Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 10 Mission: 02-5 Power
The next second, Nero was blown away by Echidna.

She crashed into a tree and fell on her back. Every bone in her body was in pain, but she couldn't help laughing.

"So... that's what's going on?"

Echidna caught up with him, looked at Nero lying on the ground with a puzzled look, and asked, "Are you crazy?"

"You do not understand."

Nero simply replied: "Actually, you've already lost."

This further confirmed Echidna's suspicions. It returned to its previous snake-headed form, hissing and laughing, before swallowing Nero whole.

Once it turns this strange human into a seed, the newly born child won't be so talkative.

Echidna hated disobedient children, and she hated disobedient and talkative ones even more.

Nero's eyes fell into darkness again.

The mysterious figure became clear again.

A man with silver slicked-back hair and a blue windbreaker appeared before Nero. With his back to Nero, he asked in a cold, magnetic voice, "Did you hear that?"

Nero laughed. The corners of his sharp eyes drooped slightly, and his jelly-like lips trembled and curved into a smile that seemed to be both mocking and relieved.

"It's really hell," she said.

Nero had seen this person before, in his coma the previous night. Back then, he had been saying some incomprehensible things, just like now. When he woke up, Nero mistook them for game CGs he had seen in his past life.

"...Did you hear that?"

The man pressed on relentlessly. He didn't turn around, his windbreaker fluttering in the wind, revealing the long sword in his left hand.

Yama Sword.

In the dark world, Nero raised his foot and walked towards the man.

Nero had nothing good to say about the ghost of this bastard father who was only related to him by blood.

Ni Lu liked him very much in his previous life, but that didn't stop Nero from hating this bastard when he really became his father.

So Nero said nothing.

"listen--"

"enough!"

A nameless fire ignited within Nero. She leaped up from the darkness and delivered a flying kick to the man's head, interrupting him completely. "If you've died once, just play the resurrection match honestly. There's no point in all this pretentious talk!"

After landing, Nero reached out to his father lying on the ground and grabbed the Yama Sword in his hand: "Hurry up and give me some gold coins!"

"You heard..."

Not only did the man not let go, he continued to repeat his previous lines. Feeling the other party's resistance, Nero suppressed the fire in his heart, took a deep breath, and exhaled slowly.

"Well, that's what you want to hear," she said. "Then listen to it—"

"——I need more power!"

This voice echoed simultaneously in illusion and reality. Instantly, a massive surge of magical power erupted from Echidna's mouth. The snake-like banshee let out a shrill scream and retreated, spitting out the prey it had already swallowed.

Nero flipped in the air and landed, the boundless magical power emanating from her instantly evaporating the slime on her body. She raised her hand, clenched her fist, and sighed, "It's wonderful to have power."

Injured by Nero's counterattack, Echidna asked sternly: "Who are you!" "Me?" Nero smiled and disappeared in an instant.

"Of course it's human."

The next second, she punched Echidna in the stomach, sending the massive demon screaming in pain and stumbling backward. Nero continued, "Didn't you say that?"

That's right, a human who could survive a head-on clash with a demon without much damage. Nero flexed his wrist and gave Echidna a friendly smile.

Unfortunately, Echidna didn't appreciate it. She cried "Monster!" and turned to run toward the stone tablet behind her. It was a small demonic gate, built by Agnus, connecting to the demonic realm. As Echidna approached, a grass-green crack slowly opened on the stone tablet's surface, revealing the demonic realm beyond.

"Leaving now? The dance hasn't even—"

Watching the demon trying to escape, Nero narrowed her eyes and placed her hand on her chest. Countless tiny rays of light streamed out from the cracks in her chest, transforming into a hilt in Nero's hand.

"——It's over!"

The long sword was pulled from Nero's chest. In that instant, several sword beams, accompanied by distorted light, appeared at the center of the stone tablet, then vanished in an instant, leaving behind the spatial rift on the stone tablet. Echidna froze in her tracks.

After a brief silence, several cracks spread outward, centered around the sword light. With a crackling sound like firecrackers, the entire Demon Realm Gate shattered layer by layer and collapsed in an instant.

As if petrified, Echidna slowly turned her head and saw Nero, now with silver hair and a glint of blood in his eyes, still standing there. She knelt in salute, knife in hand.

It was the same skirt-lifting ceremony as before, but for Echidna, the once great demon lord, it had a completely different meaning.

This is a silent mockery.

It let out a shrill scream, calling on all the demons in the forest to come and save its mother.

It's going to fight to the death.

After emitting a shrill cry, Echidna's body split into four, just like her head, and she began to walk like an octopus. She approached Nero, continuously producing demon-bearing seeds under her body.

These seeds were not yet mature, but Echidna forcefully awakened them. As a result, these weak demons were forced to break out of their shells as soon as they landed, and swarmed towards Nero.

"Haha~"

Facing the oncoming demons, Nero smiled sweetly, turned around, and swung her long sword in a circle. She sang loudly, "Monsters in the blood ditch!"

The surging magic power turned into a sharp blade along the blade and surged forward, condensing with a transparent human figure three meters in front of Nero.

The next second, the demons collided with the blade of magic and were instantly cut off, with black smoke spewing out of the wounds.

Echidna also arrived in front of Nero, raising its slender, snake-like legs and leaping over the radiant blade, ready to crush the ethereal figure. Nero gathered his strength and leaped, colliding head-on with Echidna's humanoid half, high above.

With a smile, she lamented the tragedy before her: "What a pathetic and foolish anger!"

Nero slashed down with his sword, instantly ripping one of Echidna's legs in half at the base. Another transparent shadow loomed before Echidna, mocking her powerlessness.

Smoke-like demon blood gushed out from Echidna's wound. The demon lord screamed in pain and was forced to shrink back into his original snake form, collapsing to the ground.

Nero, who had landed on the ground, swung the long sword in his hand, pointing the tip of the sword directly at the fallen Echidna.

"The serpent's tail will split, but the sinner will close his legs."

Nero sang the words again, brandished his blade, and advanced.

The bright blade light split into four parts, interlaced and engraved on Echidna's body.

(End of this chapter)