I Can’t Run Away From the Girl Who Saved Me

60 – Burning Machine (4)

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Alice rode her horse for five days.

The address Eric found was a shabby port town located quite far away.

According to Eric, the village, which has less than twenty people and only a few households of sailors and their families without the energy or ability to settle down in a new home, is close to a slum by the sea.

In other words, unless Balder’s staff was hiding, the entire village might be one gang.

But it didn’t matter.

Balder Chewtaff is a villain, and anyone who helps a villain will be executed.

In preparation for the long run, she chose a strong pack horse rather than a fast horse, and took minimal rest. Even though her horse rested while running, Alice could not fall asleep even for a single moment.

She could not go to sleep because her breasts were constantly burning.

Eric suggested that she go after doing a little more research, and Alice agreed, but unfortunately, her situation did not allow her some time.

She demanded that Goddess Gyo take responsibility at the border, where Alice’s troops were depleted due to her corrupt nobles being captured at random.

The Pope, who was under a lot of pressure, after much deliberation, sent Alice to her border.

As she had to break the rule of the Goddess religion of not being directly involved in conflicts between nations, it was a decision preceded by numerous meetings, so neither refusal nor reversal was allowed.

In ten days, Alice had to go to the border.

The opposing country at war was also a country under the influence of the Goddess religion.

Since the Holy Virgin of the Goddess Church could not allow herself to murder her members, her role as Alice would be mainly to mediate conflicts and heal her soldiers with her constantly rising divine power. In fact, Alice didn’t care at all.

She had no interest in the troublesome politics anyway, and had no patriotism or religious beliefs. For her, if she was an aristocrat or a villain in the country next door, she would kill all of her children and even her third generation. It didn’t matter if I threw it away.

It was her hot breasts that spurted out her divine power, her well-built body.

Moreover, what was really important to her now was something else.

She misses her if she doesn’t go now.

That was the only thought that existed in Alice’s head.

A shabby port town.

She has to go to the border in ten days, but she has already used up five days.

As she had come so far back, it was barely possible for her to get a boat and head to the border.

Therefore, she had no time to hesitate any longer.

Alice didn’t even have time to keep her horse, so after releasing her horse into the forest near the entrance to her village, she started running.

Because it was the middle of the night, there was no sign of human presence on the street where frayed nets and trash clumped in the nets were lying around.

Alice smiled twisted in the stench as she stopped in front of a shabby brick house.

The smell of rotten fish stinging my nose vibrated as the wind blew along with the sound of waves crashing in the distance.

“It was hiding in a really nice place. Balder.”

Alice smiled crookedly and roughly pulled open the wooden door.

Her worn-out hinges snapped and the door fell off.

“Just wait… Maria.”

Alice took her steps, calling out the name of her old friend who was so precious to her life.

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The inside of the mansion was an ordinary ruin.

This was a slum with many empty houses, so it would have been a suitable place to hide.

Alice walked around the mansion, but she couldn’t find anything special.

She was getting used to it, but still feeling the strong stench pierce her brain like an awl, Alice searched her mansion once again.

And finally, she was able to find a small door on the floor inside the kitchen.

It was clear that it led to the basement.

“…”

I heard a rumor.

A faint moaning sound was heard from inside the bottom door.

There are people in here.

Is it Balder himself, his minions, the hostages, or is he preparing to attack him?

I wasn’t sure about anything, but it didn’t matter.

As the sound of horses’ hooves echoed through this quiet rural village, Balder Staff must have already guessed that someone was following him.

Stealth, stealth. There is no need for all that.

I’m not good at that kind of thing, and I didn’t want to spend time on it in the first place.

“I don’t know what kind of trick you’re planning, but I’ll crush you all from the front.”

A blazing white flame flickered inside Alice’s breastplate.

Bright light poured out through the gaps in the armor on her neck and shoulders.

Soon, a white translucent sphere emerged from the light and swelled as if swallowing her mansion.

The sphere instantly surrounded and covered the entire mansion.

A sacred barrier that burns all unclean people the moment they touch it, preventing them from going out or coming in.

Alice stomped on the door, breaking it down with her foot, sending her body flying downwards.

It was because he thought that someone might be waiting right under the door and attack him.

The ladder installed under the door crumbled under Alice’s feet.

Boom!

The bottom of the door was deep enough for two people to be slightly taller, but this height was not a problem for Alice.

Fortunately, there was no one waiting to attack Alice.

As soon as she landed, Alice kicked the ground and ran forward as if bouncing off her.

In front was a long hallway.

With each step, the moans got closer and closer.

When I turned the corner towards the direction where I saw a faint light, there I was.

“Please… help me.”

“Kill me…”

“Please… stop…”

Hell was unfolding.

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It was a fairly large space for a basement in a mansion.

No matter how small the mansion was, Alice was a little embarrassed because the basement seemed to be slightly larger than the square footage of the mansion.

There were numerous restraints attached to the walls on both sides, and people were bound and writhing in all of them.

Middle-aged men, middle-aged women, the elderly, and the occasional child.

When she arrived in this village, she didn’t feel like she was popular, and it seemed like it was simply because it was late at night.

These people, who were probably residents of this slum, all had terrible appearances.

All of the skin on the body except for the belly skin had been peeled off, leaving only red flesh, and the writhing arms and legs were all twisted, and the floor of the basement was slightly sloped, so the dripping blood was collecting in a large groove in the middle of the room. .

The groove looked like a huge magic circle.

As blood filled the groove, an ominous red light rose like a haze from the magic circle.

“Oh, no. Now please… please, stop…”

“Ahh, please, just as much as my child!”

As the magic circle began to glow, the arms and legs of the people hanging on the wall slowly twisted and blood began to pour out again.

While terrible screams and moans were filling the room, the sharp screams of a boy who had not even transformed were cut through the moans that filled the room.

The girl next to him must have already died, and she didn’t make the slightest movement while her arms and legs rotated.

When the light disappeared from the magic circle, everyone’s twisted limbs stopped again.

Unfortunately, those who had not yet died let out miserable sighs and tears, mumbling and reciting prayers that could not even be spoken.

“…f*ck,”

Alice had seen this magic circle before.

Although the method of torture is different, this is definitely how Maria’s parents died.

“You damn heathen bastards.”

Alice stared straight ahead at her.

Someone was standing there.

Although her entire body is covered with a black robe, Alice knows no one else about this evil heretic.

My heart was pounding.

My whole body feels hot.

No, her anger first heated up as if it would burn her entire body.

“Balder Staff!”

Alice pulled out a sword from her waist and lunged at her at once.

The man was startled when he saw Alice approaching, but it was already too late to avoid her.

Alice’s sword pierced the man’s robe in one go and pierced her abdomen.

It was a blow that partially avoided a critical point.

Alice grinned, twisting her sword.

I will never, ever give you an easy death.

With such determination, Alice said as she removed the hood that covered the man’s head.

“If you like this kind of atmosphere, there is a place I know well, a custom-made pig pen that I made just for you…”

“uuu!”

“… Who are you?”

This man is not Balder’s staff.

Alice looked at the man’s face in confusion.

The man was wincing and tears streaming down his newly red face.

Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the man’s mouth was tied with thread made of magical power, and there were traces of his vocal cords being cut out on his neck.

The limbs that were slightly visible below the neck and inside the long sleeves also showed signs of being sewn with magical power so that they could not move.

Alice tore off the man’s robe with her hands.

Underneath the robe, he was naked, not wearing a single thread, and his entire body was sewn as if it had been sewn.

On the man’s chest were letters written by cutting out the skin with a large knife.

A gift for Lady Alice

“Trap…”

The moment I felt ominous and tried to step back,

“Kaaagh!”

Terrible screams erupted from all directions.

It was a sharp, blood-curdling scream that was on a completely different level from before, which was closer to a dying moan.

Dozens of pitch-black chains pierced through the skins of the residents hanging on the wall and were wrapped around Alice’s arms.

“Oh no! sh*t!”

The chains wrapped around her arms pulled her body down.

Alice, whose freedom was taken from her body in an instant, was pulled up and hung in the air just above the magic circle located in the middle of her room.

All of the residents in her peripheral vision were dying horribly, and the chains protruding from their stomachs were becoming more and more tightly wound as if they were digging into Alice’s flesh.

It seemed as if their resentment and suffering, as they faced a painful death with their limbs slowly twisted while hanging, were embodied in magic.

It was then.

“It’s been a while. “Miss Alice.”

Someone slowly walked out from behind the man who was writhing with blood dripping from Alice’s naked body with Alice’s sword stuck in it.

It was clearly a wall with nothing in it,

It was difficult to be sure whether he had walked out of the wall, or had been hiding in the dark until now and had only now appeared.

The man with the same hair color as Marie walked over to the man lying on the floor and said.

“You may not remember because you were too young at the time, but I went to Goldfield Estate once to see my nephew who was born to you, and I saw you there.”

“…Balder!”

“Well, you grew up well.”

Balder Staff.

The criminal who killed Maria’s parents.

An evil heretic who follows a demon god.

The reason Ash and Lila went missing in that terrible forest!

“Balder!”

“You have such good energy. “I really envy that youth.”

“This bastard!”

“Ah. “Is it because of the heart, not the youth?”

Balder said that with a smile.

Alice wasn’t surprised that he knew about the mechanical heart she had received.

It was surprising, but I didn’t have time to worry about it now.

“Don’t run away! I will kill you! Certainly!”

“Oh, you’re so scared.”

Balder flinched and flinched, as if in an exaggerated play.

Alice felt a bundle of nerves snap near her temple.

That bastard.

Hey, you f*cking idiot, you’re laughing even though you know what you did?

You?

How dare you?

“Hey you bastard!”

Balder laughed awkwardly and scratched his head at Alice’s curse.

“No, really. I didn’t expect this. Why did you kill your brother and sister-in-law? Why did you kill the people of this village? “I thought you were going to ask something like that, so I worked hard to prepare an answer, but you just gave me two swear words, so I’m quite embarrassed.”

“f*ck it, it’s none of my business why you idiot did that. I came to kill you! “I came to catch you and make my mother and Maria’s parents suffer again!”

Balder said as he sat down on the man who had fallen on the floor.

The man wriggled, letting out a painful moan through his twisted, pierced lips.

“Oh my, did I do that? “I hate it so much.”

“You f*cking bastard!”

“Now, now, don’t be like that, just listen. “Holy Virgin Alice.”

When Alice huffed, Balder smiled and continued.

“This is a world that will soon be destroyed anyway. “We’re all going to die by then, so what’s so big about dying a little earlier? Why are you so angry?”

“…!”

After Alice heard those words, she looked at her Balder in surprise.

The destruction of mankind.

It was a fact that he had only recently heard from the Pope.

The Pope also learned this fact because the Goddess gave him a direct revelation.

But, why on earth does this person know that?

And what does this have to do with destruction and the mischief committed by Balder’s staff?

Anger writhed under Alice’s arms as she was captured.

“What does that matter?”

“Huh, don’t ask me what I’m talking about or ask how I knew. Do you know this? Isn’t it true? “It seems like you’re so obsessed with revenge that nothing else matters?”

“…”

Let’s wait just a little while.

You just need to buy a little time.

“You f*cking bastard, if you perish like you said, everyone will die, so why the f*ck did you do something like that?”

“f*ck you, you can say it without swearing.”

“Answer me, you f*cking bastard!”

“Ugh. That’s because I don’t want to die. “What other meaning is there for someone like me who earns a day and lives on a daily basis?”

“Do you even know how to avoid destruction?”

“… What, didn’t you know? “Would you like me to tell you?”

“…”

When Alice finished her mouth, Balder chuckled and said.

“Then we need to get a new ruler.”

It’s almost done.

Just a little more, just a little more.

The sacred power that had been slowly accumulating began to flow under the chains wrapped around Alice’s arms.

It didn’t matter what he said.

I had no interest in whether it was destruction or anything else.

Balder, you die by my hand before the world is destroyed.

You will be crawling on the floor with your severed limbs and miserably praying for your life with your cut out tongue.

Wait.

Alice suppressed her anger as much as possible and glared at Balder, who was chatting happily.

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