Chapter 119: Bloom, Flower of Evil!
"No… don't…"
"Help! Someone help me!"
"Please, don't kill me! I have money! I have a lot of money!"
"I—"
Under Lily's gaze, the same people who had been so vicious moments ago were reduced to this pitiful state in the blink of an eye.
In places she could not see, their "evil" was being stripped away little by little and taken from them. All of it was being absorbed by the "Flower of Evil" behind Ethan.
And the smile on his face only grew brighter.
This was only a handful of people, yet the "evil" on them was already this thick. Then what would the entire Soma Familia be like?
That only made Ethan look forward to it even more.
Beneath Orario's prosperous surface, just how much darkness was buried there?
Just like that, after having their "evil" taken from them, their consciousness had already become hazy and broken.
Indeed, "evil" was not a good thing. Having it taken away should only bring benefits.
However, Ethan's violent method of taking it would cause no small amount of harm to them.
Whether it was "good" or "evil," both were parts of who they were. If either was forcibly torn away, it was only natural that they would be damaged.
And that kind of injury often existed on the level of the soul. Ordinary methods could not heal it at all.
"Do you want to kill them? This is your chance to take revenge with your own hands."
Ethan said this to Lily and even considerately handed her a sharp dagger.
She glanced at the dagger, then looked at the unconscious bastards lying on the ground.
Finally, Lily raised her head and glanced at him before resolutely taking the blade.
Pshk—
With one thrust, she pierced one of their throats.
The intense pain jolted him awake at once, but with his throat stabbed through, he no longer had the ability to speak.
So whether he wanted to curse her or beg for mercy, no one would ever know.
That was the first.
Then came the second strike, the third, and the fourth.
The bastards who had bullied her for so many years were finally killed by her own hands.
Before this, she had borrowed Kaenseki and magic swords to kill a group of people who had nearly gotten her killed.
But that was still different from killing someone with her own hands.
At this moment, the girl named Liliruca Arde had stained her hands with blood, and it could no longer be washed clean.
In that instant, she completed her transformation.
The nightmares of the past had been cut down by her own hand, allowing her to truly change.
"Are you going to kill everyone in the Familia?"
"Kill them? Why would I kill them? Isn't it better to let them live in a state worse than death?"
Soul-level injuries were not so easy to repair.
As for what would happen to those former villains after they became weak, Ethan did not know.
However, he was rather looking forward to finding out.
Led by Lily, Ethan left the Dungeon.
As for the corpses of those people, they were not a problem at all.
The Dungeon would help him deal with the aftermath.
The entire Dungeon was like a man-eating den of monsters. Over the past thousand years, no one knew how many lives had been buried inside it.
The vast Soma Familia had no shortage of members.
Because they were bewitched by divine wine, each of them lived in a drunken daze.
For a single mouthful of that wine, they did not hesitate to rob, burn, kill, and plunder. They were practically guilty of every evil imaginable.
"This really is a delicious place. Every inch of it is filled with 'evil.'"
After arriving at the Soma Familia, Ethan could clearly sense just how much "evil" filled the place.
This was practically a feast.
Beside him, Lily lowered her head slightly.
As for this place, if possible, she never wanted to return here again in her entire life.
"What a suitable nursery. In that case, let's begin. Cursed Technique Expansion: Blooming Flower of Evil."
Buzz—
As Ethan activated his Cursed Technique, the black Manjusaka(Red Spider Lily) known as the "Flower of Evil" appeared above the Soma Familia.
In the next second, the "evil" gathered inside the Soma Familia began to be absorbed little by little.
At the same time, the "evil" within every person's body was forcibly seized without distinction.
"Hm?"
Inside the Soma Familia, Soma, who had been immersed in his own world, suddenly raised his head.
Then he walked to the window and immediately saw the black Manjusaka floating above his Familia, as well as the "evil" rising from within it.
To gods, the good and evil of humans actually held no meaning.
After all, humans could not understand the good and evil within an ant colony either.
To humans, all ants were merely insignificant insects. They could be crushed to death with a casual move, so there was no need to understand them.
On top of that, Soma had long since been utterly disappointed in the children of his Familia.
So no matter what happened to them, he no longer cared.
"What's going on? Why do I have no strength at all?"
"Don't tell me I went too hard at the Entertainment District last night? No, that can't be it. This has never happened before!"
"Something's wrong. Something definitely happened."
"We're in trouble! Where's the captain?"
"No idea…"
The entire Soma Familia instantly fell into chaos, but no one knew what was actually happening.
At the same time, the "Flower of Evil," which had absorbed and devoured a massive amount of "evil," fed it all back to Ethan, increasing his strength.
If someone else possessed a Cursed Technique like this, it would absolutely be a double-edged sword.
Carrying more and more "evil" could indeed increase one's strength quickly, but it would also crush them little by little.
After all, this was not something a single person could bear.
However, Ethan was different.
From the very beginning, he had already carried "All the World's Evil."
To him, this small amount of "evil" was no longer anything worth worrying about.
In fact, after absorbing so much of it, the foundation of "All the World's Evil" was gradually increasing as well.
In Fate, the reason All the World's Evil was so terrifying was because decades of accumulation had stored a vast amount of magical energy inside the Black Holy Grail.
After that energy was transformed into "All the World's Evil," it naturally became a calamity.
And right now, the process of absorbing "evil" was just like accumulating that power.
"What the hell is going on?!"
Inside the Soma Familia, Zanis shouted in anger.
Because Soma was disappointed in his children, he had handed all matters over to Zanis to manage.
As a result, Zanis had become the true controller of the Soma Familia.
The fact that the Familia had turned into this kind of place was inseparable from him.
Now, this sudden accident had caught him completely off guard.
Even he had been affected by it.
Just like that, the vast Soma Familia had become a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
At this moment, any random person could probably charge in and cut through the entire Familia.
And the one who had caused all of this was feeling the boiling power inside his body, his mood growing better and better.
(PS: More chapters will be coming the following days.)
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