Chapter 972 – 972. Yggdrasil (7)
Hehe…”
As soon as I heard Ryosuke laugh…
Shoot! Kwasik!
“Ugh…”
I shot an arrow between his eyes.
Ryosuke fell backwards with an arrow hitting his head.
But his laugh…
Hehe!”
It didn’t stop, it just got bigger.
Ryosuke, who had fallen backwards, stood up with a smile and let out a calm voice.
“I think your hot personality will suit me well. But…”
After correcting his posture, Ryosuke hummed while touching the arrow stuck in his forehead.
“It’s unfortunate to see people being swayed by emotions unnecessarily.”
“Don’t be a damn thing.”
I aimed the arrow at him again and gave him a warning.
“If you surrender to Umbra even now, I promise you a comfortable death. And in the afterlife, I will pay the price and end it.”
Of course, it wasn’t a sincere offer.
Even if Ryosuke surrendered, there was no intention of him dying comfortably or having to pay for his crimes.
The intention was to make them pay a penalty worse than the most painful death and being imprisoned in hell.
But unfortunately, Ryosuke rejected my suggestion…
Hehe… “I didn’t know that such a trivial matter would lead to trouble.”
I returned it with a laugh.
I quenched my appetite with regret.
It was because I expected that if he accepted my offer, he would be able to cause even greater despair.
‘If he was that timid to begin with, he wouldn’t have done something like this.’
I took a quick look at the dolls surrounding me.
It was just an ordinary doll.
But my feelings could not be accepted like an ordinary doll.
‘… It looks like shit.’
If it had been before, I wouldn’t have felt any uncomfortable feelings.
However, due to the recent death of the gravedigger, I seemed to unconsciously feel stronger feelings for the residents of the fourth floor.
As I looked through the dolls, sympathy continued to flow to me…
Haha! “I still have a long way to go.”
At Ryosuke’s voice, all the sympathy that had flowed into me was instantly replaced by life.
I glared at him with all the murder that was blooming in my body in my eyes.
“I will make you regret being alive before you die, after you die, and until the moment you disappear.”
“Tsk…”
Ryosuke was startled for a moment by my life, but quickly came to his senses and spoke again in a calm voice.
“I just don’t understand. Just as you thought, I made a doll using the corpse of a 4th floor resident.”
There seemed to be no intention to hide it anymore.
He kept talking to me as if making excuses.
“But I just used something that was a corpse. “It is a body that already has no soul and will turn into dust if it rots.”
It was sophistry.
“Or are you saying that I should not use my abilities and live a miserable life because of my emotions?”
But it was also a correct opinion.
Yggdrasil is a world of the fittest.
If you are caught up in morality and ethics, it is difficult to survive in this cruel world.
If, as he said, the residents of the fourth floor had inevitably died and their dead bodies had been used, there would have been some room for sympathy.
But I already knew that the excuses he gave were not sincere.
This guy…
“So what led to the war was for other benefits?”
“…”
Like a rare homicidal maniac, he instigated war.
And the reason why they used war to exterminate the people…
“Not because of the corpse?”
“…”
It may have been for the smooth supply of corpses.
Okay… The residents of the 4th floor…
“Just a coincidence?”
“…”
They were victims of his trick.
And the bodies of those victims…
“Are you saying that all the dolls piled up in this place are a product of coincidence?”
It was abandoned in this place.
As if it was discarded because it was useless…
Ryosuke, who had not answered a single question I continued to ask, suddenly burst out laughing and blurted out a word.
Haha! “Conversing with you reminds me of an old friend.”
The old friend he is talking about is…
“He was a guy with great abilities, but he used them for trivial things…”
I was talking about Souta.
“I see you are swept up in similarly trivial emotions.”
“That’s terrible.”
Shoot! Kwaduk!
I shot the arrow again and pierced Ryosuke’s head, where the arrow was already stuck.
An arrow that hit the arrow that was stuck first and penetrated into it.
As soon as he was hit by an arrow, he fell down on the spot as if he were dead.
But the doll next to him opened his mouth instead.
“How about you cool off first? After taking a short break…”
Shoot! Kwaduk!
I cut him off and pierced his head again with an arrow.
But again a voice was heard from the other side.
“… I think it would be a good idea to continue the conversation. No matter how much you think about it, it’s hard to find someone as talented as you…”
Shoot! Kwaduk!
Every time a guy kept talking, I pierced his head with an arrow.
But each time, he moved to another doll and continued talking.
“Keep in mind. I won’t give up on you. So, you too, give up while staying here…”
Shoot! Kwaduk!
“… Please don’t do it.”
Shoot! Kwaduk!
After those last words, no doll opened its mouth anymore.
But…
“Uh oh!?”
“W-what!?”
The dolls, which stopped opening their mouths, began to slowly approach us, giving off an air of hostility.
No matter how weak the doll’s power was, it wasn’t easy even for me to deal with this many people.
‘… Should I use magic?’
If you shoot a magic or superconductor arrow right now, you will be able to easily return to the attack room.
And if you use the passage of the workshop, you will be able to somehow deal with all the dolls from then on.
However, we have not yet found any clues about Ryosuke’s body or the exit from this space…
‘Because strength and magic are not infinite.’
I didn’t want to abuse my abilities carelessly.
With that in mind, I took out an item from my inventory.
The item I took out was…
‘… ‘I’ll write some.’
It was the [Death Side] Left behind by the gravedigger.
In fact, [Death Side]’S ability itself was such an incredible weapon that it surpassed my common sense.
Still, the reason why I haven’t brought up [Death Side] Until now is… It was because of my mindset.
Until now, I have treated [Death Side] As a keepsake.
Treating it as a keepsake gave me a bitter feeling, so I put it in a corner of my inventory and never used it until now.
But…
‘What will they say if I don’t use it?’
Thinking like that, I took out [Death Side] And took a stance.
A temperament that comes to mind as soon as you take a stance.
-[Side LV 55]-
Thanks to the damage correction, I was able to handle it as if I were possessing a gravedigger.
I took my stance and shouted at the pagans.
“Come this way!”
“Yes!”
The debaters hurriedly came behind me.
I said while looking at those debaters.
“You can take care of the rest. “I will move forward by eliminating the front.”
“Yes!”
It was the moment to use [Death Side] To cut down the dolls.
“Huh?”
“Why, why are you doing that?”
“… Never mind. Follow me!”
I answered in a blunt voice and swung the side loudly.
Shootaaaaa!!
[Death Side], Which swings while making a sound so loud that it hurts the eardrums.
[Death Side] Drew a red crescent moon and cut off the heads of all the dolls in front of me.
The dolls that were standing blankly…
Suddenly!
The head was cut off as lightly as rice being harvested.
So I continued swinging [Death Side] And rushed toward the defense.
While rushing like that, I asked via communication.
‘Armonia, can you see it?’
[Yes, I can see it.]
There was nothing strange about my eyes either.
The dolls I cut down…
‘Is that the power of death?’
Three or four red lines were drawn.
I swung [Death Side] Aiming at the red line engraved on the doll’s body…
Shoot! Suddenly!
It was split in two helplessly, as if it had been cut before it was swung at me.
As the dolls were cut down like a harvest, a voice of admiration was heard from behind.
“Wow, you’re amazing!”
“It’s like cutting paper…”
A moment of admiration…
“Eek! “This is not a situation to lose your mind!”
“Oops!”
After the two came to their senses again, they started following me.
But the two guys who were following so hard…
“… Isn’t it strange?”
“I know…”
Suddenly, we started talking to each other leisurely.
Just like these two relaxed people…
‘… ‘Isn’t it strange?’
I was also feeling relaxed.
The reason was simple.
‘Why are you suddenly looking at me blankly?’
This was because the number of dolls suddenly attacking had decreased significantly.
However, that didn’t mean that the dolls that rushed at me disappeared.
Sometimes there was a doll that would pop out and run towards me.
However, the number of dolls that attack has significantly decreased to the point where the expression ‘occasionally’ can be used.
No, there was even a doll that moved its body to the side and prepared a path.
I stopped immediately, feeling strange.
Then I immediately checked the condition of the dolls.
Dolls just staring at me blankly…
At first, I thought Ryosuke was treating me appropriately and not attacking me.
But…
‘No way… ?’
It wasn’t until I accurately grasped the dolls’ gaze that I realized that my thinking was wrong.
Where the dolls’ eyes are directed…
‘Death Side?’
It was the [Death Side] I was holding.
Let’s carefully move the [Death Scythe] That we were holding in our hands to the side…
‘… That’s true too.’
We were able to confirm that the dolls’ heads turned according to the position of [Death Side].
I could immediately understand why this situation occurred.
Most of the dolls here now are made from Umbra residents, and thanks to that…
‘The power of darkness…’
The dolls were also affected by the [Death Side] I was holding.
I thought of the gravedigger as I held [Death Side] Tightly.
‘I don’t know how many times I thank you. Thank you so much.’
After thanking the gravedigger again, I spoke to the doll.
“I wonder if we can communicate…” ?”
“…”
Unfortunately, we couldn’t exchange words.
But I asked with a glimmer of hope.
“Is this the guy who made you like this… Do you know where it is?”
And that faint expectation…
“All these dolls… !?”
“It’s pointing to the mountain!”
He gave me down as a strong rope.
.
.
Ryosuke sighed as soon as he opened his eyes.
“Whoa… “
The place where he opened his eyes was the gathering place.
After giving battle orders to the dolls, Ryosuke returned to reality.
“… “Things went wrong.”
I didn’t think Seong Su-ho would accept the offer right away.
After slowly finding out what he wanted, I tried to appease him.
But before we could even attempt to appease, everything went wrong.
“I never thought he was such an emotional guy…”
The personality of Seong Su-ho that Ryosuke investigated was polar opposites.
To his colleagues, he was a saintly gentleman, but to others, he was a cold-blooded person.
As a result of believing that and approaching him…
“I never thought I would get caught in that part…”
An unexpected problem occurred.
Ryosuke covered his headache-inducing forehead with his hand and recalled what happened with Seongsu-ho.
“If you look at the fact that you haven’t been able to get out so far, you probably won’t be able to get out for a while. No… If you’re lucky, you might be able to obtain his body.”
Ryosuke also knew.
The fact that although it is possible to imprison Seong Su-ho, it is impossible to kill him…
But…
“His body… If I could really get that body…”
The ridiculous thing was that just by turning on the hope circuit, I could feel such strong pleasure as if my brain was on drugs.
“Let’s go back to the workshop in a day or so. “If you suggest it while you are tired, you might get a better answer.”
Ryosuke gave up hope and tried to return to his hiding place.
But…
(Hey~ It’s been a while?)
Ryosuke stared at the figure that suddenly appeared for a while…
“He said he had the ability to summon spirits…” It was real.”
I snorted in response.
We had already received information that Seong Su-ho could summon spirits.
However, I just didn’t expect that the soul summoned like that would be Souta.
Ryosuke quickly figured out the situation and started taunting Souta.
“Could it be that the master disappeared and appeared in front of me in a panic?”
(…)
“Seeing how young you are even after death… Should I call him puppy rather than dog?”
Souta calmly opened his mouth despite Ryosuke’s ridicule.
(Where is Seong Su-ho?)
“…”
Souta’s calm appearance made Ryosuke uneasy.
Ryosuke patted his chest as he looked at Souta like that.
“If it’s him, he’s in here.”
After that, Seong Su-ho explained the process and what the situation was.
And after finishing the explanation, he finished with a smile.
“In a world where enemies keep attacking you while you are thirsty, hungry, and sleepy… I wonder how many days this guy will last.”
(…)
Ryosuke giggled as he watched Souta staring at him in silence.
“Hehe! You really are a puppy. If you’re that worried about your master, be quiet…”
(It’s not Seong Su-ho that I’m worried about.)
“… “What?”
Souta crossed his arms and lowered his head as he spoke in a firm voice.
(I’m just worried that you left a monster like Seong Su-ho in your world. I think the way to a happy ending would be to apologize now and then bring him out?)
“Joy… 겉보기에만 개새끼인 줄 알았는데, 진짜 충실한 개새끼가 다 됐…”
It was a moment when I wanted to mock Souta with such sincerity.
Quad deud deuk!
“Kwaaaaa!!”
Suddenly, a bright red crescent moon burst out from Ryosuke’s chest.
A crescent moon pierced through, spraying blood everywhere.
Souta laughed heartily at the sight of the red crescent moon.
(I don’t know about the happy ending, but it was an amazing scene.)
