“…I’ve never heard that name before. No, wait, a similar name came up just a moment ago… Where are the other cult members?”
“They’re being dealt with by my comrades as we speak.”
“…I don’t like it. That outfit of yours… It’s imbued with powerful magic, a spell of concealment. Are you too cowardly to even show your face?”
“I simply have no need to show it… especially to someone who is about to die.”
…It’s true.
These women who suddenly appeared, they aren’t even hiding their faces, yet I can’t recognize them. I can tell they’re incredibly beautiful, but their faces slip from my memory…
“Hehehe, well, well… So? What brings you here, uninvited guest?”
“We are here to do what must be done.”
With a swift motion, the woman in black unsheathed her knight’s sword from her waist.
“We are the Curse Brotherhood. We bear curses and command them.”
“The Cult of Insects, Grellod. Apostles of the god-player. Our enemies. We’ll be hunting you.”
“Heh heh, paying back the debt from five years ago, with your life.”
The red-haired woman and the black-haired woman also began to charge their bodies with magical energy.
Such magic power… I’ve never seen anything like it before… No, but it feels strangely familiar—
“That magic power… Could it be, heh, heheheheheh!!!! Oh, what a day! What a day indeed!! They’ve returned!! The sacrifice has returned after five years!! That magic power!! Dominion! War! Famine!! The Sisters of the Goddess of Death!! Welcome back!!”
It seems that at this point, Grellod’s attention had shifted away from us.
The power she had directed toward me also dissipated before I realized it.
“We are no longer the playthings of gods.”
“Let our cursed song reach the throne of the gods.”
“For our king, we will take the head of the gods.”
“A mere sacrifice, chirping away!! Fine, come at me!! The Cult of Insects’ elder!! Grellod Majarm will gift you death!! As offerings fit for the rebirth of my beloved Bluemilk!!”
Magic erupted in waves.
A battle between skilled sorcerers.
Their magic became a source of light, illuminating the cave.
Now’s my chance to escape—
I reached out to my gift, calling to it—
“Huh?”
My body stopped moving.
My body reacted before my brain could process it.
White, red, black, purple.
The cave illuminated by various hues of magical light—ah, I finally saw it.
I became aware of the strange feeling I had been trying to ignore.
The clothes of that beautiful person with white hair.
A black hoodie, with a snowflake emblem on the stomach.
—”I designed the snowflake on this snowman’s outfit.”
Wait, that’s… my guild, the Brotherhood’s outfit…
That person, whom I don’t even know, that person who treated me as myself, gave me my very own—
“What?”
Why? Why, why why why why why why why why why why?
“You’ve found your enemy, Player Snow.”
I heard a voice.
