Fantasy Library.

Chapter 462 Are you still planning to do this?

In Xiaojia Apartment, in Xiaonagisa's room.

At this moment, Akinagi had just fallen asleep.

A long-lost childhood friend comes to Itogami Island and ends up sharing a room with her. Since they are both girls who love gossip, it's unlikely they won't have a long talk all night long.

Although Akatsuki Nagisa suggested to everyone that they should go to bed early tonight so they could get up early tomorrow, she was actually just a fourteen-year-old girl. How much self-control could she possibly have at a time like this?
In addition, being a chatterbox, it was no surprise that Akina Gisa and Sendou Yuma chatted until late at night, and only just now did she finally feel sleepy and lie down to fall asleep.

Unbeknownst to Akina, her childhood playmate was not asleep but standing by the bed, staring intently at her.

"Seriously, Nagisa is still the same as before; once she starts talking, she can't stop."

Sendou Yuma smiled bitterly, her eyes filled with nostalgia, pity, and, more than anything, helplessness, as she looked at Akatsuki Nagisa.

Reaching out, she gently brushed the hair of the girl who was sleeping soundly on the bed, and muttered to herself with a complicated expression.

"Why did it have to be you who became the Fourth Progenitor, Nagisa..."

God knows how incredulous Sentoki Yuuma was when she first heard the news.

The idea that one's childhood playmate has become the world's most powerful vampire, or rather, a vessel for that being, coexisting with it, is more absurd and outrageous than any fairy tale.

"Of course, I'm not much better off either."

Recalling her past, Sendou Yuma's expression became even more complicated.

I imagine even Akatsuki Nagisa and Akatsuki Kojou couldn't believe it, right?

My childhood playmates were not ordinary people either.

Now, he, an outsider who was never an ordinary person from the very beginning, is about to take action against his childhood playmate who has become no longer an ordinary person along the way.

"Don't blame me, Nagisa."

As she murmured these words, the space behind her began to ripple and sway gently.

On the other side of the ripples, something seemed to emerge slowly from the depths of the lake.

It was a huge knight, its entire body a deep blue color, exuding a ferocious aura.

The knight was fully armored, giving off an ominous aura. Beneath his eerie helmet, which resembled a skull, lay a faceless, unfathomable shadow.

If anyone who has seen Nangong Nayue's guardians were here and witnessed this scene, they would surely be astonished.

Because this enormous blue knight, in both aura and appearance, was extremely similar to her guardian.

Clearly, this Blue Knight is also a guardian.

There is only one kind of being that possesses a guardian.

That is... a witch.

"Let's do it, Cang."

Sendou Yuuma pointed at Akatsuki Nagisa, who was lying on the bed, and gave instructions to her guardian.

Unfortunately……

"You'd better stop here."

As the Azure Guardian reached out to Akatsuki Nagisa on the bed, a voice sounded behind Sendou Yuma.

"...!"

Sento Muyu's expression changed, and she suddenly turned around to look behind her.

"call--"

Suddenly, the room's window was opened, and a night breeze blew the curtains open, revealing a figure that appeared silently, like a flower in a mirror or the moon's reflection in water.

"It's you?" Sendou Yuuma's face tensed, and she went into a state of alertness. Then she smiled and said, "You really came."

"Huh?" Aize raised an eyebrow and said, "It seems you know who I am."

"Yes, someone already told me." Yuma Sendouki said with a forced smile, "I never expected that a national agency's agent would come to spy on my childhood friend. If my identity were public, I would definitely protest to the Lion King Agency, right?"

"Unfortunately, your identity is something you can't reveal to others," Aize said calmly. "Even the Xiao siblings probably didn't expect it, did they? That their childhood friend would actually be an officer of the LCO (Library)..."

"【Azure Witch】, Sentoki Yuuma".

"If they knew you were part of a criminal organization, both Nagisa and Kojo would be quite surprised, wouldn't they?"

Upon hearing this, Sendou Yuma fell silent.

The guardian behind her continued to exude a menacing presence, seemingly already planning to attack Aize, or perhaps impatiently wanting to attack Akatsuki Nagisa.

However, instead of taking direct action, Sendou Yuma sighed and said something like this.

"If I said that I didn't approach the old city and Nagisa with ulterior motives, would you believe me?"

Sendou Yuma actually said such a thing.

"I believe."

Aize, however, was not surprised at all.

Aize, who is familiar with the original work, naturally knows what kind of background Sentoki Yuma has.

"Ten years ago, the Grand Librarian of LCO (Library), known as the 'Secretariat Witch', Sendoki Aya, brought a powerful magic book called the Dark Oath Book to Itogami Island, intending to transform Itogami Island into a realm without superpowers, mysticism, sorcery, magic, or even the existence of demons."

"She ultimately failed, stopped by the Witch of the Gap, Nangong Nayue, and imprisoned in a prison barrier, from which she can never escape."

"But in order to rescue Sentomo Aya and to retrieve the Dark Oath Book, LCO (Library) used her biological information to clone a person and raised her into a witch who could break the prison's barrier seal."

Aize said this to Sendou Yuma, whose expression had changed slightly.

"That witch is you, Sentoki Aya's daughter, Sentoki Yuma."

Sentoki Yuuma is an artificial witch, an artificial life form, who was born with the appearance of a six-year-old.

It was purely by chance that she became Kojou Akatsuki and Nagisa Akatsuki's childhood playmate.

She simply went out by chance and met Akatsuki Kojou and Akatsuki Nagisa playing nearby, which is how she got to know them and became their childhood playmates.

Kojou Akatsuki and Nagisa Akatsuki had no idea about Yuuma Sendouki's background, let alone that she was a witch. They grew up playing with her until the incident on Gozo Island four years ago, when Nagisa Akatsuki was sent to Itogami Island for treatment.

"Back then, Xiaogucheng was just an ordinary person. Although he is still pretty much the same now, at least back then he was never involved in any incidents."

"Although Akatsuki Nagisa is somewhat special, she is an excellent medium and a very good shrine maiden. She is probably not of any benefit to you or the LCO (Library)."

"The LCO (Library) is only interested in grimoires, and you only wanted to rescue your mother. In other words, at that time you had no reason to target Akatsuki Kojou and Akatsuki Nagisa, and deliberately become their childhood playmate."

This is why Aize said he believed it. Even without knowing the original work, as long as one understands the relationships and connections, one can make such a deduction.

"But things are different now, aren't they?"

Aize looked at Sendou Yuma with a gaze that seemed to see right through her, causing Sendou Yuma to fall silent once again.

After a while, Sendou Yuma seemed to give up, revealing a self-deprecating smile.

"That's right, things are different now."

"Because Nagisa became the vessel for the Fourth Progenitor, and the power of the Fourth Progenitor resides within her."

“And I desperately need this strength.”

Sentoki Yuma's goal is to rescue her mother, who is trapped in the prison's barrier.

To achieve this goal, she naturally had to first find the prison's perimeter.

However, the prison barrier is another world, a world located in another dimension. Although it exists on Itogami Island, no one knows its exact location, let alone can enter it.

In order to find the location of the prison barrier and break its seal, Sentoki Yuuma needs to disrupt the entire space of Itogami Island.

This is very difficult to do.

First of all, the power to interfere with space is rare, and even if it is involved, it is extremely difficult. Even high-ranking mages would find it difficult to easily disrupt space. Only witches like Nangong Nayue, who specialize in space control magic, can do it.

However, although this is difficult, it is nothing to Sentoki Yuma, because she was born for this purpose. Therefore, she is actually the same type of witch as Nangong Nayue, who is proficient in spatial control magic and can easily interfere with space and distort it.

The magical power required to distort the entire space of Itogami Island and bring the prison barrier hidden in another dimension to the surface is simply too enormous.

At the very least, relying solely on witches is definitely not enough.

Thus, Sentoki Yuma set her sights on Akatsuki Nagisa, or rather, on the Fourth True Ancestor.

"As long as I have the power of the Fourth Progenitor, whose magic is comparable to that of the Dragon Vein, I will have enough ability to disrupt the space of the entire Itogami Island and distort its space."

"Therefore, I need to obtain Nagisa's body and the power of the Fourth Progenitor within her."

"As long as I distort space and then connect the spaces, allowing Nagisa's five senses to exchange with mine, the nerve impulses that should have been transmitted to Nagisa will be replaced by my own, thus achieving the goal of control."

This isn't actually a body swap; it's just a swap of their senses.

Essentially, both Akatsuki Nagisa and Sendouki Yuma are still inside their own bodies, but the space of their nerves has been distorted and their five senses have been exchanged. In this way, Sendouki Yuma can use her own nerves to replace Akatsuki Nagisa's nerves to control Akatsuki Nagisa's body, and Akatsuki Nagisa will also gain control of Sendouki Yuma's body.

This method of connecting countless nerves one by one, and doing so by distorting space, is something that ordinary magicians and archmages simply cannot do.

Only a witch of the same type as Nangong Nayue, who is skilled in using spatial control magic, can do such a thing.

"I only need the power within Nagisa, I don't want to hurt her."

Sentoki Yuma stared at Aize and said something.

"Don't stop me, King of Warcraft."

It's clear that Sendou Yuma doesn't want to be enemies with Aize.

If she were just a spy for the Lion King organization, she wouldn't have gone to such lengths.

But the man in front of me is different.

He is the host of Leviathan, the ruler of countless mythical creatures, and the King of Beasts who can easily defeat Demitriel Vatra, whose power is comparable to, or even surpasses, that of the True Ancestor.

Sendou Yuuma isn't afraid of the world's strongest vampire who hasn't yet awakened, and she even dares to try to seize his power. But a fully awakened person who can control multiple mythical creatures, including the world's strongest magical beast, is someone that Sendou Yuuma, no matter how confident she is, wouldn't think she could handle.

Let alone now, even if I actually obtained Akatsuki Nagisa's body and the power of the Fourth Progenitor, whether I could defeat the person in front of me is still an unknown.

With this in mind, Sentoki Yuma had no choice but to back down.

Aize's expression remained completely unchanged.

“I don’t know if you’re genuinely unaware or just pretending,” Aize said calmly. “If you truly don’t know, then let me give you a hint.”

"Let's set aside whether Nagisa can control the power of the Fourth Progenitor on her own. Even if you were to transfer into Nagisa's body, would you be able to activate the power of the Fourth Progenitor hidden within her and get Aurora to lend you that power?"

"Even if Nagisa's body can unleash the power of the Fourth Progenitor, are you prepared to use this power recklessly?"

Aize spoke expressionlessly.

"Nagisa is ultimately not the Fourth Progenitor, nor even a vampire; she is just an ordinary human priestess."

"The true Fourth Progenitor is actually dead. Only his soul and power reside in Nagisa's body, coexisting with her."

“If this power is used recklessly, Nagisa’s body will definitely be the first to be unable to withstand it. Even if it can withstand it, once she summons her familiars and uses the power of the Fourth Progenitor, Nagisa, who does not have the endless negative life force of a vampire, will have her life force drained, thus shortening her lifespan.”

Aize looked intently at Sendou Yuma and spoke slowly, word by word.

Even so, are you still planning to do it?

Sentoki Yuma fell silent.

Silence for the third time.

The atmosphere in the room became extremely oppressive due to Sendou Yuma's silence, causing the guardian behind her to creak and groan, looking restless.

Seeing this, Sendou Yuma smiled.

His smile was extremely bitter.

“I am a witch,” said Sentoki Yuma. “And the price I paid for gaining power through the contract was to rescue my mother and break the prison barrier.”

In other words, Sentoki Yuma cannot resist this objective.

If she breaks the contract, her guardian will cut off her head.

That's why, even knowing that doing so would harm Akatsuki Nagisa, Sendouki Yuuma had no choice but to try it.

Otherwise, the demon's pact and scythe will continue to haunt her, causing her to break down completely.

"understood."

Aize nodded, not at all surprised.

then……

"I'll stop you."

Upon hearing this, the guardians behind Sentoki Yuuma could no longer contain themselves and attacked him.

The malevolent magic then erupted.

(End of this chapter)