The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 254



255 – Swept away

Aim the tip of the spear at Jamie, whose movements were momentarily halted by vines. My combat experience so far strongly tells me that the moment has arrived when I will pour everything I can into one single blow.

Grasp the spear pole tightly. The magical energy of the whole body boils, and the magical energy gathers in increasing density around the heart. Just as an animal exhales and the world slows down along with it, a time shorter than an instant embraces eternity for a moment and expands into the realm of the extrasensory.

It was the first time using intangibility and dimensional leap at the same time, but its destructive power was clearly promised. Even when I had no intangibility, dimensional jumping was like a special move for me. Since it adds several times more power as an intangible, I am confident that it will be able to kill even Confsion in one blow.

A dimensional passage was created in front of Jamie. There were no spatial coordinates around Jamie, but dimensional jumping does not require spatial coordinates. It just moves forward like an arrow and pierces everything that stands in its way.

A tremendous, uncontrollable force surges from my entire body, as if it might explode at any moment. The moment the flow of time completely stops, along with the feeling of floating as if my back is being pushed, my body is sucked into a dimensional passage.

Through the surrounding darkness, only one path leads to the destination. The moment my body was about to become a flash of light towards Jamie, I felt a strange pressure as if something was wrapping around my body.

I had doubts, but I was already in a situation where I couldn’t stop arbitrarily. Magical power whose density had reached its limit was waiting to be released within my body, to the point where I instinctively knew that if I did not release this intense power, my heart would burst and die.

Jamie’s voice echoes throughout my body, which has become a single flash of light passing through a dimensional passage, as if shot out with incredible speed.

“That’s the biggest trick.”

At that moment, Jamie, who existed at the end of the dimensional passage, turned into a piece of meat and collapsed, unable to maintain its shape. And Jamie’s flesh and blood that had stuck to my body formed a sticky form like blood vessels.

Suddenly, the dimensional passage begins to become unstable. The passage is torn down and collapsing. I felt as if the dimension was undulating and an invisible membrane was undulating.

“Everyone you killed was the real Jamie. Huuu!”

Madness began to race through my mind. There was no pain. The fear of being eaten alive by something stimulates my brain. In response to that, the magic power that had finished preheating exploded like an explosion.

As a flash of light, I pass through a collapsing dimension passageway. Because the passage has collapsed, the tip of the spear tears through the dimensional passage. The Spear of Destruction advanced endlessly, tearing apart the intangible membrane and eliminating the form of something.

“I told you. Madness is a wave, and if you touch that wave, you too will be able to become a great person. Hahahaha!!!”

After finally completing the dimensional jump, I lost consciousness due to the pain that burned my brain, and fell somewhere.

***

Jamie was one of the weakest in Confsion based on skill alone. She was even weaker in her brute force than the church’s saint, Parvati.

However, the reason Jamie received a higher number than Parvati is purely because he had powerful abilities to make up for his lack of strength.

Jamie is not a name that refers to one person. Jamie is the name given to a person contaminated with madness. It steals the body and mind through a wave of madness and turns the opponent into Jamie.

In other words, Jamie was a ‘wave’ without a form.

At first, he planned to simply give Ross’ head to Mesmer, but after seeing the use of space magic, Jamie changed his plan. It was because the desire to have that body arose.

So, he deliberately kept parts of himself attached to Ross’ body. Ross did not realize until the end that he was being stained by the waves of his own madness, just as a person is slowly being stained by the flowing madness.

Now all Jamie had to do was simple. Finding Ross, who may be cowering in his deepest thoughts, and absorbing him as his own. If that happens, Jamie will be born who can use the space magic that the cult leader has been looking for.

“Hehehehe!”

When Jamie arrived, laughing with joy, Ross’s mental image was of a pure white world. Ross was sitting alone in the middle of nowhere, curled up and burying his face in his knees.

Jamie, who enjoys tearing people down the most, deliberately made footsteps. But Ross didn’t flinch at the sound of her footsteps or raise her head to look at Jamie.

Jamie sighed with a disappointed expression on his face when he saw no response, even though he deliberately put pressure on his heels and took a spin around the area.

“Ha, have you already collapsed from the madness? This is so disappointing! I have to resist at least a little so I can enjoy it! Huuu!”

Jamie stepped in front of Ross and leaned down, grabbing his hair and forcing him to raise his head. Still, Ross had his eyes closed with an expressionless face.

Jamie’s face distorted greatly in response.

“Open your eyes! Witness the madness that lies before you! “I mean, look clearly at the moment when you become one with this body!”

At that moment, Ross opened his eyes.

―――.

There was nothing in the blue eyes. These eyes are very suitable for the word emptiness. No, there is something lacking that must exist in all human beings.

Jamie, who met her gaze, unconsciously let go of the hand holding her hair and took a step back. Ross’ eyes followed Jamie.

Ross opened his mouth in a dry voice without emotion, intonation, or pitch.

“… “It’s not you I’ve been waiting for.”

Jamie, who heard those words, radiated madness with a vicious expression.

“Huuu… ! What, what on earth! “Why aren’t you reacting to my madness!!!”

Jamie’s wave of madness that touches Ross disappears without a trace. Ross raised the corner of her mouth at Jamie, who was glaring with her eyes filled with hatred and resentment.

“That’s madness… ?”

A wave of madness rushes out. No, his own madness was being sucked into Ross.

“Pukpukpukhuk!”

With that laugh, Jamie looked beyond Ross’s eyes. She didn’t have empty eyes. There is something that simply cannot be defined. It is something that only Jamie, who shares the chaos and madness, can see.

Beyond those blue eyes, there exists something that cannot be confined by words such as chaos and madness. He couldn’t believe it, so Jamie screamed as loud as he could.

“You, you… ! “What the heck!”

Ross looked at Jamie at that question. Something comes rushing in.

Something indescribable.

“Pukpukuh—!”

Jamie finally realized the sound of laughter.

“Ahh, ah… ! Huuu! Yes, finally, finally I found it! It all starts with this Jamie… !”

Jamie, perhaps not realizing that his own body was melting, just looked beyond Ross’s eyes.

At this moment, Jamie faintly realized the truth.

“Huhuhuhu, I’ve always been curious. You, your presence! In the end, He, our choice… !!!”

Jamie’s body collapses and flows into Ross. Jamie, who tried to absorb her Ross, was eaten by her in reverse.

-It’s sad, I don’t even recognize you.

Ross slowly closed his eyes and buried his head in his knees again.

Waiting for a friend to come to end his long sleep.

∞

When I came to my senses, there was really nothing in sight. The surroundings were dark, as if my eyes were closed. The strange thing is that my body is clearly visible, as if it were illuminated, unlike the surroundings. I must have lost consciousness for a moment, but the blood soaking my clothes still felt damp.

I am floating in the air now. No, it is correct to say that it is fixed as is. Even though I shook my hands and feet hard, I couldn’t feel the movement. Maybe it’s because I have no vision.

“What on earth is going on… ?”

Am I caught in Jamie’s trap? But there was nothing wrong with her body. Her mind seems to be surprisingly intact.

What is unusual is that there are no recognized spatial coordinates around it. It was a situation I had never experienced before, so I was lost in thought for a moment.

After thinking about the previous situation for a while, I was able to come up with a hypothesis.

Could it be that because the dimensional passageway collapsed, they were unable to go out and were trapped in the dimension…? ?

If that were true, it was the worst possible situation. There was no way to get out of here. It was a place where there was no space and you could not feel the flow of time.

“… “Fucked.”

My back becomes damp with cold sweat. You may have to stay in this state until your ego collapses. How many years will that take? No, will the ego collapse? Does time pass? The questions increase one after another. Such a ridiculous ending, I can’t even sigh.

At that time, a space warehouse suddenly appeared before my eyes. I didn’t summon it. I don’t understand at all how a spatial warehouse appeared before my eyes when there are no spatial coordinates here.

As I was looking at the space warehouse with bewildered eyes, the warehouse door opened arbitrarily.

And then something came out. It’s a book. Fatulga’s magic book that has been with me for the longest time.

It unfolded as it pleased, and suddenly pages that did not exist before began to increase.

“W-what… ?”

I picked up the book and checked the added content. This is the first letter I see. But strangely enough, I understood it. how? Questions followed, but all I could say was that I found out naturally.

Fatulga’s magic book returned to the space warehouse as if he had fulfilled his mission. Then the space warehouse disappeared like an illusion.

The situation seemed no different from before, to the point where I wondered if I had just dreamed for a moment, but there was a clear difference inside.

This is a technique of a structure I have never seen before, recorded in Fatulga’s magic book that has settled in my mind.

The logic of explanation and the method of the technique were completely different from before. However, I was able to use the technique freely as if I had known it from the beginning.

Runes on both wrists form a circle and shine. I reached forward, grabbed something invisible, and turned it around. A passage that I had never seen before was created in a space where nothing existed.

It is different from the dimensional passage created by planes and lines in an image. This is… Yes, it feels like I’ve forcefully connected surfaces and lines to something that doesn’t exist. I couldn’t shake off the feeling of instability and danger.

We don’t know what exists beyond this passage. But I had no choice but to pass through the passage.

I have to go back to where I came from. Because now there are people who miss me and are waiting for me.

I smiled faintly. And then he took an irreversible step towards the passage.