The Outer God Needs Warmth-Chapter 232: Song of the Betrayed (12)
I woke up one night.
Maurice remembers it as an old and worn-out house, but it was a nice, well-maintained family home.
Victoria hadn't been seen since dinner, but what could I do?
I was a little harsh, wasn't I?
I woke up in the morning, said hello to the four adults, and left the house. Why only four?
Victoria didn't want to meet me, and she kept complaining to Beatrice when she called her, and didn't come out.
So I said hello to everyone else except Victoria and headed to the station.
Surprisingly, there were a few people standing in the empty train station, whether there were people going to work here or there was something else going on.
When I was about to go inside, a person who seemed to be a station attendant came and asked if I wanted to buy a ticket.
Now that I think about it, there was something like that.
I handed him the business card I had received yesterday and asked if I could contact him. I was trying to see if he had a chance to get a Royal Transport Pass, but unfortunately, the station attendant shook his head from side to side.
They said there was no way to contact me directly from here, even if it was a letter.
Yeah. Then there was nothing I could do.
I had no choice but to walk.
I remember the route.
Of course, I wasn't planning to walk to the capital. I was planning to go to a city big enough to make contact, then contact the soldier and go to the capital.
After receiving the business card back, I left the station.
And I started walking toward the city.
It was midwinter, so if it were summer, the sun would have already risen above the sky, but it was still dawn.
At that time, I went into the forest.
If I didn't know the way, I would have walked along the railroad tracks, but considering the direction, the train doesn't pass through the nearest city.
So I decided to walk.
If I keep walking, I'll be able to get to the city this evening.
I only walked a little bit, but all that remained were traces of civilization, leaving only the traces of vehicles passing by.
Not paved, but dirt and gravel. And the weeds growing in between.
The forest is still dark even though it is morning. This is because the trees are tall and the light does not come in well. And whenever I go inside, I often see lights around me.
There is more light than in the city.
Of course, there is hardly any light as big as people. It is a space where warmth is rare.
If the city is a plain with torches placed here and there, the forest is like the dark night sky. The light and heat are weak, but there are countless of them.
It was when I was walking through the forest.
When the trees were as thick as my height, someone called me.
At first, I thought it was the forest calling me.
But it was not.
Farther away.
A very distant place. Not a planet, not a galaxy, not the outside of the universe.
It was calling me from a completely different world.
So I grabbed hold of that call and pulled.
Unlike when I was underwater, I felt like I was being pulled sideways.
A clang.
Chains?
I can't see outside. No, I can't see in front of me.
I think I have eyes, but since I can see a faint light around me, I don't think I'm blind, but I think I have some kind of blindfold.
Of course, Belle is walking through the forest. Since I'm watching all the harvesters at the same time anyway, I don't think anything will stop even if I enter another body.
No, my stomach feels strangely heavy, and I feel like I have no arms or legs.
Judging by the fact that there's nothing in my head, did I enter an artificial body like Belle's this time?
Then I heard a strange sound.
No, judging by the melody, it's language. Someone is talking to me.
But since there's no harvester that knows language, I can't understand the words. It sounds like something I know from the Mondergreen phenomenon, but the content is strange, so I don't know what it's saying. This.
I tried to move.
Crunch.
Pain spreads everywhere along with the sound of iron clashing.
Judging from the squeaking on the spine, there seems to be something like a metal needle stuck along the spine.
Should I create a human body like this?
No. Let's wait and see for a bit longer.
Judging from the condition, it seems like it's a lab animal, and if it shows up carelessly, it could end up ruined later.
Anyway, after the intense pain stabs the body, the signal changes and pleasure stabs the whole body. If it's strangely stronger than the pleasure that a normal living being can get, there must be some kind of special device.
Is this tube stuck in the spine that's it?
Judging from the flow of the body, it seems like a normal human body. There are no limbs, and there's something stuck in the spine, as well as the head, and there are tubes stuck all over the body.
Why are you putting these things in a body that you're summoning?
Judging from the way you alternate between pain and pleasure, it seems like you're experimenting. So I waited for the pain to start and opened my mouth.
"I'll give myself to you. Instead, I'll give you everything you have later when you've finished everything. How about that?"
It's not the language of this world. But if you keep talking, they'll probably do something.
Of course, I don't just talk.
I talk when the pain starts on purpose.
If I do that, it'll sound like I'm talking because I hate the pain, right?
Even after that, the behavior that was presumed to be torture continued.
The level of pain changed, and sometimes I mixed in pleasure or only gave pleasure.
But I always say the same thing. I've already arrived in that world. Even if I die, if my body remains, I can regenerate.
Plus, my body, Belle, is still there.
This is the first time I've been experimented on like this.
Since they're only experimenting on the other person, I can experiment on them too, right?
And I was experimented on for a considerable amount of time.
I said the same thing every time. I said the same thing when the other person said something. If I say the same thing every time, the other person will try a different interaction.
What I'm aiming for is, then touching my body.
When it touches my body, I touch it too. At that time, I can ignore the language barrier and convey my intentions. Then, I'll try to make a contract.
I only need to do it once.
Regeneration and strengthening are difficult for living things to escape.
And after a long wait, the warmth of the creature finally touched me.
As soon as I felt it on my face, I recited the contract.
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But instead of answering, the other person did something rustling in my head. And then my vision opened up.
I saw a space like an underground prison. A dark, brick-lined room. Lights that seemed to be magic circles were shining all around.
And inside, I saw a familiar shape.
It's Yasle's technique.
No. Hmm?
There are quite a few parts that are different from Yasle's memories. I don't know if they were created similarly by chance, or if he modified Yasle's summoning method in his own way.
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At least the first world has disappeared, so it’s not that world. Then maybe it’s just a coincidence that they resemble each other.
Anyway, after looking around, I raised my eyes further forward.
A man is looking down at me from a little distance away. His face is swollen and his back is bent. He looks like a bad wizard straight out of a fairy tale.
Is the author the one who called me?
But he’s too far away to have taken off my blindfold.
There’s someone else. So I turn my gaze and see a strangely pale woman looking down at me. She’s holding a blindfold in her hand, so I guess she took it off.
The woman said something to the man.
The man was silent for a moment, then spoke to the woman again. Then the woman just walked away.
I tried to move my arms and legs.
Clang, clang.
I could hear the sound of chains moving. The pain spreads again as the man shouts something urgently. I let my body contract reflexively, and I check what state my body is in.
The limbs are cut off at the top and connected with chains. The chains go up to the ceiling. It looks like a completely slaughtered pig. And there are strange patterns drawn here and there on the skin.
And the abdomen is particularly unusual.
Oh, there is a living thing inside. But there is no light or heat. It seems like it will rot inside if time passes.
It is okay because the body does not get kicked out when it dies.
After a while, the pain stopped.
My body goes limp, and bodily fluids and blood flow from my face, whether it is a reflex or not.
But I didn't do anything more than that.
Was it because I spoke to the woman, and she spoke to the man?
As I sat there watching the situation, several women with the same face came over. And in between, there's a man with his limbs broken and in shambles.
He has a huge necklace around his neck that covers his entire neck.
Let's call this one a prisoner for easy reference.
The person who tried to do something to me was a wizard. When the wizard said something, he said the same face.
The women who had been slaughtered brought the prisoner to me.
Then the woman in front lifted the prisoner’s arm and made him touch the temple.
I waited for that moment to recite the contract.
But the man didn’t answer. Then the magician shouted loudly from behind.
“Kuaaaaah!”
Then the prisoner grabbed the necklace and screamed. Oh. This must be the same one they put on me.
The prisoner, who was trembling as if he was being tortured with electricity, soon fell down.
When the magician shouted again, the woman slapped the prisoner’s cheek to wake him up. Then the woman lifted the prisoner’s arm and made him touch the temple again.
As soon as our skins touched, I recited the contract.
And the prisoner agreed.
Soon the prisoner’s body swelled and his skin turned like porcelain. And as it fell off little by little, pure white skin appeared.
The twisted limbs also returned to their original state.
The somewhat dark skin turned white, and the hair turned purple.
The prisoner, who looked fine, immediately moved his body and hit the head of the woman next to him with his fist.
With a loud crash, the woman’s head caved in and something inside the skull flew out. She died instantly.
The prisoner who killed ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ the woman next to him turned around and ran straight to the wizard.
But he didn’t make it a few steps.
The necklace around his neck glowed and exploded. It was like a bomb necklace from my faded memories.
Blood and flesh splattered everywhere, and the head that fell went up to the ceiling and fell to the ground.
The harvester died. But that wasn’t the first harvester.
The women next to me now have the same face.
The contract has already ended. In other words, they are descendants of the harvester that was created some time ago.
Or they are clones of the harvester.
But I’ll write about that later. I looked at the wizard and asked him in the language of this world.
“I’ll give myself to you, but later, when you’ve finished finalizing everything, I’ll give you everything you’ve got. How about that?”