"Control negative energy?" After hearing Angel's thoughts, Luno hurriedly shook his head in denial. "No, I can't control negative energy. I merely keep it repelled outside my spirit body."
"Repel it?" Angel froze, not quite understanding what Luno meant.
Luno said, "The brain-domain ability I possess can repel negative energy outside my body."
"But it can only repel it. And as the time since my death increases, the negative energy keeps growing... Perhaps one day, even my ability won't be able to keep it out."
"Especially since the more I move around outside, the faster the negative energy grows. That's why I had no choice but to hide in a cemetery cut off from the outside world and sleep, using that method to resist its rapid growth."
"What I never expected was for my sleep to be interrupted by these grave robbers."
"Even more laughable, the two Crystal-Eyed Race people you mentioned were tainted by the negative energy outside my body when they attacked me. Unable to withstand its erosion, they fainted—and were then killed by the cemetery's mechanisms."
"It was clearly their own fault, yet now they say I killed them?"
"Well, if you insist on counting it that way, you can say I killed them. I don't care about my reputation anyway. Perhaps this name for killing might even become my letter of introduction for reincarnating in Dark Commandery."
Luno shrugged, sneering as he looked contemptuously at Tatakai and Yimada.
Angel could not help looking over as well.
"What Luno said—is it true?"
Tatakai furrowed his brow, seeming to ponder something without speaking. Yimada, meanwhile, stared at Luno. "He really isn't an undead?"
Angel relayed Yimada's words.
Luno snorted. "What? You saw negative energy surrounding me and decided I was undead? How ignorant. If I had turned into