Chapter 345

"What, you want to use a magecraft method to help solve Ryougi Shiki's killing impulse?"

At Garan no Dou, Aozaki Touko, who had been sought out and hired by Rin Tohsaka as a technical consultant, looked at the girl before her with a somewhat strange expression after learning of Ryougi Shiki's situation and what Rin Tohsaka wanted to do.

"Is there a problem with that?"

Rin Tohsaka asked; the doll maker's gaze upon her was a bit subtle.

"The Ryougi Family's inheritance spans no less time than your Tohsaka Family, and it has had its periods of prosperity. Miss Tohsaka, do you think that if there truly were a solution, the Ryougi Family would not want to solve this kind of problem? Would there still be so many Ryougi Family members who failed to implant multiple personalities, imprisoned in a mental hospital by the Ryougi Family?"

Aozaki Touko retorted with a question.

"Uh..."

Rin Tohsaka was stumped by the question. Aozaki Touko felt she shouldn't treat her client this way, so she said: "Her killing impulse doesn't just come from the multiple personality problem, but also from her own Origin."

"And what is Origin? Origin is the soul's initial form..."

In the Type-Moon World, all things in the world flow out from the Root Vortex and constitute concrete forms.

And the souls that constitute forms, after life reaches its end, are recycled and reused by the Root Vortex.

When they flow out again, they constitute new life or matter, which also counts as a peculiar kind of reincarnation.

"But unlike other people who reincarnate normally, the previous head of the Ryougi Family was very bold. Before their family's infants had even formed consciousness while still in the womb, they used a secret technique ritual to sacrifice the unborn children's bodies to the Root Vortex.

Of the children treated this way, ultimately only she survived smoothly and gave birth to self-awareness. As for the other children, they either died or had no consciousness appear at all, turned into congenital vegetative states by the Ryougi Family's ritual..."

"Wait, Miss Touko, is what you're saying true?"

Rin Tohsaka interrupted to ask.

"You've already paid me, would I still deceive you?"

Aozaki Touko gave the girl a sidelong glance.

"Isn't this too excessive?"

Little Sakura covered her mouth and said.

"Mm."

Asagami Fujino agreed from the side; conversely, Karen didn't speak.

"From a normal person's angle, this is indeed quite excessive, but from a magecraft user's, from a demon hunter family's angle, this is merely a normal exploration of their own family's ideals.

The Ryougi Family attempted to manufacture an all-rounder with multiple personalities, and for this they did not hesitate to sacrifice their own children. Outsiders find it hard to accuse them of anything."

Aozaki Touko's attitude spoke volumes about the cruelty of the supernatural stratum in this world.

"Did the Ryougi Family succeed?"

Karen asked with some curiosity.

"I don't know, but from the angle of wanting to manufacture an all-rounder, Ryougi Shiki doesn't look like a successful product of the Ryougi Family."

Regarding Aozaki Touko's evaluation, Ryougi Shiki sitting to the side showed no expression. She didn't think she was any all-rounder, nor did she care about the Ryougi Family's ideal of manufacturing a multi-personality all-rounder. She only asked: "Then Miss Aozaki, do you have a way to solve my problem?"

"Your soul is an existence your family sacrificed your body to obtain directly from the Root Vortex. Before it gave birth to consciousness, it had no shape whatsoever.

In other words, your Origin is 【None】, and what is 【None】? It means 【Nothing】, and 【Nothing】 can also be regarded as the concept of 【Death】 itself.

Judging from the current situation, although you haven't awakened your Origin, you yourself have been continuously influenced by 【None】.

And your killing impulse stems from this."

"Wasn't it caused by me?"

Ryougi Shiki asked. Her words were a bit disjointed, but Aozaki Touko understood.

"I'm not certain. After all, your personalities are quite extreme; positive and negative emotions face each other like two sides, just like the yin-yang fish."

"Mm, then do I still have a cure?"

"To solve your killing impulse, you'd have to change your soul's initial shape. The problem is, your soul's initial shape is yourself. Tracing back further, it's the Root, the existence of Void. Then the question arises: how can you change the shape of a non-existent thing?"

"So, my killing impulse is incurable?"

Aozaki Touko nodded.

This is just like how a living person must breathe.

Killing impulse is also the girl named Ryougi Shiki.

An emotion that will certainly be produced while surviving.

"Then if I catch people for her to kill, can that solve her killing impulse?"

Broly asked at this moment.

"It can, but it only alleviates the problem, not solves it. And as the number of people killed increases, she will become increasingly bloodthirsty, ultimately turning into a non-human existence like a murderer."

The demons of the world are mostly produced in this manner.

"Then after becoming a murderer, would Shiki harm those around her?"

Broly asked again.

"That's a good question, it has research value."

Aozaki Touko said this while spreading both hands, indicating she wasn't clear either.

"What I research is doll magecraft. Although I have slight involvement with Origin, I'm not proficient in it."

She paused, then continued: "But I have an old classmate who researches Origin. I can perhaps help you contact him."

The old classmate in Aozaki Touko's mouth is Araya Souren, and the current her still doesn't know that Araya Souren is precisely the one now secretly plotting against Ryougi Shiki's body.

"However, even if she becomes a murderer, she won't attack those around her. But as killing goes too far, the guy who turns into a murderer will certainly be targeted by some demon extermination forces.

Of course, the Ryougi Family itself is one of the demon extermination forces. Perhaps at that time, it will be her own family who moves to eliminate her after she becomes a murderer. That's also possible."

"What?!"

Hearing this, Broly couldn't stay calm.

"Then I'll just eliminate all the demon extermination forces in this world first, starting with the Ryougi Family!"

The boy stood up and said.

"Broly, not to that extent, not to that extent, things haven't reached that point."

Rin Tohsaka hurriedly stopped the boy, fearing he would fly back to the Ryougi Family and send all of Ryougi Shiki's family to reincarnation.

Ryougi Shiki: "……"

Suddenly sensing Broly's Killing Impulse, it seemed even stronger than her own.

Of course, Broly's should be a Slaughter Impulse.

Because his wife might be threatened, he planned to eliminate in advance the guys who might pose a threat.

"The Ryougi Family might not act, but the Demon Extermination Forces in the world are not just the Ryougi Family. Broly, although you are strong, those guys are not something you can easily destroy……"

"Miss Touko, please don't speak anymore. I trouble you to contact that old classmate of yours who studies Origin. I will pay you a considerable Intermediary Fee."

Rin Tohsaka interrupted the Magic Doll girl's words, fearing that if she continued, the Demon Extermination Organizations of this world would all suffer.

"Okay."

Hearing there was money to be made, Aozaki Touko hurriedly closed her mouth, took out a POS Machine for Rin Tohsaka to swipe her card, then took out her phone to call her old classmate.

Mao Jian Ham, Xiaochuan Apartments. Araya Souren, who was as usual recording the Magic Dolls in the apartment—born in the morning, dead by evening—became suspicious after receiving Aozaki Touko's phone call.

"Aozaki, what is it?"

The man pressed the answer key and asked in a low voice.

"Araya, it's been a long time since we contacted. I have something here I need your help with……"

Aozaki Touko said over the phone.

"I have no time……"

Araya Souren had intended to Refuse.

"That's truly a pity. I happen to have a Major Donor here who can pay, someone from the Tohsaka Family."

But he heard these words.

And by Ryougi Shiki's side was someone from the Tohsaka Family.

"Is it about Origin?"

"No mistake."

"Whose?"

"Don't you know of the Ryougi Family?"

【Truly……】

"I've heard of them."

"This is about the Origin on the body of the Big Sister of the Ryougi Family."

Upon learning of Aozaki Touke's request for help, this Monk who was always unsmiling showed a rare change in Complexion.

"Since it is a commission from an old classmate, I will make time to help. How about the meeting time being set for one day from now?" "Good."

After receiving Aozaki Touko's confirming reply, Araya Souren hung up the phone.

"A person living will always encounter some good things, right?"

Araya Souren said softly, recalling some things from the past.

"Donor, living in such a terrible world, how can you still smile?"

In the distant past, when he was still a Monk of the Tiantai Sect, he met a person.

"Master, although this world is terrible, at least we are still alive, aren't we? As long as a person is alive, they will always encounter some good things. Just like now, I met you, Master, and you saved me from the Robbers with your own hands. I survived. This is a good thing. I am just happy because of it."

Although when they met again, that person had already become a dry bone in a chaotic age, Araya Souren still believed the words the other person said.

Many years ago, encountering a girl whose body Reached Root in Guanbu City was a good thing.

And now, her seeking me out through Aozaki Touko to resolve her Spirit problem is also a good thing.

Compared to inducing others to interfere with Ryougi Shiki, being able to interfere with Ryougi Shiki's personality with my own hands would be even better.

The only problem is that because he opened the Path to Root many times, he has been watched by the Counter Force. If he leaves Xiaochuan Apartments, which is set up with many Isolation Barriers, he might be attacked by the Heavenly Guardians who suddenly descend upon the world.

"Although there is risk, this risk is worth taking. There are still some spare bodies. Even if the body that goes out is broken, I can just replace it with a new one."

A somewhat rigid and serious man muttered to himself, his body gradually merging into the ground inside Xiaochuan Apartments.

"The expert who studies Origin will come tomorrow. Where do we go next?"

After leaving Garan no Dou, Rin Tohsaka asked the others.

"It's not early. I'm preparing to Return Home."

Ryougi Shiki looked at the sky; it was nearing Dusk, and she said.

"I plan to Return Home with her. Tonight I will stay by her side."

As soon as Broly spoke, he was directly Refused by the girl in the Kimono.

"I don't need you to accompany me. Please let me be One Person."

"But……"

"Broly, don't make me feel Uneasy, okay?"

Ryougi Shiki's attitude was very firm.

Before resolving her own Killing Impulse, she did not want anyone to Approach her too closely.

"Broly, if you are worried about Ryougi, then tonight we will stay at a Hotel near her house."

Rin Tohsaka patted the boy's Shoulder and said.

"Alright."

Broly nodded.

For him, a Nearby distance was actually no different from a Close/Attached distance.

Ryougi Shiki Returned Home.

Rin Tohsaka brought people along and booked a hotel suite at a hotel near the Ryougi Family.

"Broly, where are you going?"

In the evening, after eating dinner, showering, and reaching the time to sleep together, Rin Tohsaka discovered the boy was preparing to go out, and couldn't help but ask him.

"I'm preparing to go out for a walk, see if I can run into some people who can be taken for Shiki Ryougi to kill."

Broly answered honestly.

"Didn't you say an expert on researching the Origin would come tomorrow?"

"One must always make some preparations first. If the expert coming tomorrow also can't solve Shiki Ryougi's problem, then I'll use my own way to give her peace of mind."

"Broly-gege, let me go out with you."

"No need, you all sleep. I might have to wander outside for the whole night."

"Broly, you're still a child, remember to avoid the police."

Rin Tohsaka thought of something and hurriedly said to the boy about to go out.

Broly made an OK gesture and left the hotel room.

The streets, not yet deep into midnight, were still bustling with traffic.

Broly wanted to find bad people, but for a moment didn't know where to go look.

So, he opened the Group Chat Room and asked his question.

"Where are there more bad people?"

There were still people in the Group Chat Room; Aqua was one of them, and she inquired about the situation.

Broly didn't spare these Happiness Points either.

He posted Shiki Ryougi's situation and explained he wanted to go find bad people he particularly disliked to serve as targets for the girl to kill.

Some other wives lurking in the Group Chat Room surfaced because of his post.

"Hehehe, has the murderous bloodline buried in your body internal awakened? You still want to go select evil people to kill? Is this a dark hero executing justice at night? No problem, this kind of question will be answered by me……"

Only Megumin could say this kind of thing, but although she was saying some chuunibyou lines, she still gave some not bad advice on finding bad guys.

"Evil always hides in dark places. Wherever is darker, you drill into there. Those ill-intentioned evil people will seek you out on their own."

Broly felt Megumin made sense and directly walked toward the city's dark alleyways, specifically choosing places with a foul presence.

Along the way he encountered rats stealing kitchen waste, stray cats sneakily approaching rats, bats flying over his head, addicts trading special drugs in the alley, and a middle-aged man rapidly thrusting his hips behind a heavily made-up woman……

Broly was somewhat curious and leaned in to observe. Just as the man and woman in the alley were about to reach their limit, he spoke up to ask.

Then, two startled screams rang out. Broly saw the man directly go limp, while the woman hurriedly picked up her clothes from the ground.

Neither paid him any mind; they fled as if escaping.

"So this is making a fool of oneself in public?!"

Broly reached this conclusion.

And along this whole way, he discovered there were quite a few people looking at him with ill-intentioned gazes.

However, he didn't encounter a single one who actually came up to do something improper to him, which was somewhat disappointing.

But this was also naturally to be expected, for two reasons.

First, he looks like a child at a glance. How much money could a child have? Second, recently multiple murder cases have appeared in the city, causing the city's police to deploy strict patrols, with police cars patrolling everywhere.

Although Broly avoided those patrol areas, other people also didn't want to invite trouble. If they extorted a child and the child shouted, and then they got caught by police, that would be truly rotten luck.

Just when Broly thought he might not find a suitable target to be killed tonight, Bai Chun Li Xu, who came out at night to cause trouble, discovered him.

"It's him, that female teacher's relative's kid?!"

Bai Chun Li Xu hadn't laid a hand on the child yet, but he recognized Broly, knew the boy was Fujimura Taiga's relative's kid, and was also one of the culprits who helped Shiki Ryougi become normal.

Thinking of Fujimura Taiga, his already recovered hand felt some phantom pain. Staring at the boy strolling ahead, his gaze shifted, the rationality in his eyes gradually replaced by ferocity.

"Damn it, if I can't kill you, I can still kill a kid?!"

Bai Chun Li Xu decided. He would kill the child ahead, then dump the corpse at Shiki Ryougi's home.

Just like he killed people, left traces on Shiki Ryougi's towel, and used the tools Shiki Ryougi practiced Kendo with to kill.

【One thinks, upon seeing a familiar child's remains appear in the home, it would surely bring Shiki an even greater shock……】

The more Bai Chun Li Xu thought, the more excited he got. His steps also stopped being concealed, causing Broly to turn his head back.

"Sorry, little ghost. Who told you to not sleep at night and come out for a walk alone?!"

Bai Chun Li Xu revealed a savage grin at Broly.

And tonight's sky was very clear. Above his head there was a star, very bright and shining.

"What do you want to do?"

Broly curiously asked the person quickly approaching him, wearing a kimono somewhat similar to Shiki Ryougi's.

"What do I want to do? That's naturally to kidnap you, little ghost. Obediently come with me, or I'll chop off your hands and feet."

Bai Chun Li Xu took out a knife to intimidate. He didn't feel a child had any capability to resist in his hands.

Hearing this, Broly's eyes lit up. He'd walked many detours tonight, and finally ran into a decent 'good person'.

"What a coincidence, we're in the same line of work!"

"Huh?"

"I also want to kidnap you."

"Eh?"

(Chapter End)