Chapter 173 – The Age of Golems (03)

“What are you talking about?”

The voice loses some strength at the end.

The corners of the eyes are slightly drooped and the eyes look soft.

When I looked at the shoulder joint or fingers at first glance, I could tell that they looked the same as a human’s.

Even the scent emanating from their bodies was the same, so I wondered if I was just feeling uncomfortable because my affection was sealed, but I could clearly tell from the current reaction.

In fact, they were so similar that it could have been confusing if my memories had been overwritten as I spent two years apart, but to me, they were people I had been with for at most a month.

“It’s different. If it was the real Melissa, the moment she saw me…”

For some reason, my heart was pounding, so I paused for a moment, but spoke to the [Golem Queen] Who was smiling helplessly in front of me.

“I must have cried.”

Okay. I would have cried.

It was clear that she was angry at me, crying profusely, holding all her resentment towards me for missing and not contacting me and all the joy of her reunion.

No matter how many things happen and people change over the course of two years, just like I did when I met Inori or when I met Hollyo.

People do not change completely.

No, it can change completely, but at least if you meet a friend from two years ago who you thought was dead, at least a trace of that time will be revealed.

But Melissa just stayed calm and accepted my touch.

This is strange.

No, really, Melissa could change a person so calmly, but my heart was beating like it wasn’t real.

And as far as I know, there was only one person who could resemble her to this extent.

Eventually, as if she had given up on acting, the smile she had been wearing hardened, her characteristic expressionless expression appeared, her slightly wet tone of voice changed, and she answered in her true voice.

“Why did you come only now?”

With her sad sigh, blue light leaked from the eyes of Melissa, or rather the [Golem Queen], And the name ‘Melissa’began to be erased from her forehead her her her her.

In the past, when Saori’s mother was mistaken for Inori, she was written as Inori, but after I found out her identity, she was written as Saori’s mother. Just as she was written as Saori’s mother, after I clearly found out her identity, I can no longer be mistaken for Melissa.

Her voice wasn’t as mechanical as before, but I was familiar with her unique way of speaking, so I could understand it right away.

As her eyes, hidden in the slightly dim lighting, began to shine, her identity, which I had guessed, began to be revealed little by little.

Although it does not feel like a mechanical sound in the voice like before, it is an extremely mechanical voice that does not contain the tremors or emotions that naturally occur in humans.

Melissa, who is currently greeting me, was a golem.

She thought Melissa had n’t changed in two years, but if she was a golem and not Melissa herself, then she really had changed a lot.

If at that time she was like a golem that looked a lot like a person, now she is no different from Melissa except for a slight sense of discomfort that I can notice.

‘So, Hollyo, who had a close relationship with Melissa, probably didn’t know that she had changed.’

If it weren’t for her subtle sense of discomfort that was engraved in her her heart her her her, even I would have mistaken her for her her Melissa her her her, so what would other people think of her?

As if to confirm that it was her, she took off the gloves she was wearing and unbuttoned her shoulders to reveal her her her her her. Previously, she had spherical joints, that is, round humanoid-like joints, but now they were as smooth as a human body. I saw a body.

Even though she was touching her her shoulder her her her, she was surprised because even the feel of her skin she felt like touching Melissa’s her bare skin her her her. She tried to press it with a little force just in case, but finally took her hand away when she saw her uncomfortable expression.

‘No matter how golem you are, it would be uncomfortable to try to touch the joints inside the skin.’

“Did Melissa do it?”

There was no one but Melissa who had both the ability and motivation to make it like this.

In the first place, she was born with the golden [Golem Maker] Trait, and the only person with that ability who can use her passion and ability to recreate herself without creating another golem is Melissa.

However, looking at the golem that had completely replaced Melissa’s position her, my heart, which had been anxious before, began to beat ominously.

“…What about Melissa? No way…”

“I will guide you.”

She turned around with a slightly chilly demeanor and began leading me inside the silent golem factory.

In the first place, the structure inside was not designed to be comfortable for humans to live in, and there was very little lighting, but since I had [Shadow Ninjutsu], I was able to follow her.

How long does it take?

As I went down the hundreds of stairs that I can remember, I felt the room getting colder.

In her light outfit, she didn’t seem to feel her cold because she was a golem, but I felt her her cold energy so much that her breath she was puffing out white, but I looked at her without saying a word. I couldn’t stop her ominous imagination and her growing sense of alienation of her.

If it were just for her her her her own golem her that gave her her her her human form her her her, by now her her her her Melissa would be running to see me and crying.

Or, her other friends also know about her golem that resembles Melissa, or they say that as time goes by, the golem that Melissa carries with her is becoming just like her.

However, if the golem is completely replacing Melissa, I can only think of one such case in my head.

“Here she is.”

A cold space reminiscent of a frozen sleeping room from a science fiction comic.

“Haaa…”

A room filled with so much cold air that it stings your throat just by breathing.

Inside the transparent glass tube covered in frost, Golem No. 2, who was leading in front of me, and surprisingly, a woman, were sleeping.

‘Cryosleep?’

Feeling the feeling of thin ice freezing on her skin, I carefully approached the glass tube, but there was opaque frost on the surface, so I couldn’t see her inside her.

“Haaa…”

It was only after I blew on the glass with my barely-squeezed body temperature and wiped it, that I was able to see Melissa’s face with her eyes closed inside her.

Above her head, a golden attribute called [Golem Maker] Was shining.

I also saw an affection map with five spaces that were bleached white as if frozen.

“Why did it become like this?”

I don’t understand, so I have no choice but to ask the only person here who can answer me, no, the golem.

“Melissa has gotten healthier since receiving the treatment, right? She’s no longer sick, right?”

Melissa has her own unique constitution, and in her current state, the body that has changed to oral arrhythmia has already been completely treated by me.

The constitution that was cured using the power of [Obligation Massage] Has been restored?

Of course, the [Obligation Mass] Is not an ability that grants immortality, but is simply an ability to recover from abnormal conditions or injuries at the time, but at the same time, it treats her abnormal condition, the nine syllable veins, and at the same time uses the Five Elements Abnormal Mind Method. Since I absorbed it, there wouldn’t have been any major problems for her except for her slightly cold constitution.

“Mental illness.”

“…”

“The physical illness was cured, but the mental illness remained.”

The moment I heard that explanation, I felt like I had been hit in the head with a hammer.

“Even when the news came that Aren had died, Melissa did not believe it, because Alice explained that Aren’s star still lived, to which she could see herself as a [Star Wizard].”

But that only lasts for a moment.

To escape the fate of eternal sleep, I began to reorganize my body and in the process was treated as once dead.

“Ever since Alice cried in despair one day and said that her star had disappeared, that she could no longer see Aren’s star, Melissa…”

Has her [Pure love preference] Tendency become toxic?

She is like a tragic heroine. Her heart may not be able to bear the fact that the person she loves has died.

“There was no problem with the body itself, but as I became increasingly weak and anxious, I lost the will to live, and no treatment could bring it back -“

Above all, since the temple had collapsed, she may have had no way to treat her increasingly weakened body.

“Once a heart has become cold, it cannot be brought back by any means…”

Even while I was stroking the glass tube with a sad expression, she did not come closer.

She said, “She couldn’t leave Melissa like that, so even though she didn’t want her life, she wanted to make sure she lived, so she treated her like this.”

I was fortunate that I still had the ability to [Compulsory mating mass].

If it’s a condition similar to freezing, I can solve it.

No matter what, if you don’t die, you can be brought back to life.

“So please, Aren, make her heart beat again.”

Due to my breath, the frost on the surface of the glass tube melts little by little and falls off.

Beyond it, we see the perpetual motion machine that replaces Melissa’s heart, glowing a cold silver.

“Her heart will always be beating just by having you by her side.”

“…’Melissa’.”

As I called her her her her her voice her her her ‘her her her, I could feel her her silver heart her her her beating her even through her her glass tube her her

“Take it out.”

“Yes, willingly.”

There was joy in her voice, and my heart was still pounding as I watched this scene.

“Please wait there for a moment.”

Easy profit…

I slowly turned around as the air was so cold that my pores froze and my body ached.

I placed my hand on the glass tube and wiped away the frost that had melted due to my body heat to take a closer look at her body.

A heart shining silver, and one.

Other parts were the same as Melissa, but the color of the right hand was slightly different.

It was hard to make out because it was covered in white frost, but I was able to make out by deliberately observing it so close to the glass tube that the bridge of my nose was frozen.

“There is one thing I want to ask you.”

“Yes.”

“Why do you call them ‘Melissa’ and ‘Aren’?”

“…?”

She didn’t understand.

“I can understand calling her Aren when playing Melissa. But even after her identity was discovered, why do she still call me Aren?”

“And there is a most important difference.”

I tapped the top of my head and told him.

“Golem No. 2 is not [Golem Queen], But has the [Golem Maker] Trait.”

In other words, the being frozen here now was Golem No. 2, not Melissa.

“Let me ask the question I asked earlier again. Where did the real Melissa go?”

At those words, the unidentified golem with Melissa’s face smiled brightly.

“If it were a body, it would be here.”

She pointed to her own breasts and tore the front of her clothes to reveal the contents of her.

A long cut scar was drawn across her white chest, as if something had been taken out from inside her.

“And the heart is there.”

“What are you… ?”

In response to that question, she said, her eyes, which had been emitting blue light just a moment ago, glowing red.

A voice that is eerily similar to Melissa’s but has no emotion.

“Queen of Golems.”