I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

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Section 108, Chapter 10: What Emerges from the Water

"Wow, this encryption method is something I've never heard of before! I never thought I'd actually see it one day!"

Squeezed into the chair in front of the computer with his chubby body, Hashida Itaru turned on various devices and was engaged in a complex decoding process, shouting as his eyes gleamed with an eerie light.

"How's it going? Are you sure?"

Emiya Kiritsugu, standing beside him, asked with a serious expression.

“It is indeed very troublesome. The person who created this encryption is undoubtedly very talented,” Hashida Itaru said very seriously. “Everything has been scrambled and reassembled in a large number of irregular ways. Forcibly cracking it will only result in the complete destruction of the contents. Not to mention ordinary hackers and technicians, even master-level programmers would find it difficult to completely decipher the contents.”

"Hmph, but this kind of thing isn't good enough for me~"

With an extremely confident voice, the man named Hashida Itaru's fingers flew across the keyboard, and lines of code on the computer screen changed accordingly.

"Give me three hours, three hours at most, and I can get this done!"

"Is that so? Then I'll leave it to you."

With that, Kiritsugu Emiya and Li Cheng temporarily stepped away from Itaru Hashida's side, pulled back the curtain, and went back into the living room.

"So, what kind of trouble is this time? An explosion? A hostage situation? Or like last time, in the middle of the night, an attack on defensive structures?"

Standing in the center of the living room, a tall, thin man who called himself "Hououin Kyouma" but whose real name was Okabe Rintaro asked with a slightly puzzled expression.

"At present, it's just some suspicion. We'll only know what's going on after Hashida deciphers it."

He casually pulled up a stool, sat down, and glanced at the other person, saying something.

"What, you want to know? If you want to know, I can tell you, just beg me."

"Ugh, I... I won't give in to you!"

Emiya Kiritsugu seems to really enjoy teasing this young man.

Li Cheng watched this scene without speaking, pondering what might be inside that computer. Just then, he sensed a very familiar fluctuation. Then, a small hand gently tugged at his sleeve.

Looking down, I saw tide's somewhat aggrieved expression.

“Cheng, tide is hungry. She wants rice, vegetables, and Cantonese food.”

Holy crap, you girl, you actually dare to eat people from Guangdong?!

"Oh dear, when did this child arrive?"

A girl with short hair named Shiina walked up to Li Cheng and squatted down in front of Shio. Upon seeing a stranger, Shio immediately ran behind Li Cheng, only revealing her large eyes as she cautiously stared at the girl in front of her.

"Wow, they really do have purple eyes? They're so beautiful, like stars."

Shiina stared in astonishment at Shio's purple eyes, which seemed to hold a hidden light, and her own eyes widened involuntarily.

"Mayuri-neechan, we have fried chicken and bananas here. Your name is Shio, right? Shio-chan, you can come and eat fried chicken with me."

The fried chicken nuggets, freshly steamed in the microwave, emitted an incredibly tempting aroma. Xi, who had been transported to Li Cheng's side due to hunger, couldn't help but swallow hard. However, Li Cheng's long and persistent teaching paid off; tide wasn't tempted by the food at all. Instead, she continued to cling to Li Cheng's clothes, looking up at him and waiting for his permission.

"Thank you for your help, Ms. Shiina."

Li Cheng smiled and accepted the other party's kindness.

Shio cheered and immediately ran forward, taking the small box of fried chicken from Shiina's hand. They happily ate together. For some reason, watching the two of them, one big and one small, eating fried chicken together and showing happy expressions, Li Cheng had a feeling that the two of them were about the same in mind.

Shortly after, Kiritsugu Emiya left the room and went to a nearby convenience store to buy lunch. The group ate in the small living room, waiting for Hashida to finish deciphering the documents. It was during this time that Kiritsugu Emiya told Li Cheng about the previous operation where the light barrier was broken, and Li Cheng learned that Hashida was the mysterious hacker Kiritsugu Emiya had hired.

"Speaking of which, Emiya, how did you meet Mr. Hashida? It seems like your daily lives don't intertwine at all."

Okabe, who was standing nearby, immediately coughed a few times.

“Under normal circumstances, there wouldn’t be any overlap,” Kiritsugu Emiya said slowly, glancing sideways at Okabe, who was sitting uneasily beside him. “But because some chuunibyou idiot instigated him to hack into the operations team’s classified vault, which eventually triggered an alarm, we ended up crossing paths.”

“Yes, Mr. Emiya is really amazing. He subdued us all in one go,” Shiina, sitting on the sofa, raised her hand and said seriously. “Even Suzuha could only fight him to a draw. He’s really, really amazing.”

Emiya defeated all of you, and you're praising him for being amazing? Is this girl some kind of airhead?

"Hey, Emiya."

Just then, the curtain was suddenly pulled up, and Hashida appeared at the edge of the curtain with a solemn expression, beckoning to Kiritsugu Emiya.

"It's all set up, you can come over now."

"Wow, that was fast! It's only been a little over two hours."

Gently impressed by Hashida's strength, Li Cheng and Kiritsugu Emiya stood up together, while Okabe and Shiina also showed interest. But then, Hashida looked at the other two and said very seriously:

"Mayuri, it's probably better if you don't come in. Of course, Okabe, I advise you not to come in either; this thing is already too much for me to handle..."

"Don't use such words in front of children."

While muttering sarcastic remarks, Okabe's expression turned serious, no longer displaying his previous chuunibyou (delusional) demeanor. He first persuaded Shiina to leave, then Ri Cheng had Shiina take Shio out as well. After comforting the somewhat confused Shio and emphasizing the absolute rule that no one could be teleported in, Okabe, with his insistence, finally led the three men together behind the curtain to examine the documents Hashida had deciphered.

At this point, Li Cheng finally understood why Qiaotian had asked the girl to leave first.

On the computer screen where the code had been deciphered, a series of photos were displayed:

Girls, girls, all girls.

Nudity, nudity, all of them are completely naked girls.

The girl's skull was cut in half, but her facial features were still intact, and in the middle was a piece of roasted brain.

The girl's limbs and head had been completely shaved off, leaving only bones connecting her cleaned torso.

The girl's belly was cut open, her intestines and bones were removed, and her skin was stuffed with the heads of dead cats.

A girl whose entire body was covered with countless holes, and an eyeball was sewn into each place.

……

Before he had even finished reading half of it, Okabe left looking pale and ran to the restroom to vomit. Hashida, equally pale, persevered for a while before handing the mouse to Kiritsugu Emiya, then, unable to continue, turned and left.

Only Kiritsugu Emiya and Li Cheng remained, their expressions cold as they continued to peruse these inhuman records.

"These photos are all..."

"It shouldn't be photoshopped, it's real. There are a few faces in it, I mean... there are a few faces that are still recognizable. I know them, I saw those faces a couple of days ago when I was sorting out missing persons cases."

"Well, this is really... Haha, I can only say, Emiya, you're always so perceptive."

What was originally a simple defense and protection operation has now turned into a case of a deranged serial killer. And all of this was due to Emiya's swift and decisive investigation after discovering the assassin's identity.

"Should I report to higher-ups?"

Li Cheng asked the question.

“This evidence is illegal,” Kiritsugu Emiya shook his head. “It wasn’t collected through proper channels, so it can’t be used as legal evidence in court. Besides, he has a lot of influence. As you know, he directly negotiated with the higher-ups to select us for the security work. This means he has extensive connections. Right now, we can’t prove anything just by having this evidence.”

"So, as always?"

"Yes, as always."

As always, it's either act first and report later, or secretly eliminate the suspect and then reveal the evidence through clandestine means. This is Kiritsugu Emiya's consistent practice, and it's also the practice that the Sixth Team has approved.

In other words, from this moment on, Group Six has transformed from Jester's protectors into another group of predatory assassins.

"How many photos are there in total?"

At this moment, Li Cheng suddenly asked another question.

"I want to know, roughly how many victims are there?"

Kiritsugu Emiya glanced quickly at the total number of files at the bottom of the folder, then his pupils contracted, and with a hint of disbelief, he softly read aloud:

"3017823 files..."

"What...what did you say?!"

Li Cheng was also shocked.

"I didn't miscount, it really is over three million..."

Every photo I've seen so far is clearly from a different person. Three million photos, which means that this person named Jester has killed three million people.

"Is that possible? How could there be so many? Even if three million people stood in a row to be killed, it would take an unknown amount of time. And he made the content of the photo so complicated. Where would he get so much time? This is impossible..."

“Look here, Cheng.”

Scrolling down to the very bottom of the horrifying array of photos, to the very first one, Li Cheng was somewhat surprised to find that it was a black and white photograph, and one with extremely low resolution. However, it was still barely possible to make out the image of a woman who had been cut in half at the waist, dragging her intestines as she struggled to crawl forward.

A corner of the photograph shows the date it was taken: December 5, 1867.

"1867? That's before World War III? In the Old Era? Are you kidding me? That's over three hundred years ago, okay? He's not some transcendent being, and this was before that war. Is this person a monster? How could he have lived from that era to the present?"

Li Cheng looked on incredulously as he spoke very seriously.

“I think that Jester probably didn’t kill every single one of these three million photos. He must have collected some of them; it’s impossible that he did all of them.”

Indeed, nothing seems normal...

Kiritsugu Emiya remained silent, pondering the unusual situation.

Jester, who was originally just a young and wealthy businessman, has now become shrouded in mystery. But there is no denying that these bloody photos are enough to confirm that he is not a simple person.

As expected, a more thorough investigation was still needed. Kiritsugu Emiya thought it over and over, finally deciding to be cautious and gather as much information as possible.

"Om-"

The phone rang at that moment.

Kiritsugu Emiya picked up his phone, answered the call, and immediately Irisviel's voice came through:

"Honey, it's Shin-chan! Shin-chan ran away!"

On the phone, Alice spoke with a hint of anxiety. Kiritsugu Emiya's expression froze; he knew perfectly well that "Shin-chan" was the nickname Alice gave to her followers.

"Just now, Shin-chan suddenly came over to say goodbye, thanking us for taking care of her, saying she had to go complete her mission or something, and then she just ran off!"