KFBRV Ch 139
- 6 days ago
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As expected, I can breathe underwater.
She realized it the moment she awakened. The fact that she could now naturally breathe even in the actual sea.
It wasn't because the actual sea was clean like the sea in her Inner World. Nor was it because she could purify a large amount of water, as she could at the time of her awakening.
It was because only the water that entered her body changed to become as clean as the sea in her Inner World, making it comfortable to breathe.
Although only a very faint light reached beneath the sea, her vision slowly adjusted to the darkness. Then she realized where she was lying and was startled.
Why am I on the back of a whale...?
According to her original plan, the place she should have opened her eyes was a massive coral reef colony at least several dozen meters deeper than this place.
She thought it was strange that light reached here; it seemed she had opened her eyes in a much shallower place because the whale had supported her.
It was excessively good luck to be a coincidence. She opened her mouth, half-doubting.
[Odette] "Did you happen to help me?"
Just like breathing, speaking underwater was very comfortable for her.
At her question, the whale nodded. Kiiiiick. Even letting out a cry.
[Odette] "Have you been supporting me all along so I wouldn't fall deeper?"
The whale nodded once more, as if it understood.
Heavens... How fascinating.
She stroked the whale with her hand, and the whale wagged its tail as if considering her very friendly.
Isn't it like some kind of pet?
Odette, chuckling at the whale's endearing behavior, summoned the status window because she had things to do for her escape.
Activate the Shop function.
[Activating 'Shop Function'.]
Her surroundings brightened instantly with the light of the status window.
[Odette] "...!"
Thanks to that, she couldn't help but notice. The fact that the whale here was not just one. The fact that a pod of dozens of whales was together.
They were guarding her surroundings at an appropriate distance, as if trying to protect her from being harmed by jagged rocks or other seabed terrain.
To think such huge whales united to protect her. Odette, momentarily overwhelmed by the astonishing sight, shook her head as if to gather her senses.
She had things to do before marveling.
I will purchase the item that hides the Purifier's scent.
[Potion to hide the Purifier's scent]
[Price: 10,000 Atasha / 1 Day]
[Would you like to purchase?
YES / NO]
Because The Only Savior was an angst game, bad endings that ended with the male leads' obsession also existed.
That potion was a drug that helped Charlotte escape in such moments.
Of course, the "escape" of the female lead in the game was like a seasoning that further fueled the male leads' obsession.
10,000 Atasha every day... It is indeed a staggering price.
Although the targets to deceive had changed from her plan, Odette had intended to stage a fake suicide and escape from the moment she came to the villa.
Therefore, she had stopped by the Kleist Bank on the way to the villa and withdrawn all her cash.
Thank goodness. If I hadn't withdrawn that money, I wouldn't have been able to drink it for even a few months, right?
She thought as she pressed the YES button.
[Would you like to use the Potion?
YES / NO]
There was no need to physically consume the item bought from the Shop.
YES.
Because just responding like that made the flower scent coming from her body disappear.
Now that I've removed the Purifier's scent, I've put out the urgent fire for now.
She called the status window again.
Activate the Inventory function.
[Activating 'Inventory Function'.]
Take out the customizable corpse. I have something additional I want to decorate.
At her command, the status window expanded one slot of the inventory and showed it before her eyes.
[Customizable Corpse]
Create a gunshot wound on the corpse's head. In the same shape as the gunshot wound on my head just now.
[Head Gunshot Wound: 20,000 Atasha]
[Would you like to purchase?
YES / NO]
Yes.
[Would you like to apply it to the Customizable Corpse?
YES / NO]
20,000 Atasha for a mere gunshot wound.
This was also a terrifyingly expensive amount, but she selected YES without even blinking.
Because throughout the week she had been customizing the corpse, she had already experienced the status window's microtransaction inducements.
[Change the corpse's height to match 'Odette': 30,000 Atasha]
[Change to the same teal eyes as 'Odette': 80,000 Atasha]
Because she had already been extorted of a lot of money every time she changed it to the same height, eye color, nose shape, and lip shape as herself.
[Balance: 576,461,100 Atasha]
As expected. Stopping by the bank was a godstroke.
Praising herself once again, she commanded the status window.
Take the corpse out of the inventory.
Then the status window shone white and placed a corpse perfectly identical to Odette on the whale's back.
It looks so much like me, it's almost eerie.
With a calm gesture, she unclasped the locket necklace from her neck. And she fastened that necklace around the corpse's neck.
She had planned from the beginning to abandon this necklace the moment she left. She was even prepared to abandon the status window entirely.
It's a necklace that automatically summons Zion when I'm in danger of dying.
Having a function that summons him when in danger of dying meant, conversely, that there was a risk of her location being discovered regardless of her will.
But since it is perfectly separated from the status window at this exact timing, there's absolutely no need to have lingering attachments.
She chuckled. In a sense, it was very fortunate.
If she had died in front of Charlotte and the Count as originally planned, Zion would have questioned why he wasn't summoned at that moment.
He would have doubted whether she was really dead.
Thanks to Zion becoming the trigger for her death, her faked death became even more perfect.
She requested one of the whales.
[Odette] "Could you take this corpse to a place where it can be easily discovered? In a sea that isn't too deep."
Kiiiiiick—
With a cry, one whale nodded, put the corpse on its back, and left.
Taking her eyes off its retreating, she spoke to the whale she was riding.
[Odette] "Could you perhaps take me to Meursault Beach? The further from the cliff, the better."
The whale nodded as if it understood her words. Then it began to swim leisurely through the sea.
Following that whale, the other whales also began to follow all at once, as if escorting her.
I've never heard that such a thing was possible for a Purifier.
Not in the game's setting book, not in the scriptures, nor in any other records related to Purifiers she had looked up.
The more she realized her own power, the more she had doubts.
How can my power be superior to Charlotte, the female lead in the game?
Why did such power not manifest even slightly in my past life?
Perhaps... might Charlotte also be related to the fact that Odette failed to awaken as a Purifier in her past life?
I must attach someone to monitor Charlotte while I'm on the run.
There must be a purpose for her appearing before the male leads earlier than originally intended.
So, if Odette observed her well, she would be able to figure out what plans the girl was harboring.
Her teal eyes shone coldly.
The sea was a place perfectly at odds with Zion, a canine beast.
The sea creatures had low intelligence, so his ability was of little use.
The ability called Mind Control couldn't make the controlled target perform tasks beyond their capacity. Meaning it was useless to command seafood that forgets everything in 3 seconds to find Odette.
If there were at least whales, the ability might have been worth using. But whether all the whales in this vicinity had gone extinct, he couldn't find a single one.
Since there were no topographical features, even with a Transcendent's stamina and physical strength, he couldn't even move freely.
It was a good thing Johan levitated Zion in the air using his ability; otherwise, normally, he wouldn't have even been able to stand on the sea.
So the only thing the incompetent Zion could do above the sea was simply wander, calling her name fervently.
[Zion] "Odette. Please. Please, just... don't do this to me."
And very desperately, and lonely at that.
[Zion] "God. Please. Please..."
Looking uglier than the ordinary humans he had mocked as stupid, crying out God's name agonizingly every single moment.
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