The Oracle of the Villainous Baby - Chapter 164

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Chapter 164
“I’ve given this considerable thought.”
He spoke with unhurried deliberation.
“Don’t you think some stories are only truly entertaining when they end in tragedy?”
Belial, hands clasped behind his back, uttered words laden with meaning.
Bunny lifted her gaze to meet Belial’s.
Their eyes locked, and Belial smiled with a subtle, knowing expression.
“If you were to leave this place and find happiness elsewhere… wouldn’t that also be a good thing for that creature?”
At Belial’s words, Bunny’s eyes narrowed. She could not fathom his meaning.
“A great Demon King must be the loneliest of all beings. Only when standing utterly alone in that most solitary position does she achieve true beauty and strength. And so….”
Belial smiled with that same knowing expression.
“Perhaps it would be rather difficult for you to find happiness?”
“What are you doing right now?”
“Rebellion.”
Belial smiled knowingly.
“My great master, I would prefer that this woman not go anywhere.”
A crimson blaze erupted—
Massive wings unfurled explosively from The Man’s back, wreathed in blood-red flames.
Horns sprouted forth, and beneath eyes stained crimson, the pupils split vertically into narrow slits. A malevolent demonic aura permeated the air.
“So he was a Demon Clan Member after all….”
Kiriel Yudia murmured softly to himself.
There had always been subtle signs, but since he had caused no significant incidents and posed no problems, Kiriel had simply ignored them.
‘…I did find it strange that he attached himself to that woman Hila from the beginning….’
A sharp crack.
Another crack.
Fissures began spreading around Belial. Sinister demonic energy erupted in all directions, indiscriminately destroying everything nearby.
A deafening boom!
“Kyaaaah!!”
Beginning with someone’s scream, crowds began emerging from all directions.
As Kiriel Yudia drew his sword, Belial laughed with unbridled delight.
A snap!
With the sound of fingers clicking—
A massive explosion—!
A tremendous blast echoed from somewhere in the Commercial District, quite distant from the Dormitory Mansion.
“But to accomplish that….”
“Don’t.”
Bunny’s face had gone rigid and cold.
A piercing shriek!
The cry that echoed from somewhere was one Bunny recognized all too well. A Demon Clan Member was wailing.
The cry of a single Demon Clan Member—one who had been hiding or suffering in the Human Realm—became the spark that ignited everything.
From all directions, the Demon Clan Members began to howl.
The faces of those who had emerged outside grew deathly pale.
Belial laughed.
“They say you must become lonely and miserable. But there’s no problem with that, is there? After all, you said with your own mouth that you would become the greatest Demon King of all.”
“That’s an order. Stop.”
“If you wish to stop me, you’ll have to shed your shell.”
Bunny’s lips tightened with tension.
The moment I exert my power, I can no longer live in the Human Realm. Even now, I’m barely holding it back. Because I want to live in the Human Realm until I become an adult.
“I don’t know if Luriel taught you this, but since the Demon King stands above all Demon Clan Members….”
Belial simply laughed as he looked at the humans of the Udiah Duchy who were hostile to me.
“They become the source of all Demon Clan Members. Without a Demon King, they become a weak race no different from humans, but if there exists a complete Demon King, they can awaken once more as a great Demon Clan. In other words….”
Crack, crackle.
Horns began to sprout from the top of Bunny’s head.
Crimson irises, pupils split vertically like a beast’s. Bunny’s wings unfurled in succession like a butterfly freshly emerged from its cocoon.
“If a certain number or more of Demon Clan Members simultaneously desire awakening, then inevitably the Demon King must also become complete in order to distribute that power.”
“You….”
Bunny staggered.
The demonic energy I had been suppressing began to rampage wildly.
“Save us.”
“Take revenge on the humans….”
“Great Demon King, grant us strength once more….”
“Make the accursed humans understand the terror of darkness again….”
To the voices ringing in my head like tinnitus, Bunny shook her head.
The desires of the Demon Clan Members struck directly into my mind. With a pain as if my head would split, Bunny clutched her head. Tears welled up in her eyes from the agony.
“Bunny! Are you alright?”
Kiriel rushed toward Bunny without managing to hide his panic. It was the moment he knelt on one knee and tried to embrace the child.
Slap—!
“The Demon King is the king of all Demon Clan Members, their god, their source.”
The moment Belial finished speaking, Bunny’s hand struck away Kiriel’s hand.
“…Bunny?”
“Don’t come near me….”
The moment the words ended, demonic energy swirled around Bunny.
Belial laughed with an enraptured expression, licking his lower lip.
“Yes, yes! This is it. This is your true form!”
Belial’s voice grew louder. In the increasingly heightened tone, anticipation was unmistakably evident.
“But trying to suppress yourself while surrounded by such worthless humans, being swayed by such trivial emotions—nothing has made any progress for years now.”
Kahahaha!!
Belial threw his head back and burst into tremendous laughter.
He seemed unable to bear how delightful this situation was.
The swirling demonic energy seeped into Bunny’s body in an instant, then formed with a boom! a massive black hole.
The floor erupted with a gaping hole.
Bunny hovered suspended in the void.
Wings stretched impossibly vast—several times the size of her diminutive frame—jutted forth with terrible majesty, sharp horns crowned her head, and her pupils split vertically, stripping away all semblance of human form.
“Bunny….”
Kiriel Yudia’s brow furrowed.
Ku-gu-gu-gu—
The heavens and earth trembled.
The sky darkened to pitch black before shadows descended like a suffocating shroud. An ominous miasma settled, carrying with it a desolate chill.
Bunny’s expression remained eerily serene.
Horror crystallized in Kiriel’s eyes as he beheld the child.
All vitality drained from Bunny’s gaze in an instant.
“…The Demon King.”
Kiriel’s eyes snapped wide open in shock.
For a moment, he thought the words had escaped his own lips—but mercifully, they hadn’t. One of the servants gathered nearby had whispered them instead.
Kiriel’s body went rigid. He harbored the same realization.
The visage of the Demon King from their last encounter superimposed itself over Bunny’s face in that instant. For the first time, the truth crystallized—Bunny was the Demon King.
“Bunny! What are you doing?”
Allen, standing beside Kiriel, raised his voice in alarm. Drawing attention now served no purpose.
“Yes, come down quickly! Everyone’s frightened!”
Kalbad joined in as well.
Bunny glanced down at the two of them, tilting her head curiously. Then she extended her hand toward where Belial stood and simply clenched her fist around empty air.
With her other hand, she withdrew Ma-Gom, who had been clinging to her back, and held him casually in her palm.
“What are you doing, Demon King?”
Belial grimaced as an invisible force seized his body.
Yet he laughed with surprising levity, his expression almost carefree.
“I am of the Demon Clan. Surely it is the humans you should punish, not me….”
“You overstep your station.”
Crack, crackle—
“Ugh…!”
A low groan escaped his lips.
‘Don’t move.’
Whoosh—!
Black flames erupted around him, but that was all. The force binding him was formless and intangible—there was nothing for the fire to consume.
Crunch—
Belial’s body crumpled.
He began to compress as if he were nothing more than paper being crushed.
‘…I cannot exert my power.’
Belial gritted his teeth in frustration.
His demonic energy refused to manifest—as though an immense barrier had sealed it away completely.
Even as he writhed, his form fragmenting into polygonal distortions, his body continued to warp and compress without cessation.
Belial, who had been struggling, suddenly locked eyes with Bunny and froze entirely.
A gaze devoid of warmth.
Eyes without emotion.
Lips pressed into a thin, resolute line.
Skin grown even more pallid.
A chill raced down his spine.
She overlapped with the image of the previous Demon King he remembered.

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