144
Chapter 144
Three Luna Rabbits, Mr. Scarecrow, and Tosun's Mom.
Everyone surrounded White Spider and Black Fox.
Toward the encircled duo.
Gom-gom-gom-gom.
I slowly walked over and approached them.
And as I walked, I naturally pulled out a Mechanical Tentacle from within my Button.
"Hoyaaak?! Something weird popped out of his eye! It's scary!"
"Heugh......."
Gom.
I stopped right in front of them.
While I briefly took in their appearances, White Spider cautiously asked.
"U-umm, you see... That Vaccine thing... Are you sure there won't be any problems if I get hit by it...?"
"Gom? Gom-gom."
I don't know either.
I'm doing an experiment to find out.
Last time, when I administered the Vaccine to Fantastic Owl's Clone, I had no way of checking what happened to the main body.
So I was planning to check it this time.
What would happen if I injected the Vaccine into a guy belonging to the Chaos Domain.
"You don't even know yourself...."
"I hate feeling pain! If it hurts, I won't get it!"
The terrified White Spider and Black Fox.
Hearing Black Fox's words, Tosun's Mom raised her fist.
"Umm? You don't want to get our Son-in-law Bear's Vaccine? Then do you want to get hit by me?"
Centered around Tosun's Mom's fist.
A small Blood Storm with a vicious aura swirled around.
It was such an imposing sight that anyone could tell one hit from that fist would send them straight to the afterlife.
The stupid Black Fox must have vaguely realized the gap between herself and Tosun's Mom this time, as she spoke in a timid voice.
"Hoyaa...? A-actually, never mind. That fist looks like it would hurt way more... I'll just take that Vaccine thing...."
"Uhuhum, good choice."
Whir-
The Mechanical Tentacle split in half.
I had multiplied the Mechanical Tentacle into two for simultaneous administration.
The Mechanical Tentacles slowly approached their eyes.
White Spider gulped, then asked me another question.
"Excuse me... I don't mind if it hurts... but I won't die from getting hit by this, right...?"
Oh, come on.
What a bunch of cowards.
"Gom-gom."
I told her not to worry too much.
I wasn't entirely sure, but they probably wouldn't die.
I had also inoculated Fantastic Owl with the Vaccine, but when I returned to the Dungeon and checked the Doll Encyclopedia, he wasn't registered in it. In other words, it meant he didn't die.
...No, wait.
Now that I think about it, I administered it to his Clone back then, right?
Would the results be different if I administered it to the main body?
"Gom-gom, gom-gom-gom?"
"Huh? Are you asking if our current bodies are our main bodies...? Of course they are, but why do you ask...?"
These must be their main bodies.
Well, even if administering the Vaccine to the main body yields different results, they wouldn't actually die, right?
With that thought,
Thwack! Thwack!
I jammed the Mechanical Tentacles into their eyes.
Shortly after.
Glug, glug- The Vaccine was rapidly injected, and then,
"Aaaaaaagh!!!"
"Ho, hoyaaaaaak!!!"
White Spider and Black Fox started screaming in agony.
"S-save me......."
White Spider's body collapsed in an instant.
Swoosh- His body faced complete Annihilation.
"It hurts, it huuurts!!!"
Black Fox's body twisted grotesquely, rolling around the floor as if trying to resist the Vaccine.
Her body was collapsing as well, but unlike White Spider, she hadn't faced Annihilation just yet.
"It huuuuuurts!!!"
Whoosh-!!!
A black aura erupted from her body as she thrashed on the ground.
It seemed to be an aura emitted unconsciously.
And all of that aura landed a direct hit right on my body.
"Umm?! Son-in-law Bear! Are you okay!?"
[Debuff detected - Power Decrease.]
[Debuff detected - Level Decrease.]
[Debuff detected - Senses Decrease.]
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.
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[Curse of Chaos detected - Time Limit.]
[Debuff detected - Mana Erosion.]
[Debuff detected - Random skill Seal.]
[[Magic Doll Engineering lv.9 - Vaccine] has been sealed.]
[.......]
[Recovery Module auto-executing.]
[Recovery Module execution complete.]
[You have been recovered.]
My body was perfectly fine.
I was inflicted with a massive amount of Debuffs for a moment, but thanks to the Recovery Module executing automatically, I returned to my original state. It seemed not a single Debuff or curse was left.
"Y-you seem to be okay?"
"Gom-gom."
Black Fox's thrashing stopped.
In the end, her screams ceased, and unable to endure it any longer, she followed right after White Spider.
Not a single Mana Stone remained where they had disappeared.
Total Annihilation.
They had been wiped clean from the world.
"Hoeeee... Gom-jjang killed them both...."
"Kyua... He probably never intended to spare them from the start."
No, I really didn't mean to go as far as killing them....
I didn't know it would turn out like this either.
This Vaccine is truly an overpowered ability.
I never expected to be able to take down those two, who were on a completely different level than me.
I had a guess as to why they died.
It seemed they hadn't lost their lives because of the Vaccine itself, but rather met their death because their Domain faced Annihilation due to the Vaccine. I had been continuously checking their information through the Helper, and I witnessed the Chaos Domain being erased at a certain point. An 'X' mark had suddenly appeared.
So the Vaccine could erase the Chaos Domain.
It seemed to treat Chaos like a clump of Viruses.
But do you normally die if your Domain is erased?
Instead of naturally belonging to another Domain?
Hmm....
I couldn't be certain about this either.
Because the sample size is still too small.
Maybe it's only the Chaos Domain that acts like that.
Anyway.
"Gom-gom...."
White Spider, Black Fox.
I'm sorry.
I genuinely didn't mean to kill you.
I offered a brief moment of silence.
I hope you go to a better place, and I pray that in your next lives, you'll belong to a Domain other than Chaos.
***
I returned to our Dungeon for a moment.
I checked the Doll Encyclopedia in the Dungeon, but White Spider and Black Fox weren't registered either.
The Doll Encyclopedia can only be used in our Dungeon, but you can register to the Encyclopedia anytime, anywhere.
In other words, the guys I killed here in the Gacha Field should also be registered in the Encyclopedia.
However, there is only one reason why they weren't registered.
It was probably because it wasn't considered that I had killed White Spider and Black Fox.
I merely caused the Annihilation of their Domain.
And as a result, they naturally faced Annihilation.
There are cases where they get registered in the Doll Encyclopedia even if you're only indirectly involved in the opponent's death, but it seemed they didn't get registered in this case. It varies from case to case, huh.
But then, did Fantastic Owl die too?
Since he wasn't registered in the Doll Encyclopedia, I thought he was alive, but maybe he's already a monster no longer of this world... Well, he only got hit with the Vaccine on his Clone, so the chances of him being alive are higher.
"Umm, it's like nothing happened at all."
"Gom-gom."
We completely forgot about what just happened.
Treating even our encounter with them as something that never happened, we resumed the gacha competition.
I feel a little uncomfortable about it, but what can I do?
I already subjected them to Annihilation without leaving behind even a corpse or a Mana Stone.
Let's just think of it as their destiny.
While I was thinking about that.
Mr. Scarecrow quietly approached my side and spoke.
"Your Domain seems truly amazing. The Chaos beings that died earlier were clearly not ordinary, yet you brought them to Annihilation just by injecting something once... And did you say you even erased the Chaos Domain? What a truly incredible ability."
"Gom-gom."
"But you seem to hate Chaos even more terribly than I do; is there a reason?"
"Gom-gom?"
"Even though they were beings belonging to the Chaos Domain, they weren't encroached upon or corrupted by Chaos... I asked because you mercilessly killed them without caring about that at all. I wondered just how much you must hate Chaos to do such a thing. Ah, for reference, I simply dislike Chaos because they are the ones who make a habit of Destruction."
"Gom-gom, gom-gom-gom... Gom-gom-gom-gom......."
Mr. Scarecrow was misunderstanding things too.
I'm telling you, I didn't really mean to kill them!
I just wanted to do an experiment.
I never expected they would die from getting hit by my Vaccine.
When I replied like that, Mr. Scarecrow blinked and asked.
"...So, you're saying you killed them by mistake?"
"Gom-gom, gom-gom-gom, gom-gom-gom-gom."
It's a bit much to call it a mistake, but,
I didn't kill them with intention.
I really wanted to let them live and send them back if possible.
"Haha. And here I thought it was because you terribly hated Chaos. You didn't purposely give them hope first just to grant them a greater despair."
"Gom-gom, gom-gom-gom."
What do you take me for?
I'm not that wicked of a Teddy Bear.
While I was conversing with Mr. Scarecrow like this.
"Hoeeek?! Gom-jjang, Gom-jjang! Look here!"
"Kyuaa! A really huge leaf suddenly sprouted up! And there's two of them!"
From far away, Fox and Red Panda called out to me.
Shifting my gaze to where they were, two truly giant leaves had sprouted above the ground. They were definitely leaves that hadn't been there until just now.
"Ah, that is the Leaf of Reincarnation."
"Gom?"
The Leaf of Reincarnation?
What is that?
"The souls of those who die in my Dungeon get trapped and seep right into the ground, unable to escape to the outside world, let alone other Dimensions. And then they sprout the Sprout of Reincarnation and grow rapidly like that."
"Gom-gom...?"
"And if you pluck the leaves that sprouted like that, they undergo Reincarnation in my Dungeon. However, if left neglected for a long time, the leaves will wither, and only then can the souls leave for the outside world or other Dimensions. So just leave them be and don't pluck them."
Don't pluck them, you say?
You should have said that a little sooner.
It's already too late.
Plop-! Plop-!
"Fuhihi! I plucked it!"
"Kyua! Me too!"
Because those two already plucked them.
[Black Fox lv.10]
└ Pw.100
└ Rnk.Unique
[White Spider lv.15]
└ Pw.90
└ Rnk.Elite
"Hoyaaaaaak! It hurts, it hurts! Don't kill me... Eek? I'm alive? It doesn't hurt anymore...?"
"T-the pain stopped... What happened... Did we not die...?"
When Fox and Red Panda vigorously pulled what was called the Leaf of Reincarnation, an adorable-sized Black Fox and White Spider were plucked out of the ground.
It was a fantastic Reincarnation.