Chapter 1095 – Subplan

000

The shape could only be described as a bizarre shape, as if a giant’s arm had been attached to a human woman.

Seeing Darwin’s sudden change in appearance, Hero Ark’s group gathered in the living room couldn’t help but widen their eyes and be embarrassed.

He could only watch as his leader was caught with his holy sword out of his hand and let out a painful scream.

“B-Brun…! Rosaline…! Save me…!”

That is, until Ark managed to squeeze out a voice from his face that was turning red.

At his call, Brun quickly pulled out the ax from his back and swung Darwin’s arm.

There was no hesitation, and despite his small physique, the ax swung with the strength of a dwarf would have been a powerful enough blow to split a rock.

However.

Kang! With a sound, Brun’s ax flew out.

Rather, it was enough to tell that the blade of the ax he was swinging had fallen off.

“W-what!? The ax in this body!?”

Darwin, who was blinded by anger, didn’t even care about Brun’s attack and just tightened his fists, trying to crush Arc.

“Well ahhhhh!

Starting with the arms and legs, which are the outermost parts of the body, the sensation of bones bending and breaking like reeds.

When Ark screams in pain beyond imagination.

“Brun! Get out of the way!”

A voice coming from the sofa.

When Rosaline, who was sitting with blood pouring from her leg, aimed her wand.

“Lightning Spear!”

A magical starter word that bursts out in place of the omitted chant.

Puzzle! When an electric current was thought to have been fired from the tip of the wand, a spear of intense electric current flew in a straight line and landed in Darwin’s enlarged arm.

“Ugh, ugh…!”

Then, Darwin, who had been unaffected by the axe, screamed as he felt his arms lose strength.

No matter how strong it is, it is an arm through which blood vessels, muscles, and nerves communicate.

When electricity explodes, it is natural for the inside to become paralyzed.

However, as a side effect, it was inevitable that the arc he held in his hand would also have electricity flowing through it.

Thanks to this, the hero just faints.

In addition to the pain of having every bone in my body crushed, it was inevitable that I would exceed the limit of pain I could endure if I was hit by a magic shot from a colleague.

However, Rosalind thinks that maybe that is a fortunate thing for Ark.

If Ark’s body slides down slightly from Darwin’s hand, Brun will see it and immediately rush to Darwin’s hand and try to pull the body out.

Brun hanging from a finger.

But.

“This…! That bug!!”

Next moment.

When Darwin’s angry voice rings out once again.

Darwin let go of Arc, who had already fainted, and even though he couldn’t hold his hand properly, he strongly swung his hand with Brun hanging on the back of his hand-

Kwaang!

With a sound, he hits the wall of his mansion with the back of his hand.

“─Eh?”

A huge red arm swinging as it cuts through the air right before your eyes.

Rosalind followed the trace of the hand a little later and looked towards the wall where Brun, her colleague, was stuck.

Darwin’s strength was so great that he created a large crater in the wall of even his own home.

And, what Rosalyn could see was the red liquid that had spread in all directions between the wall of the crater and the back of Darwin’s hand.

“Aaaaa!!”

Darwin’s hand will come off the wall, not caring that Rosalyn’s screams echo.

On the back of her hand, a dwarf that had exploded due to the strong impact was flattened and stuck.

It was instant death.

Even though Brun’s physique is smaller than that of other dwarves, he is still a dwarf.

Compared to humans, it had muscles like steel.

Is it that simple?

No, that’s probably fine.

Ark is in a state of unconsciousness, with all the bones in his body shattered.

Brundo died with just one swing of his hand, like catching a mosquito.

Rosaline reached for her bag with her trembling hands, breathing heavily with her pupils as dilated as George’s before.

Research journals and arcs are also good.

Anyway, now, if I don’t run away.

“Go, beyond space, beyond poetry, beyond time, on a set path, me, me…!”

Rosaline somehow continues chanting with a trembling voice.

If I somehow squeezed her voice while keeping my eyes on her hand holding her wand to keep her mind focused.

Next moment.

Notice the black shadow above her head.

“Ah.”

An unknown voice came out of Rosaline’s mouth, whether it was a sigh or realization.

What was covering her head, of course, was Darwin’s ‘red and gigantic arm’.

Die. Die, die, die!

The shadow of death was so thick that only those three letters could come to mind.

The mother of the dead son left no words to take her revenge.

She slams the fist of death right at her sofa, where her sons sat and chatted, and where she spent her happy moments.

“Hey.”

No, he would have tried to hit me.

Until I heard another man’s voice coming from behind.

Darwin slowly turned his head, keeping his arms on the sofa.

Then, there-

“Uh, mom…”

Darwin’s second son, William, was captured by a man wearing a mask covering his face.

It had a terrified face with a sharp dagger hanging around its neck.

Of course, the fear was the coolness of the blade touching his neck-

There must have been fear at the sight of her mother, Lee Hyeong, standing still in front of her eyes with blood smeared on her huge arms.

“William…!”

However, Darwin did not even care about his relatives’ disgust or fearful gaze towards him.

However, he was just worried about his safety, and his face looked like a ghost gone crazy with anger from before.

Immediately, he returned to his mother’s face.

And that gaze will be directed directly to the person who captured his son.

“Let go of William!”

“If you let my colleagues and I go…”

Sid, the masked man, says so.

Then, Darwin would point to George, who was lying on the ground with his other arm – the arm that still had the shape of a normal human.

“What right! What right do you have! To take the life of my precious son!”

Despite Darwin’s shouts, Sid doesn’t show any change in his expression.

“‘It’s inevitable that it happened like that.’ Think of it as bad luck.”

Sid said that in a voice without any emotion.

Darwin was dumbfounded and felt like he was going to burst into flames.

Nevertheless, with William being held hostage, he could no longer move.

That’s why.

The arm he had raised to kill Rosaline was slowly moved aside and placed on the ground.

“Haa…! Haa…! Haa…!”

Rosalind must have been breathing heavily as she felt the shadow of her death, which had been looming right in front of her, disappear.

“Stay back. We have to take the guys who are down there.”

Sid said so and walked without letting go of William, heading towards the living room.

“Sid…! B-brun!”

“I know. Be quiet. Ark… Tsk. This guy is on the verge of death too.”

Sid calmed down Rosaline’s cries, picked up the Arc and Holy Sword and placed them next to her.

“Recite the transference spell, Rosaline. Just run away like this.”

“Uh, uhm… Yes…!”

Even though she was shaking with fear, Rosalyn nodded her head.

Even while chanting, Sid did not let go of William.

The moment she let go of this hostage, she easily expected that Darwin would try to kill her once again.

Darwin and Sid are glaring at each other, and Rosalyn’s chanting continues in the room.

Finally, as if her spell was complete, a pattern made of magical power would appear on the floor and surround the three people and William together.

“Now, wait! What about William!?”

“…”

There was no reply from Sid, but there was nothing Darwin could do.

Instead of answering, I saw the blade gently touch William’s neck, cut like flesh, and blood flowing down.

William made eye contact with Darwin, who was looking at him as if to reassure him, even though he felt even more fearful of the cold touch.

However, the balance of tension did not last long.

The huge arm, which had been hanging limply by Darwin’s will, ‘wriggled’ and moved as if reacting to something.

Whick! And, swung, just like that.

She struck Rosalyn’s head with her palm, as she was caught off guard, thinking she had survived.

Pow! With a sound, her head separated from her neck and flew toward the stairs.

“──Huh?”

As if even Darwin had not expected that phenomenon, he looked at Rosalyn’s head with a blank expression.

“Eh…?”

Immediately after her head fell off, Rosalind, who was still alive, made such a sound as she flew away and then died instantly.

Sid frowned.

“Wait, wait! No, what I just did is my will!”

In order, it hit William’s neck, side, and heart, which he was holding on to.

After inserting the dagger at great speed.

The moment when he tried to move his body to get out of Darwin’s side.

Once again, Darwin’s arm moved and struck Sid’s body.

It was to turn it into a stain on the floor.

“No, no, no, no!!”

However, Darwin didn’t care at all and held on to his unruly arm with one hand.

He ran towards William, who was bleeding from a vital point and shaking on top of the supermarket.

“William, no. Even you…! I can’t lose you too! Please…! Ah!! No!”

She somehow reached into her pocket and found another pill.

In a situation where a large amount of blood comes out every time you do it.

The medicine inside the vial that William saw was the first time he had seen it.

In my fading consciousness, without even knowing what the drug was.

A unique scent that fills your mouth.

With that, William closed his eyes.

Never again could he open his eyes.

001

“I found out later… The drug my mother used on herself was a kind of doping agent using ‘blood of giants’, a drug that had the side effect of destabilizing emotional control. Therefore, against her will, the drug in front of her eyes He probably moved to kill the enemy.”

William, who borrowed Schrödinger’s body, concluded his story about his past.

“… This happened 650 years ago. I was given an unfinished elixir of evolution by my mother. I was able to save my life, but at the cost of losing my human form due to my runaway regenerative power.”〈 Br〉

Even though the story was related to his own death, it was as if he was talking about someone else’s past from an objective point of view.

“What happened after that. This continues with the record of the record correction that you checked earlier. Those who would become the first executives of the returnees came to my mother in despair. She founded this organization with them.”

After his long story was over, the group was once filled with silence.

If no one opens their mouth hastily and has no idea what to say.

The first to speak on their behalf was William, the person in charge.

“What did you think when you heard this story? It doesn’t matter. What I told you was something that happened in the past. What happened to me, my mother, and my older brother. I call it a ‘family tragedy.’ I think so, but I don’t think you need to feel that way either.”

“… Of course. Now that she’s heard your story, she won’t pity Darwin. We’ll hit her.”

If Lila said that in a slightly cold voice, William would smile slightly and nod his head.

“Yes. That’s what I want. After the returner was created… No, even before that. My mother is a villain who has used and sacrificed countless people as her tools. She must have been judged someday, and the incident of that day Even if it wasn’t for this, someone would have followed in my mother’s footsteps and found me someday.”

When William said that, he felt like he had given up on everything.

It seemed as if she had not given up on the one fact that she had to stop her mother.

“I ended up looking like this, but my mother has been experimenting on me again to return me to my original form. I wish I could have prevented it, but… Unfortunately, the parts of this body that can move with my own will are limited. There was only one tentacle, and I could only watch the horrors of my mother’s repeated sins.”

“…”

The more you imagine, the more painful it must have been to understand his feelings.

But even in the meantime, Artis quietly opened his mouth.

“Still. One thing. There is something unclear. No, within me, it is already close to ‘certainty’ to some extent.”

Then, William, who slowly moved his gaze towards Artis, would wait for her next words.

“Your mother… About Darwin’s purpose. William, if you survived and turned into that form, then your dead brother. ‘George’ can be thought of as the ‘mummy’ in ‘Maxwell’s’ room, right?”〈 Br〉

“That’s right. My mother mummified my dead brother’s body and stored it in her mansion. Mr. Maxwell was in charge of guarding the coffin.”

When William said that, Lila would frown her eyes.

“No way, your mother’s ultimate goal is…”

“Revival of the dead. In other words, bringing back your dead brother.”

A secret realm that cannot be achieved with human magic and technology.

The mere fact that you are challenging it is enough to be treated as heresy.

The fact that it was Darwin who was doing it made him feel a headache.

“Yes. And the mother’s purpose is being used by ‘Adam’.”

“… By Adam?”

When Amelia asked back in response to the word “Adam” Coming out of William’s mouth, William nodded his head.

“Yes. For Adam, I have prepared several plans to create a vessel that suits him – not a machine body, but a vessel that can move as he wants. The selection ceremony that will soon take place in the royal capital is one of those plans.”

“You even know that?!”

When Lila asked in surprise, William nodded his head.

“Everyone was talking carelessly in front of me. They probably thought I couldn’t hear them.”

“… The Holy Sword Selection Ritual is a plan being prepared by the Exile Church. And, the returnee has been given the role of preparing another plan?”

Amelia spoke as if she understood now.

There was something that bothered me all along.

Why is it that Adam, despite the fact that there is an organization buried in darkness called the ‘Exiled Church’ that dedicates all its loyalty to him?

Was there a need to create an organization called ‘regressors’ whose movements were so flashy that they were known on the outside?

That was, so to speak, to establish a sub-plan to prepare the body that would become one’s vessel.

“Plan Orpheus.”

William put those words in his mouth.

“It is one of Adam’s plans to make a special being who returns from the afterlife after facing complete death – that is, a true ‘returner’ – as his body.”