Chapter 457: Destined Death, The Top Three [Cards]
"Uh, thank you so much, sir. Your act of killing this brutal villain will definitely be commended. We have already reported to the National Police Agency..."
Several police officers cautiously approached. Only after confirming that the brutal villain was truly dead did they express their gratitude to Kaito Shirogane continuously with lingering fear, as if Kaito were some great philanthropist.
[You killed DD30677540. Purge Mission progress updated.]
[Purge Mission has been completed.]
[Special Reincarnator EX051, you may choose to return in a non-combat state, or return after a maximum of 25 days.]
Kaito waved his hand, putting away the Scarlet Drop Card that shimmered with golden light spots. His pace didn't look fast, but in the blink of an eye, he had walked hundreds of meters. The police officer who was calling headquarters turned his head, only to see Kaito's figure disappear around the corner.
Kaito recalled the thought information he read from the Reincarnator's mind just now.
The other party wasn't bluffing, nor was it a curse before death. The other party truly saw his time of death from the Multi-Faced Aliens.
And Kaito was also clear that the Multi-Faced Aliens' ability was not prophecy, but an effect similar to seeing through the dimension of time.
In some scientific concepts, time is not a long river in the usual sense, time is not linear, but a counter-intuitive structure.
The so-called past, present, and future are all just human illusions.
Therefore, things like "seeing through" time and "seeing through" the future, in this dimension, are not the ability effects of the mystic or prophecy systems, but a science. It is a systematic cognition obtained by the Multi-Faced Aliens standing at the peak of the scientific dimension.
Sixty days later is my [Destined Death]?
"Interesting..."
By now, Kaito was also very clear about some of his anomalies compared to other Reincarnators, or rather, other humans.
He possessed no so-called reverence for life.
Whether towards others or himself.
Some Reincarnators would wantonly slaughter plot characters because they felt they were true humans, possessing noble and free souls, while plot characters were just NPCs, just data. Therefore, they wouldn't empathize with plot characters and could slaughter at will;
Some Reincarnators would wantonly slaughter other people in the real world, or even other Reincarnators. Such Reincarnators were called [Fiends], because humans had tyrannical genes hidden in their bones. This portion of fiends merely fully stimulated the tyranny in their instincts and ignored all laws and morals;
But Kaito didn't kill for pleasure, nor did he feel nobler than others. He simply... needed to kill.
Killing was the simplest and most efficient way for him to gain power and complete missions.
Killing was the indispensable rest in his participation in and ending of battles.
Plot characters, ordinary people, Reincarnators, to Kaito, there was no difference. He fought everyone equally and killed everyone equally.
Similarly, Kaito completely disregarded his own life.
Just like the hundreds of thousands of souls hidden in his body that wanted to take away his consciousness at any time, he felt absolutely no problem. Occasionally when his body had issues, he would even enjoy it, fighting and contending with those hundreds of thousands of souls for the ownership of the [Throne of the Heart].
Kaito was obsessed with combat and obsessed with power, but not obsessed with his own life.
Knowing at this moment that the Multi-Faced Aliens saw he would die in sixty days, he didn't feel fear, confusion, or such emotions.
Kaito was merely curious about what realm he would reach in 60 days with his current growth rate.
And what kind of power could kill the him of that time.
"Ha~ really... looking forward to it..."
Beep beep, beep beep.
As Kaito walked, the satellite phone that Hideto Suga had specially equipped for Kaito before his departure rang.
This phone was nominally for Kaito to contact them directly when needed, but in fact, it was Hideto Suga's backup plan to ask Kaito for help when dealing with special events beyond the power scope of the Black Ball Team.
After Kaito connected, Hideto Suga's terrified voice came from inside.
"Mr. Tao... We have some situation here..."
On the phone, Kaito could hear screams. It seemed something had broken into the official residence. Given that the Japanese government currently controlled multiple Gantz teams, this meant the intruders possessed power surpassing Gantz technology.
Kaito looked up and saw a full moon.
"You guys don't deserve to control the power of Gantz..."
Kaito heard Kei Kurono's voice full of anger, followed by another burst of screams.
Zzz~
The sound of static came. In the next moment, the satellite phone changed hands. A woman's voice came through the phone to Kaito's ears.
"Mercenary Tao, I will seek revenge against you, definitely..."
Click.
The phone call was disconnected.
Kaito chuckled and shook his head. In the next moment, his figure soared into the sky. With the blessing of Dance of the Sky Arts, Kaito directly broke the sound barrier, piercing through the sea of clouds. Then, a blue-and-white painted single-seater watercraft appeared under his feet.
Accompanied by the hissing of thunder and lightning, Kaito put his hands behind his back, his pink robe fluttering loudly. He stepped on the single-seater watercraft, speeding towards Japan above the sea of clouds.
Sure enough, fatalism and destined death were all too boring. It was still this kind of imminent slaughter that fascinated him more.
This was the reason he liked the identity of a Reincarnator the most. Endless conflict, endless hatred... endless slaughter.
In the temporary Prime Minister's official residence, Hideto Suga was pale, clutching his broken left wrist, curled up beside his desk. He looked at the woman crackling with electricity; she exuded an aura completely different from other Black Ball warriors.
It was precisely because she instantly broke into the official residence and killed more than a dozen warriors wearing strengthening suits that this group easily broke into the official residence.
"Is it okay for you to say that? A guy like Mercenary Tao will probably rush back from Germany immediately..."
Although Lotus was questioning, his eyes were soft. He knew very well the pain in Bonnie's heart.
To put it nicely, the 74960 squad was a team with resources and combat power concentrated on a few people. To put it harshly, it was actually just a second-rate team relying on Bonnie's power to hold on.
And in such a team, the kind-hearted Bonnie bore great pressure. This time, everyone died in battle, and Bonnie was bound to blame herself greatly.
He didn't say any empty words like "you don't need to avenge me." That kind of thing couldn't comfort Bonnie at all.
Bonnie's eyes were sharp. Ever since she desperately escaped from Mercenary Tao last time, and Amaterasu, resurrected by Gantz, was killed by Mercenary Tao again, her aura became increasingly cold.
Bonnie had realized her previous weakness. She would no longer leave herself a way out. She just wanted to make herself Mercenary Tao's enemy. Only this kind of pressure could prevent her, who was all alone, from being lost until death.
Kei Kurono's complexion was pale, his whole figure had become much more upright, and even his aura had changed a lot.
This made Reika Shimohira, who used to be very infatuated with him, feel strange.
Even though the current Kei Kurono looked more handsome and cold, she inexplicably felt that this Kei Kurono had a lot more cold and gloomy flavor.
Masaru Kato felt the same. He looked at the corpses all over the ground, completely not knowing the meaning of this action.
"Didn't the Prime Minister already say it? The chaebols actively handed over the ownership of Gantz because they were afraid of that Mercenary Tao. There will be no more activities for Gantz hunters to slaughter for entertainment in Japan..."
Masaru Kato was somewhat agitated, but Kei Kurono couldn't even be bothered to look at this best friend.
He just pushed open the window and waved outside. In the next moment, a boy with pale skin, looking as if his whole body was frozen by ice, led another girl frozen by ice and walked in through the window.
The boy's eyes were pure ice blue. He walked up to Hideto Suga and then began to write on the ground with his sister.
The dim blue words were completely unreadable, but cold air began to spread.
Masaru Kato felt even more uneasy in his heart.
"Kei! What exactly are you doing?!"
Kei Kurono turned his head at this time, looked at Masaru Kato and the others, suddenly raised a finger, and made a quiet gesture.
"Don't make a sound. Someone is watching us... Those guys have always been watching us..."
"Just like... looking at lab rats."
Kei Kurono's eyes twitched, with an unrestrainable frenzy. His sharp teeth unconsciously protruded from his mouth, and a thirst for blood appeared in his heart.
Under the guidance of that Ancient Alien God, he saw the true secret behind Gantz and also knew the root cause of the tribulations this world suffered.
As long as things like Gantz continued to exist, so-called Reincarnation Aliens would continuously enter this world and then make everything unrecognizable...
Only when this world becomes a place of dead silence can those observers who think they are high and mighty lose interest in this world...
Reika Shimohira took two steps back, and Masaru Kato immediately shielded her behind him. In that instant just now, they were sure they hadn't seen wrong. Kei Kurono had an impulse to suck blood from Reika Shimohira.
Kei Kurono looked at his friends who couldn't understand him and didn't explain. He just turned his head and looked at the contract carved on the ground.
It didn't matter. As long as this Prime Minister signed the contract and made that God's teachings the state religion of this country, everything would eventually turn into coldness.
"Winter is coming..."
In the Infinite Dimensional Space, in a pitch-black personal space, there was no gravity or ground in this space.
Reincarnators could only float freely here, and couldn't see the boundaries.
[Shigure] had been floating here for quite a long time. He deeply disliked this wicked taste. Just like his previous crown of [Eternal Fate], this type of power always made him feel troublesome.
Finally, he saw a beam of light in the pitch-black space, and his figure drifted towards that light.
Shigure landed in the light, his figure settled down, and a voice sounded.
"It seems you are fated with me today."
Shigure curled his lips, thinking to himself that the rules in the personal space were still designed by the Reincarnator themselves.
He didn't want to pull philosophical topics with this "God-Man" and directly said:
"Last time, I probed the truth of that woman, Blooming Tumi, for you. You promised me one condition. Now I've come to collect."
"I want to know the answer to one question."
"Is Mercenary Tao one of the so-called most mysterious three [Cards] that you guys hid back then?"
Shigure returned from a crushing defeat in the B711 Secondary World. Facing rumors everywhere in the Space that he was already dead and had suffered a big loss at the hands of Mercenary Tao, he wasn't angry.
He even developed a lot of curiosity about that special Reincarnator.
The so-called [Fatalism] should be one of the top concepts close to concepts like [Causality] and [Paradox]. Why couldn't this top concept include that Mercenary Tao's fate?
He used his shallow authority to look and actually found that Mercenary Tao had the possibility of transcending [Fatalism].
As one of the top Reincarnators, Shigure knew many hidden secrets.
Just like the true leader of the [Heaven's Mandate] organization in front of him, he was very sure that the other party was a product of the previous reincarnation era.
"Yes, and no."
Shigure got the answer. The next moment, his eyes lit up, and he was teleported out of the other party's personal space. He frowned, thinking about this answer. Soon, a guess appeared in his heart.
He felt he had to find that person in [Azure Sky] to confirm. After all, probably only three people in the Space knew the faces and final destinations of those three cards.
(End of Chapter)
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