BJ Villainess Chapter 325

Clyde, who had bounced near me from Ozworld’s attack, landed smoothly on the ground and asked, “How long will it take?!”

 

I replied, seeing that the flower had just bloomed halfway up the door, “10 minutes! It’ll be done in 10 minutes!”

 

As soon as he heard the answer, Clyde shot forward like an arrow.

 

In reality, 10 minutes wasn’t enough time to make the flower bloom completely. So I had to push myself.

 

“Cough!”

 

Using power far beyond my limit suddenly, I spat out black blood. It wasn’t surprising. This was to be expected when using power beyond my limits. The sensation, one I had experienced before, surged in my brain as if it were burning. My head felt like it was melting, and my consciousness seemed to blur, but I forced my eyes wide open.

 

The flower is blooming. The buds that had been blooming slowly were now blossoming more rapidly.

 

Come on, bloom faster!

 

As I was silently screaming in my mind, I heard a strange noise piercing through my overwhelmed hearing. It wasn’t just a simple burst of sound. I looked up in shock.

 

“Crazy.”

 

A crack was forming in the dimension. Such an event could not be caused by ordinary power. To be more specific, no one present could cause such a phenomenon. That meant something from outside the dimension was splitting space-time to approach us.

 

The crack began to emit a strange light and formed a portal. Something was approaching by an abnormal method. It wasn’t hard to identify the intruder.

 

“…Clyde!”

 

Even though he was wearing a black butterfly mask, I could never fail to recognize him. And the man in the red suit tangled with him was Ozworld.

 

Why are those two here? If the present and the past meet, they’ll be annihilated!

 

Wait a minute. Annihilation? The moment I thought of the word ‘annihilation,’ I suddenly realized why this was happening. Clyde deliberately came here to annihilate Ozworld!

 

“Do you think I’ll just let that happen?”

 

Fortunately, the present and the past hadn’t met yet. But it was clear that the beings of the past, having sensed something strange, would come this way.

 

I immediately stopped creating the dimensional door and instead erected a massive wall to prevent the outsiders from approaching. Only Clyde, who had just crossed over from an external dimension, Ozworld, and I existed within the protected area I had set.

 

To solve this emergency, I had to open the dimensional door. However, creating the dimensional door while preventing the present and past from meeting was extremely difficult.

 

“Ugh…”

 

My mana was rapidly depleting. The spells that had been glowing brightly flickered like a broken neon sign. If only the black butterfly had followed my control, this could have been resolved quickly. Damn it.

 

While I was desperately maintaining the magic, the two men fought fiercely. It was a situation where both the present and past versions were fighting to kill each other. My head throbbed just thinking about it.

 

Then, a crescent-shaped force sliced through the magical plants and flew rapidly toward me.

 

“You insane bastards…!”

 

Are they trying to kill me?!

 

I quickly deployed a shield to block the attack. Teleportation would be the simplest way to dodge it, but if I did, the dimensional door would be destroyed by that attack, so I had no choice.

 

“Urgh!”

 

Blocking an attack meant to kill, the shield cracked like a spider’s web. The immense impact made more black blood surge up inside me. After spitting out the blood, I roughly wiped my mouth with my sleeve. I barely avoided the crisis… But my thoughts were cut short. I suddenly fell into a state of exhaustion, and my legs gave out.

 

“Haa… Haa…”

 

My mana seemed nearly depleted, so I hurriedly pulled out a potion that Reini had made from my subspace and drank it all down. Among them were some recovery potions, so my dizzy and ringing state gradually improved.

 

Thank you, Reini. When I return to the Rapshia Empire, I’ll shower her with gifts.

 

Just as I barely managed to recover my body, the two men who had been fighting like mad appeared on either side of me. They seemed to have come to check if I was safe after the recent attack. Before I could shout at them to knock it off, someone embraced me and transported me away.

 

“Jiwoo.”

 

A heated voice, almost on the verge of tears, wrapped around me. Even if Emperor Signio became emotional, he could never replicate the feelings conveyed in this voice that tightened around my heart.

 

“I missed you.”

 

My uncontrollable anger burst out at those words.

 

“Let go. Let go before I kill you!”

 

Ozworld didn’t release me, even as I struggled violently, clawing and hitting him. It was clear he had no intention of letting me go, as he held me tightly with strong force.

 

A selfish and self-centered piece of trash to the end. I wanted to hurl the harshest curses I could at him, but my words caught in my throat.

 

“I was wrong. I’ll never do it again, so can’t you forgive me just this once?” He was crying, begging for forgiveness. “Please come back, Jiwoo.”

 

It was the words I had longed to hear, but hearing them now made me feel sick. Because it was too late for regrets. I knew too well that even this moment was him giving me the answer I wanted, like solving a quiz.

 

With a face cold as ice, I spoke. “Shin Jiwoo is dead.”

 

“Jiwoo.”

 

And yet he still disgustingly called me Jiwoo.

 

“You saw me die right in front of you.”

 

That was our ending. But Ozworld didn’t seem to think so, spewing crazy talk.

 

“It can be undone.”

 

“…What?”

 

“If we erase just that memory, everything will be fine. I’ll never do that again, so it’ll be okay.”

 

I pushed him away with all my strength and backed off. How could someone be worse the more you got to know them?

 

“As long as you’re that kind of person, no matter how many memories you erase, I’ll never love you.”

 

Ozworld spoke in a gloomy, shadowed voice. “First, let’s get out of here. Also, the core you absorbed is…”

 

Thud! Before he could finish speaking, a transparent arrow pierced through Ozworld’s shoulder and protruded out. It was a magic arrow shot by Clyde.

 

Magic arrows have the nature of attacking only the designated target, like homing missiles, so I wasn’t in any danger. But seeing the shower of arrows fired densely in front of me made my spine shiver.

 

Ozworld removed the arrow from his shoulder without a groan. The other magic arrows all disintegrated before they could reach him. As the smoke that had risen thickly from the shattered magic arrows cleared, Clyde, still wearing his black butterfly mask, appeared.

 

“I dislike fighting, Mr. Clyde. If I use force, everything around me turns into a mess.”

 

“Oh, really? Then how about just dying quietly?”

 

Sensing the tension, I quickly used teleportation magic while the two were facing off. I needed to open the dimensional door. But near the dimensional door, I suddenly encountered Emperor Ozworld, who had somehow entered the wall.

 

Ozworld here, Ozworld there. Seeing his annoying face everywhere, could my life be any worse?

 

Ozworld, standing in front of the half-bloomed flower on the door, asked me, “If this door opens, can you return to the world where you lived?”

 

Instead of answering, I looked around for Clyde. Where did he disappear to after fighting just a moment ago?

 

Sensing my confusion, Ozworld told me, “Clyde left to find you after realizing you had disappeared.”

 

“…No.”

 

Worried that the past and present might meet, I tried to use teleportation magic, but Ozworld blocked me with holy power.

 

“You can’t go there, Theresa.” Not stopping there, he approached me, dragging me to stand before the dimensional door. “You need to bloom this flower. If it fully blooms, it seems you can open the door.”

 

“What are you thinking?”

 

Ozworld, standing behind me as if to embrace me, let out a low chuckle. “I’m thinking of opening this door and going to your world with you.”

 

“Do you really think I’d do that with someone like you?”

 

“Damn it.” Ozworld suddenly muttered something incomprehensible and embraced me. “I’m going crazy because I like it when you speak rudely to me. It makes me feel like I’m the ‘real’ Ozworld.”

 

“You crazy b*stard.”

 

This man, whether in the past or the present, had never been sane. I tried to break free from his arms, but it wasn’t easy.

 

The current Ozworld had absorbed all the energy of Planet Signio and was in an abnormal state of power. He grabbed my hand and made me touch the door. Forcing the magic in my body to surge, the spells spread out everywhere, just like before. This lunatic was once again reading my memories and making me recreate the magic I had used.

 

“Let go of me, you b*stard!”

 

…Just as I shouted and struggled.

 

“What are you doing to my sister?!” Libby appeared with a bright light and swung her fist at Ozworld.