Episode 100 – Razorblood (1/2)

Episode 100 – Razorblood

Previously:

The day of the practical exae arena created by the Replica Dungeon Kiel attacks the person next to hier thrown by the person

The man never expected for the spikes he had cut off previously to be thein the air instead of dropping to the ground, but they even shoot towards his chest with flawless precision

At the moment that the man sliced off the tips of the first two spikes, Kiel had already started casting an Acceleration spell on the discarded tips However, the man was too distracted by the spikes he hadn’t cut yet and the danger of the approaching Kiel, to notice such a slight change of mana flow

And even if he had e a pincer attack fro spikes, then he would have failed to guard against Kiel’s slash which was perfectly coordinated with the attack of the spikes

If the inconspicuous dagger that the ed to reach Kiel in time, perhaps the outcome of this battle would have been different

Kiel’s eyes never left the er falling near hiive his opponent a chance of retaliation, no ed to fully slump to the floor, Kiel had sent another slash his way, separating his head from his body

After ensuring that the argel was ”deader than dead”, Kiel turned away froht swiftly With a sharp swish, this see the sword splash outwards, returning the blood red sword to its original silver color

Kiel’s cold, emotionless eyes surveyed the remainder of the battlefield His body stood tall with his back straight His co that this short skir in his eyes That the result of it was completely within his expectations

His poise was flawless, his aura was chillingly icy Yet no one knew that under this superficial cal wildly

Ba-dump, Ba-dump, Ba-du all other noise

The bloodshot eyes of the ered inside his head and the stench of blood was so unbearable that he stopped breathing through his nose entirely

He had never killed a person before He had watched people die in the arena, so he was used to the gruesoht that the entire process would be simple, that he wouldn’t be phased by it After all, what he was killing was siardless of whether he killed it or not, a Replica would disappear after the 30 minutes were up

He told himself that Replicas weren’t really people and that he wasn’t really killing the was just too real The sound of blood dripping down the spikes to the hard ground The emotions of pain and disbelief reflected in theof the man’s body before it completely stilled The atrociousKiel’s nostrils

He had heard it, he had seen it, he had smelled it before Yet, as it that this time it felt different? Why was it that he found it hard to bear when it came as a result of his own actions?

He wasn’t wrong to kill this person If he didn’t do it, some other participant would have done it He would have died either way In fact, this person wasn’t a person at all It was a Replica

But a Replica is also a person

A small voice whispered inside his head

It bleeds, it thinks, it feels Just like everyone else No different than a normal person

And this person, whose life you ended would never again see the light of day again

Even if the Replica Dungeon created an identical Replica at a later time, that Replica and this Replica would not be the same This Replica was dead forever

Kiel gripped the handle of his sword so tightly that his fingers turned white He had hoped that this Replica would disappear when he killed it Hoped that he wouldn’t have to look at its er In the Arena, Memory artifacts would instantly reconstruct the body of the slain party so the audience wouldn’t be able to see the gory sight for long

Yet, this wasn’t the Arena, this was the Replica Dungeon And the corpse of the Replica re as if to prove that it was very much real and not an illusion That it had been alive and noas not

This Replica was created for my sake It lived forwith it

Kiel argued His eyes landed on the s lifelessly next to his feet Even if I didn’t kill it, would it have spared me?

Those with an intention to kill should be prepared to be killed

The rest of the participants of the exam stared at Kiel with mixed emotions The ease hich Kiel dispatched one of the unsettled In their eyes, it seemed as if Kiel just picked this person at random to attack, just because he was the closest one to hi or not

Kiel exuded sharp coldness and confidence bordering on arrogance He stared at the the for? Come at me”

Yet none of them knew that that was exactly what Kiel wanted them to think No one realized that Kiel picked this person intentionally That he picked hinize his face, thus this person should have been a the weaker ones That he picked him because the reaction of this person to the previous beheading wasn’t pretty, which hter

None of them realized that this defiant, cold look of his was just ahis inner turmoil

Several seconds passed, and then, almost simultaneously, Rhur Rroda and Nelaira Helyot made their moves

Rhur grabbed a handful of so from his pocket When he opened his fist, countless small, red petals were revealed He smiled towards Nelaira, as the prettiest female in this batch of participants, and blew on the petals char a kiss to his lower

However, even though he was gazing towards Nelaira, his petals floated towards the participant closest to the man Kiel had just killed

You can still flirt in this kind of situation?? Kiel stared at Rhur speechlessly

Nelaira, on the other hand, didn’t seeestures at all She concentrated her attention on the fe to her gesture, hundreds of sharp icicles condensed fro down like a stream of needles