CHAPTER 422: TALKED TOO MUCH, FIRE!!

I spent 3 days observing the growth of the plants until it became boring, the plants exceeded my expectations, with their growth limit along with the abundant food the plant decided to just keep contracting.

For 3 days it continued compressing into a bizarre spiral, without growing beyond what it should, but still managing to grow, but at this point the heroes’ brains were already gone so I told the inhabitants to cut everything and start over.

And the inhabitants of this universe by my order began to "take care" of the heroes, they destroy the plant almost completely until the heroes fully regenerate and thus allow the plant to grow back.

They will go through a good period of this torture, so now I will deal with the last group of heroes, the group I was most anxious about.

I calmly enter the last room, it is a large and well-lit place while I see the 6 I hate the most tied up and gagged to metal rectangles tilted upwards.

"Hello!! You are the last group! I am the Demon King and I will torture you now!! The ones here are Kaito Yoshida, Yuki Suzuki, Tsubasa Watanabe, Sakura Taniguchi, Kaori Fujimoto and finally Hana Watanabe" I say enthusiastically as I approach.

’Kaori and Yuki are scared, but the rest seem pretty calm...this pisses me off’ I bite so hard that a metallic sound echoes from my teeth scraping against each other.

’I won’t let this ruin my moment’ I approach Hana first, I think I’ll start with her.

"So, you’ll be the first, do you have any last words before being tortured?" I say with a smile, removing Hana’s gag.

"...You’re Japanese" She speaks as soon as I remove the gag, my tail moves uncomfortably, whipping on the floor.

"..."

"Could you repeat that?" I ask.

"Demon King, you’re Japanese" When she repeats it, I see that some are surprised, except Tsubasa, showing that he also deduces this.

"...Could you say why you think that?" I ask curiously.

"We’ve been here for a while, our parents are here, which means you went to Japan to get them, there are also the structures, they’re not exactly Japanese, but they clearly follow a similar logic..."

"There’s also your speech, you say things that aren’t said in this world, especially cursing us as primates, something from the theory of evolution, something that doesn’t exist in this world of goddesses and magic, since in this world they know that the goddesses created everything."

"So you weren’t born here, or you were born here, but only after somehow having already been in Japan first, perhaps reincarnation?" She speaks as if this would shake me.

"Ha...hahaha how cute, and why would it matter where I came from?" I say with a smile.

"What matters? If you’ve worked so hard to get our families...maybe your resentment is personal?" She approaches the truth too closely, my smile disappears, closing into a cold face.

"You’ve always been a very smart bitch" When I say that, her eyes widen, it’s the confirmation she wanted.

"Yes, you hit the nail on the head, I’m a former Japanese, or something like that, anyway you have many enemies, you should have expected this someday, right? At least you’re thinking about why you’re being punished instead of begging for forgiveness" I say mockingly.

"Ah, but don’t consider me that way anymore, it’s repulsive, I’m the Demon King, and I don’t want to be compared to filthy things like a human, it’s really disgusting" When I say this, she looks at me with arrogance.

"So even the Demon King was once a human, it seems we’re not that different" She speaks as if this would hurt me.

"Exactly, we’re not very different" She is surprised that I agree with her.

"What? Did you think I would get mad at the comparison? But why would I? You’re partially right, you know, I’ve always wanted power, but never to be better than the people I hated, I wanted power so I could do whatever I want, even if it made me even worse and more monstrous than those I hate."

"The only difference between us is that you are trash, and I am the one at the top, a mere human who by chance gained power and has now lost everything, against me, the Demon King who has become a goddess and will continue to climb even higher, the difference is obvious, isn’t it?" She makes an angry face with the obvious insult.

"..."

"You hate me quite a bit, was I someone close to you? It seems so, doesn’t it?" She continues trying to figure out who I am.

"Maybe you’re Alice? Or Hita? Maybe it’s the one from elementary school, Yure? Maybe it’s that bitch Yahabe" She starts talking about people whose lives she destroyed, but they’re all girls.

"..."

’She won’t get the answer if she keeps thinking about girls...’ I doubt she’ll get the right answer, because there is absolutely nothing that connects me to the loser she knew.

Absolutely everything is the opposite, mentality, trajectory, way of acting, and even gender, there’s nothing that gives away who I am.

’Is there something she could use?...ah...yes...there is...’ I look at my hand, completely unharmed, a habit I had when I was that loser, I used to clench the palm.

I still have this habit, although greatly reduced, my hand was always bandaged because I never had time to heal since I was always doing this.

In this life I’ve almost completely stopped, but this behavior still surfaces sometimes and this is probably the only thing I did as much in the past life as in this one, although the reason for doing it now is totally different.

In the past it was to contain anger and impulsive actions, and now it is used mainly for the purpose of drawing blood from my body for whatever reason.

"Enough with this chatter, your voice is really horrible" I punch, ripping off her jaw completely, she looks at me with growing horror as the blood falls to the floor with her teeth and jaw bones.

I punch her in the stomach, piercing through to the other side, which immediately breaks her spine, blood and organs escape through the hole as I pull out my bloodied hand.

"Congratulations, bitch, you hit the nail on the head, I’m from your world, but I hate that life, if you wanted to irritate me, you managed to make me furious."

"I hope you enjoy your prize for that, I liked your little game, it was very good, but you forgot the most important part, I’m the one who makes the rules now, and you’ve managed to get me even more excited to torture you."

"It’s good that you’re reflecting on why you’re here, really you were the first so far to reflect the reality around you, and you know the conclusion? You’ll suffer because you deserve it, and not because I’m an irrational beast with unmotivated hatred."

"Now you can be sure, you would have much preferred not to know why I hate you, since the mere fact that you know increases my hatred." I start generating flames, the color of the flames changes several times until it stabilizes.

"Isn’t it beautiful?" I say, seeing the white-purple flames, a really magnificent color, these flames are at a temperature of 10,000 degrees, enough to completely char her flesh.

I start approaching her arm, which immediately makes her twist in agony, it’s like a blowtorch where the flames are concentrated, so the heat doesn’t spread, just burning on contact.

Her flesh literally vaporizes, it’s too hot to just burn, so the flesh and bones turn to vapor, soon her arm falls off, leaving a horrific wound.

"Can’t scream with the entire lower part of your face destroyed, huh? You should have thought carefully before talking so much shit" I approach the flame to the hole in her stomach and soon shove it in.

She twists violently in the restraints as the nearby flesh vaporizes, and the vapor burns her organs above, causing the flesh to start melting due to the vapor temperature.

"You’re a naughty girl who likes to play with fire, aren’t you? So let’s see how much fun you have with the flames" I disperse the heat nearby, no longer containing it in one point, which immediately makes the entire surrounding area vaporize while she seems to faint before being forced to wake up.

"..." The upper and lower parts were literally disconnected, everything from the waist down falls to the ground while her torso remains hanging through the restraints, but even so she doesn’t die because she can’t die.

"Does it hurt? Does it hurt a lot? It’s worse than having magma put inside you, but you’re lucky, yes the damaged nerves stop sending signals so the pain quickly subsides to a certain point...or that’s what should happen."

"But not here, in my universe we don’t need the body’s nerve connections for this, you can feel pain as long as your brain is fine and receiving signals, you know what that means?" I release normal flames starting to burn the part of her body that fell to the ground.

She lets out strange grunts as the body below her burns, she feels the pain even though this part is separated from her.

"Isn’t it cool? You can feel your body even if it’s no longer connected to you, this was done for several reasons besides torture" Even though my universe regenerates things, it doesn’t work well on me.

Probably because I am the pillar that sustains this universe, so the laws I apply here do not affect me effectively, so the permanent damage to my arm does not heal even in this universe, and if I were dying and came to this place, I would probably still die even though there is no death here.

This happens because I am not only connected to this universe, but I am also connected to the rules of the outside universe, so the rules from out there affect me in here in any way.

Showing how the power of the primordial goddess is terrifying, as it invades even my universe to affect me.

"Can’t pass out? You can be sure, passing out here is quite difficult, so let’s continue?" I say, approaching the flames to her chest, the flesh vaporizing just by being close.

The others watch in horror as Hana is reduced to this horrible state.

"Time to separate another part!" I approach the flames to her neck, vaporizing it, which decapitates her from the rest of the torso, her eyes show how she’s dealing with it.

"It seems this is the limit of your audacity? Hahahaha, you broke so fast, I guess it makes sense, you’ve never been on the side that suffered, you probably thought it was easier, right?"

"You must have thought you could withstand the pain, but now that you’re experiencing it, you realize how bad it really is, so cheer up, you can’t break so fast, I still want to have fun."I pull her hair to make her look at me as I raise her head.

"You were always so smart, Hana, but it was foolish to provoke me this way, you know? And now your ’friends’ will also pay the price for you talking too much."

"If you had just stayed quiet, your torture would have been much shorter, of course it would have been just as bad as it is now, but I would have wasted less time on you."I place her head on a table next to a candle that I light, then place the candle by her neck.

"Hahahaha you look like those Halloween pumpkins, you know? Now stay nice and still there, I’m going to carefully burn every part of your body."I start walking towards her body.

The heat from the candle burns her throat and the roof of her mouth, while the candle wax that drips begins to burn the severed edge of her neck.

"Oh, and if this candle goes out or you knock it over, I’ll fry your head in a pan of oil, so stay nice and still there" I’ll fry her anyway, but I’m lying to give her motivation to try to resist.

She was the main one responsible for my mother’s death in the other world, they made her die burned, and Hana as the main one deserves to be burned much worse.

I know it was her who gave the idea, because that’s the kind of person she is, and now I’m perfectly repaying it.