chapter 5
5 – Sosa (5)
The flesh-filled eyes stung me. Maybe it’s wrong to be loved by a woman in this life too. Okay. I didn’t even expect it anyway. What is love in this crazy world full of lesbians.
“Get that hand off!”
“Innis, calm down.”
So you can stretch your chest and do this. It’s difficult to have an adversarial relationship with Lilia, but living now is more important than the future. First of all, you have to live to see if you meet a sage or not.
“Innis… I’m okay. So come on…….”
[Overregeneration]’S ability is convenient in many ways. Once I could do most of what I could imagine. I was able to manipulate the playback speed at my own discretion, so it was possible to do a lot of eccentricity during this short conversation.
For example….
“Wait, behind Innis!”
Regenerating a new arm from the shoulder blade and stretching it out to launch a surprise attack from behind the enemy’s back, something a tentacle-type monster would do.
– Puck!
This is how it is possible.
With a dull blow, Innis bowed his head towards the dry soil. Soil is like a mother who always accepts those who come. Even the girl who made ashes from the soil in the next forest was hugged without discrimination.
“This guy… !”
After knocking out Innis, it was a breeze. Lillia, who was already in my hands, didn’t have to use her brain or abilities.
– Puck.
I was able to knock her out simply by slapping her on the neck. Magicians and ordinary people have the same human body structure. Where and how much power to hit and faint, that’s my expertise.
Now, like this, the two girls in front of me are soundly asleep.
“Now, how about this….”
I stretched my hands together and thought about how I would live my life from now on. If I had done this, I would have been properly photographed by Lilia. Innis is somehow manageable, but Lilia is a bit difficult.
Of course, in terms of force alone, there are few enemies as threatening as Innis. However, Lilia uses magic in a variety of ways, and at the same time is at the peak of its utilization. Her personality is also quite strong on the sociopath-like side, so it’s hard to convince her with her words. What Innis will do is predictable, but she cannot predict what Lilia will do.
Even if I stun these two and bounce like this, if it’s Lilia, she’ll use tracking magic or remote curse magic or whatever, and she’ll come after me, so she’ll be caught soon.
Even if you run away from here, it is absolutely necessary to take some action to suppress Lillia.
That’s why I don’t want to kill Lilia, and if I leave her restrained here, she’ll come after me right away.
“Um….”
But it’s already been done, it wouldn’t be obvious if I added a few bad things here….
“Okay, I’ve decided!”
**
Because of Innis’ unique long, beautiful blonde hair, he is often mistaken for an aristocrat.
As you can see from the misunderstanding, Innis is not a nobleman. Even if her hair is golden, sparkling like a crown in the dawn, it does not change the fact that she is not of great origin.
She is from a simple house on the outskirts of the city of Ilios.
It was a house that had been burnt down, and could hold the morning sunlight beautifully.
And that low hometown was still breathing in her nightmares today.
“Ugh… ….”
It was a daily occurrence for Innis that painful groans became a wake-up call.
“Whoa….”
Today is also an unpleasant weather. Innis let out a sigh and tried to erase from her memory the nightmares she had been dreaming about.
I didn’t even have this nightmare when I acted with Lilia. Perhaps it was because the fun and happy present came closer than the scars of the past.
But that sweetness is short-lived. After carrying out a mission to subdue a monster a few days ago, this nightmare has not lessened, but rather intensified. Innis rubbed her frosty eyes and got up to look around her. But it was impossible.
“Huh?”
It was impossible to raise a hand to rub her eyes. After checking his condition after doing something, his hand was fixed behind his back. He couldn’t see it, but when he checked by the feeling that remained on his wrist, he knew that his hands were tied with a piece of cloth.
In other words, Ennis was imprisoned.
“Oh, are you awake?”
It was a familiar voice. It was definitely the voice of someone who used honorifics, and even a bit thick honorifics. However, the honorifics of the past disappeared without a trace, and now only the low and cold boy’s short words reached his ears.
Innis turned her head to confirm the source of her sound. Gray eyes and hair, a boy named Iva was there.
“Hello?”
Now that his true identity has been revealed, has he given up even the bare minimum necessary courtesy? The smile of a boy two or three years her younger approached Innis with displeasure. No, it’s just his appearance, he may actually be much older than his age.
Innis checked the surroundings, ignoring the boy’s morning greetings. It was to make sure that Lilia was around and that her safety was secured. However, no matter how much I looked around her, the girl was nowhere to be seen.
“Where is Lillia?!”
“You’ve been active since morning. Did you get a good night’s sleep?”
“Stop talking nonsense and answer me. Where is Lilia?!”
“If you’re that curious, would you like to guess?”
“… What?”
“It’s literally. Guess what I did.”
As he said that, his staff and Lillia’s staff were shaking in his hand.
The girl who passed out before Lilia did not know what might have happened while she was sleeping, and every word her boy said gave her a creepy imagination. Did she get hurt badly and then leave it alone, or did he just let Lillia go free, no, it couldn’t be. No way… ….
Did he die?
A forest covered with fog, a forest where you can’t see even an inch ahead. The place Innis was sitting now was such a place. A place where the road is unknown, so even if it is open on all sides, it is the same as being blocked on all sides. Unknown place.
I don’t know. Ignorance always breeds fear. Innis couldn’t fathom what the boy in front of him could do. So, he was scared.
“I’m not dead.”
As if laughing at such Innis, Iba calmly recited.
“Why are you worried that you can’t see me right in front of me after you fight and fight like that?”
No, I just laughed openly. Innis was ashamed and angry at that comment, but he couldn’t refute it. Because everything was true.
“Only the staff and luggage were taken and tied to a tree. If it’s that year, you’ll get out of there on your own. You might have gotten up and got out of here by now.”
‘I wish it wasn’t like that, but please sleep for now…… Behind Eva who muttered, ‘I’m sorry’, Innis let out a sigh of relief.
He had obviously heard him lie openly before, and even though he was the villain who had kidnapped him, Ennis meekly believed him.
Eva continued to explain her situation to her, worrying about the future of her innocent wife and son, who believed everything she said.
“Because it’s Lillia, a surprise attack like the last time won’t work again. Hey, I’m following you now~”
Innis didn’t even look at Eva who was giggling. She was just trying to retrieve her regrets and disappointments about her past self from a corner of her memory.
It was a memory that was still less dusty. This proved that the memory was not long, and that it was something that was often taken out.
‘Lilia… ….’
A person who was always rejected as a wizard of disaster but stayed with him. She regrets herself for trying to reject such a person on the contrary. This remorse continued even before she was kidnapped by Iva.
The cause started from a mission to subdue a monster five days ago.
She should have been normal. It was supposed to be an ordinary task to keep one’s duty, such as eradicating monsters that harass people. The monsters I encountered in the forest were like that. And on the way back to report the mission, it appeared.
A lump of flesh devouring the forest and calling itself.
It should have been a normal day. No, since I was with Lilia, it should have been a good day, let alone an ordinary one.
A monster that regenerates even if the enemy burns, freezes, cuts, or crushes them? It was fine until here. One day, not only monsters, but also demons will be caught, so I had to deal with an enemy that transcended common sense to this extent.
You got kissed by Lilia because you didn’t have enough magical power? Okay… Not really, but I could understand. The only way to catch it was with your own magic.
‘It was a first kiss though… ….’
Her lips were soft, and the scent, far from unpleasant, was refreshing with a light lavender scent. I couldn’t even taste the taste. I don’t even remember. It was embarrassing, but I managed to pass it off as a good memory.
It was good so far. If he had eliminated everything like this, Innis would have been able to take more pride in himself, and he would have fallen in love with Lilia, and the two of them would have grown closer.
But it wasn’t.
It was babbling that Innis heard while condensing his magical energy. And it was an echo.
Aye,”
Once one mouth made a sound like that, the other mouths repeated the same words like a roundabout song. In order and in an orderly manner. A chorus of clumsy babbles hit my ears just before the magic was complete.
I passed it on, thinking it must be hallucinations. Because it had to be, because this voice had to be a trivial fantasy born of one’s own trauma. Only then would there be justification for using this magic.
Innis took a deep breath and infused his magical energy into the formula of 【Sunset】. Please, hallucinations, hallucinations, repeating in my head, the completed magic.
The words that followed the babble that trampled on those expectations. Language. A mainstay of human civilization invented to convey thoughts from person to person. It was too vivid, and I felt my ears tremble to treat it as hallucinations. Innis realized that that voice wasn’t a result of her own trauma.
[Sunset] Shook. But it didn’t break.
With an overwhelming amount of heat, the worst destruction a person could cause fell toward the pile of meat they were praying for. As originally intended, it landed correctly towards the enemy.
Was that really an enemy? At the end of the last, Innis had doubts.
A scream came out loud enough to make you feel tinnitus. An ugly, unmatched scream, like the struggle of a beast before it dies. There was no sign of stopping this terrible howl until the vocal cords melted away.
Looking at the scene in front of his eyes melting as if a heated iron ball had been placed on jelly, Innis thought.
Could that really be a monster? Did I really have to kill it? What damage did that being do? So far, there has been nothing but deforestation. He didn’t even hurt anyone. The attack was inflicted But didn’t we attack first before that?
Was the thing I killed deserved to be killed?
I wonder if that was a monster? Or was it a person?
Just like that, the forest and the mass of flesh in it disappeared, and evening came. On the way back to headquarters to report on her mission, Lilia managed to talk her out of the way.
‘That wasn’t a person.’
In those eyes, along with loneliness, there was sympathy and a sense of guilt. Lillia’s butterfly-like eyes drooped as if to avoid the rain, even in the glow of the setting sun. Innis could also understand that those words were consideration with great determination.
Ennis was convinced that he had killed a man.
Perhaps this was the trigger. He started rejecting Lilia, who told her that she killed the monster out of consideration for him.
Innis raised her head and looked at Eva, who kidnapped her. Seeing the boy still laughing viciously, Innis was overcome with rage.
“That’s why she held you hostage so she wouldn’t do anything to me. I thought you would be easier to manage compared to that year.”
Innis has two great sins. One is carried on in the past, and the other is carried on recently. The sins of the past are original sins that must be embraced for the rest of one’s life, but the sins of the recent past can be cleared away.
“You must be restless by now. I was thinking what if I did something stupid and you got hurt.”
When I reported the matter of the flesh to my immediate senior, the senior informed me of an incident saying that he had something to figure out. The recent kidnapping of orphans and a wanted devil worshiper. Trash who dreams of immortality and sacrifices several children for blood magic experiments.
Innis was convinced that the boy in front of him was that scumbag, a devil worshiper.
Eva was bathing in a remote forest where the devil worshipers are often found. This alone was suspicious enough, but Ennis thought that he might be a demon worshiper’s experiment, so he didn’t show his guard.
But since he is the guy who committed such devilish things, he couldn’t get rid of the possibility that he was taking over the boy’s body and controlling it. And so, little by little, I weighed my confidence that he was a devil worshiper and my confidence that he was a poor boy.
A decisive incident occurred. He committed the folly of taking Lilia hostage and knocking himself out and kidnapping him like this. He said that he was the culprit, and it was no different. Innis will not back down any longer.
I will definitely defeat him and remember the dead child. That would be the only atonement he could do.
“So you should follow my words? You don’t want to die either. I can’t be responsible for your safety if you try to escape.”
“…… Under!”
Innis laughed loudly at Iba’s threats. In fact, it’s terrifying, but he couldn’t back down from such a villain.
“You bastard! Safe with so many children as guinea pigs for your ambitions? Do you think I would believe that?”
“…… What?”
“Don’t pretend! It’s obvious he’ll kill you anyway, so you think I’m going to give in to that kind of threat? Just kill it now! Or I would kill myself!”
“No wait, wait. Hey.”
However, Eva had a very unfair side to Innis’ suspicions.
“Wait, no really, wait.”
He didn’t experiment.
“What do you mean by experiment?”
Because he possessed the body of a victim who was experimented on.
“… Ha, are you still pretending not to know? Disgusting bastard Even if I fall here, my comrades will surely end all devil worshipers like you!!!”
“No, don’t spit out your spleen will. f*ck wait, what are you talking about, devil worshipers?”
His name is Iva. The name in the original work is Experiment 86. The monster Innis had to kill, the villain, and the existence that should have been an opportunity for awakening and love.
“I didn’t come here to subdue you monsters…… ?”
Now it is Innis’s sinful existence.