READ NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 121
121. Finally, We Meet
A black hole opened in the empty space.
From it emerged two women.
One was a beautiful girl dressed in an Eastern-style shrine maiden outfit.
Electra Lavana.
A holder of the divine skill of foresight.
And the other was a woman in a dazzling dress.
Vanessa Millet.
She was a skill-holder of Ga Zegalia Fio, and thanks to the otherworldly passage she created, the journey to their destination was over in an instant.
“This is it.”
“Yeah, it looks exactly like what I saw.”
Electra nodded at Vanessa’s question.
According to the vision, the person they sought should be just ahead.
“Shall we go, Electra?”
Vanessa smiled seductively.
Electra returned her gaze, calm.
A smile both graceful and alluring, yet—
her eyes showed no trace of mirth.
They were cool and calculated, observing Electra with quiet intensity.
(What are her true intentions?)
Electra pondered silently.
She didn’t trust Vanessa unconditionally.
She’d tried to foresee things multiple times.
At least shortly, she’d seen no sign of Vanessa betraying or deceiving her.
But she couldn’t feel at ease.
Though they’d formed a tentative alliance, she was still unsure whether she should trust her.
(But I have to—avoid the disastrous future. For that purpose, now…)
If she could use someone, she would.
That was all.
“This way.”
Electra took the lead and started walking with Vanessa in tow.
The person they sought lay ahead.
──It had been two hours since they began traversing the mountainous terrain.
Despite being in a dress, Vanessa moved effortlessly over the rugged path.
Or rather, she wasn’t quite walking.
Looking closely, her feet were hovering slightly above the ground, gliding through the air.
This was due to her skill.
Electra, too, was given the same skill, and the two of them quickly made it halfway up the mountain.
“What do you think, Electra? Do you know where she is?”
“She should be around here.”
──A secluded spot on the mountain path.
──Several skeletons.
──A silhouette standing beyond them.
“We just go straight.”
Recalling the vision, Electra responded.
“Then from here, let’s walk.”
Vanessa disengaged her skill, and the two began to walk.
“…This is also what I saw in the vision.”
Electra’s expression grew tense.
Crunch, crunch—the sound of their steps on the mountain path as they continued onward.
Ahead, several monster corpses lay one after another.
Each of them mummified.
──No, it wasn’t just monsters.
“Humans…?”
Judging by their gear, they appeared to be adventurers.
Four mummified corpses lay strewn about.
Though she had seen it once in her vision, it was still an unsettling sight.
“She’s there.”
Electra whispered to Vanessa.
There was a figure among the corpses.
A girl with shiny black hair in a braid.
Her face was innocent, dotted with freckles.
Though her appearance seemed plain, upon closer inspection, her features were strikingly beautiful.
Dressed in a cleric’s robe, she was small in stature.
“Who are you two?”
The girl turned to look at them with a slightly drawn-out voice.
Her eyes, round behind glasses, gazed at Electra and Vanessa.
Sephiria Lize.
A skill holder with the power of Ada El.
“Finally, we meet.”
Electra exhaled deeply.
──Tracking down Sephiria had been a constant game of hide and seek.
Even when she’d foreseen her whereabouts, by the time they arrived, she’d often already moved elsewhere.
Foresight, after all, lacked precision for distant events, and the time and scope of her visions were limited.
It also required considerable concentration, making it impractical to use frequently.
They had followed her, missed her, and chased her again—
Finally, today, they were face to face.
(The last skill-holder…)
A sense of tension welled up.
Her vision had only shown up to this meeting.
Nothing beyond it.
What would she do next…
She swallowed nervously.
From her expression, she didn’t seem hostile or wary toward them.
However, Sephiria was a skill-holder just like them, with the power of the gods.
She was not someone to let their guard down around.
“I am Vanessa Millet, and this is Electra Lavana. Pleased to meet you.”
Vanessa bowed gracefully, like a noblewoman.
“I’m Sephiria Lize. Nice to meet you.”
Sephiria greeted them in a cheerful voice.
“Hmmm…”
She scrutinized Electra.
“W-what?”
To Electra’s confusion, Sephiria approached her casually and,
“Cute!”
shouted excitedly and hugged her.
“Huh…?”
Caught off guard, Electra froze.
“Plus, you’ve got quite the chest. Hehe, it feels nice too. And the shape…so pretty…”
Before she knew it, Sephiria had loosened the front of Electra’s shrine maiden outfit.
She was kneading her ample chest with strange, gentle motions.
Firmly, deliberately, savoring the softness.
“W-wait, what are you doing…?!”
Electra, flustered, protested.
“Hehe. I just can’t resist cute girls. Sorry.”
Even as she apologized, Sephiria casually rubbed her fingertip over Electra’s chest.
“J-just, let go of me…”
Electra’s voice quivered, tingling with a sweet sensation that coursed through her body.
“Oh, you’re a bit of an innocent, huh? That’s cute too. Can I kiss you?”
“No, I’ll pass…”
“Aww, too bad.”
Smiling, Sephiria finally let go, though her hands opened and closed, savoring the memory.
(What is with this girl…)
The unexpected lack of tension left her dumbfounded.
Then,
“Oh, hey, you’re hurt.”
Sephiria looked down at Electra’s leg.
Just before they’d arrived, Electra had fallen and scraped her knee slightly.
“I’ll heal that for you. Ada-El, if you please.”
Muttering, Sephiria held out her hand.
A shining emblem appeared in her palm.
A goddess with two faces and four arms.
An emblem marking her, like Electra and Vanessa, as a skill-holder of the gods.
Her knee, illuminated by the light, healed in an instant as the skin mended, and the pain vanished.
(So this is Sephiria’s skill…)
“It seems genuine.”
Vanessa nodded in satisfaction.
──Suddenly, a new vision appeared before Electra’s eyes.
Countless black holes appeared in the sky.
From them emerged a horde of sinister forms.
Cities consumed by flames.
Screams of people fleeing in terror and agony.
Laughter echoing through the chaos.
A world dyed in crimson flames.
(Is this…also foresight…?!)
Normally, her skill activated only by her will.
But at times, she would glimpse the future unintentionally.
And now was one of those times.
“What…is this…”
Electra murmured in horror.
In an instant, thousands, no, tens of thousands of people perished.
Her vision was filled with blood.
It was like a scene from hell.
“Is something wrong, Electra?”
“Oh, hey, are you spacing out? Now’s my chance to grope you, hehe.”
Vanessa looked concerned, while Sephiria beamed with a mischievous smile.
“…No, it’s nothing.”
Electra weakly shook her head at them.
A vague sense of unease grew inside her.
An ominous feeling deep within her chest.
Had she come too far, to a place she should never have ventured?
In her quest to avoid her ruinous fate,
was she on the path to bringing even greater ruin upon herself?