I Became a National ‘Disaster’ Level Monster

Chapter 152 Season 2 – Nevertheless, Towards a Better Future

“Ora ora ora ora ora ora ora-!!”

Little Ria didn’t stop punching her future self, who had fallen over.

She punched and punched, again and again.

It was as if she was pleading for her future self to wake up, relentlessly striking the foolish version of herself who had taken away her sister.

“You’re Ria too! So why are you! Hurting! Sister! Why?!”

“…!”

Just before she was dragged away by her future brother.

Ria had seen Sophia crying sorrowfully as Shin-woo fell, defeated by the future version of herself.

She cried out her brother’s name over and over, screaming so much that blood spilled from her lips, but he couldn’t rise.

And that unbearable emotion had seeped into Ria, who was Sophia’s companion beast, sharing the same sorrow.

“You’re bad! You and future Brother! Stop taking away our sister!”

With tears in her eyes, she delivered a final punch to her future self as if it were a finishing blow.

But.

Thump!

“…!”

Just as the world of the past was filled with sadness because their sister had disappeared.

“I feel the same way.”

The future world had also fallen into ruin because it was without their sister.

Thus.

“I, too… want to live in a happy world with Sister.”

“Ugh?!”

Even though she was the villain in this story, future Ria, who didn’t want to lose that ‘happiness’ again, grabbed her past self’s fist.

And then, as if it was still not enough.

“Sweep kick.”

“…!”

She easily flung her much smaller self into the air.

“Seiken Tsuki.”

Crack!

“Gah?!”

She drove her fist into her past self, who was still young enough to cry and throw tantrums.

“Urgh…!”

“Did you really think your pitiful punches could hurt me even a little?”

Future Ria spat out blood and looked down at her past self lying on the ground.

The numerous wounds she had sustained from the surprise attacks were completely healed, as if they had never existed in the first place.

In contrast, her past self, who was still reeling from just one punch, was unable to get up.

“Weak… So weak that you can’t protect even one precious person.”

Future Empress Ria placed her boot on little Ria’s head, looking down at her past self with disdain.

“And we’re not humans, we’re monsters.”

“Ugh…”

“In the mindset of monsters, the strong are the only ones that matter. Survival of the fittest. The future won because we were stronger, and you in the past had no choice but to lose.”

“Don’t be ridiculous…!”

Ria forced her future self’s foot off her.

She then stood up and aimed another punch at her future self’s chest.

But the difference between the two was like heaven and earth.

“What do you think you can do with that pathetic punch?”

It didn’t land.

Everything was blocked.

No, more than that, Empress Ria, in her future form, evaded her childish punches with minimal effort, as if it wasn’t even worth the trouble.

Then, she retaliated, landing an even stronger punch right into little Ria’s chest.

Thud.

“…!”

“What do you think you can do with such weak power?!”

Boom!!

The fight was over.

That last strike was a finishing blow that her 20-years-younger self could never have withstood.

The ground shook, and the earth beneath them caved in from the impact of the deadly punch that was thrown with all her might.

“Your heart… has burst.”

As her fist came to a complete stop, Empress Ria looked down at her past self, who should have disappeared due to the monster’s law of survival.

“Ugh, ugh…!”

“What?!”

And yet.

“This is…!”

“You, how…?”

“Brother said… that when I face my future self, the memories, the power! They would flow into my body.”

“!!”

Despite being unable to react earlier, little Ria managed to grab her future self’s fist just before it reached her chest.

And that wasn’t the only thing that changed in this ‘situation.’

The young Ria who was holding her future self had begun to grow, her small body slowly transforming into that of a teenager.

“Your body…!”

“Didn’t you say something about the survival of the fittest? Just try to stop me, you old hag!!”

Boom!

The stormy period of adolescence.

Ria had entered a stage of physical growth that could rival her future self.

Her once-flat chest began to swell, and her hips and facial features matured rapidly in real-time.

With this growing physique came an increased strength in her punches that future Ria, whose body had been worn out from decades of coupling with Han Shin-woo, could no longer block.

Moreover, this was the teenage Ria!

A monster with nothing to fear, her blood still fresh.

“Give us back our sister!!”

Even her techniques became more refined as she absorbed the memories of her future self, her power inching closer to that of the future version.

Zap zap zap…

‘…! Her clothes are tearing. How far is this kid planning to grow?’

The gothic maid dress that Sophia had bought for her, thinking it would look cute, was slowly being torn apart by Ria’s rapidly growing body.

“Stop, Katrina.”

“Wah?! Brother! Are you using Absolute Declaration on me? I’m your little sister!”

“That’s why I’m subduing you without hurting you.”

Their third daughter, Katrina, had been defeated by Leon.

“Your name is Cria, right? Can you stop now?”

“E-Emperor… Your face is too close…!”

“? It’s fine for a father to look at his daughter up close, isn’t it? Don’t you think?”

“D-Daughter?! Are you acknowledging me as your daughter right now?”

Cria, who had been fighting Shin-woo from the past, now had a flustered and excited expression, gradually losing her will to fight.

“It’s all over.”

Unlike her own increasing strength, her future self was getting weaker by the second.

Looking at the future version of herself, who had become the Empress, Ria, now undergoing her second puberty, spoke as if to end the fight.

“You’ve lost. Now, tell me where Sister is!”

“If I tell you… will you let us live?”

“No, maybe you, but future Brother is already as good as dead. My present Brother has decided to kill him, so I can’t guarantee your lives.”

“Is that so? In that regard, we’re very much alike.”

“What?”

“Well, since we’re the same Ria… It’s only natural we resemble each other.”

Empress Ria sighed, clearly exhausted.

Yet, despite everything, there wasn’t a hint of defeat in the smile on her lips.

Surely, she was the only one left now. So why was she talking like this?

“Brother Shin-woo can sense the location of all his children… meaning any child who carries his genes.”

“…What?”

“That’s why, from the moment you came to the future, we’ve been tracking your movements, waiting until we discovered the humans’ last refuge.”

The reason the Empire’s soldiers and royalty had suddenly swarmed around the underground village.

It wasn’t because there was a traitor among the human rebels.

It was because Shin-woo from the past could sense the presence of his children—the ones he had taken along in the hopes of teaching them about humans.

Shin-ah, Lyra, Leon, and the others—he could feel the presence of all his children who carried his blood.

Because of this, the underground village had been placed in peril by the very saviors from the future.

“The sky is opening.”

“…!”

“Father, up in the sky!”

“That’s where the underground village is…!”

The sky, which should have been painted red by sunset, began to darken with an enormous blackness.

Then, something began to reveal itself—an enormous spear piercing through the clouds.

It was an incomprehensibly massive spear, as if a whole mountain had been carved to create it.

“The Spear of Judgment, Ragnarok. During the war with the humans in the past, Brother, who had become the Emperor, carved the entire Mount Everest to create this artificial ‘divine weapon.'”

“E-Everest?!”

“If that thing falls on the underground village…”

“Even if it’s buried 1,000 meters underground, it’ll be pierced through, Father.”

The location of the underground village had been exposed.

Everyone present realized this as they looked at the spear stretching across the sky.

Inside the time machine, Yulian was urgently sending a transmission to Shin-ah, warning her that the village was in grave danger.

Meanwhile.

“Kraaaahh—!!”

“Uwaaahhh!!”

Leon and Jaewon, unable to stand still, transformed into monsters in an attempt to somehow stop it.

“Damn, can we really stop that on our own?”

“Where’s Empress Kurumi or the others from the past? Are they still all at the underground village?”

“Yeah! They said they’d stay behind just in case something happened to the village. But that thing…”

Even if it touched the ground for just a second, the Spear of Judgment seemed capable of splitting the entire Korean Peninsula in half.

“If Empress Kurumi’s Amaterasu, Yoo Che-ran’s Divine Weapon Liberation, and the underground human forces all combine their efforts, maybe…”

If everyone were gathered together…

…Would they still be able to stop it?

The spear was so large that even the ever-calm Leon had his mind paralyzed by the overwhelming size of the weapon as he tried to formulate a strategy.

“Hey, stop!”

Little Ria, grabbing her future self by the collar, shouted for her to stop.

But her future self only shook her head.

“That’s not my power. It’s my brother’s alone.”

“…!”

“So I can’t stop it.”

“Your daughter is inside that place, too!”

“…What?”

“Lyra is in there! Are you really going to kill your own daughter, you fool?!”

“Lyra…? Why is she there?”

The worst-case scenario.

The moment that marked the end of humanity’s extinction.

Even after transforming into monsters, Leon and Jaewon were at a loss, cold sweat dripping down their faces.

That was their father.

That was the Emperor they were destined to kill.

That was the true power of Han Shin-woo.

…What were we thinking, believing we could fight against that?

But.

“Kraaaaa—!!”

Rumble!

“!”

“Father!”

“Brother!”

“Dad…”

“Father from the past?”

“Your Majesty, it’s impossible! No matter how powerful Your Majesty is, you can’t stop that!”

Their father from the past was pushing them forward.

Everyone quietly looked at him.

Rather than with expectations, they watched with worried eyes, as no one believed that the Spear of Judgment could be stopped.

No matter if he was the Emperor of the past…

“Hoo…”

…he couldn’t stop it.

“Divine Weapon…”

“Huh?”

“What?”

“No way!”

That’s what everyone thought.

“Release.”

Future Ria had chosen to become a monster, using the forbidden technique known only to the chosen monsters: ‘Majang.’

But past Shin-woo…

Despite everything, Shin-woo, who had relentlessly pursued ‘humanity’ to the very end, believed that the black skin covering his body wasn’t a monster’s skin but a weapon for humans.

That’s why he was able to reach it.

A path completely different from the one taken by the Emperor, the King of Monsters.

A new ‘path of humanity’—a way to become stronger while still remaining human.

“White Wings.”

That was the wings of an angel.

Yet, those wings were being used by a body that could destroy the world—a monster’s body.

A truly contradictory awakening.

But because he had been reborn as such a paradoxical existence…

“Here I go.”

The body of Han Shin-woo, wrapped in a black flash, shot up and pierced straight through the enormous Spear of Judgment, leaping beyond into space.