In the anime, their emotions can be combined into strange props

How desperate must one be to use the thin legs of a girl with a combat power of only 0.5 goose to kick a martial artist with a body full of spiritual energy and a body of steel?

"Damn...damn..."

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Daily play with Eriri, and after sending her home.

Xia Yan looked at his computer and only typed out three lines of text. He felt that he had worked so hard. He would leave the rest of the updates to himself tomorrow.

Thinking of this, he happily closed the laptop in front of him.

In addition, the key progress in the Beika Town serial murder case began when he received a call from Yukinoshita in the evening.

It was really thanks to this case that the people in the service department finally made the relationship between Xia Yan and Yukinoshita achieve a stage of development in order to facilitate contact - this refers to the exchange of mobile phone numbers.

"This information was actually sent by Fujiwara-san. She said she got the testimony of an eyewitness at the crime scene from a friend she knew well, but unfortunately..."

"It seems the police don't agree with this eyewitness testimony."

Xia Yan was listening to Xuexia's cool voice coming from the phone while leaning against the window with a hot cup of tea in his hand. Then he suddenly realized that it had started to drizzle outside since he didn't know when.

"But it's no wonder. After all, the testimony was ridiculous, and the person who gave it was an old lady who got up to go to the bathroom. Everyone thought she must have been dazzled or confused and made a mistake."

"So what's the specific testimony?"

"That old lady was the first person to call the police. According to her, she didn't actually know a murder had occurred in that house at the time. She just happened to see someone walking out of the house openly, and..."

Yukinoshita's posture at home at this moment was actually similar to Xia Yan's current one. She leaned against the desk by the window, holding a cup of warm coffee in both hands, looking at the drizzle outside. At the same time, she tilted her head and clamped the phone to her ear. Her beautiful face said expressionlessly, "That person seems to be gradually becoming transparent in the rain!"

"That's what the old lady said. She panicked and thought she had encountered a ghost, so she instinctively called the police."

"Hmm~"

Xia Yan held his mouth and thought about it. Assuming that this information was true, the murderer's special ability was the ability to become invisible.

Then he can accurately find the target he wants every time. Perhaps he doesn't follow the victim at all, but simply hides and goes into the house to take a look, and then locks on his favorite target and attacks.

So there won’t be any situation where people are stalked around the streets.

He has not been seen with any special features so far, and has never been captured by any surveillance camera. Perhaps it is not because he has a strong anti-reconnaissance awareness, but simply because he is invisible and no one can see him.

At this point, everything seems to make sense.

Suddenly, Xia Yan seemed to have thought of something and asked another question: "Did the old lady see the murderer's appearance?"

"It was night and raining, and she didn't see the killer's appearance or features."

Yukinoshita seemed to have subtly misunderstood something. Xia Yan actually wanted to confirm what type of monster the murderer was. From the current perspective, he was at least human-shaped, otherwise Yukinoshita's answer would not be based on the premise of "appearance" being human.

"So is this information useful?"

"……it works!"

After Xia Yan was silent for a while, he saw some clue fragments floating out of the mobile phone, and then the two fragments automatically merged together and marked a red dot on the automatically opened small map.

Judging from the location, it seems not far from him, still in Beika Town!

"Thank you, Yukinoshita."

Just as Xia Yan was about to leave overnight, he hesitated for a moment before telling Yukinoshita on the other end of the phone about something that had been delayed for quite some time: "Actually, Qianhua asked me to merge the Service Club in advance. I considered that they had no ill intentions, and the Service Club is indeed short of one member..."

"Anyway, I acted on my own initiative. I'm sorry."

"Is that all you want to say?"

Xia Yan had no intention of begging for forgiveness. He simply intended to clarify the matter with Yukinoshita. However, Yukinoshita's reaction was calmer than he had imagined: "Ever since you two were flirting with each other, I knew something was wrong with you. And this isn't the point right now..."

Yukinoshita hesitated for a moment before asking with a hint of worry, "So, why are you spending so much time investigating this case?"

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Chapter 51: You said that the Ten Demon Snake Kings fought to the death, what was it for?

"I always felt like you might misunderstand something, so I told you in advance."

Xia Yan switched hands to hold the phone, which was still on the line, and put on his coat. "I don't have any detective or police ambitions where someone they know is killed by the murderer and they swear to catch the murderer themselves."

"Oh, really? That would be great."

Yukizhi listened expressionlessly to the rustling sounds coming from the other end of the line, indicating that she would believe his lies for the time being. "Anyway, the murderer mainly committed crimes in Beika Town. You and Hikigaya should be careful—especially at night, or on rainy days. Don't go out for no reason."

Well, it seems she didn't believe it at all, but...

"Hikigaya?"

"Oh, you didn't come to school that day, so it's normal that you don't know."

Yukinoshita slowly put the hand-warming teacup back on the table and explained, "I heard Hikigaya and Yuigahama talking about this the other day. It seems that he came to Tokyo to study with his sister, so he rented a house with his sister. Like you, it's also in Beika-cho. I heard that the reason he rented a house there was because—"

“The housing prices there are very low!”

Xia Yan: “…”

Kudo Shinichi, look at what you have done to Beika Town!

This is famous!

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In a two-story ordinary single-family house at 5-chome, Beika-cho.

At this time, Hikigaya Hachiman, who did not know that Xia Yan had found the key clue, was still diligently completing the commission in his brightly lit living room.

Of course, it's called a commission, but actually...

Although it feels a bit unfair to the victim to say this, Hikigaya did find a lot of fun while helping to search for information about this case these days - it felt like he was watching a fragmented mystery drama and participating in the reasoning himself.

"Yeah~"

After sitting for a while, Hikigaya closed the laptop sponsored by Xia Yan, stretched his body and twisted his stiff neck, then looked up at the wall clock in the living room.

22:30

It's a bit late, and it's almost time...

Before he could finish this thought, Hikigaya suddenly raised his head and stared at the clock again. Inexplicably...

He felt a little flustered, as if... something was about to happen.

"Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick~"

At this time, the second hand of the wall clock was still beating steadily. Suddenly, Hikigaya's neck began to turn with a little stiffness, and he instinctively looked towards the courtyard outside the floor-to-ceiling window of the living room.

"Boom!"

Under the instantaneous illumination of lightning in the sky, Hikigaya's dead fish eyes suddenly widened, and he could clearly see the "thing" in the courtyard.

It was a humanoid creature but definitely not a human being. It had sharp fangs and horns, and the tips of its teeth and claws were stained with bright red bloodstains that were difficult to wash off. It was also wearing a black suit jacket that it had found from somewhere.

"Clang!"

Finally, as the dark shadow swooped over him and disappeared beneath the rain and thunder, accompanied by the sound of shattering glass, Hikigaya swallowed back the cry he was about to let out.

"Komachi!!!"

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Urgent! Urgent!

The rain outside the window was getting heavier, but Xia Yan was not so anxious a few seconds ago, until a new avatar suddenly appeared in his friend list - Hikigaya's avatar!

The fragments on the protagonist's side can only be formed when his emotions are sufficiently elevated to the level of will, and the will that Hikigaya condenses is:

【▇▇▇▇▇▇▇Survival▇】

"boom!"

Broken……

Not only were the fragments of Hikigaya's will a mess, but they also couldn't be condensed smoothly. In his friend's position, the fragments would often suddenly shatter halfway through condensing.

Xia Yan kept an eye on the small map in front of him. The red dot representing the murderer was almost completely overlapping with Hikigaya's avatar that suddenly appeared on the map.

No matter from which aspect, it is too bad!

And if Xia Yan hasn't reacted yet, then he would be too stupid - those ghosts from another world are attacking the "protagonist" again!

Now he wanted to rush there as quickly as possible, so he didn't even take the elevator. He drove the God and Demon car and quickly crossed the thirteen steps. In just a few seconds, he rushed to the 15th floor.

"Ring ring ring!"

At this moment, Xia Yan's phone suddenly rang. He thought it was a call for help from Hikigaya, so he quickly picked it up. However, the voice coming from the other end was:

"Little ghost, don't come here again."

"..."

Listening to the long-lost steady voice of Juukouma coming from the other end of the phone, Xia Yan seemed to realize something at this moment. He couldn't help but slow down his pace and glanced at the small map in the upper right corner. On it appeared... a second red dot.

The location... is near the portrait of Juu Kisara.

"Ten Demon Snakes, what happened?"

"I was attacked by an alien creature... or rather a monster, at the mansion. It had devilish horns and long red hair. It crawled on all fours like a wild beast. Its elbows and back had sharp bone spurs, and it spewed purple venom."

The red evil ghost in the suburban mansion!

Aren’t you talking about the Ten Demon Snakes that activate the divine power?

Xia Yan, who had already reached the first floor of the apartment, clenched his fists. Then, while browsing the system warehouse, he rushed into the rain, his mood was calmer than he wanted. "Ten Ghost Snakes, I have a friend who may have encountered the same thing as you. What do you think..."

"Where should I go?"

"Is your friend strong?"

"…Just an ordinary student."

Although the situation was extremely urgent, the voices of the two people communicating seemed extremely calm.

Xia Yan posed the question to the Ten Demon Snakes. Meanwhile, in the forest beyond, the Ten Demon Snakes' Ouma, leaning against a tree and holding his nearly ripped-open abdomen, heard the question. Despite facing a question that might determine his own life or death, he wore a faint smile. "Then there's nothing to hesitate about, is there?"

“…Boom!”

Listening to the roar of the motorcycle on the other end of the phone, the extremely gentle smile on Shikisezama's face did not change at all. He closed his eyes and suddenly asked Xia Yan a question:

"Hey, kid, why do you practice martial arts?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Juu Guishe put the phone aside, as if the question was not asked to Xia Yan at all, but to himself.

Yes, why exactly?

Growing up in [China], constantly fighting for survival.

He has been learning martial arts for ten years from his adoptive brother Erhu, and has been fighting with different people.

After Erhu's death, he wandered aimlessly for another ten years, fighting with all kinds of people.

I have no family, no friends, and I've never owned anything, so...

Why on earth?

Hey, Erhu, can you tell me?

【武】, what is it for?

Amid the rustling sounds gradually rising in the forest, Juuki Snake Ouma looked at the illusion of Erhu that appeared before his eyes again. This time, he was no longer as manic as before, but there was a hint of confusion in his eyes, and a little light gradually lit up in the depths of his eyes.