Chapter 15: Gambling your soul for the sake of a new companion requires no hesitation

"So, obviously I wasn't a stand-in, but I was deceived by another part of myself and the queen and used myself as a stand-in. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"But in the end, a powerful demon king like me, if she doesn't take the initiative to take out her soul to transform the queen, she doesn't have the ability to be my stand-in."

With a slightly self-deprecating smile from Black as a stand-in, the two black bodies turned into one with a burst of light.

"It's hard to imagine that you can do anything in a dream." Mei Yi grabbed the dumplings on her head with a little headache.

"However, since the black around us has been a part of the black from the beginning, if he is really killed as a murderer-" Hibiki said with some seriousness.

"Even then, it doesn't matter, after all, the people who were killed before are not actually dead." Xiaoguang smiled.

At this moment, Black coughed lightly.

"The Queen told you just now that if the other me survives to the end, the Queen will regard me as her master. And if I am killed by you halfway through, then the part of the soul that is killed will go to the queen, and this is the whole gamble. ”

"You even bet on a part of yourself!" Mei Yi was speechless for a moment.

"That's it." The queen added. "That is, no matter who of you dies here, you will not be harmed in reality, but if the black of the 'stand-in' dies, that part of the soul will belong to me. After all, it's a bet to sell oneself, and the two sides must be equal. ”

Hearing this truth, Mei couldn't help but recall the time when she was alone in that room and thought she was a stand-in.

If I really treated him as a fake and killed him in order to get out of this game earlier, what was standing in front of me now would be a mutilated black.

Although he chose not to kill Black, what kind of courage did he have to put a part of himself as a murderer in front of his companions?

If any of these people really want to end the game in order to survive-

Just thinking about it made her heart beat uneasily.

"Stupid, why take such a big risk!?"

"I agree with this, and if you don't tell us anything, you gamble your soul with others." Toko agreed.

"Although I decided to risk my life to protect you after smelling your breath, wouldn't it be hasty to do so?" Theresia also said in a reproachful tone.

"I do apologize for that, but I want to say that as a Demon King, it is worth it to take a part of your soul for each of you, and I intended to treat Miss Queen as a companion in the future from the beginning. So I think it's worth betting on a part of my soul that I can save her. ”

"Queen?"

"I used to look desperate to the bones, but now at least I can't see it on the outside." Theresia was surprised.

"Well, because the me you saw before is not the complete me." The queen smiled wryly.

"Of course, I'm not like Black, who only thinks he's become two people through autosuggestive spells, and I've been dominated by despair since that day 200 years ago, until one day, my lord - no, it was Smith who released me and taught me how to find my hope like a normal person."

Since then, I have been unable to restrain my desperate dreams from those around me, and at the same time I hope that someone will break this despair. And in the dreams I created, I would also be divided into one gray me, which completely represented despair, and the other me, who was small and inconspicuous, but who wanted to live. ”

"Another you? That's—"

"Speaking of which, it seems like there's one less person between us."

After Sirona's reminder, everyone looked around them, and there was indeed one person missing, because that person had been with them for too short, even if he disappeared, it was generally difficult to notice.

"Alyssa—" Fuji and Hikaru said the name.

"That's right, Alyssa Cellius, that's the name I had when I was queen 200 years ago, though I think of me as a humble maid."

"The small and inconspicuous maid, who is not very familiar with any traveler, on the contrary, knows the structure of this castle best, so that no matter what case they encounter, as long as the blame is placed on her head, even if there is no evidence, they will unite to put the blame on Alyssa."

"It's good to put the blame on a strange maid, she's suspicious anyway, and there will be no consequences for killing the wrong one, so just kill it. It's better to say, 'It's good that guy is a murderer,' and that's what they must have thought. ”

Alyssa said with some grief and a dark expression.

"And the killing of Alyssa is only the beginning, and they will soon find out that their companions will continue to die, and since they have killed one person by mistake, they will not hesitate to assume that the others are also murderers, and thus fall into cannibalism."

"As a result, this cannibalistic game begins forever with the death of Alyssa, who is looking for hope."

"In this sense, Alyssa should be hope, obviously hope, but she is always killed as despair."

When Alyssa said this, Fuji and Hikaru couldn't help but bow their heads.

And Alyssa did stare at him.

"Although in the dream, I am also very vindictive, of course, Enyi will not forget."

"Obviously I was the murderer, but Hei protected me at a critical moment, although after that the other part of me was still playing despair according to the rules of the game, but at that time I already liked Hei, and the words that came out in front of me in despair were so handsome."

Alyssa just like that, hugged Black's arm as a matter of course.

"What are you doing!?" Mei exclaimed.

"It looks like it's really a harem +1." Toko covered her mouth and smiled.

On the other side, Xiaoxian ran to Meloyeta's side.

"Great, you're okay!" Knowing that the previous game of death was only carried out in a dream, the fairy ran to Meloetta's side with tears in her eyes.

"I'm worried about you, Senpai Fairy."

"It's not just worrying, I really thought you were killed, it's good that everything was a dream."

Two elves in human form hugged each other tightly.

"Then again, there's something that people care about."

"What's wrong, Senpai?"

"That," the fairy pouted, revealing a somewhat complicated expression. "When you were killed, did it hurt?"

"Killed? Speaking of which, what was it like when I was killed? ”

"Eh, don't you know?" Xiaoxian showed a stunned expression.

"Well, at that time I just saw a room with the door and window open, and it was a little cold to blow in the cool breeze along the window, and I wanted to close the window, and then I came to this place when I came to my senses."

"Then, I saw the master, who brought out a lot of snacks to me without saying anything, and after asking for a long time, I realized that we were all in a dream, and I was dead in your eyes."

"Oh?" Xiao Chun suddenly showed a surprised expression. "So I got here because I was killed?"

"People like you won't think you're dead even if you really die one day." Hikari stepped on Chun's foot with an angry smile.

"For the sake of my neighbors when I was a child, I was worried about you anyway, so return my worries!"

……

"Here's—"

Mei Yi opened her eyes, the castlevania where she and her companions were just now had disappeared, and the ceiling in front of her was somewhat familiar.

She sat up groggily and saw the delicate wooden door in front of her, and beside the bed was a set of tables and chairs against the window, and sparse snowflakes fluttered outside the window.

And when she saw this, she suddenly opened her eyes as if she had thought of something.

"W-yes!?"

It's exactly the same as the castle, the snowflakes outside, the scenery.

Is he actually still trapped in the castle, and what is the truth that Elisa, the queen who defeated Selyus, learned in that scene like Castlevania?

She stood up uneasily, her coat didn't seem to be off, she put on her shoes and staggered open the door.

And as soon as she opened the door, she happened to bump into a familiar person.

"Black!? Wait, are you really black? ”

"What a strange question, after all, I won't split into two in reality, haven't I woken up yet?"

"Huh? In other words, this is the reality? ”

"That's it, even if it's sleeping, you can't sleep on the beach all night. With some magic, it won't be hard to move you here. ”

Hearing Black's explanation, Mei finally calmed down.

"I see, here's reality, well, here's reality." Mei retreated into the room and walked to the window.

"Because it's too similar to a dream, I don't have a real sense of it, and I wonder if the ending of the previous reunion is my dream."

"It's no wonder that the others woke up with surprised expressions." Hei smiled bitterly.

"You probably should also know that this dream was created by Darkrai, who is the embodiment of Alyssa, and it is definitely not an ordinary dream."

"The unusual thing is that what you have seen before, Xiao Chun, Sirona, each of them is indeed on this island, and everyone's dreams are connected. And this castle, as well as the story of Sellius, is not a dream fiction, but a real one. ”

"Although the person who dies in the dream does not actually die, perhaps it is because of this that it is despairing. Mei Yi, you remember what Alyssa said before. ”

Mei nodded quietly.

"Because Alyssa plays the role of the manager of the castle, a maid, who is not familiar with everyone and understands the structure of the castle, everyone will execute her as the first murderer, and when someone continues to die, they will become suspicious of each other, because they have already killed one by mistake, so they will no longer scruple to kill each other."

"That's right," Black nodded. "It's okay if no one else knows about the manslaughter here, and humans will selectively forget about hurting themselves in order to survive. So, if the killing game were real, the survivors would have to go on with their lives as if they had never killed anyone. ”

"Killing people in dreams, though, isn't really killing. Because it is a killing game, he thinks that killing the other person will end everything, thinking that as long as he kills all the others, he can get out alive, but when he wakes up from the dream, he will see that the person he killed is still alive next to him, and he still remembers the scene when he waved the knife at him. ”

In this way, the ugliness and selfishness of a person's human nature are completely exposed to those close to him, and the more carefree the trainer in life, the more he will expose his ugly side in this game. And it is not surprising that these people who originally valued their friends will go insane because of a nightmare that makes their friends leave them and expose their ugliness. ”

"Alyssa doesn't use this method for solo visitors, but just ordinary nightmares. Before, Chun said that he was defeated by Darkrai's nightmare, and it was not this kind of game. ”

"Actually, if we investigate a little more, we will know that all the people who have gone insane because of nightmares do not come to this island alone, and Alyssa only plays this game when facing hordes of tourists."

"Of course, even those who are insane will never say what kind of dreams they see, and you should understand why."

Mei Yi nodded, indeed, if she killed her companion in that dream, she would never be able to say it.

However, if it weren't for Kuro's guidance, maybe Fujiwa Hikaru would really kill Alyssa, and then lead to a cannibalistic ending.

And at that time, Mei Yi herself-

"If it weren't for the dark, what would this dream be like, I feel nervous when I think about it."

"Fuji and Hikaru will kill Elisa, he will find out that the real murderer is still committing crimes, so he will kill the suspicious second or third person, maybe you are one of the suspicious people, so you will have to find a way to deal with him, and-"

"Enough!" Mei Yi pouted and reproached. "You say such a cruel thing so easily!?"

"I'm sorry, I mean, even if it happens like that, you don't have to blame yourself, there is a good side to human nature, and there is also an ugly side to survive, as a demon king, I know it all too well."

"Even if you are such a cute girl, it is impossible not to have an ugly side, and thinking that you have no ugly side is a manifestation of being too arrogant."

"Whether it's a man or a woman, beautiful or ugly, they all look the same when they dig out their heads—"

"Can you do without that bloody metaphor!?" (To be continued.) )