Chapter 118 – 19. Conflict (5)
– Alice. Can you hear me? Respond if you are listening.
– If you are in a situation where you can’t speak, please share your view.
“…Shit.”
A long corridor, a quiet space without a single person.
The words spoken in the silence do not reach the other person and become a single word and scatter in the air.
Hearing Juha’s words, he ran recklessly toward District 3 for 10 minutes, and still couldn’t see a single strand of human hair.
I didn’t give up and searched all over the hallway to find the whereabouts of Ray and Elise, but ominous imaginations continued to unfold in my head.
A pessimistic thought always leaves only bad feelings, but is it the inevitable fate of a person who is cornered to always think of the worst case even though he is well aware of that fact?
Although they searched as hard as they could, the possibility that they had already been caught by the enemy could not be ignored.
Although Elise is said to be a demon by rank, her fighting ability is close to zero. If her plan is determined and she uses her immoral means, such as taking her Ray as a hostage, she will have no way to win as Alice.
“Did we have to move together from the beginning…? No, what’s the use of regretting it?”
It was urgent to find even the smallest traces.
Thinking so, I ran around the corner of the hallway when I heard the sound of something heavy falling behind me.
Cooong!
Startled by the sudden scream that broke the silence, she almost let out a moan, but quickly cleared her mind and immediately leaned over to the wall.
Let’s make a rational decision, rationally.
I have the Shadow Bracelet Juha gave me and I brought a Critical Shield, so even if I run into an enemy, it’s possible to hold out for a few seconds before running away.
‘First of all, check what it is… Huh?’
I peeked my head over the corner and saw a familiar hair-colored man lying on the floor.
The limbs did not even move, as if their consciousness was completely blown away.
I approached cautiously, looking at the body that was stiff enough to be uneasy.
I checked her face and it was Ray.
As she placed her finger near her nose, she felt her fortunately feeble breath, and only then did she feel relieved.
From the outside, there doesn’t seem to be any major injuries… Perhaps, since he’s a person with weak mental strength, he may have fainted briefly after receiving a big emotional shock.
I decided that it would be unreasonable to move further here.
Leaving the stunned Ray alone and going out to find Alice, the enemy might find it, so at least until Juha brings Ryu Xinyi here, you have to hold on while preparing for an attack.
By the way… Then where is Alice?
Apparently, judging from the falling sound earlier, it seems that the shadow movement was used in a hurry and the coordinates were not even set stably, but the surroundings were still too quiet to be an emergency situation where a battle was taking place.
Betrayal, of course, was not even a possibility.
Not only is she the target of using the Perfect Hypnosis Ticket, which can even destroy the major premise of ‘you can’t hypnotize monsters’, and she has definitely signed a master-servant contract with her.
Even if a third party tries to break the contract, it is clear that they will eventually give up because they cannot lift the hypnosis.
– Jihoo, Ryushin is taking you there. Hang in there…!
“I also found Ray first. She should probably look for Elise after we get together.”
– Yeah, it probably takes less than five minutes.
Still, it seems that fate has not abandoned me completely.
The whereabouts of Elise are still questionable, but Ray joined anyway, and according to Juha, Ryu Xin doesn’t seem to have any problems.
According to Xian’s warning, it was time for the enemies to begin their activities.
Even if you meet Ryu Shin-yi, there is no time for complicated explanations such as the plan being swindled.
Hurry up to find Elise, and as soon as you achieve her goal, you must get out without looking back.
“I have to carry it on my back. I can move right away when I meet Juha.”
1 minute 1 second is urgent.
Since he couldn’t prepare to move until Juha arrived, he held Ray, who was slowly recovering, on his back and waited for Juha’s signal.
The success of the operation was irrelevant now.
Getting out of this place safely together was enough.
But for some reason… She felt that even that simple and clear goal was not going to work.
* * *
58, 59, 60.
The green eyes that had been staring at the ticking hour hand quietly closed.
After a long wait, the time has finally arrived for revenge.
“It’s 3 o’clock. I’ll be back.”
“Yes! I’ll be waiting for you!”
Passing by the demons bowing down and bowing politely and coming out into the hallway, pitch-black darkness greeted Xian.
Her dark hallway, where she couldn’t see an inch in front of her, was enough for her to recall her terrible memories of her childhood.
I can’t remember when she was.
Only the process of her infinite repetition of losing her consciousness in her darkness and regaining her consciousness was embedded deep in her brain, and even if she tried to recall her previous memories, it seemed to be blocked, and only felt uncomfortable.
‘You are officially a black agent from now on, Xian.’
‘Sah, save me… It’s dark… It’s so dark I’m going crazy…’
‘Think of it as dark adaptation. If you can’t stand that, you don’t deserve it.’
The unqualified black naturally melts into the darkness and disperses.
It wasn’t just about life as an agent.
One day, she gave up because she couldn’t overcome the terrible repetition of darkness, and now the child next to her, whose face she can’t even remember, suddenly disappeared.
Xian instinctively realized that she struggled to survive.
Kill, explode
I don’t care if there is blood.
Because black leaves no bloodstains.
The girl’s heart settles down with the sticky mixture of various colors.
Every time I exploded her head and flushed her brain, the feeling of guilt that I felt turned into gooey tar and colored her heart black.
The heart that has become worse than the dead,
Woo woo-.
“…Ah, I almost lost control again.”
While I was swimming in the sea of memories, I must have put too much power into it without even realizing it.
After quickly capturing the waves of magical energy that bubbling as if they were going to explode at any moment, Xian decided to think of something else this time so as not to sink too deeply.
Yeah, how about the previous one?
A suspicious yet familiar being that I met in the black hallway.
Sian slowly ran through her dark gray hair, recalling their meeting a little while ago.
A silver-haired woman using shadows.
After belonging to Pantagruel, she developed her sense of identifying monsters, and when she first met the silver-haired girl, she was quite surprised by her bizarre feelings.
‘It was as twisted as I was…’
At first, he thought that it might be a test subject like himself.
Because humans and monsters were half-fused and the only beings who became neither one nor the other were those who were relatively familiar.
However, Xian was soon able to notice the unfamiliar emotion in her eyes.
A small emotion that somehow holds on to the eyes that look as if they will twist and collapse at any moment.
It was something closer to absolute certainty than emotion.
“Love… Put, what kind of love is a monster like us…?”
Xian could never understand.
The fact that a person who would have suffered enough to die after realizing her own existence could take risks for others and come together to such a place.
Until now, she had believed that a heart that did not expect anything in return would only lead to ruin.
Even though her face stiffened at the words that hit her head, she eagerly rolled her eyes to look for an opportunity… She wondered if it was a way of thinking she was never allowed to have.
So, she decided to put some moratorium on it.
20 minutes. How much they will struggle in the limited time, and whether they will bravely line up and wait for the battle against themselves.
I wanted to see with my own two eyes how devastating the result that feeling of love could be.
And, finally, the time has come.
“Ray, wait a minute.”
The superior demon’s body quickly dissipates high-concentration mana through its limbs simply by raising mana lightly.
As it was, part of the mana that made up the body was replaced and wrapped around the body, and Xian’s shape began to shimmer like a haze rising.
“My sister… She’ll go kill me soon.”
A turquoise flash of light raced through the hallway.
