Side Story 11
“……..what?”
Alice's expression, which had been aloof all along, cracked for the first time.
It was just a slight crack, but it was a clear achievement. I encouraged myself. Good job. Just do it like this. I can do this.
I didn't take my eyes off Alice. I never paid any attention to the cabinet and gradually narrowed the gap with Alice.
“You want me to be fooled, so I can make myself be fooled. You didn't know? I was just trying so hard to hang out with you. I feel sorry for you. You even planned a low-level skit that didn't fool yourself. Don't you think so?
I tried my best to provoke Alice. Don't let Alice care about anything but me.
And make Alice mad enough to want to slap me with her hand, not by magic.
“You…….”
“Honestly, I thought you were trying to be funny at first. But it's getting more and more spectacular. Especially then. I see yourself covered in the tea, pretending to be a saint…….”
A little more. A little bit more.
I tilted my head and looked as if I was laughing as hard as I could.
“…….pffft, you might even pretend to die if I don’t get myself fooled.”
“This!”
Alice reached fiercely and grabbed my hair.
And at the same time, I quickly grabbed a candlestick over the cabinet and slapped Alice on her head with it.
Puck!
There was a bloody sound.
Normally, I would have been worried that I might have killed a person.
But now it sounded more cheerful to me than the fanfare of angels from heaven.
“Eugh!”
Alice groaned and stumbled over my hair.
I swung the candlestick one more time.
Puck!!
There's nothing I can't do because I’m in crisis right now. I aimed exactly at Alice's temple.
I had no experience beating people like this, but it was an amazing accuracy.
‘Critical Hit.'
Long live to the God who protect our country
Long live the candlestick.
“Eugh, ugh.”
Usually, in movies and novels, they collapse by this time.
Alice kept standing, even though she was reeling. I was going crazy. She’s not even a kind of zombie.
I clenched my teeth, lifted the candlestick high, and hit it with all my might.
Puck!!!
Oh, it's real this time. Really, whatever it is, it's definitely broken.
Sure enough, Alice's body, the biggest reeling ever, soon collapsed to the floor.
Perhaps because I was so nervous, I was exhausted by just wielding the candlestick three times. I gasped and looked at Alice, who was falling and not moving.
‘Do I did it?'
I thought this, but I didn't say it out loud. I've learned that it's a spell to resurrect dead enemies.
I grabbed the candlestick with my trembling hands and turned around. I ran to the door and pulled the handle.
“….…!”
What is it?
It's not opening. Why? Why isn't it opening?
Why…….
Then I heard a voice that made me want to cover my ears behind me.
“What do you think?”
“………”
“Is this what you're talking about?”
I left the doorknob and turned very slowly.
My heart beat like crazy.
When did she stand up, Alice stood in her seat and stared at me.
“I was struggling to pretend to be deceived by your clumsy play, and I pretended to be knocked down by the same candlestick you wield.”
“….….”
“We're the same now, right? Don't you think so?
It was also hard to blink. I got goosebumps on my back.
“Get rid of that now. It's heavy.”
“Ah!”
Clang!!!
The candlestick that escaped from my grasp was stuck in the cabinet with a loud noise.
I watched the scene without breathing properly.
I felt like my throat was clogged. It was almost three times more embarrassing than when Alice first came into this room.
I managed to squeeze my throat and put the fundamental question in my mouth that I should have asked earlier.
“What are you?”
“……”
“What are you, you? What are you? You're not a human, right?”
My lips trembled as I talked. The same goes for the hands that lost the candlestick and became empty.
“What is your identity?”
I've never thought she wouldn't be a human being, from the moment I was rolling on the floor with Alice's power and stuck in this room.
I thought she was just a wizard. A wizard who loses a little bit of her mind but is skilful enough to use magic without even raising her hand.
But not now. She’s not just a mere wizard.
If she is a wizard, there’s no explanation about how her face is still fine even though she was hit hard enough to break the skull.
My heart was pounding as if it were going to pop out.
Alice then said.
“You’re asking a typical question. Well, it's too late.”
“…….”
“Do you want an answer? You're right. I’m not a human. Then what am I?”
“…….”
“I won't tell you that.”
Alice smiled beautifully. That looks even scarier than when she’s expressionless.
I backed away even though I knew there was no place to back down. The wall touched my back soon.
‘Damn it.’
The curse popped out by itself.
“Are you scared?”
“…….”
“Ah, you’re scared. You pretended to be calm, but you must have been pretty scared from a little while ago. Your hands are shaking.”
“…….”
“Why did you do that? This wouldn't have happened if you hadn't slowly avoided me as if you had noticed something. If you knew it was acting, why didn't you just fool me all along?”
“…….”
“Then it would've ended up just losing your man in front of you, crying and losing your mind.”
“What?”
Without realizing it, a sharp sound popped out of my mouth.
Alice laughed out loud.
“Look at you. Is it more important, about losing your man than the fear of death? Well, that's why I chose you.”
“You want to kill me? Yeah, do it. It'll be really easy just to raise your hand there. But you'll never be able to take Ash away from me.”
This was not an attempt to provoke Alice, but a sincere statement.
I looked Alice in the eye and said.
“Men in the social world? Take it all away, seduce the Emperor, bewitch the Crown Prince, and just devour the whole country. But there won't be Ash among them.”
“………”
“Take my man away? Don't be ridiculous. You'll never do it.”
“I'm amazed by your faith.”
“If you're wondering if it's true or not, make a bet with me.”
I calmed down the beating heart after throwing those words.
It was emotional at first, but as I kept talking, my fear calmed down a little and my head completely calmed down.
‘Please take it.’
Tell me you'll do it. Let me out of here first.
I exchanged my eyes nervously with Alice. Alice stared at me and burst out laughing again.
“Are you rolling your head again? It's annoying, but I like that part of you.”
‘Damn it.’
Damn it!! Damn it!!! Just freeze me to death!
I rolled all the curses I knew in my mouth. Alice giggled as if she were reading my insides and opened her mouth.
“Do you want to live? Don't worry. I'm not gonna kill you.”
“……”
“You have to live. Live and see you alive. How I do your man with your own body.”
“What?”
My body?
“Oh, although that yours is so ugly that I didn't want to do it. Well, there's nothing I can do about it.”
Saying so, Alice approached me, whose retreat was blocked. I thought I had no choice but to reduce the gap with Alice, and in time, a spark broke out from my forehead.
“Argh!”
I held my forehead and bent down.
Alice hit my forehead with her forehead.
Are you crazy all of a sudden? What are you doing? Along with the pricking pain of tears, a sense of embarrassment that was equal to that was poured in.
“What the……”
I looked up and saw Alice and stopped right away.
I saw something ridiculous.
“…….Me?”
I couldn't believe my eyes. Well, I saw ‘my body’ looked straight at me and laughed.
‘This is what she meant.’.
“You know what? I'm telling you in particular, I can rule him by kissing him.”
“You…….”
I shut my mouth. It's not my voice.
I lowered my gaze. A pure white dress caught my eye.
In contrast to that, the black hair that's floating around the waist.
“………!”
‘My body’ calmly continued to talk to me in shock.
“Of course, the basics are just eye contact. But kissing each other is much more sophisticated and deep brainwashing.”
“Alice!”
“Do you think this would be difficult? Kissing your man with your body.”
Without time to think, I rushed toward ‘my body’, no, I mean Alice.
I don't know the principle, but our body changed by hitting our forehead, so I thought it would work out somehow if I hit it again.
But of course, Alice didn't stay still.
“The more kisses I kiss him, the stronger the brainwashing becomes. It's fun, right? I think you guys' relationship is burning hot. Well, that’s maybe the truth though.”
“Eh…!”
Whatever she did, not only my movements but also my voice was blocked.
Alice looked at ‘her cringe-worthy body’ and said.
“Oh, just in case, you don't need to threaten me with self-harm. It doesn't matter if you throw that body away anyway.”
“………!”
“Then, our cute and annoying baby, let’s watch your man breakdown from that body.”
Alice kissed ‘her cheek’ with ‘my body’. My mind was in a hurry and struggled like crazy, but I couldn't move at all.
“Look forward to it.”
And that was the last voice I heard with someone else's body.
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