137 – … There are some circumstances.
“Ah… !”
When he tries to cast black magic, I frame it before it shows the result.
In this way, another research data has increased.
“Hey, what a human… !”
It consumed a lot of mana because it had to be able to embrace the power of black magic, but in this dark place, it was offset by the effect of Hera, the spirit of the night.
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Around the time the picture frames were piled up on the floor, the girl, the bloody ghost, stopped manifesting magic first.
I was the first to break the silence.
“Couldn’t you use black magic more diversely?”
This is the impression I gave out while breaking the frames containing the overlapping spells. After deleting all the duplicates, there were actually only about five left.
“I will study these spells and put them to good use. I just want you to be a fairly capable warlock.”
“You say arrogant things casually? Human. You say that after you win.”
The little girl looked at me with her sneer.
“Unless you kill me, the barrier will not disappear. What to do with this? It looks like all the investors are covered in miasma and are about to die.”
As if to look at this, the girl slowly carves her neck with her sharp thumb nail.
Even at first glance, her blood pours down from her deep wound, but she never shows any signs of struggling.
“As you can see, I am not going to die.”
Continuing to sarcastically, the blood ghost girl draws a small circle in the air with the tip of her index finger.
“All I want is this one. Human, do you know what this refers to?”
Then, a few impatient investors intervened.
“Do you want gold coins! I’ll give you anything!”
“Me too! A lot of gold coins!”
The bloody ghost girl just stares at me.
In the first place, what she drew was not a gold coin. It’s a power source containing the power of ancient runes.
“What are you going to do, are you going to kill all the investors? Are you really going to be okay? It’s the Magic Faculty you’ve been working on!”
“It’s pitiful. There is no negotiation with you.”
I responded with an even bigger laugh.
“The ignorant way to relax with a lot of vitality…. I’ve seen it countless times, and now I’m sick of it.”
As if the operating table was set up vertically, I fixed his body with mental movements. I slowly approached him and put my hand on his neck.
“What should I tell you about your ignorance?”
Life force, the source of black magic.
Inside his blood, it pulsates greatly. I started pumping mana back into the wound on her neck.
“The ignorant who mistakenly thought it was infinite even though it was never infinite. That is your limit.”
Even now the girl is pouring her blood from her wounds. I replenish the amount of her draining life force with my own mana.
Perhaps realizing my intention, the girl asked me with a puzzled face.
“… Is this crazy now? Are you trying to fill my body with your mana?”
He continues talking as if he is laughing.
“Why wouldn’t I dare to resist? You and I are connected now. The moment that trivial plan fails, my life force will melt your body.”
I sigh.
Since I was born in this world, I have seen countless people who are cheeky, but every time I encounter them, I can’t seem to get rid of some pathetic feelings and anger.
“The Blood Ghost.”
I recited his race.
His body trembled very slightly.
“Don’t you see that your guess itself is wrong?”
There is no need to regurgitate all of your life force.
I put in an appropriate amount of mana, and the bloody girl looks at me with her eyes rolling.
The magic formulas drawn in my head are meticulously interlocked to exert an effect, and 「Reverse Flow」 Is activated.
“It does not overwrite with mana. It just regurgitates.”
The mana that permeates everywhere manipulates the guy’s bloodstream.
Completely ignoring the body’s organs that exist to prevent backflow, it forces the vast amount to rise upside down.
Awesome!
The girl’s body shook with a tremendous sound. Blood spurts out of every orifice of the body.
It happened in an instant.
“Billion…. Uh, crap….”
I added a few words as I looked over at her pouring her blood with her eyes completely turned upside down.
“If you want a power source, visit it normally. Isn’t hostage taking a bit childish even if you think about it yourself?”
While shedding bloody tears, the guy soon regains his focus. His body trembles and he glares at me.
“Ugh…. Pole….”
“There is nothing to disassemble, right? Not even your body.”
“… !”
Then the guy became even more surprised.
But the next moment, the blood that flowed even louder exploded her body.
“That is unpleasant.”
The impression was not long.
A concept completely different from the creation of an alter ego. Black magic that sacrifices the body of a living creature that was actually alive.
That was a possession just now.
I quietly looked around. The purple mist disappeared at some point, and the barrier surrounding her ballroom was also completely gone.
“….”
The eyes of the investors who survived without getting hurt were turned to me.
Of course, there were also those who couldn’t look away. They were the investors who presented the gold coins to the bloody ghost earlier.
“I do not force investment.”
Everyone quietly listened to my words. In the ballroom where the light slowly returns, I continued my words.
“But know that if you invest, you will never lose faith. I saw it, so you know.”
There was no answer.
There was no need to listen.
I didn’t tell a single lie.
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Becky and Trixie were watching the situation from outside the ballroom.
Should I say good luck or bad luck?
It took a long time because they argued all day at the clothing store, but when they arrived, a frightening sight awaited them.
A purple barrier completely surrounded the ballroom in a hemispherical shape. Just standing nearby gave me a headache.
“Huh? The barrier disappears!”
In the midst of that, someone shouted. Becky and Trixie also opened their eyes and watched.
The thick barrier becomes translucent and then disappears.
It was a restoration without any side effects or aftermath. Belatedly, knights and professors from the Faculty of Magic tried to enter.
However.
Someone leisurely walked out of the ballroom. I stopped moving to enter all the unusual steps and focused my gaze.
Becky also stretched his neck to see who it was.
“Huh? Flan?”
Plan.
It was none other than him.
Others followed after him who led the way.
“How is the interior?”
“What happened?”
“Did you find the bloodghost who committed the crime?”
Plann just stood still and looked around the crowd with questions on his face.
“Why don’t you put the sword in?”
I sent a similar gaze to the wizards who arrived late, and everyone did the same.
“It is enough to enjoy the melody and dance at the ballroom. Why everyone As if we were going to fight.”
Everyone blinked at Plan’s words.
Someone broke the silence and asked Plan.
“First, explain what happened inside, so we can make our own judgement.”
Then Plan pointed his chin at the ballroom. The ballroom, which was in a very fine state.
“Nothing happened.”
A low voice.
Seeing it with my own eyes didn’t seem like anything special, so even the crowds had nothing to say.
“Flan!”
Becky and Trixie approached Plan as he was about to leave. Trixie’s face was full of doubt, and Becky’s face was full of worry.
“Are you okay flan? I’m glad there’s nothing special….”
Becky subconsciously tries to grab Plan’s hand, but manages to pull it away.
“….”
Plan quietly looks at Trixie and Becky.
Then, he narrows his forehead.
“What the hell are you?”
Same dress, same necklace, same bracelet…. It was a behavior that was incomprehensible to Plan’s head.
After a while, he nodded as if he understood.
“Did we get to know each other?”
“No.”
“No!”
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Midnight that night.
A conference room in the void.
“It seems that the opponent was quite strong?”
Bloodgwi’s executive ‘Mask’ asked. The ‘girl’ nodded with a disapproving face.
“Besides being strong, he’s a weird guy.”
“Indeed, I would have to do that. Because he proudly broke the mask that I cherished a lot and returned.”
The mask’s special ability is to transform other life forms into possessive bodies. He calls them masks and enjoys collecting them.
“It’s enough to make that stuff again! Ah~ The more I think about it, the more I get annoyed. That cheeky bastard.”
The girl tore off the arm of the cursed doll. Even if she tries to put her own reason for being careless, her face gets hot when she recalls the situation at the time.
“It’s okay. Wasn’t it a search war in the first place? Please release any information you find out.”
“Your observation skills are great. Because I found out that the life force inside the blood can be reversed, and that I am possessed by a possessed body.”
“Negotiation?”
“If you want a power source related to ancient runes, just look for it. Hostage taking is childish or something.”
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A burst of laughter was heard from behind the mask.
“You are definitely a strange person. That’s fine though. Rather, it is advantageous for us to take out the power source after the research has progressed.”
“Oh, right!”
As if remembering something, the girl jumped up.
“He used stuffed animals? Did you really write it?”
The mask and the girl’s gaze simultaneously turned to one side of the void. Maiev was standing there.
Maiev answered calmly.
“I got hit too. Strictly speaking, that person doesn’t use black magic equally. Only pure magic gives the same result.”
“Is that possible?”
“Didn’t you just go through it yourself?”
“This petty b*tch.”
The girl crumpled her expression. She looks at Maiev’s left arm and then clicks her tongue.
“You are more pathetic. What did you do without an arm?”
“… There are some circumstances.”
Maiev evaded quietly.
To keep her slave imprint undetected, she had to cut off her arm every time she visited the void.
“No, but I really don’t understand.”
The girl muttered her own doubts.
“I don’t know anything else, but why didn’t the extreme reading work?”
“You didn’t control the lethal dose, did you?”
“I did. Don’t you know my ability? Sure did that’s why i don’t understand It’s really impossible unless you eat my poison every day….”
Cool, Maiev, who had been listening, suddenly cleared her throat.
“….”
The reason why the girl’s extreme poison did not work.
… Maiev seemed to know why.
Maiev:”ehhmmm sorry, actually he eats it every day as a snack”