To Be A Power In The Shadows!

Translator: Makisima from w.a.n.gmamaread

Proofreader: Hieu

Freya didn’t look at me .

She should have noticed me . But where her gaze fell was a void .

For me, she looked as if staring straight at the air .

Freya reached out to the void and her hand disappeared . No, more accurately, her hand was sucked into some place .

In other words, her hand was sucked into the void and disappeared .

There must be something about that s.p.a.ce that the human eyes couldn’t see .

Freya looked at me .

After that, she muttered to herself .

Although I couldn’t hear her from where I stood, I could tell what she said through reading her lips .

“Come here . ”

She said something like that .

Freya’s body was gradually sucked into the void starting from her wrist . Her eyes glued to me and Violet-san .

In this way, Freya disappeared .

“She seems to have disappeared . ”

I speculated carefully .

Violet-san seemed to be saying that “I knew it already . ” She tapped on my feet .

But I noticed something .

How to describe this feeling? It was similar to what I felt at the Holy Ground .

The Holy Ground could suck people’s magic . However, that void did not suck magic . Besides, I could hardly feel the presence of magic here .

Though, I felt that something had been sucked into the void .

I carefully observed the void where Freya disappeared, but found nothing . So I jumped directly into the void .

“Hey!”

I dived into it like a swimmer in a compet.i.tion .

Just in case, I did not forget to change into Shadow Mode .

Violet-san followed me by sticking to my feet .

Then I was surrounded by white light .

I fell into a s.p.a.ce with white walls, white beds, and white ceilings .

There were pods all around, arranged at regular intervals .

The s.p.a.ce was like a research center .

Freya stood in front of the pods .

I looked down at the pod closest to me .

“This is……”

There was something in the  shape of a human in the pod . It seemed to be a failed test subject, a mixture of human and demon possession .

It was a white-haired woman who had stopped breathing .

The thing in the next pod didn’t even have a shape of a human, but a pile of organs .

Next, and the next, were all failed test subjects .

Each one was a failed test subject having no life at all . They seemed to be preserved here as some samples .

After observing countless failed test subjects in pods, I found a common point .

They were all women, and it looked like they all had similar facial features .

In a pod was a woman named Olivie who I once fought against at the Holy Ground .

In some other pods were mixtures of Violet-san and someone .

The orc in the next pod was…

Then I saw the pod in front of Freya and found that a human looked completely the same as Freya .

Freya stood stiffly in front of the pod .

“They are all connected to each other…”

I said to myself meaningfully .

We seemed to have found some incredible facilities . I’m not sure what these facilities are for, still, I must first pretend that I knew something . This was very important .

“So this is the rebeginning of Diabolos… the continuation of the story a thousand years ago… but this is something that can be easily understood after looking through history . ”

Violet-san s.h.i.+vered as she seemed to agree with what I said .

“Everything is connected, the past, present, future . Everything seemed to be within my expectations . ”

Here I should also have an air of knowing everything . As a power in the shadows, everything was within my expectations without exception .

When I patted on my coat letting out the sound of “basa”, I heard a noise and the s.p.a.ce distorted .

“I had just wondered how an uninvited visitor could come into this s.p.a.ce… Now I see . You are the man called Shadow . ”

A voice came from the distorted s.p.a.ce .

“I didn’t expect you to come here so quickly… but to see that you’ve already known all our secrets . ”

At this time, a man appeared .