154 Cursed life V (1/2)
Part 1
”What was that...?” Evlin asked as she fell on her knees trying to hold her own head.
For some reason, part of Mia's life just started to flash right before her eyes as if she was watching some kind of movie.
She tried to analyze her surroundings. The last thing she remembers was shooting Mia in the heart with a diamond bullet to stop the girl from killing her mother in the middle of an abandoned amusement park. But now she was finding herself in a completely different place surrounded by nothingness anywhere she looked.
”The white void...?? What am I doing in here???” she questioned trying to make sense of the situation.
”Yaaaayyy!!! New roommate!!!” a girl said after leaping on top of Evlin and hugging her neck.
”Ugh!! What the...??” Evlin turned around and spotted who it was, a young-looking girl covered in leaves, with dreadlocked hair made of vines and a skin completely drenched in green, ”The dryad???”
”Excuse me!! I have a name, thank you very much!! It's Drya! Even you shouldn't forget about it so easily... Hmpf!” the dryad said as she crossed her arms and pouted.
”What is happening??” Evlin asked as she stared at the demon plant in confusion.
”The fight is over... Evlin, the human...” said a blond man appearing behind Evlin who had a wide smirk on his face.
”North?? Wait... What's going on??” Evlin questioned again, still feeling lost.
”The fight between you and my champion has come to an end... And now... The one true queen shall stand victorious... And just as I predicted, you lost... AND MY QUEEN WON!!”
”What? No!! I ended this!! I... I...” Evlin tried to spill the words that she didn't want to come out from her mouth, ”I killed Mia...”
”Indeed!” North nodded in agreement.
”But wait... You just said...” Evlin questioned.
”Girl, try to think for a moment!” Drya said while pinching Evlin's cheek, ”You just turned someone that rules over all the spirits into a spirit... Right after completely emptying all your magic power... What do you think is going to happen next?”
Evlin's eyes opened up more than ever before as she finally understood what situation she was in, ”Oh, no...”
”Oh, yes!!” Drya said while hugging Evlin, ”Welcome to the rest of your life!”
Evlin was about to punch the plant girl when she suddenly felt someone pulling her shirt from behind. She turned around and spotted a little girl that was about half her size with ponytails looking at her with blank eyes. She recognized the girl, she was someone who would usually hold a cheerful expression, but this time, her face had little to no emotion. Her eyes were half-open as if she was extremely bored.
”Mia...?” Evlin said.
”Guess you couldn't do it either huh?” the girl asked.
”Do it...?”
”What? What do you mean??”
”I really thought you would be able to do it... I thought if anyone could do it... It would be the girl from another world that did the impossible and managed to beat the demon leader with nothing but her crossbow... But in the end... You were just like the rest...”
Mia said as she stared at North and Drya.
”I asked them to try and end me as well... By I was the one who finished them up when all was said and done...”
Evlin just looked at Mia with disbelief, ”You... You wanted to lose...? You wanted to die...?”
Mia kept her joyless expression while scratching her chin as she responded, ”You need to be alive to die... I can barely consider myself alive right now... I don't feel anything... Ever!” Mia explained, ”At first I just couldn't feel bad emotions... But eventually, I couldn't feel any emotion at all... And after that... I was just a moving body trying to operate based on memories...”
”...”
”I don't feel pain when I get stabbed... I don't feel hungry even if I don't eat... I don't feel tired even if I don't sleep... I might as well be a machine...”
Evlin looked at Mia for a moment, barely being able to recognize her with how different the girl in front of her right now was from the usual happy-go-lucky psycho that always treated everything as a game, and finally understood what she was trying to achieve.
Evlin could feel it after learning about Mia's past. The reason she was always so playful was because she was trying to not forget what it felt like to be happy, trying desperately to not forget how to feel.
”Why you didn't ask North to give your bad emotions back?”
”He can't... That was the deal we made... My end will only come should I fall in battle... A real battle, with no surrendering or anything... But do you know how hard it is to fall in battle when you have a body that feeds on human misery?? Every time I get punched, stabbed, shot, sliced... All it takes is a few seconds of being around any person on the face of the planet to just make any injury go away...”
”But why were you antagonizing me so much if you wanted me to win??”
”That wasn't me... That was them...” she said while pointing at North and Drya.
”What??” Evlin gasped as she turned towards them.
”North wouldn't let me face you if I wasn't going at it with all I had... And Drya kept talking about how the best way to do that was with tormenting your family...”
Evlin glared at the two. She wanted to grab her gauntlets and strangle them for all the anguish they caused, but right now, she was merely a projection of how she saw herself.
”But now it's over... In the end... Even you couldn't do it... Now there is nobody left in here to put an end to it...” Mia whispered.
Evlin returned her attention to her.
”Mia... What's going to happen now??”
”...”
Part 2
”Aunt Evie...?” Ellie asked as she looked at her aunt standing still in front of Mia's body.
Evlin's figure was looking somewhat cold and intimidating while holding the pose of someone about to shot a person with a crossbow for some reason, not helped by being engulfed from the shadows of the buildings around the park blocking the sun, making it look like Evlin was holding a gun.
”She... She did it!!! She stopped Mia!!!” Detra yelled as she hugged Lance with an immense sense of relief and on the verge of tears knowing that she didn't need to worry about the demons waking up anymore.