Witch Hunt (2)

<Side : Heri Tetrahedron>

『Martyr’s Moon – Day 10 (Dawn)』

[I’m going to thoroughly crush you♥ Until you can never wag that idiotic mouth of yours again!!!]

“Kugh…! Fine, let’s go all the way! You damn Dick Pointy-ear bastard!!”

A bizarre sight: trees growing from semen, entangled and fighting with the Tentacles I summoned.

And they didn’t seem like ordinary trees. They bent and writhed as flexibly as Tentacles—no, even more so—piercing the Tentacles with sharp thorns to immobilize them.

It was as if each tree possessed its own consciousness.

“Damn it…! This isn’t enough! I need to summon more, more!”

[Ahaha♥ I love seeing you try so hard♥ Then I’ll also… Ohoh♥]

–Bryuryutdopyuryuryuryut♥♥♥

Just as I chanted spells to summon Tentacles from the rift, Mel, with legs spread wide, merely shook her hips to squeeze out semen from her Dick, and countless branches grew from the whitish puddles that formed.

The semen puddles spread all over the ground, making me feel dizzy and causing a burning sensation in my lower abdomen.

Seriously… I hate this, I hate everything!

“Where the hell is she summoning all these trees from! Besides… she doesn’t even seem tired. More than anything, is she even paying attention to me…?”

Most of the surrounding buildings were already entangled in thorny vines that had grown from the trees, forming a kind of forest. One thing was clear from that alone… why aren’t those thorny vines attacking me?

The summoned Tentacles and the summoned trees were fighting one-on-one, so the thorny vines clinging to the buildings were clearly reserve forces. The fact that their thorns weren’t aimed at me meant… either she had some ulterior motive, or… she was making a fool of me…!

[Kihihit♥ Are you sulking, honey? I’m sorry I can’t treat you like a true Archmage♥ But it can’t be helped~ You… just aren’t skilled enough♥ You didn’t get the title of Archmage just by summoning a few Tentacle bundles and playing house, did you?]

“Shut up…!! Don’t spout nonsense just because you have a hole for a mouth!”

Mel manipulated the semen clumped in her hands, changing it into various shapes like a cat’s cradle, altering the position and form of the grown trees. Each time she grasped and spread her hands, flowers bloomed on the trees, long vines grew, or their thickness increased, displaying a versatility far superior to my Tentacles.

If I continued this battle of attrition, I would inevitably lose… Should I open them…? Yes, let’s open them…! If I just summoned that, I’d be instantly exhausted, so…

I focused Magical power towards my eyes, capturing the target in my pupils…

[Mel Sister. Look over there for a moment…]

[Hmm? What is it, Hildegard?]

[Demon Eye is about to activate. I recommend creating a Barrier.]

Hildegard… Trike whispered to Mel. Right, that child had seen me use Demon Eye a few times, so she probably knew some countermeasures. But Demon Eye wasn’t completely blocked just by covering one side…!

[What kind of Demon Eye is it?]

[Demon of Slumber’s Eye.]

[Demon of Slumber’s… Eye? Which one is it, the one that summons or the one that puts to sleep?]

[It applies to both. Judging from the current form of her eyes… it seems to be the one that puts to sleep.]

“Ha, are you done chatting? You’ve got the wrong idea. Instead of talking, you should have been thinking about escaping!”

I couldn’t close my eyelids. This feeling… it’s unpleasant every time I use it, but I can’t help it. My Demon Eye, completed by embedding a precious relic found in the ruins directly into my eye…!

The Demon of Slumber’s Eye that inflicts drowsiness on any creature captured in my pupils. Sorry, but once you’re in my sight… it’s over!

[What’s the principle behind it?]

[Heri’s pupils flicker with rainbow colors, tiring the eyes of anyone who sees it. If you meet her gaze, you’ll fall asleep instantly; if Heri just stares at you, drowsiness will overwhelm you after a certain amount of time.]

[Is that so? Then that means we still have time♥]

“Opportunity…? You don’t have any…! Now, fall asleep!”

The Demon Eye was opened. Both of them, fall asleep quietly. I’ll cut off the Dark Elf’s breath right away, and I need to capture Trike and find out what’s going on with her…! And what’s happened to the Territory, too…

[Kukuk♥ I wonder who will be closing their eyes first?]

“Of course…!”

Whether she knew she was being targeted or not, the Dark Elf wore a bitter smile and was already holding her staff. Was she preparing to intercept…? Well, whatever. Just one second from now. With this, those guys will be in dreamland…

[Please, Muse, Glaishia Sister♥ Pierce that wicked Witch’s eyes♥]

At that moment… two sharp points blocked my vision, or rather, appeared in front of my pupils… I couldn’t see anything else. The thin ends and thick ends plunged into my eyes without any warning…

Penetrated!

–Pook…!!

“Aaaaaaaagh…!!!!!!!!!!!”

No, no, no way…!! There was no sign, where did they come from…? Something suddenly flew in and pierced my eyes…? It hurts, it hurts, it hur………?

[Puhup♥ Kyahahahat♥ Honey, are you perhaps a big idiot instead of an Archmage? Seriously, seriously… do you know how moronic you are? Ahahahahat♥♥]

The pain was momentary, the agony fleeting. I groped at my eyes, which had just been pierced by something sharp, but… there.

“What, wha, what… It’s cold. It’s ice. Could it be…?”

My right eye could see clearly. But black ice was stuck to my left eye and wouldn’t come off. For a Demon Eye that only worked when both eyes were used, there was nothing more fatal than having one side of your vision blocked…!

[Really… you’re making us use our hands. Heri.]

[Heri, you’re so stubborn… I wonder why you’re resisting so much. There shouldn’t be any doubt about facing Goddess’s Blessing… right, Glaceia♥]

[Ah, of course♥ Mother Goddess is always blessing our love♥]

Turning around to follow the voices coming from behind, I saw two Incubus embracing on top of the building. Blue and pink skin stuck together, not even thinking of separating.

Moreover, the blue Incubus’s spear and the pink Incubus’s Rapier were stained with blood… and the owner of that blood was probably, probably me.

More than anything, those two names… Mel just called them Muse and Glaceia. There was only one Muse here. And… there was only one person who used ice Magic while wielding a spear…

“You… both of you, could it be… Lacey and Muse…!”

[Yes, Heri♥ We received Mother’s embrace first, and as apostles, we transformed our minds and bodies♥ That’s why you, struggling as a human, seem so foolish♥]

[Yes. Just like Glaceia said… you don’t even try to acknowledge the greatness of Goddess, and you just blindly reject her, which is really stu… ahem, foolish, I should say♥ So we’ve temporarily corrected your eyes so you can see properly♥ Please live well from now on♥]

If my eyes were pierced, and the ones who pierced them were Priest who could use Healing Magic… did that mean they restored my eyes with Healing Magic as soon as they stabbed me…?

What was that? That’s the kind of thing you use when torturing people…!

[Oh my, one of your means has been tied up with this♥ What are you going to do now, honey♥ Your boasted Tentacles seem to be withering away little by little♥]

“Ugh…!”

My legs faltered. Before even discussing the difference in skill… the previous attack had planted fear deep in my heart. The two people looking down at me from the rooftop could aim their spear tips at me at any moment, and the endlessly growing trees had finally subdued my Tentacles.

Like this… like this… am I going to lose…? If I lose, what will happen? Will I be repeatedly violated by that Dick the size of an arm and then abandoned…? Or will I be impaled on a tree skewer and die miserably…?

Ominous imaginings and unwanted endings flooded my mind. I needed to pull myself together and counterattack, but I couldn’t do it at all. The overwhelming difference in skill was tearing the wings of possibility to shreds…!

[Oh? You’ve suddenly gone quiet♥ Are you perhaps scared? Where did the show of bravado and the vein-popping from earlier go♥ You seem more like a whore than an Archmage♥ If you brag about that kind of Magic anywhere, you’ll be ridiculed in an instant?]

“No, no…”

[What do you mean, no? You pathetic bastard♥ You’re scurrying away like a rat, why don’t you just spread your legs and sell your body instead♥ Or you can ditch those shitty Tentacles and come here and lick my Dick♥ Then I’ll leave you with at least one limb♥]

Mel slowly walked towards me. I retreated in step with her. This wouldn’t do… I had to rescue Trike… I had to rescue her…

[Mel Sister. You know you can’t kill her, right?]

[Of course I know♥ This is just to scare her. When that idiot pisses herself and bows her head until blood comes out… I was going to say, “Just kidding”~ Hildegard really has no sense of humor~]

Mel’s steps stopped, but my steps continued backwards until I hit the wall.

“Je, Jang…!”

I didn’t even have time to feel depressed about my situation, which had been reduced to a laughingstock. A murderous aura and threat, like a blade hanging over my neck, were approaching. The one holding the hilt was always them.

My confident self-assurance and the sense of mission to rescue Trike were shattered by a single attack.

With my Demon Eye not functioning properly and even my specialty, Tentacle summoning, on the verge of being suppressed… what could I, the summoner, do?

[It seems she’s completely lost her will to fight. I’ll end it here…]

“Don’t co, come… Don’t comeee…!!”

Trike walked towards me. But I aimed the Magic gun I was holding at Trike… and shot it without controlling my emotions.

–Pishwoong……

This Magic gun, which stripped away all shields and Blessings and inflicted direct damage to the body, even disintegrated the Barrier of high-ranking Priest. If you took such an attack head-on, you’d be torn to pieces in an instant… I fired that kind of attack at my precious Trike.

But, futilely…

[That tickles. Heri. It’s not even an attack that makes my Dick tremble♥]

Trike very lightly flicked her wrist and shattered the Magic bullet. Was I lucky she didn’t die…? No, she should have died, but the fact that she didn’t…

“T, Trike……! How…!”

[A human’s attack can’t even leave a scratch on us, who are covered in Goddess’s Blessing♥ Your struggling is truly laughable♥ How does it feel? The feeling of falling from your throne♥ Please tell us that feeling♥]

Trike smiled. A smile I had never seen on anyone… evil and mocking.

Her steel arm rippled like Slime. The shape changed as if a wave was passing through it, and soon it transformed into a steel fist several times its original size.

[I’m going to plunge this into your stomach now♥ I’ll control my strength so you don’t die… so please… writhe and struggle as you vomit blood and your insides out……]

“Please… please…!”

She leaped. Death was approaching…

Kugh…… Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it…!! There was no going back now. No going back…! I had to use my last resort… otherwise, I’d live a life so humiliating that dying would be a better option!

“Come out… come out…!! Come out and wipe them all out…!”

Originally, summoning it required the assistance of the second effect of the Demon of Slumber’s Eye, the ‘Demon Eye that supports summoning the Demon of Slumber’, but since the black ice was blocking it, I had to pour in all my Magical power.

If I summoned it without preparation, I wouldn’t be able to control it, and I’d have to watch it rampage, but… what could I do, there was no other way…!

–Kugugugugugu………

The earth rumbled. A Tentacle Mass was surging up from underground. I was summoning a monster of destruction, thicker, stronger, and more destructive than any Tentacle…!

[Hee~ You were hiding a trump card? But you see…]

“It’s, over…!”

–Kwaaaaaaang…!!!!

Pink, gigantic Tentacles burst out, smashing the stone floor. The Tentacle Mass, with hundreds and thousands of Tentacle strands gathered around a single giant eyeball, would destroy and absorb everything it saw in that eye and rampage……

Even I, who wasn’t in perfect condition, wouldn’t be able to survive, but… this was the best I could do. This was the best I could do…… Damn it, my Magical power was all used up… I felt like my eyes were closing!

“Haa… haa…”

I panted and looked at the pink Tentacle Mass. Yes, that’s what should have happened……

“Huh, ra…?”

My hair slightly floated upwards, defying gravity… and a refreshing breeze blew.

“What, what is it………!?”

I entrusted myself to the sensation and unconsciously looked up at the sky. Immediately after…

–Pajijijijik…!! Kwaaaaaaang…!!!

Lightning and storms plunged towards the Tentacle Mass. In the fleeting moment of flashing Flash, in the very brief moment of blinking, the Tentacle Mass that had been in front of me…

“Disap, peared…?”

It had vanished without a trace. Only the charred marks left on the ground… proved that something had been there. In the place where the Lightning storm had passed…

I saw brown and black buttocks turning away, and the two of them leaped up and disappeared from my sight without even glancing at me.

[What should we do about this♥ Even your trump card has been blown away in vain?]

Mel’s mockery swirled in my ears. Was this her plan from the beginning…? To show all her cards, break them one by one, and show me despair.

Normally, I would have pointed fingers and called it petty and cowardly, but their overwhelming power and skill silenced that.

I hadn’t landed a single effective hit… and I hadn’t even been allowed a single attack.

[Is this the end of your struggles…]

“T, Tri……!”

There was no time to rest. Immediately after the Tentacle Mass disappeared, a heavy steel arm…

“Kgeuheck…!?!?”

Plunged straight into my stomach…

–Kwaaaaaaang………

It broke through the wall I was leaning on, pierced through several buildings, and only then did its speed decrease and stop.

“Ugh… Uoop… Uweeaaack……!”

I couldn’t stop myself from vomiting. I hadn’t even used defensive Magic in time, so I was hit directly by the steel… The vomiting caused by the impact continued until yellowish-green stomach acid came out. My stomach burned…

–Ttok… Ttok… Ttok…

I heard the sharp sound of heels. The hazy smoke cleared, and the two of them appeared as always.

“Trike, get a grip…!! It’s me, it’s Heri.”

There was no way out now. I could only… only whisper old ties in a desperate and ugly manner…

“I saved you…! Keuhak…!!!!”

[Shut up. You lowly thing. Haa… Pathetic. How did I end up being connected to a pervert like you?]

“T, Trike…!”

–Kwajik…!!

Trike answered by piercing my palm with her heel. Yes, a declaration of her intention not to have a normal conversation… I guess.

“Ukyaaat…!! M, my hand…”

[I’ve told you so many times that I’m Hildegard, but you still don’t understand. Annoying and stupid. Why did I trust such a female…!]

[Calm down. Calm down~]

To the enraged Trike… why, I, I just wanted to be the only one who could heal your arm… I just wanted to be your benefactor and receive your love…!

[Ah… Mel Sister. I’m sorry. I showed you an unsightly side.]

“Keuheut… T, Trike…! Get a grip…”

[Don’t reach out with your filthy arm. Female.]

I reached out to Trike with the one arm that was still functioning. I hoped that with this one touch… Trike would come to her senses, but…

–Kwaddeudeuk!

“Kyaaaaa… Heukkeuheueuk… Euk”

This time, she crushed my palm hard with the front of her shoe. That was the end. That was the end of my sanity, after that… along with sobbing cries and another earth-shaking rumble…

I was bound by rough ropes that caressed my body, which should have been collapsed, and I lost consciousness with the feeling of being embalmed and displayed somewhere.

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<Side : 2nd apostle, Mel Grande/2nd rank – Agares>

『Martyr’s Moon – Day 10 (Morning)』

[Did she pass out… You pathetic bitch.]

I repeatedly stomped on Heri’s hands with my heels as she collapsed and reached out, and I set up trees to embalm her.

The reason I bothered to do this was… to let everyone know that this was over.

[Herry is going to be our colleague anyway. Don’t break her like that~ Well, no matter how much you wreck her, Clarice will fix her up.]

Seriously, she’s the one who told me not to kill her earlier, and now she’s getting all worked up~

[I ended it at this level because I heard those words from Sister Blair. If this bitch wasn’t destined to become one of the Goddess’s kind like us, I would have snapped her neck right here.]

[Scary. Hilde~]

Come to think of it, I felt Blair’s incredibly strong Magical power from over there, but it must be over already, right?

Then I should head back to the training grounds too… but before that, you know♥

[That’s right! There’s still some time before the ritual starts. Shall we have some fun♥]

[Ah♥ Mel’s Dick… Hehe♥ To think your bronze Dick will be tearing me apart inside… I’m so happy♥]

She agreed… Ahaha♥ Just for a little bit, just a little bit of fun before I go back♥ Forgive me, Blair♥

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