35 – Advent – 5
“No, what is this…”
The scenery of the city was completely different from before I got stuck in the crater. A hollow voice escaped from my mouth as I watched it.
All the buildings were swept away, and the horizon could be seen in the distance, and a little away, a canyon was created as if the continent itself had been cut away.
I wondered if this was a place that worked fine until a while ago. It was a level that could not be inferior to calling it a ghost town that had been abandoned for decades.
Rather, if humans and monsters had fought hard here, there might have been more things left than now.
Something that can cause more devastation than war. It was clear who the subject was. That would be Serena, of course. I didn’t have to think further.
The problem was, why did Serena destroy the city so much? Did Kartina touch the plant?
The blood that had suddenly risen from the floor was slowly drying up, leaving only very fine residues.
Tuduk, I brushed my hair once, and the blood on my hair fell to the floor, leaving a distorted circular shape.
I struggled in that pit for a while, but what the hell happened outside?
I thought I was almost there, but suddenly blood rushed into the crater and I drowned about ten times.
In addition, the building collapsed toward the crater, so it was great that I couldn’t get out in time and got stuck on the bottom again.
No matter how much wood it is, if it is piled up to the level of a building, I can never push it up with my own strength. Even if it is in the blood, it is less affected by the weight.
This time, I tried to drown myself several times, but in the midst of counting, I was able to barely escape because the wreckage suddenly tilted.
Besides, at the point of just escaping the crater, all the blood disappeared again, and I almost rolled back into it.
If that was the case, I would have given up and quietly called Serena. If you try twice and fail both times, it’s right to just ask for help.
His whole body was a mess of red fluid as he rolled excitedly in a puddle made of blood. I wondered if anyone would mistakenly think that he was someone who came back after a bout in hell.
It was funny that the clothes became heavy not because they ate water, but because they ate blood.
“Lord!”
As I was wringing blood from my clothes, Serena almost flew over and knelt down in front of me, bowing her head.
In contrast to me, it was spotless and clean. Obviously, it was Serena who fought Kartina, but for some reason I looked more like a piece of shit.
“The order given by the lord, I have certainly completed it.”
“Orders? What orders?”
“Didn’t you tell me to get rid of that lord?”
did i do that I looked back at my memory.
I remember that Kartina caused an explosion and the mansion was destroyed, and then told Serena to deal with it appropriately. But I don’t think I said to remove it.
There’s no way the pagans worshiped as a god could only have the ability to explode the body and cause explosions.
There must be a lot of things I haven’t experienced yet, but I don’t think they told me to kill them. It was clear that he had done the same thing that immediately filled the city with blood.
Either completely erasing the existence itself, squeezing the human to the limit, or making it impossible to recover life at all.
In the first place, I thought that if I was to be served as a god, I should at least be able to do this kind of thing. And I was going to go through that one after another.
“If possible, try to save that woman named Kartina, but if the situation does not go well, he said to kill her, so I just got rid of it out of necessity.”
“Uh… the situation wasn’t going well? What the hell did he do?”
Serena wouldn’t have said that something in Kartina’s body threatened her life. Because it was Serena who stood still even after being hit by the explosion that Kartina caused right in front of her eyes.
“He dared to ask me if I had no intention of serving him. Because I had committed insults to my lord and denial of the meaning of my existence, I couldn’t stand it and cut myself.”
“…”
I don’t know why that human, no, that god, caused this situation by touching other people’s ills.
The reason I told Serena to deal with Cartina was that Cartina’s attention had completely shifted to Serena.
One was torn apart by the explosion and recovered, and the other was still standing.
If I didn’t know the inside story, I would simply be considered a super regenerative person, but even if I appealed to kill her, it was obvious that Serena would not listen because Serena was right next to her.
A human who is no different from an ordinary person except for restoring the body, and a human who has skills that may be on par with those who are worshiped as gods.
It took a little thought to know which of the two Kartina would be interested in first.
Serena was blinded to the fact that I had been severely beaten as Serena did, but at that moment, Cartina attacked Serena first, so I dealt with her in moderation, and if the situation did not go well, I just told her not to regret it and to kill me.
I never imagined that Kartina would touch Serena’s heart like that.
“I can’t help it. Good work, Serena.”
Yes, it was a waste, and I had no intention of reprimanding Serena for this. It was just an unexpected opportunity, but it turned out to be a pity.
I wasn’t even angry in the first place, and it’s just stupid to get angry at Serena after seeing the results right in front of me.
I was about to stroke her hair as usual, then looked at my blood-soaked hand and Serena’s hair, which were slick and spotless, and lowered my hand slightly.
Serena probably wouldn’t mind at all, but it’s impossible because I’m worried.
“How do you explain this place now?”
“I will follow the will of my lord.”
“……I don’t even know how Serena and you fought.
Wriggling, all of a sudden, bloodstains on my body began to run down my legs and gather together. Her hair returned to a pristine black color, and her blood-soaked clothes dried again.
Not only that, but even the drops of blood I had brushed off on the floor gathered into one place and increased in size. For an instant, Serena’s expression distorted and she placed her hand on the World Eater.
“Four years…!”
Seeing Serena react like that, it was obvious who was doing this. Kartina. It meant that something in his body was still alive and not dead.
To be alive after being hit by that attack, it seemed that he was definitely a being worthy of being worshiped as a god by the pagans.
Kartina, who managed to form a human form by absorbing all the drops of blood I brushed off, staggered to the ground.
Although the amount of blood was insufficient to fully regenerate the body, his hair was bright red instead of orange.
“Excellent. Truly wonderful.”
Only pure admiration remained in his voice. There was no fear, no anger, no sadness at the brink of extinction.
“I never thought I’d push myself to the point where I could survive just a moment of fluke.”
Kartina’s fingertips pointed at me.
“Blood stained your clothes. Without it, you would have been completely destroyed in that dark abyss. It was an unexpected luck.”
“My lord, please step down. I will take the punishment later.”
what do i do Before he could ask, Serena, who pulled out the World Eater in one hand, strode toward Kartina.
It seemed that he was trying to destroy Kartina once again. The expression was unusual. The fact that Kartina didn’t die even after being hit by that attack seemed quite disgraceful.
“Serena, wait.”
Serena stopped. As if blocking the gap between Kartina and Serena, she intervened. Embarrassment spread across his face.
“Master…?”
“I’m glad you’re alive. I thought you were dead.”
This time, Kartina tilted her head.
It certainly sounded strange. The lord, who said that the knight who had been fighting to kill himself until just now served with all his allegiance, suddenly spewed out such lines.
“I’m glad you’re alive…? Are you my follower?”
“I’m a follower, I guess. I believe in God, but I don’t believe in God.”
“Then what did you mean by that?”
“It’s nothing, just kill me.”
At my words, Kartina took a careful look at me. His eyes, as if judging things, went over my whole body.
“I’ve seen many people asking for strength or saving, but a person asking to kill themselves. That’s unusual. It’s all the more strange that there’s no lie in that statement.”
“Then, of course, are you going to say this for real or fake? So, are you going to do it or not?”
“There is no reason for me to refuse. However, the woman behind you seems to have a slightly different idea.”
Hearing that, he glanced at Serena. Serena still had her usual posture and facial expression, but I could get a glimpse of it.
That meant I didn’t like my choice. Since long ago, I’ve been begging you to leave my immortality to me alone, so of course I will.
He nodded his head to mean okay. Serena pursed her lips and, with trembling hands, put the World Eater back in.
If Serena had ears and a tail, she would have been drooping toward the floor.
Kartina approached me with staggering steps. Her blood-red hair fluttered behind her, and her blood-red eyes looked at me.
Kartina slowly stroked my chest with her hand and let out a short laugh. I just want it to end quickly.
I could hear Serena grinding her teeth from behind. Without me, there would probably be another canyon around here. How am I supposed to fix that later?
Fuuk, Kartina stuck her hand into my body.
