Chapter 60: Rose Cyclamen (Part 3)

“Regeneration… Tch, that’s why high-ranking vampires are annoying. But aside from the regeneration ability, do you

not feel pain? Even with regeneration, you should have a hole in your stomach, but you don’t look pained at all.”

Leticia’s gaze, filled with disbelief, was directed at Rose.

Certainly, even high-ranking vampires would scream in pain when their arms were cut off or a hole was made in their

stomach, even if they could regenerate.

Naturally, they feel pain because they are also living beings.

So do I.

If the opponent we were fighting was not Rose Cyclamen but an ordinary vampire, even if they could regenerate from

having their stomach pierced, their movements would slow down and they would choose to run away rather than

fight.

The higher the rank of the vampire, the faster the regeneration speed, but as much as they regenerate, their

movements or attacks become dull.

So the way for a vampire to survive against an opponent they can’t win against while regenerating is to run away.

But the vampire in front of us now is a vampire of a different level from the beginning.

The mother of vampires or the starting point of all vampires.

The first vampire who has lived since ancient times when various gods existed.

According to Charlotte’s memory, she is an unimaginably dangerous demon.

She is a demon created first by the goddess of demons, so her strength is beyond imagination.

Perhaps more dangerous than the Demon King.

So even if it’s not the main body, its regeneration ability is incomparable to the regeneration ability of other vampires.

In the first place, the battle experience itself would be at the level of an endless sea and a river compared to the

current Demon King.

The blood that was dripping and flowing to the floor stops.

With the gruesome sound of bones fitting together, the bones and bones joined together and the hole in the stomach

was filled in the blink of an eye.

I admired the miraculous regenerative ability, but on the other hand, the sight of bones fitting together and skin

being filled in was not a pleasant sight, so it was inevitable that my face would automatically frown.

The sight of bone and skin tissue being matched in real-time, I can’t say anything because I’ve had my arms or legs

blown off and regenerated before, but still, it’s grotesque.

Recalling the time when I cut off one arm to test my regenerative ability and was scolded by Leticia, I shut my mouth.

It’s not my place to say.

But I was curious about how far the regeneration went.

Anyway, even with such regeneration speed, she brushed off the dust on her shoulder as if it didn’t hurt at all, and she said.

“…Not bad. Not to mention the sage’s magic, the sense of controlling shadows seems to have improved from a

thousand years ago.”

Rose added calmly, as if the time she was sealed was not wasted.

It was a tone of voice that praised a child, and I frowned.

I’m being treated like a child completely.

By the way, can she not tell that I’m not the real Charlotte Cyclamen that came out of her stomach?

Well, from the moment I possessed the character, I and Charlotte Cyclamen became almost the same existence, so

it’s natural that she can’t distinguish, but is it right that she can’t even distinguish her own daughter?

……I’m a fool to think that a little bit of affection for her daughter remained because she didn’t kill her, unlike other

family members, but sealed her.

That woman was a woman who could coldly abandon and kill her family at any time.

The reason why she didn’t kill her and sealed her was probably because Charlotte Cyclamen’s ability was useful.

If there was family affection in the first place, she wouldn’t have killed them so vainly.

Ah, thinking about it like that makes me a little angry.

I glared at Rose.

“You haven’t changed one bit from before. You’re always selfish and self-centered. It was the same that day. Without

any reason, you killed my father, my younger siblings, the servants of the family, and everyone related to them, you

were the same.”

“…That’s right. It’s been over a thousand years, but I regret that incident.”

Regret?

You burned down the mansion and annihilated the entire family, and you regret it?

Recalling the desperate situation at the time I saw in Charlotte’s memory, I hardened my face.

I almost burst out for a moment.

Even if I have almost completely become the person, there is a subtle difference between Charlotte’s emotions and

my emotions, who experienced it directly.

If the real Charlotte Cyclamen was here, she wouldn’t have been able to control her emotions.

It wouldn’t be strange if she immediately rushed at Rose.

That’s how much the vampire Rose Cyclamen was an object of hatred.

When I bit my lip and didn’t say anything, she also sent a look as if there was nothing more to say.

There was someone who blocked my path.

I blinked, looking at the person who blocked the front with a surprised expression.

“…Leticia?”

“Don’t get caught up in the enemy’s rhetoric, Charlotte. I can tell what kind of relationship you have with that demon

without you telling me, and I’m curious, but I won’t ask now. So there’s no need to react to every word that b*tch

says.”

“….”

At Leticia’s words, I blinked, smiled softly, and nodded.

I don’t know what Rose Cyclamen is thinking.

Why she appeared in this dungeon, where her original body is, and why she’s walking around with something like a

clone that can’t even use her full power, and what purpose she has, and what thoughts she has, unlike others, she

didn’t kill, but sealed, the reason is not important.

In the end, she killed everyone except herself.

Even if there is a reason to annihilate the entire clan to save her younger sibling, like a character in another manga,

Rose Cyclamen cannot be forgiven.

And no matter how much she puts it, she’s an enemy that must be killed, and as I reminded myself earlier, I am

Charlotte Cyclamen now.

The real Charlotte Cyclamen wants revenge.

I also had to defeat that woman to escape from this terrible system.

I sneered, looking at the new quest that appeared above my head.

[Sub Quest: Rose Cyclamen]

[A demon raid that took place in an unknown dungeon. Rose Cyclamen, Charlotte Cyclamen’s biological mother,

appeared in such a situation, but her intervention was unexpected. Fortunately, she hasn’t received an order to go to

war from the god she follows, so she took over the body of a racial life form homunculus created by the organization

and descended, so her power is less than half of her original body. Since we don’t know what her purpose is, the only

thing left is to defeat her or force her to retreat. You can do your best to defeat Rose Cyclamen, who is wearing the

skin of a homunculus.]

[Reward: Praise from the system… and achievement (title).]

[Failure: Death or another seal.]

[P.S It might be difficult for you now, but it’s just a homunculus, so you should be able to defeat it with the sage. Try

not to die.]

…What’s with the very last part?

System, you b*stard, you’re definitely human.

It seems like the system’s intervention has become more severe than when I was Damian.

The expression has also become softer like a human, unlike the first time when it was stiff.

I looked at the quest given by the system with a puzzled look, and then I shook my head.

Let’s not think deeply.

Anyway, I have to clear the quest to return to Earth or make a different choice this time, I have to end the story to

escape the intervention of the system.

By the way, they’re vicious guys.

Creating life is an act of challenging the authority of God, so it should have been forbidden for mortals to create life.

I know that even in the Demon Realm, the first Demon King strictly managed and prohibited it, saying that it was an

act of challenging the authority of the goddess.

But a homunculus.

I heard that the demons who researched homunculus under the control of the Demon King, as well as their families

and relatives, were all annihilated, but was that not the case?

Mephistopheles, I thought it might be a more dangerous organization than I thought.

I clicked my tongue.

There was no time to be distracted.

“Kuh…!”

The distance narrowed the moment I blinked.

The first target is not me, but Leticia.

Did she judge that there was no chance of winning if she dragged it out with long-range with Leticia?

It seems like her intention is to quickly decide the outcome with close combat, but there was no hesitation in Rose’s

movements, who outsped me at a fast speed.

Actions and eyes that cannot be understood.

It would be a lie if I didn’t get goosebumps at the red pupils that shone through it, like a predator aiming for prey.

Of course, Leticia is a magician, but she is by no means weak in close combat.

As I saw a little while ago, I can’t say that Leticia is weak in close combat, seeing her smashing the heads of magical

beasts or demons with a staff.

Still, I had no intention of letting her get close to Leticia.

Srrr, Thudㅡ.

“!”

“I have no intention of watching helplessly like I did a thousand years ago.”

The contents are different from a thousand years ago, though.

The moment Rose kicked the ground, the ground rippled.

And the shadow that burst from under her feet choked her ankle.

“Huh? Mother.”

Momentarily restricted movement.

Rose, who frowned slightly and tried to cut the shadow that choked her ankle, was also blocked by Leticia.

White rings that bound Rose’s both arms, and light flashed in the sky.

[Holy Magic: Lightning Flash]

Holy lightning that burns the flesh of demons fell from the sky onto Rose’s head.