The Return of Lilietta - Chapter 92

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Chapter 92

While Gid couldn’t move as he maintained the selective barrier like the original’s territory control, it wasn’t a major problem since the clones that had lost their templates had turned into slime masses.

‘Good, now I just need to rescue them.’

Confirming that safety was secured, Rita stopped concealing herself and advanced toward the struggling people. She first approached Lindsey and caught the staggering woman.

“Lindsey, are you conscious?”

“My… lady? What on earth am I…?”

“Details later. Can you walk?”

Lindsey blinked as if dizzy, then retched and vomited transparent slime.

‘Ugh, I’ll need to do a proper contamination check later. The old Command people at least had contamination prevention measures, but Lindsey had contact with a demon beast without any of that… Still, most Tritoma members are Oathbinders, so it should be fine, right?’

Rita clicked her tongue, then turned her head at the feeling of her hair being pulled.

The bird that had grabbed her hair shared its vision of the greenhouse entrance. She could see bluish light-formed deer streaming through the narrow entrance one after another.

‘Senior sent them.’

Rita immediately understood Isaiah’s intention and lifted Lindsey onto the back of the first deer. As Lindsey retched while reflexively hugging the glowing deer’s neck, it ran out of the greenhouse.

She then loaded the staggering clerks onto the next deer in sequence.

Gid turned his head with eyes closed to check what she was doing, then withdrew the selective barrier and raised the sword he had been letting hang.

Beyond the vanished black haze, the Doppelganger that had given up swinging its tentacles could be seen howling as it compressed its body to the maximum.

A Doppelganger that couldn’t transform could only make simple attacks like swinging tentacles or body ramming.

Its main body was quite heavy, and when compressed like that and launched like a projectile, the impact would be tremendous enough that the selective barrier couldn’t block it, making it quite dangerous, but…

‘Its opponent is Gid.’

Rita trusted him and focused on loading people onto the deer summons. After somehow dragging the large gatekeeper who was vomiting slime and getting him onto a deer, a loud noise came from inside the greenhouse.

Moving her head to see through the bird’s vision, she saw that Gid had cut the rolling Doppelganger in half, with slime masses split in two rolling around after colliding with greenhouse shelves and walls.

Grrrrrr.

She could see the bisected slime flowing together and reconnecting. The giant eyeball that had moved to one side to avoid the splitting part was also quickly finding its place. Just like the clones, it was practically immune to ordinary physical attacks.

‘What an annoying demon beast.’

The plan was to trap it in the greenhouse and burn it once all the people were evacuated.

Rita recalled the operation plan as she lifted the hooded Special Agent onto a deer. Now only the rifle-wielding Special Agent and the red-haired Special Agent remained. Both were staggering and had collapsed, twitching.

[Cast: Casting enhancement magic on the user’s arms.]

Aided by Grace’s repeatedly cast enhancement magic, she was dragging the tall rifle-wielding Special Agent when suddenly the red-haired Special Agent regained consciousness.

“Ptui ptui, uh… huh?”

The red-haired man spat out the remaining slime in his mouth haphazardly, wiped his mouth with a pale face, then was horrified to witness Rita dragging his unconscious colleague.

She was covered in slime from head to toe from carrying people who were vomiting slime.

To the red-haired man’s blurry vision as he just regained consciousness, it only looked like a slime-dripping monster kidnapping his colleague.

“Mon, monster! Aaaaah!”

Panicking, he screamed and swung his sword at her without warning.

Rita was momentarily flustered.

Since she was viewing the surroundings through the summon’s vision, she was late to notice the red-haired man’s attack, and her reaction was slow as she was dragging a man much larger than herself. She couldn’t immediately draw her gun since both hands were occupied.

However, that confusion was extremely brief. The next moment, she immediately judged and acted.

She stepped back to avoid the sword tip, released the hand supporting the man and dropped him behind her, then immediately drew Silvergrass with her free hand and counterattacked.

The silent round remaining in the chamber fired soundlessly and embedded in the sword the red-haired man was swinging. The blade broke with a clang and flew away.

Facing the red-haired man’s shock, Rita swung the hand holding Silvergrass as it was.

There was a thwack sound. The red-haired man, struck precisely in the temple by the revolver’s grip, couldn’t even scream and collapsed unconscious.

[Criticism: Attacking without attempting situational awareness or friend-or-foe identification first – what a foolish human!]

[Recommendation: Since you just fired from an awkward position, causing impact to your right hand and wrist, please do light stretching and massage.]

Listening to Grace’s fussing, Rita sighed.

‘That was startling, but fortunately…’

It wasn’t fortunate.

With an ominous intuition, Rita whipped her head around.

“…!”

Gid, who had been facing the Doppelganger, had his eyes wide open. He seemed to have opened his eyes in surprise at the commotion that just occurred while looking back at her.

His golden pupils met the gaze of the giant Doppelganger’s single eye.

‘No!’

Rita urgently aimed her gun at the Doppelganger’s eyeball, but it was too late.

The demon beast’s single eye curved like a crescent moon. And the transparent slime instantly shrank and transformed into human form.

‘Damn.’

She gritted her teeth and recalled the Doppelganger main body’s annoying ability.

‘It digs into the memories of whoever makes eye contact and transforms into someone that person absolutely cannot attack. Then it casts charm in that form…’

Viciously targeting the most vulnerable point, the person who made eye contact couldn’t escape the charm or defeat the transformed Doppelganger. Someone else had to take it down.

Rita loaded an explosive round, determined to shoot whatever it transformed into immediately. Then she saw the Doppelganger that had finished transforming and froze for a moment.

‘That’s…’

Me.

Lillieta stared blankly at it while aiming her gun.

Black combat uniform with multiple pockets. A black rifle held in leather-gloved hands.

Auburn hair tied in a single strand fluttered. Sharp eyes curved gently, and freckles on the bridge of the nose moved.

‘Rita Pascal’ smiled as she looked at Gideon.

“Gid.”

A sweet-sounding voice.

“It’s been a while.”

Gid’s pupils wavered before her. He froze while holding his breath. Completely charmed, he couldn’t move and just stared at ‘Rita Pascal’. He didn’t even notice it stealthily moving the rifle’s muzzle.

When it aimed the gun at Gid, Lillieta reflexively pulled the trigger.

Bang! The explosive round fired with a thunderous roar. Simultaneously, ‘Rita Pascal’s’ auburn eyes flashed and its muzzle moved toward her.

A bang rang out with almost no delay. ‘Rita Pascal’s’ bullet deflected Lillieta’s explosive round. The explosive round embedded in the wall exploded loudly, setting the plant stems on fire.

[Amazement: Is there another human besides the user who can display such skill?]

There was no time to answer Grace.

Lillieta swallowed the curses that naturally rose and immediately rolled from her position. With rapid gunshots, bullets embedded consecutively where she had been.

She thought while rolling.

If the opponent is ‘Rita Pascal’, how to kill it?

Branches of thought that spread instantly each bore different fruit. She eliminated the impossible ones and chose the method that could be executed most quickly and simply at this moment.

A method utilizing the gap between ‘Rita Pascal’ and Lillieta.

When she repositioned herself, she opened her closed eyes and pulled the trigger with hands blazing with dazzling golden Oaths.

‘If I compress as many Oaths as possible into the explosive round.’

BOOM!

With an ear-splitting roar, a white-glowing bullet fired. It flew leaving a clear trajectory like a comet’s tail.

‘Rita Pascal’ expressionlessly fired her rifle. A similarly white-glowing explosive round scattered gentle light as it collided with Lillieta’s explosive round.

And it was crushed.

‘I’ll definitely win. The amount of Oaths I can use is different from before.’

With the same technique, Lillieta’s side had to be much more powerful.

Lillieta’s explosive round, piercing through ‘Rita Pascal’s’ bullet, left a distinct trajectory as it hit the target point. ‘Rita Pascal’s’ forehead.

The bullet embedded in the Doppelganger’s head exploded. ‘Rita Pascal’ shattered and burst apart.

‘Ah.’

The moment ‘Rita Pascal’s’ fragmented head flew in front of Gideon, Lillieta thought.

‘I made a mistake.’

Focusing only on killing the demon beast, she had recreated a scene that should never have been recreated.

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