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Chapter 370 Nine years ago, North Yankton…

"Ryuko and Hime are both genuine 17-year-old active high school girls, so it would be perfectly reasonable for Yukari Yakumo to say she's 17... but why does Kurumi say that too..."

Looking at the heated exchange of greetings in the group, Jia Ji was completely baffled. He picked up the "playdough" in his hand, kneaded and pulled it as if he had suddenly fallen ill due to increased stress.

"Hey!"

"Play-Doh" protested.

Oh, that's not "playdough," and there's no such thing as "playdough" in the Demon Realm. It's an S-rank demon named "Northern God." He looks like a bald warrior, without a single hair on his body, but his race is a creature similar to a slime monster.

It can freely stretch its own body parts, and there are even situations where its head is knocked 10 meters away in battle, and then pulled back by its 10-meter-long neck in the next second. Thanks to this characteristic, "Northern God" can fight and withstand attacks, and is also a pile of dung monster.

The other three pillars of the Land of Thunder Zen are also the same type of monsters, and together they are extremely troublesome, according to the four members of the God Skin Group.

The reason they were willing to act as sparring partners was naturally for the sake of their own king.

"If we're going to save Raizen, it should be Kurumi."

After a moment's thought, he arrived at the answer—

The fourth bullet of "Zaphkiel" (Dalet) can reverse time for the target it hits.

if not?
Is there some strange ninjutsu that can fill a stomach out of thin air, or could you simply capture two ninjas, make them into bio-sushi, and feed them to Raizen?
"Cannibal" Lei Chan isn't lacking food; if he wanted to, he could easily break out of the demon realm and feast in the human world right now. He simply refuses to eat because of a promise he made.

But if the "Fourth Bullet" were used to restore him to his prime, a simple and harmless process, then even he would probably have nothing to say.

Now it really is true that "anyway, I can turn back time".

As expected, the time system is the most divine!
But Kurumi's tone still felt strange to him.

When the topic of age came up, shouldn't Kurumi have answered him with "It's a secret" or "Oh my god, I won't tell you that easily"?

Moreover, her initial reaction was quite unusual. She didn't even know what an "elf" was, nor did she try to probe, lurk, or peek at the screen. Her tone was incredibly innocent, like that of a naive young girl.

Just like the water spirit who wasn't taken away by the yellow-haired ox, he didn't have any bitter or resentful emotions, nor did he have any pretentious persona; he just seemed gentle and harmless.

As for why he was able to observe this, that's quite normal.

After all, sometimes the same words spoken by different people can feel different, even just typing can evoke completely different feelings.

Just like how both Yukari Yakumo and Hime use "we" and "our family" to refer to themselves, the former only makes people think she is trying to look young, while the latter makes people think she is very cute.

With a "pop," "Northern God" was bounced several kilometers away by Jagi like a dough ball. He touched his head, a thoughtful look flashing in his eyes.

Let's assume that what "Tokisaki Kurumi" said is true, and she really is just a 17-year-old high school girl who doesn't even know what a "spirit" is. Then the current timeline is quite delicate.

Let's double-check—

[Big Cute Goddess: Send me a lewd picture]

[Forever Seventeen: Post a suggestive picture]

[Shana: Here's a lewd picture... no, wait, you two have really led me astray! Ignore them, it's always this, so boring (｀⊿)]

[Big Cute Goddess: What's the secret to maintaining relationships with group members? Lewd pictures! Lewd pictures, you idiot!]

【Chan Liuzi: A Mess】 A very fair comment.

However, after they opened the group photo album and saw other people's erotic pictures, they still posted selfies under the constant encouragement of Jagi and Yukari Yakumo.

First up is Ryuko. She wasn't wearing a black sailor uniform that showed her midriff, nor was she carrying a guitar case on her back. She looked like an ordinary delinquent girl, glaring at people with an "Oo" expression.

I've seen it in their eyes; it's still a long way from turning into an exhibitionist sailor-suited scissor-wielding hero with the word "Instinct" on his name.

Then there's Xiao Ji, who, in short, is very flat!
Flat, but actually cute!

Flat in the actual season!

As I said, winter break hasn't started yet, which means it's not Christmas Eve yet, so that incident probably hasn't happened.

As for the last one, Kurumi... The girl gently pressed her index finger against her delicate chin, and her right eye curved into a crescent shape. Although she looked a little shy, the angle was perfect.

It must be a natural talent for taking photos that girls have... but why is she wearing an eye mask?!
Not only did she not use her waterfall-like bangs to cover her left side, but she even wore an eye mask, just like a certain chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) patient, Takanashi!
"Which timeline am I in? The era of the four chuunibyou kings? No... this is bad!"

Jagi's eyes sharpened.

Nine years ago, in North Yankton… no, even earlier.

If we take the birth of the progenitor spirit "Mio" / the Eurasian Great Air Disaster as the first year of the Date A Live, then Kurumi's transformation into a spirit falls within the timeframe of [4, 8] years of the Date A Live.

Then, a big fire broke out.

A fire of revenge involving tens of thousands of people.

— Mio Takamiya's wish brought about one tragedy after another.

Kurumi Tokisaki, who was being deceived by "Mio Takamiya," perfectly fits all the characteristics she currently displays: innocent and kind. It wasn't until something irreversible happened that she saw through her true colors and transformed into a vengeful demon.

It's a very troublesome time.

"Well, it's alright."

Kurumi Tokisaki, a vicious serial killer and a wanted criminal in the underworld, has taken tens of thousands of lives with her own will. She is a girl who lives her entire life in regret for the past, yet fights back in her own way.

Although most of the people who died at Kurumi's hands later on were delinquent high school students who abused cats and maggots, mercenaries who indiscriminately killed innocent people, it still cannot change the fact that she took lives.

If it were someone like Esdeath, with a talent that could be described as "tens of thousands? What about yesterday?", Jagi wouldn't offer any advice, since he himself was also a Great Western King.

Kurumi initially chose to become a spirit only to save humanity, so her actions were merely self-deception. She was constantly tormented and had no choice but to live with the burden of sin.

It seems there's still a chance to change all of this.

The most evil spirit or something doesn't necessarily have to appear, right? After all, the ending of a murderer is either a loser or a seventeen-year-old split.

"and--"

Jagi put on the long-unseen iron mask, and surprisingly, he even had a rather melancholic air about him.

"A young girl's tears are far too spicy to be served as an appetizer."

(End of this chapter)