I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

Silent night.

Ella tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep. It was not because she had already made up for her sleep in the morning, but because she was terrified by the emergency mechanism mentioned by the Pied Piper of Hameln. If she had only found it interesting at the beginning, now she was terrified when she thought about it carefully.

What if the real me had actually encountered some extremely supernatural event, and the "me" before me, including the loli goddess and the other world, was just a product of my imagination? What would happen if I suddenly woke up from this dream? Would Lotte, Iris, Wadong, Kmir, and Jayne all be dead? No matter what, I couldn't admit this feeling.

He sighed softly and covered his head with the quilt. The stuffiness caused by the quilt covering his head made him feel uncomfortable, but also gave him a sense of security. The sense of reality brought by his five senses made him feel a little relieved.

"Miss Ella, can't you sleep?"

"Hmm, I always feel like that theory from the Pied Piper of Hameln is terrifying. What if I'm actually dreaming right now? If I suddenly wake up, what kind of terror would frighten me enough to trigger the emergency mechanism? Then wouldn't Lotte be like..."

He didn't say anything else. The sound of the quilt covering his head felt a bit muffled, but he was still reluctant to remove the quilt.

The room fell silent again.

Chapter 25: The Land of Dreams

After a while, Lotte's light laughter was faintly heard.

"That magic is as powerful as that of the One and Only God, and even Miss Ella is afraid? How rare!"

"That's only natural! Doesn't Lotte feel the same way?"

"Well, I don't think so. If I have to say it's scary, it's probably the previous owner's. But after being with Miss Ella for so long, it can't be a dream, right? The story the piper tells is just a story, after all. He mixes some false things with real things to make it sound like, 'Ah, this thing really exists.' The piper is just creating stories after all."

A few seconds after Lotte finished speaking, Ella heard the sound of clothes rubbing against each other through the quilt. Perhaps Lotte had sat up.

"Hmm... that makes sense, but the Pied Piper only talked about the various things in the Wonderland, and didn't explain why the Wonderland wouldn't appear again."

"Is that so? But that's just for the story, it won't actually happen, right?"

“Mmmmm—”

No, no, no, no, please take back those remarks that seem like flags no matter how you look at them!

Suddenly, there was a vibration on the bed, as if something had fallen on it. I was mentally prepared that it might be something scary, and I pulled back the quilt.

"Eh? Lotte, what are you doing?"

"If Miss Ella is so scared, you should let Lotte sleep with you."

What caught my eye was Lotte, in her pajamas, holding a pillow in one hand and supporting herself on the bed with the other. Before I could react, Lotte had already laid out the pillows and slid directly into the covers. The slightly cool sensation passed through my exposed skin and reached my brain.

"Uh-huh?"

"Good night then, Miss Ella."

"Uh, ah, goodnight."

Perhaps realizing that she was becoming a little stiff, Lotte turned over with her back facing her. Inspired by this, she also turned over like Lotte, and the two of them ended up facing back to back. The awkward feeling was immediately relieved a lot.

Ah~ah, I was actually protected by Lotte... This feeling of loss, as if something is missing... Damn it.

But then again, if the emergency mechanism the Pied Piper of Hameln described was pure fiction, then what about that mysterious land? Judging from the reactions of the others, the mysterious land has become something of an urban legend within the academy, right? If so many people hadn't actually encountered it, it wouldn't be considered an urban legend, right?

Well, it won’t show up anyway, so I might as well go to sleep first.

Take a deep breath, stop thinking about things that don't exist, and let your consciousness gradually sink into the sea.

……

Before her was a scene Ella had never seen before—a purple object that must have been the moon hung in the sky, surrounded by weeds that had grown to half her height. There was only a cobblestone road that appeared every other step and stretched to a seemingly infinite distance. The lifeless environment gave her the illusion that she was the only one in the world.

"here it is……?"

"This seems like a dream, doesn't it?"

I had just spoken subconsciously, but I got an unexpected answer. I turned around in surprise and found that the person who answered me was Lotte.

"Eh? Lotte? If I'm not mistaken, this is my dream, right?"

"Yeah, that's right... But I think this could also be a dream, huh?"

Most of the scenes that appeared in the dream were things that I had seen before. I was sure that I had never seen a place as lonely as this one with nothing but static scenery. And the Lotte that appeared in front of me was probably just a product of my imagination.

He began to look Lotte carefully up and down to see if there was any difference from his impression of her, and concluded that she was exactly the same as Lotte in reality.

"It's rare to see Lotte in a dream being so real. I thought Lotte would be more mature in a dream at least."

Not paying attention to Lotte standing opposite her, Ella murmured softly to herself and reached out to touch the ends of Lotte's hair that fell to her waist.

"Even the touch is so realistic..."

"Hmm... Miss Ella, did I just hear something rude?"

Lotte's eyebrows twitched slightly, as if she was about to be angry but also felt a little amused.

"Ah, even the tone of voice is so similar... It seems Lotte left a very deep impression on me. Well, Lotte is the only one I can talk to anyway."

"Well, Ms. Ella, I still want to say that I am actually the real Lotte."

Ella listened to Lotte's explanation and waved her hands as if she had heard a funny joke.

"Oh my, this is impossible. It seems like I'm dreaming. Look, even if I pinch my face hard, it doesn't hurt... Eh? Eh? What is this? So this isn't a dream?!"

"Huh—it seems I arrived earlier than Miss Ella. I tried this when I first came here, and besides the pain, this place still looks like a dream. The proof that this is a dream is—the 'Majesty'."

As Lotte finished speaking, a huge column of light shot up from the ground, just like when she faced the group of people who wanted to capture Ella before. Except that the stone slabs did not crack, the rest of the sound and momentum were exactly the same as when Ella cast it herself.

Luti pointed at the beam of light produced by the aura, looking somewhat helpless.

"That's it. If you imagine yourself being able to do something, it will happen. You just have to imagine it very carefully. Only dreams can explain things like this."

"Majesty... Lotte has never learned that kind of magic. So, this is definitely a dream. But, whose dream is this? In a dream, you can't be sure if the other person is a product of your imagination, right?"

I also tried to imagine the appearance of the Pestle of Heavenly Punishment in my mind, but the Pestle of Heavenly Punishment did not really appear. Thinking that it might be because of my lack of imagination, I tried Angel Crystal instead, and this time it worked - it seems that eating Angel Crystal every night for six consecutive months has left a considerable shadow on me, and I always feel like tears are about to flow.

Lotte sat directly on the ground, hugging her curled legs with her hands.

"Well, that's completely unconfirmed. Just like Ms. Ella thinks I'm a figment of her imagination, I also think Ms. Ella might be a figment of my imagination. Things like this can only be confirmed once we return to reality, right?"

"Reality...reality...why don't you check out what's in this dream? I think exploring in dreams would be quite interesting."

After saying that, he took a step forward and prepared to try to see where this stone-paved path extended to, but Lotte's next words made him freeze.

"Well, actually, I've been wanting to ask you, Ms. Ella, don't you think this world is actually very similar to the mysterious country that the Pied Piper of Hameln described?"

Chapter 26 Shatter! Faster than starlight!

"A mysterious land? No way... Isn't that the kind of fairytale world the Pied Piper described, where all sorts of colors blend together and the inhabitants are friendly and easygoing? It's so dead silent right now, it doesn't look like that kind of beautiful place."

Ella was stunned for a moment, then squatted down and sat next to Ruthie, throwing the angel crystal she created into the dark night with no visible boundaries. She didn't want to eat this kind of thing anymore.

"But isn't this world where 'whatever you wish for comes true' the mysterious land the Pied Piper spoke of? While the current scenery is vastly different from what the Pied Piper described, the Pied Piper also said he was forcibly expelled before he could fully explore the dream world, right? Perhaps the place we've appeared in is a corner the Pied Piper has never visited?"

"Hmm... that's certainly true... but didn't the Pied Piper also say that in the Land of Dreams, they can't create things themselves, and can only use things created by the inhabitants of the Dream World? Isn't it strange that we can create whatever we want now?"

He carefully recalled the appearance of the Pestle of Heavenly Punishment and tried to summon it again. This time, there was some improvement compared to last time, but it still dissipated when it was about to condense into shape.

"I'm not sure about that... maybe the Dreamland itself has changed a bit."

"If this really is a dreamland, then I can't move around freely. If I die in a dream, I'm really dead..."

Watching Ella muttering to herself as she tried to condense the Pestle of Heavenly Punishment, Lotte stood up and moved her hands up and down carefully as if she was holding something extremely precious. Gradually, a doll with Ella's appearance appeared beside her. Except for the emotionless face and the still chest, the appearance was exactly the same as Ella.

"Huh? What's that?"

"I just tried to make a doll imitating Miss Ella. It seems that even something this delicate can be created."

Ella stood up and walked up to the doll that looked exactly like her and began to examine it carefully.

"Even the touch of my skin is the same... It's like a completely different me..."

Lotte looked very happy, perhaps because she felt she was being praised.

"I remember everything about Miss Ella, you know? Uh, ah, Miss Ella, even if I say it, lifting up all her clothes is too..."

“Hmm—even a place like this is so detailed, I feel like it’s unacceptable.”

——It’s better to say that I’m too shy to control myself! I coughed lightly and looked at Lotte across from me, but I found something extremely strange.

"Lotte, get out of the way!"

With one hand, he pushed down the doll that looked like him, and with the other hand, he grabbed Lotte and pulled her in front of him. He took a step forward and turned his body to face the direction where Lotte was standing before.

What he saw was a cat with only a face suspended in mid-air. Apart from its extremely evil grin, the rest of its body, including its neck, did not exist. This black cat was blowing a stream of pink gas towards Lotte's previous position.

"call--"

A cool breeze blew against my neck, followed by a sharp laugh.

"Welcome to the Land of Dreams. This is a little gift from me."

When he was about to turn around to question, he found that his vision suddenly dropped, as if he was lying on the ground. He wanted to speak, but he couldn't say anything, and his whole body came with a soft touch.

"A-Miss Ella?!"

Although she couldn't speak or move, her thoughts and vision weren't as blurry as they had been when she was unconscious, and she could hear Lotte's voice clearly. Lotte could be seen bending down in panic, holding her face. Then, as she stood up, her vision also rose.

——This feeling of being held in my arms... Could it be that I only have a head left? Horrified, I sent a signal to my nerves to turn back, and my gaze shifted to the back.

He did not see that only a body was left, there was nothing left. Even the cat's face gradually dissolved into the air, slowly fading away, as if it had never existed in the first place.

Then I lowered my gaze—I didn't see anything like a nose...

[What happened?! What am I now?]

"Ella? Miss Ella?!"

Lotte was still holding "something that might be hers," and her panicked look was exactly the same as when he first met Lotte.

【What on earth is going on? 】

Voices and emotions that cannot be expressed can only be expressed in one's mind.

"Don't worry, she's still the same. I just changed her form. Now, the cards should be here by now."

The cat's sharp voice rang out again, and this time the face that slowly emerged in mid-air appeared a few meters above Lotte.

His vision spun rapidly, and when he adjusted himself, he realized that Lotte had placed him on top of his head.

"Ms. Ella, please stay here for a moment. I'll find a way to transform her back. 'Hela' - switch to 'Magic - Annihilation'."

Perhaps utilizing the rules of the dream world that allow everything to be created, Lotte loaded Hela with a speed so fast that even she couldn't see clearly and quickly switched to annihilation mode. Under the purple moonlight, the Hela gun reflected a black metallic luster, and blue light patterns flickered.

My vision shifted slightly, and I could see Lotte aiming Hela at the cat's face. Because Lotte was currently holding "me" above her head, I couldn't see her expression clearly, but her next words immediately made me understand her current emotions.

"[Electric Radiance], activate—"

[How is that possible... This is a skill I've only demonstrated once before, and it's only usable at level 800 or higher.]

Lotte's voice was the same as when she had cast annihilation magic at the sun, thinking she was in a game. It was an emotionless, mechanical, inorganic voice.

The body of Hela's gun was covered with a single, huge blue-purple magic circle that flickered erratically. Countless unrecognizable runes spun rapidly around Hela, and the sound of lightning crackling continued to ring out - like a precursor to an impending explosion caused by energy suppressed to the extreme.

"Bah——"

The next moment, the huge magic circle instantly shrank and compressed to the position of the gun muzzle. Accompanied by strong electric light, a blue-purple ray passed through the direction of the cat's face and rushed into the clouds. The light faster than starlight turned the dream world into daylight. The uncontrollable energy fluctuations blew away the surrounding weeds and soil, and all the stone slabs cracked at this moment.

Then there was a loud noise like a landslide, and the shaking waves even weakened the moonlight a little. Finally, a pillar of lightning broke through the clouds and pierced the moon at the other end of the sky.

“Pah—”

The crisp sound of breaking glass resounded throughout the sky - the purple full moon, like a ceramic disk, shattered.

Without relaxing her vigilance, nor being shaken by the shattering of the moon, Luty was still preparing for the next spell. Just as Ella had taught her, as long as the enemy's death was not confirmed, she had to be prepared for the next step. If she was not prepared for the next step, and was complacent just because her magic hit the opponent, then she would be the next to die.

"Switch to 'Magic-Destruction' mode, 'Glorious Light Bullet', reload—"

The lines that had originally faded into colorless Hela once again shone with golden light. Compared to the last time when there was only one blue-purple magic circle, this time there were three additional magic circles. A total of three golden magic circles slowly rotated counterclockwise with the gun body as the center.

Only then did the lightning that had previously illuminated the world slowly dissipate. Ella controlled her current "self" and looked around. With Lotte's position as the center, there was no more weed-covered area within a distance of at least a hundred meters. The rolled-up soil had sunk at least a foot deep. The strong smell of earth was blown through the air by the lingering energy storm, and the fragments of the shattered purple full moon slowly spread to the other side of the sky.

"Oh my, you're so excited just because your friend was turned into a slime. If this isn't a dream world, this is really going to be a problem."

[Slime? Is the reason why I'm being praised so highly because I've been turned into a slime?]

Instead of disappearing with Lotte's previous sniper attack, the cat face with an evil smile slowly emerged from the void again, but compared to before, there was a more unbearable tone in the words.

"The moment you attacked Miss Ella, you should have regretted it. Activate [Sad Light Bullet]—"