Chapter 14 Life is a big dream in the air

She looked back in surprise, and then, she saw—

Theresia, who had been cut in the chest and collapsed in a pool of blood, was supposed to be dead, but at this time she squatted there with trembling legs, and with all her strength, she stabbed the holy sword into her heart. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Ahem!"

The mortally wounded queen does not appear to be as powerful as an undead zombie, and if she is stabbed in the heart, she will die, and this rule seems to apply to her as well.

Coughing up blood, her legs went limp, and she fell to her knees.

"Why- you're not dead yet?"

"What you call killing is to let Black use strange magic to punch someone through the chest, although it hurts, but it won't kill me." Theresia seemed to be stubborn, and barely stood up.

"I'm a child of angels and demons, and I don't have human blood, so just destroying my heart isn't enough to kill me."

Compared to Theresia, who did not die even after being shot through the heart, the queen, who lost the game, fell to the ground weakly.

"I see, that impostor, I just thought about this—did you deliberately use you to calculate me?"

"Because Black believes I'm not dead."

Speaking of this, Theresia seemed to be unable to hold on, and leaned into the arms of the black beside her.

"But even if I had multiple hearts, if I couldn't stop the bleeding with magic, I would probably die from this injury, and it seems that I couldn't use my magic power at all since this incident began."

"This must be the Queen's fault, if she dies, you will be saved." Black said.

"But I won't die so easily, I must bring despair to you, I can't just lose!"

Still not wanting to accept the fact that she had lost, the queen with the holy sword in her back and lying on the ground still wanted to crawl forward.

And at this moment, a hand suddenly grabbed the holy sword inserted in the queen's back, pushed it down hard, and the holy sword passed through the queen's body and nailed to the ground.

The queen also spat out a mouthful of blood again because of this blow.

"You guy, why do you have to stop it now-"

Looking back, the queen was taken aback.

It was none other than Alyssa who had the sword in it.

"Admit it, you lost your despair this time, these people didn't give up hope in the end, and no matter what you do now, you can't change that fact. After all, I'm still standing here, that is, you haven't even achieved the first step of your plan, have you? ”

Completely different from before, Alyssa said with an unquestioning expression.

And seeing Alyssa's appearance, the queen finally sighed as if she had given up.

No longer with a playful expression like before, she showed a wry smile after the brutal killing.

"That's true, ah, I lost, I lost to Hope, and I lost to Black."

As he said this, the chamber was shrouded in white light, and everyone seemed to have entered another dimension.

"What the hell is going on?"

"I didn't expect that I couldn't compare to him, I couldn't even compare to his fakes I made, and I really lost so completely."

Obviously lost, but the queen seemed to be relieved, showing a sweet smile.

"Everyone, I'm sorry for yesterday."

In an instant, the world around me completely collapsed.

Then, everyone appeared on the Castlevania spaceship.

Hei sat on the deck, leisurely drinking tea, on the coffee table temporarily placed in front of him, a game of chess, opposite him was Xiao Chun.

"Really, why can't I get down to you all the time!?"

"Of course, I'm a Mind Demon King."

And on the side of the two, there was Meloita, who was silently watching the two of them play chess, and Meloyta, who was wearing a maid's costume and filling the teacup for black.

"Queen!?"

Mei Yi saw the queen in a maid's uniform and cried out.

Unlike before, the Queen's body has lost the color of despair. She has long blond hair that shows an elegant atmosphere, the waves on both sides hang down on her chest, and her fair skin has lost its previous sickly paleness, so it can be said that she is a completely different person.

But even so, almost everyone can recognize her at a glance, probably the depths of her eyes, which still reveal that rather mysterious blue-blue light.

If you look closely, Xiaoguang and Sirona are all around you, and Theresia's wounds have disappeared.

Nothing before was as if nothing had happened at all.

And in front of him, the fake black is still standing there.

Since the black in front of him is fake, the black in front of him who played chess with Xiaochun is real?

What the hell is going on!?

"Oh, everybody's back." Black greeted him in a very normal manner.

"What does 'oh' mean!?" Mei Yi ran in front of Black. "Tell me about it!"

"Well, in that case, I'll explain it." Not going to hide it, Black said. "You were and are in a dream."

“……”

"Huh?"

“……”

"That's it?"

"It's over."

"It's too brief, after all, we don't know when we fell asleep."

"Well, the exact time, it should be when I first arrived on the island. You all lay on your stomach when it first fell, and at that very moment, all of you were hypnotized by Darkrai, the Queen. ”

"That's right, I did it!"

The queen, dressed in a maid's costume, obediently occupied the position on Black's side, and said as a matter of course.

"Don't you have anything else to say, and why are you so close to Hei?"

"Why? Because the bet was won by Black, as the loser, I have already lost everything I have to this new master. ”

"Oh, that's what harem +1 means, I see."

"Don't understand it without permission, Toko senior, what's going on?"

"If you want to explain it in detail, you have to start with the fact that we just arrived on the island." Black coughed lightly, as if he wanted to explain seriously.

"At that time, all of you, except me, were hypnotized the moment you came to the island."

"As for the reason why I wasn't hypnotized, you should know that the Demon King can't be hypnotized, and even if I am hypnotized, it won't have an effect."

"Of course, I also know that Hei is such a strong demon king, and I also know that he came here for me." The queen picked up the topic and continued.

"However, as the queen of Sellius, I also have my own reserve, and I can't accept it to succumb to forces stronger than myself without doing anything, at least, I still have an obsession with despair in my heart."

"So I made a proposal to Hei to send everyone but him to the dream I had created, and make a bet that if Black could win, I would make him my master."

"Is this bet a bet that we'll make it out alive?" Mei asked.

"No, it's not, in fact, no matter how many people you die, it doesn't matter if you win or lose." The Queen said with interest. "The only criterion for victory or defeat has nothing to do with which of you survives, but with this imposter I created."

The queen looked at the other black who had been made to be the murderer and said.

"If Kuro, as a murderer, can survive to the end, it will be a victory for Kuro, and conversely, if Kuro is killed as a murderer on the way, it will be my victory. In other words, even if you are all wiped out, only this black stand-in survives, and it is still the victory of black. Of course, the created stand-in will not know the rules we have set, he will only act according to his own ideas. ”

"How can this be, then- how strange!"

"Generally speaking, it should be easier to keep the murderer alive, after all, according to Black's killing method in the previous game, there will be no conclusive evidence left at all, so it should be easy to let Black's stand-in live." Fuji and Hikaru said.

"But if you think about it, it's actually a very vicious rule." Mei Yi said. "If we let a stand-in frame us for the sake of victory, Black will betray our trust, and even if it was a dream before, we will probably think that 'Black may betray us because of something else'."

"That's right, after all, at that time, I hated black the most as the dazzling character you hoped for, and I thought it was a pretty good thing to exchange my dominance for your trust in black." The queen said with a big smile.

"Actually, I tried my best to encourage the stand-in to continue the game until the end, but that guy didn't seem to be obedient. And Hei too, he even asked a stand-in to protect his companions, and it was clear that as long as he didn't protect you, he wouldn't be discovered. ”

"I didn't expect it, but it's actually like this."

The queen sighed as if she had conceded defeat.

"It's obviously based on trust in hypocritical things, but you still don't kill Hei as the murderer, until I see you come to my secret room, I don't know what Hei is up to."

"That's right," Hei continued. "Even if it's a fake, even if it's not something that actually exists, since he appears there, it must have the value of its existence."

"The Queen's idea of plunging others into despair is the idea that the stand-in is a fake anyway, and it doesn't matter if she ruins everything. And I hope that the stand-in, whether he is true or not, will do what he should do well. ”

"I believe that even if I am a fake in front of you, as long as he can lead you out of that game like I do, you will trust him as much as I do. The authenticity of a character doesn't matter, but once you betray and lose trust, you lose something irretrievable. ”

"Still, isn't Black nervous?" The Queen asked. "The identity of the stand-in is the murderer, isn't it afraid that the others will really decide to kill the stand-in?"

"Huh? If I say it, the most nervous thing is that at the beginning, when I heard the rules of the game we set, whether the stand-in would be confused by what you said, whether he would do everything in his power to protect the companion he had to 'kill', and when he did this, the rest of the matter was a small matter. ”

Kuro stood up and walked over to another stand-in for herself, who had been silent.

"When you have a clear conscience, you can die peacefully with a clear conscience, even if you don't get the results you want. On the contrary, if you rely on hurting others to make yourself better, once you do that, there will never be a way back, and while hurting others countless times, your heart will become cold countless times, which is the real despair. ”

At this, Black smiled.

"Therefore, as long as you do your best, even if you are killed by your companions in the end, it's nothing, if you want to get a real companion, you must have the mentality of suffering, you think so too, after all, we are alone."

was hacked to this point, and the other black, who was a stand-in, raised his head.

His expression was neither the anger of being played with, nor the sadness that the game was over, and he was about to disappear, but - surprise.

"You're really surprised, after all, you're only now discovering the fact that you're not my stand-in."

"Isn't it—a stand-in?" Hearing Hei Sudden's words, Mei Yi was surprised. "What the hell is going on?"

"Didn't Theresia say it before, this guy is undoubtedly black, and there is no possibility of admitting mistakes."

"That's right, that's what I said, is that true?" Theresia looked abruptly surprised.

"I think you should trust Theresia more, she's a very sensitive woman, her nose isn't a dog's nose, but she can smell other people's souls. Even if memories and personalities can be faked, the soul cannot. ”

"Therefore, although this guy plays my stand-in, he is actually a part of my soul and another me reproduced in the dream with the help of the Queen's power, no matter who I am missing from him, it is not the black in your eyes in reality."

"That's really the case-" Black who is the "stand-in" suddenly laughed.

"I was still thinking about waiting for the incident to be over, as if I was really complaining, but now I remember that it was me who caused all this."

"Wait a minute, what I just said, both of them are black, what's going on?"

I saw that Hei, who was originally a stand-in, turned around and said to everyone.

"I split a part of my soul, which sounds hard to understand, but it's a metaphor for a person who watches TV and does homework at the same time."

However, because of some interference from the Queen, the part of the mind used to write the homework did not know that he was watching TV at the same time, and the part of the mind that watched the TV knew that he was actually still doing his homework. And if this person manipulates two bodies with the same mind, it looks like two different people. ”

"But at best, it was only because of the power that the queen used in the dream that I became two, and once the queen stopped using the power, that is, when the person doing the homework knew that she was actually watching TV, I knew that I was actually just the same person who happened to be given two bodies in the dream." (To be continued.) )