Chapter 309

Abe Harusai was still caught in a brain storm regarding Abe Haruaki, but Abe Haruaki himself, whose real name was directly pointed out by the law, calmly returned to his home state - after all, although the incident of sacrificing Kaguya-hime was not over yet, even if only Edmund followed up and was responsible for assisting, it was enough.

It is only natural that the ghost of revenge can detect the traces of the ignition of the fire of revenge.

So after witnessing Iwanaga Kotoko rescue three waves of supernatural explorers from the living festival Kaguyahime, Edmund, who was always used to standing silently in the shadows, stared at Iwanaga Kotoko, and finally made the god of wisdom of the monsters give in and choose to go into battle himself to trigger the ghost story - but no one expected that it was still a step too late.

"…It seems something has changed." Abe Haruaki looked at the table full of otaku tools, raised his head and looked at Asaya Doman standing opposite him, "But it's not very obvious - at least it won't cause changes in the future of this world. Although there is no future vision, the results of otaku are expressed like this."

"At this time now—" Asaya Michimitsu glanced at the clock on the wall and shook his head at Abe Haruaki, "It's too late. Since it won't cause any major changes in the future, let's wait until Master wakes up tomorrow. And the Cave King has already returned, which proves that the restrictions on the living sacrifice of Kaguya-hime have not been weakened yet."

"It should be safe tonight."

So, in the middle of the night when no one was paying attention, a post describing that the Living Festival Kaguya-hime would take away human body parts quietly crawled to the homepage of the website, leaving the impression of "Living Festival Kaguya-hime would harm humans" in the minds of countless visitors who saw this post - and lifted a previous appearance restriction that the website users had summarized through various stories.

——The living sacrifice Kaguya-hime will appear more than once every night.

The bleak and cold moonlight once again enveloped a sparsely populated three-way intersection.

The next morning, it's morning news time.

"This morning, the police found a disemboweled corpse in XX town..."

Fujimaru Ritsuka, who rarely got up early enough to have breakfast at home, turned his gaze to Edmund sitting on the sofa the moment he heard the news on TV.

"I will go to the scene to confirm the situation."

Edmund quickly transformed into a spirit and rushed to the scene, while Fujimaru Ritsuka made a call to the control room while finishing his breakfast.

“Notify BB! Check the situation on that website again!! A death has occurred!!!”

Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu went to school on time as usual, but compared to the daily routine of the past few days, today's school could be said to be involved in an extremely abnormal situation - even if they didn't open the website of the living festival Kaguya, the two could understand that the strange rumors were brewing through the discussions of their classmates.

——Everyone was discussing this sudden death case and linking it to the living sacrifice of Kaguya-hime.

——Many people believe that the living sacrifice of Kaguya-hime has taken away the heart of the dead.

"Didn't the deputy director and his team find anything with their clairvoyance?" asked Mashu while eating lunch with Fujimaru Ritsuka on the campus lawn during lunch break.

"The kind of clairvoyance that can be accurate to the individual needs to know at least the name of the object to be observed before it can be used. Otherwise, it can only observe the trajectory of the entire world—" Fujimaru Ritsuka cut off the tamagoyaki prepared by Asuka Michimitsu and explained to Mash while shaking his chopsticks, "What they can be sure of is that the matter will be solved. They cannot be sure whether this death case is the work of a phantom."

"So we'll have to rely on everyone to investigate separately - oh?"

"Abe Harusai actually came out to eat bento with Ashiya Hanae?"

Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mashu both cast magic to enhance their hearing and focused on the low-pitched conversation between the two people who were truly related to this case.

"Abe, is this case related to the living sacrifice Kaguya-hime?"

"This morning, a monster who witnessed the incident came to the Monster Temple to report the news." Abe Harusai answered Ashiya Hanae's question while arranging the two's actions after school. "The time was late at night, and the murderer was undoubtedly the living sacrifice of Kaguya-hime, but the question is how could the princess allow such a dangerous fantasy to grow to such a height——"

"After school today, let's go to the Hidden Salamander Pond and ask about the legislation."

"We must be prepared for the monster to take action as well."

"Let's take a day off from the club today." Fujimaru Ritsuka and Mashu exchanged glances and decided on today's arrangements. "First, confirm the results of BB, and then be ready to go at any time - as the impact of the case expands, the quality of this phantom is constantly increasing... Everyone who knows about this matter is providing a basis for the appearance of the living festival Kaguya-hime."

"What kind of method is needed to make the living festival Kaguya-hime disappear?"

Meanwhile, Edmund, who had been following Iwanaga Kotoko's actions for several days, began to ask questions.

"The reason why fantasy can invade reality is because some people believe in its existence." Iwanaga Kotoko looked up at Edmund and gave the answer with her hands on her face. "So as long as the number of people who believe that the living festival Kaguya-hime does not exist exceeds the number of people who believe that she exists, this fantasy-created monster will disappear. I thought you should be able to think of this, this gloomy and weird gentleman."

"I have been curious about what kind of guy you are for a long time - Jiulang Senior!!!"

"You should learn to give others some leeway - and it's not nice to give others nicknames." Sakuragawa Kuro sighed helplessly and stopped Iwanaga Kotoko who was trying to test Edmond. "I'm sorry, but the sacrifice of Kaguya-hime has caused the death case, which means that Iwanaga must make up a reasonable explanation as soon as possible to make people believe that ghost stories don't exist."

"She's been busy since she woke up, so she might do something slightly offensive..."

"Didn't I tell you? Just call me Avenger." Edmund pressed down the dark green hat on his head and continued to get into the topic of this meeting. "The point now is, what should we do next? It is a fact that Kaguya Komatsuri created this death case. What method can we use to make people believe that this case has nothing to do with Kaguya Komatsuri and no longer believe in Kaguya Komatsuri's existence?"

"Can we use the case of Steelman Nanase that we handled before as a reference?" Sakuragawa Kuro suggested to Iwanaga Kotoko, "Judging from the website and the portraits, it should be my sister who was pushing it behind the scenes - but the case of Steelman Nanase has been thoroughly uncovered, so logically, she shouldn't choose the same method..."

"Ms. Rikka has a collaborator this time, right?" Iwanaga Kotoko scrolled the mouse wheel to confirm the more heated comments on the website. "After all, this strange story is not based on a real death case - and the portraits this time are more like a flat style like an animation, compared to the style of Steel Man Nanase that was closer to real people."

"Also, even if Steelman Nanase can use the theory that ghosts really exist to lead the interviewer to question whether Steelman Nanase is true, this is the only time that we can't do that." Iwanaga Kotoko closed her eyes and turned the laptop towards the two men, "Because the origin of this strange story is God."

"Although humans as a whole often do whatever they want, do not believe in the existence of gods, and do not fear gods - but those who pay attention to ghost stories, or those who believe in the existence of ghost stories, basically believe in this kind of unrealistic content to a certain extent. Their fear of gods will make my guidance ineffective."

"For example, if we launch a counterattack based on the ghost story itself - let's say, 'Since this god allowed her believers to take everything from her, how could she become a monster that steals other people's body parts just because she lost her life?'" Iwanaga Kotoko gestured to Edmund to speak up and refute her question.

"Because the story mentions that dead gods will turn into demons." Edmonton paused and continued, "And according to the system of Japanese mythology, stories of gods falling are not uncommon - so even if we don't consider the content of the story itself in the strange story, just based on the mythological background of this country, we can overturn this doubt."

“Even if you have to rely on fiction to cover up the truth, you must find loopholes that can be exploited before launching an attack. It’s like a beautifully packaged gift. Before you open it, you will never know whether it is just a gift of gratitude or a flame of revenge.”

Iwanaga Kotoko raised her eyebrows, as if she had thought of something, but quickly turned her attention back to the battle plan against the living festival Kaguya-hime.

"That's right. Since Kaguya-hime was originally a god, most of the loopholes that can be used to make up a story can be plugged up with the excuse that 'she was once a god.'" Iwanaga Kotoko sighed and leaned on the table. "This time, with a collaborator, things have become more difficult for Ms. Rikka - and the god in this story lost his eyes at first."

"This is a clear indication that there is something wrong with Ichiro and the fragment of the divine body!!! Damn it, how about we call Harusai-san and ask him to take us to the hidden world to confirm the situation?"

"Iwanaga..."

"Then let's question from another direction." Edmund leaned back in his chair and gave a solution. "Besides, it will be more convenient to deal with the problem separately - first separate this death case from the strange story, convince people that this death case has nothing to do with the living festival Kaguya, and then prove that the living festival Kaguya does not exist at all."

"For example, the most impressive part of what Kaguya-hime lost should be her eyes - why did the victim lose her heart? If Kaguya-hime was the one who caused the incident, the victim would only lose his eyes, not his life."

"The loss of her eye was the beginning of the end."

"Iron Man Nanase summarized the debates on the website and fabricated a non-existent culprit for Terada Tokunosuke's death. But this time, if we can prove that the living sacrifice Kaguya-hime's first priority is not to take away the heart from the living, we can separate the case reported this morning from a strange story."

"Because everything was taken away from her, she needs to take everything back - that's why she can question the connection between the case and the strange story based on the priority of the parts taken." Edmund smiled, with a cold light in his golden eyes. "This is enough to achieve the first step of shaking the fantasy. The rest will be left to the 'experts' to perfect."