21st Century Necromancer

A serial killer who had murdered at least twenty people was receiving treatment in his own hospital—what should Chen Yu do?
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Simply kill him? That would be no problem at all, and given the grudges entwining the beast's body, he certainly deserved to die. Even by the Necromancer's moral standards, he was due for death, and killing him would not cause Chen Yu any psychological burden.

Moreover, making a critically ill patient like this one die without anyone noticing was far too easy. Chen Yu only needed to meddle a little with his body and he wouldn't even need to use Necromancer's methods—wound infection, organ failure, cardiac arrest… There were far too many ways to end his miserable life.

As a Necromancer, Chen Yu never minded killing, nor did he feel that taking a life would cause him any psychological burden. He would also not stand on a moral high ground to condemn others for killing.

If slaughtering ten million people could advance him into the Legendary realm or even higher, Chen Yu would delightfully wipe out Tokyo's ten million residents, and make sure that every single one of them died willingly.

For a Necromancer, killing was merely a means to return life to death—whether it was to exact revenge or to kill indiscriminately, it all culminated in returning life to death. Therefore, to a Necromancer, a murderer's existence was meaningless, merely a ripple in the grand scheme of the Unity of All Things' return to death.

Yet, Chen Yu detested killing without reason, or to put it plainly, killing just to satisfy oneself.

In his view, life was meaningful. Even though, according to the beliefs and theories of Necromancers, all things would unify and life would ultimately return to death, the existence of life must have its significance. To him, even as a Necromancer, a meaningless death was a waste.

Killing merely for self-gratification, creating slaughter and death for that sole purpose, such a person was nothing but a beast, a murderer—Chen Yu saw no reason for such a person to continue living after killing.

He didn't mind if people killed for revenge or profit, and he was indifferent to killings for various purposes... As long as the killer had reasons that could convince themselves, Chen Yu felt he had no place to interfere with their killings. At most, he would reveal the truth and let the killer bear the societal and legal responsibilities.

However, purposeless and meaningless killings were something Chen Yu could not tolerate or accept. He disliked such people. And if he disliked them, he would not allow them to continue living—not out of moral considerations, not concerning good and evil, but simply because he disliked them.

As for the murderer lying unconscious while being treated in his hospital, Chen Yu did not want to just kill him off so easily. He at least wanted the man to die with clarity, to pay the price for his actions.

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"What! Mr. Chen Yu, you're saying the burn victim admitted to our hospital is a serial killer?" Jounouchi Hiromi was utterly shocked when she heard the news Chen Yu told her. She was so astonished that the teacup she had been holding dropped to the ground and shattered into pieces.

Looking at the shattered cup, Jounouchi Hiromi's heart ached anew. It was her favorite cup, one she had used for many years, and she never expected it to break like this.

However, just as she was about to reach out to clean up the fragments, Chen Yu drew a circle in the air with his finger over the broken cup, and to Jounouchi Hiromi's amazement, the fragments lifted themselves up and stuck back together, returning to a whole cup.

Chen Yu picked up the cup and handed it back to Jounouchi Hiromi, then took a mop to clean up the water on the floor. While mopping, he explained to Jounouchi Hiromi, "The resentment entangled around that guy is too deep. He must have killed at least twenty people to have such profound resentment. As a Necromancer, I may misjudge other things, but not this."

With her beloved cup in her hands again, it was actually the ease with which Chen Yu had restored the broken cup, rather than the existence of a serial killer, that surprised her more. However, Jounouchi Hiromi knew what was important. She set the cup back on the table and pressed Chen Yu for answers, "Then what do you plan to do, Mr. Chen Yu?"

"I was going to kill him directly, but after some thought, I felt that it would be letting him off too easy. Besides, this person is connected to another ten lives.

I must wait for him to wake up so the police can question him about his testimony regarding the fire, then decide how to deal with him," Chen Yu said while mopping the floor, discussing a matter concerning thirty lives, which made Jounouchi Hiromi watching him mop feel rather absurd.

However, she quickly expelled such thoughts from her mind and looked at Chen Yu seriously, saying, "Although people like him deserve to die, can you please not kill him, Mr. Chen Yu? I don't want you to be the one to do it. I…"

Jounouchi Hiromi didn't know why she wanted to prevent Chen Yu from killing. Knowing his identity as a Necromancer, Jounouchi Hiromi understood that killing was not unusual for Chen Yu, but still, she didn't want him to be the one to do it, even if she had to do it herself.

"Even if you didn't say so, Hiromi, I had already discarded the idea of killing him myself. A beast like him should pay the price he deserves before dying. It would be too easy on him to just kill him directly." Smiling at his fiancée, he put the mop back and wrapped his arms around Jounouchi Hiromi's waist, explaining to her.

Chen Yu could understand Jounouchi Hiromi's inclination against him committing murder, considering that both she and he had been under the influence of modern social moral standards for at least twenty to thirty years. If he had not become a Necromancer, murder should have been far removed from their lives.

"So what do you plan to do with this murderer, Mr. Chen Yu? Just call the police?" Jounouchi Hiromi's first thought regarding a murderer was to alert the authorities.

"There's no evidence; calling the police would be useless. I can't exactly tell them that because I'm a Necromancer and can see resentment, this person is a murderer, can I? Such words can't serve as evidence and would be dismissed by the police as nonsense," Chen Yu shook his head, rejecting the suggestion. "Let's wait for him to wake up.

I will have the Mingyue Society monitor him, gather evidence, and then hand it over to the police. Only then can he be brought to justice and made to pay for his crimes."

"Yes, that's best. We can't kill him, but we can't let a murderer go unpunished either," Jounouchi Hiromi nodded emphatically, showing her agreement with Chen Yu's approach.

Embracing Jounouchi Hiromi, Chen Yu let out a sigh, "It's a pity I'm not an Astrologer. Otherwise, this matter would be much simpler. I could use Divination to find clues and evidence, and hand this beast over to the police directly."