The Cursed Gamer, Book 3

466: Just What is Up With Her?

Chapter 466: Just What is Up With Her?

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"Leave him to me for now..." the girl in a witch dress said and quite reluctantly cast a binding spell.

Pristine white shackles came out of thin air and wrapped around Neji like a cocoon. If the paralysis wasn't enough to stop him, this did.

She held one end of the chains and looked at Godmother. "I'll take him to my room. The other half should have appeared there by now."

"Take your time with him," Godmother said, waving her off and picking up the needle to return to her sewing.

While the Director... 'No, this one doesn't act like the director. I think it really is Kimi... maybe.' She dragged him through the air deep into the castle.

Neji passed by the garden he had seen last time, and he also found the quotes that hung on the wall. It held the same sayings, so she was the Director already. But she didn't act in the same cold-hearted way...

What had happened to Kimi that she was so different back in the present time? Did she just have a personality change, or was there a more significant thing?

While being dragged through the hallways, he came across a mirror. There, he got to see his current appearance for a single second. 'Black hair and golden eyes, huh...'

Dragging him to a looming, ornate door, she snapped her fingers, and it creaked open ominously. She strode in confidently, while Neji's gaze, drifting and curious, suddenly fixated on a shadowy figure inside the room.

'What?'

"As expected, you're back," the witch said with a mixture of relief and wariness in her voice, eyeing the maid who was waiting inside. There was a magic circle on the floor, seemingly active just a while ago but now unused.

"Huh, who is that?" said the Kimi who was inside the room, wearing the exact maid dress that Neji had seen the Kimi Doll wear.

He recalled what the doll had said—that a part of Kimi had been sent to the future, and that part made the doll before leaving. So could this be her...?

"Huh? What is that question supposed to mean? I sent you to the future to bring the young master here, and here he is. You are back too. The mission was a success." The witch Kimi said with a bright smile.

"I... well, this is embarrassing," the maid rubbed the back of her head. "I am pretty sure the ritual didn't succeed. I even left a 'Kimi Doll' to notify him later that the ritual didn't succeed."

"What?"

"I am certain the spell didn't succeed. And from where I came from, the young master looked just as we remembered him to; white hair and blue eyes." with a shrug, the maid said. She looked at Neji suspiciously. "Anyways, take me back in. It's better to merge than to answer every question manually."

"...Come here," the witch said as the maid came closer to her.

Witch Kimi's eyes, filled with a mixture of sadness and concern, briefly met Neji's before returning to the approaching maid. The two of them held up their palms and gently touched, and light shone brightly.

The two luminous figures converged in a dance of light, slowly merging into a single form until only one remained. The light vanished as Kimi, with a tie hanging between her cleavage now, looked at Neji with a blink.

"...Ah. There has been a previous Gamer before the young master," She looked at Neji with a scowl. "It's you... you're the reason that everything went to hell. Despite having done nothing wrong, the young master suffered because of your mistake...! You're the first gamer!"