As a traitor, I should raise the banner of rebellion

And Morikami Nozomi's reaction seemed a little strange——

"Ah? Well, of course, you're more than welcome!"

Her smile was a little forced.

……

……

"Wow, look, there's a deer here."

In a desolate and empty pasture, the joyful shouts of Kujo Rin were heard.

To call this a ranch is actually a bit of an exaggeration.

Due to lack of care, this place is overgrown with weeds. All kinds of plants that can be described and cannot be described are growing wildly and savagely here, and you can even see wild animals roaming around.

For example, the deer in front of Kujo Rin.

This is a very cute little deer with beautiful spots on its back. Its big black eyes move around smartly, revealing an extremely outstanding spirituality.

There are so many deer in Sakurajima that regular hunting is even required in some places to control their numbers.

But judging by the fact that the deer was not afraid of strangers at all, it had clearly not come to that point yet.

"I'm sorry, little deer, I didn't bring any deer biscuits today." Kujo Rin gently touched the head of the little deer in front of her with her little hand, and said in a slightly apologetic tone, "Maybe I can't feed you."

As if it understood what Kujo Rin said, the little deer stuck out its tongue and licked the palm of Miss Kujo's hand, as if to say "It's okay".

Kujo Rin seems to have a natural affinity for animals, not just the docile deer. Just now, Yuanhui also saw a few beautiful birds flying down from the sky and landing directly on Kujo Rin's shoulders, chirping and singing songs.

Not only that, she was wearing lace socks, with a pair of round and white calves exposed. For the mosquitoes breeding in the grass, this was undoubtedly a delicious meal in front of them.

But even though they had been walking on the grassland for such a long time, their legs were still as flawless as white jade, and they had not been attacked at all...

This is obviously not a normal phenomenon.

Thinking of the pair of dog ears that had appeared on Miss Kujo Rin's head before, Yuanhui seemed to understand something.

Kujo Rin's bodyguards did not follow her, as if they did not want to disturb the young lady's fun. They stopped at the border of Okada Ranch, leaving this large space to Kujo Rin, Genki and Morikami Nozomi.

"Lulu, let me introduce him to you." Leading the little deer to Genki and Morikami, Kujo Rin introduced him to the little deer in a serious manner, "His name is Genki. What do you think? Isn't he handsome?"

The little deer looked at Yuanhui with its black eyes and said "yo yo" very cooperatively.

"You have good taste, Lulu. But besides being handsome, he is also a very cool boy." Kujo Rin touched Lu's ear as a reward, and at the same time secretly glanced at Yuanhui.

"But it doesn't matter. I will definitely make him be my friend willingly."

Yuanhui: ...

Kujo Rin brought Xiaolu to Morikami again and gave her a very sweet smile: "By the way, I seem to have forgotten to ask, who are you?"

"Mori no Ki." Mori no Ki said his name, and then immediately added, "I am a supporter of Gen-kun."

"Supporter?" Kujo Rin was slightly stunned. She looked Morikami Nozomi up and down, as if she wanted to say something.

But in the end, Kujo Rin still held back.

"The deer's head is actually very comfortable to touch, Morikami, do you want to touch it too?"

That was all she said at last.

……

"By the way, Gen-kun, why are you here at this time?" After bidding farewell to Xiaolu reluctantly, Kujo Rin seemed to have just remembered something important and asked Genhui.

Yuan Hui did not hide his purpose, "I heard that this is where the [Shedding Man] appeared, so I came here to see if there are any clues left behind."

"Shedding skin person?" After hearing this term, Kujo Rin was obviously stunned for a moment, and then he immediately reacted -

"Ah, I see. You are talking about the monster called [Metamorphosis], right?"

Metamorphosis...disaster?

Is this the official name for [Shedding Man]?

36. Man-Made Weirdness

"In fact, when I learned that your target was Okada Ranch, I had such a hunch, but I didn't expect that your target was really it."

Using his fingers to gently tuck a strand of hair behind his ear, Kujo Rin's expression became serious for the first time.

"I think you must have heard that [Transfiguration] has the magical power to bring people back to life, so you came here, right?"

Yuan Hui nodded, "Indeed, could it be that it doesn't actually have such ability?"

The story of "The Shedding Man" originally lacks an ending. Although from the first half, it seems that Yuichi Okada did come back from the dead, this may just be a superficial appearance.

The one who survived might just be a 'monster who thought he was Yuichi Okada'.

Or maybe this resurrection is just a flash in the pan, and after a period of time, Okada Yuichi will automatically die...

These are things that have a high probability of happening.

Just think about it and you will know how unreliable the idea is to get a "second life" at the cost of "becoming younger".

"No, [Shedding Disaster] does have this ability." Kujo Rin shook his head. "As long as you can contain it with your soul, you will automatically gain the ability to [shed your skin to be reborn]. It has almost no lethality, and the toxicity of the death energy is tightly wrapped in a layer of 'skin', so it cannot leak out."

"This structure means that even if the binding fails due to incompatibility, it will not die on the spot like binding other monsters."

Listening to Kujo Rin's story, Yuanhui's expression not only did not become relaxed, but gradually became solemn.

[Metamorphosis] This anomaly has too many unreasonable aspects, even a little unreasonable.

This is just, just like...

"It's just as if the purpose of the appearance of this monster [Metamorphosis] is actually to bind people so that the ability of 'resurrection' can be given to them." Morikami Nozomi on the side expressed what Yuanhui was thinking.

After hearing this, Kujo Rin looked deeply at Morikami Nozomi——

"You're right."

"[Transfiguration Disaster] was created for this purpose."

"Manufacture?" Morikami Xi couldn't help but open his mouth wide, "But, don't monsters come out from underground? Because only underground can there be such a high concentration of death energy..."

Her voice became smaller and smaller, and it was obvious that Morikami Nozomi had finally discovered the clue.

"The conditions for the birth of monsters never include [underground]. It's just that the dead energy is affected by gravity, which causes monsters to be born underground."

As she spoke, Kujo Rin stretched out her lotus feet and gently stomped the ground beneath her feet.

"So, if we can find a way to create a dead space with super-high density, can we create something weird out of it?"

For some reason, Kujo Rin's expression at this moment was slightly sarcastic.

And deep sorrow.

"But, aren't monsters the enemy of all living things?" Morikami felt a chill down his spine, and his words became a little halting. "Isn't this behavior artificially creating a killer?"

"Morikami, you are still a little too naive and think too highly of others." Kujo Rin sighed slightly, "Weirdness is not just about murder."

“It may also give humans special abilities, power, wealth, health, youthfulness, and even eternal life.”

"If you take this into consideration, does this behavior seem a little less incomprehensible?"

That’s right, for humans, weird nature is a natural enemy and the biggest threat to human survival.

But they are also gifts from God.

As long as humans can create, utilize, and enslave monsters, they will be able to do many things that are only possible in the most absurd fantasies, such as...

Resurrection from the dead.

"[Metamorphosis] is just such a man-made anomaly."

"Since you know the story of the Shedding Man, you should also know what the ruins looked like when the man named Okada Yuichi discovered the Shedding Disaster."

At this moment, Yuanhui and Morikami thought of the report in the article at the same time -

The soil layer of the big pit shows very obvious and extremely twisted layered marks, and its shape is very much like a human cross-section, stacked on top of each other like Russian dolls, and in the center is the remains of a toddler.

"This is the work of the ancients. It is in this way that they artificially created a very dense dead space to give rise to weirdness."

"Those soil layers are not simple soil layers. They are endowed with the concept of [isolating energy]."

"And the remains of the child played a role similar to that of a condensation nucleus, which was also the method used by ancient people to influence strange abilities."

In a pure atmosphere, water vapor must reach a supersaturation of several hundred percent before it can condense into water droplets and change from gas to liquid.

But if the atmosphere is not pure and condensation nuclei exist, the supersaturation required for water vapor condensation will be significantly reduced.

The principle by which ancient people created strange things is actually very similar to this situation.

"[Metamorphosis] is a man-made monster created in this way, so it has various characteristics that are very different from [Original Monster]."

"It seems that the ancients wanted to create a strange thing that could extend lifespan as much as possible. To this end, they cunningly used the condition of 'becoming younger' as the price of 'resurrection from the dead'..."

“They actually succeeded.”

Those who have bound the [Transformation Disaster] are almost the same as immortals. They can even commit suicide to keep themselves young forever...

"But this is not the kind of eternal life they think of, right? Otherwise, they wouldn't use the word "disaster" to describe it."

In the anime of Genki's previous life, there was a very famous universal wishing machine (the Holy Grail) that could fulfill any wish, but due to some accidents, this wishing machine was contaminated by human malice.

Although wishes made to this wishing machine will be fulfilled, they will be done in an extremely twisted and malicious way.

Weirdness is the crystallization of despair and terror.

If you want to rely on strange things to fulfill your wishes, it is actually no different from making a wish to the contaminated Holy Grail.

What is achieved is definitely not the result that the wisher hoped for.

"Yes, [Transfiguration] can indeed make people immortal, but at the same time, they will also be entangled in the deepest misfortune."

"This is not just 'bad luck'. Any small thing in daily life can develop into a death trap that can endanger life."

"This is the killing rule of [Transfiguration]."

Unlike ordinary monsters, [Metamorphosis] is almost harmless to ordinary people.

The object it is targeting is its 'master'.

"What's worse is that this kind of death trap is not something you can just taste once and forget about."

"After you die once, the power of [Transfiguration] will revive you so that you can enjoy the next death to your heart's content."

"It will continue to reduce your age until it is reduced to 1 year old, and then the torture will stop."

"And after a year, when you are two years old, all the disasters will come back and kill you again, turning you back to one year old."

"You will become a weirdo with a lucid mind but a body that is always one year old, waiting for your birthday with fear and anxiety."

"Until you can no longer endure this kind of torture and your soul collapses in endless despair and pain, it will taste the escaping deathly air and quietly wait for the next fool who desires eternal life to come to its door."

"This is the forbidden man-made monster," Kujo Rin paused for a moment, then spoke the name with a slightly fearful tone -

"[Disaster Transformation]."

37. Retreat for now!

Yuan Hui had actually long imagined that the ability to resurrect from the dead would have great disadvantages, but the true appearance of [Metamorphosis] still far exceeded his worst assumptions.

Is it a monster that doesn't target anyone else but just wants to torture its owner?

Considering the man-made monster identity of [Metamorphosis], it is no surprise that it is so special.

Although both will produce death energy, the amount of death energy produced will naturally be very different when one dies peacefully and contentedly and when one perishes unwillingly in cruel and painful torture.

In order to squeeze as much dead air from the soul as possible, the methods used by the creators of the monsters may be much more evil than the most terrifying nightmares of most people.

Thinking of the remains of the child, Yuanhui couldn't help feeling a little depressed.

This is not being soft-hearted, it's just human empathy.

"Has the [Metamorphosis Disaster] been eradicated now?" After calming down a little, Yuanhui asked Kujo Rin, who was also in a low mood.

So far, Yuanhui has buried two weirdnesses - [Lika Doll's Ghost Phone] and [Good Neighbor].

The former is considered to be taking something without asking, while the latter is to take the bait willingly.

But no matter what, these two have come into the official sight and have been registered as anomalies in the official book.