Chap 137-Please Become My Wife…? 3

 

Originally, words can be daggers to some and bouquets to others.

Especially words heard from someone you hold dear.

Luichella Dunhill had expected harsh curses or rejection from the woman he proposed to.

Even he thought that if someone he had never met or spoken to asked him to marry them, he might spew out, “What kind of crazy bastard is this?”

“Isn’t asking me to marry you essentially asking for my eggs? Listen here, we’ve just met, but I truly love you, so please bear my child—it’s the same thing. Besides, aren’t you a maggot? Your proposal sounds like a bunch of maggots crawling inside me to rape me.”

“Ah… no….”

But this, he hadn’t anticipated.

Words that went beyond lewdness, seemingly destroying his brain cells.

It was clearly Ark Common, but it sounded like a language he had never heard before.

It was only natural that Luichella, who had grown up relatively sheltered, would be shocked to the point of mental breakdown.

“…Stop, stop it!”

“Why? Getting turned on?”

“No, ha…. Third-Class Overseers Alice. I know that you’re using such vulgar language as a ploy to buy time.”

“Oh dear, my secret and wicked plan has been completely exposed.”

“Alice. I know. Even if others don’t, I know that’s not your true self. You are far more noble and dignified, and you don’t need to degrade yourself by saying things you don’t want to say. We can get to know each other through a sufficiently formal conversation.”

What is he even saying?

I’m genuinely curious, though.

【Human, why are you even curious about that?】

‘Well, I can be curious, can’t I? He looks human, but to actually mate, does he really have to shove his true form inside me? Or does he do it while staying in human form? I can be curious about that…’

【Please, do not waste your meaningless memory on such things, nor harbor such curiosity.】

‘Wasn’t I the main personality? If I’m curious, shouldn’t you be curious too?’

【Do not be ridiculous, Human.】

It was somewhat fun teasing Luichella, but Alice decided to shut her mouth for now, as Theresa reacted even more strongly than Luichella.

Fine, let’s hear what he has to say first.

The more she thought about it, the more outrageous it seemed.

What? Suddenly asking to get married after just meeting?

It reminded her of a guy in her first life who hung a banner in front of a girls’ high school that read, “Seeking a charming wife to become my 65-year-old servant.”

Of course, Luichella seemed a bit more valuable compared to that, but wasn’t the context itself similar?

‘But Theresa, what would really happen if I married that maggot bastard? I’m genuinely curious about that…’

【I will no longer answer this question. Any future memory regarding your bio-engineering anomalies and meaningless, inefficient sexual curiosity will be immediately deleted.】

‘No, I’m not teasing you or anything, I’m just genuinely curious!’

【Blocked.】

‘No…’

“Haa, Alice. First, I would like to explain the background and reasons for my proposal to you. Will you listen?”

Seeing Alice silent and still, Luichella assumed she was ready to listen and opened his arms as he began to speak.

“This Ark is rotten from its very birth.”

“Huh?”

Suddenly making statements friendly to the red ideology?

Of course, the red ideology that Alice spread in the lower layer only served the purpose of encouraging labor.

“You look like you don’t understand. Yes, it’s a sudden story, isn’t it.”

“No, I thought you hated the Dunhill Family? Weren’t you trying to destroy the Dunhill Family by spreading blood contamination, or commit treason and wipe out not only yourself but your entire family?”

That was what Alice had heard from Fira.

From the start, Luichella Dunhill and Fira had no contact, and Luichella’s motives had to be inferred solely from the few clues that were outwardly revealed.

“Alice, I am not joking right now. The final Ark, meant to save humanity, is instead squeezing the life out of it and rejecting everything else.”

“So?”

“I want a world where those who are rejected become ordinary. I want a world where curses, evil spirits, and those treated as inhuman are considered normal and universal humans everywhere.”

“…?”

Alice tilted her head.

What nonsense is this…?

Well, I should probably just say I understand for now.

“Ah, I see. That’s a truly unexpected and amazing fact.”

“Indeed. I knew you would understand! You are indeed the bride I have set my sights on!”

“…Is that so.”

Alice nodded, putting on a vaguely agreeing expression.

“So, what’s the conclusion?”

“This Ark needs to be destroyed once and reborn anew. In that process, the detestable Dunhill Family must disappear! Alice, if you and I join forces, it is possible!”

“Me?”

“Haha, your modesty is remarkable. You are a nuclear bomb capable of blowing up the Ark and a continent-level magical engineering weapon just by existing.”

Huh? Me???

I’m aware that I’m gradually getting stronger, but a continent-level magical engineering weapon?

“The Ark is currently made up of all sorts of magical engineering, the internet, and various electronic worlds. I received the authority of blood contamination from the True Ancestor, but no matter how much I spread it, only the physical bodies in reality rot away; I can’t catch those who have escaped into the electronic world.”

“……”

“Actually, I was half-doubtful, but I became certain after seeing you take office as the Governor-General of the lower layer. There, you created an Artificial Sun and hacked all sorts of abandoned machines and drones, becoming their master. They became you, and you became the queen of machines!”

‘Seriously, making such a fuss over hacking abandoned drones… Well, the scale is quite large, though….’

There were quite a few things I didn’t know.

Luichella Dunhill may have been harboring reckless fantasies, but he wasn’t a fool.

If such a person said that he could wipe out the vested interests and central administration of the existing Ark with blood contamination, it wouldn’t be an empty boast.

‘And the electronic world… Even if their physical bodies die, the high-ranking officials of the Ark must have replicated themselves in the electronic world or through auxiliary personality replication, right?’

Indeed, all sorts of disasters and threats of human extinction were said to appear and disappear repeatedly every moment in the Ark.

There must have been moments when the Ark and humanity were actually annihilated, and it wouldn’t be strange if there were some means or magic to prepare for annihilation.

For example, something beyond existing magic, like turning back time or reversing causality.

“But, Alice, you are different! In the electronic world, you are an absolute being, a god, and you can destroy the Ark’s central administration in an instant! You can become my partner and change this rotten world together!”

“Wait a minute, I admit I’m great, but I’m not that great, am I? I can’t even crack the Ark Central Bank’s security program in the first place.”

“You can’t crack it?”

Luichella looked at Alice with an amused expression.

“Is that really the case? Isn’t it that you just haven’t wanted to destroy the Ark or crack the security program?”

“……”

Alice’s face went blank for a moment at those words.

It wasn’t that Theresa and Alice had never tried to break into the Ark’s central and various important facilities’ security.

If they could access more information and facility management systems, various programs and security networks, life in the Ark would be much more comfortable.

They could have used more information and power as weapons…

But then…

‘It’s no fun.’

【It’s boring.】

The Ark is an electronic world.

A vast yet narrow world filled with all sorts of systems, the internet, AI, drones, and magical engineering technology.

If you could freely infiltrate and hack the internet here, it would be no exaggeration to call you a god.

But a world that is swayed by just a wave of my hand?

That’s not a world.

It’s boring.

There are no new experiences, no new people.

Even without meeting them in person, I would know all the humans through the CCTV and personality information networks recorded on the internet. The option of meeting and talking to others would be no different for Alice than playing a recording.

“Do you understand now? Alice, you can already annihilate the Ark alone! You can freely access the AI of the Barrier Agency to cause system confusion and tie up the hunters and enforcers. Even if entire districts and layers are destroyed, the information might not even reach the central administrators!”

Luichella was certain.

Alice wasn’t incapable.

She was choosing not to.

She was choosing not to, even though she could have grasped the entire electronic internet world of the Ark in her hands.

“So, let’s join forces. Alice. You can open a new world with me!”

“Uh… no thanks.”

“What?”

“No, well… it’s a common story. You don’t like the current system and situation, so you try to overturn it, and you think that the higher-ups in the Ark are arrogant and full of themselves, not looking after those below, right?”

“That’s right! Is there any room for argument here? Even if you ask the administrators, they would nod in agreement, wouldn’t they?”

“No, no. Then let me ask you just one question in return.”

Alice looked straight at Luichella and said.

“Then how many people has the current system saved?”

“That’s…”

“You haven’t even thought about it, have you? No, you thought about stalking my every move, but you’re ignoring the people who are living and have lived thanks to the current Ark system that you say is so unfair and rotten?”

“That’s a false thing! An idol of a false world, intoxicated by a fake peace…!”

“Are you a god or something? By what standard do you say the world is false and the peace is fake?”

Alice had known what Luichella was going to say for a long time.

The existing Ark system?

She had already acquired and understood the different lifestyles and all sorts of information on each layer through Theresa.

Yes, as Luichella said, the Ark moves forward by using someone’s sacrifice and misfortune as fertilizer.

The vast majority of the Ark’s citizens, unaware that sacrifices have been made, live peacefully.

“Most people ignore the blood flowing beneath their feet and don’t know what happened for this peace to be achieved.”

“That’s right. That’s wrong…!”

“Then do you think it’s a better world where people know what disasters are happening beneath their feet every day and tremble in fear?”

Alice grinned.

The world is wrong?

What, following a plausible and simple cause?

There’s no such thing.

“This world is desperately struggling to survive. Trampling and killing everything except humanity is not out of arrogance but simply to survive. And those that are not humanity likewise devour humanity to survive. That’s not something that happened because someone wanted it to, but a natural principle and cycle of the universe. It’s not that something is wrong or anything.”

“Don’t you really understand? There’s no meaning in all of this, and only blood and slaughter are repeated in the Ark! The central administration and the current vested interests are not qualified to lead the Ark, and our Dunhill Family siblings, whom you can chew up, are repeating fratricide without knowing what’s going on! If the Ark continues like this, it will eventually come to an end…!”

“Ah, I see. That’s not wrong either.”

“Yes, Alice. I knew you would understand! You are indeed my kind!”

“I questioned the family, I questioned the Ark, and the question soon became hatred! That hatred is the same as mine! Alice, we are ultimately monsters. We were recognized as humans by humanity with just a few scraps of paper, but our essence is monsters and disasters that cannot be mixed with them!”

Monsters that only imitated humans.

Inside that shell were maggots of infinite potential, and these were the children of Beelzebub, not humans.

Maggots that cannot pupate into flies.

Even if they shed their pupal skin and gnaw at themselves, they are ultimately just maggots, voracious disasters.

But Alice smiled and said.

“No. You have to say it right. You’re just jealous because you can’t have it, right?”

“What?”

“You say you hate the Dunhill Family… That’s funny. That’s not it. You’re just jealous. You’re angry because you don’t have a harmonious family, and you’re just angry that the masterpiece Fira Dunhill didn’t destroy the family and save you, right?”

“…Are you trying to insult me?”

“If not, then say it’s not. Why bring up insults? You should just say my words are nonsense. Ah, is it because it’s the truth, so you can’t refute it and just bring up insults?”

“Alice, you… you can’t accept me?”

What a load of crap.

As expected, he’s a crazy bastard, so he’s asking me to marry him as soon as we meet.

“You’re going to overturn the world, but you’re ignoring the people who are living thanks to that world. What cause do you have that I would agree with?”

“Ha, I see. Very well.”

[Destructive Transference]

-Boom!

“…!”

At that moment, Alice felt something explode in her abdomen.

It was Fira’s ice magic.

Luichella had transferred Fira’s magic, which he had blown away along with the space earlier, into Alice’s body and detonated it.

“As expected, a wife needs to be managed with a bit of hitting.”

“Pfft, you crazy maggot bastard.”

But Alice laughed.

She said that this was a much faster and easier path than listening to such ridiculous nonsense.

Yes, to make someone understand, there’s nothing like violence after all!

And Alice was quite confident in the realm of violence as well.