Chapter 1998 - Let's Not Waste A Time
It didn't take a long time before Haru and Kou arrived at the monastery, and Kou was looking at Haru with a confused expression, especially when Haru had let go of Kou.
"Go and revive Wiseman quickly," Haru said as he kicked Kou's back directly without any mercy, looking at the huge metal plate on the monastery, ignoring Kou whose face had scraped against the ground.
Kou, who was on the ground, gritted his teeth and clenched his fists tightly. He wanted to attack him, but in the end, he held himself since he didn't want to feel the terror that he had felt before. He then stood up slowly and looked at the huge steel metal plate inside the destroyed monastery, then Wiseman's blood on his palm.
Kou knew that it might be best to run away, but he knew that he couldn't, and he thought that he might be able to defeat Haru by asking Wiseman to defeat Haru.
'Let's see what you do after I have revived Wiseman.' Kou's heart was so ugly at that moment, and he just wanted revenge on Haru, so he couldn't wait to see what Haru was being wrecked by Wiseman, screaming, asking him for mercy at that time.
A few meters from Kou, Haru watched Kou, who moved the red-blood ball closer to the huge metal plate, and the huge metal plate slowly turned into red liquid like blood but with a jelly-like consistency.
'Wiseman...'
While calling this name inside his mind, Haru thought about Wiseman's identity.
Wiseman was an alchemist who attempted to fulfill the ultimate goal of the alchemy of transcending into godhood and becoming immortal, the perfect human. After succeeding, he sought the destruction of those who were not perfect, but then he was sealed on this monastery. However, before he was sealed, he had brainwashed Kou's mind so Kou would revive him when there was a chance.
It could be said that Wiseman was a dangerous criminal, and he was even more dangerous than Aya, but Haru had his own purpose of reviving Wiseman, and that reason was that he wanted to steal Wiseman's knowledge about the alchemist.
Haru's Snatch was a powerful ability since he could use it to steal anything, whether it was a thing, ability, power, or any conceptual thing, including knowledge. However, there was still one thing that he couldn't steal, and that was form.
It might be hard to explain, but if Haru had to give an example, then it was impossible for him to steal slime's liquid form, but it was possible for him to steal an ability to transform into a slime. It might be the same, but it was a different matter.
One was originally a slime, but the other one was something or someone who could transform into a slime.
If Haru stole the slime's liquid form, then it meant he would steal the DNA structure of the slime itself, it was complicated, and he also didn't really want to do it since he didn't want to turn himself into slime, so when he saw the Wiseman had a slime-like form, he didn't have an interest in it.
Haru was more interested in the ability and the knowledge that Wiseman had, so he directly used his telepathy and got all the information about this perfect human.
"Quickly, stop him!"
When Haru was busy reading the mind of Wiseman, he heard a female voice right beside him. He turned his head and saw a small female figure with long blonde hair and tan skin, wearing a dancer-like costume, which made him speechless, especially when this woman sat on his shoulder, and before he could say something...
"Dammit, why did you let him revive Wiseman!" The small female figure was furious when she saw Wiseman start to take form, turning into a huge liquid being.
"Hahaha!" Kou was so happy when he saw the Wiseman had been revived then turned his attention toward Haru. Staring at him with unhidden hatred on his face as he said, "Now, you will have to pay the price for the humiliation that I have received!"
The small female figure, whose attention had always been on Wiseman, turned toward Kou and her expression became complicated. "What did you do to him?"
"I'm going to kill your disciple, so you better say the last words to him, Nina," Haru said then without hesitation, stealing all the alchemist knowledge on Wiseman's mind.
"Huh?" Nina was dumbfounded since Haru knew her name, but before she could ask, Kou quickly screamed. "Wiseman, attack him!"
As he screamed, Kou created a lot of tentacles by using liquid steel and aimed all of them toward Haru.
"Be careful!" Nina quickly shouted, but then she saw those tentacles were stopped by something and couldn't move on.
"What?!" Kou was dumbfounded, and when he was about to run away, he saw the space tremble and all tentacles crumbled. He knew that he couldn't defeat Haru, so he wanted to run away, but as expected, he couldn't move and was trapped by gravity. "Ugh!" He could feel his body breaking slowly, and he could tell that Haru was going to kill him. Luckily, he couldn't feel pain, or else he would be screaming in agony because of the pain.
Kou lost his hope and could only put his hope toward Wiseman, but until now, Wiseman had never done anything, only stood there like a huge red jelly. "Wiseman!" He screamed once again, but Wiseman just stood there in silence.
"Why?"
That was the only word that came out from Kou, watching the Wiseman, that just uselessly stood there without helping him, and when he was about to feel despair, he knew that this was only the beginning, especially when he saw the Wiseman turned into dust before it vanished.
"....What?"
Not only Kou, who was dumbfounded, but Nina, who had been sitting on Haru's shoulder, couldn't say anything from the beginning to the end.
Nina panicked when Wiseman was revived since if Wiseman came to this world again, she was sure that it would bring terror into this world, but when she racked her brain at how to seal it again, Haru did something and made it disappear into steam.
"...."
Nina's head was blank, and she couldn't say anything.
"You don't have anything to say to your disciple?" Haru asked.
"Ah!" Nina quickly awoke, then looked at Haru, who was looking at her. She saw him, looking at her with a calm expression, and she wasn't sure what to say until she saw him walking toward Kou, who was looking at Haru in horror. She wanted to say something, but she couldn't since she felt horror from Haru's power.
Nina had never known someone as powerful as Haru, who could turn Wiseman into steam then make it vanish from this world, which was why, when he asked her this question, she couldn't say anything, and she just had woken up so her brain just couldn't process what was happening, but...
"Mas ---" Kou wanted to beg Nina, his master, to help him, looking at her with a pitiful expression, but he couldn't move his mouth because of Haru's gravity magic.
However, Nina could see the horror in Kou's eyes, so she could only gulp her saliva and ask, "Can you forgive him?"
"Sorry, but no. He has tried to kill someone who is important to me." Haru then looked at Nina and asked, "Let's say that I'm not strong enough. What'll happen to her?"
"I..." Nina couldn't say anything to refute.
"Let's say that it was your disciple's misfortune to choose me as his enemy." Haru didn't say nonsense again and used the Mist Dispersion, turning Kou into steam before Kou vanished from this world.
Looking at this scene, Nina could only sigh tiredly.
"So what do you want to do after this? Should I leave you here?" Haru asked.
"I...."
Hearing Haru's question again, Nina thought for a moment before she made her decision.
"Let me follow you." Nina had just unsealed, and she didn't have anyone around her. Her body was also small, and she had to admit that even though Haru had killed her disciple, Haru was pleasing to her eyes, and it was her first time seeing someone as handsome as him. Lastly, even though Kou was her disciple, he had betrayed her before, so their relationship was far from good. The reason why she asked Haru to let go of Kou was that Kou was her disciple, and Kou had been studying under her for a long time. Even though she might carry some resentment, when she saw Kou beg her at that time, she couldn't help but recall the time she taught Kou.
However, it was too late. Nina also wasn't a virgin, who had never seen blood and knew that Kou must have done something unforgivable to Haru, so she didn't blame Haru that much.
Haru's handsome face was also one of the factors that made Nina quickly forget about Kou's matter and become curious about Haru's identity.
"Wise choice."
Then without hesitation, Haru brought Nina back to his house since there were a lot of things that he wanted to ask Nina, considering he had just gotten all the knowledge about an alchemist.