mygo, but Cthulhu

"Was Kayoko... killed by those lunatics?"

"That's right, but it was because of her sacrifice that only one-third of the people in Hanasaki River survived. Your granddaughter is a hero. I believe her bravery is inseparable from your teachings. Thank you very much."

Xian Juanxin nodded slightly, and the old man smiled bitterly. He turned his head to look at the cross on the wall, closed his eyes, and squeezed out a voice weakly.

"Please tell me what you have to do with the reason why those crazy people appeared."

"I wanted to save someone, but I was too foolish to ignore the potential risks, and this is the result."

"Is that all?"

"That's all."

"..."

The old man remained silent, and Xian Juanxin was waiting for his possible anger and hatred, but in the end he said nothing. He just turned around and walked into the church weakly, picked up food and water and prepared to distribute them to the people in the lobby.

"Father, don't you hate me?"

Xian Juanxin asked softly, and the old man stopped. He turned around tiredly and silently made the sign of the cross at her.

"There's enough hatred already, and you didn't mean for any of this to happen, did you? You just wanted to save people in the first place, and that's enough for me."

After he finished speaking, he closed the partition door. Marina also sighed at this time, looked up and turned her gaze to Genmaki Kokoro.

"Xin, the reason we specifically asked you to come here is actually to ask for your help... After the boss's death, the committee completely collapsed, and most of the members were executed in retaliation. We only managed to escape here with all our might."

"You should have noticed, too, that the current congress is actually controlled by the Toyokawa family. They seized the opportunity brought by the chaos and were the first to rebel and attack various strongholds. They also incited the people to destroy the remaining government departments... Their ambition is obvious: to control all of Tokyo."

"So, you want me to help you fight against the Toyokawa family?"

"No... They are a family that believes in Hastur and possesses many strange spells. We don't want to involve you. We just hope you can help us find Mygo and Mujica and warn them to hide and not be discovered by the Toyokawa family."

Marina shook her head.

"The boss is dead. The only thing we want to do now is to ensure Lenai's safety. Even though she has many friends around her, we're still worried that something might happen to her... Can you help us?"

"I'll do my best, Ms. Marina, but with your abilities, you should be able to conduct the search without exposing yourself, right?"

Genjumaki asked thoughtfully, and Marina sighed helplessly at this time.

"If it were just the Toyokawa family, it would be possible, but intelligence organizations from all over the world are now frantically searching for us. They've learned our information from the captives. To gain magical power, they're checking almost every important intersection. We really can't hide from their eyes."

"I see... But if you're willing to trade with them, all your troubles will disappear, won't they?"

Genmaki chuckled, and Marina shook her head vigorously without hesitation.

"No, absolutely not. Even if the existence of the committee has been exposed, at least this forbidden knowledge has not been leaked. If humanity knew all this, it would be the beginning of true destruction... We absolutely cannot trade with those guys."

"Even though Ms. Tsuzuki is dead, you still follow her teachings. I have to say, I admire you very much. I will do my best to help you find Mygo and Mujica. Goodbye."

Xian Juanxin shook her head, turned and left without saying anything more. The next moment, she passed by a hooded figure who had just walked into the alley. As she turned her head inadvertently, her pupils shrank slightly.

Then, the tall hooded man suddenly stopped and turned to look at her. Under the human face disguised by the spell was a deformed fish face. The sticky sound was as uncomfortable as rotten shellfish being crushed.

"Do I look strange, miss?"

"I'm sorry, sir. I'm just a little impressed by your strength."

Juanxin shrugged with an apologetic smile, and the fishman stared at her expressionlessly. The girl could feel that his body was now heavily compressed. The real him was taller and more terrifying... At this distance, if he attacked her, she would definitely not survive.

When Xian Juanxin began to think about whether to use magic regardless of the consequences, the fishman suddenly sneered. He seemed to have lost interest in her and walked straight towards the church. Under his exquisite magic, Marina and the others did not notice anything unusual and just whispered about the next direction.

"Xin, are you okay?"

After confirming that he had finally gone far away, Genmaki Xin breathed a sigh of relief. Misaki noticed that something was wrong with her and asked a question quickly, and the girl smiled and shook her head.

"It's nothing. I just had a close brush with death. Let's go, Misaki. We still have to deal with those boring shareholders."

Chapter 283 Hiroi Akira

"This is your share, Mr. Udagawa."

Hiroi Akinari handed the bag to the haggard man, and he quickly made the sign of the cross, trying to appear more pious.

"Thank you so much for your help, Father. The supermarkets nearby have been completely emptied out. This is the only place I can get enough food. I don't want to compete with others for precious rations, but I have two daughters at home..."

"Don't worry, sir. There's plenty of food in the church. The Lord doesn't want anyone to go hungry."

The old man shook his head slightly, and the man quickly made another not-so-standard cross. His dirty suit had expensive labels on it, but it had no meaning at all now, and only showed his low status.

Hiroi Akinari knew that there were many people like him. The entire Tokyo had undergone drastic changes, and ordinary people were the ones who suffered the greatest losses and were the most confused and panicked.

He sighed silently, turned around and prepared to continue distributing food and water, but a moment later, he saw a familiar tall figure walking out of the back door. He couldn't help but pause in surprise, and his expression became a little complicated.

"Hiroi, can we go to the confessional?"

The tall man in a hood walked straight up, and Hiroi Akinari sighed silently, apologized to the others, and nodded slightly.

"Please come with me."

He turned and led him into the confessional. Through the partition, he could hear the tall figure of the man barely squeezing in. After a moment of silence, the man spoke first in a low voice, his voice no longer disguised by magic and extremely thick.

"Hiroi, do you have something you want to confess to me?"

"……have,"

The old man stared at the cross on the wall, was silent for a moment, and then slowly answered, while the voice on the other side remained calm.

"What is it?"

"I once swore an oath to spend my life with the children of the deep sea, and I would dedicate my life to the great Cthulhu... But I betrayed my oath. After my wife was killed, I defected to the Committee and indulged in the false beliefs of mankind."

"So, why did you do it?"

"Because the Toyokawa family has noticed us, they want to wipe out everyone on that island, and I don't want innocent people to die."

"Are you willing to abandon your companions just for those humans?"

"Yes...and I have no regrets."

"..."

The silence continued, and Hiroi Akinari was quietly waiting for his death, but to his surprise, the opponent did not kill him directly, but laughed meaningfully, and then said words that made him clench his fists.

"Hiroi, I heard that your granddaughter died. She was tortured and killed by those lunatics, right?"

"..."

"You've been a good person for so long for the sake of your so-called Lord, but what has your Lord given you? Don't you understand? The so-called God doesn't exist at all. He is nothing more than the delusion of a poor man crucified on the cross, a tool used by those in power to maintain their rule, and the self-deception of the desperate."

"But our Lord truly exists. The great Cthulhu can grant us eternal life and power, yet you betrayed Him for such a pitiful pursuit... I truly sympathize with you, Hiroi."

"...Are you still interested in making such a mockery before killing the traitor?"

The old man was silent for a moment and then asked softly in a tired voice, and the fishman also laughed.

"Of course not. If I were planning to kill you, I wouldn't be talking to you so much. I came here hoping to get your help."

"Why should I help you? I don't even care about my own life anymore."

"Because you owe me this, Hiroi. If it weren't for the experiments on Dagon's genes that you led, I wouldn't have become a monster. I am your sin."

The fishman's voice was close to the partition, and the old man could imagine him staring at this direction. He was silent for a long time, then smiled weakly.

"You are Roger Marsh. I guessed it a long time ago. Apart from you, no other Deep One would be willing to talk to me so much."

"Yes, it took me a lot of effort to convince them. They wishfully believed they could still launch raids like they had decades ago. They had no idea how rapidly humanity was developing."

At this time, Rogot also stuffed some information through the gap. Hiroi Akinari took a look and found that it was the information of several shareholders of the Genjumaki Group. His tone was a little surprised.

"Why are you giving me this?"

"We hope you can give this information to Miss Charlotte. You just need to mention my name to her. She will know what it means."

"I'm just an ordinary old man, and I rashly went to see the eldest daughter of the Sanyuan Group. Don't you think it's too conspicuous?"

"Don't worry, she will be here soon. Toyokawa Taichirou is already on his way to confess to you, and Miss Charlotte is very concerned about Genmaki Kokoro. She is trying to negotiate with the Toyokawa family and will seize this opportunity."

Rogot smiled, then stood up and left the confessional. The old man sat silently in his seat, tightly clutching the cross pendant in his pocket, and couldn't help but think of his last conversation with his granddaughter.

"Grandpa, when I come of age, can I inherit your church?"

"Haha, I'm afraid that won't work. It's very dull here. You probably wouldn't want to stay here all day."

"Okay, Grandpa, I knew you wouldn't agree... Then can you give me a cross as a gift? I can even read the Bible by heart, but you never let me have my own cross pendant. Why?"

"Sorry, kid, I just don't think this is the right time for you."

"grandfather……"

"what happened?"

"Have you...never really believed in Christianity?"

"..."

Hiroi Akinari opened his eyes in a trance, and at this moment an equally old and familiar voice came from the other side of the partition, bringing his consciousness back to reality completely.

"Father, I want to confess my sins to you."

"Please speak, Taichiro."

He spoke softly almost subconsciously, and the person on the other side coughed. He squeezed out the sound slowly and tremblingly, and the words he said were exactly the same as what Hiroi Akinari expected... He had confessed to him countless times.

"I killed my daughter, even though she was pregnant with Pan's child, even though she could not

Not having the baby... but I could have been gentler with her, I killed her."

"It's not your fault, Taichiro."

It's extremely annoying,

"It's my fault, it's all my fault, if I could have done better..."

"Don't say that, Taichiro. You never really wanted to hurt her. You just wanted her to learn to be indifferent. You didn't expect that she wouldn't be able to bear it."

It's extremely annoying,

"Father, will the Lord forgive my sins?"

I've just...had enough.

"That depends on which master you're talking about, Taichiro."

When he responded softly without hesitation, Hiroi Akinari couldn't help but feel deeply surprised. He subconsciously wanted to stop the sound, but he found that his hand holding the cross pendant was shaking. The pain made it unable to calm down, and he didn't want to repeat this boring comfort. Instead, he gritted his teeth and roared softly.

"We are friends, Taichiro, so I don't want to see you in such a pitiful state again. Decades ago, you scoffed at my choice and ridiculed my ridiculousness. You believed that only real existence was worthy of belief... Then why are you deceiving yourself by confessing now?"

"Old friend, face yourself. Have you lived this long just to torture yourself? You are respected by the Toyokawa family, but what do they regard you as? Just a symbol. You linger on every day, is it just to regret?"

"Your Lord doesn't care about you, and my Lord doesn't exist, so do what you want and stop living this lie."

"...Thank you, my friend."

After a long silence, Hiroi Akinari heard a relieved voice coming from the other side. His tone had never been so calm, as if he had finally found his own peace.

"I already know what to do... I hope you can be free from your pain soon."

"boom,"

Gunshots suddenly rang out, and the old man sat motionless, with a tired smile on his face, allowing the panicked Toyokawa family bodyguards to drag him out of the confessional. At the same time, he saw that Taichiro Toyokawa had shot himself through the head with a pistol. He leaned in the confessional with a calm face, blood and brain matter covering the walls, and he looked as if he was in a peaceful sleep.

"What happened? Why did the master suddenly commit suicide?! Speak quickly, old man!"

The bodyguards grabbed his collar in shock and anger, but the old man just closed his eyes silently, not caring about their angry questioning.

"Wait a moment, everyone,"

Charlotte interrupted them quietly and pointed to their pockets.

"Since this was Mr. Fengchuan's decision, I assume he must have sent you a message asking you not to embarrass the priest... How about checking his phone first?"

The bodyguards looked at each other in confusion at her words, took out their cell phones and took a look, then awkwardly let go of Hiroi Akinari. He turned around silently and prepared to leave, but the next moment he met Charlotte's warning gaze, sighed and followed her footsteps.

"If possible, I sincerely hope that you can hand the things over to me before instigating Toyokawa Taichiro to commit suicide, Father."

After turning the corner, Charlotte reached out her hand to him indifferently, and Hiroi Akinari handed the information to her, but when she turned around and was about to leave, his calm voice suddenly came from behind her.

"You planned to help Xian Juanxin kill those shareholders who wanted to seize power, right? You even reached an agreement with Rogot for this purpose."

"What does this have to do with you? You know a lot. If you weren't related to Marina and the others, I would have made you disappear long ago, Father. But this is no reason for you to challenge my patience."

Charlotte turned around with a sneer, but the threat she was about to utter was stuck in her throat. Her body tensed instantly, and she subconsciously raised her pistol and pointed it at the creature in front of her.

"Don't be afraid, I don't mean to hurt you."

The old man's body was now slowly splitting apart, and his exposed soul was entangled with the darkness of the ocean and the light of Aldebaran, but his old face was still calm, which made Charlotte feel creepy.