I am you! We are originally the same person!
The Dragon King looked at Kaede, whose face was gradually darkening, and laughed more and more happily.
You're lying!
Kaede struggled, her face a bit flustered.
"Are you still deceiving yourself? You know, don't you? You can clearly feel everything I do outside! That's why you didn't have any hostility toward me from the beginning, because you already realized it!"
"Shut up!" Kaede said, rushing toward the Blood Demon Dragon King.
However, the two of them had identical attributes; no, it should be said that they were originally one person, so naturally, there was only one set of attributes.
However, Kaede was blinded by rage at this moment. Just as she rushed in front of the Blood Demon Dragon King, she was forcefully thrown to the ground by her.
"Tsk!" After throwing Kaede to the ground, the Blood Demon Dragon King immediately sat on Kaede's body, lifting Kaede's chin with one hand to make her look directly into her eyes.
Having done all this, the Blood Demon Dragon King once again revealed a playful smile.
"You should be happy, shouldn't you? Because everything I do outside is what your subconscious most wants to do but has suppressed itself from doing. And after I do it, you can calmly throw everything onto me, so you're happy, right!"
"Hmph!" Kaede's eyes were already filled with rage, but she didn't continue to pay attention to the Blood Demon Dragon King, just glaring at her.
"Hehe." Seeing Kaede like this, the smile on the Blood Demon Dragon King's face grew even wider. She then squinted at Kaede, making Kaede feel a bad premonition in her heart.
"Finally, Kaede, let me ask you one more time: have you really never thought about killing Akame?" As she spoke, the Blood Demon Dragon King's face revealed a playful expression. Looking at the Kaede beneath her, the rage in her eyes slowly dissipated, replaced by extreme fear.
"Kill Akame, and you can live happily with Kurome."
"Kill Akame, and you won't have to be in so much pain."
"Kill Akame, and you won't have to work so hard to create an empire for her to live in."
"So, have you really never thought about killing Akame?"
Kaede opened her mouth, her eyes dimming in the end. She wanted to say no, but, but...
She had really thought about it, really considered whether to just kill Akame and end it all.
"You are not me, you are absolutely not me." Kaede looked at the Blood Demon Dragon King with dim eyes, "You are the Blood Demon Dragon King's consciousness!"
"Still struggling in vain?" The Blood Demon Dragon King looked at the Kaede beneath her with some dissatisfaction, then couldn't be bothered to maintain this position anymore, rolling over to lie beside her.
"Then let me ask you, when did I first come out?"
"During the second blood sacrifice," Kaede replied.
"Wrong." The Blood Demon Dragon King revealed a playful smile, "I already appeared in SAO, it's just that I didn't appear in front of you at that time."
"Impossible!" Kaede's eyes widened. She hadn't even obtained that shingu at that time; how could she have appeared then!
"Heh!" The Blood Demon Dragon King squinted her eyes, "Before the final battle with Heathcliff, I spoke to you, didn't I?"
Then the Blood Demon Dragon King tilted her head and looked at Kaede with a half-smile, "Do you really think that what you saw at that time was a hallucination?"
"..." Kaede's eyes widened. That time, the reason that made her go berserk—was that it?
"Hmm, perhaps it could be called a hallucination; after all, it was me forcing my thoughts into your mind," the Blood Demon Dragon King added.
"Anything else..." Kaede said, feeling a bit desperate.
"Heh." The Blood Demon Dragon King squinted at Kaede, "Then let me say another one. You know about Kurome being brainwashed, right?"
"Yes." Kaede clenched her fists as she listened. Although it was for Kurome to survive at the time, it had to be said that this matter remained a thorn stuck in Kaede's heart.
"Then, why weren't you brainwashed?" The Blood Demon Dragon King looked at Kaede with a smile, "Although you have lived longer than Kurome, in terms of actual growth time, it is undoubtedly still very short. Do you think that brainwashing really had no effect on you? Hypnosis, brainwashing, suggestion—the reason none of this worked is because of my existence. They couldn't possibly run wild here in front of me." As she said this, the Blood Demon Dragon King pointed a finger at Kaede's head.
"Heh." Kaede laughed, a self-deprecating laugh.
"Actually, you knew it long ago," the Blood Demon Dragon King said calmly, "After all, it's impossible for you to hide anything from me, but you have been deceiving yourself, and even now you are still obsessed and unrepentant, making it unbearable for me to watch~"
"Hahahaha!" Kaede suddenly burst into laughter. Previously it was the Blood Demon Dragon King who laughed like this, but this time it was finally Kaede's turn.
"Hmph~" The Blood Demon Dragon King squinted her eyes.
"Cough, cough!" Laughing deeply, Kaede even laughed until tears came out, and her breath was a bit labored, causing her to cough involuntarily.
"You can tell you actually knew from the fact that you couldn't eat. After all, if you really didn't know and pushed everything onto me, would your personality allow you to lose your appetite?" The Blood Demon Dragon King sighed and continued.
"What's the point of saying all this now? It's all too late, isn't it!"
"Too late? What's too late?" The Blood Demon Dragon King was a bit puzzled.
"That's Murasame, the one-hit kill." Seeing that the Blood Demon Dragon King's puzzled expression didn't seem fake, Kaede was also stunned. Could there still be hope?
"Murasame, I know," the Blood Demon Dragon King nodded, suddenly understanding, and looked at Kaede with a half-smile, "So you were worried about this?"
"Isn't this worth worrying about..." Kaede felt her temple twitch. It was clearly a matter of life and death for her, okay!
"Tsk, do you think if I were worried about Murasame, I would have let you take over the body to go die?" The Blood Demon Dragon King looked at me as if I were an idiot, "You don't think that just because you broke through here, you could really snatch control of the body from my hands, do you?"
"Isn't it?" Kaede frowned. At that time, she hadn't felt any obstruction at all.
"Of course not. Even if you could snatch it, I could still obstruct some actions," the Blood Demon Dragon King looked at Kaede playfully.
"Then... what do you say we should do now?" Kaede frowned. Anything could happen outside right now. What if Esdeath kills Akame? What if Kurome loses hope again?
"Murasame completes a one-hit kill by relying on curse magic, and now these curse arts exist in our body," the Blood Demon Dragon King said, "This kind of curse is different from poison, so we cannot use the method of controlling blood to force it out; at most, we can only block its rate of spread."
"Tell me, what's the solution?" Kaede looked at the Blood Demon Dragon King, finally no longer hiding anything. After all, when she was here, she knew all of the Blood Demon Dragon King's thoughts, as if there were no secrets at all.
Now Kaede knew that when the Blood Demon Dragon King was here, the feeling was the same for her; Kaede had no secrets at all in her eyes, including thoughts, and even the subconscious.
And based on her understanding of the Blood Demon Dragon King, Kaede understood that she definitely had a way to solve the current situation.
The Blood Demon Dragon King nodded and then said: "The third blood sacrifice, which is also the final blood sacrifice."
"Can this save me?" Kaede frowned, a bit skeptical.
"Heh, the third blood sacrifice is no longer about killing people, but changing blood. It requires sacrificing your entire body, and then changing into the most suitable body," the Blood Demon Dragon King said, looking at Kaede, "In other words, after the third blood sacrifice, I'm afraid you can no longer be called a human. But no matter how I think about it, you wouldn't care whether you are human or not."
"So what should I do?" Kaede nodded. Indeed, she didn't care about those things at all.
"You go out now. The third blood sacrifice... won't have any impact," the Blood Demon Dragon King said, stretching.
"No impact?" Kaede frowned, a bit skeptical.
"Even if there is an impact, it won't affect you. Also, hurry up and go out; if the curse spreads to your heart, it will be too late," the Blood Demon Dragon King said calmly.
"Alright." Kaede stood up. Suddenly, Kaede's body paused, and then she said, "Regardless, thank you..."
After saying this, Kaede's body disappeared from there.
"Thank me?" A complex look appeared in the Blood Demon Dragon King's eyes as she murmured softly, "I... am I not you?"
"I don't know when the next time we meet will be..." The Blood Demon Dragon King squinted her eyes, a hint of sadness appearing in them.
Slowly, the Blood Demon Dragon King also stood up and looked up at the gray sky. In fact, there was one more thing she hadn't told Kaede: before entering this game, she did not exist, or rather, she had no consciousness.
It was only after entering the game that the Blood Demon Dragon King appeared.
"Logically speaking, I shouldn't have emotions." The Blood Demon Dragon King touched her heart, her eyes also revealing confusion.
However, there was no time for the Blood Demon Dragon King to think, because she felt that Kaede had already performed the third blood sacrifice outside, the blood sacrifice of turning from human to dragon.
"Has it been performed..." The Blood Demon Dragon King squinted her eyes, sweeping away the previous confusion, and a confident smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. That charm was extremely enchanting.
"Hurry up and get stronger, Kaede..." the Blood Demon Dragon King murmured. She felt that something was very wrong. Ever since she possessed consciousness and emotions, she knew that things were definitely not simple.
However, no matter how much she racked her brains, she didn't know what it was. All she knew was that she had to get stronger quickly, and then she would be able to... survive.
However, the Blood Demon Dragon King had to do one thing now. This was something only she could do. After doing it, it might be very difficult to meet Kaede again, but it was necessary.
The Blood Demon Dragon King looked at the sea of blood beneath her feet, a pair of blood-red Dragon Pupils gleaming there. Not long after, beneath the sea of blood, a pair of huge Dragon Pupils suddenly opened.
Looking at this pair of Dragon Pupils, the Blood Demon Dragon King revealed a smile.
"Then let's see whether you are stronger or I am!"
"Roar!"
A huge dragon roar pierced the sky, causing the clothes on the Blood Demon Dragon King to tighten, exposing all the curves of her body.
However, all of this still did not make the Blood Demon Dragon King's smile disappear; instead, it grew even wider.
The next moment, the giant dragon suddenly broke through the sea of blood, opening its blood-stained maw to bite at the Blood Demon Dragon King.
"Hehe! If you can get out of here, then I'm not Kaede!" The Blood Demon Dragon King smiled, looking at the blood-stained maw in front of her, without a trace of panic.
Just as the giant dragon's mouth closed, the Blood Demon Dragon King's figure disappeared from there, appearing once again on the giant dragon's forehead.
Then the Blood Demon Dragon King kicked the giant dragon's forehead fiercely.
"Roar!"
And in reality, dragon roars continued to be heard, because Kaede's body had been surrounded by a Blood Dragon, and her figure could not be seen at all.
This scene made Kurome, Koujo Shizuka, and Esdeath widen their eyes.
Perhaps, Kaede could still be saved!
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