Chap 135-Please Become My Wife…?

 

This is the site of the True Ancestors’ party, located in the Abyss.

Few True Ancestors are interested in serious meetings or grand gatherings that determine the fate of their race.

True Ancestors merely mimic humans; they lack human bonds or grand racial causes.

However, True Ancestors prioritize momentary pleasure and enjoyment above all else. Therefore, they refuse meetings but always attend parties.

“Gulp gulp gulp gulp gulp gulp gulp gulp gulp gulp gulp gulp!”

“Puh-haaa! This blood cocktail is the best! So delicious when mixed thoroughly!”

“Kuh, kuh-roo-roo-roo, kuh-khee-hee-hee!”

“What’s wrong with that one?”

“They say its brain was just made recently.”

“Ugh. Moron. Hahaha!”

“True. Still better than Agatha, who died in the lower layer a while ago.”

Beneath a tree adorned with the heads of human children who never reached adulthood, a river of blood flows, and noble True Ancestors plunge their faces into it, gulping down the blood.

One True Ancestor, fond of young girls, compared the flavors of children from the Abyss, lower layer, middle layer, and upper layer, while another appraised the tastes of human, elf, dwarf, insectoid, beast-kin, and android blood.

-Thump…!

“Huh?”

“What’s that?”

“Earthquake?”

“No, it’s magic.”

“An ability?”

“I don’t know. Give me my blood!”

“Oh, android blood is surprisingly fresh.”

A distant, immense blaze.

A colder wind devouring it.

The shockwave striking the entire layer shakes the dark chandeliers in the party hall.

A widespread ability that even most First-Class Overseers struggle to replicate unfolds, stirring the Abyss. Countless beings notice the ripple.

Some burn with animosity and jealousy. Others pay no attention or express curiosity, slowly opening their eyes.

And some, filled with both animosity and resolve, steel themselves.

“He’s come.”

His name is Luichella Dunhill.

One of the countless failures of the Dunhill Family.

However, like Fira Dunhill, he was a mutated maggot who hated the family and valued his own life.

The Dunhill Family fundamentally adheres to the principles of survival of the fittest and the supremacy of the strong, even among family members.

Therefore, Fira, hailed as the family’s greatest masterpiece, loathed and despised the Dunhill Family, but over 90% of the Dunhill Family members consider sacrificing themselves and their families for the family to be natural.

And Luichella Dunhill was one of the few Dunhill troublemakers not belonging to that 90%.

He had this thought from birth.

‘Why should we consider sacrificing our lives for the family to be natural?’

In Fira’s case, it’s fine since she can single-handedly match the entire family.

However, Luichella is just one of the ordinary maggots.

He only survived the Dunhill Family’s slaughterhouse and survival-of-the-fittest arena by sheer luck, so no one cares about him.

Yet, he hated the family.

‘Why do I have to eat my siblings… Why do my parents take it for granted to sacrifice us instead of protecting us?’

He hated his life of devouring his siblings.

He hated himself for gnawing at himself.

He hated his parents and all his ancestors for creating a mad breeding ground that envied humanity and ground down its descendants.

Now, even the siblings who naturally sacrifice their lives for the family and its cause are hateful.

And he hated humanity for knowing all this and neglecting it.

The administrators of Ark Central?

Even if others don’t, the administrators have long known what happens in the Dunhill Family.

Yet, they take no action or issue any warnings to the Dunhill Family.

‘Ark Central’s administration knows that the Dunhill Family’s methods help cultivate excellent executors and Overseers. Even I, a mere failure, can easily secure an Overseer position.’

Therefore, Luichella hated humans, the Ark, and the Dunhill Family.

Since being born was painful, he naturally harbored hatred, and since he found hatred in the process of living, it was natural for Luichella to be filled with hatred.

The family’s vaunted cause was nothing but envy, and like the ordinary Ark citizens walking the streets of the Ark, we don’t even have the option of simply living because we were born.

The strong survive, and failures are devoured.

It’s hateful.

So hateful.

Unjust and hateful.

A ray of light descended upon such Luichella Dunhill.

Fira Dunhill.

The family’s greatest masterpiece.

The true descendant of Beelzebub.

An existence capable of single-handedly overturning the human-centric Ark order.

Luichella hoped that his hateful family and painful life would change with Fira as the starting point.

However, Fira did nothing.

She merely severed ties with the family and distanced herself from them.

She should have burned down the Dunhill Family.

Why doesn’t the masterpiece do anything?

If you don’t do anything, what will become of me?

Am I to be left behind like this?

What he thought was light was a rotten rope.

Thus, Luichella Dunhill decided to seize a new opportunity with his own hands.

That opportunity came sooner than expected.

Negotiations with the True Ancestors.

The True Ancestors consider humans as food, so they want them not to be extinct, but conversely, they don’t want humans to become too dominant, excessively invading and controlling their territory.

And the Dunhill Family wants to pull humans from their position and become the mainstream and protagonists of the world.

The two forces, with their moderately aligned interests, decided to join hands. Luichella Dunhill was sent to the Abyss as their envoy.

Here, Luichella Dunhill revealed all the weaknesses and flaws of the Dunhill Family to the True Ancestors.

It was essentially a gamble.

Luichella had no will to live and was filled only with hatred for the Dunhill Family and the world, so he threw caution to the wind, not without a sense of “whatever will be, will be.”

But surprisingly, the True Ancestors listened attentively to Dunhill’s words.

“Either way, if the Dunhill Family takes humanity’s place, they will eventually try to drive you out. They are taking humanity’s place, not planning to live peacefully with you.”

“So?”

“I want to present you with a new path. Let’s move towards a world where disaster and monsters are the norm.”

Now, the world is one where humans are ordinary and natural.

Luichella hated them all, so naturally, he wanted to create a world where monsters and disasters were common and ordinary.

It is humans who treat monsters as monsters.

If such monsters become universal and ordinary, then what would even be a monster?

Most of the True Ancestors laughed at Luichella’s words.

“Oh really? Go ahead and try.”

However, Luichella’s words caught the attention of a certain young lady among the True Ancestors. Thanks to that, he received a small gift from the True Ancestors.

The power of Blood Contamination.

A widespread mutation and disaster spread by the True Ancestor’s blood droplets.

Originally, this was a plague in a small area, and even the True Ancestors had to infect people one by one to spread it throughout the layer, which was a hassle.

So, the existing Blood Contamination is triggered in one human, and that human infects other humans.

However, Luichella is A descendant of the Lord of the Flies, Beelzebub.

He inherently possessed the attribute of plague, and plague and Blood Contamination were too compatible.

Even if just one drop of contaminated blood is dropped on a layer, the entire layer is contaminated.

‘This is more than enough to stain the Ark with blood.’

However, Luichella’s plan went awry along the way.

To head to the upper layer, he naturally had to avoid the gazes of all kinds of Overseers, AIs, and Executors.

The moment he was caught by the administrator, Luichella’s plan would end, so he decided to cause chaos as cautiously as possible.

Start contamination from the lower layer.

After all, the lower layer is an abandoned place that doesn’t receive the attention of the higher-ups.

Even if Blood Contamination breaks out extensively here, no one will care, and if Blood Contamination contaminates a large number of lower layers, it will cause enough chaos to attract the attention of the Central Administration.

‘And then. Invade the upper layer.’

The Dunhill Family and the Central.

He will contaminate them all.

But the plan was thwarted by Alice.

Alice was merely going down to the lower layer with a light mission from Rilstia to “check what’s happening in the lower layer,” but the appearance of a Third-Class Overseer was enough to ruin Luichella’s plan.

‘Did the administrator already notice?! Or did the family find out about my betrayal?’

Originally, Luichella would have tried to kill Alice immediately.

However, the moment he touched Alice first, he would attract the attention of the administrator who gave her the order.

The moment the administrator’s gaze turns to the lower layer, Luichella will fail.

So, Luichella, who encountered Alice in the Caracas Heavy Industries layer, immediately decided to retreat and came down to the Abyss.

And Luichella began to gather information about Alice.

She was only a Third-Class Overseer, but her actions were remarkably noticeable.

Solo hunting of True Ancestors.

Successful long-term mission in the Satellite City.

Exposure of Mega Corp treason.

Hunting of Gaia’s avatar.

Solo resolution of Blood Contamination in the Caracas Heavy Industries layer.

New Grand Governor of the lower layer.

The only person who made the abandoned lower layer a better place.

Alice, a mere Third-Class Overseer, created the light of the Artificial Sun and turned the chaotic sewer into a realm of the human world.

Luichella had a strange thought as he looked at Alice.

‘She embraces what everyone has abandoned in this damn world… It’s like a mother.’

Looking at her actions and achievements, Luichella had this thought.

‘Maybe… maybe she can be with me.’

First of all, Alice was very beautiful.

Even Fira showed a level of affection for Alice that was almost love at first sight.

An android?

That doesn’t even matter.

Not only her appearance but also her actions to make this damned sewer Ark a better world are so lovely.

Luichella thought that Alice could be a comrade who would be with him.

Unfortunately for Alice, she began to receive rapid affection and attention from a maggot she had never even met.

Luichella’s interest, once started, soon led to affection and camaraderie towards Alice. Luichella, who originally only wanted the destruction of the Ark and the world, began to dream of a rosy future with Alice.

Luichella even found out that Alice was receiving attention from Fira Dunhill.

‘A complete revision of the plan was necessary.’

Thus, Luichella deliberately informed the family of his betrayal through some means.

Of course, with some distortion.

He said that he was killed by Third-Class Overseer Alice.

If that happened, the family would go crazy and someone would come down.

‘My parents will probably come down. The Dunhill Family usually holds the parents responsible for managing troublemakers.’

And Fira Dunhill’s hatred for the family is so unusual that she has a high probability of eating or killing any family members who are discovered outside.

If someone from the Dunhill Family goes down to Alice, Fira Dunhill will definitely come down as well.

‘And if Fira Dunhill comes down, she will most likely find out about me.’

Fira Dunhill may look like a tomboyish noble lady, but she is not a fool.

She is the Dunhill Family’s greatest masterpiece and a woman who doesn’t know what she has inside.

She would have judged that keeping Alice by her side was the safest thing to do, so she would forcibly drag Alice down to this Abyss.

And Luichella, who sensed that Fira had come down to the Abyss with Alice through the surveillance formula he had installed in advance, smiled with joy.

‘So far, it’s going according to plan.’

From now on, he had to face them directly.

Alice and Fira are coming down together.

Maybe both of them can be with him.

Things could go much better than they are now.

But if things don’t work out…

‘Then even by force…’

It’s okay.

Even though he didn’t like Fira and she disappointed him, she also hates the Dunhill Family. Considering that Alice brought light to the lower layer, she will definitely be with him.

“True Ancestor. The target and Fira Dunhill have arrived.”

“Oh, is that so?”

The young lady didn’t pay much attention even though the First-Class Overseer had arrived in the Abyss.

Destruction and slaughter are so commonplace for the True Ancestors that they are not particularly great or interesting.

Even if the True Ancestors heard that Fira Dunhill was coming to kill them right away, they wouldn’t even care because they were busy licking the blood that had fallen on the floor of the party hall.

Maybe they would raise their heads only after being attacked directly?

“Then take care of it.”

The young lady waved her hand and stroked the naked human girl she was holding in her arms.

She’s still alive.

It seems she saved her to eat later.

Luichella, who was watching this, sighed and continued.

“Then I will. However, I hope you keep your promise.”

“Why? What if I don’t keep my promise?”

“…….”

“Just kidding. Loosen up your expression. You guys are too serious about everything, so it’s not fun, you know?”

She, who was giggling, is the one who gave Luichella the power of Blood Contamination.

However, Luichella is still wary of the True Ancestors.

The True Ancestors have no cause or grand purpose.

Pleasure, impulsiveness, capriciousness, gourmet, interest, fun.

These are their only purposes in life.

Even if he receives help now, he doesn’t know when they will become vicious ghosts.

Luichella thought as he activated the teleportation formula.

‘After all, those mosquitoes must disappear.’

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“Ah, well, I accidentally killed him when I was trying to get information.”

“Well… it’s okay.”

After all, Alice has the red neural network.

She could fully absorb and interpret the information on this layer.

At that time, Alice’s head turned.

She feels something.

【Human, spatial transfer. Something is coming.】

“Fira!”

Fira had already unfolded her fan and spread cold air in the direction Alice was looking.

She would try to talk, but if necessary, she would freeze the person who came through the spatial transfer at any time.

“…Are you Alice?”

The spatial transfer happened as if the film of space was cut off.

What appeared from the broken gap was a blond young man with the impression of a nobleman.

No, judging from his youthful face, he was closer to a pretty boy than a young man.

If you had to specify his age, he looked almost the same age as Alice.

‘By the way, how does he know my name?’

Alice tilted her head and took out her mechanical tendril.

“Do you know me?”

“Yes, I know you very well. I’m late with my introduction. I’m Luichella. Luichella Dunhill.”

Luichella bowed to Alice and Fira with a dignified greeting befitting a high-ranking family.

“It’s the first time we’ve met like this, sister.”

“Oh, hello?”

Unlike the welcoming greetings, there was no feeling of affection as a family between Fira and Luichella, who were glaring at each other.

Fira had a fierce hatred to the point where she would eat any members of the Dunhill Family who came outside, and the reason why Fira didn’t attack Luichella right away was because she was curious as to why that troublemaker had left the family.

On the other hand, Luichella didn’t like Fira’s laziness, who was the family’s masterpiece but didn’t do anything, so his impression wasn’t good, but Luichella’s eyes towards Alice were very friendly.

“Alice, our meeting didn’t start in a good place, and it’s sudden, but may I make a suggestion?”

“What is it?”

Well, Alice nodded, telling him to speak first.

“I’m not the type to beat around the bush, so I’ll say it right away. I would like you to be my wife.”

“…?”

What.

“Hey, you fucking bastard.”

But before Alice could answer, Fira clenched her fist and detonated the ice spell that was on standby.