CHAPTER 103: FIRST PHASE PART 6

’They don’t deactivate...’ The problem is that most of the traps don’t deactivate if I do something, right now I even tried throwing a shadow dagger but nothing happened even though it hit the trap directly.

The closer I get to it, the more complex and stronger the trap becomes.

Soon I step on another one, a large magic circle appears while a strong gust of fire shoots up from below.

’Hot...a little painful’ I felt some of the damage even if it was little damage.

’The current weakest is stronger than this one...’ When I walk cautiously, another one is activated even without me doing anything, I hear a click and soon several darts are fired at my arm.

’Poison, and quite potent’ Poisons are useless against me so I just completely ignore it while looking for the weakest trap.

Soon another one activates, a large version of the torment drill, a large drill advances towards me, I hold it with my hands trying to stop its rotation, my hands bleed from the blades but it slowly slows down until it stops completely.

"Give up Kaori, these traps won’t be able to stop me, you’re just delaying the inevitable" It would be perfect if she just gave up soon, it’s starting to become problematic.

"Hum, you might as well turn around and go away" She speaks in a presumptuous tone seeing that I’m slowly being hurt by the traps.

’If I could summon wolves, it would be much simpler’ Since Mikael knows this ability, it would be problematic to use it, so I have to go through this by activating each trap on the way.

’I have dematerialization, but I don’t want to use that card in my sleeve yet, I’ll only use it if it’s really dangerous...or I’ll use it to get closer if the traps near her disappear’

Suddenly a guillotine collar appears around my neck and tries to close, I quickly strengthen my neck with mana, the blades stand still on my neck and I soon break the collar and throw it on the ground.

’That bitch...’ She just created this trap, and it was quite strong, it must be because of the time that has passed since I’ve been trying to get through all this.

This shows that these bastards have no restraint at all, this was clearly an attempt to kill me, and that director is useless, she doesn’t even interfere in this just because she knows I can handle it.

I look at her with hatred, making her body tremble with fear from my gaze, I can barely contain myself from killing them, and she still does this.

[Essence of Creation] [Master of Chaos]

I use two of my abilities, first I use Essence of Creation to forge a bow and arrows, and then I use Master of Chaos to disorient Kaori.

I place the arrow on the bow, point the bow at her, and pull the string perfectly aiming, she seems a bit disoriented, I soon shoot an arrow at her, the arrow is stopped by a trap.

’...So if I attack her, traps will protect her...how many traps will there be until they run out’ I start making arrows and shooting them at her, Kaori slowly recovers from the effects of Master of Chaos and now looks super nervous.

I even thought about using my [Chaotic Madness] ability, but the problem is that Kaori could be killed, which is not the time yet, I learned that most of the heroes have managed to reach 30 to 40% of their maximum levels.

I just need to be a little patient.

Soon I notice that the traps are much weaker, in other words, now she’s having to make traps to protect herself, of course some traps are practically walls, but the arrows carry my mana so they pierce the walls without much problem.

Breaking them after a few arrow shots.

Soon she can barely protect herself from the arrows, I use dematerialization while advancing ignoring the strong traps in the middle of the way, soon I’m in front of Kaori.

Now that there are no more strong traps around here, there’s no risk of me being taken by surprise by something deadly.

"A-Ah...t-this is... KYAAAA" she screams in pain when I grab her arm and break it with my grip, I may not be able to kill them, but nothing and no one prevents me from torturing, and there are no rules against that.

As long as I don’t cause too much damage, she will continue to be here instead of being teleported to the holy Rosaline.

"Remove the trap from the crystal" This is something I can’t ignore, whatever she put in the crystal is very strong.

"N-No I-I won’t..." She speaks in a defiant tone, it’s always been like this, whether in the past or now, and I’ll make her regret being so determined.

"KYAAA" I break her other arm, twisting it hard at an unnatural angle, her screams are so satisfying, I love this, this slight taste of revenge is so sweet.

The main course will have the best flavor of all.

"Remove the trap from the crystal"

"N-No, I won’t do that" I already know her ability, so I don’t need to be friends with Kaori, so it doesn’t matter what I do to her.

I kick her leg hard, a direct kick to the shin that broke the bone and bent it at a not so good angle, the bone is slightly visible along with the blood on the back.

"HYAAAAAA" she screams crying as I release her and she falls to the ground screaming in pain, it’s a really bad injury, in the modern world an injury like this would guarantee amputation of the limb for being irreparable.

However, in this fantasy world, the saint’s healing magic will quickly solve this problem.

"Remove the trap now" Actually, I don’t want her to remove the trap, the more she resists, the more reasons I’ll have to hurt her, not even the director can say I did this just for sadism.

When collecting information from enemies, torture is normal, and to make the enemy obey, nothing better than a lot, a lot of pain.

Also, it’s good for her, if she resists this, it shows that if she’s captured by the demons, she won’t reveal anything in the face of pain.

She, who has never been through anything so painful, is hyperventilating as she cries and screams on the ground.

I step on her stomach without caring at all about her pain, the feeling of finally having this little bit of revenge is so good.

"If one day you are kidnapped by demons, something much worse than this will happen, so you have to get used to it" I’ve thought a lot about how to make their deaths a true hell.

So these damned heroes went through something much worse than what I’m doing to her now, of course I’m fair, so the punishment will be appropriate based on how much bullying they did to me.

So those 6 are the ones who went through the worst torment, while the others will still be sunk in despair but will be killed faster, in the case of Amiya I’m still thinking.

I guess keeping her as a toy wouldn’t be so bad, anyway I’ll leave it for my future self to decide, I know I won’t be disappointed.

"Remove that trap or I’ll hurt you more" I say to Kaori, who is now a crying mess on the ground, her black hair is messy while her green eyes shed tears of pain.

"H-Hick I-I don’t know how to remove it, I’ve never used it before"

Hearing her sobbing refusal annoys me, something more primitive, how can she not know how to use this? I knew how to use most of what I had by instinct, only things like the abilities that each shadow has that I don’t know by instinct.

But activating and deactivating is something everyone should know.

[Isn’t this annoying?]

"...Tsk" It’s odious and annoying how useless this girl is.

[Couldn’t we just kill her right away?]

’I hate having to hold back, I feel like killing her’

[Why not do that?]

However, I know that if I kill her now, future heroes will become stronger, I’m not invincible and although I don’t have an attachment to my life, I don’t want to die.

[If we kill the one responsible for the heroes becoming stronger, wouldn’t that improve things?]

It’s all the fault of this damned goddess of humans who keeps summoning heroes, if that bitch disappeared, I could just kill these damned heroes without worrying about anything or having to waste time living as a human.

[Our older sister almost did that]

’That bitch still sealed my sister’

I try to think of how to disarm the dangerous trap.

[Can’t we just kill Kaori and then the trap can disappear?]

This seems so tempting.

’Tsk...it’s happening again...’ Lately I’ve been getting lost in daydreams, as if my monstrous side was trying to convince me, this happened after I became a child.

As if a part of me was trying to keep convincing me to stop acting human, because that’s not what I am.

It’s not like I’m hearing voices, it’s more like thoughts arise to convince me, like questions and requests for me not to hold back anymore.

After I became a child, these requests have been growing and increasing in frequency, it’s not a problem, but if I give in to this impulse, I’ll have problems.

I asked Lilith, who is also a monster, in a letter if this is normal, she replied that she’s not sure, but that my older sister went through something similar.

She said that maybe it’s a way for the body to try to connect with its true side, since the Tenebris Abyssus are truly monsters that were born already in humanoid form instead of evolving.

So since I’ve never been in my true form, it’s as if I’m instinctively trying to return to that more primitive state.

’I’ll ignore that, it’s better to focus on the problem’ It’s not bad, just a bit uncomfortable, because I know that what I’ll turn into is what I really am, I feel strange knowing that the image I see in mirrors or reflections is not the real me, but just a simplified and more compact version of what I really am.