- #74
MC wakes up in a western style carriage. This is a world where humans and demons "coexist" in enmity. Thousands of years ago, when humanity was on the verge of being killed off by demonkind, there was a month-long rainstorm that suppressed demon powers, followed by a great flood that destroyed all the demon palaces, and then at the end a great pillar of light descended from heaven, destroying all demons that were on human lands. Humans built a cathedral at the site of the pillar of light, where they found a magic spring that gave some children bathed in it the ability wield holy light powers.
MC's grandfather was an elder of the holy cathedral, and held the position of Saint by the royal family. Twenty years ago, he divined that there is a child born with demonic powers who may cause future calamity. The king ordered a search and found the child, intending to kill it. However, MC's grandfather pled for mercy, saying it's not right to punish someone for things they haven't done yet, and that he wanted to try and purify the child. So the child remained in the cathedral for 12 years, but then one day disappeared right as he was on the verge of being purified. (No surprise, this kid is the Antagonist.)
Three years later, there was a great battle against the demons. During the battle, the crown prince (ML) was infected with demonic energy. MC's grandfather attempted to perform a purification, but was interrupted by another attack, and soon afterwards suddenly died on the battlefield. Losing him caused the ML his first ever loss on the battlefield. Immediately afterwards, the reinforcements led by the second prince swept in and defeated the demon army. He was aided by a strong wielder of holy light, who turns out to be the Antagonist.
When they got back, the Antagonist claimed that he never had demonic energy in him, but instead had holy light which was stronger than MC's grandfather, who kept him locked up in the cathedral out of jealousy, until the second prince helped him escape. The second prince also suggested that MC's entire family should be executed because of this, but the king only exiled them to a remote church where they were kept under house arrest.
Five years later, the demons have a treaty of coexistence with the human kingdom. As part of the deal, they sent a demon beast to the capital, where every year, a youth with holy light powers would be sacrificed to the beast. (And I suppose in return, demons won't attack human cities anymore.) The court agreed, on the condition that only criminals be used for sacrifices. Of course, original MC fit this bill, and thus was on his way to the capital to be scarificed when MC arrived.
Because of the system, MC knows that Antagonist doesn't have a bit of holy light in him. He had become the lover of the demon king with whom he'd formed a contract, and everything was just a staged performance they're playing to trick the humans. He then later seduced the second prince to becoming his patsy in controlling the human kingdom, who he used to lower the kingdom's defenses. Once the second prince dies, he would then help the demon king sweep through and drive humanity to extinction.
On arriving at the capital, MC is allowed a private audience with the king. The king is actually suspicious of the Antagonist, but doesn't have proof of his suspicions. He is also the only person alive who knows that MC was born with tremendous holy light powers, which his grandfather had temporarily sealed for his own good. The king asks MC for any last requests, and the MC asks for 10 extra days, which is granted.
MC goes to his abandoned original room, and pulls out an old shabby cloak hidden under the bed, which is actually an invisibility cloak. He then moves into the cathedral, and at night, uses the cloak to visit the room where ML has been sequestered in. There, he offers to purify the demon energy from ML, but their conversation is interrupted when ML falls in to his frequent fits. However, unlike normal fits which causes him to to try and kill any living being around him, this fit causes him to fall onto the MC in lust. Seeing the pain on his lover's face, MC doesn't resist.
During the next few days, MC lounges around in the day and sneaks over to purify ML at night. Antagonist comes by once to take MC on a tour of the capital, basically to throw his current status in MC's face. He also comes by to try and seduce ML one night, but gets beat up instead.
On the day of the sacrifice, a fully restored ML sweeps in to rescue MC and kill off the demon beast. MC also shows off his tremendous holy powers. The king is happy to have his preferred heir back. The Antagonist suggests they need proof that he's clear of demon energy, because he simply couldn't believe that his handiwork could be completely purified. ML agrees to the test of being soaked in the holy spring to prove his purified state, but further demands that Antagonist undergoes the same test. ML passes the test just fine, but the Antagonist is forced to endure the severe pain of standing in the holy spring while also forced to not show any of it.
Then there's still the issue of killing the demon beast means that the previous treaty with the demons is no longer valid, and there's the danger of demons attacking human cities again. So the king sends both princes and their entourage to the border to renegotiate (or fight) with the demons.
Once they left the capital and and are settling down for the first evening on the road, ML reveals an edict the king gave him before they left, stripping Antagonist of the Saint position and giving it to MC. Also, as they drew closer to the border, they found that the land had more and more demon corruption and people living in perpetual fear. It turns out, the guy send to oversee the area, a cousin of the second prince, had outright left 3 cities in demon hands "to prevent conflict". Neither the second prince nor many of the nobles in the capital were aware of any of this.
Initial negotiations fall through. MC suggests that the second prince and Antagonist should have the job of recovering the 3 lost cities since they were lost because of them. Antagonist plots with the local noble to drug and rape MC, but MC turns it back on him. He also uses the chance to remove the magic bone that the demon king had place into Antagonist to allow him to disguise his demon powers as holy power. So when negotiations led by the second prince break down into a fight, Antagonist is no longer able to pretend to use holy power. Knowing he can't go back to the humans, Antagonist immediately turns on his own party and helps the demons capture them. As Antagonist goes all lovey on the demon king and refuses to acknowledge that he had any other romantic relationship, the second prince realizes that he's been played for a fool.
ML isn't willing to negotiate further with the demon king, so they fight. With help from the MC, they force the demons to flee. However, their goal is bigger than that. MC goes by himself to see the demon king, pretending that he is willing to contract with the demon king in return for the authority to rule over all humans. In order to do this, the demon king must dissolve his former contract with Antagonist, thus withdrawing the power he had given him. The demon king, thinking that the MC couldn't use his holy powers inside his demon palace anyway, and that the lust for power is a motive he could understand, and also because Antagonist hasn't come through with his promises, eventually agrees. As soon as the contract with Antagonist is dissolved, ML, who had snuck in with MC under the invisibility cloak, stabs the demon king through the heart from behind. This forces the demon king to use all the gathered ancestral demonic power in the palace, which is what MC wanted. He calls down a giant pillar of light similar to the old legends, and purifies the root of demonic energy. ML's soldiers then sweep in to clean up the rest. From then on, the demon kind will only get weaker and weaker until humanity can eventually destroy them all.
On arriving home, the king is able to hear the happy news shortly before his death. The kingship is passed to ML. The second prince was crippled during his stay in the demon king's torture chambers, and now hates Antagonist with a burning passion, often going down to the dungeons to torture him. MC asks ML what he's going to do about an heir, and ML basically plans to drug his younger brother to sleep with an appropriately willing woman, and then adopt the kid as an heir.
MC wakes up in a crashed escape pod, feeling like all his bones have been shattered (they probably are). Before he could do anything else, a couple of mechas descend from the skies. A person descends from the leading mecha to take a closer look at MC's pod. MC instinctively knows this is not an enemy, and weakly calls for help. Since the guy is ML, the young general in charge of the fleet overhead, he orders for MC to be brought back to his ship and given medical help. In recovery, MC reviews his backstory.
This is a sci fi setting with several rival nations that compete for natural resources of newly found worlds. Several of these nations banded together in an alliance. Original MC was from one of the major nations in the Alliance (and ML is from a peer nation also in the Alliance). MC's grandfather was an important government official, his dad was a decorated captain in the navy, MC himself was a prodigy engineer, and he also had a fiance who was from a high status family too.
This fiance unfortunately had rescued Antagonist, who was a soul that was transmigrated from an even more future setting, who then fell for his savior. Antagonist and his original body's brother then plotted against original MC's family, paying pirates to kill his dad, framing his uncles to be executed, killing his grandfather with the shock, and buying mercs to kill MC. MC's brother sacrificed himself to allow MC to flee across the border, though he was already heavily damaged, and crash landed on the planet where ML found him. MC's fiance also became Antagonist's fiance (though he soon found out about Antagonist's real character and regretted choosing him over MC).
MC doesn't bother to hide his background from ML. He also uses his recovery time to take apart his wheelchair, and rebuild it into a wheelchair-transforming-mecha that gave a ship-full of soldiers the runaround in his demo. With that as the proof of his ability, ML gives him a spot on the his ship's engineering team.
With MC's help, ML's fleet is able to gain several worlds/contracts ahead of Antagonist's forces. Antagonist is livid that his nemesis is alive and showing him up, and holds a press conference accusing MC of betraying his home nation and demanding his repatriation from ML's nation. In response, ML's fleet attacks the largest pirate fleet in the region, showing off the new mecha MC built for his lover, and capturing the pirate leader alive. They then hold their own press release, showing the evidence and testimony of the pirates proving that Antagonist & his brother had betrayed many of their own people to the pirates in order to gain power, as well as selling military gear to the pirates and using them to help them hold power over their nation's major government officials and becoming shadow rulers.
This revelation causes the public to turn against Antagonist, as well as many government officials who no longer have anything to fear. Antagonist's brother is preparing their private fleet to flee and set up their own country elsewhere. However, Antagonist could not help but go and see the fiance one more time to ask him to go with him (just like original MC once did before he fled). The fiance angrily rejects him and gets killed by Antagonist, since if he can't have him then no one can.
Meanwhile, MC gets married to ML, which also gives him citizenship and thus no one has the right to demand his repatriation anymore. After the wedding, they go after Antagonist's fleet, wiped out their forces, and captured the brothers. They're tried before the Alliance court and sentenced to some hole somewhere for the rest of the lives.
MC's grandfather was an elder of the holy cathedral, and held the position of Saint by the royal family. Twenty years ago, he divined that there is a child born with demonic powers who may cause future calamity. The king ordered a search and found the child, intending to kill it. However, MC's grandfather pled for mercy, saying it's not right to punish someone for things they haven't done yet, and that he wanted to try and purify the child. So the child remained in the cathedral for 12 years, but then one day disappeared right as he was on the verge of being purified. (No surprise, this kid is the Antagonist.)
Three years later, there was a great battle against the demons. During the battle, the crown prince (ML) was infected with demonic energy. MC's grandfather attempted to perform a purification, but was interrupted by another attack, and soon afterwards suddenly died on the battlefield. Losing him caused the ML his first ever loss on the battlefield. Immediately afterwards, the reinforcements led by the second prince swept in and defeated the demon army. He was aided by a strong wielder of holy light, who turns out to be the Antagonist.
When they got back, the Antagonist claimed that he never had demonic energy in him, but instead had holy light which was stronger than MC's grandfather, who kept him locked up in the cathedral out of jealousy, until the second prince helped him escape. The second prince also suggested that MC's entire family should be executed because of this, but the king only exiled them to a remote church where they were kept under house arrest.
Five years later, the demons have a treaty of coexistence with the human kingdom. As part of the deal, they sent a demon beast to the capital, where every year, a youth with holy light powers would be sacrificed to the beast. (And I suppose in return, demons won't attack human cities anymore.) The court agreed, on the condition that only criminals be used for sacrifices. Of course, original MC fit this bill, and thus was on his way to the capital to be scarificed when MC arrived.
Because of the system, MC knows that Antagonist doesn't have a bit of holy light in him. He had become the lover of the demon king with whom he'd formed a contract, and everything was just a staged performance they're playing to trick the humans. He then later seduced the second prince to becoming his patsy in controlling the human kingdom, who he used to lower the kingdom's defenses. Once the second prince dies, he would then help the demon king sweep through and drive humanity to extinction.
On arriving at the capital, MC is allowed a private audience with the king. The king is actually suspicious of the Antagonist, but doesn't have proof of his suspicions. He is also the only person alive who knows that MC was born with tremendous holy light powers, which his grandfather had temporarily sealed for his own good. The king asks MC for any last requests, and the MC asks for 10 extra days, which is granted.
MC goes to his abandoned original room, and pulls out an old shabby cloak hidden under the bed, which is actually an invisibility cloak. He then moves into the cathedral, and at night, uses the cloak to visit the room where ML has been sequestered in. There, he offers to purify the demon energy from ML, but their conversation is interrupted when ML falls in to his frequent fits. However, unlike normal fits which causes him to to try and kill any living being around him, this fit causes him to fall onto the MC in lust. Seeing the pain on his lover's face, MC doesn't resist.
During the next few days, MC lounges around in the day and sneaks over to purify ML at night. Antagonist comes by once to take MC on a tour of the capital, basically to throw his current status in MC's face. He also comes by to try and seduce ML one night, but gets beat up instead.
On the day of the sacrifice, a fully restored ML sweeps in to rescue MC and kill off the demon beast. MC also shows off his tremendous holy powers. The king is happy to have his preferred heir back. The Antagonist suggests they need proof that he's clear of demon energy, because he simply couldn't believe that his handiwork could be completely purified. ML agrees to the test of being soaked in the holy spring to prove his purified state, but further demands that Antagonist undergoes the same test. ML passes the test just fine, but the Antagonist is forced to endure the severe pain of standing in the holy spring while also forced to not show any of it.
Then there's still the issue of killing the demon beast means that the previous treaty with the demons is no longer valid, and there's the danger of demons attacking human cities again. So the king sends both princes and their entourage to the border to renegotiate (or fight) with the demons.
Once they left the capital and and are settling down for the first evening on the road, ML reveals an edict the king gave him before they left, stripping Antagonist of the Saint position and giving it to MC. Also, as they drew closer to the border, they found that the land had more and more demon corruption and people living in perpetual fear. It turns out, the guy send to oversee the area, a cousin of the second prince, had outright left 3 cities in demon hands "to prevent conflict". Neither the second prince nor many of the nobles in the capital were aware of any of this.
Initial negotiations fall through. MC suggests that the second prince and Antagonist should have the job of recovering the 3 lost cities since they were lost because of them. Antagonist plots with the local noble to drug and rape MC, but MC turns it back on him. He also uses the chance to remove the magic bone that the demon king had place into Antagonist to allow him to disguise his demon powers as holy power. So when negotiations led by the second prince break down into a fight, Antagonist is no longer able to pretend to use holy power. Knowing he can't go back to the humans, Antagonist immediately turns on his own party and helps the demons capture them. As Antagonist goes all lovey on the demon king and refuses to acknowledge that he had any other romantic relationship, the second prince realizes that he's been played for a fool.
ML isn't willing to negotiate further with the demon king, so they fight. With help from the MC, they force the demons to flee. However, their goal is bigger than that. MC goes by himself to see the demon king, pretending that he is willing to contract with the demon king in return for the authority to rule over all humans. In order to do this, the demon king must dissolve his former contract with Antagonist, thus withdrawing the power he had given him. The demon king, thinking that the MC couldn't use his holy powers inside his demon palace anyway, and that the lust for power is a motive he could understand, and also because Antagonist hasn't come through with his promises, eventually agrees. As soon as the contract with Antagonist is dissolved, ML, who had snuck in with MC under the invisibility cloak, stabs the demon king through the heart from behind. This forces the demon king to use all the gathered ancestral demonic power in the palace, which is what MC wanted. He calls down a giant pillar of light similar to the old legends, and purifies the root of demonic energy. ML's soldiers then sweep in to clean up the rest. From then on, the demon kind will only get weaker and weaker until humanity can eventually destroy them all.
On arriving home, the king is able to hear the happy news shortly before his death. The kingship is passed to ML. The second prince was crippled during his stay in the demon king's torture chambers, and now hates Antagonist with a burning passion, often going down to the dungeons to torture him. MC asks ML what he's going to do about an heir, and ML basically plans to drug his younger brother to sleep with an appropriately willing woman, and then adopt the kid as an heir.
MC wakes up in a crashed escape pod, feeling like all his bones have been shattered (they probably are). Before he could do anything else, a couple of mechas descend from the skies. A person descends from the leading mecha to take a closer look at MC's pod. MC instinctively knows this is not an enemy, and weakly calls for help. Since the guy is ML, the young general in charge of the fleet overhead, he orders for MC to be brought back to his ship and given medical help. In recovery, MC reviews his backstory.
This is a sci fi setting with several rival nations that compete for natural resources of newly found worlds. Several of these nations banded together in an alliance. Original MC was from one of the major nations in the Alliance (and ML is from a peer nation also in the Alliance). MC's grandfather was an important government official, his dad was a decorated captain in the navy, MC himself was a prodigy engineer, and he also had a fiance who was from a high status family too.
This fiance unfortunately had rescued Antagonist, who was a soul that was transmigrated from an even more future setting, who then fell for his savior. Antagonist and his original body's brother then plotted against original MC's family, paying pirates to kill his dad, framing his uncles to be executed, killing his grandfather with the shock, and buying mercs to kill MC. MC's brother sacrificed himself to allow MC to flee across the border, though he was already heavily damaged, and crash landed on the planet where ML found him. MC's fiance also became Antagonist's fiance (though he soon found out about Antagonist's real character and regretted choosing him over MC).
MC doesn't bother to hide his background from ML. He also uses his recovery time to take apart his wheelchair, and rebuild it into a wheelchair-transforming-mecha that gave a ship-full of soldiers the runaround in his demo. With that as the proof of his ability, ML gives him a spot on the his ship's engineering team.
With MC's help, ML's fleet is able to gain several worlds/contracts ahead of Antagonist's forces. Antagonist is livid that his nemesis is alive and showing him up, and holds a press conference accusing MC of betraying his home nation and demanding his repatriation from ML's nation. In response, ML's fleet attacks the largest pirate fleet in the region, showing off the new mecha MC built for his lover, and capturing the pirate leader alive. They then hold their own press release, showing the evidence and testimony of the pirates proving that Antagonist & his brother had betrayed many of their own people to the pirates in order to gain power, as well as selling military gear to the pirates and using them to help them hold power over their nation's major government officials and becoming shadow rulers.
This revelation causes the public to turn against Antagonist, as well as many government officials who no longer have anything to fear. Antagonist's brother is preparing their private fleet to flee and set up their own country elsewhere. However, Antagonist could not help but go and see the fiance one more time to ask him to go with him (just like original MC once did before he fled). The fiance angrily rejects him and gets killed by Antagonist, since if he can't have him then no one can.
Meanwhile, MC gets married to ML, which also gives him citizenship and thus no one has the right to demand his repatriation anymore. After the wedding, they go after Antagonist's fleet, wiped out their forces, and captured the brothers. They're tried before the Alliance court and sentenced to some hole somewhere for the rest of the lives.