Chapter 50: Interlude ???
“Hey, wake up!”
The crack of her hand against the young man’s cheek echoed through the cellar like a gunshot.
The young man strapped down to the table suddenly bucked, eyes shooting open as he woke with a start. Mana flared as he tried to activate some kind of [Skill], but her [Final Chains] made short work of that. They were expensive as hell to create and took a while to activate, but once they were on, they stayed on, hence the name.
“What the fuck!”
It was as much a statement as it was a question, anger and outrage bleeding into his voice, making it rather apparent that he’d not yet grasped the gravity of the situation.Witness the debut of this chapter, unveiled through Ñôv€l--B1n.
“Really, I don’t know why I’m surprised by your lack of common sense after that stupid video.” she scoffed, turning to the side and opening up a surgical set. Not that she was planning on using them or even knew much about how to do so, but that wasn’t the point.
“Help! Hey, anybody, there’s a ...”
That was the point. She ignored him for a few minutes, waiting for him to scream himself hoarse, but for some reason, that didn’t happen.
Even as she activated [All Things Lie Bare], she shot him a glare. The [Skill’s] name was incredibly fanciful, but she couldn’t deny that it was powerful. The fact that his Fortitude was incredibly high was the first thing that drew her attention, but she’d already learned that the first time she’d scanned him. Then there was the fact that his body was barely damaged and not really getting any worse despite all the loud shouting. The high Fortitude was letting that idiot keep that up for far longer than it would ever have been possible under normal circumstances. Of course.
Once again, the aura of defeated foes wreathed the helpless looking person on the table, powerful beasts that only a terminally reckless person would ever consider unleashing upon the world.
“And the allies could have simply chosen to not execute the Nazis found guilty after the Nuremberg trials, but they did, because the convicted were terrible people.” she shrugged.
“But I’m not a terrible person! I have a family, I have a girlfriend! You have my wallet over there, look, there’s a photo of the two of us in there! Please!”
“And now you start begging, as if that changes all the things you’ve done.”
She shook her head. This idiot hadn’t even considered the consequences of his actions, then proven he lacked even the slightest degree of common sense when he’d yelled at her, only to do a complete 180 the instant he realized that he was in actual danger, way too late.
“You’re not just summoning monsters, you’re doing so without precautions and you’re fucking filming it. People watch that, you know. Children! How many people did you nearly kill with the monsters you summoned? How many died because you encouraged them to summon? They warned you!”
She took a deep breath to calm herself, then continued.
“They had a warning out the instant someone realized the [System] let people summon monsters. They had a proper essay out less than two days later. And they had the first paper written in less than a single work week. Everyone who had the slightest bit of common sense knew that what you do is a truly terrible thing to do.”
Her hand blurred, the knife dancing across his chest, neck and head as she triggered [Art of a Beautiful Death], leaving behind fatal wounds that looked like some large monster had dragged a paw with four razor-sharp blades across his face despite how much he’d been trashing. Like all of the others she’d gotten from her evolved [Class], it had an absurdly over the top name, but it was also a damn good one.
At first, she’d gotten mad when the first evolved [Class] the [System] had offered her was [Serial Killer], followed by stronger and stronger versions of the same [Class] as per the things she’d done to get to that point.
But then, she’d realized something. At its base meaning, serial killer simply referred to a person who killed a lot of people. And that was what she was doing, except she was actually targeting these reckless idiots who ended the lives of others through reckless selfishness, not too differently to how a policemen or soldier would.
Sure, calling that serial killing was a little weird, but it was technically the truth. And now, she was serially removing the people working to make the world a worse place. Between the ones who publicly posted their exploits and the slain monsters her upgraded [Inspect] gave her, finding them was easy enough.
