"What's going on?"
Before the screen, Yukino suppressed her nausea as she watched those Devils.
Although she hadn't fought Devils directly in the Chainsaw Man World, she had seen many Devils through the news and even recognized several that had appeared in that world's news.
'Why... why were they appearing in the real world?'
'But upon careful thought, after returning from that world, many new people had appeared around Nishikawa Makoto.'
'That Bomb Woman, Reze… that kid, Nayuta… and the obviously non-human Beam, the Teddy dog, etc. Not to mention the first two, the latter were clearly Devils or fiends from the previous world.'
'What was happening? Why were people and Devils from that world appearing in the real world?'
At that moment, the Teddy Devil in the live stream knelt on both knees again, praying with a devout expression: "Thank you, Nishikawa Makoto-sama, for blessing us!"
There's actually a Devil praying.
And the Teddy Devil's actions were naturally intended to evoke fear of Makoto in this world.
The fact that these Devils could come to the real world was undoubtedly related to Makoto.
During the live stream, some capitalists, driven by a strong will to survive and fear, also underwent monsterization.
But these Devils were no pushovers either.
Moreover, through this live stream, they had absorbed a significant amount of fear from the humans of this world.
If using the monster rating system from One-Punch Man, they were at least Tiger-level.
Facing these Wolf-level monsters, they still possessed overwhelming power.
And people in the real world had witnessed the process of humans turning into monsters firsthand, gaining a new understanding of monsters.
In the upscale Manhattan district of Nishikawa Nation, a standalone villa with the nameplate [Nakano] engraved on its gate.
"Everyone, dinner's ready!" Nino's call rang out.
Ichika, Miku, Yotsuba, and Itsuki came to their seats one after another.
"Father isn't coming home today either?" Miku couldn't help but ask.
Although their relationship with their adoptive father was average, they were still only 17-year-old high school girls, so they naturally longed for paternal love.
Moreover, they weren't ungrateful. Although their adoptive father rarely interacted with them, he had never been stingy financially. They were grateful to him and wanted to get closer...
"The hospital is moving from Japan to America… Father has many things to handle," Ichika defended their adoptive father.
Nino snorted discontentedly: "Hmph! He just doesn't like spending time with us."
Back in Japan, Maruo rarely ate with them, sometimes not even twice a year.
This upset Nino, who had a somewhat spoiled personality.
"Ichika, it's not America now, it's Nishikawa Nation," Yotsuba reminded her.
"Oh oh! Sorry, sorry!" Ichika laughed nervously, then looked around as if searching for something.
"What are you looking for?" Nino asked curiously.
"I was just wondering if Commander Ishigami might suddenly appear at our house and shoot me," Ichika said half-jokingly.
The other four sisters couldn't help but find it amusing. That guy's loyalty to Makoto was world-famous.
"Can we eat now?" Itsuki, who had been swallowing saliva, couldn't hold back any longer.
The sisters smiled at each other and then said in unison: "Itadakimasu!"
During the meal, conversation naturally flowed, and the hottest topic in the past two days was, of course...
"Did everyone watch the live stream yesterday?" Ichika asked.
The four sisters' faces paled slightly. Nino rolled her eyes: "Don't talk about such disgusting things during meals."
Even though it was just doing what those perverts had done to children back onto them, for ordinary high school girls like them, it was still too intense.
"I wonder where Nishikawa-san found so many monsters? And they obey him so well?" Ichika sipped her miso soup, speaking with interest.
"Not monsters, Devils," Yotsuba corrected.
"How do you know, Yotsuba?" Miku, who had been quiet, asked.
Yotsuba stiffened and immediately changed the subject.
She couldn't reveal her identity, as the Reincarnation System had forbidden it.
Seeing Yotsuba was hiding something, the other sisters didn't press and proactively steered the conversation elsewhere.
"By the way, we're second-year students now," Ichika recalled something, stretching her arms lazily, accentuating her well-proportioned figure.
Yes, a year had passed since Makoto and the others were chosen by the Reincarnation Game and gained supernatural powers.
The characters from the original works had also aged a year.
Those the same age as Makoto, like the Nakano sisters and Megumi, had advanced to the second year of high school.
Though Makoto basically didn't go to school anymore.
"Thanks to all the things that happened this past year, otherwise, we might have had to repeat a year," Miku muttered.
Because of the commotion Makoto had caused, Shuchi'in Academy hadn't even had time to hold final exams, simply promoting all students automatically, skipping the finals.
"I, I studied hard!" Itsuki insisted.
It had to be admitted, she was indeed the most diligent student among the five sisters.
But diligence was one thing, talent was another.
Despite her hard work, she still failed every subject.
Bringing up grades made the five sisters a bit irritable.
Nino pouted: "The world's become like this now. Grades don't matter at all. As long as you have superpowers, you can find your place in today's society. Aizono Airi's grades aren't good either, and now she moves freely in high society."
"You're forgetting one thing, Nino. She's Commander Nishikawa's woman," Ichika reminded her.
But compared to companions like Airi, the one who had truly shot to prominence was Yu.
After all, in less than half a year, he went from a withdrawn young man to the Commander-in-Chief of the military of the world's strongest nation!
But Ichika didn't know it wasn't half a year, but thirteen years.
Unconsciously, the conversation circled back to Makoto.
Yotsuba felt a small flutter of excitement.
Because among the five sisters, she was the only one who had a connection with Makoto, giving her a secret thrill.
'Let's work hard on training again tomorrow!' Yotsuba seemed to have plans for tomorrow.
Ichika noticed the change in Yotsuba's expression and guessed about eighty percent of her younger sister's thoughts.
…
The next day, the girl with a ribbon tied on her head, making it look like she had a pair of rabbit ears, sneaked out, stealthily opening the door.
But the moment Yotsuba closed the door, the door to Ichika's room on the second floor gently opened.
'Let's see what Yotsuba is up to.'
Ichika, who usually slept like a log, had stayed up all night to catch her sister. It just showed that when someone was up to no good, they had the most perseverance.
However, during the pursuit, Ichika was surprised to find her sister was running too fast.
'Although Yotsuba was the most athletic among us five sisters, this was ridiculous.'
Ichika was forced to rent a bike to follow… incidentally, these had been introduced after the establishment of Nishikawa Nation.
When she finally followed Yotsuba all the way to the massive ancient Chinese-style palace that resembled the Yong'an Palace, Ichika was shocked.
And when she saw the guards outside letting her sister in, Ichika was completely dumbfounded.