Because if you lose, you die.
No one wants to die.
If you don’t want to die, you should survive in any way you can.
If you live, you will have another chance.
There is nothing that I want to give up my life for. There is no way.
“ . Damn!”
Katsuragi gasped at Rikka’s spirit to once again attack her.
In the next moment, she felt a sharp pain on her leg.
“Guh-”
Ichinose, the sniper.
Katsuragi was distracted by Rikka and had forgotten to pay attention to Ichinose’s breath.
And Ichinose did not miss that opportunity.
“With this-”
“-it is over”
Katsuragi grabbed the incoming ‘slash’ with her bare hands.
The flesh of her hand ripped open and the blood gushed. An intense wave of pain swarmed her senses.
But even then, she was able to stop Rikka’s slash due to her strengthened bones.
“Is this for real ”
“Unfortunately, this is the reality!”
Katsuragi grabbed Rikka’s sword and refused to let go.
“What are you doing, monsters? Kill them while I’m still standing!”
“ Shi-!”
Her weapon was trapped and Rikka grew stiff when she realised she had no way to free it.
Now, it is your turn to despair.
You’ll have to beg for your life, just like you did back then.
But Rikka’s expression does not change.
On the contrary, she even looked calm-
“-You’re late, Nisshiー”
This time, Katsuragi’s expression changed.
And the next moment.
“-’Don’t move’!”
The order stopped Katsuragi and the monsters from moving.
Their bodies stiffened.
Katsuragi somehow managed to move her eyes and looked at the source of the voice.
There stood the person who was the reason why they couldn’t move.
“Oh, that’s right, darling. I wanted to ask you something.”
“Do we need to be worried about Nishino and Igarashi? They’re not as bad as the others, but I think even they are pretty nasty.”
“ Indeed, ‘command’, ‘charm’ and ‘spirit summoning’ are powerful skills. But it’s not a problem.”
“Reason?”
“Because they are only ‘human’. The powers of the unevolved are negligible. They can’t be a threat.”
On the other hand, if they had evolved, those two would have been a reasonable threat.
“Just to be on the safer side, I checked them before coming here. Neither of them showed any signs of evolving. It is safe to leave them alone.”
There was no way they would be so ‘lucky’ that they would just happen to evolve before they launched their attack.
Therefore, neither Arroganz nor Katsuragi regarded them as a threat.
“- Long time no see, Katsuragi.”
Looking at Nishino’s sudden arrival, Katsuragi turned speechless.
(Oi oi, zombie darling, isn’t this totally different from what you told me?)
The aura she felt from Nishino.
It was definitely the aura carried by those who had just evolved.
(What kind of ‘luck’ did he have to have evolved now of all times )
No, he’s not just evolved.
Just, what kind of skills has this man acquired?
If he had evolved just now, in other words, the skills he acquired would be roughly at level 1.
There is no way that he could have stopped me and my monsters like this with just the old skills of “command”.
It’s almost as if his skill level had risen all at once.
“Sorry, we are late.”
“Seriously, you really kept us waiting.”
Rikka snatched her weapon out of Katsuragi’s hand.
This scene, Katsuragi could only watch it play out silently.
She was under the command of “don’t move”, she had no chance to run away or even tremble in fear.
(Oh dear, this is getting out of hand .)
It seems that the tables have turned all at once.
It’s a shame that she lost due to a man whom she thought of as an insignificant opponent.
(Sorry, zombie darling. I can’t pay you back.)
I didn’t think it would turn out to be like this in the first place.
It’s not like me to help someone pay back a debt, even if they’ve brought me back to life.
I should have been more selfish and run away as soon as I had the ‘Wolf King’ and his entourage under me.
Maybe I have lost my mind by being alive again, by not being a human anymore.
(Well, it doesn’t really matter anymore )
The first time she couldn’t accept it, but the second time was much easier.
Katsuragi simply stared at the sword as it approached her.
CH 229
Rikka’s balde swung down.
It was a strike without even a hint of hesitation.
It was definitely a strike that would slash Katsuragi’s head in one stroke.
But
“-Wait a minute!”
Just before the blow landed, a voice sounded from behind them.
When Nishino and the others turned around, they found Igarashi Toka gasping for breath and staring at them.
“Hah hah oh, Sasaki, you mustn’t kill her .”
“Class President . Why are you here? Aren’t you supposed to be in charge on the other side?”
Instead of the confused Rikka, it was Nishino who asked the question.
“I left it to Mayor Uesugi and my father. There were no big monsters over there. Well, I left Shindo and Shiro over there just in case ”
She must have rushed all the way here.
She was walking unsteadily as she held the side of her stomach.
She was not as strong as Ichinose but she was confident in her physical strength.
“Anyway, I’m glad I got here in time . If you would have killed her, it would have been too late .”
“Too late?”
“Yeah, she’s got a bomb on her.”
“A bomb?!”
At her words, everyone present was taken aback.
Even Katsuragi, the one with the bomb, was shocked.
(W, what are you talking about? Bomb?)
Even Katsuragi was confused, she really did not carry such a thing with her.
“P, President, what bomb are you talking about?”
“It’s a skill she has. The skill “Souvenir”. It is the deadliest skill that can be triggered by the death of the skill holder. It is a rare skill possessed by high-ranking undead monsters, and she possesses it.”
It was Katsuragi, of all people, who was more surprised by these words than anyone else.
She had checked her status just before the fight.
But I don’t have any such skills.
“I’ve just confirmed it with ‘Appraisal’. I’m sure of it.”
“Wai, wait! What do you mean? I have no idea what that skill is!”
Katsuragi instinctively asked Touka if Nishino’s ‘Order’ had turned sluggish.
“It is natural that you don’t know. That zombie planted this skill inside your body without your knowledge.”
“It looks like ‘Arrogance’ can directly manipulate the system. He must have sneakily used his authority and rewritten the skill.”
“W, why does the President know about that? I mean, rewriting your skills? What do you mean?”
Nishino and the others could not hide their surprise.
Where had Toka gotten such information from in the first place?
As Nishino and the others were confused, Toka explained.
“I was watching the battle between Kazuto and that zombie through the spirits I had summoned by ‘Spirit Summon’. Not only can I share sight, I can also hear what the spirits hear. And during the fight, that zombie himself said. The true power of ‘Arrogance’-”
According to that intelligent zombie, Arroganz, the true power of ‘Arrogance’ is to intervene and tamper with the system.
If that was true, Toka realised, then it would be possible to give others the skills he wanted.