"Awoo!"
In the dark river water reflecting a little moonlight, a scream was issued.
If it were bright enough here at this time, then it would inevitably be possible to see that there was a rolling, thick red color overflowing in the turbid river water at this time.
In the river not far from the shore, Keli's left hand was being bitten tightly, and the front end of his hand had been bitten to pieces, while his right hand was pulling the dagger out from the monster's neck.
Seemingly in pain, the monster's body twisted more frequently, splashing pieces of water.
However, in a place where the light could not reach, the wound on the monster's neck was slowly healing, but after the wound came into contact with the river water, or rather, the river water mixed with Keli's blood, the healing stopped, and a violent flow of blood like a severed artery began to spurt from its neck.
"Awoo! Wuwu!"
Just like the wailing of a canine creature in pain, it was emitted from that open, huge mouth, but this did not stop the monster's movements, but instead made it even more ferocious.
It's just that it seems that even monsters can't fight underwater. It must also constantly use its paws to dog-paddle to ensure that it doesn't sink. Its maneuverability, which is far higher than that of humans, cannot be brought into play, and it can only bite off Keli's wrist once again.
"Hiss."
Keli sucked in a breath of cold air in pain, his expression was painful, but his movements did not stop at all.
The left hand, whose wrist had been bitten off, was raised, and the unevenly bitten-off bone tips presented sharp edges, and Keli directly aimed the bone and the wrist, which was accompanied by severe pain from contact with the river water, at the other party's mouth. Keli turned his upper body in the river, trying to pour as much strength as possible into this blow.
Twisting his waist, Dump shoulder, the feeling of touching something and a sense of penetration came from his wrist. At the moment when the other party bit him again, Keli also completed the fixation of the Human-Faced Dog.
Then it was...
The dagger reflected a faint light and stroke go towards the other party's abdomen in Keli's hand.
"Promise me, don't play with alchemy if you have nothing to do in your next life, okay?"
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3...2...1...
"Huff!"
Sato Kazuma suddenly opened his eyes and looked left and right. It was a river bank.
Damn it! Keli! He was able to betray his teammates without hesitation! If there was any limit to that death resurrection, this old man would...
He must have found a place to hide and avoided the pursuit! He can't allow this dog thing to live in a world where there is still hope! A born evil psychopath! I, Kazuma-sama, am...
Kazuma's eyes, filled with distrust and anger, turned with his head, searching for the heartless man who had abandoned him.
It's just that after he really found that guy, he couldn't say a word.
With his back to the moonlight, in the sparkling river, Keli was carrying a body that was still faintly undulating towards the shore.
And the one being dragged by Keli by the dog's legs was actually the Human-Faced Dog, who was already dying.
Taking somewhat heavy steps, feeling the weight of the clothes absorbing water that made people want to fall down, Keli gasped and walked step by step onto the shore.
Kazuma looked at Keli, who was covered in blood and had not been completely washed away, and the monster that he had desperately failed to survive for 20 seconds, was being carried by his side like a dead dog, and instantly put on a concerned expression.
"Keli-san, are you okay!"
He stepped forward a few steps and, regardless of the fishy smell still on Keli's body, Kazuma supported Keli with a smile on his face.
"Huff! I'm fine."
Keli threw the monster, which was still bleeding, on the shore, then sat down on his butt and stabbed the monster a few more times with the small knife in his hand.
It seemed that the tenacious vitality had finally come to an end. Even that inhuman and ghostly monster could only raise her face, which had turned into a beautiful girl again, with difficulty and glanced at Keli and Kazuma, and then her body flowed out some faint light spots in the somewhat surprised eyes of the two.
But it felt a little strange to say that they were light spots, because those things were black, but the black ones were glowing, so that people could see them clearly in this dark night.
Those tiny particles first dispersed, and then, as if they had found a backbone, they split into two streams, one large and one small, and flowed towards the two of them.
Keli instinctively raised his hand to block it, but the particles still penetrated his arm and entered his body.
Keli frowned and first thought it was some kind of curse, but he soon realized that something was wrong.
As those things entered his body, the hunger that had always been lingering in his heart also dissipated.
Or rather, it was filled, and it was very full, very full. Keli felt that he wouldn't have to eat anything for at least a few weeks.
Sato Kazuma next to him seemed to have this feeling too, and touched his stomach.
It's just that Keli didn't have the mood to look at Kazuma at this time, because as the particles poured in, some fragmented picture fragments appeared in front of his eyes.
During the Edo period, with the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Tokyo, which was once a wilderness, also began to flourish little by little. In this way, a little girl was born in a rural village on the edge of the city. The little girl's life was not good, or rather, in that era when the generals also ate salted fish with rice, few people had enough to eat.
One day, when the little girl was digging for food in the ground, two strangers suddenly appeared. They saw that there was no one around, so they directly covered the little girl's mouth and grabbed her. The picture was cut off here for a moment.
When the picture reappeared, it was already a street, a street in the city where people were talking about it. They were all discussing that they had heard that a strange thing had happened in the city before. Two men were carrying a dog that could only talk. Many people had seen it, and even heard that a nobleman from Kyoto had spent a lot of money to buy the dog.
However, the next day, the whole city began to hunt down the two people who were carrying the talking dog.
Because the body is thin and weak, lying down does look like a dog, but it is not enough. It is necessary to sew the dog's fur soaked in potion little by little on the human body. Speaking too clearly does not look like a dog. It is necessary to brand some marks on the tongue so that she can speak but is slurred. The legs are too long and do not look like a dog. Cutting off a part and attaching props is not impossible to walk. The shape does not look like a dog. It is okay to remove the ears and nose first and sew on fur. You can slowly discipline her. I believe this kind of creativity can definitely sell for a big price. 0
In the end, only a talking dog appeared. After that young master discovered the truth, he was so frightened that he ordered the dog to be killed and two human traffickers to be arrested throughout the city.
The scene ended, and Keli frowned, coldly throwing the corpse beside him into the water.
This is not as good as telling me about Big Brother.
...
While Keli and Sato Kazuma were looking for a place to buy cheap lighters to make a fire for warmth.
At night, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, in the basement of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department chief's office, Inspector Megure Jusan, who had just been transferred here, was receiving training from a "special talent."
The public announcement stated that he was being transferred to the First Sexual Crime Investigation Division, which, for him, who was once about to climb to the top of the Beika Town Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, many people believed was a complete demotion in disguise.
Even he himself thought so at first. He didn't even know who he had offended to deserve this treatment.
However, when he arrived here and signed a series of confidentiality agreements and secret treatment agreements, he realized that this time it didn't seem to be a demotion, but rather a transfer of him, an ordinary police officer, to some secret department.
And here, his worldview was severely impacted.
"Just like we said, the outside world has basically only confirmed the existence of spiritual bodies and various abnormal events in the last 4 years. For a long time before that, people like us were regarded as complete charlatans. The first time our Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department came into contact with something beyond imagination was in the Sotoba Village case 14 years ago."
Megure Jusan had an impression of this matter. It was a major case at the time. It is said that Sotoba Village, which mainly produced local coffins, suffered a major fire that year, killing more than half of the villagers, with only a few people escaping.
Seeming to notice that Inspector Megure's attention had been diverted, the person in charge of the training knocked on the file bag.
"Our first lesson is to introduce spiritual bodies, but to be honest, I haven't seen those so-called spirits that attack people. All I've seen are some ordinary souls. These characteristics are all summaries based on the records written by police officers who observed the spiritual bodies.
First of all, the first point is that people who cannot recognize spiritual bodies will not be harmed by spiritual bodies.
If a spiritual body wants to harm a certain target, it will try to constantly interfere with the other party and make the other party aware of its existence."
"Um... this sounds like a horror movie," Megure Jusan said weakly.
"Megure, you can also understand it this way. Just like those horror movies people shoot, if a spirit wants to attack us, it must make us aware that they exist. At this time, nightmares, turning off the lights, and eerie shadows, these things that often appear in horror movies may appear.
Hey! Maybe this can really explain why the monsters in horror movies don't kill the victims as soon as they meet them.
And like horror movies, when the victim really recognizes and can see the spirit, he is not far from death. However, this is also mutual. When people cannot recognize the spirit, they may pass through them without knowing it, but if they recognize it, they may bump into it, which is... what do you young people call it, mutual interference."
"Yes, yes, please continue, Grandma Tokugawa."
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ps: Grandma Tokugawa: Full name Tokugawa Kanko, from "Baki", a bloodthirsty car person, the sister of Tokugawa Mitsunari, the underground emperor of Japan, once communicated with the soul of Miyamoto Musashi and passed it on to Miyamoto's clone, allowing him to be resurrected 400 years later, and finally sent Musashi back with a fiery red lip.
(I feel that old men who only watch the beginning of Baki, or just hear that this is a fighting manga, will have a question mark on their faces when they see this description. What kind of fighting manga is this?)
ps2: Some ps about the settings are placed in the main text, so that the old men listening to the book can hear them. However, I put the requests for votes and so on in the afterword, so you can't hear them. However, after it is put on the shelves, they will all be placed in the afterword to save words.