The girl in front of me passed out all of a sudden.

This stupid-! Tch, I'll buy some time... That mind resistance that female parasite has, the male one probably has it too, I can't use it here...

"Hey you two..."

The two putrid creatures turned their attention to me.

"How about playing some hide-and-seek?"

"Hide-and-seek?" Ru'Ah looked amused.

"That's right, we're dead either way right? Look at this slob of human meat over here. We're not going to run far, but since I'm begging for my life here, I can't be choosy can I?"

"It is certainly amusing, but what of it?"

"Well, I do take pride in my logical analysis and intelligence if I do say so myself, so it'd be quite the challenge for these two esteemed bugs with ape brains no? Wait did I mean brain? Do you even have one within that hunk of disgusting green organs?"

"!!!" Ru'Ah cramped a smile, and was seemingly riled up.

Take up the provocation, take it up... It's probable that the female will fall for it, but I'm not too sure about the other one..

.

"W-well, that's an awfully bold statement there little boy? Do you not realize that your life could end in an instant right here?"

"Haha, starting off with violence... I like that, that ape brain of yours I mean. Resolving everything with violence is the most primitive way to do things!"

A vein popped on her forehead. The male parasite was looking at me interestingly. He seemed to realize what I was doing, but didn't stop Ru'Ah.

"I changed my mind in the order of eating...Do it then. Three minutes. Drag that body of yours... and that woman if you will away from my beloved. When time is up, I'll have you devoured first. It'll be my win, both physically, and mentally~"

"Ten."

"Five."

"That's the spirit, Missus Ape! Well then, I'll get going with this heavy body of .... h-hers... wow heav-"

-?!

Ru'Ah suddenly used her tongue to destroy the flasks of 'larvicide' on her pouch while I was carrying her.

I was caught off guard.

"Get going now~"

I've managed to bargain 5 minutes, but I was careless at the last second...! A portion of my strategies is hindered because of that!

...

I didn't feel the presences behind us following us after awhile. I plopped the body of the girl onto the ground.

Now then... let's begin.

Acid spitting, long reach with her tongue, Invisibility, Mind Manipulation, Mental Resistance, hardening... and the mention of reviving too when she said some nonsense about reviving this woman for torture... I should keep that in mind. Nevertheless...

That's overkill.

Ru'Ah, that thing really resembles a Basilisk huh...

The other male which just joined the fray, I don't know what he does but... he seemed to be able to hold humans captive within his body. That girl... was Tokuzaki Rien right?

Wasn't that girl... that honor student?

No, this is useless information. Think harder.

I was injected with something called the Chaos Serum right? She said it acted like Royal Jelly... but this feeling... could it be... a stockpile?

I'll put it aside for now, it's probably my only trump card left.

That's right, also... Does Ru'Ah also have the ability to control monsters? She orchestrated those monsters in the night the other day... Looks like I can't make use of this then. Although they're not here right now, I can still hear them around. They're still around, gotta keep track of that. Those creatures are very dangerous... I'll be careful.

Haha, come to think of it, I've arrived at the same place where I first met you huh.

I looked at the unconscious girl.

...That's it I guess...

I have, about 2 minutes remaining. I need to make use of this.

"Wake up already, imbecile."

The girl in front of me woke up in a shock and quickly looked around, before training her gaze on me.

"Y-you are..."

"About time you've woken up. You've contracted Haemophobia haven't you." I said nonchalantly.

I've been thinking since that time in the infirmary...

Why did she leave suddenly at the mention of blood coming out of my eyes... The only conclusion came to mind. While fighting Ru'Ah, I realized the trajectory of her slashes were aimed at places which minimized the movement of blood coming out within her view. Although my view was obstructed at that time with the goblins, her sword and armor always stayed clean of blood. Her style of swordplay involved clean and precise movements, which reflected blood off her armor and sword.

Geez, what kind of swordsman fight with a fear of blood. That's ironic.

"H-how d-"

"Petty things, they're only going to be in the way of this fight. Look AT ME."

Alright... looks like it's active.

For a girl like this to contract such a mental illness like me, ...You are an accursed existence just like me. I don't know of your past but, I don't care.

I want to live, if you're a hindrance, I'll ditch you at the very first chance I get to do it.

My eyes should overtake her sense of dread from blood for a short period of time if I focused my eyes on her.