Vol 1 Chapter 5 (2/2)
”Hina, are you ok—”
”—Impudent knaves!”
Hina shouted, burying the sole of her boot into the face of a 's head was crushed and exploded, splashi+ng all around Hina landed
”Thank you for your concern, Lord Kaito Sure enough, you are so kind But now”
The sa over at Elisabeth's side
Skeletons were crawling all over her metal ball Despite their shtly to the spikes on the round, forcefully stopping the ht a battle of attrition
”Ahh, retpain to your womb? You shall be killed by the rehtered Do you feel it? Their intense hatred, blood lust, sorrow, does it sting your skin and burn your flesh!+? My lady!”
Clutching her lower abdoer
Countless lances had their tips pointed at Elisabeth Elisabeth iers
Arrabbed the lances Equal nu to drag the themselves into the open chest cavities, one after another, invading the internals of the Iron Maidens, breaking their gears
With a stor attacked, Marianne cried out:
”My lady, did you know? Your people whom you have killed, they used to have ordinary lives that they wanted to protect? No one deserved to die by your hand, you know? My lady!”
Marianne looked very bizarre The ecstatic red flush on her face had subsided Pressing her hand firh she were in pain, shedding tears nonstop
”Why? Why? My lady, why did you have to perpetrate such cruel acts? Why, why did you not understand!? My ladyyyyyyyyyy!”
”Her mind has split huh?”
Kaito could not help but mutter Marianne's conduct was very unstable While driven by love in ecstasy, trying to kill Elisabeth, she was also tearfully de her to show remorse and contrition
”My lady, ill you not understand? I have given up on being myself What you have done will make everyone weep, I must kill you I must stop you and it must be I ill stop you”
Only now did Kaito realize that Marianne's mind was completely broken She had been utterly crushed by the hell on earth created by Elisabeth as well as the guilt of failing to prevent Elisabeth's atrocities
”my, my, my lady, it was my fault, so”
What was in front of Kaito and coone completely mad
E a sharp cry that resembled a scream, Marianne covered her face On that hat of hers, the white lilies silently shook Elisabeth clicked her tongue and said quietly:
”How tragic, Marianne This was all done by your hand”
At that rabbed by a skeleton's hand She was pulled into a large group of undead all at once These people whohtered cruelly, their rotted bodies bri with concentrated blood thirst and hatred, and Torturchen was coe in this blood thirst and hatred
Contely and cruel Elisabeth!
Be cursed, be cursed, be cursed, be cursed, forever be cursed, Elisabeth!
Kaito felt like he could hear the dead's pitiful cries, but not to outdone, he shouted loudly:
”Elisabeth! Co around, hey!”
”Lady Elisabeth, Hina shall come assist you!”
Hina cried out too and charged Before she got there, the skeletons rattled and squir to make Elisabeth savor the pain they had experienced Marianne shouted again:
”Did you know? Did you know? My lady, my lady!”
”So like that I”
A feeble voice leaked out from the skeletons Hina hastily halted At the same time, a voice exploded
”I knew it Long agoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
Acco a thunderous shout, chains extended out like an explosion
With Elisabeth at the center, countless chains erupted, swirling in a vortex like a hurricane, sweeping away the undead coed by the chains, producing an endless sound of breaking bones
The vortex of chains was like the bloo all around The chains swept across the ground, s all the people who the wildly flying chains that were like a multi-headed snake, Hina murmured:
”As expected of Lady Elisabeth, how beautiful However, this is bad news! Excuse me, Lord Kaito!”
”Woah!”
Hina dashed at full speed, picking up Kaito in a princess carry to head off In the next instant, chains struck their forht in the stor charred tis
After the dust settled, only Elisabeth re in the center
Like a cat with all hairs standing on end, she was panting heavily
Marianne had backed away The few re in front of her Before they could charge at her, Elisabeth stabbed the Executioner's Sword of Frankenstahl into the stone tiles at her feet
”hell Hole!”
This shout su the road surface to sink into a funnel shape, ensnaring all of The Knights
At the botto around These insects, covered withwith black luster, seehts' bodies were subed in insects Their rotten flesh bitten off by the insects' tiny teeth, they emitted horrific screams Faced with this abundance of food, the swarht
”!”
Marianne backed away step by step but a chain penetrated the surrounding ground and flew out like a snake, entangling her skinny body andher into the air exactly how she re to know Elisabeth's answer to her earlier cries, she stared straight at Elisabeth
In front of her, Elisabeth earing a solemn expression with both hands superimposed on her sword's hilt
”I ao, but kept it to myself”
Marianne's eyes widened slightly in surprise Elisabeth stared back straight into her blue-gray eyes
”In this world, not one of my people deserved to die by my hand Everyone I killed had wholesoht to enjoy their lives Whoically, mercilessly, tyrannically, I sliced theht There is no way for me to redeem such heavy sins even with my death”
Elisabeth confessed her sins sincerely but at the sa her sins, but unrepentant Elisabeth declared firmly:
”It ith full knowledge and understanding of all this that—I became Torturchen”
What was the reason behind that? Elisabeth did not elaborate
The e the heat froreat fire, the wind howled in apparent lamentation
Contely and cruel Elisabeth!
Be cursed, be cursed, be cursed, be cursed, forever be cursed, Elisabeth!
Taking on the grudge and hatred from all of the deceased on her own, Elisabeth continued:
”I desire neither forgiveness nor understanding I used to take joy in screams and take pleasure in despair With derision, profanity and cursing, go to hell My apologies, Marianne”
”My lady”
”Soon enough, I shall follow in your footsteps Worry not, it will definitely not be long”
Elisabeth curled the corners of her lips slightly Although the childish look persisted for merely an instantly, she looked more vulnerable than usual
Elisabeth applied more force to the Executioner's Sword of Frankenstahl in her hand Seeing that, Marianne shook her head She closed her eyes, then opened theoverness
”My lady, I know The Executioner's Sword of Frankenstahl is a high-level catalyst for su torture instruments and chains However, it itself is sword of execution forged for the sake of decapitating sinners while burned at the stake, to relieve the, a weapon filled ar like that?”
”Indeed I shall use it to chop off your head, you ordinary woone insane”
”That will not do, my lady This runs corant mercy to me alone Since your twistedness cannot be rectified even unto death, please use a torture instruhter me cruelly”
Elisabeth tensed her expression slightly Marianne's eyes were filled with strong determination while she scolded Elisabeth:
”Only by rejecting and slaughteringwill you prove that there is no one capable of shaking your spirit That even after you were captured to beco of the Church, your spirit remains that of a tyrant In that case, such is your true colors!”
Marianne closed her eyes for a mooverness, she gave Elisabeth a final warning
”Showing mercy to even one person will shake your determination Remember this well”
Elisabeth did not respond However, Marianne suddenly put away her strict expression as a governess Like facing a willful child, she showed a very gentle gaze
”I love you sincerely, s have cohtest since your childhood”
Marianne sently then spoke with sincere sorrow:
”If you were to kill me now, I fear that there will never be anyone in this world ill love you”
”Yes, you are correct Forever and ever, there will be no one”
Elisabeth quietly agreed Marianne nodded and lowered her head as though waiting for her execution
Elisabeth released the Executioner's Sword of Frankenstahl she was holding, her gorgeous black hair fluttering in the breeze She looked up at the sky with an exceptionally cal between the tomen The executioner and the condemned Neither of them moved
At that moment, the air around Kaito made a noise and froze
”What's happening?”
A few seconds after the strange noise rese, Kaito finally noticed as odd in the surroundings
The scene within his view had taken on a slightly blue tinge, frozen Elisabeth, Hina and the particles of bone and dust rolling in the wind, everything was motionless Kaito reached out in trepidation, but a transparenthi them
”What's going on? Hey, Elisabeth, Hina!”
Kaito yelled loudly but they could not hear hi confused, he suddenly felt someone behind him and turned around
”A pleasure to make your acquaintance, innocent soul”
”A pleasure to make your acquaintance, innocent soul”
He sao girls dressed in atheir skirt hems in a curtsy
One of the in one hand a box that was tied with a ribbon The other was holding up a watch whose hands had stopped Their long hair, flowing down their back, was eans, Kaito realized that these tere not people but dolls
Expressionless, they ain
”Do you think Elisabeth will kill her?”
”Will Torturchen be able to do the deed?”
”What's going on? What are you two talking about?”
”How tragic, killing someone who loves you”
”How sad, killing someone who admires you”
”You're right, but it's not like I can stop it”
Kaito clenched his fist He did not understand what kind of bonds and debts existed between Marianne and Elisabeth, nor what kind of memories they had between the, so he had no idea ould be right
This was Elisabeth's choice and decision Her choice had no room for Kaito's half-baked ideas to interfere at all However, the two maids shook their heads in perfect unison
”Who say anything about stopping her?”
”Not a single word”
” ”We are not asking what you will do, not what Elisabeth will do” ”
”Huh?”
Kaito had no clue what they were talking about anymore Besides, who the heck were they?
Thethe box cleared her throat mechanically and quietly approached Kaito stepped back warily However, thethe contents to Kaito
The instant he saw that thing, Kaito felt a violent urge to vomit He covered his mouth with his hands
”Gah, urgghhhh”
Inside the box, a greatPal about on eight legs that were covered in feathers In the center of the box, there was a baby buried in the spiders, unbelievably Kaito wanted to reach out to rescue hiasped in horror
”Don't tell, this is”
”Oh dear, he realized, huh?”
”Yes, he figured it out, huh?”
A closer look showed that the chubby healthy baby's lower body had spider legs Already filled with teeth, his little rin
Feeling a penetrating shock to his head, Kaito understood at the same time
”This thing Don't tell me it's The Earl?”
Speaking of which, The Earl was not a the swar them earlier
Kaito shuddered in revulsion and took a step back At the same time, the two maids spoke:
”Marianne has preserved The Earl's soul too”
”We have injected it into a human baby”
” ”Left alone, he would probably grow up into so like that accursed man” ”
With a flabby hand, the baby was stroking the spiders' backs like playing lovingly with pets With eyes filled with crafty intellect, he looked down at the spiders, s contentedly with malice
Kaito subconsciously raised a fist but did not swing it down If this thing before him were identical to The Earl last ti blow This was soh this thing was fundamentally the same as The Earl, it was still a baby after all
Kaito could not bring hi a baby in cold blood would htly clenched fist open and slowly stroked his own cheek that had turned pale
Noticing Kaito's appearance, the two lances and nodded
”Ah, sure enough, it is beyond hiht off the bat”
”Oh well, ill just have to be patient”
” ”Let it be for now” ”
The round without hesitation
The spiders panicked and rushed out froaps in the s spiders that got in his way The maid used the tip of her foot to flip the baby then stepped down hard on him
”Wha!”
With inhuth, the baby's fat belly was deforans were squeezed out, different from human ones in shape Amid the vivid pool of blood, the baby twitched for a while then beca this excessively cruel scene, Kaito was speechless In front of hied
”Very well, it is flattened now Are you relieved?”
”It has been well taken care of Nothing to worry anyht?”
”I wasn't No, that's not it I definitely am relieved da in the first place! Why did you do that?”
”Precisely Even if we squash one now, more can be created”
”So long as the necro the soul in her womb does not die, it can be recreated endlessly”
Listening to the two lanced at the baby's pitiful corpse To think that they could creatematter
”Now the issue we face is this Will Elisabeth kill her, or not kill her?”
”If she does not kill her, ill capture Marianne and use her to mass produce The Earl”
Kaito turned towards Marianne, as restrained by chains, only to see her pale face showing she was fully prepared for death and well as deeply tired of life She was not supposed to be someone ould become a necromancer in the first place
”So what you're saying is that you guys are going to cruelly force her to work, even though she's already broken, is it?”
”Until Marianne's fragileThe Earl to release outside”
”Indeed, when the time comes, that scene will reappear Countless instances of Grand Guignol will be reenacted happily nonstop”
The two maids smiled coldly at each other Kaito could feel his vision turning red froer
At the same time, the spider's restless appearance surfaced in Kaito'shelplessly, sed away to disappear
He felt as though he could hear pitiful screa broken The first person to wish Kaito a happy life had been cruelly killed in this manner
Anger and blood lust filled up Kaito's ears somewhere in his brain Kaito slowly looked up, his eyes abnormally widened In an icy voice, he asked the two maids:
”Do you think I will let you succeed?”
”This courage, foolhardy at best, is quite impressive”
”But you are uided The one you need to kill is not us”
Raising one side of their skirt heain The maid who had throay the box motioned to the chain-bound Marianne while the other h
”Very well, time to resume”
”You have only seconds to make your call Please be decisive”
” ”Do not leave regrets for yourself” ”
Instantly, the two of them vanished and color returned to the world The cold wind blew, ashes and dust flew in the sky Biting her lip hard, Elisabeth raised her arh
At the saround and took off
There were only a few seconds left for hi to snap her fingers or not, there was no tiers, there would be no chance to stop events froedy in the future
Kaito naturally understood what the twocalmly and clearly, he understood what he needed to do and instantly turned thoughts into action
Kaito pulled out the Executioner's Sword of Frankenstahl froical assistance, the sas unexpectedly light He turned towards Elisabeth and ignoring her surprised red eyes, he walked up to her extreitimacy of this act
(Even if I don't do it, Marianne will still be killed Either dying in pain and suffering under Elisabeth's torture or being exploited to the limit by others until she is useful to no one, these are the only paths awaiting her)
hell was the end, regardless which path taken This fact diluted Kaito's sense of guilt, allowing him to choose the only solution without resistance
”—Sorry”
Kaito made a thrust at Marianne with the sword
Magically enhanced, the blade effortlessly pierced her chest
”Huh?”
Marianne widened her eyes in shock and coughed out a lot of blood Showered with blood in that instant, Kaito felt like he aking up fro Warm blood dripped down his face Instantly, he was confused what he was doing Suppressing the sto up, he sloithdrew his hands fro eye contact with Marianne, all he could do wasat Kaito's expression, for some reason, Marianne smiled
”A-Ahhh W-With this Finally, re pa id—”
Uttering fragmented words, her face finally froze in a peaceful expression and her neck fell powerlessly
Ru over her final words in a daze, Kaito realized a certain possibility at the same time
”Don't tell me, you”
Could it be that Marianne actually did not want Elisabeth to keep adding to her sins? However, there was no time for Kaito to ponder this before he was viciously bloay from the side
”Gwah!”
A flying kick delivered to Kaito's abdo on the road that was covered with frag when he finally s hi throughout this body While coughing blood, Kaito looked up
Elisabeth was standing at his earlier location, looking expressionlessly at Marianne's dead body After a fairly long tiripped the hilt of the sword buried in Marianne's chest and pulled it out forcefully A great around black
With her black hair fluttering, she turned towards Kaito Filled with cold fury, her eyes narrowed
”Useless dog, why did you act without permission? If you answer fails to satisfy me, I expect you know the outcome?”
Kaito gazed blankly at the pale hand approaching hiertips were about to touch hi before him Hina had picked hi Kaito with her right arround before finally stopping Elisabeth clicked her tongue
”Put that thing down, puppet”
”I refuse You are not my master”
The two of theht anythat Elisabeth was not an opponent she could handle with one hand, Hina put down Kaito and stepped forward to shi+eld hirinned in exasperation
Kaito wanted to stop the leaked out when he opened his mouth Unable to speak He desperately forced air down to the botto, and stuttered:
”Y-You two, cut it out”
Just as he finally squeezed these words out with difficulty, he realized his surroundings had frozen again
The twowithin his view, blurred from the intense pain and the impact on his abdomen One of the maid's shoe was dirty fro up a watch The two of them stared at Kaito expressionlessly with their cracked violet eyes In the next instant, the two beautiful faces turned unbelievably twisted into gentle expressions
With utterly terrifying sain
”You passed, innocent soul”
”Our master will summon you”
The two rabbed the immobile Kaito by the shoulder Kaito could not th even if he wanted to resist, and was forcefully lifted up Gradually dragged away, Kaito turned his head weakly to look back After being pulled some distance away, the blue and frozen scenery suddenly started to ain
”Hmm? Kaito?”
”Huh? L-Lord Kaito? No way Lord Kaito, where did you go!?”
Noticing that Kaito had disappeared, Elisabeth and Hina frantically looked around the they could find him Hina looked in Kaito's direction but in that instant
Grol grol, grol
Darkness swirled in a vortex as though to block their view, looking as though it would devour everything The darkness grohile forhest quality
Soon after, the darkness transfor in its eyes
Freezing the surrounding air with its i presence, The Emperor had appeared
Guhiehehehehhehehehe, huyuhehehehehehehehe, guhieheheheheheh
Towards Elisabeth and Hina, that thing ehter
At the end of this despairing scene, Kaito's consciousness faded into darkness