Neta Chara Tensei Toka Anmari da! - CH 15

“Go.”

“Alright, I have made you guys waiting. Now is your turn.”

Just when Nacht about to tear the cell down with her claw,

“I, found it!”

Aisha shouted. However, it was a second too late since Nacht already moved her hand.

The iron bar used for the cell that holds the adventurers was made from magic steel, which since it has absorbed some mana, became harder than normal steel around ten to twenty times.

However, the result was still the same with the common iron bar. Nacht cut it with ease as if it was butter, which made Galen and the rest become dumbfounded.

“Aah…Nacht-sama! I just found the key…”

Well, that’s not the correct retort.

Galen, Sasha, and Al retorted in their heart.

Nacht raised her hand toward the three of them.

“Guh!” “Hah!?” “Wha!?”

Just with one slash, the thick magic steel was sliced and they become free just like that.

Nacht then looked toward the last beautiful maiden. She has a slender body and a beautiful body but only wore underwear. And on those gorgeous skin was numerous chain bound her. Since the collar was affixed with the magic circle, she could not hide anything herself, and thus her appearance actually even more sensational compared to those naked s*x slaves.

She has transparent bluish hair which looked like ice, and slanted eyes which carry a strong dignity. There was almost no expression on her face, and although she was bound almost naked, there is no trace of shame in her.

“Alright, the last one is this beauty–what is the magic circle below her…?”

Without any caution, Nacht was about to step on the magic circle.

“Stop! It was restraining magic circle, you should not carelessly enter!”

Sasha became panicked, but Crysta who has a higher understanding of magic did not say anything.

Because since the beginning, from the first time Nacht appeared in this place, she already felt that Nacht has defeated Duran, and without suffering any injury to boot. And thus there was a high chance that magic that bandit prepared could not affect her.

And it was correct.

When Nacht’s leg hit the magic circle, it disappeared with a flash.

The magic circle could not handle the magic resistance of the Legend-class armor Twilight Embrace that Nacht wore and dissipated.

“Huh? Nothing happened, and the magic circle disappeared?”

Nacht knew nothing of it.

She just wondered why the magic circle disappeared.

“Well, guess we could forget it and move on. Next is the magic circle on the collar–It has domination magic of tamer, closer to slavery.”

There was no item in Real World Online that could control people.

There was some magic that could control people temporarily, make them unable to take action, or cause them to attack teammates, but something that completely subordinates someone only worked toward the monster.

“”

“It was a magic sealing crest. It controls mana. I think with your mana it should be easy to destroy the crest by pouring some mana–”

Without waiting for Crysta to finish, Nacht touched Crysta’s nape.

“Hn–”

Crysta moaned monotonously.

Nacht try to pour mana to the boorish accessories gently but–

“Gh–! Hn–! A–! Wa-wait…Please, slowly–”

Crysta’s face turned red, she gritted her teeth as if enduring pain, that was what reflected in Nacht’s eyes.

The truth was actually slightly different from Nacht’s expectation.

Other people’s mana was a lump of discomfort. Pouring mana to Crysta through the magic sealing crest should bring feeling like patting their whole body, tickle it, or maybe pinched it.

“What! Hnn, nn, nn—! Fua—! —! —!”

However, Nacht mana was too enormous and could not be compared with common people.

Crysta continued to moan in pain for a while until the collar finally broke.

“–Nice! Finally broke. Then the handcuff should be the last–”

Nacht was about to remove the handcuff, however, Crysta stopped her.

Still expressionless, Crysta pulled the handcuff apart using brute force.

After a series of metallic sounds, Crysta successfully took apart the magic steel handcuff with her bare hand.

“……Ha, thank you, you saved us…”

Her voice did not sound sincere.

Nacht felt slightly unsatisfied but Crysta did not say anything more.

“Crysta!”

Sasha hugged Crysta.

Crysta wiped Sasha’s tearful eyes with her hand.

“I am sorry, it was all my fault. But for now, we should retreat–”

But Crysta’s words were interrupted by Nacht.

“Well, wait for a bit–There is no more threat in this place, and the child still fighting right now.”

“What are they doing?”

Crysta asked while looking at the young child and young woman who huddle with each other.

“I just connected their soul–they should have a family quarrel right now.”

Looking at the young girl, Nacht’s eyes looked gentler than ever.

***

Larna was just another common villager.

Among numerous reclamation villages, she was born in the pretty old one, and she has a pretty decent figure, that’s all.

However, born as a villager, her way of life was fixed since she was born.

Helping at the house, and when she reached fourteen or fifteen she would marry someone from the same village and then worked hard on housework. That’s all.

It’s not like she feels unsatisfied with that kind of life since being able to eat was a kind of happiness in this kind of era after all.

However, even a villager has a dream.

Like meeting with an upright noble–which was as scarce as meeting a dragon–who then fall in love with her at first sight, or meeting a transcendent handsome prince and then being confessed on, or meeting a strong adventurer and then brought to live together in the city. That kind of realistic dream, she also has it.

However, even she understood that was simply a dream.

The reality won’t change, and when it changes, usually danger also will follow, that was what she thought.

However, that change appeared suddenly in front of her.

When she was about to abandon her dream as a mere dream, a man called out to her.

“I love you since the first time I saw you! Please marry me!”

He was not really a cool-looking guy. And actually not handsome either. Not strong. He was slightly wealthy but not to the scale of noble or royalty.

It was very different from her dream, he was sweaty, passionate, and honest, that kind of man.

His name was Flen.

He was the son of a reclamation village head, slightly educated, and after learning under a merchant, he worked as a traveling merchant between reclamation villages.

It was far from her ideal, and that man was not really her type, additionally, he suddenly proposes when they first meet, of course, she never expected it.

“Please! I will make you happy! Surely! I want to live, I want to live with you!”

No matter how many times Larna rejected him, he always chases after her whenever he visits her village. In the end, Larna relented.

Perhaps, it was his frankness and honesty to a fault personality that slowly charmed her.

Although as a traveling merchant he could not always be at home, whenever he comes back he always pours his love to her in the border or tiresome.

Larna smiled, thinking that he always like that since the beginning.

A daughter was born between them, and they lived a happy life, until one day Flen proposes something to her.

“I want to build a house in the trade city. Right now I am a full-fledged merchant. I want to have a castle of my own and make you and Nirna live happily.”

To let them have more time as a family, they moved from the village to a city.

It was similar to her childhood dream, although a lot of the details were altered, she believed it was still the happiness that she desired.

Until that day, the day when her husband and beloved daughter–were killed.

The distance between her village and the trade city was roughly seven days.

And the incident happened on the rainy night of the fourth.

The moment that she would never be able to forget for the rest of her life, was lasted only for minutes.

The guard that protects the carriage detected the bandit’s presence and start to fight them. However, Larna did not really grasp the situation as she hugs her daughter inside the carriage, trembling.

However, the scene that was still fresh in her mind even now was–

“…Cough… Run, Larna. I will hold—”

A blood-smeared sword protruded from her husband’s stomach.

And the dirty laughter of the bandits become a blade that ripped her chest.

Looking at the falling figure of her husband, she felt her heart was shattered using a hammer.

And then the tragedy accelerated.

“”

Although it should not due to the gruesome sight, the still young Nirna started to cry.

Perhaps because her bawling sound unpleasant to the bandit, they mercilessly swung their sword toward them–and cut Nina’s head.

That was the time when something inside Larna become completely broken–

She screamed.

Even if she was hit, punched, kicked, stabbed, violated, no matter what they did, she continues to wail.

So her resentment would reach farther, to the far sky, to the depth of earth.

So her hatred would reach farther, to God, to Dragon.

Although she knows it was fruitless and meaningless, she used her life to continue scream.

Until her voice was broken, until she vomits blood, her tears gland dried, until to the verge of death, she continues to curse people, this world continuously.

When her throat was broken and unable to make any noise, she becomes forgot how to speak.

Being thrown inside the cell and tainted by the bandit whenever they fell like it, she has desired death many times.

However, if she died, that would be the end.

Her hatred, resentment, revenge, none of them would be realized.

That’s why, until those dirty bandits kick the bucket, she did not want to die.

That’s why, even until she become like a doll who could not respond and be ridiculed, she still clings to her life.

And then one day an unusual newcomer was brought.

A young and beautiful, light golden-haired girl.

The image of the girl whose life was only a misfortune somehow overlaps with Larna image’s of her grown-up daughter.

Perhaps because of that.

Even though she has forgotten how to speak,

“Are you guys into a little girl? Worried could not satisfy me?”

She could smoothly say those words.

She taught the hollow girl how to live.

She lend her arm when they slept at night.

She taught her a technique to make the deed finish quickly.

While she thought she could not teach those things to Nirna, she felt the existence of the young girl supported her heart.

And then, the long and painful nightmare reached its end.

The one that appeared in front of her was a young girl.

Against an enemy that not even top-class adventurers could cope with, she defeated, tossed, and slaughter, and then saved them.

Including the young girl who could not speak.

The girl that appeared looked like a God for her.

Even without saying anything, the girl understood what she meant.

Aah—

Finally, it was accomplished.

Retribution–

At least she knows, that God was decent enough the grant death to evil people in this world.

That’s why right there–that moment was the last stop of her stagnant life.

Larna closed her eyes in front of her God.

And then–

“Don’t go, big sis!”

She did not die.

***

That place was the world of souls.

The origin of place where the root of people take a form and granted a will.

An extremely gloomy white room.

There were shadows everywhere, and screams that could tear the ear could be heard many many times.

Endless resentment loop.

Once a sound was released, it will continue reverberated, swallowed by the resentment, and reverberated again uninterrupted. In the end, they would hit the wall, absorbed, and then reflected, again and again.

The young visitor shouted from the depth of her heart and drive away those sounds.

“Don’t go, big sis! You can’t die! It would, it would make Ema sad!”

However,

It seems it was not enough.

That’s why she desperately, raised her voice.

“……You…..could speak……?”

But the answer what something that she did not expect.

Since of course there is no way Larna could hear Ema’s voice and scream in this world.

“That’s not it! Why, why…! Nacht-sama has saved our life, but why are you choosing death!? I was saved by you, but you…!”

The young girl remembered the warmth she felt in the rotten cell and hugged her as if hugging the most precious treasure.

“Haha, the young child has become cheeky now. But–this is the end for me. The grudge that keeps me living until now has been, fulfilled.”

That’s why she has enough.

This time that sound did not reverberated.

“I don’t….understand, difficult word…”

“You don’t have to come to this place. I am satisfied. Please live happily, well that would be hard, but at least have a long life.”

As if admonishing her, Larna said that with eyes closed.

However, Ema looked closely at Larna’s closed eyes and shook her head while crying.

“That’s, impossible…Even I have been broken…I could not live alone….!”

Ema lost her words, and the only thing that holds the disappearing consciousness was only the warm hand on her side and a small affection.

In Larna’s closed eyes, she could see the crying Ema.

“I am alone. Even if I leave this place I would be alone. There is no way I could live!! I could live because you were there! I could live because big sis looked like my late mother, but—but, please don’t leave me alone! Please…I would do anything…so please, don’t leave me alone!!”

“Ema……”

“I know your misfortune. This place tells me about it. That’s why I know your past regret and how it was fulfilled and thus you don’t have any reason to live anymore. But–

–Am I not enough?

Can’t I become your reason to live? Am I not worthy enough? Not as a replacement, could I become your new daughter?”

Her desire was childish, and yet not so childish at the same time. It was a desire to live.

She could not properly speak.

“I haven’t returned the favor at all! I was always saved by you! But I haven’t been able to return the favor at all. But you try to leave me. That’s cruel…..You saved my life, please take responsibility….”

Ema planned to save Larna with all of her power.

However, she could only speak the weakness of her heart right now.

And she could not stop the tear that drops from her eyes.

“Ema, you.”

“Can’t I, call you–mother…?”

Larna looked at the small girl.

A disheveled, worried, miserable face of the girl who told the living corpse that was her to live.

But probably everything was as Ema said.

Larna only wished Ema as Nirna replacement.

The reason she loved, was kind to her, and even helped her, was because she wanted a replacement for her daughter that lost in that day. The weakness of Larna’s heart made her to. Because if not, she could not continue to live. And yet, when she was finally satisfied, she threw her away. What an ugly ego.

Larna doesn’t have any reason nor will to live.

It should be.

In a world where her family was no longer there, she should have no reason to live.

However, this girl capture her and wanted to become her daughter.

Pathetic.

What a pathetic self she has become.

Running away from the weakness she had, and then letting the young girl cried.

“Haha, you are a weird child. You might not be happy with me as your mother you know?”

The reason might be the same with that time.

She just doesn’t want to watch Ema’s crying face, and thus her mouth opened by itself.

“!? No that’s not true! I’m sure!!”

“You are six years older than Nirna, so it would make Ema the big sis.”

“……N…Yes….!”

“Flen always pampers, that’s why I am quite strict you know?”

“……yes….!”

Tears flowed from her eyes, and no words come out from her throat.

In exchange, Ema kept nodding.

“Mother! Mother! Ema’s mother!”

“Haha, what is it. You are a pretty spoiled child.”

Larna patted the hair of the young girl on her arm.

Suddenly the room turned bright, a single ray of light illuminated it.

Mixed with the bright light, a teardrop from Larna’s eyes fall toward the ground.

–I am sorry, Flen, Nirna. I have something else to do before coming there. That’s why please, wait for a little bit.

The light reached them, and the consciousness that submerged under slowly resurfacing.

Inside the gloomy cell and somehow a bright room.

Even there Ema looks disheveled and hugged Larna tightly.

“u, a, M, Mo, Te, r.”

“—–Yes, yes. You are really a spoiled child, my Ema.”