Book 9: Chapter 12: More terrible than painful thing (2/2)

This spider was just a corpse from the beginning. That man, who was called Yuan, had put magic into the spider's carcass and temporarily controlled it.

Monica might haven't seen it, but the spider on Felix's shoulder was also one of these. If it were a normal spider, it wouldn't have died from being thrown at the window. But it fell down because the supply of magic was cut off and turned back into a corpse. If anything, the goal of manipulating a non-poisonous spider could only be for a diversion. And Monica knew that, so she didn't use her magic to get rid of the spiders.

Monica quietly brushed off the spider carcass that was still stuck to her skin.

”…Spider would never scare me.”

After all, the thing that frightened Monica most is always people.

Even the word ‘justice' that had no malice would make people trample innocent people or even kill them.

To Monica Raine, who has her father taken away from these terrifying people, she was hoping all of them to disappear.

To Monica Norton, who had found her precious friend in the Serendia Academy changed her thinking, she wants to protect all these people.

And so, Monica Everett made one conclusion.

”I don't fear spiders nor dragons, but human…  it's the most terrifying thing to me. That's why I think I could hurt or even do something worse.”

”Is that supposed to be a threat? What do you mean by ‘do something even worse'? Are you going to torture me?”

”Cyril” sneered at Monica.

Is a little girl like her can even bear doing the torture thing, in the first place?

In front of that man, Monica formulated a spell. Since Monica didn't imbue her spell with mana, it wouldn't be activated. But, Yuan and Heidi who heard Monica's chant, their complexion change drastically.

Monica was planning to cast the kind spell that banned in the Ridill Kingdom, a mind spell. It was a spell to dominate and control people to your bidding. With that spell, she could make them tell her everything.

Struggling a bit, Yuan opened his mouth.

”…hey, hey, should that spell supposed to be forbidden in this country?”

”Among the forbidden books that only the Seven Sages could read, there was a book that described the mind-involving spell. Once you know the theory, it's not hard to reproduce.”

If Yuan resisted, she would not hesitate to use the forbidden spell. So, if he didn't want to be turned into a vegetable, he should answer her everything, or so Monica threatened. But Yuan raised his head and laughed.

”Aha… hahaha… I thought you're just a little girl… but also a crazy one at that, huh. To think you could pluck out someone else life emotionlessly like a chess piece. I guess that's your true nature, am I right, Monica Everett of the Silent Witch?” confronted ”Cyril” in Monica's ruthless manner. And maybe what he said was not wrong.

Monica, who only sees people as numbers, could hurt people without feeling anything.

And she's able to do it.

No matter how much she tries to imitate Lana, she will never be able to be like Lana.

…Even then.

As long she could protect people she care about, she would pluck everything that threatened her friends, even it would make her being called a merciless witch.

”…this is your last chance… tell me your goal, all of it.”

”Hey, Silent Witch… do you know what the real Cyril is doing right now?”

The last time Monica saw Cyril was at the ballroom. She has not seen him since then.

And Yuan didn't miss it when Monica twitched her shoulder.

”I had my people monitoring him right now. If anything happens to me… they will kill the owner of this face.”

Trying to imitate Cyril's manner, Yuan expressed his stubbornness with a smile.

”…You will release this cage for me, right?”

”………”

After a few seconds of conflict in her mind, Monica released the lightning cage.

Yuan pushed the defenseless Monica down to the floor, mounted her, and held her wrists.

”The crueler you can be for someone else, the more that someone else will drag you down, don't you think that's ironic?”

Even if she can't move right now, Monica still can kill this man.

But if Monica harmed this man, Cyril would die.

Heidi got up and put a handkerchief soaked in the drug over Monica's mouth.

”Mm! Mmmm!”

It was the kind of drug that would make a person who smelled its strong odor lose consciousness. Even after trying to hold her breath, a small sniff still made her very dizzy.

If her consciousness got more clouded, she would unable to cast spells, and the situation will be worsened.

Monica tried to resist but the smile on Yuan's face which resembled Cyril's turned more twisted.

Then he leaned forward and ran his tongue down Monica's neck as she struggled to hold her breath.

”Mmm!?”

Monica screamed and unconsciously inhaled the drug hard in the spur of the moment. The back of her head went numb and her vision distorted languidly.

She can't calculate accurately. The beautiful mathematical formulas that run through her head, the magic formulas, were distorting and collapsing.

”…mm… m…”

Yuan licked his lips as he watched Monica letting inaudible voices before she stopped her resistance and give in to the drug.

”You know, I am more experienced in doing some cruel thing to people. Now, let's do some cruel thing, shall we?”