Read Novel Full Chapter 446 - With the New Morning, the Birds Sing
Chapter 446 - With the New Morning, the Birds Sing
The space tore open.
They appeared as though encircling Vysis.
All around her, fissures in space———- chasms gaped wide.
[Uuuugh…… d- d*mn it……]
Was she desperately searching for a way to escape?
Vysis darted her gaze frantically from side to side.
But with Thesis standing there———– escape was impossible.
After witnessing everything so far, even I could understand that much.
[ ! ]
Red, black, green, blue, purple, white, yellow……
Beyond the rifts, space writhed with a multitude of colors.
Like countless microorganisms, dimly glowing.
From that marble-colored void, something was expelled.
A grotesque sight, resembling violent retching, nothing beautiful about it.
Sera broke into a cold sweat at the eerie spectacle.
[Those are…… intestines……?]
What was spewed forth from the rifts surrounding Vysis————
It looked like a rope made by linking together long strands of human intestines.
No, perhaps they weren’t actually intestines, but……
————That rope of guts began binding Vysis.
She tried to resist, transforming her arms into blades.
The blades were horribly misshapen, pitiful compared to how they’d looked during the decisive battle.
And her resistance was futile————- Vysis was restrained.
[Guuuh!? S- Stop…… S- Stop it…… stop…… stop stop stop stop stoooooop————!]
The intestinal rope moved, dragging Vysis down onto her back.
[Gah!?]
Thereupon, suddenly————
Beneath Vysis, a rock appeared, the same marble color as the rifts.
It was shaped like a thin omelet.
Somehow, the way Vysis looked now……
It was as if she had been placed upon a chopping block———–
Naturally, bound as she was, Vysis couldn’t move.
Even so, she struggled desperately to escape.
But though the intestinal rope swayed, there was no sign of it tearing.
With the rope still coiled around her neck, Vysis somehow lifted her face and cried out,
[T- Thesis-sama———- spare me! Please spare me! I beg you! A- At least…… let me be erased! Please, show mercy! Erase me……!]
[……………………]
[I- I said I’d change my ways…… how cruel! I wasn’t lying! Of course I’m desperate to survive, that’s only natural, isn’t it!? This———- This is just so unfair! Utterly…… unreasonable! This is so unjust no one would believe their ears! And yet you hold the rank of second, d- don’t you feel ashamed!? You side with Loqierra———– with humans every single time!]
[……………………]
But Thesis did not answer.
Did not respond.
The decision———— would not be overturned.
Perhaps Vysis realized that as well.
[D- D*mn it…… d*mn youuuuuuuu! Die, you old hag! Screw all of you! You puke-trash brat b*stards and those idiot scum Deities toooo! Let me gooo! Let me go let me go let me go, noooooo I don’t want thiiiis———-!!!]
For several seconds———–
Vysis screamed and raved, spewing curses.
Yet many of them were looking———- directly above Vysis.
Up at the sky.
[……What…… is that?]
Snakes.
Numerous enormous, baleful snakes, marble-colored, entwined and writhing together.
Not quite snakes——— more like eels.
I’d once seen footage of live eels crammed into a basket.
It was as if that same scene, only with serpents, had appeared in the sky above Vysis.
That was the impression it gave.
The serpents’ eyes were hollow voids.
Like deep caverns of nothingness.
You could say this was straight out of a horror movie, and you wouldn’t be wrong.
Vysis snapped her eyes wide open, her skin slick with copious sweat.
It was a bizarre sight.
Even the coloring.
Depending on the situation, that marble hue———–
Could feel this unsettling———- this revolting.
[W- Why……]
Vysis spoke in a trembling voice.
[Why am I the only one———— who has to suffer like this……?]
……That’s where you’re wrong.
Isn’t that so, Vysis?
It’s precisely because it’s you that you’re meeting such a fate.
However, I don’t voice it aloud.
Vysis turned her face toward me and glared.
[Y- You satisfied now…… you puke-trash little sh*ttttt!?]
[…………………………………………]
Just like Thesis————- I don’t answer.
I don’t respond.
The fact that she spoke means one thing.
She’s looking for a reaction.
And so I……
With an utterly emotionless expression, I merely fix my gaze on Vysis.
I watch.
At times, giving no reaction at all becomes the greatest form of rejection.
It becomes contempt.
With a grinding sound, Vysis clenched her teeth so hard they seemed about to crack.
Her eyes were bloodshot to a painful degree, filled with humiliation and hatred.
But then, as if she noticed something, Vysis snapped her gaze upward.
Most likely, something had changed with the serpents in the sky.
[————!]
Drip.
From a serpent’s tongue, a marble-colored droplet fell.
The intestinal cords tightened their grip, and Vysis stopped moving altogether.
No, she was rendered unable to move.
And then———- sizzle.
When the droplet fell onto Vysis’ abdomen, it made a sound like evaporation.
A “hole” had opened in Vysis’ stomach.
[Gi…… gyyyaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA———!!]
How should I put it…… it was as if her abdomen alone had been completely erased.
Around the gaping hole————- the exposed cross-section was a marble-colored extradimensional space.
Loqierra spoke.
[That droplet works like that, gradually transferring the target in “small portions” to the Purification Corridor in the gap between dimensions. According to one theory…… the screams emitted when one receives that droplet are said to be due to unimaginable agony…… and according to another, they’re born from the indescribable terror of realizing that one’s very existence is being erased from this dimension.]
……I see.
Guided along the serpents’ tongues, more droplets fell in turn.
The intestinal cords deftly shifted, making space where the droplets would land.
One after another, the droplets made contact, causing parts of Vysis’ body to be “erased” in succession.
[GyaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAA!? AaaAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa———–!!!]
The serpents that released their droplets vanished, as if their roles were complete.
One by one.
Whether by pain or fear, all composure had been completely stripped from her———-
Vysis could do nothing now but scream.
And then…… when only one serpent remained.
Only half of Vysis’ face was left.
[D——– D*mn…… it…… this…… for…… me…… to end up…… like this…… this kind of…… end…… no…… I- I don’t want it……]
The emotions Vysis let loose at the end had already shifted from frustration to despair.
[Tthis…… kind of…… conclusion…… I don’t want…… it———]
The final droplet fell.
[AAAAA̛A̛AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA——ah———,———]
After the last droplet fell onto the remaining half of Vysis’ face……
Just like a broadcast suddenly being cut off.
The goddess’ scream abruptly vanished, and then…………
The remaining half of Vysis’ head also vanished, along with the final serpent.
Thereupon, the marble-colored rocks disappeared as well.
Next, the intestinal cords were drawn back into the rift in space.
And finally…… the spatial rift, having fully reabsorbed the intestinal cords, closed.
Everything involved in sending Vysis to the Purification Corridor vanished from this place.
In the plaza, the ordinary air of morning began to drift once more.
No one spoke for a while.
Somewhere, a bird chirped carefreely.
The air was crisp, and the sky began to dye itself a clear blue.
A gentle, tranquil breeze blew———– softly stirring my bangs.
I looked up at the sky…… and slowly narrowed my eyes at its brightness.
It was the moment morning arrived in the world.