Chapter 317

"The situation...has reversed!!!"

"Everyone on the website is desperately trying to deny this hypothesis, but——" Lansemello blinked and looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka in the communication projection, "Fujimaru, what is the result now?"

"The balance has already tilted in our direction." Fujimaru Ritsuka laughed, paying attention to the constant pop-up replies on the website that were all refuting the new hypothesis. "To be honest, the text provided by Professor William and his team is not suitable for the dissemination form of the Internet. Most of the information people get through the Internet is fragmented. A more rigorous mystery story than the previous three stories can't attract many people's attention."

“Even if there are a lot of people in this thread, there won’t be enough people to pay attention to that story.”

"So I asked you to use the magic of suggestion." Lansemero leaned back on the chair, picked up a cup of black tea with a smile, but his eyes did not leave the screen in front of him. "After all, for ordinary people - when their subconscious mind thinks that their lives are threatened, no one will be distracted to pay attention to a strange story of unknown origin."

"Maybe they will focus on other ghost stories in the future, but at least they will never recreate the living sacrifice of Kaguya-hime again."

"Just like horror movies in different countries, ghost stories are constantly updated with the changing times."

"New stories will have new solutions, but right now - this story is about to come to an end."

——The road leading to the future was completely broken.

"The God of Wisdom of Monsters, the one-eyed and one-legged princess... Iwanaga Kotoko - did you find help this time?" The creator of the strange story opened his eyes unwillingly, the sharp blade in his hand fell to the ground, and disappeared into the dark space, "This story that makes everyone feel scared doesn't seem like your work."

Black mist surged out, swallowing up the little light from the computer screen in the dark room - "Didn't I tell you? You can't create a monster that can kill the 'immortal body', Sakuragawa Rikka. Human imagination is limited. They can't understand what kind of monster can kill everything and kill the 'immortal' existence."

"What a pitiful and pathetic creature."

"How about it? Do you want to try my plan? Let a real monster bring you eternal peace? Ah, if you want to live as an ordinary person, I can also remove the power left in your body by the mermaid and the device - how about it? Are you interested? Do you want to give it a try?"

"Shut up, Ashiya—" Sakuragawa Rikka coldly stopped the black mist from moving, and looked into the scarlet eyes in the black mist, "If the hidden world and the real world cannot be connected, everything you said is just empty talk. Are you going to let me snatch the door to the hidden world from the monster Anzai-shu next?"

"No, no, no, no, it's too rude to just rush in. Why should we follow their rules and go through the door? Poor Rikka, you've become a monster like us, but you still have the rigid thinking of humans. You're really cute like this."

"If you have a disease, go take it out on your best friend." Sakuragawa Rikka cut off the power, cleaned up the traces left at the scene, and quickly left the room. She sneered at Heiwu who was following her, "I really can't understand what kind of person can tolerate a psychopath like you - is your last name Abe?"

The incident of the living sacrifice of Kaguya-hime has finally officially ended, and the campus life of Fujimaru Ritsuka and Marsh has returned to normal again - of course, the daily lives of Edmund, Abe Haruaki and Asaya Michiman have once again returned to their normal state of repairing windows, floors, water pipes, sewers and cleaning attics for their clients.

"…But why do the supernatural agencies receive such bizarre commissions that have nothing to do with the supernatural?" That night, Olgamari, who was on duty at the control room for the first time during this commission period, asked Fujimaru Ritsuka who had just returned home, "Shouldn't this kind of thing be handed over to a housekeeping company?"

"Because the client thinks this is a supernatural incident." Fujimaru Ritsuka stuffed the sushi made by Asaya Michiman into his mouth and answered Olgamari's questions while eating dinner. "In fact, the descriptions of these clients when they were sent to us were - 'hearing a sound from the ceiling in the middle of the night', 'there will be smelly water flowing back to the floor from somewhere', 'like something is grabbing outside the window'..."

"At first I couldn't tell what the descriptions meant, so I just thought it was a supernatural incident... and then-"

"Since I have nothing else to do, I might as well do this." Abe Haruaki concluded, "And what if I encounter a real one? Before that, the good reviews accumulated through other ordinary commissions are also important."

"No, I think the most important thing for the earl is that he is making money for Ritsuka." Olgamari commented on this with a subtle look, "By the way, haven't you found anything recently, Ritsuka? Haven't there been any incidents similar to the two incidents you encountered before?"

"No." Fujimaru Ritsuka shook his head at Olgamari. "There is no trace of the new urban legend in the school or on the Internet. It may be hidden from the other side for the time being. Ah, speaking of clues, at the end of that day, we captured the fluctuation of magic power similar to the Holy Grail."

"I heard about this from my father and the Lord." Olga Marie nodded, "But there has been no trace of it since then, right?"

"Ah, that's because I haven't finished writing the new report and sending it to the control room these days." Fujimaru Ritsuka turned his head away from Olgamari's sight with guilt, "The next day, Edmond, Lord Haruaki, and Mr. Doman went to the place where the magic fluctuations were discovered to investigate. Their current conclusion is-"

"Although we cannot be sure whether the opponent has the Holy Grail, the aura left behind is a bit like that of the Taoist priest in Pan-Human History."

"Our additional opinion is that, judging from his aura, he seems to be a bit more evil than that one." Asaya Michimitsu added a bowl of freshly prepared Inari sushi to Abe Haruaki's plate and added a more precise description to what Fujimaru Ritsuka had said. "He should be a guy who enjoys playing with humans."

"Although I'd like to say that this description applies to most of the people behind the scenes..." Olgamari sighed and recorded the description provided by several people in the mission file, "But, what do you think about this guy - or intuition, sixth sense or something like that, Ritsuka?"

"The head of Monster An is Abe Harusai, and the servant of Monster An is Ashiya Hanae." Fujimaru Ritsuka blinked and looked at Ashiya Doman who was busy in the kitchen. "Although I don't really want to say this, Ashiya Doman in most worlds is definitely a 100% evil person who needs to be defeated, right?"

"The Ashiya Michiman in our world is a variant of the Ashiya Michiman family."

"It's a good thing to be able to become a mutant subspecies in a positive direction." Ashiya Michiman responded to Fujimaru Ritsuka's complaint with a smile.

"According to the information from the Cave King, the person who mastered the method of creating the ghost story was Sakuragawa Rikka. She is definitely not the holder of the Holy Grail, otherwise she would not have used such a method to create the living sacrifice of Kaguya-hime." Mashu, who had already finished her meal, continued to add the results of everyone's discussion that day, "The Holy Grail was held by another person at the scene. It should be the person that Lord Qingming and Mr. Daoman thought was like the magician Daoman in Panhuman History."

"That's about it."

"So, what are you going to do next?" Olgamari asked Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"Let's just continue our daily lives peacefully." Fujimaru Ritsuka tapped the table with his fingers and looked up at Olgamari's face. "The other side whose plan is ruined will only be more anxious than us, and we don't have to rush to participate in it all now - the two sides of Monster An and Iwanaga Kotoko have already joined forces in the incident of the living sacrifice of Kaguya."

"According to BB's investigation, Kuebiko is the pseudonym used by Iwanaga Kotoko, and Itsuki is the pseudonym used by Abe Harusai."

"That is to say..." Olgama raised her eyebrows, waiting for Fujimaru Ritsuka to explain the arrangements afterwards.

"That is to say, until the next related incident occurs, we will not invest energy in searching for clues like picking up a needle in a haystack." Fujimaru Ritsuka replied to Olgamari, "But, we do need to find a time to contact both sides again with different candidates."

"The problem of the divine body has not been completely solved yet."

"Why did you come back with this again?" Lifa came out of the salamander pond and looked at the people standing in front of him. He turned his gaze in the direction of Iwanaga Kotoko and said, "Didn't I say that I would leave everything to you guys from now on?"

"Things in this world have been resolved, but this problem still needs to be dealt with in the hidden world." Iwanaga Kotoko glanced at Abe Harusai standing beside her, walked to the front of the legislature, and opened the wooden box in her hand, "'Hakusan' said that this is a divine body - Itsuki doesn't know this statement, don't you know it!?"

"? What's inside——"

"It's true." Iwanaga Kotoko stared at Lifa, lifted her eyelids with her hands, and knocked fiercely on the artificial eye in her right eye socket. "I hope you still remember where this thing should be kept!? - This is the eye in one leg that I lost when I was eleven years old! It's the part that should never have returned to me!! And now it's even contaminated by that strange story!!!"

"The person who created the website, made up the story, and guided the future is undoubtedly Ms. Rikka - but she definitely doesn't have the power to come to the hidden world and steal this eye! The ghost stories she made up should not have the power to pollute the divine body - even if it is a part that should not exist that was abandoned by the gods!! There is no way she knew about the existence of Monster An and would not let Ichiro meet Abe Harusai and the others!!!"

"So this is the problem of your seclusion." Iwanaga Kotoko took a step back, creating some distance, tapped her cane on the road in front of her, and looked up at the law. "I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation - and guarantee that the purified divine body I send back will not be stolen again."