The Reincarnated Assassin Is a Genius Swordsman

Chapter 1402 "Me..." Raguel couldn't bear Greed's mockery and stamped his feet. "Don't ignore me!" He wrapped the divine power of the heavenly realm around his entire body and grabbed the scale of judgment floating in the sky. Gooooooooo! The scale of sin melted down small and dug into Raguel's grasp. The scale and the Archangel, which had been separate, connected like an inseparable single entity. Wooooooooong! The scale of sin held in Raguel's hand wasn't made of a metallic material. It had a structure where light and divine power seemed concentrated, displaying a mysterious color between silver and gold. It appeared silver in bright places and gold in dark places, changing color depending on the viewing angle. That appearance seemed to represent Archangel Raguel of mercy and judgment. "So, so beautiful..." Krein, who had been caught and flown here by Greed, unconsciously opened his mouth. "Huh! S-sorry!" Surprised that he had unconsciously praised the enemy, he hastily bowed his head toward Greed. "No, you don't need to apologize for your own assessment." Greed chuckled and waved his hand. "I think it's beautiful too." He licked his lips while looking at the scale of judgment connected to Raguel's hand. "The pillar is straight and unwavering, and the shape and size of the plates are perfectly circular and completely symmetrical. That scale maintains perfect balance and absolutely never wavers normally." Greed raised his golden-glowing eyes, saying Raguel's scale achieved beautiful symmetry. "And if that scale of judgment doesn't waver, then Raguel doesn't waver either. On the other hand..." He raised his gaze to look at his own scale of greed floating in the sky. "Mine is quite messy." Unlike Raguel's scale of judgment, Greed shrugged, calling his own scale shabby. "Uh..." Krein swallowed dry saliva while looking at the scale above Greed's head. 'Definitely...' Unlike Raguel's scale which was holy and perfect, Greed's scale was covered with messy marks. "It is a bit messy... huh?" Krein was saying it was messy as if talking to Raon when his eyes widened. "Ahhh..." As he examined the marks engraved on Greed's scale, his jaw trembled as if in shock. 'Th-this isn't messy! Everything...' They were traces of transactions! The marks engraved on Greed's scale of greed weren't from wear and tear, but were tiny letters, and what those letters meant were records of deals made and concluded over thousands of years. There were languages he couldn't understand, but many were written in human language so he couldn't help but recognize them. 'Contract clauses, transaction amounts, even the names of counterparts are written...' They were so small that he had to concentrate aura in his eyes to see them, but the fact that all the marks engraved on the scale were contracts made chills rise throughout his body. 'This person. No, this demon king is more terrifying...' Greed's thoroughness in engraving all the deals made over thousands of years was several times more frightening and chilling than Archangel Raguel who displayed perfection. He absolutely never wanted to become this person's enemy. "Ugh... huh?" Krein was about to step back slightly when he saw a name engraved on the pillar of the scale and his eyes widened. 'R-Raon Zieghart?' The name of his leader, Raon, was also engraved on the pillar of the scales. 'The contents are...' He tried to read the contents, but Greed's scale was shaking violently and the letters were blurry so he couldn't see them properly. "Monarch of Greed." Raguel glared at Greed while raising the scale of judgment fused with his palm. "I will judge your sins of accumulating vicious wealth in both the Devildom and Human World!" As he uttered the word judgment, he pulled out a feather stuck in his wing with his right hand. Tuuuuuk! Raguel placed a single feather from his hand onto the left plate of the scale embedded in his hand. With just one feather coming down, the balance of the scale collapsed and the left plate sank deeply downward. Befitting the name of Archangel, even a single feather seemed to contain weight of a different magnitude. "As you wish." Even while looking at Raguel's eyes burning with divine power, Greed leisurely clasped his hands behind his back. The black suit that didn't match the brutal battlefield and the golden embroidery on it seemed to show that even in this critical moment, he was a merchant, not a warrior. "The sin of being a monarch of the Devildom! The sin of having greed you yourself cannot handle! The sin of inciting human desires and corrupting them! The sin of selling to both warring nations and profiting! The sin of hoarding food during famine to raise prices! The sin of selling hope to the desperate and accumulating souls!" Each time Raguel spoke of Greed's sins, something blackened settled onto the right plate of the scale in his hand and it gradually began to tilt to the right. Heavy. The sins of the Monarch of Greed instantly overcame the weight of the Archangel's feather and brought the plate down as if it would touch the ground. Paaaaaaaaang! Eventually the scale of judgment couldn't overcome the weight of Greed's sins, tilting to the right as the pure white feather turned black. "I haven't even finished speaking of all the sins accumulated over thousands of years..." Raguel frowned, saying the result had already come out even though he hadn't finished speaking of all of Greed's sins. "Your sins can absolutely never be forgiven." He let out a sneer while looking at the blackly burning feather. Kwaaaaaaaaah! As Raguel's scale tilted perfectly, massive light fell from the sky. No, that wasn't light. It was punishment brought down by the Archangel. Heavenly chains made of light wrapped around Greed's entire body. Puddddddeuk! Under the massive yet holy pressure created by the heavenly chains, Greed's waist bent and his knees began to buckle. Even though Greed was the demon king of greed, it seemed he wouldn't be able to break and move the chains filled with divine power. "Your sins are judging you." Raguel raised his chin as if it were natural, looking at Greed being crushed by the power of judgment. "Kneel." He snorted as if it were natural that Greed would kneel and bow his head. "Interesting. You're telling me my sins that even I don't know." Greed raised his gaze to Raguel without even looking at the chains of light digging into his flesh and bones. "However..." It was the moment he smiled and snapped his fingers. Tak! Gold coins fell onto Raguel's scale that had already tilted to its limit. One coin, then two coins. Gold coins poured like rain onto the left plate where the blackened feather was, and the right plate that had tilted enough to touch the ground gradually began to rise. Wooooooooong! As the balance created by Raguel's scale wavered, the massive light of the heavenly chains dimmed and their thickness began to thin. "What, what is this!" Raguel shook the scale embedded in his left hand at this unprecedented situation, but the gold coins already on the plate didn't fall off. "What do you mean what." When Greed put strength into his arms and legs, the weakened and thinned chains broke like paper and poured to the ground. Kwadeuk! He trampled the finely broken chains with his smooth shoes and shook his head. "It's a bribe offered to heaven." Greed said there's no place in this world where money doesn't work and lightly brushed off the divine power stuck to his suit. "Ha..." Raguel trembled his lips while looking at Greed who had returned unharmed. "How dare you insult heaven!" He roared while melting Greed's gold coins on the scale with divine power. "I'm not ignoring it, that's just the truth, isn't it?" Greed twisted up the corners of his mouth, asking if the chains hadn't actually been released. "You pretend to be pure and holy without a speck of dust, but inside you're more twisted than us demons." He waved his hand, saying that blackened demons are cleaner than Angels with pure white wings. "Just look at today. We've never tried to destroy the Human World so openly like this." Greed shrugged, saying that even though demons are evil, they don't cause trouble like Angels do. "Well, a thousand years ago you also caused such trouble and..." "Shut up!" Raguel ground his teeth while cutting off Greed's words. "How could a merchant like you understand heaven's will!" He shook his head vigorously, saying there were things that Greed, who only thought about money, couldn't understand. "The judgment isn't over yet!" Raguel breathed heavily and raised the scale of judgment embedded in his left hand again. "You who have lived for thousands of years have thousands of sins or more!" He wrapped his entire body in holy light while spreading his eight wings as if the real beginning was now. "Now your gold coins earned with blood can't block my scale!" Raguel wielded mighty divine power to erect a golden wall so that Greed's gold coins couldn't touch his scale. "Labor exploitation! You pushed innocent demons into the mines of the northern Devildom filled with bitter cold! All the gold and silver mined without shifts or rest days went to your treasury!" "Ah, that's true. All the gold went to my vault. However, all those friends took enough money to last a lifetime." Greed waved his hand, saying he had taken care of what needed to be taken care of. "The great famine in the southern Human World! Your trading company bought up all the grain starting four months before the famine began! When people started dying, you sold it at ten times the price!" "Right. To those who could afford it, I charged not ten times but over twenty times the price. Those who were going to starve to death because they had no money, I hired and made them work for cheap though." Greed smiled, saying he made money by hiring those who would die and making them work cheaply. "Uh, uhm..." Raguel swallowed dry saliva while reading his sins through Greed's eyes. 'It's, it's all true...' It was true that Greed had exploited countless wealth through his greed, but he had also saved many people. Though sins were sins, they had been offset so they couldn't be called heavy sins. 'No!' Raguel bit his lips long and shook his head. 'That, that bastard has committed sins that can absolutely be forgiven!' The weight of sins shown by the scale of judgment was lighter than his expectations, but his heart couldn't accept that. The Monarch of Greed should have been a great demon who exploited humans and demons without blood or tears. "O Scale of Judgment!" Raguel shattered his own beliefs and raised the scale. "Bring judgment upon the sinner of the Devildom who has gone mad with greed!" He used the divine power received from heaven to make the half-tilted scale completely sink down. Kwarrrrrrrung! Even though Raguel was being unreasonable, heaven seemed to respect his will as it dropped chains of light even more massive than before. However, the pillar of the scale, which had never wavered and maintained perfect symmetry and balance, trembled finely. "Finally..." Greed wasn't looking at the chains falling from the sky, but at Raguel's scale wavering, and drew a greedy smile that seemed to split his mouth. "It's tilted!" He licked his lips while pouring gold coins into the scale of greed floating in the sky. "I'll buy your justice with my gold coins!"