You say this is a love game?

Mizutani Makoto nodded gently: "It's over."

At this moment, Akiyuki Nishida suddenly realized that this voice was too young.

Akiyuki Nishida is actually quite tall.

This man is tall and thin, and looks to be about 1.8 meters tall. Mizutani Makoto is only 16 years old this year, and Miyamizu Inaba is only 15 years old in physical form. These two are just about to enter adolescence, a period of rapid growth, and their bodies have not yet fully developed. One has just touched the edge of 1.7 meters, and the other is still hovering around 1.5 meters. They are really much shorter than Nishida Akiyuki.

But Akiyuki Nishida didn't dare to look down at the two of them. Instead, he stood away from them sensibly, at least not getting close to their faces.

Standing far away and watching the two people, Akiyuki Nishida was even more surprised - judging from the figures of these two people, they did look like young boys and girls, but have you ever seen any young boy or girl at this age so powerful?

If he was not mistaken, the bird demon of unknown origin at the end was probably the one who got promoted!

Were they killed?!

From which corner did this monster emerge?

"That doesn't make sense. I don't have any impression of that..."

How could such a talented young man come out of this small country place?

But as Mizutani Makoto's gaze fell on him, Nishida Akiyuki immediately lowered his voice and showed a serious expression.

"What are your orders?"

Mizutani Makoto saw the man's intention to please him.

But the problem is, he actually has no idea where this person came from...

Fortunately, Matsushita Kei stood on the same side with this man, and he could learn more about this man from Matsushita Kei afterwards... But that was a matter for the future. In the current situation, he had killed a large number of people after all. It would be great if someone was willing to clean up the mess for him.

If this is the case, the first thing to do is to put aside the identity of a "high school student".

Regardless of whether the other party noticed it or not, this should not be made public. Otherwise, when it comes to high school students, it is too clear, which makes it easy for people to look down on you and fool you.

Just pretend for now and keep the setting of "mysterious master".

Mizutani Makoto pondered for a moment, and an idea popped into his mind, but after thinking for a while, he shook his head:

"Forget it, just help clean up here."

He originally wanted to let Akiyuki Nishida handle the "vengeful crow" incident, but after thinking about it... this guy is too weak.

In Mizutani Makoto's spiritual vision, this guy's spiritual power is roughly in the Paper Rank range. Most of the vengeful crows were killed by him in battle. Most of those who are still alive are at the lower Paper Rank, and a few of them have the strength of the middle Paper Rank. It's nothing to him, but for Nishida Akiyuki... he is a little disgusted that this guy will fail.

Makoto Mizutani did not stay and soon left the sanatorium.

Under the dim sky, eight crows flew away into the distance, greeting the gradually brightening morning light outside.

……

……

dusk.

As the sun sets, the sky is dyed with an orange glow.

Koizumi Erika was walking home briskly, her briefcase in hand. As an elementary school teacher, her working hours were typical of a nine-to-five schedule. Compared to some other industries where workers work late into the night, she was quite fortunate in many ways.

But today, she always felt a little uneasy.

The wind blew through the treetops, and the shadows of crows swept across the street, casting mottled shadows.

Koizumi Eri looked up at the sky and murmured to herself: "Why does it feel a bit gloomy..."

Just as she was crossing an alley, a young but slightly hoarse girl's voice came from behind her.

"Sister, sister?"

Koizumi Erika was stunned, stopped and looked back.

It's a little girl.

She was wearing a tattered white dress, standing barefoot on the ground, her hair hanging messily on both sides of her cheeks, and her face was pale to a frightening degree.

It was as if she had just escaped from a place of violence, or perhaps something even more tragic... Koizumi Erika's heart suddenly tightened, and the girl's pitiful voice made her move forward almost instinctively.

As an elementary school teacher, she couldn't just sit back and watch such a poor child.

"Are you calling me?"

"Um, sis...can you help me?"

The girl spoke in a very soft voice, but with an indescribable pleading tone.

Koizumi Eri approached, squatted down, looked straight into the girl's eyes, and said softly:

"My name is Koizumi Erika."

"I work as a teacher at a nearby primary school. I'm not a bad person."

"Are you having a problem? If you can't solve it, you can talk to an adult like me... I'll help you."

Hearing this, the girl smiled.

She nodded vigorously: "Thank you, sister."

After saying that, the girl walked towards Koizumi Eri, stretched out her hand to her, and whispered: "But I'm really hungry, sister..."

Hungry?

Didn’t you eat enough?

The thought flashed through Koizumi Eri's mind, but suddenly she heard a series of shrill screams.

“Ga! Ga ga ga!!”

There were four crows circling above her head, making shrill cries.

The cries of the crows seemed to have magic, penetrating into her mind.

Eri Koizumi covered her ears and soon felt the scenery around her become blurred. The streets, trees, street lights, everything was changing, overlapping and distorted like an illusion.

The girl's figure gradually faded from her sight until it completely disappeared.

It was as if a crow with blood-red feathers suddenly flew up from where the girl had been standing, accompanied by an angry cry.

Its wings flapped the air, and with resentment and anger, it soared into the sky.

A blue-purple lightning suddenly exploded!

Soul +66

Eri Koizumi can't remember what happened afterwards.

The woman fell to the ground in a daze until a kind young man helped her up.

That was a very good-looking boy.

Erika Koizumi slowly opened her eyes and felt her head was dizzy, as if she had been hit by a club.

She barely managed to stand with the help of the young man, holding her forehead with one hand, while trying to recall what had just happened.

"Did I faint?"

Her voice was a little weak, and she looked at the handsome and gentle boy in front of her with a dazed look in her eyes.

Mizutani Makoto stood beside her, holding her arm with one hand, and slowly let go after making sure she could stand steadily.

He nodded, his tone calm: "Just now when I passed by, I saw you lying on the side of the road, mumbling something..."

"Maybe you're too tired? Fainting on the side of the road is really dangerous. You should pay more attention to rest."

With his [innocent heart], Mizutani Makoto's words are still very credible.

But Koizumi Erika obviously hadn't forgotten everything. She frowned and muttered to herself: "Where is that child?"

Mizutani Makoto glanced at her and said, "I didn't see any children when I came here. Are you hallucinating?"

What he said was of course a lie.

The "little girl" just now was already a resentful ghost, a fish that escaped the net of the crow's vengeful spirit.

She is indeed one of the children who were victimized by the cult, but now she is also a different kind of abuser.

She had no hope of escape.

Now the vengeful spirit is wandering in the world, craving the essence of the living and hating their lives... If Mizutani Makoto hadn't acted in time and chopped the thing into pieces with one knife, I'm afraid that Koizumi Eri would not just faint now.

If she doesn't become a Buddha, all Mizutani Makoto can do now is help her "become a Buddha".

Koizumi Erika was stunned when she heard this, but she didn't ask any further questions.

She just sighed and whispered: "I don't think I can help that child."

Mizutani Makoto didn't correct her, but simply said, "Maybe she has received the help she needs most."

The teacher blinked, obviously surprised, and then said, "Thank you, I hope so."

Mizutani Makoto didn't say anything else.

He silently watched the female teacher pack her briefcase, thank him and continue walking towards home.

An ordinary back view, an ordinary person’s daily life.

"Is it all over?"

Makoto Mizutani stood at the end of the street at dusk, looking at the last rays of sunset in the sky.

Four crows fell from the sky, flapping their wings in the air. The bravest one landed on his right shoulder, while the other three timidly perched on the treetops nearby. Their blood-red feathers finally seemed soft in the setting sun.

Mizutani Makoto slowly raised his hand and stroked the crow feather on his shoulder.

This is the final conclusion of this incident.

The vengeful crows can be regarded as the minions created by the Guhuo bird.

Souls with lighter obsessions will lose themselves in the distortion and transform into inferior minions with confused minds, while souls with heavier obsessions will turn into vengeful crows in hatred, and continue to hunt and grow under the command of the Guhuo Bird.

The vengeful crows can be counted as separate individuals. Mizutani Makoto looked through the battle diary and found many hints of [Soul +39] and [Soul +61]. Most of those souls fluctuated within 100, and they were obviously the souls of the crows.

When Guhuo Bird died, the inferior minions she created were also killed, but those individual vengeful crows would not disappear. Instead, they spread like a virus the moment she died. In addition to the eight crows he was concerned about now, there were more than ten crows scattered throughout the Night Light City.

There's no way these crows can be left alone.

After the death of the Guhuo Bird, they fled in a hurry and did not participate in the final revenge trial. Now they are full of resentment and will definitely harm the innocent citizens of Night Light City.

Mizutani Makoto has defeated the BOSS, so he definitely won't leave these soldiers alone... Don't look at them as just small paper-level creatures, but for ordinary people, being targeted by them basically means death.

So, Mizutani Makoto took a leave of absence.

After his reminder, "Miyazu Inaba" picked up the phone with a dumb smile and asked for leave as well. Then the two of them split up into two groups, each leading four surrendered vengeful crows, and wandered around this huge city.

These surrendered crows are simply traitors among crows. Not only will they fly into the air to help the two patrol and search for enemies, they will even pretend to be "accomplices" and use their calls to attract the fleeing vengeful crows, and directly trick their old teammates over to kill them. This greatly improves the efficiency of Mizutani Makoto and Shuten Doji in killing monsters.

Shuten is actually quite boring.

With her casual personality, she was naturally too lazy to do these things, and she didn't have any meaningless thoughts like "protecting humanity" in her mind at all.

She is a ghost, and the king of ghosts.

But Miyamizu Inaba woke up the moment she stepped out of the sanatorium. Now Shuten has strict control over her body. In her current condition, she can probably keep it for a day or two. So even if Miyamizu Inaba wakes up, she can only stare blankly, staring at Shuten, and urging her to work quickly.

Either surrender your body or work... In order to live in harmony with the little rabbit in the future, and to avoid revealing any flaws in front of Mizutani Makoto, the lazy dog ​​Shuten was pushed away. He ran around helplessly for the whole day and didn't even get a drink.

She did eat some of the vengeful crow, but it was too weak and had almost no effect. In the end, the main effect went to the Guhuo Bird.

Regret.

What a pity.

But Shuten was not a narrow-minded person. Now that she had helped Mizutani Makoto complete the final small task, she gently patted the crow's feathers and led the four crows to meet up with Mizutani Makoto.

"So, Senior, let's have a celebration party~!"

Shuten sat on the bench, stretching lazily, not caring that Mizutani Makoto was right in front of him.

What is a "celebration banquet"?

Mizutani Makoto couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

The topic changed so quickly that his train of thought couldn't keep up.

He calmed down and said, "Now we still have to deal with these eight crows."

"Well, senior, you can rest assured."

"Their resentment has dissipated now. If they wanted to reincarnate, they would have done so. They're still in the human world now, most likely because they have something else they want to do... But there's no need to rush. They're undergoing a transformation. It might take a night at the fastest, or two or three days at the slowest. Once they've shed this filthy body, we can discuss their future plans with them."