Chapter 272 Territory
“All straight men in the world are idiots!!”
The black-haired young girl, continuously hitting the bed with pillows, glared angrily at her mobile phone, which she had thrown onto the bed. Kazumi’s mind was still filled with the boy’s self-righteous words.
Although the boy later belatedly explained to her that visiting Mai Shinomiyai was because of his old man, Grandpa Sato seemed to have a not-so-shallow relationship with Mai Shinomiyai’s elder, so as the heir, he also needed to maintain this relationship.
But that wasn’t a reason for you to visit someone so ambiguously by yourself!!
Absolutely not!!
The angry girl unreasonably blamed it on a certain innocent golden retriever, completely ignoring the fact that she was the one who rejected him first.
“Mai Shinomiyai…”
Muttering the name of a disgusting woman, a rare trace of disgust flashed across the girl’s face. Kazumi really couldn’t muster any good feelings towards this woman who possessed opposing power to herself, especially after she ruined her good deeds at several critical moments. If it weren’t for her having enough trump cards, her first mission might have ended in failure.
The problem was that to defeat her opponent, the upper limit of the girl’s revealed abilities also exceeded her original plan, which might lead to some unnecessary trouble in the future due to her excessively high strength attracting attention.
In the eyes of Kurokawa Iori and the others, the strength she displayed was thanks to the backup left by her parents, but for Kazumi, this kind of uncertain misunderstanding was not what she wanted. Since it was impossible to be favored by Lady Luck every time, the girl preferred to believe in her traceable plans and strategies; everything depends on human effort.
Coupled with the fact that the other party showed a hint of prying into her dog (the main reason), Kazumi clearly considered her to be on the kill list. But the result was that she lived like a young master from a fantasy novel, with endless life-saving methods. Even after crushing her heart with Little Black, she still managed to escape.
How to put it, it was like she was planning to find a new home for her pet. Although she had made up her mind to abandon it, as the owner, she also had the right to choose the next owner.
My things, I can give them to you, but you can’t snatch them. If you dare to reach out, be prepared to have your entire person and hand severed.
Imagining the scene of the girl being captured and tormented by her until she wailed, Kazumi showed a hint of a happy smile. Her earlier depressed mood due to Sato Shinichi’s words had also eased a bit.
“Forget it, forget it. I’ll talk about visiting the sick later. Let’s go see what’s going on inside first?”
Reaching out to brush away the strange imagination in her mind, the girl casually pulled the curtains tighter. A dark coffin emerged from the magic array and floated in front of Kazumi. The heavy coffin lid opened on its own, emitting wisps of cold death aura. The misty entrance looked like an abyss, exuding the unique scent of death.
Looking at the familiar entrance, the expression on the girl’s face did not change at all. She picked up the mobile phone from the bedside and put it in her pocket, then walked into the coffin without hesitation.
…
In the howling wind of the wilderness, the air in mid-air suddenly began to distort, and then, a dark dimensional gate opened in the sky. A small, dark figure slowly emerged from the other end of the dimensional gate.
“Where is this?”
The familiar cold aura couldn’t help but make the girl exhale, but her undead body had quite good resistance to the cold. Moreover, the death aura contained in the air made the girl feel like a nourished flower, and the cells in her body became active.
But to Kazumi’s slight confusion, she, who would usually descend directly near the Great Graveyard, was now appearing at the desolate border of the territory, where the territory’s city walls were still under construction not far away.
“Did something go wrong?”
A bad thought flashed through her mind, and the girl’s brows furrowed unconsciously. She directly extended her left hand to summon Little Black, who had always been hidden within her body. Ignoring Little Black’s giant mouth full of teeth, she extended her entire arm into Little Black’s mouth, and then took out a lamp made of dark green death energy, inside of which a solitary green soul fire was quietly burning.
[The control over the soul fire is still there?]
Sensing that the soul fire in her hand was fine, Kazumi’s worries lessened slightly. Just as the girl was about to check her control over the territory’s troops, the snowflakes that were naturally falling seemed to be controlled, rapidly gathering in the air and finally forming a dark blue robe. Slowly emerging from the ice debris was the Lich Lei, the governor of the territory.
“Lord.”
The death aura under Kazumi’s hand was gathering wildly, but Lei’s still respectful words and posture made Kazumi’s actions pause. Looking at the blue-robed Lich bowing to her, Kazumi’s doubts deepened. Her eyes fixed on Lei, she asked.
“What’s going on, Lei?”
The girl’s cold words made Lei raise his head. The skull with burning soul fire inside instantly understood what the girl was referring to and replied.
“Reporting to Lord, because the city walls have been largely completed, subordinates have modified the location of the dimensional gate’s opening.”
“Why wasn’t this reported to me?”
Lei’s answer made Kazumi’s eyes sharpen. She extended her right hand, and the soul fire burning inside the lamp was wrapped by a mass of death energy, reacting wildly. The precarious appearance was as if it would be extinguished at any moment.
“Mmm—”
A muffled groan from the depths of his soul came from Lei’s skull. The Lich, who was originally floating in mid-air, was also severely injured and couldn’t even maintain the suspended magic. He fell from mid-air, and the soul fire in his skull dimmed considerably.
“Reporting to Lord…”
“We sent you a message before… The landing point of the dimensional gate is inside the city walls… The core Great Graveyard is vulnerable to attack…”
Lei struggled to straighten himself, but the soul fire in his eyes still burned stubbornly. His cold words trembled slightly due to his weak state, but his pious tone never changed.
“…”
Only then did Lei’s words remind Kazumi of something. She slightly perceived the message Lei had sent her. Among the large amount of resource requests she didn’t want to look at, there was indeed a request to change the dimensional gate’s teleportation point.
After all, the existence of the Great Graveyard, while greatly enhancing the territory, was also a fatal weakness. The destruction of the death aura circulation hub would cause the entire territory to be paralyzed for a period of time, and it was natural for Lei, the governor, to be so insistent on protecting it.
Realizing her misunderstanding, Kazumi felt a bit awkward. The girl, who had always speculated about everyone with the utmost malice, initially thought that Lei was trying to rebel after gaining power, but she quickly dismissed it.
After a moment of silence, Kazumi released the suppression on the soul fire in the soul lamp, and Lei on the ground also recovered from the state of being on the verge of collapse. The girl showed no intention of apologizing and directly walked past Lei on the ground, exiting the basic. Her still cold, commanding words continued from Kazumi’s mouth.
“Show me your achievements during this period.”
