<619 – Darknodi (3)>
Darknodi thought her argument was a crude fallacy.
A raid on the Executive Meeting?
A means to raise insufficient growth stats?
If you’re lacking, just gather together the little things.
Even if she can’t grow more than the original disk, she inherited almost all the stats that Oknodie had at the time she was created.
A collection function linked to her Finishing Move.
Automatic success that leads to automatic functions.
Even without various hidden features, she’s strong.
Whoosh!
“If I just hide like this and keep charging, I can surpass 2000 in no time!”
Bzzz!
Additionally, by utilizing the [Saving Function]s she possesses, power augmentation is definitely possible.
Yet, despite inciting Seonhwang, twisting the underworld’s worthless creatures, and taking dangerous risks that could break the existing game, her true intention might not be that different from the girl named Cruel.
“Judging by the circumstances, that must be Jonna’s third Agassi.”
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# 89th Day of Staying at the Academy.
Due to Mandela Castera’s area ability, suggestion and brainwashing have been forcibly lifted.
Plans to expel students in bulk have been halted.
Long-term imprisonment in the Great Prison has been confirmed.
The top priority goal [Surviving at Gift Academy] cannot be continuously pursued.
The Butler is the one who presents the answers.
He is the one who allowed life in an environment where survival is impossible.
A meeting with the Butler is necessary to reset the goals.
Using Dark Mana, which operates separately from suggestion and brainwashing, a forced rampage of the senior scholarship students is necessary for escaping the academy before imprisonment.
Ending the record in the academy.
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The third Agassi of Jonna.
The villain who nearly implemented a mass expulsion plan while feeding Class 980.
Suggestion and brainwashing.
As the risks of the ability and the danger posed by the one wielding it increased, she became someone who could be imprisoned in Level 5 in the Gift Academy, regarded with caution.
Cruel, too, dreams only of reuniting with Jonna, rather than harboring resentment towards the academy that imprisoned her or Mandela Castera who defeated her.
Darknodi understood the reason.
“No matter what form she takes, she must be an existence that absolutely affirms herself. Jonna, with 100 loyalty, is definitely that kind of being.”
A life with Jonna versus a life without Jonna.
The absence of a few powerful functions, the lack of high-grade magical tools including the backpack, the inability to return to the academy, despite numerous absences, the greatest emptiness that Darknodi felt came from Jonna’s absence.
To be honest, she was very angry.
What was the difference between the original and herself?
Just who came first and who came later.
They must feel the same anxiety.
They must feel the same confusion.
Just because Jonna exists, Oknodie feels peace of mind.
Why is she unable to do the same?
This is unfair.
“Cruel, you’re similar, but in a different sense.”
Just like Cruel has trampled on others to survive, Darknodi’s desire to trample on Oknodie also rose up.
A being born from the wrong origin’s desire to affirm herself, if that is a desire for destruction, it is indeed the trait of a proper villain.
“Vampie. Where did you learn the technique for dealing with lowly creatures? It’s truly an amazing skill.”
“Look at those fangs. You’ve really grown since before.”
“When you’re young, you attack a lot of prey and suck a lot of blood, so you grow up fast like that.”
“Are you tired of the ground now?”
“Do kids want to go back home after playing? Hehe. How admirable.”
With such qualities bestowed upon her, she could not leave behind the things she could use, just like the original.
The appearance of Vampie.
The kindness of the vampires.
She had to manage everything she could handle.
Whether it’s letting her head be tied into pigtails, equipping the Vampie Dress Set (9/9), or slurping bags of monster blood, all of this was part of the process to grow enough to snatch Jonna away from Oknodie.
The longer the days of humiliation and patience, the greater the rewards that would come.
“Lester. Can you stop with the make-up and teach me Blood Magic?”
“Shut up. You can teach that in about 20 years. There’s only now to have the chance to dress up fetus Vampie.”
Of course, that patience doesn’t need to last 20 years.
She didn’t want to spend 20 years leading the life of a vampire dress-up doll, even if she wasn’t a graduate student.
“Lester Unni. I want to learn Blood Magic.”
Calling her Unni twisted her insides.
How does the original endure this humiliation?
Is it really that enjoyable to fawn over Jonna?
Such a great thing.
She won’t let it go to just her.
[You have completed the Vampie Entry Ceremony (3/3) through [Basic Blood Magic Instruction], [Basic Blood Sac Collection], [Equipping Vampie Dress Set].]
[From now on, you are a proper member of the Vampire society as a full-fledged Vampie.]
[You have acquired the title [Vampinodie].]
The humiliation of twin tails obtained, a title of Vampinodie that the original doesn’t possess.
I’m not sure if I can make a rebellion out of this first step of treason, but anyway, Darknodi’s evil rebellion to reclaim Jonna began like this.
“Imitation. Cruel is a genius. I can imitate twin tails.”
A girl, questioning if this is what it means to be a villain, is grasping her head with both hands and mimicking twin tails.
*
As Vampinodie nurtured her dreams of rebellion while putting on the Vampinodie stockings, Oknodie was buried alive with only her neck left above the arid black soil.
“Professor. Can I get up now?”
“No. No way. Be grateful I’m holding back my desire to turn you into an Undead and seal you in a sarcophagus forever.”
Whimper!
There aren’t many beings strong enough to punish a veteran player.
There are even fewer who can make Oknodie be observant enough to receive that punishment.
Professor Sadako was one of those rare individuals.
“If you worried the Destroyer too much, you should’ve come back to the academy and greeted me right away.”
“To you, Professor? Why? Are you two dating?”
“Stop spouting nonsense. I have no intention of linking up with a life that hasn’t even died once.”
“…”
Setting aside Professor Sadako’s twisted view of romance, the burial training was quite helpful to Oknodie.
[While buried in the ominous black soil acting as the medium of necromancy, you achieved 100 consecutive successes in elemental resistance.]
[Endurance Experience +30]
[Pushing Experience +30]
[Mana Studies Experience +20]
[Mana Shield Experience +20]
[Disease Resistance Experience +10]
[Frostbite Resistance Experience +10]
[Curse Resistance Experience +10]
[Toxin Resistance Experience +10]
Having filled up her training points but still needing to watch Professor Sadako’s mood, Oknodie carefully opened her mouth.
“Professor, are you interested in the corpse of the Empire Hero?”
With her long hair cascading down, only her blood-red, bloodshot eyes showing resentment, Professor Sadako’s expression wavered momentarily.
“It’s even a moving corpse that has lost its intellect.”
The fury in her eyes disappeared and started to blink slowly.
“I have about dozens of them!”
Seeing Professor Sadako fidgeting with her hands and feet, Oknodie delivered the final blow.
“I have no immediate use for them, but would you like me to lend them to you, Professor?”
“…I shouldn’t bully a hardworking student who thoughtfully brought me a gift.”
Professor Sadako, like a ginseng picked from the mountains, easily uprooted Oknodie, dirtied her with magic to remove the soil, cast a cleaning spell, and placed a buff increasing necromancy power by 300% for ten days, saying:
“Here, this hero’s corpse is good. A corpse that often shouted ‘Kill!’ will easily accept death, increasing its completeness as an Undead.”
“Yes!”
“And starting tomorrow, you’ll attend my lectures too.”
“I already attend the third-year classes though?”
“What does that have to do with me?”
“…”
In a moment of quick thinking, Oknodie barely escaped Professor Sadako’s fury.
Instead of being stubborn and facing Burial Season 2, she willingly added the lectures of Professor Sadako to her timetable.
“I’ll just sneak away at the right time and replace them with points later!”
Once a model student tasted the thrill of rebellion, there was no escaping the corruption of slacking off.
Even without a bad intention, too many lectures could be troublesome for Oknodie.
“It’s good to pump up the stats and resolve major external events, but since I’ve done that for events in the northern region and central issues, I don’t need to care too much about outside anymore!”
The events in the eastern, western, and southern regions are still manageable.
Regarding one of the absurdities in the south, the advance of the Chimera Legion is already under control since she has taken command of the legion and handed the dominion to Masugaki.
Rather, the problem lies in survival at the Gift Academy.
Stealth
Hide
Disguise
Barely stepping out of Professor Sadako’s lecture room, Oknodie quickly hid herself in the shadows.
A plant stalk with eyes crawled along the ground like a snake and vanished in front of her.
As she passed under the mailbox on her way to grab a special meal, steel statues gleaming with light circled a few times in the air above her head before drifting away.
Thud!
“Professors’ obsession is getting too intense!”
Professor Weird.
Professor Plato.
Beyond Professor Sadako, many professors who became obsessed with Oknodie’s education had increased through various incidents.
Through their subordinates and minions, the relentless pursuit of Oknodie by those wandering the campus would haunt graduate students’ nightmares.
If caught, she could enhance her functionality through special education, but the unwanted growth in an unexpected direction wouldn’t synergize well with the existing functions.
“I have no choice for growth!”
Oknodie made a resolution.
It was time to disguise herself as the twin-tailed Professor Pinkberry for a while to trick those professors.
When the permanent clone Darknodi was subjected to the humiliation of twin tails, it was no wonder she chose twin tails; it was because she was unchanged by the original.
