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I've used my mana...

...on the goddess and Minotaur,

the bird-head, each once, and also twice on the pocket...

I have no MP left!

All that's left is my own MP, except for status correction values.

What will happen if I use up my own MP?

Maybe that's why I'm sweating?

No good.

I don't think I'll have enough MP to make it above!

Paralyze!

It's not working?

Consecutive use of the same skill on the same target is not allowed.

S-Sleep!

So I can't use a skill consecutively on the same target?

Poison.

But I can cast different skills on the same target.

I'm sure there are also other constraints.

This gotta be because I used my own MP...

You're kidding me!

All right, time to bet everything I have.

Will I run out of MP first?

Or will you all monsters be in abnormal states first?

02. ABANDONED RUINS

Give me a break...

How many of them are here?!

Paralyze! Paralyze! Paralyze! Paralyze!

My own MP is running low...

Crap... I'm fading away...

What the hell...

There's more of them?!

This is genuinely bad.

Fine.

Come, then...

Bring it on!

I'll start giving up when it's actually hopeless!

Paralyze! Paralyze! Paralyze! Paralyze!

I guess it's my mental strength running out first...

No... Just one more shot...

Breakthrough with the will of a background character!

Touka... Mimori...

You have leveled up.

MP recovered.

Paralyze!

Status correction value increased.

- Paralyze! Paralyze! - Wait, what's going on here?

Why did I level up?

Did I gain EXP from killing it?

And a huge amount, too...

So that means...

I can keep fighting these bastards, eh!

Paralyze!

Paralyze! Paralyze! Paralyze!

- Your skill has leveled up. - So, the skill EXP depends

PARALYZE: LV1 > LV2 on the number of times it is used?

And the acquisition of new skills depends on skill level?

I have to prioritize getting out of here!

Whoa... What the hell...

Oh, now I can cast it on multiple targets, eh?

Paralyze!

It's possible that my Inherent Skill doesn't work only on the goddess...

Ever since I came to these ruins, its success rate has been 100%.

The ones behind don't have target marks on them...

So there's a range limit for Abnormal State Endowment, I guess?

Paralyze.

Repeated use of the same skill is not allowed.

So you can't overlap the same skill.

Well, since I can't repeatedly use it on one target,

I kind of had it coming.

Poison.

Poison.

Poison.

Poison.

POISON: LV1>LV2 Your skill has leveled up.

Right now...

I can only see them as an EXP farm.

Status open.

So, the status multiplies the initial value of the level?

Only my MP with the high initial value is increasing stupidly high.

Right now, MP is my lifeline, the fuel for my Inherent Skill.

If I exhaust this, so will the life of Touka Mimori.

You have leveled up.

You have leveled up.

You have leveled up.

You have leveled up.

All right...

Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep.

Your skill has leveled up.

Now my Sleep is level 2 as well.

You have leveled up.

I'm still not certain yet.

And I can't let my guard down either.

But I can survive this.

With this power, I can take them all!

I guess this is the only thing I can seem to use.

Gotta find a way out first.

Find me some water and food.

They're the people killed by demons...

Give me... food...

Food...

Cow... and bird...

The poison skill's gone now.

Ugh, that's too hard...

Thing's basically made of acid, damn it!

Kill me already...

They're really going all out in trying to kill the disposed.

Damn it, I can't move...

But I gotta...

It's changing colors?

This is bad...

It's getting more purple?

Curse you...

Like hell I'd give up that easily...

Whoa! There's something inside?

My kind of food...

I don't know how this thing works.

Or if it'll give me more food.

My humble unique item, eh...

It's time.

You have leveled up.

You have leveled up.

- You have leveled up. - What an awful scenery.

It's like a massacre.

Yes, I did all this.

How scary... This is an act completely devoid of kindness.

TOUKA MIMORI You have leveled up.

What the hell...

I'll kill...

I'll kill him...

Someday...

I will...

If I don't... He will...

Touka!

Sorry to keep you waiting.

It's okay now. Come over here.

My uncle and aunt gave me a normal life.

They gave me the warmth of a human.

They taught me human kindness.

I wanted to be someone who could feel the pain of others with kindness like them...

Or so I thought...

But I don't feel anything.

I don't shudder at the horror of taking a life, nor do I agonize over it.

I'm scared of myself.

What do you want me to do...?

Accept the current me!

You have leveled up.

Status open.

I just have to accept it, then.

The new me, the new Touka Mimori.

Paralyze!

Poison!

You have leveled up.

The atmosphere's different here.

This gem...

So I have to pour my mana into this?

Wait, some of the banished people got to this point?

No evidence of a struggle.

Did they accept to die together here without water or food?

That's so noble of you.

W-What is this?

A bag of gems?

I think I might need them above.

Sorry, but I'll be taking these.

I should explore the other areas.

This marks the twenty-fifth room.

This one takes more MP compared to other rooms.

So you were sent here too?

You died from this wound...

I can read this world's letters.

My name is Anglin Bathrad.

People called me The Great Sage Anglin.

However, to some, my former name used to mean something.

And that is...

The Dark Hero, Anglin...

By the Goddess!

The same being as the Dark Hero, once touted as the strongest.

I was forcefully sent here by the goddess Vicious.

It seemed that I was no longer necessary and an eyesore to the goddess.

If you are determined to leave these ruins alive,

I would like to entrust you with what I desperately brought here with me.

This might be the end for me...

That wretched goddess...

The goddess called the Great Demon Emperor evil.

But that very goddess is also as wicked...

So that means I'm also the same as her, with no intention of saving this world...

Evil versus Evil versus Evil...

What a bad composition.

This is...

Forbidden Arts: The Complete Works?!

All it says is recipes for making medicines or magic tools.

This might be useful to me.

Book of Forbidden Spells?

I can't read it...

Forbidden spells, huh...

It was deliberately hidden and brought in by the Great Sage dubbed the strongest.

They must be the strong kind.

I can use these as my trump cards against the goddess if I can decipher the book.

Sorry about this.

Consider this a barter.

What the hell...

Beware of the Soul Eater?!

The others were killed by it?!

FAILURE FRAME: I BECAME THE STRONGEST AND ANNIHILATED EVERYTHING WITH LOW-LEVEL SPELLS

Looks like I have to fit something in there to open it.

Is it connected to the surface?

If that's the case...

It must be around here.

For sure...

Even the Dark Hero, touted as the strongest,

couldn't beat the demon called Soul Eater...

Status open.

TOUKA MIMORI

I raised my level as high as I could leading up to this point.

I hope I can do well with these skills.

What's that?

A face?

That's a dead giveaway!

It's obviously the Soul Eater.

Para...

Oww, that hurts, damn it!

It got the jump on me.

Perhaps the moment I decide to attack, that beam will go off.

I can't find an opening to attack.

What now? I need that gem on its head to get out of here.

But it's difficult to kill the thing.

Abnormal State Endowment requires me to say the skill name out loud.

And it has to have some volume.

This is as far as I can go to shoot it.

What do I do?

Do I increase status even more than it is now to break the deadlock?

Wait...

I can't even activate my skills.

That means...

It came out...

It has defeated even the strongest hero.

It might be the cause of the zero survivors among the disposed heroes.

There's no mistaking it. That thing is the master of these ruins.

That means...

SOUL EATER This has to be the final struggle

SOUL EATER for survival in this place.

Old ruins...

I could probably get past them here.

It's not attacking...

It should be aware that I'm hiding around here.

But it's not doing anything...

What is that?

That's disgusting...

I see...

It's showing me how the other disposed people died.

Their faces when they were about to die.

It's trying to see how I react.

This is the Soul Eater's entertainment...

I swear, all the monsters here...

They all have bad taste!

You little...

Paralyze!

Now for the Poison!

Damn it!

I can't!

Even though they're half dead...

They still look human...

I can't just use this cruel Poison on them!

You're kidding me!

Come on, damn it...

I don't want to stoop so low!

I'm not like you, who plays human souls for fun!

Never mind demons, as long as they're humans...

They have to be innocent...

I can't just cast Poison on them!

I...

I'm still... human!

Stay away...

Back off!

We're friends, aren't we?!

We're fellow humans, aren't we?!

Stay back!

It's enjoying my desperation.

It's chewing on it.

It's looking like it's found the best prey ever.

And it's enjoying this moment.

Stop...

Please... don't!

Stay back!

Get away!

Get off me!

Anyone, please...

Anyone, anyone...

Save me, anyone!

Help me!

It's getting through...

The Soul Eater's expression... Its feelings...

Just perfect.

Paralyze.

Yes. Just perfect.

Now is the best time for you,

the best moment you've been waiting for.

Thus, I found an opening.

Didn't you notice?

That I never lowered my left hand.

That's exactly it.

The fatal weakness of the arrogant superior.

The moment you think you're better than your opponent,

the moment you think you've already won.

No one can resist it.

And that's negligence!

Your skill has leveled up.

PARALYZE: LV2>LV3

It was all just an act.

I did well, eh?

Well, duh.

For days, months, years...

I tried to be harmless. I tried to be normal.

I tried to be kind.

I even deceived myself far enough...

To the point that I almost forgot who I truly was...

That I kept acting as the thin air, kind background character...

...named Touka Mimori.

Poison.

These guys had clear intent to kill.

Even if these demons are created by using the souls of the disposed,

no way I'd hold back.

Evil intents are still evil.

And I'll crush every killing intent.

My status is the weakest in these ruins.

Anyone would look down on me that way, so I'm grateful.

Which is why I could survive.

Look at you, looking down on a small fry like me, just to be shot down in an instant.

What an awful way to die, eh, Soul Eater?

If it tries to force itself to move while paralyzed,

it'll take additional damage, huh...

Poison.

Your skill level has increased.

POISON: LV2>LV3

That's enough.

Go to sleep.

Sleep.

You have leveled up.

I'm surprised you made it out.

I'm as happy as I am!

It's amazing how you can beat dragon zombies!

I was surprised you were trying to eat the demons.

I'll be glad if our gems are useful above.

Sorry if they sell for cheap.

Anyway, thank you for defeating the Soul Eater!

Please, take care of the goddess...

I'm under no obligation to do so, though.

Well, rest assured.

It might take a long while.

But I'm going to make that bitch pay for what she did in the end.

Farewell.

03. CHANCE MEETING ~AVENGER(S)~