171 – Gap
“Keah! Coke…… Uhh, keheuk.”
Charlotte, who knelt on one knee and propped herself up on the ground with both arms to prevent the unsightly act of falling to the floor, coughed up blood.
The amount of blood, more than enough to fill a cup, dripped and seeped through the soil. A fishy smell rose from the spot where the blood had soaked in and stung my nose.
The dirt floor was soaked with blood whenever he heard a cough. There were even pieces of blackened intestines in between.
It was proof that the internal mana flowed back from the circuit due to the recoil of forcibly trying to peek beyond the space that humans should not see, and the inside of the body was shaken upside down.
“Keuk…”
Charlotte struggled to hold back the moaning that escaped from her bloody red teeth, then raised her hand to her left eye. Something red ran down between my fingers.
It was a ruptured left eyeball.
The red eyes, which had a beautiful bloody color like a brilliant ruby, literally turned bloody, bursting from the inside and running down from between the fingers.
The palm of his hand trying to block it was already drenched in blood. The remnants of the melted eyes fell helplessly onto the dirt floor, which had turned red from soaked blood.
The left eyeball, which faced the higher dimension directly, was smashed because it could not withstand the reaction, and the condition of the right eye was also not very good. My vision was blurry.
—- Anything more is dangerous. Come back, child.
Charlotte gritted her teeth at the voice that echoed in her head. I thought I could do it this time, but it was because of the self-loathing of myself for failing again and again.
I struggled to get up, but my body wouldn’t move as I wanted. The arms refused to raise the upper body, and the legs refused to stand on the ground on their own.
To be honest, the fact that I was able to get myself together and survive after falling to the floor without struggling with my limbs unsightly was a remarkable enough achievement.
It means that at least I was able to understand the new concept and make an attempt to accept it as my own.
However, the achievement Charlotte wanted was not survival, so it was a problem.
—-Isn’t the child well aware of the fact that he will lose his life if he continues? come back soon
The only remaining Charlotte’s red eyes bulged. He clenched his teeth even more, and the crackling sound of his molars being crushed mixed with the blood in his mouth.
I ignored the pain from cracked molars. At most, it wasn’t even included in the pain axis compared to the pain of mana flowing backwards through his entire body.
In fact, Charlotte did not even know that her teeth were chipping away.
Raised mana. Operating the mana circuit to its limit, he forcibly changed the direction of the mana running through his body. I scraped it all up and threw it out of my body, and the blood stopped little by little.
The vision that could only be seen through one eye spun. Charlotte’s consciousness flickered. It was a symptom of mana exhaustion. His body was empty because he had drained all the backflowing mana to the outside.
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Just before collapsing on the floor, Charlotte tapped a small skein of thread in front of her.
The red-stained body began to rewind backwards.
The chipped molars regained their original form, and the fragments of the bursting pupils gathered together to restore the same color as the usual beautiful ruby.
The dark red pieces of internal organs that had been vomited out of the mouth and the blood that had been spat out enough to fill the computer were sucked back into the mouth.
Finally, after the shaken intestines were completely healed, Charlotte was lying face down on one knee on the floor as usual.
However, just because the body returned did not mean that the mental fatigue was also returned.
“……Cheuk, Coke!”
Charlotte let out a hollow cough. It was a dry cough that didn’t come out of blood or pieces of intestine like before. It felt cramped, as if my throat had dried up.
Despite confirming that her body had recovered, Charlotte, who could not overcome the overwhelming fatigue, tried to get up from her seat, but her thighs gave out her strength and she stumbled to the ground.
A voice rang in my head.
—-It’s only half success.
“Jim knows that too. There’s no need to remind him of that.”
Charlotte let out a heavy breath. It was more mentally exhausting than I could have imagined.
Physical fatigue was not a problem. Anyway, like before, the moment you become aware of the time even a little bit, you can rewind all the wounds on your body.
“……Kuh.”
Charlotte, who was about to get up, had to face the dirt floor once more because of the sudden dizziness. I tried to stand up, but there was no strength in my legs at all.
If the dragon hadn’t been able to support itself with telekinesis in time, it would have undoubtedly rolled unseemly on the floor.
The dragon, who had been watching Charlotte like that, spoke in a complicated voice.
—-There is no need to overdo it.
“Don’t overdo it, how could Jim do that?”
After destroying the telekinesis that enveloped her body by drawing up mana, Charlotte stood on the ground with her own two feet. My knees and thighs gave out strength and I almost collapsed again, but I clenched my teeth and endured.
“Jim’s father must be suffering from being caught by some crazy bitch even at this moment, so how dare Jim not overdo it? It should never be like that.”
—-The displaced body will be restored. However, even if the worn out mind can’t be recovered?
“Wouldn’t it be a problem if you learned it before then?”
ㅡIf that is what the child really wants, I have no intention of stopping you any more, so try your best.
At first glance, it sounded like mocking Charlotte, but from the point of view of hitting the dragon’s feelings and thoughts directly in my head, I knew very well that that was the literal meaning.
He sensed Charlotte’s strong will and took a step back. There was no ridicule or ridicule in it.
took a stand again. The ring of the ancient dragon on the ring finger of the left hand gave off a faint grayish light. It meant that he was allowing the owner to see what the dragon sees the same way.
He stretched out his hands forward and took a deep breath. He covered his right eye with his right hand and narrowed his field of view to his left eye, which had changed to look just like the dragons. And he opened his eyes.
Charlotte began to witness the world beyond matter.
The pupil of the left eye was torn vertically and elongated. The constantly moving pupils breathlessly took in the information and relayed it to the brain.
Up to this point, it was a job that Charlotte could handle as she wanted, but now the next problem was.
Exhaling the breath he had inhaled, he moved on to the next step. Rather than simply reading the flow across the material, I tried to perceive something that constitutes it.
Everything stopped moving. At this stage, time was practically a meaningless concept that had lost its existence value.
‘… … not enough.’
Charlotte’s breathing began to quicken slightly. It was enough to feel that the mana of the whole body was being depleted at a rapid rate, so it was worth guessing how much mana it was consuming.
If that Charlotte were to seriously worry about the depletion of mana, no human except for the dragon would dare to even dream of it.
It was fine until here. A moment ago, I couldn’t read the thread of time here, and the reaction came and drove me to the brink of death.
Things were pretty stable now, so it was time to move on. Charlotte remembered the last part of the three orders the dragon had told her about.
last step. look beyond it.
After closing her left eye for a while, she opened her eyelids gently while concentrating mana into her pupils, letting the blood-colored jewels she was holding preciously embrace the outside world.
For the first time there was light. The red ruby caught the brilliant light and changed it to a brighter light source.
Next came the space. You have accepted where you are and where you need to be.
Finally, time intertwined.
The past passed before my eyes. It was a young girl of about 10 years old, wandering down a large hallway with long, waist-length silver hair and an innocent smile.
Behind her was an adult woman who looked just like the little girl, with long silver hair and a benevolent smile, following her around.
Charlotte gritted her teeth. I felt my eyelids tremble, but I ignored it.
Another past has passed. I saw a woman with long silver hair, wearing a black uniform and bright red eyes, intercepting all approaching black magic with her body floating in the air.
There was a deep sense of defeat on his face. The woman struggled with magic without rest, but she was pierced in the stomach by a black chain flying from behind.
The black chain that had pierced the belly came out through the side and blew off half of the abdomen. His intestines spilled out of his empty flank. The woman forcibly grabbed it and tried to block it.
A shower of black meteors descended from the cracked sky. The woman could not avoid it or defend it, allowing it to be fixed and being slammed to the ground.
Charlotte gritted her teeth. I turned my eyes. In the distance, I could see a timeline that took on a blurry shape. As if possessed by something, it was about to reach out toward that timeline.
—-Do you want to go there?
Hearing the majestic voice of the dragon resonating directly in her head, Charlotte suddenly came to her senses. Realizing what he was just trying to do, he clenched his fists.
When I cut the connection hastily, the recoil came. Unable to bear the feeling of a foreign body filling his throat, he vomited red blood.
—-Ah, I must have warned you.
Charlotte had fought the dragon to death, but this time she couldn’t say anything. It was clearly Charlotte’s fault just now, and if she had gone any further, she would have lost her life.
I was warned before entering this practice. I’ll let you see what humans can’t see: the timeline, but keep one thing in mind.
Never try to read the future.
I don’t know if it’s reading the time of the past and present, but reading the future won’t be able to handle both the body and the head, so if you don’t want to die in vain, keep it in mind.
I have actually experienced it. The moment she tried to read even a fragmentary future, Charlotte had to suffer as if her mind was being torn to pieces.
It was to the point of losing consciousness for an entire day.
But when the opportunity came, I couldn’t stand it. This time, her mistake was so obvious that even Charlotte had nothing to say.
ㅡ child.
“……What is it?”
Charlotte answered in a calm voice. It was because of deep self-loathing. The self-hatred that I could have died here and never met Giabi again gnawed at me.
—-Have you already forgotten what I told the child?