21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 301 Blood Knight's Blood River (Seeking Monthly Tickets, Seeking Subscriptions)

The mysterious air about Qingdai did not affect Yu Chen or Hiromi Jounouchi. Although both of them heightened their vigilance towards her inwardly, it didn't stop them from sticking to their original plans. They took the subway home as intended and then made another trip to the supermarket to buy ingredients for that night's dinner.

"Mr. Chen Yu, what would you like to eat tonight? I'm in charge of cooking, so you can pick the dishes!" Walking through the fresh food section of the supermarket, Hiromi Jounouchi joked with Yu Chen while they were surrounded by an array of fresh foods.

Even though there were two Ghost Maids at home to take care of the chores, and they were in charge of preparing breakfast and dinner every day, Hiromi Jounouchi occasionally took it upon herself to cook, especially dishes that Yu Chen enjoyed and that she excelled at making.

"How about we buy some cow bones to make a soup?" Seeing some cow leg bones for sale, Yu Chen remembered the cow bones he asked Kyuuzai Ryousen to get, and suddenly felt like having some beef bone soup.

"Cow bone? Hmm, making some soup sounds good! Drinking hot soup in winter is the best way to warm up." Hiromi Jounouchi agreed with Yu Chen's suggestion and nodded in approval, smiling happily.

Life is just like that, a little thing between two people can make one taste the flavor of happiness and joy.

However, while choosing the cow leg bones, Hiromi Jounouchi joked with Yu Chen, "Speaking of which, can cow bones be used to summon skeletons? Would it summon a human-shaped skeleton, or a cow that walks on its hind legs?"

"If an old-school Necromancer were answering that question, they'd definitely tell you that what stands up would be a cow walking on two hind legs," replied Yu Chen to Hiromichi Jounouchi's question. Pretending to be serious amidst the supermarket employee's eye-rolling at their 'chunibyo' behaviour, he explained, "But for a Necromancer specialized in summoning from the Bone Sect, whatever they want to stand up will stand up. If there were dozens of tons of cow bones, what might rise up could even be a Bone Dragon!"@@@@

"Hahaha!" Hiromi Jounouchi burst out laughing at Yu Chen's serious response, and after getting the cow leg bones weighed by an assistant, she put them in the trolley before moving forward with Yu Chen: "Mr. Chen Yu, did you see that look from the supermarket employee just now? It was just like we were a couple of 'chunibyo'."

The Blood River also replenishes the Blood Knight's stamina and life energy, and even, if necessary, the Blood Knight herself could merge into the Blood River, becoming one with it. As long as the Blood River doesn't dry up, the Blood Knight will not perish.

In the last battle with Maeda Toshiie, if Hiromi Jounouchi hadn't just become a Blood Knight and lacked a Blood River, she wouldn't have only displayed that level of combat strength, nearly relying entirely on Xiao Lan to achieve victory.

"Animal blood, yes, you could, but Hiromi, can you really accept it when you merge with the Blood River, knowing that it's all made of animal blood?" Yu Chen asked when Hiromi Jounouchi brought up this issue, his expression inevitably turning odd.

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"Animal blood should be fine, shouldn't it? After all, the Blood River is formed after transforming the blood, so what blood it originally was doesn't really matter. The key part should still be the blood of the killed enemies, which requires leveraging the enemies' resentment and unwillingness to die, right?" Hiromi Jounouchi didn't mind, and on the contrary, she couldn't accept human blood, "With human blood, just the thought that it's someone else's blood—I truly can't accept that."

"But as doctors, don't we also use other people's blood all the time? Like when giving blood transfusions to patients," Yu Chen said, not understanding Hiromi Jounouchi's perspective.

"How can that be the same! Giving blood transfusions to patients is to save lives, so of course, there won't be any psychological barriers, but with the Blood River..." Hiromi Jounouchi was somewhat at a loss for words, but she still stubbornly argued with Yu Chen, "It's completely different. I can't possibly use the blood of innocents to construct the Blood River!"

"That's true, but..." Yu Chen shook his head slightly, not opposing Hiromi Jounouchi's insistence, "Human blood is still needed, but we don't have to kill innocents. I'll have Ryosen-kun collect some expired blood packs from the blood bank through Mingyue Society for you, that can be used as well."

"Hmm... that could work. But are the expired blood packs from the hospitals enough?" Hiromi Jounouchi, being part of the medical system herself, knew well that the medical blood supply in Japan has always been insufficient, "And for the enemies I'm supposed to kill, where am I supposed to find enemies to kill in modern society?"