Translator: Makisima from w.a.n.gmamaread
Proofreader: Hieu
Freya didn’t look at me .
She should have noticed me . But where her gaze fell was a void .
For me, she looked as if staring straight at the air .
Freya reached out to the void and her hand disappeared . No, more accurately, her hand was sucked into some place .
In other words, her hand was sucked into the void and disappeared .
There must be something about that s.p.a.ce that the human eyes couldn’t see .
Freya looked at me .
After that, she muttered to herself .
Although I couldn’t hear her from where I stood, I could tell what she said through reading her lips .
“Come here . ”
She said something like that .
Freya’s body was gradually sucked into the void starting from her wrist . Her eyes glued to me and Violet-san .
In this way, Freya disappeared .
“She seems to have disappeared . ”
I speculated carefully .
Violet-san seemed to be saying that “I knew it already . ” She tapped on my feet .
But I noticed something .
How to describe this feeling? It was similar to what I felt at the Holy Ground .
The Holy Ground could suck people’s magic . However, that void did not suck magic . Besides, I could hardly feel the presence of magic here .
Though, I felt that something had been sucked into the void .
I carefully observed the void where Freya disappeared, but found nothing . So I jumped directly into the void .
“Hey!”
I dived into it like a swimmer in a compet.i.tion .
Just in case, I did not forget to change into Shadow Mode .
Violet-san followed me by sticking to my feet .
Then I was surrounded by white light .
I fell into a s.p.a.ce with white walls, white beds, and white ceilings .
There were pods all around, arranged at regular intervals .
The s.p.a.ce was like a research center .
Freya stood in front of the pods .
I looked down at the pod closest to me .
“This is……”
There was something in the shape of a human in the pod . It seemed to be a failed test subject, a mixture of human and demon possession .
It was a white-haired woman who had stopped breathing .
The thing in the next pod didn’t even have a shape of a human, but a pile of organs .
Next, and the next, were all failed test subjects .
Each one was a failed test subject having no life at all . They seemed to be preserved here as some samples .
After observing countless failed test subjects in pods, I found a common point .
They were all women, and it looked like they all had similar facial features .
In a pod was a woman named Olivie who I once fought against at the Holy Ground .
In some other pods were mixtures of Violet-san and someone .
The orc in the next pod was…
Then I saw the pod in front of Freya and found that a human looked completely the same as Freya .
Freya stood stiffly in front of the pod .
“They are all connected to each other…”
I said to myself meaningfully .
We seemed to have found some incredible facilities . I’m not sure what these facilities are for, still, I must first pretend that I knew something . This was very important .
“So this is the rebeginning of Diabolos… the continuation of the story a thousand years ago… but this is something that can be easily understood after looking through history . ”
Violet-san s.h.i.+vered as she seemed to agree with what I said .
“Everything is connected, the past, present, future . Everything seemed to be within my expectations . ”
Here I should also have an air of knowing everything . As a power in the shadows, everything was within my expectations without exception .
When I patted on my coat letting out the sound of “basa”, I heard a noise and the s.p.a.ce distorted .
“I had just wondered how an uninvited visitor could come into this s.p.a.ce… Now I see . You are the man called Shadow . ”
A voice came from the distorted s.p.a.ce .
“I didn’t expect you to come here so quickly… but to see that you’ve already known all our secrets . ”
At this time, a man appeared .
