Chap 125-The Maggot Noble 2

Why did Fira suddenly come here?

Alice was a little taken aback by Fira’s sudden intrusion, but at the same time, she activated thought acceleration and pondered.

Now that she thought about it, the atmosphere between Fira and the noblewoman who suddenly came to her, telling her what to do and stirring up murderous intent, was very similar.

How many people look like Renaissance fantasy nobles in a cyberpunk mega-city?

Alice vaguely realized that Fira and that nameless bitch were of the same blood.

So, did Fira appear here now to somehow protect her own kin? If she was going to show up, it would have been better if she had come before that woman despised the people of the lower layer and said nonsense about giving up the position of Governor-General of the lower layer to her.

‘I guess blood is thicker than water. Even if Fira likes me, she’ll end up siding with her family.’

Alice’s gaze towards Fira, who was catching her breath, was colder than usual.

“Fira.”

She was a welcome person to see after a long time, but Alice couldn’t bring herself to wave her hand happily at Fira right now.

“Hah, hah. Ah, it’s, it’s not too late, is it? I’m so glad…”

“Fira, that woman…”

“Haa, haa, I know. She suddenly came and said nonsense and made unreasonable demands on our Alice, right? I don’t even need to see it to know.”

“Fira Dunhill! What face do you have to show me!”

At that moment, the woman who was bound by Alice’s mechanical tendril spewed out her anger with her face torn vertically.

Ugh, her face was torn vertically, and even her eyes turned green, and something like teeth and a tongue were wriggling through the torn gap as if she was going crazy, which was extremely disgusting.

I thought I was quite resistant to disgusting things, but the appearance hidden inside the shell of a beautiful noblewoman was more grotesque than I had imagined, and Alice frowned without realizing it.

“Fira Dunhill! Speak if you have a mouth! After being raised with the love of this family, how dare you act so selfishly?!”

“Shut your mouth.”

“Ugh!”

When Fira gestured, the mana wave in the air forcibly shut the woman’s mouth.

The woman was bound by Alice’s mechanical tendril and couldn’t respond properly, but Fira’s ability to shoot mana containing the properties of binding and restraint with a single gesture was even more impressive.

Even if that woman is from the center of Ark and strong, she is definitely not comparable to Fira.

“Sebunia Dunhill.”

“Huh?”

Alice wore a blank expression for a moment and then belatedly realized that she had said the name of the bound woman.

As she thought, she was a member of the Dunhill Family.

“She is a distant relative of mine from the Dunhill Family. I’m sorry for surprising you by suddenly coming. Alice…”

“Enough. I believe you know why that woman came here and acted like a bitch to me.”

“Hoo, it’s a bit of an embarrassing story, and it could be a long story… would that be alright?”

“Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!”

Fira kept bowing her head to Alice as if she was sorry, and Sebunia in the back made angry noises with her mouth shut, but Fira only clenched her fist and strengthened the mana that bound Sebunia.

Alice reluctantly dragged a chair from the half-destroyed office with her mechanical tendril and handed it to Fira.

It was a silent sign to sit down and talk.

“Ahem, it’s embarrassing, but do you know what the Dunhill Family’s long-cherished desire is?”

“Long-cherished desire? No, I don’t know.”

“Haaa, it’s simple. It’s world domination.”

“…What? So you also want to conquer the world and take Ark into your hands?”

“Hey, don’t be ridiculous. The Dunhill Family is just a bug with desires and wishes that are beyond its means.”

Fira then straightened her clothes and sat lightly on the chair Alice gave her and began her story.

Fira Dunhill.

She was a First-Class Overseer with great combat power enough to hold the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Ark’s external expedition team, and was called the Dunhill Family’s greatest masterpiece.

“However, apart from receiving the family’s expectations, I hate the Dunhill Family terribly.”

“Why?”

“Usually, the noble families in the center have a more cutthroat and competitive structure than ordinary human families. But as you might have noticed from calling their precious children ‘family masterpieces,’ the Dunhill Family itself was extremely harsh on children.”

The Dunhill Family is not an ordinary human race.

They were recognized for their contribution to Ark and were treated as ‘humanity’ and a noble family, but the identity of the race was once the descendants of gluttony.

They were a race that called themselves the children of Beelzebub, the Lord of the Flies, among humans.

“As I said earlier, the Dunhill Family are bugs who are the descendants of the Lord of the Flies and have an excessive dream of filling Ark and the whole world with the blood of the Dunhill Family.”

“…You’re also a Dunhill Family member.”

“That’s why I hate it more. The bugs don’t know what’s important, and just… Ugh, damn it.”

As you can tell from the words “children of the Lord of the Flies,” their identity was bugs.

In fact, the word “maggot bastards” was used among the central noble families as a word to ridicule or insult the Dunhill Family, but that was only possible where the Dunhill Family was not present. If you directly insulted the Dunhill Family, you would have to endure their anger.

Anyway, all members of the Dunhill Family are maggots.

Or a bizarre and terrible collection of bugs reminiscent of them.

It’s not just one maggot.

To give an example of Fira Dunhill, she looks like an ordinary woman who hasn’t undergone any modification surgery or received any prosthetic implants, but in reality, Fira’s interior is made up of countless bugs.

There are unnamed larvae and unidentified maggots, some with wings and some without, some with snouts or mouths and some without.

Each of those bugs has self-awareness and reason, and is an Awakened who can handle magic and supernatural powers.

No, they were Awakened bugs.

Each Awakened bug took on different parts of Fira’s head, face, skin, internal organs, brain, and heart to imitate ‘Fira Dunhill,’ a noble young lady.

And Fira hated the Dunhill Family and its members, including herself, terribly.

“The young descendants of the Dunhill Family, including me, had to endure abuse and all sorts of self-help measures in the name of upbringing from the moment they were born, and were exposed to an environment where they would be eaten if they didn’t eat their brothers and sisters.”

Fira’s face was a little flushed as she told the old story.

It seemed like she remembered a memory she didn’t want to recall.

“That must have been tough…”

“Well, it’s in the past.”

But no matter how many brothers and sisters ended their lives of torture with suicide, the elders of the Dunhill Family didn’t care.

What was important to them was the next generation masterpiece.

Those who had the desire to swallow Ark and the world only cared about geniuses and monsters who held powerful factors that would lead the Dunhill Family in the future, and Fira somehow survived in such a brutal place and became a First-Class Overseer.

“So I became the Dunhill Family’s greatest masterpiece. I told the family’s wishes and so on to go fuck themselves and was just normally satisfied with my First-Class Overseer life, but do I care if the elders are making a fuss? Ohoho~”

“So, the reason why that Sebunia woman screamed ‘What face do you have’ as soon as she saw Fira was…”

“It seems like she’s frustrated that the family’s masterpiece is going against the family’s wishes~”

Perhaps if Fira seriously planned to operate secretly in Ark or collaborated with disasters to exterminate humans, she might be able to fill the whole world with the Dunhill Family, the descendants of the Lord of the Flies.

Fira is not an ordinary being, but the Dunhill Family’s greatest masterpiece and still has the ability to become the Commander-in-Chief of the expedition team.

However, Fira herself hates and dislikes the family’s wishes and desires, so the moment the Dunhill Family’s wishes are fulfilled will be distant as she is living her life as a First-Class Overseer.

Does the family force Fira with force?

Fira didn’t just get the title of the Dunhill Family’s masterpiece for show.

It might even be possible for her to single-handedly destroy the family.

“Ha, so family is still family? Is that why you asked me to spare that Sebunia or whatever?”

To be honest, Sebunia openly provoked Alice in her territory and went against her mood, but ‘not yet’ Sebunia hadn’t done anything that deserved to die in Alice’s eyes.

Alice knew that she owed Fira a lot.

She was guaranteed by Fira when she became an Ultima-Class Returner, and Fira expressed considerable affection for Alice from their first meeting.

It was a bit burdensome, but she didn’t dislike the affection itself. If it was Fira’s request, saving that Sebunia woman wasn’t that difficult.

“I know… Actually, I didn’t even think about killing her in the first place. If it’s Fira’s request…”

“Yes? No, what are you talking about? When did I ever say I wanted to save that woman?”

What?

“What…? No, what was with you rushing in so urgently and stopping me earlier?”

“That? Ah, Alice. Can you close your eyes for a moment?”

Eyes?

For now, Alice closed her eyes as she was told.

And the moment Alice closed her eyes, Fira smiled and looked at Sebunia.

Then… her face split vertically, just like Sebunia’s.

In a much more grotesque and hideous form than Sebunia’s.

-Screeeeeech!

“…! Fira, you bitch…!”

Sebunia forcibly released Fira’s restraints belatedly and tried to resist, but Fira quickly hugged Sebunia.

-Crunch! Splatter! Gurgle! Gulp! Snap!

When Fira hugged Sebunia as if embracing her, a terrible sound of something being chewed and broken was heard, and before she knew it, only Fira was left there.

In terms of time, was it 5 seconds?

In less than 5 seconds, Sebunia became one with Fira.

Alice had her eyes closed, but she felt everything that happened with her senses, and she felt goosebumps without realizing it.

“Haaa… It doesn’t taste good at all. Crunch…!”

“……”

“Ah, you mean stopping Alice?”

Fira blushed as if she was embarrassed and covered her face with a fan.

The blood smeared on her roll bun hair dripped thickly, but the blood was quickly absorbed into Fira’s body as if there were mouths on her hair.

“It’s just that… it’s not like I was trying to save this damn woman. I just wanted to kill her. I couldn’t let our Alice’s clean and white hands get dirty with the dirty fluids of a pus-filled bug like this, could I?”

“……”

When Alice looked at Fira with a blank face, Fira covered her mouth with a fan and made a laughing sound, “Ohohohot!”

“And that bitch was the one who shoved insecticide into my mouth in the name of upbringing! I swore that I would grind her slutty head one day, and I finally achieved it today! Ohohohohoho!”

“……”

Alice thought at Fira’s echoing words.

Ah.

She was a much scarier person than I had imagined.

No, is she even a person?

“Ah, but apart from that, there’s another reason why I came to see Alice.”