The Reversed World (2)
The silence was absolute.
Neither Lansi nor I could utter a single word.
“Ah…”
The one who broke that silence first was me.
What came out of my mouth was:
“Haha… is this, like… a super funny hidden camera prank?”
It was complete nonsense.
Because come on, right?
The situation made no sense at all.
First of all, the fact that an insanely hot nurse I’d never seen before had just ridden me was already impossible.
And now another insanely beautiful pink-haired nurse shows up with her head dangling by a thread…?
Even Japanese surprise shows don’t go this hard!
This has to be a prank, right?
“H-hahaha! Wow! How did you do the makeup…? No, seriously, the arms and legs… and the neck…”
Her head was literally dangling.
Her clothes were soaked in sticky blood.
Her body was barely holding itself up on the one remaining leg.
…It’s makeup… right?
What really made me question that was the unidentified stench stabbing my nose.
It wasn’t the smell of blood.
It was similar, yet unmistakably different.
“My, how persistent.”
At that moment, Lansi, who had been standing beside me, spoke up.
Unlike me, she didn’t sound surprised at all.
Well… maybe just a tiny bit.
“Did Mother give you something? How are you still alive?”
“S-Siso… nim…”
Creak. Creeeak.
A sound like rusted machinery echoed.
It was clearly coming from Penny.
And that mechanical noise snapped me back to reality.
“Uwaaaaaaaaaah!!”
Anyone who heard that conversation could’ve figured it out without being Sherlock Holmes!
This fucking flower snake bitch!
I knew something was off the moment she started riding me!!
So there was no need to think twice. Run.
Even if this really was a surprise hidden camera show, that reaction would be a massive success.
And if it wasn’t, it was an even better choice.
Except.
Beep.
RAMA usage authorization request confirmed.
The instant I tried to leap off the bed and bolt.
Authority Level 2 — Lansi
Connection approved.
A mechanical voice rang out from somewhere.
Huh…? Did that just come from inside my head?
The moment that thought crossed my mind—
Shrrrrrrk!
“What the hell?!”
Chains slithered like snakes.
They wrapped around my body, binding me tight and stopping my escape.
“Where do you think you’re going? You promised to stay with me, didn’t you?”
“I’m sorry!! I just realized today that I actually prefer men!!”
“Hehe, really? That’s fine. I like men too.”
“Oh for fuck’s sake!!”
I’d been tied up by a flower snake with snake-like chains.
What the hell was that thing in her hand?
A scythe?
Are you the fucking Grim Reaper with a chain-scythe or something?!
And where the hell did it even come from?
It wasn’t like she pulled a “ta-da!” from her sleeve—she was completely naked right now.
Which meant an object that hadn’t existed anywhere had suddenly appeared.
“S-S-Siso… nim…”
“Penny!!”
The situation was crystal clear.
For whatever reason, this stacked beauty was the enemy bitch.
And my ally was Penny, now a mangled wreck.
I’d managed to identify friend from foe, but beyond that, the situation was still complete dogshit.
Half my brain was still screaming Is this a dream?
“Penny!! Go outside and get someone, anyone!!”
“…S-Siso… nim.”
I shouted at Penny as she staggered closer.
There was no way a one-legged Penny could help in this situation.
Some people might criticize me for this.
Saying I was too cold—after all, the girl I liked was in that state.
But I only met her today! Of course I’m acting like this!
Besides, with her head dangling like that, it was obvious Penny wasn’t normal either.
If she were human…
…she should’ve died from blood loss the moment her limbs were torn off.
“Siso… nim…”
Then.
Beep.
RAMA usage authorization request confirmed.
“Huh…?”
“Oh my.”
That same mechanical voice echoed inside my head again.
Lansi, holding the chain-scythe, reacted the same way, as if she’d heard it too.
But then—
Authority verification in progress…
Authority Level 0 — Penny
Request denied.
The message was different this time.
“Pfft, ahahahahaha!”
Lansi burst into laughter, clearly amused.
“How cute. You don’t even have the authority but you tried anyway? Very Eve-like, I suppose. Or were you hoping to impress Mother and earn RAMA access?”
“What the hell have you been talking about this whole time?! Mother, RAMA, Eve—what does any of that mean?! Is there no Speedwagon here to explain this shit?!”
“If you come with me, I’ll explain everything nicely.”
“You seem more like a Dio than a Speedwagon, ma’am!!”
The unknown situation and unknown terms only made my head spin faster.
The more I thought about it, the less real any of this felt.
I mean, I was cracking jokes at a naked stacked woman holding a scythe, for fuck’s sake.
Authority Level 0 — Penny
RAMA usage authorization request reconfirmed.
Request denied.
The voice rang out again.
It kept repeating the same denial over and over.
Even while Lansi and I were having our stupid back-and-forth, the requests continued without pause.
“Siso… nim…”
“Penny—!! I-I’m fine for now, so hurry and get help from outside…!!”
I didn’t know what Penny wanted.
But it was obvious she couldn’t defeat the chain-scythe woman in her current state.
Her neck was half-severed, after all.
But Penny was still free.
If she could just go outside and call for help right now…!
“You think I’d let that happen?”
“Goddammit! Villains are always too smart for their own good!!”
Lansi, having heard me, slowly reached out her hand.
The end of the chain binding me began to writhe.
And then—unbelievably—the chain-scythe floated into the air on its own.
Had a Gate opened sometime in the last fourteen years?
Was Lansi an Awakened?
Had the world turned into a hunter story?
Those were the only explanations that made any sense.
“Now, it’s time to rest easy. Lay down your duties as an Eve.”
Lansi’s words sounded like a death sentence.
Most likely, that chain was about to end Penny’s life completely.
And then what would happen to me?
Would I die too?
…After waking from a vegetative state for only one day?
“S-Siso… nim…”
“Penny…”
I stared at Penny, who kept repeating my name while staggering.
Her eyes had already lost their light. She couldn’t even focus anymore.
But still.
She kept looking at me. Kept speaking to me.
As if she would come running at any moment.
Even with only one leg left.
“Ri… ght… now.”
Authority Level 0 — Penny
RAMA usage authorization request reconfirmed.
And then.
Authority level adjustment required for authorization.
Adjusting requester ‘Penny’’s authority level.
── Authority Level 1 — Penny
Connection approved.
The voice that had only repeated the same thing suddenly changed.
“What?! That’s bullshit! Why would Mother suddenly grant her authority…!!”
And the change wasn’t limited to the voice.
Fwaaaaaah—!!
Light burst out around Penny.
From her severed neck and missing limbs.
No—it wasn’t light.
Tiny glowing cubes were rising around her.
Immediately after—
Kwaaaaaaaaang!!
A deafening explosion rang out.
Penny shot toward us in an instant.
“Tch…!”
“Uwaaaaaaaaagh!!”
Clatterclatterclatter!!
Lansi clicked her tongue and flicked her hand sideways. The chains that had bound me rapidly unraveled and gathered in front of her.
The swirling chains formed a wall.
Kwaaaaaaaaang!!
──Penny’s hand punched straight through that chain wall.
“W-Wait—!!”
That hand grabbed my clothes.
And pulled.
“Uwaaaaaaaaaaagh!!”
Like a fish hooked on a line, my body was dragged across the chain barrier by Penny’s grip.
“Mmph?!”
Squish.
My face slammed into something incredibly soft and warm.
It took me a second to realize it was Penny’s chest.
“S-Siso… nim…”
“P-Penny?!”
“Run… away…”
Before I could even enjoy that heavenly sensation—
“Go… upstairs…”
“Wait—! Don’t just—!!”
Still holding me, Penny hurled me toward the hospital room door.
Fwooooooooosh—!!!
Kwaaaaaang!!!!
“Guhk!”
You said you’d save me!
If I’d hit head-first I would’ve died!!
…I wanted to complain, but.
“What the—fuck…!”
Of course no such joke came out.
By the time I clutched my head and regained my senses, the inside of the hospital room had already become a battlefield.
Kwaang!!
Clatterclatter!!
Slaaaaaash!!!
Lansi wielded her chain-scythe like a living serpent.
Penny swung her pitch-black steel-like leg like a dancer’s blade.
Their clash turned the hospital room into a total wreck.
……How the hell is that human movement?
It was hard enough just trying to follow it with my eyes.
“Huff!! Huff!! What the actual fuck is going on?!”
So I ran like hell.
Obviously.
Was I supposed to stand there like an idiot watching opponents I couldn’t even track?
“Somebody help—!! Please, anyone, help me!!!”
This was the perfect time for division of labor.
While Penny held back that crazy bitch, I would run out and call for help.
If this was a Gate-opened world, there had to be at least a D-rank hunter outside!
Anyway, I sprinted desperately in search of anyone who could help.
“She told me to go up…!!”
Penny had said to go upstairs earlier.
Based on that, this place was probably underground.
There weren’t any windows in the hospital room either.
So the moment I spotted stairs, I bolted upward.
“Is anyone there?! Please help meeeeeee!!”
I screamed at the top of my lungs, begging for help.
When I reached the upper floor while shouting—
“……There’s no one here?”
A dark hospital lobby greeted me.
Oh, right. It was nighttime.
I’d completely lost track of time while underground.
Yeah. It was night.
Looked like there weren’t even any nurses on night duty or security guards.
“Fuck…”
Was this even reality?
Maybe I was still a frozen dumpling and this was all just a dream—like some light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel bullshit.
If that were the case, it would explain two insanely hot nurses trying to seduce and fuck me.
And then fighting like Gate-opened hunters afterward.
“Have you given up on running?”
“……”
At that moment.
Step. Step. Step.
A voice came from behind me.
It was the chain-scythe crazy bitch’s voice.
“……Fuck.”
I turned my stiff neck with a creak.
Lansi’s faint silhouette appeared in the darkness.
I could vaguely sense that she was smiling.
Fwooooosh.
Then.
Thud. Thump.
Roll roll roll…
She threw something.
It rolled across the floor and stopped at my feet.
“……”
It was Penny.
Penny’s head.
Her left eye was missing.
When her remaining eye met mine, my body froze solid.
“S-Siso… nim…”
“……Penny.”
Was this really a dream?
I wished it was.
But if it wasn’t, that was an even bigger problem.
Because…
──There was no way a person could still speak after their head had been cut off.
Yet, as if reading my thoughts, Penny’s lips moved one last time.
“R… un……”
Then they stopped.
Like a broken machine that had finally reached the end of its lifespan.
Her consciousness vanished.
“Penny…”
I collapsed to the floor.
With trembling hands, I picked up Penny’s severed head.
Her skin still felt slightly warm.
Thick red blood stained my hands.
“Finished saying your goodbyes?”
“……”
Huh? But on Penny’s neck…
That didn’t look like human bone at all…
“I did consider taking you with me. But I already got your semen. And it doesn’t look like you’ll listen to us anymore. Besides, killing you was Plan A from the beginning.”
“……”
“Still, since you were my first, I wanted to spare you… I’ll raise the child thinking of you. How’s that? Aren’t you happy? ──That’s what they call humanity’s instinct, right?”
“……”
Lansi had walked right up to me and was babbling something.
But I barely registered her voice. I just stared blankly at Penny’s severed head.
Even so, I could clearly feel death closing in.
Am I…
Going to die…?
“Any last words? I am an Eve, after all. I can at least give the great Humanity-nim that much time.”
“……”
“Nothing? I see…”
None of it felt real.
It hadn’t from the very beginning.
From the moment Penny walked in with her half-severed neck.
Maybe even from the moment I was having hot sex with Lansi.
Or perhaps from the moment Penny was sucking me off.
In truth…
It might have stopped feeling real the instant I opened my eyes as a defrosted human…
──From that moment on, reality had been completely fucked.
“Goodbye, our great Humanity-nim.”
“……”
That was why, even as the chains rattled, I kept staring blankly at Penny’s severed head.
It would be my future soon enough.
‘Ah, what the hell. That’s not a human head.’
As I ran my fingers along Penny’s severed neck—
Clatter.
The sound of chains moving reached my ears.
And then.
─────Slice.
My vision split in two.
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First death confirmed.
「Adam Project」 activated.
Backing up data…
Backup complete.