Death League 101: I'm Dead In 10 Minutes!-Chapter 49: “Midnight Hunting Spree (23): Human Skin Boutique”

Chapter 49: “Midnight Hunting Spree (23): Human Skin Boutique”
It wasn’t an illusion.
The clothes on his body suddenly twisted and squeezed him so tightly, as if it wanted to squeeze all the oxygen out of his body!
"Uhhh! Uh!!"
Leinster blinked at Otomen Lover, signalling her with his eyes and indeed, the smart woman immediately noticed Leinster’s strange condition.
"Y-your clothes!"
Why is it twisting like that? Was it the mannequin’s ability, or?
No, no, if the mannequin had that ability, it would have done so earlier.
If that’s the case...
Otomen Lover whipped her head around and saw a dim source of light somewhere inside the clothing store.
Regular customers wouldn’t bring oil lamps with them, so it could only be...
A challenger!
Someone was using their ability to silently kill Leinster!
Since when??
Indeed, a distance away from the chaotic scene around Leinster, a woman wearing fashionable clothes was crouching near a clothing rack, her figure perfectly concealed.
The woman’s wide hat covered her face, only revealing her crimson red lipstick.
"Hmmm~ How long can this guy last?"
The woman kneaded the air with her fingers and miraculously, the clothes on Leinster’s body "came alive", twisting in the way that the woman wanted.
The audience in the woman’s livestream immediately bombarded her with praises.
[Ahhhh! Big sister! So cool! Who would have thought that the ability to control clothes can be so powerful??]
[Big sis, with this ruin, you will definitely be able to enter the promotional battle and go all the way to league 2!]
[Big sis, show these newcomers how scary the veterans can be!]
[Yeah, yeah, the new challengers were running all over the mall to find the target while our big sis waited until the prey stepped into her own hiding spot!]
[As expected of a league 3 veteran!]
"Ah, no, no, I’m just lucky that the prey comes to my turf and not the other veterans’ territories."
The woman laughed like a gentle big sister but her eyes were sinister as she continued to toy with Leinster.
"Speaking of this target, why is he a toddler? Is the information wrong, or?"
Someone in the live broadcast who "spied" on Leinster’s livestream immediately came back and gave the woman a clear answer.
[Big sis, it’s his life-saving skill or something. That’s why he turned into his juvenile form!]
"Oh? Such a skill existed? No wonder he’s the number one criminal in our country."
The woman clicked her tongue and moved her fingers lazily.
"This is getting boring. I should just end this— "
Swish!
The wind suddenly blew and the woman’s sixth instinct screamed at her.
Danger!
"Ah!"
The woman subconsciously tilted her head to the left and the next moment, a stinging pain cut across her cheek.
!
"Ughh!"
The woman touched her cheek and saw blood sliding down the wound.
The woman’s smile froze on her face and the fingers who were manipulating the clothes also froze stiffly.
W-what? She...is wounded?
How?
Who attacked her?
The mannequins? Customers? Shopkeepers?
The woman didn’t see anything, but the audience with a wider perspective saw a sharp glint in the dark and the woman barely dodged it.
If she didn’t dodge in time, the sharp glint would have cut through her neck!
The sharp thing missed the target and it immediately disappeared in the darkness, as if it had never existed.
But the audience in Leinster’s livestream broke into an uproar.
[Pureblood_Uchiha:
What did he do? How did he do that?? Wait, wait, how did he even know the woman’s location??]
She was so hidden!
And that distance...it was at least ten meters!
How did the chain grow so long??
Leinster, who felt that the clothes on his body finally stopped twisting, slowly retracted his chains, the corner of his lips curled into a sinister smile.
Ha. If you want to play as an assassin, at least conceal your murderous intent, your glee and other intense emotions.
He could feel those emotions even when they were ten meters apart!
How easy would it be to locate the source of his "food" based on the "smell"?
So easy, bastard.
But Leinster still didn’t know who attacked him, so he could only swallow his grievances while keeping an eye on the mannequin who was freed from his chains.
"Grraaa? Graaa!"
The mannequin looked around, trying to find the prey it had its eyes on but Leinster was already climbing a clothing rack’s pole, swiftly hiding himself right beneath the forest of fabrics.
As for Otomen Lover...
She took a transparent shopping bag from the store and pretended to be a customer, browsing through the clothes around Leinster’s body, once again concealing the man’s one-year-old boy with her own body.
The mannequin saw Otomen Lover but when it saw the transparent shopping bag, it didn’t dare to attack a customer who didn’t have a bounty.
It could only grunt and walked heavily, brushing past the clothes rack.
Following behind the big mannequin was a kid mannequin, skipping and jumping while giggling excitedly.
"Hehe...he! Hehehe!"
This one could only laugh, its creepy laughter echoing throughout the store.
Once the danger receded, Leinster and Otomen Lover simultaneously sighed in relief.
"Huyh...."
That was so close!
Leinster felt that after all those strenuous exercises, his wound was already widening by a few inches.
Once the adrenaline was gone, his body fell limply and he slid down the pole, landing straight on his b*tt.
"Ugh! Cough! Cough!"
Leinster spurted out another blood and Otomen Lover had to stifle her scream with her own palm.
"L-leinster! Are you okay?!"
Leinster lifted his heavy eyelids and saw the OmO system’s panel jumping around in his vision, mixed with his hallucination from his low sanity.
[OmO, OmO, detecting a new emotion!]
[But the amount is not enough to unlock a new gauge and a new store...]
[Owner, fighting!]
Leinster didn’t even know what kind of new emotion that his ability had detected, but...
It smelled sweet? And warm.
This was the only positive emotion he had detected all these times.
Could it be...
Just when Leinster was deep in thought, a flurry of yellow lights burst into the store, followed by excited shoutings.
"He’s here! He’s here! The map says he’s in this store!"
"Everyone, ask the audience in your livestream to find his exact location!"
Leinster felt all the energy in his body was drained away.
Ah...those bastards are finally here.