Chapter 73 – Afterword – Rick (2)

“Who the fuck are you!!!”
No matter how much I called out, there was no answer. He just stared at me with a curiously unwavering gaze.

What the… What the fuck. What are you looking at like that? For the first time, I felt the fear of the unknown and swallowed. Clearly, the one in front of me was just an ordinary girl, but it felt like something like a strange magical power was pouring out.

“Fuck…”

But I tried to regain my composure and let out a long breath. Wait, yeah That’s just an ordinary bitch. There is no single reason to be afraid. Why should I be scared like an asshole? Maybe it’s just a really normal drunk. Even if it’s stuck in a corner anyway, nothing will change. Let’s go out boldly. Boldly.

“Whoa…”

I caught my breath and took the first step. With her eyes still on her, her fists clenched and she barely took her first steps.

Widely.

The sound of his own footsteps resonated exceptionally loudly. At this level, I doubted whether everyone in the inn should have heard it.

No. It’s just that I’m sensitive. He was drunk and thought he was performing. I thought so and took another step. Widely. Once again, a huge sound pulsated with my heart. However, the unidentified woman was still looking at me without moving. Bitch really sucks what to do Shall we speak again? But even so, it was to no avail…

…

What.

I suddenly noticed a strange fact and stopped walking. I’m sure I shouted with abusive language earlier, but why did no one come running to hear it? Even if it’s the guests, shouldn’t the waitress or innkeeper come running?

Why are the surroundings suspiciously quiet?

Only then did I stop her steps again and look at her. Cold sweat trickled down in the very still night air. Just as she could vividly feel the feel of her now distinctly wet spine, she heard her unfamiliar voice for the first time.

“Rick.”

“Fuck…Fuck…!”

I stunned and stepped back. But she only moved her lips and called my name, but didn’t move.

“What are you. Who are you?”

“Rick.”

“What the fuck!”

There was no answer. She looked at me again with her mouth shut, then suddenly asked an out-of-the-box question.

“Do you think you can be forgiven for your past sins?”

Sins committed in the past…?

“What bullshit is that? What have I done!”

“Answer me. Do you think you can be forgiven for your past sins?”

“Who is it? Who sent it? Are you Menix’s guys? Or did you send it from the guild? Or those Erendelle bullies? I don’t know who it is, but I didn’t do anything wrong. I didn’t do anything wrong!”

“You think you can be forgiven.”

What is that crazy bitch Ask alone, answer alone. But that crazy bitch’s question kept running around in my head. Who sent it? Or, is it the person who has a grudge against me? I desperately searched for memories. A woman Are you by any chance the country girl you ate and threw away? The archer who was cheap and blamed others while he was asleep? Or is it the prostitute you once met?

The past, which I had never felt guilty about, came like a tidal wave and choked me. Who the fuck who is this. Who is this. Who is this!

“Then ask me something else.”

In the midst of her needlessly chewing on her own sins, she opened her mouth again. And again, she asked an unknown question.

“Do you think future sins can be forgiven?”

“That…What the fuck is that…”

“The sins you committed in the future, Rick. Can that be forgiven?”

Sins committed in the future? There was no way to understand the bizarre story, even the grammar was not correct. What the hell is this crazy bitch talking about? Why are you mad at me

“How can you be forgiven for something you didn’t do, you idiot! If you’re going to talk nonsense, just get out of here!”

“…Well. Was it too difficult a question for you?”

As much as the bitch had come on her own, she drew her own conclusions and nodded her head alone. Then he threw out a frighteningly calm word.

“Then let’s finish it now.”

“Finish means finish what the fuck…”

I wanted to say it calmly, but I couldn’t help it because my voice was shaking. It felt like blood was drying up. Expulsion from the party. Leo is nowhere to be found. A mysterious woman who came unexpectedly.

Maybe today is the worst day of my life.

“Whoa…”

Suddenly, I turned my head and noticed a small window on the side. It was only a really small window, so it was at most big enough for my body to fit in, but I thought there would be nothing I couldn’t do if I forced it in.

…Fuck.

Do I have to think like this?

I looked in her direction, then looked out the window again out of the corner of my eye. No matter how much I denied it, it seemed like there was only one option.

“…”

The girl put her hand on the side of the backpack once again. There is no time to hesitate any longer. I had to make a decision.

The next moment, the girl’s hand went into the backpack. Seeing this, I screamed as hard as I could and moved my body.

“Aaaaa!!!”

Then, with all my might, I started to rush towards her.

Fuck. To be scared by just one girl and force yourself into a window and jump outside? It was nonsensical, nonsensical nonsense. I don’t know what the hell you’re doing, but I’ll educate you properly. I don’t even know who I am, but I’m going to go to the middle of the day!

The asshole didn’t even expect that I would run at him, so he just stood still and looked at me. Have you been so frightened that you have hardened into a standing state? I guess you didn’t know this, you pussy bitch?

I smiled and imagined the next scene. I’ll rush at you like this, attack you, and then smash your head. Or take a look and teach me the pleasures of a bitch. I liked either one, but I personally liked the former better. You don’t have to waste your energy on a bitch who is useless like that. So I ran to smash her little head.

But the thing that was smashed the next moment wasn’t that girl’s head, but it wasn’t even mine.

It was a window.

Clink!

“What…!”

The moment I let out a desperate scream, the window was shattered and something pitch-black jumped out. So it shouldn’t have been. I stopped turning my head.

And a huge hand grabbed his neck.

“Ugh…!”

The hand, which might belong to someone, squeezed my neck tightly as if it were about to crush it. The sound of my neck bones, or maybe my life being crushed, echoed through my bones. I felt a clear fear in my rapidly blurring vision.

“Ah… Uh… Uh…!”

What the fuck is this How can human hands be this big? Are you a demon? It can’t be. No, maybe it’s a demon that has sneaked in between the borders? What the hell is that bitch with the demons…

No. That was pretty good. Because there was something else that was important.

Am I going to die like this?

“Keuk…! Kkeuk…!”

Not even a scream could come out from his compressed throat. The feeble breath that leaked from time to time was clearly pointing to death.

To die like this? So desperately? You don’t even know why I’m dying, just dying like this?

“…! …!”

At least I thought I would be able to struggle. I thought I could do the least resistance.

But there was nothing like that. My body steadily ran toward death. Then, through the strangely clear vision, she walked like a reaper.

“…”

I tried to reach out my hand towards the red-haired girl who finally appeared in front of me. Please save me only once. Forgive me just once I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die!

As if my prayer had reached her, she finally opened her mouth. And she spat out a word that could possibly be a salvation.

“…”

But the sound was drowned out by the sound of something breaking.

Crunchy.

“…!”

Iron puck.

…

My body fell to the floor like a paper doll. In the meantime, the pain of the fall hit my whole body, but I couldn’t even do the simple act of struggling in pain.

“Ag…Ebuu…Ag…”

A moan that I couldn’t even understand came from my throat. In the meantime, I felt the lower dance getting wet, and I stupidly drool and moaned without knowing what state I was in.

“Eh…Uhhhhh…”

“I wouldn’t have killed him.”

Then her voice fell slowly. And the harsh voice I heard for the first time clearly followed.

“Yes. As you commanded, I also left my senses.”

“Are you able to hear?”

“Yes.”

“Can you answer me?”

“That’s not going to happen. At most, it’s at a level where only the pupils can move.”

“Okay.”

Conversations about my body went back and forth overhead. You left your senses behind? Can’t you answer? I…What state am I in now? Are you alive? What happened…

“Ah… Uh… Ah…”

My head was burning like crazy, but only weak moans escaped from my mouth. Then, someone’s hand turned me over and made me face the ceiling, and I turned over like a piece of meat without resistance.

And on top of that, I finally started to see the woman’s face.

Her face, revealed through her red hair, had the appearance of a young girl, no older than twenty at most. Her distinct and dense features would have been considered cute had it not been for this circumstance, but her terrifyingly hardened expression and the cynical aura from her tightly shut lips made me feel afraid just by looking at her.

“Ah… Uh…”

What was clear was that it was a face he had never seen before. No matter how much I searched my memory, there was no girl who left such a clear impression. No. Was he a human in the first place?

“Ah… Ah…”

“…”

Who the hell are you… To do this to me…

“Ah ah ah ah ah…”

“Yes. You must have a lot of questions. But I have as many questions as you.”

“Ah… Ah…”

“There are many things to check.”

“Ah…Aaaaa…”

“But I don’t want to waste much time on you. So, I’ll just check the important ones.”

Then, a sharp dagger came out of her hand. Is it something you took out of your backpack earlier? I didn’t even struggle, I just moved my pupils to follow the light flowing over the cross section of the sword with fear-filled eyes. After looking at my eyes, she cast her gaze at the unidentified demon again.

“Did you say the pain remains?”

“Yes.”

“I’m glad.”

She gave a brief reply and disappeared out of my sight. I looked for the whereabouts and naturally turned my eyes. But it didn’t have to be.

I started to feel the pain of tearing my index finger.

“Aaaaah…!!!”

As the demon said, the senses did not die. I could feel the sharp dagger tearing through my flesh. All the pain, in turn, stimulated the brain as the blade slashed through flesh, ripped through muscle, and gnawed through bone. And the whole process happened very slowly.

“Ah… Uh… Eggak… Gaak…!”

Clap clap

“Agh… Gaagh…!”

The hand that cut my finger was neither delicate nor skillful. So it was slow and very clunky. Once, while frantically slicing, he slipped on his own, tore the flesh to the side, and even after digging into one place, he grumbled with the knife inserted to see if the tendons were in the way. I was the only one suffering in the process.

“Gaaaaa…!”

“This one doesn’t cut much better than I thought. I thought it would be simple if it was just a finger.”

“Shall I do it instead?”

“There’s no need to do that. Crying is kind of fun. Do you have a hammer?”

“It would be easier for me to break it than that.”

Ugh.

“Gaaaaa!!!”

“Oh, I didn’t mean to. Well, okay.”

The strong impact broke the bones in my fingers, and my bones tore flesh. But still my stupid finger didn’t cut off. It was useless, dangling from my fingertips.

“Agghhhhh!”

“Haa… Oh…”

She deliberately pulled at her dangling fingers. Tuduk. Took. Took. The connected flesh and muscles were severed one by one, setting her head on fire. When her finger was finally torn off, I felt something more like exhilaration than pain.

Of course, that didn’t make the pain go away.

“Gaaaaagh…!!!”

“Whoa. That’s it.”

“Gaaaaa…”

“Now. Rick. Look. Don’t you remember?”

She waved her severed finger in front of me, wiping the sweat from her brow like a hard worker after a hard day’s work. I howled at the end of my life as an archer, not knowing what it meant.

“Agghh…Ghhhhh…!”

“Rick, don’t you remember? Really?”

“Aaaaa…!”

“I don’t remember. Well, I can’t prove it with just this one.”

The girl sighed and pulled the bag this way. In the meantime, tears flowed from my eyes. Why am I like this Why the hell do I have to be like this?

While those questions welled up, she began to pull out some items from her backpack. And muttered to himself.

“I also have vague memories. Fingers, eyeballs, both nipples, in that order.”

“Ughhhhh…”

“And the last…”

“Ah…Ahh…”

The last thing taken out of the backpack was a potion bottle dripping with red liquid. At first glance, it looked like an ordinary health recovery potion, but there was something decidedly different. There was a nail inside, thousands of nails.

“Ah…Aaaaa…”

What are you trying to do with that While I was moving my eyes, counting the future I didn’t want to imagine, she was looking out of her window indifferently. And then he threw out a creepy word.

“It will be over before sunrise.”

“AA AA AA…!”

I screamed at the fear of the unknown. Someone to listen please come rescue me But the screams I let out were too weak for me to hear.

“Let’s get started.”

“Gaaaaa…!!!”

A final scream escaped my mouth. The last reason was simple. After that, I didn’t even have the strength to scream. I struggled in pain without even a moment to make a sound as she did crazy things like tearing my eyeballs out of her with a shard of glass and driving them into her nipples and widening them apart. And when I took off my pants to insert the potion bottle into my buttocks, I couldn’t even breathe.

After all that, I gave up everything when another potion bottle came out of my backpack.

But that didn’t mean the pain went away.

“Egeuk…Hehe…Aggh…”

“…”

I looked down at Rick’s mangled body. He collapsed covered in blood, potions, and dirty bodily fluids, but he was still radiating the energy of life. I was neither disappointed nor relieved by that fact.

Just reaffirming what I found out again.

“Ha…”

Excluding that person, am I the only one who returned?

Not sure yet. Bobby, who was the Archbishop of the Ennessic Order, might have returned. Perhaps Leo could have endured with his exorcism.

…

No, I don’t think so.

For some reason, I think I’m the only one who came back.

What is the reason?

Are you giving him a chance to apologize?

Or is it a joke of an unfinished prophecy?

I don’t know. There’s no way to know

I just wish it was the former.

“Are you done?”

At that time, I heard the voice of the subordinate who had infiltrated the border. I returned to reality and nodded.

“Okay.”

“What should I do with this guy?”

“Leave it to the Minotaur. And tell him to kill it as slowly as possible. You know what I mean.”

“Yes.”

The guy gave a short answer and pulled Rick’s body. Unfocused, blurry eyes turned to me.

“Eg-eg…Ugh…Ah…Ugh…”

He let out another meaningless moan. Messy baby. I almost laughed at the thought that a guy like this dared to come into my land and take everything. He’s just a bug who can make you an asshole for the rest of your life in less than ten minutes.

But I also felt that way.

Actually that’s it. It’s something that hasn’t happened yet.

It was something that happened in a future that hadn’t happened yet. It is something that happened only in the future, which will no longer be true, when he was caught up in an unintended fate and plunged himself into the pit of tragedy and gave the wicked a chance to unleash their true nature.

Okay. In a way, this could be seen as a staged resentment.

…

Wherever.

Founded by an incompetent goddess, from a moral point of view.

However, all of this talk could not be done under the simplistic notion of morality. This was an atonement for a young man who could have lived a normal life, and a precautionary measure for the many people who should suffer because of this filthy life.

And as a result of watching for several days, this human was a human with enough reasons to die even after setting aside all that.

“…Ha.”

I sighed and instinctively looked up at the sky, then lowered my head again. I have neither the reason nor the right to look at the sky. My mood hit the bottom in an instant, and a bad feeling welled up.

…

Now two. Did you stay

“Ahhhhh”

The tough life still groaned. Seeing them creeping on the floor like bugs made me smile. Still, it was fun until I saw this bastard get fucked. I thoughtlessly rummaged through my backpack like a drunk looking for an empty bottle.

“…Ohh.”

Then, the two remaining potions were caught in his hand. I finally got my smile back.

Looking out the window, it seemed that there was still a little time left for the sun to rise. Until then, you can have a little bit of fun.

“Ahhh…Ahhhhh…”

Revenge is like a drug, you can forget everything when you’re drunk. That means there is still time left to enjoy a little bit.

“Wait a minute.”

“Yes?”

“Because I’m still sick.”

“Agghugh…! Geeek…Agwugh…!”

I stopped the subordinate who was dragging him away and approached with a bottle of potion. To prolong the nightmare that lingers on him a little longer. To delay the nightmare coming to me a little longer.