Chapter 575 – #118_Betrayal (4)
#575
One.
“Ugh!”
As soon as he came to his senses, his upper body jumped up.
Looking around, I see the same scenery in the room as before the ordeal.
Even if you break, break, and dance wildly inside, inside the VR space realized with magic.
The external environment does not change at all.
After a battle full of urgency, I forgot about it for a while.
He groped his body, which was dripping with cold sweat.
It’s like new with no holes.
I’m holding on to my spirit properly, and there’s no such thing as suddenly having my personality stolen.
Siwoo, who had been sitting blankly for a long time, was convinced again.
“I won.”
Cleared the ordeal.
Even against the black knight who had even released the shackles, although he was taking a bit of a penalty.
Against the Black Knight, who really couldn’t do anything in the beginning and was robbed.
“I won.”
The sense of subduing the impregnable raid boss, who used all kinds of wild patterns, by solo playing.
It is a feeling that any man can relate to.
Adrenaline rushing through.
The sense of achievement and intoxication of victory flowed through his veins at a thicker concentration than that.
His fists were clenched and he always looked at the sofa where Leruet was lying in a languid position, giving good news.
“Your majesty! I cleared the ordeal very nicely!”
But there, I was half asleep and said, ‘Huh? Huh? What did you mean by that? Did you really clear the ordeal?”
It seems that he is still staying at Akula and indulging in magazines.
I was excited at the thought of telling this wonderful heroic story to Leruhe, but then I hesitated for a moment.
“Uh?”
A cradle of dreams with a surface as shiny as obsidian.
I could see the golden fractal pattern encroaching on it slowly fading.
And next to it, there was a red branch gently placed next to it, which must have been kept in the Jemoni mansion.
A real red branch that was summoned using a fake in the ordeal.
Did that answer the call even in reality beyond the ordeal?
Or was it that he was able to infiltrate into the ordeal because he was summoned from reality?
Either way I wasn’t sure.
As I recalled the intense struggle to the death, I felt tired all over again.
Except for running out of mana, there is no physical consumption.
However, the consumption of mental energy was enormous, so I had time to put my butt on the sofa and reflect on the battle.
“It was really bad.”
I was happy to be able to win against an opponent I had been struggling with, but the process was also dramatic.
I feel like I’ve wiped out the stakes with bluffing that burns 500 million won in one stroke.
It’s a saga that can be used as a snack for a night of drinking, but I’m not sitting down to do one more narcissism.
I closed my eyes and quietly replayed the last moment.
It’s time to watch the replay and give feedback.
It was improvisation that brought forth the last real red eggplant.
A few strokes of luck, a few strokes of luck, plus a few mad gambles were required.
I tried to reproduce the details one by one, but….
“You can’t do something twice.”
There was only one conclusion.
At least, I can’t do it again unless I raise the magical achievement that the current ship is capable of, or control the red branch a little more clearly.
The reason why he was able to summon the red branch in the ordeal in the first place was because there was a ‘fake’ who acted as a medium, albeit imperfectly.
Drawing on blank white paper.
Just filling in colors like a coloring book in a picture with lines drawn.
If I had to choose the more difficult of the two, it would definitely be the former.
It was a little disappointing that the super play, which was carried out with a flash of inspiration, was a one-time use that was only usable under very difficult conditions and was virtually impossible to reproduce….
Still, it is a meaningful harvest.
At least by improvisation, he defeated the black knight, and he also foresaw the new possibilities of the red branch.
If you try to be full on the first drink of anything, your stomach will explode.
“Let’s recharge some sugar.”
Now let’s go back and get some restful, blissful sleep.
It was time to head back with a tired head.
“Are you here?”
I hear the languid voice I’ve become accustomed to over the past few days.
It was a voice I thought I might never hear for the time being.
A long corridor lined with columns on both sides.
A witch in a nun’s uniform stands at the end of a corridor so vast that it echoes even when spoken in normal voice.
“Dorothy? Didn’t you go to work?”
She strode on the red carpet.
It was a delightful step as if meeting a very old friend.
“Yeah, I was going to. I have work to do.”
“Didn’t we promise?”
“You said you were leaving today. There are still 16 hours left today?”
It was indeed Dorothy’s cleverness.
Dorothy gets closer.
“That is also true.”
The emotion I felt at the sudden appearance of Dorothy was unexpectedly welcome.
Is it because of the feeling of debt that has arisen because they sent them away so coldly as if they were kicking them out?
Or is it because she has concluded that she is not a bad person in her subconscious mind?
As Dorothy had said, “It will disappear immediately tomorrow,” So there was some time left before the sun went down.
Thinking that Lerue, who had been depressed for a moment, would be happy with her surprise comeback, her heart warmed.
The distance between the two is about 20 meters.
Siwoo, who was walking towards Dorothy, stopped walking.
The high-pitched heart also stops as the high-pitched battle is played.
The moment she defenselessly tried to face her, her sense of incongruity permeated her spine.
“Dorothy. Could you please stop for a second?”
“Yes? Why?”
At a distance where they could check each other’s expressions in detail, Dorothy stopped as Siwoo told her to.
The identity of the sense of incongruity was, in a way, trivial.
Also, to bring up the question here is tantamount to showing proof that you still don’t trust Dorothy.
Do you show respect for Dorothy by ignoring minor incongruities?
Do you resolve the sense of incongruity by showing that you do not let go of your doubts until the end?
After thinking for a while, I made the decision.
“Where is Your Majesty?”
“He was reading magazines and rolling around in Akula.”
There is nothing strange about this answer, and it is an extremely ordinary answer.
Even the last time Siwoo checked Le Rue, she was lying on her back in her bedroom, flipping through a magazine, so there was no room for doubt about her answer itself.
However.
“Why didn’t you come with me?”
This is the core of the sense of incongruity.
This is Lruhe, who has been quite depressed since Dorothy left.
If the friend you thought you were going to leave for came back, wouldn’t you want to leave your side even for a moment?
It may be a grandiose delusion, but if Siwoo had been watching Leruhe so far, he would certainly act like that.
Siu was away from Leruhe during the ordeal.
Dorothy returned to Akula first when Siwoo passed out.
And Dorothy came here alone without Leruhe.
Of course, there is a possibility that it is simply a whim of Leruhe.
In fact, no matter how hard Siu anticipates, Lerueny often does unexpected things calmly.
“They seemed to like the magazine I gave them a lot.”
Dorothy gestured and trembled.
It didn’t seem like he was hurt by Siwoo’s suspicion, and his reaction was very Dorothy-like.
But what is this awkwardness?
Could it be that I’m missing something?
“Sorry. I guess I overreacted a bit. I thought you came to propose scouting behind Leruhe-sama’s knowledge.”
It was the most likely example.
It could be the case that Dorothy came straight to kidnap Siu without meeting Leruhe.
They said they liked it enough to even offer salary negotiations, but isn’t it possible enough?
“If I did, the queen would scold me? Rather what is it? It’s something I haven’t seen before.”
Dorothy asks, pointing to the red branch.
“This is my main armament.”
“You fight with something like a uranium rod?”
She was able to identify the characteristics fairly accurately from a single glance.
From a magical point of view, the red bough was more like a spear that spewed deadly radioactive elements.
“That’s it.”
Soon, he let go of his guard with a wry smile.
Dorothy smiled as she calmly approached her.
“Aren’t you suspicious now?”
And.
– Crack!
A strong sound of metal colliding with metal came from Siwoo’s side.
“Oh? Are you blocking this?”
The moment she came within range, Dorothy thrust a white knife into her side.
As if he had expected it from the beginning, Siwoo twisted it with a red branch and cut it off.
He leaped behind her and opened the distance while Dorothy raised her eyes in surprise.
She was a hermaphrodite with almost no signs that even the slightest carelessness would be lethal.
Siu did not let his guard down completely.
I just remembered that Dorothy tried to get closer until she stopped me, and I tried to stage the situation as she intended.
Showing her trust, he rather closes the distance from this side and shows his empty side.
The results of a simple test were clear at a glance.
At least I won’t stick a knife into her hollow side after sleeping with her.
“… Ha.”
For now, I was relieved that I had parried the surprise blow.
Disheartened at the same time.
Even when I realized that I had been suspicious of her until the end, there was no clear feeling like ‘I was right!’.
It just tasted awful.
“I thought you were a soft-spoken person in the world.
Just once, as expected.
It’s okay to be confused and complicated, so shouldn’t it have ended with the lesson that ‘not all achievements are bad’?
Indeed, grudges like grudges grew along with savagery.
It pulls off that laxity and soft mindset as if tearing it apart.
Now is not the time to indulge in useless sentimentality.
The fact that Dorothy is here, and the fact that she has been fighting so openly, means that Leruhe cannot guarantee her safety either.
If he had thrown a surprise attack like he did to Siu, Lerue might have been defeated.
“I’m sorry, but I never believed in feats.”
Behind Dorothy’s back, a barrier began to stretch out.
The chapel, which seemed to have erected pillars with sublimity and put together bricks with divinity, appeared as if covering the wide corridor.
“Like I said before, you really can’t. Lie.”
Only 10 minutes after finishing the ordeal.
The second battle opened with Dorothy’s teasing laughter.
