According to the confession of the Pope of the Church of Happiness and Peace—the middle-aged man—they actually intended to use the opportunity of this evening banquet to corrupt the owner of this hotel and pull them into the church, using this as a way to make this hotel their new base, a springboard for development.
Precisely because of this, the entire church had come out in full force for this banquet, all of their vital forces were within this hotel, which made it easy to wipe them out in one fell swoop, without having to worry about any fish slipping through the net.
What Asakura needed to do was to target all the bugs and use the magic spell [Candle] to burn them all away in one breath.
"Takuma-senpai, are you alright?"
As a witch, Gokou Ruri, who also had a certain degree of sensitivity toward magical power, felt the surge of magic within Asakura and couldn't help but ask with some concern.
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."
Asakura nodded slightly.
The floors of this hotel were quite high, and in fact, some corners had already exceeded the range of Asakura's magic spell.
However, after the Mt. Natagumo incident, he had long since gained further insights into the understanding of magic spells, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to develop applications like composite magic so easily.
Therefore, in order to allow the effect of the magic spell to completely cover the entire hotel, when he once again triggered a state similar to a 'magic spell rampage' to increase the range, his control was much better than the time at Mt. Natagumo.
Not to mention that this time Asakura had specifically chosen a position in the center of the hotel to cast the magic spell, even if there were places still not covered by the range of the magic spell, they were just some fringe corners—it would be no problem at all as long as the range of the magic spell was increased slightly.
"How is the situation?" Asakura took a breath and asked the young girl.
Gokou Ruri opened her palm, and a small cat emerged from the ground like a mushroom, then nimbly jumped into her hand.
The girl poked the kitten's head, and the kitten seemed to deflate, suddenly becoming flat, and then with a poof, it turned back into a paper napkin.
And Gokou Ruri also seemed to have obtained the kitten's vision with the help of the power of the magic spell.
"Those controlled by the bugs have all lost their ability to move—" the girl said: "The remaining survivors all look like they've just escaped from a disaster."
"...Survivors?" Shiina Mahiru's face lost almost all its color: "That is to say, everyone controlled by the bugs... has died?"
"This is also something that can't be helped." Yukinoshita Haruno sighed, she looked at Asakura, who was indifferent to this news, and then at Shiina Mahiru, who seemed unable to bear it in her heart, and said: "The culprits are those guys who manipulated the bugs, don't go hating the wrong person."
"I know..." Shiina Mahiru muttered to herself somewhat vacantly, "I certainly know..."
"You guys seem to have misunderstood something."
At this time, Gokou Ruri spoke in her usual cold tone: "Although most of the people controlled will fall into a state of weakness or even exhaustion because of the bugs, at least their life and safety can still be guaranteed, at most it's just broken tendons and fractured bones."
Upon hearing this, Shiina Mahiru couldn't help but show an expression of relief, and her large eyes were also full of joy.
It seemed that even if she was disliked by her parents, the kind girl still couldn't help but care about the safety of her parents.
"The bugs inside their bodies were just burned away, theoretically speaking at most there would be some accompanying burn injuries, why would there be broken tendons and fractured bones?" Asakura heard her say this and couldn't help but ask somewhat strangely.
He clearly had quite a bit of confidence in his control over his magic spell.
"Because when those people were facing the suppression of my Kuroneko, they didn't just give up, they even dared to launch a counterattack against me." Gokou Ruri turned her face to the side, saying somewhat uncomfortably: "So my little cuties were a little heavy-handed."
So those people's broken tendons and fractured bones were caused by your beating, hey!
"And then there is the second wave..." Asakura sighed somewhat helplessly and raised his finger again: "[Candle]"
"Haven't the bugs all been dealt with already?"
Gokou Ruri asked curiously.
Asakura did not answer, just closed his eyes as if he were maintaining his own magic spell.
On the contrary, Yukinoshita Haruno showed a thoughtful expression.
"Kuroneko, it's not the first time you've done this kind of thing, right?" she asked the girl.
"So what if it isn't?" the girl asked back noncommittally.
In fact, Gokou Ruri herself was participating in this kind of activity for the first time, but as far as she knew, Asakura had already had at least two such operations at Mt. Natagumo and Chiba Port Tower.
Yukinoshita Haruno seemed to understand something, she said: "The fact that it hasn't been noticed by mainstream society until now means that you guys... at least Asakura-kun has a fairly mature method of handling the aftermath."
Gokou Ruri was stunned for a moment and then showed a somewhat enlightened expression, but she still furrowed her brows and asked: "How did you know?"
"Could it be that Kuroneko hasn't discovered it yet?"
Yukinoshita Haruno took out her phone with a smile: "From just now, the phone has already been unable to turn on normally. Before leaving, I took a moment to look at the background projection equipment in the banquet hall, and almost all of them were in a state where they couldn't work. If I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid the surveillance of the entire hotel has been destroyed."
It felt as if the entire hotel had been hit by an electromagnetic pulse bomb, but thinking carefully, there were situations different from an emp attack, which made Yukinoshita Haruno feel a bit puzzled.
But the benefit of the supernatural is that all things that cannot be understood can be pushed onto that supernatural aspect, and using common sense to think about such incidents is itself a laughable behavior.
So Yukinoshita Haruno quickly gave up thinking.
Gokou Ruri gave a noncommittal shrug.
Just then, Shiina Mahiru discovered that the flames on her body had changed to a different color.
"Eh, I feel a bit strange..." Before her words were finished, the whole person suddenly fainted, falling onto the relatively thick carpet of this hotel, losing consciousness just like that.
Yukinoshita Haruno could no longer smile.
"That... I wouldn't happen to be one of those being 'handled', right?"
At this moment, she even began to reflect on whether there was anything strange in the chicken she had eaten earlier: seeing how practiced the other party was, maybe she had already been caught once...
"Your case, I will leave to Yukinoshita... I mean Yukino to look after." At this time, Asakura opened his eyes and said: "Of course, if you plan to go outside and talk nonsense, it's not like I don't have a way to counter it."
"It seems Asakura really is good to Yukino~" Yukinoshita Haruno felt relieved and returned to her previous slightly flighty big sister manner.
Gokou Ruri's eyes suddenly became sharp.