[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-isekai-nonbiri-nouka":3,"chapter-isekai-nonbiri-nouka-isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-955":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Isekai Nonbiri Nouka",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1395446,1848,"Chapter 955: Interlude: The Devil Who Guards Art","isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-955",955,"\u003Cp>I am… a devil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I lived in an age long past, led my comrades through countless battles, and finally, fulfilled, I died…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have no regrets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…….\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No regrets, but I’m still not dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My body is gone, lost and destroyed, but my soul remains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immortality, huh…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It makes dying really difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s such a hassle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, I ended up attracting other beings like myself, souls without bodies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrounded by countless such souls, I began to blend with them, to melt into them. In time, I would lose my sense of self and truly die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thousands of years passed, and the shape of my soul has become faint and blurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How much longer will it take?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was looking forward to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But just as I was drifting in that half-asleep haze, someone grabbed me, forcefully, and sealed me into place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this incomprehensible stone… Black Flame Stone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isn’t that the crystallized remains of a mighty monster?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’re carving it…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They’re carving it into a statue… and etching my soul into it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What are you doing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hey, you there! Human! Listen! Listen to me!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listen up!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listen!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Please listen!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it, what insane concentration!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, wait, is this person a saint or something?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like one of those who can’t hear the voice of a devil?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s racial discrimination!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter the race, it is important to talk!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, everything should begin with a conversation, don’t you think?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>React a little!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m trying to lighten the mood here, you know! A devil talking about dialogue, this is absolute cinema, and you’re just ignoring me!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I know you know I’m here!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You couldn’t have singled me out from that sea of muddled souls otherwise!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come on, I’ll do whatever you want!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s gotta be something you desire, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like wanting to be popular with the opposite sex?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, you’re really going to ignore me completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s been ages since someone has angered me this much!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let’s see… it’s been thousands of years, I think!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s too late to regret now!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’ll pay for enraging me,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait, what’s with that spear?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reacting to bloodlust is cheating!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And you’re still ignoring me…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No more killing intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spear, please.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can you say something to your master?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No good?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He doesn’t hear anything when he’s focused?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somebody, help meeeee!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A complete stranger is doing something to meeeee!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I calmed down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how much I cried for help, no one answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had no choice but to regain my composure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it, I curse the strength of my own will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But by calming down, I was finally able to observe the human… no, the statue the human was carving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The statue being carved by the human…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isn’t bad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looks strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The waist is a bit too slim for my liking, but the horns are magnificent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Devils take pride in the size of their horns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bigger, the better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the fact that it’s armed with so many weapons, I like that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It means it can deliver many forms of attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, just maybe, this human…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is trying to resurrect me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would that be…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A good thing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it really?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would it be forgivable for me to return?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I caused a lot of destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Evil God who descended to the mortal realm stepped back when I raged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, this human is choosing me despite that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This human…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Has potential!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hahahahahahahahahaha!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Devil Who Guards Art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is my new name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My old name… has been discarded, or rather, overwritten.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can’t even remember it anymore…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not that I have any lingering attachment to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My new power is to protect works of art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of my abilities have been adjusted to specialize in that one purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It might be inconvenient to use, but that depends on how it’s used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have no complaints.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only thing I do have a complaint about is this body of mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My body is a statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive sculpture carved from Black Flame Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As far as reviving me goes, it’s not a bad method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this statue…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s too well made.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s a work of art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which makes it perfectly compatible with my new power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And while I’m inside the art museum, I can block any kind of attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a god’s attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though… not the full strength of a true god.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can deflect the playful attacks of lesser gods, at least.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, what’s the complaint?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can’t move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am the Devil Who Guards Art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To those who harm works of art, I am allowed to unleash any form of attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If someone moves a piece of art without permission, they become a target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That, I understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which is why, as a work of art myself, I’m not allowed to move on my own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I must not move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What kind of nonsense is this?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You showed me hope, hope of revival, and now this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can’t move!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this despair?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>N-no… technically, there is a way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is a method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I leave the museum, I’ll no longer be a piece of art on display.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then I’ll be able to move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But getting me out of the museum will be difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because even my position is treated as part of the display.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If anyone tries to move me, I’ll instinctively resist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I won’t be able to help it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which means the only way I’ll ever be able to move…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is if the museum is destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it’s damaged so badly it can no longer be recognized as an art museum, then I’ll be free.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, but!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m using my own powers to protect the museum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because if I don’t, the other works of art will be damaged!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So there’s no way the museum will ever be destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Absolutely not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have sealed myself in place with my own power!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human! Human! Human! Human!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You really did it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’re more of a devil than a devil!!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Incredible!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m shocked!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve never encountered someone this devilish before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah… that frail little human…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What growth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To think that someone like this would be born while I was dead!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very well!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I shall remain in this museum for ten thousand years and protect every last piece of art!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hahahahaha!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s more stimulating than just drifting in my soul-state, half-asleep!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How will I protect the artwork if I can’t move?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, that’s easy, I can attack the minds of those who mean them harm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can’t swing any weapons, unfortunately…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is that 《Gold Coin》 I see over there?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s been a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh ho, and 《Box》, 《Sound》, and even 《Letter》 are here too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Your forms have grown quite fragile, but your souls haven’t changed at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hahaha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ancestor of the Devil Race, Despair-sama, was it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ahh, that’s right. My former authority was 《Despair》, wasn’t it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fufufufufufu!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now I’m the one bearing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuhihihihihi!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How delightful. How utterly delightful!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though I can’t move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah yes, I do accept offerings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Prepare a proper altar for tribute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t like anything spicy, make it sweet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And definitely nothing bitter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s not reverse psychology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you bring me something bitter, I’ll take it as an act of malice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Brave》 came, leading 《Selfless Love》 and 《Indebted Love》.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hahahahaha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trio is as inseparable as ever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah, don’t tremble like that. Don’t be afraid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I won’t do anything to you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first time we met… was after I had already died, wasn’t it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though, can that really be called “meeting”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, no matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Brave》… you were seeking power, weren’t you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shall we reminisce a little?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some days later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Eternal》, once a servant of the Evil God, came to visit…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back when the Evil God was still around, we were enemies, but I hold no hostility now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though I do get irritated when people laugh at my immobile form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah, you’re going by the name Versa now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll remember that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, your coming here was fated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s something I’d like to ask of you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s something 《Eternal》 should be capable of.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I won’t force you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feel free to refuse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, no, I’m not in the habit of running my mouth about the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I would never stoop to something so low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I promise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s just… when I see someone from the old days, I get a little chatty…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apologies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s not a difficult task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I was being made, the human who created me had a sample.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s not here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were in this museum, I would know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which means that human took it with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s also a work of art, but I cannot stop the creator from taking his own work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now then, that sample, perhaps because it was near me, or perhaps due to that human’s power, contains a fragment of my soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be a pity to leave a newly born soul trapped in an immobile statue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I ask you to find it and move it into a human-shaped vessel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only if you can, of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not, then so be it, such is fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You know the human who made me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’re indebted to him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, what good fortune!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then I leave it to you!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No need to report back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll be sleeping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fufufu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve spent ages dozing away, you see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly staying awake all the time is a bit much for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I need to let my… no, my spirit adjust slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You came at the perfect time, 《Eternal》.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was just about to go to sleep again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fear not, even in sleep, I will still protect the art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This body is capable of that much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hahaha.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well then, until we meet again in a few hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah, and offerings are welcome at any time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even while I’m asleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m counting on you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Gold Coin》 Prada\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Box》 Kati\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Sound》 Rudio\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Script》 Sharune\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Brave》 Gucci\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Selfless Love》 Bulga\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Indebted Love》 Stifano\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Eternal》 Versa\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not appearing this time:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>《Disease》 Beton\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>TN: Bulga and Stifano’s authorities are written as 慈愛(jiai) and 恩愛(onai). Both are love but from different sources. Bulga’s love is selfless, nurturing, and deep love, like a parental or god-like love. Stifano’s love is love that arises from a sense of gratitude or indebtedness, often within a familial context (like parent-child, or husband-wife).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-0-\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>●The History of Despair-sama\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Born around the same time as humans and demi-humans. Begins thinking about his(?) own domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>↓\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As humans and demi-humans begin to multiply, takes on the role of 《Despair》 and works hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>↓\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Evil God descends to the surface. Becomes an enemy of the Evil God. Meets Versa. Is defeated by the Evil God and dies, but the soul remains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>↓\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>4,000 years ago. Continues working as the concept of 《Despair》.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>↓\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>2,000 years ago. The outline of the soul begins to fade. Starts to forget the world and drifts into slumber. (Meets Prada and Gucci around this time.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>↓\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Present day. Reborn as the 《Devil Who Guards Art》.\u003C\u002Fp>",1864,"2026-06-05T23:08:42.455Z",1,"novelbin.me","f0cb28ab1fcb3846a37ddef574a2b03ebe6a28a4699d0080df3f0fb505fda827","isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-956","isekai-nonbiri-nouka-chapter-954",1036,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fisekai-nonbiri-nouka-cover.jpg"]