Chapter 268 – Ashes (2)

The belated pain hurts.
The pain of grabbing the cut surface with countless tongs and tearing it over the burning flesh.
Just as he was about to lose his temper, the tentacle on his left hand secreted a pleasure substance.

Pleasure and pain fight in the body, forced to calm down.
In that precarious sense of balance, I trembled with only half of my remaining body.
Ash looked down at me, who was trembling as if in a seizure, and walked slowly.

In a very short time, he kills Riff and Esther and tries to kill me too.
No, I am already as good as a dead body.
Even so, he raises his sword and approaches to kill for sure.

I scratched the floor with my fingernails in fear of the killer walking towards me.
I want to run away even though I know that trying to run away is useless.
As I struggled, the blood leaked from the cut surface, making my head dizzy.

“Huh… ! Heo-eok… !”

Run out of strength
Exhausted from not being able to move much, I stopped with my forehead on the floor.
A sudden rush of drowsiness shakes my consciousness.

“Huh… Omg… Ugh!”

At that moment, Ash, who came right next to me, stabbed my palm with the bladed heel.
Blood leaked from the pierced hand to prevent it from escaping.
Slowly on the back… A sharp blade touches

“It’s the first test subject I’ve ever seen.”
“Experiment… Sifter… ?”

In my fading consciousness, I clung to the word test subject.
Why… You call me a test subject?
Not a hypnotist with a hypnosis app… Test subject?

Called an experiment.
Anger, not a worm, a scum, a bastard, twisted by Rapid… Test subject.
The blade slowly dug into my back.

I held on to my last hope with tears in my eyes.
Please don’t know I’m hypnotized, I hope there’s no special reason for killing me, I hope Ash is a mad killer.
In the video that was with the hypnosis application, he prayed and said that the closeness to Rapid as known in the world was true.

“They say… Feed…”

The sword that pierced my back and stabbed my lungs stopped.
Breath leaks from somewhere other than the throat, and the sound of boiling blood is heard.
I continued with difficulty in a diminishing voice.

“Rapid… Promise… I couldn’t keep… Sorry…”

Slowly, a knife is drawn from his back.
In my receding consciousness, I hoped that Ash would find my words strange.
I desperately hoped that he would notice that Rapid and I knew each other, not by praying for his life, but by saying sorry for not being able to keep his promise.

Call Rapid and ask him if he knows… Called by space movement…
If so… With rewind, body… Rewound the wound.
Can buy…

Consciousness disappears.
The eyes are dyed golden.
Far away… First we see the dead Esther.

I waved at Esther and approached her.
I was by Esther’s side.
More muscular than I am now… Big man… Holding his head and saying something.

Esther disappeared before she knew it, and only the muscular man remained.
I know you’re upset, but… I can’t hear what you’re saying
I listened more to the man.

[… Sun!]

What are you thinking?
When I tilted my head, the man kicked the empty floor as if he was frustrated and got angry.
I don’t know who he is, but he seems like a very bad person.

[It doesn’t work!]
“… Adonis Adonis.”

And then consciousness returns.
I fell to the floor gasping for breath as my blurry thoughts became clear again.
Arms, legs… The waist is attached.

“Omg! Omg… ?! Omg… !”

Covering my body with trembling hands, I crouched over in a terrible sensation.
Fortunately, the gamble paid off.
Body is back

The clothes that were burned and cut are still intact, and the bloodstains are gone.
I don’t even feel the blood draining out.
This is different from treatment.
I turned back the time of my body.

“They say… Rapid… ?”

Shivering for a moment, soaked in the lingering pain and the pleasure of being alive, I raised my head.
As I thought, Ash must have called Rapid.
As I looked around with that thought in mind, I met Ash’s eyes as he stood on the ashes.

“What are you.”

Ash looked at me with an annoyed face and said.
I picked up the information I needed from Ash’s every word.
If you ask who I am, it means you don’t know me.

The fact that he saved me after calling Rapid’s name means that, as I thought, he had special regard for Rapid.
Why did you kill me… Because I thought it was a test subject… ?
Then there is only one thing I need to do.

“I… I am not a test subject. Ash, I… Rapid’s friend…”

Emphasizes friendship with Rapid, informs that he is not a test subject, and shows a harmless appearance.
I prostrated myself in front of Ash, revealing my trembling body without hiding it at all.
Ash listened to me and answered in a cold voice, placing the blade of his sword against my chin.

“… Friend?”
“Oh…”

Ash, who made me raise my head with a sword, looked down at my face without saying a word.
Ash gradually frowned, and slowly removed the blade of the sword from my neck.
I didn’t cut my throat.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen someone who looks like you.”
“That, that! It wasn’t long before she became friends…”
“… Name is?”
“Baby… This is Anger.”

I would like to use a pseudonym to say it, but the fear of being split in two makes me answer Ash’s questions honestly.
When Ash heard my name, he closed his eyes for a moment, then he frowned and started glaring at me.
I moved my eyes in a cold sweat and avoided Ash’s gaze.

“It’s the first name I’ve heard… ?”
“Aww?!”

Ash suddenly kicked my arm on the floor.
His blade-cut wrist bleeds in an instant, forming a puddle under his hand.
But worse than having my wrist cut off, the tentacle on my left hand fell off my body.

I feel a tremendous sense of loss in my left hand, where the tentacles are gone.
The supply of pleasure substances that used to numb the pain is cut off, and the pain, which had been slightly lessened, quickly swells up.
After cutting my wrists, Ash grabbed my hair and pulled it up and said with an expressionless face.

“I hate wasting time.”
“Huh… ! Heo-eok… ! Huh!”
“If you’re cheating, tell me honestly now, I’ll kill you by cutting your throat.”

If you falsely say that you are not friends with Rapid, you will die, and if you honestly say that you are friends, you will die.
Hearing the unanswered words, I shook my head desperately.
Then Ash met my eyes and raised his mana.

“Myrrha.”
“Huh?!”

Magical power changes like an invisible spear blade and penetrates the brain.
It has a different feel from the hypnotic penlight of the Leaf.
I drooled at the brain-piercing pain and twisted my body in a fit.

“Say friend again.”
“With Rapid… Friend… !”
“Again.”
“Friend… No see… !”
“Tell me it’s not a test subject.”
“The test body… No… !”
“Hmm…”

It feels like a sharp sword has been pointed at my head.
I feel a strange pain inside my head, as if I was trying to pierce my brain with a sharp needle.
There is a feeling of tension that I do not know how to explain.

“Do you know anything about the monster fusion test?”
“That is… What, what… ?”
“What do you know about X?”
“Oh, I know! A robot created by Dr. Leaf… No see!”

I answered Ash’s question honestly.
I don’t know what the monster fusion test is, but X knows.
Ash heard my answer and tapped his lips thoughtfully with his finger.

“This is my first time doing both at once… Why?”
“Yes?”
“… Aren’t you a test subject?”
“Oh no!”
“Hmm…”

Ash continued to ask questions without question, as if he knew I was telling the truth.
Along with the tension, my head gets colder and colder.
Blood flowed non-stop from the wrist.

“… What do you know about hypnosis?”

I stood on my nerves, not reacting to the words Ash came out of his mouth.
Thanks to the loss of so much blood, my body was weak and I couldn’t react.
However, in my heart, I was so shocked that my heart stopped beating.

Ash knows hypnosis.
I judged the situation calmly even though I was overcome by a chilling sensation.
I asked what he knew about hypnosis.

I didn’t ask about the hypnosis application.
I’m not the only one who hypnotizes.
Riff also used hypnosis.

When I blankly meet Ash’s eyes, I see a look in my eyes as if I’m looking at an annoying and irritating bug.
I don’t see any hostility at all.
… Doesn’t bother me at all

If you know that I have a hypnosis app, if you know that I did something to Rapid, there’s no way this would happen.
Ash doesn’t know that I have a hypnosis app.
Don’t know me

“… That’s something… Yo. This?”

After answering, I calmly lied.
Ash’s eyes twinkle fiercely at the attitude of not knowing, but not knowing what it is.
At the same time, countless needles poked through my head.