Hollow Special Operations Section 6, simply referred to as Section 6.
Currently, inside a dedicated office within HAND Headquarters.
Sitting peacefully in her seat was the newly appointed Void Hunter—Hoshimi Miyabi. Though the section had only been established recently, she had already successfully led all members of Section 6 to achieve repeated extraordinary merits in multiple major Hollow disasters, turning the tide several times when everyone else was helpless.
At this moment, she was recalling the progress of the training she had scheduled for herself today.
Her long black hair draped incomparably smoothly over her shoulders, revealing the fair skin and exquisite face underneath.
Although she wore no expression.
Compared to the indifferent aura of a taciturn person or the coldness brought about by arrogance, her expressionlessness only made people involuntarily feel that she seemed a bit ditsy.
But this, on the contrary, added a touch of charm to her.
The young girl's delicate and charming figure appeared exquisite and curvy under the form-fitting action uniform. Even the uniform jacket, which looked loose and old-fashioned on others, seemed to become incomparably elegant on her body.
She was like a sheltered young miss from a high-class family.
Her slender waist, which could be grasped with one hand, had its curves fully revealed under the constraint of the slightly wide belt at her abdomen. At the same time, it accentuated her bosom, which could be considered ample, making it appear even more perky.
Although it couldn't compare to the bountiful fruits of Astra Yao or Evelyn, it was still very impressive.
The simple black skirt that started from the belt extended all the way to her knees, completely covering the curves of her waist, hips, and thighs.
However, the huge slit on the skirt hem, which went directly from the belt to the bottom, was connected only by a small strip of cloth in the middle.
Through this rift.
Those incomparably long legs clad in black tights appeared indistinctly visible within the gap.
And as long as her walking movements were just a little bit larger, it was as if one could spy upon that most secret triangular area belonging to a young girl from the very top of that gap.
The only thing that made people regretful was...
In the absence of light shining in, the black tights turned that area into something akin to a shadowed void.
The profound darkness made it impossible for anyone to see clearly; it truly made those who noticed it unable to stop their hearts from itching.
With a height of fully 1.7 meters including her ears (knock on wood for emphasis), her body proportions were impeccably perfect.
And those two slender calves wrapped in black silk revealed from under the skirt hem made people involuntarily sigh with emotion in their hearts.
Black tights are God!!!
However, in the enormous office, aside from a blue-skinned Oni girl with two horns on her head sitting in the seat near the door, carefully doodling with a crayon, the other two seats that should have been occupied were currently empty.
Of course, this wasn't due to any accident, nor was it that the so-called Section 6 currently only consisted of her and that little girl.
Rather, it was due to some special circumstances.
Looking at the scene before her, Hoshimi Miyabi couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.
At the same time, inside her heart, she marked a tick for 'perfect completion' on the training item 'insist on not going to the debriefing meeting'.
Aside from this.
The training of eating only melon-flavored food for three consecutive days, the training of only stepping with the right foot every time she entered a door, and the training of only stepping on white lines when crossing the street.
Every single training had been achieved with perfect completion.
However, speaking of which, was the training of eating only melon-flavored food for three consecutive days actually too easy...?
How about extending it directly to seven days next time?
Or changing it to...
Attempting to distinguish the melon content within by eating melon food products?
Hmm...
Wait until after completing the 'seven days of only eating melon-flavored food', then I'll do that!
As for outside of these daily persistent trainings, after solving several new types of Ethereals that appeared the day before yesterday due to Hollow activity, the various Hollows around New Eridu had currently entered a surprisingly rare period of stability.
The Hollow disasters that were originally emerging one after another, and the Ethereals breaking their limits, hadn't appeared even once in these past two days.
This rare leisure instead made her feel a bit unaccustomed.
After all, as the saying goes: when the Hollow is quiet, it must be up to no good.
But under the circumstances where she couldn't find the source of any problems no matter how she searched, Hoshimi Miyabi could only crouch unwillingly in her own cubicle.
Maintaining her beloved blade, Wuwei.
But during this period, Wuwei had already been meticulously maintained by her who-knows-how-many times, yet it still hadn't encountered any opportunity to be unsheathed.
This made Hoshimi Miyabi involuntarily feel a bit doubtful.
Is the time the Hollow is holding back this time a bit too long?
Moreover, judging from the data and intelligence recently collected by Yanagi, the Hollows near the entire New Eridu began to gradually stabilize a week ago, and the degree of stability in the recent few days has been constantly and rapidly increasing.
However, even so, the frequency of Hollow disasters should have only slowed down a bit.
For them to disappear completely was indeed still too weird.
But whether it was the military, the police station, or the Hollow Special Operations Section, everyone undoubtedly could finally take a breather from the original high pressure because of this.
They could stop and rest properly.
She heard recently that her university classmate, Zhu Yuan, who had been working non-stop in Public Security, had even started preparing her own vacation plan.
But on the way to work today...
While conducting the operation of 'heading to Section 6 from above the streetlights without being discovered by any passersby', Hoshimi Miyabi passed over the heads of a pair of young girls.
In the conversation between the two, she heard something that made her very concerned.
One girl was persuading the other girl to submit the abnormal situation she accidentally encountered inside a Hollow to an intelligence website called 'The Grotesque Shack'.
And according to what the other party said...
That website had many people who encountered abnormal situations just like the girl, who had submitted and shared their intelligence on that website.
There were even many people specially existing within it to collect and organize, and then publish the collected intelligence.
The intelligence contributors known as 'submission authors' were even more numerous.
And this represented...
This website was a civilian intelligence website formed spontaneously that even Yanagi hadn't paid attention to!
There were still many corresponding incidents like this!
New Eridu, sure enough, was fundamentally not as calm as it looked on the surface.
Although the huge threats had been temporarily wiped out, this didn't mean small threats weren't threats.
All massive power comes from the accumulation of countless tiny crises.
Right now, there were still countless dangers hiding beneath the water's surface, just waiting to make a move, endangering the safety of New Eridu's citizens.
And herself.
As the Chief of Section 6 and the heir of the Hoshimi family.
She absolutely could not sit idly by and ignore these dangers endangering the citizens' safety!
Just right, while Yanagi took Asaba Harumasa to the debriefing report meeting, she could take a step ahead and conduct collection on the intelligence within it!
As the webpage opened.
An icon of a white ghost drilling into a large red prohibition sign, with the words 'Grotesque' written below, instantly imprinted itself into Hoshimi Miyabi's eyes.
Then, there was that captivating opening remark that would only appear upon first entry.
[Why did the ninety-year-old lady come back to life?]
[Why do hundreds of Ethereals scream miserably in the middle of the night?]
[Why do supermarket Bangboos suffer from malicious hands?]
[Behind all of this...]
[Is it the distortion of human nature or the loss of morality?]
[For all strange stories, please pay attention to The Grotesque Shack!]
Although this opening remark was hard to endure no matter how one looked at it.
Looking at this webpage in front of her with quite high heat, Hoshimi Miyabi couldn't help but reveal a grave expression.
She didn't realize anything was wrong at all.
And as Hoshimi Miyabi constantly browsed through the internal articles, her brows became locked even tighter.
Just roughly looking at the most popular section, she saw many posts asking for help with incidents she couldn't ignore.
There was also much intelligence shared by enthusiastic masses that made Hoshimi Miyabi feel incomparably astonished.
"In the Lemnian Hollow, in a special area, many Ethereals gather there every night to perform a weird dance!"
"Every time night falls, strange sounds always ring out by the doors and windows, rising and falling exactly like the sounds heard by the protagonist in 'Porter Hill'!"
"Inside the companion Hollow beneath Epheous Port, many ancient traces never seen before were found; it looks just like an extra-large lizard!"
And among them, the most popular post made Hoshimi Miyabi's gaze condense instantly.
This was a post just released yesterday.
But not long after it was released, it had already become the top of the list on The Grotesque Shack website.
In just a short day, it had already been viewed by tens of thousands of people, with countless people liking and agreeing with it.
Looking at the title...
It belongs to the 'Doujin' type of intelligence?
However, speaking of which, what intelligence type is 'Doujin'?
Although not too clear, none of this was important!
What was important was the content of this post!
According to the intelligence within this file.
That monster she had been thinking about for the past two days—which she didn't catch up to at all because she returned late, and which was directly and forcibly beheaded by a mysterious strongman codenamed 'Hunter'—
Did not actually die thoroughly after death.
Even the monster's final desperate struggle was directly and ruthlessly suppressed forcibly by the opponent.
So after it died filled with resentment.
The unwilling resentment possessed one of the humans who was still at the scene at the time, turning into an existence like a vengeful spirit.
And it would start to constantly search for suitable bodies to erode through possession.
And as the erosion of the resentment became deeper and deeper.
Wait until the soul of that human was thoroughly ground away in the end.
Everything would be too late.
That man's body would also thoroughly mutate into a monster as the resentment occupied it, and the monster's characteristics would also constantly appear on his body, bringing him incomparably powerful strength.
But the existence dominated by resentment would only be a new monster.
Until the end.
The man who thoroughly mutated into a new monster would once again begin his revenge against the Hunter who once hunted it and its burial place, New Eridu.
The content of the article spoke with such certainty, looking incomparably real.
From this, it could be seen that when this author was writing, whether it was regarding the things that happened at the scene at that time...
Or the description of the monster's appearance...
As well as the Diablos's madness at the end where it forcibly pulled the humans in the audience seats to be buried with it—something that could only be noticed by putting in great effort.
And the unwillingness when it was forcibly suppressed by the Hunter at the end.
Plus at the time of the final mutation, the new setting of the whole body turning black due to resentment and blood-colored patterns spreading all over the body was added.
Combined with the human entanglement of 'the dragon slayer eventually becomes the evil dragon' that ran through the full text, and the author's captivating writing style.
Hoshimi Miyabi, without hesitation...
Believed it.
She completely believed everything mentioned in these posts, and then treated it all as real.
She began to think that New Eridu currently really had a monster's resentment that was quietly seizing a human body.
And realizing that New Eridu actually still harbored such a threat, she suddenly felt the melon in her hand wasn't fragrant anymore.
This undoubtedly aroused Hoshimi Miyabi's extreme attention.
In order not to let that monster revive and let the just-stabilized New Eridu fall completely into crisis again.
Although according to the content in the intelligence named 'Doujin', the time was still considered sufficient.
But to find this resentment in such a large city as New Eridu... was undoubtedly an incomparably huge challenge.
But in order to save New Eridu.
She must act immediately!
This was the responsibility she should bear as the heir of the Hoshimi family!
Just then.
A young man and a young woman, one following the other, both also wearing Section 6 uniforms, walked into the office, interrupting her action of preparing to set off immediately.
No matter what, the responsibilities of Section 6 also shouldn't be left behind.
If she was going to do these things, she should also explain it to her best partners in advance.
With the existence of Yanagi and Harumasa, even if she went to solve these hidden dangers, there surely wouldn't be any problems.
The one who stepped into the office first.
Was a woman who had combed her long pink hair into a large braid and tied a dark green cloth ribbon at the very bottom.
Her simple yet not austere attire allowed her body to emit a mature charm, and the glasses on her face brought her an intellectual beauty.
And in terms of figure, she achieved a maturity on par with Evelyn.
And following closely behind her to walk in.
Was a young male with a yellow hair tie on his head who looked a bit scrawny.
It was just unknown why, but the fatigue on his face made him look as if he would thoroughly kick the bucket in the next second.
The moment he returned to the office, he immediately pounced towards his own chair, then sat paralyzed directly on it.
With an attitude of being burnt out, he directly closed his eyes and complained:
"Clearly, when I specifically ran from the Ace Department to here back then, I thought the work here could be easier."
Saying this, Asaba Harumasa glanced at his unfinished work, couldn't help but let out a lament, and said:
"Why is it that now, besides my own work, even the Section Chief's meetings have turned into me attending... Aren't other departments all on rotation?!!"
And regarding his words that were almost blatantly wanting to slack off, Tsukishiro Yanagi just glanced at him askance.
Subsequently, she adjusted her glasses lightly and said coldly:
"If you don't want to go attend the debriefing report, I actually have two methods here that you can choose from."
Hearing this, Asaba Harumasa, who just looked like he was burnt out, lifted his head with a swoosh.
Originally, he himself actually didn't hold out any hope, but if you say there's a way...
Then I'm not sleepy anymore.
Harumasa immediately pursued with an impatient look:
"What methods? Quick, tell me!"
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