124 – girl – 4
Frost mixed with the exhaled breath, and white breath scattered into the air.
There was a thick fog that made it difficult to see even an inch ahead, but it was slightly different from normal fog.
It was a cryogenic fog made of snow, ice, frost and frost, formed by magic freezing every last drop of moisture in the air.
Ordinary people would freeze their skin as soon as they entered this place, and would die from the frost that reached their respiratory tract the moment they breathed in and the atmospheric fog penetrated into their interior.
Boots made of luxurious leather stepped onto the ground that had become like permafrost.
The earth of ice, far exceeding the strength of a fair amount of metal, welcomed the stranger and handed over the coldness he had been harboring, but none of it was transmitted to the boots.
A woman with long silver hair down to her waist and red eyes as dark as blood appeared, crossing the frozen fog over a land where all existence ceased.
It was Charlotte.
Charlotte’s uniform, as usual, remained spotless. Snow and ice, even frost and frost, did not dare cling to the uniform.
Two indifferent eyes scanned the surroundings. There was only a small amount of satisfaction in his eyes when he confirmed that there was no moving object in this extreme land except for himself.
Absolute zero, space compression, sunspot explosions.
It was unbelievable that he had used three magics in a row that would allow him to enter the Royal Magic Order even if only one was used.
Charlotte spread her right hand. A small orange orb appeared on the open palm, and slowly began to rotate clockwise.
Then, the fog of ice thickly covering the heavens and earth was sucked into the sphere.
All kinds of frost and ice that filled the air to the point where you couldn’t see the bottom of your elbow when you stretched out your arms disappeared as if melting, and the warm sunlight peeked out its head.
The frozen earth, which boasted a strength comparable to that of metal, melted away and turned into soggy concussion.
The temperature dropped to the extreme and the ice that covered the world was gobbled up by the orange orb, gradually growing in size.
By the time the sphere had grown in size to almost the size of Charlotte’s head, the surroundings had returned to normal ground, where the soil was mixed with water and only slightly muddy.
“Disperse.”
Charlotte snapped her fingers. At that command, an orange orb rose into the sky and shattered, scattering fragments of itself everywhere.
A warm breeze descended. The water that had mixed with the mounds and formed the swamps gradually evaporated and returned to the distant clouds.
The earth, whose moisture had completely evaporated, vomited dry dust again. Grains of sand blown by the wind rolled around on the ground.
The fog lifted and the field of view opened up, revealing another human figure besides Charlotte who had set foot in this extreme land.
Charlotte stared at the figure and opened her mouth calmly.
“Didn’t Jim tell you?”
No answer came back. It didn’t matter. I didn’t say it hoping for an answer, and I wasn’t even in a state where I could answer it.
“My words are nothing short of eternal truth.”
A girl with a big sword stuck in her heart.
The girl’s entire body was now horribly damaged, and only her left arm, which was intact, was isolated in subspace, floating in the air.
The left half of his face sank down to his cheekbones, and the remaining half of his skin was mushy, as if it would come out if he ran it with his fingers, perhaps as an aftereffect of freezing and then thawing.
The right upper body was swept away by the sunspot explosion magic that occurred after the space was compressed and evaporated entirely, revealing the remaining internal organs that barely spilled onto the floor.
The lower half of the body was not intact.
The left thigh was cut neatly below the pelvis and dripped dark red blood. The right leg was also completely missing below the knee joint.
“Have you realized the theme of the fourth year now?”
“My subject?”
Despite the horrendous dismemberment of her body, the girl’s voice did not change at all. It was a calm voice, as if he didn’t feel any pain at all.
The girl’s expression was the same. Only madness lingered in the emotions that were revealed at a glance between the corners of his smirking and raised mouth.
“Is it you who has to do that? What are you talking about after taking Master away?”
“It was stolen, la…”
Charlotte, who repeated the word over and over again, appeared in front of the girl the very next moment. After that, the shimmering of space appeared for a moment and then disappeared.
It was an instantaneous move. That, too, was done spontaneously in a silent window.
“You said it really well. Jim also has a lot of things he wants to ask you.”
The images of each other were put into each other’s eyes.
The figure of Charlotte was in the only dark black eye left, and the figure of a young girl was in the pair of bloody red eyes.
Charlotte really had a lot to ask of this girl. From one to ten, they were full of questions.
At first, I was going to kill him regardless of whether he was curious or not. However, after hearing what the girl said, he put the puzzle together in his head and changed his mind.
The true identity of a human being, the teacher whom the girl speaks so much about.
I had to figure it out somehow.
If the human identity of the teacher is as Charlotte’s guess, and if Charlotte’s guess is really true, then this bitch should be put in the torture chamber in the basement of the royal palace and meet her husband and have a sincere talk after a long time.
“How you answer will determine your treatment for the next four years, so you’ll have to answer with all your heart. If not, I’ll personally be in this world—”
“I will make you understand for yourself that there is a life more terrible than death.”
The word was cut off.
It was Charlotte’s voice, Charlotte’s way of speaking, and even though it was something Charlotte would have said, it wasn’t Charlotte who said it.
Looking at the grinning girl’s face, Charlotte froze for a moment. The pupil shook for a moment.
“It’s obvious. It’s so obvious. It’s so obvious. It’s stupid. At most, all the threats that a mere human can think of are there. .I told you. You still haven’t grasped the subject. How many more times do I have to tell you to understand it, huh?”
The girl’s lips curled into a sneer.
Even though her insides were stained with hatred and anger at the ridicule at the corner of her mouth, Charlotte never acted rashly.
Charlotte was a human with a brain as brilliant as that ability.
He knew very well that if he had wandered off here and exploded the girl’s head to express his anger, it would be like dealing with that bitch too easily.
Charlotte had no intention of killing the woman in front of her so easily.
It seemed that this rage would subside a little if he had to be kept alive for at least a few months, tortured again and again, and replaced with new ones thousands of times by pouring healing magic.
So, I forcibly suppressed the boiling anger. He clenched his teeth so much that he could hear the grinding of his teeth.
If Christine or Serena had been here, they wouldn’t have had the same patience as Charlotte.
Hearing that kind of ridicule, his eyes roll back, and it’s only after he goes on a rampage tearing the girl’s limbs apart that he realizes that he killed that bitch so easily and regrets it.
No, Christine is a goblin who doesn’t have much in her head, so she might not be able to think of such a high level at all.
At least you need to know what’s wrong so you can point out what’s wrong.
That bitch had a terribly simplistic mindset, so there was a good chance she’d just leave the place satisfied with just detonating and killing the being in front of her eyes.
“Your bitch seems to be misunderstanding something, so I will correct that misunderstanding.”
The distance between the two grew little by little. One face was stiff, and the other face had a shape that was difficult to define.
Before sending the girl in front of me to the dungeon, there was something I had to do first.
“Jim didn’t threaten your years.”
Charlotte’s right hand turned translucent. The background could be seen through the wrist.
“That’s what I said I would do.”
The translucent right hand was inserted into the girl’s head.
I have already used countless times the magic of forcibly pulling out the other person’s memories and reading them or transferring them to another body.
If you get hit by this magic while alive, all your memories will be destroyed, so your mind will collapse as well, but that wasn’t what Charlotte knew.
At the very least, why should Charlotte care about humans?
“…?”
Charlotte’s expression began to undergo subtle changes little by little as she stirred the girl’s brain by moving her tucked-in hand here and there.
At first with doubt, a little later with bewilderment, and finally with amazement.
“Four years…”
I pulled out my hand. The right hand, which had turned translucent and showed through the background, had returned to its original state of opacity.
Charlotte’s expression twisted. In contrast to Charlotte, the girl’s expression did not change at all.
The question was thrown with a mixture of bewilderment and astonishment.
“Are you a doll, not a living human?”
There was not a single memory in the girl’s brain.
It was literal.
Before meeting Charlotte here, after meeting Charlotte, I couldn’t even find the memories of this moment stirring in my brain.
The girl’s head was an empty, empty space itself, and it meant only one fact.
The girl in front of him was not a real human being, but a doll that had undergone special magical treatment.
He was the so-called doppelganger.
All the memories of the doll are not stored in the prepared flesh, but are delivered directly to the user, so no matter how much you stir the doll’s head, nothing comes out.
The corner of the girl’s eyes bent in the shape of a crescent moon as she stared at Charlotte. It was clear what the action meant.
“I told you. Know the subject.”
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Judgment was quick. When Charlotte waved her hands, the body in front of her eyes contorted with a ghastly sound.
He wasn’t even a living human, and there was nothing to be gained by torturing the doll. The pain wouldn’t be transmitted to the real human who controls it anyway, so why would that be?
The bones, muscles, flesh, and skin that imitated human beings were crushed to the point where it was hard to recognize the shape. Its body had changed into something thinly spread and reddish in color.
Charlotte wiped her hands once in annoyance. The thinly spread imitation of man was engulfed in flames and burned, turning to a handful of ashes.
“… It seems like you didn’t tell me everything.”
Red eyes flashed.
“My dear.”
