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

Unfortunately, among the few people standing at the back watching the battle, whether ordinary people like Hikigaya or parasitic beasts like Xiaoyou, no one was worried about Kuroki Gensai who was fighting with this "monster". Instead, they all stared with wide eyes.

He watched in shock as the parasitic beast stirred up gusts of wind and swung its tentacle blades like a violent storm, but it seemed as if it was taking a leisurely stroll in the garden, relying only on the slight swing of its upper body that turned into an afterimage, and the small movement of its feet in a circle that was staggered left and right.

The figure of a man who easily dodged all of the parasitic beast's extremely fast quadruple blade attacks.

"Is this uncle really a human being?!" Xiaoyou, who was on Izumi Shinichi's right arm, couldn't help but sigh.

Because this kind of dodging was not just a matter of dodging once or twice with good luck, it was not even a matter of dodging for ten or twenty seconds. The parasitic beast had maintained this continuous high-speed attack for more than a minute!

When it saw its attacks being dodged by the man in front of it by a hair's breadth, if it hadn't had sweat glands, it would have been covered in cold sweat.

Even so, it unconsciously took two steps back, and the mouth connected to its neck couldn't help but utter words of fear: "What the hell are you?!"

"It's time to finish."

Kuroki Gensai ignored it completely. He had seen everything he needed to see. He had completely understood the attack methods of the parasitic beast in this one-minute demonstration. Unfortunately...

Kuroki Gensai turned his head, and at the moment when a tentacle blade of the parasitic beast passed by him at a close distance, he suddenly grabbed the soft and slippery muscle behind the tentacle with his right hand, and at the same time, he swung his magic spear!

"Tear!"

A clean and sharp shot from the magic spear pierced through the hand, directly tearing off one of the parasitic beast's tentacle. Before it could react, Heimu's thick arm turned into an afterimage and instantly stabbed out three shots, at the moment when the tentacle hanging in the air broke.

The last thing reflected in the parasitic beast's eyes was the man moving towards it like a heavily armored tank, shooting a shot with his five fingers together, instantly piercing the vital part of its neck, pressing down on the shoulder of the human body it was parasitizing, and using his right arm to tear the entire body off from its body, and...

"Although the attack speed is good, the tentacles and the human body are like two different entities. When the tentacles attack with all their strength, the human body is as if still, motionless and posing no threat."

Kuroki Gensai threw away the decaying tentacle in his hand and commented calmly, "After all, you are only parasitizing another person. You haven't completely mastered this body. Your weakness is too obvious."

After explaining the parasitic beast's weaknesses to the people who came after him, he no longer cared about the remains of the parasitic beast that fell into the dust, staring with wide eyes and wanting to curse something, but was gradually dying.

Kuroki simply calmly clasped his blood-stained hands together, showed some courtesy to the innocent human remains on the ground, and then looked at Izumi Shinichi who was kneeling on the ground beside him, staring blankly at his mother's body.

Now Izumi Shinichi deeply understood why Uncle Kuroki said that he saw something inhuman in his eyes.

He was clearly looking at his mother's body, and he should have been so sad, but he...

I can't shed even a tear!

He could only weakly clutch the clothes on his chest, as if there was a big hole there.

"Give him a proper burial."

Kuroki Gensai turned and walked past him, his voice as calm as before, as if he was not here to take care of children: "As agreed, we will start hunting soon."

……

……

"Woo!"

"Is this okay?"

On the sightseeing boat that was gradually sailing away from the island, Hikigaya and his friends landed on a remote island. Since they were going to find more parasites to hunt, they would of course go to a metropolis with a denser population and naturally more parasites.

At this time, Hikigaya looked at Izumi Shinichi who was sitting next to him. After placing his mother's body in Sakurazaki Hospital, he immediately followed them to leave the island.

"Well, I'm lucky to have recovered some of the remains. I also want to thank Uncle Kuroki for not destroying my mother's body during the battle."

Izumi Shinichi nodded gravely. He was quite clear about the situation and thanked Kuroki Gensai. "As for the funeral arrangements, I've handed them over to my father. The burial will be held soon, so I might have to leave for a while."

"But for now... I'll go help you find more parasites!"

It was hard to tell whether there was hatred in Izumi Shinichi's eyes. Perhaps even he himself was a little confused about the changes in his mood at the moment.

With the protection of a local, Izumi Shinichi, Hikigaya and the others no longer needed to get a fake ID. Kuroki Gensai just changed into less conspicuous clothes.

I saw that his clothes had changed from training clothes to ordinary shirt and trousers inside, and a long black windbreaker on the outside, making him look from a sloppy uncle to a seemingly sloppy handsome uncle.

Then, led by the tall figure of Kuroki Gensai, followed by two teenagers who were very thin in comparison, the three of them walked through the metropolis and began their "wilderness" journey.

This description is not entirely a joke. Look, there is a scout (Izumi Shinichi) who is responsible for reconnaissance, a tough guy who can fight and resist (Kuroki), and a long-range guy who is always OB (Hikigaya).

Or: a macho martial artist and his two useless gadgets.

In short, the three of them, with this lineup, really achieved quite a lot...

Chapter 95: A parasitic beast that believes in science, a martial artist who doesn't believe in science

It was already late at night the next day.

Monsters like parasites, like wild animals, will carve out their own "hunting grounds."

Of course, there is also the relationship that preying on humans in large numbers in one area will attract the attention of the police.

So except for a few individual cases, most parasites act alone, or in groups of 2-3, or no more than 5.

This habit of theirs also brings great convenience to the jungle trio headed by Hei Mu.

With Uncle Kuroki's combat power, he is capable of fighting a group. However, facing a parasitic beast that can only act in a small group, their behavior can no longer be considered hunting. It is simply a big account leading a small account to fry fish and gain experience.

At the same time, because the operation went smoothly, Hikigaya suggested to Uncle Kuroki and others to act separately in order to improve efficiency.

Now he went to the Internet cafe alone to investigate some things, and then rushed to meet up with the other two.

Unfortunately, Hikigaya had to pass through a park on his way to the meeting place they had agreed on - this made Hikigaya, who had a certain psychological trauma about this place, feel uneasy, and he subconsciously wanted to speed up and get away from here.

"Hey, bro, do you want to go eat together?"

Just at this moment, a female voice suddenly sounded from beside him, which frightened Hikigaya, who was already secretly nervous, and made him shudder and subconsciously took two steps back.

But then he breathed a sigh of relief, because the owner of the voice had already walked under the street light in the park.

She was seen supporting her elbow with one hand and holding a cigarette between the fingers of the other hand. She was wearing a black belly-exposing tank top and leather shorts, and her hair was dyed a dark red.

Obviously, her occupation is self-evident, and the eating she mentioned is probably not a proper "eating".

"Haha~, you're so timid, brother? Don't worry, I won't really eat you~"

Hikigaya looked the woman over carefully. Judging from her lively expression and occupation, she didn't look like a parasitic beast disguised as a human.

This was a good thing, Hikigaya pulled the travel bag behind his shoulder, but the woman's behavior and words also made him feel a little speechless: "Sister, please look carefully, I'm still underage."

"What's wrong with being underage? She's not some little girl. Or maybe it's better to say she's underage."

Hikigaya couldn't help but smile helplessly when he heard that. The red-haired woman raised her hand and touched her full breasts teasingly, "So you want to try the taste of big sister?"

The red-haired woman was still speaking, but at this moment, her face suddenly cracked with several marks, and it seemed that she was about to...

"jump!"

Just as the red-haired woman transformed her mimic head into an attacking tentacle form, she saw the boy opposite her still had a helpless smile on his face, but he instantly pulled out a heavy black shotgun from the open travel bag behind him.

Then, without hesitation, he fired a shot, shattering more than a dozen small holes in its tentacle blades and body.

"Ah! How... could it be..."

"This is much more useful than martial arts, Xia-san!"

Hikigaya ignored the dying streetwalker parasite and instead started to tease himself.

After a day of following Uncle Kuroki's actions and training, Hikigaya realized that if he and Parasyte fought, it would be like two glass cannons fighting each other.

The human body that the parasitic beast parasitizes is still an ordinary fragile human body. For him who holds a shotgun, it can be destroyed with just one shot.

Given his basic qualities, if he faced a parasitic beast, he would most likely be beheaded by it with one blow.

So, the battle between Hikigaya and Parasyte is a competition of who can attack faster and whose first attack can hit the opponent first.

Therefore, although it seems that Hikigaya easily killed a parasyte with one shot, in fact, if he was a little slower, the outcome might be different: life or death.

In fact, Hikigaya had used himself as bait to catch parasites several times before, which was why he was so proficient at it - but this was also the first time he had seen this kind of parasite that could compete with him in acting.

Fortunately, he was the better one in the end.

And although Hikigaya was joking, he actually understood that his ability to kill the parasite so smoothly was inseparable from the help of Minister Yukinoshita and Xia Yan.

Although Xia Yan only gave the entry-level +1 Strange Arm Flow, it did not have as obvious an effect as a gun.

But in addition to improving his attack speed, the most important thing about this martial art is that it can prevent him from easily becoming afraid or retreating in battle.

Otherwise, under the influence of these emotions, if he had hesitated for a moment or was a little slow in his action, he might have been the one who died just now.

After Hikigaya and the others confirmed that the parasitic beast was dead, they put their guns back into their travel bags and walked deeper into the park.

Because parasitic beasts can sense each other through brain waves, Xiao You and Izumi Shinichi should not be present at the scene when hunting parasitic beasts, as his presence will directly expose their whereabouts.

The same applies to the actions of the two people, which may alert the parasite.

So generally speaking, the three people's action pattern is that either Kuroki Gensai or Hikigaya will deal with/lure the parasite alone, while the other two will wait for their teammates nearby - in fact, most of the time it is Kuroki who kills the parasite, and Hikigaya's occasional appearance to lure the parasite is more like a training session.

"【First】?"

Later, when Hikigaya arrived at the meeting place, the first thing he saw was Izumi Shinichi's little right hand, and he uttered a word in confusion.

"Yes, predicting the opponent's movements in advance through changes in the eyes, the focus of the gaze, the muscles of the shoulders and hands and feet, etc., is called [preemptive]."

At this time, Hei Mu was sitting on a bench in the park, calmly explaining the essence of martial arts to a parasitic beast. Xiao You was a little curious about the source of Hei Mu's terrifying strength, so he asked Hei Mu to explain his martial arts to him in exchange for selling his companions as a guide.

That's what they deal with.

"Instead of relying on the visible, relying solely on a more profound sense, one can predict the enemy's actions the moment they arise. This is to be ahead of the ahead—also known as the ahead of the ahead."

Kuroki Gensai seemed unaware of the absurdity of his words and added, "And this is one of the reasons why I was able to dodge your swift attacks."

"So what about the success rate?" Xiao You firmly believes in the scientific and realistic approach.

"So far, although it has been cracked sometimes, it hasn't been hacked yet."

Xiao You: “…”

Is this really scientific?

"cough~"

Hikigaya coughed quickly, interrupting the difficult discussion between the man and the beast, and greeted Kuroki Gensai with a calm "You're back."

"Uncle Kuroki, actually..."

He considered his words and spoke of an idea that had recently occurred to him: "I have an idea about the Higashifukuyama City Hall."

Chapter 96: Hikigaya thinks he is definitely an expert at robbing a bank

Since Uncle Kuroki's mission was to destroy the parasitic beast's nest in Higashifukuyama City Hall, the three of them naturally consciously moved closer here after leaving the island.

Around the afternoon, they let Xiaoyou sense the situation of Higashifukuyama City Hall from a distance.

"20, no, maybe more than 30. This is the first time I've seen such a large number of them gathered in one place." This was Xiao You's slightly surprised evaluation at the time.

Hikigaya didn't know what Uncle Kuroki was thinking, after all, he just nodded silently.

However, Hikigaya himself had some new ideas about this. When he was fishing for parasitic fish near the park, the sentence he secretly muttered in his heart, "I'll investigate something in the Internet cafe", was not entirely a dramatic addition.

Hikigaya did investigate some things, mainly about the mayor of Higashifukuyama City Hall and other important figures.

His purpose was: since, under the guidance of the mission and Xiaoyou's remote perception, they had already confirmed in advance that even a city government had been secretly occupied by a group of monsters (parasitic beasts).

In such a serious situation, the next thing they would do is...

"Moshimoshi~, police station?"

Hikigaya was in a late-night roadside phone booth, dialing a number. He secretly prepared his emotions for a moment, then, very much into the role, let his tone carry a sense of extreme fear: "Monster...monster!"

"I... I was just over at Dongfu Mountain and saw a few people's heads suddenly split into pieces. They transformed into a group of monsters and killed and dismembered a person. They were still gnawing on the person's body... I'm not kidding!"

"I'm not saying anything, they really are monsters!! Oh, by the way, there's a face among those monsters that I recognize. I've seen it on TV. It's Mayor Hirokawa... Gah~!"

Kuroki Gensai and Izumi Shinichi, who were standing outside the phone booth, were both speechless as they looked at Hikigaya, who was inside the phone booth, strangling his own neck in a very dramatic way, pretending that he was being silenced by Mayor Hirokawa, who had poured a basin of dirty water on him.

"The entire city hall has become a nest of parasitic beasts. With so many of them working there, I imagine the mayor wouldn't be unaware of it, right?"