Chapter 47 – 5.9 Resurrection 2
What is this?
I blankly look up at the ceiling.
Then, belatedly, I realized that I was opening my eyes.
I was looking at the ceiling with my own eyes.
“Ah…”
A voice that travels through the vocal cords.
That was my real voice.
I…… Are you really alive?
“Wow. It’s a surprise. Does it come alive as soon as you put it in?”
“What do you think? Do you come to your senses?”
Man. And woman.
The two people I saw through the blurry window were looking at me.
It was like an entomologist who discovered a rare caterpillar.
“It’s like a toy with batteries replaced. It works as soon as you put it in.”
“Hmm. Hasn’t consciousness fully returned yet? Can you hear me?”
“Doctor, let’s cut it once. Then you will come back to your senses in no time.”
…… What is this man talking about?
Do you want to cut it? What do you think people are?
“Oh…… !”
We have to get out of this terrible place.
I thought so and tried to move, but my body wouldn’t move.
-Click. Click click.
A cold sensation in both wrists.
Iron handcuffs were firmly attached to my wrists and ankles.
…… Can’t you run away?
“You can’t move too suddenly. It’s because the blood hasn’t fully circulated through your body yet.”
The scalpel in the man’s hand glows in the light.
“Okay. Because I bought it for an expensive price. If we don’t stay calm, we have no choice but to hurt until we become calm too?”
There was no human emotion in the eyes of the man who said that.
It was an eye that did not see people as people.
It gives me goosebumps.
It was the mad scientist you only see in cartoons.
Could it be that I’m being dissected alive by these lunatics?
My family… Did they sell me to a place like this?
I can’t…… How could that…….
-Ah… Ahhh…….
I turn my head to the side at the sudden, creepy sound I hear.
There…… Strange looking, gory chunks of meat…… Something like a rag doll was wriggling.
– Yeah…….
My mind goes blank.
Some black hairs were visible on what was thought to be the head.
It was human hair.
That strange piece of meat was originally a human, I could barely understand.
That man, like me, was sold from the family and hacked to pieces by these lunatics until he was like that.
And, maybe me too.
That chunk of meat was also my future self.
-That’s…….
The one and only eyes that have lost their light turn to me.
Those eyes seemed to resent me or envy me.
Or, it seemed that he begged to kill himself.
…… It can’t be like that.
You can’t be a lump of meat that you don’t know what it is.
I reached out, risking the skin on my wrists from the handcuffs.
With that hand, I managed to grab the wrist of the man standing next to me.
“Yes? Cute. What are you afraid of?”
A man looking at me and smiling with only the corner of his mouth raised.
It gives me goosebumps.
There was no human emotion on his face.
…… But, it’s only now that I can laugh like that.
I squeeze the magic.
“…… Yes?”
There was almost no magic power left in my body right now.
It’s because I poured more than half of it into Knives right before I died.
After that, I was immediately killed by Knives.
The reason why there is almost no mana left is probably because the mana did not recover while dead.
Knives.
When I think of that name, anxiety grows in my heart.
Right now, I only have about 20% of my magic power left.
Can you kill this man with just this amount of magical power?
Knives couldn’t kill him even with mana several times this.
Even though I gave my all, I couldn’t hurt Knives.
It reminds me of the shapely eyes that looked down at me while engulfed in flames.
The look in the eyes of the man who stabbed a knife in my heart indifferently.
…… No. There is no room for hesitation.
The opportunity is now only.
If I fail, I will only become like that chunk of meat next to me.
Mana flowed through the hand that gripped the man’s wrist.
And, the mana I squeezed became a flame and started to burn.
“Eww? Ah? Gyaaaaagh!?”
The man’s body burns.
The small flames that rode up his wrist engulfed the man’s body in an instant.
The sparks created with magic defy the laws of physics.
It moves according to the user’s will, and the size and shape can be freely adjusted. It doesn’t matter if there is no oxygen or no fuel. As long as you have magic power, you can burn anything, whether it be objects or people.
I think as I look at the man who is engulfed in flames and suffering.
Also, there was nothing wrong with my ability.
That Knives was weird.
“This?!”
“Ah! Aagh! Aaaaah!?”
Along with black smoke, there is a disgusting smell of burning meat and chemical fibers.
The man rolls on the floor trying to put out the fire on his body, and the woman frantically searches for a fire extinguisher.
The good thing about fire made of runes is that there is little risk of it being transferred to other places. If the fire spreads to an unwanted place, the caster can put it out right away.
The same goes for the fire in a man’s body.
It wouldn’t be strange if the fire spread here and there after rolling around like that, but I extinguished the fire as soon as it spread elsewhere.
The flame I created burned only the man’s body.
– Chii Ik!
The woman brings a fire extinguisher and sprays the man.
Even if the white powder covered the man, the fire hardly died out.
Because my fire doesn’t burn oxygen.
The flames created by the runes will continue to burn as long as the supply of magic power is not stopped. As long as I’m determined to kill him, there’s no way that man can survive.
“Keeeee!”
The man who had been screaming like crazy finally stopped moving.
He is dead
I picked up the flames.
Anything more than this is just a waste of mana.
In the place where the fire was extinguished, only a black lump of charcoal remained.
Next, is that woman?
I stretched out my hand to the woman.
The mana is dangerous, but if that woman is also an ordinary person, it should be enough to kill her.
The distance is not too far. You can do it.
I’m energizing again.
After the man died, the woman who was devastated noticed my behavior and said urgently.
“Hey, wait! If you kill me, how are you going to get out of there? How are you going to get off the handcuffs?”
…… Handcuffs.
I came to my senses at the woman’s words her.
It was. Now I was tied to this operating table.
“No one comes here all day. Even if I wait for days and days, no one will come to save you? Besides, even if someone comes, when they see the scene, they will know that you killed us, and no fool will save you, the murderer.”
I can’t believe this woman’s words straight away.
However, it was also true that if you kill this woman, she will not be able to release her handcuffs from her.
How can I get this woman to break the handcuffs?
Still, this woman seemed to be more communicative than the dead man.
Maybe if I persuaded him with words, he might let me go?
I said with my palm still facing the woman.
“…… So? You want to save me?”
It’s been a long time since I talked and my throat hurt. The voice didn’t even sound like my own.
“Wait! Listen to me first You may think you are alive now, but you are already dead. It’s like a golem that moves with magic.”
I know best that I died once.
Rather, I wondered why I, who had died, was still alive.
But, a golem? Are you talking about robots or something?
“…… Am I a golem?”
“Okay. If you use your mana like that, it will stop again soon.”
To stop
The woman didn’t say ‘die’, she said ‘stop’.
I was talking like I was really a machine.
I remember the scene I saw when I died.
The time when only consciousness floated in the darkness where there was nothing.
…… Is it. It wasn’t dead, it was stopped.
If I consume even this mana that is on the verge of running out, I will return to that time.
………… I hate that.
I hate being like that chunk of meat next to you, but I hate spending forever in a place where there is nothing. I hate that. Absolutely hate it.
I want to live.
I…… I want to live…….
“Can you still feel it? That your mana is gradually diminishing.”
It was as this woman said.
Even now, my mana was slowly diminishing.
Even without the use of runes, just breathing and maintaining life was consuming mana.
Tsukimiya Akane, who was a human who could recover her magical powers as long as she was alive, is dead.
Now that I consume mana just by being alive, I could say that I am a golem powered by a battery called mana.
I accepted that miserable reality. I had no choice but to accept it. Because if you don’t accept it, you can’t survive.
At this rate, even the remaining magic power would disappear. Then I go back into that darkness again.
That’s never…… Must never be avoided.
“…… How do I recover my mana?”
Thinking so, I couldn’t help but ask.
A way to recover mana.
I felt as if the eyes of the woman who heard me were sparkling.
“Looks like you’re ready to talk now.”
“I asked how to recover magic power.”
It was belatedly that I realized I had made a mistake.
The woman noticed that I was impatient.
I showed my weaknesses to this woman.
“Don’t be in such a hurry. After all, I am a scientist. I don’t want to lose the hard-earned samples in vain. Don’t you want to die too?”
…… Okay. I don’t want to die.
I don’t want to die again
Such a terrible experience, I don’t want to do it again.
To do so, he had to figure out a way to restore his mana his.
If I spend her magic on killing this woman here, I die.
Even if I don’t use magical powers, if I can’t loosen the handcuffs on my limbs, I’ll die soon.
I had to accept the reality that there was no way I could survive on my own.
This woman holds the right to my life and death.
I have the right to escape this woman’s life and death her, but in order to kill her, I have no choice but to kill myself. But I don’t want to die, so she can’t even kill this woman.
I had to admit that I was at a complete disadvantage.
“I asked how to recover magic power.”
I pretended to hide my feelings.
He could kill me, he said as if threatening the woman.
The woman sighed lightly and replied.
“Nothing. You just need to get semen from a creature with magic.”
“…… What?”
Semen.
I thought I heard wrong.
