Things That Can Be Killed

Three days have passed since Fang Li began training Tohno Shiki.

For the past three days, Fang Li and Tohno Shiki been working and going to school during the day, but whenever they have a break, they immediately immerse themselves in training.

This pattern of action will continue until nightfall.

Nighttime is for hunting.

To deal with the vampire hiding in Misaki City, Fang Li group have been going out at night for the past three days, dealing with the dead mixed in with the city, and even the wild beasts that occasionally move with the dead, reducing the number of dead and wild beasts, in an attempt to force out the vampire that Arcueid called "Snake".

As a result, Arcueid inevitably fell out of favor.

Even at night, in order to improve efficiency, recently, as Tohno Shiki has become more or less able to deal with the dead and wild beasts on his own, the three of them have gradually started to split up and take charge of a region to deal with the dead and wild beasts.

Therefore, nowadays, whether it's day or night, the time spent with Arcueid is becoming less and less.

As a result, the princess of the True Ancestor began to accumulate dissatisfaction.

Today, this discontent seems to have finally erupted.

"I don't understand, why do you two keep doing this kind of thing?" Arcueid said with great dissatisfaction. "Is this kind of game fun?"

In Arcueid's eyes, the training between Fang Li and Tohno Shiki had become a pure game.

However, in Arcueid's eyes, True Ancestor possesses overwhelming power, the training between Fang Li and Tohno Shiki is really no different from a game, right?

Moreover, this power is innate.

I reckon Arcueid never trained in combat skills during his entire life.

Fang Li shrugged and said noncommittally, "Perhaps this doesn't seem like much to you, but it's not the same for Zhigui."

"You've probably seen it too, that guy's skills have improved recently. With those eyes, the dead and beasts can no longer pose a threat to him, right?"

"...I don't deny it." Arcueid said somewhat boredly, "After all, it's a monster with those eyes. Ordinary dead and beasts are no problem for it. If its performance is improved, then it should be able to kill anything, right?"

"If it's limited to living beings," Fang Li pointed out. "That guy's eyes are still limited. I've said it before, it's a bit of a stretch when it comes to non-living things like buildings, let alone when it comes to mysticism and concepts. He's only extraordinary when it comes to living beings."

"That's more like it, isn't it? After all, it's already amazing that a human can understand the death of life. It's a bit of a luxury to try to understand the death of non-life, or even the mysterious and conceptual death." Arcueid answered subconsciously, then turned to look at Fang Li as if he had thought of something.

"If that's the case, you once said that your eyes are a little different from Shiki's. Does that mean you can understand and kill things like the mysterious and conceptual death?"

Arcueid's words only elicited a smile from Fang Li.

However, this actually gave Arcueid the answer.

Therefore, Arcueid stared at Fang Li in silence.

"... I'm so shocked I don't know what to say. If that's really the case, what is there that you can't kill?"

Upon hearing this, Fang Li glanced at Arcueid, and seeing Arcueid staring intently at him, he sighed.

"That's true, but I can't say that I've used these eyes to their fullest potential. There are still some things that, even if I can understand the concept of death, I've never thought of killing them."

In the present-day Fang Li, one can see that it is a dead space that is independent like the Forbidden Library.

Therefore, if Fang Li were to get serious, it wouldn't be impossible for him to destroy the space.

However, Fang Li cannot kill this space called "the world," which is the cradle and contain of countless things.

Let alone Fang Li, even Ryougi Shiki, who is connected to the Root, couldn't kill the "World," the largest space.

Fang Li and Ryougi Shiki can understand the concept of death in the clear space.

However, faced with this vast world, neither Fang Li nor Ryougi Shiki could destroy the space that constituted their existence.

Otherwise, it would be tantamount to killing the world.

This is something that is truly impossible to do.

Furthermore, even if it is an object that can be understood, it cannot be killed if the brain does not recognize its existence.

For example, Tohno Shiki cannot see invisible entities such as barriers, so he has no way of seeing their Death Lines and Death Points.

Fang Li was the same before; he could only kill things that could be captured by sight and recognized by the brain. If something was invisible and intangible, he couldn't see it die.

Furthermore, even if one can recognize its existence, one's perception of it will affect the effectiveness of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

Just like the examples I've given before.

A telephone, while it is still usable, is essentially a "living" thing, so you can see the Death Lines and kill it.

However, if this phone is unusable or broken, it's like something that's "dead," and there's no way to see its Death Lines.

"Therefore, the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception are something that works in conjunction with the brain. How our brain perceives and understands things will affect the power of these eyes."

Fang Li chuckled.

"So, someone once told me that my world is too narrow. If I could truly understand and comprehend the concepts of all things, then I would be able to truly kill everything, right?"

For example, even though they could destroy space, neither Fang Li nor Ryougi Shiki ever thought they could destroy the world.

Even if they know that everything has an end, including the world, and therefore can be killed, if Fang Li and Ryougi Shiki don't believe they can kill the world, then they won't even see the Death Lines.

Even if someone told Fang Li that he could kill the world, Fang Li wouldn't really believe he could do that.

It's not that I lack self-confidence, but rather that this kind of thing is just too dreamlike and unreal.

It was precisely this subconscious thought that made Fang Li destined to fail at this task.

"Relatively speaking, humans are really fragile."

Fang Li raised one of his hands.

"Even without these eyes, it's easy to leave scars on them, like this."

As he said this, Fang Li took out his Moon Blade, held it against his palm, and slowly cut open the skin of his hand.

Fresh blood flowed from Fang Li's palm.