episode_0083

“Hyaaap!”

At a time when everyone was frozen in the face of a hopeless situation, Gyeong-gyeong and I were the first to move.

It seems like the expression just jumped out instinctively, but I had already seen a similar scene with [dog-eyes], so my body moved as a conditioned reflex.

It could also be said to be the result of secretly simulating it over and over again.

Squirt!

Sigh!

The swung great sword fiercely cuts through the air and plunges towards Letel’s doppelganger, and the holy water vapor that spurts out like crazy forms a barrier and at the same time applies a buff to all companions.

“…Ugh!!”

However, in front of Retel’s strength, even this is not enough.

Since the first death in the future seen through [dog-eyed] eyes was caused by Retel, there was no intention of leaving any spare time.

I quickly raised my ‘imagination’.

Think of the optimal ‘setting’ and ‘conditions’ to get out of this situation and embody them in your mind.

“Whoop, whoop…!”

As the perceived time stretched like melted taffy, I finished ‘imagining’ the large sword approaching the doppelganger’s neck for a short period of time, and the moment I quickly opened my mouth, the doppelganger drew a cruel smile.

Pakaaang!

Immediately after, the entire space in the area became distorted and swirled like a storm.

“Aaaah!?”

“Aaaah!”

With clear murderous intent, the space is split into pieces like a blade or a whip, destroying a space with a radius of about three meters.

“Whoa, whoa! Shit! I thought I was going to die!”

“Oppa Hangil! What is this!?”

But surprisingly, we were safe without any injuries.

“Ssss/sss of

This is because ‘Barut, who transcends time and space and lives a fleeting moment as if it were eternity,’ protected everyone.

I couldn’t even see Barut’s appearance properly because he mimicked the surrounding space as if he were one body, but he moved freely in time divided into thousands of seconds, gathering everyone in one place and creating a ‘space spider web’ to block all damage. I ordered it.

Thanks to you, I survived.

I’m really, really glad.

Because it’s not too late.

“Cough! Cough!”

“Oh, brother!?”

“Hangil!”

As a result of using imagination that went too far, about 60% of my soul was lost and I vomited more than two buckets of blood, but this is still cheap.

In the future seen through [dog-eyed] eyes, Gyeong-hyeong and Noeul were unable to respond to an attack similar to the previous one and were lost.

“I-I’m fine…! Cough! Attack! Cough! Letel! Can you move!?”

“Whoa…! I’m out of my mind. It’s okay. The pain is gone.”

“Okay! Then attack! Saeron! Your role is the most important! Please!”

“Oh, I understand!”

As we transition into a full-scale offensive, Letel’s doppelganger shrugs his shoulders slyly, raising the corners of his mouth.

“Isn’t everyone doing this too much~? Still, I feel so bad that they are trying to kill evil like that even though they are my colleagues~”

“Shut up! You fake bastard!”

Wow!!

Letel gritted his teeth and took control of the space around him, but the doppelganger took his time, licking his lips.

“Ugh… I’m a bit weak-hearted and fighting with everyone is a bit much, right? So, I’ll take a step back from here!”

“You’re saying you’re running away after all! Who would let you do that!?”

[Luminous scalene polyhedron] amplifies Letel’s abilities several times.

The doppelganger doesn’t have that, so if we fight like this, we’ll have the upper hand.

“Ahahaha! I’m jealous~ If I get points, I’ll buy it too!”

“Shut up, shut up!!”

Kwajajajajajajag!

A space with a radius of several tens of meters crowded in as if it would crush the doppelganger, but she smiled leisurely and moved out of the range of the attack.

“Uhuhuhu. No matter how good the help we get, our limitations are clear. You know that, right? We can’t demonstrate spatial abilities beyond the ‘dimensional gap.’”

“You bastard…! If you were me, you would fight back!”

“Yeah, no, I don’t think I’ll lose, but I don’t think I’ll be safe if I fight with all of you. Hangil in particular is really tough.”

The doppelganger looked at me with mischievous eyes, licked its lips and struck a seductive pose.

“Hangil. I’ll see you again when another you appears! Then, bye!”

Letel’s doppelganger, who said that, disappeared without a trace.

“…What should I do with this?”

“ruined…!”

“Hangil! I’ll chase after you!”

The companions, who were completely pale, looked restless and despairing, but I had no intention of losing sight of my doppelganger here.

“Wait! Letel!”

“Uh, huh? Why!? If I don’t chase you now…!”

“I’m already chasing you!”

“what?”

He raised his voice as he placed his hand on Letel’s shoulder, who was about to chase after him.

“Everyone, tense up! Get ready for battle! It’s not over yet!”

“what?”

“what…!”

I wanted to explain it to my puzzled companions if possible, but there was no time right now.

“Noel! The power of sleep is at the forefront! Saeron, prepare for the ‘non-existent danger’! Retel, prepare the prison to confine the doppelganger and the attack at the same time!”

“Oh, yes!”

“I don’t know what it is, but I get it!”

“Kaaa!?”

Immediately after, the sky, which was not very high, rumbled and a doppelganger appeared.

She was entangled with a giant spider that was so blurry that she couldn’t see it very well. She was missing an arm, her whole body was covered in wounds, as if she had been in an intense battle for a short period of time, and her legs and body were tightly tied in a special spider web that seemed to be made by twisting space. .

Of course, the barut I summoned wasn’t safe either, so two of its legs were blown off and its body was split apart… but it doesn’t matter since it’s a summon that will disappear over time anyway.

“Saeron!”

I shouted his name, but there was no reply.

This is because even Saeron’s voice, whose presence had already been erased, became unrecognizable.

“Huh!? Turn it off…!?”

However, the effect was clear.

This is because the doppelganger, who was struggling to withstand Barut’s attacks dozens or hundreds of times per second, was made to look in the wrong direction, even taking damage.

“Retel! Drop it!”

“okay!”

Letel grabbed the air and lowered his arm, and the doppelganger began to fall rapidly as if caught by something.

“Ugh…!?”

It blinked repeatedly like a flashing light as if it was trying to escape through space, but it could not escape Barutt’s special spider web and Retel’s space ability.

Quaaaang!

“Wow, haha…!?”

In the end, the doppelganger, who fell from a height of tens of meters, lets out a painful groan.

However, we continued to attack indiscriminately without giving them a chance.

The pink energy of the sunset enveloped her, Retel’s spatial ability and Rael’s telekinesis tore not only her limbs but her entire body, and the oral-type greatsword and Saeron’s dagger also cut and pierced major organs such as the brain and heart.

Even though he couldn’t think or move with his head split, the doppelganger remained silent.

“Whoop, whoop…! Okay, is it over?”

“It’s not over yet!”

Letel shouts loudly and looks back at me.

“Hangil. If it really was a perfect copy of me, it would be immortal. Honestly, I don’t even know how to kill me. What are you going to do now?”

“It’s okay. I took that into consideration. Saeron. Can you lend me a dagger?”

“Huh? Ah, yes.”

I took the ominous dagger, took a deep breath, and stabbed myself in the heart without hesitation.

“Ugh…!”

“Hangil!?”

-Hangil!? what…!

I held out my hand to stop the surprised companions from approaching, took short, shallow breaths, and took out [Cry of despair, pain, and grief] and [Mystic Eyes of Condemnation].

“Everyone, step back. We’re going to gather resentment.”

“Kkkk!!”

“Kkkk!!”

“Kiggg!!”

I tried to create resentment by letting out a terrible scream and at the same time shake the soul and karma of the doppelganger with [Mystic Eyes of Condemnation], but as expected, this skill combination did not work on the doppelganger.

“Whoa, whoa…”

Fuwaaak! Puhwaaa!!

As the dagger’s curse shattered the heart and a terrible scream created resentment, ominous flames flowed like a waterfall from the ‘Mirror of Resentment’.

Amplify it.

Twice.

6 times.

10 times.

“Big…!”

15 times.

When I reached my limit, I targeted the doppelganger and reflected all my damage.

Puhwaaagh…

After confirming that an enormous amount of resentment was clinging to his body and soul, I looked at Barut, who was standing reliably.

“request.”

“Shiririikik!”

Paaa!

‘Barutt, who transcends time and space and lives a fleeting moment as if it were eternity’, disassembled Retel’s body into atoms, wrapped them in his web one by one, and flew them all over the planet.

Some to the other side of the planet, some deep underground.

In particular, the atoms that made up the head and heart have been blown into another dimension and will never be revived.

“Haaaa…”

To be honest, I think there is no way I can come back alive after doing this.

Blah blah blah!

After taking out the dagger that was still corroding my heart, I collapsed on the spot.

Gulp gulp! Gurgling!

“Gulp! Puhuu…!”

Just before I lost consciousness, I took out [Bassaglia’s Holy Grail] and shot the holy water twice and sprinkled it all over my body, and only then did my physical condition seem to get a little better.

“Hangil. Are you okay?”

“…No. I need to get some rest.”

“Right, right? Come here. I’ll help you.”

-I will do it.

Floated in space by Retel’s spatial ability and Rael’s telekinesis, I slowly closed my eyes as I watched Barut fly away and disappear with blurred vision and the worried faces of my colleagues.

***

When I opened my eyes again, I was inside a stone building that felt cozy.

“Uh, uhhh…”

-Hangil. Are you awake? Don’t overexert yourself and lie down.

“ah…”

Rael, who appeared like a ghost in the thick darkness, pressed his face close to me, and only then did he let out a sigh of relief and let his body go limp.

“…It looks like Letel’s doppelganger hasn’t appeared again, right?”

-yes. That’s right. After talking with the group, we came to the conclusion that it would be okay to move on to the next step.

“That’s a good thing…how long has it been since I lost my mind?”

-Don’t worry. Only half a day has passed.

“It’s half a day…”

I closed my eyes and checked my body condition.

“Uhm…”

Thanks to the Holy Grail, the wound was completely healed, but the recovery of the soul that was used as a price was quite slow.

“…It was a bit too much.”

In order to ensure the end of Retel, I added all kinds of specs and abilities and even changed my consciousness structure to absolutely obey my commands, so I sacrificed more than half of my soul.

Even then, it was limited to materializing it for only a few minutes.

“……”

No, maybe it’s because this is reality and not a ‘space of nothingness’.

Even so, in the ‘space of nothingness’, such a large price has not been collected.

“You better be careful…”

-Hangil. How long do you think it will take for your soul to be healed with the Holy Grail?

“Huh? Ah…well, if I just focus on the treatment, it will take about five days. It might take longer.”

-That’s amazing. That’s all it takes.

“…I thought it took too long.

-You are too greedy. In general, it is impossible to heal the soul.

“is it?”

Lael smiled and closed my eyes.

-Just sleep for now. I think it would be best to talk about it in detail first thing in the morning.

“Uhm…yeah. I guess I should. Thank you, Rael…”

-It’s no big deal. I hope you sleep well.

After hearing her voice for the last time, I fell asleep again and was barely able to wake up until around lunchtime the next day.

***

“Oppa Han-gil, stay out until he fully recovers. This decision was made after talking to others in advance, so don’t complain.”

While we were eating together, Noeul’s decisive declaration made me look at her blankly.

No, just now I was deciding whether Letel’s doppelganger was really dead and who would be next, but suddenly like this?

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“Now, the only ones left are Saeron, me, and Hangil. If you want to get through the ordeal as quickly as possible, it’s better for you to focus on recovery.”

“No, no matter what…”

“Hangil. You better not underestimate us too much, right?”

“That’s true. I admit that you are strong, but we are not easy either.”

“And honestly, Saeron and Noeul are just fine!”

The two women frown at Retel’s words.

“That’s true, but it feels strange…”

“Retel. Could you please clarify the subject? Or purify your words.”

“Anyway, Hangil, you’re resting. We’ll take care of it quickly and come back.”

“No, no matter what…”

-Hangil. If you keep stubborn, I might get angry. What kind of battle is this when you can’t even move your body properly?

“……”

When Rael looked at me with a straight face, I, at a loss for words, looked blankly at my colleagues and sighed.

“…I can’t help it if you say it that way. I’ll leave it to you. Ah, take this with you. It can be used by other people too.”

He handed me the [Basaglia’s Holy Grail] and taught me how to use it.

“It’s really okay, right?”

“It’s okay! Just trust me!”

“I’ll be back soon!”

I waved my hand and waved them off, staggering away, and for the first time in a long time, I was left alone to guard the stone building.