Chapter 24 – Beast Hanger (4)

When you wake up, the dream covering your eyes touches the boundary with reality and is torn to pieces along with the dream. Sometimes, feeling sorry for escaping from the dream, if you reach out and grab the torn wings of the dream, they scatter ghostly afterimages and crumble like cotton candy.

But nightmares are strangely long-lived. Even if you try to remove it or erase it, it settles in the eyelid along with the corn and bothers you on the eyeball. In order to get out, no matter how painful it is, you have to squeeze out the pus and let it flow with tears.

In that respect, I was lucky. You didn’t have to shed tears to tear away the nightmare you once had. If I had to ask, it would have made me laugh.

“Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!”

The Nightmare struggled and let out a muffled scream. It would be painful After wandering through one person’s head for over several years, they are now being banished. In that sense, Nadia was my nightmare, illusion, and parasite.

I had to think like that, so the order of work became clear. When removing parasites, the legs must be removed first. I threw her ear in her hand to the floor and took her other hand. Then he carefully tore off her fingers that were entangled like hooks.

“Huh! Huh!”

Every time one was torn, blood, the thick remnants of life flowed out. Worried that she might faint from this alone, she poured her potion over it. Sometimes it’s rather good when the nail that was inside sticks out and gets stuck. I didn’t mean to cause pain, but I didn’t want it to dissolve without pain either.

“Ughhhhh…!”

Suddenly she let out her grotesque moan and removed her hand, leaving clear teeth marks on her palm. Nadia groaned in pain as her hand that was covering her mouth was released, but gave her last breath.

“Save me! Please Luca! I don’t want to die…I don’t want to die! I’ll erase the child. Please…So…Please help me! My…I’ll rip you to death myself. Okay then? You don’t even have to get your hands dirty.” No. So please, Luca…!”

I fixed the arm with the missing finger on my knee and opened my chin this time. Come to think of it, all bugs bite people. Therefore, it must be removed from the snout.

This time I put my hand on her teeth. As soon as I faced the twenty-eight hard white bricks, I felt like a mason. The bad news is that the bricks to be knocked down are unnecessarily hard, and the good news is that there are a lot of them. When the working hours get longer, the current act feels like a part of the work rather than murder. I repeated the words to myself and set to work.

“Aaaaa!”

She can no longer speak when she pulls out her tongue, which keeps getting in the way. Even if she had left it as it was, she wouldn’t have said anything meaningful. Blood fills up in my throat, and I indifferently pour the potion over it. Then, the two red liquids of different shades mix, then boil and disappear again. Only then can I start working.

Luca.

Suddenly, the voice she used to call me came into her head, and then it dissipated like dust. One. Two. Three. The more her teeth were pulled out, the more memories with her were castrated one by one, and her mind was emptied.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. I habitually counted and found peace of mind. As much as she hated her, her memories faded away, and now only her complete anger and vengeance toward her remained in her head. If anyone is trying to do the same thing as me, I’d like to give you this advice. When killing a parasite, castrate your emotions first. The first place to point the blade is in my head.

“Ah ah ah ah ah…”

She couldn’t even let out a proper moan anymore and looked at me with fearful eyes. The reason she stubbornly left her eyes until the end was because she wanted her to see this whole process with her own two eyes. I made sure she was looking at me and then I brought her hand under her this time.

“Aaaaa…”

I haven’t touched it yet. Nadia’s eyes moistened and a visceral fear leaked out. In fact, pain will no longer be the subject of consideration. Rather, the fact that he had to watch the whole process of death would be so frightening that he would go crazy. I tore off all her eyelids, afraid that she might close her eyes.

Then, savoring the taste of fear leaking out along with the tears, he ripped open her stomach with his hands.

“Aaaaa!!!”

A scream that might be the last, vibrated in the stomach and filled the banquet hall. I glanced over and saw that even Rick, who was groaning in pain, was trembling all over his body with his eyes tightly closed.

I didn’t bother to look inside while I ran my hands through the intestines. It was something I could do with my eyes closed because I had practiced countless times both in my head and in practice.

Instead, I saw Nadia’s face. I had to look at her expression because her mouth could no longer express the pain she felt.

The first time my hand dug in, she gritted her teeth. Until then, the physical pain would have been greater than the mental one. But every time she dug up what she was supposed to take from Rick and held it up in front of her eyes, she wept. She shook her head, dripping with her saliva and blood, as if she didn’t want to die, and even if she did, she wouldn’t want to die like this.

Each time I shook my head, I took out another organ, and scattered the bones and flesh roughly. For the first time, blood circulated throughout my body and a fever rose in my head. I felt like I could have a conversation with her now. Her mind was read just by peeping at her gradually blurring eyes, and the fear creeping through them.

Haha!”

Nadia shouts her words over and over again. But the meaning is clear. Help me. Help me. Help me. Now, they don’t even try to persuade them by bringing out cheap memories and unintelligible stories. I just keep praying for a wish that can’t come true. Only once. Please save me just this once

One point, two points, three points, the more the intestines are pulled out and the flesh is torn, the more earnest and deeper the wish becomes. Help me. Help me. Help me. Please. Save me just once Now even the shape of the mouth moves and the corpse makes a wish. You don’t have to forgive me. So, just save my life.

As the hot blood that drenched her whole body grew colder and colder, and the emptiness caught in her hand as she dug deep inside her, I realized that Nadia’s death was imminent. I removed her hand from inside her and raised her head to make eye contact with her. Then she said, barely lifting her fingerless, stubby hand and holding it out with her last wish in it.

Luca, please. Help me.

I looked down at the barely lifted wish with cold eyes. And without hesitation, he just uttered a word.

“No.”

Iron puck.

Nadia’s exhausted arm flopped onto the floor soaked in her blood. I watched her and slowly stood up from her seat.

“…”

My hands on the floor were drenched in blood, so I almost fell. I tried to wipe the blood off my clothes, but when I found that even my clothes were not stained red, I sighed in despair.

“Ha…”

Suddenly, I missed her so badly. Even if she’s a picture, I wanted to see her face that always smiled at me. But there was no other way, so I took out my finger from my pocket. Then, very carefully, he took out the ring.

Widely!

Degururr

However, her fingers, exhausted from long hours of labor, could not hold the ring properly and dropped it to the floor. The ring, which had been rolling for a long time leaving red marks all over the floor, finally stopped after hitting the door. I slowly approached it, keeping my eyes fixed on the golden afterglow. Even though it was stained with blood, towards the only keepsake Ellie left me.

“…Ha.”

Suddenly, along with someone’s sigh, a white handkerchief was put over the ring. I stopped involuntarily and stared blankly at the spotless white handkerchief and the hand holding it.

The owner of the hand very carefully lifted the ring and carefully wiped the blood off the surface. And when the ring had barely begun to regain its color, he held it out towards you.

“I’m sorry. I roughly guessed that it was a valuable item, but I couldn’t stand to see it dirty like this.”

I met his eyes with a frown at the low yet determined voice. Then, a red-haired girl with a hat pulled down looked at me with a serious expression without a hint of laughter.

“Nice to meet you, Mr. Luca. I express my sincere condolences to whoever you may have lost because of them. My name is Rachel Moonlight. I came to visit the baron and his wife for personal work.”

I looked at her face for a while and then slowly accepted her ring. And he barely uttered a single word.

“Rachel was your real name. How did she know my name?”

“I heard everyone screaming your name outside, but I couldn’t help but understand. Don’t get me wrong. I wasn’t trying to eavesdrop, I was just waiting because I was on business.”

She let go of her sneer, frowning at her own name, then clasped her hands together politely.

“So, are you done with your business? There’s something I want to check on, and I have something to tell you.”

“First, tell me what you want to say to me.”

“That thing. Actually, it’s a little trivial, but there are people outside right now. That’s a lot. Ah! Don’t get me wrong. They’re not here to disturb you. It’s just… The baron has a lot of people coming. .”

“They must be those rebels. Did the professor summon them?”

“Hmm…Well, even if it weren’t for that, it wouldn’t have been hard to notice. Well, the corpses are strewn about like that. And you, you’ve been inside longer than I thought.”

“For a long time…?”

“Didn’t you know?”

I didn’t know. It was definitely a very fleeting time for me to feel. It was only then that I realized how intent on ripping off their flesh. Revenge must have been much more addictive and fun than I thought.

“Well, I explained it well for now. So now I’m waiting outside. The baron will have to work hard. Even if someone full of rage like you couldn’t do it, there seemed to be over a hundred people.”

“I guess so.”

I nodded nonchalantly. Then she shrugged her shoulders and brought out her next question.

“And the next one is related to what I want to ask the baron…”

“About that, I want to ask you first.”

“What?”

I took a step towards her, who gave her strange expression. And asked in a clear voice.

“Why are you looking for a dark-haired girl who smells like mint flowers?”

“Ah, that’s it.”

As soon as she heard the question, any remaining composure on Rachel’s face faded. She replied, rubbing the corners of her tired eyes with her fingers.

“Where am I going to start explaining this?”

“Of course, everything.”

“Well, in conclusion…”

She lifted her head and looked at the tip of my chin.

“I was looking for you, Luca. The dark-haired girl loved you with all her heart.”

“You were looking for me…?”

“Yes.”

Rachel put her hands in her pockets and leaned her back against the door. I don’t know why, but she felt like she saw her somewhere.

“Who are you?”

“That’s what you’re most curious about, isn’t it?”

A smile crept across her lips again. Rachel wondered if she was a little worried, then she pointed her chin at Rick’s sprawling body.

“I’d like to answer, but I’ve got work to do. I’ll tell you when it’s over. I’ll wait outside.”

“No. You don’t have to.”

Her gaze, which was on her, slowly turned downward. There were still an awful lot of unbreakable potions on the floor. I opened my mouth as I watched the red liquid slither along with the nails.

“They say that joy doubles when shared.”

She then turned to Rick and added her own words.

“I wish revenge was like that.”