Volume 2 – The World Sneered
“Oooh….. I will never forgive you, Maaary! It’s you. It’s your fault that my love didn’t reach Lady Franciiiis!”
He quickly stood back up, and charged as he swung his sword like before, no, in a more crude manner than before.
Mary lightly jumped to dodge the stone pillar targeting her.
“You don’t learn. Your movements are dull.”
“Shuuut uuuuup!”
Ox’s eyes became bloodshot with anger.
He jumped and immediately swung his sword together with the rock rising out of the ground.
Philias was right.
His moves were too crazy to predict, and it was difficult to dodge his attacks due to his speed.
But Mary had
Star
.
The line of light showed her the attack’s trajectory before it came.
“It doesn’t matter how much you struggle anyhow. My sister never cared about you.”
Now, she even had the leeway to speak while she dodged.
“But I have to keep shouting my love!”
“It won’t reach her. All you can do is destroy things.”
“That’s right, so I’m going to destroy you and make my love reach Lady Francis!”
“Destroying things is easy. But, you need double the energy to create. Even more to create something from zero.”
To put it mildly, the possibility of Ox being united with Francis was nothing other than ‘impossible’.
And that was if she was still alive.
“Like you’d know…… We can love each other. Because I love Lady Francis so much! If my love reaches her, I know she will turn around and look at me! Because she’s a Goddess!”
“My sister is a human being. She is not a Goddess!”
Mary could compare Francis to a Goddess as well.
But, in Ox’s case, he
worshiped
her.
His love for Francis was glorified to the limit; it was something that no longer existed in reality.
He would never believe the stories about Francis being comforted by Mary while laying her head on Mary’s lap like a little girl, or dressing Mary up in girlish clothes because she did not think they suited her.
But things like that were precisely why Mary found Francis so lovely.
“That is not love, it’s just idol worship. Look at the reality, Ox. I’m the one whom my sister loved, and she never even thought about you!”
“Really? Is that really true? But I know. I know…… that you’re not human.”
Ox spoke proudly.
He seemed to have learned this from Digi.
“Homunculus. You may have the blood of His Majesty and Queen Blaire, but you were born in a box, you know? Lady Francis, who was raised in Queen Blair’s womb is completely different. How can you call her your sister!? Did Lady Francis know about you!?”
He was trying to anger Mary.
But he was behind the times with this information.
“She knew. Actually, I don’t have Blaire’s blood in me.”
“What?”
Mary countered him.
Ox did not expect the counterattack, so he did not guard himself.
“I have Francis’s blood.”
By definition, it was true that Mary could not call Francis her sister.
But even if that bond was cut off……
“That’s right, for me, my sister…… is my sister, and my mother.”
“Mother? Mom? Mother? Mother? Mother…… mother……? Haha, haha, hahaha, hahahaha, ahahahahahaha!”
Ox maniacally laughed.
The reality he did not want to believe was too heavy, and his mind ran over capacity.
One could do nothing but laugh when things like this happened.
He laughed, laughed, and when he spat all his emotions out of his mouth, his expression changed so fast that it almost looked digital.
His smile disappeared and his face turned into that of a demon.
“Like I’ll believe thaaaaaat!”
He resigned his sword to his anger, which expectedly did not reach Mary.
Mary lightly jumped back and leaned her body, which was enough to dodge his attack.
“Not just your sister, but your mother!? Lady Francis is your mother!? I’m jealous, so jealous, so jealous! I was mad with envy just because she was your sister, but you’re also enough of a greedy bitch to consider her your motheeeer!”
He could not gloss over his true feelings any more.
Ox was vomiting out his pure, black desire.
“Why, why didn’t she let me have just a corner of her woooorld!?”
“General Ox. It doesn’t matter if someone is your sister or your mother when you love them.”
“Look who’s talking……!”
“A general and a princess. Your positions would suit each other if you loved each other, right?”
It was a very possible relationship.
At the very least, it was more possible than two princesses of the same blood being in love with each other.
“But you’re still obsessed with hating me. Maybe it’s because you know that the possibility of my sister reciprocating your love was zero?”
Ox quietly stopped moving.
He did not look at Mary, and stood completely still while looking down on the ground.
“That’s why you’re obsessed with me. You think that your desires would be fulfilled if I never existed. I mean, I never heard of anything like this. A man who is jealous of the sister of the woman she loves…… even though they’re not together.”
The exposed truth stabbed into Ox’s heart.
He was relentlessly pierced over and over again and torn to pieces.
“That’s not…… It’s not true……”
His eyes were dead.
Mary saw this and thought,
serves you right
.
There was no room for sympathy.
Spreading his convenient delusions everywhere despite Francis’s death, Ox deserved only certain death.
“Uh…… Uoooh…… Oooooh…… Nnnnooo. Mary, diiiieeeeee!”
That was Ox’s only choice.
He had abandoned the army and did as he pleased so far.
There was no after.
He could not accept defeat.
So his only choice was to recklessly swing his sword, kill Mary and paint reality in his red delusions.
“Diiie! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Be crushed! Turn into lumps of meat! Don’t open that filthy mouth ever agaaain!”
“Taking out your anger on me?”
“I said don’t open your mooouth!”
He was simply in a frenzy.
However, Ox’s body grew larger along with this explosion of emotions.
Despite already being almost 3 meters tall.
His body enlarged even further as his exposed veins pulsated, and he looked more like an angel than a human being.
“Guuoooh! Haah, ah, haa! Look Mary! My rage for you is guiding me to greater heights!”
His Sorcery Rating also went up.
Currently, it was over 50,000.
(I knew it, Ox has
World
’s blood too. Only a little amount, considering the condition of his body. I think it’s the first time I’m seeing an arcana user be transformed.)
Ox raised his sword up high.
His veins burst open from too much power, and large amounts of blood dripped down.
He did not feel pain, and shouted loudly while believing that this was his own strength.
“Closer to heaven! Yes, this is no longer a pillar! I call it the Tower of Franciiiiis!”
This did not change anything.
He smashed the ground.
This created a crater that resembled the site of a meteor fall, and the compressed dirt turned into a mass of stone over 10 meters tall as it protruded out of the ground with great speed.
Even if one tried to dodge this, the wind pressure was enough to tear a human body to little pieces.
However, Mary did not even try to dodge.
She could dodge or block it, but Ox committed a big error before this.
“Tower, is it?”
Mary gloated and chuckled to herself.
“Time to finish you off!”
Meanwhile, Ox laughed as he believed he had won.
He watched on as the sharp rock’s tip charged at Mary and almost pierced her.
“Yes, thank you very much.”
Then, the rock slipped through her body.
No-
“Did you just melt into my swordsmanship attack!?”
They
integrated
.
Arcana Installation,
Tower
.
When Ox named his attack ‘tower’, he fulfilled the condition for the arcana of
Tower
.
Mary integrated her right arm with the rock and spun it around.
The 10 meter tall rock easily mowed down trees and swooped down on Ox from the side.
“Aaaaaah!”
It was a simple attack with a speed that ignored the object’s heavy mass.
Ox put strength into his legs to try and stop it, but-
“Not like…… Not like thiiiiis!”
His vain scream echoed through the forests, and his body was smashed into a tree with great speed like a cannonball.