I'll kill you after I finish this game!

Nothing changed... Lian's first impression of this person can be summed up in two words.

She and Skadi were led to the innermost VIP room of the club. Yuza Shirou, sitting on the opposite sofa, smiled at Fujii Ren, but scratched his head with some trouble in front of Skadi.

By observing Fujii Ren, it can be seen that this guy is looking at his face with a slight smile, just like the last time they met.

Judging from his expression, it's quite clear what this guy has been doing in the past two months.

He was originally an antisocial guy who walked around like he was wearing clothes, and he was also an excessively intoxicated madman.

“There’s probably a lot to say, but let’s sit down and have a proper talk first, my friend,” Yuza Shirou said to Fujii Ren in a flippant tone. “After all, you’re still healthy, which is better than anything else.”

"You... are still as stupid as ever."

Fujii Ren couldn't stand Shirou's frivolous attitude, so he remained silent for a moment to recapture the atmosphere they used to have when they were together.

It's okay, she's very calm. She didn't come here to argue today, and this guy is probably the same.

Although there are countless things I want to know and things I don't want others to know, I shouldn't rush things now; I should proceed calmly.

Silang was better at this strategy than she was, so she had to avoid noticing anything superfluous in his tone and expression.

What does this guy know now, what does he plan to do... we need to find out that first.

"Well, you're probably thinking of some tricks I'm familiar with again."

Even though Fujii Ren was expressionless, Yuza Shirou felt an uncanny chemistry with him, almost to the point of nausea. He guessed what the other was about to do, but he didn't mind at all. Then he looked at Skadi, who was sizing him up with her arms crossed, and smiled:

"The other one... even though I've taken a leave of absence, can I still call her Skadi-senpai?"

"Speaking of Skadi, the name seems to be the same as that of the Norse goddess of winter. I didn't expect that someone would actually use this name. But with her appearance, you could easily believe she's a goddess."

Faced with Yuza Shirou's teasing, even Fujii Ren was worried for him. Although her senior was nice to her, she had personally experienced how terrifying Skadi was at first.

They joked that she was alright, but they teased Skadi for being truly fearless.

However, Skadi didn't react directly to Yuza Shirou's thuggish tone and manner of interaction. Instead, she looked at him calmly and said something that Fujii Ren couldn't understand:

“You have drawn strength from Him, haven’t you?”

To obtain...power!?

Fujii Ren looked at Yuza Shirou with a surprised and uncertain gaze, focusing his power on his pupil retina. The life response given by the other party was indeed dozens of times stronger than that of an ordinary person. Calling him a superhuman would be an extremely qualified description.

What the girl cared about even more was that the special energy flowing within Yuzashirou's body seemed to be linked to the other's life force.

Furthermore, a faint medium, similar in essence to her, exists within the other person's body, even deep within their soul.

"Silang...you bastard!"

"Oh my, it was so easy to spot? It seems the difference is so vast it's beyond description."

Yuzashiro uttered some troubled words, but his face still wore an extremely cheerful smile. Under Fujii Ren's slightly narrowed gaze, his right hand burst forth with energy, coalescing into a pattern that surrounded a silver-white magic array.

A finely crafted gun slowly emerged from the magic array. Its appearance and design resembled the Desert Eagle, but its complex internal structure was definitely not what Fujii Ren thought.

Crack—bang!

With a smile on his face, Yuza Shirou took out the gun, aimed at Fujii Ren and Skadi, and fired two shots in quick succession.

Fujii Ren's expression turned cold. With her super-reflexes, she slapped the bullet that seemed to be moving at an impassable speed as if it were a fly.

The bullet aimed at the expressionless Skadi stopped abruptly in front of her, then slowly disintegrated into atomic dust.

"【Event】? No, that's not right, it's even worse than that."

Fujii Ren, who had been suddenly shot by Silang, stared at the other man with a cold expression, scrutinizing him from head to toe.

She sensed a subtle and degraded demonic aura emanating from the other party. It was so faint and of such poor quality that she did not notice it immediately.

Skadi then spoke up, clearing up Ren Fujii's doubts, saying, "To be precise, he's just a nobody who didn't even participate in the [Event] and doesn't have any artifacts. It's normal that you couldn't sense him, Ren."

"It's really disheartening to be called a nobody. If it's alright, could you call me 'Newbie-chan'? Senior~~"

Yuza Shirou tapped his head with the gun in his hand, a cheerful expression on his face, and looked at Fujii Ren, who was looking at him hesitantly, and said in a flippant tone:

"Although I know you want to ask me why I became like this, as someone who knows me, you should know that if you want to get something from me, you have to offer something of equal value, right? That is to say... information for information."

"After all, you've made a lot of good friends recently, and suddenly you're surrounded by a lot of people whose identities can't be verified."

Upon hearing this, Fujii Ren glared even more fiercely at Yuza Shirou, his gaze transforming into a tangible wind pressure that scraped a gash across the frivolous man's face.

She knew that given the other person's extraordinary physique, this was just a mosquito bite, so she naturally wouldn't mind taking action.

From what the other person said, it was clear that they had been secretly monitoring her during her disappearance and were conducting some kind of investigation on their own.

Since the other party has already become a demon... no, a half-baked demon about to become one, then the other party should already know some things.

"------!"

When Erii Honjo saw Yuza Shirou injured, she instinctively reached for her gun.

But Yuza Shirou stopped her, nonchalantly touching his cheek where a bloody gash had appeared, and complained to Fujii Ren:

"How rude of me! Even a handsome guy like me sometimes needs to rely on his looks to pick up girls, you know?"

Despite complaining like this, Yuza Shirou was thinking about the gap between them.

After obtaining such intelligence, he truly understood the gap between them. If Fujii Ren had wanted to, he could have killed him with a single glance and overturned this place.

"Silang, although I know your independent style means you won't listen to advice, you'd better stop before you completely turn into a monster. This is not something you can interfere with!"

"And then what? Just ignore it?"

Faced with Fujii Ren's seemingly cold but actually clumsy and concerned advice, Yuza Shirou said with a flippant and impatient expression:

"You think I don't know how many weirdos from Suwahara City are gathered here right now? Are you suggesting I give up my power and let myself be slaughtered?"

"...No, I just want to tell you cruelly that your power is not qualified to interfere in this matter. Even if I could kill you thousands of times in an instant, I would face them just as you are facing me right now."

Fujii Ren also felt that Shirou wouldn't do that, so it was best not to interfere, given that Shirou had the ability to protect himself to some extent.

Although the opponent possessed power, that power seemed truly insignificant to Fujii Ren.

She could understand the enormous gap between them, so by extension, Fujii Ren could also understand the enormous gap between herself and those monsters.

However, faced with Fujii Ren's stern warning and the little information he had obtained, Yuza Shirou laughed heartily and said:

"You accepted my invitation because you had a compelling reason to come, didn't you? You haven't forgotten what I said before I left your side, have you?"

He was willing to do anything to get rid of this awful sense of déjà vu, even if it led to a path of destruction.

Fujii Ren will not forget what Yuza Shirou said before he left, and the reason she came here is probably because she cares about him.

Normally, Yuza Shirou wouldn't invite her out of a sense of fate. Compared to Kasumi, who is more sentimental, Shirou is more decisive and indifferent.

The other party wouldn't arrange this meeting out of sentimentality; more importantly, this guy...

"Speaking of which, we're accomplices. You and Xiangchun are murderers now, aren't you?" Silang raised his lips slightly, teasingly.

"......"

Fujii Ren remained silent, then took a deep breath, his eyes suddenly turning into the sinister expression he always had when he was with Shirou, and he said something that made Yuza Shirou unable to maintain his smile any longer.

The girl looked expressionlessly at Skadi, her senior and teacher, and asked indifferently:

"Senior, this guy won't listen to advice. Could you... no, could you temporarily lock him up and lock these two guys up somewhere safe where they won't get involved?"

Since you're so clueless, then we'll just have to resort to drastic measures.

Skadi glanced at Ren Fujii, then snapped her fingers in perfect unison, instantly distorting the space around her into a vortex.

A place reflecting the scene of a primeval jungle appeared at the other end of the circular portal, and Skadi echoed:

"There is a remote planet 250 million light-years away that is just right for human habitation. He has never even set foot there. It would be safe for him to live there as a wild man for a while. There is a man and a woman there. You can choose to spread human civilization wherever you want."

Without giving Honjo Erii and Yuza Shirou a chance to resist or react, a large hand formed by rapidly converging particles of light grabbed the two of them as if they were toys.

They were about to throw the two of them into the spatial opening next to Skadi.

"Hey, hey, hey, Lian, we're childhood sweethearts, right? We're childhood sweethearts, right?! Making us both become primitive monkeys is just too much!!!"

"Ren-chan! I've really wasted my time taking care of you at my hospital! Modern people will die if they leave modern society!!!"

Yuza Shirou and Honjo Erii immediately began to struggle desperately, trying to appeal to Ren's emotions. Instead of asking Skadi, whom they didn't know well, they should go to Fujii Ren.

Neither of them wanted to experience the life of primitive savages.

And what kind of distance is 250 million light-years?! Is the other side really an alien planet?!

"Lian, if you dare leave me in this godforsaken place, I'll kill myself the moment I see it!!!"

Yuza Shirou and Honjo Erii had already passed through the spatial wormhole. After landing on the ground, they wanted to return immediately, but the entrance in front of them seemed to be separated by an invisible wall.

No matter how much Yuza Shirou struck him, it had no effect.

Looking at Shiro's resolute and serious gaze, Fujii Ren felt quite troubled.

Just then, Skadi, with a blank expression, gave Fujii Ren another terrible idea, saying:

"How about we put them both in a vegetative state for a while? We can always bring them back to life anyway."

Upon hearing this, Fujii Ren showed a thoughtful expression, while Honjo Erii and Yuza Shirou's lips twitched violently.

The two immediately realized that inviting Skadi along with them was an absolutely wrong choice.

Yuza Shirou could easily appeal to Fujii Ren's emotions, but Skadi had no connection with him whatsoever.

She seems to be a cunning and malicious senior.

However, at this moment, Fujii Ren had already given up thinking, got up from the sofa, and tried to appear calm as she spoke to Skadi:

"That's enough, senior. Give him a chance. If he's still stubborn and won't listen to advice, just temporarily leave him there."

"Then besides Xiangchun, you have another troublesome person to take care of."

Skadi also stood up and calmly said something to Fujii Ren.

Then he and Fujii Ren left the place, and after the two left, the transparent wall that had been so incredibly agitated in front of Yuza Shirou and Erii also disappeared.

The two immediately returned to the VIP room, took a deep breath, and then glanced at the slowly closing wormhole.

After letting out a sigh of relief, the two looked at each other and both revealed amused smiles.

"Ugh, I'm so tired. It seems like there's still a bit of an overdraft limit on our friendship points."

Yuzashi shrugged helplessly, then leaned back and lay down on the sofa.

Fujii Ren's advice seemed completely useless, but her threats seemed to have a slight effect. Having experienced a lot, she naturally knew that she couldn't act too emotionally.