Goodbye, idiot

Goodbye, idiot

One’s mere existence becomes a nuisance to others.

Rumi, having realized this, immediately tried to leave the mansion.

However, she had to stop when she heard a voice that seemed to be holding her back… or perhaps pushing her to leave.

“Leaving? Yeah, go ahead! You idiot.”

It was a familiar phrase, but she was surprised to hear such words in this place. With a bewildered expression, she looked around.

She saw Delia looking at her with a contemptuous expression.

“… Delia?”

“I said go ahead, you idiot.”

Although they weren’t on particularly good terms.

Their relationship wasn’t bad enough to warrant such blatant insults, so her confusion intensified.

Unable to understand why Delia was saying such things, Rumi could only blink in confusion. Delia sneered and continued speaking.

“Running away at every little thing, always escaping… I heard from Senior Espin that you’re like a hopeless kid always trying to run away. So I’m telling you to go ahead and leave this time too. What? Is there a problem?”

“……”

Upon hearing those words, a surge of emotion welled up, and anger erupted.

Delia didn’t even know with what feelings or thoughts Rumi was trying to distance herself from Deren.

It was infuriating beyond endurance that a third party who didn’t know anything would speak in such a way.

Therefore, the provocation that she would have normally ignored.

She accepted it head-on and spoke with a choked-up voice.

“… What do you know to say such things? When you don’t know anything.”

To this, Delia sneered and replied.

“I don’t know anything… Of course, I couldn’t possibly understand the logic behind your idiotic behavior. If it were me, rather than repeating such stupid actions, I would have just bitten my tongue and committed suicide.”

Constantly being called an idiot makes my hands clench tighter.

One of the reasons I want to break free from Deren…

Was partly for Delia’s sake, but hearing the subject of that reason speak like this irritated me.

So I bit my lip and glared at her.

Delia crossed her arms and spoke with a mocking expression.

“No, I get why you keep trying to leave. Every time you make a gesture to leave, Deren comes to comfort you. Are you deliberately trying to get attention? Like, ‘Please stop me, I’m so pitiful, won’t you comfort me?’ Is that the kind of appeal you’re going for?”

“… T-That’s not it! The reason I’m leaving is because of the Heaven God Cult…!”

At those words, Delia’s expression became somewhat serious, and she spoke with narrowed eyes.

“What about the Heaven God Cult?”

“… I’m leaving so that Deren won’t be harmed anymore because of the Heaven God Cult. I’m not leaving for some strange reason like that.”

To that, Delia speaks as if she really doesn’t understand.

“Because of the Heaven God Cult? Are you serious right now?”

Feeling upset at those words, I blurted out something I would never normally say, targeting her weakness.

“… You too! Your family was also ruined because of the Heaven God Cult… Why are you asking if I’m serious? What’s the reason?”

At those words, Delia hesitated for a moment.

Then, with a slight smirk, she says to me.

“You’re really an idiot. Think about it. You’re here because you think your mere presence will harm Deren, right?”

“……”

“In other words, doesn’t that mean the Heaven God Cult wants to bring you in so badly that they’re willing to harass those around you?”

At those words, I couldn’t say whether it was right or wrong, so I had to keep my mouth shut.

Thinking about it carefully, I couldn’t understand why the Heaven God Cult was so obsessed with me.

‘As my adoptive parents said… those people only want me to be unhappy.’

It seems like they’re doing it simply to torment me.

But thinking about it more, it doesn’t make sense to deploy so many people and monitor me just to torment me.

So I couldn’t answer and just hung my head low.

Delia spoke briefly to me.

“… Think carefully, Rumi. The ones who would be happiest if you go to the Heaven God Cult now are the cult members themselves.”

“……”

“And to put it another way. The longer you don’t go to the Heaven God Cult, the more screwed they are.”

Not knowing how to respond, I just bit my lip.

Delia shook my shoulders and said.

“Wake up. If you really want to do something for Deren, rather than doing something that would please the Heaven God Cult who tried to kill Deren multiple times.”

She said to ‘keep doing things that the Heaven God Cult would hate, or even better, things that would really screw them over.’

Delia pushed my shoulder and said.

“So stop this nonsense. Unpack your bags. If you still want to leave after hearing this, don’t go out the door, jump out the window and just kill yourself. That would be more helpful to Deren.”

“……”

Thinking I couldn’t even argue back, I sat down on the floor.

Delia finally looked satisfied, turned around and left.

* * * * *

Whether it had eaten numerous humans, or if its ego was originally like that, I wasn’t sure.

Within its massive body, about dozens or hundreds of human hands were flailing around near its upper body, as if begging to be saved.

‘How grotesque.’

While its overall shape resembled a human form.

It was composed of things that were human yet inhuman, causing an instinctive revulsion.

I was about to unleash my magic as I finally saw the main body appear.

‘It’ let out a horrifying scream while pulling out a white greatsword as big as itself from thin air.

– Kaaaaaaargh!

It wasn’t just unpleasant, but a terrible noise that felt like it was piercing my head.

Those who had somehow survived such a noise began to fall to the ground one by one, clutching their heads.

“Urgh… S-save me.”

“Aaaaargh!”

Then, bleeding from their eyes or vomiting blood, they writhed in agony, twisting their bodies this way and that.

Unable to endure for long, they either died or fainted, all ceasing to move.

‘This much damage from just a scream…’

At this level, it’s not just strong, but catastrophically powerful.

With that thought, I pulled out a mace from the pocket I had expanded using spatial magic.

‘Then I have no choice but to get serious as well.’

After taking a light deep breath to calm my heart, I opened my eyes and immediately moved forward, dispersing mana.

At that moment, as I used spatial compression magic to quickly advance forward.

Hundreds of human arms sprouted from the floor and walls, trying to grab me.

They looked exactly like human arms, but… judging by their dark blue color, they seemed to be made of magical energy.

I tried to move forward while avoiding them, but.

Each individual hand concentrated magical energy in one spot and shot it out, forcing me to stop momentarily.

‘This is getting ridiculous.’

At first, I thought about using spatial expansion magic to gather those spells.

However, for spells that were fired in laser form, it was difficult to gather them using expansion magic.

So instead of gathering them, I decided to use a method to burst them, using magic interference for the first time in a while.

‘If I only use magic interference, the efficiency becomes too low, and the mana consumption becomes excessively high.’

But if I apply magic penetration to this interference.

It becomes easier than tearing open a vinyl bag to take ownership of the spell and use it in reverse.

I stole ownership of the spells being fired at me while simultaneously sending them back, and looked around.

‘At this rate, it seems like this entire area might be blown away.’

Even if this place gets blown away, I don’t need to take responsibility for it, so I didn’t need to worry too much.

But I’m a bit concerned about the Lercier Family mansion, which is a little distance away from here.

‘I’m not really worried about the mansion itself being blown away.’

But I’m hesitant because I’m worried about Delia, Espin, and Rumi who are there.

So I’m contemplating the need to take some measures to prepare for this if possible.

Suddenly, an interesting thought crosses my mind.

‘… Come to think of it, it might be good to use this in reverse.’

If the problem is the increasing damage to the surroundings.

Why not reverse it and pass this problem onto the enemy’s headquarters?

The moment that thought crossed my mind.

I raised the corners of my mouth and trapped the opponent with spatial expansion magic, thinking.

‘They did say there were many spies from the Heaven God Cult in the central government.’

If that’s the case, if we drop this guy on top of the central government.

I raised the corner of my mouth, confident that it would cause massive damage to those Heaven God Cult bastards.