Beyond the distorted space-time, nothing was visible as if it were the back of a mirror.
Simone recalled Abel's astonished voice and the expressions on the faces of the group she had heard just before.
She briefly wondered if it would have been better to explain something before coming in, but she quickly shook her head.
'I must have tried harder to stop it.'
Oh, I heard about that somewhere, and it's not that dangerous - I'll show you, so watch carefully -
The moment she did that, she might have been cursed at by the sword master next to her and might have fainted after being attacked on the back of her neck.
This broken and disjointed distortion becomes dramatically dangerous after the Demon King's resurrection.
Now it just stops internal time, but after the resurrection it's different.
It slows down and then speeds up in an instant, repeating this process over and over, making it take tens or hundreds of hours.
So, they must quickly go find Anasis before the Demon King is resurrected.
'Just don't forget the time.'
If you indulge in the peace of stopped time, the Demon King may resurrect at any moment.
As she was walking, thinking about this and that, she suddenly found herself in front of a red tree.
“Wow... Is this really it?”
Simone's expression became very strange.
Before her eyes, a monster that was too vague to be called a tree was writhing and welcoming its owner.
“This is... a tree? Huh?”
Curious? This isn't what she thought.
Simone used to cast curses in places she couldn't see with her eyes and vaguely imagine what it would look like.
It was written in the book that even the same soul can change its form depending on the curse caster.
So it might be a little different from the round red tree, but this is...
“What is this mixed up like this?”
The unadorned speech just came out.
The red tree was the base, and between the branches, strange shapes were tangled and mixed together and even wriggled incessantly.
If a red tree swallowed everything, whether it was there or not, would it look like this?
'Like a X-ray...'
Anyway, it was disgusting.
She thought that whatever came out would be cleaner than the curse of Anasis.
No, no.
“...Hey, it’s my first time, so that’s possible.”
Simone walked away, mumbling for no reason.
The lush red trees spread their branches to match the owner's steps, making room for her to enter.
The redwood Simone created has no smell of rotting corpses or flowing blood.
It was just a sturdy branch, a tree that had not yet chewed or swallowed anything, and only gave off a rich earthy scent.
She walked without stopping into the long cave made by the branches.
And at the end of it, she could find Anasis completely buried in the branches.
If she were not careful, she might have thought that Anasis was just one of the many spirits entangled in the tree.
That's understandable, since Anasis was mostly buried in the branches, with only her face and upper body exposed, and her skin was covered in black streaks as if contaminated with poison.
Her skin was so pale, like someone suffering from hypothermia. If it weren't for her red eyes, Simone might have passed her by without even realizing that she was Anasis.
“Anasis.”
Simone held out the dagger she was holding.
Yeah, her eyes were open.
A considerable amount of time has passed since Anasis was trapped under the curse.
It's been more than two weeks since Simone sent the curse while she was in the Serk Empire.
Yet, her eyes were still open, trapped in the unconscious.
Simone doesn't know why.
But she felt a bit creepy because the sight seemed like that of a person who died without being able to let go of his grudge.
'Anyway, Anasis is powerless now.'
She is trapped in a curse, and even if she wakes up with extreme pain, there is a high chance that she will be unable to cope with her mentally damaged state.
So, if Simone wanted to kill her now, she could definitely do it.
Simone hesitated for a moment.
'If I kill you here, it's all over.'
A curse created by pouring out all the souls one possesses.
Anasis caught there.
An opportunity this good will never come again.
‘If we leave Anasis alive in a situation where even the Demon King is overwhelmed...’
So, when thinking rationally, it was right to deal with Anasis here without hesitation.
But she soon gave up her greed and looked away.
If she's pushed Anasis this far, she can definitely do it next time.
If she kills Anasis here, Geneon will also die because the curse will be lifted.
Simone still hasn't heard a proper answer from Geneon about his future life.
Killing Anasis comes after hearing his answer.
'Just enough to not be able to move right now.'
Since it has already been greatly affected by the Mana of Death, attacking it with Mana can result in fatal damage.
'This is the first time I've stabbed anyone other than myself.'
Although Simone has witnessed countless slaughters, she has never actually stabbed or cut anyone with her own hands.
It was natural to feel resistance.
But she have to.
As Simone made up her mind, the branches seemed to sense their master's determination and began to wiggle, pulling Anasis's body out a little more.
The moment Simone brought the tip of the knife to Anasis's abdomen, Anasis muttered.
"...place...."
"What?"
Were you awake?
No way. Simone looked up at Anasis, flinching.
Oh, she wasn't awake. She was just muttering with her soulless, empty eyes.
It was like something she was saying unconsciously, like a sleeper babble.
Simone paused for a moment, listening to her.
All the words coming out of her now are unconscious words. Maybe they will contain meaningful information.
Anasis muttered again.
“I did something wrong... What did I... do so wrong...”
“You still don’t know what’s wrong? You’re really an amazing woman...”
“If it was going to be like this... I shouldn’t have brought you... I should have... I just... wanted to... return... to my original world...”
The original world?
From Simone's perspective, it was something that would make her think a lot.
How should I take this?
Simone hesitated for a moment but quickly shook off her thoughts and stabbed Anasis with the knife.
The knife did not go in gently but rather cut into the skin roughly.
It was such a creepy feeling that Simone found herself cringing involuntarily.
“Ugh, ugh...! Th, stop it!!!!!”
The pain that was felt so deeply belatedly brought Anasis to her consciousness, but she still could not tell whether this was an endless dream or reality.
Looking at Simone in front of her like that, she was so terrified that she shivered and fainted.
The warm liquid running down her arm from her hand was Anasis's blood.
Simone took her trembling hand off her sword and took a step back.
She volunteered to do something she really didn't want to do.
She quickly lost her mind, but she quickly regained her senses and pulled herself together.
From now on, countless people will die, and this is something that must be done to reduce the number of victims even a little.
Just as Abel had a role to play in order to destroy the Demon King at the risk of his life, Simone also had a role to play given to her by God.
If nothing else, Anasis will definitely die at Simone's hands.
After a while, the curses that had been surrounding Anasis began to slowly disappear, letting go of her.
A soul that has completed its mission given to it by its master can finally regain its freedom.
Some souls willingly become subordinate to their masters again, but most return to God to be reborn.
Simone's cursed soul was also like that.
Most of them returned to God, and some of them returned to Simone.
The spirits that remained were mostly those who had received help from Simone or had been watching over her for a long time, such as the upside-down thumping ghost and the orphanage ghost.
Simone sighed and looked down at Anasis. She had been stabbed with her sword, but she had sustained a rather serious wound, not one that was life-threatening.
'You'll know when you get stabbed.'
Because Simone deliberately stabbed it in a safe place.
Then Abel's voice was heard from afar.
“Hey, are you out of your mind?”
He was approaching her with a red face and a disheveled appearance. He seemed to have been thrown into a state of shock.
“I told you to draw your sword and stand by.”
Simone said, pointing to Anasis with a blush on her face, even though he was scolding her.
“Anasis. We need to take her outside and restrain her. I almost carried her away.”
“...”
Abel looked down at Anasis with a cold face, then lifted her up as if carrying a load and took the lead.
He seemed very angry at Simone as he kept swearing at her along the way.
Of course, Simone didn't do anything wrong, so she have no intention of apologizing.
When they came out of the space-time distortion, the situation was quite spectacular.
The group was arguing right in front of the twist, and behind them, the soldiers were shaking violently, clutching their weapons with both hands.
What was most striking of all was the appearance of Crown Prince Louis, who was completely pale and drenched in sweat.
It seems that he heard about the situation through the communication channel and rushed to the scene. He was holding the handle of his sword while looking at the twisted figure with an expression that looked like he would faint at any moment.
Then his eyes met with Simone's.
Simone realized that her actions had caused a bigger ripple effect than she had expected and walked forward in embarrassment.
Then he said to Abel as if nothing had happened.
“Hey, it’s nothing special, right? It wasn’t dangerous, was it?”
“I’m falling behind, really.”
Abel hurled insults at Simone without hesitation and threw Anasis to the floor.
The faces of those who saw Anasis, the greatest villain and traitor of the Luan Empire, with their own eyes were utterly disgusted.
Simone recalled Abel's astonished voice and the expressions on the faces of the group she had heard just before.
She briefly wondered if it would have been better to explain something before coming in, but she quickly shook her head.
'I must have tried harder to stop it.'
Oh, I heard about that somewhere, and it's not that dangerous - I'll show you, so watch carefully -
The moment she did that, she might have been cursed at by the sword master next to her and might have fainted after being attacked on the back of her neck.
This broken and disjointed distortion becomes dramatically dangerous after the Demon King's resurrection.
Now it just stops internal time, but after the resurrection it's different.
It slows down and then speeds up in an instant, repeating this process over and over, making it take tens or hundreds of hours.
So, they must quickly go find Anasis before the Demon King is resurrected.
'Just don't forget the time.'
If you indulge in the peace of stopped time, the Demon King may resurrect at any moment.
As she was walking, thinking about this and that, she suddenly found herself in front of a red tree.
“Wow... Is this really it?”
Simone's expression became very strange.
Before her eyes, a monster that was too vague to be called a tree was writhing and welcoming its owner.
“This is... a tree? Huh?”
Curious? This isn't what she thought.
Simone used to cast curses in places she couldn't see with her eyes and vaguely imagine what it would look like.
It was written in the book that even the same soul can change its form depending on the curse caster.
So it might be a little different from the round red tree, but this is...
“What is this mixed up like this?”
The unadorned speech just came out.
The red tree was the base, and between the branches, strange shapes were tangled and mixed together and even wriggled incessantly.
If a red tree swallowed everything, whether it was there or not, would it look like this?
'Like a X-ray...'
Anyway, it was disgusting.
She thought that whatever came out would be cleaner than the curse of Anasis.
No, no.
“...Hey, it’s my first time, so that’s possible.”
Simone walked away, mumbling for no reason.
The lush red trees spread their branches to match the owner's steps, making room for her to enter.
The redwood Simone created has no smell of rotting corpses or flowing blood.
It was just a sturdy branch, a tree that had not yet chewed or swallowed anything, and only gave off a rich earthy scent.
She walked without stopping into the long cave made by the branches.
And at the end of it, she could find Anasis completely buried in the branches.
If she were not careful, she might have thought that Anasis was just one of the many spirits entangled in the tree.
That's understandable, since Anasis was mostly buried in the branches, with only her face and upper body exposed, and her skin was covered in black streaks as if contaminated with poison.
Her skin was so pale, like someone suffering from hypothermia. If it weren't for her red eyes, Simone might have passed her by without even realizing that she was Anasis.
“Anasis.”
Simone held out the dagger she was holding.
Yeah, her eyes were open.
A considerable amount of time has passed since Anasis was trapped under the curse.
It's been more than two weeks since Simone sent the curse while she was in the Serk Empire.
Yet, her eyes were still open, trapped in the unconscious.
Simone doesn't know why.
But she felt a bit creepy because the sight seemed like that of a person who died without being able to let go of his grudge.
'Anyway, Anasis is powerless now.'
She is trapped in a curse, and even if she wakes up with extreme pain, there is a high chance that she will be unable to cope with her mentally damaged state.
So, if Simone wanted to kill her now, she could definitely do it.
Simone hesitated for a moment.
'If I kill you here, it's all over.'
A curse created by pouring out all the souls one possesses.
Anasis caught there.
An opportunity this good will never come again.
‘If we leave Anasis alive in a situation where even the Demon King is overwhelmed...’
So, when thinking rationally, it was right to deal with Anasis here without hesitation.
But she soon gave up her greed and looked away.
If she's pushed Anasis this far, she can definitely do it next time.
If she kills Anasis here, Geneon will also die because the curse will be lifted.
Simone still hasn't heard a proper answer from Geneon about his future life.
Killing Anasis comes after hearing his answer.
'Just enough to not be able to move right now.'
Since it has already been greatly affected by the Mana of Death, attacking it with Mana can result in fatal damage.
'This is the first time I've stabbed anyone other than myself.'
Although Simone has witnessed countless slaughters, she has never actually stabbed or cut anyone with her own hands.
It was natural to feel resistance.
But she have to.
As Simone made up her mind, the branches seemed to sense their master's determination and began to wiggle, pulling Anasis's body out a little more.
The moment Simone brought the tip of the knife to Anasis's abdomen, Anasis muttered.
"...place...."
"What?"
Were you awake?
No way. Simone looked up at Anasis, flinching.
Oh, she wasn't awake. She was just muttering with her soulless, empty eyes.
It was like something she was saying unconsciously, like a sleeper babble.
Simone paused for a moment, listening to her.
All the words coming out of her now are unconscious words. Maybe they will contain meaningful information.
Anasis muttered again.
“I did something wrong... What did I... do so wrong...”
“You still don’t know what’s wrong? You’re really an amazing woman...”
“If it was going to be like this... I shouldn’t have brought you... I should have... I just... wanted to... return... to my original world...”
The original world?
From Simone's perspective, it was something that would make her think a lot.
How should I take this?
Simone hesitated for a moment but quickly shook off her thoughts and stabbed Anasis with the knife.
The knife did not go in gently but rather cut into the skin roughly.
It was such a creepy feeling that Simone found herself cringing involuntarily.
“Ugh, ugh...! Th, stop it!!!!!”
The pain that was felt so deeply belatedly brought Anasis to her consciousness, but she still could not tell whether this was an endless dream or reality.
Looking at Simone in front of her like that, she was so terrified that she shivered and fainted.
The warm liquid running down her arm from her hand was Anasis's blood.
Simone took her trembling hand off her sword and took a step back.
She volunteered to do something she really didn't want to do.
She quickly lost her mind, but she quickly regained her senses and pulled herself together.
From now on, countless people will die, and this is something that must be done to reduce the number of victims even a little.
Just as Abel had a role to play in order to destroy the Demon King at the risk of his life, Simone also had a role to play given to her by God.
If nothing else, Anasis will definitely die at Simone's hands.
After a while, the curses that had been surrounding Anasis began to slowly disappear, letting go of her.
A soul that has completed its mission given to it by its master can finally regain its freedom.
Some souls willingly become subordinate to their masters again, but most return to God to be reborn.
Simone's cursed soul was also like that.
Most of them returned to God, and some of them returned to Simone.
The spirits that remained were mostly those who had received help from Simone or had been watching over her for a long time, such as the upside-down thumping ghost and the orphanage ghost.
Simone sighed and looked down at Anasis. She had been stabbed with her sword, but she had sustained a rather serious wound, not one that was life-threatening.
'You'll know when you get stabbed.'
Because Simone deliberately stabbed it in a safe place.
Then Abel's voice was heard from afar.
“Hey, are you out of your mind?”
He was approaching her with a red face and a disheveled appearance. He seemed to have been thrown into a state of shock.
“I told you to draw your sword and stand by.”
Simone said, pointing to Anasis with a blush on her face, even though he was scolding her.
“Anasis. We need to take her outside and restrain her. I almost carried her away.”
“...”
Abel looked down at Anasis with a cold face, then lifted her up as if carrying a load and took the lead.
He seemed very angry at Simone as he kept swearing at her along the way.
Of course, Simone didn't do anything wrong, so she have no intention of apologizing.
When they came out of the space-time distortion, the situation was quite spectacular.
The group was arguing right in front of the twist, and behind them, the soldiers were shaking violently, clutching their weapons with both hands.
What was most striking of all was the appearance of Crown Prince Louis, who was completely pale and drenched in sweat.
It seems that he heard about the situation through the communication channel and rushed to the scene. He was holding the handle of his sword while looking at the twisted figure with an expression that looked like he would faint at any moment.
Then his eyes met with Simone's.
Simone realized that her actions had caused a bigger ripple effect than she had expected and walked forward in embarrassment.
Then he said to Abel as if nothing had happened.
“Hey, it’s nothing special, right? It wasn’t dangerous, was it?”
“I’m falling behind, really.”
Abel hurled insults at Simone without hesitation and threw Anasis to the floor.
The faces of those who saw Anasis, the greatest villain and traitor of the Luan Empire, with their own eyes were utterly disgusted.
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