Chapter 43 – Volume 9 – Incarnation Battlefield (3)
“Oh, can you show me your number? I checked the time. If you show me the reservation stamp, I’ll put a stamp confirming receipt.”
“Ah yes!”
To be able to receive the work without standing in a long line like last time.
In a much improved system, the woman was able to receive the new ‘Hwasin Battlefield’ with a fairly pleasant feeling.
Of course, considering the time when I started accepting reservations, I was dissatisfied that I was able to receive it after waiting for a very long time.
After all, it is common for painting to be done in the time left after studying magic, her main job, so she knew very well that she could not help it, so she brushed off that feeling as much as possible.
“It always excites me when I open a new piece.”
The nude bookmark of Chitrinitas, the picture I checked when making a reservation, boasted the expected beauty.
The cover of this work was directed as if Albedo was being eaten by erosion like a black liquid, giving it a somewhat scary yet mysterious feeling.
What the hell happened to Albedo in such a state?
With such curiosity, she hastily opened the door to her work.
The increasing erosion and the incarnated girls who burn their bodies due to the erosion.
In the meantime, when Rubedo gets hurt due to Nigredo’s mistake, she is so immersed that she curses Nigredo for what he’s doing.
Because Rubedo was her favorite character, and she knew what it meant for Rubedo to never hold her sword again.
‘After dealing with the erosion, she will be recognized by her father for her pure sword-swinging skills. And besides becoming a sword master, will I defeat all the sword masters in the world with my skills? That’s why when I say sword, everyone thinks of me!’
The lines that Rubedo had previously declared to Albedo passed like a flashback, and he pressed her against her chest tightly.
Naturally, Nigredo had no choice but to hate him for making Rubedo that way.
“To…?”
She initially thought that Chitrinitas was good when he got mad at Nigredo.
On the contrary, she thought it was a pity that she didn’t even point out the mistake together.
But when Nigredo, who was walking on the edge of her cliff, completely collapsed at those words, and eventually her whole body was eroded in her regret, pain, and sorrow.
Her heart, which had been cheering for Chitrinitas until just now, began to tighten with a strange sense of guilt.
I really didn’t want it to be like this.
I’m sure Negredo was a valuable colleague too.
Why? Why? Why?
Realizing that the situation was more serious than she thought, she turned each page with a feeling that her breath was choking.
It’s just a book, but it’s as if her hand comes out of there and strangles her.
“What…?”
The figure of Nigredo lying like a corpse, unable to get up after the fight.
Even when the fight begins, Negredo continues to fight quietly without any answer or will.
The sense of despair conveyed by her degraded into a tool that only knows how to fight is very gooey and unpleasant, making us understand why the black liquid of erosion had such a texture.
Rubedo tries to talk her out of Nigredo until the end, but the words don’t reach her at all.
Chitririnitas, who thought it was her own fault that Nigredo became like that, also gradually breaks her sanity.
Even worse, Viriditas’s family is sacrificed, bringing Viriditas’ spirit to an end.
As she read in a chain of despair and despair, she stopped thinking that her hand was moving forward.
“This is too much.”
They were children who were happily moving toward their dreams.
He didn’t even do anything bad, he fought so hard to protect and save the world.
Why should I be treated like this?
Why do you have to continue fighting regardless of your own will even after you are fading away?
After thinking about her for a long time, she turns her page again.
She continues to turn her page to the next, feeling the gooey malice the work conveys.
Even if the end of these children was painful, she had no choice but to watch until the end.
Because those children have already become like her precious acquaintances to her.
“The cover, that’s what it meant.”
Everyone except Albedo is covered in disgusting erosion and falls into pain.
Albedo, the only one left, despairs as he sees his comrades fighting like machines.
No matter which character you liked in this work, you probably felt similar feelings at this point.
The moment he realized his goosebumps intention, his expression crumpled at the viciousness of painter Siwoo.
Ah, you can convey these feelings through painting.
That’s a cartoon
A picture like the one seen on the cover is revealed before her eyes.
Of course, unlike the cover, it is black and white, but even so, it is basically a scene of pure white albedo being eaten by black erosion, so it is not that different.
No, on the contrary, as the colored things come to mind naturally, the feeling that the color has died gives a rather eerie feeling.
A completely different feeling grows inside her than when she first saw the cover.
She was scared
In the end, the fact that everyone was defeated became so frightening that even though the existence of erosion did not exist, it felt frightening.
Many times I hesitate to move on to the next one.
I don’t want to see these kids suffer terribly anymore, I’m scared, I hate it.
However, she turned her page to see the terrible end even in that emotion.
No matter what the ending, the children who appeared in this work taught me that I must not run away.
It was impossible to deny these children and run away just because they were afraid.
‘Yes. I’m normal. I know very well. I also know that no matter how much I want to avoid being normal, I can never change it.’
Albedo bursts into tears and begins to say her prayers.
Her whole body is covered in pitch-black erosion, and she pours out prayers filled with resentment to the sky.
‘But you guys are not normal. You are a god! Then maybe you can help! No? Am I wrong?’
Immediately after that line resonated on the black land where nothing was left, the image of light pouring down from the sky filled her eyes as she read the work.
With that she starts beating again, with her heart pounding, which had seemed like she was dead all along.
Could it be that there is still a chance?
Will these children be able to overcome the hell of erosion?
Intense light surrounds Albedo, and white flames burn away all the erosion around Albedo.
The flame went beyond helping the fight around her as usual, crawling all over her body and burning it up.
The book itself shuddered at the power of Albedo, as if it had become one with fire.
Colors that shouldn’t exist in the first place start to appear on the book.
All the erosion burns away in the overwhelming pure white flame.
There seemed to be magic in the feathers of this book.
No, it seemed that the power given to Albedo was creating magic even in the book.
“Ah…”
Every time the fire of albedo burns the erosion, the colors that were not there return and revive the world.
Along with that, all the fearful, gooey sensations she had just before burned away inside her.
The only thing left for her is herself, overwhelmed by the unreal sight.
The tears of sadness that flowed down in sympathy with everyone’s feelings soon turned into tears of emotion that everything would be restored.
The images of the Magnum Academy girls waking up in the nude on the last page completely let go of her tension, which she was barely holding on to until she cried.
The way she hugged the book while crying and saying she was happy was so heartfelt that even someone she didn’t know well could be worried.
『In a world where erotic comics are legal』
“I hope it goes well.”
As today is the release date of Hwashin Battlefield, I was spending the day in a very nervous state.
I can’t see the reaction in real time like when I serialize it on the Internet, so I feel like it’s getting worse and worse because there’s no way to relieve the tension.
As this is a work that took a long time to put into practice, I was very worried because I wanted my intentions to be conveyed as they were.
Still, I think it will be okay because there are so many devices that I made without knowing…
At the beginning of the black and white scene, it shows the same picture as the color of the cover.
This was possible because the cover was created by drawing a picture in black and white, then copying it and painting only colors on top.
Anyway, in this way, even when I see black and white naturally, I overlap the colors I have already seen in my head and erase a little of my resistance to color.
Of course, there was also something to make people feel the dark situation in the work by using the contrast of colors.
Anyway, it was a part that I thought about a lot and chose a working style.
After that, while gradually encroaching on the color in the work, I intended to read the work naturally as if this work was originally in color.
“I also sprinkled some rice cakes on it, but I don’t know if anyone noticed.”
Basically, the new flame that dwells in Albedo is absorbed into the body and then comes out repeatedly.
There was a part where the most was absorbed when nested, and the most intense fire overflowed.
‘The inside including the genitals.’
Even when a large amount of fire is absorbed into the inside, the expression that the stomach slightly swells and grows is added.
In the sequel, I was planning to use this additional awakening to develop the story, so I tried to spread some rice cakes in advance.
It’s probably hard to notice because it’s buried in the flashy battle scenes.
But. Originally, that’s just how good it is.
“Ah, damn it. I can’t stand it because I’m curious. I should just go to the exhibition hall and listen to what’s being said.”
Originally, I was going to pass the time slowly while preparing for the sequel, but I can’t stand it anymore.
