Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 551

- Right.

At Su-ho’s summons, Grid, who had not shown himself for a long time, finally appeared.

At his distinctive appearance, Jack asked,

- What is this ugly thing?

- ...Ugly?

At the word ugly, Grid’s eyebrow twitched for a moment.

- Ugly? You’re the ugly one here. You don’t even have a shape, and you dare go on about who’s ugly?

- Oh?

At Grid’s sharp retort, Jack raised the corner of his mouth and slowly ran his red tongue over his lips.

- Master, I asked about the special quest, so why are you showing me this ugly toad?

- Wh-what?! Ugly toad?!

“Both of you, stop.”

I didn’t expect them to start bickering the second they saw each other.

Shaking his head, Su-ho said,

“I called him because the fourth special quest happens in the Demon Realm. Say hello. This is Grid, one of the Seven Great Demons of the Demon Realm and the strongest candidate to become the Demon Realm’s next Demon King.”

- A Great Demon? A Demon King candidate? That toad?

- Hmph! So now you finally understand how great I am? My stature is on an entirely different level from some rootless little shadow scrap like you.

- Wow... There was something similar in the Spirit Realm too, but if that side’s Demon Realm is a place where an ugly toad like this is the leading candidate for next Demon King... I can already tell the standard of that world without even seeing it.

- What?

“Ah, both of you, stop. What are you snarling at each other for? You’re not little kids. Do you think I called you out so you could fight? Especially you, keep your mouth shut.”

- Tch.

At the order to shut up, Jack crossed his arms and stuck his lower lip out.

When things finally grew quiet for a moment, Su-ho shifted his gaze and looked at Grid.

“Do you know what kind of situation I’m in right now?”

- Roughly.

“Then this’ll make talking easier. Right now I’m in the middle of carrying out the system’s special quest to become a High-ranked player. But this time, it says I have to go to the Demon Realm for the quest to officially occur, so I called you.”

- I knew from watching that you were growing at a steep pace, but I didn’t expect you to reach this level already. So, you want me to take you to the Demon Realm now?

“Yeah.”

- Fine, that’s not difficult. But how about you finally give me what you owe me too? I’ve been waiting a pretty long time, longer than you might think.

What he owed him.

He meant the remaining runes among the Seven Deadly Sins.

The runes Su-ho still had not handed over to Grid were the Rune of Pride and the Rune of Wrath.

Su-ho smirked and grabbed whichever one came to hand, then tossed it over.

“Here.”

- Uwah!

Grid made a weird sound and caught it.

After handing it over, Su-ho saw that it was Pride.

Didn’t matter.

It wasn’t like they were things I was going to use anyway.

Receiving Pride’s Rune, Grid put on a look of pure ecstasy.

Watching him, Jack said,

- Do I have to keep my mouth shut the whole time?

“Yeah.”

- Even while looking at that?

“No.”

- This is really too much.

After saying that, Jack slipped right into Su-ho’s shadow and vanished.

He meant that if he had to look at that sight, he would rather just go back in.

After savoring Pride’s Rune for a while, Grid finally put it away and cleared his throat.

- Heh heh, good. Since my partner has given me such a splendid gift, I can hardly refuse to open the gate to the Demon Realm for you. I’ll open it right away.

Grid snapped his fingers.

Then beside Su-ho and Grid, a large black portal like a wormhole appeared, but with a strangely violet hue mixed into it.

Seeing it, Su-ho asked,

“But aside from this whole matter, could I originally have gone to the Demon Realm too?”

- If you wanted to, and if the conditions were met.

“I see.”

- Are you hesitating?

“As if.”

And with that, before anyone could stop him or say another word, Su-ho slipped straight into the portal connected to the Demon Realm.

[ Moving. ]

***

His view changed.

The darkened vision returned and regained its original colors.

And what appeared before his eyes was none other than a blue sky and fresh mountains, rivers, trees, and plants.

“...Huh?”

Wearing a blank expression, Su-ho looked around.

No matter how he looked at it, he had not seen wrong.

Blue sky and lush greenery.

Even the soil was the same kind of brown earth he knew, and nameless grass and flowers were growing thickly over it.

If someone told him this was somewhere in Switzerland, he would have believed it.

With a slightly dumbfounded expression, Su-ho asked Grid,

“This is the Demon Realm?”

- Of course it is.

“It’s way too different from the image I had of the Demon Realm.”

- ...?

At Su-ho’s words, Grid made a face asking what kind of nonsense that was supposed to be, then let out a hollow laugh.

- You’ve got to be kidding... Then what kind of place did you think the Demon Realm was?

“No, well... you know. The image that comes to mind when you hear ‘Demon Realm.’ Kind of a purple sky, dead-black ground, things running around that are closer to monstrosities than monsters, and if you turn your head, demonfolk hiding nearby immediately launch a surprise attack...”

- ...?

At Su-ho’s description, Grid narrowed his brow as though utterly dumbfounded.

- Just what kind of nonsense are you imagining? People live here too, you know.

“There are people?”

- Of course there are. Why wouldn’t there be? No, seriously, the more I think about it, the more absurd this is. How can your way of thinking be this narrow-minded?

“......”

He could not argue with that one.

Honestly, he had had a common-sense-level prejudice about it.

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