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Chapter 573-2: Memories are Eternal

 

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Translator: Nat

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The woman’s eyes slant further and her mouth splits up to her ears.

Her perceivable intent to kill seems to be directed more at Nonna than me.

She extends her arms at Nonna with an evil expression on her face while her legs take several steps backward.
Those are movements impossible for a living creature.

「At the very least, she isn’t human.」

Not that it really matters whether she is a human or a monster or a ghost, it’s all the same to my Dual Crater.

「That’s if I was alone.」

I doubt this matter can be resolved simply by eliminating this thing.
When it comes to the family’s unnatural death and the mansion, the conditions are lined up too perfectly.

I turn my attention to Nonna who has stiffened like a block of stone.

「Mo……ther……」

I thought as much just by looking at her boobs.
Although I don’t believe she is a formidable enemy judging by her presence, with Nonna here, it’s probably better to run for now.

With that in mind, I wrap a hand around Nonna’s waist.

「No, that’s not mother.」

Nonna’s firm declaration somewhat surprises me.

「Mother was……worried for me until her final moments. On that day, she was sad and in despair, but she did not have such wicked eyes and neither was she a person who could make such a horrible face!」

「That’s right.」

I let go of Nonna and put both hands on the Dual Crater.
There was no more reason to run.

「Cut her, Aegir-sama! That person is an evil being wearing the skin of my kind mother!」

Reacting to Nonna’s words, the forty year-old lady’s face morphs to show resentment on one half and grief on the other half, and her body squirms disgustingly. Then, her body transforms into that of a twenty year-old man and her face changes into that of a haughty girl in her late teens.

「You’re not my brother or my sister! Do not shame Elektra any more, you monster!」

Nonna stands up and yells, tears in her eyes, throwing the folded fan sandwiched in between her breasts.

The fan spins irregularly in the air and hits the monster.

「Giiiiiiiii!!」

When the fan, which lacks any weight or force behind it, makes contact, white smoke rises, and along with a piercing scream, multiple faces start to pop up all over the monster’s body. The fan that drops to the floor was inlaid with gold and silver.

「A ghost. And one that’s mixed together into a jumbled mess.」

It would be easier to handle if it was a single person bound by a grudge like Casie or Neisha, however this ghost is clearly the amalgamation of multiple people.
We should treat it as a monster rather than a human spirit.

「Well, it’s better for Nonna that it’s all mixed up.」

I rush forward with my Dual Crater raised.

The monster floats up to the ceiling and takes me by surprise, or rather tries to take me by surprise.

「That’s way too obvious.」

My opponent is a ghost type monster, so I already anticipated non-human movements from the start.

I press my heel down, transferring my forward momentum into a jump, and then swing my Dual Crater down at the monster trying to circle behind me.

「What?」

The monster falls softly to the floor in two pieces after getting sliced.
I thought everything was mixed together, but I didn’t think it could separate so easily.

Nonna’s behind me too.
I turn around several times faster than before.

「Eek!?」

One of the separated pieces forms dozens of faces on the surface of its body and approaches Nonna.
Will I make it in time? Scratch that, I’ll force myself to make it.

However my horizontal sweep cuts the air.
The other separated half crashes into the piece approaching Nonna, causing both pieces to flip out of the way of my attack.

「It saved the other piece? It doesn’t seem intelligent enough for that. Or did it just attack indiscriminately?」

I once again get Nonna to move behind me as I stare down the monster.

The piece that was going to attack Nonna crawls toward the door.
Just when I thought it was going to run, its movements began slowing down, and gradually it joined back to the other piece like it was being pulled, becoming one again.

「So it can’t leave the room?」

It’s hard to believe iron bars can seal a ghost.
Which means those are to prevent people from entering this room.

「If that’s the case, why was the entrance wide open?」

I avert Nonna’s gaze and set down the doorknob still gripped in my hand.
Now that I think about it, it was locked.
I had turned the knob and twisted off the chain attached to it.

「Nevermind that.」

The half that attacked Nonna is the one with many faces.
The one that saved the other is the pretty lady.

If I think about this normally, the one in the figure of the woman is the main body.

Additionally, it can’t leave this room.
Ghosts aren’t affected by iron bars or doors, so it must be some kind of link during its lifetime.

「Is this……Nonna’s mother’s room?」

I place my Dual Crater on the floor and step toward the monster.

「Aegir-sama, what are you doing? That thing is-!」

It isn’t your family or your mother.
But it doesn’t seem completely scrambled either.

「You’ve also realized it, right?」

If it was a totally different entity, she wouldn’t be spilling all those tears.

「Leave it to me. I have an immunity to ghosts.」

A while ago, I accidentally ate Casie’s midnight snack and made her cry.

Faces emerge from the body of the combined ghost again and it starts coming closer while mumbling unintelligible words.

Out of all the faces, I fix my eyes on the face of the woman that I first saw and spread my arms.

「Don’t, nooooooo!」

As Nonna screams, something goopy goes inside me.

A flood of emotions enter my heart.

『Why me? I don’t even meet the main house of Elektra more than a few times a year.』

Anger that has nowhere to go.

『I was going to get married next month. I was going to be wed to the person I’ve loved for ten years.』

A strong sense of regret.

『Curse you――how dare you do this to my family which has lasted for generations――how dare you――』

A curse directed towards someone unknown.

『I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.』

Simply overflowing terror and despair.

「――――――」

Pain so intense that it can’t be verbalized, most likely at the moment of execution.

Unpleasant feelings pour into my body almost like I’m experiencing them myself.
I’m sure being exposed to them for too long isn’t good.

In the midst of all that, I feel something of a different quality come at the end.

『Why did this happen? So terrible. I don’t want to die.』

This part is the same as before.

『What’s going to happen to Nonna? She can’t disappear. She has to remain.』

But this emotion is different from the rest.
And it’s also much stronger.

That woman is still here because of that powerful emotion.
Without a doubt the other blobs were attracted by her strong emotion and stuck on to create the foreign entity we see now.

I slowly open my eyes.
The blob enveloping me is wiggling but that isn’t important.
What I have to focus on is the woman in the beginning――Nonna’s mother.

「I don’t have any use for the rest of you.」

I tense up my abs but I can’t shake off the blob nor can I move my body.
Nonna is crying and pulling on my leg, so I have to break free quickly.

I gradually lower my gaze from the woman’s face down to her overwhelming cleavage and then――

With a sound similar to a leather bag bursting, the monster disperses.
This time, it split into multiple parts, each with only one face.

I grab my Dual Crater again.

「Nonna, tell me about the people you know.」

「S-sure. But why are you suddenly hard……?」

Ghosts are basically a mass of resentment and negative emotions.
To counteract them I need the opposite, life energy, or in other words sexual energy.

A distressed guy can easily be haunted to death, but a man skipping gleefully to a brothel can’t be possessed.

This is what happens when I fight with my abnormal lust for the big-breasted mature lady in front of me.

「More importantly, here they come. Who’s that?」

I ready my sword and watch the countless approaching faces, while Nonna answers from under my legs.

「That is……my uncle who said nothing but dirty things and troubled my sister!」

「Alright.」

I slice the incoming face in half with my Dual Crater.
The face of a lecherous person lets out an anguished cry and vanishes.

「Next.」
「She is my aunt who stinks of makeup but brings tasty treats!」

The blob turns half its face into a mouth and jumps at me, but I block it with my Dual Crater and gently grab it by the hair.

「Leave the rest to the living and be gone already.」

I hurl the face at the window.
The wicked face slips through the iron bars, overcoming the pull of the main body and flying outside.
Once in the sun, the blob changes into the face of a middle-aged woman with heavy makeup and evaporates like mist.

「That person was always mean to me, my paternal――」

I swing my sword.

「That is the maid who always covered for me――」

I grab her and release her through the window.

「That is my cousin who always fought with me――」

One by one, I erase the resentment after the tearful Nonna shouts out their identities.

And in the end, three people remain.

「Mother……sister……brother……」

They no longer attack, likely because the grudges attached to them are gone.

（I don’t want to die. I hate this. So envious.）
「You complain a lot for a man.」

The ghost believed to be her brother has lingering regrets, but when I scold him, he instantly sits in seiza.
He doesn’t seem harmful.

Nonna reaches out uneasily to the three people.
But her hands pass right through their bodies.

I don’t know if it’s due to the effects of being mixed together, but they are especially faint compared to Casie and Neisha.
They might not be able to communicate properly or even remember who Nonna is.

「Mother, Nonna is……Nonna is……」

She didn’t need any more words.

Her mother responds by extending her hands.
Light returns to the vacant eyes of her brother and sister.

After the contactless hug, the sister scoffs and her body disperses into beads of light.

As Nonna tries to wave her hands to collect the scattering beads of light, the brother pats her head once with his transparent hand and also disappears after a nervous look at me.

Nonna wails, then suddenly realizes her mother is still here and hugs her.
However she is still unable to touch her and only appears to be embracing herself.

Her mother doesn’t disappear immediately though.
Her eyebrows furrow and she glances at me with a concerned look.

「Me……?」

I’d rather her ignore me and give Nonna a smile instead.

「Mother always warned me to be careful with savage men, that’s why she might be worried.」

「What does that mean!?」

Nonna says in tears.
Her mother’s gaze does not shift away from me despite my deliberate exaggerated reaction.

She slowly moves toward me.

「Ah, wait……」

She moves slow enough to not be separated from Nonna.

Then she leans in and whispers in my ear.
Like her appearance, her voice was refreshing and pleasant.

The mother tells me something.
Then she asks a question.

「Is that how it is? I have too many things in mind.」

I think briefly before answering.

「I won’t let misfortune befall Nonna. She might cry though. As a result of deep love, that is.」

The mother peers into my eyes during my reply and then seems to become somewhat relieved.

「By the way.」

I rest a hand on the mother’s shoulder.

「Eh, how!?」

Nonna is shocked at how I can touch her mother with no issues.
Since a long time ago, I was able to touch most ghosts.

「You will be my mother-in-law. And you are also a very attractive lady. Fortunately, there is a bed here.」

My hand slides down from her shoulder to her waist.
Nonna’s jaw drops while her mother’s eyes slant cautiously.

「How about we go for one round and deepen our relationship?」

Suddenly, my back gets heavy and I am slammed face down to the ground.

When I take a peek, I see the mother has become a vengeful ghost and her face is like a terrifying demon. Then she turns to Nonna and points at the closet.

「I understand, mother!」

What Nonna retrieves from the closet is an extra large dildo.
I try to stand up, but I can’t budge.

「Stop, wait! Nonna, mother-in-law!」

「As the legal wife, I will chastise my immoral husband! Please watch, mother!」

Nonna positions herself behind me and punishes me with a determined grunt.

When I destroy the window and grating, sunlight instantly illuminates the room.

Beads of light drift from the body of Nonna’s mother as she fades away.
I suggested she stay behind like Casie, but she shook her head.
Well, that’s the way things should be so I can’t stop her.

Nonna tries to cuddle with her mother as she slowly disappears from between my legs, but she passes right through.

The beads of light reach her chest and her mother whispers.

Nonna’s shoulders tremble in surprise, and she nods repeatedly as if reflecting on what she heard.

Her mother’s transparent hand resting on Nonna’s head certainly moves her hair.

「Sniff……I understaaaand.」

Tears stream down Nonna’s eyes as her mother strokes her daughter with a faint smile on her face, and gives me one last look before the beads of light scatter.

With this the story of the Elektra family has come to a close.
What will continue is Nonna’s story and her children’s stories.

I try to support Nonna as she collapses, but I give up halfway and hold my ass in agony.

「Sorry. I don’t have any feeling in my ass and I can’t summon any strength.」

The curve on that dildo was insane and it had bumps all over.

「I should be saying sorry for overdoing it. And it was quite the shock to me that mother had such an item hidden away.」

Both of us burst out laughing.

No matter how beautiful her tears are, a woman’s smiling face is definitely better than her crying face.
I guess there was some value in getting my ass bloodied.

「King Hardlett……I know you’re in the middle of something but……」

That’s when the forty year old female mayor comes.
She looks like she has troublesome news, but something falls from the sky before she can say anything.

（My city. My family. My honor. How can I forget this grudge!!?）

A middle-aged man with a beard came flying down shouting.

「Ah, father.」

Oh yeah, only her father was killed in White City, huh?
I wonder what triggered him to fly here.

He descends with a deep-seated resentment.

「Eeek, Lord Elektra!! It’s the wrath of the dead! Higuuu!!」

The mayor pees her pants and faints.

On the contrary, I reply with a sigh.

「Your son, your daughter and your wife are all gone. So is the rest of your family. You’re too late.」

（Eh?）

The father freezes in place, still with a menacing face.

「I’m going to keep this short because this is the umpteenth time, Nonna returned safely. I am her husband, and the king, and she has already given birth to twins.」

（Nice to meet you. I am her father.）

When I applaud, the father bows.

「Now go on and chase after them. You might catch them if you hurry.」

The father’s face quickly returns to being human as he pitifully brushes Nonna’s face.

「Father. Please sleep peacefully.」

（I wish you good health too.）

He’s the one who came rather haphazardly but he’s the one who was the fastest to come to a mutual understanding, how weird.

「Also, your mother and I don’t want this to be a memento, so please return it.」

The father takes the dildo from Nonna and passes on to the afterlife.

「Your Majesty.」

Coming in his place is Leopolt.

「Did you see what happened just now?」

「Pardon? More importantly, you are injured?」

Leopolt comments after seeing my ass.

「It’s bloody but it’s no big deal. So, what’s wrong?」

Leopolt points at the port.

「An express ship has come from the Federation base. I believe it is a messenger from their command headquarters.」

「I don’t think there’s much to be said at this point after doing all that reckless stuff……well, I guess I can hear him out.」

I give Nonna’s tear-stained face a kiss.

「Be careful.」
「Yeah.」

I should be safe for now.

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