“Our adventure is more valuable than yours! So, we will move forward!”
“…I lost?”
Dorothy was greatly wounded by the divine power.
Although she imdiately returned to her original state with the devil’s unique regenerative ability, it was the first ti she had lost a fight, which made her flustered.
“Yeah. Normally, we wouldn’t have won. But you lost because you didn’t try. You didn’t dodge attacks, and since victory was in sight, you didn’t even strategize.”
“…”
“You might want to believe it’s a ga, but to us, it’s a precious reality. So we tried. Because we want to win and move forward!”
That was right.
The children had proven that their attitude of striving in reality was stronger than Dorothy’s attitude of dismissing the world as an illusion.
Proof of value.
It was a complete denial of Dorothy’s thoughts.
“Stop the massacre now and accept reality, Dorothy! Let’s set things right!”
“…Don’t make laugh. Reality? Did you just say reality?”
Dorothy’s voice rose.
And the anger contained within her burst out fiercely.
With defeat as the trigger, she’s now pouring out her “true feelings”.
“The phenonon of people turning into illusions… I know. But so what? Does it make sense for people to turn into monsters? Do you think sothing like that can happen in reality?”
Swoosh!
What Dorothy said was a very common-sensical thing.
Stories that don’t happen in reality, stories that don’t fit causality.
In fact, as she said, it was absurd for people to turn into monsters.
However, it just happened nonchalantly in this world.
An explosively powerful energy erupted from Dorothy.
As her anger stretched out as if to break the world, the Red Queen’s scales tried to suppress it.
However, cracks began to form on the Red Queen’s scales instead.
“If this place is real reality, then such absurd phenona shouldn’t happen…!”
Crack!!!
In the end, the Queen’s scales were completely shattered.
Red fragnts scattered, and Dorothy’s power was unleashed again!
[Dorothy Level 1 ㅡ> 998]
A fierce storm surged.
Dorothy was completely free from the Red Queen’s control.
Alice imdiately evacuated the children.
Now, only Alice and Dorothy remained in this place.
“This world is nothing but an illusion!!!”
Dorothy’s storm-infused blade stretched towards Alice.
The transcendent power, close to that of a god, contained the force that had slaughtered all of humanity.
To receive it.
An equally transcendent power was needed.
Clang—!
Dorothy’s blade was parried.
Dorothy’s eyes widened.
Alice quietly muttered.
“Fifth stage.”
A being freed from the Red Queen’s suppression no longer belongs to the Queen’s world.
The Queen acknowledges that being’s power and accepts them as an enemy.
That was the final condition for releasing the Red Queen’s power.
The Red Queen’s final stage.
Alice, in this final confrontation.
“Becoming the Red Queen.”
The Red Queen is stronger than anything else.
Therefore, if Dorothy is strong, the Red Queen will inevitably be stronger than her.
Dorothy of level 998.
Alice, who beca the Red Queen.
The waves of power from two entirely different natures clashed.
Dorothy also sensed it.
That she couldn’t determine the outco of the fight with Alice.
Dorothy was once again enraged by that fact.
Until now, Dorothy had used her powerful strength to place everything beneath her, standing loftily above like an angel.
However, the formidable enemy nad Alice was enough to drag her down again.
A bloody battle of life and death.
The fear of life hanging in the balance.
All of those things dropped Dorothy from illusion to reality!
“…!”
Dorothy’s knife and Alice’s sword exchanged hundreds of blows in less than 10 seconds.
Hundreds of slashes made a thunderous noise as if the sky was falling, reducing the stage of the two transcendent beings to nothing.
anwhile, Dorothy was being pushed back.
Dorothy clearly had less experience fighting strong enemies.
The fear of death crept up on her.
Alice shouted.
“Face reality, Dorothy! This place is reality now!”
“Shut up! This place is just a ga! It’s nothing but an illusion!”
“What changes if you deny it’s not reality…! What can you do by denying the value of this place! Don’t deny reality!!”
“…!”
Alice’s shout reached her from an equal position.
…
During a counseling session, the doctor told Dorothy’s parents.
“Your daughter is different from other children. She is extrely innocent, and emotionally underdeveloped. How should I put it, she seems to have many stray thoughts and easily believes in imaginary things that haven’t happened? There is a concern that she might beco trapped in her own world. I recomnd keeping horror movies or stimulating dia as far away from this child as possible.”
Young Dorothy didn’t understand the doctor’s words and asked her parents.
“Mom. Am I sick sowhere?”
“No. No, Dorothy. We’ll do better.”
“Why? Then did I do well?”
“…That’s right. Is there anything you wish for?”
“Hmm~ I want to go to an amusent park and ride the Ferris wheel. I want to buy gas too.”
“If it’s an all-ages ga. It should be fine. Okay. But you have to listen well.”
…
Clang—! Clang—!
Hundreds of blows were exchanged, and sparks of tal flew.
anwhile, Dorothy muttered, filled with anger.
“Reality…”
…
Dorothy was playing a ga.
The hero in the ga brandished a sword, and said, let’s defeat the evil monsters for everyone.
Dorothy looked at the knife placed beside her and thought.
If she too, held a knife and stabbed bad things, could she beco a hero?
And not long after, screams were heard.
Dorothy’s parents were killed by a monster that invaded their ho.
It was a monster that appeared suddenly, without any warning.
The shock was too great for young Dorothy.
Dorothy thought.
The fact that there are monsters ans this world is a ga!
That’s right. Monsters are things that only appear in fantasies or gas.
Then, virtual levels and statuses seed to beco visible to her eyes.
Dorothy stabbed and killed the evil monster that had killed her parents with a knife.
Dorothy was a child who lived in fantasy.
Instead of denying such a cruel reality, she didn’t lose her smile.
Imdiately after, the Institution appeared, erased Dorothy’s mories, and arranged for adoptive parents.
However, perhaps due to her unique constitution, the mory eraser did not work on Dorothy.
…
Clang—!
After one major clash, Dorothy was pushed back.
However, without caring, she imdiately rushed at Alice again.
Looking almost desperate, she muttered once more.
“Reality…!”
…
Dorothy couldn’t get along with children since long ago.
The reason was that she was always smiling, so they didn’t know what she was thinking.
There was even a child who bullied her.
However, perhaps due to the warmth of the world,
An opportunity for Dorothy to make friends arose.
It was the next day.
Without warning, a monster appeared and killed everyone.
This ti too, Dorothy killed the monster with her own knife.
…
Creak—!
Their strength is nearly equal.
Even in a state of fighting Alice for life and death under such conditions, only the word reality lingered in Dorothy’s mind.
“Reality!!!”
…
A giant monster erged from the city, killing everyone.
While screams filled the air, Dorothy alone smiled as if looking at a ga screen, watching it.
And then she thought.
After all, this world is a ga!
So there’s no need to be afraid or sad.
Even if people are cruelly murdered by monsters, it’s no longer sad.
It’s just a ga, nothing more than a fleeting illusion.
But now I want to go ho.
I’m tired of playing gas now.
Then one day, phistopheles appeared, handed over a devil’s seed, and told Dorothy there was a way to go ho.
Only devils can descend to hell.
So I followed him down through the gates of hell.
However, even in the world she descended to, following him, there were plenty of monsters.
The Marvelous Land of Oz.
In the land of fantasy, anything is possible.
…
Dorothy scread in rage, her voice nearly tearing her throat.
“If this is reality…! Then anything shouldn’t be possible!!!”
Dorothy denied from the start that monsters could appear in reality.
Dorothy denies all phenona that deviate from the rules occurring in the world.
Dorothy’s sorrow and anger resonated with Alice as they clashed.
“It’s okay to die in an accident! It’s okay to die from illness! It’s okay for bad people to exist! But why do such monsters exist?! Why can this world be so cruel! Monsters are things that only appear in books, gas, novels, or dreams!”
It was common sense.
That monsters do not exist in reality.
To you, who are reading this novel.
And to Dorothy, too.
However, in the world Dorothy was in and now, in this world, monsters existed.
Things that soone might have brushed off as “it could happen” were an unacceptable reality for Dorothy.
It couldn’t be possible unless it was a ga.
Dorothy was a child who easily fell into fantasy, but precisely because of that, she was a child who denied fantasy more than anyone else.
“I will kill all the worthless fakes and summon Oz to make a wish…! To send ho! Hundreds, thousands of tis!!!”
The ho Dorothy speaks of… Alice understood its aning.
“I understand your sorrow well. But we must move forward. Being trapped in repetition is not the only answer. Now, the final blow. Co at with everything you have!”
Dorothy and Alice both prepared for their final blow.
The fantasy denied because evil monsters cannot exist in reality, and the value that shines when facing fear.
Opposite concepts were imbued in their respective swords, emitting montum.
“Turn around, Ferris wheel. Turn around like a storm! Let all cruelty scatter into fantasy…!”
“We will face cruelty and find value! This is our reality!”
Finally, the attacks of the two transcendents clashed, and a great light erupted, dyeing the world white.
When Alice opened her eyes, a completely different scene unfolded.
Rattle. Rattle.
Alice was on a Ferris wheel.
And looking out the window, neither smiling, nor angry, nor sad.
A dry Dorothy was visible.
Such a Dorothy spoke to Alice.
Her gaze still fixed outside the Ferris wheel.
“I couldn’t face sorrow, pain, or fear… anything. It was easier to deny reality than to face evil. So I saw the world as an illusion, and from the Ferris wheel, I only watched as if only beauty had value.”
“…”
Alice listened to Dorothy’s words.
Dorothy looked so exhausted.
And she needed advice.
“The wish I made to Oz was always the sa. I begged him to please take ho, over and over again… You know? Alice. This world must greatly resemble the world before you entered the ga. And it was the sa for . My parents were alive here. But those parents weren’t my real parents. It’s natural. My parents are dead.”
Dorothy said she ca down to this world through the gates of hell.
Just like Alice and other tale devils were possessed into gas.
That ans this world is a lower world, and once Dorothy descended here.
She is in a state where she cannot return to the upper world.
Even if she makes a wish through Oz to be sent ho.
She cannot return to the ti when her truly desired, real parents were alive.
Still, she summoned Oz several tis and made the sa wish, and due to the unfulfilled wish, ti turned back, and it has continued like an eternally spinning Ferris wheel until now.
“What value should I pursue in this fake world? The heart that believes fakes are real? The sense of accomplishnt from saving the world from destruction by not letting it reach the singularity through my repetition? Well, I don’t know.”
Dorothy had beco worn out after long repetition.
What is certain is that she wants to break the repetition, with Alice as the catalyst.
That is Dorothy’s true feeling… To such a her, the only words Alice could offer were painful ones.
“As you said, this place might not be real. That’s a scary thing for both you and . But value is born when you face fear. I’ll be honest, Dorothy. Your wish cannot be fulfilled. So accept it, and find even a small value. That is the fear you will face, your own reality.”
Alice had shattered this child’s illusion called lingering attachnt.
Dorothy listened to Alice’s words and smiled bitterly.
Her vision distanced from the Ferris wheel, returning to normal.
“…Yes. For so long.”
“I’ve only been a child.”
Kyaaak… Too many illustrations!!!!
I can’t do this again!!!!
As always, if you spot any mistakes, feel free to let know—and I hope you enjoyed the read!
—Chi
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