Chapter 307

"So, what did you find in the end?" Asaya Domitsu placed a bowl of soup in front of Abe Haruaki and confirmed the final result of the commission with her. "You don't look good."

"It's the 'God's Divine Body'." Abe Haruaki frowned, "How could an ordinary fox demon come into contact with such a thing? It's a fragment of a divine body, and it's not a fragment of a god like Fukushin."

"What level is it?" Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was sitting on the floor with Mashu and catching up on his homework, asked Abe Haruaki, "At least give me a reference range."

"...Master, you should still remember the minerals derived from the 'Divine Cast Body' that Kirshtalia collected in Teyvat last time?" Abe Haruaki leaned back in his chair and turned his head to look at Fujimaru Ritsuka. "It feels like something similar - in other words, it doesn't seem like something that can be considered important to the little monsters."

"Ah - is it the feeling that the curse on the corpse of Cornunus is a strong threat to fairies? But this is an expanded range against fantasy species?" Fujimaru Ritsuka closed the homework book he had just finished, and turned his head to Abe Harumi to confirm, "That certainly doesn't seem like something that the client can touch - but is it sure that this is its thing?"

"I don't know, but it didn't make any excuses. I think it was either controlled or there were other reasons. But the follow-up has been handed over to Monster Temple to deal with. Let's ignore this problem for the time being." Abe Haruaki drank a sip of soup and changed the topic to a more daily direction. "Well, since we chose such an everyday world this time, how are your club activities in school going?"

"...To be honest, I have forgotten which club I belonged to before coming to Chaldea - maybe I belonged to the home club." Fujimaru Ritsuka shrugged, talking about the chaos in Chaldea before, "But everyone seemed to have their own ideas about each club, so I ended up taking Mashu to the volleyball club as a manager."

"Have you never considered other clubs?" Ashiya Michiman looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka curiously.

"No, the main reason is that if we need to participate in the competition, we will be cheating." Fujimaru Ritsuka shook his head and talked about another reason that the Chaldeans were more concerned about. "Also... no matter which club we choose, it seems that they will fight each other. We might as well choose a club that no one has considered."

"The volleyball club is indeed the only club that was not nominated." Edmund, who had been responsible for helping Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mash to keep an eye on the situation in the Chaldea chat room, spoke up to prove Fujimaru Ritsuka's case. The avengers, stimulated by the records of pan-human history, began to stir. "So, how was the first day of club activities?"

"Are you my father, Edmund? Wait, were you provoked by New Chaldea?" Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Edmund with a very subtle expression, and turned the topic back to today's campus life. "The coach arranged an entrance test, but I used my experience in writing data tables in Chaldea to get by."

"Fortunately, although it's not a common template, the result is correct - so the coach considers me and my senior to have passed." After finishing the last homework, Mashu stuffed the homework book back into the schoolbag, while supplementing the two people's experience in school, "But I think this kind of team sports can be used to let those who have excess energy vent."

"Or let Brother Galahad learn it."

"Um?"

"After all, using Camelot's 'Noble Phantasm' to hit Lord Lancelot is a bit too much of a waste of magic power - a volleyball is just right, and it can be used repeatedly."

"Mashu has completely turned into Galahad and Bedivere."

"It's disgusting that you speak in such a comforting tone."

On the other hand, Monster An didn't seem to take over the follow-up of this matter - it is possible that the clues have completely disappeared - so Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu's lives are left with only three things: attending classes, club activities, and going home to do homework.

——After almost a week of ordinary daily life, Fujimaru Ritsuka discovered something unusual during the club activities.

"Do you know? Recently the supernatural club is planning to go explore new locations of ghost stories."

During the break in practice, Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was holding a clipboard and preparing to update today's records, heard about the ghost stories from the first-year club members who had not yet become regular members. Although they did not directly join the interest group, almost all events related to the mysterious side were the focus of Chaldea's attention.

Then, Fujimaru Ritsuka exchanged glances with Mari, then turned and walked over to the first-years who were picking up the balls for their seniors.

"Excuse me, but could you tell me about the new weird story you noticed at the supernatural club?"

“…Yes! Fujimaru-senpai!”

The first-year students were so mesmerized by the smile that Fujimaru Ritsuka had used on the Heroic Spirits of the Throne of Heroes that they told everyone everything they had heard from the other students.

"Senior, do you want to go over there and take a look?" While all the boys in the club were denouncing the freshman who was questioned by Fujimaru Ritsuka, Mashu lowered her voice and smiled and asked the senior who had returned to her side, "Or is it just an ordinary ghost story, and there is no need to go to the scene to observe?"

"Do you still remember what happened that night?" Fujimaru Ritsuka supplemented the parts he missed according to Mashu's notes, and smiled at Mashu and told her his own judgment, "Princess Ariadne's thread - isn't it continuing? It's the first time they meet, so why not let him go - he's probably the only one who can fool the detective."

"Then I'll send a message to my family now." Ma Xiu blinked and took out his phone to send a message, "What is the ghost story that the senior heard about?"

The strange story that the paranormal enthusiasts will notice is a strange story that has suddenly become popular on the Internet during this period. Not only have people created a website for this strange story, but some people have even created a portrait of this strange story and put it on the homepage of the website, so that everyone who clicks on the website can engrave the image of this strange story more deeply in their hearts.

But compared to those urban legends that seem to be true, this one seems too much like an ordinary legend.

Legend has it that a long time ago, a very isolated small village was visited by the gods.

The gods performed miracles for the villagers, allowing them to live a life like in a fairyland.

But human desires can never be satisfied.

Therefore, after a few years, people no longer respected the gods who remained in the village.

It all started with blood - the villagers, suffering from an incurable disease, asked the gods to use their blood to heal the entire village.

The god agreed - and the villagers who took the blood saw the miracle that the god could heal any injury in an instant.

Then it was the meat - the first part that was targeted was the god's eyes, and the villagers asked the god to lend his eyes to the blind people in the village.

The gods agreed - but the villagers saw for the first time that miracles did not work on the gods, so they became more and more daring.

After that, the skin, bones, internal organs - everything that could be used from the gods was taken away by humans, and the shrine was abandoned. The villagers left the remnants of the gods in place and walked towards their dream of a better life.

——After all, gods cannot die, and gods do not reject any of their actions.

——Until the god dies.

Dead gods will turn into demons that are completely different from their past selves and will no longer protect their former believers.

"The latter part is more like a serious urban legend." Fujimaru Ritsuka scrolled through the website on his phone and summarized the last part to Mashu. "The limitation of this legend is that you can only take one item from each person - it doesn't have to be the body part of the god that was taken away in the legend. Currently, the guys who claim to have encountered the living sacrifice of Kaguya have had ordinary items taken away from them."

"Then it is said that the location where she appears is because there is a three-way intersection below the shrine in the past, so there is a chance of encountering her at any of the three-way intersections."

"Why is it called 'Living Sacrifice Kaguya Princess'?" Mash asked.

"Look at this picture." Fujimaru Ritsuka showed Mashu the picture of the strange story on the homepage. "Although Kaguya, as a legendary figure, has many different appearances, this picture gives the visitor a hint to associate Kaguya with this strange story - a girl who descends on a moonlit night."

"If this weird story is just a story, or if it doesn't hurt anyone, then everything will be fine - but now I'm afraid it's a ghost that's still in the process of forming."

For these reasons, Edmund followed the group of people who had planned this expedition and waited for the appearance of the ghost in the form of a spirit.

The young high school students who participated in this supernatural expedition all carried backpacks, apparently to prevent the possibility that they would not have any personal belongings with them and could only have their body parts taken away by the 'living festival Kaguya-hime' - but this was only a preparation based on the current eyewitness records that no one's body parts had been taken away by her.

Edmond counted the time, alert to the changes in the surrounding environment - and Fujimaru Ritsuka, who had already returned home, contacted Chaldea and asked BB, a super AI, to take over the task of paying attention to the changes in the ghost story website and finding the creator of the website.

Then, when it was completely dark, Edmund sensed a change in the environment—a ghost had appeared.

The even colder white moonlight enveloped the three-way intersection, and a girl with a blurry face, her eyes covered with a white cloth, slowly walked from the end of the road. She was wearing an ancient and heavy twelve-piece kimono, but she did not have her hair tied up in a "big hanging bun", but a silver-white princess hairstyle that was exactly the same as the one in the painting on the homepage of the website.

——It was as if the creator of the picture had seen her in person.

"No, this ghost was created by the creator of this picture, that is, the creator of the website." Having already obtained the result of BB, Fujimaru Ritsuka informed Edmond who was at the scene, "Although I don't know if she will cause harm to others, the safety of the ghost club is temporarily in your hands."

Then, the black flame quietly ignited under the shade of the tree without anyone noticing, and turned into a purple avenger; the ghost story moved closer to the supernatural interest club, but the two sides were still able to live in peace - until a freshman who was a little timid took a step back.

The phantoms attacked the students.

As the students screamed, a walking stick and Edmund's sword pierced the ghost's outstretched hand, separating the supernatural enthusiasts from the phantom that showed a tendency to hurt people. The protagonist of another Main Story ran into the fork in the road from another direction, appeared on the scene as a professional handler, and forced back the phantom that had not yet fully formed.