63 – Black Blood – 8
“Magic?”
i didn’t feel anything
Looking down, wanting to know what this is, Alex desperately denied it while screaming.
“I-I didn’t really do anything! Trust me—agh!”
Christine’s foot pressed against Alex’s ankle bone.
With just that simple motion, my ankle was smashed to the side like a branch breaking, and at the same time, the struggle became more intense.
Christine stopped moving after the bones and flesh of her shins, knees, and thighs were compressed one after another.
Alex, whose leg was completely shattered, shuddered with a gasping sound. Christine’s face was still stained with anger.
“What the hell are you talking about? What was he trying to do to me?”
“The heretic in front of me dared to use magic on my god. That alone is a sin that must be paid with death, but please have mercy so that this sinner can return to the bosom of the god by offering himself. Please allow me.”
“Did you try to cast a spell on me?”
“No! Trust me! I’m really nothing—”
“You still lie. The sin is very grievous, but my merciful God will forgive even that.”
Christine put her foot on her other, still unbroken leg, with a hard look on her face. Just before the foot crushed the rest of Alex’s leg, he called Christine to stop him.
“Christine, hang on. I have something to say to this guy.”
“I understand, my God.”
I stepped forward instead of Christine, who had quietly taken a step back. Alex’s face straightened a little, as if he thought he had hope to live.
“Did you try to cast a spell on me?”
“Ah, definitely not-“
“Ask again.”
A cold voice rang out.
“I’m giving you a chance right now. You should judge the situation well and answer. Last time, did you try to use magic on me?”
Alex gritted his teeth and struggled to endure the pain.
It seemed like I couldn’t even answer properly, so I opened my bag and took out a scroll with a recovery magic written on it.
The scroll glowed green as he slipped it between Alex’s arms and twisted it to tear it apart.
The scroll converted into a recovery magic circle permeated his body.
The compressed leg was restored to its original thickness, and the bone, which had been crushed almost like powder, was attached and regained its strength. The blood gushing from the severed wrist also stopped as new flesh grew.
Alex looked at me bewildered.
“I’ll attach my wrist later. Are you curious about why I’m doing this?”
“…”
“You shouldn’t die of shock or excessive blood loss before you hear the answer. There’s no particular reason. If you don’t answer correctly, I’ll just kill you anyway. I trust Christine more than you. If Christine said she did it, she did it for real. If you want to make a claim, you have to bring the evidence from your side. Do you understand now?”
“……If I just run away like this, what are you going to do?”
“escape?”
It seemed like a serious question, so I burst out laughing without even realizing it. It was an absurd laugh.
Does this guy really think he can run away from Christine? To do that, you’d have to be on the level of Charlotte or Serena.
“Would you like to try?”
“…”
My answer was short. However, as if he understood the weight of those words, Alex’s head slowly shook from side to side.
“As expected, my head is working well. Now, then, tell me. I’ll listen to you. The only thing left for me is time.”
“Are you going to save me if I tell you the truth?”
“If you like the answer. To be honest, I still don’t quite understand why you did it. Stay true to your desires, and it’s cool to see that you didn’t look at Christine when we first met. Looking at what you did, you seem to have quite a bit of guts. But why did you suddenly get caught and end up like this?”
If this guy had even glanced at Christine, Christine would have exploded her head in no time. I survived because I didn’t.
It was probably because I misunderstood the relationship between me and Christine, but judging from the fact that he made this judgment in that short moment, he was a very good human being.
What I was wondering was this. What kind of plan did you come up with with that good brain to use magic?
“Now then, tell me. What were you trying to do? The lie detection method is in place, so you can lie as much as you like. Instead, you can’t guarantee your life?”
It’s a lie. I can’t use magic itself, but what about lie detection magic?
At least Christine could probably use a truth detection miracle based on divine power, but I don’t want to do that because if I ask Christine to use a miracle here, it’s like revealing my own money.
‘Because this guy doesn’t know my real skills.’
He’s got a pretty good head. You must have figured out the relationship between me and Christine long ago. You should have noticed long ago that Christine serves me quite fanatically.
Christine, who trampled on her like a bug, is serving me thoroughly, so she must be very mistaken about my skills.
So, I just used that point very faithfully.
The fear of Christine has been etched into it, and the spirit is completely dead, so lies work very well in these situations.
“……I see. Ask me anything.”
“It’s good to talk well. First of all, what were you trying to do to me?”
“Attempted to copy appearance.”
“My appearance? Why?”
“… to cheat.”
look at this guy
Still, watching him spit out such absurd words, he seemed to believe my words that there was a lie detection tool on this side.
Of course, the possibility that even that was a lie cannot be denied at all, but at least the probability was infinitely low.
This kind of guy puts his life at stake and doesn’t gamble.
I made it clear that if you get caught, you will be lost, but I will never do anything to test it, even if it costs my life.
“Didn’t you tell me if you didn’t have enough money? I would have added a few more pockets of gold coins.”
“That’s right. I wish I’d noticed earlier that you’re such a kind person.”
The pain seemed to have subsided considerably as he took my comments as a joke.
“Well, that’s it. Did you try to scam something by copying my appearance?”
“Aren’t you related to religion? Giving the name of religion always has an above-average effect. Judging from the abilities of the lady behind you, you seem to come from a fairly large denomination, don’t you?”
Religion, Christine worships me as God, so that’s not entirely wrong. But even if I sold my name, I doubted that I would be able to do anything.
In terms of divine power alone, of course there would be no religion that would follow us, but this is because of the non-standard existence of Christine.
In general, the greater the divine power exerted by the higher beings of the church, the greater the religious group, but that was a completely wrong expression for Christine and me.
And the moment I sell my name and it gets into Charlotte’s ears, I will never die gracefully.
Maybe he would use a few stacks of recovery magic and healing magic and use the execution method of being eaten by insects every year.
“Well. Maybe it didn’t turn out the way you thought.”
“No. If you only succeeded in copying the appearance, the rest is easy.”
“Where does your confidence come from?”
“I believed in my ability. I’ve done a lot so far. So I thought it would be the same this time.”
“But it wasn’t.”
“There is that, and my magic to copy my appearance is a bit special. I copy a part of the target’s memory as well.”
It is part of the object memory.
Then the stupid thought came to my mind that my memories would be copied for years.
“You’re going around cheating with my appearance, then copying another appearance and running away? It’s obvious.”
“Yes. It will be quite difficult to prove that there is a cult with a bare mouth, but I have the gold coins handed over from them. People believe much better when there is evidence.”
“Is that appearance copying magic that can only be copied by touching it directly?”
“No. Originally, even from a distance, I could get the appearance with just a little time… Strangely, the magic itself didn’t activate, so I had to use a method of touching hands pretending to shake hands.”
After all, it was Christine round and round.
Mana Nullification is an ability that returns the flow of mana to Christine to nothing, but the ability to copy my appearance was blocked meant that he copied my appearance and tried to do something harmful to Christine anyway.
Otherwise, there would be no way Mana Nullification would activate.
“Well, I get it roughly. At first, I tried to scam you by copying my appearance, but since it couldn’t be copied from a distance, it means that I tried to copy it directly by touching it, but I got caught and my wrist was smashed.”
“Yes, yes.”
“Don’t be sorry. If you touched me directly, you would have failed anyway.”
If even the slightest intention to ‘harm Christine’ is mixed in the action of copying my appearance, the magic will never be activated.
I was going to ask what your intention was, but I didn’t think I would come up with anything nice, so I decided to just skip it.
‘Because the intention was impure.’
Now that I had heard what he was trying to do with me, what he was thinking, and what method he was planning to use, there were no questions left.
As I put my hand on the knife at my waist, Alex freaked out.
“Didn’t I tell you everything! Save me!”
“Yeah, you’re trying to save me now. What’s the problem?”
“Then why is the knife…!”
“Don’t worry. I’ll just cut off one arm and one leg and release them. If you only have the parts that were cut off, you can put them back together, right? This would be much better than surviving clumsily for no reason.”
“What nonsense are you talking about!”
“Is it real?”
I didn’t blink an eye.
I could guarantee that this side was much better for that guy than living clumsily.
This is an option to die, but the other is a 100% death option.
However, as if Alex couldn’t overcome his fear, mana was pumped up from his body. Soon after, Alex’s body gradually turned transparent from the extremities, and soon after, the whole body disappeared.
Is it invisibility magic?
The wrist that had been severed earlier was still on the ground. It seemed that he was so hurriedly running away that he didn’t even think about taking it with him.
“It’s gone.”
“My God, if you do—”
“Do as you like, Christine.”
As soon as I got my words out, Christine slammed forward with a bang. Christine’s figure disappeared across the forest, and soon after, screams rang out.
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Judging from the fact that the screams could still be heard here, it seemed that he hadn’t gone too far and was caught. That’s why I said it would be better to cut off one arm and one leg.
I was going to ask you to let me go because I finished the atonement by cutting off each limb. I tried to explain all the reasons why I did it.
As a bonus, I was going to hand over a scroll with healing magic written on it so that the cut ones could be pasted on.
As long as it’s like that, it’s already out of my hands. He put the half-drawn sword back into its scabbard. Was this the direction Christine said before entering the lake?
Christine couldn’t control her body, which kept heating up on its own.
I didn’t care at all about the murmur of a man whose whole body had his skin ripped off, repeating only the words of a half-mad man asking for help.
It was only after rubbing her thighs and putting her hand between her crotch that she wriggled several times before she was able to calm down her excitement just a little bit.
However, after the heat subsided just a little bit, more heat came again. The experience of being able to provide mana nullification to her god was just as enchanting.
Although it is only possible for a short while to be right next to him because of his lack of self, if he offers more sacrifices and leads more sinners to the arms of the gods… … .
Even if they are not in contact, it will be possible to be connected forever.
“Ah, my god…”
Christine flinched as she climaxed at the mere imagining that she and God were forever connected.
It shouldn’t be like this. It was also a great sin to dare to leave God alone and enjoy pleasure alone. You have to repent.
In order to pray for repentance, Christine grabbed the knee joint of a still-living human and bent it backwards with all her might.
A scream rang out.
Christine began to pray.
