Something's wrong with how I'm watching anime.

The sunlight shone on it, making its bright yellow fur appear as a pale gold.

It was an unidentified creature resembling a cartoon doll. Its petite body, with its pointed and adorably silly head, made it a favorite among many young girls.

This is Cerberus, who was separated from Kazama earlier.

Kerberos flapped his white fleshy wings, but his hands were gripping a silver briefcase several times his size.

Clearly, it has successfully completed the errand-running task assigned by Kazama.

"I'm so tired..." Cerberus said with a pained expression.

Although Cerberus can also fly, it doesn't have the same mobility as Kazama using the Sho brand. In its current state, it took quite a long time to fly from the factory area to here.

When carrying a heavy load, the magic consumption is much higher than usual.

Cerberus currently relies on three sources of magic to maintain his mobility.

First, there's the contractor, Kazama, who provides the magic.

Secondly, it involves gaining magical powers through eating and digesting food.

Thirdly, it draws magic power from sunlight by absorbing sunlight.

Since Kazama has only recently embarked on the path of magic, his magical power is not yet abundant. Therefore, Cerberus's magical power primarily comes from the latter two sources.

The depletion of magic power naturally manifested as feeling tired and exhausted, but the thought of being able to eat delicious food again when he got back made Kruberos feel much better.

"No, I'm definitely going to eat three... no, five tiramisu ice creams when I get back this time."

Thinking to himself, Kruberos gritted his teeth and increased the frequency of his wing flapping.

But in the instant of acceleration, Kerberos suddenly stopped and floated in the air.

Its expression immediately turned serious. It dropped the silver box and turned to look around.

The reason for his action was simple: in that instant, he suddenly sensed an unknown and indescribable presence in the darkness around him, coldly watching him and observing his every move.

The feeling of being spied on sparked his inspiration, and he instantly became furious.

P.S.: There was a minor bug; the suitcase was taken to the dog farm by Chen Jie, not to the room where Li Bingruo fainted. This has been corrected in the previous text.

Chapter Thirty-Seven provides an explanation.

Although Kerberos lost most of his power due to the sealing of the Earth and Fire cards, his physical status, spirituality, and senses remained unaffected.

That's why Cerberus reacted so instantly.

But this feeling came and went quickly, disappearing the instant he reacted.

Is it just an illusion?

This made Cerberus doubt himself again.

"Cerberus...."

Just then, footsteps sounded behind Cerberus, and a figure slowly emerged from the forest—it was Kazama.

Because of their contract, Kazama and Cerberus can sense each other's location.

"Resolved?"

Cerberus sensed that Kazama's magical energy had been largely depleted, nearing its limit. This was clearly due to the use of the Clow Cards several more times, hence his question.

"Yes, it's resolved. It went relatively smoothly," Kazama nodded in response.

Compared to the time spent eliminating the parasite, hypnotizing and modifying the memories of Su Yun and Su Xiaolu took much longer.

Kazama glanced at Cerberus floating in the air, then at the silver briefcase lying on the ground, and frowned.

"what happened?"

“It’s like this…” Cerberus recounted what he had just experienced as being spied on.

As Kazama listened to Cerberus's account, his expression turned serious.

He casually placed his hand on his satchel, while glancing casually at the surrounding woods, and asked:

"Does that feeling of being spied on still linger?"

Kruberos shook his head: "It's gone. It disappeared so quickly that I can't even be sure if it was just my imagination."

"Is that so...?"

Kazama pondered for a moment.

"In short, let's get out of here first..."

He wasn't in good shape right now; using any more magic would drain his energy. Although he was concerned about what Cerberus had said, he still had to be cautious under these circumstances.

Kazama led Cerberus into the dense forest, where the woodland provided excellent concealment.

About ten minutes later, the two arrived at a clearing in the woods.

Kazama placed the box on a large rock, then turned to Cerberus and asked:

"Do you still feel like you're being watched, both along the way and now?"

"Nothing."

"What do you think is spying on you, and what about humans?"

Although it's unlikely that anyone will come from here, given the example of the siblings Su Yun and Su Xiaolu, we can't completely rule out this possibility.

If a person were to witness this, Kazama would immediately try to find that person and give them a small blue pill.

But if it weren't for humans...

"No!"

Regarding Kazama's question, Cerberus shook his head and said firmly.

"It's not human, but something else entirely."

"Although I don't sense any malice."

The other party was simply observing as if it were nothing more than ordinary observation, but Kruberos felt a sudden surge of disgust.

It's like putting a cat and a dog together—it just doesn't look right.

Kazama narrowed his eyes at Cerberus's assessment.

If the other party is not human, then there is only one possibility... it's trouble caused by this power going out of control again.

"But that feeling came and went quickly... leaving me unsure whether it was just my imagination."

"I hope it's just my imagination..."

Kazama let out a long sigh.

"But even in the worst-case scenario, that possibility is not entirely out of the question."

More than half a month has passed since he gained his superpowers.

Judging from the dog carcasses that started appearing in the city alleys, the parasitic beast must have appeared about a week after Kazama gained his powers.

If the loss of control over superpowers is not a coincidence, or even occurs at a similar frequency, the worst-case scenario is that some kind of entity from the anime Kazama is watching has come into reality.

Kazama rubbed his temples and made a decision:

"Once we get back, we need to check those anime series immediately..."

“Yes.” Cerberus nodded, naturally agreeing with Kazama’s decision.

Putting aside the matter of being spied on for the moment, Kruberos focused his attention on the briefcase he had retrieved.

"By the way, what's in this box... that made me bring it back specifically?"

“Why don’t you just open it and take a look…” Kazama said.

Kerberos, following Kazama's words, placed the suitcase on the stone and opened it.

What came into view was a box of bundles of green coins.

"About one million Golden Eagle coins."

Based on the size and weight of the box, Kazama deduced the amount of banknotes inside.

"Converted to Chinese currency, it's about seven million."

There is no doubt that this is a huge sum of money.

"That guy you fought with before, was he a lone wolf...?"

Besides playing video games, Kerubelos also enjoys watching movies. He happened to have watched a few crime films, and the villains in one of them were pro-independence traitors.

The payment process is a cash-on-delivery transaction with the supplier, and the cash payment is essentially a suitcase full of Golden Eagle coins.

“The possibility is quite high…” Kazama agreed with Cerberus’s assessment.

Art imitates life, and the practice of gangsters using Golden Eagle Coins to trade for exclusive items in movies actually exists in reality.

Cash settlement of Golden Eagle coins typically occurs during cross-border settlements by large independent financial institutions.

Because major consumer countries of unique products are usually not major producers of those products, while major producers of unique products are usually small countries with unstable politics and chaotic government regulation.

A common feature of these countries is that their local currencies have very poor value and exchange rate stability, making it difficult for them to be accepted by other countries.

Moreover, the major spending of these powerful figures is not done locally, but in developed Western countries. They are also unwilling to exchange the money they earn at the risk of their lives for local currency and hold it in large quantities.

Using Golden Eagle Coin cash for direct transactions, a form of hard currency, can effectively solve this problem.

"If that's the case, it also explains why the police made such a big fuss."

Kerberos ignored the latter part of Kazama's words and murmured, "Does that mean you've struck it rich?"

It had previously advised Kazama that if he wanted to practice alchemy, he would first need to have substantial financial resources.

"So, that's why you asked me to get this box?"

"You're overthinking it." Kazama shook his head.

"This is a box of dirty money, how is it going to be used outside?"

Especially in a country like China with strict foreign exchange controls, it's fine to take out one bill, but if you take out several and spend them, believe me, someone will come knocking on your door to check your water meter immediately.

Although Kazama knew there was a way to manipulate the money, he neither had the time nor the need to now.