A comic book, but a librarian

What Ruo Yemu didn't expect was that the other party didn't care about her hesitation at all, but instead stuffed a candy into her hand. She touched the cheap plastic packaging in her palm a little at a loss.

"If you don't want to say something, you don't have to say it. It's good for both of us, isn't it? If you really feel you must say it, don't hesitate."

The 'priestess' finger gently touched her own lips. Ruo Yemu had never thought that a person could look so light and free, as if she was an elf moving with the wind.

"Then... can I ask your name? My name is... Ruoye Mu." Ruoye Mu mustered up her courage and gave her name once again, expecting that what was about to happen would be a little different from the past, praying that the strange and mysterious beautiful girl opposite her would pay attention to 'Ruoye Mu' instead of 'Ruoye'.

"Hmm, that's a nice name. So, nice to meet you, Miss Ruoye Mu. No, I can't say first time at this time. Nice to meet you again, Miss Ruoye Mu. I'm Priestlin."

The gray-haired girl stretched out her hand and held Wakaba Mu's hand. Wakaba Mu didn't care about the other party's strange name. It was the first time she met someone who didn't care about her surname at all. This gray-haired girl was the first one besides Xiangzi.

"Of course, if you don't mind, you can also call it Precious. You can pronounce it however you like."

She opened the cheap plastic packaging and stuffed the candy into her mouth. The fake body's sense of taste had been perfectly reflected after being optimized by Uesugi Cheng, so he did not hesitate to stuff the fake body with a bunch of snacks that he didn't usually eat. Anyway, it would not cause any health effects on his original body.

"Then... Precious, you are not a student of Tsuki no Mori, right?"

Ruoye Mu suddenly felt that she seemed to have said something wrong again, and looked at the girl opposite her with some anxiety.

"Ah, is it hard to tell? Of course not."

The other party's answer made Wakaba Mu open his eyes wide. Although the Moon Forest did not completely prohibit outsiders from entering, it was too... bold to tell Wakaba Mu so blatantly that he was an outsider with an unknown identity.

"After all, we agreed to meet here, right? I'm not someone who would break an appointment."

Ruoye Mu nodded. For some reason, standing opposite this mysterious gray-haired girl, she was able to relax from the bottom of her heart. Even when she was with Xiangzi, she had never felt so relaxed.

"By the way, can you give me some cucumber seeds? In exchange, I'll give you a gift."

The fake's sudden words made Ruoye Mu stunned for a moment, and then he immediately took out the wrapped seeds from the flower bed next to him.

She really wanted to protect this new friend whose name was obviously fake, even though the other party was just using a fake name to chat with her.

"Well, the gift has been given to you... Let's meet again next time if there is a chance."

"Eh?!"

Ruo Yemu was stunned for a moment. She didn't know what gift Priestlin had given her, nor did she understand why she suddenly said she wanted to leave, even though they were chatting just now.

"Look, someone has come to see you, hasn't he? Isn't that more important than chatting with a new friend like me? Look back."

Ruoye Mu subconsciously looked back and saw Toyokawa Shoko showing her elegant and warm smile as always and waving at her. Ruoye Mu just wanted to say goodbye to the gray-haired girl behind her, but found that she had disappeared long ago. If she hadn't been holding the candy tightly in her palm, she would have thought she was dreaming, dreaming of a non-existent friend who could let her chat so easily.

"Mu? What happened? Why are you staring at me in a daze?"

Toyokawa Shoko was a little curious. In the past two days, Wakaba Mu was obviously in a daze more often than before, but when asked what happened, she said nothing. She was looking at the cucumber rack, which made Toyokawa Shoko suspect that there was something wrong with the cucumbers.

“No… eh?”

Ruoye Mu put her hand into her pocket and touched a hard card. She took it out subconsciously and saw that it was a very beautifully made tarot card. On the card, there was a majestic woman wearing a crown and sitting on a throne. It was the High Priestess, which was in the second sequence of the tarot card.

"So that's what the name means."

Ruoye Mu muttered softly, and put away the cards she got in the face of Xiangzi's increasingly curious expression. She was already looking forward to their next meeting.

……

"Well, it went smoothly. The little girl is really easy to please."

The fake looked at the cucumber seeds in his hand and decided to plant them in the vegetable garden of Silent Bookstore. Maybe the fruits could be used to feed the chickens named "Penny Duck" and "Terence".

The vegetable garden of Silent Bookstore is very large, and there is even a beehive there. Uesugi Cheng basically has never collected what they have worked so hard to accumulate from the beehive, but he is still deeply impressed by the gentleness of the bees. Even if he tries to touch the beehive, he will not be attacked by them. Uesugi Cheng even suspects that if he uses the right method, these bees will voluntarily offer their honey.

Of course, his return gift was not just a simple card. It was also one of his prototypes. It could be used as a beacon transmission tool and also as a prop to detect the status of the holder. The little girl named Wakaba Mutsu was his experimental subject.

449

Chapter 449: The unfinished painting.

Of course, the little episode in the Moon Forest was more like a necessary test for Uesugi Cheng during technical verification. After all, he had never modified a technique of the level of [Deceiving the World and Pretending to Be], so he could only try to do various things little by little to test the fake body's ability to withstand various situations, so as to avoid failure when needed and causing huge flaws in his plan.

The next moment, a blazing white flame started burning, but the people around seemed not to notice it and continued walking normally. Only those who could feel spiritual power could feel the suffocating pressure.

"What the hell is coming out?"

Inudo Ranko subconsciously rolled down from the sofa, scaring her two subordinates who were sorting files. The sudden feeling of oppression was as if a "god" was going to kill people in the city. She almost prepared to write a suicide note.

"This is the spiritual power countermeasure room... Inspector Inudo, may I ask if you have any sense of the spiritual power fluctuation just now?"

Inudo Ranko finally answered the phone while lying on the ground. Since she had already rolled on the carpet, she was too lazy to even get up. She had indeed done a lot of painful things recently. After all, the higher-ups were obviously not particularly satisfied with the performance of the Police History Compilation Office, and even set up an additional department to deal with those increasingly exaggerated and obviously spiritual power-related cases.

"Kid, if you don't want to die a scumbag and leave your name behind, I don't recommend you to investigate this matter."

Even if it was only for a moment, Inudo Ranko still felt that the terrifying power was almost exactly the same as the power released by the mastermind of the family murder case, the "princess" who was exposed under the surveillance camera. She didn't want to come into contact with this monster at all. It was obvious that the other party was not within the reach of humans.

"Inspector Inudo, I will report your negative attitude to my superiors."

Inudo Ranko snorted twice in disdain and hung up the phone. She was too lazy to explain this. Anyway, the guy who would most likely die soon was meaningless to her. He didn't even understand that the world of spiritual power was not a place where those official rules and social rules could come into play. She was too lazy to pay attention to such an idiot who was obviously blinded by power and liked to show off his power.

"Alas, compared to this, what else is this great god going to do? The big men in Tokyo are probably starting to panic now, after all, the other party has no intention of negotiating."

Inudo Ranko slowly stood up and opened the last can of beer on the table. She wanted to drink while she could and didn't care about the man's frightened situation.

Of course, the truth was just as Inudo Ranko had expected. The spiritual power test that Uesugi Sumire conducted using a fake body was not concealed at all. The power that erupted at that moment put almost all the related families and characters into a state of emergency. This noble and beautiful "princess" was not here to ask for or provoke. She was simply killing. They didn't even know the reason, nor did they know how to negotiate. They could only watch someone of the same class as themselves disappear in the flames like an ant. There was no doubt that this was an unacceptable nightmare for them.

Order after order was issued in the dark. Even if there was only a slight possibility, they still hoped to have a dialogue. As long as they could have a dialogue, they were confident that they could meet all the other party's conditions. As long as there was something to talk about, they could do something.

But unfortunately, when they were searching for the source of spiritual power, the fake body of Uesugi Sumiya, he was reading books in the Silent Bookstore.

"I'd better put "The Wound of Wounds" aside for now. I am proficient in Night Soul Language, but I still don't understand the contents of this book well enough... Did the colonel deliberately allow such a book to be leaked?"

Uesugi Cheng silently looked at the book 'woven' with metal wire. His current ability was still not enough to grasp the contents of the book, so he now turned his attention to another book.

"'Seven Steps to Kill the Seven Pans', the old man really tried hard to beautify himself."

The battle between the colonel and Qi Pan was earth-shaking. No matter how you describe it, it would definitely not be associated with the word "easy". However, in this book which was like a poem, the colonel destroyed one aspect of Qi Pan in every section. Uesugi Cheng could only say that the old man was shameless and was truly invincible.

[Seven Steps to Kill the Seven Pans]: Records the destruction of an ancient god of stone. (Reading requirements: 16 blades, Fuchino language)

【武力之敕令Lv.9】（9刃）＋【禁断的史诗】（6刃）＋【刚毅】（1刃）=16刃。

After returning from Budapest, Uesugi Cheng officially gave up the last bit of respect for the colonel and called him an old bastard or an old thing without caring. Of course, he knew that the colonel would not care about such things, otherwise he would have been dragged out and beheaded by the colonel when he was consul, and would not have been able to die of old age.

"But teaching them the [Law of Scars] is just right. It just depends on whether they are willing to accept having a few more scars on their bodies."

Uesugi Cheng himself did not really need the great art of Scar Discipline to increase his combat effectiveness. He had already practiced these training techniques under the guidance of the colonel. However, his assistants would definitely need these methods, so he had to prepare teaching materials for them to move to higher levels as much as possible.

"But if it's Yukinoshita, she will choose [Law of the Hammer and Anvil]... Well, it's a bit puzzling. I'm starting to feel that my soul essence is not enough. Without soul essence, I can't do four or five things at once."

On the canvas in front of Uesugi Cheng, there is a hunter who is so old that he almost looks decayed. He is holding a simple weapon in his hand and facing a huge monster that seems to be able to devour the entire world. Uesugi Cheng has never seen Qi Pan, but that doesn't mean he can't rely on his imagination to paint.

"Forget it, I'd better take this painting to the real world to paint it, lest that old man thinks there's a chance I might go back and cause trouble for me."

Uesugi Sumire covered the half-finished painting with a thick cloth, and immediately moved it to his own home in the real world, which naturally made Yukinoshita Yukino a little curious.

"what is this?"

"I don't recommend you to look at unfinished paintings."

Uesugi Sumiya said this and threw the painting into his studio.

450

Chapter 450: Final Assembly

Yukinoshita Yukino is different from Hikigaya Hachiman. She can control her curiosity very well. She will not force herself to understand or investigate something she does not understand. Of course, many people will say that she is too conservative, but to be honest, no one can explain this kind of thing clearly.

"I see, are there any paintings I can see?"

Yukinoshita Yukino asked this question. She was looking at the paintings hanging in Uesugi Sumiya's house. There was no doubt that these paintings used some techniques that she had never seen before and could not understand. This technique that could make people feel as if they were in the scene, probably no one except Uesugi Sumiya could do it.

"Not now. I haven't finished many of my paintings, or I'm not satisfied with them and plan to start over. Of course, the ones hanging outside are already paintings that can be displayed for viewing."

Yukinoshita Yukino nodded. Since Uesugi Sumire really didn't want others to see it, she stopped asking questions and turned the topic to another thing she cared about.

"Do you have any clues about the bloody footprints that appeared at my doorstep?"

Apart from going to school, Yukinoshita Yukino has not done anything else these past two days. On the one hand, it is because she is now staying at Uesugi Sumire's house. If she is discovered, there will definitely be a lot of trouble, so she has cut down on all outside activities unless necessary. On the other hand, this is also a kind of protection for herself. God knows whether the other party is targeting the house or Yukinoshita Yukino inside the house. In any case, she is actually in danger now.

"Probably not. God knows what happened to that thing. I can only be sure that it is not dead and is still waiting for an opportunity somewhere. Of course, it may have changed its target a long time ago. In any case, the danger always exists, and the investigation into the deceased seems to have reached a certain bottleneck."

Uesugi Cheng put the painting into the studio and locked the door. Otherwise, some inexplicable noises might come out of the studio, which might scare the residents in his home.

"What happened? Is there anything special about the identity of the deceased?"

"Yeah, can you imagine an unemployed person with no friends and no family background living in an apartment that is totally incompatible with his income level? He even paid a whole year's rent in advance, which is not a small amount, right?"

Yukinoshita Yukino nodded. Although as a young lady she lacked sufficient understanding of many things, to be honest, she still had some knowledge of the rent of the house she lived in now, even if the money was paid by Yukinoshita's family.

"I got to know the police a little bit. The deceased had no relatives, no friends, no job, and there was no sign of any money being transferred in or out of his bank card. It's hard to imagine that such a person could live in such a high-end apartment. What's even harder to imagine is that a year ago, he was almost arrested for theft."

Yukinoshita Yukino was thinking, the sense of incongruity was too strong. It was indeed unlikely that such a person would live in such an environment. What puzzled her even more was why such a thing happened?

"Of course, the police now believe that the deceased was probably doing some side job before his death, which is probably not allowed by law, so he was able to make so much money in a short period of time, and his methods were extremely covert. They now suspect that this person has something to do with drugs."

Yukinoshita Yukino's face suddenly became serious. Although Uesugi Sumika did not say what the medicine was, she felt that she had probably guessed what it was because of the tone he used.

"Of course, these things are all being investigated by the police. This kind of case cannot be closed as a suicide, so they are working hard to investigate this aspect. After all, it may involve drugs, so they are quite motivated."

Uesugi Sumire briefly explained the current situation. The only breakthrough at present is the deceased. Although the deceased's death was a bit miserable, at least the body was preserved intact, and there was still a lot of information on it waiting to be discovered. Moreover, according to Inudo Ranko's hint, a department related to supernatural phenomena that belongs to a higher-level figure seems to have taken over this incident. In order to achieve some results, they will definitely invest resources at all costs, so there is no need to worry that the police will terminate the investigation.

"So I have to stay a few more days, right?"

It was hard to tell what was coming out of Yukinoshita Yukino's tone. To be honest, she had managed to hide it from her sister these past few days, but if she stayed for a few more days, it might not be so easy to fool her. However, living in Uesugi Sumire's house did give her a strange sense of security and comfort. Even in the guest room, her sleep quality improved a lot.

"There's nothing much to say about this. I don't think they are targeting you. After all, an ordinary high school student is not worth being targeted, right?"

"Forget it, I'd better stay a few more days. I still have some ways to fool Yang Nai."

Yukinoshita Yukino didn't even mention her family members other than Haruno. After all, apart from Haruno, most people really wouldn't care where she, the second young lady, lived.

"That's it, don't just sit here and get those things done first."

The expression that Yukinoshita Yukino looked at Uesugi Sumire now was no different from the expression she looked at a black-hearted contractor, but she still obediently began to prepare the materials according to Uesugi Sumire's requirements.

……

"Tsk, the materials and parts for the Ys Bell are basically in place. I have an assistant whose speed is different, but the assembly of this thing has become a problem again."

Uesugi Cheng looked at the Ys Bell which had already taken shape. As long as the Ys Bell was successfully completed and could function normally, he would be able to mass-produce these things soon. When more than a dozen bells rang at the same time, he didn't think there would be any enemy that would not be affected.

Although he was still a little puzzled as to why the Daytime Forge was so laissez-faire about his forging of the Ys Bell, this was not the time to think about such things.

"The next step is the most important part... All the materials are ready, I can't let it go at the last step."

Uesugi Cheng took a deep breath, picked up the parts on the table, and began the final "assembly".

451

Chapter 451: Flying Boat

Ruo Ye Mu came to the flower bed again. The cucumber seedlings were growing vigorously. She reached into her pocket and touched the candy that was still unpacked. She understood a little bit that this kind of cheap candy would never appear in the eyes of young ladies like them in the past.

"Today... he didn't show up either."

Ruoye Mu's hand brushed over the tarot cards in her pocket. For a reason that even she couldn't explain, she didn't even tell Xiangzi what had happened to her.

"Sure enough, let's go back today..."

If there is no way to meet the mysterious "Puresis", Ruoye Mu will probably have to go back and immerse himself in his only hobby, which is practicing guitar.

"Mu! Do you want to form a band?"

Ruoye Mu was stunned for a moment. In fact, she had never thought about this matter. After all, the image of Ruoye's daughter in the outside world, and even in the hearts of her parents, was that she had never been exposed to music.

But Toyokawa Shoko's eyes seemed to have magic. If Ye Mu couldn't find any reason to refuse when she was staring at her, maybe she could find more friends in the new band, she said to herself.

"Great!! Next up is the last member. If she agrees, then our band will be officially formed!"

It turns out that we haven't even found all the members yet. Ruo Yemu thought so, she didn't say this. After all, Xiangzi looked very happy, and she also remembered what her new friend said. If she was really hesitant about whether she should say this, it would be better not to say it.

"In that case!! I'll go find that classmate first!! Maybe we can start practicing in a couple of days."

Shoko Toyokawa couldn't suppress her excitement, and she took a step of her own.

However, Wakaba Mu just looked at Xiangzi's back and nodded without saying a word.

"What's wrong? Is there anything you're confused about or afraid of about the band?"

Wakaba Mu's eyes suddenly widened, and she turned back suddenly, but was touched on the forehead by a finger, and then the mysterious "Pureses" held her hand.

"What's wrong? Is the candy I gave you not tasty? It has a very short shelf life. If you really don't want to eat it, don't keep it with you. If you don't notice it's spoiled, you'll get a stomachache if you eat it."