Chap 136-Please Become My Wife…? 2

 

Alice thought she had witnessed the greatest, most destructive, and in itself, spectacular grand magic since starting her third life as an android.

1.5 seconds for the ice barrier to form, covering the sky of the staircase.

1 second for the thorns of coldness, like tendrils, to extend from that barrier, covering and grinding everything in all directions.

2 seconds for all the coldness that burst out of Fira’s rage to gather around Luichella and cause a massive explosion.

“You goddamn perverted bastard! How dare you flirt with someone I’ve already claimed!? No matter how pretty our Alice is, I will never let you die peacefully!!!”

‘Who did she claim…’

Alice stared at Fira with a weary look and muttered inwardly.

However, Fira’s exploding anger was quite impressive, so she didn’t bother to say it out loud.

“You’re quite impatient, sister.”

“Shut up!”

-Kwaang!

But the enraged Fira was much scarier than she thought.

The explosion of coldness seemed to occur in the empty air, and then something froze in the space itself, and the frozen area shattered like a broken window and exploded.

“How frightening. An explosion that infects the whole body with coldness if you even graze it.”

But Luichella must have prepared for it, as he stretched out his hand. Fira’s cold magic, which had been erupting like a volcano, disappeared without a trace.

No, to be precise, Fira’s magic was dispelled only around Luichella, as if in a vacuum.

The barrier covering the sky of the staircase and the coldness in the nearby area still maintained their physical form.

‘It’s not magic dispelling or a Dispel. He’s using teleportation to blow the magic away to another place, space and all.’

As Fira’s wide-area magic disappeared, Alice followed the traces of the vanished mana with her eyes and came to a conclusion.

‘Come to think of it, in the Caracas Staircase, he disappeared with some kind of space jump or teleport as soon as I felt his gaze, right? Fira handles attribute-based magic, and that Luichella guy seems to have an Awakened ability related to space.’

That’s not something that can be done with the abilities of a common magician or Awakened.

In Alice’s case, she can implement and calculate magic formula simultaneously with the help of Theresa’s support and combat system support. This ultra-fast simultaneous manifestation magic is only possible for the descendants of the Dunhill Family, who store countless maggots with intelligence and ego in their bodies.

Fira was great, but Luichella, the troublemaker of the Dunhill Family, is also quite a formidable figure.

‘Excluding the True Ancestor, who is the worst match for me, Luichella seems to be the strongest adversary I’ve faced in the Ark.’

“This goddamn bastard…!”

Fira’s eyes twitched as if she didn’t like the fact that Luichella had cleanly erased her magic.

“Did you think I would face a monster like you without any preparation?”

[Fracture Transfer]

As Luichella’s hand split vertically, the space shimmered faintly, transferring Fira’s coldness that had been gnawing at the surroundings somewhere else.

From Luichella’s split hand, not as many as Fira, but a sufficient number of maggots swarmed, and those maggots were also Awakened beings with egos, just like Fira.

‘Fira’s face split vertically, but his hand splits?’

【It is presumed that the splitting area is different for each individual belonging to the Dunhill Family. Since the larger and more numerous the splitting areas on the body, the higher the amount of mana released externally, it seems that Fira Dunhill’s face splitting means strength.】

‘It’s a shame that her pretty face is splitting.’

Unlike Alice, who calmly analyzed the situation, Fira seemed to be furious as she stepped forward with a cold smile.

“You’re quite impatient, sister. Shouldn’t we at least have a conversation?”

“Stop calling me sister, sister~. I want to tear you apart and kill you.”

“That’s unfortunate. You may not know me, sister, but I know you well. A masterpiece of the Dunhill Family, yet a betrayer of the family. That’s why I thought you would be able to join me even more…”

“Bullshit. This girl has never seen a crazy, nonsensical, motherfucking brother like you before, so what the hell are you talking about, sister?”

“You have quite the foul mouth.”

“Oh, right. You really don’t have a mother, do you? I ate your mother.”

“Ah, you ate my mother? That’s quite regrettable.”

Luichella didn’t seem very regretful even at Fira’s words that she had eaten his mother, Sebunia Dunhill.

Originally, the Dunhill Family had little affection between family members, but Luichella also hates the Dunhill Family like Fira.

The degree of hatred is even more severe than Fira’s.

“Still, a conversation…”

“As the Commander-in-Chief of the Outer Expedition and First-Class Overseer of the Ark Central Administrative Execution Unit, Fira Dunhill, I declare.”

But Fira had no intention of listening.

“Luichella Dunhill, I hereby execute an immediate execution without a lawyer or parole for the individual in question, effective from this moment. The effective time for the declaration is permanent unless the individual’s annihilation is confirmed.”

She mentioned various positions, including First-Class Overseer, which she would never bring up in front of Alice, and declared it officially.

Just as magic and abilities put power into words, putting something into one’s mouth with an official position within the Ark is literally the same as a legal effect and a death sentence.

Now, Luichella has become a person who requires immediate execution and death, regardless of staircase or means, the moment his existence is observed within the Ark.

Even if Luichella defeats Fira here or escapes from her, this is still valid.

“Haa…sister. How unfortunate.”

“What’s unfortunate is what you’re about to experience.”

“…Miss, it’s your turn.”

“Miss?”

It was the moment when Fira tilted her head at the word “Miss.”

[Hello?]

“…!”

Fira’s eyes widened at the voice she heard right next to her ear.

Her actions were fast.

Before Fira’s body could move, the mana that reacted to her will went berserk, tearing all the surrounding space with ice picks and simultaneously detonating the coldness condensed in the picks.

The only one unharmed in the vicinity was Alice, whom Fira had made an exception from the target.

‘He’s not here?’

The eyes of all the maggots in her body looked around.

Even though the chilling voice was clearly heard in her ear, no one was there.

[Maggot. Maggot. Let’s play together.]

-Wooddeuk!

At that moment, the ground melted.

No, what Fira and Alice were standing on was not the ground in the first place.

It was a huge amount of blood.

The blood was imitating the ground, rivers, sky, and air of the staircase.

Fira’s face rotted in an instant, and Luichella raised the corners of his mouth as if things were going according to plan.

“I told you. Did you think I wouldn’t have made any preparations when trying to talk to you, sister?”

“You goddamn mosquito bastards…!!!”

The congealed blood was imitating soil, rocks, and stones, and inside, boiling blood was unfolding a formula, gripping Fira like a giant hand.

“Fira!”

Alice’s mechanical tendril unfolded and stretched out to Fira, who was about to be swallowed by the wave of blood.

Alice’s body itself absorbs and stores all kinds of energy, including mana.

So, True Ancestors basically can’t use their power against Alice, and the True Ancestor’s body or abilities are often neutralized or greatly weakened by Alice’s energy Drain.

But this time, it was different.

-Ting!

“Huh?”

【Human! This is the True Ancestor Virus we first encountered at the Barrier Facility! It analyzed us! Drain doesn’t work!】

“What!?”

The main body and true owner of the True Ancestor Virus that we encountered at the Barrier Facility!?

Alice’s face also rotted like Fira’s.

Alice tried to Drain the blood that was trying to capture Fira again, but Fira waved her hand.

‘It’s already too late.’

It was too late.

Space jump and transfer formula, and even a sealing formula of unknown origin, were added to this wave of blood.

If it were a commonly known magic, Fira would have easily dispelled the formula, but this is a True Ancestor’s ability.

It is not a commonly known universal human magic in the Ark, and the system itself is different.

“Alice!”

Swallowed by the hand of blood, Fira shouted to Alice.

“Please…please be safe! No, it’s okay to run away, so just stay alive! I’ll be back soon…!”

With those words, Fira was swallowed by the wave of blood.

When the blood that swallowed Fira disappeared, the fertile land and lush forest that were originally on the staircase had disappeared, transforming into a desolate wasteland.

“Now…I can have a conversation with you.”

“Ha.”

Alice glared at Luichella as if she was dumbfounded.

Coming down to the Abyss layer was not originally on the schedule, and she even ended up separated from Fira because of this bastard.

‘Theresa, what should we do?’

However, complacency against Luichella is not allowed.

The Dunhill Family is strong.

Luichella may be a failure of the Dunhill Family, but that only means he is a failure compared to Fira. If he only fills his achievements, he will be able to easily become a First-Class Overseer.

【I cannot gauge the opponent’s power. I recommend stalling for time with conversation for now. I will search for an escape route in the meantime.】

‘Ah, damn…running away is not my style…’

【Human, that is originally a target that Fira Dunhill should hunt. We must minimize the exposure of the Human to any potential dangers.】

【Talk, talk. The opponent’s power is definitely superior to ours, and there are clearly hidden cards that have not been observed. We must buy time by any means.】

‘Ah, I know. I know.’

In fact, Alice was curious.

It was the first time she had received a proposal.

How did she feel?

Of course, she felt bad.

She thought that liking and loving someone was very far from her, but at least not a male.

It’s not like it’s okay if it’s a woman, but still, Alice’s tendency itself leans towards men, so at least a woman is better than a man.

Okay. She should at least have a conversation.

“Alice, you may not know me, but I have been watching you for a long time.”

“Ugh, damn it. Were you a stalker?”

“…Would you say I’m thorough in my preliminary investigation?”

Still, what he was doing was no different from a stalker, so he couldn’t say no.

“However, I was serious about marrying you.”

“Ah, serious? I see. That’s what it was….”

As Alice nodded and made a gesture of ‘I understand you,’ Luichella’s face brightened.

“I see! So you also recognize me? The beliefs, thoughts, and dreams that I have, you also have them…!”

“Because you like my looks, so you think I’ll suck your dick well? No, you’re expecting your maggot to dig into my womb and suck on my ovaries, giving birth to tens of thousands of maggots?”

“Wh, what…?”

However, the lewd remarks that came out of Alice’s mouth were enough to harden Luichella’s face.

“Or did you want to see me arch my back and scream every time I give birth to a maggot? Wow, shit. Do you know that my appearance is that of a child who hasn’t even had her coming-of-age ceremony? Even if my pelvis or uterus is enough to give birth to a child, it’s impossible to give birth to tens of thousands of maggots.”

“…N, no. I. I!”

Luichella couldn’t continue speaking, with an expression full of embarrassment and shock at the sexually harassing remarks he had never heard before.

For reference, Alice is the victim of the sexually harassing remarks, but for some reason, Luichella felt as if his soul was being raped.

They may be descendants of Beelzebub and their bodies may be full of maggots, but they are one of the highest-ranking noble families in the Ark and pursue etiquette, formality, and elegance more than any other noble.

Of course, Luichella had grown up learning high-level formality and etiquette like a young nobleman, so Alice’s words were quite shocking to Luichella.

“Alice, Alice. Calm down! First of all, I want you to know that what I said was not a joke! I am not offering you marriage with such a heart…”

“What? If it’s not a joke, then it’s real. You really want to marry me and dump maggots in my womb? Ah, are you going to plant eggs in me? Or are you going to ejaculate? Which one is it? Since you’re a man, is it ejaculation after all?”

“No…”

“Ah, maybe when we mate, your shell will be dismantled and all the maggots in your body will crawl into me and rape my body like that? One maggot goes inside me, sucks on my ovaries, forces ovulation, and takes over one egg, and the other maggots do that in turn?”

“N, no! It’s a misunderstanding! I didn’t ask you to marry me to do such vulgar things to you!”

“You said it was serious just now? You said you were serious about marrying me? Then you’re seriously going to do that too, right?”

Alice made a hole with her finger and repeatedly inserted and removed the mechanical tendril.

Luichella, who knew what that meant, had an even more horrified face than before.

【Oh my god. What did I just hear? Human?】

No, Theresa.

Even you shouldn’t be horrified.