When I Cleared the Death Game World, I Reincarnated as a Villainous Noble Even if They Talk About Doom Flags, I'm Actually Immortal. - Chapter 43

A mechanical dragon emerged from Lior’s shadow, its mouth moving as if chewing.

Ptuh!! It spat something out with apparent disgust—a silver ring.

When Lior picked it up, he immediately noticed how unsettling the design was.

Three men’s faces were contorted in agony, their hands reaching out as if pleading for help.

It was grotesque.

(Ugh… I really don’t want to wear this…)

With a wave of his hand, the ring disappeared.

At the same time, the sword he had been holding also vanished.

“Sorry for making you eat something weird. I’ll prepare something tastier next time…”

“…Grr…”

With another wave of Lior’s hand, the mechanical dragon gave him a reproachful look before sinking back into the shadows.

It almost seemed like a sulking dog.

After seeing the dragon off, Lior gathered Ren and Luna’s bodies.

Both had suffered torso injuries. Feeling sorry for them, he removed his jacket and gently covered them with it.

“Well then, let’s give this a try.”

Taking a deep breath, Lior exhaled and then plunged his hand into his own chest.

A sickening squelch echoed as he tore through his flesh, reaching deep inside.

With a firm tug, he pulled his arm out. In his grasp was a red, pulsating heart.

However, distortions flickered across its surface, like visual noise in a glitched game.

Then, in an instant, the crimson heart transformed into a mechanical device resembling a pocket watch.

Lior pointed the pocket-watch-like device at Ren and Luna.

“Revoking Clause Three. Expanding the target of the First Negation Principle: ‘Death.’ Designating individuals ‘Ren Fairy’ and ‘Luna Fairy’ as subjects.”

The moment Lior finished speaking, something changed.

Noise flickered over Ren and Luna’s bodies. The scattered flesh, bl00d, and even fragments of their clothing all reassembled.

This was the negation of death.

It was the very same “immortality” once achieved by the inhabitants of Drag Machina—the origin of the rusted, putrid hell their world had become.

A corpse that has been denied death cannot exist.

It becomes a fatal error within the world itself.

To prevent collapse, the world attempts to erase the event entirely—nullifying the fact that the corpses had ever died.

“…Did it work?”

Lifting the jacket, Lior checked their bodies.

Ren and Luna’s injuries were completely healed.

Soft breathing could be heard.

It seemed they had successfully never died.

“Phew, that’s a relief. But… I guess this makes me a cheater now. I can only blame my own weakness… I need to train harder.”

Muttering to himself, Lior returned the mechanical device to his chest.

As it merged back inside, it once again became his heart, and his wounds closed up instantly.

A little while later, Lior shook their bodies, and almost simultaneously, they woke up.

Both Ren and Luna instinctively held their heads as they sat up.

Perhaps because they were sisters, their movements were eerily synchronized.

Ren, still groggy, blinked a few times before looking at Lior—and then her eyes widened in shock.

She looked like she had just seen a ghost.

“L-Lior…? Why are you…? No, wait—I should be dead… shouldn’t I…?”

Confused, Ren placed a hand on her stomach.

But no matter how much she touched it, there wasn’t a single wound.

Of course, anyone would find it strange to be alive after clearly remembering their own death.

“Um… Ren, if you had died, you wouldn’t be able to talk like this, right?”

“But… those guys threw some weird bottles, and then black flames spread everywhere… The last thing I saw was them being consumed by the fire and turning into monsters… and then…”

She trailed off, her face growing pale as if the memories were making her sick.

“Black flames…? I did see them throw bottles, but the smoke that came out was pink, not black.”

“Pink smoke…?”

“Yes. After inhaling that smoke, you collapsed.”

There was no way Lior could just casually say, “Actually, you did die, but I erased that fact from reality!”

It was better to convince them it had all been just a dream.

“So… that means it was all just a dream from inhaling that smoke? That those people never turned into monsters, and you and Luna were never killed…?”

“That’s probably the case…”

“Wait a minute,” Luna interjected. “I saw those monsters too. Was it really just a dream…?”

Luna’s words threw a wrench into Lior’s fabricated explanation.

“Luna, the monster you saw—was it like an orc, but with multiple heads growing from its body?”

“Yeah… It was grabbing my sister, so I panicked and threw a rock at it…”

“That’s… exactly the same dream I had. Could two people really have the exact same dream…?”

This was bad.

Doubt was beginning to creep into their minds.

Which made sense, since Lior was outright lying.

“…Maybe it was some kind of special tool? One that forces people to share the same nightmare—making it feel more real and terrifying.”

“Hmmm… I’ve never heard of a tool like that before…”

“But those guys used some strange daggers to turn into demons, didn’t they? Someone must have given them special artifacts.”

“…That’s possible.”

Throwing out a desperate excuse, Lior was surprised when Ren accepted it rather easily.

But then she suddenly looked around, as if just realizing something.

“Wait, if those people didn’t actually turn into monsters… then where did they go? They should still be alive, right?”

“…Sorry. I lost them. I couldn’t just leave you two behind to chase after them…”

“Oh… I see. No, it’s not your fault, Lior. I was the one who got knocked out so easily…”

Ren let out a small, awkward laugh.

Perhaps she was feeling frustrated at herself for being taken down so quickly.

Lior, having just lied straight to her face, felt a slight pang of guilt.

Void Negation Machine (虚否機)

A machine that denies the fundamental laws of the world. It was constructed from the corpse of a dragon salvaged from the depths of the ocean.

Forged from two hearts, this machine negated death, granting humanity eternal prosperity.

However, even after successfully denying death, humanity was unable to completely negate time.

As time continued to flow, it ravaged the world. The once-thriving world deteriorated, rotting away into rust and decay.