Living as an Unemployed in Another World

142 – 5. Witch Moon (18)

5. Witch Moon – Erosion (1)

Myra readily suggested that we drink together downstairs rather than sitting around and talking in a room where the wind blows, where the torn off door was loosely leaned against. Went to the floor

Only the noise caused by Alphonse’s weight and the sound of Grace’s armor meshing echoed in the stillness, and Calia, who had been watching us from inside the wine bar, hurriedly came to meet us as we descended the stairs while being held by Mira’s arms.

“Hey guys, what’s going on? I heard a sound from upstairs…….”

She looked at our complexions with a clear look of uneasiness and asked. Judging from the tiredness seeping under her face, it seemed that she had been watching the situation without a sigh of sleep. As the owner of this inn, it was a natural reaction. Well, the sound of the door being smashed should have been loud. The culprit she was looking for has already left this world and can no longer be caught.

“There was a loud sound of something like a tree breaking… ….”

Calia stopped talking and shut her mouth. She quietly waited for me to open my mouth, as if she had already noticed the strange air current flowing between us. I sighed and gave her the answer she wanted.

“It was just a small mistake. Instead, there will be no more nightmares in this inn.”

“Really? But… ….”

“No more, no more… ….”

I closed my eyes tight as the black shape shimmered in front of me. Wanting to hear a detailed report from me, she saw me like that and shut her mouth again. I struggled to open my mouth.

“I’m sorry. We’ll talk about the rest tomorrow.”

“Okay…… More than that, I think you came here because you need something. May I ask you something?”

She promptly inquired and we shamelessly demanded that we would like to chat over drinks in the middle of the night, and she uncomplainingly ushered us to a table, brought her several sets of glasses and bottles, and walked away.

At the time when everyone was asleep, I looked around the luxurious scenery of the vast hall where only we were left, and then slowly made eye contact with everyone looking at me and closed my eyes. And as soon as I opened my eyes, I opened the bottle, poured everyone’s glasses, and filled mine too.

“Jin, if you don’t want to talk… ….”

“No.”

I stopped Mummy from refusing even with the glass in front of me unbecomingly, and slowly opened my mouth. A very, very long story has begun.

A story that has never been told to anyone.

The back part of the dream that even my colleagues didn’t know about, and even I desperately hid in the far side of my memory.

On the day just a week before my 18th birthday.

That day, in her witch’s room in her mansion, what happened between her and me. I spoke as if looking back at the past diary.

They deserved to hear the full story.

I, too, now had to face that nightmare.

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In my memory, I was looking at the back of the witch. Her voluptuous figure still caught my attention, but that day I noticed that her long hair that ran down her back was a bit dull and frizzy.

I was following her in a complicated mood, still unable to resolve her various feelings toward her, when I suddenly noticed that all the skulls that replaced the candlesticks hanging in the corner of the hallway had disappeared.

Did the witch take it away? In fact, it wasn’t aesthetically pleasing to have such things openly in the corridors of an old-fashioned mansion. It might suit her taste, but it wasn’t once or twice that I lost my appetite when I saw skeletons dripping with candle wax every time I went to and from the restaurant. Thinking that I wouldn’t have to see that face in the future made me feel a little better.

Soon, as usual, I arrived in front of the witch’s room. Normally, I would have pushed the door open, and after the witch had entered her room, I would have followed her, but that day was different.

“Master?”

It seemed like she was waiting for me to open the door myself. However, at that moment, the witch gently held my shoulder and let out a sweet sigh in my ear.

“It’s okay…… Open it.”

As if she had brought me in front of her huge gift box, she expressed her own excitement in her excited voice, and I was just curious to see her like that.

At last, my hand grasped the doorpost with the antique ornament attached to it. At that moment, I realized that a kind of curtain had been drawn around her room with this thick door as the boundary. Just like when I wore a magic item, the truth flowed into my head at will.

“Master, I, I.”

Unbeknownst to me, such a voice came out of my mouth. Why are you shaking My fingers were sore from putting so much pressure on my hands. My elbows were hard as stone. There is something ahead of me, and the door leading to that something is now in front of me, and I…… The instinct to never go any further than this pulled me in.

But I couldn’t. It’s okay, she continued whispering in her ear, placing her own right hand over my reddened one. Her soft body pressed against my back, but I didn’t even have time to feel it, and I continued to swallow her dry saliva.

Soon, an irresistible force forced her door, including me, to push back. Before long, I was in the middle of her room as usual.

“Ah.”

I saw the food.

“Jin, how are you…… ?”

The witch’s sweet voice resonates in my ears. However, I was so overwhelmed by the sight that I completely forgot the voice.

Two universes fit into just one room.

One embraced the infinite void and sucked in all the light to become darkness.

One held infinite light, endured expansion, and shone in all kinds of colors.

It looks as if a small black hole and the sun are fiercely colliding with each other like an astronomical observation model. Each time those vast beings drew ever so slightly closer to each other, flesh-eating heat and gusts of wind filled the room in the aftermath, and then were sucked back in through the void, repeating.

Solar or lunar eclipse. That was the impression I had.

I asked. What is this?

She replied. It’s a gift.

I couldn’t understand the words for a moment. What is that? I immediately turned around to examine her expression, but…… I couldn’t turn my neck beyond a certain angle due to the strong force holding my shoulders.

As if it were an appeal to focus entirely on that. Instantly, I felt as if many ants were crawling all over my body. Seeing me trembling as if convulsing, did they mistake the trembling for joy? She said her

“As expected, I thought you would recognize… ….”

“… ….”

“Can you see? That beautiful sight.”

I just stared at the non-existent sight she was pointing at in her arms.

“Your view…… Yes, the black circle that appears to be ‘above’ in terms of spatial coordinates is a perfect form that cannot be compared to ‘sphere of emptiness’ or ‘sphere of annihilation’. Outside the astral plane…… It is connected to a very, very deep source.”

Even after hearing her explanation, I couldn’t immediately accept the contents in my head. She continued.

“And what ‘appears’ beneath it is a quasi-dimension containing the essence of all matter…… As for the name, yes, ‘Essence’ would be good.”

“Su, Master… ….”

“Yes, my dear disciple. As you can see, those two ‘magic’ are getting closer to each other little by little. The moment they start to overlap in the material world and eventually reach exactly the same coordinates…… “

For a moment, I felt her slender fingers on my shoulder loosen slightly. I immediately unhooked her from her restraints and walked away from her. I met her expression for the first time in the intense heat that cooked my back.

That woman.

He was laughing with an ecstatic expression on his face more than anyone else in the world.

“…… A perfect ‘slot’ that no one else in this world has is born.”

I love that moment.

The moment I saw that crazy smile. She rejected her deeply in her heart.

“How cool is that? Jin, my disciple, rejoice. You will now be able to become a single wizard!”

After that, she laughed. She laughed madly. I never thought I would hear such a terrible laugh from that mouth.

I looked back again. Two dimensions that repeatedly collide and move away from each other. No, things that feel like a very small compressed universe to me. Leaving behind her the sight of her beyond her cognition, I asked her again.

“Master… ….”

“Yes! Why?”

She replied in a brighter voice than before. The smile was so pure and bright that it was as if the soul of a little seven-year-old girl had entered it instead.

“What you said…… Because I don’t fully understand…… So, how is that?”

How could such a large thing become ‘my’ slot?

The witch always explained to me. The magician’s slot must visit the center of the body, the heart, and take root there. However, ‘that’, ‘those’ were emitting a presence as if they would annihilate the existence of me. The mysteries I longed for didn’t exist, just something peering into me from the other side of the universe.

“Oh, you didn’t tell me that story.”

She murmured casually. I trusted her until that moment. No, to be precise, I believed in her time with her. I trusted a person I knew called a witch. So, I had a firm belief that she would never harm me by any means. Said the witch.

“First of all…… The moment that magic is completed, with my help, you will pass to the dimension where you are the source of the necromantic energy. The flow of time there is different from the material world here. A very fleeting moment…… Yes, I will spend 72Ten thousand Days there.”

“…… Yes?”

“Don’t worry, my student. It is very dark there, and it will try to reject you, living life, but your soul will always be able to keep its original form here, in the middle of my room.”

Not knowing what face I was making, she continued her explanation.

“While a fleeting moment of time passes in the material world, your mind will swim throughout the universe and be refined…… When you finish all the preparations, the ‘essence’, which is the energy of the multi-dimensional collision point, will become your strength. Aren’t you curious? How he was able to create such beautiful magic.”

She didn’t wait for my answer and talked freely.

“It’s all thanks to you. Jin. Thanks to you, you inspired me to put the poor souls in this mansion to good use.”

“Soul…… ?”

“So many skeletons in the mansion, Those poor wizards. Demilichs who couldn’t communicate with my spirit and became mere decorations! For hundreds of years, those who were called the best wizards of the time, and the curse created by them would become a channel to attract the energy of the material world!”

For some reason, I remembered my skeleton friend that I had left in the yard at that moment.

My whole body stiffens. Soon after, she examined my complexion and touched my face with a very benevolent smile.

“Oh, you are afraid. It won’t be painful I’ll promise.”

No.

What I’m afraid of isn’t that mysterious ‘magic’.

“Just a moment, if you wake up from a bad dream, you can be like me.”

I am.

“Only you, who understands all my knowledge, can be with me. We will be able to fully accept each other. Use my ‘gift’!”

I convulsed once again with her beautiful face in front of me. I desperately turned my stiff neck and saw two universes that created endless fever and ripples.

I am.

“For tens of thousands of years, I have been lonely. But not anymore, you are here. Only you can accept me Ah!”

No.

I am. I’m afraid of you.

However, my mouth did not fall. For a woman who was once a teacher, family member, and loved one. In front of a woman who calls herself a witch…… Against her will, I was powerless.

“I’ve always wanted to apologize. For saying such harsh things to you.”

An apology?

“It’s not your fault that you can’t use magic. It wasn’t that I didn’t have any talent. The subtle structure of the material world and their mischief…… I realized belatedly that I was in a different realm than your brilliant intellect. My mistake.”

A mistake?

“It was my mistake not to keep the flask. I just put together all the curses that failed to make an artificial slot that imitated your heart, but it was my mistake for not locking the door.”

Curse.

Leaving me stiff and unable to move, she casually walked forward in the heat and turned around. The red eyes that were hidden by her hair are revealed. She said.

“This is my magic, Eclipse.”

What expression am I making? I couldn’t even figure it out myself.

It’s just that the heart, intestines, flesh, and blood vessels come together and become something black that will come up the esophagus at any moment. She said in a timid voice as her black hair fluttered.

“Sorry for not revealing earlier, I wanted to surprise you. I wanted to see you happy…….”

She said.

“With you…… I wanted to reconcile. In order not to be late for your birthday, I wanted to make your wish come true before you grow up.”

From afar, she whispered.

“I love you.”

I didn’t answer.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t respond until now…… But, it’s okay now.”

“Nothing stands between the two of us now.”

“You will have all of me as my eternal companion.”

“My long-cherished wish will come true soon.”

“All wizards’ wishes will come true.”

“They will surely enjoy being the nourishment for your holy growth!”

There was a witch there.

From the beginning, she wasn’t a god.

The witch whispered her love.

“I love you.”

“I love you.”

“I love you, and then.”

She said with her arms wide open and a bright smile.

“Happy birthday, Jin!”