Previously, Zyn had been a mid-F-rank.
Now, his power was equal to that of someone at a mid E-rank.
However, that wasn't all.
A voice echoed through his head as he stood up.
"If you wish to grow powerful enough to kill Leo, you must absorb the mana of others."
Zyn's mouth involuntarily opened as he broke into a fit of laughter, his fingernails growing at an exponential rate.
"HAHAHAH!"
If he had retained any sense of consciousness after his defeat to Leo, it had vanished.
He was now a djinn, led completely by utter desire.
Desire for revenge.
Gazing down at his open palms, Zyn smiled as a purple orb, raging with vengeance and fury like the ocean during a thunderstorm, formed.
Its destructive power far surpassed that of an F-rank, reaching the middle of D-rank.
Without any logic to hold his imagination down, Zyn's mind raced as thousands of images of students flooded through his body.
"Nobody should care if a couple of students are harmed, right?"
However, at that moment, like the angel on a devil's shoulder, a familiar voice echoed throughout his head.
"Are you fucking braindead!? You're seriously thinking of going out like this!? I can't believe I wasted my soul on you. Well...it's too late.
"Learn how to control your power, then start the massacre."
Raising his hand and hitting his own head, like someone trying to remove water from their ear, Zyn muttered, his expression contorted into a fierce smirk.
"Who the fuck do you thi-"
Before he could even finish his sentence, his entire body, limp, dropped to the ground, staying motionless no matter how much Zyn commanded it to move.
"I own you. You do as told. Now, we can either work together to complete both our goals, or you can die like a puppet?"
"Understand?"
Instantly, as Zyn felt feeling in his body return, his head moved downward and upward, nodding countless times.
As the voice vanished, he slowly stood up, rubbing the two crimson-red horns atop his head.
*KNOCK~KNOCK*
At that moment, a sudden knocking sound interrupted his explanation.
"Put on a hat and slowly open the door. I can see him. He seems to be a...*ahem* G-rank by his flow of mana."
"Can I kill...him?"
"If he comes inside the dormitory, yes, you may take care of him and absorb his blood."
Grabbing a nearby hat and covering his two horns, Zyn approached the door, one glowing purple hand beside his back.
Reaching forward, Zyn yanked the door open, almost knocking it off its hinges, and hearing a voice instantly sound.
"CONTROL YOUR POWE-"
However, before the voice could even finish its sentence, the door swung open...revealing a lizard?
"..."
"..."
Gazing at the man with a full green mask, Zyn couldn't help but open his mouth in complete confusion, somehow forgetting about his desire to kill.
"*AHEM*"
Covering his mouth and dryly coughing, the Lizard paused and glanced at the cardboard box in its hands.
"Y-you have a delivery."
"..."
"WAKE UP!"
"Y-yeah yeah, come in!"
Stepping to the side and pointing to the inside of his room, Zyn blankly smiled, ignoring the voice booming in his head.
"Be careful."
He's only G-rank even with this stupid costume, so stop talking, will you?
*BANG*
Nodding his head, the Lizard stepped into the dorm room, a bang sounding slightly after as the door shut.
After placing the package on the kitchen counter, the Lizard calmly turned around, only to be met with Zyn, blocking the door.
A bright purple orb now levitating above the hand behind his back, Zyn tilted his head, his hat barely clinging onto his horns, and asked.
"Could I get some help setting it up?"
"..."
After a brief moment of silence, the Lizard answered confusedly.
"It's a letter."
"...ah. Let me see."
Creeping forward, Zyn now stood beside the Lizard, a few inches separating them, and peered into the open cardboard box.
Yet...as soon as he did, a pungent and horrible smell flooded through his nose, the purple orb behind his back shattering as he lost concentration.
"w-what the!?"
At that moment, unbeknownst to Zyn, the Lizard's right foot flew to the side, a small sword appeared in the Lizard's hand.
Athen immediatly planted his right foot on the ground and lunged forward with his left, now aiming at Zyn's completely defenseless back.
"DEFEND. TURN AROUND, HE'S ATTACKING."
His attention immediatly snapped away from the smell, Zyn turned around...only to be met with nothing.
Athen's body had vanished into thin air in 2 simple steps: One step to the right with his right foot and one step forward with his left.
"HE'S RIGHT T-"
In the next moment, Zyn's vision turned upside down as the floor lay above him with the ceiling below him.
His decapitated head flew backward onto the ground in a perfect arc, blood spurting from his now lifeless body.
-*-
Gazing at the limp body, surrounded by a river of blood, I glanced at the bloody Willow Leaf Dao in my right hand.
With its small size, I could easily stuff it into my pants, right next to my thigh, though this resulted in some bloody scars across my leg.
Grabbing a broadsword sheath within the djinn's room, I easily placed my bloody sword within and gazed at the horns now visible on the djinn's head.
A small piece of paper, covered in blood, also appeared next to the bed.
They'll probably assume something wrong when he accepts a contract with a demon. Anyway, he's a djinn; they won't care much about his life.
I felt no remorse as I calmly walked around the blood puddle toward the door.
This man would, in the future, murder dozens of students.
This world was no longer a book; it was a reality.
Every chractacter I uselessly killed off for plot was now a real person that needed to be saved.
As the author, it's my job to cleanse this world of all the evils I create.
This was simply the first of many.