Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 120

Chapter 120: Pact
‘Tick, tack, tick, tack, tick, tack…

The watch of the man ticked every second, while he waited inside the dean’s room.

It had been thirty minutes since the bald visitor he received had left, and he was beginning to wonder whether or not his cousin would’ve actually come to him.

‘It won’t be good if they keep her for an hour, because her body will unfreeze by itself, and I will lose all the power I hold over them.

They have to believe that I can annihilate them for me to have complete control over this facility.

After this, I will continue to complete the missions given by “him” and I will finally be able to obtain the power I’m faking right now’

His worries were unfounded, and he was sure of it when five minutes later, the familiar sound of the dean’s shoes tapping on the floor could be heard from the office.

“Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap…

Finally, the sound ceased right behind the holed door, and the man walked in carrying the frozen statue on his back.

Naomi smiled before turning his chair around:

“What? Your little scientists couldn’t find a way to save her so you crawled back to me?”

‘Six minutes, I need six minutes’

The gaze of hatred towards Naomi soon disappeared, as the dean watched the floor ashamed.

“Let’s see… she has exactly…. Six minutes”

Hearing this, the man frowned.

He watched up to his cousin and asked:

“Please, I will step down from the position as dean, I will officially deem you my successor, but please… don’t hurt the people here.”

“Don’t hurt the people here…

You care so much about random people you met killing monsters to give up your status and your authority, and yet you could not spare a single word for your brother in the last three years?!”

“I- I’m sorry, please”

The dean, a man in his late fifties, went as far as kneeling, to ask for his friends’ lives to be spared.

Even if it was a righteous act, it enraged Naomi so much, so much that if he could’ve done it he would’ve ripped his head off.

How could he?.. How could he act like this, like if he was a good person, like if I was the one in the wrong?

It was all his fault from the start, that was the minimum he could’ve done.

The time left was now only about four minutes and forty seconds.

“You should thank god that I still need you, otherwise your frozen head would already be exposed as a piece of art inside my apartment.

I don’t need you to step down from your position, I just need you to do whatever I tell you to do, other than running this place as you always do of course.

It means you will also have to cover up my shit whenever I do it, do you think you have what it takes?”

The kneeling man was unsure:

‘Is he- is he asking me to be an accomplice?

To help him kill innocent people? I can’t do that!

I can’t do that but…

His eyes watched behind him, where he could only see the legs of his frozen colleague.

‘But I don’t want them to die.

My friends, the people in this academy who have gone through hell with me in those awful times, those who haven’t betrayed me even when their lives were at risk…

How could I ever let them perish because of my cowardice?

If these are the two options…

It doesn’t matter if my heart and soul are stained…

it doesn’t matter if what awaits me after death will be even worse than what I faced in this life.

If it can save my friends, I will do it without a third thought.’

“I will do my best!”

Said the dean in a decisive tone.

“Alright then, here sign this, and do it with your blood”

A paper was handed over, but it wasn’t anything a normal person could own.

It was purple-colored, and it emitted an ominous aura.

When the dean looked at it, a system interface showed up on its own.

[blood pact (tier-5)

From now on, I will do my best to hide Naomi Sato’s secret.

I will follow each one of Naomi Sato’s orders as long as it doesn’t force me to take my, or my friends, lives.]

‘A blood pact is a cursed item, made by soaking a certain type of paper into the blood of awakened people’s carcasses.

The tier of the pact depends on the level of the killed awakened from which the blood was retrieved.

Since from a body, only seven to ten pacts can be made, they are extremely rare, furthermore, only people in the evil factions dare to make them, and they remain strictly surveilled all the time, given to the members only in case of dire need.

The fact that my brother has one…

His shocked expression when seeing the item couldn’t be hidden, and he watched his cousin with incredulous eyes.

“You are part of an evil faction?!”

“So? Should you let her die just because I’m part of an evil faction?

Do I need to remind you that in less than four minutes there will be no choice to be made?”

“No, I will sign it immediately.”

That is what he said, but watching the pact once again, he noticed there were no mentions of any limitations on Naomi’s actions against him or any of his colleagues.

“What?”

Asked Naomi seeing him hesitant.

“How do I know you won’t attack us after I sign this?

There is also no mention of you sparing Maki’s life here”

Naomi smiled.

“Oh dear me, I must’ve forgotten to write it. how about this?

I’ll give you my word, that as soon as you sign this I’ll free her, and from now on I won’t ever use my spells on any of your people.”

‘Fuck! How can I trust him?’

“What? You don’t believe my words?

I think it’s going to be a difficult cooperation then, maybe I should’ve straight up just killed you.”

“No, of course not, I trust that someone as strong as you will keep his word without any doubt.”

“Mh~ mh~ but of course I will”

The dean proceeded to sign after biting his thumb and letting a few drops of blood fall onto the paper.

A bit of mana was released into the air, making the contract glow and float for a few seconds before falling right into Naomi’s hands.

“And with this, we’re done”

‘Mh… there are still two minutes left before she unfreezes, I cannot free her before then even if I wish.

I could just break the spell by punching it but that would basically reveal that my spell is weak, so it’s better to just wait.

Since I don’t want to make it look like I can’t control it… how about I play around with him a little bit?’

Hearing that they were done, his cousin could finally take a sigh of relief.

“Then-”

Before he could finish, Naomi cut him off, saying:

“Then, since we’re done here I’ll get going, make sure to keep doing what you’ve been tasked with, I’m sure that if you break a fifth-tier blood contract you will at least lose both your arms or maybe your eyes… who knows, you could even become a cripple.”

As he walked out of the room, the man who was previously kneeling yelled at him:

“Wait!”

“What?”

“You forgot to lift the spell”

“Uh? No, I didn’t”

“What do you mean? She’s still frozen!”

“Does that look like my problem? I can’t control the spell after I’ve cast it, she will die without a doubt in about ninety seconds.

She was pretty useful though, to think that thanks to her I managed to get you to sign a slave blood pact, pfft hahaha”

“Don’t kid with me! You’ve given your word that you would’ve freed her!”

“Huh? When did I do that? Is it written in here?”

Acting as if he was really asking a legitimate question, he opened the contract that he had kept as a scroll and began reading in a low tone:

“I will… Bla bla bla, bla bla bla…

“Mhh, strange, I don’t see anything like that, you sure you haven’t been dreaming a lot lately? Maybe you fell asleep while you signed the contract.”

“You fucking…”

The dean got up, and charged a punch behind his shoulder, with the clear intention of killing his cousin.

But an incredible force halted him when the words [stop] came out of his brother’s mouth.

His body froze on the spot, and he couldn’t move a muscle.

He felt like a huge attack would’ve been unleashed upon him as soon as he disobeyed.

“I told you right? It’s funny to see you struggle hopelessly”

“Well then… cya”

This time, he had truly walked away, and the dean was preparing himself to break the contract to kill him, even if it meant losing a part of his body if not even his life.

But at that very moment, he heard the sound of something cracking…

It was Maki, whose body was being freed from the ice.

Only then he understood that his cousin had just been playing with him, and in his mind, he thought to himself he would’ve gotten back at him for this humiliation”