Adella rubbed her eyes and sat up.
In front of her were two older sisters.
NaeMe and NaeMe’s game avatar.
The cold impression was such that just looking at it made her body freeze.
【Witch】
Adella only realized that she was an antagonistic NPC after seeing the red name above her head.
“Why is NaeMe doing this?”
Quickly steadying her body, Adella aimed her gun at her.
But Adella was outside the witch’s area of interest.
She was solely focused on checking the unconscious Hibirisu.
“Only 7 days until the detachment… I thought she would rampage beforehand, but I guess that’s not the case.”
“Sister! Put down Hibirisu!”
“You’ve been noisy since earlier.”
[Spell: Glakis Rabina Nivis]
Buzz buzz buzz buzz—
An expert-level quadruple casting, completed in a blink of an eye.
Four magic circles were summoned above Adella’s head, ruthlessly pouring down numerous ice shards.
Boom—!
At the moment of crisis, NaeMe blocked Adella’s path.
[Spell: Glakis Iontrap]
A gigantic ice hand was summoned from the ground to block the way.
A waterfall of coldness covered the sky, splitting apart, with ice walls rising on both sides.
With a single confrontation, the surrounding terrain was changed.
The grass that announced the awakening of spring turned white and hardened.
The witch initially showed a slightly surprised expression but soon returned to her usual expressionless demeanor.
Hibirisu was just regaining consciousness at that moment.
“Umm…”
“Do you remember me, little one?”
“Ugh!”
The green-haired girl flailed her body in surprise, like a carp.
As the witch let go of her hand, Hibirisu’s small body flopped down on the ice.
[Spell: Adhesion]
Bang—!
Adella fired a spell at Hibirisu, attaching a mariposa shell to her body.
Pulling the string connected to the bullet, she dragged Hibirisu toward herself.
It was hard enough to stand on the icy floor.
The witch, barefoot for some reason, stood well without any shoes.
She crossed her arms and spoke to her companions.
“I’ve come to collect the promised price, Hibirisu.”
“Ugh…”
“Here you go. It’s been five years; you’ve had your fun, right?”
The witch threw a small glass bottle.
Adella received the bottle filled with a clear liquid on behalf of Hibirisu.
“What is this?”
“Do you think telling you would help you understand?”
“Stop joking!”
“Pentobarbital, and downstairs there’s potassium chloride refined with mana. If you drink it in one go, you’ll die without pain at least.”
“It’s poison? Why are you doing something so cruel, witch! Hibirisu is a child you saved! There’s no way she should die like this.”
“Did I save her? Ha, this is why the devourers are… Willing to deceive even themselves for survival, huh?”
The witch let out a hollow laugh.
Under the cold gaze, Hibirisu turned her head to avoid eye contact.
“Hibirisu is a child I created. I hold the ownership.”
“Wha… What do you mean, witch…?”
Hibirisu mustered her courage to speak up.
“Yes?”
“Could it be that you are my mother, witch?”
Silence.
The surrounding temperature dropped significantly, not just her imagination.
“What nonsense are you talking? Do I look that old? It’s unbearable to hear that.”
The witch furrowed her brows tightly and clenched her fists.
“Adella. Feed that audacious little brat that poison immediately.”
At the same time, NaeMe blinked rapidly and said,
“Whose side are you really on, NaeMe!”
“Oh, I’m sorry. I lost my mind for a second.”
“I knew it. That witch is my sister in her past life, right? Quickly tell us what we should do here.”
“Are you asking me to spoil it?”
“I don’t want a bad ending!”
“Ha… Nothing will happen right now.”
“Why?”
“The witch can’t kill Hibirisu until the 7 days pass.”
NaeMe stared blankly at her past self.
In response, the witch squinted her eyes and questioned,
“How did you know, little one?”
“If it were me, I wouldn’t say such foolish things. Though this might also be the limit of ASI.”
It was then.
Pwooo—!
Dun dun dun dun—!
The sound of trumpets and drums filled the space.
The vibrations created by the hooves of horses caused the ice to crumble helplessly.
An army had gathered from all directions to capture the witch.
The blonde woman looked briefly over the horizon and spoke.
“I have a mission for you.”
“Hmph, I have no intention of listening!”
“Convince Hibirisu to take her own life within seven days. If not, thousands will perish because of that one witch.”
“And if we refuse?”
The woman’s eyes glowed red, almost as if the black pupils were completely invisible.
“In that case, none of you will die comfortably.”
[7th Circle Spell: Draconia Tenebra]
Shuaaa—!
The witch’s shadow expanded in an instant.
The massive shadow that enveloped the nearby area suddenly surged from the ground.
The life born from the shadow spread its enormous wings.
The mysterious being was covered in solid red scales.
Even the colors reflecting the sunlight were dyed with a fiery hue.
“A dragon…!”
Hibirisu shouted.
A legendary creature said to rove through dimensions.
The witch grabbed the dragon’s claw and flew high into the sky.
“Catch it!”
“Absolutely don’t let it get away!”
“All mages, to your positions!”
Generals clad in gleaming plate armor shouted as they drew their swords.
[▶Warning: Survive from the army’s bombardment.]
“Hibirisu! Quickly control the Roybhatche!”
Thousands of fire arrows rained down like a downpour.
Hearing NaeMe’s words, Hibirisu awakened her ability.
The mole creature dove deep into the ground with the three girls on it.
“There are remnants of the witch! Chase them down!”
Hibirisu, who was mistakenly misunderstood as being on the witch’s side, cried bitter tears of injustice.
But since her life was on the line, she had no choice but to endure.
“Ugh, Mr. Mole. A little faster…!”
“Chirp chirp!”
It only took a day for an ordinary life to break apart,
And for her to realize how precious that life was.
* * *
[▶Day 7]
The beast at the end of its life disintegrated into pure mana and vanished.
The same goes when the creature was overworked.
Roybhatche No. 1 became the first monster in human history to die from overwork.
In the southern continent lay an endless desert.
We passed the port city of Rapabnik and entered the Mikasuela desert region.
It was a space teeming with monsters, being one of the world’s four great wastelands.
One day, we repelled swarms of monsters attacking a merchant.
While Hibirisu controlled the strongest monsters, Adella and I took care of the weaker ones.
Level up, stats increase once again.
The merchants, in gratitude, handed over food and some useful information.
“There’s a rumor that whoever collects all the cores of devourers becomes immortal. So the entire country is now obsessed with finding devourers.”
“That’s a good thing. If we could stop this catastrophe as soon as possible, who cares if someone becomes immortal?”
“There’s even talk that the witch in the east has already collected six of them.”
“Really? But what on earth is a core of devourer? A high purity magic stone? Sacred relics? Or the core of a super-large monster?”
The last remaining core of the devourers was Hibirisu’s Aura Heart.
Adella had been checking the game system with a fidgety demeanor since earlier.
“This game isn’t fun…”
The desert nights are cold.
She grumbled while warming her hands in front of the warm campfire.
“That annoying witch… Can we really win?”
We were getting stronger at an unprecedented speed.
Just a few days ago, Hibirisu, who was an ordinary person, can now easily control three medium monsters or one large monster.
When a large monster appears, it’s safe to say any town will be annihilated.
As the days went by, Hibirisu’s inhuman capabilities became more apparent.
And she likely wouldn’t be unaware of that fact either.
With a sad expression, she whispered.
“I just want to meet my father one last time before I die…”
Adella stomped her foot on the ground and stood up.
“Quickly let me meet my dad, NaeMe. Is that too much to ask? Since you’re my sister from a past life, you should know everything!”
“Huh? What are you talking about, Adella?”
“Ugh, I’ve blurted everything! Hibirisu, this little girl here? Actually, she’s the reincarnation of the witch you saw earlier. We came from the future.”
“I don’t quite understand.”
“What’s the use of talking to an NPC a hundred times?”
“No? Until I clear it, to me it’s not a game but another world. So you should cooperate quickly.”
Originally, the game was designed so that Hibirisu couldn’t reach her father at once.
And even without seeing her father, a happy ending could be achieved.
“If that’s really your wish, then follow me.”
We retraced the path we had walked through the desert.
When the sandstorm approached, I would showcase new magic.
“Mmm, originally this is a spell you have to painstakingly obtain while playing horror games in the desert dungeon. But since I’m telling you especially, pay attention.”
[7th Circle Great Spell: Ventus Raoul Acephite]
I compressed the magic circle and contained it within a magic bullet.
Firing in rapid succession towards the approaching sandstorm.
Each bullet’s landing point became a vertex to draw a geometric star-shaped magic circle.
Shuaaa—!
Lava erupted into the dark night sky, creating a small sun in midair.
The sun spun by itself and absorbed the sandstorm.
The desert calmed down, revealing a towering mountain range.
I pointed at the mountain peak.
“Mr. Brooks is over there in the caldera terrain. There’s a beautiful lake at the mountain’s summit.”
“Hieek! When will we make it up there? It’s super high! Oh no, we don’t have time, let’s hurry!”
Adella gathered her belongings and set off.
“I guess Adella’s going to walk up alone. Hibirisu, let’s comfortably ride the monsters.”
“No! Take me with you!”
“Is there no night taxi, or rather a night wyvern? Finding a three-seater is going to be tough.”
If this were in my past life, I would have expanded my aura’s perception to locate the monsters.
But I couldn’t forget that this was not the real world but an open world.
Meaning the monster spawns were random.
About 20 minutes of waiting, flying monsters swarmed in.
The monsters that met Hibirisu’s gaze screeched and made emergency landings.
“Hibirisu, you’ve never flown before, right?”
I casually asked her.
Hibirisu shook her head.
“It’ll be fun.”
Hibirisu smiled for the first time in a while.
The saddlebags to harness to the monsters could be made with five pieces of monster skin and one strand of spider monster silk.
I don’t quite understand the principle either; it’s a unique system of Resonance that I memorized.
However, the saddle itself is only a maximum of two seats.
As I held the reins and Hibirisu sat behind me, it became fully occupied.
“Where do I sit?”
Adella asked with a sulky expression.
I pointed at the wyvern’s front claw.
“Huh?”
“Well, if there’s not enough seating in a car, one of them has to sit in the trunk.”
“Wait a minute… Are you joking? No way…”
Flap—
“Caw! Caw!”
The wyvern monster forcefully grabbed Adella with a powerful flap of its wings.
“Ahhhhh! Adella, help me!”
It was hard to discern where the wyvern’s sounds ended and Adella’s screams began.
We shot up, overshadowing the clouds that blocked the moonlight.
“Adella, are you okay?”
Kind-hearted Hibirisu peeked her head over the edge and looked down.
“Ugh, I’m not okay… Ugh!”
“If you’re uncomfortable, I might ask the wyvern to hold you the other way!”
“No, don’t! Just quickly, ahhhhh!”
The wyvern dropped Adella from an altitude of 2,000 meters.
With its silver tail, her body spun around and it snatched her up again.
“Whoa…”
She seemed to have lost her mind, unable to overcome her acrophobia as a cat.
“Hey Adella, are you okay?”
“Hibirisu, don’t just look down, look up!”
“Yes? Wow…!”
Stars sparkled in Hibirisu’s jade-like eyes.
Around the soft moonlight, the constellations seemed to be having a festival, as if attending a banquet of the gods.
Both in the past and the future, the noblest and the most humble must have looked upon those stars with solace.
“Someone once said that the Earth we live on is a lonely dot surrounded by the vast darkness of the universe. In this vast stadium called the universe, the Earth is merely a small stage.”
“So outside the world we live in is called space. I didn’t know that before.”
“Right. But interestingly, we humans stand on that one point called Earth and see galaxies that are billions of light-years away. Isn’t that amazing? Saying this might sound arrogant, but… I like it. It feels like I’m raising the potential of humanity high.”
“I think both sound good. It seems like we should carefully balance between arrogance and humility.”
“You’re quite smart, Hibirisu. Is that your thought or ASI’s?”
“Yes?”
“Never mind. I should have had this kind of conversation with you much earlier in my past life.”
Before we knew it, the wyvern landed at the mountain’s summit.
At the edge of Caldera Lake, one person was barely visible, like a tiny dot.
It was Brooks, Hibirisu’s father.
“Caw! Caw!”
Slip—
“Uh?”
“Adella!”
The wyvern accidentally dropped Adella.
“I’ll take revenge, nonameee!”
She screamed her last in despair as she plummeted into the lake at the mountain’s summit.
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