Chapter 400: Afterwards
“Uncle Fukada, Uncle Fukada, I brewed you a cup of tea, I’ll leave it here for you.”
Still in the living room of that dilapidated cabin, the black-haired girl carefully walked in holding a bowl of tea. The figure that was sitting on the sofa before had disappeared, replaced by a strange black shadow hanging by the side of the sofa.
“Okay, thank you Kazumi.”
The black shadow rolled a few times. Fukada Akihiko, with a melancholic expression, walked out from the shadow at his feet and took the teacup handed by the girl, looking at his cute little niece sitting obediently before him with a complicated expression.
Actually, with Fukada Akihiko’s strength and experience, the appearance of Little Black, which is extremely creepy to ordinary people, was nothing, let alone affecting him mentally. After all, he had even stared directly at Kurokawa Iori’s true form!
But the problem was that this bizarre and disgusting guy actually emerged from Kazumi’s body. The strong impact caused by the contrast between the perfectly beautiful girl and the extremely strange and ugly creature made Fukada Akihiko unable to help but retreat into his shadow space and smoke half a cigarette before recovering.
How could his cute little niece get mixed up with such a grotesquely ugly monster!
“That… Kazumi, I might not be able to accept your use of this ability for a moment, I didn’t mean to think it was bad.”
Taking a sip while looking down, Fukada Akihiko organized his thoughts and quickly explained to Kazumi.
After all, Kazumi is still just a fifteen-year-old girl. Perhaps Kazumi, under the impression of natural intimacy brought by her own abilities, would feel that the summoned monster is cute. However, if she, as Kazumi’s elder, gave her a feeling of disgust, it would undoubtedly be detrimental to the girl’s future psychological health.
“It’s nothing, I know you’re not that kind of person, Uncle.”
Quickly waving her hand, Kazumi instantly understood the meaning behind Fukada Akihiko’s words. This thoughtful elder paid great attention to her feelings. However, with the added age from her previous life, the girl naturally wouldn’t waste energy on meaningless things. She replied.
“Okay, good. Then let’s talk about abilities. So, according to your statement, Kazumi, your ability after the second awakening is to summon creatures through this coffin for your use?”
Seeing that Kazumi’s expression was also very calm, Fukada Akihiko knew that she understood his meaning. He picked up the hot tea and took a sip, then picked up the issue of abilities again.
“Yes, but it requires paying a certain price.”
Kazumi nodded and agreed.
“Like the things I brought you last time?”
Fukada Akihiko clasped his hands together, his mind racing. Although the girl’s ability was not as sinister as many madmen in the organization, the ability to summon monsters by sacrificing corpses did not seem like a normal ability.
More importantly, it was the impact of abilities on a person’s personality and mentality, especially these dark abilities. If not controlled, they can easily turn into paranoid monsters. However, Kazumi currently seemed quite normal in this regard.
“Sort of. That time, [Black Coffin] actively requested a sacrifice, so Little Black was summoned. If sacrifices are put in later, only ordinary ghouls can be summoned.”
Listening to Fukada Akihiko’s question, Kazumi naturally threw out the excuse she had prepared. As the girl’s ability was used, a thin and small ghoul walked out of the Black Coffin.
“Oh, so it’s called a ghoul? So only this one is special, right?”
Standing up, Fukada Akihiko walked to the side of the newly emerged ghoul and carefully examined it from head to toe.
The ghoul in front of him was as ugly as ever. However, compared to the ghoul that Kazumi called [Little Black], this ordinary ghoul indeed looked much weaker. Judging by feel, even an ordinary combatant without abilities could defeat it.
“Yes, only Little Black has such an ability, and there are some other summoned creatures, but they are all of this caliber, so I won’t summon them.”
The girl nodded, gave a command for the slow-witted ghoul to retreat back into its territory, and looked at Fukada Akihiko to answer.
“Ability…”
Kazumi’s mention of abilities made Fukada Akihiko shiver, but he still looked at the girl with some concern and asked.
“Kazumi, if it’s inside your body, will it have any impact?”
“No, Little Black has been here for several months, and there has been no impact at all. Moreover, it can appear from any location, and it is a good method for both defense and offense.”
Kazumi spread out her palm, and a withered hand extended directly from her palm, as if a fish swimming in water, unimpeded.
“Hmm… how is the defense strength?”
He affirmed with recognition. Although the way this ability was used was indeed sanity-damaging, such a convenient and fast ability was even better than the abilities of some ordinary psychics. Moreover, the physical strength of the summoned creature seemed quite strong, at least it looked like it could withstand a lot of regular damage.
“Ordinary attacks can basically be blocked, but… [Blade Warrior’s] slashes seem to be ineffective.”
“…….”
The girl’s serious explanation left Fukada Akihiko speechless. Not to mention that he was the one feeling sorry while the person involved looked indifferent, just the fact that his little niece was killed by the strongest samurai in Japan with a single sword and could still talk to him here was enough to leave him speechless for a long time.
“Forget it, forget it. Since this has passed, let’s not mention it again. If you encounter highly ranked heroes in the future, remember to stay away and don’t act recklessly.”
With a look of exhaustion, Fukada Akihiko held his forehead and earnestly cautioned Kazumi. In his opinion, this was just the impulsiveness of the girl’s youth. After suffering a loss once, she would naturally know that survival is the most important thing.
“Wait a moment.”
Just as Fukada Akihiko had a general understanding of some of Kazumi’s abilities, a question suddenly appeared in his mind and grew larger and larger. He couldn’t help but ask.
“Kazumi, I remember the corpses you were given before weren’t many, so your subsequent summoned creatures…”
Fukada Akihiko clearly remembered that the number of corpses he helped Kazumi find before was not large, which clearly did not match the number of large quantities of summoned creatures shown in the intel. As for the source of the remaining summoned creatures…
It’s not that Fukada Akihiko was disgusted by killing. After all, as an executive of the organization, he had taken many lives. And after accepting Kazumi into the organization, he had made corresponding preparations.
But the problem lay with the girl’s situation. Kazumi did not have the means she has now at that time. Killing people with weapons and killing people with bare hands are two different concepts. If Kazumi could still live a normal life without any impact after doing such things, Fukada Akihiko felt that what he was doing now should be family psychological education.
“Oh, Uncle, you mean that time. I collected corpses from the West City Public Cemetery using my ability…”
The girl’s brief words made Fukada Akihiko’s suspended heart relax a little. At least his little niece wasn’t a pervert who randomly killed the innocent after gaining abilities.
Just as Fukada Akihiko was about to raise his head to explain the reason for asking this question, the girl’s unfinished second half of the sentence drifted over at the right time.
“After that, it was by killing people.”
(Ps; had a cold for a week, feeling dizzy.)
