Chapter 67 You're so creepy
“Shinjuku——!”
As soon as he returned to the castle tower, Kitsunesuke suddenly jumped out and wanted to dive into Sengenmaku's arms. He took a half step back, and the little fox lost his balance and fell to the ground with a thud.
It was not discouraged, but raised its head with tears in its eyes.
"Shinjuku, he, he bullied me woooo!!!"
Speaking of which, Kitsunesuke said he wanted to go back to the castle tower first, but in the end he never came back. I looked up and saw the leader Zai standing by the window, greeting me slowly and smiling lazily, and I didn't look like he had done anything wrong.
Kitsunesuke was about to cry:
"He took advantage of the Shinsengumi's absence to forcibly arrest me, and even said that the Shinsengumi wouldn't come to save me even if I screamed at the top of my lungs. Woohoo, he's a liar!"
…
I'm so sorry, he really meant it.
Everyone is isolating you, haven't you noticed yet?
"Really? So what did he do to you?" asked Chijianmu.
"..." Kitsunesuke remained silent.
You have to see it for yourself. A famous detective must have the courage to explore the crime scene. Qian Jianmu went upstairs with the box, opened the door and stood at the door. Looking at the scene in the room, his silence was deafening.
The lazy black-haired young man was wrapping a bandage around the knife wound on his wrist. The originally clean tatami was covered with black bloodstains, and at first glance it looked like a crime scene. The blood marks in the shape of fox claws show the tragic scene of a fox being dragged away. The violent struggle left claw-shaped marks on the wall, which can be called the scene of a horror movie in the fox world.
Seeing him coming, the young man waved his hand innocently.
Wow, the person is still alive, that’s so spicy.
"...Tatami is difficult to wash."
"Your focus is very wrong." The leader complained.
"That's right, you can still use it if you turn it over."
"Hello……"
Qian Jianmu was very open-minded, at least he didn't play in the sleeping area. The bedroom in the castle tower is divided into two layers, the inner layer is used for rest, and the outer layer is used for work, separated by a paper door in the middle. In addition to the eunuchs who frequently go in and out to organize documents and official business, the sword men also take turns to be on night guard. The sword men on night guard usually guard near the paper door.
But Kitsunesuke sleeps more often in this position, and when it returns to the castle tower it just stays outside. The truth is clear at a glance. The leader of the criminals has been planning for a long time, waiting for Kitsunesuke to return and fall into his trap.
"So, what did you do?"
The dark-haired young man looked at him, smiled quietly, and raised his half-bandaged wrist.
"I just cut it in front of its face."
"……?"
"Then ask it to drink my blood."
“……!”
"It keeps running around and making a mess everywhere. It really doesn't know how lucky it is."
"..." Qian Jianmu closed his eyes and took a deep breath: "Or, why don't you go see a doctor."
Forcing others to watch you cut your wrists and forcing them to drink your blood, who wouldn’t be scared?
The family members are so helpless, they are facing a mental illness...
He couldn't say anything yet because the prisoner did it on purpose.
Despite his suicidal tendencies, Dazai rarely cut himself. He is afraid of pain and seeks death rather than pain. He tried cutting his wrists when he was very young, and it was considered the most boring way of suicide. It was very difficult to die, and the wound would heal before he lost too much blood. It was a waste of pain, and he hated it very much.
The act of 'cutting wrists' is not important, what is important is the 'blood'.
The leader is doing experiments.
His guess is that No Longer Human is the ability to neutralize all unnatural forces.
Honmaru is unable to use his supernatural powers, but because they are still effective in his body, he cannot accept spiritual energy, but he also cannot cause damage to swords that are almost entirely constructed of supernatural powers.
He is not the original body, so this kind of god-like body also has human disqualifications inside it.
Maybe it's not insulation, but another ability that is full of anti-spiritual power in the body.
Both Sengenmaku and Tsukumogami's blood contains spiritual energy, and being injured means a massive loss of spiritual energy. It was a bit strange, and he suddenly began to wonder if there was also human disqualification in his blood?
So he cut his finger, took a small amount of blood and soaked the cherry blossoms, resulting in the cherry blossoms withering quickly. If it is not completely soaked, the blood will dry up quickly.
Unlike his 'insulation' performance, his blood had the effect of temporarily nullifying spiritual power. He couldn't cause damage to swords in one go. The splashing of blood could at most cause them to lose more spiritual power, but if the swords were stained with his blood in one breath, they would die instantly.
For a sword that lacks spiritual power, it is indeed dangerous and worth being wary of.
As Kitsunesuke is made up of spiritual energy, ingesting his blood will cause Kitsunesuke to be injured.
It's so interesting.
As for Kitsunesuke, swords and knives cannot cause any harm to him. He is simply a legendary king of endurance. For various reasons, Sengenmaku and Touken maintained a vigilant and conciliatory policy towards Kitsunesuke, because they really could not do anything about it. But now he can hurt Kitsunesuke.
He can threaten Kitsunesuke!
He had originally planned to draw blood at night for further experiments, but Kitsunesuke happened to come back to get something. The time was right, the place was right, and the people were right. The leader Zai held a knife and gave Kitsunesuke a devilish smile.
**
Qian Jianmu took out iodine and a bandage and looked at his wound. The leader was very thin, and the blue veins on his wrists were clearly visible. He cut very horizontally, not horizontally, but stabbed the wound with the tip of the knife. The wound was not big and did not require much stitching.
"I'm going to start feeling sorry for Kitsunesuke..." he muttered under his breath.
"Shouldn't you feel sorry for me?" The leader showed a pitiful expression.
Anyone who bleeds for an answer does not deserve pity!
"But I have almost figured out the situation of the fox. If nothing goes wrong, I will be able to contact the Time Government tomorrow."
The leader Zai, whose expression changed instantly like a lunatic, said softly, for some reason, Qian Jianmu felt that he was very happy now.
Why are you so happy? Is it because the persecution was successful? You are not a human being.
"It's not pretending anymore?"
"It says..."
**
Kitsunesuke's screams echoed throughout the castle tower, and the leader, Zai, showed a subtle boyish smile as if he was playing with a cat and a mouse, and held on to it tightly.
It's strange that this man is so thin, but he is so strong.
Unable to drink his blood, Kitsunesuke's eyes gradually became filled with fear. However, at the moment when the leader's blood dripped into its mouth, that face, which was quite human and sometimes even had a kind of uncanny valley effect, suddenly calmed down.
"Hmm?"
The chief was very interested.
"What do you want to do?"
Kitsunesuke's tone was as calm as a machine.
**
"It can be basically confirmed that Kitsunesuke is this one." As he said this, the leader tapped the book that had been placed on his chest.
Unlike the arrogant and old-fashioned person in the literary giant world, the fox world integrates a part of itself into a fox's helper and walks as a fox's helper.
I thought he was just an idiot, but I didn't expect he was pretending.
"Ah, this is not it, it's really stupid." Leader Zai stood up and walked around the blood.
"It's just a fool."
Qian Jianmu's eyes fell on the knife in the leader's hand. He also stood up and went downstairs to the main entrance on the first floor.
It was already dark, and it would soon be eight o'clock. He saw the leader leaning aside to recover from the blood loss, and continued to say:
"It can't even see something so obvious, but it's so partial to the sword tsukumogami that it's almost overflowing. I wonder if it's in love with knives? That's weird."
Kitsunesuke's attention to swords and Tsukumogami is unusual. It needs a thousand maku, but prefers swords, very much.
Suspicions about it had long existed, but it was not until today when the leader pressed the issue that it was finally confirmed.
"So it really didn't notice that?" Qian Jianmu was incredulous.
"Absolutely not!" Leader Zai shook his head.
Just at this moment, the sound of footsteps was heard outside the door. Both of them were familiar with this sound. Since you can’t see or touch it, just pretend it doesn’t exist.
“…Shinjuku…”
"We refuse!" Leader Zai interrupted the reading, stood at the door, and suddenly opened the door.
There was still no one outside the door.
The dagger flashed coldly, and the leader cut the bandaged wound again. When the blood flowed out, he waved his hand to spray it towards the door.
Although there was no one around, the two heard a burning sound and a sharp cry that was very piercing. The wooden wall was hit by an unknown entity. The sound of this entity sounded very similar to that of a tsukumogami at first, but later on it was completely different from what it sounded like.
“——Shinjuku——!!!”
The wooden wall was nearly collapsed by the violent impact, and the 'thing' that was unable to enter due to some restrictions was struggling. The leader spilled the blood again, and the sharp sound became even louder.
It was already past eight o'clock. In the distance, ghost shadows flickered. The leader stood still, looking at the agile dagger running towards him. The moment the dagger approached the door, blood spurted out again.
This time the blood really splashed on tangible objects. The dagger at the beginning paused, and scars caused by corrosion appeared on his disdainful face, but even so, he still moved forward unconsciously without any sound.
At this moment, the leader locked the door, and blood dripped onto the ground. He turned his head to look at Qianjianmu, and at the same time looked at Kitsunesuke, who was as hard as a stone and had appeared at some point and had been watching all this quietly.
"Did you see it?" he asked Kitsunesuke.
"...I don't understand." said Kitsunesuke.
"Idiot." Leader Zai sighed speechlessly. He seemed to have no patience with stupid people. He turned to look at Qian Jianmu.
"They are not the same thing." Qianjianmu explained. "There are two kinds of 'ghosts' here, one is made of spiritual power, and the other is without spiritual power."
The 'Kitsune's Helper' sitting there was slightly confused:
"What does that mean?"
"It means that abilities that don't belong to this world have appeared here, and they are malignant."
Chigenmaku lowered his head and looked at Kitsunesuke:
"Apart from our world, have you really not merged with any other world?"
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