Death League 101: I'm Dead In 10 Minutes!-Chapter 48: “Midnight Hunting Spree (22): Human Skin Boutique”

Chapter 48: “Midnight Hunting Spree (22): Human Skin Boutique”
A pale white mannequin lunged at Otomen Lover while swinging its heavy arms.
"Oto! Duck!!"
Leinster screamed and Otomen Lover ducked down, missing the thick arms by just a millimeter, but then, a tiny, pale arm suddenly shot out of the clothes rack and grabbed Otomen Lover’s ankle.
"Ah!!!"
Otomen Lover staggered, her body almost fell to the floor but she quickly grabbed the nearby clothing rack to balance her body.
"Ugh! What was that??"
Otomen Lover felt something gripping her ankle and when she looked down, the dim light shone upon the gap between the hanging clothes and the floor, revealing...
A pale white face with no eyes.
It was a tiny, tiny mannequin...a kid.
"Ahhhh!!!"
Otomen Lover screamed and subconsciously swung her leg, kicking the tiny hand that was grabbing her.
Tak!
The hand trembled and let go of Otomen Lover’s ankle, but the previous mannequin was already right behind Otomen Lover.
The male mannequin’s arms instantly locked around Otomen Lover’s neck and then, the mannequin squeezed his arms hard.
"Ugh!"
She...can’t...breathe!
Otomen Lover’s body was slowly lifted off the ground, her legs swaying limply and one of her heels fell to the ground with a thud.
Her arms that were holding Leinster slowly slid down and Leinster instantly fell to the ground along with the oil lamp in his hand.
Bang!
Splat!
"Ughhh..."
The wound in the chest tore open again and with such a weak, one-year-old body, Leinster felt as if a truck just ran over him.
It hurts! Damn!
If he didn’t have the red tongue as a buffer, he would have died on the spot!
But Otomen Lover had it worse than Leinster.
Her face turned blue and purple as she grabbed the mannequin’s arms and scratched it with her nails.
"Let...go!!"
Otomen Lover tried to kick the mannequin’s leg, but her leg was so weak that she only tickled the male mannequin.
The mannequin’s empty eyes flashed with a red light as it tightened the arm around Otomen Lover’s neck.
!
"H-he..lp...Le...in..."
"Cough! Cough!"
Leinster coughed up blood and trails of crimson dots followed his every step but he still crawled onto the mannequin’s leg.
"Go!"
Leinster flicked his wrists and the black chains that had shrunk alongside Leinster’s body suddenly grew larger— and longer.
The two black chains immediately shot towards the mannequin’s legs, like arrows flying out of the bow.
Crack!
The sharp edge of the chain was instantly embedded into the mannequin’s solid ceramic leg.
!
The other chain’s head also dug deep into the other leg, instantly restraining its movement on the spot.
!
The mannequin couldn’t feel pain, but it could feel its ceramic legs slowly shattering piece by pieces.
The mannequin subconsciously let go of the arm that was choking Otomen Lover and the woman’s body crashed to the ground limply.
Bang!
"Ughhhh..."
Otomen Lover’s vision flashed for a second and she clutched her head weakly.
"Help..."
She felt like her whole body was being run over by a bus.
It hurts like hell!
But once Otomen Lover’s vision returned to normal, she groped in the dark and quickly crawled towards a dim light—
It was Leinster’s place.
When Otomen Lover got closer, she saw Leinster lying on his right side, hugging the oil lamp and clutching the end of his two chains tightly, as if binding something.
His face was as pale as the mannequin and blood pooled beneath his body.
"Le...in!"
Damn it! Leinster’s wound must have worsened, right??
Otomen Lover was so worried that she didn’t see the mannequin with its legs tied up suddenly bent down.
Then, it hammered its arms towards....Leinster.
Leinster’s eyes flickered and he mumbled in a voice as small as a mosquito.
"Use...my...emo...gauge..."
Anything. Just empty out the emo gauge!
The OmO system immediately operated as Leinster’s wishes.
[Buy a level 3 Teardrop Bullet!]
[Deducting 30 Sorrow emo ••• ]
A single water drop appeared above Leinster’s palm and with just a weak wave of his hand, the teardrop shot out high, aiming straight at the mannequin’s eyes.
Bang!
"Grrrhhhhaaaa!!"
The mannequin who was silent all this time finally let out a low grunt as it clutched its two eyes.
Cracks appeared on its ceramic eye sockets but unfortunately, the tear bullet was still half a level weaker than the mannequin.
So the eye sockets didn’t shatter completely, just a little injury.
Not to mention weakening the mannequin, it was actually enraging it!
"Ggrrhhhh!!!"
The mannequin swung its arms wildly and started to pull its legs, trying to take out the chains embedded inside the legs.
Leinster’s small body was instantly swayed left and right, almost making him cough up his organs and his entire blood.
"Hufff...huff..."
[Quick! How many emo gauges I have left?]
[OmO, OmO, the Fear Gauge and the Sorrow Gauge are empty! We only have 40 Wrath Emo left!]
And that wrath emo...was a gacha.
Only 1 gacha for 30 Emo.
Leinster couldn’t care less about the randomness of his own ability and immediately attempted to do the gacha.
[Do it!]
[Yes, yes, OmO!]
The OmO system immediately projected a fire wheel and the wheel turned so fast that the fire burst everywhere.
A split second later, the wheel stopped and a ball of fire burst out of the wheel, flying straight towards Leinster’s vision.
Boom!
[Congratulations! You got a "Level 1 Mini Explosion!"]
[OmO, OmO, you’re so lucky! A mini explosion was worth 300 emo plus 10 more emo per 1 meter radius!]
[Mini explosion:
Unleash your inner arsonist! Bomb your enemies and stay completely safe at the center of the explosion!]
Leister didn’t even need the one meter radius but knowing that it was a mini explosion, he was suddenly reluctant to use it on the mannequin alone.
He had so many enemies out there, couldn’t he blow them all in one go?
Just when Leinster was thinking about this, the mannequin’s arm fell like a whack-a-mole hammer.
Bang!
"Wah!"
Leinster nimbly rolled away, his red tongue robe fell to the floor with a thud.
At the same time, Otomen Lover took off her heels and stabbed them onto the mannequin’s wounded legs.
Stab! Stab! Stab!
"Leinster! Now! Run— "
But before Leinster could even crawl away, he suddenly felt the clothes on his body tightening on its own.
His eyes slowly widened in disbelief.
Eh...? What’s going on?