CHAPTER 230: DIMENSIONAL EXCHANGE

"So...you’re Nyzz?" I say, seeing a little black rabbit here in the garden, it looks at me with red eyes and its aura is that of Nyzz, which immediately makes me ask.

"You got it!" She says, jumping into my lap. I look around, seeing that Maya isn’t around, it’s been 3 days since I saw her kill someone with a knife, so I’m cautious with her and what I say.

"You seem...cute," I say, holding the rabbit, unexpectedly considering this rabbit the literal incarnation of absolute chaos.

"I know, I know...don’t mock the current avatar, it’s not exactly my choice," She says as I pet the rabbit.

"This is great, from a dangerous insect to a rabbit...I must say the change is pleasant, I wouldn’t want to have you in my lap if it was something disgusting." She seems offended when I say that.

"...Is there a problem, Nyzz?" I ask, seeing that she’s much less talkative than usual.

"...You’re not doing anything suspicious, are you?" I say, and the rabbit’s fur stands on end, which isn’t good considering that apparently there’s something extra.

"You’re quite intuitive," She says when she realizes she can’t hide from me that she’s doing something potentially problematic.

"I died a lot, so I ended up with some kind of strange intuition," I say, being careful for Maya not to hear me in case she’s nearby since I don’t see her from where I am.

"Oh, I understand, and that’s quite logical, probably some new human sense that awakened through continuous use, like a sixth sense or something similar," She says as I agree with her.

"Shizune, I already have everything you need to conquer Yui, and I can even invite Yui to a specific dimension just for you, so you can go anytime," She says while I think about it, gaining a smile on my face.

"You seem pleased," Nyzz murmurs as I nod.

"Of course I am, first, if I understood correctly, you’re going to take me to another dimension with just me and Yui, which means safety, second, I’m going to see Yui again, who was one of the few who helped me, how could I not be happy?" I say, content, but Nyzz seems tense.

"You...won’t break our agreement, right?" I literally risked completely irritating Nyarlisse just for this agreement, I literally left an absurdly strong being full of rage just for this.

"Of course not, agreements are always something I fulfill...but I’m not responsible for what happens after our agreement..." She says, leaving me tense.

It’s like a car salesman selling you a car and then telling you, [Here’s the thing, as soon as you leave here with the car, it’s no longer our problem] which immediately makes you think there’s something wrong with the car.

"You won’t do anything bad...right? Hey!! We have an agreement!! YOU CAN’T SCREW ME OVER! WE HAVE AN AGREEMENT!!!" I say, irritated, thinking she’s trying to deceive me.

"Calm down, Shizune, I never said I would do anything bad to you, especially considering that I want Sayuri and Nyarlisse to suffer, I even said I was willing to help you with your curse."

"..."

"You can be sure I’ll help you, in fact, I think I even know a way to make you ’immune’ in many ways to your curse," She says, leaving me confused since this should be good.

"Wouldn’t it be great if your curse lost its effect? I may have found a method, it won’t make the curse disappear, but it will cut off a large part of the effects the curse has."

"...Nyzz, please, don’t make it seem like you’re going to do something terrible, you know I’m insecure about things I don’t know, it’s not enough to have to walk on eggshells to avoid being killed."

"I know, but don’t worry for real, what I’ll do will only give you advantages, in fact, absurd advantages!! You’ll be the first ’mortal’ to have so many advantages, but maybe that will create enmity between us," She says as I think about what she’ll do.

"If it’s something good, I’d never hate you, I’ve learned not to be ungrateful, to begin with, all this happened because I was an ungrateful, cowardly traitor, I won’t repeat that mistake again," I’ve learned the hard way the mistake and its consequences.

"Shizune, in any case, this will only be done after your meeting with Yui, so I wish you luck in conquering her, I’ll send you to a divine body, I created it and it’s ready for you to use through a simple soul transfer."

"In this world here, it will just seem like your heart has stopped beating, anyway, are you ready to go to possibly one of the last worlds?" She speaks with such confidence that it slightly shakes the initial distrust.

"Okay, I’ll trust you, but don’t do anything to break my trust, I may not be able to do anything, but I’ll hate you forever if you break the trust I’ve placed in you," I say as she nods.

"I imagine so, Shizune, hey, do you want to know how you would die in this world if I didn’t take you to another world?"

"Sure, how would I die?" I ask curiously, in fact, this really catches my attention, how would Maya kill me in this world?

"Maya will notice suspicious things about you and increase surveillance, with extra surveillance you’ll decide it’s better to explore the mansion, and by doing that you’ll discover that in the basement, attic, and ground of the mansion, Maya has already buried quite a few people she’s killed."

"Like about 59 people, she killed them brutally with multiple stabs, and even tortured some of these people in the name of love for you," She speaks with malice.

"Maya never thought much about hiding the people she killed properly, since no one comes to investigate suspicious things in the mansion, so if you search carefully, you can find most of them."

"When you discover the bodies, she’ll also discover you since she’s extremely meticulous, and as soon as her paranoia increases, she’ll think everything is falling apart."

"And if she couldn’t have you, it would be better to destroy you, so she would try to ’poison’ you with extremely high doses of her medication to force an overdose, but since you’ve become more alert to suspicious signs, you wouldn’t fall for that, which would provoke her."

"She would then go to kill you with a knife, but since the adrenaline helps you move even if you’re weak, you’d be able to dodge the initial stab and start trying to flee through the mansion in fear of dying."

"So she would chase you with a knife to stab you, which would make you be killed by stabs after a chase through the mansion that you would never be able to win."

"And even using your power by applying misfortune on Maya, she would still kill you, even if she was injured by several things in the mansion, in the end, after killing you, she would die injured by the things that hit her during the chase."

Nyzz says, giving me chills.

"It seems very bad," I say with real fear, Maya is really as bad as I thought.

"Ah, my explanation could get worse, she wouldn’t kill you quickly, you would take at least 48 stabs before dying, two of them you would take while fleeing, four of them you would take when she threw knives, and the rest would be when she caught you and kept stabbing."

"W-What a monster!!" I say, knowing how certain things are painful, and this is undoubtedly something that is very painful.

"Yes, yes, it’s terrible, really," She says as a doubt arises in me.

"Wait, how do you know how I would die, the exact number of wounds and my actions?" I ask, confused.

"By seeing the destiny, any being high enough in level can see the future of lesser beings," She says, and I remember Yui said something similar, although she didn’t look at my future.

"Isn’t that a violation of the rules?" I ask.

"More or less, we can see anyone’s future, but we shouldn’t use it to give advantages or talk about someone’s future, but this is no longer your future because I’m taking you with me."

"And since that death won’t happen, it’s not a violation of the rules."

As a rabbit, she snuggles in my arms while I gently pet her head.

"I understand, it’s really good that I won’t have to experience that death, it’s quite painful, it’s also good that you’ll give me a body."

"Yes, the new body will be very useful and won’t have diseases or mental problems like your current body," She says as I nod.

"How will the exchange work?" I ask curiously.

"I’ll transfer your soul to another body, nothing special really, like just ripping the soul out of this body and throwing it into another, similar to what your curse does," She just summarizes, taking away my interest.

"Ah...so shall we go? Before Maya thinks I’ve gone insane and I’m talking nonsensically to animals," I say, seeing that Maya is watching me from the window and notices me talking to a rabbit.

Although this time the voices are not a hallucination, but Nyzz...I think.

"Shall we go then?" She says as I just nod.

"Great that you’re so receptive, now close your eyes and stay calm, it might hurt? I don’t know, I’ll try to pull quickly."

She says as I close my eyes.

"Wait, pull what..." Before I can respond, everything goes dark in a bizarre way, like a TV being unplugged and turning off.