Chapter 2 – Long Time No See? – One

“Eww… “

I woke up with a headache.

When you think about it, waking up is a bit strange. Because I don’t remember sleeping.

However, a scene even stranger than that was unfolding before my eyes.

Would it be strange to say that it is strange? I’ll correct it by saying I’m used to it.

Pictures of rabbits lined up on the wall, maids dressed as bunny girls and moving around busily, rabbits roaming around freely as if the mansion were their own…

Besides that, this luxurious mansion is full of rabbit tracks.

‘…Ellis.’

This is the name that came to my mind as soon as I saw a landscape full of rabbits.

After my dream of becoming a teacher was thwarted, I didn’t start shadow work right away. At the time, I didn’t even have the capacity to do that.

I hadn’t even graduated from the academy, and as a commoner, I didn’t have many options.

So, the first place I started working was at Alice’s mansion.

It was because doing chores as a servant for a noble lady was the best for me at the time.

Back then, I really had no dreams or hopes.

Until Ellis died at the hands of Elfride, she slept only four hours every day, living her servant role without any dreams or hopes.

It’s like a cog in a machine.

Beaten every day, beaten every day… It’s horrifying to think about now.

What is it?

“…Why am I here?”

What kind of life did Alice live?

Didn’t she live as she wanted to live, and in the end she went under the command of Elfriede?

Then she got vomited up nicely.

It was a fitting ending for her fanatical love of rabbits.

But why does this mansion still exist? Elfriede crushed her without leaving a trace.

Did you build it again?

That’s nonsense All the people related to Alice have died, so someone built this.

– Bless you. Curse at the same time.

Suddenly, the voice of the goddess lingered in my ears.

‘Have you ever returned to the past… ?’

As soon as I had that thought, I jumped up and looked in the mirror.

However, no matter how much I searched, there was no mirror, so I reflected my image on the well-polished surface of the frame.

“What.”

And I spit out the sound with upbringing.

Her scars all over her body had completely disappeared, and her torn left arm was still intact.

Is it a dream No, this is reality.

I hurriedly rolled up my sleeve to check where I had given the injection.

‘Stigma?’

And it was confirmed that there was a stigma in the shape of a cross.

Stigma. A mark engraved on the bodies of those who have received the blessings of the goddess. It’s like it’s in my body.

“What the hell is this… “

It is certain that we have returned to the past.

I listened to the voices of the busy servants around me.

“Lady Ellis, who left for the Lucht Continent, is returning today! Everyone can’t move faster!”

“Did you feed the rabbits?”

“Going crazy. Even ten of her hands are not enough!”

It was the continent of Lucht, the cold northern continent where Elfriede first appeared.

And the reason Alice visited there…

‘To expand the drug business.’

That’s right. It certainly was.

Ellis made a name for herself with her immense prominence in her field of ‘drug manufacturing and distribution’.

Later, in recognition of his contribution, he entered the ‘Wonderland’, a group of top-level criminal youngsters. What is Wonderland? Of course, it’s an organization under Elfriede.

Thanks to that, I could very clearly figure out at what point I had come back.

Judging from the fact that a treaty was signed that it was okay to distribute drugs even on the Lucht continent, it was still at the point where Elise was actively distributing her drugs only in her own territory.

So, it would be nice to say that it was the moment when the dragon just poked its head out of the well. It is also a very yellow dragon.

‘Let’s go back to the past a little more… ‘

The price of working as a servant in Alice’s mansion is a contract for life.

But as you can see, I’m already dressed as a servant.

If you say you’re going to quit, it’s not much different from declaring that you be executed.

Alice at this point already had no qualms about her murder, so if I told her to quit her job, she would never let me live.

To keep it a secret. How would criminals keep secrets?

Mutual trust? A deep intimacy with each other? Of course there is no such thing. Just killing and killing people you know keeps the secret.

If I had gone back a little further, I would have been able to develop my dream of becoming a teacher even now. Her sister would have been alive. A small regret remained in my heart.

What should I be moving towards? And what to do

While I was thinking about those things, someone grabbed my collar.

“Hey! If you’re a rookie, you have to work hard. Why are you standing there?”

Dark skin, blonde hair, and a muscular body.

I remembered. This guy is a rave.

Now that I look at it, it’s a relief that Elise doesn’t wear bunny girl outfits to her male servants.

“Sorry.”

“Sorry? Did this bastard turn?”

Damn—!

“If you don’t want to be left behind, do your thing right now! Otherwise, I will kill you for real later. What the hell are you trying to do?.”

After slapping my cheek nicely, he leaves the place with a sigh.

This is a space where you are not allowed to hold on to others for a long time and even get angry. So it seems to have finished quickly.

My cheeks are tingling.

Come to think of it, she had no power in the past, so she always worked while being beaten by this guy.

Beating was a normal thing, but I was hit by this guy the most.

Thanks to the rave’s swearing and the tingling on the cheeks, I felt it again. That I’m definitely back in the past.

“It’s nice to be back, though.”

Even though I was slapped on the cheek, I felt relief first rather than anger.

I don’t know why, but I was given a second chance.

-Save you.

And it would be nice to use that opportunity to completely change my life. Goddess says so

Only then did I smile. Like a madman

He raised both hands and caressed my face.

It’s good to have a young face.

Looking at his smooth face without a single scar, a smile naturally blooms.

“Huh?”

But suddenly, the forearm with the stigma tingled, and the palms and cheeks were hot.

I was surprised and immediately let go of it, but something even more surprising was waiting for me.

“…Is it better?”

Really. His cheeks, which had been swollen from being hit, instantly cleared up.

Wait a minute, I remember hearing this.

Among the blessings of a goddess, a blessing that suits the word “Goddess” The most. Stigma of restoration.

It was a highly versatile stigma that made it possible to do anything, even if not to the extent of reviving the dead.

It is certainly. Because the stigma of restoration was carved in the shape of a cross.

‘Come to think of it, what was the charging method for the stigma of restoration?’

Instead of being given omnipotent power, the stigmata are charged in different ways.

There are common stigmata that require magical power, but there are also quite a few stigmata that require bizarre things. Whether it’s only being charged by murder, or being charged only by sex…

I’ll look into this later. Stigma can only be used if it is charged first.

“Excuse me! Help me dispose of this defective item!”

My thoughts are broken by someone’s cry.

“Ah, yes.”

In Alice’s mansion, defective products are not a term for objects. It is commonly used as a term referring to rabbits who have lost their vigor.

Isn’t that really cruel?

Countless rabbits die in Alice’s mansion just because they lost their energy, not because they were sick.

However, the servants of this mansion are used to handling rabbits as goods. I was like that too.

One of the maids tosses me a rabbit.

I’m sorry. The rabbit, which made a sound and landed in my arms, actually looked bad.

Whole body covered in blood. It seems that he was hit here and there by the servants’ feet.

“Ugh… !”

As soon as I abstractly think of activating the stigma, my forearm feels numb. At the same time, the rabbit in my arms jumps up.

Gun gun—

After being perfectly fine, I run around the mansion again. This is really the stigma of restoration.

Is there anything else the goddess has bestowed upon her? I immediately started looking at the condition of the body.

‘First of all, my physical condition is very good.’

The scars have disappeared, but the results of my training were clearly visible on my body. The fact that the body is so light is proof of that.

‘What about magical skills?’

I try to capture the mana inside my body once. And soon he called for pleasure.

And. This is the same

In a word, I came to the past while preserving all of my abilities from when I was active as Elfriede’s shadow.

‘Good night. It’s a problem because it’s too good.’

What should I be moving towards? What should I do?

I was able to think about these concerns very comfortably.

I was given time to become even stronger than I am now.

“Ha fuck. This bastard is doing this again.”

I am grateful to the goddess and I am soaked in happy imagination for a while. Someone shatters imagination.

“Hey, you crazy bastard. What the fuck have you been standing there for a while?”

There’s no good reason to be insulted. Under the premise that I am Alice’s servant.

But not anymore.

“Rave.”

“This bastard is talking rudely again.”

“You still can’t understand the situation?”

“I can’t. You’re right… “

Damn—!

Someone slapped him on the cheek and flew to the other end of the hallway. Of course, Rave was the one flying.

“Somebody throw away the bad stuff.”

I murmured as I wiped my palms.

-What the hell are you trying to do?

Suddenly, Rave’s words lingered in my ears.

What are you trying to do… Yes, the trouble wasn’t long.

“…Unconditionally the exact opposite of what Elfriede is doing.”

I want to live like that when I come back. Let’s catch Alice first.