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"Dad?"
Huh uh? Whatisthis?
"My daughter Li and Miss Ryuu huh? Where'd your manners get into my private room without knocking on the door?"
Damn, this is much worse than I thought, I thought he was a necromancer like a Maou, but what the hell is this room really?!
The books that were piled up before were gone, there was a huge furnace in the middle of this room, it was the source of all the auras and unpleasant odors we had been breathing all along
The most important thing is... Why is Li's sister here?!
"Dad! What are you doing?!"
"What...? You've forgotten what it looks like, Li,"
He was facing us with a different air from the last time I met him
"Don't you want to see your mother again?"
It turned out that it was indeed necromancy, but all of this was too late, did he try a high level necromancy art?
"W-What do you mean?! What exactly is Dad doing? Why is my sister here?! What did you do to him?!"
Question after question Li launched, he seemed to be very surprised by this all
"I can't hurt my own son, Li. But I need something that your mother inherited, a few drops of your brother's blood and yours would be a perfect fit for that" he explained
"So when you're here... Give me a few drops... Li..."
"H-Huh?"
I pulled Li closer so that my shield could protect him. That's right, Hu used magic to slash Li's face in order to get the blood he needed
"Miss Ryuu... I'm also grateful for your coming here, you have a very large mana so I borrowed some when you fell asleep, please forgive me for that," he said
"But, please leave Li well, this is a family matter" he continued
I also used some kind of teleportation magic to take Li's sister from her father and give it to Li.
"Get out of here, leave your father's problems to me,"
"Eh? But-"
"If you stay here then he'll really hurt you!"
"Well,"
Before he left, I certainly gave protection magic to him. Who knew that Hu had the trick to injure Li even though he was no longer in front of him
Phew, in this way then I have no burden, now let's try more freely
"You've seen all this, there's no way you can just forget about it huh? I'm sorry but I have to shut you up here" he said
"I look forward to your efforts,"
I used the magic of the strong wind to blow away all this aura and unpleasant smell, and together it flew all the objects that were in this room except the furnace behind Hu which did look heavy
Then I also grabbed the statue that I suspected earlier so that it did not fly, I planned to question Hu about this
"This statue, where did you get it from?"
"Oh? Does Miss know anything about that? There's nothing I need to hide, I got it when I started to get desperate in finding a way to raise my beloved wife," hmm?
"Thanks to the statue I was able to achieve all this, the voice he delivered each night could guide me, give me a way to get to my greatest destination," again hypnotic magic
After he explained it, I burned down this wooden statue with fire magic
"W-What are you doing?!!"
"Who knew you were back to normal when I destroyed it, but it didn't seem to be" I replied
Does he look so angry?
"You fucking girl! I'll make you jiangshi!"
He again used wind element magic, it moved very fast anyway but no one was faster than me
I dodged all of his wind slashes and moved towards behind Hu while doing that, he was surprised to see me
"Ap-"
Before I could speak I kicked him so that he slumped forward to my previous position.
At this moment I looked into the furnace he was cooking, what exactly was it?
Uwahs... I still don't know what it is even though I've seen it this way. The furnace was filled with a thick, purple-black viscous liquid that emitted smoke of the same color, seeing that it felt like seeing a huge storm
But still.... No one can justify his actions, only his personal feelings can do that.
"What is this?!"
Hm?
Here they all finally saw the other side of Hu that had never been revealed before, what he had been working on all this time, how rotten he was
"Hu, can you explain this?" Asked Feng calmly
Sometimes that calmness can help... In many ways
Hu was there pensive, but after a while he started laughing himself
"Haha.... Ahahahahaha!"
"Hu...?"
Hu released a greater energy than before, I already did not know if it was wind magic or just his aura that blew the wind around
So tight, the roof of this room to come crashing and Hu can go from here by jumping. But before he did, he warned me and his other family not to interfere more than that
"I will return everything as before, after he returns of course. So please don't get in my way, or I'll do something worse" Hu said
"Return him? Hu, I told you a hundred times, let him go. It was an impossible thing, only a God could give life,"
"Impossible? Nothing is impossible! Watch me make it happen, father."
Hu jumped up and went from here to the night sky, we all didn't know where he was but for sure another disaster would come to this land.
"Yes..."
"If nothing is impossible, one cannot know their limits" I said
"Miss Ryuu, first of all thank you for protecting Li and her sister. Hu's been consumed by a madness that has never been present in this family,"
Well... That insanity has never been present to the land of man before...
Never before have I read anything like this in any book I have encountered in all the territories I have been to before. Neither sculptures nor hypnotic magic... We can make this an excuse for war
But first I need to know who our opponent is.
Feng looked at the sky, but his eyes seemed to be staring at the future. The future that might happen to the Xia Family
"If Hu is not stopped..."
Hm...
"Since Xia has sworn allegiance to the Ruby Kingdom, it is our responsibility to protect you on the condition that you do the opposite when we need it.... I'll protect you,"
"Miss..."
I gave them the right to that... What is the point of a fallen family? Xia should stand up.
So let's go see Hu one more time, let's try to make him change his mind, if it fails then well... I don't have a choice.
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He was at the place where my cousin Li and I had done the match practice before, looking at the dark sky that suddenly blew strong winds, there might be a storm
Everyone has their own reasons, everyone thinks of themselves, their reasons are true. But we can't live that way, there has to be one thing that unites us all, that's common sense
Necromancy is a taboo subject that may indeed be learned by some certain races, but most like us humans consider it wrong. Well... Maou also practices it...
"Hoo,"
"After Miss Ryuu? Are you here to try and stop me again?" ask him
Well... I continued to use persuasion as well because he was Li's father as well as a member of the Xia family... If I hadn't finished it since.
"I've given up on that actually... I just want to ask who gave you the statue before?"
"Why are you so curious? If only you hadn't burned it then all of this would have been a lot easier" he replied
"How can you?" Ask me again
"As I said, the statue opened my mind, gave me brilliant ideas to achieve my goals," doesn't that sound hypnotic to him...
"I got it when I got back from the city, lying on the ground in the woods down there, I don't know who left it there but I'm very grateful,"
No. gabe.... He should have cursed that guy...
It answered my question, but it didn't take me anywhere. This mystery will continue if this is the way...
"Tell me, Miss Ryuu, have you ever loved someone?"
U-Ught... I probably won't like where this is going
"You're definitely going to give up everything for that special figure. But I still know myself not to sacrifice my family for my cause. And even so I don't understand why you're blocking me,"
"Because from the beginning what you did was wrong, Necromancy is a magic that's been banned here since its discovery. The undead can destabilize your kingdom-"
"The undead?! I have no intention of raising my wife as a lowly undead! I'll make it live as it was!"
Ughhhh... Adults are hard to compromise... The undead are 'living' huh? Does he think he's a Maou? Even the Maou could not revive the dead, she could only give souls to the Undead
It was not the same, because returning the soul meant that one had to control the door of the afterlife. But to create a soul on the other hand, it's kind of programming a high level of artificial intelligence, humans can do it.
"You've been fooled..."