Do Your Own Revolution
Chapter 149

#149

“Hmm~ Hmm hmm~”

Since coming to the Republic, Eugene had been spending less time in his room.

An empty room with no one in it.

When I went outside unable to bear the boredom, there was always someone dying there.

“Kugh…! Kuhkugh…!”

“Damn it, the bleeding…!”

“Where’s the hemostatic?! Get it quickly, quickly!”

“I… I…… My mother… back home… this……”

“Shut up and keep pressure on the wound, you idiot! You’re not dying! You’re not going to die!”

A man spitting blood foam from his mouth.

Normally I would have just passed by, but I noticed the clothes the man was wearing.

A black uniform.

The uniform that Eugene made and Eugene wore.

“Where’s the hemostatic…! Ah, Miss Irene?”

“Shh.”

Eugene told me not to use my power recklessly in front of people.

So I put my finger to my lips, then reached out toward the dying man.

As quietly as possible, trying not to be noticed.

Crunch, crunch-

“Huh, huuh?!”

“The bleeding, it stopped…? But how…!”

Your voices are so noisy.

Thinking that, I left the spot and looked around.

Everyone my eyes fell upon was dying.

People dying from gunshot wounds.

People dying from monster contamination.

People dying from stab wounds.

People dying hanging from trees.

Waiting for Eugene who went outside and hadn’t returned, I saw countless such people.

“Aaagh?! Aaaagh…!”

“My leg… my leg…!”

Loyalty to protect the Empire.

Affection to survive and meet family.

Hatred to destroy the Republic that killed their loved ones.

Humans took up arms, each with their own hearts and reasons.

And people who took up arms for such different reasons all ended up dying the same way.

“How foolish.”

I thought of the man wearing the same uniform as Eugene.

This wasn’t the only time.

As the war continued, the corpses in black uniforms kept increasing.

People wearing the same clothes as Eugene were dying.

That meant Eugene too could end up like them.

“……”

I closed my eyes for a moment and imagined that scene.

Eugene’s body being carried here by people’s hands.

Unfocused eyes and cold hands.

What would I think, seeing that?

What feelings would I have, what wounds would I bear?

“No.”

I stopped imagining.

I couldn’t continue that train of thought.

Eugene is in danger.

Eugene must not die.

That thought alone filled my mind completely.

Your Majesty.

It was then that I heard a voice from beyond the rift.

The army I created to help Eugene.

The child I created to manage that army spoke to me.

We’ve found the enemy’s location. They are regrouping their fallen forces in a dimensional space beyond the rift.

I recalled the monster I met in the snow and ice-covered place.

Arachne.

The troublesome woman who called me a “fake queen” and tried to kill me and Eugene.

And even at this moment, she was gathering strength to kill my army beyond the rift.

“…Ah.”

After briefly frowning at the unwelcome news,

I alternated between thoughts of Eugene’s death and Arachne, then muttered happily.

“Yes, that’s how it should be.”

A way to prevent Eugene from dying.

A way to keep Eugene from being in danger.

And a way for Eugene and I to be together forever.

I gave orders to my army with an excited heart.

I will find Arachne who is targeting me.

And devour her.

***

“Fine. I’ll do as you wish.”

Pure-breed monster Alexander, bowing his head at her feet.

Irene watched him with an expressionless face, then slowly approached.

“But you know what.”

Alexander slowly raised his head at Irene’s voice.

Looking down at him with a smirk, Irene then—

“Your head is raised a bit too high?”

Crunch-!

She stomped on the kneeling Alexander’s head, slamming it into the floor.

“…!”

“Hmm! Now that’s better to look at!”

As Irene said that with a broad smile, the original protagonist appeared beside me and whispered as I watched with shocked eyes.

You don’t know this, but the ‘Black Witch’ is actually a character with broken personality. She’s always been like this.

She just puts on an act in front of you.

Though that’s what ‘Eugene’ said, I slowly shook my head denying reality.

No, that can’t be true.

How could our Irene be like that?

She may be a bit lacking, but she’s such a pure and kind girl.

As I thought that, Irene’s smile grew deeper as she trampled Alexander’s head.

“Running away, running away, and running away again. Making me chase you all day without time to play with Eugene, and now you show up first? How boring.”

“I’m… I’m sorry……”

Crunch-!

“And what? You’ll give me everything? Don’t get ahead of yourself. I don’t need it.”

Irene said with a cold expression.

“Whether you ask or not, I’m going to devour Arachne anyway.”

“……”

“If it weren’t for you, I might have done it already. So you here……”

“Irene.”

I should first figure out what exactly is going on here.

When I grabbed her shoulder and spoke, Irene stopped mid-sentence and turned to look at me.

“Ah, Eugene.”

“I have mountains of things I want to say, but first I’d like to know how this situation came about.”

What’s this about chasing and what’s this about devouring?

When I asked that, Irene answered right away.

“Eugene, you’ve been really busy lately, right?”

“Yes, I have.”

“You only came back to the room about once a month, and you were always fighting bad people. Right?”

While it’s not exactly right to call the Republic forces bad people, from Irene’s black and white view, it was correct.

“So, I thought really hard.”

“Thought?”

“Yes. Eugene shouldn’t be in danger, but the bad people from the Republic are using monsters to torment Eugene.”

And Eugene, you never play with me because you’re always fighting.

After saying that while slightly puffing her cheeks, Irene continued speaking while twirling around.

“Then what should I do? What can I do so that Eugene isn’t in danger and can keep playing with me?”

“……”

“After thinking about it for a long time, I came up with a really good idea.”

And what counts as a good idea for Irene would likely be an outrageous variable for me.

“I just need to get rid of all the monsters!”

Wow, insane.

What exactly did I just hear?

– While you were busy with the war in the Republic, it seems this ‘Black Witch’ was waging her own war in her own way.

‘Monsters fighting monsters? How is that possible?’

What’s impossible about it?

The protagonist ‘Eugene’ pointed at me and spoke.

You were the one who made Irene fight monsters in the first place.

“……”

If she became aware of her power and figured out how to develop it, how could you stop her?

While I was busy with the war against the Republic, Irene was growing her legion beyond the rifts.

Wherever I went, there was always war, contamination, and corpses turned into monsters.

Irene, who followed me, must have devoured these organic materials and used them to create monsters.

Millions of corpses piled like garbage on the streets.

Vast and deep contamination.

And the numerous monsters active there.

If she ate all of those to create an army, the monsters Irene now has…

‘Must be an enormous army… incomparable to Arachne’s forces we met before.’

The ‘Queen’s Factor’ that Irene possessed.

What Arachne so desperately wanted to steal gave Irene the power to open and close rifts.

Meaning she could obtain resources from outside to create monsters.

Creating monsters using the corpses of millions of Republic citizens as materials, Arachne’s legion was crushed under sheer numbers.

Because I started the war.

It means Irene was able to create such a powerful army.

And the one who captured Arachne who fled in defeat was…

‘The Secretary General, you mean.’

The Secretary General who succeeded in opening rifts after sacrificing hundreds of thousands of Republic citizens.

And the monsterized Armored Infantry and weaponized monsters under his command captured the dying Arachne.

Irene did all the work, while the Secretary General bastard reaped the rewards.

Who says otherwise.

Who knew the butterfly effect of overlooking the Secretary General’s rampage would grow this large.

As the situation became clearer, the danger I faced grew larger.

The Secretary General who captured the Monster Queen and made her his tool.

His laboratory must be “storing” countless humans to use as materials for monster legions.

Around when I had grasped the general situation—

“To think he would refuse even the Queen’s orders and act independently. Pure-breeds truly are unpredictable creatures.”

“?!”

At the voice from behind Alexander, I immediately raised my weapon and aimed at the empty air.

“No, perhaps it’s not because he’s a pure-breed, but because he was a trusted aide who served by the Queen’s side?”

Step- Step-

The one who appeared with regular footsteps was Vladimir Medvedev, Secretary General of the Westraine Republic.

Wearing an ornate uniform suited for ceremonial events, he spoke while resting on the military sword in his hand.

“Either way, it’s truly remarkable. Such remarkable loyalty.”

“You…!”

“However, I cannot allow any more rash actions.”

Alexander growled at the Secretary General.

But that lasted only briefly—when the Secretary General gestured, Alexander’s body lost balance and staggered upon seeing it.

“Now, Alexander. This is the Queen’s order.”

“Kuh… Kuuh……”

“Kill them all. Kill them and bring their heads before me.”

Even an outsider like me could figure out what was happening by this point.

“Everything that needed to be said has been said.”

“So please, grant us death…”

“And our brethren, to the Promised Land…!”

Alexander, just before completely losing his will, slowly lowered his head and—

Clang-!

He unleashed merciless attacks toward me and Irene with a sword containing magnificent magical power.

“Zeplant, Carlos.”

However, the ones who blocked those attacks were pure-breed monsters that emerged from Irene’s rift.

What appeared behind them were pure-breed monsters numbering over hundreds.

A legion in battle formation.

Seeing this, the Secretary General revealed the seven stroke imprint engraved on his right arm and prepared for battle.

“Come to think of it, we’re in quite similar positions now. Eugene.”

“Similar?”

Before the battle began.

The Secretary General looked at me and suddenly spoke incomprehensible words.

“Knowing the future of destruction and trying to prevent it. Using monsters as weapons. And not hesitating to use any means necessary for that goal.”

“……”

“So, let us test our mettle against each other. Eugene Lorentz.”

A seven stroke mage versus a seven stroke mage.

Queen versus Queen.

One who seeks to prevent destruction versus one who seeks to prevent destruction.

“A battle between two heroes who will change the fate of the world.”

“…Sigh.”

This chuunibyou bastard, talking about heroes again.

Why are both this guy and that guy so desperate to be called heroes?

Loading a magic bullet, I aimed my gun at the Secretary General.

“Go fuck yourself, you crazy bastard.”

That was all I had to say to the madman before me.

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