133: Ayaka's Battle

Ayaka's Battle

Kai came out of the bath and found his sister in the living room, preparing tea for him.2

"Have you calmed down?" Tasha smiled and waved her hand toward him, beckoning him to take a seat. 

"Yeah. Thank you." Kai nodded as he took a sip of the warm tea. 

"Looking at your expression earlier, it feels like how I looked a few years ago." Tasha smiled as she also took a seat beside him. "Do you remember?"

Kai closed his eyes, sipped his tea, and nodded. "It's a few years ago when you killed humans for the first time. If I'm not wrong, you couldn't even eat a tomato for a month."

"Haha… right. A tomato… mom and dad were worried at that time because it was too sudden. Luckily, that only lasted for a month before I returned to normal. On the other hand, it's normal for you to have such an expression after leading such a big scale war." She gently smiled.

"Where are mom and dad?" Kai asked.

"Oh, they're shopping for daily necessities." 

Kai nodded, and the room fell into silence again. "How about you take a bath first?"

"Ah. All right." She nodded and left him alone so he could think about it more, though she missed his intention.

Kai pulled out his communication device and searched for Ayaka's contact. "How are you doing?"

Sadly, not a word of reply came even after a few hours, so he could only retire to his bed.

…

Meanwhile, at Ria's place, Ayaka was wearing plain white clothes, looking like a patient. After getting a lot of preparation from the professor, she was finally ready to take the fight. 

On the other side, Ria Ross brought several blood bags with her.

"... Professor, if I may ask, how many bags are you going to inject into my body?" Ayaka asked with a complicated expression.

"Ah. Don't worry, I'm only planning to inject two bags into you. The rest are human blood that's compatible with you."

"Human blood?" Ayaka was astounded. 

Ria pondered for a moment before explaining, "There are three possibilities for this experiment. The first one would be a success. The blood would fuse in your blood and stay dormant. It might be like instinct, but you would be able to control your blood, whether you want to activate them or not… or so Kai told me. I didn't participate in the creation process of Pisces, Sagittarius, or Taurus, so I lack data."

"Meanwhile, the second possibility would be when you half-succeed. For this, I'll describe the process itself.

"When I inject the blood into your body, the animal blood would become active and chip away your human blood. This will cause a reaction, and you'll feel pain due to it. This is why I wanted you to get used to the pain first.

"After all, you need to use your magic power to fight back. Kai could easily do this because of his unwavering will and his magic power, making this operation much easier. On the other hand, you're a princess that has been living comfortably for so many years and had only tried to shed your empty shell not long ago.

"At the same time, your magic power is quite high for a normal person, but it's still not comparable for the animal. You'll find trouble in fighting the animal blood. In other words, the only way I can do to increase the chance of success is to get you used to the pain. This will allow you to stay calm under the treatment because I'll be injecting the blood into your body when you're awake.

"The animal blood would eat your magic power, blood, and organs before replacing it with its own, leading to the second and third possibilities. You will either die or turn into a half magical beast. Dying is fine since you won't cause trouble, but if you turn into a half, I'll need to kill you. Well, Kai would probably hate me after that.

"Ah, if you're wondering about what kind of half magical beast I'm talking about, it won't be something like those in a man's dream with features like animal ears and tail. Instead, you'll look like a monster, literally half magical beast and half human. Your hands might be human, but your feet might be animal, and so on.

"So I'll ask you once again, are you ready for this? Have you gathered your resolve?" Ria Ross asked while preparing the blood bag and all equipment.

"I'm ready," Ayaka answered without any hesitation. 

"One more thing I need to add. I won't inject any painkillers to you because you need a natural body without any unique substances in your body."

"Understood. I'll do as you say." Ayaka nodded before bowing her head.

Ria paused for a second. "All right. The blood that I'll inject into you is from a Wildebeest, specifically a Blue Wildebeest. This species can be considered one of the fastest animals on land. In terms of speed alone, it's equal to a lion… which is Kai's magical beast. 

"Of course, a power like this sounds too good to be true. Kai's Lion blood is hungry for prey… if he continuously uses that power, his instinct will slowly take over him and attack his own teammates. That's why he never uses it extensively.

"As for Pisces and Sagittarius, I'm not really sure, but from what I saw, Pisces lost his offensive ability. In other words, he's only a weak person who can only heal people. On the other hand, I'm not very clear about the latter one, so I won't spread any misinformation."

"Do you have any questions about this?" Ria Ross asked before finishing her preparation.

"No, I don't have any. I will leave all of the important things to you, Professor." Ayaka paused for a moment before glancing at her with hesitation. "Actually, I have one request…"

"What? I don't like having to fulfill other requests… but since you're Kai's woman, then I'll allow it." Ria nodded.

"It's not a complicated request. I just want to ask, if this operation ends up a failure, can you hide it from Kai and tell my family that I died because I was reckless and charged at magical beasts alone?"

"Oi, girl. Let me tell you one thing, I hate promising people things, but I don't like how you leave it up to fate more. If you only have this little determination, I'll just cancel this and be done with you." Ria shrugged. "Listen, I've broken my promise with Kai because of you, so rather than having that weak will, why don't you say you're going to succeed? All right, since you have no other questions, I'll begin the operation."

"Yes, please do." Ayaka sighed as she looked at the blood slowly flowing before entering her body slowly.

"The first blood bag is still normal. I'll start pumping the second one before replenishing your blood." 

Ayaka nodded. Soon after, she began to sweat profusely. Almost right after, she began experiencing pain as the blood flowed inside. It felt like something was sucking her blood and spreading the pain. Luckily, the pain was still bearable as she didn't let out a single sound.

As soon as the second blood bag was emptied, Ayaka let out an uncomfortable moan. She started suppressing the blood within her body.

"The process is going well. However, be ready as the real fight will be when the blood enters your organs. It will be a battle of endurance, so I hope you can succeed. I hate funerals." Ria shrugged as she continued monitoring Ayaka's condition.

Ayaka had no time to deal with her joke, so she closed her eyes to better focus on her magic power.

"I can do this." She muttered to herself. Unfortunately, the pain started growing even further, jolting her body and mind at the same time. Even though Ayaka was accustomed to such pain to a certain extent due to Ria's "training", the pain that accumulated in this operation was beyond her imagination. 

"Argh!" Her eyes opened wide as she let out a scream.

"This is going to be troublesome… The blood percentage is going down and the heart rate is also going down." Ria Ross quickly grabbed another blood bag to inject it into Ayaka. "Don't lose the fight… Haiz, I should've killed her two or three hundred times more first before injecting it."

"Argh!" Ayaka couldn't hold it anymore. It wasn't just her blood that was swallowed by the magical beast blood. Her organs also started getting infected, releasing a wave of pain much worse than the previous one to her nerve system. 

The pain continued to her heart, liver, and so on. Her body was covered with so much pain that her body started shaking uncontrollably.

Her eyes started resembling those of a magical beast faster than Ria expected. This would only happen if Ayaka couldn't endure it anymore.

"What am I supposed to do? The only one who can fight the blood is herself…" Ria Ross pondered for a moment without letting any information escape unnoticed.

"What am I going to do with this?" She gritted her teeth before looking around. "If this continues, then the only result will be a failure… but what should I do?"

Ria Ross looked around, hoping for enlightenment. 

Whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, the answer came in the form of blood. She looked at a cupboard with blood bags in it.

She instantly appeared in front of the cupboard and opened the lid. These blood bags were her personal collections. 

Ria was a bit adamant about using it, but she gritted her teeth. She didn't have any choice other than to grab the blood bag and inject it into Ayaka's body.

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