Knight Asylum

"We are family."

With Igarashi Kazuki's comfort, the Igarashi couple finally felt relieved, and the lobby gradually returned to its former warmth.

"Pfft - is that really the case?" The imaginary Weiss covered his mouth and laughed secretly.

"Do you think they will really reconcile?"

Igarashi Kazuki glanced at Whis and ignored her as usual.

Chapter 793: The Shadow of History

Two days later.

The demon with more than two biological characteristics howled miserably, a sound mixed with despair and pain as if calling for help, but the only response it got was the rapid shooting from Igarashi Daiji and the Phoenix containment team.

The power of more than two kinds of demons makes the hybrid demon possess far more powerful strength than normal demons. Even the specially made warheads targeting demons cannot easily break the hybrid demon's defense.

Seeing the hybrid demon getting closer, Igarashi Daiji hesitated for a moment and then stepped forward to fight with the hybrid demon, while Phoenix's containment team put away their guns and kept their distance to prevent their attacks from affecting Igarashi Daiji.

The hybrid demon's crazy and powerful attacks forced Igarashi Daiji to retreat step by step, and the trust and expectation from his teammates doubled the pressure on Igarashi Daiji.

Just at this moment, the demon that had been hiding in his heart and had not communicated with him for some time surfaced again.

[I say, how about giving up? Don't you want to know how they really see you? ]

Mirage's voice echoed in Igarashi Daiji's ears, and his persuasion was firm and left no room for thought.

[Don't you want to know, is it you they trust, or... the trust you inherited from your brother? ]

[Will they show disappointment at your failure, or... despair? ]

The reason why the devil is a devil is that the devil always sees the weakest and most shaky side of a person, and then tempts the other person... to take out that part of himself and let everything collapse.

"Shut up!"

Igarashi Daiji shook his head vigorously, not wanting to be disturbed by the mirage, but it was too late. The hybrid demon did not miss the opportunity of Igarashi Daiji and slapped him in the chest.

The enormous force threw Igarashi Daiji into the window of a shop on the side, and countless glass fell and hit Igarashi Daiji's body.

The armor prevented Igarashi Daiji from being cut by glass, but the disappointed looks from his teammates caused cracks in Igarashi Daiji's self-esteem.

If his teammates showed despair because of his failure, it meant that he was regarded as the only hope by his teammates.

But if he is disappointed, it means that in the eyes of his teammates, he is just a substitute for Igarashi Kazuki.

Inside the glass, Mirage squatted down and laughed in a low voice.

See—You haven’t changed anything.

"Damn it—I won't..."

Igarashi Daiji clenched his fists, stood up with difficulty, and rushed towards the hybrid demon while firing, completely abandoning defense and using a ferocious fighting style of exchanging injuries for injuries, which completely suppressed the hybrid demon.

"I'm not a substitute!"

Igarashi Daiji stuffed the gun into the hybrid demon's mouth and pulled the trigger. A white beam of light pierced through the back of the hybrid demon's head.

The hybrid demon's twisted body twitched twice and then fell to the ground. It began to disintegrate from the fingertips and turned into scarlet ashes and dissipated. Standing in the middle was Igarashi Daiji, who was wearing white armor and looked terrifying like... a demon.

The members of the Phoenix containment team looked at each other, and no one said a word.

The current Igarashi Daiji was so unfamiliar that it made their scalps tingle.

One hour later, Phoenix Sky Fortress.

"We call it... the Chimera Demon."

Wakabayashi Yujiro explained to Red in the holographic image with his hands behind his back.

"Chimera Demons are a mixture of two or more demonic powers. They are more dangerous than ordinary demons and are completely irrational."

"That's it~"

"Commander, I think you should tell me some more useful and secret information. This meaningless intelligence will only make Red think that we are unreliable and prepare to act on his own."

Karisaki, who was sorting out data, looked up and smiled at Reid in the holographic image.

"This action includes, but is not limited to, jumping directly to Phoenix's Sky Fortress and taking me away using the same method as Dr. Kulim, right~"

"Yes~"

Reid spread his hands, his cheerful expression left Wakabayashi Yujiro speechless.

"Ha-well, actually, we suspect that the hybrid demon was not created by the Desperate Crowd."

Wakabayashi Yujiro waved to Karisaki. Karisaki, who had been prepared, blew a whistle and pressed the enter key. The relevant information was sent to Reid through a dedicated route.

That was a man's intelligence.

"His name is Azuma, and according to our analysis he has lived for at least...more than a thousand years."

"This is really shocking," Redden complained as he flipped through the information sent by Karizaki.

This man named Azuma seems to be deliberately hiding his existence. He is like the shadow of history, omnipresent. The deaths of many people who played important roles in history seem to be related to him.

However, Azuma seemed to have underestimated the evolution of human history. The traces of his activities were gradually unearthed by Phoenix, and now even his household registration book was about to be dug out.

"In the past seventy years, he has stopped his assassination activities and has completely disappeared. This is the most recent footage captured—"

A middle-aged man wearing a black suit and with a neat and capable hairstyle appeared in the holographic image.

The thousand-year-old antique does not seem to be out of touch with the times. He looks so cold and fierce, just like a gangster.

Judging from the content on the screen, Azuma seems to be... indeed a gangster, and his status is not low.

"He doesn't seem to have been idle in the past seventy years. According to the current intelligence, he seems to be related to the Mafia and his status is not low."

"Mafia?" Red couldn't help but frowned.

[S·L] It's a mixed bag. If the Beast Gang is the thugs on the monster side, then the Mafia is the thugs on the human side.

Their destructive power cannot reach the level of Gurongi, but they have more people and wider connections, and humans are very good at finding evidence and playing a battle of wits, so the Mafia is doing much better in [S·L] than the Beast Gang, and their illegal business is very popular among unrest-stricken elements.

In a head-on confrontation, Serviero Turia would naturally crush the Mafia completely, but the Mafia is very smart and controls the degree very well and will never cross the line, so neither Serviero Turia nor the police have ever really fought with the Mafia.

However, this does not mean that the Mafia has no other intentions.

The Sonozaki family was ruined, and the most aggressive group that tried to seize the business controlled by the Sonozaki family was the Mafia.

Now even if you tell him that the Mafia is related to the devil, he won't be surprised, and may even find it normal.

Because the destruction of the Sonozaki family is due to the shadow of the demon family.

"In other words... you suspect that the one who is creating hybrid demons now is the Mafia?"

"No, they are not creating hybrid demons, but they are throwing the failed products of some experiments to us to deal with-"

Karizaki laughed faintly.

"Just like the Noah Organization in the past."

Chapter 794 The Secret of the Igarashi Family

"Bang-bang-bang-"

Heavy gunshots echoed.

Igarashi Daiji pulled the trigger expressionlessly, and the moment the human-shaped target not far away was shattered, it fell down and a new target rose up.

"You'd better take a rest, or your arm will hurt tomorrow."

Igarashi Daiji, who was changing the magazine, paused and looked sideways. A man was leaning against the door. When he saw him looking at him, the man waved in a friendly manner.

Igarashi Daiji tilted his head and remembered the identity of the man in front of him.

The man who was greeting him in a friendly manner was not a human being, but a mechanical life form that had copied a human being. His number seemed to be... 002.

“Thank you… for your concern,” Igarashi Daiji hesitated for a moment and then avoided his gaze awkwardly.

Although they are called mechanical life forms, they are all made of cold parts from top to bottom and have nothing to do with life. Therefore, Igarashi Daiji has never known what expression to use when facing these mechanical life forms that have copied humans.

"You seem distressed," Heart raised his eyebrows thoughtfully and then laughed.

"Humans all have a lot of troubles," Igarashi Daiji turned around and changed the magazine, hoping to use this method to let Heart know that he was not in the mood to talk to a machine at the moment.

"I see..." Heart nodded in sudden realization and crossed his arms. "Actually, I have a friend who is suffering from distress right now. Oh, right - the person he copied is called Kadada Hiromi. He was recently retired because his body was drained by the driver that can use demons."

"You seem to be one of his team members and have been taken care of by him. Have you... gone to see how he is doing?"

Igarashi Daiji paused violently and did not answer, but Heart got the answer from Igarashi Daiji's silence and turned to leave the training ground.

Phoenix Command Room.

Just like the Noah Organization in the past, Karisaki's words made everyone who knew what the Noah Organization was fall into silence.

"Noah...organization?"

Red wanted to pretend, but after a while, he felt that his acting skills of pretending to be confused were terrible, so after thinking for a while, he just came clean.

"Isn't that Phoenix?"

Wakabayashi Yujiro was stunned because he didn't expect Reid to hit back with a straight punch, and subconsciously looked at Karisaki.

"Commander, I suggest you be honest. The guy on the other side has already started to doubt us. If we continue to increase Red's suspicion of us, it will do us more harm than good." Karisaki spread his hands. "As for the guy above...if you don't tell me and I don't tell you, who will know?"

Wakabayashi Yujiro's mouth twitched.

Of course he understood the truth, but if he said it, Karisaki would have something on him. Although he didn't think Karisaki would threaten him with anything, he felt uncomfortable with this feeling of being secretly hurt.

But the problem is that Karizaki has made the issue clear, so he has to say it even if he doesn't want to.

"Phoenix does have the technology of the Noah Organization, but it has nothing to do with the Noah Organization—"

"Eh--"

"As for whether there are members of the Noah organization among the upper echelons, I don't know," Wakabayashi Yujiro pinched his nose and sighed deeply.

"I see. You really work hard," Reid raised his hand and reached into the holographic image and patted it.

"That's not important. What's important is that the Mafia is currently conducting experiments related to demonic power somewhere in [S·L], and those hybrid demons are most likely the product of failed experiments. If there are former members of the Noah Organization behind them, then their experiments are not far from success."

Wakabayashi Yujiro raised his hand and waved it. The moment he became the commander of Phoenix, he realized that he was just a puppet.

"I understand. Whether it's the mafia or Azuma, leave it to us to deal with it," Reid leaned over and sent Azuma's photo and information to Da Dao Ke Ji.

"Thank you--" Wakabayashi Yujiro breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then, the next question is about the Igarashi family," Reid smiled brightly, "What does the devil have to do with the Igarashi family?"

Wakabayashi Yujiro, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, had his expression frozen again.

After a brief silence, Wakabayashi Yujiro turned his head to look at Karisaki, but Karisaki spread his hands to show his innocence.

Wakabayashi Yujiro, no longer knowing whether Karisaki was truly innocent or just pretending, let out a long sigh.

"Why do you think the Noah organization, which frequently conducts human experiments and causes a bunch of monsters to appear, suddenly disappears in an accident?"

"Because the purpose of the experiment has been achieved, if the Noah organization continues to exist, it will only be traced back, so it must be burned down," Reid immediately understood what Wakabayashi Yujiro meant.

"Igarashi Genta... or Shiranami Junpei, is the successful product of the Noah organization's experiment. He should have been destroyed, but unexpectedly survived, got married and had children, and his son inherited the power related to demons from him."

"So, that's why you let the Igarashi brothers use a system that can utilize demonic power?" Reid understood everything.

"That's right——"

"So? What is your purpose?"

"Of course - there is only one, and that is to make the devil disappear from this world forever," Karisaki, who always looked cynical, turned cold. The hateful look reminded Reid of a piece of information.

The chief scientist of the Noah Organization is George Karisaki's father, Masumi Karisaki.

Apparently this scientist who studied demonic powers had left some very bad memories for his son.

Red didn't have a habit of over-touching other people's past, so he didn't ask.

Blackwater High School.

"Everyone, gather in the playground and line up. After getting the vaccine, do not wander around. Go back to the classroom to study immediately—"

Under the teacher's impatient urging, the weird students of Blackwater High School rushed out of the classroom in a mess, walked down the dirty stairs, and came to an empty place called the playground with all kinds of dirty and smelly garbage piled on the edge.

Now, several temporary green military tents have been set up on the garbage dump. The accompanying doctor's perfunctory attitude, as if he wanted to finish the work quickly, made the weird high school students let down their already limited vigilance, and they squeezed into the tents in a mess and stretched out their arms.

Qiuyue is one of them.

However, Qiuyue did not let down his guard because of the perfunctory attitude of the accompanying doctor. He even became more vigilant. He still remembered the terrible adult world that Hijikata mentioned.

Just when Qiuyue wanted to find other companions to ask them not to get the vaccination, his companions came out of the tent with their arms covered.