2-109. Achalusia (11)
#109
Tears ran down Elizabeth’s cheeks.
“Answer me, Liz. Since when did you turn your back on me?”
“Young-ae. I···.”
Maid Liz trailed off. She bit her lower lip as she looked around to find a way out. All entrances, including the windows, were blocked by a purple force field. It was Erzsebet’s defense barrier, which was famous for being strong even in Akalucia.
“Don’t even think about evading the truth. The evidence is already clear.”
Elizabeth held up her index finger. The first joint of her delicate finger was covered with a tiny amount of bluish powder, like sugar.
“This is a star mushroom spore. It was found on the sofa where Asher was sitting. It is an extremely rare material, so I wondered where it came from, but it was on your hand as you were clearing away the black tea.”
“In my hand…?”
“You won’t be able to see it very well. You need to have excellent mana sensing ability to see it clearly. That’s why you, a cleaning genius, missed it.”
Liz glanced down at her hands. Indeed, it was as Elizabeth had said. Her calloused hands were the same color as usual.
‘Did you ask that question in the lab?’
There was only one place I could guess. It was Illuan’s laboratory where he had gone to hand over the body of the guard captain Ajax at dawn. The time he had asked Axel was when he had held his hand to calm him down after having a nightmare. I never thought I would commit such a careless act.
Elizabeth continued.
“At that moment, I realized. You had touched the spores of a star mushroom somewhere, and you were holding Asher’s hand with that hand. It felt strange, so I tried to reason, but I couldn’t because I was so sleepy. It was because of the sleeping pill you put in my tea.”
“···You knew that.”
“Of course. I really liked your black tea. Honestly, I didn’t find it strange that it contained sleeping pills. You’ve always mixed sleeping pills into my drinks. I was glad because I thought it was a thoughtful gesture for me, who was sensitive and couldn’t sleep well. But the black tea you made yesterday morning contained an excessive amount. I thought that was even considerate, but…”
Elizabeth muttered. In fact, she really liked the black tea Liz gave her. The reason Axel was fine was because he suspected Elizabeth and didn’t drink a single sip of the black tea with sleeping pills.
“Anyway, I drank the tea and fell asleep right away. Up until this point, everything was as you had planned. If someone hadn’t woken me up at dawn, the syringe would have been stuck in my neck as planned.”
“Who was that?”
“You’re an idiot, Liz. There’s no way I could have said that.”
Liz’s eyes narrowed.
Elizabeth shuddered as she recalled what had happened at dawn.
At the time, I really thought I was going to faint. A man I had never spoken to had barged into my bedroom. When I opened my eyes after someone poked my cheek, Ronan’s face was right in front of me.
-Gyaaaa···Ugh!
-Shh. Be quiet.
Elizabeth immediately screamed and resisted, but it was no use. The aura emanating from the person was unrealistically oppressive, let alone his strength.
Terrified, she could only remain silent as Ronan had said. Until then, she had thought that he had clearly come to avenge the humiliation she had suffered that morning.
– Listen to me, Eri. Liz might kill you today. You have to do as I say to survive.
-······?!
But that wasn’t the case. Instead of killing or raping her, Ronan fed her something. It was a rolled-up herb, and the moment it went down her throat, the aura disappeared.
Ronan, who had removed the effects of the sleeping pill, explained the terrible secret of Acalusia.
“I heard everything. Sister Adeshan was not killed in an accident, but murdered, her body was not cremated but preserved, and I became a person who lives in a basement I have never been in. I have gone crazy from the shock of losing someone precious, and I am engaged in gloomy research… But do you know what is the most terrifying thing?”
Elizabeth’s voice was trembling.
Liz shook her head, thinking that maybe she had a chance.
“All these evil deeds were committed by my father and you, who I considered to be my sister. What on earth happened? Didn’t my father die by my mother’s hand?! If he was really sealed deep underground, why was he suddenly released and committing evil deeds!”
The tears that I thought had stopped suddenly burst out. Elizabeth clutched her chest. In the quiet room, only the sound of her gasping for breath could be clearly heard.
Liz, who had been silent, opened her mouth.
“You are smart, Young-ae. As you said, I am the culprit.”
“Liz.”
“My goal from the beginning was to destroy Akalusia. It was on the day I cleaned out the basement that I first discovered the sealed Illuan. At that moment, I realized how to destroy this family.”
Liz closed her eyes. It was still a vivid memory. Illuan, who was said to have died in an experimental accident, was sealed underground, combined with the meteorite he had summoned. Even in a state of unconsciousness, he was still thinking about his beloved family, his proud family, and his unfulfilled ambitions.
“He was a good person. Among the random words he would list, the names of Young-ae and Ga-ju were the most common. I made a deal with Illuan-nim like that.”
“···transaction?”
“Yes. I wrote a contract stating that I would release the seal and provide a new body in exchange for the revival of Akalusia. When I added that Young-ae and the head of the household were in danger, he immediately agreed. The contract was made, and the magic of the contract changed Illuan’s priority from his family to the revival of his clan. Just as we had intended. The rest went as Young-ae knows.”
It was as easy to fool Illuan in his ignorance as it was to take candy away from a child, Liz muttered dryly.
“If you had read the contract carefully, this wouldn’t have happened. This is why emotions are so useless.”
“Well, how dare you do something like that…! What on earth is your purpose?”
“Should I say it’s for the great star? I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you the details.”
Liz shook her head. Elizabeth was shocked and froze like a statue. She smiled faintly as she stared into his trembling purple eyes.
“And Youngae, you really haven’t changed.”
“···What did you say?”
“There is too much affection. No matter how advantageous the situation is, you should not let your guard down. I have told you this many times while I was serving you.”
It was a strange sound. It was the moment when Elizabeth was about to say something.
Bang! Suddenly, a sound like flint being snapped rang out from the side of Liz’s face.
Almost simultaneously, a tongue with a small magic circle engraved on it appeared inside his open mouth.
“Huh? Eh.”
“······!!”
Elizabeth’s eyes widened. She was about to cast a defensive spell in a hurry. The magic circle on her tongue emitted light and a powerful shockwave erupted.
Kwaaang! Elizabeth was thrown as if she had been hit by a buffalo and crashed into the opposite wall.
“Ouch!”
“You’re right. I don’t have much to do except for cleaning magic. It was the work of other executives to release the seal and provide a new body.”
Liz strode over to her and crouched down in front of her. The magic circle on her tongue had been reduced to a simple tattoo.
“But I’m not ashamed of myself. Although I was a bit wrong in the end, I ended up achieving the best result by defeating the Lady of Acalusia. I’m not like that idiot Dolan who’s been killing people in Grancia for 7 years.”
“Lee, Leez… Cool!”
Erzsebet vomited blood. She had never expected that she would imprint magic on her tongue. She wanted to cast magic, but it was difficult because of the pain. The training she had neglected since Adeshan’s death was also holding her back.
Liz said goodbye after testing the syringe once again.
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“It was fun, Eri.”
“Stop it···.”
“Don’t worry, it won’t hurt. Close your eyes for a moment and when you open them, you’ll be able to see Adeshan.”
“Ugh, ugh.”
Although Erzsebet resisted, it was in vain. Liz, who was inserting the syringe, was as indifferent as a chef twisting a chicken’s neck. Soon, the needle touched her neck. The feeling of the cool metal made the hairs on her body stand on end.
“Ah, no···.”
The golden liquid that would lead him to the world of eternal sleep was sloshing inside the piston.
It was the moment when the narrowest part of the needle dug into Elizabeth’s neck.
Kwaaaaaaaaaaah-!!!
Beyond the wall, a loud noise erupted, as if the sky was bursting apart.
“Whoa!”
“what···?!”
It was almost like an order to stop what you were doing and look this way.
Elizabeth and Liz turned their heads at the same time. The window in the room was shattered in an instant. It seemed as if a cloudless blue sky had appeared, but a storm carrying shards of glass blew into the room.
It was a great misfortune for Liz, who, unlike Elizabeth, who had a closet on her left, had no cover. At best, hundreds of pieces of shrapnel flew into Liz’s lower body and lodged themselves in it.
“Ahh! Where, the snow!”
Liz let out a shrill scream. The syringe fell to the floor. Blood flowed without resistance from her left eye, where the shrapnel had hit her. Elizabeth didn’t miss her chance. She kicked the syringe away and extended her finger toward Liz. Mana gathered and a small fireball shot out. However, the attempt was in vain, and the fireball missed Liz’s hair, singeing it only.
Elizabeth’s face turned pale.
“That, that kind of thing!”
“Eri, you···!”
Liz’s face contorted for the first time. She opened her eyes with difficulty, groaning in pain as she was covered in shards of glass. Soon, Elizabeth was up, limping towards the door.
“Huh… Do you think I can run away?!”
She turned to look at Erzsébet and raised the corners of her mouth. Then she lifted up her skirt that reached down to her ankles. Her lace underwear, her smooth white thighs, and the magic circle engraved on them were revealed.
“Ugh.”
“Haa···ha···! Why do you think I didn’t help with bathing?”
Liz snorted. It wasn’t just the tongue that was engraved. The magic circle glowed red and flames began to form in front of her thighs. It was a fireball ten times larger than the one Elizabeth had fired. It was powerful enough to instantly annihilate anyone who got hit.
“Then, goodbye, Eri!”
This time, there was no resistance. At the same time as Liz’s scream, a fireball was shot out. Time slowed down for Elizabeth, who was about to die. Everything was resentful and unfair.
“ah···.”
The fact that he died to the murderer of his loved one, that he failed to notice the darkness of Akalusia as the next head of the family, that he failed to even put up a proper resistance and that the reason for this was that he had slacked off in his training due to his lethargy, and that even in all that, there were brain cells in his head that found Liz’s tattooed thighs quite attractive.
‘What a pitiful death. It’s your own fault.’
I didn’t even shed tears. The distance between me and the fireball that was slowly approaching had narrowed to about four steps. I could feel the heat. My hair was starting to curl up from the tips. No matter how hard I tried to escape, the law of my body being slow in a slow world didn’t change.
The fireballs were now within three paces of each other.
It was at that very moment that Elizabeth accepted her end with a heavy heart.
A dark shadow came through the broken window and landed in front of Elizabeth.
“······?!”
At first, I thought I was dreaming. The shadow was as fast as lightning in a world where everything was slow. The sound of a landing followed late. The coat, like the devil’s wings, was fluttering.
The shadow glanced at Elizabeth and muttered.
“Wow, I’m glad I came just in case. I almost got screwed.”
“···!!!”
It was a familiar face. He wanted to shout Ronan’s name, but his voice was still climbing his vocal cords. Ronan grabbed the hilt of his sword without hesitation.
Choaaaak!
The fireball split in half, revealing Liz. She was still in the pose with her skirt lifted up. Her lace underwear, her pure white thighs, and her cold magic circle were all still there.
“you are···!”
Liz, who had just discovered Ronan, took a deep breath. Her hands that had been holding the hem of her skirt released. However, Ronan had already finished his actions. The sword strike was drawn again, and her two arms, which had been moving to make a move, shot up to the ceiling.
Bam! Ronan kicked Liz in the stomach.
The body that flew backwards landed right where Elizabeth had collided earlier.
“Kahak!”
Liz spit out blood. Her two arms, which had been rising, fell to the floor. The blood that had burst out in two streams soaked the bed. Liz let out a sharp scream at the belatedly intense pain.
Ronan, who was looking down on her as if she were a bug, spoke to Elizabeth.
“You worked hard. It’s all over now.”
“···yes?”
“Wow!!”
Suddenly, a loud cheer erupted from outside the window.
Surprised, Erzsebet shifted her gaze. Under the clear sky, the garden of Acalusia was shining. Hundreds of rock fragments blooming with azaleas were floating in the air above the territory. All of them had sharp cross-sections, as if they had been cut with a knife.
Before I could even ask what was going on, Ronan, who had put his coat on Elizabeth’s head, smiled.
“Let’s go first. We need to say goodbye.”
