The Demon King, reborn in Japan as a monk

Although cats are omnivores, and given the old folks' habit of feeding them whatever they eat at home, they can certainly survive, but cats in the city don't live as long as those that get vaccinated on time and eat specialized cat food regularly. So, to prevent the stray cat I adopted from dying young, it's essential to prepare some high-quality cat food for it.

Naturally, it will need a physical examination and deworming vaccinations.

After all, it will be living in a temple. Even if we don't consider the cat itself, it's only natural to vaccinate the kitten for the safety of the worshippers.

"By the way, I'll teach you how to use your abilities later. After all, no other animal in this world currently has the ability to communicate with humans, so it's fine if you talk to me, but if someone else hears you, you could be captured and taken to a research institute for dissection. You don't want to be used for research and live a precarious life right after you've finally settled into a peaceful life, do you?" On the way, Ishihara Akira warned the variegated cat named Hana, whom he was holding in his arms.

"Meow! (I don't want to be taken away! I don't want to be taken away!)"

"So remember to behave yourself and don't make any noise later, or I won't be able to save you."

……

Not long after, Ishihara Akira took the cat to a pet hospital near the temple and handed the tabby cat, Hana, over to the veterinarian, who then performed a full set of examinations on Hana.

Of course, this also includes services such as post-treatment vaccinations.

Anyway, all I had to do was watch the whole time. At most, I would say a few words to comfort Xiaohua, who was crying out in fear when she got her shot, and shield her from the effects of her ability to the outside world to prevent others from noticing her abnormality. Then the whole process was over. Ishihara paid the bill, picked up the various pet supplies that the pet hospital sold as a side business, and took Xiaohua, who had become listless because of the vaccination, back to the temple.

"Alright, from now on this is your home. As long as you don't scratch things, climb on the Buddha statues, or poop or pee anywhere, you can do whatever you want. Of course, the premise is that you can't talk to the worshippers who come to the temple, otherwise, you'll probably have to start your life of running away and wandering again." Ishihara Sho patted the cat bed he had made for Xiaohua next to him and smiled as he looked at the drowsy Xiaohua.

"Meow."

"Alright, you go to sleep, I'm going to cultivate."

Then, Ishihara Akira walked to the side and continued practicing the opening techniques of other chakras according to the contents of the yoga secrets.

……

Two more days passed, and Ishihara Akira successfully received the fly agaric he had purchased online from the courier service...

Although this thing is considered a dangerous item to some extent and cannot be brought into the country through customs, there are many varieties of fly agaric mushrooms, not just the red-umbrella, white-stem type found in China. They have different branches all over the world. In addition, he only needs one or two. So, as long as he contacts the agricultural department or research institution in Japan and gets one or two plants from them under the guise of research (by paying money), there should be no problem.

So what's missing now is a human test subject who can cooperate with him in the experiments.

"Hmm, Kyoko Iwase it is. As the vice president of the Illuminati, it's time for her to make a sacrifice for the organization. It's all for the benefit of the organization," Ishihara Sho muttered.

Then he chopped up the fly agaric mushrooms in his hand, cutting them into small, almost meat-like pieces. He then picked out two and set them aside, hiding the rest in a place where they wouldn't be easily found. He then took the two fly agaric particles to the temple's kitchen, boiled a kettle of water (around 85 degrees Celsius), and poured the water into a thermos containing the fly agaric particles.

"Whoosh."

Then, Ishihara Takayuki screwed the lid on the cup, tucked it into his arms, and left the temple, heading towards the hotel where he had met Iwase Kyoko earlier.

Naturally, at this time, Kyoko Iwase's inner demons would also remind her to go to the hotel to meet someone.

So, about forty minutes later, the two sat down facing each other in the hotel room again.

"It's you." Kyoko Iwase frowned and whispered as she looked at Akira Ishihara, who was completely unfamiliar yet unforgettable, as if she had just woken up from a dream.

Chapter 133 Success

"Inner demon, what's going on? Why can't I remember ever having any interaction with him before I met him?" Kyoko Iwase questioned her inner demon in her mind.

Having witnessed firsthand how inner demons manipulate others, he would naturally suspect that his own memories had been tampered with by them.

Otherwise, why would someone forget that others exist?

Especially since this person led him down the path of revenge, making him determined to kill Hirose Suzu and Kaneda, that despicable couple, and leaving him with a murder charge and a stain on his record...

This is something no normal person would forget, yet she has absolutely no recollection of it. She simply cannot believe there's nothing wrong with it.

The inner demon remained silent and did not answer, but this indirectly confirmed Kyoko Iwase's own guess: her memories had indeed been disturbed by the inner demon!

"Who exactly are you?" Kyoko Iwase asked in a deep voice, looking at the stranger in front of her who had twisted her life in one direction to another, and who might even be related to her inner demons.

“I am Zero,” Ishihara Akira said with a smile.

“Zero?” Kyoko Iwase was taken aback, but then she realized the meaning of 'zero'. In other words, the man in front of her was the lord of the Infinite Castle, the leader of all inner demons and monsters, and the president of their Illuminati.

"Hiss!" Upon confirming these facts, Kyoko Iwase couldn't help but gasp.

"Then, I wonder what you need to tell me, President?" Kyoko Iwase forced herself to calm down and asked the man in front of her with a cold expression.

"Don't you think the members' abilities are too monotonous right now?" Ishihara Akira asked with a chuckle.

Kyoko Iwase frowned, not quite understanding what Ishihara meant.

After all, the power of her inner demons was enough for her to roam freely in modern urban society.

The premise is that as long as no one finds any fault with it...

Therefore, I have never felt that my strength is boring.

"So I plan to improve the quality and variety of abilities of your members, and transform our Illuminati into a truly extraordinary organization like those in movies and novels! Therefore, I need a volunteer to cooperate with me in experiments to determine the process of developing superpowers, and that is the real reason I summoned you here to meet," Ishihara Akira explained.

"Is the experiment dangerous?" Kyoko Iwase asked after thinking for a moment, realizing that she had resisted.

"We can't say there's absolutely no danger to life, but based on the current conditions, the impact on people should still be within a controllable range," Ishihara Akira replied.

"What should I do?" Kyoko Iwase took a deep breath and asked again.

"Drink this glass of water in my hand, then lie down on the bed next to me. As for the rest, that's my job." Ishihara Akira took out the thermos containing a special medicine made from fly agaric particles that he had brought and handed it to Iwase Kyoko.

Kyoko Iwase glanced at the thermos in Ishihara Sho's hand, silently took it, opened it, and tilted her head back to pour the juice inside, which emitted a slight herbal aroma, into her mouth.

Continue drinking until all the liquid in the cup is finished.

Then Kyoko Iwase placed the newly screwed-on water glass on the bedside table next to her and lay down on the bed where she was sitting.

A moment later, Kyoko Iwase felt the scene before her eyes distort, as if a Picasso abstract painting was being projected in three dimensions, and the entire room became bizarre in her eyes.

The wall twisted into an almost S-shape, the air became increasingly blurry, and even Ishihara Sho, who was sitting there normally, appeared to her as a monster, his body light and weightless, his hands and feet twisting uncontrollably.

In short, it looks like someone who has been poisoned by eating poisonous mushrooms!

Seeing this, Ishihara Sho, knowing that Iwase Kyoko had truly entered the state, did not hesitate. He closed his eyes and entered the dream world, found the superpower character template he had created, and directly injected it into Iwase Kyoko's body through the port opened by the inner demon lurking within her.

Then the character template began to act, stimulating Kyoko Iwase's body from the inside out.

Of course, they also didn't forget to interact with Kyoko Iwase's consciousness to solidify her personal reality...

Ishihara Akira didn't move. After placing the template, he sat quietly, observing Iwase Kyoko's condition and waiting for her to recover...

Of course, there is also the purpose of calling 120 to send her to the hospital for treatment if she is poisoned too severely and her life is in danger.

In short, his actions today were merely to verify his conjecture, and he had no intention of killing anyone.

Unlike catnip, whose hallucinogenic effects only last an hour or two, the toxins of fly agaric, especially undiluted fly agaric, even from just two tiny mushroom pieces the size of a fingernail, have effects far exceeding those of catnip on cats. It wasn't until more than ten hours later that Kyoko Iwase's symptoms caused by the fly agaric mushroom toxins gradually subsided, and she calmed down…

Whether the experiment was completely successful can only be determined after Kyoko Iwase has fully regained consciousness.

So when Ishihara Sho saw that Iwase Kyoko had calmed down, he breathed a sigh of relief, got up to relax his body, and then climbed onto the bed next to him to continue his daily routine of practicing yoga techniques.

Until around 10 a.m. the next day.

"You're awake. How are you feeling?" Ishihara Sho, who had woken up earlier than Iwase Kyoko and was still sitting on the bed in the same position, watched as Iwase Kyoko slowly sat up on the opposite bed. He then looked down to check his clothes, but his expression changed drastically when he discovered the strange stain under his body.

"That one, you drew it yourself, you forgot?" Ishihara Sho chuckled.

"I'm fine." Kyoko Iwase's expression changed slightly, but she replied calmly.

"Then let's see if you can use your superpowers," Ishihara Akira chuckled and said again.

"How do we test this?" Kyoko Iwase asked, frowning in confusion.

She's never been a superpowered person, so how would she know how to activate her abilities?

“Just think about it,” Ishihara Akira said with a smile.

Kyoko Iwase remained silent for a long while before raising her palm, staring at it and imagining her abilities manifesting...

Then, a sound like an electric current shooting out came from Kyoko Iwase. The sound became more and more frequent, and soon, streaks of blue electricity burst forth from her palms, like leaping sprites, constantly jumping between her hands.

Then, Kyoko Iwase waved her hand, and the electric current in her hand shot out towards Sho Ishihara like a line.

With a flick of his wrist, as if swatting away a fly, the current was deflected by an invisible force, struck the wall, bounced several times, and then finally disappeared into the air.

"Are you trying to kill me to silence me?" Ishihara Sho asked with a smile to Iwase Kyoko, who had gained the ability to generate electricity as he had programmed.

Chapter 134 Hanako's Worries

"By the way, here's some information about superpower development. Take a look at it yourself first. If there's anything you don't understand, have your inner demon contact me." Having confirmed that Kyoko Iwase's experiment was successful and that his method was indeed effective, Ishihara Akira didn't waste any more time and directly transmitted a bunch of information about power development into Kyoko Iwase's mind.

“I understand,” Kyoko Iwase replied.

"Then I'm leaving." Afterwards, Ishihara Sho left the hotel. Kyoko Iwase's memories of Ishihara Sho also began to become blurry. She only knew that she met Zero and that Zero had given her superpowers and information about developing those powers. But she couldn't remember Zero's real appearance, height, age, or even whether he was male or female. It was as if she had met a fictional character, so unreal.

"Inner demon, have you disturbed my memories again?" Having already experienced this once before, Kyoko Iwase immediately confronted her target.

"Yes," the inner demon replied readily.

"Why?" Kyoko Iwase asked, dissatisfied.

"As a former social elite, you should know how much impact a person can have on society when they become a superpowered individual. Not to mention that some people possess the technology to turn people into superpowered individuals. If this were exposed, you can imagine the consequences, right?"

Kyoko Iwase remained silent. Indeed, if Zero's existence were to become known, the authorities would definitely lay a trap to capture him, imprison him or lock him up in some unknown place, interrogate him for technical information related to the development of superpowers, and then use that information for some unspeakable purposes.

Therefore, from this perspective, the method of blurring one's own memory and making oneself forget information related to zero, which is a kind of excellent means of secrecy, is not without its merits.

But while Zero is now safe, she has become dangerous...

Because she is now a superpowered individual, if this were to be exposed, the higher-ups would not remain indifferent.

Kyoko Iwase sighed inwardly, glanced at the bedwetting stains left on the bed, twitched her lips, got up and fled the hotel as if escaping, returning to her current apartment and diving into the bathroom to wash up.

……

Then the next day, in the morning.

"Um, Akane, are you dating Ms. Takagi right now?" Hanako asked her younger brother, Akane Ishihara, with a mixture of curiosity and concern while they ate breakfast.

"Is there a problem?" Ishihara Sho asked, looking puzzled.

"If I remember correctly, she first came here to ask for a child, right?" Hanako asked Ishihara Sho hesitantly.

“Yes.” Ishihara Akira nodded.

"So that means Ms. Takagi is a married woman with her own family. Are you sure it's okay for you to interfere in her family like this?" Hanako asked with a worried expression. "After all, judging from Ms. Takagi's clothes and behavior, her family, or rather her husband's identity, is not simple. They should be upper-middle-class people with sufficient social status. Although we are not weak in mobilizing our connections, it feels a bit shameful to mobilize the temple's resources for something like this..."

"And aren't you planning to get married and raise your own heir?"