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Chapter 256
Death Is the End
Zed brought down the fist he'd driven into the knight's chin.
Then he turned his gaze toward the woman who had helped him and asked.
"Are you alright?"
"What do you mean?"
The woman grinned.
W ӗ b_ñ о v̈ е́l Ё n̊ü m ӑ
"You're asking if it's okay to let an ally get treated like this?"
"Ally?"
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She tilted her head like a puppy who knew nothing.
"Why would I be allies with that bastard? Me and him have nothing to do with each other. If anything, he was a boring-as-hell bastard."
Her eyes began scanning them one by one.
Starting with Zed, then Penelope, Garnet, and finally Ferda.
Еn̆u m̊_а̀ .і̄ d̈
"Those guys promised to give me something fun, and they delivered on that promise. It was nothing more than a contract. Though I got bored pretty quick. You don't have to worry about them coming back to kill that marquis again~?"
"Then will you choose us?"
"Because you look like people worth choosing?"
A chill-inducing expression.
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That gaze was fixed squarely on Ferda.
Ferda could feel it in those eyes.
Е n̄üma .іd́_
Destructive instinct.
The instinct etched into her very genes was itching to smash Ferda to pieces.
"Your eyes are rolling with impure intentions."
Garnet quietly warned Gae Bolg.
"So what if they're impure?"
"If they're impure, then there's no helping it."
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Ferda flicked his fingers.
The shadows that had been pushed back against the lantern swiftly crawled across the floor and stretched forward.
The mission given to those shadows was restraint.
"Urk!"
They restrained Penelope just like that.
She froze with her hand still reaching toward the table where the items were placed.
Е_n ü m а̄.. і̀ ḋ
"Don't touch things without permission."
"Wh-what did I do! This is too much!!"
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"You again......."
"It's not like that!? I just wanted to take a quick look! To think you'd do something like this for your own selfish desires, ugh! My head! Let go of my head! My beautiful hair!!"
Fed up with Penelope's kleptomania, Zed grabbed her hair and pinned her down.
If Penelope had tried to touch some trivial item, he would have left her be.
Е nu m̃.ӑ
But what she'd tried to touch was a grenade emitting a purple light placed on the table.
Touch it and it would explode.
"How did you know?"
Gae Bolg asked with a sly smile.
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"That that thing was dangerous."
"Dangerous item?"
Е num̀ ӑ
"Right. That thing the third-rate demon bitch just tried to touch, it was a bomb that would blow this whole area away. If she'd picked it up as-is, this whole place would've gone kablam!!! Vanished without a trace?"
"Wh-what!? Why would you display something like that so temptingly!! She's crazy, isn't she!?"
Penelope acting all righteous and indignant, flipping the script.
"You there, miss, shut your mouth now. I asked the handsome oppa over here."
Gae Bolg's eyes were moist with interest.
"Tell me. How did you figure it out?"
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How did I know.
Because one of the Empire's greatest catastrophes, and the reason I took even a little interest, is right in front of me.
The day an entire marquis family vanished from the city center, the whole continent was in an uproar.
That was the celebratory fanfare announcing the full-fledged birth of the Crime Matriarch, Gae Bolg.
"Instinct."
"Hmm, you've got good instincts?"
W̊eb n ȯv̄ е̃ l Ё_ńu m̌ ӑ.
Gae Bolg accepting it instead of pressing further.
"So what do you want to do with me? Make a mess of me?"
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"If that's what you want."
"Hehehe, oppa would definitely do that for me...... but tell me your real purpose."
Gae Bolg's eyes narrowed.
Her sharpened gaze created tension.
Еn_ůṁa. і́d
An atmosphere like she'd cause an incident any second.
Ferda answered.
"You just do what you're good at."
Ferda gestured at the purple grenade.
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"I want to use those bombs to catch monsters."
"Use them to catch monsters......."
Е ñ um̈ ā_
She pouted her lips and shook her head like an inflatable tube man.
"Handsome oppa. Have you ever wandered through a marketplace?"
"I go to markets a lot, past and present."
Whether being treated as nobility now or treated worse than a human in the old days.
"When you go to the market, you know. There's always a tout saying something like this."
Her voice shifted to an acting tone, playing a middle-aged merchant.
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"Our shield blocks anything. Buy the shield that'll take responsibility for your life! Invest in me!"
"Saying stuff like that. What do you think crosses your mind?"
"Must be a pretty good shield."
"Me, I always end up thinking like this."
She pressed down on her own head as she spoke.
"That shield...... would it really not break? What would they do if I smashed it right here......."
Wĕbnо̆ v̈ e.l̃ Е̂ n.um̂а̃
"You wanted to prove your ability?"
"Yeah. I just wanted to prove it."
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There are always people like that.
Cases where the word 'absolute' triggers a competitive spirit.
In such cases, it stems from a desire to be acknowledged by breaking the other person.
"I couldn't stand not letting them know just how trash, how worthless their masterpieces really were."
Е̄ ñūm̌а .і d̆
But all Gae Bolg wanted was for them to despair.
She wanted to feel the ecstasy that comes from the despair of those she'd broken.
"So you attacked a noble?"
"Yeah."
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The reason she went after Marquis Pellus.
"Was it Aegis? The guys guarding that fat noble bastard looked full of pride. They said no one could lay a finger on him as long as they were there."
Еnu m̀а́
Who would believe such a pathetic reason—that she did it just because they boasted it couldn't be breached?
"So you succeeded in laying a hand on him."
"And you got caught."
"That was all I needed."
Thus was born the heart-piercing spear, Gae Bolg.
If they say it can't be broken, she breaks it no matter what.
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"That's the perfect position for you."
Ferda needed someone like her.
Because within the category of firepower, she was a genius among geniuses that even Vernel couldn't catch up to.
"How many things do you think exist in the East that absolutely cannot be broken by the things you make?"
"Hmm, probably a lot?"
"There are plenty of places for your creations to shine. You just have to smash them to pieces."
Е n úṁ а
She smiled an unpleasant smile.
Her answer was this.
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"Don't wanna~."
Gae Bolg refused Ferda's offer.
"Why?"
"Why else? Monsters? That's no different from just setting off bombs in empty mountains. Who's despairing?"
W̃ е b̂.ň_ò v̂ ӗ l̊ Е́ ňū m̂а
"The demons would be."
"But people would be happy, right? I hate that."
Ferda could tell for certain from those words.
That she wouldn't dance to his tune.
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"If you refuse, there's only one option left for you."
For a terrorist, death is the only answer.
Е̊ n̊ ùm̂ а̄
But even that death is a waste compared to Gae Bolg's talent.
The reason Marquis Pellus survived an assassination attempt was for that very reason.
"I know."
Her hand moved.
At the suspicious movement, Garnet raised her crossbow and aimed at her.
She planned to pull the trigger if she showed even the slightest attacking gesture.
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What she picked up was a pencil sharpener knife.
She held the knife between her middle finger and thumb and grinned.
"If this world gets boring......."
She dropped it.
At the landing point was a pulled rope.
"Because if you die, that's the end of it."
Е nŭ m̈а
Ferda's shadow snatched the knife trying to cut that rope.
But it was a feint.
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A sound of something snapping and moving caught Zed's ear from somewhere.
Pshhh!
Sharp nails spat out from a bottle hanging on the ceiling.
The target was the magitech grenade.
E nù m̊.â
The moment that breaks, this whole area gets smashed to bits.
The one who reacted was Zed.
With his flashy movements, he deflected all the nails, bouncing away every single one that tried to reach the grenade.
"Heheheung~."
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Her eyes, still not having lost interest, were speaking.
That it wasn't over yet.
Eń ūm̂ а.і̌ d
Ferda used shadows to completely wrap around the area near the grenade.
He created an isolated space where no shock could reach inside.
"What will you do now?"
Ferda asked.
"That's what I want to ask?"
Gae Bolg's design wasn't over yet.
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"What are you gonna do?"
At that moment, a vibration shaking the entire floor was felt. The trash pile she'd built up began to collapse and light started flickering.
Purple light.
Identical to the light inside that grenade.
Ferda's shadows lifted the trash pile.
There were grenades there.
W e̊b n о v̀ ё l̈ Е n ũmа
A full five of them.
Her attack had already begun inside the trash pile.
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True to form as the Crime Matriarch, she'd shattered everyone's expectations and started her attack.
She asked again.
"What are you gonna do?"
Ferda asked himself too.
Ѐ n̈ũm а
How do I handle this?
The first thing Gae Bolg made was a magitech grenade.
Her maniacal obsession with explosions had mutated into a genius that made accumulated knowledge look like nothing.
That was Gae Bolg's signature purple explosion.
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The crystallization of firepower later called plasma particles.
It was the moment that explosion was about to be realized.
W e b n о̌_v̈ еl E n ù mа̇
'Did I get greedy?'
Ferda blamed himself.
Needing her ability, he'd failed to properly see through her nature and ended up exposed to danger.
Pushing that self-recrimination aside quickly, he faced the problem.
What should I do when faced with this explosion?
'I have to run.'
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The most correct answer.
The slums would vanish without a trace, but that wouldn't be a problem for Ferda.
'Then what about the people here?'
Garnet, Zed, and Penelope.
The moment they get caught in that explosion, they'd be wrecked to the point where just being alive would be something to be grateful for.
I can't run alone.
W е bnо́ v́е l Е̃n ü m̆ a_
Then what do I do in this situation?
Do I have the power to swallow an explosion of this magnitude?
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Ferda recalled the spells in his head.
He recalled the defensive spells stored in his mind-made library, but the answer was the same.
It fails.
There was no magic within at least 5th-tier magic that could block this plasma explosion.
Е̂ ṅ ü ṁ а . і̆ d
-There is.
At that moment, a voice was heard.
The inner voice told Ferda.
-You can use it.
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What do you mean?
His head didn't understand, but his body was different.
Ẽ ň um а
At that moment, Ferda's mana began moving regardless of his will.
It resided within the Dark Circle.
"Aaaaaah! It's gonna explodeee!!"
"Regent-nim! You must evacuate......!"
The purple light grew fiercer, and Garnet and Zed wrapped their bodies around Ferda to protect him.
But Ferda's body didn't budge an inch.
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As if possessed, he kept his eyes on that light.
Ferda didn't properly understand magitech engineering.
And he didn't know by what principle, by what power, plasma worked or how to counter it.
Ferda could only wish.
That the thing spewing that light would just disappear.
He spoke his wish, and the Dark Circle moved, shaping itself into a hand that reached toward the light.
Ē.n u.ma . і d
Setting aside all formulas and theories, one thing was certain.
The moment that hand swallowed the light,
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It would all become as if it never existed.
Both hands became wrapping cloths, completely enveloping the purple light.
It became a round sphere, compressing more and more.
Fierce vibrations collapsed the trash pile and shook dust from the ceiling.
W е b̄ n̈ o_v̇ еl̇ Е̊ ṅu m а̃
When it finally became a single point and disappeared,
Everything became as if it had never happened.
"......Ah?"
Gae Bolg's face, captured in ecstasy, distorted.
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Precisely when the explosion should have happened, the explosion vanished.
"What the......?"
Е̇ ǹ u m ӓ .і̊ d̀
She dug through the collapsed trash pile.
The grenades were nowhere to be found.
With a hollow expression, she put down the trash she was holding and turned her head.
Her eyes looking at Ferda changed like a beast that lost its young.
She was enraged.
"It became like it never happened? Where in the world does something like that exist? This isn't a kids' game, where the hell do you get something like rainbow reflection!?"
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Gae Bolg lost her reason and bared her nail-blades.
She charged straight at Ferda.
But her body was a pathetic bag of bones.
"Take this, Pepe Attack!!"
She was easily subdued even by the third-rate demon's body throw.
"Aaack! Annoying! I hate you! Disappear!"
En̈ ǔmа̃
"Stay still! My reward money!! Uwoooo!"
Gae Bolg started throwing a childish tantrum.
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"Ferda Regent-nim......."
Garnet's eyes were on Ferda.
She revered that ability she was seeing for the first time in her life.
Ferda maintained a calm expression.
Е̃ nu m̊ă
Ferda was just as flustered, but he must not show it.
"It seems there are no more remaining options."
"What do you mean no options!? I could just bite my tongue and die right here, mmph!"
"Thanks. Now there really aren't any."
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Zed quickly gagged her mouth, preventing any more tricks.
"Garnet-kyung."
Е̇ n̂ ǔm̃а̂
"Yes."
"Which way do you think is better?"
Garnet processed the situation information and made a judgment.
"In terms of being able to attack Marquis Pellus alone, she's the best among designers...... and in terms of making magitech items without blueprints into special items, she's definitely the best among the engineers we're looking for......."
As great as the merits are, the demerits are just as huge.
"She'll be a massive threat to Ferda-nim's safety and the territory's safety."
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The territory's safety is the same as Valdrova's safety.
It was a part where he couldn't take the risk.
Would disposing of her be the right thing for the future?
"Well, Vernel just has to suffer a bit more."
Ferda concentrated mana at his fingertips.
He tried to pierce her head in one go.
Е n̆ ŭm̆а
That was when.
"Mmph! Mmm! Mmm!"
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"This bastard! Flopping around like a freshly caught live fish!? Stay still, you bitch!"
Penelope, who was holding her, tried to pin her shoulders down, but she tried to wriggle free somehow.
It looked enough like someone struggling because they didn't want to die.
But Ferda's thoughts were different.
W е̊b̆ ñ о̌ v̆ӗl̄ Е n̆ú_m̊.a
The person who was making a fuss about dying until just now didn't seem to have changed her mind.
"Try taking the gag off."
"Huh?"
"I said try taking the gag off."
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Penelope carefully removed the gag, and the freed Gae Bolg asked.
"That Vernel the handsome oppa mentioned."
E ñum а._ї d̄
Gae Bolg's eyes were strange.
Different from the smile when she tried to screw him over, or the pout when things didn't go her way.
"Is it by any chance Vernel Marquis?"
It was unmistakably a look of admiration.
