Let's End This Game!

The mist by the seaside finally dispersed.

The sun gradually rose from the sea, and today's morning glow was as magnificent as if stained with blood. Enveloped in such light and shadow, the smile on Cecilia was exceptionally eerie.

The seaside breeze tousled her silvery-white hair, and those chilling blood-red eyes stared at Ansu, who had collapsed on the ground, as she slowly closed the distance.

"Are you afraid? Are you terrified?"

Cecilia walked up to Ansu and playfully stroked his slightly trembling cheek. "This is all you deserve."

"So I really want to know... what exactly did that bitch say to you that could make you join forces with those idiots from The Church to deal with me?"

Cecilia stared intently at the silent Ansu, her smile gradually fading.

"Speak, let's see if you can still please me like you did before."

"If you speak nicely, perhaps I can give you a less painful way to die."

The oppressive magical aura that had been present began to dissipate, and Ansu's numb, stiff limbs finally moved.

"Well? Speak."

Ansu raised his head and slowly looked at Cecilia, who was waiting for his explanation.

Since this was already a path to death, why struggle any longer?

"Speak my ass!"

The air remained silent for a moment.

A look of astonishment appeared in Cecilia's eyes.

"Enough! I am fucking sick of this!"

Ansu clenched his fists, struggled to support himself off the ground, and tried to look Cecilia in the eye.

He vented to his heart's content within the simulation.

"You Mad Witch! Was your brain kicked by a donkey? I've already done this much, are you still not satisfied?"

"Are you feeling smug? Thinking that an ant like me is completely under your control? Ha! I'm telling you, it was fake from the very beginning! I was lying to you!"

Ansu laughed wildly, and Cecilia's smile gradually froze.

"There was never any such thing as 'never betraying'! I was faking it, it was all an act!"

"You arrogant Mad Witch actually thought it was real? It's hilarious! And you keep using Hypnosis on me! What kind of idiot gets played around by me like this?"

"What? You... what did you say?" Facing an Ansu like this, Cecilia's expression became increasingly bewildered.

Ansu, conversely, pressed forward step by step.

"The game ends here! I've had enough of you, you moody, narcissistic, and arrogant crazy woman! If you want to kill me, then hurry up! I don't have time to waste with you here!"

Cecilia stared at Ansu in disbelief.

Not even the experts from The Church had ever made her lose her composure like this, yet a few words from Ansu forced her to retreat in confusion.

"Lies?"

"Those words... were they all lies?"

Cecilia's eyes widened, and she kept muttering to herself, "How is it possible, how could this be... that was clearly a magic I excel at, how did you dodge..."

"Do you still not understand? Or are you unwilling to face reality?" Ansu sneered, picked up a dagger from beside a corpse, gripped it tightly, and charged toward her.

Magical power condensed instantly, and after a terrifying explosion, the air seemed to tear apart.

Cecilia's magic was something ordinary people could never withstand, but at this moment, Ansu stood before her unscathed, not even a single hair harmed.

"See that?" Ansu's smile carried a hint of mockery as he gripped the dagger and charged at Cecilia once more.

As the Magic Immunity effect ended, Ansu was blasted aside by Cecilia's magic this time.

Ansu immediately spat out blood, feeling as if his internal organs were being torn apart. He clutched his chest and struggled to prop himself up.

"It was actually true..."

"How could such a thing happen?"

Cecilia could not see at all how Ansu had blocked her magic.

Even she, who was hailed as having the greatest magical talent, could not understand what had happened with that first spell; it had exceeded her scope of understanding.

"Can't understand it... can't understand it... that's right!" Ansu kept coughing up blood; even though he couldn't speak a complete sentence, he continued to mock her.

"Don't think you're the only Chosen One... I am a Chosen One! A Chosen One destined to beat you into the ground!"

Cecilia stared blankly at the crazed Ansu; the sheer volume of information was too much for her to digest at once.

But she didn't seem to care about any Chosen One.

She only smiled in a lost and self-deprecating manner, as if mocking herself for being a clown all this time...

"So that's how it is..."

"It was always fake; you were just pandering to me to survive, saying the things I most wanted to hear..."

Her smile grew increasingly bitter. "I am truly ridiculous; I actually thought..."

Could there really be someone who would accept her, understand her... and even, from the bottom of their heart, admire her?

Ever since that day she saw him, saw this boy who was also toyed with by fate, miserable, and so much like her past self...

Cecilia, who had never paid much attention to anyone, actually felt a spark of curiosity.

When he was led by her to say those words, "I will never betray you," she truly began to have some expectations for the future...

That day in the library was a rare moment of happiness in her dull life.

She had never been this happy before.

Having struggled in a perilous environment since she was small, and having spent every day tirelessly studying magic just to survive, she felt for the first time that the sunlight was so bright, and that having someone by her side, chattering away incessantly, was so comforting...

Cecilia had thought that she finally possessed something real, that for the first time, she had something that belonged to her.

Unfortunately, it was all a lie.

"You're certainly pathetic!" Ansu's limbs were completely devoid of strength, yet he still struggled to grip the dagger, attempting once again to provoke her.

"Come on! Witch! Either I kill you, or you kill me!"

"Enough!!" Cecilia's face was agitated and twisted; she swiped Ansu's dagger away. "Are you trying to provoke me? Do you think I'll kill you? Give you a quick death?"

"No! I want you to live, and then I want you to wish you were dead!"

"I want you to know the consequences of betraying me!"

A surge of magic slowly lifted the severed head of Freya from the ground. Cecilia glanced at the head, baring her teeth in a sinister, ghastly grin.

"Didn't you trust her? Didn't you like her? Then I'll make sure you two are together every single day, so you can look at her to your heart's content!"

As a circle of magic arrays lit up, black, filthy magic began to spread once more.

Ansu watched as the head in the center of the array began to slowly writhe.

Following that, twisting granulation tissue and tentacles sprouted from the severed neck, and... eerily, it began to crawl slowly toward him.

"You... what is the meaning of this..."

Because Ansu was already severely wounded, everything before his eyes was becoming blurry, and the corruption brought by the forbidden magic caused even the blood he spat out to turn black.

"It means, of course..." Cecilia giggled like a demon, "using that forbidden life magic I mentioned to you, to thoroughly remodel your bodies..."

"I'm going to stitch your head and the Saintess's head onto one body, so you two can see each other every time you look down. That way, you can be together every day! How about it? Aren't you happy?"

Ansu looked silently at Cecilia, feeling that she had truly gone mad.

What a master of body modification...

She really has some tricks up her sleeve.

"Then you go ahead and study it slowly, I'm leaving..."

Cecilia frowned. "Leaving? Where do you think you're going?"

Ansu spat out another mouthful of filthy blood, this time mixed with fragments of his internal organs.

His consciousness was fading, and he was on the verge of passing out.

"No! You cannot die!" Cecilia stepped forward, cradling Ansu's head, and sneered cruelly. "I haven't punished you yet, how could you die?"

However, Ansu could no longer speak; his world was gradually sinking into a blur.

"You are not allowed to die! I will absolutely not let you die so easily! As long as you have a single breath left, I can..."

You can what? Save me, and then remodel me...

Ansu sneered incessantly in his heart.

I'm done playing with you!

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