Girl in the Box: Please tell me why I was reincarnated as a mimic monster!

I'll play you to death later, you sow.

"—!"

Rin was furious, but there was nothing she could do but prioritize her own safety. As she thought this, Chaoyang got off the bed and casually touched the erotic markings on Rin's abdomen. The markings suddenly intensified, unleashing a surge of lust that overwhelmed Rin's reason. This sudden outburst almost pulled Rin into another world; she bit her hand hard, using the pain to force herself back to reality.

Chaoyang left without doing anything, and in his place walked in a dignified middle-aged man. Li no longer had the energy to use her powers to build a defense for herself; she could only prioritize maintaining her composure and watch as the man walked in.

He was a tall and imposing middle-aged man. Even through his clothes, one could see the robust physique honed through years of training. The potential hidden within that body was astonishing. His face, as if sculpted by a sword, exuded an unusual pressure. Could this person be...?

Without needing any instructions, the Demon Eye had already pointed out the information to her. Blurry subtitles appeared in her field of vision, and her doubts gradually turned into certainty, and her surprise gradually turned into anger.

The person in front of you is the culprit behind all of this.

The destruction of the labyrinth, the deaths of Nao and Laerfa, Zhou Dong's sacrifice, and everything that followed were all caused by the man before them.

That person was the king of the Kingdom of Alyas, Alice's biological father, and the mastermind behind everything.

King Aljaz – Serik Aljaz.

Chapter 52 Direct Confrontation

The man who had brought this situation to this point was now standing right in front of Ry, who was filled with rage and wanted to vent it. Serik remained expressionless, maintaining his icy demeanor, and then casually picked out a rickety stool from the clutter, placed it in the middle of the room, and sat down.

"Judging from your expression... it seems like you have something to tell me...! King Alyas...!" Li's words were filled with raging anger.

Serik silently accepted the rage. He produced a cigarette from somewhere, lit it with fire magic, and leisurely began to smoke. His demeanor and attitude infuriated Li, further intensifying the erosion of the lustful runes. Her entire body felt as if it were on fire. Was it anger? Or lust? Li no longer cared.

"Save your breath, Time-Space Dragon King." Seric flicked his cigarette ash. "These two things that Chaoyang brought are not something you can just ignore. Even if you have a series of resistances, you can't withstand so many abnormal statuses, can you?"

"No need for your reminder...!" Ryori desperately suppressed her surging lust and questioned, "Why did you do this!?"

"What do you mean by 'why'?" Serik sneered.

"What else could it be?! What have you done?!"

Putting aside the labyrinth, Li Du learned some things from those in charge of guerrilla warfare. Since the kingdom began its invasion, it has slaughtered people from all nations, killing livestock, the elderly, and children alike. Even if a massacre wasn't carried out, it only meant that the nation was still useful. Once their value was used up, they would be killed, wiped out completely, leaving nothing behind.

How many people are left in this world now? Who knows? Neither Li nor Rielfa has any memories of leaving this continent. At the very least, there aren't many people left on this continent. Everywhere has been engulfed in war; it's likely that everything except some labyrinths and dungeons has been destroyed. Perhaps that's not enough; the kingdom will probably continue to kill.

Serik didn't answer, but simply took a deep drag on his cigarette and slowly exhaled the smoke. The acrid smoke filled the room, making Rie very uncomfortable. After a while, Serik stared intently into Rie's eyes, as if he wouldn't allow her to look away.

“I say,” Serik suddenly asked, “what do you think of this place?”

"Huh?" Li made a confused sound. "What are you trying to say?"

“No, no, I mean on a larger scale.” Serik spread his arms. “I mean the world.”

Ugh, this is so annoying! Here it comes again, a line that villains always use. Why do these villains love to question the world so much?

"You're so annoying..." Li said coldly, expressing her thoughts.

“This world is pretty good, isn’t it?” Serik ignored her and continued talking to himself, “It has magic, it has wonderful powers, gods really exist, and all sorts of magical things. As a place to live, it’s really something to look forward to. I used to look forward to such a life too.”

"..." Li didn't speak, she just frowned.

She seemed to realize something; her tone suggested she was talking about another world, as if she were detached from it all. And upon closer examination of her word choice, something strange became apparent. Could it be… no, that's impossible…

“Your face screams ‘Impossible,’ Time-Space Dragon King.” Seric chuckled sarcastically. “Too easy to understand.”

"You...!?" Li was completely astonished.

“Ah, that’s right,” Seric nodded. “Just as you thought, a visitor from another world? Or should I just call you an Earthling? Why do you think I would suddenly come here to meet you?”

"No way……"

Unbelievable! This man before me is also from Earth? But all of Serik's actions, words, and evidence point to him as an Earthling. So why? The information from the Demon Eye indicates that Serik is a completely different person from another world.

“Unbelievable, right?” Seric sneered. “I also find it unbelievable that there are Earthlings other than heroes, and even reincarnated ones. This certainly doesn’t conflict with the hero summoning ritual.”

Li was so shocked by the facts that he was speechless. Serik stubbed out his cigarette, threw the butt aside, and began his monologue.

“I was once a hero,” Serik said, adding something even more unbelievable, “I was then, but I am not now.”

"Then why did you do that?" Li couldn't help but ask.

“When I first came here, I had a companion, and she was even my classmate,” Seric said, looking at her. “She was a girl just like you, lively, cheerful, and optimistic. A really cliché plot, right? Coming to another world with someone else who got caught up in this, and you're the hero or something? It's ridiculous. I really want to punch my past self. Everything unfolded like that old story: the hero fights the demon king, gathers companions, levels up by defeating monsters, hahaha, what's the point? In the end, only I stood before the demon king. What about everyone else? They all died, including her. They died for that illusory thing called final victory, justice, and righteousness.”

Li was speechless. Although Serik had only briefly recounted a story that led directly to a bad ending, she found it incredibly heavy. Putting herself in Serik's shoes, in the hero's perspective, would be incredibly heartbreaking. Even without telling the middle part of the story, Li could still somewhat understand his feelings.

After going through so much... and in this world where only these two are from the same world, they've probably fallen in love... but what about the final ending...?

"A hero? What use is such a thing?" Seric laughed. "A weapon of mass destruction? The devastating kind? Who would want to be one? I've worked so hard for so long, and this is the result? I won against the Demon King but lost her, and them too? What a joke!!"

Serik stood up in grief and rage, grabbed a chair, and slammed it against the wall to vent his anger. The chair shattered into pieces, but that wasn't enough. Serik went on a rampage, destroying everything in the room with a smile, tears streaming down his face.

Chapter 53 What Serik Needs to Do

Until he calmed down, Serik continued to wreak havoc, making the already dilapidated room even more run-down due to his emotional outburst. After a long time, when everything was almost completely destroyed, Serik stopped and stood alone in the center of the messy room.

“Do you know, Dragon King?” Seric turned around and said calmly, “That day was just like that. Everything around me was destroyed, and I was the only one standing here, surrounded by the corpses of her and her companions.”

It's as if you're actually there; you can see the scene overlapping with the room.

Scattered debris covered the ground, everywhere bearing the marks of battle; every deep furrow and crack spoke of the ferocity of the fight. Serik stood in the center of the room, surrounded by blood and corpses. He held someone's body, gazing sadly at the sky. No, perhaps he couldn't even recognize the corpses anymore; in such a battle, it was almost impossible to leave a complete body.

The sadness and calm anger conveyed to Rie through the image, but she still could not forgive Serik for what he had done.

"Don't you understand too?!" Li retorted. "You understand this kind of pain, right?! Aren't you a hero?! Don't you understand this clearly?! Then why do you still spread this pain?!"

"A hero? Heh, hahahahahaha!!" Seric burst into maniacal laughter. "What a joke!? Is this what a hero should do?! This image, these wishes, these expectations that you subjectively impose on others! Why should the hero bear them!? What do you take a hero for?! An omnipotent god?! After all this time in this world, don't you understand?! What a tragic person a hero is!"

"...!"

She understood, and she realized the problem. The identity of a hero has never brought true happiness. Perhaps, to others, it's an enviable identity, but only those who have truly become heroes can understand its darkness.

Ultimately, heroes are nothing more than figures upon whom humanity projects various ideals. When faced with formidable monsters, people expect an invincible being to defeat them. And so on and so forth, people unconsciously think of heroes, believing that a hero could surely solve everything. And so, they irresponsibly dump everything on the hero.

The heroes are, in fact, the only victims. Unable to avoid these consequences due to their position, they can only accept the mission imposed upon them by the world. From the very beginning, they have no way out but to move forward. However, everything they face after moving forward is something they do not want to confront or see. The heroes are idealists at the beginning, but that is only at the beginning.

“You’re asking me why I did this, right?” Seric smiled. “After that, I lost the person I loved most, and as a hero, I couldn’t return to my original world. In all the epics of heroes, no hero left any record of what happened afterward. Because for humanity, their value ends there. I came into this world and lost everything… The option to go back has never existed.”

"So you want to take revenge on this world...?" Rin didn't know what to say.

“Revenge?” Serik mocked her. “Something like that, but not quite. Everything I’ve done is to stop this damned cycle.”

"What are you talking about...?"

“Destroy this world.” Seric sneered. “The only way to stop this damned cycle is to destroy this world, isn’t it? In order to prevent future victims like her and me, I am determined to destroy this world, including its gods. Ultimately, this conclusion is also due to this world. All our tragedies are merely a performance for the advancement of this world. If we want to stop such tragedies, we must eradicate its source.”

Should we say he's lucid, or that he's gone mad?

Serik has indiscriminately shifted all responsibility to the world, seeing it as the source of heroes. Indeed, upon closer examination, that is true, but reason cannot accept it.

"You bastard..." Li roared, "What's the point of doing this?! It's just indiscriminate killing! Didn't you want to end this cycle?! Then what are you doing?! Summoning eleven heroes! And killing them one by one!?"

“Huh?” Serik turned around. “You will see the meaning and reason for doing this. But you will soon not see it. You are an unnecessary variable in the plan, so goodbye. I hope the other world you go to is not like this.”

"What are you talking about?!" Li had absolutely no idea what this person was thinking.

There were too few clues, almost no detailed explanations. The only clear point was his despair for the world, a despair stemming from his understanding of it and the death of his beloved. Why do these villains always have to spout such mystical nonsense? Can't they just speak plainly?

"Just wait and see, it will be over soon. Stop doing anything unnecessary, and everyone will be free soon."

Seric left with those words, like a gust of wind, delivering a powerful shock to Rin before vanishing. The amount of information gained from this direct confrontation was overwhelming; Rin couldn't process it all at once. Seric had said he was also a hero? Then why…? What on earth was going on?

After Serik left, the two demons, Chaoyang and Chaoyin, appeared at the door. As they approached, they removed their clothes, which triggered a flood of unresolved memories. Her mind went blank, and she forgot what she could do. Her face turned pale as she retreated, but there was nowhere for her to hide; she had nowhere to escape.

Several naked men entered with them, their faces displaying disgusting and lewd smiles. Chaoyang and Chaoyin's purpose was clear at a glance; just how many such perverse sexual fetishes did they possess?

"No, no! Don't come any closer!?!"

They ignored Li's cries of pain and pounced on the bed.

Despair filled Li's eyes; this was what the Yin-Yang siblings wanted to see—they wanted to see Li's face.

"Looks like I've arrived just in time!"

bump--!

The blanket placed under the bed rolled out, spilling black ink all over the floor. It then transformed into numerous tiny black needles that shot out. Only the Yin-Yang siblings reacted to the attack; they quickly fled from the bed. All the men were struck by the black needles and died instantly. At the same time, crows flew in, filling the room with their flight.

Chapter 54: Run!

Crows flew erratically around the room, and although the Yin-Yang siblings tried to disperse them with their holy swords, their numbers didn't decrease at all. Amidst this black chaos, someone grabbed Li's hand and quickly pulled her off the bed, dragging her straight towards a wall.

"Gather! Condense! Strengthen! Smash it open!"

The crows obeyed the man's command and turned into black liquid. This liquid had a magical aura. It gathered together and fell to the ground, then suddenly shot out black spikes, blasting open the wall that the two were rushing towards. Without hesitation, the man pulled Li and jumped out.

It was the same outside; crows were everywhere, and the entire warship was engulfed in flames. The smell of oil was extremely pungent. What on earth had happened? At the same time, she glanced at the person who had rescued her. Although the clothes were different, she couldn't mistake that face and those black hair.

“Mo Yueya…!” Li exclaimed in surprise.

"Ah, yes, it's me." Mo Yueya replied somewhat coldly, "Hold on tight, we're about to land!"

A quick glance confirmed the situation; they hadn't jumped directly off the ship, but instead leaped onto the lower deck. Li instinctively gripped Ink Moon Raven tightly, and just as they were about to land, a surge of ink welled up from the shadows on the ground, creating a cushion for them.

Boom!

Although there was a cushioning pad, jumping directly from the top floor onto the deck still had a significant impact, and to be honest, it hurt a bit. Mo Yueya stood up immediately after landing, just as some kingdom soldiers approached. Without hesitation, he used the ink beneath him to fight off the enemy, then grabbed Li and quickly ran to the other side.

"Run! Don't let up! We're going to run all the way to the stern!"

That's asking too much of you!

Li wanted to shout it out, but running with all her might was already her limit. Plus, she was naked, without shoes, and still had those two damned things on her body. She didn't know if she could hold out until then. At that moment, people started chasing after her, and two of them were undoubtedly the brother and sister.

When Mo Yueya reached a corner, she suddenly made a sharp turn and ran inside, heading straight into the cabin. The scorching air and thick black smoke hit her face, and she couldn't understand why she had come to such a place.

"Put this on! Use this to cover your nose!"

Mo Yueya casually grabbed the military uniform lying around and tossed it to Li, then gave her a towel. Li put on the uniform as she ran, then covered her mouth and nose. The two of them rushed into the depths of the ship's cabin, where thick smoke filled the air, making it almost impossible to open their eyes or see anything. But Mo Yueya didn't hesitate at all, running straight ahead.

As Mo Yueya ran, she dropped something along the way.

A strong magical fluctuation came from behind. Mo Yueya pulled Li in front of him, then turned around and released magic in the direction from which the fluctuation came.

"The Two Elements of Heaven and Earth!"

Instead of a magic circle, black and white yin-yang fish appeared and snapped together. Perhaps it wasn't magic after all. Black and white light flew from the other end of the corridor and struck the snapping yin-yang fish. The yin-yang fish shattered instantly, and the impact pushed the two people out and onto the scorching ground, but they were already out of the cabin.

Mo Yueya helped Li up, then urged her, "Run uphill!"

They barely had a chance to catch their breath; they had to keep running. Just as Li caught her breath, she was already running again. Once she reached the second level, she could see flames everywhere and soldiers rushing towards them—things Li couldn't handle in her current state.

boom!

A deafening explosion came from behind, the shockwave ruffling Li's hair. The Mo Yueya, who had caught up, shoved her from behind, and a swarm of Mo Yueya burst from the windows next to the soldiers, knocking them away. After clearing a path, Li and he continued running. The ship was so large that Li felt utterly hopeless; she couldn't even see the stern.

But she chose to trust Mo Yueya. At this moment, all she had to do was keep running and not stop. Mo Yueya caught up and ran alongside her. To prevent herself from being corrupted by the erotic markings too quickly, she started talking to him to distract herself.

"What did you do?!" Li shouted.

"Set it on fire!" Mo Yueya shouted back. "Let's set the whole ship on fire! How spectacular!"

"That's a serious crime!"

"Hahaha! Who knows! Anyway, I'm not a citizen of the Kingdom!"

The two ran desperately down the corridor, clearing away every obstacle they encountered, as if they were fully prepared. No matter what kind of predicament they faced, he could solve it in an unexpected way.

Mo Yueya placed oil drums throughout the warship and set them on fire. Given the burning speed and the properties of oil, it couldn't possibly be extinguished so quickly. Taking advantage of the chaos, he went to the upper deck, then used a large number of Mo Yueya to provide cover and rushed straight into the room where Guan Li was imprisoned. He was almost too late. After that, he used magic to open a hole in the wall and jumped out, beginning his real escape plan.

He fled along his planned route, anticipating all the unexpected events that occurred, which he was able to resolve using his prior preparations. The reason he ran into the cabin was to temporarily distract the two Punishers. The items he left behind were homemade bombs he had made using materials he had gathered during this time. He lured the two men into the cabin and then blew it up, hoping to slow them down and prevent them from catching up for at least a while.

Now, another one has caught up, hasn't it?

Bang bang bang—! Here it comes!

The moment it heard the sound, the Black Crow reacted instantly, gathering the surrounding Black Crows together before they could transform back into magic and something else. The Black Crows surrounded the two, and three gunshots rang out, followed by three explosions. Three bullets struck two of the Black Crows, causing explosions that swept away the surrounding crows. One bullet, however, landed through a gap in the corridor, causing it to collapse.

The two of them fell back to the deck level because the corridor beneath their feet collapsed. Mo Yueya immediately pulled Li up and ran quickly. They were very unlucky, as it was that person chasing them.

That person was "Demon Coffin" Hevia, the one among the eleven Punishers who was most skilled at long-range sniping.

Chapter 55 Chase

bang bang bang! ! !

Three more bullets were fired, each aimed at their legs, presumably to disable them. Mo Yueya continued to summon her crows to provide cover as they advanced towards the stern of the ship. Similarly, their pursuers were also in pursuit, the gunfire seemingly coming from above. Indeed, being higher up would allow them to better spot the two men and snipe them.

Hevia must be sniping somewhere above. Moyueya doesn't have time to find her and interfere. At this point, it's best to use Moyueya as shields to advance steadily. The dense swarm of Moyueya forms a black barrier protecting the two below. No matter how Heviaya snipes, she can't hit them directly, and any dead Moyueya will quickly be replaced by others.

Standing at the highest point, Hevia frowned, put away her gun, and ran up the floors. To avoid losing the two, she quickened her pace. Sniping was possible, but those black crows were not only an eyesore but also a huge hindrance. No matter how she sniped, she couldn't penetrate that dense, dark mass of crows. Continuing to snipe like this wasn't a solution, so she decided to follow the two.

Judging from their movements, the two seemed to be heading towards the stern. Their figures could be seen through the gaps in the black crows that appeared and disappeared intermittently. Hevia silently quickened her pace, descending rapidly from above as she went, and returned to the first floor before them. She spotted the two people concealed by the black crows and quickly fired.

Bang Bang Bang!