Volume 1 Chapter 32: Out of Control
The girl ran in a hurry for a long time before she realized that someone was calling out to her, and turned her head to face Mr. Zero.
"Ah, yes, it's Mr. Zero, you......" She paused, panting for a long time before she came to her senses.
"Philo, what are you doing here all of a sudden?" Mr. Zero frowned when he approached, "Your house is obviously far away from here, right? I should have said last time, the old man doesn't need to worry about renewing his life for the time being, there will be no accident." You should know that you are not suitable for casual ...... Wait, what's wrong with the old man?" he turned and ran back into the house.
The girl was still gasping, "No, it's not like that......"
"Then why are you ......?"
"I'm sorry, but ......" she bowed her head in apology, but then covered her head in some pain.
Immediately, a black, distorted shadow appeared out of the air beside her, but escaped in an instant.
"Hell, what did you just create again!"
Although Mr. Zero said this, he did not dare to come near the girl again, for fear that if she was slightly stimulated, something terrible would be born from her thoughts.
"I ...... I don't know...... I think my mind is so messy......" the girl said timidly, "it just felt very uncomfortable at first...... It may even be inexplicable palpitations. ”
She said in a hurry, while Mr. Zero was thinking about what went wrong—
But there's really nothing to think about. Because her anomalous abilities are so powerful that they are beyond the scope of normal reasoning and disposal.
"But, just today...... Today, I had a nightmare......"
Mr. Zero didn't speak, and neither did the Machine Pope, who had witnessed the strange birth scene before.
They don't say anything like "a kid has a nightmare and gets scared."
A child with this kind of power, even if it is really just a simple nightmare, should not be taken lightly, and who knows how many terrifying things will pop out of a nightmare?
"I dreamed of myself...... No, it's a girl like me...... She was having a good time playing with the others...... But all of a sudden, all of a sudden, everything was destroyed...... It's all ruined......"
"What do you mean it's all destroyed?" asked Mr. Zero, frowning.
"I ...... I do not know...... I only remember destruction...... There's nothing left, destruction ......" she hugged her head again.
Mr. Zero stretched out his cane and pointed it at her side, and a pitch-black figure appeared, but it disappeared before it could be formed under the piercing of the tip of the staff.
“”
"Calm down...... Calm down, kid. Trying to empty your mind is the most appropriate state for you...... But I still have to ask, is there anything else you can give?"
"No...... I can't remember anything...... I don't know what that was going on at all...... I just feel so scared...... Grandpa said let me come to find you, Mr. Change, and I came running......" She sobbed and wiped away her tears with the back of her hand, "It's terrible, it's terrible...... It's like I've become a monster and I'm going to kill myself. But it's not like that......"
To tell the truth, Mr. Zero didn't fully understand what the other party was saying. It was enough for him to anticipate some kind of terrible loss of control in the girl's body.
However, the information he had now was not even enough for him to decide whether to kill the girl in front of him or protect her.
"It's always better to calm her down first...... Mr. Zero thought about a way to soothe the girl, but soon, a piercing scream that pierced his soul began to echo in his heart.
"That's—" He saw the nameless, formless, indescribable anomaly the girl create fly back this way.
Then he saw the familiar howls.
"Here...... Is it the same place I came across before, the 'screaming echoes of the god of hatred' in the mouth of God? wonder why they stay here...... No, they may be hyperspace beings, and there is no such thing as leaving?"
But the question is, how did the monster that the little girl inadvertently created introduce that even more strange thing into the world?
With this in mind, Mr. Zero quickly covered the girl's eyes and shouted at the Machine Pope, "Don't look at them!
"Which ...... are you talking about?" but in the vision of the cyborg, who failed to react, an invisible scream was already approaching.
They were silent—yes, they were silent in their own right—and they swept over the body of the new anomaly, and then the anomaly vanished completely, but it was unknown whether it was shattered or devoured.
Immediately, they surrounded the mech, which was still in a daze.
Then the world was covered in red.
The howls changed shape, gathering and wriggling and twisting into clumps of flesh.
The flesh and blood continue to grow in value, until it rises to the heavens until it will engulf the whole world like the flood of destruction in the holy scriptures.
"Flesh and blood...... God of Flesh and Blood...... The incarnation of God came into the world. The Mechanical Pope muttered, "This, how is this possible......" He stretched out his arms in vain to the blood-red sky, trying to call on the traces of the gods he believed in.
But there was no response under the wrap of flesh and blood.
"Don't be stupid, do you really think that the true god will come down in this kind of tattered world?" Mr. Zero said helplessly when he saw the scene as if the world was dying again, and let go of the hand covering the girl's eyes.
"It's better to say that it is normal for them to even look at this small world for a moment. ”
For some reason, Mr. Zero remembered the unnamed god who had summoned him.
"It's just those screams just now...... They become the most hated in your heart, that's all. ”
In fact, Mr. Zero himself doesn't know whether it is better to call the other person "them" or "he".
"'Those are the shrill echoes of hated gods,' a great man once told me. They exercise the law of hatred...... But it's just a few echoes, not even the Voice of God itself, they don't have a clear purpose.
But the hatred in your heart has drawn them to...... But it makes it difficult for the so-called 'gods' of this world to fight. Even if it was just the slightest echo of the true god's unintentional voice...... "Mr. Zero saw that there seemed to be a light in the direction of the Great Holy Hall, barely resisting the "torrent of flesh and blood" falling from the sky, but it was obvious that there was a decisive gap in the strength of the two in terms of "quality".
"What to do...... Is it going to be early...... But...... It's terrible, why does this thing come out of nowhere......" Mr. Zero was also bothered by this.
"Although、I don't know what's going on, but、But since you ran out, would it be nice to lock it up again?" the girl listened to Mr. Zero in a daze, and didn't understand much, but said subconsciously.
So, of course, I thought so in my heart.
All wishes come true.
Then Mr. Zero saw that the girl's whole body was shining brightly.
Not really light...... It's a light from an anomalous perspective.
"No, no, you're-" Mr. Zero shouted to stop, but it was too late.
Above the terrified mortals, the scarlet sky stood still.
A layer of gray covered the scarlet and obscured the sky.
Immediately, the gray curtain was concave and curled from the outside to the inside, wrapping the flesh and blood like a cloth bag.
As the gray shrank, the scarlet struggled and twisted, but eventually shrunk into a ball, eventually becoming the size of a real package, and falling back into the clearing in front of the three of them.
"......" robots are emotionless. At least the emotional fluctuations are very weak, and they will always be more rational.
But in fact, by this time, the Pope of Machines had already understood that the expression on his face must be like that of an idiot.
But he couldn't retract his shocked look anyway.
"This ...... This is...... What kind of power is this...... God......" After a few seconds of incoherent speech, he bowed his head and prayed.
"......" Mr. Zero was speechless for a while.
Even knowing that her strength is strong...... Even if you know that it is a forbidden power......
But in the countless times I killed her before, I hadn't seen such a terrible situation......
An even more terrifying thought came to his mind: "Has this girl's strength been getting stronger and stronger with age?"
It has to be killed. She had to be killed. One of her unintentional thoughts could cause the world to fall apart and reset again. The previous idea was completely false, and it was simply delusion to make such a terrible force harmless all the time, how could I be so careless before?
The wrapped flesh was finally squeezed back into its original formlessness, but it was still wrapped.
The gray that envelops the calamity is actually a layer of gray translucent body like mist and clouds.
However, a face that was even more vicious than the previous flesh appeared above the gray, rushing in the direction of the others, swelling as if they were going to eat the others into their stomachs as well.
“...... No, no. Be nice, be a dog, be quiet. The girl called out like a puppy before the others could react.
"Or I'm going to make something even more terrible to eat you?" the girl muttered almost unconsciously, but then the three of them, including herself, were startled by the words.
After confronting the girl in silence for a long time, ......the surface of the gray mist ball changed into a well-behaved expression, and quietly squatted on the girl's lap.
But all three of them could see through the translucent gray mist, and on the inner surface of the sphere, a correspondingly more irritable face emerged, frantically biting at the invisible echo trapped in it, as if to vent their anger.
But they didn't see it. The girl even slapped the top of the Grey Mist Ball.
"I'm so tired...... I, I can't hold it anymore......" After doing all this, the girl's exhaustion could no longer resist, "and her whole body was going to fall apart...... I, I'm not going to die......" she muttered.
"No...... Probably because the force load was too large and caused a little damage to the body......" Mr. Zero inexplicably skillfully pressed the girl's body, so he judged.
The upper and lower eyelids of the girl who was fighting could not continue to support either.
"I'm sleepy...... No, no, I'm going to dream about her again, no, I'm going to have nightmares again......" She fell asleep with a look of fear.
"I don't want to destroy...... Philo is a good boy...... Grandpa and Mr. Zero obviously wanted me to be a good boy...... I'm not going to do that...... Nasty power, I don't want any inexplicable abilities at all......" After falling into a deep sleep, the girl didn't look so "tired", and kept trembling and saying vague dream words.
It looks like it's struggling with a nightmare again.
“...... Either she split into two personalities, or she created a person who was exactly like her...... Oh, that's enough, I wish the other person was a little weaker......" The Mechanical Pope speculated after a slight pause.
After all, he is the leader of a sect, and he is quick to adjust his mentality.
"But...... It sounds like the character of the other being is quite bad......" This time, even Mr. Zero couldn't help but sigh slightly.
"Mr. Pope, please look after her here, I have to find a way to deal with another personality or another person. Mr. Zero said without any delay.
“...... Why am I looking at her? No, why am I again?"
"Or do you think you'll be able to get away with the destruction of this world?" Mr. Zero looked at the Pope of Mechanica with an almost down-looking gaze.
“...... Listen to you. ”