Witch's Whisper

(Miluno)

"I'm leaving!"

What?

Although they didn't know what had happened, staying in the disconnected carriage meant they would be thrown off by the train again.

I quickly picked up the Chainsaw Girl.

"Wow?"

But the movement was so fast that she let out a scream.

A princess carry would seem too intimate; a water deliveryman's pose would be safer, and with her head facing forward, her view would be better.

Although "Water Bucket" was a little uneasy about this, he didn't have time to take care of her feelings.

He kicked open the rear door of the carriage, leaped off, and used his foot as a brake to catch up with the receding train.

A mere scrap metal traveling at 70 kilometers per hour thinks it can outrun me?

"Wow!"

However, my acceleration caused the Chainsaw Girl to let out a universally recognized scream; she probably never imagined that someone could run at that speed on foot.

But it didn't last long before I climbed back onto the last carriage.

Considering the train carriages change positions, it would be difficult to reach the witch at the locomotive if you ran inside. However, the distance between the roof and the tunnel is only half a person's width, making running on top potentially challenging...

"Even a witch needs time to manipulate a train. The delay was due to rescuing people. If you ran at full speed, you should be able to reach the front of the train in a few seconds, right?"

The little thing is giving me advice again, and even said:

"If you lack confidence in yourself, just hand over your body to me, and I'll help you master this realm of witches."

See, the fox's tail can't be hidden anymore!

This Witch Persona is still after my young body, as expected.

"Hey! I never said I wouldn't pay you back! Can't you trust your other self a little?"

I don't trust you.

On the other hand, I am quite confident!

After leaving the Chainsaw Girl in the last carriage, I rubbed the soles of my shoes to make sure they wouldn't slip.

"Time-Freeze."

Everything around fell silent.

"Forty times the speed!"

This is the maximum speed I can control.

The high-speed train came to an abrupt stop, having broken the sound barrier with its own speed, but the shockwave it generated might cause some harm to ordinary people nearby...

Ultimately, it maintained subsonic speed, constantly crashing through the carriage doors and hurtling forward alongside the Shadow Soldiers.

"Huh? Slow down? It doesn't matter what happens to ordinary people! Getting hit by the shockwave won't kill them! At most, they'll lose their hearing!"

My Witch Persona is a bad thing.

Even though I slowed down, I darted across the entire train in a second. I don't know if that guy changed carriages again, but I never encountered the Chainsaw Girl again, so I guess I wasn't thrown into the last carriage.

According to calculations, the train has a total of sixteen carriages, or seventeen if the locomotive is included.

The total length is only 500 meters, which is not even a warm-up for me.

The entire locomotive was piled high with coal, but at the very front of this coal mountain, beside the boiler of the giant double-track train, there was a frozen figure.

"I see him! It's him!"

She is a rare dark-skinned witch.

Wearing a dirty, grayish-white evening gown and a veil, her hair also dirty white, she was shoveling coal into the boiler, looking like a female laborer dragged from a wedding. But because I was still in accelerated mode, this pitiful-looking black slave witch didn't even have time to show surprise at my arrival.

"You lost."

We don't know exactly what her magic is yet, but let's just knock her unconscious with her coal shovel.

But the Witch Domain never dissipates just because a witch is defeated. With Ceruno not by my side, how am I supposed to deal with this overwhelming density of darkness?

"Ceruno isn't here, but I'm still here!"

It was too easy; the battle ended in a second. The little thing's hair had returned to normal, but its eyes were still sparkling.

"This darkness is precious food! If we swallow it all, we'll become stronger!"

I swallowed the darkness of twelve Witch Domain in one go, and this thing was born. If I continue to absorb more, I don't know what it will become.

When will you finally trust me?

The little thing was punching and kicking my face again, it was a bit itchy, but when I reached out to brush it away, I couldn't touch it.

She is indeed just a mental projection, not something that exists in reality, which annoys me.

I asked, "How do I do it?"

To break free from the Witch Domain, I had no other choice.

"Hehe, lend me your body~"

"No."

I immediately rejected her increasingly demanding request.

"Don't refuse so quickly! You've defeated this witch. If I take control of her body, you'll be the only witch in this realm, and Dark Energy will be under my control. I can then gather it all and devour it!"

She sat down next to me and explained.

But I don't want to take that risk. It would be better to take the witch out first, and then bring Ceruno in to deal with her...

As a result, the little one got so angry that tears welled up in his eyes.

"Your Star Crystal is far more powerful than the witch's power! You can take back control of your body at any time, so why don't you trust me?! You and I are the same person! I've told you everything!"

I opened the teleportation portal and looked at the little thing.

"You know me, but that doesn't mean I know you. For example... why is it that only you can hear my thoughts, while I have absolutely no way of knowing anything about you? That's not fair. Would you trust such a dubious person?"

She looked down and rubbed her short hands together.

"But I also want to be your strength..."

"Then you should try to gain my trust first."

They led the witch and the Chainsaw Girl out of the area, and then Ceruno, who was waiting outside but couldn't get in, and put her on the train.

"Oh, oh, oh? A steam train!"

Ceruno seemed to think the train was cool.

"Stop being silly, hurry up and start purifying it!"

"Miluno, Ceruno is so cute! I want to kiss her! I want to lick her! I want to touch her! I want to date her!"

The little thing pounced on Ceruno, but since she was inside my head, Ceruno naturally didn't react.

But I must solemnly declare that Ceruno is mine.

"Ugh, why are we being so formal?"

As the train moved forward, Ceruno's bubble carried away the darkness along the way, even capturing the darkness within the ordinary people in the carriages, eventually forming a huge Black Crystal.

This time, it was also insufficient to form a shadow entity; the 50,000 people in Skyreach City was the largest scale to date.

"Miluno, are you sure it's okay to eat more? Or should we take it out and collect it first?"

My little angel Ceruno spoke words of concern.

In contrast, the little thing is...

"Eat! Eat quickly! We can only become stronger if we eat!"

Saying it's the devil's seduction isn't quite right; it only makes people feel resistant.

But I had no choice; in the end, I used the Crystal to absorb the Dark Energy...

There were no side effects this time. I guess I ate too much last time?

Without the support of darkness, Busan City's Witch Domain collapsed and shattered, and the rescue efforts of the masses became irrelevant to Galaxy.

"Ceruno, you should go back to the City School first."

I stretched my limbs, then hoisted the unconscious witch onto my shoulder, ready to take her with me.

Ceruno asked, "Where are you going?"

"I need to speak with SpiCa about something."

Ugh, anyone interested in the side stories?