I Possessed a Character in an Academy Without a Protagonist – Chapter 92

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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I had seen it below Emilia’s waist.

Instead of her lower body, entrails were scattered haphazardly.

“What the fuck was that just now?”

A curse slipped out before I knew it, I wondered if I had just seen an illusion.

No, it had to have been an illusion.

“What the hell was that, you bitch?”

I grabbed Jin by the collar, but Jin just met my eyes directly with a mocking smile on her face.

My right hand holding Vafe trembled violently.

“Exactly what you saw.”

“What…”

My mind quickly rationalized it, what I had just seen was a manipulated image.

Jin could easily manipulate images through magic.

No, she wouldn’t even need magic.

Simple props would be enough for that kind of makeup.

Yes. What I just saw was fabricated.

Clear fabrication.

It was fabrication meant to provoke me and make me lose my reason.

So I shouldn’t fall for it.

“You’re making an unpleasant joke, Crow Jin. You’d better tell me Emilia’s location right now.”

“What if I said she’s dead?”

“Then tell me the location of the corpse.”

“Huh…”

She wasn’t giving me the answer I wanted.

I suddenly grabbed her neck without thinking when she started laughing.

Even when I applied enough force to slightly hinder her breathing, Jin just looked at me and giggled.

“How cute.”

“What?”

“It’s cute how you’re trying to act cool and unaffected no matter what.”

What the hell was this crazy woman saying now?

“Until now, that level of acting was enough, right? Because your eyes always looked so blank and emotionless. But it doesn’t work on me. I can see it all, how you’re shaken.”

“Shut up.”

“Want to know why you’ve been found out?”

“Shut up.”

“It’s because you’ve already lost the psychological upper hand. You actually know, don’t you? That you’ve already lost. You know it but you’re denying it. Because you don’t want to believe it.”

“I said shut up!”

I grabbed Jin’s neck and squeezed hard, her thin neck was enough for just one hand.

I could easily strangle her to death.

No, if I wanted to, I could even snap her neck and kill her.

I didn’t want to hear her voice anymore.

I wanted to make her unable to speak like this, but I couldn’t.

There was still something I needed to hear.

“I told you to speak. Whether Emilia is alive or dead. Tell me her location.”

“Kugh… Ugh…”

Noticing that I was still strangling Jin, I abruptly let go.

“Kah! Ugh… So impatient. If you listen to one story of mine, I’ll tell you.”

“What is it?”

“It’s about the process of how your attendant died. How about it? It’s not even a long story, you can listen to it, right?”

“…”

My body trembled involuntarily.

The process of how Emilia died, it was all fiction anyway.

A plausibly made-up story.

If it was something like that, I could listen as much as she wanted.

If only I could find out Emilia’s location.

“Fine. Tell me.”

“Alright. First, I woke up your attendant who had fainted from being slapped. And then…”

She was someone who knew nothing about Emilia anyway.

A stupid woman who didn’t even know she was part of the Kingdom’s Intelligence Agency, or that her brother was a member of the Crows.

So if she tried to forcibly make up misery porn, contradictions would eventually become apparent to me.

I listened to the story while inwardly mocking Jin.

“She resisted really hard, you know? She pulled out a dagger from under her skirt and attacked. So I quickly subdued her by breaking her wrist first.”

That was a lie.

Emilia wouldn’t even let out a scream from just having her wrist broken.

There was no way she could be subdued by that.

“But you know what, she gritted her teeth and came at me again with her other hand?”

“…”

“So I had no choice but to break her other wrist and both ankles too. Then I could barely hear a little whimper of pain.”

She got lucky and guessed something a bit similar.

Still, it didn’t change the fact that it was bullshit.

“She was a girl with very strong willpower. She must have been well-trained. But girls like that tend to have a misconception. They think they can endure even when pushed to extreme situations. I needed to correct that thinking a little.”

Nonsense.

“Originally, torture becomes much more painful when accompanied by shame. What do you think is the most shameful torture for a woman?”

You bastard.

It was starting to become disgusting to listen to.

I felt a strong urge to just kill her right now.

“That’s right. The one you’re imagining. I’ll refrain from explaining in detail since your weak and fragile mind might crumble. Huh. Aren’t you grateful?”

“Cut the crap.”

“Even when I’m being considerate… Tsk. Anyway, it took a really long time. To kill that strong look in her eyes.”

“…”

“Her eyes seemed like had given up on everything in the end.”

I was slowly regaining my composure, because I had caught clear evidence that this was fiction.

No matter how painful or desperate, Emilia would never have given in.

Despite appearances, she had endured the Intelligence Agency’s harsh torture training.

She was prepared to not leak any information even if captured by the Empire and subjected to all kinds of torture.

So how could her mentality break from Jin’s random torture?

It made no sense.

“At first I thought she had lost her mind. But that wasn’t it.”

“…!”

“She had just lost consciousness from losing too much blood. When I brought my face close to listen to her breathing, she spat at me. That’s when I realized. Ah, I could play with her more. So I immediately stopped the bleeding. I’ve recently become interested in anatomy, you see. Reading books, the human structure is really strange. I thought it wouldn’t be bad to open one up myself. There was a perfect textbook right in front of me.”

Stop this already.

“I started with the legs first. The goal was Schlus Hainkel. To make her cry out your name. I thought I would stop anytime if she just shouted your name.”

Stop it, you fucking bitch.

“Wow. When I opened her up, it was exactly like in the book. Amazing, right? I thought she would really faint by then, but amazingly she endured even while biting her tongue. I felt a bit sorry. I wasn’t torturing her to extract anything. I just wanted to torment her, that’s all. It was touching yet pitiful how she tried to endure to the end, probably out of loyalty to you.”

“Bullshit…”

Loyalty to me?

Don’t make me laugh.

Really, it was hard to hold back my laughter.

It was so funny my body kept shaking.

My molars hurt from gritting my teeth so hard to suppress my laughter.

My clenched right fist trembled violently.

“By that point, it was too pitiful to watch so I thought I should send her off comfortably. The client had only ordered me to kidnap and kill your attendant, not to torture her. So I brought a saw to let her go easily. If she was going to die anyway, isn’t it better to die with just a clean upper body left? Throw away the messy lower body. So I slowly started sawing above her pelvic bone. That’s when her pupils started shaking noticeably. I guess she had believed I wouldn’t kill her. Her eyes suddenly changed to a color of despair… That was so beautiful, you know?”

That was real bullshit.

Emilia would have been prepared to die from the moment she was kidnapped.

There was no way she would despair just from realizing she was going to die.

There was no way Emilia would have such an ordinary girlish side.

A mere espionage machine that only kills and deceives on orders couldn’t possibly have such emotions.

Everything she had shown me was just an act…

“At the last moment. She cried out while gasping for breath. Do you know what she said?”

“…”

“‘Oppa’. She just kept repeating ‘Oppa’ desperately and pitifully until she died. Oppa? I wonder who she was referring to?”

The final nail was driven in.

Oppa.

At that word, I lost my reason.

I could no longer take this fucking story as fiction.

“Tell me it’s a lie!”

“Agh!”

“Say it! You fucking bitch!”

“Kuh… Ack… It’s… it’s all true…”

“Tell me it’s a lie! Right now!”

Her struggling intensified as I pressed down hard on her throat, but I had no intention of letting up.

I had to hear Jin say with her own mouth that it was a lie.

“I… I can say it’s a lie… if that’s what you want. Should I?”

“…”

I felt my breath catch at Jin’s satisfied smile.

It was a smile steeped in a sense of superiority.

By this point, even I had to admit it.

I had lost.

I didn’t even know who I had been fighting, but I had been utterly defeated.

“Just shut the fuck up.”

“Aah!”

I threw Jin to the ground.

Without realizing it, a blue pillar of light had been drawn out into my right hand.

I knew it was a meaningless act.

I knew that Crows only followed someone’s orders.

I knew perfectly well that Crows could become allies or enemies depending on who paid them, no matter how fucking awful they were now.

Killing her would be meaningless and only cause losses, but I couldn’t help it.

I couldn’t control this boiling emotion.

Even though it was just text.

Even though it was just a fictional character I had created.

Such excuses were no longer of any use.

“Are you crying? Is Schlus Hainkel crying for a mere attendant?”

“…”

I just realized it.

No wonder my vision was a bit blurry, I had burst into tears without realizing it.

Now I really had a reason to kill Jin.

Since she had seen Schlus Hainkel crying, I couldn’t let her live to spread rumors.

So I had to kill her.

It wasn’t at all because I was overcome with emotion, it was out of necessity.

A rational decision.

Yeah, fuck it.

That’s what it was.

I aimed Vafe at Jin’s face and plunged it down.

Crack!

“Huh?”

“…”

Right next to Jin’s face.

Vafe was embedded in the ground.

When I opened my fist, Vafe was instantly sucked back into my hand.

I had caught a glimpse of something just then.

Something glinting in Jin’s pocket.

“What? You’re not going to kill me? Ah. Are you going to torture me the same way before killing me?”

“No.”

I reached into Jin’s pocket and pulled it out.

A white handkerchief fluttered out, a cute handkerchief with a small pink ribbon attached.

It was the handkerchief that Emilia occasionally wore, though not often, and that handkerchief was always imbued with magical power.

Magical power with a wavelength that only Emilia could emit.

“What are you… Aah!”

I placed my hand on Jin’s chest and gripped tightly.

I could clearly sense the flow of magical power running through her body, and the alien flow hidden beneath it.

I grasped and captured it firmly.

I wouldn’t be fooled anymore.

“Aaaagh!”

Whoosh!

I yanked my arm back.

The skin gripped in my hand was pulled along, but the sensation was too strange to be tearing flesh.

What was instantly pulled out condensed into one spot and then changed into a red bean-like shape.

It looked alive, pulsating and writhing.

Was it Jin’s internal organ?

It seemed she had used her shapeshifting ability to cover Emilia with her own entrails to disguise her appearance.

“Fuck.”

Crunch!

In disgust, I immediately stomped on it and crushed it.

I completely destroyed it so it couldn’t be retrieved.

After catching my breath, I finally thought of Emilia.

I slowly turned my creaking neck, afraid she might not be there.

Afraid she might be in a terrible state even if she was there.

I suppressed my fear and managed to turn my gaze.

“Ugh…”

“Ha.”

She was there.

The one I had been searching for so desperately.

The quest completion window popped up, as if to confirm it.

It was really certain.

There was a slight blue bruise visible around Emilia’s eyes, but no special external injuries.

Both her legs were still properly attached.

Judging by the rise and fall of her chest, she was breathing normally.

Even though I had just stopped crying.

I felt like I might burst into tears again from the overwhelming emotion in my chest.

Just thinking that I had almost killed this child with my own hands made me so scared and dizzy…

“Ugh…”

“Are you coming to your senses?”

Emilia slowly opened her eyes.

My body moved on its own, before I knew it, I was hugging Emilia tightly.

But the first words uttered in her half-asleep voice were-

“Oppa?”

“…”

It ruined the mood.

Just a little bit.

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[thank fucking god shes alive dude holy shit i was getting scared for a moment]