Having traversed countless realms, can you possibly be as clever as me?

Lucifer was so curious because he was in the past at this moment, and therefore his rebellion was something that his future self had already destined to do.

So more than the result, Lucifer was curious about why he did it this way.

"Do you think I did something wrong? I clearly promised to give you a beautiful paradise as your territory," Lucifer said sadly.

"No, what you did was absolutely right!" Tsurugi nodded in approval, not denying Lucifer's agreement.

“Punishing evildoers brings endless suffering. Although I strongly disagree with your idea of ​​torturing everyone first to intimidate them, I will never shamelessly say that I will fight you for those who don’t deserve to be tortured.”

"What do I care about them? I don't even know them!"

“But—” he changed the subject, shrugging.

"The saint who was sacrificed was also my friend. I don't know why I did something that betrayed my friend, but I hope that at least I can fulfill what I promised him."

"Ha, don't you find that funny?" Lucifer said with a mocking expression.

"You were the one who pushed him all the way to the cross, weren't you? Even if that was your future self, not your present self."

"Yes, I might really be a dog-donkey in the future—I don't even know why I would do that," Tsurugi sighed.

"I don't know why I let this happen. Maybe the cycle of the future and the past is unchangeable, or maybe it's some other reason—but never mind, I'm too lazy to think about it!"

Tsugumi raised the [External Codex: Dead Sea] in her hand and grinned.

"You did a great job, that was fucking satisfying! I agree with you. If it were somewhere else, or even in the future, you would be my good friend. But what won't change is that right now, I just want to fuck you!!!"

Speaking too vulgarly and too directly

It seems somewhat inappropriate for this to come from either a possessor of St. George or a demon nobleman.

But Lucifer understood what he meant.

Because I am free!

The reason is that simple! Tsurugi feels he is free, he can do whatever he wants, so even his rebellion, which is completely unreasonable and has no chance of winning, is his freedom!

Why not punish yourself? Because Dongjiang also admitted that he was a hypocrite, and besides—he chose to fight, so he felt he had done right by the sacrifice of Sheng Ge, and also by himself.

Tsuruga was prepared for the possibility of failure: capture, punishment, even brutal torture or death. But it didn't matter. He was determined to take this step, determined to fight!

This, however, made Lucifer look at him with admiration.

Why did Lucifer fall? It was because of his arrogance and his freedom!

He did not want to kneel before humankind, before the mortals created by the Lord, or before those who were also the Lord's 'children' and came after Him. He believed that whether or not to kneel was a matter of personal freedom, even if the Lord had created Him.

Therefore, He rebelled, leading a third of the heavenly beings to oppose the Lord, and ultimately fell into hell. But even in hell, He still maintained his pride.

He punishes arrogance, yet he himself is the greatest arrogance. He detests the arrogance that binds others, yet he practices such arrogance himself; similarly, he admires the arrogance of pursuing self-interest, yet he also tries to curb such arrogance!

Regardless of good or evil, good or bad, everything is done for oneself, everything is done simply because one thinks it should be done!

"Very well! It seems I should have brought you into the Ring of Pride and made you my true Sinner Lord! But it's not too late now!"

She smiled and raised her hand; in an instant, a mark pierced into Dongjiang's body and soul!

The character card [Demon Noble] has been changed!

'A deeper penetration of the Pride Path's power has been detected; you have gained a new Inscription skill!'

【Seven Seals Lv2】

'Seven deadly sins, seven powers, seven spheres of authority, seven crowns. You are a favorite of Hell, favored by multiple realms simultaneously. This is a great honor only a demon god can receive—the favor and blessing of multiple sinful powers! At this moment, you simultaneously possess the crowns of the realms of desire and pride, and you have two opportunities to gain a demonic body and power (one already used).'

A perfect gift for a demon from hell! As an interpretation of freedom, Lucifer bestowed it upon him.

However—he merely bestowed the favor of the Pride Domain, but did not directly grant power like Asmodeus did.

In other words, he would have to find enough sin and power to forge the demonic body that belonged to his domain of arrogance—a goal that might be too far-fetched for him.

"Thank you, bro!" Tsugumi grinned, then said firmly.

"But I'm still going to fuck you!"

"Hmm, not bad, not bad." Lucifer nodded approvingly, then narrowed his dangerous eyes.

"But to be fair, I admire your caution in the pursuit of freedom and your self-centered pride, but—the freest being in this world is only me!"

"Because I am the strongest, I am entitled to the greatest freedom and pride!"

She proudly put her hands on her hips, showing off that she was the freest person in the world!

"And what about God?" Fujimaru Ritsuka suddenly interjected quietly.

Lucifer's expression visibly faltered for a moment, he rolled his eyes at her, and then added...

"I am freer than anyone stronger than me, and freer than anyone weaker than me, therefore I am the freest!"

She pointed to the Dongjiang River and laughed loudly.

“I know what you want to do, my Marquis! But don’t even think about sounding the horn or summoning the Father. You have no chance left!”

Dongjiang was a saint, a saint personally appointed by God and even descended upon by God himself. His status was equivalent to Noah and Moses, and in some ways even closer to the existence of the Lord than they were.

What he wanted to do was simply to offer himself as a sacrifice. Just as the incarnation of Jesus was offered as a sacrifice to draw Lucifer's power into a body thrown into the black mud, he also wanted to use himself as a vessel and sacrifice to draw power from heaven to descend upon him.

He even summoned a Servant with a specific purpose, making his intention to summon it clear.

This is indeed the only way to defeat Lucifer. Even if the combined forces of this world cannot defeat her, the only option is for external forces to destroy her.

Lucifer would not allow such a thing to happen; she was about to strip Tsurugi of his soul and freedom!

Even if he were a saint, Lucifer could still take his soul. Because while he was a saint, he also bore the seven seals, and a part of his soul belonged to hell!

Moreover, she had already been imprinted with the mark of pride, and in this world that already belonged to him, Tsurugi's soul belonged to Lucifer no matter what.

She was going to take this proud and free soul away, and then take it back to Hell, back to Lake Cocytus, and give it a good makeover—of course, a new demon god would be born in Hell, but before that, he would have to pay the price for this transgression!

She will punish him for countless years, making him understand the price of overstepping his bounds through suffering! Then she will torment this world, transforming it into paradise before giving it to him as his own lord!

This is the generosity of the Lord of Hell!

No one can stop Lucifer's actions, and no external force can harm the great Satan, the ancient serpent, the great red dragon, the king of hell!

"This world belongs to me, and I will become the greatest, the only god here!" Lucifer declared confidently and proudly.

In that very brief moment, Matou Sakura, who had been ignored all along, suddenly spoke a sentence in one direction.

Lucifer couldn't hear what she was saying.

Barbatos is the Duke of Hell, second only to the Four Pillars among the Seventy-Two Demon Lords. Most importantly, Barbatos possesses the powers of 'Virtue' and 'Concealment'.

He grants the summoner the ability to understand the languages ​​of all things, and in return, the summoner gains the ability to discover all that is hidden. He is also the guardian of virtue, knowledgeable throughout history, and protects all the essential elements of human virtue.

As Matou Sakura, who was endowed with the Goetia Seal and joined the Barbatos lineage, possessed powers that were indeed beyond the comprehension of Lucifer, who had descended here in a possessed form.

Then, she saw it.

In the darkness, in a neglected place, Rin Tohsaka awakens at some unknown time.

She had been hidden here all along, and now she heard the commands and words from her sister, who had somehow transformed into a 'demon'.

What can a mere human magician do? I am Lucifer, the King of Hell, I have everything I need now.

Prideful as she was, she naturally didn't take the other person seriously, not even glancing at them. She wanted to deal with the arrogant soul in front of her before tackling these problems.

"By the command of the three-stroke Command Spell, Avenger, Great Red Dragon, Emperor Nero, unleash your Noble Phantasm with all your might!!!"

Rin Tohsaka's command was issued simultaneously with Lucifer grasping Tsugumi's soul in his hand.

Noble Phantasm? Liberation? Great Red Dragon?

Lucifer's mind raced in an instant, and he realized what she was doing.

The next moment, Lucifer's body—this body that belonged to Nero, this body that Tsurugi had tailored for him in the future as the 'enemy of God,' the 'Great Red Dragon,' and the 'Destroyer of Christ'—was used by her as the body she would possess and descend into.

The release of the Noble Phantasm was completed within her body.

She couldn't harm Lucifer, but she could create a brief moment in this instant that rendered Lucifer unable to move.

That one moment was enough.

Without hesitation, Tsugumi sacrificed all the Holy Grails in her hands as the energy source for activation, briefly breaking through the pentagram's restraints and successfully activating [External Holy Codex: Dead Sea].

A dazzling ray of light, tearing through all darkness, shattered the pentagram that isolated the world, falling from the chaos of the outer multiverse. Then, a stern voice rang out.

"Lucifer...is that you?"

Having transmigrated, my only purpose is to kill, kill, kill! : 66. The Red Dragon, the Emperor, and Michael (Fourth Update!)

The girl was once a passionate, innocent, lively, and carefree person.

I love poetry, art, food, wine, and all beautiful things.

All of this came to an abrupt end when she turned seventeen.

That year, her stepfather, the Emperor of Rome, died suddenly. Everyone knew his death was shrouded in mystery, but no one cared.

Because he was a ridiculous emperor to begin with.

His ascension to the throne was solely due to his nephew, the previous emperor, a cruel and insane ruler whose excessive indulgence and madness ultimately led to his purge by the royal guards. He, along with his wife and daughter, all perished tragically.

And so her stepfather was put on the throne. The imperial guards found him, proclaimed that the fifty-year-old was the emperor, took him to the military camp, and forcibly put a golden laurel crown on his head.

Before that, her stepfather was a man who had suffered from polio since childhood and was lame and stuttered. He was ridiculed by everyone, by his father, his brother, his wife, and even by his emperor nephew.

Every speech he gave in the Senate was met with ridicule and boos from Caligula. Nobles even openly placed bets on how many sentences her stepfather could finish.

One can imagine what a pathetic emperor he was.

However, in the girl's eyes, her stepfather was a good father, and not bad at all as an emperor. He was not cruel or insane; he expanded the territory, built many public facilities, and left behind many valuable things. At least compared to his predecessors, he was at most inferior to Octavian.

As her stepfather, compared to the girl's biological father whom she had no memory of, he gave her ample attention and love. He was also the one who helped her reclaim the inheritance that rightfully belonged to her and took her back from the streets. To her, he was her true father.

But in everyone's eyes, his father was still a joke.

Therefore, even after her mysterious death, and even after everyone knew that he had been assassinated by his wife, who was also the girl's biological mother, no one paid attention to his death.

The girl was furious and bewildered, but could only helplessly watch it all unfold.

She donned the laurel wreath and became empress, but power was usurped by her mother. The seventeen-year-old girl died, and seventeen-year-old Nero was born.

Her fate should have continued to unfold in the direction it was meant to, but the appearance of one person changed Nero's destiny.

"Liar, jester, clown, villain... a devil who deceived me!"