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Poison Lingers in the Eastern Sea – Part 03

“What?”

Then a thought came to him. What about Life Detection?

“Hmm.”

Hikaru used Life Detection on the fish, but he felt no sign of life at all. That meant it was dead.

“What’s going on here?”

“Did you figure something out?” Lavia asked.

“There’s mana coming from the fish, but no life force.”

“So it’s dead?”

“No. When something dies, its mana should stop too. But this one only lacks life force. It feels like only its life was taken.”

At that moment, Hikaru remembered what Phoenix said.

“Some call me the Usurper of Life.”

Usurper. Someone who seizes.

He had assumed Phoenix was simply someone who stole art. But if she’d called herself the Usurper of Life, then…

“Did she steal the fish’s life force?”

She took the fish’s life? Why?

“Ow, ow. Hot!”

Hikaru suddenly felt his waist grow hot. For a moment, he thought the