I created a foundation

At the moment of turning the corner, because of the fast speed and extreme panic, she didn't see the road ahead clearly.

She bumped headfirst into a solid chest with a faint fragrance.

Chapter 0016: Stop running, you've hit a wall!

The huge impact force made Eriri feel as if she had hit a high-speed wall.

Her brain buzzed, stars appeared in her eyes, and she completely lost her balance. She fell backward in a mess and sat down on the cold and dirty ground.

It’s over.

Blocked!

This thought, like the most vicious curse, instantly seized her entire mind and made her fall into deeper despair.

Just when she thought she would be torn to pieces by the monster chasing her, a slightly teasing and eerily calm male voice came from above her head.

"Watch where you're walking, Miss."

Eriri suddenly raised her head, and her golden eyes, filled with tears of fear, vaguely reflected three figures.

The leader was a black-haired young man whom she had never seen before. He was looking down at her with an amusement expression on his face that she couldn't understand, as if he was watching an interesting drama.

Beside him stood two girls who were very familiar to her but who should never be here.

One of them was Yotsuya Miko, a cute girl from the same school as him who always looked scared and fragile.

The other one is... the ice queen of Feng Zhiqi High School, a genius girl in the literary world, and the one whom he secretly regards as his "arch-enemy" - Kasumigaoka Utaha!

"Kasumigaoka... Utaha?!" Eriri's pupils suddenly contracted and she screamed.

Her mind was completely paralyzed. Why? Why would Kasumigaoka Utaha be with these two people, on this lonely street corner in the middle of the night?

But the footsteps behind her, approaching like a heavy hammer, left her no time to think. The instinct for survival overwhelmed all shock and confusion. She didn't even care how embarrassed she was at the moment. She used her hands and feet to climb up from the ground, grabbed the arm of the person closest to her, and urged her with all her strength:

"Run! Run! There's a monster behind... behind us!"

She was incoherent, her voice shrill and distorted by fear. She thought she had dragged these three innocent students into this deadly disaster, and her heart was filled with guilt and deeper despair.

However, the reactions of the three people once again plunged her into great confusion.

The black-haired young man still looked as if he was watching the show from a distance, and there was even a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

Although there was a hint of solemnity on the face of Kasumigaoka Utaha who was caught by her, it was more of a complex expression mixed with pity, the superiority of a person who has experienced it, and "welcome to the real world".

Even Yotsuya Miko, who looked the most timid, was trembling all over, but she hid behind the black-haired young man tightly, as if that was the safest haven in the world, and had no intention of escaping.

"You...why don't you run away!" Eriri was almost going crazy looking at these three people whose reactions were completely abnormal. "That's not a joke! It's not a prank! It's a real monster! It's a human-eating creature!"

In her opinion, these three people were simply crazy, completely unaware of the danger they were in. Their calmness, in Eriri's eyes, was the most foolish calmness born of ignorance.

"It's noisy."

Kasumigaoka Utaha glanced at Eriri, who was grabbing her arm and yelling, with the look of someone looking at an ignorant junior, and uttered three words lightly, her tone full of her signature, undisguised contempt.

Eriri's urging voice came to an abrupt end.

She was not choked by Kasumigaoka Utaha's words, but because the nightmare that had been chasing her all the way had arrived at the scene.

The parasitized office worker was walking out of the dark alley with stiff steps. Its tall body, like a mountain, completely blocked all their escape routes.

The lights at the alley entrance were dim and flickering, making the face of the middle-aged man look extremely strange.

Its gaze slowly swept across the fresh "desserts" before it, from Lin Qing, who looked like she was watching a show, to Kasumigaoka Utaha, who had a complicated expression, to Yotsuya Miko, who was hiding in the background and shivering, before finally locking onto the "main course" with the blonde twintails that it had been chasing for so long.

The air in the alley seemed to become sticky and heavy at this moment.

The human mouth slowly opened, revealing a twisted smile full of malice.

An inhuman, dry voice, like the devil's declaration, echoed word by word in the dead silent street corner.

"Found...you..."

Chapter 0017: Shiyu, I leave it to you. Think of it as an after-meal exercise.

The air at the street corner seemed to have been drained of oxygen because of the appearance of the monster, becoming sticky and suffocating.

Eriri's body trembled violently with fear, her teeth chattering and making a clattering sound. She felt as if her legs were completely out of control, as if they were nailed to the spot, unable to even take a step back.

However, in the face of this extreme sense of oppression that is enough to cause a mental breakdown for an ordinary person, Lin Qing's reaction was as calm as if he was admiring the scenery in his own backyard.

Far from betraying any nervousness, he calmly folded his arms, leaning his weight casually against the wall behind him. His deep eyes studied the parasitic beast poised at the alley entrance with deep interest, as if observing a strange, rare exhibit in a zoo.

This leisurely and almost arrogant attitude made Eriri feel a deep, soul-stirring sense of absurdity and confusion.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Qing did something that made her completely doubt her life.

He turned his head and his gaze fell on Kasumigaoka Utaha, who also had a serious expression on her face, and gave the order in a matter-of-fact tone, as if he was ordering his maid to pour a cup of tea.

"Shiyu, treat it as an after-meal exercise and solve it."

His voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard by everyone present.

"That's perfect. Let me check the results of your training these days."

"Are you crazy?!"

Hearing this, Eriri could no longer suppress her inner fear and shock. She looked at Lin Qing in disbelief, then looked at the slender Kasumigaoka Utaha beside her, and screamed.

"Let her? A girl who writes novels, go to deal with that kind of monster? Do you want to kill her?! You bastard!"

In her opinion, this is no longer madness, but pure, cold-blooded disregard for human life!

Hearing Lin Qing's order, Kasumigaoka Utaha's body stiffened noticeably. A subtle hint of nervousness flashed across her wine-red eyes hidden beneath her bangs.

Although she had gained some understanding of the newfound power within her after a few days of training, this was her first time facing a living monster filled with blood and violence alone. To say she wasn't nervous would be a lie.

But when she met Lin Qing's calm and trusting eyes, the nervousness was miraculously replaced by a stronger emotion.

It was the desire to be recognized and the determination not to disappoint the president.

She couldn't, and would never, reveal her weak side in front of him!

Kasumigaoka Utaha took a deep breath, the astonishing curve of her chest rising and falling slightly. She straightened her back, and all the tension and hesitation on her face disappeared, replaced by the absolute calmness and pride of an ice queen.

She bent down, gracefully and slowly took off the pair of expensive black high heels on her feet, and casually placed them in the corner of the wall.

In Eriri's opinion, this action was tantamount to giving up the last chance to escape, a stupid act of suicide.

With her bare, snow-white feet, Kasumigaoka Utaha slowly walked towards the parasitic beast, which exuded a terrifying aura. The moonlight shone upon her, as if she were covered in a layer of holy silver gauze.

"Roar--!"

The parasitic beast took Kasumigaoka Utaha's approach as a direct provocation. A ferocious rage crossed its office-worker face. With a roar, its entire head split open like a flower bud. Four blood-red knives, like sharp blades, pierced Kasumigaoka Utaha's seemingly defenseless, slender body simultaneously from four cunning angles: top, bottom, left, and right.

"don't want--!"

Ying Lili was so scared that she subconsciously closed her eyes, unable to bear to watch the bloody scene.

But the expected scream of the girl being pierced and torn apart did not come.

Instead, there were a few dull sounds, as if a sharp blade was cutting into rotten leather.

She carefully opened her eyes through her fingers.

Then she saw it.

She saw a surreal scene that she would never forget in her life, a scene that was engraved deep into her soul and overturned all her common sense and the laws of physics.

Faced with those four deadly attacks that were powerful enough to penetrate steel plates, Kasumigaoka Utaha's body began her "dance" with an elegant posture far beyond human limits, like that of a top ballet dancer.

Her waist bent backward at an incredible angle, narrowly avoiding the frontal thrust of the kagune. Then, like a weightless feather, her body spun lightly to the left, precisely avoiding the sideward attack.

Each of her movements was as smooth as flowing water, full of rhythm and beauty. Her body was incredibly flexible, dancing the most thrilling and gorgeous waltz on the edge of life and death.

While dodging all the attacks, her right leg, which was wrapped in black stockings and had breathtakingly beautiful curves, made a sharp sound that could tear the air apart, and turned into a swift black afterimage. In a posture that was completely opposite to her elegant posture and full of extreme violence, she kicked the parasitic beast's sturdy abdomen fiercely!

"boom--!"

A loud bang exploded in the quiet street corner!

The parasitic beast, its massive body, the size of a small truck, was completely lifted off the ground by this seemingly slender, graceful kick, its exoskeleton shattering into pieces. Like a sack struck by a speeding train, it flew backwards seven or eight meters at a speed several times greater than its initial impact, slamming heavily into the wall at the end of the alley. The solid brickwork was dented in the shape of a human and riddled with hideous, spider-web-like cracks.

Eriri opened her mouth wide, her golden pupils shrank into two small dots due to excessive shock, and her proud and exquisitely groomed golden twintails seemed to have lost gravity and floated comically in the air.

She looked at the pool of struggling and squirming rotten flesh at the end of the alley, then lowered her head to look at Kasumigaoka Utaha's perfect long legs wrapped in black stockings, which were slowly retracted, still elegantly straight.

brain……

Blank.

Can't think, can't understand, can't process.

Kasumigaoka Utaha...a novelist...kicked a monster...away with one kick?

In her eyes, the world was making a sound of being overwhelmed and shattered.

The battle is not over yet.

The parasitic beast beside the wall struggled to its feet, climbing out of the sunken ruins. Its resilience was astonishing, and the wound on its abdomen was wriggling and healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

For the first time, fear flashed through its inhuman eyes. It realized that this seemingly weak woman before its eyes was a "monster" even scarier than itself!

So, it made the most instinctive judgment in an instant.

Its kagune, which were slightly damaged in the previous collision, twisted and deformed rapidly, and like a poisonous snake, it bypassed Kasumigaoka Utaha in front and aimed at the blonde girl behind, Eriri, who looked the weakest, most panicked, and most suitable to be a hostage and a breakthrough point!