〈 Chapter 293 〉 Chapter 287 – Conclusion.

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Five golden stars cut through the darkness with a fierce whoosh.

The veil of darkness is torn apart, letting light seep through the cracks.

Watching this scene, I rub the bracelet on my body in awe.

‘All the lanterns are wearing the bracelet.’

[Among them, there were some cleaning the bracelets.］

Now, just by me speaking, the Piece continues the conversation.

I knew I wasn’t in my right mind, but Piece seemed to be losing it too.

No, when I think about it again, it would be more accurate to say it was always insane.

I just gave that true nature a little push.

[This dog bastard is about to die.］

‘Looking at it now, I’m the only normal one left, f*ck.’

Soon, the light that seeped in instantly drives away the darkness.

I squinted at the sudden change in light and sound.

Before long, my vision began to return to normal.

“Th-this can’t be.”

The first thing I see is the cardinal’s bewildered expression.

Soon after, I saw the five stars flying toward the ceiling of the chapel, ready to explode everything.

­ Kwaaaaang!!!

With a powerful explosion, the ceiling of the chapel begins to crumble down.

My legs were completely weak, so I thought about just taking it on with my head, but.

That was unnecessary.

[……It wasn’t just decoration.］

‘I honestly thought it was just a buff.’

Because the divine power of the golden cross that Caressy handed me wrapped around my body and blocked all the falling debris.

There was no chance of injury, so I leisurely looked up at the ceiling.

The collapsing debris.

Between them, the blue sky peeked through.

And.

Even though it wasn’t the rainy season, missiles were falling endlessly.

[…The love rain is still pouring down.］

‘…It seems like they can stop soon, but they’re still shooting like crazy.’

I definitely asked for thorough preparations, but.

I didn’t expect it to be this severe.

Probably, Hyeji’s desire to destroy everything here was heavily reflected in this.

Thanks to that, even though considerable time has passed since the fight with the cardinal, the love rain showed no signs of stopping.

Not even a bit.

[Good job, Hyeji. Destroy this place with your own hands.］

‘……F*ck, I got a new technique and still can’t beat Hyeji.’

Anyway, my just-learned technique was on a whole other level compared to launching a single star.

It was a calamity created by the gathering of five stars.

I decided to call it that.

[Are you really going to name it that?］

‘If there’s a better name from the comments, I’ll use that.’

I already smashed the nanomachine that was trying to bury me alive.

Plus, I had even learned a new technique, so there couldn’t be anything better than this.

Just as there were no more collapsing debris, I heard a sound that tickled my ear.

“Not yet! I can still be a princess!!!”

“These days, clingy male protagonists aren’t the trend.”

Boringly, the protagonist was none other than the cardinal.

Even with a hole in his belly turning him into a donut, the cardinal still didn’t seem ready to give up.

However, there was a significant change in the current cardinal.

“What can a guy with no arms do?”

“I’ve never had arms!”

“…I must be losing my mind, seriously.”

There seemed to be no more nanomachines, as nothing was left where his arms used to be.

Yet, the cardinal still gritted his teeth, showing me some fierce spirit.

As if insisting it wasn’t over yet.

“If only you weren’t here!!!”

“Then the story would end.”

“……Oh.”

The cardinal’s face turned ashen at my words.

At this point, it was obviously confirmed he was already incapacitated, but.

That didn’t mean I’d let him off the hook.

After all, I suffered for dozens of chapters because of this bastard.

[He definitely made a mark in the web novel world.］

‘That mark is right on his f*cking carotid artery.’

So it was time for judgment.

“I can’t give up here!!!”

“Don’t talk like you have a magnificent dream, sh*thead.”

With those words, the cardinal tried to rush at me quickly, but.

The cardinal’s struggle was easily suppressed.

Hiding behind a pillar, Caressy shot a beam of golden divine power into the back of the cardinal’s head.

With just that, the cardinal crashed to the ground with a thud.

In that state, he barely lifted his face, grinding his teeth.

“Aaaah!!! How could you hit me from behind! Isn’t that cowardly?”

“I learned it from Kyalu!”

That technique looked like a colorful version of something else.

The user’s name also resembled a similar situation.

Moreover, the act of hitting him from behind.

As soon as I saw that, I instinctively shouted.

“That’s a Drawing Burst!”

“No, it’s the Saintess’s Death Beam!”

Caressy hurriedly countered in response.

[It feels a bit odd that a saintess is firing a Death Beam.］

‘Isn’t it okay since it’s being sent directly to the Lord?’

[It’s a direct delivery.］

Given that Caressy’s condition wasn’t great, it was a bit disappointing that the cardinal’s head didn’t explode.

At the same time, the cardinal began to show a somewhat eerie smile.

As if he still had a last resort.

“Hehe. There’s still a chance! There’s still a chance—!”

But those words did not continue.

It wasn’t me who interrupted him, and it certainly wasn’t Caressy.

It was entirely the cardinal that shut his mouth.

As I, Caressy, exchanged puzzled glances, the cardinal suddenly screamed in desperation.

“Why! Why can’t I go back all of a sudden!”

[Seems like he lost his regression ability.］

‘I didn’t see any signs… and here we go again.’

The sudden loss of regression ability.

I had witnessed it before at the academy.

But seeing it vanish in real-time was a first.

Of course, it didn’t seem much different from just a moment ago.

The cardinal, with a bewildered expression, then began to rise through the stages of acceptance.

First, denial.

“This is a dream! It can’t be!”

To prove those words, the cardinal slapped his own cheek hard.

But only his cheek swelled up red.

Next came anger.

“I still had a few chances left, so why the f*ck!!!!”

Unable to slam the ground due to the missing arms, he instead smashed his head against the ground in a fit of rage.

What followed were the stages of fear, bargaining, and acceptance.

“Give it back, you dog bastards!!!!!!”

“No, f*ck, how come you only have anger left?”

The cardinal continued to pour out his fury.

[He seems worse at anger management than Choco-hyung.］

‘You mess with my bro, and you’ll regret it.’

And now, the cardinal’s misplaced anger began to turn towards me, brandishing a knife.

“It’s you! You’re the reason I’m like this! Just say it!”

“If I could have done it, I would have done it long ago, you idiot.”

“It’s your fault! Give it back! I demand it!!!!”

The cardinal kept blaming me.

I could understand enough.

After all, the cruelest thing is to give someone something and then take it away.

Especially if that something is an omnipotent ability like regression.

[A power given without a price should be approached with caution.］

‘It’s a power that is that attractive.’

Eventually, the cardinal, pouring out all his ire, seemed exhausted, as he buried his head into the ground, muttering.

In some ways, he looked a bit pathetic.

But that didn’t mean we would take pity on him.

“What are you going to do?”

“What do you mean?”

A male dreaming of being a princess.

That was a dream similar to the Frikone’s Phaedron Emperor.

Fighting him using techniques designed to counter the emperor would be very effective.

[It’s time to borrow the power of Side Games.］

‘Princess Pecorine! Give me your strength!’

The direction for what to do next was set.

All that was left was to act.

I nodded to Caressy and opened my mouth.

“Kyalu-chan! Are you ready?”

“I’m not Kyalu! I swear I’ll kill you!”

Unlike her irritation, Caressy had completely turned into Kyalu.

“You’re full of energy today too, Kyalu-chan!”

“…What the hell.”

With that, my partner’s preparations were complete.

Soon, Caressy quickly charged at the cardinal and used the big hole in his abdomen to launch him high into the air, shouting to me.

“Aluji Donut!!!”

“……That’s a different game.”

“More one-sided than Cola!”

“F*ck.”

Still, it seemed Caressy hadn’t lost her identity as Kyalu.

She shot a beam of golden light at the cardinal while yelling.

“Shameless bastard impersonating a princess! Die!”

Getting hit by Caressy’s Drawing Burst, the cardinal began flying towards me.

At the same time, the last Cheonma Laser condensed in my left wrist bracelet.

At that moment, the cardinal finally realized what I was about to do and screamed in agony.

“Stop it!!!!!”

“Oh, come on~!”

However, regardless of the cardinal’s shout, my Cheonma Laser shone golden once more and began to charge ferociously.

Heading straight for the cardinal’s genitals.

“Princess Strike!!!!!!!”

The Cheonma Laser mercilessly pierced through the cardinal’s genitals, bursting forth with a sound as if something exploded.

The cardinal, forcibly castrated, fell to the ground, powerless.

Perhaps suffering a major psychological shock, he couldn’t say anything.

­ Thud.

That was the pitiful end of the cardinal, who had been annoyingly struggling.

And watching that, I snapped my fingers and shouted.

“That was amazing~☆!”

The moment I put an end to this long-standing grudge.

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