Chapter 743 - 279: Assassination_6

"As my subordinates, my subjects, to empathize with me, to understand me, and then to sacrifice yourselves for my sake is what you should do."

"Not like what you're doing now, filled with hatred, claiming grievance, and dragging this world into deeper chaos."

"You say you want to kill me? Think it's me who brought you misfortune? Then come, prove to me you're not a useless person who only knows how to resent others."

The Queen steadies herself on the table and stands: "But wanting to prove you're righteous? Wanting to affirm you're correct."

"Don't be ridiculous, traitor."

She declared in a majestic, even somewhat cold voice: "Killing you, plotting against you, indeed are my actions, but I am without guilt. As a queen, discarding you is my considered judgment. You will not have, nor will you ever gain, my acknowledgment."

The Black Cat was thoroughly enraged.

If before truly meeting this so-called "revered" queen, she still harbored a shred of fantasy, believing the other might have some hardship, then now, in her eyes, there was only an enemy that must be killed.

This fury made her feel that the remaining questions left unasked became unimportant.

Kill this monster.

This self-proclaimed "king," who actually disregards human life, is fundamentally unworthy of ruling this world.

Thus, she extended her prosthetic limb.

That fluffy, cat claw-like arm.

This prosthetic limb is actually a weapon combining two "source statuses."

One limb from the status of King of Fairies "Big Jack," one claw from the status of Master of Residual Beasts "■■■."

A Magical Girl indeed cannot use the monarch's power to kill the giver of power.

However, powers from other entities, those equal in status to the queen, can completely kill the enemy before Black Cat.

Kill the god devoid of kindness, kill the king devoid of righteousness.

The Magical Girl who completely abandoned everything and succumbed to sin for revenge, extended her claws toward the enemy, intending to imprint the mark of rebellion upon her foe.

"I want to kill—"

Words filled with anger and hatred spewed forth.

Snap, snap.

Yet at this moment, the originally stagnant temporal gap produced a fissure.

The temporal gap meant to be inviolable was breached by some existence.

That was the tip of a pair of scissors.

A Magical Girl wearing a dark blue dress, holding scissors supposedly non-existent, forcibly tore an opening wide enough to invade the temporal gap.

And the concept she declared, used to break into this space, was actually quite simple.

—"Seize the Present."

She directly declared the name of Black Cat's magic armor.

The supposed shattered magic armor, unraveling the abilities of the magic armor supposedly taken by her severed limb.

Two magic armor abilities that should not exist clashed at this moment.

Magic Girl Cui Que appeared here at the last moment.

But her appearance was clearly not to explain to Black Cat why her Life Weaving Scissors still existed, nor to question Black Cat why the ability of "Seize the Present" could be restored.

She came here for only one reason.

To stand before Black Cat and shelter the Queen behind her.

"Captain?"

Faced with the figure suddenly appearing before her, all Black Cat felt was confusion.

Why would this person appear here, how could this person appear here, and why—this person, who should also be a victim and was clearly against the Queen, now stands in her way?

"Hehehe, huhuhu."

In this bewildering situation, the Queen, who previously behaved very calmly, suddenly laughed once more.

Like a child whose prank succeeded, like a young girl who caught the attention of her beloved, she extended a hand from behind Emerald Sparrow.

—Then wrapped it around Emerald Sparrow's neck.

"Finally, you came back."

"You finally were willing to show yourself before me."

Her slender arms engulfed Emerald Sparrow's shoulders, intertwining in front of her neck.

Like a child filled with longing for a family member, like a girl filled with love for a lover, like an elder filled with affection for a niece or nephew.

Like poison, like concentrated acid, like magma, the intense and painful love almost drowned this space, almost suffocated.

At this moment, it seemed as though Black Cat's existence became irrelevant to her, as if the previous crisis no longer existed, as though from beginning to end, she was waiting not for Black Cat's assassination, but for the arrival now.

The Queen, like singing some lullaby, pressed her lips to Emerald Sparrow's ear, gently whispering in a sweet voice:

"Ah, how I long for you, wish you'd return to my side."

"How I regret denying you, driving you away from me."

"I apologize to you, I repent to you, I weep for you."

"Do not leave me, do not abandon me, do not deny me."

"Because I love you so, I desire you so, I am so unwilling to let you go."

"My Cornflower, my Sapphire, my Treasure, my Everything."

"My—"

Then, the Queen rested her chin on Emerald Sparrow's shoulder, confessing softly with longing:

—"Child."

"Mom misses you."

The fissure in the temporal gap has already repaired itself.

Yet in this unobserved space, a gust unexpectedly arose.

That gust blew away the veil the Queen always wore over her face, revealing the face rarely seen by many.

It was a face strikingly similar, practically indistinguishable from that of Emerald Sparrow.