Thanks for the invitation. I am a parasite in Terra.

The face of the piece of meat kept repeating short words, looking at Dario who had lost consciousness, and began to slowly approach.

...

Blurred consciousness...

Are you going to die?

.......

Fortunately, I didn't bring Elini with me...

His eyes closed, the last of his thoughts fading away.

.......

"Daario, tell me, why did you choose to become an Inquisitor?"

teacher.....

"Really? Not a bad reason. I hope you'll remember what I said."

"Why? When you have students, they will ask you the same questions with admiring eyes, just like you did before, right?"

.......

"Teacher, why did you become an inquisitor?"

The girl from Liberi, who was becoming a trainee judge for the first time, looked at herself with anticipation as she became a judge teacher for the first time.

He was stunned, and then almost subconsciously blurted out the words that he had been saying when he was a student.

........

"teacher?"

Elini, who was investigating in a residential area, was stunned for a moment, then turned around.

Is that the direction of the church? Is the teacher investigating there?

After a moment's thought, she turned her attention back to her task.

Don't get distracted, Mr. Dario has nothing to worry about.

He was the best judge and the most respectable teacher. She had realized this since she first met him.

The only thing you have to do is to complete the task assigned to you by the other party!

............

In the tunnel, a slight breeze blew from somewhere.

She brushed across Dario's bloodstained face, as gently as a woman's hand.

The warmth of the blood was neutralized, and then she stepped over the huge body and began to blow the wick of the lantern not far away, where only sparks were left.

"Puff-"

"Puff-"

It was a faint sound at first, then it grew louder and louder until even the huge creature before them could hear it.

The spark in the wick has rekindled...

Countless faces stared at the "food" in front of them in confusion.

The other person should be dead, why is he still making sounds?

"Puff-"

"Puff-"

brush! ! !

In an instant, the body that was sunken in the wall suddenly pounced towards the piece of meat.

My heart, which should have been silent long ago, now beats like a war drum.

Faintly deafening.

The lamp was burning, even though the wick had long since worn out and could no longer continue to emit such a dazzling light.

The huge creature of flesh and blood made another attempt to impact, but the next moment, an arm blocked its way and stopped its violent impact.

Even if it has been deformed to the point where it can no longer be seen as a human arm, even if the broken bones pierce the skin due to deformation

Dario opened his one good eye!

There was no part of his body that was not bleeding, and no part that was not making the ear-piercing sound of bones breaking.

But he still opened his pupils, like a machine that had already reached its limit and started its engine again, letting out a final low roar.

"Click."

The Inquisitor's hand cannon stabbed directly into the opponent's tumor with such great force that half of the gun barrel was stuck in it.

Dario opened his mouth slightly, as if to say something, but then the trigger was pulled, and the tiny sound was drowned out by the roar!

(Grand Inquisitor Dario, my favorite NPC, I couldn't help but write more.)

(It’s okay, you won’t die, just wait for Shark and her external brain to come and save you.)

Chapter 20: Rage

"boom!"

Laurentina stepped on the stone bricks outside the church, and the loud noise coming from the ground made her realize that she might be late.

She stepped on the high wall outside the church and climbed over it easily as if she was walking on flat ground.

[The vibration sound is coming from the front...Yes, I can sense two life forms underground.]

[There is a very weak vital sign, Laurentina, hurry!]

"I know!"

In Laurentina's hand, a long-handled circular saw made of flesh and blood appeared out of thin air.

She took a step forward, then used the long handle of the circular saw to do a pole vault-like movement! She just lifted herself up and jumped into the air!

“Za Ma!!”

In mid-air, Laurentina raised the circular saw and shouted

The latter immediately understood what she meant, and more flesh and blood were wrapped around the circular saw, expanding the original teeth by more than four times.

She looked at the bluestone floor, and with the force of the impact she landed on the ground, she smashed the weapon in her hand directly to the ground! !

"boom!!!"

The upper level of the tunnel could not withstand such a huge force and collapsed directly.

The sunlight outside shone into the narrow tunnel, and Laurentina walked out of the smoke and dust holding a circular saw.

She turned around and saw Dario leaning against the wall, unconscious.

The hem of the skirt floated, then broke off and rested on his chest.

"He is...the teacher of that little Inquisitor?"

Laurentina recognized the other person's identity by looking at his tattered clothes.

[He was seriously injured, his internal organs were almost a mess... All I could do was to temporarily replace his damaged organs with some of my limbs to maintain his life.]

"Can't we just use your cells to replace or repair it?"

[I can't do that. I have already assimilated with you. In a sense, the sequence of flesh and blood has been locked. If I force assimilate, do you still remember what Quintus looks like?]

[The best solution at the moment is——]

Laurentina turned around and watched the charred black flesh gradually reveal a figure after the smoke and dust dissipated.

"Deal with that out-of-control tumor, eh?"

[The explosion just now was caused by this Inquisitor, but it seems that most of the impact was absorbed by the piece of meat in front of me.]

"Click——"

Just as Laurentina approached, a crack suddenly appeared in the dark piece of flesh.

The former immediately grasped his weapon with vigilance, looking at the huge piece of meat in front of him with charred skin and looking like a cocoon.

Click.

A scarlet hand with a little mucus stretched out from the inside of the tumor.

Then, it grabbed the torn opening and pulled it open violently.

[Did it change its form after realizing that a huge lump of meat couldn't fit into a small space?]

Laurentina's collar, blue pupils staring at the red humanoid figure slowly emerging from the tumor.

It has no face, only densely packed pupils on its head.

Judging from the standard human body shape, it looks like malnutrition.

His limbs are thin and he is very skinny.

"Ahhh-"

It roared, and several of its pupils were fixed on Laurentina in front of it.

It seemed as if there was something about the other party that made it very afraid.

[? Laurentina, be careful.]

Almost instantly, her skirt floated up, then expanded and intertwined, turning into a huge shield blocking her.

And what followed was the violent and fine sound of hard objects colliding!

"Damn, what did it spit out?"

While her vision was blocked by the shield, Laurentina seemed to see several lips appearing on the other person's skin.

[....Originium?]

Zuo Jian raised a black crystal that he had intercepted and asked in a somewhat surprised tone.

"What? Originium? Where does it come from..."

Laurentina was stunned.

Then she looked at the Inquisitor behind her, and then through the gap in the shield, she saw a large charred body behind the flesh-and-blood figure.

At first, these were just a few vials of blood.

Swelled to this size...

[These Originium, if nothing unexpected happens, are probably Originium crystals produced in or on the body of the infected.]

[Didn't you choose to digest that part and keep it in your body?]

Zuo Jian told Laurentina the terrible truth that she was thinking.

"Phew, can you regain control of that monster?"

She asked, looking at the blue gem on her collar.

[…I can’t do it. It’s too chaotic. That part of me is actually still asleep. The actions I take are almost all unconscious proliferation and continuation.]

"But it doesn't look like it's unconscious at all."

[This is the problem. After knowing what those psychopaths fed this part of flesh and blood, the answer seems to be somewhat clear.]

I've never felt so annoyed as I do now.

[Laurentina, give me control temporarily.]

"You...be careful."

Being able to understand Zuo Jian's mood at the moment, she hesitated for a moment, then left a somewhat unnecessary reminder.

Then she closed her eyes.

The next moment, her body changed drastically. A large amount of scarlet armor began to emerge, until it completely enveloped the girl's body without leaving a single piece untouched.

A dark red hard layer covers the face like a suit of armor.

Then, the hard layer on the face cracked in the middle, revealing a single dark blue eye.