Magician in Type-Moon

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He did not back down; instead, he took advantage of the opportunity to directly attack Ryougi Shiki and capture her.

This undoubtedly shows that Araya Sōren is a decisive person.

Matou Ike even consulted Aozaki Touko about Araya Sōren's personality before finalizing this plan.

Since Araya Souren did not appear in this operation, let's think about it the other way around—

This action may have been within Araya Souren's expectations, or perhaps Matouchi's preemptive provocation of Ryougi Shiki is similar to some of Araya Souren's arrangements.

That's why he didn't show up, but waited in the shadows for Matou Ike to complete his plan.

With this in mind, Matouchi raised the level of danger for Araya Sōren to another level.

This is a man like a snake; he waits in the shadows for the perfect moment, then suddenly bites you.

As for what Shirai Rio was doing, Matou Ike still couldn't figure it out even after the plan was completed.

Could it be that they've really cowered away out of fear?

However, Matou Ike used the scene of being stabbed "to death" by Ryougi Shiki one stab after another to create the illusion of his own weakness.

They couldn't lure this guy out, which left Matou Ike feeling quite helpless.

However, Matou Ike was not in a hurry, since this operation had added a powerful fighting force to his side.

That's where the advantage lies.

As for these rats hiding in the shadows, they will eventually be wiped out one day through slow and steady elimination.

......

What Shirai Jun Rio is doing is something only he himself knows.

After being ambushed by Matou Ike into the barrier that day, he fled in a panic and sought out Araya Sōren, where he received some guidance.

He then began to actively seek the support of the Holy Spirit.

Even his attention to the Ryougi Shiki was slightly put on hold in his mind.

It was precisely because of this that, by a twist of fate, he was able to escape the trap that Matou Ike had set for him.

......

The night was deep, and it was almost midnight.

There was no one in the warehouse area, and few streetlights. As long as you walked into the open space between the two warehouses, no one would cause trouble.

All the port has to offer is the reflection from the sea and the glow of the streetlights.

The only things worth noting are the sound of the waves and the wide bridge still under construction on the distant sea.

Indeed, if it were here,

You don't have to worry about being disturbed no matter what you do.

"Help, help, help me... Don't kill me, I'll give you money!"

The woman tried to escape from the young man who was standing motionless in front of her.

Her body immediately floated slightly, and her right leg was severed from the knee down by the knife.

Splash! Fresh blood splattered out as if it had been poured from a bucket onto the floor.

The bloodstains splattered on the warehouse's concrete floor looked like some kind of work of art.

Shirai Junri watched this scene with her dim, yellowish eyes.

"The 29th one, four short of summoning the Holy God, what should I do?" Shirai Junri sighed, looking down at the woman wriggling like a caterpillar.

Murders and disappearances have been frequent lately, and under strong pressure from the government and the Metropolitan Police Department, these incidents have caused widespread panic.

Various companies have either moved up their closing time or given their employees a day off.

Even the men didn't dare to go home alone; they usually went in groups of three or five.

There was no one around in the slightly remote areas.

Even the woman dressed so flamboyantly in front of him was someone he had lured away by using his sexuality.

Although Shirai Junri had the means to infiltrate ordinary people's homes, he dared not act rashly.

Moreover, there's no guarantee that the people who infiltrate the house can resist their own "feeding" origins.

If it can't withstand the pressure, it's just waste material.

Furthermore, he had already learned from Araya Sōren that the guy named Matou Ike had deployed a large number of informants throughout the city.

If he's not careful and his whereabouts are discovered, he'll definitely be brought to justice and killed without a trace.

The mere thought of Matouike made Shirai Jun Rio grit her teeth in anger.

He already knew what Matou Ike had done.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it! Ryougi Shiki is mine, she belongs to me!"

Shiro Junri, in a fit of rage, straddled the already dying woman, tearing her clothes and skin with his claw-like hands.

He ravaged that woman's body wildly.

After a period of frantic torment, and having vented his emotions to the point of exhaustion, Bai Chun finally pulled the woman's heart out of her body.

It was placed into a jar made by Cornelius Aruba, a friend of Araya Sōren.

After doing all this, Shirai Junri began cleaning up the scene; his methods were simple and brutal.

Bai Chun was struggling with how to collect the remaining four heads.

How do I collect them?

It's too difficult to both avoid Matou Ike, that plague god, and kill people at the same time.

Those guys in Guanbuzi City who liked to hang out at night were either eaten by the guys he had transformed before, or they all gave up their nighttime jobs.

It's impossible to get a taxi at night now.

This is really frustrating.

It's all those guys' fault for not being able to control their appetites; they ate all the easy-to-kill creatures until there wasn't a single hair left.

Or should we use them to represent the number of people?

No, these guys have already fallen into his "feeding" spiral; they are trash that the Holy Spirit would not want.

But finding four more creatures that can resist "feeding" is just too difficult.

Why don't we give it a try? These guys haven't been very obedient lately anyway.

Chapter 212 Ritual (3.4k)

...It's raining.

The pattering rain was so loud that Bai Chun opened her eyes, which had been tightly closed.

"What? Have they all arrived yet?"

After waking up from a deep sleep, I lay on the concrete floor looking at the scenery before me.

The grass is growing very lushly.

The plant was more than twice the height of Bai Chun.

The sunlight streaming in from the high windows appeared gray due to the rain.

Even so, the light streaming in through the row of glass windows was still very strong, so bright that it didn't feel like being inside a building.

Before I knew it, it was already morning outside.

"Boss, you're awake." The guy sitting on the windowsill jumped down from a height of three or four meters, acting as if nothing had happened.

"It's Qi Tai. When did you arrive? Where are the others?" Bai Chun got up from the cement floor and patted the dust off her clothes.

"I've been here for a while now, but the others probably won't arrive for a bit longer," said Keita Minato, standing next to Rio Shirasumi as if nothing had happened, counting on his fingers.

"It's been all night, and they still haven't come? It seems even my orders don't work anymore."

Shirai Junri spoke fiercely in a calm tone.

"You can't blame everyone for this. At this time, everyone should still be hungry. If you're too hungry, it's understandable that you won't have any motivation."

"Oh? And you? Aren't you hungry?" Upon hearing this, Shirasumi Rio's eyes gleamed with a strange light as she casually asked Minato Keita.

Keita Minato, oblivious to anything amiss, continued:

"I have food reserves, unlike those guys who just eat all day long."

Grain reserves?

Bai Chun nodded at the little brat in front of him, his earlier interest completely gone.

I had hoped for a miracle—that someone among these cannibals could actually withstand the hunger.

Unexpectedly, this guy actually ate the plaything he had kept as a pet.

In the face of hunger, even sexual desire becomes insignificant?

Shirai Rio believed that she was different from these monsters.

Beyond the ever-present hunger, he had an even more important goal.

He killed people himself just so that Ryougi Shiki could become like him.

The monsters he created were only for eating.

There is a fundamental difference between the two, at least that's what Bai Chun thinks.

They initially just wanted to have madmen like him as companions.

Being alone is too unsettling.

But the result only made Bai Chun more unhappy; they didn't experience any pain from killing at all.

This false sense of belonging fueled Bai Chun's obsession with Ryougi Shiki even more.

"Recently, there's been a growing dissatisfaction within the guild about you, Boss."

Keita Minato's words interrupted Rio Shirasumi's thoughts.