“H-help me…”
I approached Keke, pretending to be a seriously injured explorer.
Keke tried to throw a small vial of explosives but pocketed it.
I drew the sword resembling a bushcraft knife from my waist.
He approached with a smile to finish me off.
*Flick.*
“Wha?! You damn nearly dead ghoul!”
*WHOOSH.*
*Flick.*
*SWISH!*
*ZAP.*
A parry followed by a thrust.
Perhaps it’s because I didn’t perform necromancy on the corpse? I failed to evade.
“Pretending to be near death… I didn’t even send your possessions flying. Hurry up and die already!?”
Keke muttered to himself, but I was angry.
“You shall atone for three sins…”
“Huh? Sins? Atone? To you who is about to die… No. You will die now, so what are you saying? If you’re going to spout nonsense, die already!
“Guh… First, your first sin!”
I directly received Keke’s thrust.
I grabbed Keke’s right arm.
“Let go! Die! Wh-what is this strength…? Where did you get such power?”
“You attacked my Queen Ant!”
I delivered a powerful headbutt to Keke’s bewildered face.
“Second! You left a scar on my Queen Ant’s body (part of her exoskeleton) that might last forever!”
“Gaah. G-guh?!”
I released Keke’s right arm.
I pummeled Keke.
Left, right, left, right!
I punched his face and stomach without regard for the strain on my Vessel Body.
It didn’t matter if the sword stuck in his chest pierced deeper or if pulling it out widened the wound!
Gritted teeth, you bastard!!
“Ugh, eww…”
“And finally. My Queen Ant! Don’t handle her as you please!!!”
To Keke, who was spewing out his breakfast and struggling to breathe from vomiting,
I clearly declared his final sin!
I loaded all of my Vessel Body’s possessed magic power (afterimage magic power) into my right arm.
“So what’s with that just now?? My woman? I don’t know–”
“Iron fist justice!!”
To the face of Keke (a sinner, a death row inmate) who shamelessly feigned not understanding, I landed a critical blow from my Vessel Body.
*CRACK.*
*SQUISH.*
“Aaaahhh—-”
“–ah”
*SMASH!!*
I smashed Keke into the ground (the rough rock surface).
I delivered the best blow to prevent the power of my fist from scattering.
The price was the malfunction of my Vessel Body.
I slowly, somehow, pulled my right arm out of Keke’s crushed head.
Then I looked down.
“You understand now.”
Of course, there was no reply since he was dead.
I separated from the Vessel Body.
I’m going to pick up my Queen Ant.
“GYAAAAAHHH—-”
“Waaah–”
“Don’t come any closer——–”
My Queen Ant, whose reason was blown away by strange medicine.
Ah, what a nice slap.
She mercilessly blew away anything that caught her eye with her four limbs.
How can she support that massive body with just two arms and two legs?
Come to think of it, didn’t ants lift beetles many times their own body weight?
I’ve accumulated knowledge and experience that appeals to women, other than women.
My knowledge of the insect world was only a glimpse from watching the neighborhood brats (who shoved firecrackers into frogs or hunted mantises to find horsehair worms).
“Ah, which one (corpse) should I possess to stop her…”
I don’t want to hurt my skin any more than this.
I’ve dealt with the villain. I considered waiting for the medicine’s effects to wear off, but…
The Boar Beast emerging from the black mist, and the explorers still present in this large room.
These two forces are a nuisance.
Moreover, explorers who have escaped from this place are reporting to the Labyrinth Management Bureau.
A subjugation force will come.
There is no time.
“Possess.”
I don’t want to enter a woman’s corpse.
If I were to enter, it would be to thrust my son into her uterus, or to put my tongue in her mouth or vagina.
“Stop thrashing around!?”
“GYAAAAA—- *Chomp chomp?* GYAAAAAHHHH”
I possessed a man’s corpse and called out to the Queen Ant to calm down, but
she attacked me, thinking I was a stranger she had never met, amplified by the drug’s effects.
As she tried to sever me with her jaw, *Ah, how would it feel to be eaten by a beautiful woman?*
For a moment, I thought, *Eat me*?
There are still plenty of candidates for Vessel Bodies (corpses of male explorers, carcasses of Boar Beasts) to possess!
“Whoa!”
“*CLANG! SPLAT!*”
As I dodved, formic acid was sprayed from my mouth.
Since I was mid-air, I couldn’t dodge it, and my front ended up in a pathetic state.
Falling on my back to the ground, the formic acid melting my front melted my internal organs as it melted my spine and skin.
It’s no longer usable, so I detached.
Next is a Boar Beast.
“Grr! Whoa. Let me adjust your vocal cords a bit. Won’t you stop thrashing? You have me, your beloved me, don’t you!?”
“Gyaaaaasssss!! *Chomp chomp chomp!*”
To an outsider, it might look like a talking undead boar is trying to woo the Queen Ant.
I caught the Queen Ant’s charge.
I was scratched all over by her six limbs.
My Vessel Body became unable to act.
Its functions were not stopped, but…
Four of my legs were crushed, and half of my face was destroyed.
Well, at least I managed to wear down the Queen Ant’s stamina.
Next, next. I kept calling out with my Vessel Bodies,
and had them destroyed by excessive attacks.
“…Gii, Gyaaa”
“You must be quite tired, eh? Please forgive me. I can’t create an antidote.”
My possessed magic power isn’t enough to activate recovery magic.
Besides, you wouldn’t let me use it, would you?
“……Gi, i”
“Sleep now. It’s okay. When you wake up next time, you’ll be back to normal.”
Probably.
The light in her eyes vanished. I gently moved the Queen Ant, who was panting to recover her stamina, using a new Vessel Body (a corpse of an explorer fused with the flesh and blood of a Boar Beast) closer to the entrance… towards the exit.
Then I chanted the spell
Since it’s not popular, it’s a good place to hide the Queen Ant.
As a bonus, I’ll necromance the appearing monkeys.
The Labyrinth Management Bureau and the explorers are making a fuss above ground.
For now, preparing our combat power is important.
Ah, I want to retrieve Keke’s and the corpse’s possessions.
But I can’t leave the Queen Ant (this girl) alone…
“Ssszzzzz-ggggg…”
I stroke my scorched skin.
Hmm, the texture is a little different.
I delivered the final blow with these hands, but my anger hasn’t subsided.
I should have turned him into more of a mangled mess.
“Keee”
“Shut up.”
Monkeys appeared in the passage.
There’s no choice. I’ll take out my frustration on you guys.
