Chapter 163: Voice in my mind
Inside the hazy death space, a young girl wearing a pure black cloak that emitted a strange sheen, her skinny body completely covered by the cloak. One small hand reached out, holding a sharp cleaver, pointing at the position where she was about to cut in front of her. It seemed like she wanted to dissect what was placed in front of her… Little Black?
“Ding—”
A sound of metal touching came from in front of Kazumi. Feeling a distinct foreign object in her hand, Kazumi frowned and looked at a tooth that had suddenly appeared under the cleaver.
“Didn’t I tell you to retract your teeth?! How can I dissect if you do this!!”
Wiping the blade of the cleaver, which had foul-smelling liquid on it, on Little Black, the young girl slapped Little Black on the head with the blade, making an even louder “clang.” What she got in return was Little Black’s confused expression as it turned its head.
“…”
Looking at the cute pet with an innocent face in front of her, Kazumi rubbed her forehead, feeling a bit troubled. She put down the cleaver in her hand and took out her mobile phone from her pocket to check the time.
Using her hand to wipe the disgusting mucus on her hand on the cloak that felt like human skin, Kazumi freed one hand to edit the message for the small flame at the top of her phone. Then she exited and looked at the time displayed on the screen with a silly smiling face, finally sighing helplessly.
“There’s still an hour, but now…”
Muttering about her part-time job at the convenience store, although Grandpa Sato seemed to have explained her injury to Manager Masamori a little, she wasn’t in a particularly hurry to go to work there.
However, it wasn’t good to delay for several days due to these matters in the first week. Moreover, Kazumi had many questions she wanted to ask her senior from the academy who worked there and owed her a favor.
“Thinking about it, things are really quite full, so it seems this body is a big pitfall!”
Scratching her hair, even though Kazumi, whose emotions were affected by her abilities, felt that the current situation was a bit tricky, as if two hidden lines were intertwined within her. And she, who was extremely weak now, had to use her own power to seek a sliver of life in this impending crisis.
“Psychic… Mai Shinomiyai… Dark Organization… Clues about my parents… Ah, whatever, let’s figure out Little Black’s situation first!”
Habitually mumbling about the relationship between the clues, this was probably the downside of this body that always rationally thought about problems. Even though she knew it was difficult to analyze any new information when the clues were insufficient, she couldn’t help but keep thinking.
She forcefully stopped her running mind, and the reason Kazumi gave up the opportunity to go home with the dog and returned early was because of Little Black, who had woken up again, and the changes that had happened to it!
At this moment, Little Black was lying obediently on a temporary table made of piled corpse bones in a very wronged posture. This was because in this Black Coffin space, due to the presence of death aura, it was very difficult to prevent small external objects from entering. Chairs and the like, when placed inside, would not only be slowly corroded by the death aura, but also consume some of the precious death energy in the space.
Of course, the fact that the young girl was from a poor family and didn’t have many chairs or tables to consume was another important reason.
Squinting at Little Black in front of her, the young girl had also managed to deduce the real plan behind the academy attack incident in her mind.
Controlling the mind to fall into darkness, and at the same time using special potions to grant powerful abilities to those with dark potential, finally recruiting them into the organization, or becoming the source of power for a certain strong practitioner.
However, the young girl had always disdained such things that only happened in novels. Even if one was not thinking clearly, or blinded by so-called hatred, randomly stuffing potions given by strangers into their mouths was a foolish thing to do.
Kazumi, who had always been cautious, would naturally not make such a mistake that only fools would make, swallowing rare treasures and mysterious potions without testing them, truly unafraid of poisoning, infection, or parasites.
At that time, Kazumi thought that since it was going to be discarded anyway, it wouldn’t be a waste to try feeding it to Little Black, but the result was that the potion’s effect seemed astonishingly good, even effective for ghouls.
The effect seemed to be quite good. At least Little Black was much more powerful in appearance and aura than that nameless ghoul that came at the same time. Kazumi was very satisfied with this.
But she didn’t expect that the body’s strengthening seemed to be more than what the potion had enhanced. After Kazumi threw Little Black into the [Black Coffin], the abilities within Little Black changed again. At the cost of one-third of the death aura in the Black Coffin, Little Black, who had fallen into a deep sleep, seemed to have awakened a new ability.
Teeth.
Yes, that’s right. Although because it was this kind of external ability, it was only given an unknown power rating on the system panel, the young girl still gave Little Black’s ability an easy-to-understand name.
The inexplicable energy in its body merged with the death aura, constructing a new ability. On Little Black’s originally grayish-white skin, sharp white solid substances erupted. Although they looked like coral reefs or scales in large patches, upon closer inspection, it was clear that the white substance covering Little Black at this moment was exactly the same as the teeth in its mouth.
Little Black’s intelligence was ultimately limited, and Kazumi couldn’t get the true function of this ability from it. However, judging by the hardness tested by the young girl’s cleaver, this terrifying armor constructed from teeth had a rather considerable defensive power.
[However, the ability usage seems to have restrictions, or perhaps it’s due to insufficient intelligence.]
Picking up the cleaver again, Kazumi looked distressedly at Little Black, who was trying to retract the dense and disgusting teeth covering its body. However, with its current control, it seemed unable to do so. Therefore, only teeth covered in mucus could be seen rising and falling constantly on its grayish-white skin, creating a pleasingly dense pattern of holes.
And identifying Little Black’s ability was merely a secondary objective for Kazumi. The real reason for her hurried return was the faint voices continuously transmitted in her mind through her connection with Little Black.
The other party seemed to be transmitting some message through the connection between their abilities, but because Kazumi had fed the potion to Little Black, the transmitted message was hazy to her, and she couldn’t discern its content.
“This way, it can’t be helped. It shouldn’t die, right?”
Rubbing her chin, Kazumi picked up the cleaver in her hand. Although she asked a question, her actions were not hesitant at all. Pale green death aura gathered in her right hand, and the cleaver, filled with immense power, fiercely chopped down towards Little Black’s head, which was not covered by the teeth on its body.
“Clang—” “Swish—”
The sound of metal breaking and the sound of flesh being cut simultaneously appeared in this extremely empty gray space. The upper half of the grayish-white head with a hint of hair fell off, revealing a shriveled brain that spewed out disgusting mucus but seemed to be wrapped in a black chain.
At this moment, Kazumi finally clearly heard the low voice that had been transmitting to Little Black’s brain.
“Tonight at 4 AM, West City, No. 270…”
