Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 84 Mission: 01-7 Nagasaki Soshi (Part )

In a pitch-black room, a cell phone alert rang out, breaking the silence. As the phone screen lit up, a beam of light illuminated the ceiling, reflecting light onto the airline quilt on the large bed.

A hand reached out from the side and grabbed the lit phone. Then a face appeared in the light of the screen.

Nagasaki Soyo looked at the information on the screen and sighed.

The message read, "Sorry! Something urgent happened at work tonight, so I can't eat at home!" The sender was "Mom." Shuangshi paused, got up, and left the bedroom. He put the cold food from the dining room into the freezer, turned on the water heater, and started running a bath. Then he returned, clicked on the message, marked it as "read," and replied, "It's okay. I know work is important too. Don't worry about things at home."

The message was instantly read, and the other party immediately replied with a new message: "I'm so sorry, I clearly said I would come back! Mom will take you out to eat during the holiday!"

However, Shuangshi had already exited the chat interface. Looking at the message that popped up at the top of the screen, she sighed helplessly again:
“There are too many exclamation points.”

Shuangshi didn't turn off her phone. She stared at the screen, lost in thought, looking at two profile pictures that seemed to never show any new messages again. She collapsed on the bed helplessly. She slammed the hand holding the phone to the side, making a dull sound on the soft quilt.

"As expected, I should still ask it for help..."

She muttered to herself, tilted her head to look at the glowing screen, and looked at the two silent contacts who had not sent any messages since a certain day, her heart full of confusion.

At that moment, a strange light suddenly flashed from the bedside table in the room, which was particularly conspicuous in the dark bedroom. Shuangshi stood up and picked up the light source. The light was from a silver ring inlaid with a pale yellow gem.

"Another demon has appeared?"

She frowned and put the ring on the index finger of her right hand, changed into her going-out clothes, and walked out of the room. Of course, before leaving the house, she did not forget to turn off the bathroom faucet.

"Where is the devil?" she asked the ring. Then, guided by the light, she walked onto the balcony, looked at the brightly lit night of the new city, clenched her right fist, placed it on her chest, and closed her eyes.

"Shikoti."

The next second, a pitch-black long sword appeared in each of Nagasaki Souyo's hands. The swords were shrouded in a dark mist that made it impossible to see their true features. The mist quickly climbed up her body along her hands, making Souyo seem to melt into the darkness.

Shuangshi turned into a shadow and disappeared into the open-air balcony. He slid down the glass wall as if he had no entity and landed safely on the ground.

Then immediately headed in the direction where the demon appeared.

Near the location indicated by the ring, Shuangshi saw the demons that had appeared in the human world. Their button-shaped pupils flashed red, and their soft fur was covered with stitches.

They look like a group of puppets.

Sensing Shuangshi's approach, the puppets all turned to look at her. This number seemed a bit difficult to deal with, but Shuangshi and her two swords were no pushovers either.

She brandished two swords and slid into the space between the puppet demons like a shadow. The blades tore the puppet's skin like tofu, revealing white cotton wool.

Strange, are they really demons?

Shuangshi couldn't help but wonder. Over the past year, she'd battled all sorts of demons, and regardless of their appearance, the blood from their wounds should have exuded a dark, demonic aura. A stuffed tiger, its maw wide open, lunged at Shuangshi, but Shuangshi's figure swayed slightly, appearing behind it in an instant. A massive wound had been ripped across the tiger's belly, and white cotton wool poured out, spilling onto the ground.

The puppet, now only a piece of skin left, could no longer move, but it was indeed refreshing to see the feeling of defeating an enemy. She then dodged a swooping red bird puppet, severing its fragile body with her blade, and then faced a clumsy little bear.

Shuangshi vaguely realized that these puppets were not real demons, but were simply controlled by someone more powerful. Thus, she began to have some thoughts of retreating.

Things were different now. The team had fallen apart, and the remaining members were left to fight alone. Even if Shuangshi was more comfortable fighting alone than the others, he couldn't recklessly challenge such a monster alone.

Anyway, nothing will happen during the day, it's been like this for over a year. I'll retreat now, contact the other person, and then we can challenge them together tomorrow night.

So, Shuangshi killed another puppet and planned to escape with the shadow.

It was at this moment that a burly puppet two people tall appeared behind the slain puppet.

"This is……!"

The moment the puppet appeared, Shuangshi felt his movements become difficult, as if his limbs were entangled with silk threads and held in the hands of a puppeteer. Unlike those small cloth toys, the puppet before him was a genuine demon!
"Are you the leader?"

But the moment he saw it, Shuangshi felt relieved. Unfortunately, while the enemy before him was powerful, its abilities were precisely countered by Shuangshi's. If that were the case, even if Shuangshi were alone, he could defeat it.

As long as she releases the ability that can restrain the enemy——

Thinking of this, Shuangshi resisted the invisible control and raised his hands.

Put the two long swords together.

"Shikoti!"

Instantly, the dark mist surrounding her dissipated. Shuangshi put her hands together and aimed at the puppet in front of her. She was slightly startled, but she still let the two long swords overlap with a crisp "click". Shuangshi immediately felt relieved.

The invisible thread that controlled her was "cut" by her.

However, what puzzled Shuangshi was that there was a more powerful "thread" connecting the puppet demon and its back. This puppet was not the real leader of the puppets, and the other party was hidden behind a deeper veil.

What to do? Advance or retreat?

Knowing that her enemy's abilities were outmatched by her own, Shuangshi hesitated for a moment. Before she could make a decision, the puppets and other figures abandoned her and quickly moved away along the line.

Then the sound of fighting came from that direction.

"Wait, could it be Li Xi?" Shuangshi was shocked and immediately thought of which past companion might appear here, so he hurriedly chased after him.

(End of this chapter)