Wait, System! Stop Helping The Protagonist!

The moment Rias got trapped.

"What is this place?" Rias frowned, looking at the red overwhelming his surroundings.

Rias swung his halberd at one point, wanting to escape this place. However, the moment his halberd hit the blood wall, his halberd rebounded. It was as if he hit a wall made purely of rubber.

Rias squinted his eyes, this time thrusting his halberd.

Unfortunately, the result was the same. His 10% penetration felt utterly useless.

"Go..."

An attack came from above Rias’s head. He quickly adjusted his body to the right, escaping the scalpel that grazed past his skin.

The Blood Curled Nurse dived into the blood below and began attacking from every direction possible.

"..to..."

Rias tried his best to dodge and deflect every attack, but at such close distance, he was struggling hard to keep up. He didn’t have the time to breathe as various cuts began to appear on his body.

"...bed"

Rias gritted his teeth, subsiding the pain to the deepest pit of his mind. However, as the injuries began to stack on top of each other, his body began to give up for the lack of energy.

He was close to Bronze, Refinement 3, after killing all those Baby Holders. This new strength boosted his confidence, only to get extinguished in a matter of seconds.

Rias was a newborn baby with a gun. He has learned to properly shoot but hasn’t mastered it.

One has to remember he sparked his Inner Bon just two days ago.

As his body began to give up and he wasn’t able to keep up with the Blood Curled Nurse’s attacks, he began to murmur to himself. ’Am I going to die? But... but I still have not completed my revenge. I have to avenge my mother, father, and fellow clansmen. To do that, I can’t die. Absolutely not.’

Rias sank his consciousness inside his Life Palace. There, pieces of blank photos stacked on top of each other could be seen all over the floor. Deep inside this pile of blank photos, there was a shelf penetrating through the sky. On that shelf there was a photo of Sharp Bumper, and on its backside were written a few words.

[ Sharp Bumper: Gain 10% penetration (Passive)]

To its side were two other photos, incomplete. One of the photos was of the Baby Holder, half complete.

The other was of the Blood Curled Nurse’s. It had 61% written on the top left corner.

This shelf and blank photos were Rias’s Inner Bon. The ability to copy others’ ability for inferior quality, for now at least.

Looking at the Blood Curled Nurse’s photo, Rias said. "You are my only hope of escaping this predicament. But I do not know if I can hold on till you are complete."

Rias didn’t rest any hope of getting rescued. He was just a nobody, so how did they waste their time and energy to break open this indestructible blood ball?

"I hope Lovia stays safe and leads a peaceful life. If I can leave, then she doesn’t have to worry about them."

Rias could push himself through to get that new ability, but he knew when he reached that point he wouldn’t have any energy left to properly stand.

Yet, he had to hold on for a miracle.

He couldn’t give up on revenge so easily. The person who took away the smiles of his parents has to pay their price!

"I won’t let you have my end here!" Rias pumped up his chest, screaming to the top of his lungs.

Gathering every last bit of energy to a single point, he burst out for one last dance.

However, the Blood Curled Nurse didn’t understand Rias’s emotion, and she didn’t have to. She only knows she has to kill this guy who is struggling like a headless chicken.

"Argh!"

Rias lost his footing.

"You won’t—"

Rias tried to deflect every attack despite his body bleeding profusely. However, the ones he missed added a new place for his blood to pour out.

"Stop me—"

Rias looked at the Blood Curled Nurse’s photo, almost complete at 98%.

"—from my revenge!"

Rias knelt on his left knee, clenching his halberd tightly as a support.

99%

"I..."

Rias’s vision began to blur as he watched the scalpel slowly closing in on him. Now, he had nothing left in him to stop it. Out of strength, out of sanity, but not out of will.

Rias glared at the Blood Curled Nurse’s bloody face, waiting patiently for his death and the completion of the new copied ability.

100%

Before he could look at the ability, he forced himself to believe he could kill the Blood Curled Nurse that was a couple of centimeters away from him.

Finding an illusory strength on his body, he readied himself to parry this attack.

All of a sudden, the Blood Curled Nurse’s face got replaced with someone who he was familiar with. A figure that bugged him and teased him daily, but he could never have the heart to tell her to stop or leave him.

The scalpel got replaced with a hug and the pair of peaks that always struck him.

"Rias!"

Lovia hugged Rias tightly, fearing he would leave her alone. "I am here. Don’t leave me."

A smile gradually appeared on Rias’s face as drowsiness filled him to the brim.

"Idiot, how can I?" Rias softly spoke to Lovia’s ears before falling asleep.

The blood ball also began to fade away, revealing the ward.

One could see Anastasia’s spear penetrating through the Blood Curled Nurse’s heart while Ashton slashed at her neck, ending her life as a Filth finally.

Ashton glanced at the pair that fell asleep on each other and at the fading away Blood Curled Nurse. He pondered. ’Is this Filth? Truly the most horrifying being that could make even the stars quiver in fear.’

Anastasia looked at Lovia’s exhausted face and unconscious Rias. Finally resting on Ashton’s. "Filths... are more terrifying in person than in the stories."