Do Your Own Revolution

#094

“We’ve arrived. This is definitely the place.”

It was a gloomy day.

The ashen sky was covered with dark, dreary clouds.

The peculiar dampness that wrapped around the ruins.

All that filled the heavily sunken city were screams that sounded like wails.

“Ah… Aah…!”

“Grrrr…”

“Kuaghk-! Kuaaagh–!”

A sword attached to what was once a hand.

Tentacles protruding from vertically twisted necks, and eyeballs rolling around attached to the ends of those tentacles.

Blood trails forming paths like snail slime, and hideously rotting, deteriorating skin.

Looking at that horrific sight, Marcus, an agent of the Revolutionary Army, sneered at them while adjusting his camouflage.

“Serves them right. Worthless knight bastards.”

Until just moments ago, they had been Imperial knights who maintained their characteristic arrogance.

Even though they had been demoted to criminal status from already fallen houses, they still insisted on being called knights until the end.

But look at them now.

Far from knights, they had fallen into hideous monsters that couldn’t even be called human.

What? They’d kill Eugene Lorentz when they returned?

Since they were superior mages, the Republic would give them important positions?

This grotesque state was the Republic’s answer to that arrogance.

‘Just a bunch of idiots with nothing but filth in their heads.’

Sorry, but there’s no place for you in the Republic.

Tools to kill the Republic’s enemies.

Disposable consumables.

Isn’t that the best way to make use of you?

[Good. That’s… When it ends… Report to me…]

When he noticed the noise interfering with long-range magical power communication, Marcus immediately terminated the magical power communication.

“They’re interfering with long-range magical power communication. Those Knight Order bastards. They’re thorough with their work, I’ll give them that.”

To affect the entire city, the range must be quite wide.

It was large-scale magic that mages of the Republic couldn’t even imagine.

To think they’d go to such lengths just to catch one young officer.

While other agents seemed unconvinced, Marcus thought differently.

‘They said the Imperial forces surrounding the city couldn’t move because of the Imperial Guard Knight Order. And the one who called the Imperial Guard Knight Order… was this Eugene guy stuck between those monsters.’

As soon as he realized he had fallen into a trap, he immediately took action to shake things up.

If he was capable of such schemes, they couldn’t afford to overlook even the smallest details.

If they carelessly allowed magical power communication, who knows what he might do.

Kuwhabang–!

While he was thinking this, an explosion occurred in the building where Eugene and his group had hidden.

A powerful explosion that blew away an entire section of the building.

Some monsters staggered from being caught in it, but they soon regained their composure and began running toward where the explosion had occurred.

“So they won’t die quietly, huh?”

Marcus, hiding on the roof and observing the situation, immediately understood their intention.

They probably planned to lure the monsters with the explosion, then break through where the encirclement was thinnest.

The most effective method available to them in the current situation.

Knowing this, Marcus smiled triumphantly.

‘The encirclement was already complete. To think they’d fall for such a trick…’

However, at the moment he thought that far.

Step- Step-

“…What is that?”

Marcus’s brow furrowed immediately.

Smoke rising from the impact of the explosion.

Because a strange figure slowly walked out from within that smoke.

“A woman?”

It was a woman.

A very young girl who didn’t even look twenty.

A white shirt with a black ribbon, and a black skirt.

Brown boots kicking through the murky mud.

It wasn’t at all an outfit suited for a battlefield.

As if she had come out for a stroll, or gone on a picnic.

A girl in such an innocent appearance was leisurely walking toward the hideously twisted monsters.

‘No, wait…’

The black sphere floating above her head.

Seeing the large sphere the size of her outstretched arms, Marcus felt an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

Despite its enormous size, its strange appearance gave no sense of weight at all.

While he was frowning at the sight of it.

“…!”

It didn’t take long for Marcus to notice something was wrong.

“Kruuk?! Grrrr…”

“Kiiii…”

The monsters were becoming agitated.

Monsters covering their eyes as if they had seen something they shouldn’t see.

Monsters trembling as if they had met something they shouldn’t have met.

Among them, some even knelt down and made gestures of prayer with their hands clasped together.

“What, what is this?”

It was a scene that could drive one mad.

Monsters feeling fear?

Praying?

What on earth?

“That girl, just what…”

At the moment Marcus’s voice trembled at seeing this impossibly bizarre sight.

Guruk-!

With a horrible distortion, something appeared from the sphere.

It was an eye.

A huge eye glowing with an amethyst light.

That eye, which looked exactly like a human’s, was gleaming with its characteristic light while looking down at the monsters surrounding it.

“Hmm~”

The girl looking around at the monsters slowly, as if examining food laid out on a dining table.

“Can I eat them all? I might get weird again like before if I’m not careful. But I did get permission… Hmm~.”

After pondering while looking at the monsters for a moment.

As if finished thinking, the girl nodded to herself and opened her mouth with a smiling face.

“Whatever! Eugene said I could eat them, so I’ll eat them!”

And right after those words ended.

Chwaaak-!

Black shadows extending from the black sphere began to pounce on the monsters instantly.

Kwaduk-! Kwajik-! Ppuddeuk-!

Black shadows successively piercing through the monsters’ chests, heads, and abdomens.

And what followed was a scene of pandemonium where monster devoured monster.

Kweoeoeoek—!

The black sphere floating above the girl’s head.

And an enormous amount of tentacles extending from that black sphere at its center.

Countless teeth sprouting from there were voraciously devouring the monsters.

Hundreds of eyes sprouting on the black tentacles were rolling around searching for the next target.

Chewing bones, biting off chunks of flesh, monsters disappearing in an instant.

Seeing this, Marcus felt like he was about to lose his mind.

“Why, why on earth…!”

He understood that the girl’s power was extraordinary.

And what that black sphere and the black tentacles sprouting from it were.

But what he couldn’t understand wasn’t that.

“Why aren’t they resisting…?”

Even if hundreds of tentacles approached, these were originally knights.

Considering their reflexes and physical strength, they should be able to respond sufficiently!

But the monsters who saw that black sphere were just standing still and being helplessly eaten.

As if it were natural, not a single monster was resisting.

Something is different.

This girl.

No, this monster… Something is different from other monsters…!

“Something is different. Due to settings not being explained in the original work, I’m also in the dark about exactly what’s different.”

“?!”

Behind me already?!

The moment he turned around thinking that, Eugene was there.

“Eugene Lorentz…!”

“Bind.”

Chwareureuk-!

Eugene’s magical power chains instantly wrapping around Marcus.

As he felt the magical power in the chains seeping into his imprint, a look of dismay crossed his face.

‘Damn it, I was too focused on the monster…!’

Only then did he realize.

While the suddenly appeared girl was devouring all the monsters.

Eugene, who was the assassination target, had been using detection magic to find him.

But how was my presence exposed?

Even if Elcidore’s knights had mutated into monsters, they shouldn’t have discovered the inside story.

Then he shouldn’t even know that I was here…!

“Randall always assigns surveillance when planning operations. Besides, with someone like Claude acting alone, there’s no way he wouldn’t send tracking teams.”

“…!”

While saying that, almost everything below the roof had already ended.

The monsters that disappeared without a trace.

But the black sphere floating in the sky hadn’t disappeared and was rolling its eyes around looking for the next prey.

Kruk, kruk…

The girl slowly approaching him.

Empty, hollow eyes were staring at him.

Anyone could see that girl wasn’t normal right now.

“Don’t eat him. We need to interrogate this one.”

At Eugene’s voice, the girl who had approached within arm’s reach stopped her steps.

Irene looking at Eugene.

As Eugene approached, she spoke in an anxious voice.

“Eugene. I feel strange.”

“It’s okay. You’re not strange.”

According to plan.

After muttering that, Eugene grabbed Irene’s shoulders and opened his mouth.

“You’ll lose consciousness for a moment. You’ll want to eat everything you see, and your body will react on its own, as if it’s not yours.”

A gentle voice, like a father reassuring his child.

Then Irene immediately asked back.

“Isn’t that bad…? Eugene, you said… That eating people… Is wrong…”

“No. It’s okay now.”

Hearing those words, focus momentarily returned to Irene’s eyes.

“Do what you want to do, Irene. What you want right now is what I want.”

A smile that couldn’t be more gentle.

That smile shown to no one else but her.

Seeing that, a blush rose to Irene’s face.

“Okay…!”

A dazzling smile blooming on her snow-white face.

Seeing that, Marcus could easily guess what was going on.

The one handling that monster was Eugene.

And realizing that fact, goosebumps rose on Marcus’s body.

“Just what… What kind of insane act is this?”

“Hm?”

Opening his mouth with a trembling voice, Marcus shouted at Eugene.

“The Republic never just lets monsters loose. Mental control, self-destruct devices, restraints! Only after applying all kinds of restrictions do they barely send them to the battlefield!”

But this girl that he handles?

She had no restrictions placed on her at all.

She was simply eating monsters and growing stronger according to her instincts!

“And look at that appearance! That appearance of effortlessly devouring a hundred monsters!”

“…”

“That’s already beyond the scope of what can be controlled. It’s no different from a bomb that could go off at any moment…!”

“That’s why I’m trying to set it off now to check.”

What?

Saying that, Eugene looked at the girl swaying with dazed eyes.

The black sphere thrashing around out of control.

Seeing that, Eugene opened his mouth with a satisfied expression.

“Three hundred knights is about 0.003 percent of what she ate in the original work. With no humans left in the city, it’s perfect for observing her reaction when she goes berserk.”

“Wh-what are you saying…!”

Just what is he saying right now?

After briefly thinking that.

After chewing on Eugene’s words, Marcus trembled with the fear that washed over him.

“Th-this…!”

That man is intentionally trying to make this girl go berserk right now.

The Knight Order surrounding him.

He’s saying he’ll throw them all as food and observe the reaction!

To so casually carry out an idea that only madmen like Elcryer would come up with…!

“Eugene Lorentz! You, you crazy mass murderer-!”

Tang-!

With the gunshot, Marcus lost consciousness.

“Mass murderer my ass.”

The last Eugene that he saw maintained his characteristic expressionless face.

“Who touched who first, to now put on this pathetic victim act?”

***

“Though I’m in a position to receive help, this time I share similar thoughts with this guy.”

What I shot was a non-lethal stun round.

Securing the unconscious informant, Feilun spoke with a faint smile as if disgusted.

“Sacrificing enemy knights as offerings to test the power of an unknown monster.”

“…”

“I’m not sure about mass murderer, but you’re definitely insane.”

“Who cares.”

Thinking that, I fired the flare I had received during mission assignment.

Blue flare for requesting support.

Red flare for mission completion.

“Normally, I would have fired the blue flare when cornered, and Carlos would have leisurely watched it…”

After muttering that, I fired the flare.

Pyuuuu–!

A red flare rising into the sky.

After watching that, I spoke to Claude who still hadn’t recovered from the shock.

“How long are you going to stay like that?”

“Wh-what?”

Claude who finally snapped to his senses.

It seemed he couldn’t keep up with the situations unfolding one after another.

Some partner, being this slow.

With a slight sigh, I looked at him and said.

“The moment they see the flare, they’ll realize something went wrong. And they’ll try whatever they can to bury me in this city.”

They won’t know about Irene’s existence, after all.

“And the moment they approach the city center to find me.”

Irene will go berserk.

Hearing those words, Claude’s face turned pale.

“Berserk? Then…!”

“That’s why we don’t have time to waste here?”

After shouldering the unconscious informant, I raised my hand to point behind me.

We were still within the blast radius when a nuclear test was about to begin, after all.

“What are you doing? Hurry up and run.”

No time.

We’ll really die if we mess up.

***

“Th-that…!”

“Red? A red flare?!”

“That means…!”

Operation headquarters.

Seeing the red light rising from the center of the city, the expressions of Andrei and Carlos, who had been in heated argument until just now, contrasted sharply.

Andrei, who had been frantically insisting they must rescue Eugene after confirming the monsters in the city.

Carlos, who had been holding firm that they couldn’t disrupt the entire operation until the investigation of the monsters’ appearance was complete.

The tense standoff between these two people was reversed by a single flare in the sky.

“The Elcidore remnants. No, are they saying all those monsters were eliminated?!”

“Impossible. There’s no way…”

He was well aware that Eugene and Feilun’s magical power was formidable.

Feilun, evaluated as Nachtval’s rising promising talent, was five stroke.

And Eugene, who had been praised as the Empire’s young hero, had risen to six stroke, the same level as himself.

That’s why he had planned even more meticulously.

The hundred or so Elcidore knights waiting to kill Eugene.

The noble houses’ Knight Orders surrounding the city on standby.

And himself and Zeplant, both six stroke mages.

Forces gathered that could handle not just Eugene alone, but the entire Special Magic Unit if they came.

‘When communication was cut off with the knights we dispatched, I had my suspicions but…!’

The Knight Orders prepared were unable to move carelessly due to being tied down by the suddenly appeared Imperial Guard Knight Order.

Moreover, the rebel supreme leader who had moved ahead first had made things even more complicated.

A battle where unexpected situations and variables never ended.

However, Carlos had thought all of that was useless struggling.

There were a hundred Elcidore knights waiting in the city.

Moreover, according to what this Randall person said, they could be mutated into monsters and strengthened at any time.

With that much force, it should have been impossible not to kill him.

He had definitely thought that and focused only on stopping Andrei, but…!

‘How? How did they break through so many monsters?!’

Interfering with long-range magical power communication to prevent possible information leaks had backfired.

With those few people, they dealt with three-digit numbers of knights, yet he couldn’t even guess what had happened inside!

Grit-!

Carlos gritted his teeth.

‘This operation. Failure is not acceptable.’

This subjugation battle was directly led by Duke Buckenheim himself.

And he was the commander in chief of that subjugation battle!

If Eugene slips away here, the aftershocks will all come back to him.

To think there would be a blemish on the Duke’s trust that he had worked so hard to build.

If such a thing happens, what variables might arise in the succession race for duke…!

“If they eliminated that many monsters, Colonel Eugene and Commander Feilun must be severely depleted as well.”

The one who spoke those words was Zeplant with a hardened expression.

Feilun, who had been closely following behind him with his steep growth curve.

If that bastard survived that chaos, his reputation would grow even higher.

If that happens, his position as Duke Nachtval’s successor might be shaken.

“……”

“……”

Carlos and Zeplant exchanged glances as they looked at each other.

Two people who shared the same goal despite being from different houses.

And Andrei who had to protect Eugene from their grasp.

As if having guessed each other’s thoughts, they immediately opened their mouths and coordinated their words.

“In that case… We should enter the city as soon as possible.”

“Find the survivors from the reconnaissance team.”

“And ‘protect’ them safely.”

As the three Knight Order leaders rose simultaneously, the knights surrounding the city began entering the city all at once.

The rescue target was Eugene.

The race between three factions to secure him had begun.

Urrrr-!

The knights of the two duke houses moving busily.

While watching them, one Imperial Guard approached Andrei’s side.

“Commander. We don’t have time. If we don’t want to fall behind them, we too must move quickly…!”

“Zen. Tell the Imperial Guards.”

For the umpteenth time thinking this, but I have no talent for acting.

Restraining his hurrying subordinate, Andrei thought this and opened his mouth.

“Our Imperial Guard Knight Order will follow behind the Knight Orders, but absolutely do not enter the city interior.”

A trap carefully set up by magic nobles.

Now that trap was opening its maw towards them.

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