A brief breakup
A brief breakup.
Pearly’s chest rose and fell irregularly in his arms. Apparently, it was difficult for her to breathe comfortably alone in a place other than inside a doll.
“Are you okay?”
Pearly took a deep breath for a moment, then opened his mouth slowly again.
“Even in my heart, there is still a little bit of shame left? But since I’m still naked and hugged like this, I feel like even that last bit of shame is about to disappear. Could you hug me a little tighter?”
‘killing!!!’
Don’t give in to that wicked nonsense and quickly deal with it, Mother jumped from place to place. I smiled bitterly at Pearly, who still had plenty of time to play around, and pointed at God’s bowl, a piece of meat that was constantly wriggling with my chin.
“How can I do it for you?”
“It is very easy. All you have to do is drop me into that bowl!”
“Are you really going to be okay?”
Earlier, when Pearly put one of her arms in the vessel of the god and took out her mother’s holy relic from there, seeing that her arm completely melted away, as she said, if she put her body into the vessel of the god, what little remains of her body would be gone. It was clear that it would melt and disappear like jelly.
I glanced at the bowl of God, which was still wriggling restlessly, and opened my mouth again.
“If you put this in, won’t it just die right away?”
At my question, Pearly’s mouth, full of burn marks, twitched subtly. maybe he’s smiling
“why? Will you be in trouble if I die?”
am i in trouble? No, it shouldn’t have been like that at all.
The deal with Pearly had already ended when she entered this room and brought out her mother’s holy relic to me. When I first accepted her offer, I didn’t know what the god’s bowl was, but I thought of robbing the god’s bowl as soon as I received the holy relic from her, but now I’ve never thought of that.
But why am I hesitant to drown her in that piece of meat? why?
If you think rationally, it was right to drop Pearly right away and absorb the divinity of the sacred object into her mother before going to see if Dakiane was well.
But why?
Feeling sympathy for Pearly, who has no limbs and is covered in burns all over?
No, I don’t feel sympathy for such trifles.
So, just in case, do you think Pearly will really die?
Eventually I realized my feelings.
“haha.”
Suddenly, a smile broke out. Pearly stared blankly at my face, as if not understanding the reason for my laughter. I opened my mouth to meet her deep purple eyes.
“I tried not to give affection to this, but it seems that I have become quite attached to it. I’ll be honest. I would be a little sad if Pearly died.”
Pearly’s eyes widened for a moment, and then the corner of her mouth writhed incessantly. It was as if he was struggling to hold back the laughter that was about to burst out. After wriggling violently for a moment, she managed to hold back a laugh before opening her mouth.
“Looking at it now, you have a pretty cute side, right? Hehe. Of course, it’s not your fault that you fell in love with my charm and couldn’t get out of it, but it’s entirely because of me who is full of charm, so don’t despair too much! Hi-Hi.”
Pearly grinned for a long time and then finally calmed down.
“So are you really okay?”
“Can I be honest with you too? Or will you give me something reassuring?”
“Tell me honestly.”
She closed and opened her eyes for a moment, then answered in a voice without a hint of laughter.
“Of course not dangerous. What I am going to do from now on is something no one has ever done before and it is only theoretically possible. If I fail as you expected, I will die without leaving a single bone meal. Like those sacrificed to perfect this god’s vessel. Of course, the probability of failure is very high. In the first place, this is not something made for human use.”
“Isn’t it okay if I don’t? Isn’t Pearly now very free and strong too?”
“Marnac.”
A resolute call. Pearly looked at me with unwavering eyes.
“You don’t get anything without taking it.”
She wriggled for a moment, then drew a smile.
“No matter what you say, I have already decided, and now I am not shaken by your few words. Ah, if I had arms, I would have stroked your cute face right now. It’s a bit unfortunate.”
Pearly managed to move her awkward mouth and smiled brightly.
“Come on, put me in the bowl.”
That unwavering smile forced me to respect Pearly’s decision.
“All right.”
When I nodded, Pearly smiled even brighter.
“It will probably take quite a bit of time, but it’s okay if you don’t have to stand by your side. After you put me in the bowl, go check Daciana and your master’s side first.”
“yes.”
I gently laid Pearly on top of the wriggling chunk of meat. Her body was slowly submerged into the meat. Pearly said quietly, melting slowly.
“Now, hello for a second. see you again Marnak.”
She left only those words and disappeared into the meat.
The moment Pearly completely melted into God’s vessel, a change occurred.
The unidentified red liquid that was constantly flowing into the god’s bowl stopped for a moment all at once, and then rushed towards the god’s bowl at a furious speed, as if there was a large drain in the middle of this space.
The bowl containing Pearly absorbed the red liquid at a much more violent rate than before, and eventually all the red liquid that flowed into the room disappeared into the bowl.
The bowl that absorbed all the red liquid changed from a piece of meat that was constantly wriggling to something like a hard cocoon. It looked like a bloody chrysalis preparing a fable.
In the space where the bloody liquid no longer flowed, only the bowl containing Pearly existed quietly.
I saw it and asked my mother.
“What do you think?”
‘killing!’
answer I don’t know. I smiled at the most obvious answer.
“No matter what, things have changed, so maybe things worked out. Then, let’s absorb only the divinity contained in the holy relic and go to help Dakia.”
I held out the heart-shaped relic to my mother. However, my mother’s reaction when she saw the holy relic I presented was somewhat strange.
“mother?”
Mother stared at the holy relic for a long time and then looked up at me.
‘…killing?’
I asked if it was okay to absorb it after this work was over. I asked back at the incomprehensible answer.
“Is there a good place to absorb the divinity of the sacred object like here? Besides, if I absorb divinity in advance, I can use it usefully by strengthening my powers or acquiring new powers in case of an emergency. Mother can also gain new strength.”
Besides, this holy relic had a great meaning to me. 13 holy relics where the mother’s divinity is sealed. If you absorb this sacred relic, you will be able to retrieve the 7th relic exactly, in other words, you have now succeeded in retrieving more than half of the relic.
My mother must be very happy too, but why are you so hesitant, unlike before? It was very strange.
“Is there anything that bothers you?”
My mother stared at the sacred object I held out and gave a small reply.
‘killing.’
One word that I don’t feel good about.
There will never be a more optimal place and time to retrieve the sanctity of a sacred object than now.
Absorbing divinity from the outside had to take the risk of being detected by other priests, so it was unconditionally right to absorb it in this isolated place.
I smiled softly at my mother.
“Then let’s absorb it later. As mother said.”
But above all else, my mother’s will came first. As I was about to pack the heart-shaped relic into my bosom, my mother quickly reached out and snatched the relic from my hand.
‘killing!’
The cry of just absorbing it here. The moment my mother closed her eyes while holding the holy relic and tried to absorb the divine power.
coogu palace.
With a roar, the whole space started shaking like crazy.
‘Hat killed?!’
The violent shaking caused the mother to lose the holy relic in her hand. I quickly reached out and picked up the sacred relics that my mother had spilled, and even held my mother, who was about to fall, in my arms.
“Change into a hand and go into my pocket for now! It looks like something is about to happen.”
‘killing!’
My mother quickly changed into a hand with an answer, and I put the holy relic in my arms with my mother.
Koo Goo Goo!
The shaking intensified in the growing roar.
Quaang!!!
Along with the deafening explosion, my vision went black for an instant. It wasn’t that I closed my eyes, but the whole space really turned black and I found the light again.
“…hmm?”
When my vision returned to normal, I realized that the place I was standing now had changed.
Where did the vessel of the gods in the middle of space go, and I stood in the middle of the streets of the imperial capital.
How the hell did this happen?
Until just now, I would have been in the Liberatorio’s hideout, hidden in an isolated space.
Looking up at the sky, I saw an opaque membrane that seemed to have been installed by Liberatorio covering the entire capital.
The streets were full of the foul smell of blood. However, the strange thing is that despite the strong smell of blood, there were no bloodstains or corpses on the street that caused the smell.
It was a very clean street. There’s just not a single person alive.
For now, is finding Dakia a priority? Since I got out of the space unharmed, it was right to assume that Dakia and the others got out of the room unscathed.
But why did Liberatorio’s hideout, which was still intact even after Pearly used the vessel of gods, suddenly collapse and spit us out?
The answer to that question appeared in front of me much faster than expected.
With a raging wave of divinity, a huge blue flame erupted from the center of the capital.
As the blue pillar of fire subsided, the ground shook, and with a roar, huge green stalks sprang up from the center of the capital with the momentum to pierce the sky, spraying the divinity of the evil god.
The clash of two great divinities.
The culprit that destroyed Liberatorio’s hideout was the aftermath of the battle between Master and Havas of blind faith.
Seeing that ghastly sight, I couldn’t help but realize again what a simple battle I had fought against Horlu.
But should I go help him? No, can I provide meaningful help to Master just because I am going to help? After all, we need to find Dacia first…
“…Marnak?”
What woke me up in my thoughts was a familiar voice somewhere. When I turned my head, a completely unfamiliar monster greeted me.
Seeing the mass of dark red tentacles clustered in the shape of a woman, I reflexively called the familiar woman’s name.
“That figure… is it Cardishaw?”
Cardisho, a mass of tentacles in the shape of a woman, looked at me intently and then narrowed the part that was supposed to be her eyes.
“I’m not too surprised to see this, and my name pops out right away…”
She glared at me with her red eyes shining.
“You know what Pearly did to me. Or were you Marnac, too, having a relationship with Pearly?”
