A peerless killer possessing a cat girl assassin from another world

I opened my eyes and saw an unfamiliar rock wall above me.

A drop of water fell on my ear, and my whole body shuddered.

"You're back, Miss Wu Yue..."

Mr. Maxim appeared as usual.

"Fortunately, there was no time jump this time. Only one day passed in the dream."

"here it is......"

"This is somewhere in the Kush Mountains. It was the vampire woman who brought you here. However, as I expected, she had no intention of harming you. She just left you here and left."

But I know that this is only temporary. The way that woman looked at me was like she was looking at prey.

"That is to say, she won't be back for a while..."

"I" curled up in the corner, hugging my legs, my body trembling slightly due to the damp and cold environment.

Looking closely, this cave is quite closed, and the only exit is blocked by an iron door. It is obvious that this is a prison cell...

In this case, I will take this opportunity to tell Mr. Maxim the purpose of this trip and ask for his help.

"...Anyway, could you please investigate there?"

"The Florence Empire..." Mr. Maxim hesitated when he heard the name.

"Well, if it's difficult for you..."

"No, it is my honor. Please rest assured that I will investigate the place when you wake up."

"Thank you so much."

"Easy to do."

"...Well, actually, there is one more question I would like to ask Mr. Maxim..."

"Please speak."

"I have a friend who also has strange dreams every night..."

I repeated Elena's troubles to Mr. Maxime, but omitted the part about the Philosopher's Stone.

"...On the surface, it looks like a normal nightmare, but the same dream repeats itself every night...Excuse me, your friend is not a normal life form, right?"

"How did you know that..."

I had originally wanted to conceal even the fact that I was a "man-made person", but I didn't expect that Mr. Maxim would guess that Irina was not a natural life based on just one symptom...

"It's just a little experience... Let me go on. Generally speaking, there are only two possibilities for this symptom. The first is that your friend still has cognitive limitations, and when faced with a sudden emotional shock, it is easy to leave an indelible impression, which will then manifest in dreams every night..."

"Second, if your friend has no cognitive problems but experiences the same dream every night, then I must doubt whether someone has tampered with your friend..."

When Mr. Maxim said this, I knew that if I wanted to help Elena, I had to tell him the secrets...

".......Actually it's like this......My friend is an artificial person, a creation of alchemy......"

"An artificial human... That's not surprising... Wait, an artificial human? Are you dreaming?"

Mr. Maxim's voice rose noticeably, as if he was extremely surprised by this fact.

"Eh? Homunculi... don't they dream?"

"Absolutely impossible..." Mr. Maxim's ball of light flashed a few times.

Mr. Maxim seldom used such an absolute tone. It seemed that the idea of ​​an artificial man dreaming was indeed unbelievable to him.

"Alchemical creations, especially androids, are equivalent to puppets. In order to maintain their absolute loyalty, they are absolutely not allowed to have their own will. Dreaming is a manifestation of the free will of living beings. Not only does the Creator not allow it, even the laws of the world do not allow it..."

"If such results were to be passed on to the Alchemist Association... I would not even dare to think about it..."

"Is it really...that serious?"

"Alchemists are all a bunch of crazy experimenters. Creation is a major unsolved topic in the field of alchemy, and research has been stagnant for several epochs. If they heard the news that 'artificial humans have the ability to dream'... have you told anyone else about this?"

"......The only people who know......I think they are me and a few teachers in the academy......"

"Oh... that's good, at least the people in this academy are sensible..."

"But in this case... I'm afraid I can't diagnose your android friend the same way I would a normal person..."

"After all, I don't even understand the principle of this person's ability to dream..."

...Is it only possible to help her by telling Mr. Maxim all the secrets about Elena...

I began to wonder if I was qualified to make such decisions for others…

But when I think of the emotionally insensitive Elena frowning slightly when she mentioned this dream...

The pain she endured might be beyond imagination, but she just didn't know how to express it...

After thinking it over again and again, I finally spoke:

"...Mr. Maxim, actually..."

I told Mr. Maxim the origin of the Philosopher's Stone in Elena's body.

"The Philosopher's Stone... Miss Wu Yue, are you kidding? How is this possible... How could someone be so wasteful... Using the Philosopher's Stone on a... an 'artificial human'?"

"He can obviously use the Philosopher's Stone to fulfill almost all of his wishes... to achieve immortality, gain endless power, and even stand at the top of the continent's strongest... Why? I can't figure it out..."

"...Perhaps...this wish is more precious to him than what you said..."

"I'm sorry, but I still find it hard to understand. However, if I have the Philosopher's Stone, many things can be explained."

"You also said that the Philosopher's Stone was transferred from the creator's body to the android's body and turned into a heart... Then the dream this android lady had must be the most profound memory of the alchemist before his death."

"However, because I don't have a deep understanding of the Philosopher's Stone, I can't provide her with any solution. I'm sorry, Miss Wu Yue, this is more difficult than your dream."

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