bdsm-fiction Chapter 27 Tokyo Under the Surface
Chapter 27 Tokyo Under the Surface
"I'm so curious! Why...?"
Before the girl could finish speaking, a flash of sword light appeared.
Xu Yuan sheathed his sword.
What's there to be curious about? Just go back to where you came from.
Shin Kamiya, who was standing to the side, was already used to this.
Lord Xu Yuan has no heart.
That's Chitanda Eru!
Chitanda Eru!!!
Such a beautiful and adorable girl, and Lord Xu Yuan just chopped her down like that...
Without hesitation.
I didn't even hear them finish speaking...
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【Ding--】
[Spatial node has been processed]
[Mission Objective: Chitanda Eru]
Target quantity: 1
[Target Strength: Mortal]
[Task Difficulty: Low]
[Execution Result: Target successfully driven out; penetration in the Hyouka world significantly reduced]
[Task Rating: D]
[Mission Rewards: 100 million yen, 100 points, 3 bronze treasure chests]
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Level D basic reward.
Not even a single point more.
Xu Yuan felt somewhat regretful.
Why didn't you send more people over?
What about Houtarou Oreki?
Where did Oreki Houtarou, the male protagonist, go?
Why didn't you come along?
It would be best to have a few more.
After all, whether you cut one or ten, it's still the same.
The more people we have, the bigger the reward will be.
However, it must be said that the rewards for space node missions are much more generous than those for bounty missions.
This time, I only killed a mortal and got 100 points, plus 3 bronze treasure chests.
What about bounty missions?
Killing an ordinary demon earns you 20 points.
As for the treasure chest?
There isn't one at all.
The rewards for bounty missions are mostly points.
Treasure chests are rarely seen.
This is probably the difference in rewards between daily tasks and unpredictable emergency tasks.
"System, open the box."
You have earned 50 points.
You have earned 40 points.
You have obtained a "Low-Tier Energy Potion".
My luck was so-so.
Open the properties panel.
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Name: Xu Yuan
Race: Human
[Title: Transmigrator (EX)]
[Talent: Affinity for Reality and Illusion (SS)]
[Physical Body: Tier 1 (220/700)]
[Soul: Tier 1 (220/700)]
[Energy: Tier 1 (220/700)]
[Equipment: Mount Tai (Green), Walnut Wood Maxim (Green), Endurance Bracers (Green)]
Skills: Slash (Mastery), Heavenly Dragon Flash (Modified) (Perfect), Nine-Headed Dragon Flash (Proficient) Twin Dragon Flash (Modified) (Perfect), Basic Swordsmanship (Perfect), Basic Combat (Mastery)
[Items: Corpse of Cosmic Isotope No. 77 (Special), Shriveled Apple (Green), Low-Level Energy Potion (White) *2, Corpse of Shin Kamiya (None)...]
Points: 316
[Mission: Investigate the truth behind the counterpart's death, and handle the spatial node from Rurouni Kenshin]
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These days, Xu Yuan has been doing bounty missions.
Aside from the occasional use for healing, the points earned were mostly spent on enhancements.
All three attributes reached 220/700.
If we further subdivide the first stage into early, mid, and late stages, this progress is exactly at the beginning of the mid stage.
If we go back and strengthen our gear this time, we can enter the mid-game.
In addition, the level of Nine-Headed Dragon Flash has improved from beginner to proficient.
It's not improved using points.
Rather, he improved through continuous practice and use.
I glanced at the bounty mission panel.
Xu Yuan pondered for a moment.
How about we try a more difficult mission?
He has been working on the white, normal difficulty missions.
After thinking for a moment, Xu Yuan gently shook his head.
Forget it.
These bounty missions all need to be dealt with anyway.
Starting with the simple things and gradually building up strength is undoubtedly the most reasonable choice.
Just like a snake, it grows bigger and bigger step by step.
Surviving and developing your character is the best strategy.
I found a few names and checked the task details.
Very well, yet another one has been turned into a demon.
Xu Yuan nodded in satisfaction.
It has to be said that this scumbag boss is quite an outstanding employee.
The day after he finished writing on the DN paper, he saw the news online about the gas explosion at that Ministry of the Environment agency.
Meanwhile, in the bounty mission list, many anime characters have been labeled "demonized".
Their drive to act is truly impressive.
Xu Yuan was so impressed that he wanted to give him a bonus.
However, the reason he acted so quickly was probably because he looked down on humans and went straight over without thinking.
You should know that scumbag bosses are very arrogant.
He even considered it a natural disaster.
He felt that as long as others viewed being killed by him as a natural disaster and took it easy, everything would be fine.
He's a rather arrogant guy.
At the same time, he was also very timid and afraid of death.
After being nearly killed by Yoriichi Tsugikuni, he was so frightened that he disappeared without a trace.
Yoriichi Tsugikuni kept a low profile and dared not come out while he was alive.
The nickname "scumbag boss" isn't without reason.
Hopefully, he won't get carried away just because there's no Sun Breathing in the real world, and end up messing with someone he can't afford to offend.
After all, he was only a second-tier player.
If you really mess with someone you can't afford to offend, believe me or not, they might grab your head and make you stand in the sun.
It might even get blown up.
Is Muzan's only weakness the sun?
This might be true in the world of Demon Slayer.
But this may not be the case at higher levels of power.
It's like how DN could cause him to die from heart failure.
Is this even possible in theory?
The heart is not Muzan's weakness.
But it is possible.
What is called immortality may just be rapid regeneration in the eyes of people at a higher level.
Difficult to kill, but not necessarily impossible to kill.
However, even if he doesn't offend anyone he can't afford to offend, he could still die suddenly at any time.
Because not everyone can become a ghost.
Some people die after receiving his blood.
The list Xu Yuan gave him was carefully selected.
Most of them are extraordinary individuals.
Of course, this only applies to those who can defeat Muzan.
The remaining few ordinary people are at the same level as the main characters and important supporting characters.
Incidentally, Xu Yuan did not include Kenshin and Kaoru Kamiya on the list.
With Nakime around, it shouldn't be too difficult for Muzan to bypass Furinji Hayato and the others.
He didn't add them to the list because he wanted to handle it himself rather than rely on others.
Closer to home.
The people on the list shouldn't die so easily.
But there's no guarantee that something might happen.
If death occurs while creating a ghost, the scumbag boss will most likely die on the spot under the rules of DN.
Thinking about it that way, it's still a high-risk job.
The kind that could die at any time.
The award for Employee of the Year belongs to [the individual/entity].
"Huh? Another glutton, B-rank?"
After checking it out, Xu Yuan casually accepted the task.
He's done quite a few similar tasks these days, such as clearing out C-level and B-level gluttons and demons.
I've never killed a parasite.
They are quite powerful; at least they are yellow-level missions.
I'd guess at the very least that's equivalent to a Grade A foodie.
It might even be stronger.
As for the demons, they would all die after Muzan's death anyway, so Xu Yuan was too lazy to deal with them.
Moreover, if too many are killed, it might attract Muzan, since he can sense the demons he has created.
Foodies, demons, parasites, ghosts.
Of these four demons and monsters, Xu Yuan felt that the weakest was the demon from the world of "Claymore".
Roughly equivalent to a C-level foodie.
But this does not mean that the world of Claymore is weak.
In that world, the truly powerful weapon is the greatsword.
The powerful villains in the story are all awakened Claymores (whose demonic power goes out of control and they become demons).
This is actually a somewhat counterintuitive thing.
Because the power of both demons and greatswords originates from the mixed flesh and blood of the descendants of dragons.
Demons are born from flesh and blood parasitizing the human brain.
It's a direct fusion, but it's not very strong.
The greatsword was created by humans fusing with the flesh and blood of demons, and its power far surpasses that of demons.
Xu Yuan speculated that perhaps it was because the human body was too weak, preventing demons from unleashing the power of the dragon's descendants mixed with flesh and blood.
It can only be considered an unstable and incomplete semi-finished product.
The fact that the greatsword was downgraded by one level actually achieved a balance, giving it room for development and growth.
In short, in that world, demons were weak and greatswords were strong.
In fact, the strongest bounty mission is the Greatsword.
She is also the only fourth-order being to appear in the present world.
Incidentally, Xu Yuan discovered that the number of gluttons and demons was increasing.
Someone is making them.
As for the number of parasites, it hasn't increased.
Instead, they got killed two of them.
Demons, gluttons, and ghosts also disappear inexplicably from time to time.
Perhaps someone is acting as a chivalrous hero.
It's also possible that someone was capturing them for research, and some died in the process.
Although Xu Yuan had not witnessed many things firsthand or heard any rumors about them, he could glean some insights from the changes in the bounty mission panel.
Before this panel was turned on, he felt that Tokyo was generally quite peaceful.
When I opened the panel, I was like, "Holy crap!"
Beneath the surface, chaos reigns, and undercurrents surge.
All sorts of monsters and demons are there.
He even saw the name Enma Ai.
This person was buried alive by ignorant villagers when he was young.
He died with resentment, but after death, the latent spiritual power within his body erupted, and he was resurrected that very night.
After being resurrected, he slaughtered the village.
A spider-faced creature from hell blackmails her with the souls of her parents, demanding that she become the Hell Girl to atone for her sins.
Four hundred years have passed in the blink of an eye.
In the second season of the anime, she broke the rules and was thrown back to the human world by the Three-Eyed Spider. Her physical body suddenly experienced four hundred years, and coupled with her own desire to seek liberation, she was eventually killed by ordinary people and turned into cherry blossoms that scattered in the air...
not at all.
She didn't die.
She simply lost her physical body and then continued her work as Hell Girl in the form of a butterfly.
He later regained his physical body.
Xu Yuan only watched one season of Hell Girl in his previous life.
After finishing watching the show these past few days, well, to put it simply, he felt that Enma Ai wasn't necessarily that strong.
She's more like some kind of uncanny rule.
The mission details also show "strength cannot be assessed".
Another aspect is her identity; if we were to use a Chinese mythological analogy, she would be similar to a soul-reaping envoy.
It's best to avoid contact with such beings until you have sufficient strength.
Of course, she will only act according to the rules.
Therefore, the two sides didn't have much interaction.
However, Xu Yuan was somewhat curious because in the animation, she sent people to hell.
Does hell exist in the real world?
If not, where did she send the person?
In short, it was truly a chaotic mess.
It's unclear how much the Japanese government actually knows about these things underwater.
Xu Yuan shook his arm: "Going back to sleep."
In modern society, people come and go.
Especially in metropolitan areas like Tokyo.
To avoid being noticed, those demons and monsters generally don't do anything during the day.
Xu Yuan was the same.
We can't exactly go and chop them down in broad daylight, can we?
Lately, he's been staying up all night, like a night owl.
"Are we going hunting again tonight?" Shin Kamiya asked.
"That's right."
"Hey~ That's so cool!"
"?"
What's so cool about it?
Xu Yuan didn't quite understand.
After returning to the Paper Valley family, he spent 210 points to enhance each of the three major attributes by 70 points.
You have 106 points remaining.
As usual, leave around 100 points.
For treatment purposes, and for unforeseen circumstances.
……
The night is dark.
Adachi Ward, Tokyo.
Under the secluded overpass.
Neon lights cast a colorful halo against the distant night sky.
It's as if you can hear the hustle and bustle of the city in it.
But it was just an illusion in the end.
The colorful lights that represent the city's prosperity only serve to highlight the profound mystery of this place.
The night here is like thick, spilled ink.
It flowed everywhere, submerging every corner under the bridge.
"Smack smack..."
A faint sound seemed to come from the darkness.
Sudden.
"quack--"
Several hoarse, strange cries rang out nearby.
These are crows that can be seen everywhere in Tokyo.
Their calls brought a brief moment of liveliness to the place.
But then it fell silent again.
Then, the "smacking" sound in the darkness became clear again.
Just then, footsteps sounded.
The sound of footsteps was undisguised.
The sounds in the darkness finally stopped.
"Did you enjoy your meal?" Xu Yuan asked.
Although the reward will still be issued regardless of whether the bounty mission is accepted or not.
But clearly, accepting assignments is still very necessary.
After all, if you don't accept a mission and the system doesn't provide coordinates, where do you find the mission target in the vast sea of people?
Why would he come here if he had nothing to do?
Clearing out fantasy creatures without having accepted a quest is generally only applicable to chance encounters.
The creature in the darkness did not answer Xu Yuan's question.
After a while, he slowly walked out.
Middle-aged man.
His face was somewhat distorted, and bits of flesh, blood, and saliva clung to the corners of his mouth.
"It's really ugly," Xu Yuan said.
The middle-aged man remained unmoved, staring at him.
Xu Yuan didn't say anything more to him, and after commenting "ugly," he took out [Dai Zong].
"Swords?" The middle-aged man's eyes darted over the sword in Xu Yuan's hand, and he grinned. "What use are those things if they can't even pierce our skin? Haven't you read comics?"
"Is that so?"
Xu Yuan lowered his body and suddenly exerted force with his feet.
He transformed into a blur, appearing before the middle-aged man in the blink of an eye.
"cut."
Clang—!
The longsword was drawn, its clear and resonant sound ringing out!
The sharp sword light instantly illuminated the darkness.
puff--!
Blood splattered.
Bounty mission completed.
Xu Yuan flicked his sword, then turned to look at the darkness in the distance: "Have you seen enough?"