Pick Me Up, Infinite Gacha

# 311

311. Remnant fire (1)

Siris Argentheim opened his eyes.

“…”

A sky full of fog.

A field stretched out, faded to gray.

As soon as Siris saw a woman lying on the field, she knew that this place was a dream.

I used to have this nightmare whenever I was feeling down.

‘Is it here again?’

Siris smiled bitterly.

Once the nightmare started, there was no way to stop it.

All you have to do is watch it until the end.

“Cool… Cool!”

The woman coughed violently.

Every time he did that, blood poured out and stained his chest.

Torn and frayed leather armor.

Her blonde hair and white skin, which were originally clean, are stained with blood and dust.

‘That woman is…’

It was Siris herself.

To be precise, before she made a ‘contract’ with the goddess.

It was a landscape not long before Niflheim, the land of fog, was destroyed.

“Kihehehe!”

Laughter like boiling phlegm.

A man stood in front of her as she collapsed.

Tattoos all over the body, pale grayish white skin, horns on either side of the forehead.

‘White nobles.’

They were the rulers who ruled all over Niflheim.

With physical abilities far superior to humans and fertility reminiscent of ferocious rats, they have taken root all over the continent and eventually dominated all races here.

Humans here were mere subjects.

no less than that.

‘Livestock.’

The main ingredient of the white nobility was human flesh.

“Did you think someone like you could defeat me?”

The man with the horns trampled the sword on the grass.

An old iron sword that Siris had spent years and years trying to obtain.

Kwajik.

The iron sword broke in two just by the man stepping on it.

“You are weak. Ignorant, slow. You don’t even know what honor is. You humans are just living scum. They’re just worms born to die to us.”

The old Siris couldn’t refute.

I just stare at the man in front of me with trembling eyes.

‘That man…’

was his father’s enemy.

He tore her father to death just because he was bored.

Siris tried to take revenge on the man, but failed.

“Are you going to lose your mind because fragments are coming in and the world is going to ruin? Revenge? Kihahaha!”

puck!

The man kicked the woman.

She rolled over several times, coughing up blood.

“What is that swordsmanship? Imitating a knight? A dog and a pig are vulgar.”

“Haha…!”

Only heavy breathing came out of her mouth.

The man stuck out his long snake-like tongue and took out a dagger.

“Where should we start dismantling?”

“…!”

“Let me hear your pretty screams. I don’t kill my prey easily. There was a time when I was alive for 10,000 shots.”

A sharp dagger landed on her thigh.

The woman’s eyes were stained with fear.

“I’ll start with the tender thighs. Then the calves. Next is the buttocks. Watching you scream… I’ll enjoy the freshly cut flesh.”

The blade slightly dug into the thigh.

Eventually, the moment he was about to cut out his skin.

“…stop!”

She cried and opened her mouth.

“what?”

“Stop… stop… I… made a mistake…”

“Speech is short.”

“Now… I was wrong…”

Tears flowed from her eyes.

“When did you try to kill, and now you’ve done wrong? When word comes that some human or something has pointed a blade at us, your village will be annihilated.”

“Sorry! I was… blind…! I made a mistake…!”

“Kyahahaha! Are you begging for your life from your father’s enemy?”

Siris, who was looking at her past self, closed her eyes.

Still, the nightmare continued.

“Tell me again. What?”

“Help me… please…”

“The attitude of asking is not very good. I have to kneel.”

She hurriedly straightened her posture and fell to her knees.

His knee was stabbed with a piece of stone and was bleeding, but he didn’t care.

“Get down, cattle.”

Flounder.

the woman fell down

The man smiled contentedly and put his foot on her disheveled blonde hair.

“Avenge your father? Did you want to imitate a knight?”

“no.”

“You humans have no honor. You don’t have a superior civilization, and you don’t have a god. If we die, we die, if we live, we’re piglets. Trash that resembles a worm. But, that worm… dared to get on my body. ..!”

The man trampled the woman’s head hard.

She was trembling and unable to move.

“I’ve decided, human. I’ll offer you as a sacrifice to our goddess. I just needed a fresh human heart.”

“That, like that…!”

“Don’t worry. If you take out the heart while alive, you’ll die soon.”

The woman’s eyes were stained with despair.

‘It’s ugly.’

Seeing her former self, Siris bit her lip.

When her revenge failed, she succumbed in fear.

‘There is no honor.’

It was natural.

Humans here do not receive any education.

It was a livestock raised to be eaten by a hundred nobles.

sometimes to eat.

to enjoy sometimes.

Sometimes to use as a meat shield in their territorial disputes.

‘Nippleheim.’

A land without any hope.

The continent where she lived was covered in thick fog all year round, making it impossible to see properly, and more than half of the year was winter, and the weather was desolate.

‘The living hell.’

Humans here were born to die.

‘I couldn’t figure it out.’

what friendship is

what is love

What is your bond with your co-workers?

At the time, she didn’t realize what it felt like to be alive.

being like cattle.

The man’s words were correct.

Siris’ revenge was just a clumsy mimicry.

Her father would often tell her stories about knights.

The knight in the story was handsome, honorable, and beautiful. Enticed by that story, Siris plotted a revenge play that would not work.

“Save me…! Help me…!”

“Kihahaha! Ahahaha!”

The man was dragging Siris along.

The destination is the temple of the twin goddesses not far from the field.

There, he intends to offer her as a living sacrifice. “If you give your heart, the Goddess will be happy too. Know it as an honor

! This is not an opportunity given to just anyone. You are

for the future of our great tribe…”

Stopped.

Not far away, a girl was looking down at the man.

“What, what kind of pig…”

“Looks like humans are called piglets here. It was once a place that competed for supremacy even in Mobius. Niflheim, the land of eternal fire, has also declined quite a bit.」

The girl smiled and approached the man.

The man opened his bloody eyes wide.

“I want to die…”

“Your eyes. If you don’t want to die.」

The girl’s eyes emitted an eerie light.

The man swayed as he stood, then suddenly fell flat in front of the girl.

“No way… Lord Hella!”

“My name was Hella here.

”

“Say it simply. Your world is coming to an end. Harvesters will arrive on the continent within a week at the most. you can’t stop Its own power is lousy. It’s not even united. In a word, it’s a garbage world.」

“What is that…”

「Didn’t you hear the oracle? If you wanted to revive the world, you would have told me to sign a contract with you. Isn’t that what you heroes do?’

The man blinked.

The girl called ‘Goddess’ had a cynicism.

“I came here because I heard he was a priest, and he wasn’t even a person worthy of being called a hero. It seems that general armed forces are superior to humans… At best, it’s a primitive civilization.」

“Goddess! What do you mean…”

Puck!

A man’s head with horns flew through the air.

Blue blood then spurted from the man’s throat.

“Hey!”

The panic-stricken woman frantically backed away.

Before long, the girl’s gaze turned to the woman.

“…One star,”

said the girl briefly.

“At most two adults. Even if I hit very well, I can’t even get 3 stars. no talent This was a world that was already dead. It would be better to discard it.」

“You… who are you?”

“It seems like you haven’t been educated. Are all the humans here at the level of primitive people like this?J

The girl in front of me is not an ordinary existence.

The woman was only trembling.

Of course, the current Siris knew the girl’s identity very well.

‘Goddess of love.’

He was the chairman of Moebius, which created Pick Me Up, and was also the CEO of Pantheon.

In Taoni, where Loki, the master of Siris, stayed, the girl was called ‘Tell’.

“I had an interesting thought.”

Suddenly, the girl’s mouth twisted.

Like finding an interesting toy.

“If there is a win, there must be a loss. It wouldn’t be bad to have one or two of these traps mixed in. The hero faction is… yes! don’t make me human Let’s alleviate the sorrow we have suffered from the hundred nobles.」

“…?”

“I’m giving you a chance to get revenge. Actually, I could use you as monsters, but then the power difference would be too great. It’s a battle between a rabbit and a lion. The game doesn’t work.」

The woman did not understand what the goddess said.

There’s no way she could understand what it was like at the time when she didn’t know anything about games.

He was just staring at his emerald-colored eyes.

「Kuu! Kkeukkeuk! this will be fun What unlucky Master will take over you. Who can become a human being like this and lead livestock… and get through hellish missions? I’m looking forward to it. Aren’t you curious too?」

“…”

「Ah, yes. do you service Even a trash account should have at least one high-ranking hero. This means that in order to extract money, there must be a minimum name. Let’s see, 4 stars would be appropriate? I think I can fool you if I just cheat on the status window properly.”

The woman took a step back.

I couldn’t understand what he meant, but I could tell that the girl was harboring sinister thoughts.

“Come here, my child.”

“I hate it…”

“Why don’t you hate it? I’m giving you a chance to become a hero. 4 stars 4 stars. In other dimensions, unless you’re a high-ranking person, you can’t get this level.」

“Don’t come!”

“Since when did cattle have the right to veto?”

She stopped.

The girl approached the woman with a leisurely motion and whispered.

“Your name?”

“No. 4, 47…”

“Hmm? Is your name a number?」

“Dad… called… Siris…”

「Okay Miss Siris. There will be no sex, of course. Don’t let me pick one that’s cool. How about Argentheim? Does it sound good? I’ll give you my initial job as a knight. It’s a major job in its own way.」

“Knight… Knight…”

「It’s a job that lives with honor and dies with honor. I think you will like it. Of course, you’re just garbage. I had a good look earlier at

you lying on your stomach like a bug, begging for your life. ”

.」

The girl began to burst into laughter uncontrollably.

“I’m dying of laughter! No one can use this account. Garbage among trash. A worm among worms! What master can overcome these conditions? If that’s possible… if this body can I’ll call you God myself. Ahaha! Ahahahahahaha!”

The nightmare always ends like this.

It ends with the girl’s laughter.

“…Haa.”

Siris opened her eyes, and

saw the familiar ceiling

. It was her dorm on the 13th floor of Heim.

‘Today as well.’

I don’t know how many times

since the Master left, Siris has been having nightmares every night.

Suddenly

, Siris drank the water from the table next to her bed

.