My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

"What's going on?!" Kotobuki Takeru blurted out.

But he discovered that he couldn't speak at all.

"Nothing much. Didn't I just admit it? I'm here to rob you. Your black doll, oh, ghost, is quite unique. I want it."

Kei's voice appeared in Kotobuki Takeshi's mind, but Kotobuki Takeshi was 100% certain that he did not hear any sound at all.

'Did this voice appear directly in my head?' Kotobuki Takeshi wondered.

“That’s right. It should have been covered in junior high school textbooks; it’s telepathy.” Hui’s voice echoed in Kotobuki Takeshi’s mind again.

Kotobuki Takeshi was dumbfounded. 'Telepathy, middle school... textbooks?'

While Kotobuki Takeshi was still in a daze, his hand had already picked up the knife and was slowly moving it toward his neck.

Even though I'm a demi-human and can't die, who would want to die for no reason? After all, death is painful.

Immediately, Kotobuki Takeshi realized that although his body was immobile, he still had the Black Phantom.

"Go! Ghost, teach that woman a lesson."

After thinking it through his mind, he began to control the ghost to appear behind Hui, wanting to catch Hui off guard.

With a "whoosh!" sound.

The black phantom stretched out its arm and swept across Hui's body with lightning speed, creating a whistling sound.

Kotobuki looked at the ghost's hand... "Closer, closer!" He was about to knock Kei to the ground.

"call--"

The ghost's black fist stopped just centimeters away from Hui. The powerful kinetic energy created a gust of wind that swept across Hui's cheek and made her hair flutter.

"I already told you it's telepathy, yet you're still mentally yelling 'Go! Ghost, teach that woman a lesson,' as if you're afraid I won't hear you." Hui's mocking voice echoed in Kotobuki Takeshi's mind.

'Why can't the black phantom move? Also, you can see phantoms, are you a demi-human!?'

'Because you're the one stopping it! Although you wanted it to move, your instruction was: Stop.'

Kotobuki Takeshi asked inwardly, "What?"

He ignored the knife already pressed against his neck, knowing he was a demi-human and wouldn't die.

His eyes were fixed on Hui, and he wondered inwardly, "What is this? Magic? Superpower?"

"puff--"

The knife sliced ​​across Kotobuki Takeshi's carotid artery.

"Sizzle—sizzle—..." Blood spurted continuously, and the black phantom began to dissipate.

"It's science!" Kotobuki Takeshi heard Kei say this in his last memory.

Then, "thump!" he collapsed to the ground, arterial blood flowing uncontrollably.

Immediately, Hui felt her ethereal soul absorbing the black particle.

After forcibly controlling the amount of black particles that could form the winged ghost, he...

自己的虚无之魂开始大快朵颐，同时自己的灵魂本源强度开始缓缓增长：100、1000、1万、5万···10万弦。

'Hmm, has it stopped? Well, I guess there will be one or two more.'

Hui waited quietly...

······

And then... nothing happened!

What's going on?

Hui asked doubtfully, 'Does resurrection take this long?'

After waiting a while, nothing still happened...

A shocking thought flashed through Hui's mind: 'Could it be that a normal demi-human's black particle quantity can only increase their soul mass by 10 strings, while that scumbag Uchiyama is considered a one-in-a-million genius among demi-humans?!'

In the end, Hui had to accept this fact, but she wasn't too disappointed.

Because even if a demi-human only has 10 strings, it's still much faster than killing 10 ordinary people, and there might even be some exceptionally talented demi-humans among them!

Furthermore, there are definitely more than just the 23 demi-humans we've seen today in all of Japan.

Now, his own sub-soul, plus the soul essence gained from devouring demi-humans, has reached 90 strings. If he devours just one more demi-human, his 'mental manipulation' will reach level 4, although it is the weakest level 4.

After thinking it through, Hui looked around. This place was near a juvenile detention center and was already remote, so there weren't many people around.

There were no cameras in the woods. Hui took one last look at Kotobuki Takeshi's body, and after confirming that he wasn't faking his death, she left.

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By the time Hui left the scene, it was already afternoon.

Hui did not return to the hotel she had stayed at before, but instead chose to go back to her rented apartment.

Because the places I'm targeting are all nearby, and the meeting point for tomorrow is also close to my rented apartment.

Around 7 p.m., on the top floor of a building, Kotobuki Takeshi's black phantom began to appear.

A black, winged humanoid ghost appeared in front of Hui.

Hui sensed the connection between herself and the ghost and discovered that it was actually her preconscious that was controlling the ghost.

There are three types of consciousness: conscious, preconscious, and subconscious.

Consciousness is the surface layer of the human psychological structure.

It perceives the real environment and stimuli of the outside world, and uses language to reflect and summarize the rational content of things.

The preconscious, also known as the subconscious, is the mediating mechanism between consciousness and unconsciousness.

Awareness is a subconscious that can be awakened and summoned into conscious awareness.

Therefore, it links the conscious and subconscious, making it possible for the subconscious to be transformed into consciousness.

The subconscious, also known as the unconscious, is an unconscious psychological activity that represents the deeper, more hidden, more primitive, and more fundamental spiritual energy of humankind.

The "subconscious" is the inner driving force behind all human behavior, including primal impulses, various instincts (primarily sexual instincts), and various desires related to instincts.

Normal human beings exhibit consciousness.

However, this black phantom contains the preconscious mind of a person.

It connects a person's conscious and subconscious mind. With training, people can control their preconscious mind, which is to say, control ghosts.

Of course, subconscious thoughts are something that ordinary people can't control no matter how much training they receive.

The reason why humans have preconscious and subconscious minds that are difficult to control is that ordinary people have weak minds. Controlling preconscious and subconscious minds is very mentally taxing, and the outward manifestation is: fatigue.

Therefore, after a long period of evolution, humans have abandoned the ability to control their preconscious and subconscious minds.

However, for those with psychic abilities, their minds are far stronger than those of ordinary people, making it easy for them to control their preconscious and subconscious.

So after the black phantom was summoned, Hui quickly became familiar with it and was able to control it freely.

Next, Hui tried out the ghost's flight ability.

Under the cover of night, Hui controlled the black phantom to fly to the vicinity of the rented house, grabbing her shoulders, and then landed outside the wall of an empty residential area.

After landing, Hui looked around and then went to the main gate of the residential area.

It was already dark. The community was surrounded by a wall more than 4 meters high, and there were only two gates for entry and exit.

Hui, as if she were a passerby, arrived at the blind spot of the surveillance cameras next to the main gate of the residential area.

I peeked into the security room and saw that there was only a middle-aged security guard inside, eating noodles and watching TV.

Upon seeing this scene, Hui immediately activated her ability...

Suddenly, the security guard's hand holding the chopsticks froze, and he stood there stunned...

About one second

Everything returned to normal.

Hui had already obtained the specific address of a demi-human named Miyake from the security guard's mind: Room B302, Building 10.

Once again at the hidden corner, he manipulated the black ghost to grab his shoulders and fly over the wall, continuing towards Building 10.

The neighborhood wasn't large, and most people were at home cooking, eating, or watching TV at that time, so no one noticed a figure flying above their neighborhood.

It landed directly on the corridor outside the 3rd floor of Building 10. The doors of the residents were all the kind of thick security doors with good sound insulation.

There was no one in the entire corridor at that moment.

Hui went straight to the door of room B302 and rang the doorbell with the back of her finger.

"Ding dong! Ding dong!"

The door opened quickly, and a slightly chubby high school girl wearing a sailor uniform, with a neat student haircut and glasses, stepped out.

At this moment, she was looking at Hui with a questioning look, but she wasn't wary, because Hui looked like a girl about the same age as her, dressed lightly and with her hands empty.

They don't seem threatening at all!

Hui Xian smiled and asked, "Could you please call your father out?"

Kiyoko Miyake's puzzled expression instantly turned blank.

Then he turned and went inside.

Hui vaguely heard from outside... "Dad... is looking for you..."

A short while later, a middle-aged man with a large belly, dressed in casual home clothes and slippers, came out from inside.

Looking at Kei standing at the door with a puzzled expression, Miyake Kumata asked, "What do you want to see me about?"

Hui ignored him and instead said to Kiyoko Miyake, "Go to sleep."

"Thump!" Kiyoko Miyake collapsed to the ground as if she had suddenly died.

Kumata Miyake was stunned and horrified by the scene before him, thinking that something bad had happened to his daughter.

She rushed forward in a panic, helping her daughter to her feet. She shook her anxiously, calling out, "Qingzi, what's wrong? Wake up! Wake up..."

Kumata Miyake shook his daughter's head vigorously, but she was already asleep. However, he checked her breathing and found that she was still breathing, so he breathed a sigh of relief.