Fun? Was it fun?

Was that enough to describe all that had happened? The sword vibrated erratically. It might even have been viewed as being hesitant if he was a human.

[You can't just describe it as fun. How rude of you to say that…]

Yet, it seemed that Beastlain was thinking of what he had experienced. 'Fun' didn't seem to fit how he felt, perhaps it was more 'astonis.h.i.+ng'. The journey he experienced together with Jaehwan was an astonis.h.i.+ng one that he had never experienced before in his 784 years of life as a demon.

No, there was no demon that could have experienced what Beastlain went through

Before he was placed in the sword, he was just an ordinary Cultivator. He was a middle-grade demon, a being that was looked down upon by Lords and Generals. That was Beastlain, the 8,152nd demon. All he could hope for in his life was to become a 'Public Cultivator' of Big Brother or become a G.o.d through countless Cultivation. And that would only happen if he was lucky since any incident could have killed him.

However, he became a sword and fought against those terrifying Lords.

He killed those Lords that he was so terrified of even mentioning their names, and ma.s.sacred the G.o.ds he was too scared of talking to.

It was a pleasure he hadn't felt when he lived within the System. Of course, he had to endure the pain of being destroyed first, but it turned out to be astonis.h.i.+ng.

It was the pleasure of fighting against the world.

He reached the peak of excitement when he destroyed Lord Gerome. Killing Gerome, who had long oppressed all the Cultivators, was the one moment he would never forget.

Time pa.s.sed and Jaehwan spoke to the sword that had fallen silent.

"Hey."

Beastlain came back from his thoughts and shook his sword body.

"Do you think I should still start the 'real game'?"

Beastlain did not answer. He just vibrated and refused to answer. Jaehwan then remembered Myad telling Jaehwan to be cautious of 'time'. To think that this demon could change... It seemed that 'time' really was terrifying.

There was nothing that was permanent in the world.

No. Maybe there was something that didn't change after all.

[So, Jaehwan. Why are you trying to meet Big Brother anyway? Justice? Ethics? Ugh, don't tell me that that's the only reason you want to meet him? Let's not fall into a cliché here, alright?]

Jaehwan frowned with his eyes closed as he heard Beastlain's lecture. He had gone on for five hours straight.

[Justice won't feed you! Ethics? Throw that sh*t out in the trash can. All of that is just the result of education! In some worlds, justice is to kill your parents before they get old and suffer, and in other worlds, ethics is where you lend your wife to a friend! It's an illusion! It's all created by humans! Ideas that were all created by human perspectives!]