100 – Curse
“What……?”
Katherine’s eyes went blank. The unfocused pupils dilated, and my image was reflected in the black pupils.
My reflection in the eyes was surprisingly cold.
“My name, what is it?”
He repeated each word with great force. Just thinking about this made my head split, but I tried to ignore it.
I can’t turn back if I’m swept away here. As this whole area is swept away, everything with a name will be contaminated as well.
The curse on my name was just as terrible.
For convenience, it is collectively referred to as a curse, but this too was close to being contaminated by the concept of a name itself because of black magic.
That was the reason why he said there was no such thing when asked for his name, or left the name field on the adventurer’s certificate blank.
This is because this curse is not a form that can be circumvented simply by using my name.
The moment I use a certain title or nickname for a long time and people perceive it as some kind of my name, this curse is set in motion and poisons the minds and souls of everyone who knows that title or nickname.
It was also in line with the reason why I draw a line when others call me with an adventurer grade or a simple personal pronoun like you or hey.
That way, you’ll always be able to think of other adventurers or other people, so at least you won’t be called by a title just for me.
The only exceptions are the titles Serena calls me, Lord, Charlotte calls me, My Lady, and Christine calls me, God… …
‘Their mental strength is ridiculous.’
Obviously, the reason why the curse doesn’t activate even though those three titles refer only to me is because when they say those titles, they thoroughly draw a line in their heads that it’s just a title, not a name.
It means that while referring to me with the words lord, you, and god, I keep repeating to myself that those are just titles, not my name or nickname.
That’s easy to say, but it was already a mental power far beyond human to evade the curse that would be triggered even if the unconscious became accustomed to the expression.
“Answer me.”
“…”
However, the woman in front of me is not.
The moment I thought about my name in this situation, I was already halfway under the curse.
You don’t have to think about it now. Anyway, once I started thinking about my name, it was almost over. In order to get out of it, I’ll have to cast amnesia magic on myself.
It’s a similar principle to mana nullification.
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Just as the thought of not using magic on Christine activates Mana Nullification, the thought of not remembering my name triggers the curse.
The idea of not thinking about something was essentially the same as the idea of thinking about something.
“You don’t want to answer? Then let’s approach it in a different way. Now, I never told you my name, what should you call me then?”
“Fuck! Get out of here! Get out of here!”
The light returned to Catherine’s eyes for a moment, then cursed and twisted her whole body.
Her wrists and ankles were caught in the binding magic, so she struggled in place, but for Catherine, no, for Black Mana, who noticed that she would be destroyed by a more terrible curse, it was a desperate struggle.
The shoulder joint, which had been twisted to the limit, gave out and made a loud noise, and the elbow and knee bent in strange directions.
“I don’t want to do this either. This is a curse on me. Why would I like it? If I say it wrong, I’ll be eaten too.”
“Resolve this! You bastard!”
Katherine’s madness intensified. I instinctively recognized how vicious and vicious this curse placed on me was by my tainted soul.
“I ask for the third time. What is my name?”
“I don’t know! I don’t know! Please! Please let me go! I don’t know! I really don’t know anything!”
Catherine’s words towards me changed to polite before she knew it. It meant that the fear inside him was growing bigger and bigger. Of course I have nothing to stop here.
“No. You know. You have to know.”
“aaagh!”
As if not listening to me, Katherine screamed and screamed blood-boiled. I ignored it and continued talking.
“Because you’ve been tainted with black mana. All black mana knows my name. Neither do you.”
“aaagh!”
“So tell me. My name. Right now.”
“This… the name… the name…”
I raised my index finger after confirming that Catherine’s lips were moving a little differently than before.
And he pierced both of my ears.
Her fingers dug into her ears, tearing apart the eardrums and the inside of her ears, and at the same time Catherine pursed her lips as a silence filled all sounds.
Silence passed.
I also kept my mouth shut.
This silence, which seemed like eternity, was broken by Catherine’s empty voice.
“uh, ah…….”
After saying my name, Katherine’s whole body froze. With eyes wide open and mouth wide open.
He took a step back, feeling the blood dripping from his finger. I accelerated my recovery, got rid of the pain, and focused all my nerves on my thoughts.
I forcibly accelerated my thoughts. I thought of Serena, I thought of Charlotte, I thought of Christine. It’s good even if it’s random. No, anything is fine as long as I can forget this situation.
I must not be devoured here.
I thought of all kinds of information at random. What Serena likes, how she met Charlotte, and how Christine behaves.
And by the time I had finished organizing my mind to some extent after desperate thoughts, a small change had taken place in Catherine.
A stream of black liquid suddenly flowed from the remaining eye.
“Kuk……! Uh, kek! Ugh!”
As Catherine vomited, something black came out of her mouth. It was a completely black piece of meat that could be said to have been completely vomited out.
The black liquid that had leaked out of his eyes had now overflowed to the level of pouring instead of flowing down. The eyes that couldn’t overcome the pressure burst helplessly.
Black liquid was leaking from the nose and ears, and what was inside the human body spewed out. The other eye that I crushed was no different.
Before long, Katherine’s body began to turn black.
“Woo -wook! Turn, Weed! Cool! Cool!”
Catherine constantly vomited chunks of black meat from her mouth. No, it was something black that could hardly be called a piece of meat anymore.
His fingers and toes were rotten and brittle. The tainted flesh ate away human blood and flesh by eating away at the calves and wrists as if climbing up the body.
The restraining magic circle that restrained his wrists and ankles could not withstand the curse and collapsed. Katherine, regaining her bodily freedom, collapsed onto the floor.
On top of what you spit out.
Catherine tried to complain of pain, but her arms and legs had almost completely rotted away, and with only the upper half of her body remaining, she couldn’t even properly complain of pain.
His eyes couldn’t see properly, his ears couldn’t hear properly, his nose could only smell blood, and his mouth was constantly spitting out something that made him taste rotten flesh.
The black mana that polluted the mind and soul tried to fight, but it didn’t last long. Even that momentary outburst was swept away by the curse on my name and disappeared.
Even the upper half of the body that remained until the end did not last long. The last act of wriggling her body was Catherine’s deathbed.
All that was left was the black liquid on the floor.
“It’s over.”
Looking at it, he threw out a word.
ok, it’s completely over. Even the black mana, which could never be killed by normal methods, was cursed and disappeared, not to mention Catherine.
If I hadn’t touched the black blood monster from the beginning, I wouldn’t have died like this.
It was a futile end.
really.
The area where Serena cut dozens of black blooded monsters into single pieces was designated as an off-limits area as usual, and not a single rat approached the area.
It was because the gas produced by decomposing corpses polluted the air, the decayed flesh polluted the soil, and the spilled blood polluted the water. Nothing except monsters could survive here.
Unless King Charlotte annihilated the entire area and rebuilt it from the ground up, this area was scheduled to become a land of death where no one could live for over a hundred years.
“Ahh…….”
A girl was sitting on the ground where everything around her had rotted away.
The girl’s short bobbed hair, barely reaching her shoulders, was black, no different from the corpses of monsters scattered nearby.
Her eyes, black as her hair, narrowed in pleasure and ecstasy, and the tears welling up at the corners of them pathetically supported themselves.
The clothes the girl was wearing were also black, both top and bottom.
The skirt was so short that it barely covered her buttocks, so she wondered if she would be able to see her lower buttocks and underwear if she lowered her waist.
The slender legs and feet that stretched underneath were wrapped in black stockings. The shoes were not visible, but there was not a single wound on the girl’s beautiful feet.
Her breasts wrapped in a thin piece of cloth showed off her presence so large that it made me wonder if the buttons were bursting.
However, it wasn’t the large breasts that really caught the eye.
A large sword embedded in the heart. A toothless, rusty greatsword the size of the girl was wedged into her right chest.
The part where the girl had dug into the flesh was stained with dark red blood, and the fabric near the chest also absorbed the blood and took on a slightly dull color.
Normally, her heart should have stopped the moment the sword was stabbed and she should have died, but the girl was still alive and was breathing a sigh filled with joy into the air.
If the current state of the girl can be regarded as truly bought.
What the girl sat on was the corpse of the black blood monster that Serena had slaughtered for the last time.
I made it once as an experiment, but it wasn’t as efficient as I thought if the fact that the strength hadn’t been recovered had a fatal effect.
The half-rotten flesh spewed out rotting gas, and blood overflowed from the cross section, but the girl didn’t care at all.
felt.
that the curse he had cast had been activated. Another fearless life that dared to covet the name of the teacher was crushed.
It was a year that allowed her to identify her teacher for a while thanks to her mind being corrupted while researching black blooded monsters, but that is that and this is this.
A failed dark magic circle entangled in a mess. It was a magic circle engraved by the girl. All black mana belonged to the girl, so it was not difficult at all to engrave it from a distance.
Even though the magic circle had clearly failed, the reason why it was shining was because the girl was forcibly connecting it.
The reason why the light of the magic circle gradually faded was because the girl had confirmed her teacher’s appearance, and there was no longer any need to forcefully connect them.
The reason why Catherine, who was contaminated with black mana, did not know about the magic circle was because the girl had messed up Catherine’s mind and soul.
It was a small gift left by the girl and given with gratitude. He probably couldn’t think properly from the moment the mental contamination was revealed in earnest.
In any case, touching a black blood monster meant that he would burn his body and soul for the sake of the girl.
Rather, this side may be appreciated. It was because the girl herself used the body that was supposed to have died and was buried without meaning.
The girl’s seomseomoksu scanned the blade of the greatsword stuck in her heart. The cold, hard feel of the metal passed through my fingertips.
He brought the bandage wrapped around the handle to his nose and sniffed it. It was a long time ago, so there was no smell of the teacher, but it was a good thing for the girl.
This is the one and only gift from a teacher in history. Something that no one in the whole world has ever received.
Because it was given only for you.
“Ah, master. My own master.”
Every time the girl’s hand twisted the greatsword stuck in her heart, black blood gushed out and soaked the blade.
I would like to meet. I want to see it with my own eyes, touch it with my own hands, and covet its body with my own mouth, rather than just checking it through the magic circle.
But you have to be patient. Not yet, not yet. To destroy the world a little more. So we have to make the world a little more stained with black blood.
I’ve been waiting for hundreds of years.
So, waiting a few more months or even years at most did not change anything.
Because the reunion of a boy and a girl has to be perfect.
For that perfection, I could have waited a few more years.
“This Olivia, I’ll come see you soon.”
So, please wait for Master.
Definitely this time.
I’ll give you an eternity just for the two of you.
