"So this is the other Konishi Saki."

Looking at the monster waving its arms angrily while stepping on the shopping street, Ellie narrowed her eyes. She had a question before, that is, if her judgment was correct, the previous three victims were killed by "another self", so after killing them, where did the other self go?

Did it disappear with the death of the original body?

Now it seems that her question has been answered.

It is obvious that after killing her own body, the other Saki Konishi completely merged with the shadow and ran here - although it is not clear why she went back to the shopping street, it doesn’t matter now. After all, since she showed up, she should be prepared to die.

Although Konishi Saki looked very pitiful with tears in her eyes, Ellie didn't care about that. She raised the Barrett in her hand and fired another shot at the opponent's forehead. Soon, blood flowers bloomed again, and the spider monster also screamed and stepped back several steps. But it did not fall down. The armor-piercing bullet that was enough to penetrate a tank only left a bloody wound on the spider monster's head, and even the bone was not penetrated.

"Still pretty hard."

Ellie was not surprised by this scene. She just muttered something, threw away the Barrett in her hand, then pulled out an RPG from her cloak, aimed at the enemy, and pulled the trigger again. Soon, a rocket flew past with a tail of smoke and hit the spider monster's body and exploded. With rolling flames and shock waves, the spider monster's huge body, which seemed like a tall building, trembled a few times, and then continued to pounce forward.

At the same time, Ellie raised her right hand.

Time stopped at this moment.

The next moment, time began to flow again.

To the others, it seemed that there was nothing special about it. They just felt a flash before their eyes, and then hundreds of rockets flew out from all directions and bombarded the spider monster. One rocket after another hit the spider monster's huge body mercilessly. This time, the spider monster finally had no way to resist such a large-scale simultaneous attack again, and immediately collapsed to the ground with a scream.

"Humura's move is quite useful."

Looking at the scene in front of her, Ai Li nodded in satisfaction. Unlike Fang Zheng, the abilities that Ai Li could use were quite limited, so she had to find a way to ensure that her abilities could exert the maximum killing power in the shortest time. You cannot use barrage bombing against shadow monsters, because the coffins in the shadow time are just like the humans fixed in the seal. If you move the coffins, the people inside will die after the shadow time ends.

Moreover, this shadow time is much more difficult than sealing. After all, in sealing, even if you destroy half of the city, you can still repair it as long as there is enough power of existence. But in shadow time, if you destroy something, it will be really destroyed, and repairing... is impossible to repair.

It was a bit difficult for Ellie to deal with shadow monsters, which were thick-skinned and resistant to attacks, but fortunately she also gained some experience from Homura Akemi - when Homura Akemi was dealing with Witch Night alone, she once paused time and fired hundreds of rockets directly at Witch Night, and then started the flow of time. This not only guaranteed the hit rate, but also the lethality. If Witch Night was not immune to physical attacks, Homura Akemi might have been able to kill it alone.

Now Ai Li is using the same trick as Homura Akemi, and is equally adept at dealing with the shadow monster in front of her. Not only can she manipulate time, she can also manipulate space. She can just take out a bazooka and slam it into the opponent's face, causing it to explode.

It was a pity that no matter how powerful this shadow monster was, it couldn't withstand such an attack. Not to mention it, even an aircraft carrier could be directly blown up by the army of rocket launchers. So, accompanied by an unwilling wail, the shadow monster melted directly and disappeared into the air without a trace. Not long after that, the shadow time ended.

After that, Ai Li took the three little girls back to the Iwatodai branch to inquire about the situation. Facing Ai Li's inquiries, Xia Yin and Jie Tong certainly did not hide anything, so Ai Li soon knew the whole story...

"You want to help me, which is of course a good thing, but..."

"Isn't now the time when we can help, onee-san!?"

At this moment, Jie Tong also rushed over, grabbed Ai Li, and stared at her with his big eyes flashing.

"You didn't take Sister Xuecai with you because she couldn't enter Shadow Time, but we are different. We can act in Shadow Time. Besides, Xia Yin and I have just awakened special powers. We will definitely be able to help you, Big Sister!"

“Me, me too…!”

Xia Yin also acted out of character at this moment and timidly raised her hand.

"I also want to help Miss Ellie..."

"Um……"

Looking at the two people in front of her, Ai Li couldn't help but fall into thought. Indeed, if it was an ordinary case investigation, she would not want to involve the people around her. But the problem is that the situation in Shadow Time is different. Only a very small number of people can enter Shadow Time. In addition, modern technology creations can hardly be used in Shadow Time, which greatly increases the importance of manpower.

"Miss Ellie, we are back!"

Just as Ai Li was thinking, she saw Yue Yu Yukari also brought Satonaka Chie back to the branch. In addition, they were holding a... dog?

"You'll never believe it! We found a dog that can move in shadow time, and it can use Persona!"

“…”

Meow meow meow?

Hearing this, Ellie was completely speechless.

Even dogs?

Well...is there anything else to say?

We can’t let Jie Tong and Xia Yin feel that they are worse than dogs.

In the end, Ai Li nodded and agreed to the two's request, leaving them and Astaruddi behind. She also notified Setsuka and asked her to protect Nagisa.

"…So, Senior would rather let Xia Yin and Jie Tong help than let me follow you?"

The voice of Setsuka coming from the phone was low and eerie. Even though she couldn't see the other person's face, Ai Li could imagine Setsuka with her head down, emitting sinister aura like a Japanese female ghost.

"Well... there's nothing we can do about it. You know the situation in Shadow Time is rather special, and we are indeed short of manpower in Shadow Time. Besides, Xia Yin and Jie Tong are more or less capable of protecting themselves, and Astarudin is also with them..."

"I see."

"Well... please, Setsuna, please help take care of Nagisa. I will return immediately after this case is settled."

"OK."

Setsuna hung up the phone without saying anything, which made Airi speechless. She was not a fool, and of course she could tell that Setsuna was definitely not in a good mood. But Airi had no way to comfort her now. After all, if Natsune, Yui and Astarudin were gone, Setsuna would be the only one to accompany Nagisa.

She could only wait until this matter was settled before she could comfort Xuecai's injured heart. Ai Li was very confident about this. No matter how Xuecai lost her temper, as long as she held her down, whispered a few sweet words in her ear, and then bit her twice, she would be guaranteed to become weak all over and forget her temper.

Huh? What? Is this scumbag behavior?

I am a woman now!

How can it be considered a scumbag behavior if a girl kisses him?

For Ai Li, this time, in addition to gaining three little helpers including Jie Tong and a dog that can use Persona, another gain is that those shadow monsters slipped through the net. After all, according to the previous situation, three clones merged with the shadows, killed their original bodies, and then disappeared without a trace.

Now it seems that they have most likely returned to their home. As for the Konishi store, Ellie went to visit it the next day, only to find the door locked. When she asked the neighbors, they only said that they hadn't seen the Konishi couple for several days. Most people thought that they chose to move away from this sad place because of the death of Konishi Saki.

Hmm... Thinking carefully about the middle-aged couple whose two sides of the monster's body were fused together last night, Ellie had almost guessed the result.

Most likely, the shadowy clone returned home and merged the original's parents into it. This ending can only be said to be a pity, but... that's all. Anyway, Konishi Saki did bear a lot of pressure from her parents and neighbors at the beginning. She naturally had some dissatisfaction with her parents and neighbors in her subconscious. Now it seems that after the shadowy clone returned to Konishi Saki's home, it devoured her parents and even killed the surrounding neighbors.

After all, Ai Li and the police conducted an investigation afterwards and found that many people had disappeared in the entire shopping street, centered around Konishi Saki's home. Most of them were people who opened shops in the shopping street, and the circumstances of their disappearance were also very similar, basically one day the people next door woke up and found that the shop did not open on time.

In other places, this kind of action might have aroused suspicion, but because the large supermarket on the No. 12 artificial island had already dominated the business of the shopping street, many people believed that the missing people simply closed their stores and left.

Now it appears that this is not the case.

So Ai Li immediately changed her target and gave everyone a new task. In addition to searching for other possible suspects, they also had to carefully search the residences of Yamano Anchor and Director Tanaka. After all, with the previous experience of Konishi Saki, their missing clones were likely to be in their own homes. Although Ai Li was not sure whether this was the instinctive behavior of these clones or the work of the mastermind behind the scenes.

But no matter which one it is, it’s definitely right to eliminate them first!