The Teddy Bear Sends the Insomniac Villain to Dreamland - Chapter 36

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Chapter 36
“Kyaaaah! I-I’m bitten. Help me!”
“When on earth is the Guard Unit arriving? Huh?”
“Save me….”
So this is what they meant by a battlefield. I gazed quietly at the gruesome spectacle unfolding before my eyes in an instant.
“Sir! Run away!”
Nix, who had drawn a dagger from some hidden place in a flash and plunged it into the demon beast’s chest, screamed with her voice hoarse.
The moment the door nearly shut, the Capital Square transformed into a field of demon beasts as they came rushing in.
The demon beasts bore human faces or animal faces. Their torsos were covered in scales as sturdy as a dragon’s, and with each step they took, sticky pus and blood dripped onto the ground.
Their appearance was horrifying.
Ugh. My stomach churned.
It was strange. Demon beasts didn’t normally look like this.
Did they evolve too?
Did they breed in the Human World?
There’s no way to know for sure.
Demon beasts were rare entities in the Demon Realm.
They were born from the dregs left behind by wicked witches in the first place, and wicked witches themselves were even rarer in the Demon Realm.
“A, ah….”
The man sitting trembling on the ground seemed to have already lost half his mind.
“You have to run!”
Nix’s voice was desperate. Though she seemed ready to burst into tears at any moment, the girl moved ceaselessly, wounding the demon beast’s body.
Her skill was truly remarkable. From within Nix’s jacket, I quietly chanted a spell toward the man who had saved us.
‘Port.’
A transparent magic circle drew itself beneath the feet of the man who had been sitting dazed, and with a flash, he vanished along with it.
The moment I confirmed he had disappeared safely, Nix immediately began fighting with even greater intensity.
“Stay in my arms. I’ll protect you.”
Even as she fought, she didn’t forget to whisper softly to me.
Nix certainly had trustworthy skill. Though I desperately wanted to remain nestled like this without pretense.
‘This is infuriating.’
The magical energy was unpleasant. The mana the demon beasts emitted was filthy and corrupted.
I couldn’t feel the refreshing, crystalline aura that Blake provided.
I took a moment to steady my breathing and gathered my mana into a sphere. The swirling mana pulsed near my heart.
Ah, there’s no time to gather mana!
I bid a regretful farewell to the mana I had accumulated during my confinement, wondering what incident would erupt next.
Though it was wasteful, I felt I would have nightmares if I didn’t save the humans before me.
There was no choice.
“Vivian!”
Despite Nix’s cry, I naturally tumbled out of her jacket.
Whoosh.
It wasn’t a perfect landing, but it was passable. With the chaos so overwhelming, I didn’t need to worry about drawing attention to myself.
I pressed down the straw hat that Nix had placed on my head and slowly counted the number of demonic beasts.
One, two, three…
Even a rough count showed well over twenty of them.
With such a large number, choosing the right spell seemed important.
Ah, I have no idea. I’d need to have actually thought about what spell to use in a situation like this!
“Vivian, please take my hand!”
Nix cried out urgently, but I signaled that I was fine with a glance.
Seriously, Nix.
Trust me.
I casually raised my hand high into the air. Then I shouted.
“Absorption!”
The mana that had turned pitch black rippled with a deep hum. Then, all at once, it shifted direction toward me and began to be sucked into my body.
The speed was tremendous.
Absorption magic was a forbidden spell among witches—difficult to cast, but a worthwhile incantation.
Only when guaranteed that the opponent was weaker than me. A spell that steals the mana one possesses.
It was a spell that should never be used in the Demon Realm.
But well, this is the Human World, isn’t it?
Who would know?
The pitch-black mana was already corrupted anyway, so I couldn’t even store and use it.
To obtain such garbage mana by expending my own clean and pure mana.
The cost-effectiveness was absolutely terrible. Yet the effect on the demonic beasts was extraordinary!
The demonic beasts, shriveling and shrinking, collapsed limply one after another.
The brave citizens, including Nix who had been fighting the demonic beasts, stepped back with shocked expressions as the creatures fell.
I wore a satisfied smile throughout.
“Gwaaaack.”
Even as they fell, that unpleasant sound persisted.
“Could it be that Vivian….”
With an expression that was either moved or terrified, Nix reached out to embrace me.
Since my mana was completely depleted anyway and my strength had faded, I thought it was fine to accept the embrace.
Suddenly, a transparent magic circle appeared beneath my feet.
Huh? Wait.
A magic circle?
My thoughts were brief, but my judgment was swift. I pushed Nix away with all my remaining strength.
Nix, who had been trying to embrace me, stumbled backward with a bewildered expression.
As Nix opened her mouth to ask why, my vision flashed white.
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Ugh, I’m dizzy.
This was my first experience with a magic circle teleportation since I fell into the Human World.
It feels completely different from when I move through a magic circle of my own creation.
My head spinning, I grabbed the ground and pushed myself up, but the moment I opened my eyes, the sight before me made me shut them again.
“You again?”
Another demon beast. This one wore a cloak and looked far more human than the ones I’d dealt with earlier, which made it all the more grotesque.
It’s absolutely nauseating.
I grimaced and brushed off my hands.
But where am I?
I stood in the middle of a street I’d never seen before.
‘It seems like a fairly remote area.’
There was only one demon beast, but a suspicious pile stacked in front of it caught my attention.
I started to approach without hesitation, then stopped short.
Damn it.
I’ve exhausted my mana.
My mana channels were nearly drained, likely from the wide-range absorption spell I’d deployed.
At best, I had enough for a single body enhancement spell.
To put it in terms I could grasp, it was like a puddle where you could see the bottom.
If I charged at that demon beast in this state, the outcome was obvious.
‘I refuse to die like this!’
Retreat. It would be better to alert someone to the demon beast’s presence here.
Without Nix around, throwing myself at it recklessly before running away would only lead to disaster—
“Ahhh.”
I thought it was a good plan, but I couldn’t help but stop in my tracks.
A human hand suddenly fell from between the stacked piles, revealing itself.
Those piles were….
“Humans.”
They were humans. The demon beast stood proudly atop the pile—whether they were dead or alive, I couldn’t tell—with its head buried in them.
Unrefined mana rippled around it. It was a type of mana I’d never seen before.
Warning bells rang in my mind.
This was something different from the demon beasts I’d seen in the Capital Square.
“…Crunch. Crunch.”
What is it eating?
I wanted to know and yet didn’t want to know simultaneously.
But I had no choice. The demon beast turned its head and looked at me.
“My eyes!”
It was truly hideous. Where eyes should have been was a mouth, and where a mouth should have been were three eyes.
After spending my days gazing upon Blake’s beautiful face, this appearance was far too cruel.
“Kee-awk?”
At my scream, the demon beast tilted its head as if trying to be cute.
All it did was deepen my frown. With half-lidded eyes, I observed the repugnant demon beast before me and sighed at the object clenched between its jaws.
“Hey.”
“…Grrrrr.”
“What are you eating?”
Clasped in the demon beast’s mouth was a human heart.
“Khekhkhk!”
The demon beast laughed atop the grotesquely mangled corpse, as though it had understood my words through its guttural snarling.
Then, without warning, it extended its massive claws toward me.
How dare it.
Just as I was about to channel my last reserves of magical power into an offensive spell, the demon beast’s gaze shifted upward, its head snapping toward the sky.
A colossal magical circle—identical in shape to the one that had summoned me—unfurled across the ground.
“Wait! Where are you—”
And then it vanished.
The demon beast and the pile of corpses, gone entirely.
“…Did that demon beast just use magic?”
It was undoubtedly magic cast by the demon beast.
Yet demon beasts were creatures without intellect, incapable of wielding magic.
The astonishing circumstances did not end there.
A small child came scrambling frantically into the ravaged street.
Fearing my identity might be exposed, I hastily concealed myself behind a pile of scattered debris.
The child rushed past me and seemed about to exit the alley when—
“…U-uaaaagh!”
Terror seized the child, and it burst into tears. Another demon beast was entering the alley.
A corpse dangled from its mouth.
It seemed this place was some sort of gathering point.
I was about to step forward when the sound of hoofbeats reached my ears.
“Edwin Crown Prince, Your Highness! This area is dangerous!”
…This time, it was the Crown Prince.

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