Chapter 61

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The rainbow light that seeped through the sky pierced Simon, cutting through the sunset.

The quietly absorbed rainbow brutality immediately began to torment the immortal man.

“Ahh... Ughh...”

Simon writhed, spewing bubbles mixed with black blood from his seven orifices.

Under the influence of the <Twisted Rainbow Light Arrow>, his rotted limbs remained decayed and connected, while his burned and melting body repeatedly regenerated and melted.

“Aaaaah... What, what is this...!? G, gruji...!”

I averted my gaze from Simon, who was repeatedly dying and regenerating while screaming.

“Marina, Silk. It’s over... Let’s regroup with Rain.”

“...Aren’t you going to finish him off?”

I shook my head at Marina’s words.

“He claims to be immortal. Besides, if he could die, he would have already.”

I spat out these words, trying to distance myself from Simon’s continuing screams.

My patience with him as a childhood friend had long run out, but this was the first time I had directed such malice at him.

I strongly felt that I had to finish Simon off here and now...

...To protect my comrades.

“Gaaah... Yuke! Yuuuuke! What did you do to me!”

“Let’s go, both of you.”

Ignoring Simon’s roars, I silently urged Marina and Silk to follow.

I had no intention of lingering in such a place.

“Goodbye, Simon. That magic... the <Twisted Rainbow Light Arrow> will never be undone until you die.”

“What, what...! Hey, you’re kidding, right? Yuke!”

The composite debuff magic <Twisted Rainbow Light Arrow> I created combines multiple potent poisons, plagues, and rift magic, and circulates them through a curse to maintain its effect indefinitely.

I created it this way. Using my alchemical knowledge, I barely balanced the magical formula and deployed it in Zarnag, adjusting it multiple times... until I finally completed it just now.

Until now, my ‘negative emotions’ were lacking.

I had always defined it as a composite debuff magic and used it as such.

However, after receiving Persephone’s blessing... I gained the ability to control my hidden negative emotions as magic and curses, and the <Twisted Rainbow Light Arrow> finally reached its true potential.

“Help me! Help me! Don’t leave me... ah, g, go...!”

Simon, writhing and crawling, turned his face toward me.

I thought there might be something more, but there wasn’t.

No guilt, no self-reproach.

But I didn’t feel relieved either.

“Hey, it’s me, a friend, right?... Gah, if this continues, I’ll...”

“I don’t care.”

With that, I headed toward Jamie.

Leaving Simon behind.

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“How is he, Rain?”

“Just in time. But the wounds... are deep.”

Jamie, with a sickly complexion, opened her eyes slightly and looked at me.

“Haha, it’s Yuke.”

“Don’t talk too much. We’ll get out of the dungeon as soon as I apply first aid.”

“I, I can’t...”

“Nonsense. Once you recover and return to the real Finis, you can go on more adventures.”

Jamie shed a small tear at my words.

“That’s right! You can join ‘Clover’! It’s all girls, so you won’t feel out of place!”

“Marina, Yuke is there, right?”

“Of course. Yuke will definitely say you’re part of the team.”

It’s a good idea.

After all this commotion, it might be hard to find a party that would take Jamie.

But Jamie, who left the ‘Thunderpike’ and risked her life to save us, would surely become a good companion.

“Me, with Yuke again?”

“I don’t mind. Just hang in there a little longer.”

I took a healing potion from the magic bag I bought as a backup and applied it to the wound.

The wound began to close, emitting a blue smoke, but it quickly reopened.

“...This isn’t a normal wound.”

“Probably the effect of Simon’s magic sword. He said he would give you a wound that would never heal.”

“What a troublesome thing to do.”

“So, I, I can’t be saved...”

Jamie’s face showed signs of strain.

She was giving up on herself, wasn’t she?

What a sight for the woman who used to laugh and cause a ruckus without a care in the world.

“...<Formula Destruction>”

I lightly touched the bruise on my cheek and cast the spell.

I don’t even know if this is magic anymore, but if the magic item’s effect couldn’t close the wound, this should do the trick.

“...The magic works.”

Rain’s face, which had been continuously casting healing spells, lit up with joy.

In return, I felt a strange, eerie sensation from my cheek to my neck, but it’s an inhuman magic.

I can overlook a little discomfort.

As long as I don’t collapse like before, it’s enough.

Jamie’s wound closed rapidly, but she must have exhausted herself in the process and fainted.

“The wound is closed. I think she’ll be fine.”

“Just as expected, Rain. Let’s go back.”

“We should hurry.”

Nene, looking a bit tense, twitched her ears.

The red sunset was gradually fading, and several figures crawled out from the shadows of the dilapidated ruins.

“...The Shadow People.”

“We haven’t been found yet. But, those...”

Nene pointed to where Simon was still writhing and screaming.

The Shadow People pounced on him, and a mysterious force tore Simon apart.

“Gaaaah!?”

...Since he’s immortal, he quickly regenerated.

There’s nothing more to be done.

Simon will forever remain in this decaying adventure city, tormented by poison and curses, and torn apart by the Shadow People.

I made it this way. And now, I’m leaving him behind.

By my own will.

“Goodbye, Simon.”

“Y, Yuke! I...”

The [Ejection Scroll] teleported us to the Great Cavern before Simon could finish his sentence.

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