The Young Princess Kills Everyone: Re
Cutie’s body got split in two.
Her upper body dropped to the ground, and the cut started to squirm like Mary’s wounds.
If her body had turned into an angel, then it would regenerate fast.
Mary raised her scythe and got ready to slash again.
But Cutie opened her mouth.
“It hurts.”
Mary stopped for a moment.
“It hurts, Mary……”
Cutie reached out to her and begged.
Memories flashed back.
A feeling of guilt and repugnance surged.
Mary clenched her teeth and swung downwards.
A giant wolf suddenly stepped in front of her slash.
“Don’t get in my way!”
Mary keenly intended on killing Cutie when she swung, but her slashing attack did not reach Cutie.
(It’s hard…… It’s not like the beasts from before!”
The mana was clearly higher.
Mary looked at Cutie through the gap in the beast she sliced in two and activated Analyze.
She saw Cutie’s Sorcery Rating displayed in numbers.
(Miss. Cutie’s Sorcery Rating is over 500,000…… Can World strengthen someone this much by using a lot of blood!?)
The angel with the highest number so far had around 100,000.
Further, that was only possible due to Henry taking time and making preparations.
There had to be another trick when it came to Cutie’s case, which Mary immediately tried to find.
“I’m so happy you waited for me, Mary.”
But her foe did not show it.
Cutie’s flesh stretched out like tentacles from the opening of her wound, linked together, and connected her upper and lower bodies.
She then raised her hand high and instantly transformed all the rubble and corpses in the royal capital.
Giant birds of prey with a wingspread of over 10 meters covered the sky.
Massive wolves with sharp fangs and claws towered above Mary all around her.
Then, the countless corpses turned into insects 1 meter in length and flew around while the sound of their unpleasant chirping spread.
“So I brazenly stepped into the ground where you have the advantage, Miss. Cutie.”
This place was full of ingredients.
And since Mary left this town before, it was easy to predict this would be her last destination.
It would be more fitting to call this a battle between Mary and the royal capital, rather than a battle between Cutie and Mary.
Mary’s scythe swung.
The insects got blown away from the wind pressure.
Mary then turned at the wolves coming at her and threw her scythe.
The blade drew an arc while spinning at high speed and countless foes got cut down by the wind created from the slashing attack.
Massive birds swooped down upon Mary with their sharp beaks.
Mary’s arms burst open and two abnormal new arms emerged.
She crushed their beaks with her hands.
Then, Mary counterattacked with her fists again, and again.
She used the arms on her back and counterattacked the wolves and insects approaching her on the ground.
But the enemy had the numbers advantage.
Mary slightly dropped her hips and jumped high up into the sky.
Then, she enlarged her right arm even more.
Sharp claws glittered and reflected the sunlight.
“Myriad Corpses Burial Claw!”
A massive earthquake shook the royal capital.
A deep scratch carved the ground, cutting across from the royal capital’s northern ramparts to its southern ramparts.
The beasts who were near it instantly got annihilated.
Mary landed on the ground, and a rain of dust that used to be beasts came down from above.
Cutie seemingly ran away somewhere and was not affected by the claw attack.
But she must have been wary, as her remaining familia were not going after Mary.
(Let’s cancel the arcana of Power for now. Its lack of continual usability is definitely its weakness.)
That was a bottleneck when Ox was using it as well.
It was very outstanding to triple one’s Sorcery Rating, even if temporarily, but Mary had to get used to it first.
At the very least, she figured she should turn it off while the situation was stable for now.
(Most of the buildings she could hide inside are destroyed. She’d have to hide in rubble. In my current form, I can see the entirety of the royal capital at the same time.)
Bone roots spread in the ground and their tips grew eyeballs borrowed from the dead.
All the shadows that were not visible from her position came into view, and she saw Cutie crouching in a location not so far away.
She opened the palm of her hand.
She used Hermit and shot an invisible Burial Cannon.
Instantly, Cutie sensed ‘something’ flying at her and leaped from her hiding spot.
Mary tried to shoot again but then she noticed the abnormality in her own body.
(I’m moving too slowly. Something’s inhibiting me……”
Right afterwards-
“Geh, goh…… ugh, puugh……”
Mary started vomiting a lot of blood.
“T-This is……. Empress’s attack……!?”
She noticed a cloud of dust that should have fallen to the floor with time, but Mary realized that it had been drifting in the same position for a while now.
“The remains of the beasts I blasted away. Microscopic particles too small to be seen-”
Cutie spoke while approaching Mary.
At the same time, beasts and insects also slowly got closer.
“You transformed the remains of the beasts I killed…… ugh…… and……!”
“Yes, I broke your body from within.”
Cutie showed herself and boasted.
“The insects entered your veins and circulated through your blood, and now they’re crushing your brain, heart and muscles.”
“My regeneration still works…… But even if my wounds heal, the insects are still there…… Uuuugh……!”
Rather than pain, the sensation was more of a ‘disgusting’ feeling that made Mary go pale.
A crawling, intense tickling sensation spread across her body from the inside.
“This is what happens when you hesitate with a traitor like me.”
Cutie held her arms aloft in front of herself.
The beasts rushed down on Mary.
Mary clenched her teeth and put her hands on the ground.
“If my body can’t move, then I’ll fight back with my servants too. Burial Leichnam!”
The ground bulged up in different spots, as if the corpses buried underneath started to move.
White bone arms stuck out of the ground, and giants crawled out.
They trampled the beasts and insects attacking their master Mary, and crushed them.
Mary used this opportunity to step back and distance herself from Cutie.
“You won’t get away!”
Then, Cutie herself moved to leap at Mary this time.
She could always transform her body, but she was an angel and not a human being this time.
So she pushed herself harder.
Red muscles became exposed in her legs and she launched herself off the ground, closing the distance between the two in an instant.
Cutie then transformed her arms too and stabbed Mary with sharp beast claws.
“Agh, guh……!”
“I’m taking your life.”
Claws went through Mary’s back to her chest.
Cutie clenched her hand and pulled Mary’s heart out.
“Mary…… I love you.”
She kissed Mary’s bloody heart, then crushed it with her hand.
Having her heart, the source of her life force taken away, Mary quietly turned around and opened her mouth.
“Unfortunately…… Crushing my heart isn’t enough to kill me now.”
Mary really almost seemed to feel bad for it, then stabbed Cutie in the chest with her hand.
Her heart was there.
She crushed it.
She felt a pulpy sensation in the palm of her hand.
“Same as me, then.”
Cutie also sounded sad.
Then, she stabbed Mary in the abdomen with her hand.
The two glared at each other and felt the warmth of their bodies with their hands.
“It’s my second time inside you like this.”
“Yes, it’s my second time feeling the inside of your body, Miss. Cutie.”
“I feel wrapped up in warmth and love.”
“The sensation of a part of someone precious to you being inside you…… Yes, even if it hurts, this is how joyful that feels.”
Mary caressed Cutie’s lungs.
Cutie cherished Mary’s intestines.
The two had no choice but to kill each other, but that was why touching each other made them feel this happy.
“I’m…… really scared. I’m so close to who I used to be, but I would never accept this kind of a relationship.”
“You are who you are, Miss. Cutie.”
“No. I mean…… Aha, haha…… Aaah…… Mhm, I get some random noise now and then, and remember…… what, what…… what? Hehe, aah, it’s the noise. That has to be the proof that I’m under World’s control.”
Cutie’s facial expression repeatedly changed in front of Mary’s eyes.
They were not cute or comical faces, but the subtle faces of someone losing their personality over and over again and getting replaced by someone else.
In other words, it was a jest by World, who wanted to make Mary suffer as much as possible.
“I don’t even know when I was myself, though. I killed my father. I killed Ami and Calaria. So what if the me who loved you was also-”
“Nothing changes. It doesn’t matter what you turn into, I’ll always love you, Miss. Cutie.”
“Mary……”
“I love you. I’m eternally proud to have given my first to you.”
“Mary…… Maaaaaary……!”
Emotion overcame Cutie as she grabbed Mary’s guts and pulled them out.
“I’m so happy, from the bottom of my heart! But this is the only way I can find happiness now!”
She stabbed Mary’s chest with her other hand, pulled out her flesh and put it in her mouth.
“Delishioush…… My beloved’s flesh is so deliciouuus……”
“Miss. Cutie…… Miss. Cutieee!”
Mary’s passions took over and she crushed Cutie’s head.
Her brain burst open.
Only the lower part of Cutie’s face remained intact.
But Cutie kept moving.
She reached out and tore off Mary’s arms.
“Eeeaaaiiiiih……!”
Her still regenerating mouth made a ghastly noise.
“Miss. Cutie! I love you! I love you too!”
Mary tore off Cutie’s arms too.
There was no stopping them now.
They stabbed, cut, ate, ripped, crushed.
Broke, twisted, smashed, opened, poured.
Feelings of ‘love’ did not stop.
Love’s grief did not stop.
Since they could not love each other any more, since they had to kill each other, they tried to find love amidst the slaughter and plunged deeper and deeper into each other’s bodies.
They were like two lovers making love, but it was also exceedingly far from it as the giants and beasts fighting around them painted the area.
In truth, their original Sorcery Ratings had not changed.
If Mary did not do anything, they could probably continue loving and killing each other for days.
But she had the arcana of the Hanged Man.
Unlike Cutie who got more tired as she got hurt, injuries only increased Mary’s mana.
The cruel difference in power became apparent as the fight continued, and Cutie started having more and more missing body parts.
To make up for it, countless small slender arms hugged her body and activated her healing power.
But she was only stalling.
‘The end’ was visible.
(Mhm, this is good. Yes, because I’m fighting to end things.)
Mary could not feel reluctant.
She knew that she would hesitate when it was time to kill Cutie.
Even if it was a fight to the death, if there was love there, she wanted to continue for an eternity.
But she knew that was not allowed.
If an afterlife existed, remaining in this world would only force more sorrow upon Cutie.
“Uuaaaagh!”
Cutie’s head splintered, her arms tore up, and she had only one leg left.
Her body was full of holes and the pounding of her abnormally shaped heart was visible.
Mary stuck her hands out, as if offering them to Cutie.
Sharp teeth pierced the flesh and scraped the bones.
“I’m sorry that this is the only condolence I can give you.”
Mary shot her Burial Cannon.
The recoil was so strong that it blew her arms off.
The human body could not keep its shape after sustaining that impact from zero distance.
Boom! Cutie’s insides exploded and the shock blew the rubble around away.
Her only remains were the small spurt of blood that landed on Mary’s cheek.
She could not even devour Cutie with Death God after annihilating her so thoroughly.
She wanted to fight with Cutie until the end.
That was too meager a wish to be fulfilled, and Mary closed her eyes in the face of the inconvenient reality.
She wanted to close her eyelids and paint the world black.
But that moment, what Mary saw was a world of ‘true white’ enveloped in light.
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