episode_0176

Under a sky filled with dark clouds, black thorn trees writhe like snakes, and among them, a black-haired girl with a giant dragon arm that defies the laws of physics glares at me.

“Are you here to stop me?”

She looked at me and asked me that.

“I’m cold.”

When I answer like this, Maleficent is startled. She knows because she has indirectly experienced the pain I went through in a world that she still doesn’t know whether it is an illusion or a dream.

It’s not so cold that it makes you go crazy the moment you touch it. It’s so cold that it gets stronger forever.

There are no limits, or it is impossible to adapt.

Only when you are completely submerged in that cold, and realize that even suicide is a luxury, can you truly go mad.

And even then, I still suffer from the cold.

“My warmth just melts into the air.”

It’s okay that the harvester is dead. After all, when it dies, it takes the warmth with it. But the people that the harvester will kill in the future, or the people who could become the harvester, are dead.

“I don’t like that.”

While you’re at it, swing a white branch around to clear away any thorns.

The swaying thornbush slowly shrinks.

Maleficent opened her mouth in displeasure at the sight.

“You’re moving around freely in this place where magic power doesn’t move. What kind of power are you using?”

Whirlwind.

Maleficent changed her dragon-turned hand into a human hand. Victoria, who had been sitting underneath it, cautiously walked towards me.

“Bell. That woman. Strong.”

“I know.”

I was mentally attacked. My mind was ripped apart.

She is not an ordinary person. She is strong enough to call herself the Queen of Evil. Calling herself evil means boasting that she has absolute power.

“Didn’t you two have a bad relationship?”

Maleficent asks Victoria.

Here, a little bit of discord? Isn’t it a little crude? If possible, I’d like to see some great magic.

“You were just pretending to be bad. Both Bell and I knew you were doing something weird. Stop it.”

Besides, since they were pretending to be on bad terms with each other, the slandering didn’t work.

Victoria glares at Maleficent, while slowly drawing water from her surroundings. However, there is already very little water left.

The air around me is already dry, and I can feel Victoria’s strength. It’s a unique feeling, but I know the general feeling.

It’s a movement to try to squeeze out what isn’t there.

Beetle

Suddenly, Victoria staggered and fell to the ground. Superpowers don’t use magic, but rather physical strength along with concentration. She had just drained a lot of blood, so it’s understandable that she would collapse.

“You’ve lost so much blood, it’s hard for you to stand? Should I make it easier for you?”

Maleficent said that with a laugh, but unlike before, her expression was free of any sense of superiority.

When Maleficent attacked the harvesters, she was overcome with a sense of superiority that no matter what they did, they could not defeat her.

But unlike then, she reads my expression.

Every time he speaks, he can’t help but stare at me, as if he can’t stand to know how I’m going to react.

I walked over to Victoria, who was panting on the floor, and sat down on top of her.

“Kkiyak!”

Victoria screams. But if I don’t do this, I really think she’s going to collapse from anemia. She’s not focused right now.

It’s hard because you’re pressed down, but you can’t even say anything to me because you’re holding it in.

“Isn’t that too much for an anemic child?”

“It’s a good pressure stone for a child who is full of life.”

If Victoria’s opponent had been a warrior of mediocre skill rather than Maleficent, her head would have been cut off by now.

Even though there was a certain level of safety net, Victoria was no ordinary person who destroyed the fish-man’s forward base by herself.

I swung the white branch again as I saw the black thornbush creeping along the ground.

The black thorn tree is regressing. This witch. She moves around darkly.

“No matter how much I look at it, I don’t understand the principle. It was the same last time. Even when I had a nightmare, I immediately got over it. I didn’t know that instead of going outside like an idiot, I would try to go inside.”

nightmare.

You’re talking about the hallucination you had yesterday.

“Did you find out anything about me there?”

I ask her a question.

Then Maleficent closed her mouth. It was as if she had not figured out what was going on. She must have seen the same thing as me as she followed me.

Since no one said anything, you wouldn’t have been able to know anything even if you tried.

I also knew a lot. If there had been a harvester, it was possible that all the people I had stolen warmth from had come inside.

But memories are memories.

Because there was a squeaky-shoe there. I didn’t touch her light or her warmth until she fell to the bottom of the water and disappeared.

So there is no possibility of such an eventuality.

It’s simply an illusion created by memory.

Even though it was Hyungkeshuni who stood out the most, Daegon and Wonshicheonjon also stood out quite a bit, so I guess they were of a high level in their own way.

Or maybe it left that deep of an impression on me.

Because she was hostile to me until the end.

“Bell. This pig. Heavy… … .”

Victoria, who was lying under me, moaned softly, but I ignored her. I knew that she was still drawing moisture from the bottom. She was using her stamina, so if she didn’t stop, she would collapse.

“What will Maleficent do next?”

I asked Maleficent, who had taken out a wand with a yellow gem and was aiming it at me.

If you decide to kill me, you can catch me and twist me.

In short, the skills I have are closer to counterattacks.

To use a game analogy, it means that rather than using the opponent’s attack power, you are the type of player who waits for the opponent to fall for your gimmick.

So, shall we scratch our heads little by little?

Her skills are covetable.

“First of all, Princess Aurora, who insulted me, must sleep forever as promised.”

“What? Were you not invited to a birthday party by yourself? By yourself?”

Bam.

Oh, I’m grinding my teeth.

I asked that because I was reminded of a witch from a fairy tale, and so was Maleficent in front of me. She was a powerful witch there too.

At least as much as the witch in front.

“You’re surprisingly bad-tempered, Bell. Could it be that you’ve been sitting in bed like a vegetable all this time just to make me let my guard down?”

I shake my head in denial at that.

“I thought Merryweather was an escort. She stayed still because she didn’t have to move. Didn’t you just find out that Merryweather was a witch?”

I don’t know how or what they did, but there was ice floating in the air, so clear and transparent that it was barely visible to Victoria.

Even if he collapses, he is filled with murderous intent to kill the witch in front of him.

Feeling fear for Victoria’s life, I lifted my foot slightly and stepped on Victoria’s hand. Then, with a small groan, the blade disappeared.

After confirming that the strength had drained and the limbs were sagging, I got up from Victoria’s back.

Victoria is now stopped and has to deal with the witch.

A witch with strong pride.

How can I put it in a way that would hurt the most?

“Don’t be too disappointed. Even if I knew she was a witch, my actions wouldn’t have changed.”

And I swing the white branch once more to drive away the black thorn trees that occupy the background. Now, I will make it seem like I am the only one in control of this place.

“There’s no need to do that, right?”

It’s as if the difference in class is so great that it’s okay for someone like you to do anything.

In reality, even if I knew she was a witch, all I could do was wait until she did something, but these words would really stab a witch’s pride.

see.

Now, a black fog is flowing out from around Maleficent, and the smoke is slowly rising into the sky.

That means you weren’t talking to me mindlessly.

The black smoke rising high into the sky slowly swirls.

“Do you want to make it sparkle?”

Are you trying to be funny? I asked Maleficent, knowing it would sound like that.

Kwarung!

Lightning poured down from the center of the whirlpool.

But unfortunately, the lightning only destroyed the surrounding buildings.

Oh, what a pity.

The person who was sleeping inside died. It’s not clear exactly how he died, as it wasn’t the harvester, but the light that was visible gradually became smaller and smaller before disappearing.

“You missed the mark.”

When I told her to try to guess better next time, Maleficent pointed her wand at me.

But lightning doesn’t strike again.

“What are you doing?”

“You, do you want to be attacked right now?”

this.

I guess I moved too obviously.

“I’d rather be hit than erase fleeting warmth.”

I try to change the subject, but Maleficent glares at me. Strangely, she doesn’t attack me. Given Maleficent’s personality so far, I think she’s already exceeded the threshold.

But I see that you don’t attack me so obsessively.

“Did you hear something from Hyungkeshni?”

I tried to hide my expression, but it was clearly visible.

Correct answer.

I think the Hukkeshni who laughed at her in it spoke of my weakness. Of course, the Hukkeshni I met in that nightmare wasn’t the Hukkeshni herself.

If I analyze it in my own way, I think it was my arrogance that made me say that.

I’m desperately trying to play a passive character, but I think that ordinary people are just matches.

Or maybe it’s the idea that it’ll be a harvester’s material.

The arrogance of being in a position to exploit others.

Except for the endless cold, I was once an ordinary human being, so it’s not strange to think that way. Even though I kept my appearance well, I guess I couldn’t hide my inner feelings.

How can you resist teabagging while explaining this and that to an opponent you’ve already won?

I understand. The problem is that you didn’t say it when you were already winning, but since you said it in a dream, let’s just say there’s nothing we can do about it.

If you’ve heard that, you can probably get a little more out of it.

“Maleficent. Are you scared? You’re the queen of evil, and you’re scared of a monster that doesn’t assert its opinion?”

Of course, Victoria is listening, so she twists it ever so slightly and provokes Maleficent.

“You don’t mind killing someone weaker than you, but you’re afraid to touch a monster.”

I turned my back on purpose.

“I’m disappointed.”

And I approached Victoria, who was still dizzy, clutching the stone floor and dripping with sweat.

Of course, I watched Maleficent gritting her teeth through Victoria’s eyes.