Chapter 446 Monsters are all liars (Monthly ticket plus more)
While holding the person down, the Shikigami in Jiangxia's seal swarmed out, engulfing the nearby "Kid" like a white tide, and began to absorb the layer of magic power that wrapped her for camouflage.
The shikigami briefly blocked Jiang Xia's vision, and he still couldn't see who the person in front of him was.
However, when he was holding the man down, he heard a scream from his men. It was the voice of Koizumi Hongzi.
As the magic power was quickly taken away by the shikigami, Koizumi Akako's face was indeed revealed under the tangled magic power.
...It's really her.
However, I always feel that Koizumi Hongzi's magic power today is slightly different from last time... While absorbing the magic power, Jiang Xia couldn't help but suspect that the chef had been changed.
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Just now, Koizumi Hongzi was about to turn around and take a peek, like a fleeing prey that couldn't help but check the hunter's distance.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I turned around, I was held down by a hand and a dark shadow shrouded my eyes.
She subconsciously closed her eyes and was pushed against the wall by inertia. Her mind went blank for a moment. When she came to her senses again, her vision was filled with the dark wings spread out in front of her. There was nowhere to escape.
Fear, tension, fear, heartbeat...all kinds of strong emotions intertwined, pushing Koizumi Akako's heart rate to the peak in an instant, and her pale cheeks also turned red - until now, Koizumi Akako could no longer tell what kind of emotion made her heart beat so fast, this feeling of passively accelerating someone else's heartbeat made her almost doubt that it was not Mist Tengu who ate the love chocolate that night, but herself.
...When Koizumi Hongzi was sent out as bait by her aunt, she was nervous, but she didn't expect things to turn out like this.
——Because Gen Hongna said that the magic circle to be used today is the most powerful confinement in all records, and it will definitely be able to trap Mist Tengu. Even if it can't trap people for too long, at least it will be longer than the magic circle made by Koizumi Hongzi a few days ago, enough for her, the bait, to leave safely.
However, just now, when Koizumi Hongzi turned around to take a peek, she saw that Mist Tengu was ignoring the "strongest" magic circle.
She realized belatedly that this so-called "strongest formation" was not as good as the one she had set up the previous night... Was she tricked by that lawless aunt? ?
...Having said that, at this moment, looking at the Mist Tengu in front of her, Koizumi Hongzi was surprised to find that she did not regret it at all.
——After all, it was because of that deceitful aunt that she was able to see this mysterious monster, which physically made her heart beat faster, up close again after so many days.
So close, right in front of her...
Koizumi Hongzi looked up at the pair of dark golden eyes, and suddenly her mind went blank and she let it go.
She grabbed Kirito's collar and gritted her teeth to ask the question that had been bothering her for the past few days:
"You, you threw me in the sky before, and chased me here just now. Was it because the chocolate took effect, you fell in love with me, or you just wanted to trick my magic?!"
Jiang Xia: “……?”
The wings behind him moved silently... This witch didn't seem as stupid as she looked. She figured out the truth so quickly.
Anyway...
Jiang Xia's eyes moved slightly, and he glanced at the shikigami who had absorbed the energy cores and were now returning to the seals one after another.
Although the shikigami moved slowly, there were many of them. In just a short while, the magic power that allowed Koizumi Hongzi to disguise herself as "Kid" had completely disappeared.
After that, although Koizumi Hongzi was very emotional, there was no sign of magic power leaking out of her body... It can be seen that it is not like she is deliberately restraining her magic power, but that it has indeed been drained out and there is really no extra magic power left.
In other words, the recovery of magic power did not seem to be as quick as Jiang Xia expected.
...So here comes the question.
——Where did that burst of condensed magic power just now come from?
Jiang Xia thought of the unusual letter of theft notice and suddenly had a guess.
He looked at Koizumi Hongzi: "Kid is with you?"
...Kid and Conan are similar. They are both the biological sons of this world, so it is normal for them to have a magical talent.
Combining what happened before, Jiang Xia initially suspected that Koizumi Hongzi was using some method to treat Kidd as a magic battery, and was squeezing Kidd's magic power to cast the spell.
...In this case, why not let him deal with the witch? Kidd can give the magic power directly to him. This way, there will be no middleman to make a profit, and he can get the benefits from both ends.
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Koizumi Akako is still anxiously waiting for the answer to the question "love or magic?"
When she heard that Kiri Tengu did not answer but asked about his thief accomplices, her face suddenly turned dark. For a moment, she felt as if she was counting petals in her heart, one loved her and one did not love her, but in the end, she plucked the last petal and got the sad feeling of "not loving her".
...The chocolate probably didn't work. Otherwise, why would Kiri Tengu suddenly ask someone at this heart-pounding time?
When Koizumi Akako thought of this, she recalled the scene a few nights ago when she thought Mist Tengu had become her prisoner and proudly ordered him to capture people. She couldn't help feeling ashamed, which soon turned into anger.
...If I can't get his heart, then at least get the monster itself first!
Koizumi Hongzi took a deep breath and said, "If you come back with me, I will let your fellow thief go...?!"
Kiri Tengu suddenly pushed her.
Koizumi Hongzi twisted her foot and staggered to the side. Suddenly, a strong wind blew around her. Mist Tengu flapped its wings and rose straight into the sky.
Almost at the same time, a large-caliber sniper rifle grazed Jiang Xia's leg, knocking off several pieces of clothing and spinning into the wall of a tower on the side.
A huge deep hole was dug out in the solid concrete wall, and several pieces of rubble fell out and landed on Koizumi Hongzi's skirt.
Koizumi Hongzi stared at this scene in a daze. After a few seconds, her expression gradually turned into horror. What is my aunt doing? This... This is different from the plan we had discussed before!
Jiang Xia continued to rise, changed direction once on the way, and dodged another bullet that followed.
He looked down at the broken wall below, and then at Koizumi Hongzi who was still sitting there in a daze. He found that this witch who could still be raised and squeezed out magic power was still alive, so he looked away with relief and turned to look in the direction where the bullet came from.
Neither he nor the ghost sensed any murderous intent or magical power from there.
...A working-class sniper targeting Kidd?
Or was it the helper found by Koizumi Hongzi?
Jiang Xia thought of the bullet that had just rushed forward without deliberately avoiding Koizumi Hongzi, and felt that no matter what the situation was, there was little point in taking Koizumi Hongzi away as a hostage.
So he did not go back to pick up the person, but flew towards the direction where the bullet came from, wanting to see who was secretly firing the gun.
(End of this chapter)
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