Chapter 1129 – Infinite Hell

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Warm steam was rising from the teacup filled with black liquid placed in front of him.

The bitter scent that stung her nose made her senses more realistic.

However, Darwin could not even turn her gaze there, and would have looked at the two people in front of her with her fixed eyes.

The cookie William was holding in his hand – although it was originally George’s, he was caught secretly trying to take it from George’s plate while he was looking at him for a moment.

It must have been during a playful fight that brothers would have.

“What, hey… Is this…?”

That was the first impression that came out of Darwin’s mouth.

Darwin is a smart woman.

The reason why Aisha was able to finish her off was because her excessive intelligence became poisonous and slowed down her movements.

That’s why she knew.

Her own two sons are now before her own eyes.

The fact that William and George are not ‘his sons.’

This is because George died, and his soul had already returned to the ‘spirit vein’, and William was still alive.

But still.

Even though she clearly remembers that fact.

Everything that was reflected in her eyes and all five senses, including sight, were saying that those two people were her ‘sons’.

In a situation where the information in her brain and the senses in her body came to conflicting conclusions, she naturally had no choice but to look confused.

＂How did it happen? “What kind of joke is this?”

Therefore, Darwin once again opened her mouth and transformed her question into her excommunication.

If she didn’t do that, it felt like her head would explode with the doubts filling her head.

“Joke…? Mother, why are you doing this? As you can see, William…”

However, her eldest son, George, spoke as if he did not understand why Darwin would say such words to her or why he would have such a questioning face.

That kind yet calm tone of voice and an intelligent gaze looking in this direction.

Darwin could not help but feel that the pitch of the voice, the interval of breathing, all of it was that of the child whom he clearly remembered.

“Really, George… You?”

＂…? Yes, but…”

George, an intelligent boy, approached Darwin as if he had an uneasy premonition about Darwin’s question.

“Mom, are you okay? It looks like you’re a little tired… The daytime examination was long.”

When Darwin sees his son’s behavior, he jumps up from his seat without realizing it.

Something, something is wrong.

There’s no way his own son would be here.

This is an illusion. Just a moment ago, he was swallowed up by the huge beast dragged by Laplace and was engaged in battle with Artis.

He couldn’t have forgotten that fact.

But, nevertheless.

Even though I remember everything.

Darwin’s tears flowed.

And, without realizing it, he opened his arms and embraced his son who had approached him.

＂Uh, mother…?＂

George is embarrassed.

“Oh, this is shameful! Me too!”

William returned the cookie to George’s plate as if he were jealous of him, and came up to his older brother and hugged him from behind.

It’s been 700 years.

700 years have passed since I wanted to feel this voice, face, and warmth once again.

George and William.

Everything in my world.

Even if this is an illusion or a dream.

If it’s this close to the truth you remember.

If only I could once again hug the person I dreamed of.

She wanted to believe in her heart more than in her own head that was ringing the alarm bell.

Therefore, Darwin spent a long time hugging William.

Is it 5 minutes or 10 minutes?

“Uh, mother. Slowly…”

Only when George found it difficult to endure his loving mother’s embrace in this awkward silence and spoke out did she release her son from her arms.

＂You may be tired somehow. Go to bed early today, William and I will do the rest of the housework.”

“No, it’s okay. Just sit down for a little while and rest…”

For Darwin, who had ignored the ‘doubt’ in his head, this was now closer to ‘reality’, so he would think about what he had to do as a ‘mother’ just as it was in his memory.

Yeah, maybe-

Perhaps. Everything that has happened so far may have been a nightmare.

It was such a sweet fantasy that I wanted to think that way.

＂But…＂

George must have reacted as if he was worried about her mother when he said that.

As he said that, he was probably about to continue saying something.

Thump.

And then, the sound of a door knocking on the entrance of the mansion rang.

＂Huh…?＂

The sun had already set, and it was time for everyone to go home, but even in the countryside, there weren’t that many people who suddenly came to the house like this.

If they come to visit at a time like this, they’re probably an emergency patient or something like that.

“I’ll go and take a look.”

When George said those words and tried to walk towards the front door, Darwin had a premonition that something was wrong with him and tried to grab his arm.

However.

Whoosh, Darwin’s arm split the air.

＂Huh…?＂

Darwin would have looked down at his arm and made something stupid.

As if trying to capture his ghost, Darwin’s arm just passed George’s.

George himself seemed not to have noticed that fact and left Darwin’s side.

Darwin tried to stand up, but somehow his butt didn’t come off the chair.

I tried to use my voice to catch George, but this time, even that didn’t work.

All she could do was sit in her seat and watch George walk away.

When you finally see that he turns down the hallway and heads towards the entrance.

It was only then that Darwin’s body fell off the chair with a clattering sound.

Then she hurriedly followed George and went into the hallway where the entrance was visible.

But there.

＂…＂

Opening the front door, a man was holding George’s arm and trying to inject ‘something’.

＂S-Stop it…! What on earth…!”

Darwin looked at the man and thought that his face looked somewhat familiar.

She will run to save her hated son.

But there, once again, she saw that her feet were not moving.

“It’s more than your mother’s karma.”

I couldn’t help but watch the man who said that insert an ‘injection’ into George’s arm.

＂Ugh…!＂

The eldest son frowned as if he felt pain at the sensation, but was unable to shake off the adult man’s arm and was injected with the ‘red liquid’ contained in the injection.

Finally, when all the liquid had disappeared inside his body, the man let go of George, but he dissipated and disappeared on the spot, as if it were a mirage or a ghost.

＂George!＂

When Darwin, who was finally able to hear her voice properly, called her son’s name, George turned to look at her.

“Ugh!? Oh!? Kgeek!? An opera!? “

Suddenly, he collapsed on the spot, as if he was having a seizure, with a painful scream coming from his mouth.

A crackling, crackling sound was heard, and something bulged from George’s back, tearing the top he was wearing.

Horns sprout from the forehead, and the skeleton becomes distorted.

＂Aaaaahhh—-＂

Before Darwin’s eyes, George screamed and turned into a monster.

A human with a bloated body with horns growing on his head.

It was a ‘noble person’.

“Ah, ah…! Joe, George… Uh, why…!”

There, Darwin remembered.

The identity of the man who gave George the injection a little while ago.

He was a man who had recently become a nobleman by injecting himself with Aisha’s blood.

In the end, while following Herti and Cleon in Asteris under his own orders, he was captured and sealed in a temple.

Why did he appear here and ask his son-

Darwin’s mind was so entangled in this world that he could not clearly distinguish between the ‘reality’ that actually existed and the ‘reality’ in front of him.

George finally lost his mind and became a monster.

And.

＂Tongue, bro…?＂

He must have heard George’s screams and followed him.

William.

He couldn’t help but let out a confused voice when he saw the monster standing at the front door – his older brother.

Seeing William, who was so frightened that he almost collapsed in his seat, Darwin tried to raise his voice again.

＂We, William, run away!＂

But it was too late.

That doesn’t happen.

George, who lost his temper and went berserk, ran down the hallway and hit William on the head with his fist in front of Darwin.

Just like that, William died, his head exploding and blood pouring from his neck.

“Ah, ah…! Aaaaa!!!!”

A desperate scream came from Darwin’s mouth.

And, as if that alone wasn’t enough to quell the violence, George crushed it and turned it into jam.

The body of my little brother who was fighting while playing with a cookie earlier.

Thud. Thud. Puduk, puduk. Soggy, soggy. Plop, pud, pud.

＂No, no, no, stop, stop, stop-＂

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Warm steam was rising from the teacup filled with black liquid placed in front of him.

The bitter scent that stung her nose made her senses more realistic.

However, Darwin could not even turn his gaze there, and would have looked at the two people in front of him with fixed eyes.

The cookie William was holding in his hand – although it was originally George’s, he was caught secretly trying to take it from George’s plate while he was looking at him for a moment.

It must have been during a playful fight that brothers would have.

“What, hey… Is this…?”

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Looking down at Darwin, whose whole body had finally frozen, Aisha stumbled and fell down next to her.

Uni would come to Aisha and look at her wounds.

The whip left deep scars all over her body, but fortunately it wasn’t enough to threaten her life.

She is not the only one who is exhausted and hurt.

At the end, Attis put on the amulet, and Black Uni and Nemeia stopped by holding the whip for a moment.

It could be said that it was a fierce battle to the point where it could be said that no one was left unscathed.

＂Haa damn… I feel like I’m going to die from the pain.＂

As Artis said that, he put his hand into his breast pocket and searched the area.

But I guess she had no choice but to click her tongue because of the cigarette that didn’t come out.

In the end, she gave up her search, dropped her arms, and waited for her turn to be treated.

＂What happened to this woman…?＂

And at that time, Yuni could not overcome her curiosity and asked Aisha and Attis.

Her body seems to have frozen, but that doesn’t mean it’s been hit by a petrifying evil eye like Gorgon’s, it’s just frozen.

The dress and weapons made of William’s body that were wrapped around her body were slowly collapsing and falling away from her body, but she was not completely disarmed either.

From Yuni’s perspective, who did not know whether she was a noble or a seal, it was inevitable that she would be anxious, as she did not know when she would wake up again.

Then, upon hearing Yuni’s question, Aisha closed her mouth with a slightly confused expression.

On the contrary, Artis would have responded to the curious unicorn with a short ‘heh’ laugh.

＂Well, to put it simply… I should say that I put her in her ‘her hell’ that suited her…”

＂G, hell…?＂

Even if you hear that answer, if you react as if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

“Yeah, hell. It is also an endless hell that repeats forever until death.”

Attis says so and tells her about the efficacy of her amulet.

Originally, in the sealing amulet for ‘nobles’ that Tokoyo makes, the metabolism of the body and soul stops while it is sealed, and they are trapped in frozen time.

It was a measure to prevent them from dying of old age and being sealed in a situation where it was unknown when treatment would be possible.

But in fact, it did not completely stop, but only brought the subject’s time very, very close to ‘stopping’, and did not stop completely.

So, after being sealed for 100, or even hundreds of years, the sealed object gradually ages and becomes aware of the passage of time, albeit little by little.

What happens there is ‘deterioration of the soul’.

In other words, the mind cannot withstand the passage of time that approaches eternity and is worn out.

If that situation continues, they will definitely not be saved.

So, Tokoyo and other great priestesses put some kind of magic into the seals of nobles.

It takes care of their souls as they slowly wear out over the eons.

A healing technique to soothe uncontrollable anger that shakes like a rough stormy sea.

It was to build an image world based on memories of happy moments in one’s life, and gradually purify one’s anger and time-weary soul over a very long period of time.

It could be said to be some kind of illusion or trick of the eye, but at least it could be said to be a much kinder measure for them than creating a corpse that slowly rots away without being able to see, hear, or feel anything.

“Then… To her too?”

＂Haha… No way.＂

After Uni listened to Artis’ explanation, she had no choice but to ask Artis again.

Because… I thought that was too lenient a measure.

“If healing people’s souls is the job of shamans, then the ‘gods’ they serve also have a role that suits them. That is, the karma of retribution, punishing those who commit sins. So, to Tokoyo, as God’s representative, I added a special technique to the amulet for Darwin. As far as her illusions go, she made sure not to be such a warm person.”

When a trial occurs in Asteris, it is usually held in a temple, not the royal palace.

Only judges appointed by the royal palace, criminals, shamans, and witnesses participated, and there were no lawyers or prosecutors like in modern times.

All sins are confessed in front of a sacred tree, and the judge sentences the criminal according to the nature of the crime.

The ability to know only the truth without any lies was thanks to the magic of punishment used by shamans.

That is, the crime committed by oneself – that is, the scene of the crime is reconstructed as an illusion and shown to everyone gathered at the trial.

There are no exceptions, even if it is a misdemeanor that simply involves searching someone else’s pockets or a serious crime that caused the tragedy of annihilating an entire family.

The scene that is reconstructed based on the memories of none other than the criminal could be said to be none other than the ‘evidence and witness.’

And Tokoyo inserted a similar technique into the amulet.

The result was the scene that Darwin saw of his son dying.

To be precise, it was a combination of ‘characters from Darwin’s warmest memories’ and ‘scenes of tragedies based on the sins Darwin committed’.

William’s death at the hands of George Han was just a prologue.

In a fantasy that repeats forever, all the evil deeds Darwin has committed against others.

George and William will bear the brunt of those evil deeds.

It is impossible to stop and impossible to prevent.

In that world, Darwin was a bystander and a criminal being punished.

What happened cannot be changed, because it was impossible even for the sinner who committed the crime.

“Darwin is dead. This is a fact that has not changed.”

The reason, as you know, is that George’s rib was stabbed by Aisha.

As Darwin himself said, the wound is such that it cannot be healed unless he changes his body.

However, Darwin was sealed with Tokoyo’s amulet.

I was trapped in a tragedy that was repeated forever in a time that stretched out like a taffy stick.

She is in hell, worse than dying herself.

“How is it. Is that not enough?”

Artis asked Uni a question.

Then Yuni shook her head, shaking her shoulders slightly.

It was unclear whether Darwin would repent for his sins in hell.

But at least she won’t have to face a ‘comfortable death’.

Until she took her last breath and exhaled, she suffered forever and ever.

That was the ‘up’ she had to get back.