Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 86 Mission: 01-9 Don't Go

"What is your relationship with that demon?"

Seeing that the silver-haired, red-eyed girl in a tuxedo didn't attack again, but stopped and asked a question, Shuangshi relaxed his knife-holding hand slightly: "She is my friend."

"is it?"

The man tilted his head slightly and said with a half-smile, "It doesn't look like it appreciates it."

Without having time to pay attention to the man's somewhat rude address, Shuangshi suddenly turned around and found that Ruo Yemu had retreated far away and had created a new demon doll, surrounding her and the mysterious man in the center.

"Xiao Mu!" she shouted quickly, "What's wrong with you?"

Wakaba Mu didn't answer. She simply stretched out her hand and commanded her men to attack again.

Three puppets simultaneously lunged at the mysterious man, only to be easily chopped off with a single blow from her sickle. Meanwhile, she still had the energy to continue speaking to Shuangshi: "Did you recognize the wrong person?"

The mysterious man spoke in a relaxed tone, as if he didn't care about Shuangshi's previous attack.

"I won't make a mistake, that's Xiao Mu."

Shuangshi answered, also spinning and cutting the attacking puppet with the blade.

Yes, even though the "thread" had been torn and disappeared, Shuangshi was absolutely certain that it was Ruoye Mu, her companion who had once fought demons with her. But why had she become like this? Why did the mysterious person say she was a demon?

"You're saying your friend is a demon? That's not funny, miss."

"Xiao Mu is not a demon!"

The mysterious man's words stimulated Shuangshi's heart. She repelled the two puppets again and decided to let Ruoye Mu answer himself.

"Shikoti!"

She rushed towards Wakaba Mu's position, shouting the names of her weapons and overlapping them.

Her demon-hunting weapon, the "Skoti," possesses a special ability that she rarely uses in front of her teammates: it can materialize abstract "connections" into "threads" visible only to her, and then sever them. If the thread connecting friends is severed, the two will become strangers; if the thread between a boss and his subordinates is severed, the employment relationship will end.

This ability is completely opposite to the wish she made to little Ace, because it can only cut off, but not connect; it can only bring loss, but nothing can be recovered.

But only at this moment did Shuangshi feel somewhat grateful for her ability. Although it couldn't restore what was lost, it made Shuangshi keenly aware of what she had lost, allowing her to clearly see that day the broken "thread" connecting her and Ruoye Mu.

At the same time, at this moment—this ability seemed to be born just for this moment, allowing her to defeat Wakaba Mu without harming her. As long as Shuangshi used Shikoti to cut all the strings connecting Wakaba Mu and the dolls, she could defeat all the doll demons at once without bloodshed!
Behind her, the mysterious man in a black tuxedo was leisurely dealing with the dolls, watching Nagasaki Soyo rushing forward from a distance, and seemed to have no intention of intervening.

However, Shuangshi miscalculated.

In the shadows behind Ruoye Mu, two more puppet demons appeared and pounced on Shuangshi.

Shuangshi thought to himself that this wasn't going to be good. Shikoti in her scissor form couldn't use that mist to protect her master. At this moment, she was no different from a normal high school girl. If she was crushed to the ground by those two dolls, she would...

“I really can’t bear to watch this.”

At that moment, the mysterious figure moved again. In the blink of an eye, she burst through the crowd of dolls, the blue blade of her scythe morphing into a crescent arc as it slashed towards Wakaba Mu. The two dolls immediately abandoned Shuangshi and lunged at her instead.

The moon arc cut them off in an instant, but continued to attack Ruoye Mu.

Shuangshi screamed, "No!" But it was too late to stop it. The dark blue sickle fell straight towards Ruoye Mu's head like the sentence of the god of death.

Wakaba Mu raised his head and stared calmly at the blade above his head.

A streak of pitch black detached from her shadow, transforming into a lightless dagger that blocked the scythe. Then, a figure emerged from behind the dagger, solidifying into a solid form.

It was another girl wearing black and red clothes and a mask.

"'Death', this time we failed," the girl with medium-length black hair said. "Retreat."

"Yeah." Ruoye Mu answered softly and nodded slightly.

"Want to leave?" The girl, silver-haired and red-eyed, holding a giant scythe and wearing a mask like the other two, who looked like a demon hunter, didn't seem to want to give up. She swung the giant scythe, and the blade moved towards Ruoye Mu again.

But the newcomer just waved his hand lightly, and the shadow under her feet surged up like boiling water, swallowing Ruoye Mu into it.

"Wait!" Shuangshi untied the combined double swords, stretched out his hand towards the disappearing Ruoye Mu, and let out a heartbreaking cry: "Xiao Mu, don't go!"

She shouted, "Did something happen to you? Why didn't you reply to my message? Why didn't you even come to school..."

However, Ruo Yemu didn't respond. She quickly sank into the shadows, and the look she gave Shuangshi from behind her mask was blank and cold.

"Give up." The black-haired girl wearing a mask like a respirator said coldly, "She is no longer the person you knew."

If Ye Mu disappeared, Shuang Shi's resentment could only be vented on the black-haired girl in front of him. She took a stance ready to attack and demanded, "What did you do to that child?!"

"No comment."

As she spoke, she drew a weapon from the shadows to block the crescent-shaped scythe. The silver-haired girl sneered and said, "You're really something. What's there to talk about with a demon?"

"That's right, we are demons." The black-haired girl said meaningfully, "So, stop harboring unrealistic fantasies."

She took a step back and also merged into the shadow, disappearing.

The strike missed, and the silver-haired girl used the momentum to retract the attack, spinning the sickle to form a cane, preventing the blade from damaging the ground. She glanced sideways at a nearby spot and chuckled softly, "Looks like it's okay."

Shuangshi followed her gaze and saw a girl in the uniform of Yuqiu Academy standing there blankly, as if she had just woken up.

Then the silver-haired girl's voice rang in Shuangshi's ears: "Since you are friends with that demon, would you mind cleaning up the mess?"

"Eh?!"

Shuangshi turned his head and found that she was no longer in the original position. He turned his head again, and the person had completely disappeared, with no trace of her around.

The dolls that were demonized by Wakaba Mutsu have now returned to their original size and are scattered all over the ground.

So Shuangshi could only smile bitterly, put away his two swords, rubbed his cheeks, and walked towards the Yuqiu student with a forced smile.

"Are you OK?"

(End of this chapter)