Ch.225Chapter 225 – Gambling (2)

“Do I… really have to do this?”

After chewing on her lip for a while, Microny Holmes glances cautiously at Adler and asks a question.

“Couldn’t you just give me one? There’s no need to go this far…”

“Choose quickly.”

But Adler ignores her words and firmly demands she make a choice.

“If you don’t want to, you don’t have to choose.”

“……..”

“The choice is yours. I’m not forcing you… but since you’ll die within a month anyway, wouldn’t it be better to at least try?”

Hearing his words, Microny raises her hand with a trembling heart.

“Umm…”

Her hand begins to waver between the two pills.

Cold sweat drips down Microny’s forehead, her complexion now completely pale.

“You really want to live, don’t you?”

“…….”

“I’ve never seen Microny so desperate before.”

As Adler said, Microny’s expression was more rigid than ever before.

“…Is this fun for you?”

When she finally confronts him with a cold voice, Adler, who had been smirking, quietly closes his mouth.

“You… really are a Demon.”

“………”

“You give someone who had no reason to live a reason to continue, and then gamble with their life. Isn’t that too malicious?”

Microny continues to berate him.

“Was this your intention from the beginning?”

“…Who knows.”

“You claimed to know everything in the world, but I failed to recognize your malice. I didn’t know I could be such a fool.”

As Microny continues speaking in an ice-cold voice, genuinely hurt, Adler slightly averts his gaze.

“Come to think of it, the professor, my sister—they were all just pawns in your hands.”

“…….”

“I should have killed you without hesitation that day.”

Despite everything, Microny’s eyes reflect a sense of betrayal as she continues speaking.

“By the way, if you can play around with something like this, I guess you must have found a way to survive.”

“Hmm.”

“…I thought you were in the same situation as me.”

Microny criticizes Adler for a while with a dark expression, like someone betrayed by a loved one.

“Haah…”

Then she sighs deeply and returns to her usual expression.

“Before I make my choice, there are a few things I’d like to confirm.”

Though she seemed colder and more businesslike than usual, at least there was a smile on her lips.

“I must choose only one of these two, correct?”

“Yes.”

“What happens if I ignore your proposal and take both at once?”

“I’ve taken precautions for that. If you take both simultaneously, neither will have any effect.”

“And I suppose breaking each pill in half and taking both halves would be the same?”

“I would stop you before that, so don’t worry.”

Hearing Adler’s answer, Microny sighs and lowers her head.

“…I didn’t know I could become this ugly.”

“…….”

“Or perhaps I’ve become stupid enough to ask the obvious multiple times.”

And then silence begins.

– Thump, thump…

“Ha.”

Realizing that her heart is beating rapidly in the silence, Microny raises her head with a bitter smile.

“In the past, I could inject a lethal dose of cocaine without even a change in my heartbeat…”

Muttering this, she begins to extend her hand again.

– Swish…

Her hand, which hesitated briefly in the middle, eventually turns to the right.

“Have you decided?”

“…Yes.”

Microny nods and picks up the pill, and Adler’s lips curl up momentarily.

“Even though it’s called a game, it’s not very fun.”

“……..”

“…It would have been more interesting if you had to eat the remaining one.”

“As long as I’m having fun, that’s all that matters.”

Microny gives a hollow laugh at his words, turns her gaze away from Adler, and examines the pill she chose.

“You still have a chance. You can switch to the other one if you want.”

“…No thanks.”

Eventually, rejecting Adler’s offer, she slightly opens her mouth.

“Are you really sure?”

– Swish…

After hesitating briefly, she ignores Adler’s words and puts the pill in her mouth.

– Gulp…

And a few seconds later, the sound of the pill going down echoes in the quiet room.

“Haah…”

Having made her life-or-death choice, Microny closes her eyes with a tense expression and sighs.

“I didn’t know it would be this frustrating not being able to see through something. If my body had been in normal condition, I could have distinguished poison.”

“…….”

“…Hey, this might be my last chance to ask.”

She asks Adler a meaningful question.

“What exactly are you?”

Hearing this, Adler tilts his head, and Microny quietly adds:

“Are you a regressor? Or a reincarnator?”

“Uh…”

“…Or perhaps, a possessor?”

At that moment, Adler’s eyebrow twitches slightly.

“It seems certain that you’re one of the three…”

But Microny’s increasingly drowsy gaze, unlike her usual self, failed to catch it.

“Hmm…..”

It didn’t take long for her to realize that her eyes were gradually closing.

“I guess… I chose… the wrong pill…”

Microny’s body staggers as she mutters in a trembling voice.

“My body feels… so heavy.”

“…….”

“Well, it was already heavy because of my chest…”

Eventually, her body slowly begins to tilt toward the desk.

“I never expected… to meet such an end…”

– Swish…

“I didn’t anticipate this…”

Fortunately, her chest, which was resting on the desk, cushioned her head from impact, but it couldn’t prevent her eyes from closing.

“So… how is it?”

Despite everything, Microny uses her last strength to speak to Adler, who was still in front of her.

“How does it feel… to play with someone… like me as a toy?”

“……..”

“I’m sure… you enjoyed it…?”

But when Adler doesn’t respond, tears begin to form in her eyes.

“Because of you… I didn’t want to die anymore…”

Her voice comes out slightly tearful.

“…That’s cruel.”

With those words, Microny’s speech abruptly ends.

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Around the time Microny’s consciousness completely faded.

“…I wondered what he was doing when he suddenly asked me to leave.”

Rachel Watson, who had been watching the situation clearly through the crack in the old door, begins to mutter in a voice filled with deep disgust.

“The worst.”

– Swish…

“The worst, the lowest human being. I wish he would die without leaving a corpse…”

But then, she suddenly tilts her head in confusion.

‘…But then, why did he borrow sleeping pills from me earlier?’

Just as this question arose in Watson’s mind.

– Swish…

Adler, who had been staring down at the unconscious Microny for a while, suddenly picked up the remaining pill.

“Huh?”

Then, as he pushed it into Microny’s mouth and gave her water from a nearby glass, Watson’s eyes widened.

“Hehe.”

Meanwhile, Adler, grinning for some reason, removes the perception-hindering magic he had secretly placed on Microny’s body, which was already beginning to show signs of vitality.

“…Even if I die, you must live for the sake of continuity.”

Then, after whispering in a low voice, Adler picks up the limp Microny and lays her on the nearby bed.

“Now then…”

Eventually, with a much more refreshed expression, Adler begins to move toward the exit.

“…Ugh.”

But suddenly, his face turns pale, and he collapses on the spot.

“Cough, cough…..”

And then, gasping for breath, he begins to cough with a pained expression.

“………”

Watson watches this scene through the crack in the door with a stunned expression, as if she’d been hit on the head with a hammer.

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I was about to leave the room with a light step, feeling good about doing a good deed after a long time.

[Probability of being raped: 1000%]

‘…What the hell is this?’

Faced with this sudden death threat-like notification, I couldn’t help but collapse on the spot.

[Sorry, it’s an overflow.]

[I’ll fix it, please wait a moment.]

Just as I was wondering why such a warning would appear when I was about to disappear from the world anyway, the system lady kindly provides guidance.

Right, there’s no way I could be raped by someone at this point.

It feels like I’ve already been violated by Professor and Sharlotte, but since I consented, those were consensual.

Probably.

[Probability of being raped: 100%]

[Probability of being violated: 100%]

[Probability of being forcibly taken: 100%]

[Probability of being gang-raped: 100%]

[Probability of being sexually assaulted: 100%]

[Probability of being in adultery: 100%]

[Probability of being in fornication: 100%]

[Probability of being milked: 100%]

[Probability of having genetic seeds confiscated: 100%]

(omitted)

While I was trying to manage my mental state, numerous warning messages suddenly appear before my eyes.

[The errors occur too frequently due to the numbers, so I tried to break it down a bit.]

‘…Are you joking?’

At first, I thought the system lady was teasing me, but her subsequent response made my spine tingle instantly.

[Does this look like a joke?]

“…….”

It seems the time has come to enter the “final case” that will conclude everything.