The Otherworld Was Way Too Brutal – After I Healed the Mutilated Girl, She Turned Into a Completely Obsessed Yandere Guard Dog - Chapter 32

Chapter 32

“Saijo… Minato…”

Genzou spat the name out like he was chewing on it.

The air in the room got super tense.

The Western Guardian House, the Saijo family.

A clan that mastered archery and ice magic, supposedly the ones who’ve kept the country’s balance for generations.

“Why the hell are you here?”

“I told you, didn’t I? Came to get rid of anyone messing up the balance.”

Minato gave his ice bow a light flick.

Just that made the air freeze up, frost spreading across the floor.

“Guardian Houses are supposed to have an inviolable rule. Stepping into another house’s territory means full-on war—you know that, right?”

“Yeah, I know. But y’see…”

Minato looked down at Genzou with cold eyes.

That wasn’t the look you give a person.

It was the look you give trash.

“Reviving the forbidden Chimera Project, even messing with your own body like some lunatic—I figured letting a guy like that run loose would be a disgrace to every Guardian House.”

“Lunatic…?”

“Yeah. Were you that scared of getting old and dying? Pathetic.”

Mockery.

That was the trigger.

“You little brat—!!”

Genzou exploded with rage and kicked off the floor.

His rejuvenated body plus the power-up from the magic core.

His speed was even faster than when he blasted Cattleya away earlier.

But Minato didn’t flinch.

He drew the bow back with this graceful move.

No arrow nocked.

The second he pulled the string, moisture in the air froze solid and formed a massive ice arrow.

“Ice Fang Glacial Fang.”

The shot arrow spiraled straight at Genzou.

Genzou didn’t even try to dodge—he swung his bare fist to smash it.

A purple-aura-covered punch slammed into the ice arrow.

Bang!!

With a crazy loud crack, ice shards flew everywhere.

Genzou’s charge stopped.

But his fist didn’t have a single scratch.

“Huh. You blocked that?”

“Don’t underestimate me, you punk!”

Genzou fired off purple waves and sped up even more.

Minato backstepped to keep distance while unleashing rapid shots.

Two, three, four.

Ice arrows rained down like hail, but Genzou crushed every single one with his beefy arms and closed in.

“Gotcha!”

Genzou’s hand shot toward Minato’s neck.

Right then, a silver flash cut in from the side.

“Not happening!!”

It was Cattleya.

She moved like the wall slam earlier didn’t hurt at all, jumping in and blocking Genzou’s arm with her sword.

Clang!!

Heavy impact.

The floor under Cattleya’s feet cracked.

“Cattleya, you…!”

“Looking away? Guess you’re feeling cocky, huh, master!”

Cattleya shoved the sword back.

At the same time, Minato fired an ice arrow point-blank.

Genzou clicked his tongue and leaped way back.

“…Phew. Thanks, beautiful lady knight.”

“No need for thanks. But don’t get it twisted—I didn’t save you. Just taking down a common enemy.”

“That’s reassuring.”

Minato gave a lighthearted laugh, then glanced my way.

“Hey, kid over there. You’re the rumored healer, right?”

“…Yeah.”

“Those regenerated arms you made are pretty interesting. …Can you move?”

“Barely.”

I forced my aching body to stand up.

Cattleya came back over.

“Jin, you okay?”

“Yeah. …Cattleya, your injuries?”

“Might’ve lost a rib. But I can still fight.”

“I’ll fix it.”

I put my hand on Cattleya’s back.

<Repair Evolve>.

The broken bone fused in an instant.

“…Tch, same rough treatment as always. But the pain’s gone.”

“Good.”

We lined up.

Cattleya in front.

Minato in back.

Me handling support and flanking.

“Three against one, Genzou. Give it up.”

“Hahaha! You think numbers win?! Take a look at this!”

Genzou yelled.

The purple crystal embedded in his chest throbbed hard.

Thump, thump, thump.

With each beat, his body swelled even bigger.

Clothes ripped apart with a tearing sound, muscles turning steel-colored.

His right arm ballooned huge, fingertips sharpening into hooked claws.

Purple crystal pillars jutted out from his back, turning him into something like a sword mountain.

“The essence of the Chimera Project is taking in other factors and evolving forever! This is the pinnacle of humanity!”

He wasn’t human anymore.

Way more vicious and polished than the mutants I saw in the slums—a perfect killing machine.

“…Ugly.”

“Same here.”

Minato and Cattleya said it at the same time.

“Let’s go!”

The fight kicked off.

Cattleya charged.

Genzou’s claws and her sword sparked.

Power-wise, Genzou had her crushed.

Every hit made Cattleya’s body groan.

But she didn’t back off.

Because I was right behind her.

“Guh!”

Cattleya’s shoulder got torn open by a claw.

Fresh blood sprayed.

“Heal me, Jin!”

“On it!!”

I held my hand out from behind her.

Remote healing.

The wound sealed up from the edges as it tore.

It had to hurt like hell.

But Cattleya turned that pain into fighting spirit and kept swinging her sword nonstop.

Cut, heal. Smashed, heal.

Immortal suicide-charge style.

“Annoying!!”

Genzou got fed up and ignored Cattleya to go for me.

But Minato’s arrow stabbed in.

“Whoa, not letting him touch you.”

Ice arrows froze Genzou’s feet, slowing him down.

Then a rain of shots blocked his view.

“Sneaky ice user!”

Genzou roared and blasted purple shockwaves from his whole body.

Ice arrows shattered, Cattleya got blown back.

But it wasn’t a finishing blow.

The three of us working together kept the monster version of Genzou pinned.

“Damn… so tough…!”

Cattleya cursed.

Genzou’s skin had hardened—normal blades could barely scratch it.

His regen was crazy too.

Any small cut sealed right up with purple light.

“The core.”

I shouted.

“Unless we smash that crystal in his chest, he won’t stop! Same as the slum monsters!”

“Got it. Weak point’s his exposed heart. Nice and simple.”

Minato narrowed his eyes.

“But those beefy arms are in the way. Get close and we’ll get minced.”

“We’ll make an opening. Us.”

I looked at Cattleya.

She grinned.

“Got it. You want me to be the suicide bait, huh.”

“Won’t let you die. Not while I’m here.”

“Damn good personal doctor I’ve got!”

Cattleya charged again.

This time full reckless abandon—no defense.

“Useless useless!!”

Genzou swung his giant right arm up.

Cattleya deliberately jumped right into the path.

Boom!!

Insane impact.

Cattleya’s armor shattered, her body bent like a V.

But she didn’t fall.

She grabbed Genzou’s arm with her left hand.

“Got you, freak!”

“Wha—you trying to die!?”

Cattleya laughed with blood dripping from her mouth.

Then yelled.

“Now!!”

Right then, me and Minato moved at the same time.

Minato drew the bow to full power.

Freezing air from the whole room gathered.

“Ice Dragon Pierce!”

What he shot wasn’t an arrow.

A dragon-shaped torrent of ice.

It froze Genzou’s right arm—along with Cattleya—and pinned them to the wall.

“Guaaaah!?”

“Sorry, lady knight. Get him to fix you up later.”

Minato’s cold backup.

By freezing Cattleya too, he completely locked Genzou down.

Torso wide open.

That glowing purple crystal in his chest.

I ran.

Knife reverse-gripped, pouring every ounce of strength into it.

This ends it.

Cutting every grudge right here!

“Uoooooooh!!”

I dove into Genzou’s guard and thrust the knife straight at the crystal.

—We won.

That’s what I thought.

Then Genzou’s lips split into a crescent grin.

“Gotcha.”

Zup.

Gross sound.

Right before my knife reached the crystal.

A new arm sprouted from Genzou’s stomach and pierced straight through my gut.

“Ah…?”

Hot.

Hurts.

I looked down.

What went through me wasn’t a human arm.

A sharp spear-like tentacle made of purple crystal.

“Chimera’s a mix of all kinds of creatures… Who says arms are limited to two?”

Genzou laughed mockingly.

Blood poured from my mouth.

“Jin!?”

Frozen Cattleya yelled.

Minato’s eyes widened too.

My consciousness faded fast.

The knife almost slipped from my hand.

No.

If it ends here everything’s for nothing.

“Not… yet…”

Still impaled, I grabbed the tentacle.

Activated healing magic.

Not to heal the wound.

To reverse-flow my magic through the tentacle.

“Let go…! What the hell are you doing!”

Genzou showed panic.

My magic interfered with his internal circuits, trying to trigger overload.

Like with the slum monster—aiming for self-destruction from too much magic.

But this was the core body.

Capacity way different.

My magic alone wasn’t enough.

(Damn… just a bit more… need a little more firepower…!)

Right as darkness started swallowing my mind.

BOOOOM!!

Not just the door—whole wall exploded inward with a deafening roar.

“Sorry I’m late, Jin!!”

“Don’t touch Jin—!!”

Two shadows burst through the rubble and dust.

Ray swinging a greatsword, Tsugumi holding short daggers.

They rushed Genzou from both sides like they’d planned it.

“Reinforcements? Too slow!”

Genzou swung his remaining left arm to intercept.

But Ray roared.

“Not slow! This is where it really starts!”

Ray’s greatsword chopped deep into Genzou’s left arm.

At the same time Tsugumi slipped past me and slashed at the tentacle piercing me.

Clang!

Hard.

But Tsugumi didn’t stop.

Bounced once, twice, three times—she kept hacking.

“Give… Jin… back!!”

Her terrifying expression made Genzou flinch for a second.

I didn’t miss that gap.

My friends came.

That fact lit a fire back in my fading life.

“…Eat this!!”

I focused every last drop of magic into my right hand and slammed my palm into Genzou’s chest crystal.

<Repair Evolve>—max output, over-regeneration Overheal.

Not destruction—regeneration gone wild.

Conflicting factors inside the crystal activated hard and started eating each other.

“Gu, ga, aaaaaah!?”

Genzou screamed.

The tentacle piercing me crumbled.

I dropped to the ground.

There’s a big hole in my stomach.

But weirdly, I felt calm.

Looking up, Genzou’s body swelled from the inside, glowing purple.

“Impossible… my body… collapsing…!? I was… going to become a god…!”

“You’ll never be a god. You’re just a greedy human.”

I told him in a raspy voice.

Right after, the crystal in Genzou’s chest hit its limit—and shattered in a flash.

Light swallowed the room.

My consciousness melted into that light too.