Episode 15: Mutual Destruction, Now With Resurrection

The Deadly Sin of Sloth.

Cosmic Jak.

A man with a flower in place of his head sat alone in the fairy forest.

He was here for one reason only.

To kill Liriran, with whom he shared a bitter history.

Liriran, the master of space magic.

Her entanglement with Cosmic Jak was a long and complicated affair.

He hummed a tune as he recalled the distant past.

In the midst of war.

The memory of that day, when he made people’s heads bloom with flowers, was vividly clear.

Immediately after the day of red blood, when the No-Names committed massacres of people from other worlds.

The otherworlders, their rage exploding at the transmigrators, hunted down the first generation of No-Names en masse.

This led to a major war between the transmigrators and the otherworlders.

Too many people died in that war.

Hate threatened to destroy the world.

Seeing this, a coalition of transmigrators and otherworlders was formed, and the war came to an end.

Cosmic Jak was a participant in the war at the time.

In fact, he originally belonged to the coalition that cried out for peace.

But that was all in the past.

Cosmic Jak, who once worked for the coalition, fell from grace as a war criminal and became a deadly sinner who massacred countless people.

He met Liriran in the coalition.

She was also a member of the coalition who participated in the war.

,Heuheum, heu.’

Cosmic Jak stopped humming as he recalled the past.

,Looks like she’s here.’

Instead, he tilted his head and stared at something.

It was still early morning.

A place where the moon shone through the tangled branches.

A small fairy appeared there.

She revealed her white fingertips from between the long sleeves of her dress.

,Cosmic.’

As she called his name, Cosmic Jak slowly chuckled.

,Well, well, well. If it isn’t Liriran, the one who blew my head off.’

He laughed cheerfully, as if delighted to see her.

But unlike his laughter, Liriran showed a displeased expression.

,If your head was blown off, you should have died quietly. Why did you come here to cause trouble?’

,After falling to the bottom of hell, I realized I couldn’t die.’

Cosmic Jak was constantly grinning.

,Is that head a work of Pride?’

,Doesn’t it suit me? I made it a red flower to match me.’

Cosmic Jak makes heat bloom on the heads of those he touches, causing them to explode.

His bad taste was enough to make Liriran frown.

The Deadly Sin of Pride.

It was that bastard who stubbornly revived Cosmic Jak, whose head she had blown off to finish him.

She should have smashed his body to pieces back then.

Pride must have taken measures to prevent Cosmic Jak from dying in advance.

,You haven’t changed even after all this time.’

,You’re talking like an old fart about something that happened 60 years ago.’

,Sixty years is a long time for a transmigrator to live, it’s strange you’re not dead.’

,Isn’t it funny to limit guys like us with lifespans? You and me, I mean.’

,You disgusting bastard, are you so happy to leech off Pride for your life?’

,Of course. Compared to our former coalition leader, who’s about to die of old age.’

Liriran twitched her eyebrows.

Seeing this, Cosmic Jak shook his flower and smiled brightly.

,Liriran, you haven’t changed either. To see you still holding onto that old man.’

,Shut up.’

The forest trembled like an aspen in Liriran’s anger.

But even though he took that anger head-on, Cosmic Jak still looked happy.

He seemed endlessly happy to provoke Liriran.

,Are you sure you can be so angry?’

Cosmic Jak opened his arms.

At that moment, a pure white bead wrapped in tree roots was seen embedded near his heart.

Liriran’s face became even more ferocious.

The essence of the Breathwood.

This was the nutrient needed for the fairy race born from the Breathwood for the birth of the next generation of children.

A generation of fairies is born every three hundred years.

To this end, they gather every three hundred years and breathe into the essence with their fairy lovers.

In this way, the child is born, nourished by the essence of the fairy race.

It was a long-standing secret of the fairy race, but Cosmic Jak knew this fact.

So, after kidnapping a fairy, he captured the fairy’s parents and future wife and ordered them to bring the essence of the Breathwood under threat.

,Don’t worry. I took care of the disgusting traitor.’

Cosmic Jak waved his hand excitedly.

The fairy who brought the essence of the Breathwood in front of him shed bitter tears and begged for his wife and parents to be spared.

Cosmic Jak sighed at his tearful behavior.

How could he value an individual’s life more than the lives of the entire fairy race?

Unable to bear that disgust, he had no choice but to blow up his head too.

Since he had already blown up his lover and parents, they would have had a miraculous reunion.

,…Were you made of pure evil?’

Liriran couldn’t hide her disgust for Cosmic Jak.

She couldn’t believe that she had once believed him to be a comrade.

Cosmic Jak remained silent.

Then, he tapped the essence of the Breathwood with his finger.

That alone made Liriran’s body flinch.

,You and I both know that in war, what is considered justice and evil ultimately depends on what people say.’

,Where is the justice in what you’re doing!’

,In my head.’

His head is just a flower.

,Liriran, I just want to save this world. I’m trying to break down the wrongly built walls and build them from scratch.’

Cosmic Jak kept tapping the essence, as if to provoke Liriran.

It felt like his hand would explode the essence with the slightest mistake.

,Let’s cut the useless talk. You want something from me, and I want something from you.’

Her patience has run out.

Even the lazy Cosmic Jak wants to finish the job now.

,Let’s get what we want from each other.’

,Tear the essence out of your disgusting body right now.’

Cosmic Jak obediently tore out the essence of the fairy race.

Then he slowly stretched his arm out to the side.

It was an intention to throw it to her at any time.

,Now it’s your turn.’

Liriran took a deep breath and slowly moved her wings.

As a result, the distance between Liriran and Cosmic Jak began to narrow.

Liriran cannot escape if she gets within 1m of Cosmic Jak.

Cosmic Jak is clearly aware of this fact.

A quiet space.

Liriran slowly narrowed the distance with Cosmic Jak.

Liriran’s shadow, spreading in the moonlight, gradually covers Cosmic Jak’s shadow.

Finally, just before touching the shadow.

Liriran stopped in her tracks.

Her eyes met Cosmic Jak’s.

Cosmic Jak noticed the meaning.

He threw the essence of the Breathwood he was holding into the air.

When the essence of the Breathwood soared into the air and was more than 1m away from Cosmic Jak.

Finally, Liriran stepped in.

Kwack!

It happened in an instant.

Cosmic Jak exploded the floor and snatched Liriran with tremendous jumping power.

Liriran was helplessly caught in his grasp.

However, the essence of the Breathwood had disappeared somewhere.

It was Liriran’s space magic.

She gave up teleporting herself and teleported the essence of the Breathwood instead.

,Hahaha, Liriran, it looks like you’ve really given up?’

Cosmic Jak laughed cheerfully.

Liriran was his lifelong grudge.

Now that he had finally got his hands on her, he couldn’t be happier.

Liriran was quietly silent.

Her life was over from the moment she was caught in Cosmic Jak’s hand.

She knew that very well.

So.

,Cosmic.’

Liriran slowly raised her head.

The moment Cosmic Jak saw Liriran’s eyes, his flower slowly swayed.

Kwajik!

At that moment, the sound of something breaking echoed from the other side of the forest.

The sealing stone that Cosmic Jak had set up.

That was the sound of it breaking.

Blood gushed from Liriran’s nose and eyes.

It was the price for pouring in space magic beyond the output suppressed by the sealing stone and activating it.

It was a crazy act that could burn out her brain.

In fact, her brain, as well as the seed of space she had bloomed, began to crack.

Ossaak-

Cosmic Jak tightened his grip even more at the chill he felt from Liriran.

Liriran’s fragile arms and body were crushed as the sound of bones breaking echoed.

,You don’t think you can escape now that you’re in my hands, do you?’

He told her that if she thought that, she was being too foolish.

,No.’

But Liriran had no intention of escaping.

,You have to come with me.’

Space is moving.

It was on an unprecedented scale.

He realized what crazy thing she was trying to do.

She was planning to teleport with him.

Cosmic Jak immediately activated his ability.

As a result, Liriran’s entire body swelled and heat bloomed.

But even in that state, Liriran smiled brightly.

,You’re not going to try to live alone, are you?’

Cosmic Jak’s ability is ‘calculated explosion’, an ability that can blow up anything.

What he mainly explodes is the magic circuit.

The magic circuit extends throughout the entire body.

Therefore, he immediately extends his ability to the brain through the magic circuit that touches any part of the body and explodes it.

But now, Liriran’s magic circuit is more expanded than ever due to excessive magic consumption.

The bloated magic circuit delayed the ability heading to the brain.

And that brief delay was enough.

Flash-

A flash of light engulfed the surroundings.

At the same time, the distorted space blew them away whole.

It was a situation that happened in an instant.

It was such a rough space teleport that even Cosmic Jak was dizzy.

Therefore, Cosmic Jak was forcibly dragged along without resisting in the slightest.

Kugugugung!

At the same time, Cosmic Jak felt a sensation as if his body was distorting.

He felt a sensation of being crushed and compressed throughout his entire body.

Soon, the view came in through the flower.

A pitch-black space.

Bubbles appeared between the flowers.

Cosmic Jak finally realized where this was.

The deep sea.

This was the bottom of the deep sea, thousands of meters below the surface of the ocean.

He couldn’t breathe.

Pain rushed in as if nails were hammered into his lungs.

It was the process of water pressure compressing his body.

In his hand.

He could see Liriran, who was already at her limit and slumped over.

She had a faint smile on her lips.

,Let’s die together, Cosmic.’

Rage boiled within Cosmic Jak.

He couldn’t bear the boiling rage at her for choosing mutual destruction with him.

,Liriran!’

As he shouted, he blew Liriran up.

Her exploded body was torn to shreds and scattered.

Cosmic Jak could only fall endlessly into the deep sea with her.

At least it wouldn’t be a lonely death, since he wasn’t alone.

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And at the same time.

,It’s time to work.’

In the fairy village of Aerield, I rolled up my sleeves.

It’s time to make two corpses into one.