Surviving a Cruel Fairy Tale

22 – Act 1. Little Red Riding Hood Forest – Asrai (2)

Walk through the dark and damp basement.

Since it was a simple pupil made by spreading its roots extensively on the soil floor, traces of thin and thin roots can be seen around the walls and ceiling.

I walked slowly in a place where it was difficult to walk without a torch and looked around, and at the same time, I made this place into another virtual space by radiating the power that stayed inside me.

This is not a forest.

A reality that can be denied as seen with the naked eye.

My role was to define it as a separate concept, a separate space, overlay the essence of the place, and eliminate the hunter’s greatest advantage.

Decorate the stage equipment and prepare the best stage for the protagonist to play an active role.

Maybe this is the perfect job for the artist.

Putting a character on stage with writing and decorating the stage by walking.

There is a big difference in the action itself, but it is not so different in leading the direction of the story and leading to the final chapter.

“…… Whoa.”

This is the end of all the stories in this forest.

Of course, it would be different if Little Red Riding Hood were defeated here, but there is no need to think about the negative development already.

Just when I thought that we would surely win here and the gloomy story about this forest would end, I started imagining what would happen after this.

This is the story of Little Red Riding Hood.

From her fairytale point of view, all the stories dedicated to her were about hunters, wolves and her grandmother, but this place was another reality.

Even if the hunter dies, Little Red Riding Hood remains.

Even if the twisted fairy tale comes to an end, she will continue to live. What kind of life will she live as she was born in the forest and only knew about the forest?

IF of the story.

When you think about it, it was an endless problem.

Anyway, I’ll leave this forest as soon as this problem is resolved, and Little Red Riding Hood’s business will be her personal matter.

Then why do I keep her in my heart?

“…… Little Red Riding Hood.”

I keep worrying about it.

I would shake my head if asked if it was a crush on me as a member of the opposite s*x, but I couldn’t deny that I was concerned about what kind of life Little Red Riding Hood would lead after everything was over.

That pessimistic expression and hopeless gaze keep stepping on my eyes.

Maybe that’s why I keep worrying about it.

It’s like seeing a person living only in reality with hopes for the future. So I keep thinking about what happened after that.

Let’s forget about it for now.

Her future, and my future, will unfold only after this phase has passed.

First, focus on this task.

The task of renaming things that belong to the forest. Due to the change of scenery, I recognize this place as underground, not a forest, and completely overwrite the concept of the place itself.

It seems to have been finished to some extent because it has already spread the mystery, but it was around the time that I was still immersed in the work because I was not sure.

“Looks like you’re here.”

Light shines from the folded paper on his chest.

Sign of Little Red Riding Hood.

It meant that the hunter had entered from above, and it was a signal to quickly return to the ground, so I took a last look around and grabbed the roots extending to the ground.

* * *

A bullet grazes my cheek.

“…… Tsk.”

Little Red Riding Hood turned her body around, dragging her feet along the ground, raising a cloud of dust and then a gust of wind that obscured all her peripheral vision.

“Do you think you can escape by blindfolding yourself?”

I already knew it wouldn’t work.

For a while. If you can earn only a fraction of the time, that’s enough.

It reminds me of an explosion.

After blinding the hunter for a moment, Little Red Riding Hood drew a great golden mystic in her grasp and immediately turned her vision into reality in the hunter’s direction.

The gust of wind that blew a moment ago pushed her body slightly backwards in the aftermath of the laughable effect, but soon it reminded her of magic again and bombarded the same spot one after another.

It doesn’t end once.

She knew better than anyone that the hunter couldn’t die from something like this.

This is an offensive to block his approach.

It was enough to buy some time, but it was a kind of containment to take the initiative by driving from this side without giving him a chance to attack.

So many times and many times, the brilliantly shining golden color casts light over the forest.

Because it is a magic that focuses on destroying all its functions, it was accompanied by a strong wind every time it exploded, but Little Red Riding Hood’s expression was not very good.

The explosion continued thirteen times in total.

Every time Little Red Riding Hood snapped her fingers, the ensuing explosion stopped for a moment, and the dust slowly cleared away, revealing the horrors of the successive bombings.

However, the hunter, who was the target, is nowhere to be seen.

“Really, you tried to kill me.”

At the calm tone of the voice, she frowned. She

She knew that this couldn’t kill her.

The hunters in the forest were obviously invincible, and even if that wasn’t the case, her power wouldn’t be as powerful against them.

She knew, but she never thought that she would survive such an attack without any damage.

“…… How.”

“If you try to avoid that, you can avoid it.”

This is nonsense.

A moment that covers your eyesight. It was right after that that a series of explosions erupted.

How many people can easily escape the storm and the explosion without any warning?

But in reality, the hunter slowly walked out of the aftermath of the explosion unharmed.

“A girl who wants to kill her father. Growing up with that beast, he really became a beast up to his brain.”

He was obviously in a fit of rage.

In the first place, Little Red Riding Hood was the daughter of him and the fairy.

The hunter understood that Little Red Riding Hood also belonged to this forest, and that she was also close to his possessions.

Seeing her vehemently rejecting her situation, her hunter’s extremely short patience cannot last long.

“They say you have to beat a beast to death so it can recognize its owner, but I didn’t want to scar your white skin.”

“…… Madman.”

“I was foolish. I was foolish in trying to appease a woman who didn’t even recognize her owner.”

If she refuses so strongly, even the hunter can’t help it.

Until now, he had intended to show the difference in rank by playing around slowly, as if playing with a toy, but he changed his mind after seeing the red cloak that kept stimulating his heart.

“I will discipline you until you die. So please don’t die.”

A hunter aiming his gun at gears.

Little Red Riding Hood was very beautiful, resembling her mother when she was alive, and I wanted to keep that beauty as it is without scars.

But if you resist yourself, that’s a different story.

For now, as long as I don’t touch the face that reminds me of my dead mother, I could cut off my legs.

Her beauty didn’t change because of that, and she seemed to be able to keep her by her side all the time without running away.

Once the hunter made up his mind, he immediately pulled the trigger at her shoulder, and Little Red Riding Hood immediately raised his hatchet and slashed it aside.

I can block it with one or two shots.

However, the gun of a properly determined hunter did not end after only firing a few shots.

“I will give a lesson to a girl who is only talking about it.”

In a standing position, hold the shotgun with one hand and pull the trigger in succession.

It didn’t even need to be loaded, it spewed fire every time the hunter pulled the trigger, and unlike before, it aimed straight at her body and fired bullets.

Little Red Riding Hood blocks, dodges, and spills it.

In terms of her skills alone, she wasn’t pushed by the hunter either, but she wasn’t compatible, and the topographical advantage didn’t favor her either.

Unlike before, she kept distance by running around or scattering magic to avoid the hunter’s aim, who was shooting with a killing force.

The distance between her and him was about twenty paces.

I don’t know how far the guy has come to break the ground like this, and if possible, he wanted to hold out a little longer here.

But it’s true that if you keep dodging like this, you’ll be caught someday.

“If I really meant to kill you, you are already dead.”

Seeing him talking nonchalantly but not stopping his hands, Little Red Riding Hood bit his molars tightly.

Even if it takes time, it can’t go on like this.

If you couldn’t avoid the hunter’s muzzle no matter how much you covered your eyes, it was one way not to approach and let the gun shoot freely.

“…… Tsk.”

I have no choice but to do it.

If you make up your mind, act quickly.

She stopped running to and fro to avoid the flying bullets, and immediately opened the book on her waist and blew her papers in all directions.

The paper containing the mystery of Little Red Riding Hood flutters and flies around, spreading golden light.

The hunter knew that it was a ploy to cover her eyes, but she also felt complacent, perhaps because she was an inexperienced woman.

“Didn’t you say that such a crude number is useless?”

Even if you seal your vision, you still have ears, and there are vibrations you feel when you step on the ground.

A hunter in the forest transcends human limits.

If you listen closely even now, you can hear the sound of her breathing, and you can infer its direction, and you can also determine its location by the vibrations coming from the ground.

I wondered what kind of measures he had prepared to loudly shout that he would kill himself.

“It’s pitiful.”

It’s really pathetic.

I feel sorry for the complacency of thinking that I could only kill myself in this way, and I feel pitiful for myself for being wary of such a foolish woman’s self-indulgence.

But it’s okay.

If you are an immature girl, you will have a taste for education in your own way.

So, first of all, I shot Little Red Riding Hood with the idea of quickly ending this trivial quarrel and returning to the village, but the scream he expected was not heard.

The expected location and route were certainly not wrong.

If you listen closely, you can hear the woman’s breathing right there, but the hunter has never failed to understand the woman’s voice.

Then why can’t I hear anything…….

“Kuk!!”

Thoughts are over.

Confused, he instinctively raised his gun at the sudden presence above his head, feeling the vibration of his arm at the same time.

“…… I said that arrogance strangles you.”

Above his head.

Appearing suddenly from behind the sheet of paper that obscured her vision, she slashed her ax at him as hard as she could.