shell
shell.
As if she hadn’t fully recovered yet, the intense tiredness weighed heavily on her eyelids. It made me want to lie down and take a deep breath anywhere in this place right now.
Of course, I couldn’t do that until I confirmed that my colleagues were safe.
“I’d like you to come down for a moment.”
“Yep!”
As soon as Pearly answered, the white threads wrapped around my body unraveled by themselves. With both feet planted on the hard floor, I had time to look around a bit.
A passageway that looks exactly like the one you’ve often seen since entering this hiding place. An ordinary door located at the end of a really unusual passage.
Is there a real ‘God’s Vessel’ beyond that door?
While I was examining the door, my mother’s hand, wriggling out of my arms, quickly transformed into a girl’s form.
‘killing?’
My mother stood up on tiptoe and touched my cheeks here and there, saying that my face was completely cut in half, and asked if I was feeling okay.
“Your body is fine. It keeps getting better. Pearly.”
“huh? why?”
“By the way, do you know how to open this door?”
At my question, Pearly glanced at the door in front of her and smiled at me.
“Looks like it’s not locked, right? I’ll open it once!”
She reached out to open the door, but turned her head to stare at me.
why are you staring
When I looked at her with a puzzled look on my face, Pearly smiled bashfully and said:
“Aren’t you sad that I didn’t help you when you fought Horlu?”
And then, at some point, Pearly disappeared without a sound rumor. Even if there was something, it wouldn’t have been much help because Horlu’s nature of being a gold person and using poison didn’t match Pearly’s fighting style.
“I am not particularly sad. Didn’t you find a passage to this place by taking advantage of my fight in the first place?”
“It’s not?”
“…yes?”
little embarrassment. After that, Pearly giggled and continued talking calmly.
“The passage leading here was revealed by itself as the metal covering the walls fell off after Horlu died! I didn’t find it! I just took care of you, who collapsed while hiding! Yep!”
‘killing.’
Mother’s testimony that Pearly was right. My mother added a little, saying that it was really cold to see her appearing after she had been sneakily hiding.
“Why on earth do you bother revealing that fact now?”
“As you will soon find out, ‘me’ right now can’t take too many risks as usual! That’s why I said it honestly beforehand. Marnac’s personality is such that if I speak frankly like this, even if I become really defenseless after a while, I won’t stab you in the back! Hi-Hi!”
‘Kill and kill.’
Jung My mother’s whisper that if you’re having a hard time, I’ll lightly hit the back of your head instead. I patted my mother on the head and laughed bitterly.
“I won’t betray you, so open the door first. I want to get things done here quickly and go help my colleagues.”
Pearly stared at me with two purple eyes and grinned.
“So you promised?”
“yes.”
‘killing.’
My mother muttered, ‘A promise made in words is very light’ as she fidgeted with the gun in her bosom. I smiled at my mother, who was fuller than anyone else with the thought of stabbing her in the back.
Even if she said it like that, she seemed to be quite attached to Pearly, so it was clear that she wouldn’t betray us first unless she stabbed us in the back first.
“I’ll open it now! Voila!”
As Pearly grabbed the handle and pushed the door open, the plain door that stood in our way opened more smoothly than any door we had ever passed.
It was a bright red space that greeted us beyond the open door without even the sound of a door being dragged.
A space that can only be described as red.
The ceiling, walls and floors of the space, which was about the size of a small auditorium, were filled with patterns I had never seen before.
Judging by the rarely seen black among all red, the original color of this space, which is all red, was not red. An unidentifiable bright red liquid was constantly flowing somewhere along a strange pattern. To be precise, toward the center of this space.
The strong smell of blood wafting through the air. That red liquid wasn’t human blood, but it had a strong scent of blood in it.
The curious thing was the red liquid flowing along the pattern on the ceiling. The liquids were flowing only in strange patterns, completely ignoring the laws of gravity.
I frowned slightly at the too thick scent of blood.
“It’s all red, so I can’t tell what’s what.”
“What will happen when we go inside? In case you don’t know, I’ll go in first.”
Before Pearly could finish her words, she stepped first into a space filled with viscous red liquid. As she strode in, the red space shuddered slightly, and something began to rise from its center.
I followed her into the red space.
Getting to the center of the space the size of a small auditorium wasn’t too difficult. Soon after arriving at the center of the space, we could see the identity of what had just risen.
It was a huge chunk of meat that lived and moved on its own. Huge chunks of meat, big enough to hold one person.
The chunk of meat was constantly wriggling and absorbing the red liquid that flowed incessantly.
Intuitively, I realized that the identity of that large piece of meat was the ‘God’s vessel’ we were looking for.
“This is the vessel of God that Liberatorio worked so hard for.”
Pearly couldn’t take her eyes off the huge chunk of meat. She answered me, looking at the wriggling lump of meat as if it were more precious than any other gold or silver treasure.
“that’s right. This is the ‘God’s Vessel’.”
To be honest, it was a little different from what I expected. I thought it was a vessel that would at least contain a god, so I thought it would be a well-combed human body, or something similarly completed.
I never thought it would be a completely unfinished piece of meat like this.
I looked around the god’s bowl and asked my mother, who was nosi, stepping on the red liquid flowing on the floor.
“Can you feel the energy of the sacred objects that sealed your mother’s divinity around you?”
Of course, I didn’t feel the energy of the sacred object that I believed to be here. At my question, my mother also closed her eyes and concentrated for a moment before tilting her head.
‘killing…?’
One word that I don’t feel at all.
If my mother’s holy relic is not here, it’s as if there’s no reason for me to come here. To put it bluntly, all the hard work he had done so far had been in vain.
“Purly, how the hell did this happen?”
“Wait a minute! I’ll fix it! Maybe it’s because you’re in here and you can’t feel it?”
Pearly quickly stretched out her hand and shoved her arm into the large chunk of meat and stirred it around.
“Hmm. Is this?”
As soon as she pulled out her arm, she felt the strong motherly divinity in Pearly’s grip.
‘killing!’
that’s the call. What Pearly pulled out of the large chunk of meat was a dried heart-shaped piece.
When she took out the heart-shaped relic from the meat, the speed at which the red liquid flowed into the meat slowed down significantly.
Could it be that he was promoting the completion of the vessel through the medium of his mother’s holy relic? If not, was the mother’s divinity the last button to complete the vessel?
“Come on, take it! receive! I don’t think I can hold it anymore!”
Upon accepting the heart-shaped relic from Pearly, I immediately understood what she meant when she said ‘I don’t think I can hold it anymore’.
“…Are you okay?”
Pearly’s arm, which had been inserted into the god’s vessel, gradually lost its shape and soon fell to the floor as a mass of liquid similar to the red liquids flowing on the floor. Perley, who suddenly became a one-armed person, answered me with an expression that really didn’t matter.
“are you okay! are you okay! It’s nothing like this! Anyway, is that what you were looking for?”
He nodded.
“you’re right.”
“I’m glad. I wondered what to do if the relic you were looking for wasn’t that! Hi-Hi.”
I glanced at God’s bowl and asked her.
“But if this happens, won’t the bowl of god that Pearly was looking for be incomplete?”
Pearly shook her head.
“No! no! Since I was trying to contain ‘God’ in the first place, I needed the holy relic you were looking for! Is that enough to hold a mortal like me right now? I’m much more satisfied with my current situation than you think!”
She looked around at the bowl of God, which was bigger than her body, and asked me.
“It looks a little big for me to use alone, but would you like to use a little too?”
“Do you write?”
“It’s complicated, so to speak, but if you want to use it, I’ll give you some!”
“hmm.”
Even if you don’t know what it is, wouldn’t it be better to try it out if it’s something that Liberatorio made with so much effort?
‘killing!’
Before I could nod my head and say yes to Pearly, my mother, who had been wandering around, burst out in front of me and shook her head vigorously.
I tilted my head at the sight of him telling me not to do it just by looking at it.
“Why is that?”
‘Kill and kill.’
The answer is that I just feel like that shouldn’t be the case. There was no rational reason for it, but it was not often that my mother spoke so earnestly in this way.
“All right.”
I smiled awkwardly at Pearly.
“Anyway, I think it would be better if I didn’t use it.”
Pearly looked back and forth between me and her mother, then asked her mother.
“Can I use that too?”
‘killing!’
My mother smiled and replied briefly, saying that you decide whether to use it or not. Of course, Pearly didn’t understand the answer, so I relayed my mother’s words to her.
“You can do whatever you want.”
“okay? I don’t care That’s it!”
She twisted her remaining arm around and took a deep breath. Pearly exhaled, “Whoa,” and her deep purple eyes looked straight at me. She smirked at me.
“Then can you help me a little with that bowl? Marnak?”
“I see.”
“Come on.”
As we approached Pearly, she started talking softly.
“Aren’t you curious why I couldn’t help you when you fought Horlu earlier?”
“Actually, I can roughly guess.”
“okay?”
“Isn’t that body Pearly’s real body?”
Perhaps it’s because the body of Pearly, who came here with me, is her true body. The reason Pearly was able to roll her body so far was because those bodies weren’t her real body, but dolls that were infinitely closer to the real thing.
I didn’t know what she was trying to do with the vessel of the god, but it was actually a very easy reasoning that there was a high probability that her body would come if it was a job of this scale.
“It’s not? This is a doll.”
“yes?”
Did it go off in a good way? Pearly giggled and abruptly closed the distance.
“Actually, it worked out well. Of course, it is true that this body is a doll!”
In an instant, she tore the white clothes clinging to her body up to her chest. When Pearly’s white skin was exposed, her mother screamed in horror.
‘killing!!!’
A fierce warning to fasten your clothes immediately. Pearly calmly ignored her rampaging mother, put the index finger of her other hand to her forehead, and continued.
“I brought my ‘body’ inside a doll. My body is in a slightly difficult condition to move freely!”
As a white finger drew a straight line down from her forehead, the crack that started from Pearly’s forehead slowly parted, revealing her ‘real’ face.
pure white skin. Beautiful deep purple eyes that are no different from dolls.
However, that doll-like figure was only a quarter of the face. Except for the area around her left eye, which was fine, her condition was such that it was doubtful whether she was alive or not.
Excluding part of the left forehead and around the eye, Pearly’s face was covered with severe burn marks, making it difficult to even guess her original appearance.
Severe burn marks extending from her unfocused right eye and her face covered her entire body.
“Will you accept my body?”
A muddy voice that seemed to be scratching something completely different from the clear voices that dolls had used so far.
The body of Pearly, who completely took off her doll and held me, was naked, but far from anything sexual.
No matter what happened in the past, her real body was full of deep burn marks all over her body, and she had no limbs.
As I held her, who was really only a body, and held her in a daze, Pearly forced a smile by moving the corners of her mouth that were not moving well due to the burns.
“why? Are you excited because it’s so erotic?”
I was silent for a moment, then smiled.
“It’s a little too erotic. Why don’t you come with some clothes on?”
Pearly giggled out of breath and gave a small answer.
“You can’t run over yet.”
Then I added a little bit.
“Not yet.”
