The Young Princess Kills Everyone: Re
The fight with Yueri ended pretty quickly.
Calaria almost felt let-down.
“Is it…… over?”
“Judgment, huh? That was no big deal, maybe it was because she didn’t turn into an angel?”
“I guess she was just using her own powers to transform her body.”
She shot Yueri’s corpse from afar just to check.
But there was no reaction other than her body getting blown away.
“No need to be so scared. As long as the world is destroyed, I’m sure Mitis doesn’t give a damn about this girl.”
“Yeah, probably. I should regroup with Mary and work out a plan for fighting World.”
“If Mary wins.”
“There’s no need to question that.”
“Haha, yeah. If she dies, we’ll just end up dying in vain.”
Digi was about to leave the room while grumbling.
She approached the door, and the door said:
“If I could evolve myself, I would start by erasing my weaknesses.”
It was Yueri’s voice.
Her face was floating up on the door.
“So the first thing I erased was my heart.”
Digi backed away.
“……Calaria, didn’t you think that was a little too thin too?”
“I don’t want to agree with you, but yeah.”
Calaria seemed annoyed.
From the looks of things outside, Mary’s fight with the angels was on a whole different level than what she had experienced so far.
Calaria was only a human, and Digi was only an arcana user.
On the other hand, Yueri was the closest arcana user to World.
There didn’t seem to be that much of a difference in Sorcery Ratings.
However, Calaria knew that this number was not always completely trustworthy.
Perhaps it was literally an order of magnitude higher; Calaria had a hunch it was so.
“Lives scatter. Even if they disappear, other cells make up for them. Right now, I’m the furthest away from death than anyone else. And you two-”
After saying that, Yueri’s face vanished.
And this time, red muscles spread on the ground like roots, and Justias emerged.
They looked at Calaria and Digi, and held their hands aloft.
Light gathered in the palms of their hands.
It was not just bright, but also hot, and the light expanded.
Before the light burst, Calaria looked at the Sorcery Rating of the Justias.
She had no time to calculate their strength.
She was just curious.
She wanted to check just how mad it was for an arcana user without any blessings to fight Yueri, who was the closest presence to World in this world.
Their Sorcery Rating was 300,000.
For Calaria and Digi, who had been fighting opponents with Sorcery Ratings of 10,000 or 20,000, it was an outrageous gap.
“Justice……. Is Justia here for us?”
Those were Calaria’s last words.
She could not deny that she gave herself over to sentimentality.
However, she had not muttered for no reason.
She wanted to tell her.
She wanted to tell probably the only person who could get away from this place.
Her view went blank.
It did not come back again after that.
Calaria was in a completely white world.
Her body did not move either.
Strangely, she felt no pain.
But she did feel some warmth in her body.
(Aaah…… It hurts less than I expected.)
She could not breathe, and nor could she speak, but she was fine with it if she did not have to suffer.
“Looks like Digi got away. She used so much power that she could melt the entire floor, but it seems Digi managed to teleport outside. How troublesome, I’m sure even Mitis would recognize how top-class Digi is at living in a foul manner.”
Calaria heard Yueri’s voice.
She touched Calaria.
Her face looked smooth.
Fragments melted away from Calaria’s face with her touch.
Her hair, face, maid outfit, everything. All that remained was ‘something’ scorched in the shape of a human being.
At that moment, the light had burned everything away.
The furniture and the walls in the room had melted, and it was a miracle to hold the shape of a human being at the center of that room.
“We’re alone again, Calaria.”
Yueri rubbed Calaria’s abdomen with her fingertips, moved up to the middle of her chest and pushed a little.
Her hand got absorbed into Calaria’s body.
It pierced her back.
A faint moist sound mixed in with a dry noise.
“This is the first time. Half-roasted feels so good.”
Calaria was about to breathe her last.
In fact, it was rather strange that there was still life there.
Perhaps this was also due to her eccentric physical constitution.
But this only helped her avoid instant death, and in fact prolonged her pain.
“I do not doubt my justice. Every indiscretion I’ve committed is just. That’s why sister is on my side.”
Yueri’s arm assimilated Calaria’s body.
Rather, Calaria’s body sank into it.
Her entire body was swallowed, and disappeared.
“Finally…… The three of us can be together as a family.”
Yueri caressed her belly as she spoke, as if cherishing her own child.
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Mary finished saying farewell to Ami outside Pupa’s headquarters.
Her eyes were red and swollen as she headed for the main office while staggering left and right.
Right before that, Digi, with her half-broken artificial limbs, showed up in front of Mary.
Her body was burnt, and when combined with her previous injuries, she was so badly damaged that even Digi herself laughed at her condition.
She could not walk properly, so she used her arms to crawl up to Mary.
“Looks like something happened on the upper floor of the building.”
Mary asked in a gloomy voice.
“It’s Judgment. Yueri…… had the last arcana.”
“I see. So you challenged her and had the tables turned on you.”
“With Calaria, yes.”
Mary’s eyebrows twitched after Digi’s remark.
“……What happened to Miss. Calaria?”
“She’s dead. She got burned by that light.”
Digi spoke like it was nothing.
Mary closed her eyes and took a deep breath that shook her lungs.
The only reason she did not lose her composure was that she had just lost Ami as well.
She had already fallen into the depths of the abyss, and could not fall any lower.
There was no feeling worse than this in this world.
She wanted to believe that, at least.
“I would be late too if I was a little slower.”
“That would have been easier on you.”
“She entrusted me with this. She wanted me to inform you as much as I can.”
“Miss. Calaria?”
“She didn’t say anything, but yeah. I’m sure that’s what she meant.”
Digi nailed the ground.
Blood seeped from under her nails.
It hurt.
Survival was punishment.
So it was Calaria’s natural right to die first.
“Yueri possesses not only the arcana of Judgment, but also Justice.”
“Two arcana…… and that’s the arcana Justia had, isn’t it?”
“Judgment’s powers are to remodel one’s own body, and to revive and control dead people, I think.”
“That’s a bit similar to Death God.”
“It’s the difference between controlling corpses, and controlling the dead, right? Haha, they’re probably related to the arcana’s origins somehow.”
“Did she have any other powers?”
“Ugh, you’re no fun. She can also make herself and the things around her decay at the same time.”
“Decay? On top of her power to revive?”
“Maybe that’s her Reverse phenomenon.”
“Did she use her Reverse phenomenon while still being alive?”
“It must be because her soul is dead and decayed already.”
Mary had no choice but to accept that as it was.
A mind where death and life are mingled due to the death of her soul, just like Lover. If this was true, it made sense that she could use her normal powers and her Reverse phenomenon at the same time.
“Also…… phew. About Justice.”
“If that light is Justice’s power, it doesn’t seem to have changed since Miss. Justia possessed it.”
“Oh, you know?”
“I’ve heard Miss. Calaria talk about it.”
“Then I don’t have to explain it to you. Yueri is insane, and she seems to think that everything she has done is just.”
“An arcana that transforms just deeds into mana. However, it turns into a tool for massacre when in the hands of someone with a broken sense of values. She really can’t understand her sister, can she?”
“Hahaha, her sister can’t understand her either. But it can’t be helped, because everyone has their own version of justice. I’m sure that there’s people who would see the destruction of this world as justice.”
“Justice does not matter. Because I’m just going to kill her.”
Mary gripped her scythe.
She swung upwards.
Digi vacantly looked up, but her mouth quickly twisted into a smile.
“Oh, are you going to kill me too?”
“Miss. Stella asked me to.”
“Aaah…… So you managed to meet her.”
Digi’s face went blank when she heard the name Stella.
The person who gave the homunculi salvation and treachery.
Digi could not hate her even if she wanted to, and she could not say that she loved her even if she wanted to.
“But this is just perfect. Because Calaria also wanted me to give you Magician.”
“I bet. I’m sure Miss. Calaria hated you until the very end.”
“Haha, that’s a lot better than some clumsy feelings of affection.”
“Anything else you’d like to say?”
Digi thought about it for a while, ‘Hmm……?’, then asked Mary:
“What do you think I should have done?”
A malicious question that was pointless to answer.
Of course, Mary did not know the answer.
“If I knew that, I would have done it myself already.”
“Hahaha, yeah. Sorry, I just wanted to know.”
“If I have to say something…… I guess you had no choice.”
“I see. Do you think the same way for yourself too?”
“Yes, even if I went on a different path, the destination would be the same. You can’t change anything by looking back.”
“Yeah…… That does make me feel a little better……”
She had no choice.
There were no other paths – this truth was salvation for Digi.
She faced upward and closed her eyes.
“Alright, do it.”
Across the darkness, she saw the figure of a miserable sinner who did not die even when skewered on a hook.
No matter how much she bled, no matter how loudly she kept screaming, she could not be forgiven; that was the Hell she saw.
She could not help but smile.
There was still more pain waiting for her.
She would be recompensed.
Her sins could never be atoned for, so she had to be punished for an eternity.
She saw the world where that would be possible.
Mary quietly raised her scythe.
Digi was just a human being.
So, she could be killed easily.
Mary could swing down and split Digi’s head in two, and this ‘instant death’ would not even make her suffer.
Mary’s time with Digi was short but it still felt long, and it came to an end very simply.
Mary looked down at Digi, whose split cranium exposed her brains while her transparent red blood stained the ground, and stood still for a moment.
“Corpses are pretty, aren’t they? They’re kinda lovely.”
Mary muttered to herself.
And a few seconds after that, she realized what she just said and covered her face with her right hand.
“……I have to end this already.”
She sighed and consumed Digi with her left arm.
Mary acquired Magician, and stepped into the main office with staggering steps.
The air around her instantly changed.
Mary stared at a seemingly ordinary wall, and realized that it was already the ‘interior’ of Yueri’s body.