Haramark regained tranquility after Abhorrent Charity perished, almost as if the battle that shook heaven and earth never happened.

A loud cheer erupted not long afterward. The surviving soldiers, Earthlings, and foreign races all embraced each other in joy. While everyone shed tears of relief at having survived, Teresa recalled Jan Sanctus and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to search and treat the injured.

As the battlefield was close to getting cleaned up, Sung Shihyun was still alive. Perhaps because he was a parasite that the Parasite Queen took personal care in creating, his body was continually regenerating even as it was instantly burned away. He was truly like a cockroach in that aspect.

Seol Jihu woke up the twitching Sung Shihyun and pulled him up. Then, he released him. Since the border region wasn’t too far from Haramark, Seol Jihu even promised that he would not chase after them if he crossed the border with his own strength.

Sung Shihyun let out an empty chuckle. He wasn’t so foolish as to think this was mercy.

Despite this, Sung Shihyun walked. After all, there was a chance that help might come near the border region. And if he could somehow make it to the Parasite Queen’s territory, the chances of him recovering would go up dramatically.

Because of this small hope, he dragged his feet and walked forward. However, he had to stop before he even took a few steps.

It was because he saw Taciana Cinzia and others waiting for him at the border. Seol Jihu said he would not bother him if he went past the border. That obviously meant he would not be free of obstruction until then.

“Haha… son of a bitch…”

Seol Jihu surely must have gone through the same thing. After all, when he fought for a dozen days without stop and finally broke through the encirclement, the Parasite Queen and the remaining Army Commanders had been waiting for him.

Sung Shihyun began to understand how Seol Jihu must have felt back then.

“God damn it….”

Sung Shihyun sprawled down on his back. He no longer thought about returning alive.

The sky cleared up before he noticed. It regained its azure color as soon as the war was over as if it was never dark in the first place.

“….”

It wasn’t that he wasn’t aware that Seol Jihu had no intention of sending him back alive. But he also knew that there was nothing he could do to return alive.

The reason he played along with Seol Jihu’s farce despite this was that he felt wronged.

Looking up at the sky, the faces of three people flashed across Sung Shihyun’s mind. They were all friends who once stayed by...