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A corner of a commercial area.
A space behind the bricks at the end of an alleyway.
It is a pure white room.
A warding magic has been put up so that only authorized people can enter.
In the center of the room, there is a rectangular wooden table.
Surrounding the table were nine chairs, each occupied by young boys.
A dark-haired boy sitting on the short side of the table opened his mouth.
“Sein is dead.”
Sein was the middle school student whose body had been found yesterday.
He was also an attendee of this meeting.
At these words, the other boys began to open their mouths.
“I didn’t hear anything like this! What do you mean?”
The one who shouted the loudest was Dominic, the boy sitting farthest away from the black-haired boy.
“You didn’t hear? It’s not a mistake that you didn’t hear?”
The dark-haired boy asks back.
“You said you’d give me strength! So!”
“So, what? I didn’t lie. In fact, you got the power. Isn’t that enough?”
“So……, that means you didn’t tell me you could die from it!”
One after another, the boys said, “Yes, yes.”
The dark-haired boy eyed them and narrowed his eyes.
“You guys are misunderstanding something, aren’t you? Did you really think that you could get the power without any sacrifice?”
“That’s……. But you said that drinking it would give you power. You told me that if I drank it, I’d get power, and I’d get back to all the people who made fun of me!”
“You’re an idiot. How can something be so convenient? Haven’t you ever wondered? A potion that amplifies magic power just by drinking it. I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out why something that every wizard would want is going to incompetent people like you.”
“Incompetent?”
“What’s wrong with calling an incompetent person, incompetent? It’s time to admit it, isn’t it? It’s time to admit that we’re not very good at what we do.”
“Don’t be ridiculous!”
Dominic slammed the desk with a bang and stood up.
“The potion I gave you is not a magic enhancer, by the way, it is a miasma powder. It’s just that the magic and the miasma got mixed up and it was mistaken for an increase in magic power.”
“No such……. I’ve never heard of such a…… miasma. I’ve never heard of such a thing.”
The boy in the room said, turning pale.
“It’s still in the experimental stage.”
“Experimental……?
“We have succeeded in turning the miasma into powder, but we don’t know how to use it. Then we’ll have to experiment. With just the right test subjects like you.”
“Bastard!”
Dominic strode closer and closer to the black-haired boy.
But…
“Ugh……”
After a few steps, he held his head and crouched down.
“Oh, yeah. The medicine I gave you guys earlier. Thank you for taking them all. It contains ten times as much miasma as the medicine I’ve been giving you.”
Triggered by the black-haired boy’s words, the boys began to groan.
“Ahhhh……”
“Hahahaha……”
“Aaahhhh!”
Inside the room, the boys were slumped over.
What happens when a human ingests miasma?
The magic power and the miasma are temporarily fused, and it seems as if the total amount of magic power has increased.
However, the miasma is essentially incompatible with humans.
The human body rejects the miasma and death occurs.
So far, the black-haired boy had predicted this.
The boys were lying on the ground, and one by one, they stopped breathing.
Eyes wide open, drool coming out of their mouths, the boys greeted death with a look of horror.
In the quiet room.
“This is the extent of it. It seems that the experiment is meaningless unless you have excellent individuals.”
The boys gathered here were all dissatisfied with their current situation.
It is easy to listen to the idea of giving them power, and they drank the suspicious medicine without question…
They are incompetent people who have no talent, make no effort, and are all about showing off.
The absence of them will have little effect.
The dark-haired boy approached Dominic, who was lying nearby.
“I was expecting a little more from him, though.”
He kicked and rolled Dominic’s body.
“Well, it can’t be helped. I’m sure there’s plenty of material here.”
And that’s when the dark-haired boy said.
“Gukaaaaaa!”
Dominic, who was thought to be dead, suddenly sat up.
He held his chest and groaned.
“Ah! Aah! Aaahhhh!”
The area around Dominic’s chest glowed white.
Dominic’s chest glowed white, flashing as if it’s pulsing with thuds, thuds, thuds.
“Oh, my God, is that a success?”
The dark-haired boy watches Dominic’s movements.
Then a dazzling light shone from his chest.
The dark-haired boy closes his eyes at the sheer amount of light.
Then, the moment he opened his eyes.
“Urghhhh!”
There was a transformed Dominic.
His body was purple, with veins popping out from everywhere.
He was over two meters tall and looked as if his body had been forced to expand.
Only his face was no different from the original Dominic’s, and the way it looked made it even more distorted.
It can no longer be called a person.
It’s a monster.
“Beautiful……”
You can find a lot of people who are interested in this kind of thing.
“What a beauty! You are the best material—“
Before he could finish, the dark-haired boy said.
“Haha……”
Before he could finish, the black-haired boy was knocked to the ground by the monster’s fist.
Then he turned on his back and looked up at the monster.
The eyes are filled with madness.
“Oohh… Now, my… research will go much further…”
It’s a mess.
The black-haired boy’s face was crushed by the monster.
“Gaaaahhh!”
And then Dominic shouted in a voice that lost all reason.