“You bastard… You’re not using your brain?! Just how much of a monstrosity can you be, Demon King?!” he exclaimed.

Using ‘Marionette,’ Hajime Fitun had searched for signs of Vandalieu possessing some other organ that carried out the function of the physical brain, or him having been replaced by an illusion or a Golem by a third party.

But it wasn’t that he had become unable to read Vandalieu’s thoughts. Vandalieu’s brain had simply stopped all activity and was doing no thinking whatsoever.

“Don’t say that like I’m some kind of idiot,” said Vandalieu as he cast ‘Flame Prison Death’ and ignited Hajime Fitun’s blood that was on the surface of his body.

Suppressing a scream, Hajime Fitun extinguished the fire in the same way as before and recovered by drinking a Potion taken from his pocket.

He looked with an expression of fear towards Vandalieu, who was speaking and casting spells without using his brain.

“It’s regrettable that you’re looking at me that way when all I’m doing is controlling my body directly with my soul and spirit rather than using my brain,” said Vandalieu.

From his perspective, he wasn’t doing anything extraordinary. He was simply controlling his body with just his soul and spirit.

In Origin, he had spent a long period of time in the presence of other spirits, with the freedom of control over his body having been robbed from him. Ever since his experience of turning into an Undead, Vandalieu had always possessed the ability to think without using his brain, and it didn’t take him much effort at all.

That was why he was able to do things like multiply his thinking capacity by using ‘Out-of-body Experience’ and multiplying his spirit’s heads.

To Vandalieu, the brain was important but not the only important organ in his body; it was nothing more than a supplementary organ to his soul.

(Chapter 236)