>>6054593“Are you willing to submit, yet?”
“Fuck no! Sure this is pretty fuckin gross but that just means I’m going to rip you apart even harder for this!” She stops for a second as the large one tries to crawl into her vitriol-spewing mouth, “Fuck off!” She shouts after spitting the magical puppet out, you’re not sure if she directs it at the cockroach or you, probably both.
“Then why don’t you humor me, your Cheat Skill is your armor, correct?” You say.
“Yeah, you’d believe that wouldn’t you, dumbass? No, I got a System and a shite ton of points to upgrade my stats. Pumped defense since I’m not a retard looking to die here no matter how much you Inquisitor lackeys want me to!”
“Hey, Lorina?” Marie whispers to you.
“Hm? Yes, Marie?” You whisper back
“Why don’t you try out burning her?”
“Why is that?”
“Want to test something, if she maxed defense and didn’t look back I wonder if she has anything protecting her against status ailment.”
“Status what?”
“She’ll burn. I got a hunch,” She says with a confident wink and a pat to her currently sheathed sword.
Now, while you are many things you are not quite as bloodthirsty as Marie is. You think. So instead you use the Stranger’s strange knowledge to intimidate the other, “So you’re imperious to all physical damage, but does it stop heat from burning you? Smoke from suffocating you? The grease you've covered yourself with is highly flammable, and I wouldn't be much of a mage if I didn't know a few fire spells."
The woman looks at you with an ugly face of confusion, before another cockroach tries to crawl inside her slackjawed mouth and she spits it out, “The fuck? Hell are you saying.”
“Did you even open your System?” Marie asks.
“Nah, I just told it to pump defense and fuck off- Holy shite, <span class="mu-s">Status</span>,” She says before her eyes practically bulge out of her head, “Fuck you mean I got a special defense and vitality stat?”
“I bet you dumped agility too, didn’t you,” Marie says, very smug.
“Oh fuck you!”
“I take it you’ll be more willing to negotiate then?”
She looks like she just swallowed something very sour, or maybe a magic cockroach you can’t say. But eventually, she breathes out, “ Fuck, fine! But don’t you dare think I’m going to just lay over and die if you ignite this place. I’ll damn well take you down with me!” She says before flapping an arm off her shield, shaking away two cockroaches which you mentally command to fly back, “And get these fuckers off of me!”
You do so, in the spirit of mutual cooperation. Well, you do so after having them fly around her face for a few seconds but that’s not important right now, “You’ve already let it slip why you came here, so why not enlighten us on who sent you?”
