Chapter 122 – Chapter 02: The Gold Half Is a Warrior, the Other Half Is XXX
That’s why Eugene didn’t notice that when he thought he was only delayed for about two hours, in reality six hours had passed.
And even Eugene, who had knowledge of the original work, could not have known that those 6 hours could be several days for a warrior.
SGENG! Sigh!
… As a result, the hero repeated the experience of cutting the saint with his holy sword nearly 200 times, and after repeating the worst trauma, his mind was damaged to the point that he even forgot who he was.
And as a result of her mind being broken, her body also ran towards her death, as if going along with it…
Hwaaaaa!
… At this point, variables that Eugene had not thought of began to arise again. It was none other than the slave engraving engraved on the warrior’s back. That platinum grade slave imprint did not allow the death of the hero.
Slaves cannot die of their own will. In other words, suicide is impossible. And the role of slave engraving was to prevent slaves from committing suicide.
Although we cannot prevent death at the hands of others, we can at least prevent suicide.
Being a slave means being a felon. To put it another way, ‘living’ as a slave is the punishment given to them.
Therefore, slave imprinting does not allow slaves to escape punishment by death, and thus slave imprinting prevents slaves from committing suicide.
… And when the mind dies and the body begins to die along with the mind, it is in a sense no different from suicide.
Even slaves could not prevent the death of the body from external factors.
However, in a way, the death of the mind and the subsequent death of the body can be said to mean that Genos’ body chooses to die on its own and ceases its activities.
That is why slave imprinting worked. They try to stop a slave’s suicidal behavior through the pain caused by being imprinted as a slave, as if questioning whether he is arbitrarily stopping his activities without the master’s permission.
Hwaaaaa!!
… However, even with the activation of the slave imprint, Genos’ body did not stop running toward death.
Her mind was already caught up in hallucinations and had collapsed to the point where it was difficult to find traces of them.
So, no matter how much the slave imprint emits light and uses its power to inflict pain on the body, there is no way the body will stop dying on its own.
It’s no different from not having a mind in the body to feel pain, so there’s no way it can stop, right?
… Therefore, even though the slave imprint is active and spraying golden light, Genos’ body continues to run towards death without stopping.
… And the slave master judged this to mean that the slave disobeyed and resisted the master’s orders despite physical pain.
Therefore, slave imprinting, which attempted to control slaves through physical pain, soon progressed to the next step.
Hwaaaaa!
If physical pain does not work, mental pain controls the slave.
Therefore, the slave imprint emits an even more intense light and attacks Genos’ spirit in order to obey his master’s orders and prevent him from dying arbitrarily.
… But as I said, Genos’s spirit had already completely collapsed.
No matter how much the slave imprint tries to attack the mind, the spirit that needs to be attacked has been pulverized. Even if it hits it again with a hammer, it wouldn’t have much meaning, right?
Therefore, even though the slave imprint attacked his mind, Genos’ body was still dying, and as expected, the slave imprint judged this to be Genos’ ‘resistance’.
… For that reason, it is said that slave imprinting was a last resort against Genos, who did not stop resisting mental attacks.
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“… .”
“… “Poor me, I’m so broken that there’s no need for me to do anything.”
A space painted pure white. In a white space where nothing existed, only two girls with the same appearance existed.
Two girls with blonde hair, black eyes, wearing the same maid uniform and looking completely identical.
If you really wanted to find a difference between two girls who couldn’t see any difference on the outside, you could find it in their eyes and actions, not in their appearance.
“It was hard, right? It must have been difficult to be trapped in your own trauma and constantly suffer. “I wonder if he would have tried to kill himself without getting permission from his master.”
One girl was lying motionless on the floor, dead in her eyes, as if completely broken.
In comparison, the other girl’s eyes were shining brightly.
No, it went beyond that and he was looking down at the girl sprawled on the floor with eyes so clear that I could even feel dizziness.
“Because I am you. ‘I’ know very well how much pain ‘I’ suffered. … Of course, no matter how painful it was, I can never forgive you for trying to kill yourself without permission from your ‘master.'”
However, since the person who committed that unforgivable crime was already as good as dead, the girl did not bother to question her ‘original’ self.
“There is no use in accusing me of the ‘past’, which will soon disappear completely and wants to disappear. In addition, ‘I’ was a person who was inherently bad at hating others.”
“… .”
A girl who doesn’t react to anything and doesn’t even move. And although she has the same appearance, there is a girl who is the exact opposite of that girl and shows a somewhat excited side.
“I was able to be born thanks to you ruining me so much… “Also, since I was able to replace the ‘me’ who will now disappear, I might have to say thank you.”
“…”
The girl who was so excited was just telling the girl who looked like her what she wanted to say.
“Thank you, for ruining me so much. Thanks to this, I, who did not think of the Master as the Master, has disappeared and now ‘I’, who devotes everything to the Master and can be said to be the reason for living, can replace ‘me’! “This is all because I foolishly committed all kinds of accidents in the past?”
The girl, who was freely saying what she wanted to say, carefully held the lying girl in her arms without showing any reaction, and then continued her words with a benevolent expression.
“Because in the past, I foolishly killed the man I loved with my own hands, and because I could not overcome that past and tried to kill myself, I was born like this now. “I just want to say thank you.”
“… …”
“Hehe, really stupid me from the past. To think that such a fresh feeling was love, and to be buried in that illusion, ruining yourself like this…”
Just like that, she was holding a girl who had the same appearance as herself in her arms and was talking as if she was really cute. The girl, who had not even moved a muscle, flinched and reacted.
“Oh? Is she reacting to the fact that she has been denied her own love, despite being so broken? Really… , Stupid person.”
And in response to the girl’s reaction, the girl who looked the same as her but gave off a completely different vibe whispered to her with her bewitching smile.
“If I could share this feeling that I am feeling towards ‘Master’ right now, I would be able to fully empathize with the fact that the feeling that I used to know and call love was nothing more than a shallow impulse.”
“…”
“The feeling of love is so dull that it is impossible to compare it with the good feelings I felt in the past… , Passionate… “And it’s an absolutely ecstatic feeling.”
However, she smiles and whispers happily that unlike her current self, who shares the same memories and experiences as her past self, her past self, who cannot share what she is going through, will never understand.
“True love doesn’t even cause jealousy. I just want to dedicate everything to that person and pursue only that person’s happiness. When that person is happy, I am happy too, and just by that person looking at me, I feel immersed in ecstasy, like taking drugs…”
This feeling that you feel now, that you can consider it the highest happiness even though your whole life exists only for one person…
“Couldn’t it be called true love? “I can never understand the foolish past where I killed the man I loved with my own hands just out of jealousy.”
Another girl just laughed at the girl who, despite being completely broken from laughing like that, was pouting and raising her hands as if she couldn’t acknowledge what she said.
“Well, either way, it doesn’t really matter anymore. That’s because the foolish woman who thought she loved a useless man named Lore will soon disappear and a new me, who will sacrifice everything for my master and that is the purpose of life, will take her place.”
The girl, who had been laughing at her ‘past self’ who would soon disappear, soon gently embraced the girl in her arms with a benevolent expression no different from her past self.
“More than anything, you didn’t want to continue living this painful life, right? “This result is exactly what you wanted in the first place.”
“… I am?”
The other girl, who seemed like she couldn’t speak properly, opened her mouth without realizing it.
And at the sound of that voice, the girl holding the girl in her arms answered her doubts with affirmative words.
“Yes, you are the result I wanted. You no longer have to live in a world where the man you loved doesn’t exist. There is no need to suffer anymore. All you have to do is hand over your entire existence to ‘me’ and be as comfortable as you want.”
“I feel comfortable… ? How… ?”
How can she become comfortable when she is still in an eternal hell where she continues to kill the man she loved in her hallucinations and suffers?
Then, to the girl who wanted to put her doubts in her mouth, the new persona that would soon replace her was to be told.
“Please disappear. “Then now I will take his place, who does not love the man you suffered by killing over and over again, over and over again, and who will give everything to ‘Master’.”
So girl… , The original personality of Genos was extinguished, and the new personality created through slave imprinting urged him to escape from the painful hallucination world and become comfortable.
“Then… , Can you become more comfortable… ?”
“Sure. You no longer have to live in a world without a man named Lore. “You mean you can go to the place where the man you killed named Lore is, just as you wanted that day?”
“There is a lore…” … , To… ?”
Genos, who was completely devastated by the words of the personality created by the girl and slave imprint on behalf of the disobedient Genos, accepted the personality’s words without even thinking of resisting them.
“… Please send, … “To where Lore is.”
“Okay, well thought out. With this, you can be at ease, and I can enjoy supreme happiness by dedicating everything to my master on your behalf.”
The girl smiled, thinking that this would lead to a happy ending for both parties. The new personality of Genos, born as a slave, soon closed the dead eyes of the original personality.
“Please rest comfortably. … Forever.”
And right after she closed his eyes, Genos’s original personality fell into her hallucination and was now damaged beyond recovery.
