Chapter 320 Voice Messages
“I’m back…”
The door to the dilapidated bedroom was pushed open, but for the first time, the cold and aloof young girl showed a rare trace of exhaustion. She didn’t even have time to change into her pajamas, and her body stiffly walked to the bedside, collapsing directly onto her bed covered with cute skeleton heads.
“Sigh…” Burying her face in the soft pillow and feeling the comfortable touch of the cool fabric against her face, the girl tried to relax her still tense body.
Even though it had only been one night, for Kazumi, it felt like a lifetime ago. You might not believe it, but in just these few hours, our classmate Kazumi had died two or three times. In fact, if it weren’t for a few coincidences and a reason the girl still hadn’t figured out, she wouldn’t have had the chance to return here at all.
“I was still too overconfident.” Turning her body over, Kazumi looked at the wooden ceiling while pinching her cold cheek, and couldn’t help but sigh in admiration. The improvement in strength always brought a sense of inflated power, and even a girl with a half-undead mind found it difficult to truly avoid this.
Even though she had considered things meticulously from many angles, when faced with an incredibly tempting and huge reward, the girl still had her eyes turn red, just like any normal person.
“The territory is now completely fragmented, and the chaotic time caused by the impact of death energy has been extended. It’s even difficult for me to gather energy now. All troops are dead, and even Lei will need some time to revive.”
“The only good news is probably that I’m still alive.” Stretching her hand out in front of her, the girl tried to use her energy to condense a small knife, but the result was a flash of dark green energy that quickly dissipated into the air. Kazumi dejectedly lowered her hand, propped herself up on the bed, and slowly sat up.
“Headache.” Rubbing her temples with both hands, even with her undead mind, Kazumi didn’t know how to calm down and fix the situation. Compared to the crises she had encountered before, this time it had truly hit the core.
All the few existing buildings, except for the [Graveyard Hill] located on the other side of the city wall, were in a [damaged] state and required a considerable amount of energy and resources to recover. The territory’s troops were wiped out, the capable Governor Lei was dead, and all the accumulated strength capital was reset to zero.
Although the large number of corpses scavenged from the city and some previously stored flesh materials still gave the girl a chance to make a comeback. But the most important thing was the state of the territory, or rather, the [Black Coffin] itself. Kazumi also knew that without the [Soul Link], she wouldn’t have been able to withstand Shun Muto’s strike, let alone recover from the subsequent serious injuries.
But now, after sharing the damage she sustained, the territory was in a complete state of disrepair. She was almost afraid to use her abilities recklessly, for fear that the [Black Coffin] couldn’t withstand her usage frequency and would explode.
“Although it’s the consequence of my own momentary greed, this can at least be considered an occupational injury. Masashi Sakuraba shouldn’t try to welch on me, right?” Stroking her chin, the girl didn’t show too much dejected expression. Self-pity was useless; timely damage control was what an adult should do. In any case, she was invited by Masashi Sakuraba for this mission, and she had done what he needed.
With her boss’s relationship with him, and then playing the victim a bit, it shouldn’t be difficult to get some materials to start over.
“Looking at it this way, it’s not too much of a loss. At least Little Black is alive, and Lei can be revived through the Great Graveyard. Exchanging a life-saving item and a life-saving skill for the success of the mission, as well as basic intel on a top-tier hero.” Counting on her fingers, Kazumi forced herself to believe it wasn’t a complete loss, or at least that’s how she comforted herself.
At the very least, she also learned that she should never underestimate any hero in the future, especially those strong practitioners ranked highly. And… Seeing Shun Muto, she had to run far away!! Is it okay for someone who can cut through space with a blade to appear so casually? And he’s only ranked eighth? What kind of monsters are those in front of him?!! It must have been tough for the organization to fight them until now!!
While complaining wildly in her heart about the world’s power system, the girl also silently sounded a warning bell in her heart. She originally thought that by relying on the natural restraint of undead creatures against flesh-and-blood creatures, she just needed to lie low for a while, then find some village with weak defense, and directly unleash an undead plague, fighting to sustain the war to conquer the entire country, and then slowly become her Underworld Emperor.
But now it seemed that for these strong practitioners, the effect of human wave tactics was greatly weakened. Undead creatures of insufficient quality were probably just dust that they could easily sweep away. Before her power accumulated to a certain level, she should honestly rely on the organization’s big tree and stop having overly naive ideas.
Kazumi also inspected the state of the territory inside and out. She could only say that the current situation didn’t allow her to do anything. Even the reconstruction work would require the territory itself to recover for a while before it could withstand it. Therefore, after Kazumi forcefully activated the Black Coffin and teleported away from her location, she had no other choice but to walk back to her home through the alley.
As if recalling something, she pulled open the drawer by her bedside and took out the black mobile phone stored inside. The girl gently tapped the communication tool on her phone, and what popped up instantly were several messages from Little Fire, which were always pinned to the top.
[What are you doing? /Miss you/Miss you]
[Ah, are you not planning to rest today? Or did your phone run out of battery and you didn’t see? /Curious]
[I saw a very interesting video and wanted to share it with you.]
[-Video Link-]
[This actor is the lead actor in the drama you watched before, Kazumi. I didn’t expect him to have such a special talent.]
[How about fried shrimp for tomorrow’s bento? The fried shrimp for dinner tonight was especially delicious. I really want you to taste Aunt Mieko’s cooking too.]
[It’s making me a bit hungry /Craving]
……
Her slender fingers continuously slid across the screen, the faint light softening the girl’s cold face. Her expressionless eyes gradually showed a hint of a smile, and the girl’s finger gently touched the fiery red chat avatar. Even without any reply, this silly guy was still sharing his life with her as usual. The clumsy and simple words converged into a direct “I miss you.”
Thinking of the absolute protagonist in her near-death experience’s life review, a blush appeared on the girl’s pale face. She let out a coquettish snort from her nose, but in the next second, she turned her head and placed her hands on the keyboard to start editing her reply. After deleting and retyping the sentence twice and still being unsatisfied, she looked at the last message the boy had sent her. Seemingly having made a decision, she forcefully deleted all the text she had edited in the message bar. Her finger firmly pointed to the voice message button next to the avatar.
