253 – Immortal Centipede – 3
“Ugh… ….”
As soon as I grabbed Immortality, a violent headache hit me. It was so incredibly painful that he staggered momentarily and even got down on one knee.
As if he knew that, Nyx kindly hugged my head with an expression that was not at all embarrassed. His head was buried in two soft lumps of fat.
His chest supported his cheeks and forehead. Warmth radiated from the skin they touched. And, I seemed to hear the slightest heartbeat.
“It’s okay. I’m here. I am not going anywhere.”
Strength went into the arm holding my head. His nose slipped between his warm but slightly damp breastbone. It had a distinctive fleshy smell, like sweet milk.
A very small palm patted his head. The scent of Nix flooded his nostrils. Curiously, as he did this, his headache gradually eased.
And then, the place where the headache disappeared was filled with memories.
Everything that happened in Brunet 3, the relationship with the soul guardian, and the last conversation with the goddess in the soul state. All those memories spread to every nook and cranny of my head.
How long it must have been since I was buried in my chest and enjoyed the warmth, all my memories came back. The body, which had been trembling with pain, regained its stability. My mind was clear again.
Even after the flinching subsided, Nyx continued to pat him on the head with a kind, gentle hand while holding me in his arms.
“I’m fine now. The headache is gone.”
“No. Just a little bit more like this. The symptoms should definitely subside.”
Instead, Nyx put strength into his arms and hugged my head even tighter. Of course, even if the strength went in, it was weak enough that I could easily do it if I was determined and tried to shake it off.
But it didn’t. Right now, I wanted to let the Knicks do whatever they wanted.
Time passed again. The pressure on my head was finally gone. I raised my head. The gigantic breasts that had been rubbing her face a while ago immediately caught my eye.
A bright red mark was left on her upper chest no matter how tightly she was holding her. Nyx stroked his red mark with a reddish face as if it were a sign of something.
“Enough.”
“Yes. Thanks, Nix.”
“There is no need to say thank you because it is a matter of course. Are you awake?”
“Yes. Memories came back too. All the memories of the times I spent with you.”
“That’s a relief.”
Nyx gave a light laugh. It wasn’t a gloomy smile like a half-spoken persona or a naive smile like a respectable persona, but a smile that would never have been possible in a time when personalities were separate.
“Now, to say that my memory has returned, I will have to test it. Who am I? If your memory returns, you may know what this means.”
“It’s Nicks.”
Fighting, a small fist hit my shoulder. It contained no power.
“Not that. I asked what my name was. If you answer nick again, I’ll hit you again. And he’ll beat you tenfold if you say you forgot.”
Jet-black eyes with a sullen expression turned to me. He laughed and stretched his knees. Naturally, the composition flowed with Nix looking up at me.
“I didn’t forget, so don’t worry, Flor.”
“I barely heard. Well done. You probably never know how long I had to wait to hear you say your name.”
The grunting expression changed to a smile.
It was not revealed in the game that her name was Flor when she was Nyx’s soul guardian. She was most likely left out on purpose by Eclipse.
After I committed suicide using immortality, you whispered goodbye to my dying ear. It must have been a memory just for the two of us.
“No, I know.”
She took Nyx into her arms. Embarrassment appeared on her face as she looked up at me.
“Good work, Flor. To find me here. And, I’ve been waiting for you all this time.”
“… ….”
The jet-black pupils widened. Nyx, blushing, lowered his head and mumbled.
“I didn’t think of this…… Anyway, only this kind of skills lined up…….”
“I hear everything. What are your skills like this?”
“…… It’s nothing.”
Nyx turned to Eoyoung and Buyoung. I just pretended not to hear. I wasn’t so stupid that I didn’t even know what that meant.
“Leave it for now. There is still work left to do.”
“No, let’s stay like this for a while.”
I returned the words I had just heard and hugged Nix tighter. Nix hesitated for a moment, then wrapped his arms around my waist with his flustered face as if he couldn’t help it.
The posture was a little awkward with her breasts showing off their overwhelming size between them, but neither of us cared at all. The hug lasted for a while.
When I untied my arms, I saw Nyx’s face, which was considerably heated. Nix, who was fanning his elongated hand, pointed the atmosphere to the waterfall of Heukyeom.
“What are you going to do with that?”
“Don’t worry. Because I can handle it.”
“That is true. In the past, I caught and killed dozens of them, but I wouldn’t even be able to prepare for one.”
Nix snapped his fingers. The black salt waterfall disappeared as if it was scattered into the air. The Immortal Centipede, which had been struggling beneath it, immediately rose up. His lower jaw crackled nervously.
The immortal centipede was about to pounce on me with a high-spirited gesture, but stopped moving when it saw the sword in my left hand.
Come to think of it, she didn’t change her hand. I put the wingless nightmare into the scabbard and held the immortality in my right hand. Because I’m not a double-edged sword.
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It seems that he instinctively realized that the sword in my hand could kill him completely. The extremely belligerent appearance was nowhere to be found, and they just kept their distance from each other.
It even took me back as much as I approached.
“Yes. Do whatever you feel like. Because I can go.”
He kicked the ground and ran. Twisting his body slightly to the left, he brought his right arm to his left side. I lowered my stance so that I could wield it at any time.
Perhaps realizing that once cut into immortality, it can no longer be regenerated, it backed away and tried to escape.
Of course, it was futile. He just waved his arm. Afterimages were left where immortality had slashed away. Following that afterimage, a jet-black sword was drawn a step later.
The blade became thicker towards the front, and when viewed from the side, it drew a trajectory that looked like a crescent moon. The place where the sword passed past was the lower half of the body.
The entire lower half of the body was cut off due to being caught in the jet-black aura.
“Keee!”
Although the upper and lower halves were separated, the creature did not recover from his wounds like before. He struggled with only two legs left.
I moved my legs and left my upper body, which was desperately crawling on the ground, and approached with my lower body first. He took out the immortal centipede’s severed joint and stabbed it.
The wriggling movement completely stopped even after being cut in half.
After one was finished, there was only one left. Struggling on his front legs, he approached the fleeing bastard and trampled his head. He even had his legs cut off so he wouldn’t get in the way.
Only the upper half of the body remained, and I watched for a moment as it wriggled in place like a maggot. If you look at it this way, he really wasn’t a big deal. It was even more like that when I found memories of my brunet 3 days.
‘Because I’ve chopped up dozens of these.’
Looking at it made me uncomfortable. I grabbed the centipede’s body and pulled it out. The Immortal Centipede was determined not to be dragged out until the very end.
Thanks to this, the host’s torso was scratched by the centipede’s leg, torn apart, and vomited out the contents inside. Green liquid spilled over the floor.
“Where.”
She gave more strength to her arms. Eventually, the Immortal Centipede was completely pulled out. Trampling her head, he held her amputated side with her left hand.
She aimed at immortality with her right hand. Her blade trembled slightly as it glowed pitch-black. It meant that the preparations to activate the ‘Requiem’ were over.
Her memories are fully restored, so weapons aren’t much of an issue. If desired, it could also be triggered as a wingless nightmare, like when encountering the World Eater.
However, I wanted to leave it to the immortals to kill him.
I thrust the point of his knife right under his head. With just that simple action, the ground in the boss room split like a spider’s web. A faint jet-black light leaked through the cracks.
ㅡ!!!!!
The immortal centipede that stabbed her soul shook her body as if it had been struck by lightning. I moved my arms and tore the entire body in half, starting just below the head.
Poo-Wak! Then, a rusty blade slashed the torso in half and came out sideways. The dreaming stopped. I took her foot off her head. The upper of the part where I stepped on her was completely crushed.
“Finally dead. Thank you for your effort.”
Nyx approached before I knew it and stood next to me. I stared blankly at Nyx, who was patting the immortal centipede’s corpse with my foot, then stroked his head.
“What is it all of a sudden?”
“Because Nix liked to stroke my hair. To see if Flor likes it too.”
“Why do you speak of them as two different people? Nyx is me and Flor is me too?”
“Just kidding. So, do you like it? Should I quit?”
“…… Didn’t you say a word of dislike? You can leave it as it is.”
Nix seemed to have noticed that this was a prank of my own, and glanced at me with a sullen look. But as his hands ruffled his hair, he couldn’t stop the corners of his mouth from rising.
After petting Nyx for a long time, I took his hand away after confirming that his expression had changed completely. Nyx’s expression, which had come to his senses, became gloomy again.
“So, how do you feel about getting your memories back?”
“Okay. Something drastically changed and nothing like that. It feels the same as usual.”
Recalling the memories of Brunet 3 means that the memories of dying in all kinds of ways also came to mind. Even the sense that the immortal centipede wriggled and parasitized on his body.
It sounds terrible at first glance, but now it was just a thing of the distant past. Even if I had died hundreds of times in the past in all kinds of ways, I never trembled thinking about it now.
“You used to be like that. Even after going through so many deaths, he always brushed it off and got up as if it was nothing special.”
“Because I’ve been through it before. In the timeline long before I met you.”
Especially during Brunet 1, he must have died as if breathing.
Since I was thrown into a world that was being ruined after receiving only one immortality ability right away, how many times did I have to die before I became strong enough to see the ending?
There were rumors that it was difficult to play as a game called ‘Brightest Darkness 1’, but if you had to do it yourself, it wouldn’t be strange if you died thousands of times.
“My worries are gone. You are the one who should be worried now. How are you feeling? You said it was temporarily combined?”
“Probably in the next few hours we will split up again. It won’t last very long. So, can I ask you a favor?”
“Please?”
“Yes. After my personality separates again, don’t say anything and just hold me tight. With that alone, the recoil of soul separation will be mitigated to a large extent.”
I asked what kind of request it was, but it was no big deal. I asked back playfully, remembering what the short-horse Nyx had said before.
“Is it enough just to hold you? Really?”
Nyx paused, then turned his head slightly, turning his face red.
“Then either go out or drink more… ….”
Towards the end of the sentence, the voice got smaller and smaller, to the point that after that it could only be heard as a mumble.
“…… Let’s get out of here That’s why I’m still in this dirty space.”
Nix managed to return his expression and hugged me. A magic circle was drawn on the floor, and we were back in the improvised cabin.
Sitting on a bed large enough for two people, Nyx looked up at me.
“I still have a little left to split my personalities. Do you have any questions about me? Tell me if you have If my personality is divided again, there will be things I can’t remember, just like I sealed immortality in my soul.”
“I’m just curious…… Oh, there is one.”
“What is it?”
“Why are you on so bad terms with Minerva?”