episode_0045

“Ugh, this is getting annoying.”

Bianca smiled at Lian with a puzzled expression as she bit her tongue inwardly.

“I never imagined someone would just turn around after seeing the top floor. Unthinkable.”

Until now, every slave who had directly seen and experienced the top floor had immediately tried to become her disciple. That’s how tempting the power of the top floor seemed.

But Lian said without any hesitation that he would return to his place. Bianca quickly realized that if she let Lian go like this, she would never be able to bring him to the top floor.

“This is the only chance.”

If you live here for a long time, you will hear bad rumors about yourself. For example, the rumor that all of her disciples disappeared without a trace.

There wouldn’t be any risk of being exposed until she got close to the top floor, but once she did, it was only a matter of time before she was found out.

If she were an incomplete strong person like Iris, she could buy some time, but Lian was already a complete strong person. It was only a matter of time before he got close to the top floor.

Bianca muttered, pursing her lips.

“Then shall we just check the armory one last time before we go? I want to give you a weapon that Iris can use.”

“Oh, thank you!”

As she had expected, Lian easily accepted anything related to her younger sister, “Iris.”

“She said we need to go down quickly, so let’s go right away.”

“Yes!”

Bianca walked ahead, thinking to herself.

“What a fool. Revealing weaknesses and wandering around here, in the end, you’ll be caught.”

Bianca sneered inwardly as she opened the door to the armory. There were magic circles inscribed on the floor of the armory that were invisible to ordinary people. They were magic circles that enhanced the power of shadows.

“All right then.”

She turned her body with a strangely twisted smile. Lian was looking at her with an innocent face.

“I’ll… enjoy it.”

“Pardon?”

Crack… Crunch.

The floor turned pitch black in an instant and then split in half. The moment Lian’s gaze fell to the ground, a monstrous shadow had already risen from it.

Splash!

Like a crocodile seizing its prey in an instant, Lian was swallowed by the shadow.

“Kwahaha! You fool!”

Bianca burst into laughter as she watched Lian being chewed up without even closing her eyes. She relished this moment where a formidable figure that could have made a mark on history was vanishing into nothingness.

“But don’t be too sad, as you’re becoming a part of my beauty!”

Crunch!

With the sound of even her head being swallowed, Lian disappeared without a trace.

“Oh, what ability will I gain this time?”

She gazed at the sword with an ecstatic expression.

“Last time, it was a short dagger, right?”

She chuckled while holding a sword that was neither long enough to be a longsword nor short enough to be a dagger.

“Shall I try it out lightly in the training ground?”

Thinking of stretching her body after a long time, she left the room. Or rather, she tried to leave.

Bang!

As she tried to leave the room, her little toe hit the edge of the door as if it were her fate. Normally, she would have just felt a little impact, but today, excruciating pain began to surge as her toe was crushed.

“Ugh, cough…!”

Along with the pain, blood gushed out from her mouth. Bianca’s eyes began to shake like a madwoman.

“W-what is this?”

Merely hitting her little toe caused blood to gush out. This couldn’t be happening.

“W-what in the world…?”

After becoming a formidable figure, she had never seen such an enormous amount of blood before. Pale-faced, Bianca staggered back.

Crash!

“Ah!”

She stepped back and accidentally hit an exhibition stand filled with weapons. Various weapons leaned and rolled onto the floor. When she heard the sound of sharp weapons rolling on the ground, she felt dizzy.

“M-Maybe it’s because I swallowed a really strong opponent.”

She tried to suppress her anxiety and attempted to put the fallen swords back in place. As she took a step forward, she accidentally stepped on the tip of a sword, causing it to push her backward.

“Uh…?”

All kinds of weapons that had fallen seemed dangerously positioned to fall in her direction as if intentionally placed there.

Thud!

The curved end of a sword pierced through Bianca’s foot and sprung out through the top of her foot.

“Aaaah!”

She screamed and fell to the side. The handle connected to the blade stuck in her foot shook and knocked over another display shelf. A giant chunk of iron fell from above her head.

“Wait -…ugh!”

With a loud crash, the piece of metal hit her head, and sawdust scattered. She couldn’t comprehend the situation and barely managed to prevent her eyes from turning over.

“What, what is happening?”

In a series of incomprehensible events, she was truly on the verge of losing her mind.

Boom! Crash! Thud!

“Ugh, ugh…aaaah!”

Like a prepared stage, stepping on or being hit by each fallen weapon, Bianca began to resemble a scarecrow. Rolling around like a wheel, she finally tumbled out of the weapon rack.

“Ugh, ugh…”

Gasping for breath, she suffered more severe injuries than when fighting the champion.

“I-I might die like this!”

She staggered to her feet. She could feel warm blood trickling down her body.

“Wait…what is this…?”

Her gaze shifted from my feet to the armory. Inside the armory, it was as if a massacre had taken place, with blood splattered everywhere as if ten people had been killed and their blood drained. The sound was soon a statement that it made no sense for her to be standing unharmed.

“What the…? What on earth is happening?”

Bianca, who had swallowed Lianne and even the comedy filter, could not comprehend the current situation.

Lianne, already accustomed to the comedy filter, was unfazed, but Bianca couldn’t understand any of her body’s reactions. Misunderstanding was akin to terror.

“Th-therapy… We need to start with therapy!”

She staggered towards the living room, screaming as if in agony. The living room seemed peaceful, as if nothing had happened.

But even that tranquility was terrifying to Bianca. It felt like something terrible was about to happen.

“Before anything strange happens, quickly, as quickly as possible, we need to get treatment…”

In the world of comedy, worrying about something meant it would actually happen.

Shooosh!

Before she finished speaking, a tremendous noise echoed.

Pffft!

“Ugh…”

A window flew in from outside, piercing through her abdomen. It happened in an instant.

“G-gasp, I don’t want to die.”

As she held her spilled blood and organs, Bianca screamed. Then, the organs spoke.

“Are you crazy! Touching my body without gloves?”

A piece of organ resembling Bianca’s features spat curses at her. Bianca looked at her own organs with a dazed expression.

“There are pieces over there too! Pick them up quickly!”

“No, if we work hard inside the body, the owner should take good care of the organs, right? How did you manage to get a hole in your stomach? I’m going to demand compensation for all this!”

“If you’re going to wrap me in bandages, can you use the highest quality? I’m a bit sensitive.”

Bianca’s mind drifted away in a voice filled with arrogance.

“What’s this? Why am I not dead? And what am I hearing right now? Organs? Are the organs speaking? How? Shouldn’t I be dead if I’m outside the body? How can it speak? How is there a mouth?”

As incomprehensible situations continued to occur, Bianca’s head creaked as if it were broken. Instead of expending energy to understand the situation, her brain cleverly concluded the situation was a dream.

“Is it a dream, right?”

Otherwise, even if the organs spoke and her abdomen was pierced, she couldn’t breathe so calmly.

“Yes, it must be… -.”

Before she could finish her sentence,

“Bianca?”

“…?!”

A familiar voice echoed. Bianca quickly scanned her surroundings.

“When can I leave, Bianca?”

“W-where are you speaking from?!”

No matter how much she looked around, she couldn’t see the owner of the voice, causing Bianca’s voice to tremble.

“Huh? It’s inside your belly, Bianca.”

“What…?”

Her gaze turned toward her abdomen.

“Did you eat chicken yesterday? I’m melting over here.”

A voice was coming from near her… throat. And it was Lianne’s voice, whom she had eaten.