Regardless of Success or Failure, Regardless of Consequences

The facts proved that Ji Jue's calculations had been correct.

At dawn, the fish had been hung up. Before nightfall, the fish had died!

Today, of all days.

On the dissection table, the mermaid—who had been taken apart from head to tail, subjected to every sort of reaction test, and had data collected from it through nine hours of torment without receiving so much as a single shot of anesthetic—finally breathed its last...

Yet after setting down his scalpel, Ji Jue had the nerve to wipe the sweat from his brow with immense satisfaction and let out a contented sigh, as though he had just fought a thrilling battle. If the mermaid could have spoken, it probably would have cursed before dying: Ni Die, you really screwed me over!

How could anyone in this world be so shameless?

A fucking Rebirth Rank coming to kill a mermaid that had only just reached adulthood—fine, he was unwilling to take even the slightest risk, but he had to torment it for this long too, laying bait and drugging it... Had he done so many immoral things that he was afraid he would trip, crack the back of his head, and drop dead the moment he took two extra steps? He would not even grant it a quick death. Before it died, he had to carve it up piece by piece, leaving out not a single move from the Embers Lineage's full little combo.

Even White Hall would shed two tears at the sight.

It had died too miserably.

And too unjustly...

There was no helping it.

Everyone had things they were bad at.

The Vortex Lineage could not exactly be called Ji Jue's blind spot, but his research in Life Studies was still far too shallow. When he had dissected the wolf