Editing No Game No Life:Volume 5 Bagian 4 (section)

===Part 4===

- The seawater had completely evaporated just after the first strike, and Leila could only crawl on the cracked, dried ground.

She couldn’t breathe, and the sunlight corroded every pore of her body on the naked sea floor.

She couldn’t feel pain, but her energy was being endlessly sapped from her.

The continuous assault of the Flügel didn’t even give the seawater time to grow back.

The seawater evaporated, returned, and evaporated yet again, removing the Empress - removing Leila of her marine protection.

After which, the baby-like monsters that descended from the blood-red skies crept towards her, threatening to feast on her.

She had no water, she couldn’t swim, so even if she belonged to a race loved and protected by the ocean - if she didn’t have seawater she couldn’t even disguise herself -...

“...P...phew...a-am I...finally there...?”

- How many days had it been? Or how many minutes?

Leila dragged her body to the front of the tower.

Behind her she could hear countless explosions, and the fires of hell were burning passionately there as well.

Above her were broken skies and cries of laughter, while on the ground were countless screams of terror and agony.

Leila fearfully opened the doors of the tower with all her might, and charged into it - at the same time...

She felt a shock that once again leveled the city behind her and yet another explosion - but Leila merely sat down in relief.

Because within the tower - there was water.

Probably because Sora and Shiro were there, it was the only place that even the attacks of the Flügel couldn’t destroy.

As long as she had water, she could breathe and seduce... Finally -

“...Ha, hahaha....hehehehehe...you’ve got some guts - to dare to do something like this to me!”

Leila gasped for air, and from within her - surged torrents of red-hot anger.

- 「Make me fall in love with you」?

“...Fine, since you actually dared to play a fool with me this far, I’ll make you pay.”

- With a swish of her tailfin, Leila surged up the water-filled tower at a stunningly fast speed.

- I am the Empress of the Sea, I have everything, no one will resist my rule.

They actually dared to show such disrespect towards me - although I don’t know what he wants -

“Don’t think kneeling down and begging for forgiveness will save you!!”

Just one sentence, I just need for him to hear the slightest bit of my voice, and it will be all over.

- I’ll sing a song, capture his heart, and make him kneel before me and lick the floor.

After which I’ll reject him as coldly and heartlessly as I can, then push him into a bottomless canyon of despair.

I’ll seduce him then push him aside, so when he leaves the dream - he will think the real world is the actual nightmare, and he won’t be able to live with himself.

With these thoughts in her head, she smiled evilly, and swam through the waters - not long after...

She reached the topmost floor - the hall of the Empress - and stood before the gates to her own room.

“...Open.”

- The doors immediately swept open along with the water current, almost as if they were forced open by her voice.

There was no doubt that Leila was the absolute ruler over the oceans, as all beings in the sea could only bow before her power through the 「Water Elementals」 within her. It was simply natural, it wasn’t something one could fight against, it was a magic that surpassed even the boundaries of her species.

Because even if her opponent was an Elf, the spirits used within their magics would obey Leila.

In this world - there was nothing she could not tame.

Carrying an immense amount of self-confidence - no, with absolute belief, Leila - finally arrived.

Sora and Shiro - the two had dressed up like demon kings.

Sora seemed to be enjoying himself, even allowing himself to receive her with a cocky smile.

“- You’ve finally managed to get here...

Your stupidity really is entertaining...

But things seem to be going exactly as planned...

How enjoyable -”

“...Nii, you can stop that now...”

“Come on~ Shiro, don’t cut me short halfway through my lines, I spent a lot of time preparing them you know.”

Leila could only look at them with a raging fury in her eyes as the two quarreled.

Although their actions were unbelievably foolish - it was about time for them to pay the price.

And then, the Empress - Leila - wove her words with a voice even the Gods would be smitten with.

“Alright, are you done playing? Now kneel down and kowtow to me.”

- I’ll make him kneel first.

After that, I’ll be sure to drag him so far in his brain will melt -

- However, as she heard his reply...

Leila couldn’t believe her ears.

“Hey, didn’t you hear what I said about the rules at all? Make me fall in love with you - can’t you even flatter me or something?”

- Leila was speechless.

The young man and the girl before her - merely stood smiling even after she had used her voice that could hypnotize both genders regardless, and even managed to reply mockingly.

- They’re fighting against it. Leila thought to herself in panic.

Because as long as she was in the water, they would definitely fall in love with her without exceptions, and their brains would be immobilized. 

So let’s try it out - let’s see how long they can keep up their facade.

“...Yes, sorry, I was too excited, so I apologize for being so rude earlier.”

Leila looked at them passionately with teary eyes, and continued almost pleadingly:

“I hope you can hear my true feelings - I want you, please reciprocate my love.”

Not just her voice, but her every action - had a hypnotizing power that even brainwashing could not beat.

Behind her pleading words, it was almost as if she was entering commands - orders that were impossible to deny.

When faced with her irresistible charm, Sora merely - shivered slightly - and replied.

“...Ugh~ I’m sorry, I’m getting goosebumps, nope, can’t do that.”

...

- Huh?

“And to be honest, you’re not even my type.”

-----Huh?

“Also the rules clearly said that you need to make me fall in love with you, but you went and told me to kneel in your first sentence, apologized in your second, then finally said that your previous words weren’t actually what you meant? Are you one of those tripmine girls people see on the internet? I’d never thought that people like you actually exist, that’s quite a surprise.”

...Leila could only stand there speechlessly.

They weren’t fighting back, it was just that her magic wasn’t working.

Why - was her dream being tampered with? No, even the Elven magics couldn't touch it.

She couldn’t figure it out, but only one thing was truly confirmed -

This man came here with the firm belief that he wouldn’t fall in love with me.

- Just then, the man turned to the young girl beside him for some sort of confirmation - and she nodded.

“Ah~ I can finally say it now, since previously everyone thought this was some sort of romance game, this is probably the first time someone has said something like this to you right? So including that Gramps from earlier, I’m going to take everyone’s frustration out on you!”

After that - Sora inhaled deeply, and released a rapid-fire torrent of words:

“You’re a grown woman for goodness sake, and here you are daydreaming and stuff. Are you stupid or something? Who do you think you are? An idiot? Do you really think that everyone has to treat you well? Even the kindergartners nowadays are smarter than you! Also do you have any idea how long you’ve been sleeping? Eight hundred years! Eight, hundred, years! Don’t tell me you think you’re some sort of sleeping beauty waiting for her prince? You’re over eight hundred years old! You goddamn old hag! I said you were pretty old earlier, but you’ve got to have a limit somewhere! I confess, I do prefer older women, but they at least need to have some brains you know!? Also, the thing that I hate the most about you is your 「All men will definitely fall in love with me」 attitude! Women should know their place! Sexiness must come with some sort of humility and restraint before it has any meaning! Unless you’re thinking something like this? That when people ask you to take off your clothes you just strip off everything without a doubt. Do you really think of yourself as a woman? Or that! Are you one of those people who try to get starring roles in AV's but when the actual shooting comes, you just take off your clothes and everything, one of those idiots with romantic stats of below twenty!? If you think all that matters is how much skin you show, you might as well go be a nudist! You bloody halfwit! Also, why do I have to suck up to a woman I don’t like? With any semblance of common sense, one would immediately realize it’s just a waste of time and effort! Are you genuinely an idiot!? If so, I might as well go chase some 2D girls, which would probably be more meaningful, less time-consuming, more appealing, and probably won’t damage my wallet and break my heart! Furthermore, I want to say one last thing - I don’t know whether you call those things water elementals or whatever but, you only have the ability to seduce and hypnotize when those things are around - so to be honest your looks are only at a medium standard; you’re only going to be a third wheel in my crew, which you should have realized long ago if you would just look in the goddamn mirror! You sponge-brained idiot!!”

---...

Phew~~...

Not allowing his opponent to reply at all, Sora blabbered on and on - finally appearing somewhat pleased with himself.

“Ah~ that feels better...right, so I’ve said everything I wanted to say. I’m done here so I’m ending the game now, bye ♪”

Huh?

“- W-wait -!”

“I’m not waiting~! Are you having fun playing this game, making people run around for no particular reason? Thanks for having us over, idiot, goodbye~!!”

Sora and Shiro immediately disappeared after that, so maybe the game ended after all.

After that - the explosions she heard up until then stopped - 

Different noises began quietly resounding within Leila’s heart.