The first thing she felt was a sense of anticipation. And starting with that sense of anticipation, the memories that had been buried slowly came back.
On the way to the Count's residence in a carriage with her mother, she once received a green pill from a jewelry box from a mountain village.
The old apothecary who gave her the medicine said,
"The name of this drug is Mengele. It's a drug that mimics the scent of a purifier. I'm an excellent apothecary, so I'll be able to use it right away."
She brought it to the Institute with her own hands. It seems that she explained the mechanism of operation to her.
It was at this moment that she was trying to turn Odette into a false purifier, which was very useful.
It is an unforgettable item for the main users of the artist, including her.
'But how could I have forgotten this?'
As soon as Paula felt something was wrong, she suddenly felt dizzy and dizzy.
She felt like her body was someone else's.
"Come on, Paula. It's time to draw out the hatred for Odette. Think of the feeling of being deprived of your mother."
Charlotte said that, and she felt something slip out of her body. The red air mass looked like a huge soap bubble.
Come to think of it, she saw such red soap bubbles in a mountain village five years ago.
"To make Mengele, I need your grudge. Your desperate hatred for Odette. Don't you hate Odette pretending to be her mother's daughter? Isn't it so hateful?"
Now that she thinks about it, it was full of strange things. How did the pharmacist know about her mother's relationship with her? How could she have forgotten such a bizarre thing?
"What the heck? Why are you so small?"
Charlotte's murmur of annoyance faded into the distance.
"With such a small grudge, I didn't have to insist on Paula!"
Just before the fading consciousness stopped, Paula thought that Charlotte's expression was very similar to the old woman's.
Maleah, who had been looking around Charlotte's room for a while, sighed with a frustrated expression.
"Where did these humans go?"
Did she go to the dungeon for nothing? After Odette said she was going to the dungeon, there was a fuss. There was no way not to check it.
Maleah didn't spend much time away from the room. She only checked Odette and came back, so it should be about 10 minutes at most...
When she returned, both Charlotte and Paula had disappeared from the room.
'Wouldn't you have been able to get out of the mansion in such a short time?'
And where else did the Count go?
Unlike Maleah, who was curious about Odette's safety and went to the dungeon, the Count returned to Charlotte's room on the way. He said it would be dangerous to go to the dungeon without the Purifier.
So, at least the Count should be in this room.
"I'm in trouble. The young lady told me never to take my eyes off Charlotte."
Maleah smoothed the earrings in her ears.
They look like coral, but they were actually earrings that Odette had trimmed and painted red to make them look like coral.
The eggs on the earrings were very small and thin. If you put it between your thumb and index finger and press it, it will be crushed with a small force.
If she breaks it in an emergency, Odette will get a signal right away.
'Should I destroy it now? It's not an emergency yet.'
It's just that shr missed the target, and it's too much of a fuss to use the word emergency. Still, the situation seemed strangely ominous to Maleah.
Relax, relax.
It was then that the slightest sound of footsteps rang out. Holding her breath, she lifted her head to the sound.
'...Celling?'
Relax, relax. Relax.
The sound of muddy footsteps was clearly coming from the ceiling.
'You can't hear footsteps over there?'
According to the structure of the mansion, the one above this room was a closed warehouse. The entrance to the warehouse had been sealed with a board for several years. Therefore, there could never be a sound of footsteps.
'It's definitely not a sound that a rat would make. I can hear human footsteps.'
She has an ominous intuition. Maleah swallowed hard and headed for the user's staircase.
The higher you go upstairs, the more difficult it becomes. Slap. The sound that was very faint gradually grew louder.
'The wooden planks for containment have disappeared, right?'
The door to the warehouse was closed. But the wooden planks that had crossed over it and blocked the entrance had been torn off.
There were traces of water dripping on the floor in front of the closed door. Maleah, who walked silently, approached the storehouse.
Then she fell down on the floor and took a picture of the water with her index finger. When she put it on her tongue, the Identity of the water became clear. What is this fishy and salty taste...
'It's seawater. Isn't it? Why is the sea water here?'
Then, as she leaned down, she saw a tiny hole in the door of the storehouse. It looked like a small wooden door had been drilled while tearing off the nailed plank.
When she put her eyes to the hole, she saw the Count and Paula lying on the floor.
Maleah covered her mouth with her hand to hold back the scream.
Charlotte stood beside him, pulling something like a red soap bubble from the Count's body.
'What's that?'
Then she opened the jewelry box in her hand and put the bizarre bubble inside.
As she stared at it in possession, Charlotte turned her head away
'...What is it?!'
For a moment, Maltea couldn't believe her eyes.
Charlotte's face is full of wrinkles... She looked like an old woman who was ninety years old, or even older.
'What... what the hell is that?!'
Maleah wanted to run away right away. But if she made a noise here, she knew what would happen.
'No, no. Don't run away. If you make a 'noise, you'll be in trouble.'
She doesn't know if it's Charlotte or the Pink-haired Fiend.
Maleah pushed her ass very slightly, lifted her face from the hole, and leaned against the door as far as she could. So that she could not see her face from Charlotte's angle.
Then she crushed the earrings. Pas. Between her thumb and forefinger, the coral broke into powder. Her hands were slippery with sweat.
'It's okay. It must have been delivered to Miss Odette.'
Maleah was barely breathing. If Charlotte notices this, it's over.
It was the moment when Maleah finished her work and looked inside the hole to check.
"...!"
One eye stared at Maleah from within the hole.
"Hello, Maleah?"
Because it never blinks, it felt like it was talking to its eyes.
Still a surprisingly lovely voice. Her bloodshot, light blue eyes stared at her.
"That earring...It's the thing in the status window, right? Is it from Odette?"
Charlotte opened the door. The squeak of the old hinges was eerie. She looked creepy as if her skin was dripping, but her voice was as cheerful and grotesque as a girl's.
"It's nasty to peep, Maleah."
Charlotte spread her palms. There was something like a very small fruit on it. It was a fruit that looked like a small peach that had been dried and shrivelled.
It grew larger and larger in her hand, until she knew it.
It was a disaster.
"This is the capital, but how can there be a disaster?"
The thought didn't continue. There was a tremendous amount of pressure on her. They floundered in limbs, but they were helpless to resist.
The pitch-black cavity gulped and swallowed Maleah.
***
'Karl must be safe; it is difficult to die.'
Odette was anxiously waiting for Victor when a ringing sound sounded from somewhere.
[ 'Danger Shell' is broken! The status screen tracks Malea's location. ]
[ Malea's Location: The Belly of Disaster ]
'...What?'
The coral earrings she gave to Maleah were made from grinding tracking items from the shop in the status bar.
If the exterior were the same, it would surely be taken by Charlotte, so she deliberately painted it to change the appearance. By the way.
'Why? A kid who just went back to the mansion. How are you in the belly of disaster?'
Odette's complexion turned white. Shion also frowned.
"The capital's armor has been breached."
"What?"
"There's a disaster in this short distance. The little one did it three times in a row. The capital has built a barrier with mind control, but how on earth can you..."
Before Shion could finish speaking, the shadow beneath Odette's feet thickened in an instant.
"...?"
Before she could scream, she was sucked into the catastrophe on the floor. It was only after Odette was dragged away by the disaster that she realized that she was already in the womb of the disaster.
"!"
It happened in the blink of an eye. Odette was falling into a bottomless abyss.
The entrance to the disaster was quickly distant. The vision was pitch black without any light at once. Trapped Inside, Odette instinctively realized that it was no longer possible to get out of the disaster.
It was then.
"Odette!"
In the distance, she could see a faint golden light. A huge chain of golden threads led around Odette as if to protect her. Shion had plunged into the disaster.
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