Chapter 164: Contract
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 164: Contract
As the Imperial soldiers were devoured one by one by the black mass of flesh, not all of them were consumed so helplessly.
The Emperor's fanatics. Her Royal Guard, who knew no fear, were able to carry out their duties, unaffected by Hekaterina's magic.
Of course, it wasn't because they were battle-hardened veterans who knew no fear.
“Fwoooosh…! Burn it all.”
Dozens of soldiers with drug-delivery devices attached to their mouths were spraying flamethrowers, incinerating the black tentacles.
The reason they could face tentacles large enough to swallow them whole without fear was because they were junkies high on drugs.
A combat stimpack made in the Empire.
Makina had prepared measures to deal with all the witches in advance, and this was an item created specifically as a countermeasure for Hekaterina.
“Honestly. What are they all doing?”
The fanatics burned the tentacles, creating a path for the soldiers to advance, and the soldiers slowly drained the witches' magic power.
Once a certain amount had been drained, it was time for the decisive weapon to appear.
“This pathetic barrier—it should have been breached long ago.”
Makina Type 69 piloted the Gigant and stood before the barrier surrounding the cabin.
As Type 69, standing before the barrier, manipulated something, the brains of high-ranking priests installed in the Gigant generated divine power through electrical signals.
Divine power, capable of cutting through any magic, coated its entire body, and the Gigant pierced through the barrier as if it were paper.
“Everyone, this way-!”
Having breached the barrier, Type 69 used its own body to hold the opening and ordered the soldiers to advance inside.
As countless soldiers poured inside—the soldiers leading the charge suddenly stopped.
“What the!?”
“Why'd you suddenly stop!?”
The soldiers blocked by the front line shouted. Just then, the soldiers who had stopped turned around with strange expressions on their faces.
With trembling hands, they pulled out the grenades attached to their chests and immediately removed the pins.
“Huh? Wh-what?”
“You guys, what are you doing—.”
And they threw the grenades right at the other soldiers. Clatter- The grenades rolled among the soldiers and immediately detonated, causing a massive explosion—and the soldiers at the front didn't stop there, starting to fire their guns indiscriminately.
“Aaaaargh—!”
“H-Help me!”
“What are you doing!?”
The soldiers hit by friendly fire were trapped among the corpses and slowly began to die.
When they ran out of bullets, the front-line soldiers immediately threw down their guns, picked up new ones, and started firing again—just as it seemed the entire force would be wiped out by just a few men.
Bang-!
“Get in there, quickly.”
Type 69, who was maintaining the barrier, killed the soldiers at the front who were firing on their allies, then nonchalantly ordered the rest to advance.
Seeing their comrades who entered the barrier being controlled, the soldiers were terrified and couldn't bring themselves to enter. Seeing this, Type 69 sighed and took the lead.
Crackle- Fizzle-!
‘Hm?’
The moment Type 69 stepped inside, something made of magic power touched her body and crumbled to dust.
Makina Type 69 finally realized why the soldiers had suddenly started shooting at their own allies.
‘Beatrice.’
The Doll Witch. I thought she just had magic that created some weird dolls, but it seems that, befitting a puppeteer, she also possessed magic to control others like dolls.
Unfortunately, however, the Gigant was the ultimate machine, capable of nullifying any and all magic.
It was not something the likes of the Doll Witch could overcome.
“How foolish.”
Stepping inside the barrier, Type 69 immediately deployed all of the Gigant's weapons and aimed at the witches maintaining the barrier in the distance.
Immediately, dozens of missiles and shells, and thousands of bullets built into the Gigant rained down on the witches.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-!!
An intense roar, loud enough to rupture eardrums, echoed out. After unleashing all its ammunition, Type 69 immediately drew its energy sword and charged toward the witches.
“Haha-! As long as this Gigant, which nullifies all magic, exists, you are nothing but helpless exis—.”
Whoosh-!
And just then, the Gigant suddenly pitched forward. Realizing the external monitors had gone completely dark, Type 69 tilted her head, unable to understand what was happening.
“No, what the... Why is this happening all of a sudden!”
Wondering if the divine power generator had malfunctioned and stopped producing divine power, Type 69 immediately checked the UI and found that the generator was working fine.
Then how on earth did they topple the Gigant? Unable to understand, Type 69 immediately checked to see where the problem was.
The check revealed that something had pulled its legs out from behind.
“What, is this……”
“—Linne. Give me more.”
“Y-Yes....”
Just then, the Gigant's voice collector picked up the witches' conversation from afar. The content was as follows.
Linne creates a thin wire with the magic of Creation. Beatrice, imbuing that wire with magic power, physically controls the Gigant.
That was why the divine power that nullified magic didn't work. Just as something erased by the magic of Annihilation cannot be nullified by divine power, something made with the magic of Creation could not be negated by it.
“Damn, damn you witches!”
Type 69 cried out as she struggled to control the Gigant. But Beatrice's wires had already bound the Gigant tightly.
Bound like that, Beatrice began to manipulate the Gigant like a skilled puppeteer.
“—Go.”
A moment later, the Gigant began to charge toward the Imperial soldiers. A massive strategic weapon. Against the Gigant, the soldiers began to be helplessly slaughtered.
“Aaaaargh-!”
The helplessness and humiliation of slaughtering her own soldiers with her own hands. Unable to overcome those feelings, Type 69 simply pressed the self-destruct button.
She had wondered why such a button was even made—but now that it was time to self-destruct, she began to understand.
It must have been made with the intention that it's better to just die than to suffer humiliation.
KABOOOM-!
The Gigant exploded. The fact that a strategic weapon more powerful than a tank had exploded sent the soldiers into a panic, and they began to retreat.
For a moment, peace fell before the cabin. The witches thought this was their only chance to escape.
Yohan, who had been diligently thrusting away inside the cabin, felt his thing go completely limp at the sight of the witches suddenly entering.
Of course, it didn't actually die—it soon filled Regina's pussy again, but still.
Looking up at the witches looking down at him, Yohan tilted his head as if to ask what was going on.
“Is the fight over?”
“No. Far from it. That's why we came. We need to escape, quickly.”
“Escape quickly? What do you mean…?”
Yohan tilted his head, not understanding, but after hearing the witches' explanation, he too agreed that they needed to flee as soon as possible.
“So, the army's resistance is too strong. Is that it?”
“That's right. They know how to fight witches strangely well. A prolonged battle will be disadvantageous for us.”
“……Because of me.”
“Yes. Because we have to save our magic power to go back to the past.”
If they could use their magic power without holding back, the Empire wouldn't be such a fearsome enemy. An empire that Makina spent decades building? Evangeline could probably wipe it out all by herself.
But with not just Evangeline, but five other witches comparable to her, it wouldn't even be a fight—it would be a matter of whether the Empire could last for days or just hours.
Of course, that's only if they could use their magic freely.
‘If we can't use our magic, all we can do is hold on…….’
In a way, it was obvious. Magic power was everything to a witch. Telling them to fight without using magic was like telling a human to fight after draining all their blood.
Humans die without blood. Likewise, witches die without magic power.
“It can't be helped.”
“Do you have an idea?”
“……I'll try to persuade Margaret.”
“What? No! Do you not know what that bitch did?”
“It's fine. It's not like we have any other choice, right?”
After replenishing Regina's magic power, Yohan immediately pulled out his cock and headed for the room where Margaret was confined. There was no time to hide his member or put on clothes.
Creeak- The door opened, and Yohan appeared before Margaret, who was locked away alone in a solitary room. The intense light and the cock. Both were stimuli far too strong for a witch who had been rotting in the darkness.
“……Yohan?”
“Margaret. I have a favor to ask.”
“No. I won't listen. I'm not going to listen……”
“We're going back to the past. I need your help.”
Margaret covered her ears, as if refusing to listen to anything Yohan said. It can't be helped. Yohan slowly approached her.
Since Margaret was hugging her knees in the corner of the room, Yohan's cock naturally came to rest against her face.
As the cock, reeking of a lewd scent, bobbed before her nose, Margaret unknowingly swallowed hard.
As Margaret unconsciously opened her mouth, Yohan pushed his member inside and pulled her hands away from her ears.
“Just listen. I need your help. If you agree to help—even after we go back to the past, I'll look for a way to save you.”
“—Mmph, mmph!”
“If you refuse—I'll just kill you right here. ……I've learned that a witch's uterus also holds magic power.”
At his words that he would kill her, Margaret's eyes flew open. Soon after, with his cock filling her mouth, she began to shed thick tears.
Looking at her crying, Yohan made his proposal.
“But, if you help me…… I'll try to save you, somehow.”
“……?”
“It means that after we go back to the past, I'll save both you and Margaret. I mean I'll save you both.”
He didn't know if it was possible or not. But—in this moment, his desire to save her was sincere.
Because if she didn't help, he would have to give up even more.
Listening to his proposal while shedding thick tears, Margaret began to suck his cock eagerly. It was a sign of affirmation.
Yohan came inside her mouth, sealing the contract with her.