“Finally… finally, I’ve killed her!!”
Finally, she had killed her nemesis.
The faces of her fallen comrades, who had been toyed with and killed by Yoon Se-ah, flashed before her eyes.
Seong Ah-rin, whose magic circuit was severed and was thrown to the monsters as food; Sakura and Ecclesia, defeated helplessly with their hands cut off.
Even Seo Ji-an, who burned to d*ath… She joined her hands in prayer, bidding farewell to her past comrades.
“Everyone… our nemesis has been avenged, rest in peace.”
Using her past experiences, she utilized an undetectable camouflage cloak and a subspace bag that could store anything, kidnapping the fallen Yoon Se-ah and moving her to a location indicated by her collaborators. There, after killing Yoon Se-ah, the case would be closed as her disappearance. Both she and her collaborators would return unscathed, according to their perfect plan.
It had been successful.
“You thought you were just trash living off your father’s money, but you’re not bad.”
The identity of her collaborator was none other than Yoon Se-ah’s maternal relatives who had been coveting Yoon Seong-ho’s fortune for a long time. Their ugly nature of wanting to inherit Yoon Se-ah’s legacy after killing her aligned with Yoo Eun-ha’s intention to eliminate Yoon Se-ah at any cost, forming a temporary alliance.
When she was going to secretly k*ll Yoon Se-ah, they proposed to pour concrete over the location to destroy the evidence, which seemed decent enough. Furthermore, if anything went wrong, they planned to testify that the maternal relatives had committed the act, and she made sure not to leave even a single strand of hair or fingerprint behind.
“There’s no way I can hand over your father’s legacy.”
Just as she was about to report the successful elimination of Yoon Se-ah to the collaborators and return to the surface from this near-surface area…
“Filth like you.”
In an instant, Yoo Eun-ha swung her sword at something that had appeared.
-Clang!
However, something effortlessly blocked her sword…
-Crunch…
“Khhk…!!”
Immediately, a powerful blow to her abdomen sent Yoo Eun-ha flying out of the building, causing her to lose consciousness for about 2 seconds.
During that 2-second eternity, Yoo Eun-ha realized that one of her arms wasn’t moving.
“Do you know the weight of your actions?”
When she looked at the enemy’s face, a monstrous figure that shouldn’t have appeared now greeted her.
One of the Seven Demons, Azathoth.
In the past, through perilous battles alongside Yoon Se-ah and fellow academy members, she struggled but managed to drive him away.
“d*mn it, why are you appearing here…!!”
“I’ll spill your bl**d over this land to mourn our comrade’s d*ath!”
Although Yoo Eun-ha had experience fighting Azathoth and thought it wouldn’t be much of a challenge…
-Kwaang!
“Urghhhh…!!”
“You are slow, even in falling.”
Defeated far too easily.
Within just 3 minutes, all her limbs were completely fractured, leaving her unable to move a finger. Her body was too heavy to easily activate any skills, and the orichalcum sword she had used in the past couldn’t withstand Azathoth’s fierce assault, shattering instantly.
The shards of stone piercing her body disrupted her magical power flow, and as Azathoth’s fist struck her abdomen directly, she vomited a torrent of crimson bile.
“I detest weaklings who resort to deceit; I want to rip you apart and feed you to the vermin.”
As though annoyed by her dodging and manipulation during the fight, Azathoth casually tossed her against a wall.
“Kraaaaaaack…!”
The despair of imminent d*ath so soon after reincarnating, along with the lingering doubt of whether she’d reincarnate again this time.
“Now, it’s over.”
Surrounded by those emotions, as Yoo Eun-ha lowered her head, what appeared before her was…
“…What?! My body?!”
“…Step aside, Azathoth.”
The figure of Yoon Se-ah, despite her severely damaged body, struggling to hold back the demon’s assault.
…
…
…
“Guh…..”
‘What a pity. I should have intervened when her organs and legs were exploding.’
She was still stung by various places where Yoo Eun-ha had gotten the upper hand.
Judging from the red haze in her vision, tears of bl**d seemed to be flowing from her eyes.
After all, she was in a situation where bl**d was gushing out of every orifice in her body after pushing herself too far.
‘If it weren’t for <Recovery(S)>, I would have bled out already.’
The issue was her declining natural healing ability while the bleeding continued. Fortunately, the bl**d flow seemed unending enough to avoid d*ath by bl**d loss.
“…Is our comrade still alive?”
Moreover…
‘Why is he showing up here?’
The identity of the Demon before her was Azathoth, the giant enveloped in a thousand armors. His unique ability to drop stones that disrupt the target’s mana circuits and the gimmick of avoiding meteorites that fell every 30 seconds made him a boss capable of instant d*ath.
‘Being the first boss to use instant d*ath attacks, you’d think if you just watch out for the stones, he’s easy to beat with most attempts…’
Why is he here, of all places?
Sheena was the same, but the Seven Demons… it seemed like they had no intention of moving according to the original story.
– Chok
“Cough!”
– Crrunch…
A torrent of crimson bl**d spilled from the corner of her mouth.
“Comrade, are you being controlled by this wretched woman?”
“…”
Meanwhile, the rock-headed Demon was misunderstanding everything.
‘I’m not even your comrade.’
I’m here to cut off your boss’s head and go back home.
“Do your best to hold on, once I get used to the comrade’s attack… I’ll sever that despicable woman’s neck in one strike…”
“Unfortunately, it’s a hundred percent my decision.”
“?!”
There was no time to check behind her. She could vaguely hear some strange noises from behind, but would Yoo Eun-ha even listen to what I’m saying?
‘She was just trying to drown me a few moments ago.’
It was a feeling of being surrounded on both sides by murderers intent on killing me.
“…Guh…”
“I see you are awake? I will overlook what you did to me earlier… just one favor.”
‘Frankly speaking, if I refuse, it’ll be a hopeless situation.’
The staff is gone, the only thing I have left is the kn*fe Baek Sia made for me.
-Crrunch…Crrunch…
I could hear some ominous sounds from behind but, struggling to rise, Yoo Eun-ha approached me.
“So, why should I do that?”
“Guh… An alliance for survival? You know, like that concept. ‘A temporary alliance for now.'”
And I used all my remaining strength to throw the kn*fe at Yoo Eun-ha. Catching it, she looked at me.
She had addressed me politely until just now, but now she was speaking casually without ceremony—it was truly an unpleasant sight.
The urge to undo the suggestion I had planted in Azathoth’s mind, k*ll Yoon Se-ah, and make Yoo Eun-ha regress was stronger than ever…
‘That, I absolutely cannot allow.’
“I know everything about your backstory, didn’t I call you the once-in-a-generation trash that killed Unha three times?”
“Yeah, you killed everyone.”
“But, I’m different from that person. I can swear on my mana.”
“…”
Her hesitation showed slightly in response to my words.
“You may not trust me, but can’t you trust magic? Like the magic that sent you back.”
‘Fair enough, it’s quite hard to maintain this posture of a magician who pledges on his mana to say I’m not a psychopathic killer…’
“Comrade! Just hold on! I’ll sever this conditioning and split that wretch’s skull in two…!”
“Time is limited, can you decide quickly?”
“……Fine, just this once.”
Without hesitation, Yoo Eun-ha, having taken the kn*fe I threw, headed toward Azathoth’s core.
No matter how much the boy was trying to break free, the great power of his ‘restriction’ matched his own strength, and he had become weak enough to fall to my previous suggestion in his dying moments.
“KRAAAAAH! I, if it weren’t for those ‘restrictions,’ you’d be within a single punch range!!”
“….Guess you shouldn’t have come out, or I wouldn’t let you come back… I’ll help make sure you can’t.”
“YOU WRETCHED b*tch!!!!!”
-Crac!
“KRAAAAAAAH!!! THIS AZATHOTH!!! Such a pitiful trick…!!!”
With a blunt sound, one of the Seven Demons… Azathoth, fell helplessly.
The sight of Yoo Eun-ha, limping on one leg yet using all her strength to crush the demon’s head, made me imagine how I could eventually end up like that.
Slowly moving, the demon’s arm finally went limp, signaling his end as Yoo Eun-ha took a relieved breath and approached me.
“Um… can you give me time to leave a will?”
“That’s enough, I won’t k*ll you. I promised, didn’t I?”
-Clang!
With those words, Yoo Eun-ha tossed me the kn*fe she had used earlier.
‘…So, am I supposed to be considered alive for now?’
“Let’s go, to the hospital first.”
“Ah, are you supporting me?”
Responding to Yoo Eun-ha’s words with feigned casualness, I got my foot stepped on irritably by Yoo Eun-ha.
“Ow.”
“…Right, I can’t just let you d*e here because I’d be caught. I still have much to do.”
“Haha, that’s true.”
“You promised first, I’ll overlook today’s events. Today’s events…”
“A gate appeared in the sky suddenly, and the demon that fell from it was subdued by you and me. Let’s just leave it at that.”
“…Alright. Anyway, your recovery is slow.”
“That must be because of the drugs you injected, I’m not like Ah-rin with infinite mana.”
At that, Yoo Eun-ha looked at me with a slightly apologetic gaze.
‘Still unsure, I see?’
The look of confusion on her face as she wondered which one was the real me was quite visible.
“…Raise my shoulder.”
All the hostility she showed just moments ago had completely disappeared, and it seemed like she truly intended to take me to the hospital as if she were caring for me.
‘Does she not know about my [Eye of Suggestion]?’
Since she said she had died three times at the hands of Yoon Se-ah… so probably she died near the boss battle scene with Yoon Se-ah. Assuming that, either she was too strong or Yoo Eun-ha and the protagonist group must have been too weak that she didn’t need to use her brainwashing abilities.
-Thump!
‘…Well, at least it ended without issues.’
Despite being kidnapped and tortured and having to k*ll off all the paternal relatives… No, they weren’t human.
Anyway, I’ve cleaned up useless data fragments and the boundary seems about to collapse. It’s time to leave my body in the hands of the heroes arriving from the outside.
“Why did Azathoth call you comrade? That needs an explanation too.”
“Hm… If that strange guy really considered me a comrade, wouldn’t he have left Unha to d*e?”
“…”
“Or perhaps because he heard Unha calling me ‘onee-san’?”
Yoo Eun-ha’s heart was beating rapidly, as though she had overheard something she shouldn’t have… Although it seemed a bit cute.
‘Good, almost convinced.’
“Would any older sister just stand by and watch her younger sister d*e?”
“…”
What was initially a cold and indifferent support became more earnest as soon as she finished speaking.
‘Maybe this person is wondering if I am really the Yoon Se-ah she knows…’
Until just moments before, the pain felt like needles piercing every part of my body, and I thought I might go mad from it.
But now, preparing to plant the seed of guilt in Yoo Eun-ha’s mind, I didn’t feel the pain at all, just an unusual and intense fluttering in this moment.
‘A regressor might interfere with my mission…’
The variable of a regressor is entirely unnecessary in the story I’ve crafted.
So the leash of such a variable must be handled firmly, no matter what it takes.
-Fwoosh!
Quickly, Yoo Eun-ha drove the cross-shaped dagger she had used earlier into my thigh.
‘The hell, that hurts.’
Originally, I planned to just go along with some acting, but for such performances, realism is life… so it can’t be helped.
-Tump!
“Ughh, aaargh…!!”
“What? What is it? Pull yourself together?!”
As I thrashed around on the floor in a mock seizure, Yoo Eun-ha also appeared startled, grabbing my collar trying to calm me down.
‘Yes, that face. Not the look of seeing an enemy… but the genuine worry for someone truly precious.’
Completely different from the cold look she had just moments before, Yoo Eun-ha’s expression clearly showed signs of deep confusion now.
If she had feared retaliation from the Academy, she shouldn’t have kidnapped me.
If she hated me so much, why didn’t she k*ll me back then?
Why, after regressing three times, is she lashing out at me who is simply trying to return home safely?
You need to suffer a bit.
You must suffer.
‘Let’s distort our relationship, Yoo Eun-ha.’
-Creeak!
Suddenly, an ominous sound from behind.
A very familiar sound.
Sheena hadn’t seen the scene as I had quickly used the void to send her away, but normally, anyone with the strength of the Seven Demons… Even in their dying moments, they have enough power for their final outburst.
After all, the power of their final assault is enough to easily claim a life… more than sufficient.
Whether it’s bl**d or something else, Azathoth’s body now dyed red transformed into a massive, sharp spear.
“At least… let me take you with me!!”
That red spear’s target wasn’t me but Yoo Eun-ha, aimed directly at her heart.
“Miss Eun-ha!”
Somehow, despite my convulsions, I managed to push Yoo Eun-ha out of the way.
‘This is perfect!’
By pushing Yoo Eun-ha away, I’ve set the stage for this grand scene I’ve been preparing from the start.
Because my body flew out while pushing her, it was precisely on the trajectory of the red spear.
-Fwoosh!
‘Watch carefully from the front row…’
Until just now, the target you wanted to k*ll… was not actually the one you should have hated.
“Big Sister!!”
After that, the final strike of the high-level demon sacrificing his life pierced through my side and exited from the opposite side. Without even a scream, I fell to the ground.
As I thought I might really d*e this time, amidst the quiet void where no sound or feeling reached me, I observed Yoo Eun-ha’s wailing face and the golden lightning breaking through the barrier plummeting down…
‘Ah… that expression is the best.’
And so, I closed my eyes.
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