706 Weak... so weak (1/2)
”I…” Karen didn't know how she should respond.
She then suddenly felt a headache, as if something icy-cold was pouring through the mask into her brain. She then heard ear-piercing sounds, felt dizzy, her vision became obscured, she smelled a sticky stench of blood, and her consciousness went hazy…
She felt the injected coldness beginning to violently clash against the power that dwelled within her body already. This was an incredibly uncomfortable and painful sensation for her.
Karen instinctively tried to resist. However, her remaining lucidity made her accept the demon's power instead.
'This is my demon power, it belongs to me… No matter how difficult and painful it is, I must accept it, I have to endure, I must withstand it!
'For my younger sister, Kaho…'
Karen did her best to maintain her mental spirit and sense of self. She refused to give up!
Even when faced against a furiously cold torrential downpour, she didn't lower her head at all as she adamantly persisted, moving forward and facing everything head on!
After the mask's power violently clashed with the demon's power for a while, the two powers under Karen's acceptance began to combine, whirl around, and mix with each other… finally forming one.
After the torrential onslaught ended, the pain and discomfort diminished, and everything returned to normal.
When her consciousness was restored again, Karen felt an indescribably mystical sensation.
She now had extraordinary powers!
No… she had such powers to begin with. It was just that she had finally learned how to use them.
It was as if she possessed a warehouse that had been tightly locked, and now she finally found the key and could open it up and use what was inside!
”Erk…” A muffled sound came from beside her.
The sound was from Three-Eyed Cat.
He was clutching his head and seemed to be in pain.
”Three-Eyed Cat-san…”
”Did you also obtain it?”
”Eh?”
”A type of power just entered my mind just now… Did you not feel anything?” Three-Eyed Cat looked at Butterfly.
”I… did.”
”So you also obtained a power, right?”
”Yeah…” Karen nodded.
Rather than obtaining a power, it was more like she had Awakened. But she supposed that it counted as obtaining a power.
”That hurt so much… Shouldn't the game developers at least give a notification before adding a new update? Damned developers…” Three-Eyed Cat rubbed his forehead. ”Still, this new update seems quite nice. I'm even more motivated to kill others now.”
”Three-Eyed Cat-san…”
”You still didn't answer my earlier question. Just who are you and your younger sister?”
Karen fell silent.
”Three-Eyed Cat-san… Do you like playing this type of game?”
”Are you trying to ask if I enjoy killing people?”
Karen tacitly admitted this.
”I don't like killing people, but I don't hate it, either,” Three-Eyed Cat replied. ”This is a slaughtering game. The people here are equivalent to monsters in video games. Killing people here gives me the same feeling as killing monsters in other games. Basically, even if my enemies in this dream game were non-human, I'd accept it in the same way without any particular satisfaction or disappointment. This dream is really abnormal, but as a game, it's actually pretty fun. That's because there's no such realistic game in real life. And, the crow-masked person even said that the final victor will be able to obtain 100,000 sakuras of real cash in real life. Since it's a game, then I should try my hardest to win. Plus, I really want that cash prize, so I'm going to go all out.”
Karen didn't know what to say to this.
She felt like something was off about Three-Eyed Cat, but she didn't know what.