"Oraa!"
——BAM!
"Gegyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!?"
A powerful roundhouse kick clad in flames of purification dug deep into the flabby torso.
"Hmph!"
——WHAM!
Following it up, without delay, a solid body blow.
"Gebueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!?"
At that moment, Valon spat out something from his large mandibles.
"Magmell!"
"Y-yes!"
Realizing that it may be a person, I asked Magmell to treat them.
"…Ge…gigyaaa!!"
——Swoooosh!
"Kyaa!?"
"Oh no you don't!"
——BAM!
"Gigeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!?"
As Valon tried to stretch out his tentacles toward Magmell who was rushing over to the person, I threw another high-speed roundhouse kick, blowing him away.
He was rolling on the floor while scattering his body tissue.
"T-thank you!"
"No worries! I leave that person to you!"
"Yes!"
With that, I kicked off the ground in pursuit of Valon.
Yes, with my Phoenix Form, I could easily defeat him even if he was a powerful demon with multiple superpowers.
In fact, I should be able to kill him in an instant if I wanted to.
"Haa!" I bounced off the ceiling and dive-stomped him, crushing him into the ground with a loud boom.
"…Gugee, ga…!?"
But I didn't.
"What's the matter? You quit using my wives as shields?"
"G-gah…"
The reason being, I had no reason to allow such a lowly guy who used others' close ones as shields to die so easily.
As I jumped off from his head, Valon, eyes bloodshot, opened his mouth wide and tried to eat me.
"Gigyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"
It seemed that he was so mad from all the beatings I'd given him that he had forgotten human speech
——CHOMP!
『Exa(-sama)!?』
Valon swallowed me whole just like that, but…
——BOOM!
"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!?"
…in the next moment, his large mandibles—no, the lower half of his face burst open from the inside.
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――Why can't I eat him!?
――Why can't I eat him!?
――Why can't I eat him!?
Valon had just had his arguably prided large mandibles along with the lower half of his face burst open, but his thoughts were instead only occupied with the irrationality of his being 'unable to eat' the man before him no matter how hard he tried to.
――Why!?
――Why!?
――Why!?
――Why!?
Valon had eaten a countless number of things.
He had eaten men.
He had eaten women.
He had eaten adults and children.
Brave adventurers who had stood up against him.
The weak who had begged him to spare their lives.
Valon had eaten them all impartially.
Of course, his food was not just limited to the human race.
Demi-humans, monsters, animals, plants, and even his kins, the demons, had been eaten by Valon. He never stopped eating to nourish himself.
Because that was the power of the superpower bestowed upon him,"Grattor".
It was what pushed Valon to eat.
To eat, and eat, and kept on eating.
Under the driving force of his unquenchable appetite, he kept on eating everything, be it inorganic or organic.
Yet—
Fwssss! All of his outstretched tentacles vanished just before they were able to touch the man.
"It's useless. You can't eat me."
"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!?"
Why couldn't he eat that man?
Why was his body disintegrating when he tried to eat him?
Why was all the power that he should have absorbed diminishing?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why—
Valon was completely unable to comprehend it.
On the contrary…
"…You sure have gotten a lot smaller. Well, I suppose it's only natural after you've been beaten to this extent. But it's a fitting end for you."
"!?!?!?"
…he had been looking down on that man… but now why was he the one being looked down on by him—from so far away even—instead?
"I have no idea just how many people have fallen victim to you until now. But I'm sure you had mocked them, scorned them, and trampled on their dignity just like when you tried to eat my wives. After all, so did King Vale, whom you were made from. It may be a trait shared by guys who would unhesitantly stoop so low as to use their opponent's wives as shields.
"So." The man raised his right leg.
—Crackle crackle crackle!
Not only that.
Energies were focused on his right leg, and then silver flames emitting dazzling bluish-white sparks manifested around the leg.
Then he said:
"Now, you will also die; while being looked down on by me, while being powerless to resist, while feeling humiliated. You've been trampling so many people's hearts. So, you'll be satisfied dying by being trampled, right?"
"~~~~~~~~~~~!?"
He tried so hard to speak—but no sound came out.
Why?
The answer was simple.
Because all that was left of Valon's body was his wriggling eyeballs and a part of his head, including his ears.
"——"
Since when did he become this…
Become this…
This…
Weak…?
"Farewell. And don't ever show up in front of us again—you scumbag."
—Splat!
And so, Valon… no, Vale—without being able to even make a sound, let alone begging for his life—had his existence erased from the world for eternity.