I Possessed It Instead of My Younger Sibling

40 – 700 years ago.

“Then it’s the first lesson, so it’s better to start with the story you guys most likely know. Yes, about the ‘Demon War’ that happened 700 years ago. About it.”

Hmmm-

Professor Histri, who cleared his throat for a moment, began to speak.

“…’Demon War’. A tragedy that left more than 90% of humankind dead and left the most devastating wounds in human history… Its beginning was also intense…. It happened when I was 8 years old…. 700 Years later, I still remember it vividly…”

Professor Histri’s eyes blurred as if he was looking into the distant past. However, his body was still trembling weakly, as if he remembered the horror of that time.

“…That day 700 years ago. I was walking through the market holding my mother’s hand. I was very excited. Because that day was my birthday… I bought the ingredients with my mother to make her favorite pie. There was…and then, ‘the thing’ happened.”

Her wrinkled face painted a smile. It was a happy smile. But in an instant, the old man’s face was stained with fear.

“…Suddenly, the sky was covered with darkness, and the sun, which had been pouring dazzling sunlight overhead, disappeared. Then, I heard a terrible ear-cry that seemed to cut my mind just by hearing it…”

Professor Histri’s voice didn’t contain any magic power, but….

The skill of naturally adjusting the rhythm of her voice and the vivid emotions contained in her voice made all the students pay attention to her story.

“People were terrified and confused… It was a real mess. My mother threw me out of her grocery store, hugged me and ran home.”

And what I saw while looking at the sky in the arms of her mother….

“…Unlike the kind and cozy darkness of the night, just looking at it doesn’t stop the goosebumps all over your body…….It’s as deep as the abyss, muddy, soggy, bitter, …as if all the negativity in this world has formed. It was a scene of ‘darkness’ and gentle, clean, beautiful, warm, golden ‘glow’ opposing each other, dividing the sky in half.”

It was the beginning of a war between the main god and the demon god, later called the ‘Seven-Day God Demon War’.

“As the name suggests, the war between light and darkness lasted for 7 days….No. At that time, it was impossible to tell the difference between day and night…. It could be more or less than 7 days. Hey… I still don’t know… At that time, I was hugging my parents in a corner of the house and trembling…”

As if he remembered his parents, longing passed through the old man’s eyes.

“The Great War of the 7 Days Shinma was truly a battle worthy of a myth… Every time light and darkness collided, gray debris mixed with light and darkness fell down on the continent, and the sky collapsed in the world. The sound echoed endlessly. The ground screamed, splitting itself apart. The sea was boiling hot…”

It was such a grandiose expression that I couldn’t easily believe it…. The horror in Professor Histri’s voice made it impossible to think of it as mere exaggeration.

“The light and darkness that collided for seven days and nights left a huge scar on the world….And our family couldn’t escape. It fell on…”

Professor Histri’s voice was calm, but there was a deep sadness that could not be hidden.

“…700 Years later, it’s still as vivid as yesterday… With a loud roar, the collapsing ceiling, and my parents hurriedly covering me with their bodies. That scene was the last thing I saw, and there my consciousness ended for a moment. And When I opened my eyes again, what I saw was…

It was my mother, with a pale complexion, stroking my hair with her increasingly warm hands.

“… Something warm and lukewarm was soaking my body. It was my mother’s blood…. The debris from the falling ceiling penetrated her mother’s abdomen…”

The old man ran a trembling hand through his faded gray hair. As if remembering her mother’s touch.

“My mother didn’t say anything, she just smiled and kept stroking my hair… As if she’d been stroking the things she’d been stroking for the rest of her life… I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut even as I cried. Once I opened my mouth, now It felt like my mother’s hand, which had become cold like ice, would stop right away…”

My mother’s hand, which had stroked me dozens of times, gradually slowed down and fell helplessly, only then did I burst into tears.

It was the moment when the family’s home became the tombstone of my parents in an instant.

“I hugged my parents who had cooled down and cried for a long time under the collapsed house. How much I cried… Through the cracks in the collapsed ceiling, I saw ‘it’. I could see it clearly even with my eyes blurred with tears…”

As if looking at an abyss, black as black as a mountain, a gigantic ‘Jet-black meteor’….

I saw it cross the sky of the West Continent and disappear over the horizon.

“—Yes. That is the beginning of the tragedy that drove humanity to the brink of extinction…”

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It was the ‘Demon’s Heart’.

Gulp-

In the quiet lecture room, I heard someone swallowing.

Is it because they were immersed in the story of the skilled Professor Histri as if they were there at the time?

At that time, someone raised his hand and asked Professor Histri.

“So, then… Did the Demon War just start?”

“Isn’t it? The West Continent wasn’t affected that much at that time. Rather, I was busy dealing with the chaos of the Shinma Great War, so I was reluctant, but I ignored it.”

“Eh.”

“Whoops… At that time, chaos was at its peak in the western continent. There were countless victims of natural disasters caused by the Shinma War, and thieves, bandits, pirates, and other criminals of all kinds ran rampant taking advantage of the chaos. G. Also, there were some senseless kingdoms attacking neighboring countries to make up for the damage this time. Back then, there was not one empire like now, but a kind of Warring States period with dozens of kingdoms.”

Have humans become ‘humans’ again….

“Of course, there were many kingdoms that said they had to investigate meteors… But there were so many kingdoms that ran rampant, so it was not easy to withdraw their troops. Even thinking about it now, it was the height of foolishness.”

“Yeah… The old people are a bit…”

“Isn’t it savage? Children of today will think so when they see it. I, a human at that time, think so too….And the fact that the meteor hadn’t affected the continent yet must have had a little effect.”

“Are you not affected?”

“Yes. Even after 10 or 20 years, there was no effect, so the opinion to investigate was gradually fading. It seems that the priority was to protect one’s kingdom from attacks by other kingdoms. Among them, a completely different move. Although there was a king who did.”

“That king is…”

“Yes. The king of the Kingdom of Capreta, the forerunner of the Giast Empire that rules the western continent now. He was ‘Brittle de Capreta’, now called the King of God.

King Shinjung?

“The kingdom of Capreta was one of the most powerful countries in the western continent, and its king was rumored to be wise enough to see the future. Under his rule, the kingdom prospered. …However, the meteor fell King Hu showed a move that was incomprehensible in that era. The king’s authority, which was absolute in his action, was shaken… That move was a ‘maintenance’ of the country on a large scale.”

“Maintenance?”

“Yes, maintenance. All the large mansions and buildings were demolished. He only built new ones that could fit as many people as possible. He even demolished part of the palace.”

“To the palace, you mean?”

“Yes. All but one palace. And King Sinjung’s incomprehensible move wasn’t the only one.”

Overproduction of crops by forcibly harvesting the land from the farmers, using the wood attribute as a magician.

Manufacturing an ineffective wall against people, using people and wizards to encircle the entire border.

Creating a large number of weapons that exceed the number of the armed forces created by convening craftsmen from all over the kingdom.

Stabilization of public order through thorough and merciless punishment even for minor crimes.

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“Besides that, he pushed countless other things by force by order of the king.”

It was the worst tyranny at the time, but later historians evaluate it as the most optimal.

“At first, the nobles and people who thought that they were preparing for war with other countries followed King Sinjung… But, seeing the actions of King Sinjung, who only prepared for war for decades, dissatisfaction began to rise. I did. It was literally just before I woke up. And then, the shocking ‘news’ was delivered to the West Continent. Along with hundreds of millions of refugees.”

It was news that the Celestial Empire, which ruled the East Continent, was ‘destroyed’. It was 30 years after the jet-black meteor fell.

“The news was very disconcerting to the kings of the Western Continent. The Eastern Continent was less than one-third the size of the Western Continent, but the power of the Celestial Empire that unified the Eastern Continent into one was a certain kingdom in the Western Continent. The empire collapsed in 30 years? No news was sent? Realizing that this was a big deal, the kings of the Western Continent stopped all disputes and gathered in one place to hold a meeting. There were elves, dwarves, and beastmen. There were also their leaders.”

And in its place, everyone knows what happened.

Heaven, the last prince was also there.

In the place where all the kings of the western continent gathered, the words that came out of the mouth of the prince of the heavenly kingdom were shocking.

“Our empire was destroyed by monsters.”