Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 837 - 687: Sally’s Fate

Chapter 837: Chapter 687: Sally’s Fate

After encountering Tenjouin Shino, Farosa returned to the secret containment facility located in the outskirts that belonged to Nestor Corporation.

A glass house, cast from high-grade anti-seismic glass, was situated within the containment facility, and the Rat Demon God Sallie was temporarily housed here. After being treated, she has now awakened.

When Farosa arrived, she saw Sallie kneeling on the ground in a strange posture, praying, with fresh blood all over the ground and ugly wounds all across her body.

"Why are you bleeding? Who hurt you?" Farosa frowned deeply.

It was a heinous crime for someone, even after numerous warnings and confirmations, to lay a hand on Sallie and leave her so severely injured. If such foolishness occurred again within Nestor Corporation, Farosa would make them understand the true meaning of suffering and terror.

Sallie, hearing Farosa’s voice, slowly opened her eyes. There was also a wound near Sallie’s eyes, as if someone had tried to blind her.

Before Sallie could speak, Farosa spoke first.

Indeed, Farosa was maniacal, but seeing the blood-stained wounds on Sallie, she exploded from the bottom of her heart with an extraordinary anger.

Oddly enough, Farosa had never thought she would care so much about the life or death of such a small rat. She came here to make good use of Sallie, but the wounds on Sallie’s body completely captured Farosa’s attention.

"Tell me who did this, and I will make their life worse than death, no matter who they are," Farosa said coldly.

Those terrible wounds, scattered across the abdomen, arms, legs, eyes, forehead... like she had been ravaged by more than a dozen beasts.

"No... don’t be angry," Sallie said slowly.

"Why not? Which malicious human gave the order?" Farosa said gravely, "I am the Witch Goddess, and I am also your god, no matter what you turn into, I am your deity. Only I can harm my witches, no one else!"

A strange expression appeared on Sallie’s face.

"Farosa... you would say such things? I am truly grateful," Sallie said weakly.

Farosa gave a light smile.

"Tell me who caused you to be so injured, and then I’ll flay their skin off. It’s that simple."

"—It was myself!" Sallie sighed first, then lamented, "I did it to myself!"

"..." Farosa utterly refused to believe it and ordered Unit 101 to investigate the surveillance.

Subsequently, they found it to be true.

Since being brought here, Sally received medical treatment from the medical team. She seemed to have sustained hidden injuries during her conflict with Suzukawa Kiyo, and the surgery took a long time.

After the surgery, Sally spoke with the doctors for a while, then she had been shivering on the ground ever since. A few hours ago, she suddenly began tearing and biting herself furiously, inflicting numerous wounds onto her body.

"Let me heal your injuries; going on like this is no good," Farosa disliked seeing the bloodied and mangled state of the Rat Woman.

"No, I need these wounds," Sally stubbornly said.

"You truly are mad. Then tell me the whole story... start with why we found you unconscious on the ground," Farosa said as she sat on a metal chair, crossing one leg over the other.

"It’s White Peach! White Peach is Suzukawa Kiyo. I can’t believe I live-streamed with her for over a year, right there in that basement, without realizing it. I even covered for her; I was her accomplice in murder," Sally cried.

Tears streamed down from her fuzzy fur, and Farosa watched with malicious interest as this hideous Rat sobbed miserably.

"You’ve been working with Suzukawa Kiyo, do you know how terrifying she is?" Farosa smiled.

"It wasn’t just working together... I also covered for her, helped her hide. I thought she was just timid, but later I realized how terrifying she is. She used our money to turn the basement into an impenetrable fortress, impossible for anyone to find," Sally said with regret.

"And then, you fought with her? What caused the conflict?" Farosa asked slowly.

"Because of the incident at Haruto Pool Shop, I was terrified of the Ratman starting a war with Humans, so I had to leave. I couldn’t take it anymore. I heard the community had captured Ratman, I told White Peach I couldn’t stand it, we had to ask Nestor Corporation for help. She got really furious with me, argued intensely, and knocked me to the ground. I was no match..." Sally sobbed uncontrollably.

"You thought you could beat her? One of your Magic Powers, which encourages vitality, only increases Suzukawa Kiyo’s terrifying figure; the other, Electromagnetic Pulse, can barely scorch a part of her," Farosa mocked.

"I didn’t know... I even cooperated with her, sent messages to Nestor Corporation and provided cover so they wouldn’t track us. The evil acts ’White Peach’ Suzukawa Kiyo did, I share a part in them. The people she killed, I have a hand in that too," Sally was on the verge of collapse.

Farosa observed Sally.

"So, this is the reason for your self-reproach?" Farosa asked.

As if relieved of a burden, Sally knelt on the ground and continued to pray, with fresh blood continuously flowing from the wounds on her body.

Farosa now fully understood that the spike-like scars were from her own vicious scratching, the mangled areas her own biting, and the long gashes were from whipping herself with her tail.

"I was once deluded by Black Fire Innovation and became a maniac that could not live without postage stamps, leading the Ratman to invade Aizu City and surface on the Ground, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of the bravest Ratman in Rat Village and several tens of thousands of underground dwellers. Now, I’ve cooperated with Suzukawa Kiyo again, allowing her to hide well under Nestor Corporation — hide in my name, live in my name — then indulged her in surfacing to commit atrocities, leading to a part of Shangjing falling and countless disappearances, completely destroying numerous families. Punishment... I must be punished!" Sally murmured.

Saint Sally of the Rat Clan, Rat Demon God Sally, virtual idol Saint Sally, now just a stinking Rat covered in wounds. Farosa watched coldly from the sidelines.

"Does inflicting such harm on yourself make you feel better?" Farosa asked.

"This is my way of atonement; I must shed blood for those sins. I want to die, I want to feel people’s agony. Ratman bite Humans, and now I feel that pain too. I am biting myself; the Ratman’s bites truly hurt. I earnestly hope all the suffering can be borne by me," Sally said softly.

"I can’t understand you."

"I am willing to bleed for the entire Ratman Race, to repent to Humans. Now I understand that the contradiction between Ratmen and Humans can’t be resolved. I can only keep repenting, atoning, enduring the pain, and empathizing with people’s suffering as compensation to Humans, I need to bleed, and I will bleed even more."

"You may as well bleed to death, you useless Rat." Farosa mocked.

Sally looked towards Farosa.

"Could you eat me?" Sally asked humbly.

"...?" Farosa was puzzled.

"I heard you eat creatures with Divine Power, absorbing their Power as your own. Can you eat me? That way, I wouldn’t have to live in sin, and I could pass my Power on to you," Sally said in a dreamlike tone.

Farosa licked her lips.

"...Who told you this?" Farosa asked, "Who gave you this information?"

"A voice from within the earthen walls spoke to me, I occasionally hear it this year. Perhaps the deer?" Sally spoke slowly.

"Ah—Forest Master." Farosa let out a hoarse laugh, "It was you planning behind my back, betraying me, fearing me."

A long sigh echoed from the surrounding void.

"Now I know who has been slandering me, spreading rumors about me, Forest Master. Does eating your lover’s arm make you this depressed, this hopeless? Wait, just patiently wait, I... won’t make things easy for you." Farosa turned her back on Sally, facing the air and the Ground around her.

Looking back at the shivering Sally, Farosa’s tone became a hundred times gentler.

"Listen, you are my dearest treasure. I will protect you. I don’t eat dead Rats or stinky Rats. I’ll make you into a strong Power emitter... No, I will make you my capable assistant," Farosa told Sally.

"I don’t know if I can bear such an honor," Sally exclaimed in surprise.

"Wait, first I want to see you perform that thing." Farosa restored Sally using the Law of Recovery, back to the state she was just after being medically treated, whole and unharmed.

Sally bowed her head and found herself healthy again, not a bit of pain, full of vitality.

"This is..." Sally was confused.

"Do what you need to do, something you called ’atonement’ or something," Farosa stared at Sally.

Without hesitation, Sally swung her claw at her own body, leaving a huge gash, skin torn, flesh ripped open, deep to the bone, screaming but not stopping her action.

"Enough! Enough!—Enough..." Farosa restored Sally again using the Law of Recovery.

"Is this your purpose? I can keep atoning until all my sins are repaid," Sally said gratefully.

"Stop being a fool. I was just watching for fun," Farosa said gently, "I am your mother; I can’t bear to see you suffer."

"What will become of the Ratman’s destiny?" Sally asked with sadness.

"I want you to rally all the Ratmen in the world, form a grand army capable of siege and conquest, and go to the Hot Tree Continent that is currently in the throes of a frenzy of partition. If your Ratman army can outfight the colonizers and the natives’ missiles and rockets, and you can occupy a piece of barren land, rainforest, and grasslands on the Hot Tree Continent, then you’ll have won a small, independent kingdom for yourselves, and no longer need to be concerned with trivial Ratman and Human affairs," Farosa said.

"I am now..." Sally looked at where she had been wounded, "I am very sad now... I fear I can’t do such a big task."

"You won’t be sad anymore." Farosa opened the glass cage and handed Sally an invitation.

"Jialong Slope... cruise..." Sally looked at the contents of the invitation, puzzled.

"After you get there, you’ll be very clear-headed. Xu Yang will fix your broken mind; he’s very good at it," Farosa said kindly.

"And... I... can... real... too..." Sally spoke very quickly, at least several sentences, but due to her excitement, her thoughts were jumbled, so she could only articulate the first word of each sentence.

"I still have several invitations to send, I must leave now," Farosa turned and left the containment facility.

She returned to Xu Cheng’s workshop at Nestor Headquarters, where Xu Cheng sat on the Ground playing with cars.

"Do you want to go find your daddy?" Farosa asked with a smile.

"Yay, daddy!" Xu Cheng stood up.

"Take this invitation with you, let’s go together to find your daddy," Farosa stroked Xu Cheng’s hair.

"Can my animal friends come too?" Xu Cheng blinked.

"Of course they can, your wolf friends, spider friends, dog friends. I’ll even bring a big fox; we’ll all go, all of us," Farosa said with a smile.

"Wow, that will be quite lively," Xu Cheng was very happy, she opened the invitation to examine the contents, "Yacht!"

Farosa nodded with a smile.

Damn Xu Yang, just watch as I turn your yacht party into total chaos. Farosa thought to herself.