Singularity
by Afuhfuihgs
I pulled the fallen Estelle into my arms. She’s light. Estelle, with her small frame, was so very light. Through tear-blurred vision, I removed Estelle’s cat mask.
, “…Ross…”
“It’s, it’s okay. It’s okay. Just keep, keep breathing.”
I opened the space warehouse and took out the potion inside. After removing the lid, I didn’t know where to pour the potion from and was at a loss.
“…Ross, you idiot, you pig…”
“That’s right, I’m an idiot and a pig. Keep talking. Don’t stop!”
As Estelle’s voice grew weaker, I just poured the potion. I was shocked by the fact that it was making Estelle even more painful and dropped the potion bottle from my hand.
“I’m, I’m here with you. It’s okay. It’s okay…”
Estelle grabbed my hand. Estelle, who slowly looked at me, smiled as usual.
“Take care of the clan.”
Estelle let out a faint breath. In that instant, I could see something rapidly disappearing from her eyes. I held Estelle tightly, so she wouldn’t leave my side, and whispered.
“I will. I’ll do anything, I’ll do anything. Estelle, don’t go. It’s, it’s my fault.”
The rapidly cooling body temperature, Estelle who gave no answer, terrified me so much that my heart pounded as if it would fall out. Unable to believe it, I slowly pulled away and looked at Estelle again.
“Estelle.”
The violet eyes met mine, but those eyes weren’t looking at me. No, they wouldn’t see anything again.
“Estelle, what are you doing? Just get up and get angry. I, I made a mistake. It’s my fault… You can even swear at me. Just get up. Please.”
Tears welled up and dripped onto Estelle’s face, but she didn’t get angry or blink as usual. Even if I touched her cheeks, stroked her hair, or shook her shoulders, nothing happened.
“The Headmaster predicted that something like this would happen. He told me to be careful of the book before entering the labyrinth, just in case. Saying that Lily knew my secret. I didn’t ignore his precious words and immediately split my soul into two. I made two books.”
“…Estelle. Amber and Amy are waiting for you to return. So, so please look at me.”
“My power has been halved, but I haven’t died. The immortal Cassis is eternal!”
Cassis reached out to me as I held Estelle. He raised one corner of his mouth and said.
“You shouldn’t be hugging a corpse like an idiot in front of someone who controls corpses.”
I felt Estelle’s body swelling in my arms, but I couldn’t let Estelle go. Ellie’s urgent voice was heard, but I just looked at Estelle.
“It’s okay―”
“Bang.”
Kwaaaaaaang―――!
Estelle exploded in my arms. My vision soon darkened from the massive impact felt in my chest.
***
It was a world filled entirely with black. Someone was screaming in that place where things or wind didn’t exist.
“Estelle, Estelle, Estelle!!!”
That voice was so familiar. It was my voice.
“I hate it, I hate it, I hate it…!!!”
I approached and grabbed the shoulder of the person who was collapsed on the floor, wailing as if they had lost everything. I, who was sobbing, looked back at myself and pleaded.
“Stop, let’s stop. How much more do we have to lose!!!”
“…Shut up.”
“I lost Luna, I lost Nelson too. And I lost Estelle because of my mistake… What’s next? Aria, Ellie? I hate it, I don’t want any more!”
I grabbed my own collar, who was wailing like a little kid, and shouted.
“Shut your mouth!!! I have to save Luna, I have to save Luna. Get up, get up and fight right now!!!”
“I can’t do it anymore. I can’t do it anymore! Estelle, Estelle…!”
“Shut up and get up! I said get up!”
I couldn’t hold back the surging emotions as I tried to force myself up, but I shook off my hand and fell to the floor until the end.
“You piece of trash!!! Don’t give up here!!!”
At some point, I was strangling my own neck. I choked and couldn’t breathe as I strangled my neck and shouted.
“Get up and fight! Go up to the 10th floor! Like we promised, revive Luna, you piece of trash!!!”
“Luna is dead. She’s dead! Because of me, my existence will kill everyone!”
At those words, I tightened my grip on my neck even more. Don’t be ridiculous. I won’t give up. Even if I lose everything, I will definitely go to the 10th floor. Thinking that, I looked straight at myself and said.
“Then you die like this.”
“Keaek- Keak!”
I pushed my face away and strangled myself to the end, suppressing myself who was struggling to live with my body. I don’t need this weak self. For Luna, I can even kill myself.
“We’ll… definitely kill even Ellie.”
I gave a bitter smile at my words, who had stopped struggling and finally accepted death.
“I just need to save Luna.”
***
The moment Ellie witnessed Estelle’s corpse exploding in Ross’s arms, she swung her staff at Cassis and immediately ran to Ross. Ellie stepped on blood, flesh, yellow fat, and scalps with hair attached, but she worked hard to find Ross in the smoke.
And finally, something touched Ellie’s toes. It was Ross’s torso, with all his limbs gone and only his masked upper body remaining. Not only was the flesh completely torn off, but his jaw was also gone, and his internal organs were scattered outside. If his chest hadn’t been heaving, Ellie would have thought Ross was dead and burst into tears.
“Hehe, I adjusted the power appropriately, so he wouldn’t have died.”
When Estelle, who had sent magic again in the direction where the voice was heard, looked at Ross again… a huge wave spread from Ross’s body.
Kung―――!
“…Th, this?”
Goosebumps rose so much that her skin tingled. It was definitely the wave she had seen in Ross’s memories. Ellie urgently moved away from Ross and created multiple layers of barriers around her.
Kung―――!
The wave that spread from Ross’s body, as if a heart was beating, pushed away the smoke and pushed away the sea around the island. Cassis also noticed that something was wrong and hid behind his subordinates.
“Pukkeukeu―――!”
‘He laughed…?’
The moment Cassis narrowed his brow, the body of the subordinate blocking his path was split in half. Through that split, Cassis saw it. A monster of indescribable form created by pure madness and chaos. For the first time in a long time, the emotion of fear arose in Cassis’s heart.
“D, don’t be ridiculous!”
Denying it, Cassis waved his hand and controlled his subordinates. At the same time as the Sword Master swung his sword, his upper and lower body separated and rolled on the floor, and the legendary adventurer’s head was crushed.
The world’s best assassin, who aimed for a gap and severed space, was caught by a hand that came out of the severed space and disappeared somewhere. Countless corpses that came out of the book were all crushed, trampled, torn apart, and exploded.
“…Ah, ah…!”
Cassis realized at that sight. Why the Headmaster had prophesied Lily as an Apostle, and how he knew the secrets about the book that he had not told anyone. He was definitely an Apostle. An Apostle with the destiny to summon a god who would destroy this world.
Cassis took the book and turned his body. If he used the well created on the island, he could escape from the labyrinth at any time. The moment Cassis took a step, his ankle was torn off. Cassis, who regenerated his body, moved his steps again. This time, his entire leg was torn off.
But Cassis didn’t give up and used his arms to crawl on the floor towards the well. Even if his head was torn off, his arms were torn apart, and his legs were chewed off. Like a child running away from a tagger, he worked hard towards the well.
And finally, Cassis threw the book into the well. Cassis, who was smiling faintly as he watched the book slowly disappear into the well, raised his gaze blankly when he saw the book falling back in front of his face.
Spatial magic is annoying after all, Cassis thought.
“Pukkeukeu, Pukkeukeukeukeukeukeu!”
“…My god.”
“Pukkeukeukeukeu!”
“I am, more than happy.”
Lily tore the book apart with his mouth. Feeling the intense pain of his raw flesh being torn off, Cassis just watched himself being eaten. That’s how the immortal Cassis was eaten by Lily.
“…”
Ellie, who had been watching all of that silently, suddenly felt the surrounding barrier shaking and tightened her grip on the staff.
“…Ross.”
Kung―――!
“Ross, please…”
Beyond the barrier, Ross, whose face was covered with Lily’s mask, glared at Ellie like prey, drooling with blood. Finally, the last barrier broke.
Ellie, who was aiming her staff, couldn’t complete the magic until the end and shouted at Ross, who was reaching out to her.
“Please, Ross…!”
Uduk-!
Ross’s body, which had frozen as if frozen, suddenly collapsed in the posture of trying to tear off Ellie’s head. The flesh that had grown in place of the disappeared body melted away, and only the torso with its arms and legs cut off rolled on the floor.
“Ro, Ross…!”
The mask that was tangled on his face fell off. The sight of his face skin being completely torn off was terrible to look at, but Ellie didn’t turn away from the fact that Ross was still alive.
‘I can still save him.’
She hadn’t professionally learned magic related to recovery, and it was impossible to save a patient who only had a human form left with any recovery magic, but fortunately, Ellie had extensive knowledge of curses.
Ellie, who knelt down next to the fallen Ross, smiled faintly as she looked at Ross.
“Anyway, it was useless now.”
Ellie pointed her staff at her lower abdomen.
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