Chapter 137:

Chapter 137:

Translator: MarcTempest

Proofreader: naturallyInconsistent

Chapter 137: ...It’s complicated.

“Ahh...!”

Whenever she tries to use dark magic, I capture it in a frame before it shows any effect.

This way, I get another piece of research material.

“Hey, what kind of human are you...!”

I had to consume a lot of mana to contain the power of dark magic, but in this dark place, I was compensated by the effect of the night spirit Hera.

When the frames were piled up on the floor, the vampire girl finally stopped using magic.

I was the first one to break the silence.

“Couldn’t you use more diverse dark magic?”

That was my impression as I smashed the frames that contained the same spells. After deleting all the duplicates, there were only about five left.

“I’ll research these spells and use them for good. I hope you’re a competent dark mage.”

“How can you say such arrogant words so casually? Human. You should say that after you win.”

The vampire girl sneered at me.

“The barrier won’t disappear unless you kill me. What are you going to do? The investors are all poisoned and dying.”

As if to show me something, the girl slowly cut her throat with her sharp thumbnail.

Blood gushed out of the deep wound, but she didn’t seem to be in pain at all.

“As you can see~ I’m not a dying body.”

She continued to mock me, and drew a small circle in the air with her index finger.

“This is the only thing I want. Human, you know what this means, right?”

Then, some impatient investors intervened.

“Do you want gold coins? I’ll give you as much as you want!”“Me too! I have plenty of gold coins!”

The vampire girl just looked at me quietly.

To begin with, what she drew was not a gold coin. It was a power source that contained the ancient rune magic.

“What are you going to do, kill all the investors? Are you really okay with that? You worked hard to create this magic department~”

“Pathetic. There’s no negotiation with you.”

I retorted with an even bigger sneer.

“A foolish way of using a lot of life force to show off. I’ve seen it countless times, and I’m sick of it.”

I used telekinesis to immobilize her body, as if I had put her on a vertical operating table. I slowly approached her and grabbed her throat with my hand.

“What should I teach you first about your foolishness?”

Life force, the source of dark magic.

It pulsed strongly in her blood. I started to push my mana into the wound on her neck.

“You’re foolish for thinking that you have an infinite amount when you don’t. That’s your limit.”

The girl was still bleeding from the wound. I filled my mana with the amount of life force that was leaking out.

Realizing my intention, the vampire girl looked at me with disbelief.

“...Are you crazy? You’re trying to fill my body with your mana?”

She continued to speak as if she was amused.

“Why would I resist? You and I are connected right now. The moment your pathetic plan fails, my life force will melt your body.”

I sighed.

I’ve seen so many arrogant races since I was born, but every time I face them, I feel the same contempt and anger.

“Vampire.”

I uttered her race.

His body shuddered slightly.

“Don’t you know that your guess is wrong?”

I don’t need to drain all her life force.

I pushed in a suitable amount of mana, and the vampire girl rolled her eyes to look at me.

The spells in my head were intricately intertwined and activated, and 「Reverse Flow」 was triggered.

“I don’t cover it with mana. I just need to reverse it.”

The mana that seeped into various places manipulated her blood flow.

Ignoring the organs that existed to prevent the reverse flow, I forced the huge amount to gush out backwards.

Pfff─!

The girl’s body shook violently with a loud noise. Blood burst out of every hole in her body.

There seemed to be nothing wrong even if you looked at it with your own eyes, so the people who came didn’t have anything to say.

“Flan!”

Becky and Trixie approached Flan who was about to leave. Trixie’s face was full of questions, and Becky’s face was full of worry.

“Are you okay, Flan? I’m glad nothing happened...”

Becky unconsciously tried to grab Flan’s hand, but barely pulled it back.

“...”

Flan quietly looked at Trixie and Becky.

And then he narrowed his eyes.

“What are you guys?”

The same dress, the same necklace, the same bracelet... Flan couldn’t understand their behavior at all.

He nodded his head as if he understood after a while.

“Did you become friends?”

“No.”“No way!”◈

That night at midnight.

A meeting room in the void.

“The opponent was quite strong, huh?”

The Vampire’s executive ‘Mask’ asked. ‘Girl’ nodded her head with a displeased face.

“Leaving aside the strength, he’s a weirdo.”

“He must be in reality too. You broke the mask I cherished and returned.”

Mask’s special ability was to turn other living beings into vessels.

She called them masks and enjoyed collecting them.

“Can’t you just stop making those things! Ugh~ The more I think about it, the more annoyed I get. That insolent brat.”​

The girl tore off the arm of the cursed doll.

She tried to justify her carelessness, but whenever she recalled the situation, her face turned red with anger.

​“It’s fine. It wasn’t an exploration mission anyway. Just tell me what you found out.”​

“You’re very observant. You figured out that I can reverse the life force in the blood, and that I’m possessing a vessel.”

“What about the negotiation?”

“If you want the power source related to the ancient runes, just come and get it. Playing hostage is childish, don’t you think?”

​A laughter echoed from behind the mask.

​“You’re definitely a strange human. But it’s okay. The power source is actually better for us if we take it after the research progresses.”

“Oh, right!”​

The girl jumped up as if she remembered something.​

“He used taxidermy, right? He really did that?”​

The mask and the girl’s eyes simultaneously turned to a corner of the Void.

There stood Maiev. ​Maiev calmly answered.

“I got hit by it too. Strictly speaking, that human doesn’t use black magic the same way. He only uses pure magic to produce the same results.”

“Is that even possible?”

“Didn’t you just experience it yourself?”

“This rude bitch.”​

The girl glared at Maiev. She looked at her left arm and clicked her tongue.​

“You’re more pathetic. What did you do to lose an arm?”

​“...It’s complicated.”​

Maiev muttered quietly.​

To hide the slave mark, she had to cut off her arm every time she visited the Void.​

“But seriously, I don’t get it.”​

The girl murmured her question.

​“Other things aside, why didn’t my deadly poison work?”

“Didn’t you adjust the lethal dose?”

“I did. Don’t you know my ability? I did it for sure. That’s why I don’t understand. It’s impossible unless he eats my poison every day...”

​Cough, Maiev suddenly coughed.

​“...”​

The reason why the girl’s deadly poison didn’t work... Maiev seemed to know the reason.