"Ah!"
As soon as Luke finished speaking, his vision blurred, and he felt a sharp pain in his head, nearly face-planting on the ground.
"Meow!!!"
The kittens were also startled and quickly scattered, vanishing in the blink of an eye.
Luke clutched his head and looked up fiercely at Krul, who had already stood up.
"You're finished! Don't think just because you're a girl, I won't..."
Bang!
Krul's lips curled into a smirk, and she stomped her right foot. The ground instantly cracked open, and along with it, so did Luke's worldview.
Luke swallowed hard, so shocked by the scene before him that he was speechless, even forgetting the pain in his head.
Holy crap! What a powerful kick, Lady Hero!
Then Luke snapped out of it, his momentum not diminishing.
"Don't think just because you're a girl I'll be ungrateful! Oh, right, I haven't finished my homework yet, I need to hurry up."
With that, Luke turned to run. He could tell that these two probably weren't human; that hit to his head had likely been held back.
Time to bolt!
But how could Krul let him go? She simply smiled and beckoned with her hand. Kyle caught up to Luke in an instant and hauled him back by the scruff of his neck with one hand.
"Hey, let go of me! I'm not into guys!"
Luke was held by Kyle like that, unable to break free no matter how he struggled.
Krul didn't seem to have had her fill of teasing Luke. She reached out to pat his face and said with great interest.
"Kyle, take him along. We should find my brother first before saying anything else."
Kyle was somewhat confused.
"Lady Krul, he is just a part of this false world. Bringing him along is purely a burden."
Krul turned and walked toward a block they hadn't searched yet.
"Let him be a mascot. At a critical moment, he can even be used as a shield."
Hearing this, Kyle thought it made sense! Using Luke as a shield—just thinking about it felt great!
Meanwhile, Luke's heart sank halfway.
Though he didn't know what these two monsters were up to, he had definitely heard the part about being used as a shield.
"Big sister, we just met and it's already come to this? Isn't that inappropriate?"
Krul's mood had relaxed considerably. With a faint smile on her lips, she spoke without looking back.
"If I say it's appropriate, then it's appropriate."
...Somewhere in the city, after a series of eerie glows, several figures appeared out of thin air.
asuramaru looked around; they were all familiar faces.
byakkomaru, Ghost Box King, Moonlight Rhyme, and Shinya.
asuramaru checked once more and asked.
"Where is Thunder Demon?"
Ghost Box King shrugged and said helplessly.
"That guy's user is dead. Now he can barely save his own life; there's no way he could come."
Shinya laughed heartlessly at this moment.
"Hahaha, I'm still the best. Even though Guren is dead, I'm still here."
Without warning, Ghost Box King punched the noisy Shinya in the stomach.
"I told you, if you're injured, stay quiet."
"If I hadn't helped you hide your presence, we would have been discovered by the King before we even got in! You... hmph, I know."
The expression on Shinya's face looked very defiant, but when he looked up and met Ghost Box King's cold gaze, he finally relented.
asuramaru glanced at Shinya imperceptibly. He knew about Luke using Shinya. Hiiragi Mahiru had no power to resist Shinya after Guren's death. He feared Shinya's strength had already recovered and he was likely just acting now.
It seemed he had to be careful of Shinya. His sister and brother-in-law already had a plan, so he didn't need to worry too much about Sigmado's plan.
byakkomaru had a complex expression ever since Shinya mentioned Guren's name. Even though his white tiger hat covered his eyes, his unease was still visible.
byakkomaru spoke up at the right time.
"Guren isn't completely dead."
Hearing this news, Shinya's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.
byakkomaru briefly explained Guren's situation to Shinya. After hearing it, Shinya's expression was complicated.
"Truly tenacious..."
Ghost Box King had no interest in Guren. He waved his hand, interrupting the conversation between byakkomaru and Shinya.
"Hurry up and complete Lord Sigmado's mission. Eh?"
"What's wrong?"
The demons noticed Ghost Box King's expression.
Ghost Box King frowned and said.
"Another demon has entered through the channel I set up, but the location was tampered with. They are in another place."
Ghost Box King looked up, his eyes staring straight at asuramaru as he said word by word.
"It was the channel I set up for you."
"Oh! Ashera, you're a traitor! Can I devour you?"
Shinya, never one to miss a chance to stir up trouble, shouted excitedly.
asuramaru was stunned for a moment, then reacted, his expression natural.
"I don't know. Perhaps my contractor discovered something."
The demons were silent for a long while, but ultimately they didn't cause trouble for asuramaru. Ghost Box King smiled indifferently.
"It doesn't matter. They shouldn't be able to cause much of a stir. Only those at our level have a way to enter the King's world. Since they entered through my ability, their strength likely isn't very high."
"Idiot, your ability was right there for the taking. Why wouldn't they use it?"
Shinya muttered under his breath, not daring to speak out loud, but secretly noting that another demon had entered.
The demons walked out of the alley and onto the street. Miraculously, while they could see it was daytime from inside the alley, the sky darkened in the blink of an eye.
"What kind of ghostly place is this?"
Elsewhere, Kyle and Krul suddenly felt the sky turn dark and looked up in confusion.
Luke spoke up then.
"I say, why don't you just suck me dry? You've been carrying me like this for five or six hours. I'm really tired. Just let it all end!"
Krul looked straight at Luke and made a judgment in her heart.
Since this little brat didn't notice anything unusual, it meant that in Mika's thoughts, it was already night, so it became night.
But her gaze made Luke a bit uneasy. He was somewhat afraid and said weakly.
"I... I'll sell my blood, but not my body..."
At this time in the Hyakuya Orphanage, Little Yu was playing games with everyone. His personality was quite different from the real Yuichiro; the only thing that remained unchanged was the gentleness in his heart and the importance he placed on family.
Mika floated quietly not far away, blankly watching these warm scenes one after another.
Time passed gradually. In Mika's perception, he had stayed here from noon until the moon was high and the stars were sparse.
Suddenly, Mika's brow twitched. His gaze pierced through the walls and fell upon a certain corner of this fantasy city.
An uninvited guest had broken into his world.
"I didn't invite you. How rude."
Mika vanished in an instant and, a few minutes later, arrived at the location of that reckless guest.
"I won't let you destroy this."
Mika had no intention of communicating with the other party. He said a sentence to himself and directly raised his hand. Demonic Aura transformed into pitch-black sharp swords that stabbed straight down at the demon below.
That demon also sensed something. As soon as he looked up, he saw a rain of swords falling toward him. He quickly struck a draw-and-slash pose. Behind him, a purple-black demonic hand mirrored the pose, holding a demonic blade condensed from Demonic Aura.
Two flashes of blade light passed, and the rain of swords vanished. Mika flew in the air, motionless and expressionless. A blade light grazed his body as it flew past, causing him no harm.
"Are you scared witless?"
onikiri pointed his blade at Mika in the air, his face full of provocation.
"Sorry, the bus to your house was too popular, so I had to take the back road."
Just after Mika left, Little Yu, who was playing eagle-catches-chicks with everyone, suddenly lost his footing and fell onto Little Mika, who was playing the mother hen.
"Really, Yu, the mother hen can't be caught by the eagle!"
Yuichiro stood up blankly.
"What... am I doing?"
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