Chapter 69 Blood Butterfly: I will kill, kill myself who is about to be resurrected.

Chapter 69 Blood Butterfly: I will kill, kill myself who is about to be resurrected.

"Xuedie! I don't know what your situation is right now! But, but——"

Saotome Rin and Kagero shouted, "Don't you see the red leaves in the direction of the shrine?! Chizuru Miko has gone this far, wake up!"

The sword light of Ama Murakami swept through everything, and the cut flesh and blood flashed with the same frequency of light as the obsidian thrown in the air. Enryuchi gritted his teeth and tried to rush over with the other two demon apostles to block the stone, but was desperately held down by several people from the Squid Detective Agency.

"This is a joke...A few high school students want to stop me from pursuing my lifelong dream?"

Faced with the Squid Detective Agency who used all means to stop him, even resorting to hugging him around the waist, Enryuchi waved his hand, and the wriggling giant snake's flesh rose up and accurately knocked the obsidian away.

"What a pity...My ability is faster than yours."

Enryuchi heaved a sigh of relief, which was rare. Without the solidified object of [Black Sun Righteous Man's Unmoved Heart] that could stop all soul particles from running, at least these players no longer had a chance...

"Oh? What is this thing? Why are you all so enthusiastic?"

A gorgeous voice that made everyone nervous was heard, and the obsidian drew a beautiful arc in the air and fell right into the hands of a man.

The hooded thief twirled an exquisite black hat decorated with playing cards in his hand and caught the obsidian with the hat with unerring precision.

His eyes hidden under the mask flickered for a moment, as if he saw something, and made some kind of decision because of it.

Bai Ye, who had no fighting ability and was hiding in a safe area behind everyone, suddenly had his eyes dimmed, as if he had turned into a lifeless puppet in an instant.

No one noticed the abnormality happening behind them. Everyone's eyes were focused on the thief who suddenly appeared. The thief was playing with the obsidian in his hand out of boredom, and with the help of his top hat, it kept changing its existence like a hat trick.

The obsidian disappeared from the thief's fingertips and suddenly reappeared, causing waves of tension among the audience below. Everyone's eyes followed the thief's movements, making the whole picture look a little strange and funny.

"You - Phantom Thief, do you see where you are standing?"

Yuan Luzhi wanted to say something but stopped himself. His gaze shifted from the obsidian in Wonder's hand that was crucial to the situation to the huge snake bone under Wonder's feet. The other party was standing on the remains of the Demon King without a care in the world, and the burning dusk fire from the Demon King did not seem to affect him at all.

"Ah? I know. He is just the Demon King of Dusk Fire, who fell outside of time."

Wonder smiled, his tone frivolous and nonchalant.

"But you are right. This place is not suitable for me to witness the final outcome. The quality of this gem is still too poor. I will return it to you."

Wonder's figure turned into countless playing cards and disappeared. Before disappearing, he threw out the obsidian in his hand that was related to the situation. Although he said he would return it to the Squid Detective Agency, the trajectory of the obsidian shifted and fell directly onto the girl who was floating in the air.

The obsidian crystal condensate completely dispersed after coming into contact with the blood-red soul particles diffused around the blood butterfly. The black halo enveloped the blood butterfly and the huge snake bone, folding out beautiful colors. When Wonder's figure appeared again, he was already on the ground. He even leisurely walked through the attacking flesh and blood puppets, and happily patted Youyu and Yuan Luzhi on the shoulders. His main function was to be a master of keeping things in balance.

"Oops, sorry, my hand slipped and I accidentally threw the stone directly at the girl. Should that be okay?"

You Yu let out a long sigh. Yuan Luzhi's face had turned very dark. Fanlan and Huo Gu behind him looked at each other and prepared to find a chance to wipe it out.

Without the need for the Demon Apostle to reply, the lingering dusk fire began to die out, and in the darkness, the blood butterfly's consciousness began to run.

She seemed to have returned to the past, back to Huangquan Town which was just a small mountain village. She remembered her birth and the first moment of her consciousness.

The daughter of a village hunter followed the footprints of a lost hunting dog deep into Tanghong Mountain, but accidentally fell into a cave corroded by hot springs and was on the verge of death. The dusk fire from deep within Tanghong Mountain ignited the girl's body. The consciousness left by the giant snake god felt the girl's obsession and call to live, and merged with the girl's soul.

The blood butterfly that returned from the underworld awakened her soul tag. The dusk fire from hell can burn all souls, but the girl's human instinct prevents her from using such power that belongs to the devil.

But the devil's consciousness still transformed her body. The girl's strength and five senses were enhanced beyond humans. Gradually, she became the backbone of the development of Huangquan Town. She used her own strength to help the townspeople of Huangquan Town deal with the terrifying demon followers crawling out of the hot springs in the mountains.

Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. With the arrival of Tangzhu Yuanluzhi, everything changed. Xuedie was offered to Tangzhu by the townspeople. She still remembered the words of the old townspeople who persuaded her to become Tangzhu's guard: "Xuedie, although you are a good person and have saved people in our town many times, think about it carefully. If your power is in Tangzhu's cause, it will definitely play a greater role and help more people!"

"Xuedie, you are the child of Tang Hongshan, the child of Huangquan Town. Don't you want to see this land become prosperous? Don't you want to see everyone live a good life with the help of Master Tang?"

Xuedie still remembers the scene at that time. She looked around and saw that all the townspeople, who had raised her after her hunter father's death, were looking at her with expectant eyes. It was a weight heavy enough to crush a person, so even though she subconsciously felt that the soup owner was not a good person, she still nodded.

So... the hot springs in Huangquan Town turned blood red, and the devil of dusk fire deep in Tanghong Mountain began to awaken. Human consciousness was no longer enough to suppress the devil's instincts. Under the deliberate influence of the soup master Yuan Luzhi, the part of Xuedie's heart that belonged to the "devil" and wanted to revive and live reached its peak.

To survive, to return to this world, to merge with one's own body in the mountains, to let the dusk fire... rekindle this world.

The voice in her head kept telling her that this was her instinct. When she was almost driven crazy, the shrine maiden gave her a butterfly hair ornament.

"I remember you liked bright colors?"

The shrine maiden looked at the girl in front of her who was staring at the blood-red butterfly hair ornament in a trance and asked.

The young Blood Butterfly came back to her senses and nodded: "Well, I like the colors of the sky, fireworks, and the earth."

This butterfly hair accessory looks like the fireworks that bloom during the summer festival in the central city of Yedao, and she likes it very much.

"Not everyone has to be as spectacular as fireworks, Blood Butterfly, I hope you are a butterfly."

The butterfly has the power to temporarily curb the devil's instincts. The shrine's shrine maiden, Michi Chizuru, sent her a message with a hair butterfly: "I hope you can maintain your consciousness. Although under the threat of the soup master, as a shrine maiden, this is all I can do, but I still hope so."

Unfortunately, such a witch also died in Huangquan Town 8 years ago. She could no longer control her instincts and used the devil's twilight fire to burn the entire Huangquan Town, bringing Lord Tang's experiment to a complete destruction.

That was her last instinct as a human being. Since then, the witch's butterfly completely lost its effectiveness. The devil's desire to revive and live finally prevailed. Under the advice of Tang Zhuyuan Luzhi, she knew that it was an abyss more terrifying than the devil, but she still stepped into it.

Because Blood Butterfly is dead, only the body of the Demon King can carry the Demon King's power, and she wants to come back to life.

After returning to Huangquan Town, which was rebuilt by the DM system, the butterfly in her hair regained its effectiveness in suppressing the Demon King. But just now, she was unable to control herself again, and the Demon King's instincts prevailed again.

What does that mean?

Xuedie knew what she should know, which meant that the witch who had helped her had left again, just like eight years ago.

She still couldn't resist the Demon King's instincts, and Enryuchi would never let go of the Shinto family's bloodline and give the other party a chance to stop him. The death of the miko was inevitable.

When she did it all over again, she still failed to save the person she wanted to save so much, just like Yangyan.

How should she react now that the miko has left?

The blood butterfly was wrapped in the power of the dusk fire and began to resonate with the body of the devil, but it didn't know it.

Should we cry when someone dies? Or should I give up my consciousness in despair? But she knew nothing, and no one had ever taught her how to deal with death and separation. After all, ever since she returned to the human world with Huang Quan, she had become a weapon of this town.

His heart ached so much, as if everything was being stripped away, his soul was being torn apart. The priestess who couldn't be saved, the townspeople who were deceived by the soup master and turned into soup ingredients, and the disappointed Saotome Rin and Yangquan's dim glance, all scenes flashed before his eyes. Blood Butterfly stretched out his hand to grab something, but found nothing.

But... is it really like this... to abandon everything I have and become the Demon King of Dusk Fire?

"No! You still have another chance! Blood Butterfly! Ninja from the Night Island Metropolitan Police Department! Wake up! You clearly still have so many paths to choose———!"

A voice, accompanied by the gradually dispersing black halo, bloomed like a thunderbolt, awakening the girl who was struggling and merging with the devil's consciousness. Xuedie remembered this familiar voice.

It was Lily of the Valley, the sister from Night City who had a strong smell of life but gently made delicious cakes for her.

"Whether in the past or now, you have a lot of roads to walk!"

Lily of the Valley was still calling, but Blood Butterfly had already closed her eyes.

She clearly had many paths to take, but after she was possessed by the fragments of the devil's consciousness, those paths all disappeared overnight. All doors were closed to her.

Until Yuan Luzhi, who was supported by the townspeople, stood in front of her with a smile, the flesh and blood pharmacist's face was disguised with perfect gentleness.

She once again heard the whisper of the demon apostle who was more terrifying than the devil. He said, "Go to me. I will give you a place to go."

"Become my Tang Wei, and together we will make Huangquan Town better."

The snake-faced demon apostle extended an invitation to her, but Blood Butterfly closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, the burning dusk fire had already ignited the face of the demon apostle.

"Perhaps I really had no way to go before...but now..."

The blood butterfly opened its eyes, and its pupils were reflected as burning flames.

"I have other choices, I have other paths to take, I want to reject your invitation!"

Now, everyone at the Squid Detective Agency told her that she could choose her own path and think about her own path.

She can still make a choice, even without the witch's hair magic, but the devil's consciousness will definitely not be able to control the direction she moves in!

The girl's will finally defeated the Demon King's pollution. The burning dusk fire exploded in an instant. The black halo completed its mission and slowly disappeared on the snake bones. The blood butterfly successfully broke away from the resonance state. She slowly fell on the huge snake head exposed by the Demon King and nodded to Saotome Rin and the Squid Detective Agency who kept calling her, to show that she was in a stable state.

"Master Blood Butterfly, have you completed the fusion?"

Yuan Luzhi did not give up. His expression was very ugly, but he still spoke to make sure.

"Also, is your dusk fire burning in the wrong direction?"

Huo Gu's voice was trembling as he looked at the flames approaching him and Fan Lan and asked desperately.

Amy had curled up into a ball because of fear from the Demon King's pressure and rolled into the eyes of Fire Bone's skull. As the fire of hell, it was born from the flames of the Demon King of Dusk Fire, so naturally it had an innate fear of the blood butterfly that contained fragments of the Demon King's consciousness.

"I have the judgment in my heart as to who the knife should be pointed at, so I don't need to worry about it."

Yuan Luzhi was still trying hard: "If you make the wrong choice, you will never be able to become a demon king and gain the power to look down on the world. Lord Xuedie, you clearly know that only I can help you."

Huo Gu pulled on Fanlan's skirt and said, "Prophet, why don't we go first? It seems that the situation is not very good."

Fanlan glanced at him. The Riddler usually said nothing, just smiled.

Huo Gu started scratching his head and ears: "Don't laugh! What do you say we are finished now?!"

Fanlan shook her head, and the star-moon-like space cracks behind her were easily drawn by the brush. The Star-Moon Witch picked up Fire Bone and kicked the opponent directly into the gap.

"Why are you in such a hurry? It takes time for the paintbrush to open up a space tunnel. Goodbye, Mr. Tang."

In a corner where no one was paying attention, Fanlan lifted her skirt and bowed, as a farewell to her old colleague Tang Zhu, and then jumped into the space crack without looking back.

On the other side, Xuedie's eyes were fixed on Yuan Luzhi. She spoke word by word, "I will not let you go because of your sweet talk. After knowing your true attitude, I will kill you, the evil snake of Eden, with my own hands. This is the right thing for me to do."

Yuan Luzhi took a deep breath and stared at Xuedie, as if he wanted to cut her into pieces: "How can you be sure that this is correct? Xuedie, you are just a test subject of mine."

"because……"

Blood butterflies surrounded them. No matter if it was Saotome Rin, Kagero, the Squid Detective Agency, or even Wonder at the edge of the crowd, they all had smiles on their faces, and joy from the bottom of their hearts for their friends’ victory over themselves.

"Because so many people are laughing for me, I must be right."

"Do you need a knife? Ninja Blood Butterfly?"

Saotome Rin raised her samurai sword and was ready to throw it to Xuedie at any time. She now had Ama Murasaki in her hand, and that sword was the one Xuedie used the most and also the weapon that suited her best.

"No need, thank you, Rin, but now... I have my own soul weapon."

Xuedie nodded to Saotome Rin, and the dusk fire burned at her fingertips, gradually solidifying into a long arrow that could almost be used as a spear.

It was a blood-red demon-destroying arrow, a giant arrow often shot by Shinto priestesses during sacrifices to the Tanghong Mountain God. It symbolized happiness and well-being in the coming year and the extermination of all demons.

It is also the soul weapon that Blood Butterfly once possessed.

During the years when she became a ninja, Xuedie helped keep Saotome Rin's sword not only because Saotome Rin needed to conceal her own existence, but also because she was afraid and did not dare to use her own soul tag and soul weapon.

Fortunately, now she can take out the arrow again.

Because she would no longer be afraid to think of the person represented by the arrow who could not be saved by her, and to think of that loss.

She would no longer refuse the power from the alien demon king. As long as she could control it, it would be her power, her soul tag, and her soul weapon.

The soul label [Dusk Fire Rebirth Butterfly] flashed across the DM's system screen. If you watched from the live broadcast room, you could see that the flames emitted by the label almost engulfed the entire system interface.

"My soul." The disappeared soul weapon reappeared, and Xuedie murmured softly. Even though the rock wall behind her was shaking violently, even though the eye sockets of the huge snake skull were already lit with blood-red evening fire, and even though the remains of the Demon King were on the verge of awakening, she did not take her eyes off the arrow.

"Enrochi... Let's settle the score!"

Saotome Rin and Kagero clenched their weapons and rushed towards Enryuchi, who had not yet accepted the reality that he had lost everything. The members of the Squid Detective Agency stood side by side, facing the humanoids that kept crawling out of the hot spring to prevent the monsters from interfering with the boss battle.

The blood butterfly turned around, and its blood-red pupils, which were also burning with dusk fire, stared at the huge snake head that had broken away from the rock.

"As for him... I will put an end to him."

"All evil and despair will end here."

Blood Butterfly said so. Behind her, the active volcano Tanghongshan was shaking.

She will kill herself who is about to be resurrected.

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