Infinite Chimera Creation

"Because the adults don't care about humans. To them, humans are just meaningless numbers. As long as you are truly useful to them, they won't care even if you secretly kill three hundred people or even if you kill tens of thousands of people in front of them."

Rentaro was taken aback. He hadn't expected that Yuan Yuan was this kind of person in Kouyou's eyes. He had never thought that Yuan Yuan was this kind of person when he usually interacted with him.

In Rentaro's view, Yuan Yuan was clearly the kind of person who was all bark and no bite. After Rentaro fought desperately against the monster, Yuan Yuan not only saved him from the brink of death without asking for anything in return, but also took him in. Although Yuan Yuan had said at the time that he wanted him to stay and cooperate with the experiment, more than a month had passed, and Yuan Yuan had not mentioned the experiment again. It was obvious that he had just made up an excuse to help him.

Could it be that Hongye misunderstood Yuan Yuan? Because of her fervent admiration for Yuan Yuan, she subconsciously imagined him as the perfect figure in her mind?

Thinking he had found the answer, Rentaro gave Momiji a slightly pitying smile, then carefully considered his words and said...

"Um, does Hongye have some misunderstanding about Lord Yuan Yuan? Has she distorted Lord Yuan Yuan's character because of her own subjective wishes?"

Visibly, Hongye, who had been calm just moments before, now had bulging veins on her forehead and her eyes widened in anger.

"How dare you... How dare you question me! Question my understanding of Lord Yuan Yuan!!"

With a deep, angry roar, Momiji no longer hesitated. Clenching her fists, she suddenly pushed off with her feet and charged towards Rentaro.

Realizing he had said something he should never have, Rentaro's expression immediately became flustered. He loudly apologized while frantically dodging Momiji's attacks.

"If you want to prove your innocence, then let me punch you!!"

Shouting, Momiji's attacks became increasingly rapid, making it harder for Rentaro to dodge. If he were still at his peak, he would be confident that he could dodge all of Momiji's attacks and even launch a counterattack. But now his body had become weak, as if it had been hollowed out. In less than two minutes of high-speed combat, he began to pant heavily, and his dodging movements became sluggish.

The next moment, Momiji's fist struck Rentaro's left arm. Instantly, the powerful electric current that had been restrained within the fist was released. In an instant, Rentaro's left arm melted rapidly, like butter thrown into a furnace, and before it could even turn into liquid, it had already evaporated into gas.

Having landed a successful blow, Momiji didn't pursue, but quickly retreated, then stared intently at Rentaro, as if trying to verify something.

After Hongye pushed him away, Rentaro finally realized what had happened. The dulled sense of pain crept into his brain, and instantly, his eyes turned bloodshot, tears streaming down his face. He clutched the wound on his shoulder and roared in pain.

Perched atop a building not far from the two, Bai Ye, concealed in his spirit form to avoid everyone's gaze, was intently watching, personally overseeing the unfolding of the most crucial scene in his script. The moment he saw Rentaro's arm severed, Bai Ye's eight bloodshot eyes gleamed with excitement, and he couldn't help but lick his lips.

"The sex scene is about to begin."

After uttering a few words, Bai Ye decisively activated the Gastrea soul within Rentaro's body, not to control Rentaro's body, but simply to repair it.

Seeing Rentaro's wailing, a hint of hesitation flashed in Momiji's eyes. [Could it be that Sumire Muroto was wrong? Is Rentaro really not the murderer?] Just as this thought crossed Momiji's mind, she saw numerous tentacles, dripping with slime, emerge from the severed end of Rentaro's left arm. The tentacles intertwined, and in a few seconds, it transformed into a perfectly intact left arm.

A fierce glint flashed in her eyes, and without further hesitation, Kureha unleashed her power at its maximum, throwing a punch as she charged towards Rentaro.

"And he still claims he's not the murderer? Such superhuman recovery ability—who else but the murderer could possess that?!"

Finding that the pain in his shoulder had disappeared, Rentaro stopped wailing in confusion and looked at his left shoulder. In his sight, his left arm, which had disappeared, had somehow grown back. Before he could react to what was happening, he heard Momiji shouting loudly as she got closer and closer, and he instinctively dodged to the side.

After dodging several times, Rentaro finally sorted out his thoughts and understood the situation. Clearly, the culprit also possessed the terrifying regenerative ability that had appeared on him at some unknown time, so Momiji assumed he was the murderer.

Just as Rentaro was about to explain what had happened, he was struck in the right rib by Momiji again, and half of his body was instantly vaporized. Before he could even feel the pain, Byakuya, who was not far away, activated the Gastrea's soul once more.

In an instant, the activated Gastrea soul healed Rentaro's potentially fatal injuries. However, at the same time, the Gastrea's inherent ferocity and bloodlust were also unleashed. Having been subtly influenced by the Gastrea soul over the past month, Rentaro offered no resistance, his emotions dominated by this savagery and bloodlust. His eyes turned bloodshot, and he unleashed a savage roar at Momiji.

"I kill you!!"

As soon as he shouted, Rentaro came to his senses and realized that something was wrong, but it was too late. Momiji's eyes were already showing murderous intent.

Chapter Seventy Gastrulation

Under the influence of the Gastrea's frenzied soul, Rentaro unexpectedly went berserk for a moment. Although he immediately realized that his emotions were not right and tried to explain to Momiji, Momiji, who thought he was revealing his ferocity, did not give him a chance to explain and did not hesitate to speed up the attack.

Momiji's attack speed was already very fast, and with the acceleration, Rentaro, who was already having difficulty defending, was even more caught off guard and suffered seven more serious injuries. Byakuya also activated the Gastrea soul within Rentaro's body seven times.

The repeated severe injuries did not take Rentaro's life. Instead, due to the repeated activation of the Gastrea's soul, Rentaro's weak body gradually regained its vitality and returned to its peak condition. Even his mechanized right arm and right leg, which were shattered and torn off by Momiji, regrew back.

Of course, the activation of the Gastrea's soul gave Rentaro not only a body at its peak, but also a soul completely affected by the tyranny.

Although Rentaro realized his mistake after his first emotional outburst and tried his best to suppress his emotions, he could no longer control himself after the violent emotions surged through his brain multiple times. "Damn woman! Since you won't listen to me, I'll tear off your limbs and force you to listen to me!!"

With bloodshot eyes, Rentaro stopped dodging and charged at Momiji with a ferocious expression.

These words were unintentional remarks made by Rentaro in a fit of anger, but to Momiji, they were evidence that Rentaro was the murderer. Everyone knows that the victims killed by serial killers are torn apart alive, which is why people suspect the powerful cursed child.

Momiji's attacks, aided by her power-generating abilities, are incredibly sharp. Among the Cursed Children and mechanized warriors who lack supernatural powers, she is undoubtedly a formidable opponent, with few able to rival her. However, against opponents possessing supernatural abilities, ordinary electric current, lacking mystery and possessing mystical properties such as [Breaking the Momentum] and [Breaking Evil], proves somewhat inadequate.

While Rentaro's rapid regeneration wasn't true supernatural power, the fact that he consumed the soul of a level four Gastrea and over three hundred human souls allowed him to largely ignore Momiji's attacks. Each of Momiji's attacks could still easily vaporize a portion of Rentaro's body, but he always managed to recover from all his injuries in the next instant.

Therefore, Rentaro, whose mind was filled with violent emotions, completely ignored Momiji's attacks and disregarded the fists landing on him, only attacking and not defending.

The more violent Rentaro's emotions became, the more recklessly he attacked Momiji, and the more severe his injuries became. The more severe Rentaro's injuries, the more often his Gastrea soul was activated, and the stronger the violent emotions that eroded his reason became. This created a vicious cycle.

Soon, Rentaro's reason was completely overwhelmed by the violent emotions originating from the Gastrea. He roared out all sorts of meaningless syllables and attacked Momiji like a wild beast, aiming to take his opponent's life.

At this point, Hongye's expression turned ugly.

Her attacks had absolutely no effect on Rentaro, but Rentaro's strength grew stronger as he lost his reason. Just now, she had witnessed Rentaro's arm bones break due to excessive force from his punch, with bone fragments shooting out of his body, but then completely recovering in the next instant.

"Damn it, don't think I can't do anything to you just like that!" With a rip, she tore off Rentaro's right hand, and at the same time, a high-voltage current was released, vaporizing Rentaro's left leg that he was kicking at. Hongye roared angrily, no longer holding back, and began to use her spiritual power according to the method taught by Yuan Yuan.

In a short instant, all the spiritual energy distributed throughout Hongye's body surged into the Soul Pisces in her chest, and under Hongye's precise control, it constructed various runes with special meanings, firmly protecting her soul and increasing her soul strength more than tenfold in a short period of time.

"Although I can't activate the virus with spiritual power right now, but..." After ensuring the safety of her soul, Hongye's lips curled into a wide grin, a ferocious smile appearing on her still somewhat childish face. She gripped her left arm with her right hand and ripped it off completely. "There's more than one way to activate the virus!!!"

Sensing that its host was injured, the gastrovirus parasitizing Momiji immediately became active, attempting to repair Momiji's body. However, the virus's erosion rate within Momiji's body had already approached fifty percent, and the moment the gastrovirus became active, the erosion rate immediately crossed that warning line.

The ancient high-magic life information fragment, named Gastrea by humans, immediately began attempting to transform Momiji from a human into a Gastrea. Suddenly, numerous irregular, purple clumps of flesh sprouted from the severed area of ​​Momiji's left shoulder, which had already begun to heal and sprout granules, and began to writhe wildly.

Noticing that her body was beginning to undergo Gastrea transformation, Kureha remained calm and composed, dealing with Rentaro's attacks while simultaneously following the theory Yuan Yuan had taught her. Using her soul, amplified more than tenfold by the spiritual runes, she precisely controlled the magic released as her body began to transform. This magic, accumulated within the [Gastrea Virus]—more precisely, within the [High-Magic Life Fragment]—was stored in the [Gastrea Virus]. She consciously began to control the direction of her body's transformation.

Soon, under Kureha's control, her body completed "Gastrea transformation," but Kureha's appearance didn't seem to change much; she didn't turn into a monster, nor did she grow any strange organs. However, in reality, although she maintained a human appearance, and her torn-off left arm was restored, most of Kureha's organs had long been replaced by various large and small power-generating and energy-storing organs. Even her muscles were filled with countless tiny organs that could increase her electrical tolerance, causing her controllable electrical power to surge more than a hundredfold.

Of course, the most important change is that, with the temporary strengthening of her soul, Kureha, who previously couldn't combine spiritual power and electricity, can now combine magic and electricity. Thus, ordinary electricity acquires a mysterious quality. Although this mysterious quality is negligible, injuries caused by this kind of electricity with mysterious properties are not so easily healed.

With her hands wreathed in blackened electricity, Momiji grinned and threw a punch at Rentaro. This time, Momiji's attack inflicted even greater injuries on Rentaro. At the same time, the electricity, with its [Exorcising] properties, suppressed the activity of the souls within Rentaro's body, causing his recovery speed to drop drastically.

P.S., I typed it all out, but forgot to post it. [Facepalm]

Chapter Seventy-One Incitement

After Momiji "Gastruloid," Rentaro quickly fell into a disadvantageous position, being suppressed by Momiji without any ability to fight back.

Although Momiji could kill Rentaro at any time, she cannot, because her goal is to capture him, hand him over to the police, prove him guilty of his serial murders, and resolve the crisis of the cursed child.

If the opponent were someone else, Momiji could easily cripple their limbs and capture her. However, Momiji's opponent was none other than Rentaro, who possessed extraordinary regenerative abilities. Even with his regenerative abilities suppressed, Rentaro could still regenerate his severed limbs within seconds, thus creating a stalemate in their battle.

Just as Momiji was suppressing Rentaro and thinking about how to break through the current situation, a noisy voice suddenly came from afar, and it was getting closer and closer. The appearance of this sound made Momiji look very scared.

It's important to understand that Rentaro had lost his mind at this point. The reason he was frantically attacking Momiji was because Sumire Muroto had already cleared the area, leaving Rentaro with only Momiji by his side. However, if there were other people around, Rentaro, acting on instinct, might have abandoned the long-stalled Momiji and instead attacked the easier targets.

Although Momiji can suppress Rentaro, if Rentaro ignores her attacks and is determined to attack someone else, Momiji, who doesn't dare to actually kill Rentaro, will have no chance to stop him.

Just as Hongye was secretly getting anxious and praying that those who had mistakenly wandered in would leave quickly, the noise from several streets away grew even louder.

But those sudden human voices were not an accident at all—

When the televisions at home, the billboards on the street, and the radios on the traffic lights suddenly stopped broadcasting and started airing a speech by a Dr. Sumire Muroto, people didn't understand what was happening. Some were dissatisfied, some were curious, and some were indifferent. But after listening for a few minutes, they all became serious, because Dr. Sumire Muroto had clearly identified the serial killer who had recently caused a great stir and presented a large amount of evidence.

Because the evidence was so detailed, after listening to Sumire Muroto's speech, most people believed that the murderer was the young man named Rentaro Satomi.

People reacted in different ways. Some grabbed the people around them and loudly accused the young man, Taro, of being mentally twisted and not human, and said that he should be sentenced to death as an exception.

Some people were in high spirits and loudly proclaimed to those around them, "If I were to encounter that murderer, I would do this and that." A group of people around them echoed loudly, as if afraid that their voices were not loud enough or their expressions were not angry enough, or they would be considered accomplices of the criminal.

Some people knew Rentaro; they were his classmates, neighbors, or the like. These people were even more excited than the previous two groups, their faces beaming with pride. They boasted to those who gathered around them after hearing that they knew the murderer, showing off their wisdom: "I knew that guy was suspicious a long time ago. He was always acting mysteriously and didn't interact much with the neighbors." "I said from the beginning that the murderer was definitely Rentaro Risho. He hadn't come to school for over a month, which coincided with the time the murderer appeared." Whether they actually said these things or not, they all spoke with pride.

Suddenly, someone shouted loudly, his voice unusually loud, and even in the extremely noisy environment, his words easily reached everyone's ears, "This is our city! That murderer dared to commit a crime in our city, it's a complete slap in our face! We should arrest him, teach him a lesson, make him suffer enough, and then hand him over to the police!!"

The scene immediately fell silent, as if a mute button had been pressed. Everyone looked at each other, and no one spoke. Those who had been excitedly shouting, "If I encounter the murderer, I'll make him pay!" all shrank back and remained silent.

Suddenly, several loud-voiced people emerged, staring wide-eyed at the silent crowd, their faces flushed with excitement, waving their fists and roaring.

"Yes! This is our city! We absolutely cannot have any sympathy for that cruel murderer!! Catch him! Let him taste our power!!"

"That's right! I will not sympathize with the sinners who took away my loved ones!!"

"Grab him!!"

"Kill him!!"

After these people emerged, the silent crowd could no longer remain silent, because if they stayed silent, they would be "turned" into sympathizers of the murderer. So they also shouted excitedly, clamoring to catch and kill the murderer. Hearing the shouts of those around them, the people who had been rational and reluctant to shout also began to boil over, becoming excited, irritable, and full of aggressive desires.

As if timed perfectly, just as everyone's emotions reached their peak, a woman in a long red dress stepped forward. "I also really want to catch the murderer, but we have no idea where he is. When that doctor was speaking just now, he didn't say where the murderer was, he only said that someone was trying to capture him!"

Before anyone could process what the woman in the red dress had said, the loud voice that had spoken first rang out again. Raising his fist and displaying the air of a hot-blooded tough guy, he roared, "It's okay if we don't know! We can find it ourselves! Everyone, follow me, we're going to find that damned sinner!!"

After saying that, the loudmouth took the lead and started running. Without thinking twice, the crowd, whose emotions had not yet cooled down, followed behind him.

The same situation occurred in densely populated areas near the site of the battle between Momiji and Rentaro. Moreover, those who led the crowds, although they all claimed to be looking for the culprit, all of them, without exception, ran towards the place where Momiji and Rentaro were fighting.

If there were someone who could see souls at this moment, he would surely see that those who led the crowd to run, whether it was the loud-voiced person inciting the crowd or the woman in the red dress who appeared at just the right time to give the loud-voiced person the reason for finding the criminal, all of them had a monster soul with chains on its body.

In the distance, atop the building, Bai Ye remained silently prone, his eight blood-red eyes darting rapidly in different directions, the purple eye on his forehead radiating an eerie glow. In the direction one of Bai Ye's blood-red eyes was looking, the woman in the red dress, whose body housed the soul of a monster, continued to follow the main group. However, she now carried a little girl in her arms, and that little girl's name was—Aihara Enju.

"Soon, the actors will all be here, soon, we can start, soon, my task will be completed, soon, the problem will be solved."

At the same time, while gazing at Aihara Enju, Satomi Rentaro, Ogihara Momiji, and Yuan Yuan's residence in the distance, Byakuya murmured softly.

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Chapter 72 A Wave of Morons Is Coming

"Put me down! I'm not a child! I can walk by myself! Do you hear me, you stinking woman? Put me down right now!" Yeon-joo, being held by the woman in the red dress, shouted, trying to get her to let go, but she didn't dare to really struggle. Although the woman wasn't slow, she looked so frail that a gust of wind could knock her over. With people running around them, if they accidentally knocked her down during the struggle, a stampede would likely occur immediately.

“Little sister, you’ve seen the situation around us. How could I let such a small child like you run around like this? If something were to happen to such a lovely child like you, I would regret it for the rest of my life.” The woman in the red dress was clearly not very strong. She had been carrying Yanzhu for so long that her face was covered in sweat, but after hearing Yanzhu’s complaints, she still gave Yanzhu a gentle smile, showing no negative emotions despite carrying a “burden”.

Seeing the woman in the red dress's smile and feeling her kindness, Yeon-joo was momentarily stunned, and her struggling movements unconsciously subsided.

The woman in the red dress keenly noticed the change in Yeon-joo's attitude. A beautiful smile curved her lips as she tightened her grip on Yeon-joo's arm. While breathing heavily, she comforted Yeon-joo, "Little sister, it's not a good thing for a child to refuse someone's kindness. So, don't be stubborn anymore. I'll protect you."

Looking at the smiling face of the woman in the red dress, listening to her rapid breathing, and feeling her pounding heart, Enju, who rarely received kindness from others, couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion. Selectively forgetting Dr. Muroto Sumire's order to return quickly, she lay quietly in the woman's arms, feeling the warmth emanating from her, and secretly resolved to protect this gentle older sister.

Holding the now obedient baby Yanzhu, the woman in the red dress smiled even more beautifully. In the distance, Bai Ye, whose purple eyes gleamed with an eerie light and who was clearly controlling something, also curled his lips into a sinister smile.

In their excitement, the group ran at full speed, and led by a loud voice with a clear direction, they quickly approached the place where Momiji and Rentaro were fighting. From afar, everyone could clearly hear the explosions as objects were shattered and the sharp sound of electricity tearing through the air.

"Found it! Everyone, charge with me!!"

With a loud roar, the man sped up. Seeing their leader accelerate, those behind him were instantly fired up. They didn't even consider why the man knew they had found it; they instinctively increased their speed, putting all their strength into a final sprint to keep up with him.

A group of people, shouting incomprehensible words, rushed out of an alley like madmen, and suddenly, an unimaginable scene appeared before them.

Dressed in black with blood-red eyes, a girl resembling a legendary witch wields lightning and relentlessly attacks the man before her. The man battling the witch is not a hero vanquishing her, but rather Rentaro Satomi, accused of serial killings. Each time he exchanges blows with the witch, Rentaro loses an arm or a leg, only to have those limbs instantly regrow.

This supernatural battle scene immediately stunned the group of people. The previously noisy crowd fell silent, and no one dared to speak. Even the loudest voices temporarily shut their mouths.

After the first group of people arrived, several more groups emerged from other alleys, shouting as they went. After seeing the scene before them, they fell silent.