For You This World I'll Destroy

Ode to Sorrow (1)

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The night sky greeted me with its beautiful radiance. Among the smashed cars, burnt-out tanks and dozens of peerless snejata, a brown-haired girl stared at the sky in her familiar red robe. His hands clasped a Chrysanthemum flower that froze into a crystal.

“... The only thing I have is such a long time. Something I would willingly like to give to everyone, but can't,” said the girl in the same voice as me. He kept looking up at the sky and as if trying to reach the moon with his left hand.

“When you will choose to protect your loved ones or save this world. You will not regret choosing your heart,” said the girl who clenched her hands,

“... But the moment at the intersection between choosing your loved ones and the right thing. You will not regret choosing love. That idealism prompted me to start this journey,”.

A white light enveloped the girl's body, spread flaming wings of fire and obliterated the entire shadow around her. But having that brilliance, the girl lowered her hand desperately.

“But why does this hand keep hurting my loved ones?” asked the girl who was looking at me with her blood red eyes.

“... Will you also... find the same answer as me?”

I woke up when the cold started to cover my body. My bonfire has been extinguished, leaving behind a lazy coals. Behind the cave where I was sheltering, heavy rain covered the exit.

“... Strange dream again,” muttered me while putting a dry twig on the coals and splashing the fire again with magic. Behind this superadical rain, I need not fear a Malice will attack me because it will die instantly if caught in the storm.

Not wanting my skin to be eroded by the corrosive superadical, I carefully pulled the pot in the mouth of the cave that had been filled with rainwater. Inside the pot was a magicite that now shone brightly after neutralizing the superadical poison in the water. I saw the sky and saw the clouds with terrible purplish flashes. Ugh, it looks like this poisonous rain is not going to subside anytime soon.

Fortunately, I have gathered a basket full of strange flora and fauna in the Underworld to save my supply of rations. Ranging from giant soft-skinned centipedes that wriggle concentrated black broccoli, to flurescent mushrooms with creepy fangs.

“... Looks delicious,” thought I am entertaining myself.

The sound of relaxed footprints echoed in the cave, the lightning of light blinding my eyes as Saber playfully played her flashlight to tease me. Smiling that ugly man who was sitting in front of me and stretched his legs.

“Report, this cave is dead-end again, my boss! It's been two weeks that we've been down to Underworld, hundreds of caves we've explored, but none of them end up to the underground headquarters of White Order,” said Saber who took the ration from his spatial ring, “I'm curious, is it possible that the information we get is just a lie?”

I prevented the man from opening the ration.

“Don't, we don't know how long this mission will last. Therefore, as much as possible we have to save our supply, Saber,” said I who glanced at the ‘elzat’ snack beside me with a shudder of horror, “.. Although must eat local ingredients around here.”

“H-Hiiii, k-k-you want to eat that thing? I-I am ogah,” said Saber who jumped amusedly.

“T-Quiet.. They are safe to eat. Flora Fauna Underworld has a special enzyme that can neutralize superadical toxins. Y-Y-Yah although from experience, they can not be compared with Seraphina cuisine anyway,” said I almost wanted to vomit considering the last time I was forced to eat the squirming creatures for two months.

“K-K-If my boss says it's safe anyway.. As a knight, I-I'll go along,” said Saber who helped me install the makeshift kitchen.

The cooking oil I replaced with the blood of a crying tree, cooked quickly over the black flames of the devil. While waiting, I pounded the Mushroom and the bloody apple and stamped it with the centipede slices I had cut before in a container, and then stamped it with the centipede slices I had cut before, letting the centipede churn itself with its little legs. After mixing all the herbs together, I threw them all into the pan and started cooking.

The smell of beef with salmon danced in my nose. Hmmm, the fragrance .. to the extent that I have to hold back otherwise my drool will drip.

“E-Ehem, taraa! The Chrysant survival menu is ready. I-I named it... Death Sushi!” I said to Saber, “Hayo, Saber, eat! Despite its shape like this, she was full of nutrition, my forced” thrust one picis near her mouth.

“A-I eat for the sake of taste, not nutrition,” said Saber frightened, but as a subordinate who was fainted, he finally resigned and devoured the sushi with teary eyes.

Each chew opened Saber's eyes wide. Without saying a word, he took a plate, then greedily ate all the special sushi. Unable to believe what he was doing, Saber was dumbstruck.

“K-Kok yummy?” ask Saber.

Laugh amused me, “Iya dong, Chef Chrysant fought! I'm just scaring you. Not all the flora fauna here it feels strange, for a beginner like you, I deliberately choose the one that is roughly suitable on the tongue,” I said snorting snobbishly.

“Wait... Chrysant once ate something stranger than this?” ask Saber.

I nodded awkwardly, “Sometimes I have to hang on for two more months to complete my mission. So, for the sake of survival, how else?” I said the one who plucked Death Sushi and devoured it greedily.

Well. sometimes zong anyway, the fauna that I eat turns out to be very poisonous. But luckily the Warden Cells in my body quickly neutralized the poison. I got diarrhea for a few days, hahaha.

“During this expedition, I will teach you all my survival skills, Kouhai-kun,” I said with passion. Because this is the first time I've gone on an expedition with someone else. Moreover, my expedition partner is my own sister-in-law.

“Ready, Chrysant-senpai!” saber said no less excited.

After filling our stomachs, we held an old map given by the White Order Witch that Nuwa had captured. There are so many inaccuracies to be corrected because of the familiar phenomenon that is messing with Underworld. Time Dysplasia, the familiar magic I felt for a hundred kilometers, covered the entire area we surveyed.

Haahh. I thought this mission was impossible. Crazy huh. Arthur expects me to track the White Order headquarters position with this map and a very vague clue. The city that reflected from the arrogance of the Space Fortress.God, what does that mean?

“Hmm, if you use the conventional way, up to a year, we may not find it,” my mumbling folded hands, “Ugh. Okay fine! Kouhai-kun, now is your time to shine. Spending your fresh ideas immediately!”

“E-eeh? Me? If my boss can't, let alone a junior like me,” complained Saber.

“Cowok does not use reason!”

Saber scratched her head in frustration, but then her eyes saw the pot above our campfire. Suddenly his eyes opened wide with a bright smile,

“Ah, I know.”

“What? Whahuh? Quickly tell me your idea,” I said impatiently.

With a big smile Saber said, “How about we lure the Witches out with food?”

Peeled my forehead and let out a long sigh..This man is not serious right?