Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1345: The New Eye



Grim found her sitting up, her elbow placed over her raised knee, her head tilted up to the sky. She was singing a goofy song, as always:

"Upon me they'll look, appalled and leering,

They'll drown in my eye, despaired and fearing,

A 'Ha!' and they'll spook, lie I'm endearing,

My spark they will spy, a'shine, a'searing..."

Grim sighed.

'She never stopped being a bard.'

Seeing her nude state, he ordered the Stark Troops behind him to look away while he extracted something for Yuyui to wear from his spatial storage. He found a decent-looking Pseudo-Mythical grade armour set.

"You know you're naked right?" he said.

Yuyui turned to him, saw the armour set he had conjured and hurried to don it.

"I had almost forgotten honestly," she said with a sheepish smile. "I guess I never got used to social norms after the Temple of Unlusted Tears. Not really."

She had been stuck in the Temple of Unlusted Tears naked, hungry and alone for more than a century and the individual who had saved her hadn't really bothered to teach her how to be 'normal' again in their first days travelling together.

Yuyui rubbed her eye as she wore the armour and after she was done, she rubbed it again, gasped and face palmed.

"AH! Master is going to kill me for losing my Star Armament! I was so engrossed in the battle I didn't even think about it! Argh!" she cried. "I should have killed myself while I had the chance."

Without context, Yuyui might have sounded like someone who belonged in a straitjacket, but her statement was valid on many fronts. If she had killed herself at the right time, while in Franceesta's Territory, she would have revived with the armour intact, but the circumstances hadn't been that luxurious then.

"I see," Grim said. "Did you have fun?"

Yuyui noticed the somber, bitter tone in Grim's voice.

"Are you really upset that I handled this on my own?" she said to him.

"No. I'm just annoyed you didn't let me join in."

"Isn't that the same thing?"

"Fact remains. It would have been nice to fight with you, Yu. Besides, you ended up allowing one of them to escape. What was that all about?" Grim said.

Yuyui rubbed her eye.

"She'd lost interest in fighting me, and I knew defeating her wouldn't be so easy, if possible at all. Her leaving was the result," she said, and a smile bloomed on her face. "Though, I guess I can still say I won against her. At least in a battle of ideals. She learned something from me."

"I bet she did," Grim said and turned. But then he swiveled back to Yuyui.

"What?" Yuyui asked him.

Grim drew closer and pushed his face into hers. Yuyui blushed.

"WHAT IS IT?!" She pushed him back.

Grim drew back, a puzzled expression on his face.

"Er... your eye. I think it's changing. It's slowly twisting and..." Grim recoiled. "I've never seen you use this eye before."

Yuyui wore a confused duck face.

"What do you mea-" she began, but...

[Congratulations!]

The guidance field chimed, stealing Yuyui's attention.

[You have awakened the Eye of the Visitor!]

...!!!

Right then, Yuyui felt her eye burn and she winced in pain. She clutched it and hunched. It was suddenly as though a large, hot stone had settled in her right socket. The agony was

unbearable, but it ended almost as soon as it had begun.

Yuyui blinked furiously. She took a deep breath and felt for her eye.

"Wh... what?"

"Are you alright?" Grim asked, looking concerned.

"Yeah... I... I'm fine," she said. She was shaken. "I awakened a new eye."

"I noticed. Maybe it wasn't such a bad idea for you to fight alone." Grim said, chuckling. "What does your new eye do?"

Yuyui rubbed the eye. She didn't feel anymore discomfort from it, but it still felt strange. It seemed larger than the others. Yuyui still had her normal set of eyes (the legacy eyes were additional ones that grow from her body) so she could tell the difference between them and those of her Hidden Class, the Pinnacle Occuluthon.

This Eye of the Visitor, was different, but in what way exactly, she didn't know.

"I don't know. I... I." Yuyui was lost for words.

"You didn't see any of those women use an eye like this?" Grim asked.

"No. They actually didn't have many eyes I haven't seen yet among them. They only had one," she replied. "I used to think each of them had a unique eye, but I was wrong. Either that or they came from a point in time before they finished making the rest of the eyes."

Grim hummed in thought. He didn't know which of the options was accurate. He was urging Yuyui forward when...

...

A mad shockwave was suddenly upon them. It moved so quickly that neither of the two Unlimited Stars actually perceived it. It shredded through from behind them, intent on killing and destroying. It might have obliterated both of them if not for a certain Deitess'

intervention.

The shockwave suddenly ceased and disappeared before it wreaked both Yuyui and Grim, reducing them to something finer than atoms.

Even as it disappeared though, Yuyui and Grim sensed the near brush with death. The latter was more sensitive to such things. His read eyes gleamed brilliantly.

"Did you sense that?"

"Y-Yeah..." Yuyui said, horrified.

But before she and Grim could wonder, space cracked and a rip akin to a Cluster emerged

before them.

Grim frowned and prepared for an attack.

Yuyui, on the other hand, gasped. She patted his shoulder.

"It's not what you think it is," she said to him.

"What?" Grim turned to her, surprised. "What is it then?"

Yuyui's lips trembled.

"It's an invitation..."

[Author's Note]

And that concludes this arc. As I promised, it didn't drag on for too long. I hope it answered

some of the questions you might have had - as I intended it to - and if you enjoyed it, do leave some feedback. Of course, if you didn't like it, I'm willing to hear your thoughts as well.

Now, we will be going back to Skullius' perspective. Whacky things are surging, and even

crazier stuff is on the horizon.

Thanks for reading!