"Are you going to fight me? Mortal! What is that, a scalpel?"
The man's twisted face drew closer and closer: "I am the great—I am... no, I have money, I have a lot of money! Let me have a bite of my daughter, okay? No... I am Chaos! I am beloved by Chaos..."
Two different emotions constantly collided within his body.
The good father wanted to eat his daughter, while the Chaos monster wanted to kill them.
It was about the same; the result made no difference.
Sen Getsusa picked up the steak knife and gestured toward the opponent: "It's not wrong to call it a scalpel. However, I call it a steak knife. You see, when someone finds it, I can still say I'm a patient with a cleanliness obsession who must bring my own utensils."
"It's much better than a girl carrying a scalpel with her, isn't it?"
"...Hahahahahaha! Daughter!!!" Facing Sen Getsusa's teasing, the man charged straight at Yuno Gasai under the sofa the moment the words left his mouth!
Sen Getsusa leaped lightly onto the table and kicked away the man's sitting body; along with it, the neck and head flying toward Yuno Gasai were brought back to their original position by this kick.
"Oh! Girl, girl! Come, come join me! I'll share with you, her fingers and thighs will all be shared with you!!"
What responded to him was a bright flash of the knife!
Swish! The steak knife was like a silver line cutting through layers of mist, heading toward the man's heart!
The sharp sense of crisis made him jump instantly; his limbs, like some kind of arthropod, lengthened and thinned in the air, suspending his body in mid-air.
A spider?
Seeing this, Sen Getsusa crouched low, supported herself with one hand on the ground, and used her twisting body to drive her left leg in an axe-like sweep kick, sending the head preparing for a sneak attack flying!
Bang!
"Aaaaaah!! My daughter, give me back my daughter!! I am... Chaos. No, I am a father, that project is mine!!"
Screaming, the man's head hideously opened its mouth full of sharp teeth and dove down, saliva dripping onto the carpet and making a'sizzling' corrosive sound.
Sen Getsusa half-squatted, her right hand holding the knife pulling back toward her waist; she tightened every muscle in her body in an instant!
Her eyes were wide open, locked onto the direction the head was flying from, then she bent her legs and leaned forward.
In a place where several people couldn't see, the passive card was activated!
Turtle Hermit Style! Afterimage!
Boom!
A loud sound of crushing stone!
In her original place, Sen Getsusa's shadow was making a forward slashing motion; in front of it was a series of small footprints and a crushed floor.
The man's head watched the girl disappear from the spot; a second later, a feeling of intense pain returned from his chest.
That woman was standing behind his body, having lunged with the knife in one hand.
The tip of the knife had passed through his back and emerged from his chest.
The immense explosive power had created a short-duration, close-range rapid movement.
"No, that's not right. You aren't an 'Origin Point'!"
His heart melted into a foul-smelling, thick liquid; this monster, with only its neck and head left, had nowhere to run, and instinctively used its neck to prop its head up in the air.
"You're a 'Super-Sequence'! How is that possible? How can a Mortal possess energy at the 'Super-Sequence' level! What are you?!"
Sen Getsusa bent down and wiped the blood-stained steak knife clean on the tablecloth. Just as she was about to speak, she noticed her boots were covered in blood and pus.
The smile on her face instantly froze.
My boots!!
Boots... ( '?Д?`)
"Spare me, spare me! I'm still human! Look, I've heard of you, your name isn't Nobi Nobita at all, you're Sen Getsusa, right? And Yuno Gasai, my daughter!"
He tried to turn his head to find Yuno Gasai, but found the space under the sofa empty.
"Mr. Gasai."
Sen Getsusa stomped her foot in disgust and kicked away the neck and head of the already dead woman with the tip of her boot: "You've sided with Chaos—that doesn't matter, it has nothing to do with me. But since we're already in a hostile state, isn't it a bit late to beg for mercy?"
"I can, I can! I promise, I swear I won't tell!! How much money do you want? I'll give it to you, I'll give it all to you! Yuno? You take her away, we'll never look for her again."
"Tell me something I'm interested in, and I'll consider it."
Sen Getsusa keenly noticed the information revealed by the monster—'we'.
She pretended to nonchalantly move her leg and glanced at the female monster that seemed to have been killed by the man.
"I know! I know how to avoid surveillance! Have you seen that news?"
The monster man spoke incoherently: "Previous national news reported that in the next fifty years we will—"
"A continuous swarm of meteors will pass by Earth. Although there's no danger of impact, they interfere with Earth's magnetic field, so there will occasionally be large-scale network outages, loss of signal... that stuff?" Sen Getsusa added casually.
"Exactly! That's it! In reality, all imaging equipment is unable to accurately record 'mystery', so the officials released that kind of news."
"As long as you unfold your power, you can achieve invisibility under surveillance." He finished speaking at a rapid pace, then looked at Sen Getsusa expectantly: "To be precise, it's paralyzing and distorting it."
Eh? Spell Power can do that too?
"Not enough. Say something else." Sen Getsusa thought, then shook her index finger in response to the man's expectant gaze.
"...Also, as far as I know, the most powerful 'Ritualists' in the World are at the third level. The one from Sakura is in the official forces. He just recently reached the third level, 'Judgment'."
"What did you call me just now, 'Super-Sequence'? 'Origin Point' Lv1, 'Super-Sequence' Lv2, then... 'Judgment' is Lv3? So there are actually people more powerful than me..."
Sen Getsusa counted on her fingers, tilting her head thoughtfully.
As if hearing something extraordinary, the monster showed such a human-like expression for the first time.
He carefully chose his words: "...You, you are already very powerful."
"They used up ritual objects accumulated over many years, and I heard many people died, just to cultivate the only 'Judgment' level. Moreover, there won't be such a shortcut in the future..."
He said cautiously: "Besides, the 'price' you pay for using your abilities doesn't seem to be high."
"Price?" Sen Getsusa was puzzled.
"You must pay a price to use abilities! From the moment you became a Ritualist, you should have understood that?"
"The hell I understand an Izumi Sagiri, I'm not a Ritualist at all."
"Rituals are divided into order and Chaos. You should also be on the Chaos side, right? Speaking of which, we're on the same side. There's no conflict."
Sen Getsusa followed his lead: "What if I'm from the order camp?"
"You don't have that disgusting scent of order on you."
The man stretched his neck and swayed it, as if trying to please her: "Only order and Chaos endure forever. Since you don't have the scent of order, you must have performed a Chaos ritual; your body and soul will eventually return to Chaos."
Sen Getsusa put on an expression as if she had been seen through, and helplessly nodded in agreement: "You guessed right."
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