Chapter 46. Madman
I escaped from the shadow feather by dematerializing, and then activated the Heart of Gold. The Thief’s attack points with Horoshiboke was currently 100. My defense stat, contrarily, was 19( 80). At first glance it might seem sufficient, but the Thief should have no problem getting through this defense stat. He could stop ti and pierce through the armor, and then attack once again through the hole in the armor. Of course, the solution to this was simple.
The total cost was 82,000,000 dollars. Now, my defense stat was 101( 80).
I had no intention of spending this much money, but----.
I put away Hirganrel in the vault and materialized back. This ti, too, the scenery around changed, and my body beca stuck in the wall.
So he stopped ti again. Obviously, I didn’t have any wounds this ti. The Thief was staring at with an enraged face from the other side of the vault. He must’ve tried to stab repeatedly while ti was stopped.
“I wonder how much of your lifespan gets chipped away every ti you stop ti?”
I got back up, and slowly made my way over to him. The mont I closed in on him, my body beca stuck to the wall on the other side of the vault again. Again, I received zero damage.
“How long are you planning on pushing away?”
The Thief simply ground his teeth. Did he turn back ti? Then he must’ve heard this response already. I kept making my way back towards him in order to catch the Thief stuck in this prison.
...Mm? Why isn’t he pushing away this ti?
Instead of doing sothing, he just smiled.
“I had thought that you were a rather smart individual, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Why don’t you try hitting ? I won’t dodge.”
“I won’t hesitate then.”
I spat on his face. The Thief’s lax face imdiately stiffened. He laughed awkwardly, and asked a question.
“Really... How confusing. Just what was that...? I gave you the chance to attack, and all you do is this?”
“Ah, it’s nothing personal. I’m just good at noticing things. You’re just planning on using ti stop for defensive capabilities, aren’t you? A local ti stop, if you will. You stop ti in a small area, which would cut down the cost of your ability, and it would prove to beco an effective shield.”
The Thief shrugged, and sat on the floor.
“I retract my previous statent. This is a stalemate. I can’t catch you, you can’t catch .”
“I pity you for thinking that.”
I sat in front of him and smiled.
“Ever heard of snapback (還擊)?”
“Snapback...?”
“It’s a Go term. The first move is intentionally supposed to put you at a disadvantage. The opponent gains a small profit at first, but would lose much more the next turn.”
“If you’re planning on comparing it to this situation, I suppose your move of coming into the vault was a snapback... Cough, cough! Ah, I’m sorry. I don’t really understand why I’m coughing all of a sudden?”
The Thief beca confused when he saw his glasses fogging up. Suddenly realizing the situation he was in, he imdiately stood up and covered his mouth and nose.
“Too late.”
The humidity of the vault had gone up as much as it could at this point. As a result of this, I opened my vault even more. The gas that spewed out of it filled the room despite the atmospheric pressure inside. There was even enough moisture to cause beads of water to condense on the ceiling.
“If you stop ti, you can run a hundred ters in just 0.000...1 seconds. But in the end, the amount of air you breath is the sa as anyone else. It just seems like that wasn’t the case to everyone else.”
Your perspective of ti is yours, and the perspective of the observer is the observer’s. Even if you stop ti, the clock is still ticking.
“In other words, you might as well explain ti stop to be a simple boost in one’s physical abilities. Now, would the air you took in while you stopped ti for one minute be the sa as the air a normal human breathed in for one minute? I don’t think so.”
The Thief who made use of Ti Stop stayed in the vault for much longer than , and breathed in much more air than as well. Well, I had no need to breath in the first place.
“Feel your breaths getting shorter as we speak? You should be feeling nauseous and bloated about now as well.”
His face stiffened when I said those words to him. A bottle of water and various herbs appeared in his hand imdiately. It was probably supposed to be so sort of antidote. The Thief dumped the herbs in his mouth like pills and chugged the water. He spat it out imdiately. Must’ve choked. I stood up, and slowly walked around the Thief.
“Paraquat. It’s a herbicide that’s often known by the na of Gramoxone. The lethal dose is 15 mL. It causes fibrous tissues to form in the respiratory system, causing the victim to die of asphyxiation. Of course, there is no antidote for it as of now.”
Nowadays, people mixed this material with blue dye and a vomit-inducing chemical to show that it was poison, but it was originally colorless and odorless. The toxicity of this chemical was so strong that even those who tried to resuscitate the victims using artificial respiration died of poison themselves. The sale of this chemical has already been banned in nurous countries, but certain developing countries still used it. I was able to obtain it with Heart of Gold.
“If it was normal poison, you would’ve noticed imdiately, and would have dispelled it from your body. You might’ve even been able to get yourself an antidote in ti. But at this point, no matter what you take, you can’t neutralize all the chemical effects taking place in your body at the mont. And even if you stop ti, you can’t stop ti for your lungs or the flow of blood in the body. You’d die in that case.”
Thirty minutes had passed already. The poison should have been fully absorbed by now.
“Ah, by the way. I didn’t just prepare paraquat. What’s coming out now is gaseous rcury.”
I watched him begin to panic, and threw several charred athysts on the ground.
“And this is uranium.”
I was kidding. It just looked similar to uranium, so perhaps I might be able to trick him? As I thought, the Thief’s face paled even more and quickly leapt away from the crystals.
“The absorbed dose of radiation should be enough by now. I’ve been letting it leak into the room since a while back after all.”
He really seed to believe it, based on his facial expressions. Was he an idiot?
“Apologies for being unable to prepare any germs for you. Let’s just go through with the original plan. 1. If you get caught my hands, you die. 2. If you try to get away using your power, you exhaust all your life and die. 3. You die from paraquat poisoning. 4. You die from rcury poisoning. 5. You die from radiation exposure. 6. You die from chlorine poisoning.”
I began to diligently dump detergent all around him. I even managed to dump a few liters on the Thief himself. I threw an opened bottle of bleach on the detergent.
“Oh, and here’s a service.”
I dumped gasoline and styrofoam everywhere. This should create enough toxic gas. Lastly, I took out a flathrower from the vault and grinned at the Thief.
“Let’s burn.”
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