MTL - Overturned Tower-Chapter 53 Demon: Bird in a Cage

Russell's pupils were burning with off-white fire.

——This is not the psionic power of his mother "Alice", but his own psionic power.

Countless memory fragments swirled in front of him like a mirror.

They were suspended in front of Russell's eyes, and the chirping sound made Russell feel like he was in a dream.

Among the ultramarine fragments, there is beauty:

Bathed in the morning light, young children go to school side by side;

Sitting side by side on the swing after school, talking about the future boys and girls;

When he was singing on the stage, the girls under the stage looked at him brightly, their eyes were as bright as stars;

And in the crimson fragments, there are some painful memories.

When someone transformed him beyond recognition, he looked at the thin figure trembling in the mirror;

Telling despicable lies in front of the camera with a fake smile that makes you want to vomit;

Looking at the haggard face of the girlfriend I haven't seen for a long time, but I can't recognize each other;

She slipped off her clothes in front of the man, and opened the prosthetic eye for stealing...

A fist struck, shattering all memories.

Russell subconsciously wanted to cut it off with the "beheading of a saint"—but he hesitated the moment he did it.

With his illusory left hand, he blocked the slow and lifeless punch.

The eyes of the two met again.

But the demon's expression was completely different from before.

She stared at Russell indifferently and coldly, showing a mocking smile.

The voice with phantom accent sounds dangerous and weird:

"This is me.

"What, hero? Are you angry? Or are you pitying me?

"Or...do you want to grant me relief?"

The demon's arms were even broken into three pieces, and there was a fire in the middle to connect them.

With her arms raised, she seemed to have a sense of terror rushing towards her face.

However, it was beyond her expectation.

Russell's eyes were clear and his expression was calm.

Neither anger nor mercy.

He just looked at the tattered demon seriously and equally.

She said something that surprised her: "Do you... want to die?"

It sounds like some sarcastic words.

But the demon was silenced.

The flames rising from her gradually dimmed.

"…Maybe."

Her voice lost the accent and changed back to Xiao Liuli's voice.

In an instant, she lost her dangerous demon nature and turned into a tired and mediocre mortal.

She was silent for a while, then added: "Maybe I don't want to die that much either. I just don't want to live."

"I don't want to live like this anymore, do I?"

Russell said softly, "I understand."

Abandoned identity. Abandoned freedom. Abandoned the dream.

Throwing everything from the past on the ground, trampling on it recklessly... The things that I couldn't get with all my strength, overflowed like garbage.

"Yeah, I'm tired."

If you say it to delphiniums and the poor, you will definitely get shocked looks.

A demon who eats people for a living and is full of hatred and despair for the world...but he and Russell peacefully share a room, saying "I'm tired".

"Being threatened and used by people. Hiding some messy reports, inducing some messy topics. Pushing big people off the hillside, as bait to deceive people. Use this ridiculous body to lure others, and then jump out to blackmail Money, if you empty it out, kill it. I am not even a toy, and a toy will be cherished by a child...I am just a tool.

"At the beginning, it was only once, but after one time, there will be another time. After the initial compromise, there is no possibility of quitting.

"Look now. [Hero] has approached me, Special Operations has found my name, and the dreaded 'bad' is upstairs. I can't escape. What else can I do Woolen cloth?"

The devil lightly analyzed and reasoned about his fate: "I have only one end, but I am not afraid.

"The story belonging to 'Blue Song Robin' has long since ended. Then, why not let 'Little Liuli' also end."

"...Then what are you going to do now?"

Russell asked back: "You lured me here."

"In the beginning, I wanted to give you some information in exchange for 'death'."

The devil's voices sounded repeatedly: "But I didn't expect that after you found out that I was so abnormal... you didn't close the door immediately.

"If you don't close the door, I can't pull you in. I can't help it either."

Little Liuli's psychic power... still needs to be triggered by the inducer personally closing the door?

Russell thought for a moment and asked, "What information?"

"It's useless now."

"Then who is the leader of your organization?"

"I can't say it. Whenever I want to say something, I suddenly forget."

Is this... memory sealed by magic, or words?

Russell suddenly realized.

But he vaguely guessed something.

So he changed the phrase: "So, what do you want to exchange now?"

"die."

She answered quickly and without hesitation.

"...Are you sure? I don't have to kill you."

"Of course, all I want is for you to kill me. Right here—kill me."

Knowing everything, the devil replied calmly: "I must not be taken away by you. That's why I choose to communicate with you, not the inferior.

"That's a man who has no feelings and only knows 'right'."

"Why did you have to kill you?"

"Do you have to go to the bottom of this?"

"certainly."

Russell nodded seriously: "I don't like to pursue other people's privacy, but the situation is different now.

"I'm an agent, and you are a devil. It's not that I can do what you want me to do. I need to know if this is your conspiracy or a trap.

"I can roughly judge whether you have lied...so, you say yes."

"It's really tired of hearing the general theory."

The demon sneered.

But she was silent for a while, and replied seriously: "Because I don't want the news that 'Xiao Liuli' is a criminal to be announced.

"The company will not disclose information about 'devils'. Then, as an excuse for the disappearance of a famous person like Xiao Liuli, I will get in touch with an unsolved case...to 'become a murderer'. I have personally handled such news Been many times."

Hear here.

Russell suddenly realized the truth of the matter.

"Could it be that your fiancée is now... chasing 'Xiao Liuli'?"

That's no wonder little Liuli appeared in the hive.

No wonder she is still using the identity of "Blue Robin".

She was hoping that... her fiancée would come to her door one day to surprise her.

And that means...

"She doesn't know that you are the Blue Robin?"

"No need to ask. I will never tell you her identity. If you keep asking, I will eat you."

The demon, longing for relief, rejected Russell's inquiry very resolutely.

But not answering is acknowledging.

She doesn't want her identity to be revealed as a criminal, and she hopes that what remains in the memory of her fiancée is her former boyfriend, the idol she adores now...not a double disillusionment.

The demon replied calmly, "I don't trust you.

"I don't trust agents, and I don't trust heroes. I don't trust a frizzy young man like you, let alone trust companies and underground gangs."

But what leaves Russell speechless is that she really has the right to mistrust.

Because she really experienced a controlled life.

"Let me be an innocent killed by the veil of ignorance...in exchange, I will not stand against you.

"I will not resist your questioning, nor will I resist your attack~www.novelbuddy.com~ The demon's low voice was full of exhaustion: "I just hope to die here.

"Is such a wish not allowed? I can't even choose to die quietly and cleanly?"

Her desperate cry at the moment was also answering one of Russell's previous doubts.

—Are all demons aggressive?

If the nature of the devil is laziness and passivity, would he still go out to do evil every day?

Today's Little Liuli is the best answer to this question.

The personality of the demon is obviously different from that of the previous host...but not all demons are strongly aggressive, they are just an extension of extreme negative emotions.

"...So, who are you? The devil of 'Little Liuli', or was he born from 'Blue Robin'?"

"—neither. I am the demon of 'The Bird in a Cage.'"

The "caged bird" replied: "Kill me quickly, before I can't bear the desire and start 'eating' other people. I can't take it anymore.

"I don't want her to know in the future that I once ate human beings like her."

This should be the name of the psychic energy awakened by Xiao Liuli.

I see.

This is the essence of "demon phenomenon".

Not so much "another stranger who took away his identity", a devil from another world.

Rather, after the "red shift" that symbolizes out-of-control exceeds the limit...

- Received the "spiritual power" of spiritual intelligence and officially replaced himself.

And instead of "indecisive self", to carry out the final task.

She can no longer live cleanly.

But she still has the last courage—to choose a clean death.