197 – Salvation – 6
The bright smile that bloomed on Olivia’s face disappeared in an instant. The corners of his mouth went down, the radiance disappeared from his eyes, and an unknown chill circulated around him.
“Master, are you joking too much? I can’t even laugh at such a prank?”
“It’s a joke… Do I look like I’m joking?”
“Of course. That’s right, Master wants me—”
“I say I love you?”
Olivia nodded vigorously. It was an attitude without the slightest hesitation. Laughter came out at the still delusional disease.
“That’s right. I used to love Olivia. No, is it a bit ambiguous to call it love? Still, I thought of accepting your confession, so it must have been a positive feeling. Maybe even now, that feeling still lingers. I don’t know if I Maybe that’s why he treats you so softly.”
I bent my knees and prepared to jump forward. Olivia, despite having been told directly by me that I loved her, was staring at me with a hardened face and dead eyes.
It must be because I began to distinguish between ‘you’ and ‘Olivia’ as titles, and I noticed that the object I said I loved was also ‘Olivia’ and not ‘you’.
From Olivia’s point of view, it must have been something she could never let go of. Because there is nothing you can do but be jealous of yourself.
“That’s why it has to be like this more. To return Olivia, whom I love… positively, to this place.”
At first, I was going to say I love you, but then changed my words.
It was true that I had positive feelings for Olivia in the past, but it was vague to accurately describe it as love. I like it, I don’t know enough about it.
Upon hearing those words, Olivia’s expression rotted in real time.
It was the first time I had ever seen Olivia express such negative feelings towards me. No matter what I did, it was Olivia who always smiled broadly and accepted it with a happy smile.
Conversely, it also meant that my words were fatal to the point that Olivia couldn’t smile at me.
Now, I realized that I really had the ability to twist my own timeline and bring back Olivia, the only survivor of the massacre I had caused in the past.
“It’s not like that. Master is wrong.”
The voice turned cold.
“As expected, you haven’t been brainwashed yet. I’ll do whatever I can to fix it. I’m sure. I’ll turn you back into the Master you loved, so you don’t have to worry anymore.”
“Return?”
Contrary to Olivia’s bold ambition to return me to normal, I was perfectly normal. Rather, wouldn’t Olivia be much more abnormal?
“It will be fine.”
He straightened his bent knees and sprang forward.
The place where the wings brushed past was enveloped in white flames and burned. It was a signal that the concentration of black mana in the atmosphere had begun to rapidly increase to the point where even empty air was designated as a heresy.
Drawing a magic circle on his left hand, he approached Olivia while swinging his great sword wide. A slash of blue light was emitted along the sword’s trajectory, creating a small crack in front.
Olivia did not resist. He didn’t even try to attack me. Instead, it just tried to catch me, even getting hit by a slash.
I had a good idea of what they were planning. It must be a plan to break my soul bond by bursting my heart, and create a new heart with black mana to fill it with.
Of course, Olivia did not know exactly where the soul was. Even so, the reason why he was aiming for my heart was because it was the place with the highest probability.
Nothing has been clarified about the exact location of the soul, but it’s close to the truth that the heart is heavily involved in binding the soul.
My body right now is not even fixed in time, so it was clear that I had an intention to bet on the possibility of releasing my soul binding by ripping out my heart and making a new one.
It was an established fact that Olivia would win even if I cut off my bond with the three of them.
ㅡFalling leaves.
The shock wave exploded from the concentrated mana at the tip of the sword, dramatically increasing my number. Olivia’s body, hit by the shock wave, did not stop at being dismembered.
One to two, two to four, four to eight. The slash, which gnawed at skin, flesh, muscle, and blood, rapidly split and razed the entire body as it stretched forward.
Like fallen leaves swaying in the autumn wind, they disintegrated into fine pieces, and the thinly shattered bodies fluttered in the sky. Just before the shock wave shattered his head, Olivia blinked.
Then, the dismembered body regained its original form as if time were rewinding. Exactly the same recovery speed as me, exactly the same recovery.
Olivia, who restored her body in an instant, cried out in agony.
“Master, why are you rejecting me? Yes? Why the hell is that? I love you, Master. That’s why you have to love me too! You have to! Please wake up, Master! That kind of thing is love You will be able to overcome it, please!”
It was the kind of heartbreak that can only come from feeling betrayed in a situation where I genuinely thought I liked myself. Although it was only Olivia’s delusion.
The old man did not answer. No matter what I say here, Olivia will definitely accept it after twisting it to her liking.
Instead, he activated the magic circle drawn on his left hand. A chain made of mana protruded from the center of the magic circle and wrapped around Olivia’s body.
I knew better than anyone else in the world how to defeat a time-locked opponent. To simply subdue him with his limbs tied so that he cannot use his recovery abilities.
It was a method that had been suffered countless times.
Olivia drew up the black mana and frantically tried to break the chains holding her body. However, whenever that happened, I released my holy power to purify the black mana and defeat the attempt.
Unlike the last time, I did not use large-scale techniques such as star drop or moon shatter, but only tried simple suppression using light techniques, and Olivia did not use the same large-scale techniques as me.
It was a phenomenon that appeared because our goals coincided strangely.
Unlike my fight with Serena, Christine, and Charlotte, who were fighting for the purpose of killing each other in all seriousness, Olivia and I weren’t fighting each other’s death.
Olivia’s purpose, to put it in her own words, was to return me to my original state. Of course I had to be alive for that to happen.
Now that I was in a state where the time lock was broken, there was a risk of dying if I misused a large technique. I wondered if it was useless because I was stronger, but that’s what Olivia thought.
My goal was also to correct Olivia’s character, not to kill her. Besides, the way to break through the time freeze was still unknown, so it was also impossible.
No matter how great a skill he poured on Olivia, it would be meaningless, so it was much better to tie her up and subdue her without harming her body.
Because our goals coincided so much, we refrained from using large-scale technology. In the end, the opponent’s suppression came first.
And, in such a situation, I had a clear advantage because I fully accepted the power of the three people.
“Olivia.”
How long had it been since we fought such an ambiguous battle, in the end, I was the one who won the final victory.
Olivia was kneeling on the floor. Several layers of mana chains were wrapped around the wrists and ankles, and all of the ends were firmly fixed to the magic circle, so even the protection magic was tripled.
White flames were wrapped around the chains. It was a divine power that had almost the same power as the divine power that flowed from Christine who used the spirit. It was impossible to pierce with black mana.
“Master, Coke. Master. It’s not too late. Yes? I’ll fix you right now. I’m begging you. Please, please…”
Olivia shed tears. At first glance, it seemed really sad. Of course, that wasn’t the case at all.
I have to rip out my heart and touch my brain to release the ‘brainwashing’ that’s hanging over me, but I’m so sad because I failed.
“Olivia.”
“Or, those worms. Kill even those worms. Master. You can do that. Why do you do that? You said you loved me. You said you would live with me forever…”
Finally, crying broke out from Olivia, who lowered her head. The sound of hi-g-g-g-g-crying was heard, and then it became more and more frequent.
“Olivia.”
Eventually, after I raised my voice a little and called her name for the third time, Olivia raised her head. His face was covered with tears.
To a person who didn’t know the context, I could look like a villain who would capture and torture an innocent woman. Olivia is a poor woman who has been captured by an evil villain.
“I’ve already given you a chance. Many times. You’re the one who took it all away.”
“…”
“I don’t have anything else to say to you anymore. Did you say it? That you can treat them as the same person as long as the continuity of their memories is maintained. So, you can ask Olivia, not you. What was the last thing you wanted to say right now?” “
Then he gently hugged Olivia. The back of my head stung as if three pairs of eyes were staring at me, but it was inevitable.
Even if I go this far and expand the contact area as much as possible, I’m not sure if I can succeed in what I’m trying to do at once, but shouldn’t I use all available methods?
And, I didn’t want to give them time to fight back after talking to them. It was clear to whom it would benefit if they succeeded in subduing them and wasting time with conversation.
“……Master, sir. Whip.
Olivia stammered and continued, stuttering from the tears that kept flowing. It was the moment when he tried to find Olivia’s timeline by ignoring it and raising mana.
“Master should love me too.”
Concentration is broken. Blood gushed out of his mouth.
Olivia’s voice had returned to her usual cool and calm tone, as if she had been wailing loudly. I turned my head to the side. He saw his right arm stabbed through the heart.
The mana chain isn’t broken yet? For a while, I saw Olivia’s right arm still bound by the mana chain.
Instead, it’s cut off.
A picture was drawn in my mind. Olivia had no intention of dismantling the mana chain from the beginning. I just cut off my right arm, made a new one, and stuck it through my body.
It meant that he had released his time fixation.
Olivia kneaded my heart and whispered in my ear in a sweet voice. His tongue licked past his ear.
“I love you, Master. Forever.”
I felt the black mana flowing into my heart. The area around the heart gradually began to turn black. Even the blood that flowed from his mouth was gradually mixed with black.
Olivia even tore off her left arm and made a new one, and in reverse, hugged me tightly. Power went into the arm that was holding the body.
“You don’t have to worry anymore, Master. I’ll be sure to fix it. It’ll be over soon, so just wait a moment.”
The amount of blood vomited from his throat increased. My heart rate slowed down noticeably. Proportionately, Olivia’s strength as she hugged my neck grew stronger and stronger.
He smiled faintly.
“…but, I’m glad.”
spoke with difficulty. Every time I tried to say something, it was hard to do because blood kept leaking from between my lips.
“Because you can love me again? Ah, Master. The brainwashing is over—”
“Because you are still you.”
Fuuk, I also thrust my right hand into Olivia’s heart.