The Broken Possessors of the Infinite Regression Academy - Chapter 181



Chapter 181 – The Main Character

I looked around. One of the dorm buildings had been completely evaporated, leaving only a few debris on the outskirts, and the nearby park had been completely leveled. It felt like I was in the middle of a battlefield, not the academy.

The cause is obviously Aria.

I took a deep breath. I wasn’t yet able to fully utilize the memories I had accepted. I needed more time to eliminate the gap between my soul and my body.

But that alone was more than enough to make one realize the gap between the two worlds.

Because the world of dark fantasy, where the protagonist must suffer and struggle, and the world of yuri romance, where that is not necessary, were bound to be fundamentally different.

If the enemy is weak, exhaustion won’t be possible, so make the enemy overwhelmingly strong. However, if the protagonist can’t defeat him, the story won’t progress, so make sure he can respond to it to some extent.

If a world where the settings of enemies and allies were strengthened alternately and inflation gradually progressed was weaker than the world of Yuri Romance, that would be even stranger.

Enough to make me think that Aria wasn’t obsessed with my power for nothing.

“Who was it? What are you talking about, Mira? I really don’t know what’s going on.”

Leona asked in a panicked voice. Judging by her miserable appearance and Aria’s venomous expression, it seemed like the matter was halfway done. If she had been even a little late, it wouldn’t have been a good thing.

“I’ll explain later. Have you thought about what I said? Who will you choose between Aria and me? If you haven’t, you’d better do it soon. Because the time has come.”

“… … .”

Leona’s expression, which had been looking back and forth between Aria and me, darkened rapidly.

I think you realized that just now. No matter how much you whined about how hard it was to choose between the two, the time had come when you had to do it.

Leona hesitated for a while and then moved her lips with difficulty.

“… … Mira. The Aria over there isn’t the Aria I knew, is it?”

“Probably not.”

Even after the novel ended, Aria was still Aria, but at least the Aria Leona remembered and the Aria now were different, so she answered no.

It’s not too late to give another explanation after everything is over. This is enough to make you understand the current situation.

“Isn’t it possible to change it back to how it was?”

“It’s not up to me, it’s up to them. What do you think, as a childhood friend? Do you think it can be reversed?”

“……no.”

Leona lowered her head in despair and muttered something. After mumbling for a while, she turned her eyes to Aria with determination and aimed the holy sword at me.

“Honestly, I want to believe it. I want to believe that I was mistaken. I want to believe that things can be restored to the way they were. But I don’t think that’s possible.”

A very bitter voice continued.

“… …Something, I have a feeling. I’m sorry, Aria. I didn’t trust you.”

The golden pupils became moist. The holy sword began to glow softly. As I watched the scene, I blurted out a word without thinking.

“It’s fine if you want to fight, but do it in that manner?”

“Uh, yeah?”

Leona, who had been sobbing, finally looked down at her appearance.

The upper body, with her underwear and even her bare skin exposed due to the shirt hanging precariously over her right shoulder, was half-burned, and the lower body was wearing only a pair of panties, with no skirt anywhere to show.

He was wearing shoes and no socks. It was a really strange outfit. It seemed like he hadn’t been able to get his clothes back after being attacked.

“Gyaaah!”

Leona screamed in pain. Tears of a different meaning welled up between her tightly shut eyelids. Leona crouched down on the floor, desperately covering her chest and panties with both arms.

I thought he knew the situation was urgent and didn’t care, but it seems he just didn’t notice.

“Hey, don’t look here! Mira! Look away!”

He took off his outer garment and held it out to Leona, who was squatting with her back turned, perhaps thinking that the back was better than the front, making her butt look even more prominent.

Leona, who had almost snatched the clothes away, hurriedly put them on over her body, squatted down, and pulled them in up to her thighs. Fortunately, they were just big enough to cover her entire body.

Her flushed cheeks and tearful face looked up at me. I looked away. I decided to pretend I hadn’t seen anything.

“I’ll go deal with Aria. Just stay like this for a moment. It won’t take long.”

The reason we were able to have such a normal conversation was because Aria was panting as if she was going to collapse at any moment. My nose was three feet tall, so she wasn’t in a position to take advantage of our weaknesses.

“Why are you being so greedy? You should have gotten rid of it instead of sealing it.”

“Hehe, needless greed, Miss Mira… … You’re being too harsh… … And now there’s no more room to go, heh, there’s no more room… … Miss Mira, you’re forcing yourself inside me… … Haa, haa.”

The expression is a bit strange.

When I frowned, Aria smiled faintly, sweat dripping down her face.

“I’m a little over halfway in, ugh, at this point… … Isn’t Mira-ssi too, ugh, big… …?”

“You must be too small.”

If someone who didn’t know the context were to listen to the conversation, it was full of expressions that would be easy to misunderstand. Even Leona, who had almost died just a moment ago, looked bewildered.

Come to think of it, when we first started getting close, Leona also teased me in a similar way. Maybe it’s because we were childhood friends that we resembled each other in that way.

“It’s narrow… … I’m sorry… … Would you please look at it like this… … ?”

Aria drew a magic circle in the air. It wasn’t the usual soft blue magic circle, but an ominous red magic circle.

“What, you’re going to fight in that condition? That’s unexpected. Your body might explode soon.”

“Of course I’m going to fight in this condition, huh, no? To do what I want to do, I just need a little more… … time… … .”

“What are you trying to do?”

“It’s a life-or-death gamble.”

Aria’s eyes sparkled as she said those words.

The body that had disappeared in an instant appeared at a distance smaller than half the size of a pinky fingernail, and the space next to it was completely destroyed, and monsters with familiar yet unfamiliar appearances rushed out.

The first thing that came out was a creature with the appearance of a lion. It had wings on its back that were twice as long as its body, and its forelegs and hind legs had large thorns on the joints, and its tail had a hammer attached to the end.

Its red, blazing eyes turned to me. Its claws, twice as long as ordinary fangs, scraped the ground. Sulfur mixed with venom dripped from its mouth.

There weren’t just one or two of those. It seemed like there were at least a hundred of them that popped out during the first summoning.

But my eyes were not fixed on the monster that had just appeared, but on Aria behind it. She was casting magic on her own body as if she was about to commit something.

I instinctively accelerated my body and ran. I put my hand down. A magic circle appeared in the air, and a sphere made of magma descended toward Aria.

-Wow, wow, wow!

And, the monsters that had just been summoned were blocking the magma with their bodies. Even though a dozen or so of them melted at the same time with a single gesture, they continued to push in and fill the empty space.

Sulfur mixed with venom burst out from their mouths. It’s easy to dodge if you want, but the collateral damage would be enormous if you did.

He spread a hemispherical shield in the air. He shot lightning from the shield in the exact opposite direction of the sulfur’s trajectory. The lightning pierced through the sulfur and struck the inside of the throats of the men with their mouths open.

The monsters that were directly hit by lightning burst from within. Acidic blood and flesh were scattered everywhere. The ground that came into contact with their body fluids began to boil.

‘Was it your intention to use it as a meat shield from the beginning?’

The monsters were popping out in numbers far greater than the number dying at this very moment, and instead of rushing at me, they were blocking my path and acting as Aria’s meat shield.

That must be why they summoned those lion-like creatures. They have tough skin, which is a racial trait that makes them extremely resistant to physical attacks. That doesn’t mean they are weak against magic, though.

If this continues, it will be too late. Boom! He stomped on the ground. A shockwave exploded in a circle, completely destroying the entire area. The surrounding defense barrier rippled like the middle of a stormy sea.

‘If only there was a light… … .’

If there had been a light window, it would have been much easier to break through. No matter how many appeared, they would have melted as soon as they came.

But for some reason, I couldn’t use it. I don’t know if it was because I met Latina, but as soon as I raised my divine power, it kept going back in.

I felt like I had no choice but to use something else. I drew a magic circle on my palm. An ominous black sphere appeared, rotating clockwise.

The demons who saw the black sphere reacted by howling. That would be so. This is the power of the demons, and how dangerous it is must have been engraved in their instincts.

The sphere that had been rotating clockwise gradually stopped rotating. Although I said gradually, it was actually a slowdown in the time it took to use both physical reinforcement and acceleration, so it would actually be in decimal units.

-Kuooo… … .

The airflow changed. The sphere began to rotate counterclockwise.

The monsters that had been blocking Aria and me with their bodies and acting as meat shields rose into the air. Their front and hind legs, with nowhere to reach, flailed pitifully in the air.

Everything inside the shield was sucked into the sphere. The shield built by digging claws and teeth into each other’s bodies, and the size that seemed to be twice that of a lion, were of no use.

It just kept repeating the cycle of being sucked into the sphere and disappearing, unable to overcome the pressure.

He fixed the black sphere in the air and increased his running speed. He cut in half a struggling monster in front of him and then ran right up to Aria.

“I guess I’m still the main character.”

It only took about 2-3 seconds for him to sweep away all the monsters blocking his path and approach Aria again, but judging by his expression, he could tell.

It’s already too late.

“When you see this kind of success.”

The strength that had been flowing back out of my body burst out all at once.

“Hasn’t it suddenly become quiet outside?”

“Oh, really?”

The four people who were resting in a tent specially made for the saint turned their heads. The outside, which had been noisy just a moment ago, had become strangely quiet.

The saint appeared and healed all the injured, and there was no demons, so it was a festive atmosphere outside. It couldn’t have been this quiet.

The four of them nodded without saying who would go first and got up. They lifted the tent, leaving behind the sofa that did not return to its original position even though the pressure from above had disappeared.

“… … Huh?”

The tent did not open.

No, it wasn’t just that it wouldn’t open, it was as if it had frozen in place, not even the slightest movement. It was the same even though Rosaria, in a panic, pounded it with her palm.

There was no sound, no movement, nothing. Not even the punch I struck hurt.

“What is this? How did this happen… … .”

“… … The same goes for everything else.”

Laura tapped the cup on the table. This time, there was no movement. Realizing the seriousness of the situation, the four of them each tried to poke around in their tents, but everything inside was the same.

“Is it magic?”

Priscilla, who had tried to lift the pillow and blanket but eventually gave up and came back, asked with a serious face. The other three also answered with serious faces.

“I don’t know. If it was magic, you would have felt it… … By the way, can you use magic? I don’t have divine powers.”

“It’s the same. I can’t use magic either.”

“I’m the same way, but I have no idea what’s going on. I even question whether this is magic in the first place.”

Each of them was lost in their own thoughts, but no sharp idea came to mind. This was the first time this had happened. A situation where no matter what you touched, there was no sound, and no matter what you touched, there was no movement at all.

As if time had stopped.