Chapter 96 – Episode 96. I Will Take Orders. Is My Lord
After I passed out, the atmosphere in the mansion was completely different from before.
There was darkness everywhere because the lights weren’t even turned on, but not only the guards but also the servants who should go to bed are awake and wandering around the mansion.
All of them, with their minds controlled by the nightmare led by Garbonya, are trying to block any interference with the events taking place in the mansion.
In the process, Katarina had already become her target, and she had no choice but to move forward while eliminating those who ran into her.
Innocent users, of course.
Even the co-workers I’ve shared the joys and sorrows with so far.
“Did you take care of the men who came with you with your own hands?”
“… Otherwise, I would not have come this far.”
Katarina looked down bitterly at the blood on her body.
Even though it wouldn’t be strange if she burst into tears right away, she just silently accepted my hemostasis treatment.
It was only a trivial treatment, such as applying the bandages and ointment provided in the room, but even that would be a temporary measure.
It’s fortunate that the wound wasn’t too bad. I don’t know what will happen after that.
“Dave, are you okay?”
Katarina asked me carefully while receiving treatment.
Perhaps the constant trembling of my hand while receiving treatment is bothering me.
I responded with a shy smile.
“… It’s not a very good feeling.”
It’s good that she dealt with Morgana, but she felt that he died inside my mind, and she felt the power seep into me.
Compared to Ymir’s drug, it feels like an unrefined power clinging to it.
Dizziness and nausea have been overtaken by such discomfort, but the problem is that the situation is not good for rest.
-Thump, boom!
A roar echoed from the exit of the room he hastily hid in.
Humans whose minds have been taken over from the outside are pushing to enter this place by force.
Power is power, but the number must be in the tens.
It’s obvious, but it’s impossible for me to break through their encirclement and run away alone.
“… Dave.”
Conversely, if it’s Katarina.
“Give me instructions.”
She acts as the leader of the Anti-Human Alliance, and if she has experienced countless battles, she should be able to at least have a chance to escape this mansion.
Ideally, it would be the right choice to borrow her help to get out of this place together and plan for the future.
If you only think about me and her comfort…
So, isn’t the situation much worse than you thought?
Everyone in the mansion is our enemy, and the manipulative Garbonya is a guy with mind-controlling abilities that are incomparable to mine.
Morgana succeeded in dealing with a trap that even I was unintentional, but it would be unreasonable to expect Garbonya to be dealt with so easily.
“Katarina.”
But even in such a hopeless situation, I couldn’t back down.
If you delay this moment, you will really be walking on an irreversible river.
“While you were away from headquarters, I think he probably destroyed the Anti-Human Alliance beyond repair. Did you expect that too?”
“… Yes.”
Katarina must have felt the same way.
Realizing that her eyes peering over her mask were being forged with vengeance, I held out her hand toward her, devouring her heart.
“If you want to be with me… In order to get revenge on the bitch who made us like this, won’t you use that power to save them?”
For the good reason of revenge.
Just to achieve my goal of saving them.
“I will follow.”
Katarina lifted her body from her seat while firmly holding her hand.
At that moment, the exit collapsed with a ‘Kwagang!’ Sound, and the shadows that squeezed through the crack came out and started running towards Katarina.
“Yeah, it’s a woman.”
“There are men too!”
“Bur, commit! Do it!”
The moment when the servants of the mansion, who had a haggard impression, rushed frantically.
What was revealed in those two eyes was only the sexual desire to violate the other person.
– Viscount Chow!
All of that was cut out with a flash of light that cut through the darkness, and the dagger that rushed through the spattered veins accurately pierced their foreheads and hearts.
-Charleuk!
The chains connected thereto dance in the air, and at any moment, corpses that are terribly pulled tight.
As the unbalanced people blocked their path, Katarina, who had escaped from the darkness, stepped between them and began to flash her eyes.
Without exception, he pointed the dagger between his fingers at them.
-Awesome~!
The moment when daggers with young mana spread around and tore apart the body mercilessly.
As those exposed to it drooped without exception, soon only bleak silence lingered in the space.
“… Let’s go.”
A battle that took place in an instant. No, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a massacre.
But the fact that I wasn’t among them was also a relief.
At this moment, when she can’t get help from the warrior party, she can be said to be the best ally with her natural ability to fight in the dark.
“Uh, the human over there…”
The problem is that she is the only one who can fight, whereas the enemies are all in this mansion.
“It’s a woman, a woman!”
“Get rid of the intruder!”
“No, commit it! Poke all the holes called holes!”
It is not easy to fight directly and reduce the number.
For now, you should run away as much as possible and aim for the destination.
After making that decision, I boldly walked down the hallway, and Katarina, who was trying to keep the people pursuing me from behind in check, started asking me cautiously.
“Have you decided where you are going?”
“…Yes, because I can feel it.”
“Feel it, what do you mean?”
“I explained the situation earlier, but now I have succeeded in attracting and absorbing Morgana into myself. What I feel now is an energy similar to the one I absorbed.”
Although I don’t know what effect her Morgana power will have on me, at least for now, it seems possible to track down people like her.
The unique senses that dreamers have, such as smells and sounds… Come to think of it, Ymir was like that, the means the demons use to control the mind is similar to the ‘pheromone’ used by ants and bees.
Yes, maybe the current me has a constitution that reacts sensitively to the pheromone emitted by the demons.
“If you follow that energy, you will be able to reach the place where the dreamers are.”
“Yes, it is only a guide to the end, but…”
-Chack!
The moment when the limbs of those who were chasing them were cut off with a dagger.
Afterwards, I stepped onto the stairs leading upstairs, felt the presence of people upstairs, and took time to catch my breath.
“… In fact, pursuing only those traces would be tantamount to jumping into a hopeless, reckless fight. Since you don’t know what awaits after that, it might be better to step back and plan for the future.”
Maybe it’s her selfishness of me, her infinite trust in me that draws her into her meaningless fight.
“Even so, Katarina, do you intend to follow me into such a reckless fight?”
“I will follow.”
She couldn’t bear the responsibility and spit it out, but she only answered firmly as if she was okay with my feelings.
“Right now, I… Have no choice but to believe in you.”
“… Is it.”
Yeah, come to think of it, she lived a life as bleak as I, who has lived in hiding all her life.
A destiny determined by bloodline from birth to betray humanity.
However, her father, who led her down that path, lost her life in an accident, and she, who has not yet inherited everything from him, is swung by the responsibility of taking over the rest of her organization.
In the meantime, the entire organization was played by a demon tribe, and even my colleagues were killed with my own hands.
To her, who was pushed by her own way, I, who watched over her father from the closest place to her, would be regarded as the only savior.
A life that has no choice but to earnestly catch even the hopeless rotten line because it is chased as if driven.
At the end of it, even if her waiting is ruin, she will be prepared to accept it as the only option left for her.
“I have a lot to say, but I’ll put all of that aside until after I’m alive.”
Then all I have to do is not hold her guilty.
Reviving that expectation, all she wants is to act as her ‘lord who shows her the way she should go’.
“Katarina! Eliminate all who stand in my way!”
“I will follow your orders. He is my lord.”
-Chack!!
Blood spreads while climbing the stairs.
Katarina, who led me beyond the wall of corpses created at the end, quickly ran through the hallway and kicked the door at the end, revealing the interior scene.
What exists there is a girl who has collapsed.
And two dream horses who are doing something wrong with such a girl.
“What, what is it? You. How is it…”
“For a moment! I can feel Morgana’s power in that man!”
When those dream demons saw me entering the room past Katarina, they expressed their astonishment, and soon began to show vigilance and gather strength in their bodies.
“You, you son of a bitch. What the hell did you do with Morgana!”
“If you don’t tell me right away, I’ll turn your mind into a wreck…”
But I don’t care how they feel.
No, it was rather disgusting.
What they were doing before I came to see it clearly in my eyes at this moment.
“You…”
Hey.
I can see the girl who was hurt by me lying on the floor, being engulfed by the power they radiate.
“What the hell are you guys doing to that kid?”
Perhaps Morgana was doing the same thing she was trying to do to me.
I won’t do anything physically, but if I leave it alone, it will completely ruin me mentally…
At the end, like the humans we’ve encountered so far, we will be reduced to puppets that only follow the orders of those who have accepted magical powers.
Yes, unlike Celica and Ymir.
The two of them are worthy of being used as a warrior’s party, so I’ll treat them specially, but unlike the two of them, Heira doesn’t follow the fate of the party.
From their point of view, they will be regarded as animals that can be handled as they please, just like me.
“… Uh huh?”
“What is that guy? What… Whoops!”
As soon as I was aware of such treatment, an air current of strong power spread out of my body and began to gradually encroach on the space.
The reason why the concentration felt thicker than usual was probably because he had absorbed Morgana.
I don’t know what effect that power will have on me or how I will use it, but at this moment, the amplified power was reacting violently to my emotions.
Yes, as if it was difficult to endure with just that, the dreamers’ faces gradually began to turn pale.
“Uh-that guy is weird!”
“No, it’s not strange, it’s dangerous! Hey, run away!!”
The dreamers who can’t stand my strength and leave their seats.
Katarina, who was blocking the crowds of people at the entrance, prepared to throw her dagger as soon as she saw the dream demons running away.
“Shall I follow you?”
“No, I can’t afford that. Katarina, you keep guarding the entrance!”
Right, now, rather than killing those sluts, it’s first to check the condition of the child who was being played by them.
Faced with that, I immediately approached the fallen Heira.
“… Hey.”
A young girl who did not even bear the fate of the hero’s party.
In order to save a girl who was drawn to me who had only encountered it by chance, in this situation.
“Hey! Wake up, Heira!!”
At the end of it, I approached her side, prepared to use all my strength to remove the power that restrained her spirit.
Can’t even compare to me…
To free her from her nightmares created over her 100 long years of existence.