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As the uniformed hungry ghost, with countless teeth protruding, opened its mouth wide, a brilliant white flame began to swirl in the narrow room filled with mirrors.

“Please protect us!”

“Please let us escape outside!”

The blue reaper and the pink girl, surrounded by a giant droplet, were rapidly propelled out of the room.

Boom!

Just as they fled outside in fear, the white flames filled the surrounding area.

The power of the white hungry ghost was the flame that burned objects.

Mirrors, which held countless stories, shattered into pieces amidst the explosion.

They must have been precious records, but now they lay broken and scattered across the floor.

Clink. Clink.

The sound of glass shards crunching underfoot reached my ears.

The uniformed hungry ghost slowly stepped out of the room.

“Kyu-reur-reur.”

The once intelligent-looking uniformed hungry ghost was transforming into a beast, losing its reason.

The uniform burned away as it crawled on four legs, engulfed in white flames, growling.

With its hands covered in white flames, it swung down toward the blue reaper.

“One hundred walls of water to block the flames!”

Seeing this, the blue reaper poured all of its strength into casting magic.

The water magic created by the blue reaper was pierced in an instant, but it succeeded in bending its trajectory.

Boom.

The heavy attack of the white hungry ghost struck the floor instead of the blue reaper, and the powerful shockwave caused the ground to collapse.

Everything in the building that suffered from the white flames began to crumble.

Walls and floors fell apart, and stones and white flames danced in the air.

As the blue reaper was caught up in the shockwave sweeping everything away, it lost consciousness.

‘….’

Amidst the sounds of roaring flames, shattering glass, and collapsing structures, a faint coughing sound could be heard.

In the dark rubble, where nothing was visible,

Cough cough.

“No….”

Where the blue reaper turned its head, there lay the pink girl, collapsed, with a hole in her abdomen.

The water droplet shield created by the blue reaper had failed to completely block the white flames.

“Please don’t die!”

“Please heal all your wounds!”

“Please don’t lose consciousness!”

“Please don’t be in pain!”

“Please don’t hurt….”

Tears streamed down the blue reaper’s face as it continued to write strings in the air.

However, the white flames clinging to the wounds hindered the blue reaper’s healing efforts.

“Haha.”

At that moment, a dry laugh escaped the pink girl’s lips.

“Don’t cry.”

“I’ve come to the end.”

“No!”

The blue reaper shook its head violently.

As the pink girl watched this, she gently patted the blue reaper’s head.

“In this tower, there are no humans left. I was the only survivor.”

“I really wanted to visit the academy and become a great alchemist like grandfather….”

Sigh.

With that, the pink girl released a small, long breath, and slowly closed her eyes.

“Please heal all your wounds!”

“Please heal all your wounds!!”

“Please heal all your wounds!!!”

The blue reaper tirelessly continued to write strings in the air.

But the blue reaper’s magic did not reach the pink girl.

“No.”

“This can’t be.”

The blue reaper threw away its staff.

And with a small opening of its mouth, it began to chant magic.

[Please heal all your wounds!][Please heal all your wounds!][Please heal all your wounds!][Please heal all your wounds!][Please heal all your wounds!][Please heal all your wounds!][Please heal all your wounds!][Please heal all your wounds!][Please heal all your wounds!][Please heal all your wounds!][Please heal all your wounds!]

Every time its mouth formed a word, magic was created.

Continuously, without rest.

And each time it expelled magic, it felt as though power was descending upon it from above.

Far away, in the sky.

A brilliant white light was shining down.

[Please heal all your wounds!!!!!!]

At the moment it let out a silent shout, a white flash enveloped the blue reaper’s body.

Finally, the water magic pierced through the white flames and reached the pink girl.

The pink girl’s wounds vanished in an instant, and she began to breathe with a look of relief on her face.

“Thank goodness.”

The blue reaper looked down at the pink girl with warm eyes before slowly turning its head.

“Kkyuk kkyuk kkyuk kkyuk.”

There, a white hungry ghost, with grotesque teeth, was crawling slowly, wearing an unpleasant expression.

“I never really disliked white hungry ghosts, but…”

“I’m starting to dislike them a bit.”

The blue reaper stepped forward slowly to protect the pink girl.

*

In the ruins of the collapsed building, magic was taking form.

[Ten spears made of water!]

Ten spears made of water appeared in mid-air and shot toward the tooth hungry ghost at high speed.

“I’m getting stronger.”

The magic created by the blue reaper was growing stronger and faster.

However, even that powerful magic could not reach the tooth hungry ghost and simply evaporated in the white flames.

The tooth hungry ghost, knowing that the blue reaper’s attacks were in vain, playfully clicked its teeth together, wearing a smile.

Click. Click. Click.

Then, covered in flames, it charged toward the blue reaper, clacking its jaws.

“Please protect us!”

Although an unusually thick water droplet shield surrounded the blue reaper, the tooth hungry ghost easily broke through it.

Crunch.

As it passed by the blue reaper, the tooth hungry ghost bit off one of its arms.

‘!!!’

Click. Click. Click.

The tooth hungry ghost clicked its teeth like a playful child, grinning cruelly.

“It hurts.”

“It hurts too much.”

From the torn arm, blood flowed like a droplet of water.

“I’m getting colder.”

“My mother’s firewood is disappearing.”

Life was dwindling.

But the blue reaper did not stop the bleeding, slowly conjuring magic with the flowing life as ink.

“There’s no mother here.”

“My voice can’t reach this distant dimension.”

“But I won’t give up.”

“Even if my life runs out, I wish to protect the attached human….”

With its remaining arm, the blue reaper scooped up the firewood from the wound and began to sprinkle it into the air.

And with those logs, it started to create magic.

As it continued to carve incantations into the firewood, the amount of power pouring down from the sky began to increase.

It was a strangely familiar force.

*

The tooth hungry ghost felt elated.

No, the world was filled with ecstasy.

In the moment of swallowing the core, everything that had bound it disappeared.

It was free.

It had become perfect.

Though its body twisted in various ways, it felt like a blessing.

Though it felt pain as if its insides were tearing, it was the right thing.

“Kyuhihihihi.”

It was a bit regrettable that its body was twisted so much that it couldn’t laugh naturally any longer.

But it was okay.

It could express that laugh with its new teeth!

Click. Click. Click.

Tormenting the feeble blue grimoire, the tooth hungry ghost joyfully clicked its teeth.

Click. Click. Click.

At that moment, a faint golden light emitting from the blue reaper began to swell in size.

‘!’

Like a sun-eating spider, it radiated an uneasy presence.

But it was not afraid.

It was a ‘guardian’ that had become even more perfect!

The tooth hungry ghost unleashed the white flames embedded within its body at the blue grimoire.

Those flames erased not just the disgusting traces of humans but also the fallen human and even the blue grimoire without a trace.

Click. Click.

The tooth hungry ghost felt a strange sense of emptiness at how easily everything had ended, a slight regret bubbling within.

But that was only temporary.

The twisted heart of the tooth hungry ghost began to fill with joy again.

Just as it was about to take a step forward, expecting greater destruction, its limbs suddenly froze.

‘!!!’

Then, a massive magic wave descended from the sky, shaking the heavens.

[Please shatter all my legs!]

“Kreeeek!”

As its elongated, twisted arms and legs shattered, the tooth hungry ghost let out a horrendous scream.

From the mouth of the distorted ghost, no hints of ghostly sounds emerged; only the sound of a monster filled the air.

Before the eyes of that ghost, the now imposing blue grimoire descended.

With a slightly shorter skirt.

And a strangely shaped staff.

The blue grimoire looked down at the tooth hungry ghost and shot magic through its bizarre staff.

[Now please die!]

Thud.

In that moment, something inside the tooth hungry ghost froze.

At the same time, it felt a filter that had covered the world vanish.

And in its misaligned, twisted body, the pain of its insides being shredded became clear.

“Ah, so the guardian that has consumed a core went mad like this.”

“This must be the words of a guardian who has lost its master.”

In the dimming vision, the sky split open, and a giant form appeared.

It started as a mere blur but gradually became clearer.

Eight enormous, pillar-like legs.

Eyes shimmering like a mineral.

And a brilliantly shining halo atop its head.

The ‘Sun-Eating Spider’, which always had to reside at the top floor, began to reveal itself.

In the eyes of the tooth hungry ghost, it felt as if the light of the halo dimmed slightly.

*

In a realm full of bright, rippling water, I suddenly found myself surrounded by statues calling me ‘mother.’

“Mom!”

“Mom!”

Then, the statues began to disintegrate one by one into black liquid.

Like slimes, they wriggled.

And slowly began to crawl toward me.

As those slimes crawled closer, they observed me with glowing white eyes, gradually resembling me more and more.

They began to spew white firewood onto the floor.

Miniature limbs, like those of a human, formed.

And antennae sprouted up.

“Mom!”

“Mommy!”

Now completely transformed into black reapers, they began to walk with an unsteady gait.

Some tumbled as they approached.

Some collided while trying to hurry.

They were crawling toward me.

When they finally arrived at my feet, they wrapped around my ankles and began to nuzzle.

“Mommy.”

“Truly, it’s mommy.”

I gazed down at the little ones in a daze.

“Wow, the number of children has increased so much.”

I murmured like that, gathered the black reapers, and embraced them tightly.

Thus, countless black statues transformed into black reapers, creating a black reaper cocoon around me.

“Mom!”

“Mom, you can’t go anywhere now.”

“Mom, we’re always together.”

“Mom, it’s warm.”

“Mom doesn’t hit me!”

“You won’t eat me even if I come closer!”

“Mommy is gentle.”

As I lay there, gradually sharing the firewood with the black reapers, I noticed something strange in the corner of my sight.

Black children were vomiting something golden from their stomachs.

No way….

Upon closer inspection, it was the remnants of the Golden-Mecha-Tyranno Armor.

‘!’

“No way!”

“Mom is tormented!”

And the will of the black reapers echoed throughout the resort.