815 169, Awakened Curse

What is this place?

I'm sure he's back at Kutanutsu's home...

Ouch... not... my chest wound is healing. I was still right to ask my mother for help. Drinking potion didn't block the wound, and some nasty poison came around. You were in a hurry.

Hmm? This warmth... Alec. Were you warming me up? Thankfully. No, more than that, Alec's safe and above all.

Don't lose your mind yet, it looks like you bled too much. Sleep till Alec wakes up...

"Curse?"

"Oh dear. I think I woke him up.

"Curse!?

"Yeah. I'm glad Alec's okay.

"Curse!"

"All right, all right. It's all right now. I'm sorry I accidentally broke into your room and caused Alec to get hurt. You should have gone more carefully.

"No! It's obviously my fault! Because of me, Curse has disarmed the automatic defense..."

It's... it's definitely what Alec jumped on me, so I untied it...

"Maybe, but I don't think it had anything to do with disarming or not. They put the Southern Mizuchi gear through it like paper.

I might not have let it through if I had seriously strained my automatic defense, but at that level, I guess the wound would be about a centimeter shallow. Pretty different. No, I don't care about that...

"Alec... that wasn't Dr. Ackerman, was it? You're a phony, aren't you?

"Curse......"

"Dr. Ackerman did that to me and Alec..."

Damn, why not! Why would a teacher do that!

"Curse......"

"I know... you can't imitate that much to a phony... that really is a real Dr. Ackerman..."

"Curse......"

"The teacher is the poison needle, isn't he?

Then Alec told me. The secret of the poison needle from the birth of Dr. Ackerman. I mean, Mr. Sparrash's earlier generations of poison needles are still alive. I'm dying, but I'm alive...

Doesn't that have something to do with Antares, who was Scorpion's boss, saying the line 'We don't fail in our work'?

Some killers follow the killers, just as there are companies that take on insurance for insurance companies? Is that the living poison needle and its tissue?

Damn... I want to smash everything...

Mr. Sparrash... Dr. Ackerman... why would those people I like do such a shitty job as a killer!

"Alec, who knows about this?

"Only Master Damien and Lilith... Mr. Sebastiano is dead..."

Become... Sebastiano, you weren't an amazing butler with a mysterious background! Damn, if it's Dr. Ackerman, they're too bad...

"Is Damian safe?

"Yeah, it's intact. Neither Lilith nor Kamui.

That's right, it's Kamui! Kamui's here. Why?

"Kamui had a good fight with the teacher... but it looks like he got something on his nose..."

"Yes..."

Do you also see Kamui's weakness...

"Even the golem won't do you any good unless Mr. Sebastiano gives you instructions. It was sweet of us to go around and turn around..."

"Well... I can't help it... I'm more glad Alec's okay than that.

That is true, of course. Damien's worried too, but there's no way he's willing to protect Alec until he sacrifices him.

"Curse, how's your stomach?

"I wonder if you have an appetite. But I think I'd like some soup.

"Wait! Because I'll make it right away! I'll rent the kitchen!

Alec jumped out of the sheet.

"Wait!

"What's going on?

"I don't need soup. I want Alec on my side.

"Curse......"

Now I just want to feel Alec's warmth. I was able to survive against Dr. Ackerman. Damn it!