Family heirloom, then turned into a demon girl

Chapter 87 Mission: 02-1 She Disappeared
On Tuesday morning, before class, Nero sat quietly in her seat, her posture dignified. Not far away, several female students were chatting, occasionally hearing low exclamations.

“Is this a new ghost story?”

"No, it's true. I was asleep last night, but when I opened my eyes, I was near Ikebukuro!"

"Is it sleepwalking? I've never heard of you having this habit."

The protagonist of this story is naturally the unfortunate person who left home last night under the guidance of the devil. Last night, Nero opened the gate to repel "Death" and left the mess to Shuangshi. Now it seems that there should be no problems.

"If it was just sleepwalking, it would be fine. But the more terrifying thing is that when I woke up, all I had around me were torn stuffed toys—"

Nero listened attentively for a while and gradually realized that this classmate only regarded this incident as an interesting anecdote worth showing off, and did not connect it with the devil. The most worthy thing for her to show off was...

She got the contact information of a certain young lady in Tsuki no Mori.

Nagasaki Soyo seemed to make her believe that she came to that place only because of sleepwalking, and that this young lady saw her upstairs and came down to check on her because she was worried that she might be in danger.

He's really good at pretending to be a good person.

However, since the matter has been resolved and Nero no longer senses the devil's aura from this classmate, it can be believed that she is now fine. What still troubles Nero is what exactly "Death" and her companions want to do.

What was their reason for luring high school girls out at night? And where did the girls who had disappeared because of this go?
And most importantly - where does their power come from?

Nero could clearly feel that "death" was the girl who was once named Wakaba Mu, but now she was completely a demon. This situation made her think of the "Return to Heaven Ceremony" of the Demon Sword Cult.

Could it be that Agnus's technology was leaked? But if an organization possessed such technology, it was hard to imagine that they would be so secretive.

On the one hand, the success rate of the Return to Heaven ritual wasn't very high. If the person receiving the demonic power lacked a firm heart, they could easily degenerate into a pure demon. If they were to conduct human experiments, there was no guarantee that the failed product wouldn't cause trouble. However, there were no such rumors in the New City.

On the other hand, the reason the Demon Sword Cult didn't publicly declare that they had mastered demonic power was because they were an organization bound by faith and extremely opposed to demons. If another organization had obtained a method to control demonic power, they would have immediately declared that they wanted to use demonic power to rule the world.

So Nero ruled out this possibility. But if that's not the case, how did Ruoye Mu become a demon?

Thinking of this, Nero suddenly remembered the relationship between Wakaba Mutsu and Nagasaki Shoyo. According to Nagasaki Shoyo, they were friends.

So what happened to the other person, the one who had a closer relationship with Wakaba Mu?

Thinking this, Nero stood up and walked gracefully towards the next class. She wanted to confirm something.

"Toyokawa, is that so?"

Facing Nero's question, the student tilted his head and thought for a moment before saying, "There's no student named Fengchuan in our class. Did you remember it wrongly?"

"Maybe that's the case. I'm sorry to waste your time." Nero bowed his head and saluted, only to receive a somewhat flustered "It's okay" from the other party. He then returned to his class.

The bell rang. Nero stared at the blackboard, his mind pondering the information he had just received.

As expected, Toyokawa Shoko never came to Haneda Academy. And according to Nagasaki Shoyo, Wakaba Mutsuki should be in the same situation - they both dropped out.

It's safe to assume that the two are in the same situation, meaning Toyokawa Shoko has likely also become a demon. So, what exactly caused this to happen? Unraveling this question might reveal the source of their demonic powers.

"Takamatsu-san?"

During the break, Nero came to Takamatsu Deng's seat and whispered hello, but was ignored. It was only natural, as the girl named Chana had said yesterday that she ignored everyone.

As a key witness likely connected to those three, Takamatsu Deng likely possessed crucial information that Nero didn't know. But if she refused to speak, then all the information she had would be useless.

No one knows what happened, but Takamatsu Deng’s autism is much more serious than her in the other world.

what can we do about it?

Nero stood there, slightly lost in thought. Gao Songdeng raised her gaze slightly, as if noticing that Nero was still there. She opened her mouth and said in a very soft voice:

“…Don’t come near me.”

"Hmm?" Nero heard the voice and looked at her.

The purple-haired girl in front of him glanced at Nero quickly and lowered her head again.

"Otherwise, you will die."

So that's it... Are you the legendary "Girl Who Brings Death"?

Nero suddenly realized what was going on and looked at her deeply. Without saying anything more, he returned to his seat.

"Death," she said. So, could it be that the death of someone important to her had given her such a huge shock?

Nero vaguely felt that this "someone" should be Toyokawa Shoko, but he was not sure because Nagasaki Shoyo's performance did not seem to support this statement.

The doubts that concern people have not diminished.

After yesterday's baptism, the classmates had begun to get used to Nero's various extraordinary performances and no longer made any big noises. After the class ended, Nero did not leave school directly, but first went to the activity room of the wind band.

That was where the only piano in the school was located. Nero went there to show his interest in the club activities to his classmates and to confirm his guess.

And sure enough, after questioning the members of the wind orchestra, Nero confirmed that the piano had no user who would appear after school and before club activities began. "Toyokawa Shoko" did not exist at Haneda Academy.

Another day ended, and Nero left school. Today she did not plan to repeat the work of last night, but returned to her rented high-rise apartment to change clothes.

After Nero opened a bank account a few days ago and told Credo about it, she almost immediately received a large transfer. The amount made her suspect that her sworn brother had secretly embezzled the funds of the order.

Fortunately, this speculation did not seem to come true. But despite this, Nero decided to spend as little money as possible - although she had already spent a lot of it on creating her false identity.

Nero closed the door, turned around and stepped into the elevator.

(End of this chapter)