chapter 21
21 – Oh!? The heroine’s condition…!
Terra suffered extreme pain while repeatedly welding and separating souls.
But at this moment…
She began to automatically feel her soul quiver at the sudden, terrifying sensation.
Something that jumped out of the most terrible pain so far.
At the same time as this happened, Terra’s mind, which had already become rags, began to be seized by the sensation as if it was drifting somewhere.
The feeling of becoming a ship that is swept away by the waves as the anchor line breaks.
In the midst of it, Terra began to scream desperately, caught in a scream, but no more sound was heard in her ears.
no..
To be precise…
It’s not that there is no sound.
It would be more accurate to say that there was no sound.
*
‘… .ah..’
Terra barely came to his senses in the hellish mental chaos.
Shortly thereafter, she began to feel that the shackles of domination that had bound her were gone.
The restraints that gripped her formula were gone, and the sensations that had given her pain were also gone.
‘End… Is it me?.. but.. why..?’
The actions of the hero who supposedly freed him.
In response, Terra stood up from her seat and looked at the warrior still in front of her eyes, wondering what had happened.
He said he would use himself to do ‘that job’… but he tried to ask why he let himself go.
But…
‘… uh?’
The moment I tried to move my body in doubt…
Terra realizes that something is strange…
I started to realize that something was terribly wrong.
‘What… what? this… This… what the hell is this?..’
Terra raised her head and tried to look straight at the hero.
However, at this moment her body no longer speaks her words.
Terrara was a personality and did not want to listen to consciousness.
‘Uh… why? Boo.. obviously the shackles don’t exist anymore.. nothing holds me down anymore. That.. but.. this is..’
Unlike before, I didn’t feel like I was constrained by something and couldn’t move my body at all.
But… in spite of this sense of freedom, she could no longer rise from her seat or raise her head.
This wasn’t just about the limbs.
She couldn’t open her mouth, breathe, or squint her eyes.
what she can do.
It’s just accepting the senses coming from outside one-sidedly.
See, hear and feel with your skin.
Although aware of it all, she had no control over it.
and..
It was then that Terra’s mind was feeling the emotion of fear, recognizing what it meant.
“Are you out of your mind?”
“Quit?”
‘..!’
The next moment, the warrior’s voice heard in her ears.
At the same time, Terra’s body stood up very naturally without any interference from her reason and original consciousness.
“bruise! bruise! bruise!”
Her body leaking a sound like a dog’s cry.
Completely separated from the end of the name of consciousness and reason.
Only her instinct as a dog that blindly obeys the ‘master’ in front of her eyes remains.
About this…
Now, Terra’s rationality, which has become no different from a beast, is buried in deep despair.
However, despite these feelings, at this moment she could not do anything about it.
Even shedding tears
Crying out in pain…
Nothing was allowed to her now.
All she can do is watch and accept the sensations coming from outside.
Because there were only these two.
*
“Nuclear..Nuclear..Nuclear..”
Tera is wagging her tail in front of my eyes and literally showing off her dog-like appearance.
Watching that scene, I’m sure that’s what I was aiming for…
I was able to recognize the fact that ‘failure’, which was triggered with a 3% probability, was successfully triggered.
‘It took a little too long, but… well, it was successful anyway, so this must have been it.’
shackles of domination.
Sealing the target’s reason for a while, turning it into a puppet that obeys orders.
In the original work, it was the last anomalous means that Torare, who had failed to capture all four heroines, could use to satisfy the ending conditions.
Using this, it was possible to forcibly subdue one heroine whose capture had not been completed and execute the ending branch.
However, within this powerful item that could reverse the flow of the game, there was a chance of failure as a kind of penalty.
The phrase that the power of the shackles that activates with a 3% chance runs out of control.
the moment it pops up,
With the words that the link between reason and body is completely severed, the heroine’s intelligence stat degenerates to the level of a beast, not a human.
If this happens, Eileen and Amelda’s combat power will be cut in half, and Shud, a witch, will be almost turned into garbage.
However, due to the nature of Terra, originally a Himcane beast, there was no significant change in combat power.
The important thing was that there was a more serious problem than that, not a change in combat power.
The point is that the heroine that has become like this is no longer a normal heroine, but is classified as a ‘pet’ that can be raised systematically.
This change was permanent and could not be dismantled even with the use of an elixir called God’s Potion.
Although the game over did not appear, it could be said that it was practically a semi-forced game over as all means to see the ending were blocked.
and.
As a result of these ‘failures’
Terra, literally gasping for tongue in front of me, in a state no different from a pet.
However, I was able to know it through the description of the original work even while watching her as if her mind had literally been blown away as if frozen.
I will never be able to go out again
The fact that even now, in that animal in front of me, there is still Terra’s ‘reason’.
‘Reminds me of a movie I saw before? It was a movie about transplanting a black brain into a white body, maybe. Was it the other way around?’
With that thought in mind, I gently stroked the head of Terra, who was looking up at me with bright eyes, and Terra began to whimper in a good mood and put on a happy expression.
At this moment, apart from the screams of her reason, which is completely imprisoned inside her…
Expressing so pure joy to me, the owner.
*
“I see… the warrior.”
“Yes, yes, Your Majesty the Demon King.”
Kneeling in front of the demon king sitting at the desk in the office,
Elisa began to report the results of this operation in a voice full of admiration.
As well as blocking the supply procession that departed from the military base Rob,
They burned all the supplies stored there for several months.
In addition, as a bonus, the hero’s tremendous performance defeated the general who was in charge of the defense there and captured even the female beast warrior who was originally in the hero’s party.
While reporting these facts without any filtering, Elisa spoke in an excited voice with a slightly flushed expression uncharacteristic of her usual.
“It was really great. Starting with cutting down humans without the slightest hesitation, they use tricks to deceive foolish humans and infiltrate inside.. On top of that, that dignified figure that saved their convictions in danger…”
“Elisha, if you say that, can I take it as meaning that I don’t have to have doubts about the hero anymore?”
The Demon King cuts off Elisa, who seems to be slightly overheated, and speaks in a calm voice.
Recognizing the fact that she was a little excited, she calmed down her emotions and spoke in a much calmer voice.
“Ah.. um.. um.. yes! As your Majesty said, if the hero’s outstanding abilities and hatred towards humans are such, it seems that he can be entrusted with the mission with confidence.”
“Yeah…it’s fortunate if you think so.”
“… ?
The demon lord answered her words with a slightly dark expression.
At this, Elisha put off the excitement she had just a moment ago and asked her master in a voice full of questions and concerns.
“Um… Your Majesty? Do you have a place where you feel uncomfortable? Your complexion doesn’t look good.”
“… No, it’s not. I was just a little surprised. The fact that the hero did such an active job for Jim… for our demons… was something even Jim didn’t expect.”
The demon lord reassures Elisa with a smile on her face in response to her question.
Then, after correcting his expression again, the demon king asked Elisa in front of his eyes in a calm yet dignified voice as always.
“Then, where is the hero now?”
“Yes, as far as Soshin knows, he went back to his room. Together with that female warrior.”
“I get it.”
The Demon King rises from his seat right after he finishes saying those words.
Regarding this, Elisha felt a bit suspicious and carefully asked her master.
“Where are you going, Your Majesty?”
“I plan to go to the warrior. Since Jim has done an excellent job, shouldn’t he be rewarded?”
The demon lord speaks in a quiet yet slightly subdued voice.
In response to this, Elisha bowed her head and saw off the owner, and the demon king quietly walked out of the office.
Others may not be able to express themselves easily..
With complicated emotions in mind.