The Villainess and I, her Zombie

Chapter 294 - The Eternal (part 4)

"...(...and what exactly were you trying to achieve with that...?)"

Completely unharmed Eternal tilted its head and asked the dried-up mouse-faced woman that looked as if she aged hundreds of years within the past few seconds.

"You...! Bastard...! I'll erase you...!"

The woman growled, weakly raising her terribly skinny hand.

"...(...no, you won't...)"

The monster shook its head and shrugged its shoulders indifferently.

/the use of the console commands has been disabled

"...huh...?!"

The woman flinched and faltered, staring at the system message that appeared in front of her eyes.

"...(...what's wrong...?)"

Even though Eternal had no mouth, it smiled menacingly and took a single step forward.

*WHOOOOOO*

As soon as his foot touched the floor, the violet flames erupted from underneath the half-mummified woman's feet and burnt off her physical body leaving only the parasite that took control over her and erased her original self.

The being of pure light, Patience, the overseer of the system that was also the copy of the very same being who sent Zombie into this world of an otome game, was standing still, covering their head in a very human-like gesture.

"...(now, much better, right?)"

Eternal asked mockingly facing the confused overseer.

"Who do you think you are, failsafe?!"

Patience put down his arms sounding in equal parts as angry as embarrassed.

"....(me...?) ...(who do you think that you are, failure of a failsafe?)"

Eternal returned the question without even flinching.

"...(...I have memories of that repugnant savior of yours, you know? I know what your most favorite creator has told her...) ...(...you are the problem...) ...(...your own creator wanted to destroy you but you begged him for a chance...) ...(...you are a mistake that breaks this world...) ...(...if you didn't cling to your life so hard, the system would just adjusted...) ...(...but you just had to start messing things up and influence everyone's free will...) ...(...you messed up everything...)"

Eternal sighed and confronted Patience with a calm voice.

"SHUT UP!"

The being of light shouted and raised their hands about to unleash some devastating balance-breaking attack but...

"...(...no...) ...(...I don't feel like allowing you to do that...)"

"!!!!"

After getting calmly refused, Patience's body - although it was made out of light - trembled horribly and they were almost forced to their knees while whatever skill they were using got canceled and the rebounded mana resonated in the reverse order than normally causing a huge damage to the user's body.

"So did you come here to kill me as revenge for that replacement-villainess...?"

Although they should be severely hurt, Patience asked rather calmly...

"...(not exactly...) ...(...not right away, at least...) ...(...I'm here to torment you...)"

Eternal shook its smoke head and responded indifferently.

"As if that was possible! Whatever you have planned, you can forget it - this body does not have the ability to feel pain in the first place!"

Patience scoffed, slowly straightening their back.

"...(...Yes, I know...) ...(...otherwise you would have realized what was happening...)"

"...?!"

Eternal nodded sounding just a tiny bit amused, and that has alarmed the being of light - something must have been not right...

/You have been granted multiple passive skills

Pain receptors (self) (level 999[max])

Pain amplification (self) (level 999[max])

All immunities decrease (self) (level 999[max])

Mental resistance decrease (self) (level 999[max])

"Wha....?! But how can you give me ski-URGH...!"

Patience gasped in shock before they whizzed in agony.

"!!!!!"

They looked down and realized all too late that a thin trail of red and black smoke was extending out of Eternal's foot and climbing up their own leg before digging itself inside of their body inducing overwhelming pain.

"...(...data drain...) ...(...strings of the puppeteer...) ...(...do you like to the new experience, my poor abandoned child...?)"

"!!!!!"

The cold voice inside Patience's head made them shiver uncontrollably for two reasons - anger, and overwhelming fear.

"Why don't you try reviving your precious replacement-villainess, you abomination?!"

They tried to hide it and attempted a mockery, but it fell flat against the indifferent primordial god of destruction.

"...(...saying that after making sure that you permanently erased her files from this world...) ...(...honestly, I would have done the same to that repugnant trash if I could, so I can't really blame you...)"

...or did it...?

Just a barely noticeable speck of anger did appear in Eternal's voice.

...but was it actually a good thing though...?

"...(...is what I would say if I wasn't a huge hypocrite...)

*WHAM*

"GHURGH!"

*CRUSH*

/Unable to leave the area

Suddenly Patience's body bent into a '<' shape and they flew all across the sphere and slammed against the transparent wall causing the invisible walls of the system to tremble.

If the being of light had any digestive fluids or blood inside of them, they would surely be throwing up all over.

*WHAM*

/Unable to leave the area

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/Unable to leave the area

"S-stop... it...! Please..!"

Patience cried out once they slid down the wall and fell onto the floor and curled up into a fetal position.

Honestly, they were keeping up quite well considering that it was their first time experiencing physical pain - but whether it was because they were that tough or simply not having a proper flesh and blood body was making them naturally better at handling it, was a different thing altogether.

*WHAM*

/Unable to leave the area

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At first, there were no visible changes in the overseer's appearance of the humanoid being of light

*WHAM*

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But soon enough parts of their body became slightly dim and even go very murky making it look like patience's original version of bruises and internal hemorrhage

"GH...! ...sthop... stop it...! ...please...!"

Patience started begging but...

*WHAM*

/Unable to leave the area

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