I Became a Foreigner Loved by Transcendentalists

12 – Episode 12. Why am I not a warrior?

“…… Ah.”

Yes, that exclamation was the only thing that barely broke the silence.

The building.

The huge building disappeared without a trace, leaving behind only its roots, as if it had never existed in the first place.

“aaahhh!”

And a scream erupts from between them.

I realized it later when I came to my senses.

Only one person outside the scope of the unknown phenomenon she caused, a person who had just come up from her basement, barely survived.

“What, what! What on earth happened! Where are all the other guys… …. “Wow!”

But before he fully grasped the situation, she suddenly narrowed the distance and began to create a composition looking down at him.

“Four, people.”

Survivor.

I faced the only survivor of a criminal organization that had completely disappeared, and smiled in front of him.

“hehehe, that’s right. “First of all, I need someone to ask.”

“Well, what are you? Come closer…. Uh?”

Blood bursting out from the struggling hand.

When he saw the empty seat, his eyes trembled, and a dazed breathing sound escaped his mouth.

“My, where are my hands, where are they?”

Even though his hand was gone, he didn’t seem to feel any pain.

Just staring at that empty space with a stupid face.

“Hey, that’s it.”

But she doesn’t give herself any leeway.

Even now, it seems like I can’t control my emotions, I’m just breathing heavily and pointing my fingers somewhere else.

“You took my research, right? “Where is my research?”

“Well, what…” …. “Ahh!”

“My research, my research… ….”

Every time the word research is uttered, a limb disappears.

Then the sides and shoulders…

“Where is my research?”

Finally, the moment when that finger was pointed at his head.

“aaah! Okay, stop! Stop!! Huh, I wonder if it was stolen, it’s in the basement, it’s in the basement, so stop now!”

In the end, the survivor screams with only his chest and head remaining.

No, is it okay to say that he is alive now?

Only his mouth is pierced, and he will soon be no different from the corpses in that puddle.

“Hmm, it’s underground?”

She looked down at the man with such a pitiful appearance, and withdrew her attention on the spot with a wry smile on her lips.

“Then if you go there, you’re useless now, right?”

“What, what?”

-Pukwaak!

A head that disappears as soon as you snap your fingers.

After the remaining body finally collapsed, there was only silence in the place.

That was the end.

Blood River’s headquarters and all its members…….

As its name suggests, it did not even become a river of blood, and its traces were completely erased from this world.

“… Right.”

She was the only one left in the empty scene.

“Woo Hyo-seong, right? “The housekeeper’s name.”

My name was spoken out of his mouth, but I didn’t feel any realism in it.

At this moment, my heart is racing and I can clearly feel the rain falling from the sky, soaking my body.

“I’m sorry. I’m not good at remembering people’s names……. “The kids here all looked like bugs.”

Insects… ….

Compared to the woman in front of me, I was just a bug.

There is one difference between me and the corpses that have not yet stopped writhing.

It’s just a matter of whether I will be remembered by her or not.

“hehehe, hehehe. It’s strange. The housekeeper’s name is so memorable…….”

There is only one difference.

The idea of deciding between life and death in this tragedy that was committed so casually seemed so unrealistic to me.

“Yes. “Now that it’s all over, let’s take what we can find and go back.”

I can’t even accept the words of returning…….

Okay, going back, do I even have a place like that in the first place?

With so many people stronger than me and countless others dying for unknown reasons, can I really survive here alone?

“Why are you shaking so much?”

Something indescribable.

I soon became aware of the fact that what could probably be defined as the emotion of fear was controlling me, through a voice in my ear.

It wasn’t long after that that I came to my senses.

“Yes, yes?”

“Your body is shaking.”

“Oh, that’s it. That… ….”

To the area where the finger is pointed.

I grasp that hand with the other hand and realize that my hand remains.

Yes, it hasn’t disappeared yet. Not yet.

But it may be soon.

If I go against her will.

“Well, it was a bit cold… …. Ha ha ha. “Because it’s raining.”

So, I tried to maintain my composure and act the same way as before.

Because you have to do that in order to survive.

If I, a mere human, were to survive in the face of a woman who causes a phenomenon that even those called dragons might not be able to do, I would have no choice but to please her.

“Well, that is. Well, I guess I should go back first. Yes. Cooling off while drinking hot tea…….”

“Am I scary?”

She whispered her words to me in a low voice.

As if uncovering my true feelings that I was barely trying to hide.

“Because I don’t understand.”

With her eyes wide open and a faint smile on her lips,

I tell her what she feels for her at this moment, putting it all into her mouth.

“I’m scared because I don’t understand. Yes?”

-Patter.

Rain pouring down hard.

Even though her mouth could have opened due to the coldness and pain, her stiff lips showed no sign of opening.

Because I couldn’t understand what she said.

You can erase a person’s head just by pointing your finger, and you can blow up an entire area just by snapping your finger…….

There is no way it would be possible for me, a mere human being, to understand her, who causes absurd phenomena that cannot even be called her magic.

“Mr. Housekeeper. “Do you know she’s a witch?”

She immediately began to introduce herself to me, who was trembling and silent.

“Witches are a race of people who did very bad things in the past.”

This is a story I don’t know.

What are witches and what do they do?

“So, a long time ago, they all captured and killed them all, and the people of the Magic Tower said that I was the only one who inherited their blood.”

But I have just now understood the danger they pose.

Perhaps they are more of a threat to humanity than demons or vampires, so there was no choice but to seize the opportunity and eliminate them all…….

“I guess that’s okay. I just want to see my mom again…… , So you’re lending your power to them, but there’s always interference coming from somewhere, right?”

Rurg, rumble.

The moment when the blood flowing from corpses that have finally stopped writhing is washed away by rainwater and the traces are fading.

Still, the remaining puddle seemed bothersome, so she pointed her finger at it and voiced out her questions.

“Is that because I’m trying to achieve a goal that shouldn’t be achieved?”

Wow!

Remnants disappearing with the snap of a finger.

In the end, all that was left was an empty lot.

“Or is it just because I am a monster who should not be welcomed?”

That was the end.

Those who touched her disappeared from this world without a trace, resulting in nothing.

“…… “Well, there’s no way the housekeeper will give you an answer.”

She burst out laughing and stretched out her hand in the air.

She moves her fingers as if opening her zipper, and catches with her hands what has fallen between the cracks.

“Here, take it.”

Afterwards, it was a leather pouch that fell down in front of me.

The gold coins inside were equivalent to the profits I had earned over the past two years.

No, it might be more than that…. Even in this failing world, it is an amount that can affect a person’s life.

“I paid more in compensation. “It was the first time the housekeeper had helped me this much.”

But it’s probably a good thing for her.

I don’t feel like it’s a waste, and I don’t feel any expectation of gratitude for having contributed more.

“But, wouldn’t it be impossible to be together now?”

What is depicted on that face is disappointment, regret….

A bitter feeling that comes from the feeling that I, who discovered my true self, will no longer be able to be with myself.

“Yes, what you have done so far is enough, so it would be better to end it like this.”

With those feelings in mind, she turned her back and got ready to leave.

Hello.

It seems like he wants to end his relationship with me, leaving only a farewell that may last forever.

“Now, wait a minute!”

My mouth opened before saying goodbye.

“Wait a minute, please wait. Mr. Vivian.”

Even though I might go against her wishes and blow off her head, I wanted to say something to her.

I couldn’t even pick up the money bag that fell on the floor, nor could I just run away from the spot.

“All, next time.”

I wanted to convey to her the words that she would not be able to convey except now.

What if… To a walking disaster that ordinary humans cannot even dare to understand?

If only I had the chance to meet her again.

“Next time, if I get a chance, can I clean your room again…?”

If the day comes when the opportunity to really stay by her side is given to me, a worthless person.

“… Yes, when I get the chance.”

At my words, Vivian moved her hand in the air without looking back at me.

In a voice that has cooled off from the still falling rain.

“I’ll see you again later when I get a chance.”

He made a promise with no real promise, and at the end of it, he disappeared from my sight and disappeared.

That was the end.

I survived again.

From the scourge called the witch, which is more terrifying than any monster we have ever faced.

“… Disaster?”

Such thoughts filled her head, and then she shook her head, clutching her face in the coldness that came over her.

“No, it’s not a disaster. Just… ….”

Until I found out what he really looked like, he was someone I even wanted to be with.

She even felt joy in the fact that I became the object of her dependence when she needed a place to lean on after that.

Even after she left, I wanted to stop her steps for a moment without even caring about my life.

“He’s just a human being.”

Because she was one of the few people who remembered me and showed her kindness toward me.

The desire to be by the side of such a person remained in a corner of my heart even now that I knew her true face.

“But I am.”

I just felt resentment.

Because I took this moment to realize that I am a helpless human being.

“Why am I… ….”

Just because I was unlucky.

I felt disillusioned with this pitiful situation where I had to feel relieved only by surviving.

“Why am I not a hero?”

A world where you can’t even muster the courage to talk to the girl you like if you don’t have the strength.

Isn’t it really the worst?

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Magic Tower.

A place where all the knowledge achieved by mankind in this world is recorded, and the crystals of research based on it are piled up.

Entering there is the secret wish of all magicians and scholars, and such recognition has extended to the outside world in the current era when humanity is in crisis.

Yes, they are the hope of mankind. So, to have hope, you can do anything.

Those who had such thoughts even had extreme thoughts that anyone who interfered with them should disappear, even if they were the emperor of the empire.

“Ah, ah…… !”

But there was one being that even the leader who led them could not dare to disobey.

This was the woman who entered this magic tower just three minutes ago, destroyed all the defense systems, and erased the heads of all the guards she encountered from the world.

It was literally erased.

It was not cut up or burned to ashes, but isolated from this world forever.

“Lord Tower.”

If she had not been willing to withdraw all her defense forces in advance and stand in front of her directly, her sacrifice would not have been insignificant.

As he realized this while looking at the corpses strewn about in the tower’s plaza, his eyes turned to the woman standing at the center of the moving corpses.

To the woman looking up at herself standing on her stairs, raising her conical hat, as if symbolizing a witch in a fairy tale.

“I heard that the criminal who ordered me to steal my research is here.”

But what comes out of that mouth is by no means kind.

Like a poisoned fruit, the beginning was not even a sweet temptation……. As if to teach us that real-life witches are not as mediocre as those in fairy tales.

“… “Tell me now.”

Vivian Platonis.

He is the bloodline of the only survivor of a witch hunt that took place in the past when humanity was alive and well, and a savior who is considered the ‘last hope’ invited by the Magic Tower in the present when humanity is about to fall.

“If you don’t tell me, I will destroy everything I come across from now on until I find it.”

If her demands are not met, humanity will perish.

By the hands of a living disaster called a witch.

Or, by blocking the salvation that was to be achieved through her hands, with humanity’s own hands.