Chapter 154 – Side Story _ Delia’s End
※This is Delia’s story that can be overlooked as it has nothing to do with the main story. The point of view is after EP.73, after Albert died and Rize and Laysha escaped from the garden.
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“Oh, this is…”
Delia, who had lost her mind with a headache as if she had been hit in the head, opened her eyes somewhere in her room.
From her standing posture, her limbs were tightly restrained by her X-shaped iron plates, and she was unable to move.
In her unconscious, she must have been tortured, her whole body drenched in sweat and her brown hair clinging to her skin.
“Ugh… Master…”
Delia shifted her gaze, half-obscured by her hair, to her Ron standing in front of her.
Since when she’s been like this, how long it’s been… I have no idea.
However, the owner, who looked at me with a smile, was furrowing his brow as if he was obviously angry.
“Hee hee, Delia. Do you know about the pet Marlo?”
“Yes yes..?”
At her sudden question, Delia tilted her head.
“Answer me if you know.”
“No, it’s safe… Shipped from the garden… Used as a garden fixture, used as a magician’s experiment material, or rumored to be dragged deep into the basement and discarded… Ah…”
Delia’s scythe turned pale as she stopped speaking and stood her ground.
[They are dragged deep into the basement and thrown away]
This is the first time I’ve been here… It’s a cellar in a garden that’s closed on all sides without a single window.
Unusually, the floor was made of glass, but beneath the glass there was an unfathomable depth of darkness.
“Kkeuk, Delia. You’ve worked hard under me. I’m going to scrap you. Hehe.”
“Huh…!”
As if to prove that the expectations were not wrong, Ron himself summoned a metal box as large as her own body, referring to the disposal of pets.
The square box was filled with a gel-like transparent liquid.
“Lord, master..! I… Did I do something wrong..?”
“It’s a mistake… Kekeuk, yes. I made a very big mistake!”
“Yes..?”
“Do you know that Albert is dead?”
“Yes?”
Delia’s expression was full of questions.
Albert deserved to die, but his death was not in her plan.
Delia just wanted Lize to be disqualified from being her pet and disposed of her…
She was No. 1 She was convinced that she would become the Pet King, but naturally she was No. 2 as the pet seat became vacant…
I couldn’t understand at first glance why the person who was disqualified from being a pet and disposed of was herself and not Rize.
“Delia~ Do you know who I hate the most?”
“I don’t know…”
“A traitor. A traitor. Just like you.”
Reaching out her hand and pointing at her, Ron pointed at Delia.
It was because Delia, who found out that Rize and Laysha were planning to run away from the garden, did not keep the fact a secret and immediately reported it to the owner.
“Albert died because of you. My friend died because of you..!”
“That, why is it because of me, master! I feel really unfair..!
“Shut up!!!”
“Hee!”
An angry voice rang out.
Delia, who had never seen her master like that, was terrified to the point of urinating.
“Because you tipped off… Because of that, Rize accelerated the plan… Albert died… He died!”
If Rize’s plan had proceeded as before, Albert and Roosevelt, who had been preventing it in advance, would have had a reverse tour.
Ron, who assumed that Albert was dead because of the leaked information, couldn’t contain his anger at Delia, the informant.
“Well, but… If I hadn’t told you in the first place, you wouldn’t have known that Rize was plotting such a thing…! That’s why Master Albert dies…”
“Shut up! Shut up Delia..!!”
“Heeek..!”
Now, no matter what went wrong, nothing changed.
The dead Albert never comes back.
Only…
Unable to contain the grief and anger at the loss of her friend, Ron wanted to take her anger out on Delia.
“You’re done today, Delia.”
“Master… I… I’ll do my best from now on! I don’t like this end..!”
“Why? Are you afraid to die?”
“That is…”
Delia, who seemed to have a good answer, did not hide her true feelings and revealed her true feelings.
“I want to live! I don’t want to die! I want to live by my master’s side, forever in the garden..!”
“Really? Well, that’s fortunate. Disposal confirmed~ heehee.”
“Yes?”
“It’s not like you’re going to die just because you’re discarding your pet~ Kkeuk..! You’re going to live your whole life trapped in this box.”
Ron banged his hand on the dripping box.
Then he tapped the glass floor with the soles of his feet.
“Live under this floor forever. Hee hee, as you begged, you will continue to live in the garden for as long as possible, right? Right? Hehe..!”
“That, that kind of thing…”
“Why? Didn’t you listen to everything you wanted?
I want to live, I don’t want to die, beside the owner, in the garden, on and on…
Although the method was off, all of Delia’s wishes must have been fulfilled.
“Now the conversation is over. Hi Delia. Good job hehe.”
“Master… Niyim…”
Delia, her drowsiness pouring in, passed her out before she could even finish her words.
Ron used her magic to curl her into a crouching position and submerged her directly in the liquid in her box.
I squeezed the back of her head as she rose with her buoyancy, and her air bubbles bubbled up.
Before long, Delia’s body, with the liquid penetrating her body, sank completely into her box.
“Hee hee, that was good.”
When she was ready to dispose of her, Ron snapped her fingers to solidify the liquid in her box.
The jelly-like semi-solid material was made of a special ingredient that would not melt even if a nuclear bomb exploded.
“Hehe. It’s okay not to do anything while you’re inside. It has an anti-aging function, so you won’t die of old age! You should always be beautiful and happy for a long time, Delia. Kkeuk.”
After saying her final goodbyes, Ron closed the lid of her box and opened her glass bottom.
The box falls in free fall through the open floor.
…
As long as you can’t hear the falling sound.
Delia’s chest was fixed in a very deep place.
***
…Where are you?
Delia opened her eyes and thought in the space of ignorance that she could do nothing.
Not only did she lose her senses of touch, sight, smell, hearing, and taste, but even her breathing, an unconscious act necessary to maintain life, was stopped.
I wasn’t out of breath.
At first she felt nothing, and now she couldn’t even judge for herself whether she was breathing.
Her body was curled up, but it seemed that she was lying stretched out on her sprawling body.
Laying down on the calmly flowing surface of the water, I feel as if I have become a free body floating in the flow of the current…
She closed her eyes, but when she opened them, all she could see was darkness.
I couldn’t hear her words when I spoke, I couldn’t feel her heartbeat, and even after hours, she didn’t feel hungry or want to go to the bathroom.
The fluid that filled the empty space inside her body was taking over her life activities.
Delia, as the master predictedShe [She does nothing, she stays alive, she has to live in the garden all the time] She deserved a terrible punishment.
“…!”
Shady in her fear, she hit her writhing.
Even so, it was all about her body struggling in her place.
In her desperation, stopping her movements, she doubted whether this was really the case in that narrow box.
Very wide…
No end in sight…
It was like an infinite underwater space.
How long must she be locked up?
Day…
Two days…
Three days…
Four days…
One month…
One year…
Ten years…
One hundred years…
1000 years..?
She couldn’t fathom the end, and the more she thought about it, the more her fear grew.
“…!”
For a long time.
Being subjected to infinite neglect torture while completely shutting off her five senses.
If this is the price of eternal life, everyone would have chosen death.
1 second…
2 seconds…
3 seconds…
Delia counted the candles in her mind.
She really thought she would go crazy if she didn’t do anything.
923,404 seconds…
923,405 seconds…
What..?
How far did you count..?
In a moment of daze, the accident circuit was cut off.
Delia tries to start again from the first second, but her unstimulated brain has degenerated and is unable to continue her thoughts.
In the end, she couldn’t even count to 100 seconds, and Delia, who quickly forgot again, repeated short counts between 1 and 10 seconds.
That’s only for a while.
As time went by, she felt like her head was going blank.
She looks like she’s going crazy..?
It was a state of nothingness that far exceeded such standards.
What if I had really gone crazy?
Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. Scared. I’m scared.
The five senses were blocked, and all physiological phenomena were denied.
I don’t know how much time has passed.
No sound whatsoever
No tactile feeling.
In front of my eyes, the whole world is full of darkness.
I couldn’t feel my body temperature or heartbeat.
I don’t even feel the taste.
I don’t even feel the urge to defecate.
“…!”
Feeling like a brain in a vat.
All he can do on his own is to connect his thoughts with his increasingly contracting brain.
I was locked in a box and only a week had passed.
Delia knows where she is and why she is like this, she has become such an idiot that she has forgotten who she even is.
…
She lost her human language in the end.
She has become a pure creature who can no longer go back to the past.
