[?]
[What?]
[Huh?]
[What’s going on?]
[What is it?]
[Why isn’t it ending?]
“Hold on a second. Lasty.”
“……”
Lasty reaches out her hand into the air.
According to her will, a massive amount of blood moves and raises the Throne of Blood buried in the debris once again.
The Throne of Blood still maintaining its form amidst the chaos.
Thud.
As soon as she sat on the throne, Abstract Power seeped into Lasty.
“…What an absurd thing to do.”
“I didn’t see this coming. I was just hoping it wouldn’t happen…”
I expected an attack would come merely from magic or powers, or something similar.
That makes sense since bloodsuckers like Riven were deeply immersed in the copied Book of Magia.
In the end, all power stemmed from the ‘book’, and I thought they would attack using Lily’s powers again…
“Looks like they’re messing with the ‘system.’ At this point, it’s pretty sure Black Lily is involved.”
“…I don’t know about that kind of stuff.”
Deoen was a game.
To be exact, it was a game system laid over another dimension.
No matter how much you call it another reality, since it follows the game system, as a ‘user’, there are bound to be restrictions.
The proof of that restriction was that both mine and Lasty’s abilities were sealed.
‘Lasty is an existence not recorded in the system. After returning, she was sealed in my soul, and the system didn’t recognize her.’
Just like back when I trapped the Spirit of Darkness, Black Cloud, in the Space of Despair, and the system could not measure the rewards and gave a completely different reward.
This time too, when Lasty cleared the quest, the system failed to recognize it and caused an error.
However, the difference from that time is that the system’s security has been ‘much’ strengthened.
The administrator and the system, having experienced numerous events, were more likely to record Lasty and make her part of the quest rather than allow another error.
Vroom… Crack!
As a result, she currently…
“No way.”
“No way?”
“Yeah. I can’t get out. I can’t even move to my sister’s space.”
She was trapped here.
Becoming the ‘boss’ of the multi-dimension, Erbenus Blodia.
[W-W-W-W-W-W]
[Progenitor sis!!!]
[Is she trapped?]
[What’s Lasty going to do?]
[But can this even happen?]
[If it happens again, it’d be foolish, lololol]
[But, yeah, Lasty was definitely a question, lololol. She just suddenly popped out from Lily.]
[For real, lol.]
[Huh?]
“Part of the seal seems to be lifted… but impossible to get out.”
“What about Riven or Blodia’s presence?”
“None. Completely gone.”
“Hmm…”
Why was Lasty tied up here?
Riven’s goal was to create a new king instead of the progenitor.
It was about creating a new king.
Thanks to the support of Black Lily, he was able to use his powers, and he was actually pushing Lasty meaningfully.
“But he’s dead.”
Blodia was dead, and Riven had vanished without a trace.
All that was left was the throne and the name, and yet still, Lasty was stained in black and purple.
In fact, the purple hue in Lasty’s left eye had increased.
“Is the goal to change Lasty? But that seems too meaningless.”
The Progenitor’s soul is with me.
Even if by some chance the weakened Progenitor gets completely transformed by Black Lily’s powers, in the end, it can’t touch the ‘soul.’
After all, even Black Lily isn’t in a complete state.
As long as the soul is intact, whether it’s me or Lasty, if one of us breaks the seal, it can be fixed.
“That’s too reckless. It’s more reasonable to assume there’s another purpose.”
The reason must be that it has to be ‘bound’ in this state rather than changing Lasty.
Lost in thought, Lasty, who also looked complicated, tilted her head.
Though she knows a lot about magic and powers, an attack exploiting the ‘Game System’ loopholes is very vulnerable.
“Can’t you just take my name?”
“My name?”
“The quest’s objective is the name, right? I’ll give it to you, sister.”
The clear condition for the World Quest is the past or maintenance of ‘Erbenus.’
She was originally the owner of the name, but currently, under the system, ‘Erbenus’ is classified as a single power.
Since Lasty has obtained that classified power, if she takes the name from her, the quest can be cleared.
However, there’s a problem…
“But how do I give it?”
“Huh? Don’t you know, Lasty?”
“All I did was kill that guy. I don’t even know how to give ‘this power.'”
So how is the ‘name’ given?
What Lasty figured out was that the Throne of Blood simply grants power just by ‘sitting.’
But the method for giving a name is uncertain.
All Lasty did was kill Blodia during their fight and obtained the name.
“If the condition is ‘death,’ it might be difficult.”
“Death, huh…”
Setting aside the fact that it means having to kill Lasty, she’s not someone who typically dies.
A vampire is fundamentally semi-immortal.
Being a progenitor who can revive even when their soul is struck makes it impossible to think of killing her.
That’s why it required a lot of effort and time to defeat her…
Swish…
“…Rain?”
“?”
It’s the sound of rain.
Though it doesn’t fall here, the sound can be felt not far away.
“Was that Lasty?”
“Is it okay?”
“No.”
“Then…”
Lasty used magic to project a situation far away, like a hologram.
The sky, originally red, had become even redder.
Beyond the screen, a much more horrific rain was pouring down.
■
In the place where the red rain fell, someone in armor approached her, standing at a “Crack in Space” that even the God of Blood could not dare to understand.
‘Riven Diamess.’
He was a Blood Knight who had betrayed the Progenitor he once protected.
“……”
“I’ve done everything you ordered.”
“Are you sure?”
“Of course. You’ve seen it, haven’t you?”
“Hmm… well. It’s certainly clear.”
Swish.
A pair of purple eyes focused on two women standing far away.
One looked just like her, Lily.
And the other was the Progenitor, Lasty Erbenus, half-transformed.
It all began with a somewhat absurd incident where a user lost a copy of a book, but that tiny butterfly effect caused tremendous repercussions.
That book turned an Elder, who was supposed to devote his life to the revival of the Bloodsucker’s world, into a usurper dreaming of rebellion.
“Not bad at all.”
“It’s destined to be. Naturally, it should show the best outcome.”
It turned a knight living in nostalgia for a long-lost king into a Betrayer.
‘So much so that he developed an obsession close to madness.’
Riven chuckled and nodded.
“Ever since the moment long ago when someone like you—no, exactly you—tore the kingdom apart, I’ve harbored this resentment in my heart. This would have unfolded the same way even without you.”
“Well, I don’t think so.”
“…By the way, is she really that woman?”
“Of course.”
Though they appeared somewhat similar, it could be said that Lily and ‘Black Lily’ were entirely different entities.
Their thoughts were similar, but their pursuits were slightly different.
“Then what should I call you?”
“Name?”
“I used to call you a despicable angel, but what if you prefer the opposite—”
“It’s better if you don’t mention the original me.”
It could end badly.
Swoooosh…
As a life-like chill spread through the Crack in Space, Riven lost balance and collapsed, gasping roughly.
The half-immortal vampire Riven had just seen a flash of light.
“I’m letting it slide because it’s me. I am, as they say, the opposite.”
“Yes. Yes…”
“Just call me Lily casually. After all, we’re the same.”
“Understood. Li—”
“Or is it better to call me Black Lily as she said?”
“Maybe so.”
“…Understood, Black Lily.”
“Hmph.”
Black Lily looks down.
In her gaze are Lasty and Lily, struggling to shield themselves from the rain.
They’re trying hard, but it’s pointless.
To be exact, there’s no way to block the rain falling in the ‘original world.’
Lasty’s influence can no longer extend beyond this place.
“May I ask just one thing?”
“I have a different opinion.”
“Excuse me?”
“Since I lost to Lily that day, I’ve realized a lot. I didn’t want to, but once I lost control, it all came flooding in.”
“……”
“But after going through all that… it somehow annoys me.”
Lily can relate to that.
She has worked tirelessly, even altering her own body, to try and save the world.
But not her.
“Ancient monsters are all killers. No matter what price they pay, doesn’t it seem like they’re living too comfortably?”
“……”
“I think there should be trials that fit the ‘crime.’ Ah, of course, it’s not because I don’t have a copy of Lasty on my side, right?”
“…I said nothing.”
“Of course, Lasty is the victim. She became a monster against her will, and by the time she realized it, everything was already over.”
Lasty is considered the kindest of the ancient monsters slain by Lily.
But at the same time, she is also the monster responsible for the most casualties.
“This whole thing is just an extension of past karma due to Lasty’s mistake… Isn’t it boring if it all goes too smoothly? So I decided to spice things up a bit.”
“…The woman I knew seems a bit different.”
“Think positively. If you fail, your wish will still come true.”
Personally, Black Lily hoped for that a bit more.
She said that while glancing away slightly.
Currently, there are exactly three beings standing solidly in this land.
If Riven and Blodia represent Lasty’s trial, then the last remaining one is for Lily’s trial.
It wasn’t a trial created by Black Lily, and she wasn’t particularly fond of it.
“I suppose since you seem to know, I’ll just let it be…”
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