Want to be human, but cube-like

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"Shall we try again?"

Since she couldn't figure it out, she decided to try again. With that, Alex stood up.

"Well then... excuse me."

After a moment's hesitation, Su Shi nodded, turned to the other side of the corridor, closed her eyes slightly, and plucked the strings of the zither once more.

This time, she consciously channeled her magic and released it onto the pick in her hand.

Immediately, a low hum spread.

The next instant, everything in the corridor began to shake.

Just when Alex thought she would be attacked by something again, like before...

To her astonishment, she saw pill syringes, IV stands, and even two... scattered on the corridor floor.

The side walls, the door frame, and the door all began to twist and turn.

Like a worm crawling out of the ground, it straightened up and twisted and swayed haphazardly without any pattern.

The whole scene looked both bizarre and disgusting, as if the entire corridor was writhing.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!"

Su Shi was startled by the scene as soon as she opened her eyes. Her hand trembled, and the pick that was touching the strings produced another sound wave.

Then, everything in the entire corridor instantly stopped moving.

In Alex's eyes, the dense array of [mind implants (4:46)] had been refreshed back to the state of (5:00).

It seems that this has probably overwritten the previous buff.

"This is……?"

Staring blankly at the corridor before her, whose walls were now shaky and cracked from the commotion, yet still stubbornly maintained its original state, Su Shi shrank her small hand holding the pick.

Clearly, she is not yet able to fully grasp this unfamiliar power.

"It's like I'm being controlled by your bass voice."

Alex, who had somehow produced another bottle of milk, was leaning against half of the medical cart as she spoke to Su Shi.

[Mindset Implantation (2:18)]

She glanced at the unchanged status bar on the trolley and casually tossed aside the now empty glass bottle.

Sure enough, it won't have any effect if you don't drink it through your mouth.

Moreover, this shouldn't even be considered a living organism.

There is no health bar, nor are there any other biological reactions; it is simply trapped in a single logic of action because of that state.

Compared to the bard's fighting style in his memory, this ability to manipulate the things around him through implanted thoughts seems to be more powerful.

I just don't know if there will be any consumption.

Thinking this, Alex turned to look at Su Shi.

At this moment, the countdown timer for the transformation state on the other party had somehow shortened by more than ten minutes.

However, Alex, who did not intend to delve into the matter, did not speak up to remind others of this change, nor did she have the inclination to slowly explain why she could see the various buffs on other people.

"So, have you figured out how you did it?"

She just wanted to help Su Shi gain some self-defense capabilities as soon as possible so that she wouldn't be a hindrance when they were fighting the witch later.

"Just now, I was simply thinking in my mind, trying to make the thing in front of me move..."

Then, all of these things started to wriggle and twist.

With a slightly disgusted expression, Su Shi recalled the scene just now and breathed a sigh of relief. After these two, or rather three attempts, she finally understood what the unique ability that Qiu Bi had mentioned was.

The bass string is just the most superficial form of expression. Using magic to play the bass string will input the behavioral commands she wants to control into any object, making it seem to come alive and begin to act autonomously.

It won't stop until all the magic power inputted is completely exhausted.

The reason the first medical cart crashed into Alex was simply because Su Shi still harbored some fear of Alex, and at the same time, the word "attack" was on her mind while she was playing the instrument.

If we follow Alex's earlier explanation about the bard in the game, then she is now essentially a summoner.

Compared to the previous fighting style, Su Shi is at least more accepting of this ability that doesn't require her to fight personally.

However, it's unclear whether this ability can only be used on inorganic matter without consciousness...

A thought suddenly popped into Su Shi's mind as she glanced at Alex and Kyubey beside her.

wrong……!

Then she shook her head vigorously.

Using this ability on others is too cruel... I was just... just wondering if I could use it on familiars or even witches...

That would make the battle much easier.

Su Shi tried to justify her somewhat unpleasant thoughts in her mind.

Although neither the person nor the beast beside her noticed what she was thinking.

"Then let's go find that witch now."

Now that the issue of the original world's combat methods has been resolved, the next step is to put it into practice.

Alex kicked aside the medical cart blocking the corridor and said softly.

She was indeed curious about how Su Shi's ability would be used in combat.

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PS: Su Shi's abilities are designed entirely around the effect of fulfilling this wish... However, the way he's presented feels like the Little Imperial Uncle's character, and it seems he has the potential to become a young, blond-haired character later in the story.

By the way, before writing this chapter, I accidentally watched a bunch of videos of Mika Kohinata, and when I was writing, I subconsciously compared Suze's image to hers. Only after finishing did I realize that I seemed a bit silly, just like Mikan.

Alex is always indifferent to strangers, much like when she first met Renai. Xiangzi and Aine, on the other hand, receive special treatment.

Volume 2: Chapter 216 The Witch of a Hundred Diseases

"Wow, it's huge... Is this the witch?"

Standing in front of a door that resembled an operating room, the two girls peered inside.

From a distance, it should have looked like a small operating room, but once you got to the door, you realized that the space inside was actually ridiculously large, roughly estimated to be close to 5,000 square meters.

The operating room alone is much larger than the abandoned warehouse to which this witch's barrier is attached.

Only a space this large could accommodate such a gigantic witch.

The Witch Who Cures All Diseases

Nature: Expectation

A huge, tumor-like mass of flesh was suspended in mid-air in the center of the operating room. Its surface was uneven, and the veins could be vaguely seen. It seemed to be wriggling and undulating slightly as if it were alive.

This is the true face of the Witch of a Hundred Diseases.

A dense network of IV tubing wrapped around the witch's body, with needles piercing the blood vessels on the surface of the tumor, their ends extending upwards until they disappeared into the darkness above, a height from which even the ceiling could not be seen.

Looking further down, there was a huge operating table below the witch, filled with the same doctor familiars who had been secretly throwing syringes at them from outside. They held up their syringes and kept stabbing the IV tubing that hung down to the ground, drawing out the colorful liquid from it.

It was like squeezing blood from a witch.

The whole scene was so bizarre it was nauseating.

The only saving grace is that this witch continues the consistent art style of those familiars; it is not realistic and has an overall distorted, graffiti-like appearance.

Although this distorted and disorienting color can be uncomfortable to some extent, it is actually more palatable than a real tumor.

Just think of it as playing a horror game with a grotesque twist; it feels like being in that kind of game...

You'll often see these bloody scenes inside.

"Disgusting……"

Unlike Alex, whose face remained expressionless and who was even curious about what the witch looked like and wanted to take a few steps closer to get a better look, Su Shi lightly clenched her small fists and covered her mouth and nose with the back of her hand, her face turning a little pale.

Even the nursing bed familiars she had seen before, whose only feature was a human hand and whose art style was similar, made her feel uncomfortable, let alone the witch in front of her.

Such a scene would indeed be quite shocking for a girl who is only ten years old.

The thought of having to deal with these disgusting monsters frequently to replenish her magic power made Su Shi feel that her future was bleak.

"Feeling... alright?"

Upon hearing Su Shi's words, Alex offered a different opinion.

"It's quite interesting, it looks..."

Her muttering startled Su Shi, who was standing next to her. She widened her eyes, didn't dare to speak, and silently took two steps back to the side.

This strange taste... she really is a monster, isn't she?!

Unaware of Su Shi's reaction, Alex observed the appearance of the Witch of All Diseases and recalled a module she had used before, which contained something called the Bed of Flesh and Blood.

When it starts to wriggle, it looks just like the disease-ridden witch in front of us.

Although it may seem a bit scary at first glance, once you get used to it, you'll find its wriggling motion quite interesting, in addition to the sense of curiosity.

It also makes gurgling noises, which is quite cute.

Alex especially enjoys watching the fleshy bed, after being fed food, infect other blocks, turning them into chunks of flesh and spreading blood vessels.

But the mother seemed to dislike this situation. Every time she used the flesh and blood incubator, she had to suspend it in mid-air. If possible, she would even cover it with a layer of obsidian as an obstacle to prevent the flesh and blood incubator from multiplying indefinitely.

This is quite rare, as her interests are completely opposite to her mother's.

Well, it should be called Aine now.

After observing for a while, the witch didn't seem to react to their presence at all, and the familiars were still focused on injecting liquid into the syringes in their hands.

It seems they'll have to initiate the attack.

"Would you like to try it first?"

Before starting the battle, Alex asked Su Shi a question.

“…Okay, then I’ll…”

Taking a deep breath and trying to ignore the disgusting images, Su Shi took two steps forward, holding a new bass that looked very different from before.

She felt that since it was going to be used in battle, it would be better to reconstruct a bass that was different from the one she usually used.

Otherwise, if you get used to this fighting style and accidentally mix up the two basses, that would be terrible.

Holding this bass with added ramming and some ornate decorations, which made it look much more aggressive, Su Shi looked down at the IV tubes below and tentatively plucked the strings.

"..."

The brief buzzing sound disappeared with the wind.

But the scene before us remained unchanged.

"Huh? Did it fail?"

Su Shi blinked in confusion.

"It's worked, but... it doesn't seem to be working for it?"

Looking at the [Mind Implantation (5:00)] that had been refreshed and covered the witch's body again, Alex frowned and said.

"Su Shi, what do you want to control it for?"

she asked.

"What I was just thinking was to let its IV tubes attack it..."

Looking at the bass strings in her arms, Su Shi hesitated, wondering if it was really working, before answering.

But in Alex's eyes, the state of "mind implantation" had fallen on the witch.