Chapter 190: Planning the Escape Route After Killing Someone at School
The desolate and dim small world was terrifyingly silent, with only the faint gray-black gas visible in the sky constantly flowing, slowly eroding the edge of the unfathomable space.
But suddenly, a violent energy fluctuation transmitted from the boundary of nothingness, and the entire silent world seemed to come alive. The few corpses that were lying on the ground like dead objects slowly woke up.
The activated ghouls, as if receiving some kind of command, quickly ran towards the warehouse area where the corpses were stored. They carried the new fresh corpses on their shoulders and hurried towards the Ghoul Crow’s nest built from a pile of rotten flesh.
On the other side, the giant maggot, as large as a mountain, also slowly crawled towards the warehouse area. Its huge mouthparts opened inch by inch, revealing a mouth filled with dense small teeth. It swallowed the remaining three corpses whole.
The abdomen of the Maggot Mother writhed, and then began to swell at a speed visible to the naked eye. Its black ovipositor expanded to an exaggerated degree, and then, countless thin, white, tender maggots were produced from the Maggot Mother’s body along with disgusting green mucus. Thumb-sized little flesh worms piled up densely, completely covering a large circle around the mother worm.
The Ghoul Crow’s nest also completed its production at the same time. Eight skinny black shadows struggled out from the gaps in the rotten flesh and naturally joined the Ghoul Crows circling in the sky.
Dozens of pitch-black crows circled in the sky, their scarlet eyes in the air looked like fierce dark stars. The ghouls on the ground also lowered their heads and sharpened their claws, as if preparing for something. Meanwhile, the maggot swarm, under the control of the mother worm, huddled together to form a huge white meatball, rolling and crawling in a strange manner towards the altar in the center.
A gray energy gate opened halfway at the entrance of the altar. At this moment, all eyes in the territory were focused on this moment, quietly waiting for the master’s final command.
…
“Kazumi!!”
A familiar voice made Sato Shinichi immediately turn his head. But in an instant, the young man realized the direness of his current situation. The almost tangible black energy on Kazumi’s face made even Sato Shinichi’s emotional intelligence recognize what the other party was thinking.
“Kazumi, I…”
He quickly moved away from Mai Shinomiyai and walked towards Kazumi, opening his mouth as if wanting to explain something, but found he didn’t know how to start.
Whether it was his ability as an esper or the fact that someone related to the [Underworld] was lurking in the school, these were not things that could be easily revealed. But if he didn’t explain, with Kazumi’s current expression, she must have misunderstood something.
“Kiyomizu-san, I was just helping Sato-kun treat his wounds. There was absolutely no improper behavior.”
Mai Shinomiyai now understood what was going on. Ignoring the slightly disturbed spiritual energy caused by Sato Shinichi’s sudden pulling away, she walked up to the young girl and said with a smile.
“Injured?”
Her jet-black eyes, filled with killing intent, stared like dead orbs at the tall young girl walking towards her. But when she heard the first sentence, her pupils involuntarily contracted, and she unceremoniously turned her gaze to the clueless blond young man beside her.
“Ah, just a little. Kiyomizu-san helped me treat it, so I’m much better. Kazumi, we were just…”
Awkwardly scratching the back of his head, the young man anxiously looked at the expressionless girl in front of him. Based on his observations and understanding of his girlfriend, Kazumi was angry now. But he didn’t know how to lie to the girl about this matter, stammering for a long time without finding a suitable reason.
“Kiyomizu-san, Sato-kun was attacked by an enemy force just now, and we acted like this because he was injured. It’s not what you think. Sato-kun and I only met two days ago, so nothing like that could have happened.”
It had to be said that she was indeed the only daughter of a prominent family. Mai Shinomiyai instantly saw the reason for the girl’s anger and why Sato Shinichi was stammering and couldn’t speak. No matter what, she was the one who caused this trouble. If she caused problems in the relationship between the young couple because of herself, it would be quite upsetting.
“Evidence.”
Her emotionless eyes turned, and the girl looked at the long-haired girl who had already been marked for death in her heart. It was not only because of her troublesome identity as an esper, but because she had different thoughts about her boyfriend.
Kazumi’s thoughts were very simple. Even if it was something she intended to discard, as long as it wasn’t completely thrown away, no one was allowed to touch it carelessly!!
Kiyomi Kazumi felt that she was very calm now and hadn’t done anything irrational.
She wasn’t angry at all!
“I… I’m actually an esper. I came to this school for some reason. You probably saw the halo earlier. Sato-kun was accidentally involved and attacked.”
Instinctively taking half a step back, Mai Shinomiyai felt a bit dazed by these eyes filled with tangible killing intent. Why did this cute and gentle little girlfriend in Sato Shinichi’s mouth put more pressure on her than a high-level ghoul? Sato Shinichi, your love filter is too thick?!
Thinking that Kiyomi Kazumi must have seen some of the halo used by the curse technique, Mai Shinomiyai decided to reveal her identity to gain the girl’s recognition.
“What evidence?”
Whether the girl was an esper or an ability user, it had nothing to do with Kazumi. However, Mai Shinomiyai’s words still made Kazumi somewhat concerned. She retracted her arm with a faint skull phantom, temporarily put aside the escape route planning in her mind, and looked up to ask again.
“Evidence… Charms! The amulets I gave you two last time! They automatically burn when attacked by evil thoughts. You can take out the amulets and look at them. Sato-kun was attacked earlier, so they must have reacted.”
The halo in her hand slowly dissipated. She didn’t expect that such behavior couldn’t dispel the girl’s suspicion. Mai Shinomiyai paused, and then seemed to think of something, nudging Sato Shinichi, who had been watching the show by her side.
The blond young man, realizing this belatedly, took out the small blue cloth bag from his pocket. As Mai Shinomiyai had said, the amulet with the written incantations had already disappeared, leaving only a thick layer of still warm ash in his pocket.
“Amulet?”
Listening to the words of the girl in front of her, a strange smile appeared on Kazumi’s originally cold cheeks. She also rummaged in her pocket and finally took out a similar red small cloth bag. She reached out and opened the mouth of the bag, revealing the already cooled black powder inside, and handed it to Mai Shinomiyai.
“You mean this?”
