The villainess shall be mine

Inside the spacious worshipping room, the Emperor had suddenly erupted in a burst of violent laughter. "Hahaha! This is even better than I excepted!"

The Holy Mother who was close by scorned, not even trying to hide her feeling of disgust. But all of that was hidden behind the veil that covered her face. Still, they were in the middle of a serious conversation, so she was forced to say something to the man that she found sickening. "I have already warned about the consequences that you will have to face if you fail, but it looks like you are already tired of living. Shall I take your soul now?"

The Holy Mother talked in an almost mechanical way, not wanting to let this man witness any hint of emotion in her voice.

"Unlike you, who is already full of God's love and doesn't need anything else in this world, I get bored easily. I am always in search of something interesting, and that's the reason why I accepted to give you a hand, woman," the Emperor replied, showing no indication that he was about to change his attitude. "This young man might be my new source of entertainment for years to come after I finish my business with you. I ought to take care of him so that he is ready to perform when I need him to."

"I will pretend I didn't hear anything. Your destiny depends on the Holy One's intention after all, not on me." The Holy Mother implied that the Emperor's fate was already predetermined, and from her tone of voice, it was a fate that would make satisfy her.

"Indeed, I look forward to that." The Emperor didn't take her seriously as he answered in a playful voice as if mocking her for being so serious.

"That young man is a threat, you should know that," The Holy Mother continued.

"I know, that's why he is interesting. However, I am curious about the reason why you didn't take the initiative to deal with him."

"That is because the Lord hasn't ordered me to do so. The young man must be part of his divine plan, but it is not my duty to inquire about that. However, if you continue to interfere like this, things may change," the Holy Mother warned.

"What do you know? Maybe my actions were also part of this divine plan. After all, he hasn't told me to stop, right? Besides, I am keeping away so that he wouldn't interfere. He was also foolish enough to not think of a plan. Well, I would know everything, so that may be not a bad way of thinking." This time, the Holy Mother didn't say anything to the Emperor's response. 𝘧𝓇𝗲𝑒we𝙗noѵ𝑒l.𝐜o𝘮

In the room, however, there was another person who worked on a device that rose from below the ground, changing the room completely.

The huge metallic cables attached to this device were connected to something somewhere, but the device had a space that looked like a person would fit inside—only one. There was still no one inside of it for the moment, but the three people present there knew who the person that would be the key to the success of this plan was.

"This should work now. Let's begin," Drakel said, satisfied by his work.

"The vessel should be here by now," The Holy Mother said, looking at the Emperor. He was the one who said that the vessel needed to develop a personality as a being who possessed a soul at the very beginning, but he just continued to play with it. This displeased the Holy Mother but the Holy One hadn't said anything related to the matter.

"I didn't do anything, they should be on their way now. You took care of them personally, right?" The Emperor said, but it wasn't too long before the huge door opened.

Two knights wearing shiny armor entered the room, holding two girls in their arms as if carrying princesses. However, they weren't being saved from the villain, they were about to be thrown at them, literally.

"So we finally meet, my sweet Amelia." Standing in front of the girl who shook in fear, the Emperor showed a big and ominous smile.

After that, he looked at Neige who was half-dead, lying on the ground, covered with fatal injuries. She had fought with everything she had but it was not enough. Moreover, she was wrong, she had it all wrong. She was frustrated. The Holy Church was never an organization of any sort, it was a single entity, a single person.

Looking at the woman, who looked pure, picturing the form of a God if they were to turn into a woman—looking at her, Neige finally understood, but it was too late.

A demon who controlled the soul; a who controlled the mind; and a true mad scientist. They were the core of the superpower known as the Empire. No, they were farmers who fed their animals to fatten them, until they die they would be turned into meat. And that time had come…

From the beginning, Neige was living on this huge farm like livestock. And when one pig tries to escape from its cage, the farmer would notice its weird behavior, but the pig wouldn't think that far. She was just a helpless pig who was about to be put to death.

"Okay, let's proceed," Drakel said putting on rubber gloves of some kind with a 'spak' sound.

"…" Neige hadn't given up hope yet. She still believed that Adam, who was not an ordinary person, would be able to stop the people in front of him.

"I never expected you to become such a sentimental, my daughter," the Emperor interfered with Neige's thought. "Unfortunately, he is not as strong as you think. He is even more foolish than you are. Did you really think that I wouldn't know what you were thinking? Still, I hoped that you would find something more interesting, rather than putting your faith in a stranger. It's not like I am constantly monitoring your thoughts if you think that it's the cause of your failure. This woman, for example, I can't read her thoughts. Why? I don't know, but there's a way. You just gave up too easily."

The Holy Mother turned her face at the Emperor when he said those words. Though her expression was hidden, it wasn't hard to guess that she wasn't pleased by his words. "Well, wouldn't it be interesting if this girl managed to interfere with your God's divine plan? Maybe you would have need reconsider your standing after that, who knows?"

The Holy Mother ignored the Emperor's comment and turned to Deakel. "Do proceed."

Drakel approached the two girls, holding two tubes made of glass and filled with a translucent liquid.

Then, he stood in front of Amelia. The girl was so threatened, and her spirits were completely shattered. No one knew what the Emperor whispered to her every single day, but even though she was strong at the beginning, she was now broken.

"A-A-A…" She mumbled some incomprehensible words and wetted herself with her. Drake looked at her with disgust.

"Tch," he clicked his tongue seeing that Amelia had dirtied the floor. Then he grabbed Amelia's hair and forced one of her eyelids to open. After that, he gouged her eye out.

"Aaaaa!" Amelia screamed in pain, but Drakel pay no mind to her cry and proceeded to put the organ inside one of the tubes.

Amelia reached for her face who was covered with blood with her hand but Drakel wasn't finished with her yet.

"Don't play around," the Holy Mother said, seeing Drakel's method. She knew that with his ability, he could have done it faster without wasting time.

Drakel possessed a particular gift that let him manipulate a certain aspect of space. For example, he could make that only his hand would appear somewhere else while still being connected to his body. With this, he can grab human organs from within their body without dissecting them. The only downside of his ability is that he couldn't teleport his entire body, as he needed that a part of him stayed behind. No one knew where he would end up if his whole body entered that subspace.

"I know, I know," realizing that the Holy Mother appeared to be getting rather impatient. In just a blink of an eye, he gouged three more eyes. This time, Neige had also cried in pain. Drakel used his fingers to directly grab the eyes from within the girl's head.

"Aaaaaa!" The pain was unbearable. Amelia and Neige couldn't do anything.

The Emperor looked like he was not entirely inside the room, his mind was wandering away, so he didn't show any emotion at all. The Holy Mother's face was hidden but her face would not show any change of expression.

After that, Drakel grabbed Neige, but she struggled, so the two knights grabbed her from both said and put her inside the device.

Drakel then his power to perform a quick surgery on Neige, implanting Amelia's eyes in exchange for hers.

The Holy Mother took a glance at Amelia, and as if the knights understood her thoughts, they dragged Amelia away by her legs like some kind of trash.

"It's done," Drakel said, implying that it was the beginning of the end of the Empire.