The Young Princess Kills Everyone: Re
Mary walked through the fallen royal capital towards the gate.
Nothing remained here.
She demolished the royal castle she was born and raised in.
She killed the people precious to her.
There was nothing else Mary could do.
Her numb heart could carry her through any act of self-harm now.
She went past the rubble on the ground, stepped over corpses, and said goodbye to her hometown.
But she suddenly turned around before the gate.
Sharp black claws approached her.
She nimbly brushed them off with her right hand.
The stretching arm and claws burst open and vanished.
“Ehehe.”
The woman standing there laughed at the pain of her arm bursting open.
But Mary was sure the arm she popped just now was bigger.
So that was not the real person, but something else linked to the main body.
Well, she was probably an angel anyway.
Her cut healed.
So she could turn pain into pleasure.
“Are you my next opponent, Miss. Shaiti?”
Mary sounded bored.
Compared to Cutie, this foe sincerely did not matter to Mary.
“I’m honored to see that you’re enjoying this.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Our highlight author’s work.”
Mary was annoyed by that expression and quickly swung her right hand to let loose a bullet the size of a fingertip.
A black shadow emerged behind Shaiti.
It was a mana mass in the shape of a muscular human.
But it had two masculine horns on its head.
Its eyes were sharp and teeth were sinister, and its arms were shaped like the one Mary brushed off earlier.
It caught the bullet with the palm of his hand, forcefully changing its trajectory.
“I’m impressed you decided to stand before me.”
She did not even have to use Analyze.
If she struggled because of a tiny attack that was made just to test her, then her Sorcery Rating was probably only around 100,000.
She was no match for the current Mary.
“Or did Mitis order you to die like the other homunculi?”
“How absurd. I’m just improving the story of my author as her editor.”
“It’s never going to be anything more than a joke.”
“But it would be boring without me, you know? Your fight with Miss. Cutie too.”
Mary frowned.
“I knew she had to have gotten power from another arcana.”
Even considering that she became an angel, Cutie’s mana was still too high for her.
It was impossible unless she had the power of another arcana, like Mary.
“From the looks of that monster behind you, I’m guessing your arcana is Devil.”
“Correct! You must be used to this after killing so many arcana users.”
“You’re so irritating.”
“Oh, is it because I talk like Miss. Cutie?”
Mary silently stepped forward and slashed with her scythe.
‘Devil’ protected Shaiti with both arms, but they got ripped apart.
“Did I hit a nerve?”
“Yes, that’s right. So I’m going to kill you fast. I’ll cut you into small pieces!”
She was already in range of Mary’s scythe.
Her arms did not regenerate in time, so she could not defend herself.
Mary carried out her words.
She swung her massive scythe, smashing the debris around them into small pieces.
Of course, Shaiti was supposed to be torn apart along with them, but the debris behind her was intact.
In other words, she blocked Mary’s strike.
And the distance between the two got even closer.
Shaiti and the devil’s arms were clearly regenerating faster than before.
Star showed that the ‘best path’ was to step back.
Mary clicked her tongue and jumped back.
Right afterwards, the devil’s arms knocked her off her feet as its claws deeply scratched the ground.
“You react fast.”
“Don’t waste time struggling!”
“A quick victory would be boring, wouldn’t it?”
“I don’t care, so-”
“Hehe, this is Devil’s power, Death Drive. Its power increases when physical and mental destruction approaches.”
Mary instinctively sensed a resemblance to Hanged Man.
However, it was different because the devil’s manifestation was linked to the user’s body; it influenced a change in mana according to the user’s mental state, and it could affect others.
“Miss. Cutie was wonderful to make a contract with. While she was fighting you, both her body and mind screamed in pain as the angel seized her.”
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“Die, disgusting devil!”
Mary’s gatling spat fire in the royal capital and pierced Shaiti’s body.
Mitis seemed bored while she watched the fight.
“Devil isn’t strong enough to beat her.”
The fight had a clear winner already.
Mary would kill Shaiti with no hesitation, and cause her Reverse to activate.
“I want ‘meaning’. This is the climax, so we can’t have it end with just a boring fight to the death. Don’t you think so, Stella?”
Mitis spoke in her mind.
There was no reply.
Inside her, Stella was constantly holding her knees and repeating the same words.
“It’s my fault. It’s my fault. It’s my fault. It’s my fault.”
The last time she woke up was when Ox destroyed the cabin she used to live in with Luno.
It was a very important place for her.
But she was stuck in this condition all that time afterwards.
“I do understand how you feel. Anyone would feel the same way…… Well, it doesn’t matter after it goes on for hundreds of millions of years, though.”
Mitis remembered her own experiences and bitterly smiled.
“It’s my fault.”
Stella repeated again.
Her feelings of guilt for ending the world continued tormenting her in an empty dark world.
She remembered distant memories like how she was chased out of the village and how Luno took her in, and regretted all of it.