Episode 2. Didn't See This Coming (Part 2)
My late parents from childhood were Catholic missionaries.
"Isaac, what happens if you lie?"
"I'll go to hell because I'm a bad kid?"
"Nope. Your allowance for this month disappears."
They really were missionaries.
Of course, that son would later become not a skull buried in the ground but the leader of utterly wicked demons, though that part didn't really matter.
They were parents who didn't care if their son became a demon or followed the path of Asura, as long as he didn't do anything he couldn't take responsibility for.
That's why the Skeleton King had lived without shame until now and thought he'd adapted to his second life.
'Bones... bones...'
His own appearance remained impossible to get used to, even after centuries.
So much so that he'd even swallowed his pride and made an employment contract with his enemies, the gods, just to become human...
That's how it was.
Or so he thought.
"Oh my, the baby Saint has awakened."
The hell? What kind of messed-up situation is this?
The Skeleton King couldn't comprehend what had happened to him.
Of course, he also had no idea why he was here instead of being trapped inside a bug like he should be.
'Saint?'
Saint?!
The so-called Saint was supposed to be the utterly wicked and petty leader of the holy faction!
The Skeleton King still vividly remembered.
The time when he was still a lowly skeleton:
-"Kill them! Don't let a single monster escape!"
The human brats cried over some stolen bread... Okay, maybe it was a lot of bread, but still! They sent several paladins after a baby monster who'd just whined about stolen bread!
-"Ah! That skeleton's helping it escape! Take care of it!"
He'd nearly been purified by a single holy spell when trying to save that baby monster.
And after becoming the Undead King Lich?
-"Wipe out the demon territory!"
The holy faction bastards kept invading others' territories and being nuisances.
Sure, when those so-called envoys from great nations messed around in others' lands, he'd gotten angry and beaten up their representative before hanging them up...
-"The Demon King beat up a saintess and hung her from a tree! This is clearly a declaration of war!"
Maybe it was slightly excessive, but to the Skeleton King, the holy faction were truly wicked and petty bastards.
This was his first time encountering an actual Saint, but they were probably similar to those saintesses he'd beaten up.
'Though I did make all those saintesses from the 1st to 80th generations cry before sending them back to the Holy Empire...'
The Saint wouldn't be any different.
They'd probably try to dismember demons in the name of their god.
So why were they calling him a Saint?
No, actually, there was an even bigger question:
'Why am I human now?'
What the hell?
Suddenly finding himself as a newborn baby, the Skeleton King tilted his head in confusion.
