San.

‘……From now on, it’s your responsibility.’

She failed.

The moment the mysterious power reached Kang San.

Thud.

Luca Bellino could no longer bear the weight of her heavy eyelids and closed her eyes.

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Kang San thought.

‘Can this really be called a human?’

Peng Mujeong’s evil deeds.

Experiencing that repeated tragedy, the feeling of murderous intent completely consumed his mind.

He no longer remembered why he came to see Eric Roberts or what Luca Bellino had advised.

Just.

‘Let’s kill.’

He accepted the murderous intent.

He was a human who had to be killed.

No, he was an evil spirit that should not exist in this world.

That’s when it happened.

Flash━

The world shone brightly.

Instead of the hell where Peng Mujeong’s evil deeds were repeated, a strange landscape unfolded before his eyes.

“……Did we fail again?”

Beyond that.

He could see the collapsing city.

Seeing Luca Bellino staring blankly, one of her companions asked.

“Fail? It’s not over yet.”

“No.”

She looked at her companion.

What was his name?

He was called a hero of mankind, but she couldn’t remember for a moment.

Perhaps because she had repeated it too many times, she no longer recognized her companion as a human.

“We failed. We’ve experienced the collapse of that city more than a dozen times, and from then on, it was impossible to turn back. We’re too late.”

“What do you mean…….”

“Let’s stop.”

Swoosh.

She put her finger to her head.

Raising her magical power, she looked at the people beyond her companion with a calm gaze.

“It’ll be fine next time.”

Bang━!

Fwoosh.

Her head exploded.

That was the last memory.

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It was another memory.

Thud.

Someone knelt down.

“……You intended to do this from the beginning, Luca Bellino.”

A face looking up in despair.

Despair and betrayal were mixed.

Luca Bellino looked on without emotion, and the man poured out his emotions as if sobbing.

“I believed your words. Because you experienced destruction just like us, I believed your advice would lead our world to peace. But it wasn’t. You drove us all to death for your sake.”

His world.

It was on the verge of destruction.

After a desperate internal conflict, humanity walked the path of self-destruction.

“I will resent you even after death…….”

Puck━!

Something flew.

It was an arrow.

The opposing side killed the human Luca Bellino had chosen.

The flame of hope was extinguished.

Now, this world would not last more than a month, even if it tried to hold on.

Looking at the blood gushing from the corpse on the floor, Luca Bellino said calmly.

“You will also have a chance. If you destroy another world like me, you can also reverse this moment. So, isn’t it a good thing for all of us?”

She had to think that way.

If she didn’t think that way.

Luca Bellino couldn’t handle this moment.

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The world changed.

This time, it was a familiar sight.

She mechanically destroyed one world repeatedly, and even now, the last barrier was collapsing before her eyes.

Kurururung.

Even seeing that.

Even as people died.

Luca Bellino was lost in thought.

‘If I get a chance at revival this time, at what starting point should I start? First, I need to quickly secure the rewards from the Special Grade Dungeon as much as possible. Last time, I tried to start differently and delayed it by a week, but I ended up losing the dungeon’s rewards, and all my plans went awry. This time is different. Even if I don’t succeed, I have to improve the completeness of the plan.’

“Kyaaagh━!”

Suddenly.

She came to her senses.

It was a child’s scream.

In Luca Bellino’s sight, she saw a child crushed under the collapsed barrier.

“Oh, no!”

“Save her quickly!”

Adults rushed in.

The adults hurriedly removed the debris to rescue the child, and around them, she could see people fighting against the monsters to protect them. Why? Luca Bellino couldn’t take her eyes off them.

“……It’s okay. Run away quickly, everyone.”

The child spoke with difficulty.

Now that she looked closely, the child was holding a bundle of arrows in her small hand.

Barely 10 years old.

A child who looked a little older than Sophia was carrying supplies like arrows, trying to be helpful in her own way.

Luca Bellino approached the spot.

People didn’t notice her.

But then.

“……Angel-nim. Please take me away quickly.”

The girl’s gaze was directed precisely at Luca Bellino.

Her heart sank.

Until just now, she had accepted this situation mechanically, not accepting the deaths of the people in this world as real deaths. Because they would have a chance too. It would be a good thing if she got a new opportunity because of their destruction in a world that would be destroyed anyway.

But it wasn’t.

The girl was a living human being.

Suddenly, an immense sense of disgust washed over her at the gaze of the child, who had matured too early, looking at her.

‘What am I doing?’

She had destroyed countless worlds.

She had witnessed the deaths of countless people in exchange for countless opportunities.

Among them were children like the girl.

Just as she had lost Sophia, there were parents who wailed at the death of their children.

“Oh, no! Nooo━!”

The man in front of her was like that.

He seemed to be the girl’s father and didn’t stop frantically removing the debris as if he had lost his mind.

Eventually.

The girl’s head drooped.

She died.

But the father didn’t stop.

Even as the barrier collapsed and monsters swarmed in, the father stubbornly refused to leave the spot.

It was an obvious ending.

Crunch!

“Kuaaagh!”

A monster attacked.

The father rolled on the ground, and the monster’s sharp teeth dug into his flesh, and a terrible scream rang out. Even in that situation, the father’s gaze was fixed on his daughter. He desperately reached out to the monsters as they sniffed and approached his daughter’s corpse.

“Please…….”

His wish did not come true.

She could hear the sounds of them tearing and devouring.

As the father closed his eyes, Luca Bellino also squeezed her eyes shut.

She could no longer face reality.

Only then did she realize.

She had already stepped into hell.

She regretted it.

She thought.

If she could turn back time.

She would rather have accepted death.

She wouldn’t have struggled so desperately alone, like this, unlike her husband and daughter.

But the fact that she would repeat it again if she got a chance at revival was truly disgusting to her.

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Regret.

Despair.

Complex emotions surged.

In Kang San’s consciousness, stained with murderous intent, Luca Bellino’s voice clearly penetrated.

“From now on, it’s your responsibility.”

At that moment.

Flash.

Kang San opened his eyes.