mygo, but Cthulhu

"You'll be working with them later, so I think it wouldn't hurt to meet them sooner rather than later, Ms. Yutenji."

Aya shrugged, and Ruomai could only sigh.

"Well, after all, it's you I need help with... Tell me, what do you want me to do in order to give me the Perfect Resurrection Technique, Mr. Genjumaki?"

"Don't worry, Miss Yutenji. We'll need you later... Right now, we need to stop Mizukuri and the others from leaving Tokyo. That's our top priority."

"Aftergrow? What does this have to do with them?"

"Just ten minutes ago, Aftergrow was attacked by the CIA and Mossad. Now, several intelligence organizations from different countries have flooded into Tokyo, and they are all tracking Aftergrow."

Aya responded softly, and everyone was stunned for a moment. After Yazi realized what was happening, she wanted to speak eagerly, but Aya had anticipated her reaction and shook her head at her first.

"Calm down, Ms. Ako, I know how you feel. Your sister is not in danger for the time being, so please listen to me."

Hearing her say this, Azi had to swallow her words despite being anxious, and Aya nodded slightly and continued speaking.

"They did this because they had also noticed something unusual in Tokyo. Because of that bloody atonement, the relationship between the Mitake family and the powerful and influential class had been strained. Several of them had violated the confidentiality agreement and disclosed the Mitake family's intelligence to the CIA. Even though these traitors had been dealt with by the Hunters, the Mitake family's exposure was already a fact."

"Based on this, Mr. Genmaki is unwilling to increase the risk for the Mitake family. In order to uphold the confidentiality principle set by Ms. Tsuzuki, we need to prevent Mitake from taking any drastic actions. This requires Aftergrow and the others as bargaining chips... Of course, this does not mean that we must harm them. They are certainly safer under the protection of the Genmaki Group than hiding everywhere. Don't you agree, Ms. Ako?"

Aya said this while looking at Yazi with a smile, and the latter didn't know what to say for a moment and could only nod hesitantly.

"So, does Ms. Tsuzuki know of your plan?"

At this time, Minato Yukina calmly asked again, and Aya's expression became a little mysterious, and her tone became a little subtle.

"Ms. Tsuzuki is busy investigating why the Glacier Twins disappeared... As you can see, they are right beside me. Although we all respect Ms. Tsuzuki, she can be a bit too cruel sometimes. For example, she insists that the most stable solution is for the Glacier Twins to devour each other. But we can always find alternatives."

"Considering her stubbornness, I think we can finish all this and then report to her. She has a special indulgence towards you anyway. Plus, with Mr. Genjumaki helping us explain, this shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"..."

Everyone fell silent. The Hikawa Twins exchanged glances and nodded gently. Saaya and Kasumi recalled Arisaki, who had been deprived of her resurrection technique and driven to despair by guilt. While they felt it wasn't entirely Tsuzuki's fault, her actions certainly played a role in Arisaki's death.

Minato Yukina thought about it for a moment, looked at Lisa's missing hands, and decided not to object to Aya. Yutenji Wakami didn't care about it and nodded casually.

"It seems no one has a different opinion. Let's move quickly if possible. I just want to get paid as soon as possible."

Chapter 241 Living is Pain

Bai Lu Qiansheng slowly opened her eyes and saw the familiar scene of the Puppet Kingdom all around her. Large groups of puppets were kneeling beside her, weeping and kowtowing continuously. The chaotic voices all sounded the same desperate prayers.

"Sir! Let us go! Kill us! We can't stand this anymore!"

"Kill us! Please... kill us!"

Their faces were distorted with madness. Bai Lu Qiansheng crawled up subconsciously in a daze, and when they saw that she had woken up, they immediately showed expressions of surprise and fear. They subconsciously gathered around her, but did not dare to touch her and could only kneel down heavily with trembling.

"Master Puppet Master! Master Puppet Master! Please free us! I beg you..."

"What...are you talking about?"

Bai Lu Qiansheng couldn't understand what her subconscious was saying, and as she spoke, the bodies of these puppets were instantly torn to pieces by an invisible force. They let out desperate howls, but still turned into dirty light and merged into Qiansheng's mind.

The next moment, a large number of broken memories washed into Bai Lu Qiansheng's consciousness. She covered her head in pain. When she opened her eyes again, she saw that her body had turned into that of a fat man, and the greed and desire that did not belong to her also flowed into her thoughts.

No, not only that, the next second Qian Sheng saw her body constantly flickering and changing, the desires and wails of men, women, old and young all resonated in her mind, and finally unified into hysterical despair.

"Ah, I've finally waited for this moment. I can finally... be free, instead of being a puppet in your hands, enduring endless torture."

Bai Lu Qiansheng knelt on the ground in pain. She heard the puppeteer's sighing voice. She barely raised her head, and the buildings and puppets she saw slowly collapsed, dragging her to the depths of the palace. At the same time, the throne

The puppeteer slowly walked down the stairs amidst flying debris. She tore off her twisted outer garment, revealing a smiling face exactly like Qiansheng's.

"Welcome back here, Bai Lu Qiansheng... You finally have to face yourself."

"What are you talking about? What I just heard and saw, none of them belong to me... Are you behind this?"

Qiansheng struggled to get up, gritted his teeth, stared into her eyes, and squeezed out a question, but "Bailu Qiansheng" just smiled and shook his head.

"You're mistaken. This isn't controlled by me. This is the final act you orchestrated... Some of them entered here out of greed, while others were absorbed by you. You've imprisoned them all, and they're suffering unbearable torture... All of this is your doing."

"You're lying. I don't have any memory of this at all... I get it. You want to deceive me too. You want to say I'm mentally ill, right?!"

Qiansheng raised her voice in annoyance and retorted, and the puppeteer had anticipated her reaction. He shook his head slightly, then took her hand, turned around and led her forward.

For some reason, Bai Lu Qiansheng subconsciously did not resist, and then she saw a fetus lying quietly in the amniotic fluid in front of her. At the same time, the puppeteer also spoke calmly and softly,

"Qiansheng, do you think humans during this period will have the ability to perceive the outside world, have emotions, and have thoughts?"

"Of course not... What do you want to say?"

"Yes, of course most people wouldn't do that... However, you are an exception."

The puppeteer ignored her question, curled his lips and continued talking, and then Bai Lu Qiansheng also saw a lot of light merging into the slowly forming soul of the fetus, and she could also hear the voices of different people in those lights.

"Ah, it's committee business again, dealing with insiders and all that. It's really getting boring... Why don't you relax for a while after your daughter is born?"

"Madam seems to have become much gentler since she became pregnant. It should be okay to slack off for a while, right?"

"It's so annoying. It would be nice if I could just rest at home."

Different voices filled Bai Lu Qiansheng's mind, and she also saw that the soul of the fetus was forcibly transformed and distorted. She looked at all this blankly, and subconsciously turned her head to meet the twisted smile of another herself.

"You see, right? This period of time should belong to everyone, a time of undisturbed peace... But before we even leave the womb, we're forced to listen to this noise, squeezed and distorted by the emotions and thoughts of others... Even at such a young age, this fetus, before it's even officially born, already knows what pain is."

The scene changed, and Bai Lu Qiansheng saw that her mother was holding her newborn baby in her arms. Everyone around her had a smile on their face, but she was the only one who was crying loudly until she had almost no strength left.

...She inexplicably knew that it was not just for breathing, but because of pain. The joy of others did not belong to her. The emotions from others, whether positive or negative, would only make her uncomfortable when they reached her mind...but she could do nothing about it.

"You're starting to understand, right? Hell is other people. That's what a philosopher once lamented, but it's a perfectly realistic and objective description for us. Bai Lu Qiansheng developed consciousness very early, yet life is nothing but torture for us... And you're finally slowly remembering it all."

The puppeteer suddenly laughed. Without warning, she grabbed Qiansheng's shoulders, leaned close to her ear, and spoke slowly in a voice full of sarcasm and self-mockery.

"The false memories you gave yourself should have faded by now, right? So, guess when was your first murder?"

"I……"

Bai Lu Qiansheng instinctively wanted to refute her, but the panic from unknown sources overwhelmed her like a tide. She tried hard to grab the driftwood of memory, but they all disappeared quickly in the painful scenes that she recalled clearly, just as the puppeteer said.

"You still want to deny it? How pathetic... It makes me want to force you to face reality even more."

The puppeteer curled her lips and pushed Bai Lu Qian Sheng onto the stage. Then she transformed herself into a nanny with a loving smile, and picked up a girl with a numb expression with a smile. After seeing the girl's face clearly, Bai Lu Qian Sheng couldn't help but stay where she was.

That was exactly herself when she was a child... and she also remembered at this moment that this nanny was particularly responsible for her and paid close attention to her abnormalities. She was unwilling to leave even when Bai Lu Qiansheng asked her to go away... Little did she know that it was her concern that made the girl suffer more torture.

"How are you feeling today, Qiansheng? If you're still feeling down, why not go for a walk outside?"

The nanny played by the puppeteer leaned over and smiled at the girl, and she slowly raised her head numbly. Strong kindness and concern were conveyed to her mind, but a strong sense of foreignness also emerged. No matter how beautiful the emotion was... it only brought her pain and a burning sensation.

Since the pain comes from others, shouldn't we just eliminate it?

The thought at that time flashed through Bai Lu Qian Sheng's mind, and she suddenly realized what was going to happen next. She subconsciously raised her hand to stop it.

"No!"

"Tear,"

The girl pulled out a dagger she had prepared long ago from her bosom and slit the nanny's throat with force. The latter opened her eyes wide and covered the wound in disbelief, but blood still flowed out rapidly from between her fingers. She looked at the girl in panic and incomprehension, and soon fell to the ground and turned into a corpse.

"..."

Qiansheng watched all this at a loss, and the next moment, she saw her mother walk in. Fadai was stunned by the unexpected scene, and the girl covered in blood gave her a twisted smile.

"Mom...I feel better now."

"Here's the thing...you killed someone for the first time when you were six, and you didn't think it was strange at all. It was normal except for the pain, right?"

The puppeteer smiled and got up from the ground. He waved his hand and turned the girl and Fadai into ashes. He walked to Bailu Qiansheng, who had a depressed expression.

"So, do you think your parents will still treat you as their daughter after something like this? Or will they think of you as a monster?"

"...They probably think I'm a monster. After all, my mother wanted to crush my frontal lobe with an ice pick in the end."

"What a shame, that's the wrong answer."

The puppeteer laughed sarcastically.

"Even though you're such a horrible child, they still love you. Your mother soon realized your unparalleled talent for mental magic, as well as the pain you endured because of it. She also discovered that you will always remember these painful memories, which means there's no way for you to escape this torment."

"So she knew that if she let you continue like this, you would commit suicide sooner or later. Out of love for you, she engraved a supreme command in your still young mind that could not be violated: you were not allowed to harm yourself in any way, and you had to live well no matter how painful it was."

"..."

Bai Lu Qiansheng looked at her blankly, not knowing what to say for a moment. The puppeteer seemed very satisfied with her expression, and his face became more and more distorted as he laughed heartily.

"Do you feel her love? Even though you're suffering every minute of your life, even though she's completely powerless to solve your problems, she still does it without hesitation, simply because she doesn't want to lose you... This kind of love is truly touching.

, isn’t it?

"According to what you said...I should have become a madman a long time ago."

"When did you develop the delusion that you weren't crazy?!"

Qiansheng spoke subconsciously, and the moment she heard her words, the puppeteer's smile instantly disappeared. She grabbed Qiansheng's shoulders tightly and roared hysterically, with hideous marks of continuous stitching appearing on her face. Through the trembling flesh, Bailu Qiansheng could clearly see the countless silk threads that forcibly supported her body... just like those puppets.

"If you weren't crazy, then I wouldn't exist. It's because you couldn't bear this terrible torture, couldn't bear the increasing madness, so you threw it all to me! And you yourself indulged in the lies you wove, pretending to be a normal person!"

"Whenever you come into contact with others, I'm the one who suffers! As you grow, the range of your spiritual radiation expands, and countless voices explode in my mind... You know what this feels like, but you still throw it to me without hesitation, to the me you split off from."

The puppeteer's voice trembled. She raised a hateful smile but couldn't hold back her tears. She clutched Bai Lu Qiansheng's collar tightly, and the latter could feel the long-suppressed madness and despair through her.

"Why... can you be so selfish? You know that one day I won't be able to bear it anymore, you know that this lie will always lead to collapse... yet you still ask me to play the villain at the last moment, to cater to your boring drama."

"Bai Lu Qiansheng... I'm finally telling you the truth, but I don't feel happy at all... I am a part of you, and my pain also belongs to you. And now you are finally forced to accept all of this, and you will go crazy like me."

"..."

As countless distorted voices flooded into her mind, Bai Lu Qiansheng gradually remembered everything... What the puppeteer said was true. She was the other part of her, the one who endured the pain.

The girl who would not allow herself to be killed chose to stand before everyone's gaze in despair. All their emotions towards her were pain, and all their dark imaginations would turn into extremely real illusions... She tortured herself in this way, acting out scenes one after another in despair.

Her father wanted to save her, but was easily swallowed up by the sea of ​​puppets. Her mother carved a scar into her soul, letting this shackle accompany her as she grows up, making her unable to hurt herself forever... Their love is the reason for her extreme pain.

"I'm sorry... I've made you endure this all this time,"

Bai Lu Qiansheng hugged her and spoke softly. The puppeteer was also stunned at this time. She looked at her body that was gradually torn apart by the silk threads and couldn't help but reveal a complicated and helpless smile.

"Are you not going to run away anymore? You can create another me, and then you can continue to immerse yourself in your fantasy."

"No need... that's meaningless. I've decided to face this. Just let me go crazy. I owe you this... I'm sorry, Bai Lu Qiansheng."

Qiansheng whispered goodbye to her, and the puppeteer couldn't help but sigh. The next second, her body was torn apart by countless silk threads. Amidst the blood, Qiansheng's perception was instantly filled with countless chaotic information, and she almost lost her balance and fell to the ground.

In pain, Bai Lu Qiansheng forced herself to support her body and slowly turned around, and the Puppet Kingdom collapsed bit by bit before her eyes. The puppets turned into countless distorted human figures. They were the emotions of others that she could not forget, and the broken souls of the dead who fell here.

"Father, Mother,"

Looking at the two broken figures in the front, Bai Lu Qiansheng trembled and squeezed out a twisted smile.

"Thank you... Thanks to your actions, I am still alive and well in pain, and I haven't died yet."

"Please rest assured, no matter how crazy I get, you will never leave my mind. I'm afraid you will continue to torment me like these countless figures."

Chapter 242: The smell of Rikki is clearly outside the door

"It's rare for Rikki to be late. Is it because of the sudden explosion that he's late?"

Aine looked at the time on her phone and couldn't help but sigh, while Deng was looking at the chaotic scene outside the window with some worry. After thinking for a moment, she lowered her head and dialed Riki's number again, but there was still no response.

"Everyone... I think something might have happened to Lixi, otherwise she wouldn't even answer the phone. Let's go find her now."

"Well, Tomorin, you're right. Waiting here all the time isn't a solution. Let's go now."

Aiyin nodded gently, and just as she was about to go out, everyone's cell phone suddenly rang. She subconsciously took it out and was stunned for a moment after seeing the message.

"Huh? Hailing said Rikki attacked her? And killed her parents for some reason? This... is impossible?"

"Lixi wouldn't do such a thing. Something bad must have happened to her. We need... ahem,"

Deng's expression grew increasingly worried, and when she was about to say something, she suddenly coughed, and her body began to emit colors and became hazy. Seeing this, Aine realized something and quickly supported her body.

"Tomorin, have you suppressed your hunger to its limit this time? I clearly told you, if you want it, just tell me anytime. I won't be in any trouble. You can suck as much life force from me as you want."

"But...Xiao Ai will also feel bad because of this, I don't want Xiao Ai to be like this."

Deng shook her head with difficulty, and Aine sighed and hugged her in her arms, stroking her hair comfortingly.

"It's okay, Tomorin, you don't have to worry about that... Eat quickly, we still have to go find Rikki."

"Well, thank you, Xiao Ai."

Deng nodded guiltily, then closed his eyes and let the emerging colors envelop Aine. The latter let the colors merge into her body, feeling the familiar feeling of loss.

At the same time, Aiyin found that her originally abundant emotions were almost exhausted, and even the warm memories of Mygo in her mind seemed to have begun to lose their warmth... She sighed silently in her heart with fatigue, and began to have a headache about what to do after her emotions were sucked away.

"Dong dong!"