Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1045: Moving (2)



The Inhumane Eye?!

This was one of Yuyui's eyes, which Replicus knew to always be lodged in her left eye socket and constantly covered by her bangs. The green-haired girl had had this eye since the first time she met Skullius, and it was the one that gave her the supernatural ability... to not die. Well, to not die permanently.

In fact, when Replicus had discovered Yuyui in the Temple of Unlusted Tears all those months ago, she had looked much like a mummy surrounded by thousands of corpses that spotted similar features to hers. For the longest time, this had been Yuyui's defining trait, which, frankly creeped most enemies out. During their journey, before Skullius split, it had been a common strategy of his to use Yuyui's immortality to throw off his enemies.

The fact that Replicus, as Skullius, had gone through all those times with this fact stuck in his mind, made him the most shocked to see that Yuyui could now share the Inhumane Eye with others!

The blue eye blinked while nested on Allora's charred chest.

Yuyui gave a long, long sigh.

Then...

"Bassbion, get over here," she called with a commanding voice.

The Spirit grunted and walked forward to reach Yuyui.

At first, Replicus was surprised that Bassbion actually listened to Yuyui's command, but then The recalled that, Bassbion and Yagrina were supposed to be Yuyui's companions. However, only after she acquired three of the eyes from her Hidden Class, was she then allowed to boss these Spirits around.

Yeah, that was what Bassbion had said that time.

Yuyui gave Bassbion an uncharacteristically stern look with her eye not hidden by the bangs.

"Be quick about it," she said.

Bassbion's lips curled unpleasantly.

"Don't insult my skill," she said as she reached for the long sword at her waist.

Replicus stared at the weapon.

Ah, so many memories. He had been on the receiving end of this sword before. In fact, he had copied a skill that came with this sword back then, back when he was forging his gravity- inspired mana core.

'What comes next is...' the Penetrator thought. He already knew what was about to happen.

Bassbion looked down at Allora's heavily wounded body. Her body was full of vitality, and most of it, strangely enough, was coming from the carved, torn and melted armour she wore, which seemed to still be functional.

With a sneer, she gripped the hilt to her sword, and as the weapon hissed out of its scabbard, it left a smooth, curved arc that sliced through Allora's neck cleanly, seamlessly.

...!!!

Pherdanta, Baddan and Grim were shaken.

Unlike Replicus, they hadn't yet figured just how exactly Yuyui intended to help cure Allora.

"What-" Grim began.

"It's alright," Replicus hurried to assure him and everyone else. "Trust Yuyui."

Pherdanta immediately calmed down, but it took Grim a few seconds to accept that Allora being beheaded, was somehow a good thing.

Finally, the tall, thin woman convulsed no more.

She had been relieved from the eternal torment with death.

Replicus' sockets blazed.

He had almost chosen to kill Allora before, and the scene playing out before him made him realise just how he might have felt afterwards, had he done it with his own hands.

The thought phantoms were right. He was a skeleton yet he was so livid with sentiment that it was, quite frankly, surprising.

'And now...' the Penetrator thought.

Yuyui smiled brightly.

From right beside Allora's corpse, a new Allora popped up from nowhere, looking rather new. Pherdanta, Baddan and Grim were stunned, but not quite to the same degree as Allora herself. Her eyes were bulging as she sat over the mysterious cloth that they were all riding on, and her hands trembled as she began to fondle every part of her, from her brand-new set of Granted Armament, to her face, which didn't look quite as ghoulish as it had looked when she was riding death's pain train.

"Uhhh..." was all the tall Unlimited could say as she then looked first at a Yuyui who was gesturing towards her with as much pride as a magician giddily displaying a rabbit popping from his hat.

Replicus sighed in relief.

"Welcome back, Allora," he said.

*

The next three minutes were saturated with nothing but surprise at what just happened for anyone who wasn't Replicus, Yuyui or the two Spirits.

Pherdanta was showing a rarely seen level of care towards Allora, making sure that she was really alright. Grim did the same while trying his hardest to look like he had his stool together.

Of course, the rapidly deteriorating corpse of the resurrected Unlimited was a little creepy to be celebrating around. Be that as it may have been, none of the Unlimited had seen it appropriate to get rid of it. Even Allora didn't know if she should...pay respects to it or something.

The one to get rid of it in the end, was Yuyui.

She casually kicked the corpse into the waters without so much as a flying flesh. Allora, despite how grateful she was, didn't know to feel about that visual. It was forever stuck in her

mind.

"I didn't get to tell you this, but you did a good job. Despite the burden on you having been so immense, you still manag I to pull it off," Replicus said when emotions had simmered down.

Allora simply scratched the back of her head.

Her face turned red.

From the encouragement the boss gave her before the attack they launched, to this...

She felt like she was riding too many highs.

"I was just trying to live up to your expectations, boss. Unlike everyone else, I felt I hadn't earned my place just yet," she said while avoiding the Penetrator's gaze.

Indeed, Allora had felt this way. That was why she had worked so hard to bolster her mastery of all basic Classes with her own during the last three days.

"Well, you certainly earned your place with this - even though you were already worth so much," Grim said with an encouraging smile and a slightly unnecessary powerful smack to

Allora's back.

Baddan gave a nod of approval. He didn't have as deep of a bond with Allora, but he acknowledged her just as well and viewed her as a comrade.

The attention seemed to grow too much for Allora, and thus she decided to shift it all.

"The one who's really worth so much here is Yuyui!" she shouted robotically.

Unlike Allora, Yuyui shouldered the weight of the attention like a champ. She didn't shy away

from it at all. She wore a smug, valiant smirk and puffed up her chest.

"How did you manage to transfer your eye onto Allora, Yu? It's only been four days since we

left Deign. What changed?" Grim asked.

Yuyui gave a childish giggle and rubbed her nose.

"It's the Eye of Moving. Right?"

Replicus was the one to answer the question before looking at Yuyui for confirmation.

She nodded vigorously while showing off the eye with the iris that looked like a purple arrow.

The eye was now on her neck.

"Yeah! This eye is very handy. It allows me to define the movement of anything I want. I can make anything and anyone I want move as fast as I want. I can move my eyes and place them somewhere else, which makes them keep their properties while on a different person or object, and loads more! I even used it to travel all the way here!" she explained.

Everyone... was stunned once again.

Even Replicus was stumped.

In as much as he guessed that the qualities of this Eye of Moving were what saved Allora, he

didn't know just how far its scope went.

"Defining movement?" he asked.

"Just as she said," Bassbion chipped in, seeming, for the first time, to express something

other than bitter condescension. She seemed proud.

"Any description of the word 'moving', she can apply it to anything she pleases, which

extends to the powers of her eyes as well."

Replicus shook his head.

Wow.

Just...wow.

That was...

Yuyui hurriedly waved her hands.

"It's powerful, but there are limits. Well, I guess I'm the limiting factor. This eye takes a lot

out of me. I am not exactly strong outside of my Class, so I can't use it as easily as you might think. We actually left to come to you yesterday, but because I'm a little... weak, we had to make hundreds of stops along the way," she said, looking a little sullen. "Besides, when it comes to me moving my other eyes to someone else, I can only apply their effects once."

Yuyui then turned to Allora and the others. "So, yeah. Try not to die twice in the future."