<931 – The Test of Titosso (12)>
Alex possesses advanced mana control skills.
Within all the ‘successful works’ lies a transformation technique implanted, enabling the creation of monstrous weapons.
And there are fragments to become the most formidable monster by modifying one’s true self.
Even without gathering the last piece, strength is still achieved.
One can make up for the deficit by exchanging the lives of other monsters.
That’s what has been thought until now.
Until Titosso faced the White Punch and the BZ347, a hardened monster sword before crossing the taboo.
“This is wrong. No monster cell in the world can yield such powerful force in such a small area without external changes. The human body can’t endure that kind of power.”
“I don’t understand complicated words!”
Titosso, the strong yet weak, refused a draw.
Before her merciless violence, Alex continuously shouted the opening triggers of the dormant techniques implanted in countless monsters’ bodies.
“ES105, WE700, VJ909!”
“Be a shield, become a flamethrower, turn into a rocket launcher!!”
“Come to me! All weapons, do whatever it takes to stop that monster!!”
Ziang, Moss, and even Pai, who were observing, began to question which one of them was the real monster as Titosso gleefully shouted “Hey!” “Hya!” “Yah!” with each brief battle cry while shattering monster equipment.
When hit by a shotgun and rocket launcher, even Ziangs flinched, but the basic defense provided by the Giant Blood Serum didn’t permit even a piece of iron to penetrate the skin.
The only real damage seemed to be Titosso pouting with a reddened forehead as she touched it.
“Hiiing. That hurts. If you hit me this hard, you’re ready to get a beating yourself, right?”
“You, you’re a being that desecrates the study of monsters. A life like yours should not exist. This is already a real monster, not even a monster!”
To Alex, Titosso was an incomprehensible monster.
Even if it were a true giant, it couldn’t exhibit this level of defense.
It was the synergy effect of the Giant Blood Serum combined with a congenital mana hypergeneration syndrome that made such power possible.
“Hmph. I don’t intend to go down quietly. Blocking the seniors’ escape and unleashing monsters to injure people, Alex senior must pay the price for his sins.”
“Ha, haha. The Underground Jail? Are you planning to lock me in the Great Prison of the Academy? The academy doesn’t discard talented individuals. I’m about to be transported to a labor camp in another dimension anyway, and I’ll make achievements to escape.”
“Who said anything about putting you in jail?”
Titosso’s fist grazed the side of Alex’s head.
Even though Alex instinctively dodged, it wasn’t even him who hit the wall, yet the sheer force shattered it, leaving a punch-shaped mark that made him tremble.
“You’ll have to face the wrath of Papa Oknodie when you die!”
“Murder is wrong!! Can a student afford the fines for such a thing? Your public image will worsen, and your livelihood after graduation will become unstable!”
“Are you the one to speak about that?”
“I’ve done so many bad things that doing it once more wouldn’t even register, but a first-time offender is different. The life of a criminal and a non-criminal is vastly different!”
“But I don’t think I’d become a criminal if I killed you. Jezel informed me last time, right? What happens outside the Middle Realm isn’t a violation of the rules.”
Being a being from another dimension is a loophole to evade the law.
It’s not without reason that mercenaries create dungeons while masters conquer other dimensions.
Extraterritoriality.
What does it matter what you do in a place where the law doesn’t apply?
This applied not only to developers, intent on violating insiders, but also to invaders.
The creators wouldn’t be punished by the law, so how could the ones breaking things fall under the Middle Realm’s laws?
“I can understand. A beauty like you must have a kind disposition equal to your looks. You wouldn’t harm a person, let alone crush a single flower!”
“There’s no way I’d trample flowers when I’m not even at odds with spirits! If you do that in the forest, it’s a death flag, as Professor Weird taught!”
“That’s not what I meant! Anyway, you’re kind. So don’t hurt me, let me live!”
Titosso tilted her head.
“Do you really wish for that?”
Alex felt an inexplicable foreboding.
That too was a whisper of instinct.
If he dies, he’ll be drawn to the God of the Dead, First Wahyhiemhai.
He doesn’t know what that means.
News from the Middle Realm hasn’t reached other dimensions yet.
But he realized that death won’t be an escape.
That girl must be planning to do something after death.
But for some reason, that attitude of preferring to die is more unsettling.
‘A monster with inhuman strength choosing to spare me instead of killing… What is she planning to do by keeping me alive?’
Upon reconsideration, that was even scarier.
A person saying they wouldn’t send him to jail, nor kill him, suggests a future worse than death awaits.
“Since you want this, you can’t complain, right?”
“…Yeah.”
The aide of Professor Buzhaar is still watching him.
He had seen the fruits of the experiment aimed at becoming the strongest monster he had been conducting till now.
Even if he doesn’t reach Titosso’s level, he believes he holds considerable potential.
His martial arts are clumsy.
His combat skills are pitiful.
But he holds a higher maximum than a monster disguised as a girl, solely depending on physical attributes.
If Titosso were to do something, surely a rescue request would reach out, and he would be helped.
“I’m prepared for whatever you do to me.”
“Is that so? How about Pai senior?”
“It doesn’t matter. While I’d love to pummel the share of dead people, here, leaving it to you seems like that man would suffer more.”
In Professor Buzhaar’s research dimension.
Once the resistance of Senior Researcher Alex was neutralized, the rampage of the monsters came to an end.
They could not leave the researchers in this mess of a research facility, so Titosso gathered the researchers first.
“We are going to inform the Student Council about the arbitrary criminal actions of Professor Buzhaar. Is anyone willing to join?”
Among the researchers, some in harsh conditions readily agreed, but the ones who had stayed in the research dimension for a long time showed reluctance.
“I don’t want to. Didn’t the Middle Realm get devastated by various disasters?”
“A planetary system at 120 degrees Celsius is still a bit much.”
“Isn’t it better here if I can just use Domain Expansion?”
Ziang thought this was the professor being rubbish, but Titosso struck back directly.
“Eh? Who says that? Isn’t it just happening occasionally because of the Weekly Events?”
“What? Occasionally?”
“That can’t be! Every time I bought information about the Middle Realm, I heard the news was a complete mess. Sometimes curses overflow and layers cover the objects and terrain, making it impossible to touch anything, and other times, I heard dimensional spaces became unstable, leading to a plethora of random dimensional holes!”
“So that’s the weekly event that returns once a week? Most of those effects go away after that week ends.”
“…Wait, are you saying what we’ve heard was just a situation arising because of the weekly events disguised as worldwide disasters?”
Titosso began to understand why she helped her senior researchers.
There was an odd sensation that the easily deceived senior researchers had been looking at her oddly.
“Just trust me and follow!”
“What about the monsters?”
“There might be some who were originally human, so it’s only right for us to go together first, right?”
Titosso’s bold judgment and actions resembled Oknodie’s decisiveness.
The monsters had no choice but to obey her opinions, and thanks to Titosso, the researchers who got an escape opportunity didn’t refuse.
[Everyone freeze. I am the aide of Professor Buzhaar.]
Just as they were about to exit the research dimension, an external communication reverberated through the facility.
[The monsters are legitimate ‘research subjects’ under Professor Buzhaar’s research dimension. Unauthorized removal of them cannot be tolerated.]
“It’s unforgivable to unilaterally make researchers into test subjects, you know?”
[Think calmly. Professor Buzhaar is more insane than any professor you know. Consider the fact that he collects graduates and dropouts into his research dimension. He’s a person who employs any means necessary.]
The aide’s warning struck home.
Especially for those researchers who had implanted monster cells into their human bodies, it resonated even more.
[If you raise hostility against such a professor, you’ll face merciless retaliation by any means possible. Are you really prepared for that?]
Titosso cheerfully replied.
“I don’t care!”
[…]
“The Student Council and Oknodie will somehow handle it for us!”
Ziang let out a dry chuckle.
She pushes all the difficult parts off to Jezel and Oknodie.
One could see it as incompetence, but one could also argue that she knows her limits well.
“Anyway, Oknodie will handle it somehow.”
“Right?”
Thus, Titosso, who received Giant Blood Serum from Oknodie, opened the Dimensional Gate, rushing in with numerous monsters and researchers to make a request.
“I brought a lot of Professor Buzhaar’s people, so protect them and prevent his retaliation! And also, give Senior Alex a good smack!”
“…Did you come to learn mana control skills or develop a new assassination technique?!”
Oknodie, who received favor turned to hostility, could only lament in injustice.
