151. Quarantine Period (3)
No, it would be difficult to even call it a monster. It’s because I cut out all the things that could be weapons to prevent the monster from living as a monster.
First of all, it is a question of how he is alive. There is nothing that should be under the chest.
“It is said that Bina’s student was subdued by Bianca’s student. However, they said they did not kill her because she still had some humanity at the time.”
Professor Milas explained that while looking at the report.
Biina seems to have had a rather high level of mental strength. Because of that, it seems that even if the infection progressed, she was able to talk to a certain extent like Della.
However, she also did not survive her infection for long. She showed a move to kill people as a monster’s nature, and Bianca, who caught it, subdued her Viina at once.
As a result, it seems that they had no choice but to cut off her arms and leave her upper body alone.
“And the story that Jay Carr died and her mind returned.”
“…….”
Biina is silent.
She doesn’t know what she’s thinking. With a face more like her ghost than human’s, her expression is hard to tell.
“Professor Milas, can you turn this guy back into a human?”
“She seems to be having a hard time. Even if it were possible, she would die at the point of reverting to human.”
“…Well, I guess.”
At least half of his upper body was blown away. Even if he returned to being a human, at that point it would be impossible to maintain life.
Because it is a monster body, it is somehow continuing to live.
“That’s why the academy is in a situation where it can’t do this or that. What to do with Bina students.”
“Who are this guy’s parents?”
“…I have no parents. I am a commoner, so I have no family to protect me.”
Vina said.
Her voice was mixed with a hint of her resignation.
“In a nutshell, that’s the kind of existence that doesn’t matter what decision I make.”
“…….”
Professor Milas did not deny that. He just has a refreshing smile on his face…. Is this person smiling even in this situation?
Other people are also looking at me without saying anything.
As if he was going to hand over all decision making to me.
Ha ha.
I let out a small sigh.
“Biina, what do you want to do? Do you want to die as a human, or do you want to live while giving up on being a human?”
“……Do I have a choice? You can do as you please.”
The sharp attitude…… It was an empty echo to say.
I guess it’s the feeling of really thinking that it’s good no matter what. It’s more like giving up everything in a situation where your body has become like this.
Indeed. Anyone would be in despair if they were in Biina’s position.
To the point where I don’t want to think about anything.
“What happened in the Catacombs Dungeon?”
After thinking about it, I asked.
Regarding Biina’s treatment…… Well i don’t know
I honestly have no idea how to deal with this guy. She was also quite different from Della.
So, she decided to slowly think about what to do with Biina.
Anyway, since Biina has become a monster, she can lose her humanity at any time. It’s a situation where you don’t know if you can speak human words until today.
In that sense, I thought the first thing to do was to dig up information.
“What happened in the catacombs dungeon… Why are you curious about that?”
“It won’t end with just one victim. More people may die.”
I glanced around and said.
In fact, even at this time, people are dying.
The apocalypse on the floating island has been resolved, but the infection started in the catacombs dungeon in the first place.
In other words, the County of Findelnerca is currently in an uproar.
“Shouldn’t it be better to reduce the sacrifice even a little bit. Or is it okay to die of mankind since the mind is already contaminated with monsters?”
“…Haa. I hate you as expected.”
Viina sighed.
She then moved what was left of her chest. She moved her neck to be precise, but lifted her head.
“I remember that day clearly. …It was the day I went down to the 9th floor of the Catacombs Dungeon. That night, Vice-captain Jaika secretly went out while everyone else was sleeping.”
It was right after Jay Carr walked out of the tent that she realized that, she says. During regular personnel checks at dawn, watchmen noticed that one person was vacant in the tent.
Realizing that that one person was J.K.A, all the sleeping student knights woke up at once.
She said that she organized a search party to find Jay Car and went to find him.
“And we found a space that appeared to be a boss room. Traces of Vice-captain Jayka’s entry into it were also found.”
The search team was hesitating whether or not to enter the boss room, but they heard a voice coming from inside the boss room.
Its content is the same as the scenario script of Unknown Saga that I remember.
[Corrupted Spirit] “You are my advance guard from now on.”
[Corrupted Spirit] “If there are humans hiding among humans and trying to come here, you will stop them all.”
[Corrupted Spirit] “Even killing humans if necessary.”
“Perhaps Vice-captain Jaika was already infected at that point.”
Biina puts on a blank expression as she says.
The choice of the word infection was a bit wrong, but not a big deal. Jay Carr entered the boss room alone in order to become Abyss’s servant herself.
Anyone who enters the 9th floor becomes a henchman of the abyss.
But she said it was Jay Carr’s plan that she must be herself, and then she just had to go in on her own.
“We immediately entered the boss room together to save Vice-captain Jayka. Then… We saw a spirit whose entire body glowed with an ominous light. It was clear that it was the boss of the 9th floor….But one hand was cut off.”
Everyone in the room could tell that it was Jayka who did it.
The student knights immediately lined up to assist Jayka, and the fallen spirit frowned at the student knights.
[Corrupted Spirit] “Looks like the intruders are here.”
[Corrupted Spirit] “Your first job, Jaca Ancilla. As the great saint’s servant, kill them all.”
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[Jaka] “…….”
Originally, the order was not something that could be refused. Because the servants of the abyss are under the control of the fallen spirits.
But Jayka shook it off.
[Jaka] “I’m sorry everyone. They made you come all the way here to find me.”
[Jaka] “I wanted to solve it quietly by myself, but things didn’t go well….Now, it’s not too late. All of you can finish without dying.”
[Student Knights A] “We don’t care if we die!”
[Student Knights B] “Aren’t we adventurers!”
[Jaka] “You have a strong will.”
[Jaka] “Okay. Then let’s all do it together.”
[Jika] “…We will defeat that fallen spirit with our own power.”
Through her repeated regressions, Jay Carr, who has vast memories as a human, was able to keep her humanity.
And she fought as the vice-captain of the Student Knights, not as a minion of the monsters.
But the result is,
“We were able to defeat the spirit somehow.”
“……What? Won?”
I inadvertently asked that.
You knocked it down?
Corrupted spirits?
“Yes. It was a piece of paper, but we were able to win.”
“Nonsense…”
I couldn’t understand. In the original work, Jayka and the others were defeated by the fallen spirits.
However, it was not a meaningless battle. He succeeded in destroying the fallen spirit’s right arm and left eye, and because of that, Lucius and his party later fought and defeated the fallen spirit that had not fully recovered.
“How the hell…? You guys wouldn’t have been able to win…”
“As usual…? …Well, when we just arrived at Count Findelnerca’s residence, there were only three troops. We couldn’t win if the initial number remained the same.”
“……? Did you mean there was a change in the number of people?”
“Are you asking because you don’t know? It’s because of you… No, the number increased because of the Joshua incident.”
“Oh?”
After hearing that, I felt that all the puzzles fit together.
Due to the Joshua incident, the party that Della belonged to was destroyed. A number of injured people, including Jayka, appeared one after another, so they called Jin Kartix and other reinforcements.
Students staying in County of Findelnerca, including me, also participated in the raid, and the unit increased to 8 parties consisting of a total of 64 people.
Of course, the raid was temporary, and many people, including myself, left the county right after the Living Doll raid ended.
In the case of Cler or Jean, she moved to Veltark Academy to handle the aftermath of the Joshua case.
“However, there were quite a few people left after that. Since we came this far, we will be with you until the end.”
At the same time, the wounded also returned, and it is said that a raiding party with a larger number of people than originally was formed.
Due to the injury period of the injured, the attack was somewhat delayed, and Jika proceeded with the dungeon attack as the number of people increased under the calculation that it might not be completed until the vacation is over.
And it is said that he defeated the fallen spirit on the 9th floor, which he couldn’t defeat normally.
‘… What will happen if this happens.’
It’s a boss that Lucius should have defeated, but if Jayka defeats it instead, will there be a problem… ?
Or rather, Lucius is more comfortable…… ??
Unexpected.
After the raid defeated the corrupted spirits, it is said that the stairs leading to the 10th floor suddenly appeared.
A woman’s voice could be heard from deep within the stairs, and the raiding party descended as if they were lost.
There, the skeleton of the true owner of this catacombs dungeon was lying on the foundation,
I had to fight the skeleton again…… Raina says:
“I couldn’t win….I was tired from fighting the spirits anyway, and more than anything, I felt like I needed something of a different kind to win.”
The boss of Catacomb Dungeon and the final boss of Chapter 2, ‘Fallen Saint’.
To defeat the ‘fallen saint’, you need the strength of a hero.
Of course, there are only two people in this world who have the power of a hero.
Her hero’s horse Yein Tia and her Lucius, who received her hero’s power from her.
“The skeleton didn’t kill us….Instead, we felt her power seep into us.”
So, it is said that the raiding party went back the way they came.
The dungeon has been completely conquered, and the 9th floor is the end of the Catacombs dungeon…… With fake memories implanted.
Several strong student knights, including Beina, knew that those memories were fake, but they couldn’t resist.
Witnessing its existence itself was terrifying.
Some personnel who could not hold out ended up abandoning their humanity and an apocalypse occurred.
‘Is that why it started 4 days early?’
The apocalypse was not caused by the fallen spirits of the 9th floor, but by the fallen saints of the 10th floor.
It is clear that the infection rate has risen more than the original.
Some personnel may have committed suicide because they were consumed by the fundamental fear of witnessing the fallen saint. As a result, the initiative of the body would have been completely taken away and awakened as a monster.
And out of the 25 people involved, even though they survived, the 4 who said they chose to commit suicide must have remembered the truth on the 10th floor.
He chose to commit suicide due to his fundamental fear, and the two survivors also…… Perhaps you are thinking ahead of the fundamental fear.
Will you live your whole life trembling with fear and going insane, or will you die to escape the fear?
“Vina, as expected, you are a monster.”
After hearing a series of stories, I came to that conclusion.
Even though Biena must have witnessed the fundamental fear, she calmly explains all of this. That being said, it already becomes a story that Biina’s spirit is closer to that of a monster than a human.
When I said that, Biina laughed dejectedly.
“I know.”
After that, we moved the donated body to the warehouse. To the warehouse with preservation magic to prevent corruption.
Professor Milas said he would use the 12 corpses for his research as promised.
“Is there a body you don’t want me to take, Student Ariel?”
I was asked that question.
In response, he asked me not to touch Della’s corpse.
About Della…… She is thinking at the last minute that she broke up for good. So, it was a bit reluctant to dissect a corpse due to Professor Milas’ research.
Professor Milas said he knew, and he sorted out 12 bodies and took them away.
And I don’t know why, but she said that she would leave Jayka’s body with me, and she said that she would just leave it with me for Biina.
‘… I didn’t want to take it on.’
Unable to decide what to do with the corpses, they all locked up in the warehouse, and Biina also…… For now, I decided to leave it alive.
Since its body parts were already severed, it would be helpless, but it was still placed in a large test tube in case of unknown danger.
In a barrel full of green liquid, Biina will live for a while. While being watched by Professor Milas.
[…] Ha.]
Biina, who was in her vat, could only let out a sigh. Without saying anything further, she seemed to accept her fate.
After that, I will break up with Biina.
The next day,
“I am now free!!!!”
Claire, who came out of the laboratory, shouted in a loud voice and even jumped.
The long quarantine period has come to an end.