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"Don't say that, Kasumi. If I had arrived earlier yesterday..."

"If you had arrived earlier yesterday, this wouldn't have happened. But even if you had, it wouldn't have helped. We're just high school girls. As you said at the beginning, we shouldn't have set foot in this world."

Kasumi answered quietly, the energy in her voice completely gone, leaving only deep exhaustion and pain.

"I'm sorry, mother-in-law. I should have listened to you. It was because of my reckless determination that Satomi died. It's all my fault."

"No, Kasumi, this is definitely not your fault. Stop blaming yourself, okay?"

Guilt and pain made Tsuzuki Shifune grit her teeth, and her voice even contained a pleading tone. Kasumi was silent for a moment and then just sighed.

"I'm sorry, mother-in-law, I just can't help but think this way... Can you please give me a little time? Okay?"

"Of course, but Kasumi, no matter what, I hope you won't put all the blame on yourself. These responsibilities should not be borne by you."

"Well...goodbye, grandma."

The phone was hung up, and Tsuzuki Shifune closed her eyes and sighed deeply. At this moment, there was a knock on the door. She was stunned for a moment, then turned around and opened the door. After seeing who was coming, she couldn't help but clenched her fists, and there was uncontrollable anger in her voice.

"What are you doing here now?!"

"I have come to you specifically to apologize, Ms. Tsuzuki."

Bai Lu Fa Dai was not intimidated by her anger. He smiled gently and apologetically, bowing deeply.

"I really didn't expect such a tragedy to happen during that ceremony. Although you may not believe it, the current situation was not my intention. I also feel deeply guilty towards those poor children."

"Ah,"

Tsuzuki Shifune sneered, she closed her eyes and tried to suppress the urge to attack directly, looking down at Shirasagi No Yoshiyo who still lowered his head expressionlessly,

"Since you said that, then tell me now, why did you stop me from going over there?"

"Because I want Chuhua to know her own true nature. She is almost an adult, and I think she has the right to know her own bloodline."

Hoyo explained calmly and slowly, while Tsuzuki Shifune also frowned.

"You should know what your bloodline is. You want that child to know that she is actually a member of a cannibal family? Do you think she can bear it?"

"Maybe she can't bear it, but even so, I think she needs to know this."

Fadai shrugged lightly.

"You know that it's better to open it than to block it. Her mother suppressed her desires for a long time, which led to her tragic end. Besides, Mana has already reported to me that Chuhua has recently been able to hear the sounds of mice. When Ruoye Mu attended the banquet, she was clearly aroused by the fragrance. If she continues to be kept in the dark, she will probably lose control."

"...Ruoye Mu, I remember that because that couple had been studying magic for a long time, she was confirmed dead at birth. They used her as an experimental subject. After Xiangzi's umbilical cord merged with her body, she came back to life and possessed this eternal life force."

After a moment's silence, Tsuzuki Shifune spoke slowly, filled with disgust towards the Wakaba couple, and Hoyo nodded slightly.

"That's right. Xiangzi carries the blood of Pan. The umbilical cord she was born with also possessed extraordinary power. Through the experiments of the Wakaba couple, that life force was perfectly integrated into Wakaba Mu's body, and she became their most valuable commodity."

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They also tamed her through long-term torture, what a pair of damn bastards."

Tsuzuki Shichuan took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and looked at Houdai.

"If it weren't for that kid Mu's constant refusal and this ridiculous committee framework, I could have burned them both to ashes... How is she now? Hasn't she changed her mind after this incident?"

"I don't know what she's thinking, but Xiangzi seems to have noticed her mental abnormality, and their communication was not pleasant."

Fadai shook his head.

"And for some reason, the Toyokawa family also took her to participate in their bride selection. After that, Wakaba Mu was put under strict protection, and I couldn't find out more."

"At least we can be sure that she will not be in danger for the time being, right?"

"Well, she's treated pretty well. There's definitely something odd about it, but at least that's certain."

"Then let's ignore the Toyokawa family's plan for now. After all, Mu is Xiangzi's friend. They shouldn't do anything excessive. It's better for her to stay there than to stay with those two bastards."

Tsuzuki Shifune sighed tiredly and rubbed his temples with his hands.

"Can we contact Du Juan now? Have you found out why she suddenly went crazy?"

"I'm sorry, but we have no idea what's going on. Although Gluttony isn't a member of the committee, we haven't had much conflict with her. I don't understand why she would do this."

Hoyo spread his hands, and Tsuzuki Shifune's brows furrowed even more. Suddenly, she saw Lena jogging over with a bag.

"Lena, why are you here? Your friends probably need your care right now, right?"

"The interesting woman and Rikki are taking care of it. I can't help over there, so I'm helping here."

Le Na blinked and handed the bag to Tsuzuki Shifune.

"Marina asked me to give it to grandma. She said it was an important clue."

"Okay, we need this right now. Thank you for your hard work, Lenai. Have a snack."

Tsuzuki Shifune nodded and pushed the matcha snacks next to her to her. While Rakuna was eating happily, she opened the bag and took out the USB drive inside, inserted it into the computer and clicked on the video. The live surveillance footage edited by Marina appeared on the screen.

It can be seen that Dujuan has been lurking in the crowd from the beginning. When the magic power flew towards Lixi, she was the first to intercept it roughly, which prevented Lenai from controlling Ruomai's brother in time.

"...Dujuan actually cares so much about this child?"

Tsuzuki Shifune frowned in surprise, and when she saw the dark fluid that Dujuan's body turned into when fighting Xing Zhicai, a crimson spell subconsciously condensed around her. She shook her head in sudden realization, and her tone became cold.

"It's the Invisible Child that escaped. No wonder we haven't found it after searching for over a decade. It turns out it was disguised as a human from scratch. Its IQ is much higher than its peers."

"Hada, immediately begin investigating Shiina Ritsuki and the people around her. Since this invisible child cares so much about her, it must be related to her. It must be trying to use Ritsuki to achieve some conspiracy."

"Now we can confirm that the Gluttonous Feast is a cult that worships Tsathoggua. They only like to sleep and don't care about their followers. Now we will list the Gluttonous Feast as hostile targets. We must eliminate these guys."

Chapter 116 Maki's Memories

After placing the last carefully prepared dish on the table, Maki turned to look at the clock and sighed after confirming that Riki had not returned home an hour later than usual.

It must be because of that Xing Zhicai called Deng. Even though everyone knows her true identity, Li Xi still doesn't care...

As she thought this, pain and jealousy began to occupy her mind. Maki shook her head and tried to divert her attention. She turned her head to look at the steaming exquisite dishes, recalling every step of the cooking process, and made sure again that she had not made any mistakes. Even the most subtle taste was what Riki liked.

She had no interest in killing time in any other way, but just sat quietly waiting for Lixi to come back, while using magic to keep the dishes at the most suitable temperature at all times.

"Ding,"

After waiting for a while, her cell phone suddenly rang. Maki couldn't wait to take it out and saw the apology message from Riki for forgetting to tell her that he was late, and the assurance that he would be home soon.

Maki couldn't help but curl her lips as she looked at the words on the screen. She pondered for a moment and finally chose to reply with a cute panda emoticon. She knew Lixi's preferences and hoped that this would make her feel better.

Putting down her phone, it seemed that all she had to do was wait. In the silence, long-lost memories began to fill Maki's mind little by little, causing her to close her eyes.

...It was not born as a human being, but was born in a dark and sacred cave. Like other creatures of its kind, from the first moment it became conscious, it made pleasing the great Lord Tsathogguam its entire and only goal. Not to mention that it was especially blessed by the Lord, and the power it obtained was almost the pinnacle among all its kind.

And in the midst of its day-to-day service, one day, the Lord suddenly and casually gave it a mission: to go to the surface of the earth to see what humans look like now.

Naturally, it accepted this mission with great joy. More than ten years ago, it came to this city called Tokyo and performed rituals with the lives of weak humans, hoping to make the Lord feel even a little bit of happiness.

Then... it encountered the monster,

When recalling this, Maki couldn't help but shudder. She quickly opened her eyes and looked around, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that she was in a safe environment.

As the son of the invisible, it should not have the emotion of fear, but after killing a group of humans who called themselves hunters that day, it met an elderly human female on the way back to the nest. It had no interest in dealing with her, but the next moment, a huge crimson spell filled all its senses.

Even though it was the top Invisible Son, it couldn't even resist. That kind of power was definitely not something that humans could normally achieve. Even if all the great wizards in human history were added together, they definitely couldn't even reach half the level of that monster... Although it was not afraid of death, it was afraid that it would not be able to complete the master's mission, so it tried its best to escape, and finally escaped with great difficulty.

In order to disguise her identity, the seriously injured her chose a place where humans treated diseases and gave birth to offspring, and found a newborn human baby. She easily swallowed her and completed the mimicry, thus obtaining the most solid identity: Shiina Maki.

"..."

Maki pursed her lips. When she recalled this again, she still felt clear pain and guilt. The indifference she felt at that time turned into heavy suffering, which made her feel deeply ironic.

Sighing, she silently recalled the next part.

After acquiring this identity, it could slowly repair its own trauma. It easily learned all human expressions and fully understood how to pretend to have emotions. It was very boring among these fragile creatures, but it could also rest assured that it would not be hunted by the monster.

Not long after, its apparent parents gave birth to another human cub. It didn't care at first, but the cub ignored its indifference and insisted on communicating with it. It still annoyed it, so it crushed a chick to death in front of her.

, announcing the future fate of this cub.

Its behavior all along is undoubtedly that of a cuckoo. This bird has good survival wisdom, and now it has to get rid of this cub to gain more free space, of course, in a way that does not arouse suspicion.

This wasn't difficult. Humans were the most cannibalistic species it knew. Even though they had established settlements for resource exploitation, it was still quite easy to find the inferior people they called criminals. It used the internet to lure a few humans with twisted habits, and pretended to be kidnapped with the cub named Lixi. Then, it prepared to control them and torture and kill this foolish guy.

...This was its plan at the time, but before it could act, the cub suddenly stuffed something into its hand, and she actually took the initiative to stand up and wanted to bear the torture on its behalf.

Although this made it more convenient for it, but... it didn't understand. Although it already knew how to pretend to have "love", although it despised this ridiculous emotion, but... it still felt sincerely confused at that time, and then it changed its mind for some reason.

It did not kill Lixi. It chose to be taken away. After easily controlling the brains of those humans, it let them start performing at will. It sat quietly aside and began to think about why it did this.

It didn't come up with an answer in the end. Confused, it just let those people be beaten into a sieve, disguised itself, and walked out the door.

"I'm fine, Lixi."

It responded softly, but after seeing the girl's tearful and dazed face, it suddenly felt its thoughts interrupted, and something it could hardly describe began to penetrate its spirit, like poison and honey.

The contact with Lixi seemed no longer so boring, and it seemed to begin to feel pleasure from this meaningless interaction. At the same time, it began to no longer like the cuckoo, and it began to hate this bird.

...It didn't understand what was wrong with it. It was panicked by this change. It wanted to leave here but felt reluctant. It wanted to kill Lixi but found that it couldn't do it. It couldn't kill a human being, and it actually felt pain about it.

There was no doubt that it was sick. It suddenly realized this after finding that it had not thrown away the small ring given by Lixi after a long time.

No matter how unbelievable it was, it had to admit that it seemed to be infected by something. It even couldn't help but wonder if Lixi was some kind of terrible and strange existence, but no matter how it investigated, it could only confirm that she was a human being.

...After tearing up Dujuan's information, it finally understood what its illness was. Although it was absurd, it was indeed infected by human love. No, to be precise, it was infected by Lixi's love.

So, she wanted to become Shiina Maki.

"……hehe,"

Recalling this, Maki couldn't help but laugh at herself. She looked down at her hand which slowly turned into a dark liquid, her heart filled with pain and irony.

"How ridiculous! A monster like you actually wants to be Lixi's sister? You're just pretending. Once she discovers your true face, your self-deception will no longer be able to continue. She will hate you and spit on you..."

She was so certain of her ridiculous fate, but at the same time she couldn't help but tremble with deep fear. She covered her head with her hands and knelt on the ground, curling up in agony, feeling the fake tears sliding down her cheeks.

"Oh, how pitiful,"

But the next moment, she suddenly heard a voice full of laughter.

"But this is the first time I've seen such a special Invisible Child like you. Would you like to take a picture with me?"

Chapter 117 Confession

"?!"

Shiina Maki transformed her palm into a pitch-black whip blade and swung it out as fast as she could. In the blink of an eye, it was approaching the man's head, but the next moment, the whip blade was firmly grasped by a palm.

"Don't get so excited. I'm not going to eat you."

The humanoid monster with a mixture of eyeballs and dark green slime spoke softly, and Maki also felt a heavy sense of oppression. Her body couldn't help but tremble. She was sure that this clear sense of danger was no less than that of Tsuzuki Shifune, and she instantly recognized what the monster in front of her was.

The Shoggoth Lords, and definitely the oldest of the bunch, had evolved to the point where they were now terrifying beings that were completely indescribable. At least she had no way of contending with them.

"You...what do you want from me? I don't think I've offended you, have I?"

She carefully organized her words, and the Shoggoth smiled, slowly withdrawing the tentacles used to read her memory, and shrugged lightly.

"Don't be nervous. I'm just interested in you, so I wanted to come and see you... But you seem to be afraid of the Tsuzuki Poetry Ship. Why is that?"

"It's just an instinctive fear. After all, her power is indeed very strong, just like I am afraid of you now."

"Well, that's true, but your fear seems to have a deeper reason."

The Shoggoth smiled thoughtfully, and at the same time, the tentacles carrying the eyeballs slowly raised up and gently tapped the human body that the Invisible Son had mimicked.

"Compared to your own life, you're actually more afraid of your identity being destroyed, right? Because that means your ugly appearance will be seen by your sister, and she will find out that you are not her sister, but a monster... You tremble because of this, don't you?"

"..."

Intellectually, he knew that lying was pointless, and emotionally, he was in great pain because his thoughts were pointed out. Maki could only lower his head in silence in response to her question.

"Oh my, although I saw it in my memory, I didn't expect you to care so much about this human. I really sympathize with you."

The Shoggoth wiped the mucus from his cheeks, slowly smiled, and moved closer to her.

"Invisible Son, for us, only cold instinct is worthy of reliance. Most humans enjoy the bliss of ignorance, but we are born knowing the darkness and horror of this universe. Human emotions should be meaningless to us... But you are infected by them, so you have been infected by the virus."

"Just to kill time, let me give you some sincere advice. Eat your sister, then leave the surface and confess your failure to your Lord. That way, you can continue to live."

"I'm sorry, that's not possible."

Shiina Maki answered without hesitation, while Shoggoth shook his head as if in regret.

"You really refused. Well, I sincerely pity you. After all, humans don't care whether you are a monster with emotions or not."

"By the way, Tsuzuki Shifune already knows you are Dujuan. She has noticed how protective you are of your sister. The committee has already begun investigating Riki's surroundings, so I'm afraid you won't be able to hide for much longer."

"…Why are you telling me this?"