Bai Ya suppressed the fear and sorrow in her heart by relying on her game mode, holding on until now. At this moment, the tragic fate of the Shadow Spider stirred her emotions, causing her mindset to waver.
She realized her game mode was beginning to break down.
She knew she couldn’t continue like this. Right now, sorrow was an unnecessary emotion. She still had unfinished business, and unlocking game mode would have to wait until all events were over.
At this very moment, she had to muster the courage to keep moving forward. Even if she was battered and bruised, she would walk the path she had chosen.
“Then I’ll have to offend you.” Bai Ya raised her fist behind her back. She planned to knock the Shadow Spider out in one blow, effectively dealing with this nuisance.
Since she couldn’t get any answers, she didn’t want to entangle herself any longer with the Shadow Spider.
Maybe killing the Shadow Spider was a better, even wiser choice, but Bai Ya couldn’t bring herself to do it. Setting aside whether she dared to kill, the thought of killing a slave girl would bring her unbearable guilt.
They were just a bunch of broken children, burdened with a sorrowful fate as if it were born with them. Because of the Empire’s ambition, they had to walk down a dark path, staining their hands with blood.
This was the dark essence of this world, the nature of the 【SLAVE】 system. Slave girls were nothing but twisted products of this world.
Even if they committed great sins and claimed many lives, Bai Ya didn’t believe she had the right to kill these pitiful girls who acted without true consciousness.
Perhaps the most important reason was that she was a lolicon. Even though the Shadow Spider had given her a shadow of fear towards lolis, she still couldn’t kill one.
“Slave girls are just puppets. If I ever meet the one pulling the strings, I’ll make sure he’s on his knees, tears streaming down his face.”
The Shadow Spider’s master, Amidal’s second prince, Arthur Amidal—that name was seared into Bai Ya’s mind. He was the one who had sent slave girls to capture her.
Swearing by her own name, she would kill him someday.
Having clarified the key point, Bai Ya no longer hesitated. She swung her fist toward the Shadow Spider’s head, putting in about seventy to eighty percent of her strength. As long as she hit the right spot, this blow was enough to knock out this fragile loli.
An indescribable fear crept into her heart at this moment, like a venomous snake baring its fangs to strike. A chilling coldness made Bai Ya’s body tremble uncontrollably.
Her fist faltered and began to shake uncontrollably. Wisps of white smoke rose from the back of her hand—an ominous sign in her eyes.
“Die, die, die, die, die!” Bai Ya gritted her teeth as sparks began to flicker on her fist. She felt the flesh being scorched by flames, the burning pain twisting her expression.
Was this the Shadow Spider’s racial trait? No, it didn’t seem like it.
The Shadow Spider kept her eyes tightly shut, wearing a scared expression. Seeing this, Bai Ya knew the abnormality in her fist had nothing to do with the girl. In other words, there was a third party present.
Terrible luck. Bai Ya felt as if her fortune had not only run out but had plunged her into debt.
She widened her eyes and scanned her surroundings. Besides the corpses scattered around and the heavily damaged buildings, she couldn’t find the third party.
Could she not see them? Was the enemy invisible? Damn it, this time she’d truly hit rock bottom. If only she’d finished off the spider loli quickly earlier, she wouldn’t be in this mess. Such carelessness. Bai Ya clenched her smoking fist with her free hand, closing one eye and contorting her face in thought.
If the enemy was visible, she could still find a way to deal with them.
All she could confirm was that this stranger posed a threat to her. This strange ability was somewhat like the Shadow Spider’s silent killing method. In other words, was the newcomer a slave girl?
The power system of this world was based on magic and battle Qi, but this bizarre situation strongly suggested a racial trait. According to the Shadow Spider, there were three slave girls on this slave transport ship.
If Bai Ya’s guess was correct, she’d hit the jackpot—though she didn’t feel any happier about it.
A second slave girl… Bai Ya felt she had entered her greatest predicament.
The greatest predicament—this was also the climax in all games, where the protagonist’s chance of victory approached zero, a complete dead end.
By now, there was no turning back. She wasn’t planning to die here.
“If that’s the case, then I have only one solution for this situation.” Bai Ya lowered her head, letting out a meaningful smile tinged with madness.
What she did next was something no one could have anticipated. The suddenness even startled the attacker hidden in the shadows.
“Ah—!” Bai Ya roared like a wounded beast and used every ounce of strength to swing her fist, which carried the scent of blood and cooked flesh, toward the Shadow Spider.
When the abnormality occurred, Bai Ya’s immediate thought wasn’t to flee, but to first neutralize the Shadow Spider. She didn’t believe she could survive against two monsters alone, so reducing the threat to herself was her top priority.
But the one who ignited her fist wasn’t going to let her succeed easily.
As if responding to her reaction, the sparks on her fist rapidly expanded several times, then turned into flames. In an instant, Bai Ya’s fist was engulfed in roaring fire.
The next moment, a sharp crackling sound rang out. Bai Ya stared blankly as her palm turned to ashes in the flames.
She had once wondered idly which body part she’d lose if she were ever disabled someday. Now she seemed to have her answer—it would be her hand. It was a relief it wasn’t her brain.
“Ah—!” Bai Ya bit her lip, tears uncontrollably streaming from her eyes. She smashed her burning wrist against the Shadow Spider’s face. The moment it landed, the flames abruptly extinguished, and the scorched flesh and bone violently collided with the spider’s face.
Pain! So much pain!! Despite this, Bai Ya contorted her face, enduring the intense agony as her flesh was worn away by the impact. It was as if she was gambling everything she had, letting this strike vent all her fury.
Her reckless determination stunned the attacker lurking in the dark.
Just as she wished, the Shadow Spider fainted from the blow.