At this time, the break room door was knocked on.
"Busujima-sama, someone is here for a visit."
It was Yuri Alpha, the eldest of the Nazarick Pleiades maid squad.
The seven sisters of the Pleiades maid squad were also basically employed here, usually amusing themselves by tormenting the prisoners.
"It's not that little green-haired kid again, is it?" Reze sneered.
She was talking about Izuku, the bullying kid's lackey.
Almost every day, Izuku would come to Impel Down to deliver food to his great childhood friend.
Damn, Reze felt that many prisoners' wives weren't as diligent as him.
She really couldn't figure it out. Were these two really bully and victim?
She inexplicably saw echoes of Naruto and Sasuke in these two.
Back in the Naruto World, the friendship between those two in Konoha had scared Reze quite a bit.
But Naruto and Sasuke were at least a two-way street. This pair was one beating the other to death, the other kneeling and licking.
No matter how you looked at it, it wasn't normal.
Shinobu couldn't help saying, "Saeko, why don't we kick him out? It's not like that durian-head eats the food he brings anyway."
Every time they let Izuku go for a visit and take the food in, Bakugo didn't appreciate it at all. He would just knock the food over in front of Izuku.
And Izuku would just silently endure it each time, then come back the next day to deliver food as usual.
Shinobu and the others were tired of seeing this.
Saeko was about to respond.
Suddenly, the ground shook violently.
Then, an explosion came from outside, making the windowpanes vibrate with a 'buzz'.
"Enemy attack—!"
Narberal's voice came from the hallway, carrying an emotion she rarely showed in front of humans.
Having been in the real world for two years, she was just looking for some entertainment.
Saeko suddenly stood up. In the moment of rising, her hand was already on the handle of the Shodai Kitetsu. The blade slid an inch out of the scabbard, revealing a cold, white light.
Reze snapped her fingers. A burst of flame exploded at her fingertips.
Boom—!
A huge hole was blown in the wall. Rock fragments flew.
Reze was the first to jump out of the hole. Her boots landed on the rock fragments with a dull thud.
Saeko followed behind her. Shinobu and Kanae flanked her left and right. Rei, carrying the Holy Spear, walked in the back.
When they arrived, they saw a shocking scene.
The main gate of Impel Down was already surrounded by a dense army of Anomalies.
Those Anomalies had various forms. Some had animal heads on human bodies. Some had multiple arms and legs. Some were covered in scales. Some had bodies that kept squirming and deforming.
There were at least a hundred of them. They were packed together in the square in front of the gate, blocking the entire entrance.
At the head was a young man whose face was covered in eyes.
Different sizes, different colors. Their pupils were dilated to almost fill their entire eye sockets.
Those eyes covered his entire face, from his forehead to his chin, densely packed, like a group of leeches parasitic on his face.
Shinobu's fingers unconsciously tightened around her sword handle.
His appearance reminded her of someone... Kokushibo.
Muzan's top general, whose face was also covered in eyes.
Rei's pupils contracted sharply. The Holy Spear in her hand nearly slipped. After a few seconds, she squeezed a name from her throat.
"...Takashi?"
The surrounding colleagues looked at her simultaneously.
"You know him?" Busujima Saeko asked.
Rei's mouth was open. Excessive shock kept her from even hearing her leader's question.
"..."
Rei's voice was still trembling. "Ho-how... how did you end up like this?"
The countless eyes on Komuro Takashi's face lit up.
At least a dozen eyeballs turned toward Rei in the same instant. Their pupils all dilated at once.
The unsettling weirdness, which could make one's sanity points drop, made Rei involuntarily take a step back.
"How about it, Rei?"
Takashi's voice came from behind that eye-covered face. "Now I have power... power greater than yours."
The former Komuro Takashi, after learning that his good brother Igou Hisashi was dead, had immediately wanted to steal Rei away and confessed to Rei.
At that time, he felt he was Rei's last support in this world... Hisashi was dead. She must need comfort, need a man's shoulder to lean on.
Then Rei rejected him. Without any room for negotiation.
The reason was simple... she had already been admitted to the Shuchi'in Superpower Academy. In the future, she was going to become a superpowered individual, a Hero.
And Takashi hadn't even passed the entrance exam and could only attend an ordinary university.
In Rei's view, the two of them had no intersection in the future, so naturally, she didn't agree to his confession.
Not to mention, she also realized that to survive in the increasingly dangerous real world and the worlds of the Reincarnation Game,
She had to find a stronger man.
What did Takashi have? A not-bad-looking face? A 'I'll treat you well'?
Could he compare to Makoto?
To be honest, even if she let Makoto fuck her for free and then put the news out there,
The benefits she would get would be far greater than being with Takashi.
To use a phrase from Makoto's previous life, Rei would rather cry in Makoto's harem than smile in Takashi's arms.
She never imagined that when she met Takashi again two years later, he would have turned into this.
"How did you end up like this?!"
Rei's voice rose a few octaves. Not out of heartache, only fear.
Looking at those constantly rotating eyes, Rei's stomach churned.
"Rei, come back to me."
Takashi reached out his hand.
Although it was no longer a human hand.
"I'm so strong now. I can make you happy."
Rei forced herself to suppress the disgust rising in her head and said to Takashi with a serious face, "Takashi, give up. It's impossible for us."
Although she had no romantic feelings for him, he was still a childhood friend. She still had normal feelings for him.
Rei never imagined that one day her childhood friend would turn into this.
Takashi's smile froze.
The eyes on his face began to shift uneasily. A few seconds later, he took a few apple-sized objects from his pocket.
Those things pulsed slightly in his palm. Their outlines resembled viruses. Their surfaces were covered in fine patterns, pulsing like blood vessels.
"It's okay, Rei."
Takashi took a deep breath and held those pulsing things up to his chest. "It's normal for you not to be used to it now. After you eat the monster cells and become an Anomaly too, we can be together forever."
Saeko's eyelids twitched.
'Was that thing called monster cells?'
'Judging by that guy's tone, it seemed that eating this thing would turn someone into an Anomaly.'
And after hearing this, Rei's last remaining feelings for Takashi vanished completely. Her gaze grew even colder as she said,
"You've truly gone insane."
Takashi's eyes all narrowed. He took a deep breath, stuffed the monster cells back into his pocket, and looked up. A dozen eyes simultaneously turned to look at the Impel Down tower.
"My orders are to take all the criminals locked up in here."
Then, Takashi's voice was no longer agitated. He looked at Rei again with unusual calmness. "Since that's the case, I'll have to use forceful means to take you away, Rei. Even if Nishikawa Makoto takes you from me, I won't give up. I'm the only one who truly loves you. Later... I'll personally get revenge on him."
Makoto was currently in Tsuki's bed, going up and down with the wedding-dress-clad Tsuki.
He didn't yet know that an Anomaly wanted to get revenge on him for 'taking away his woman'.
If he knew about it, he would definitely say, 'Dude, are you f*cking sick? I didn't sleep with your childhood friend. I've never even met her. What the f*ck are you taking revenge for?'