The Crisis World XX

Chap. 70: The Truth Revealed

Caramel looked at me after hanging up her phone and came up to me with a grin on her face.

"Wait a minute, Iraya-kun."

After that he came out of the building along with the other Assassin members leaving me alone inside here. They all seem to be doing something to me.

After they all came out, the atmosphere here became quiet. All that accompanied me was the breeze and the sound of some self-moving junkyard. I noticed the thing that was moving itself earlier and now the movement is getting wild.

What the fuck? And then I realized something, old buildings like this are usually feared by people because of the bad rumors circulating here like a ghost or something like that. But unfortunately such vague rumors did not affect me in the least.

Sruukk…

His movements and voice grew louder and suddenly something came out from there accompanied by a small squeak.

"Hmm …?"

Just a mouse apparently. After trying to scare me and appear suddenly like before, he just left like without sin. I just sighed and was grateful that it wasn't the person who came to save me. Because if they come this fast, my plan to save Cecilia will fail.

I really hope for you right now, Herlin. If you fail to realize it, then my plan could fail and I might as well die here. I sighed inwardly in my heart and could only wait for this moment. Yes, for now.

Meanwhile, outside the ruins of this old church, the Assassin members consisting of Caramel, Nimis, Ardenter, and Delta waited as if they wanted to greet someone. But it seems like the person they were waiting for has not come yet.

"Is it true that the boss is coming soon?" ask Ardenter.

"So he said it like that. But if you remember that he's the boss .., maybe he'll be a little late."

"We'll wait, maybe he'll come soon" said Nimis.

"Huh?! Wait a minute? Did you forget that he always gathers an hour before he comes?! This time it must be like that again!"

"On that …."

Suddenly someone chimed in on Ardenter's words. Unlike what Ardenter said, this time the Boss actually came after he called Caramel. He also carried something like a black suitcase. Looks like he's been away for a few days looking for that black suitcase.

"… You know I'm busy doing something. That's why I always come late."

"Ara, Boss .. You finally came too. Did you get the stuff?"

"Yes. It's hard enough to find it in the ruins of that lab, but luckily it wasn't destroyed."

They all looked towards the black suitcase carried by Astaroth. Although the suitcase model is good, but the objects inside are much nicer and worth more than the suitcase itself.

"What's this suitcase about?"

"Later you know, now let's go inside before anyone sees us."

"Baik~" said Caramel.

They all went inside and will do something soon. It might be, something Iraya dislikes.

Meanwhile, in the ruins of the church, I who was bored waiting for them to come could only pay attention to the environment here. Really dirty and horrible.

"Hhhhhh!!"

'I'm bored!' I screamed or more accurately said muttering loud enough until my voice echoed here. And subconsciously, I untied the rope on my arm.

"Hn?!"

I hurriedly reattached the rope ties on both of my arms and put them back behind the chair as I was. They didn't even tighten the ties, as if letting me move freely. Are they testing me?

Yeah, I'm not gonna run away from here anyway 'cause that's my plan. Maybe they think I'm stupid, but the truth is I can see it.

Zii…

I channeled the aura into my eye area and saw something. A large cube-shaped transparent aura that covered the entire ruins of this church. The truth is I can see it. Seeing that I'm actually locked up in this box.

It's a girl named Caramel's thing, huh? Maintaining the shape of his aura of this size within days, he was great as well. As I was praising the greatness of Caramel in my heart, I suddenly heard the voices of many people who came here. The Assassins have returned.

When he saw me, Caramel felt confused and astonished. Then he came up to me and asked me something.

"Nee, Iraya-kun ..., why don't you try to escape when we're not around?"

"Mhhh .. hmmph …!" my answer is unclear.

"Boss, can I open this?"

"Whatever."

After getting permission from his boss, Caramel opened my mouth and finally I was able to speak and answer his question.

"Mrs …!"

"Now you can talk."

"How could I have escaped, after seeing the big box that shut this building up."

"Well! So you can see it?! You're so great!"

"You think I'm an elementary school boy?!"

"Ara, don't be angry like that. I just praised you, you know."

"Your compliments sound more like insults, you know."

"Enough the bases, Caramel. We're gonna start the process now."

"Good, good~"

The boss stopped talking to the two of us and put a black suitcase on the floor. He then opened it and saw several injections with a blood-red liquid inside.

"Oi! What are you gonna do?!"

The boss took out one of the injections and had it ready to be injected into me. Nimis and Ardenter were then on my right and left side and held onto my shoulders and body so as not to move anywhere.

"Oi! Don't touch me!"

"You just shut up!"

The boss was getting closer and started to point the injection at my neck. I tried to dodge but because Nimis and Ardenter were holding me I couldn't move and finally the syringe went right through my neck.

Little by little, the blood-red liquid that was in the injection went into my body. After everything came in, the boss dropped the empty shot just now and waited for the results to happen to me. Nimis and Ardenter also removed his grip from me.

A few moments have passed, but nothing has happened. I looked at my own body and there were no strange changes.

"Hmm? I don't feel anything."

Degh's…

"Akhh …!! Wh-What's this?"

"The water's already starting to react."

Suddenly my body felt a burning heat all over me at the same time. I screamed in pain from the heat that never stopped. Veins began to appear on my skin as it endured the pain. And slowly, the roots of my hair started to turn green. Same as Cecilia's hair color.

While enduring this pain, I suddenly remembered something. I think I've experienced something similar to this.

It was if not wrong when Cecilia wanted to unite with me. True, this is similar to Cecilia's process of unification. Are they trying to let Cecilia take my body forcibly with that liquid? Shit, they want to use my body as a container of Cecilia.

I won't let it!

I let out a little bit of my aura to resist the spread of that liquid inside my body. And after a few minutes passed, the veins that had been hardened until they appeared on my skin again loosened, the roots of my green hair also returned to the color of my previous hair. Even my iris has returned to normal and is no longer orange.

You could say at this time I managed to suppress the spread of that liquid inside my body. Although I had to endure the pain like burning earlier, anyway.

"Hmm .. As I thought, one shot is lacking."

"Huh .. huh …. Damn you …."

He took one more shot and went back to prepare to inject it into me again. Nimis and Ardenter are holding me again. Goddamnit! How many times they burned me.

He was ready to inject it into me again and just injected me in the neck. But then he stopped like he suddenly remembered something.

"Before that, Caramel …."

"Yes?"

"I'm a little suspicious of him. Can you check it out?"

"Check what?"

"Checking whether Subject C is still in his body or not. You locked it so they couldn't fuse, right?"

"Yes, I locked it. But if the Boss tells me to check it out …."

He drew closer to me and then held both of my shoulders with both of his hands. Nimis and Ardenter who had been holding me suddenly moved away.

"Oi, you two! Help me!"

"No way." They both answered compactly and in unison in an indifferent and quick tone.

"Why are you asking for help, Iraya-kun? Shouldn't you be grateful to be kissed by a girl as beautiful as me."

"A person who thinks of himself as beautiful means that he is ugly! Stay away from me, Caramel!"

"Ara, you're so mean. It's obvious that a young girl is ugly aren't you a little exaggerated?"

"Stay away from me first! I'll think about it after that!"

But my words didn't affect him at all. His face kept coming closer to me and we kissed. Long enough we kissed and nothing happened, Caramel also did not take her lips off my lips.

Meanwhile, it was on Caramel's own side. After a few seconds of kissing Iraya, her consciousness suddenly moved to a place she did not know about.

He then opened his eyes and was in a place with a clean white floor with only a light source in front of him, while the others were pitch black.

Caramel then approached the light source. He watched for a long time and found nothing but light.

"Why is it so empty? Then …."

Caramel tries to find the aura that she had previously planted on Iraya in the previous kiss and she finds it. Although she could not see because of this dark room, Caramel could clearly feel the aura she had planted before. And he felt that his aura had already formed a box and locked this place.

"I've guessed that there might not be a problem, I've locked him up and there's no way he can get out. The one who did it was me."

Degh's…

"Ap—?!"

But suddenly he felt something watching him from behind that gave him goosebumps and sweat droplets coming out of his forehead.

His instincts say that if he looked now, he would be killed. So he chose not to move and decided to leave the room.

"Damn you Subject C …! Just wait for it later!"

He came out of it and his consciousness went back to where it was before. Caramel gave up her kiss and then moved away from Iraya.

"Is he inside?"

"I didn't see it, but the fear of death was unmistakable, he was still inside."

"All right, let's start again."

The boss is back ready to inject me. Nimis and Ardenter are also in position. And I was injected again and the heat came back to burn my whole body.

"AckKkhh …!!"

They again wanted to exchange my consciousness for Cecilia's. I won't let it! I still continued to fight him, but the liquid that entered my body this time was more than before, so I had difficulty holding back my consciousness.

"Huh .. hah .. hah …."

"It looks like we need one more shot."

God fucking. I was no longer strong, my consciousness had really begun to wane. My irises started turning orange again. My hair is almost entirely green. It's critical.

The boss then injected another shot into my neck, this is the third time he's done it. My body felt a burning sensation again. This time it feels hotter than before—no, I think only my body has weakened.

"ArmghHh …!!!"

This time my mind was empty. And also suddenly my mouth moved on its own without my control. My hair also changed to a perfect green and orange-eyed color, just like the appearance of Cecilia.

A voice that was different and more terrifying than my previous voice.

"Human …. What do you want from me?"

After those words came out of my mouth, I no longer knew what happened after that.

Meanwhile, on the other hand, after three injections that entered Iraya's body, Astaroth finally managed to realize his wishes. It evokes Subject C. The other Assassins took a few steps back knowing the horror of Subject C. Only Astaroth and Delta alone did not move from where they were before.

"Finally you're back where you belong, my creation."

Nimis who sensed the terrifying aura from Iraya's body then muttered something.

"I know it's impossible …. It's impossible to be friends with a monster like this."

As Subject C awakens, Astaroth approaches him and begins to speak to him.

**

While in another place, which is more precisely in front of Iraya's house. It was Herlin who was standing there still. He did not immediately go inside because he did not know what reason he had to give to his mother Iraya.

"What exactly am I supposed to say?"

Herlin couldn't possibly say the truth, on the one hand he also didn't want to worry her. So the reason she has to choose is the most reasonable and humane reason a mother can accept.

"'Iraya is being carried by someone right now, wait a while later she will definitely come back', is that so?"

No. gabe. Herlin knew it didn't make any sense at all. He even got down and insulted himself for not being able to do something as simple as this. But after a while, he then stood up in embarrassment to the many people who passed by here.

"Whatever it is, for now it's better that I go in first" Herlin assured himself.

He opened the door of Iraya's house slowly. He looked if there was someone in it. The door is unlocked, it means there's someone inside.

"Excuse me …."

"Italy …!!! You finally came home too! Where have you been these past few days?!"

From inside the house, suddenly there was a small child running quickly towards the front door. Without seeing who had come, the gray-haired little boy jumped up and hugged Herlin.

"Little child …?"

"Iraya! Where the hell have you been? I'm hungry, you know?! Eh— Who are you?"

The little boy—Tetsu, who had just realized that the one who entered the house was not Iraya, asked Herlin with a confused face. He also slightly moved away from Herlin as if wary of him.

"Etto .. greetings, I'm a friend of Iraya, Ririsaka Herlin."

"Sa-Salam knows too, my name is Tetsu, I …. Eh? I'm Iraya, right?"

Herlin who saw him confused himself was also confused. Iraya never said she had a sister.

"W-How is this? I can't tell anyone that I'm a spirit. I am ..., I am …."

When Herlin heard the word 'Spirit' coming out of his mouth, he immediately stopped his clumsy behavior and asked him a question.

"Tu-Wait a minute …!"

"Y-yes?"

"So you said 'Spirit'?"

"Ehhh?! Akh …!! Stupid me! Why did I say it in front of him?! I may not get food from Iraya! Aghh!! Etto .. Herlin-san, please just forget about what I said earlier, huh?"

"Just calm down, I know what Spirit means. That means you're not Iraya's sister or anything, huh?"

"Mrs! But I have a more important position in this house. I'm a housekeeper!"

Tetsu boasted of the department. Because from what he knew from Iraya, a housekeeper is a position that only certain people can get the position, so he is proud of the nickname.

"Ba-Good …. By the way, is Iraya's mother home now?"

"His mother? He's not home."

"Do you know when he's coming home?"

"Let's see, he never came home even when I was here."

"Eh? Whatchu mean?"

"That means he never came back here when Tetsu first came here."

Suddenly, someone broke into the conversation between the two of them. The man came out from inside and showed himself before Herlin. Herlin was surprised by the person in front of him right now, he did not expect that he was here.

"Cecilia …? Why are you here?"

"Yes, this is all because of Iraya's plan."

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