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Along with it rang out Xue No's cold voice, as cold as ice and snow: "You owe this debt yourself, so you can handle it yourself!"

It’s Wu Garuda.

Xia Yan wiped his cold sweat secretly with a bit of embarrassment. He could say that not only them, but also those who had obtained the Kenwon Fatal Tournament and had enough basic strength to become reincarnations, as well as other original reincarnations, had been arranged with reincarnation tasks by him one after another.

And is Garuda just an ordinary member among them?

Well, Xia Yan finally managed to calm down the agitated Garuda and Xue Noi, and then he hung up the phone exhausted. Then...

"You've been pretending to be asleep for so long, it's about time you get up."

Xia Yan looked at the beautiful figure lying quietly on the tatami next to him with a headache, like a sleeping beauty. It seemed that the "problem" here was about to begin. "Shinomiya-san."

Hearing this, Shinomiya Kaguya opened her eyes indifferently without any hope of luck, then opened her red lips slightly, stared at Xia Yan and said, "Kidnapping?"

"Oh, that's right. After all, just listening to our conversation just now is not enough to convince people. In that case..."

Xia Yan suddenly snapped his fingers, and immediately a ping-pong ball-sized mental energy wave that could be seen with the naked eye floated towards Shinomiya Kaguya.

Kaguya Shinomiya frowned and touched the ball of light with her white and tender fingertips. There was a slight "pop" sound, and a slight tingling sensation rushed to Kaguya's fingertips.

Afterwards, there was naturally no need to be unwilling to admit the reality. The excellent Kaguya Shinomiya still maintained a little doubt in her heart, but she also listened quietly to what Xia Yan said about the rules of the Lord God.

And Kaguya herself also imitated Xia Yan before, slightly opening the shoji door, revealing only one red eye, and carefully looking at the scenery outside, as well as the Hanakaiin Onmyojis wearing kimonos or hunting robes.

"Speaking of which..."

After roughly explaining the rules of the Lord God, Xia Yan changed the subject and calmly asked what he really wanted to ask: "Mr. Shigong, have you ever encountered anything strange before?"

After all... Kaguya Shinomiya is not on the list of reincarnations he wants to invite.

She is undoubtedly another "Yukinoshita Yukino".

After thinking for a moment, Shinomiya Kaguya decided to tell her that she had vaguely seen that "Himeko".

Naturally, she had some doubts about the extremely realistic dream she had about Fei Jizi before coming here.

She even began to wonder whether she was chosen to come to this world because of this dream of Fei Jizi?

The existence of a threat to her life was not something she needed to keep secret.

"In that previous ghost story game, the blood pool and the Princess card you designed are actually very similar to the vague underwater figure I saw when I was rescuing someone underwater. However, I thought it was just an illusion caused by the pressure of death, and..."

Shinomiya Kaguya looked at Xia Yan in front of her seriously, "For the past six months, I've actually been having nightmares about being dragged into the blood pool by Princess Jizi!"

"..."

Xia Yan's eyebrows jumped. Although he had no evidence, he felt, like Kaguya Shinomiya, that this was why she was automatically pulled into the world of reincarnation, and...

I always feel like he is also to blame for this?

As for the more specific cause, process and outcome of the incident, we may have to wait until they return to reality.

"Wow!"

Xia Yan tapped the table thoughtfully, and then at this moment, the shoji door of the room was suddenly opened.

Immediately, a figure in hunting clothes appeared, kneeling down and bowing his head respectfully, saying, "Master Xia Yan, someone is looking for you. Master Xiu Yuan will hold a meeting in an hour. Please be sure to be there on time!"

……

……

Let’s go back a few minutes.

"Whoo~"

After changing into the black kimono that was more common among the members of the Hanakaiin family, Hikigaya followed the instructions of his "immediate superior" Aojizo and moved away from the luxurious mansion behind him that was full of man-eating monsters and a group of bigwigs.

After many twists and turns, he finally arrived at the sphere of influence of the Onmyoji Hanakaiin family, and his tense mentality finally relaxed completely.

However, at this moment, the gun of his parasitic beast did not give him any time to rest. In an instant, eyes and a mouth appeared on his right arm again, continuing the situation that he had just arrived in this reincarnation world and was disturbed by "humans" and had no time to report to him.

"Although it's a little difficult to say, we have something important to tell you."

"what's up?"

Hearing Hikigaya's casual response, Parasyte Gunyou's voice was unusually serious and earnest, a tone he had never displayed before, even when surrounded by a large number of terrifying bosses. "Hikigaya, in the real world we lived in before, Zuo and I were actually always in a state of being "dominated" by others!"

"……What did you say?!"

Hikigaya's steps suddenly stopped. For a moment he couldn't understand, or rather, he didn't want to believe what Qiangyou said. After he was sure that this fact was unavoidable, a chill swept over Hikigaya's body as if he had realized it belatedly.

His parasitic beast has always been controlled by someone in real life?!

who is it?

"Could it be..."

"Yes, that's the one!"

Qiangyou confirmed the image that almost instinctively appeared in Hikigaya's mind: a mature woman with droopy eyes and a somewhat fierce look.

"She seems to call herself [Tamiya Yoshiko], right? My kind has truly evolved to a level that's hard for us to understand."

Qian You's voice was filled with deep emotion: "From the moment you brought us back to reality, Zuo and I have been dominated by her. We have been trying to find a way to inform you of this, but we never found the opportunity."

"Until now, after we came to this other world, we were separated from her by a world, and this domination was finally severed."

"..."

Hikigaya couldn't stop sweating all over, and he held his mouth as he recalled what happened when he and Parasyte returned to reality after Parasyte's reincarnation mission was completed.

Only then did he remember that from the very beginning, Qian You had shown that he was hesitant to talk to him, and this happened more than once!

But he didn't realize the deep meaning of it at all and just thought it was a normal situation!

His parasitic beasts accompanied him, and how many secrets did they hear? Everything they did and even said was controlled by them. Even their thoughts and intentions could be read by that Tamiya Yoshiko...

Just thinking about this situation made Hikigaya's body tremble uncontrollably.

"You don't have to worry too much about this."

Fortunately, Gunyou seemed to see through Hikigaya's thoughts and explained, "I can feel that her control over us is more reflected in the effect of silencing us."

"That means we can't reveal some crucial information. For example, when we first arrived in this world, we could already sense the presence of someone like Tamiya Yoshiko. But as soon as we tried to tell others or write about it, our parasitic cells would freeze, and we wouldn't be able to speak."

"But what we can be sure of is that she absolutely does not have that kind of mind-reading ability. She normally relies on our organs to quietly listen to the information you inadvertently reveal. I don't know whether to call this fortunate or unfortunate."

Qiang You's tone was a bit like a sigh, and he spoke with a complicated tone, "Because when you talk in real life, you have all developed the habit of never revealing the situation of the main divine space, and only using nicknames instead. As a result, you have never been deducted points by Him, and Tamiya Yoshiko has not stolen the information about the operating mechanism of the main divine space. This is a good thing."

"But on the other hand, if you were to have your points deducted by the Lord God, you would have had a chance to notice that Tamiya Yoshiko was eavesdropping."

"Etc., etc!"

Hikigaya quickly raised his hand to interrupt Qiangyou's words. Listening to Qiangyou's explanation, he also had a question about Tamiya Yoshiko. "If she can obtain our information through eavesdropping without anyone noticing, then why would she take the risk and reveal herself in front of us?"

"She's been hiding in the shadows. Isn't that better?"

"This is just as I said before."

Qiang You said as a matter of course: "My kind has evolved to an unimaginable level. This is not only about her strength and methods, but also her way of thinking. I am afraid it is beyond our comprehension."

"...Alas~"

Hikigaya was silent for a moment, then rubbed his forehead with a headache. "Anyway, let's quickly inform Xia Yan and the others about this matter. With a few more people consulting, we might be able to get a better answer."

"agree."

Chapter 171 Past Fate

"So what you mean is that you are not only an undercover agent sent by the Kyoto Youkai to our human Onmyoji camp."

"And you unexpectedly discovered that the Tamiya Yoshiko in the real world has been controlling your parasitic beast, causing her to eavesdrop on all our conversations and everything we hear and see since your last reincarnation mission?"

Listen to Hikigaya's visit as the Onmyoji of Ido Roryu and Xia Yan's "friend" in this world, and the "rare" information he tells him.

Even Xia Yan couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. The former was not so easy, as he could still peek at the screens of other reincarnated people in the reincarnation world, but he just couldn't keep an eye on them all the time.

But he had long known about the undercover mission Hikigaya was ordered to carry out, and as for the incident with Tamiya Yoshiko...

To be honest, even he didn't notice that Tamiya Yoshiko was eavesdropping on their actions in the real world.

Fortunately, the main god point deduction mechanism set by Xia Yan is achieved through the friend position. After special settings, as long as the system detects that a friend (reincarnator) mentions keywords such as "main god" and "reincarnation world" to other unrelated people, it will automatically deduct points from him.

Moreover, this kind of detection is not limited to verbal communication. Even if you write down things related to the Lord God or send them through the Internet, the system will automatically send a warning message or directly deduct points.

Xia Yan also personally tested this by posting online.

Therefore, there is no need to worry that Tamiya Yoshiko will steal the information of the Lord God without knowing it.

but……

"This is really troublesome, Tamiya Yoshiko."

Xia Yan frowned and sighed. Shen Wulong, Tamiya Yoshiko, and Iwanaga Kotoko, whose shadow has not yet been seen, are all variables formed by their exposure to a broader "stage" compared to the real ones.

He knew everything about this world, except for the big boss Yuyuko, who was quite powerful. For a moment, she seemed a little cute - although she was indeed very cute.

"Knock~knock~"

He created the technology to create the five-body parasitic beast, analyzed the parasitic beast itself, studied human nature and emotions, and clearly understood the horror of human war weapons. He even went to university to audit various courses...

Xia Yan tapped the table with his fingers, recalling Tamiya Yoshiko's various performances in the original Parasyte. For a moment, he couldn't help but feel a strong taboo towards this person.

The most troublesome part, as Hikigaya said, is that after this special experience of traveling to another world, no one can know:

"Tamiya Yoshiko, what are you thinking about? What is your purpose?"

Xia Yan looked a little dazed and muttered to himself.

……

……

"Humans are truly terrifying."

At the same time, in the real main world.

In a dimly lit room, there were several large LCD screens emitting a brilliant white light. Some of the content displayed on the screens was people delivering passionate speeches.

There were also the roaring sounds of naval guns and missiles, the strategic bombers dropping bombs incessantly, the wails of humanity amidst the flames of war, and even the gradual formation of the mushroom cloud of humanity's ultimate weapon: a nuclear explosion...

In front of the screen playing these videos was Tamiya Yoshiko, who realized that two of the parasitic beasts under her control had disappeared from reality.

"Don't you think so, Mr. Kamishiro?"

Tamiya Yoshiko sat there calmly, one hand clenched into a fist to support her expressionless face, while her right hand occasionally switched the videos on the screen. Then, without turning back, she turned to the Kamishiro Chaei who stood upright in a dark corner of the room and said indifferently:

"In order to kill their own kind more efficiently, humans have continuously developed these horrific weapons and have tirelessly launched war after war. From ancient times to the present day, from the era of cold weapons to the era of hot weapons, how many of their own kind have they slaughtered?"

"Tens of millions? Hundreds of millions? Billions? Compared to us so-called man-eating monsters, they seem more like the demons from their myths and legends."

Kamishiro Chaei stood in the corner, shirtless, arms folded, eyes closed, completely unmoved.

Although they had only known each other for a short time, he was absolutely certain that this Tamiya Yoshiko was not the type of person who would shamelessly excuse her and others' cannibalistic behavior with such sophistry.

What she really wanted to say was probably...

"Humans are truly terrifying."

Tamiya Yoshiko repeated it again, a sigh showing on her face for the first time. "It's so terrifying for a mere parasite like us. Even simply wanting to continue is a luxury!"

When did it start?

Oh yes, it seems that ever since Tamiya Yoshiko first clearly understood the "human" race, she has felt almost despair about the existence of her own race.

In terms of quantity, continuation method, development time, and technological strength, parasitic beasts are completely incomparable to humans!

Yes, if a parasitic beast wants to kill an ordinary human, it is as easy as killing a chicken.

But compared to the seven billion humans, compared to the torrent of steel, even if they put the entire parasitic beast tribe in, they probably wouldn't be able to create a single ripple on the whole called "humanity".

After all, the number of people eaten by these parasitic beasts may not be as many as the number of humans who die naturally every day.

Humans are so cruel even to their own kind, let alone these parasitic beasts?

From the very beginning, the only luxury these so-called cannibals had was to survive in the cracks of human society by disguise.

However, if humans take this extravagant wish seriously and conduct a major investigation, their survival based on human society will instantly become a fantasy and difficult to rely on. Therefore—

Do you want the continuation of your race?

Kamishiro Chaei suddenly opened his eyes, only to realize what Xia Yan and Hikigaya, who were far away, wanted to know: Tamiya Yoshiko's true purpose. Unfortunately...

"not my business!"