Episode 443 The Fall of the House of Usher (3)
The story of Sinclair came to Tudor’s mind.
‘In the past, when the emperor went to subjugate the Usher family, it is said that the Usher family wanted a place where the emperor and the head of the family could talk one-on-one with all the attendants behind each other.’
The emperor experienced the betrayal of two of his henchmen in a place where he firmly believed that no one could harm him.
The Assassins of the House of Usher were just as stealthy and astute.
Tudor still thought that what we could learn from this anecdote was that Usher assassins had been trying to gain the trust of their targets since a very long time ago.
……But the reality was one step ahead of that.
The cold wind felt from behind Tudor hurriedly turned his head to the side
.
Bianca’s dagger swung through Tudor’s side.
“Bianca!”
Tudor’s voice didn’t seem to reach her.
I can’t see the firearm from before in the empty pupil.
Madeline laughed at Bianca, who was standing there like a doll.
“As long as the family members of the Usher family are inside the mansion, they will be brainwashed without even realizing it. The road leading to the inside of the mansion is, in a way, the path that draws the magic circle of brainwashing. Walking along that road is the condition for brainwashing.”
She continued with a wink at Tudor.
“The line you uttered at the end is the trigger. Once brainwashed, outsiders will be considered the number one kill.”
“Shit!”
Tudor raised his spear.
Bianca, expressionless, raised her bow and fired an arrow.
Puffup!
The spear rotated once and hit the arrows.
However, Bianca’s rate of fire was as fast as ever, and even Tudor had to step back.
“…… Ugh! You seem to be stronger than when you were sober?”
Tudor smiles and jokes, but Bianca’s expression is cold.
Madeline laughed at Bianca, who had turned into a doll.
“Finally, that young and fresh body is in my hands! I’ve always been worried about this half-rotten body!”
After speaking, Madeline threw off the belly band that was covering her stomach.
Then, there, the rotten skin of the stomach and the empty abdomen inside were clearly visible.
“…As expected. Did the real Madeline die a long time ago?”
“Hohoho- that’s right. I’ve had a lot of trouble covering up the stench. I always had to stock up on things like perfume and dried flowers. But that’s good-bye now.”
Madeline turned her head to look at Rodrick, who was sitting on the chair.
“Poor Roderick. That’s why you should just hand over your body to me. Because you’re so stubborn, your daughter will pay the price instead.”
Roderick’s pupils flinched at her words.
Tudor called to Roderick with a ray of hope.
“Rodrick! Your daughter is in danger! You have to get up! The devil is after Bianca’s body!”
Tudor continued to yell, avoiding Bianca, who fired arrows with blank eyes.
But Roderick couldn’t budge on the spot.
The pupils shook for a moment, but soon the thick mist of water and the red spirit of death wrapped around Rodrick’s body again.
Madeleine giggled.
“Ho-ho-ho- what do you expect when you see miasma rising from the swamp?”
It was as she said.
The devil had poisoned the entire swamp, and it engulfed the entire mansion, mixed with the moisture that rose to the surface.
“Keugh…”
Tudor knew too.
It is impossible to purify the mansion unless you completely remove this mist that flows around the entire mansion.
That’s why Bikir also said that if you fight inside the mansion, you won’t win, so didn’t you lure the devil outside?
But even that was impossible because of Bianca rushing right in front of her eyes.
If only Tudor ran outside, the devil wouldn’t budge.
Because he had already obtained the body of Bianca he wanted so much.
“Relax! Bianca!”
Tudor pushed Bianca through the spear and turned the tip of the blade.
Rather than dealing with Bianca, I was thinking of aiming for Madeline right behind me.
however.
“Ho-ho-ho- that can’t be it.”
Madeline was still motionless on the spot.
With a posture that reveals absolute confidence and arrogance as it is.
Kirik –
Bianca aims an arrow at Tudor’s back as he runs toward Madeline.
at that time.
“……!”
Madeline’s eyes widened slightly.
Surprisingly, Tudor ran towards Madeline without looking back, despite Bianca aiming an arrow behind him.
Kiyiying –
A blue aura like a tsunami forms at the end of Gungnir.
I could see that he was pouring all his energy into the front without paying any attention to the threat behind his back.
“Ho-ho-ho-what do you trust your friend? Do you think he won’t shoot an arrow?”
“shut up!”
Tudor continued to run towards the front where Madeline was located.
Despite the fact that Bianca, standing behind her, raised her bow and arrow and aimed at Tudor’s back.
Madeline’s eyebrows curled seductively.
“It’s pitiful. Whoever isn’t a fool of the Don Quixote family will eventually die from the arrow of the woman he loves. As expected, the end of love is the grave.”
Before long, she coldly ordered Bianca behind her.
“Honey. Shoot. Let’s make it comfortable now.”
Receiving Madeline’s orders, Bianca immediately moved.
Bianca, without hesitation, pulls a protest at her friend Tudor’s back.
Soon, an arrow exploded with tremendous force.
…Puff!
Bianca’s full power and mana shot out, creating a whitish gust of wind.
It flew in a graceful parabola and landed on Tudor’s back. The sound of
flesh
being torn and blood splattering echoed through the room.
“Ho-ho-ho-ho- they’re so good, they’re like sloppy people! Now Usher and Don Quixote are all over!”
Madeline went mad the moment she saw Bianca’s arrow stuck in Tudor’s back.
……however.
Her laughter didn’t last long.
Peruk –
Red blood oozing from Tudor’s back and stomach.
Bianca’s arrow had apparently penetrated Tudor’s body.
And at that moment, as if he knew in advance the direction and location of the arrow, Tudor shifted his stance to the side and rotated his body so that the sniper tore the flesh of his side and flew away.
In this way, the arrow that passed through Tudor’s body flew away leaving only a relatively light wound.
An arrow stained red by Tudor’s blood.
Oops-billion!
It flew without losing any power and, to my surprise, was lodged right in the center of Madeline’s eyebrows.
“Fuck!?”
Madeline was horrified by the arrow that pierced her skull and came out of the back of her head.
The vision was blackened and the accident stopped for an instant.
His whole body began to tremble and stagger.
Even if he was a devil, he had his head pierced by an unexpected arrow, and he couldn’t help but be agitated.
What’s more, this dark blood smeared on the arrowhead…!
‘……Please go to a comfortable place.’
Along with strange hallucinations in my head, memories that were not my own began to emerge in the middle of my blackened vision.
A body cooling down. A rough palm that covered his vision. A face and voice full of scars.
‘……He’s a good person.’
At the same time, Madeline felt her body tremble violently.
She felt her fingers and toes curl up in a grotesque contortion, like an insect curling itself inside when it dies.
“Aww!”
When Madeline was twisting and moaning.
Right then.
“run!”
Bianca’s pupils returned to normal.
She grabbed Tudor by the back of his neck as he stumbled, bleeding from his side, and turned around and started running.
Bianca and Tudor threw themselves through a window beyond the ice wall, which collapsed from Madeline’s impact.
at the same time.
…Push!
Tudor lit the black firecrackers he had drawn from the moment the arrow pierced his body.
“…I can’t believe it. You weren’t brainwashed!? Why!”
Madeline was running forward without collapsing despite having been pierced in the forehead and back of the head by arrows.
But was it too unexpected? It didn’t stop Bianca and Tudor from throwing themselves out the window into the swamp.
…with a plop!
The mud and bogs of the swamp cover the whole body.
An unpleasant sensation, as if the evil spirit of red death was stretching out its long tongue and licking the whole body.
But in the meantime, Tudor and Bianca looked at each other and made up their minds.
Before long, Tudor’s arm, which was on the surface of the water, was stretched out high.
Bianca was holding such a Tudor from sinking into the swamp.
Pushyuk – Putong!
Firecrackers exploded. A black pillar stretches high into the sky.
It was clear enough to see beyond the ridge where Bikir would be waiting after completing some preparations.
“Success!”
Without a doubt, Tudor and Bianca hugged each other.
“Nice job Bianca! One last arrow went right in!”
“……If it wasn’t for the blood of Piggy that I put on the arrowhead in advance, it would have failed.”
But the work isn’t completely over yet.
[Ke-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! You sneaky bugs!]
The screams that burst out from the windows were clearly not human.
A voice that pierces the listener’s eardrum and drives fear like a stake into it.
devil’s voice.
It must have been that Madeline was showing her true colors.
Upon hearing that, Tudor and Bianca nodded as if they had promised.
As the original purpose was to lure the devil out of the mansion, Tudor and Bianca quickly dived into the swamp.
Dive –
It’s too far to swim to the bridge connecting the mansion and the ground.
It was better to move slowly while holding your breath as much as possible in the water, as there was a risk of being caught by the demon.
Tudor and Bianca swam beneath the murky water of black aquatic plants.
Above the surface of the water, reddish ogre fires were hovering round and round, and the eerie and bleak scene beneath the water was clearly visible.
…kwak! Plop- Plop- Plop- Dive!
There was the sound of the mansion’s windows being smashed behind them, and I could feel the wreckage of the broken windows falling on the swamp’s surface.
The surface of the water is violently distorted.
[……Where are you! ……Where is it!]
For some reason, the devil’s voice came straight from the water.
Tudor and Bianca held back the chill down their spines and dived deeper and deeper.
Black aquatic plants reach out like water ghosts.
Avoiding the light emitted by the reddish ogre fires, Tudor and Bianca hid in the aquatic plant forest.
And many began to move forward through the heavy bogs and ripples at the bottom of the swamp, where they had sunk.
slowly. slowly. To lure the devil out of the mansion.
Heading over the ridge where Bikir and his friends are waiting.
