Overturned Tower

As the "budding lovers" become angry, the surrounding environment begins to fall apart.

In the prototype room, there are sprouts growing everywhere.

Then one flower after another bloomed.

The fragrant aroma is intoxicating, like a bouquet sent by a lover.

That was proof that the devil's "personal dream" had begun to invade reality.

——This is definitely not a demon in the "egg" stage.

Instead, the red shift intensity has reached level six or above, and has completed incubation... a complete demon that can affect the world on a realistic level!

"Surprising..."

Alice just sat calmly in her seat, holding black tea and looking at the angry prototype.

Even though buds began to grow on her body, Alice did not panic at all.

She just showed an elegant smile: "I just said a few words, are you in a hurry?

"Did I mention your pain point?

“Does it make you despair to realize that what you long for, to be loved as a human being, will never come true?

"In the final analysis... you don't understand what love is at all. You are just wishfully pursuing the phantom that you couldn't get when you were young."

"—Have you said enough?"

"The budding lover" said coldly: "Then please accept the flowers I gave you."

Alice's skin became unusually pale as countless bright crimson roses bloomed over her body.

At a speed visible to the naked eye, Alice begins to become transparent.

It is not that the blood is drained, but that "existence" is deprived.

As she gradually becomes transparent, the translucent sunset in the next room gradually solidifies.

Alice looked back toward the piano room.

I saw Yuri looking down sadly at her hands that were gradually turning into entities and no longer transparent, and the elegant smile on Alice's face gradually disappeared.

"How pitiful...that child."

If she felt something, she whispered: "Like a bird in a cage.

"—Let you be free."

The next moment, her figure suddenly shattered. The roses on the skin withered and withered.

She turned into an ultramarine fire bird and passed through the prototype's body!

Then, her translucent body condenses and reorganizes behind the prototype.

The spiritual energy called the Caged Bird, which was originally unusable in this form, was fully awakened within the body of the God's Vessel, showing its true ability——

Alice murmured in a low voice. For the first time, she, who had no "heart", truly felt the anger of Xiao Liuli like Russell... The ultramarine fire quietly ignited in the empty container: "So that's it, 'cage' 'It's not the key..."

Its real power and desire is to remove the pretense and break the cage.

The "prosthetic body" as an external thing, the "clothing" that modifies one's own beauty, the "shackles" that imprison the body... and the "skin" used by demons to disguise themselves.

It is the spiritual energy that allows things that have been imprisoned, detained, protected, and sealed to return to their most essential state. It is a spiritual power that can only be used with the yearning for freedom and the anger against the things that imprison it...

——If used on a demon, its true form will be revealed.

The original handsome face of the prototype with Alice's back turned suddenly turned into that of a demon.

His skin was instantly burned away by strange ultramarine blue flames that curled up with a whoosh, like an old photo sprayed with alcohol, burning away quickly, leaving only his terrifying dark purple muscles exposed.

If the prototype was still human, the severe pain would be enough to make him lose his mind in an instant.

But his body has long been alienated - he is no longer human.

He remained silent while being tortured, as if he felt no pain at all.

Because it really doesn't hurt. What was burned by the "caged bird" was just his disguise as an "elf".

The real prototype is the devil who merged with the "budding lover".

Those dark green vines interspersed among his dark purple muscles that looked like leaves, beating slowly and rhythmically like a heart. And his heart had long been covered with roots and turned into a stone-like dark gray, and it was motionless.

The vines on his body were burning with cold ultramarine flames, which made him unable to move.

As the demon began to burn, Yuhi in the next room suddenly lit up with ultramarine flames, and her body began to become transparent.

She showed no resistance or any pain.

She just glanced at the one-way transparent wall where she couldn't see anything from her side. She realized something and a look of relief appeared in her eyes.

——Because she believes that she is imprisoned by the "archetype". She is like a caged bird, just living is a bondage.

Therefore, when "Caged Bird" takes effect on the prototype, it will burn her as well.

Those cold ultramarine flames spread from her body to the entire room. It did not bring thick smoke or high temperature, but gradually burned everything remaining in the room, including the one-way transparent wall.

Finally, she saw what was happening in the living room.

Facing Alice, a smile finally appeared on her face.

She wanted to say something, but her existence was so thin that she was almost invisible. Her mouth was moving but no sound came out.

She quickly realized this and reached out her hand to wave vigorously towards Alice.

Alice turned around, smiled and waved her hand at Yuri, who was now as transparent as a phantom.

Soon, the sunset disappeared into the air. Together with the "daily necessities" that the prototype bought for her, they were also burned to ashes by the flames.

It was as if she had never been here.

"I also know a girl who has the power of 'love'."

Staring at the place where the sunset disappeared, Alice whispered: "That is extremely blazing love...burning the blood, rubbing it into the chest, and giving everything. It is a spiritual energy that makes oneself suffer and others suffer."

“But she’s really, really cute.

"Because she loves others from the bottom of her heart - that's a love called 'selfless' that shines like the scorching sun. It's just the opposite of you.

"If love is too selfless, it will hurt others and yourself. There must be no shadow in the eyes of the sun...but I feel sorry for her."

【That's very simple】

A cold female voice came from behind Alice.

The next moment, countless dark green vines turned into countless sharp spears, completely penetrating Alice from behind!

The demon, which has completely lost its human body, has two crimson blood-like roses as its head, and its body is completely made of dark green thorny vines, is finally completely liberated from the "prototype"!

This also means that the "prototype" entangled with her has been completely burned by the caged bird.

[Let me transform you into my lover - and then give her to you as a nourishing bud]

[Punishment for losers]

【This is the love I give you】

Along with the malicious words, those vines tried to penetrate into Alice's young body.

It is a parasitic plant that is reminiscent of insects.

But "Alice" who was attacked from behind didn't panic at all.

Instead, she showed a cute and successful smile...like a little fox who stole the chicken: "Then I really want to thank you for saying that..."

【What? 】

The devil was startled for a moment, then suddenly realized...his sneak attack seemed too easy.

When Alice bound herself with psychic energy and continued to burn the prototype and Yuhi, her back was always turned to her. It’s like he doesn’t want to see those deformed flesh and blood…

The next moment, "Alice" who was severely injured by the vines disappeared like a bubble.

Together with the "God's Container" inside, it also disappeared!

——But, only a few seconds passed.

The door was suddenly kicked open by someone from outside!

The extremely blazing dark red flames, full of pain and anger, turned into monsters like tornadoes, and violently poured in from outside the house with the wide-open door!

The hot wind filled with anger caused the vines of "selfishness" built by the devil with spiritual energy to wither, and the flowers of "love" began to wither and wither——

"because of you……"

A voice completely different from Alice's sounded from the sea of ​​fire: "It made me completely angry!"

A one-eye vertical pupil filled with the fire of the furnace, as bright as molten gold, slowly opened from the flames.

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