Chapter 347

"Bai Chun, can you explain why you attacked Broly last night?"

Kanata asked.

"I have nothing to say, Kanata. Your deductive ability is not bad; why don't you try deducing my motive for doing this yourself?"

Bai Chun Li Xu wanted to argue, but this was his feeding ground, and many traces existed there; arguing would probably be useless, so he gave up resistance.

"In my cognition, Senpai, you are a person with a gentle personality. I don't know why you would attack a minor child like Broly at night."

Looking at the kimono clothes Bai Chun Li Xu was wearing, which were extremely similar to the ones on Ryougi Shiki, and recalling what the other party had said to him on the day of the School Sports Festival, Kanata actually already had a guess in his heart, but he did not hope that guess was true.

"He is a minor child?"

Hearing Kanata's words, Bai Chun Li Xu looked at Broly and couldn't help but retort.

"Is your minor child impervious to swords and spears? This is a genuine monster. Last night I stabbed a knife at his chest, and it simply wouldn't go in half an inch. If it weren't for my strength being insufficient, I'm afraid the knife would have snapped, and it still wouldn't have harmed him a bit."

"I am not a monster; I am a Saiyan, but you can call me a Demon; I can bear that title."

Broly inserted himself into the conversation.

"I knew you were a Demon."

Bai Chun Li Xu accepted it; losing to a Demon as a non-human was not unjust.

"What Broly is doesn't matter; what matters is why you attacked him. I don't want to deduce; I just want to know the reason from your mouth."

"No other reason; I encountered him on the road and attacked him. It's just a pity that walking night roads too many times, I finally encountered a real ghost and capsized in the gutter."

"Bai Chun Senpai is the culprit of multiple dismemberment cases, right?"

Kanata asked in a declarative tone.

"Yes, it's me."

Bai Chun Li Xu admitted it very easily.

"Why?"

"At first, it was just because I was rejected by Ryougi Shiki for the reason of not liking the weak. Afterwards, to prove I wasn't weak, I fought others, and I accidentally killed someone. After experiencing that feeling of killing, I started to lose control."

"You confessed to me; I don't remember such a thing."

Everyone looked at Ryougi Shiki, who directly denied it.

"Of course you don't remember. The First Year you in High School kept strangers at a distance, caring for no one but yourself, just like an alien."

Bai Chun Li Xu said.

"So, Bai Chun Senpai, you are the culprit of the dismemberment cases because your confession was rejected, and out of love turned hate you wanted to frame Ryougi Shiki?"

Kanata is also an Ordinary Person; the deduction he made is also an Ordinary Person's deduction. Although this kind of love-turned-hate matter is a bit Absurd, Reality also has cases like this happen.

"You are wrong. At the start, I had no intention of framing her. This idea arose recently, and it's all because of her and you all getting closer, gradually becoming Normal."

"What kind of ghost-pulled reason is this?"

Rin Tohsaka frowned and asked.

"I discovered you all aren't Normal People. Then you should have heard of Origin, right? Those who awaken Origin reach another Realm. Ryougi Shiki was originally a person of that other Realm.

To get close to her, I voluntarily went to that alien Realm, but she is breaking free from that alien Realm, wanting to return to the Normal World.

How can this be allowed? I am merely making her return to her original, proper form."

"So, this is the reason you, this guy, hinted multiple times at School that I killed people, and even attacked Broly last night?"

Ryougi Shiki asked.

"I didn't hint at you; some people really were killed by you."

Bai Chun Li Xu grinned.

The next moment, this person took a slap.

Several teeth were blown away.

"Confess honestly. The bloodied towels and knife in the Ryougi Family, were they done by you?"

After the boy finished slapping, he spoke with a somewhat ferocious air.

Ryougi Shiki's Happiness Value had decreased because of this.

Bai Chun Li Xu wanted to rebut, but sensing the boy's rather direct Killing Intent.

Worried that lying would get him beaten to death directly, he confessed honestly.

"It was me. The purpose was to let her know..."

Bai Chun Li Xu's words weren't finished before being interrupted by the boy.

"Your purpose doesn't matter."

"Right, Ryougi Shiki, you actually won't kill people unconsciously."

Broly said happily to the kimono girl.

"Mm."

Ryougi Shiki looked at the boy's happy appearance and nodded at him.

After knowing someone had framed her, her Mood had already relaxed.

The Spiritual Anxiety of originally worrying she might unconsciously harm those around her directly vanished.

"Since that's the case, I'll call the Police now."

Having figured out the situation, Kanata took out his Phone.

"Although he was beaten like this by you, I have a detective uncle; if I explain the situation to him, he will definitely understand."

Broly's casual slap was not light; half of Bai Chun Li Xu's face swelled up. Legally, a Murderer also has Human Rights, but this point can be flexible.

"You plan to have the Police arrest this person?"

The call wasn't dialed, because the kimono girl stopped him a Step Ahead.

"He committed a crime; we don't have the authority to enforce the law. Letting the Police who possess law enforcement authority sanction him — isn't that a Naturally matter?"

Kanata looked at the kimono-clad girl with some confusion.

"Kanata, you're right, but what if I don't want to let this person off so easily?"

"Vigilante justice is wrong; he killed so many people, the death penalty is certain, there's no need to do this."

Kanata began to persuade her.

"Kanata-kun, perhaps you don't know, but before this, Shiki had already prepared to sacrifice herself, and the one who made Shiki make that decision was a guy who created the illusion of a killing impulse in me, making me feel incomparable anxiety.

If Broly hadn't caught this person last night, and if we hadn't learned the truth from this person's mouth right now, I might have really lost Shiki, you know?"

Ryougi Shiki's voice was very gentle, and there was no serious expression on her face, yet one could very obviously feel that she was angry.

"But such a terrible thing hasn't happened yet, right?"

"Just because it didn't happen doesn't mean it doesn't exist; I was just comparatively lucky, but that's not a reason to forgive him."

"The law will punish..."

"Legal punishment cannot appease my anger; Shiki is a personality that has accompanied me since birth; although her existence always reminds me of my incompatibility with normal society, she is still the person closest to me, my brother, my sister, an important part of myself, the one named Ryougi Shiki."

The girl closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, there were red and blue lines in her eyes; now that killing intent was clearly produced, her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception upgraded; the blue lines are the Color of the Garan Hole, and the red lines are the Death Line of All Things.

"If the previous killing impulse was merely an illusion produced by the anxiety he brought me, then my current killing impulse is, without a doubt, a genuine emotion produced by me, the personality named Ryougi Shiki."

Shiki did many things she was unwilling to do for her.

Now, it should be her turn to do what she can for Shiki.

"I will kill him."

Ryougi Shiki declared as such.

The small knife she carried with her was just suitable as a murder weapon.

"Move aside, Kanata."

"I can understand your anger, but killing a person just to vent anger, even if this person is a murderer, is also wrong; I cannot move aside, because I cannot watch you become..."

"Ugh..."

Before Kanata could finish speaking, his abdomen took a punch from the kimono-clad girl.

Ryougi Shiki's fist strength wasn't great, but caught off guard, it still turned him into a bowing shrimp.

"Don't become... a murderer..."

He tried to grab Ryougi Shiki's hand, but was intercepted by Broly.

"She's decided, you just don't stop her, otherwise, be careful I'll beat you too."

"You're not going to stop her?"

Kanata had no choice but to look at Rin Tohsaka and the other girls.

"Why stop her? Ryougi is just repaying grudges for grudges, hatred for hatred."

Kanata's thinking, Rin Tohsaka couldn't quite understand, and she firmly stood on Ryougi Shiki's side.

Little Sakura and the other girls were the same, because they are companions, and they are all Brother Broly's wives.

"Kill me, and you'll become like me, start craving slaughter, and ultimately turn into a murder demon."

Bai Chun Li Xu twisted on the ground, trying to distance himself from the approaching knife-wielding girl, but upon discovering his twisting speed wasn't faster than the girl's approach, he rolled over and said this to the kimono-clad girl.

Falling into police hands, there might still be a chance to escape before execution, but dying now means really dead.

Creatures have instincts; survival is one of them; upon discovering Ryougi Shiki really intended to kill him, he was now seeking survival.

"Isn't this the development you expected? Letting me return to the abnormal realm?"

Ryougi Shiki refuted.

Hearing this, Bai Chun Li Xu was stunned for a moment.

This was indeed what he expected.

"The abnormal realm is a very terrifying thing; one always feels incompatible with common people; even walking on a lively street, there's a feeling of being alone; hey, Ryougi, aren't you afraid?"

Bai Chun Li Xu's expression changed for a while, finally turning into the panic he showed when he first killed, making it impossible to tell if he was faking to survive or expressing true feelings.

"Afraid; the feeling of being alone is indeed unpleasant, but I have never been alone.

Before, Shiki accompanied me, and now there are even more friends by my side, and I already know they will tolerate my abnormality.

So, I don't know what your fear is, but whatever it is, it's already going to end."

The girl squatted down, raising the knife in her hand.

"Ah, this way I can be freed from the abnormality too, right?"

The knife fell; Bai Chun Li Xu, bound by iron chains, had his body muscles suddenly inflate, but still couldn't struggle free of the bindings; his beast-pupiled eyes could only watch death's arrival.

Death line severed.

Life ended.

Holding the bloodied knife, Ryougi Shiki's breathing became heavy.

Depriving life for the first time, she had some reaction.

"Geez, this kind of thing, just let me do it."

And the next moment, the abnormal reaction disappeared; Shiki looked at the corpse on the ground with some helplessness.

Things Shiki hated doing before were all left for her to do.

Didn't expect this time she refused to come out and take over, but did the thing she disliked herself.

The girl's mouth corner hooked up, revealing a shallow smile; Shiki's mood was somewhat pleasant.

And compared to the girl's pleasantness, Kanata, who had recovered from the punch, was somewhat sad.

Because he failed to stop the girl from becoming a murderer.

Looking at Kanata squatting on the ground looking somewhat self-reproachful, Rin Tohsaka comforted him with a sentence.

"One who has awakened their Origin cannot be said to not be human, but obviously those who already kill and eat people cannot be human, but are the so-called demons."

"The Ryougi Family used to be a famous Demon Hunter Family; Ryougi Shiki killing those guys on the ground, strictly speaking, doesn't count as murder, but as demon hunting — this is her family's hereditary business."

"Humans and demons, I don't understand that, but I know Ryougi did a terrible thing."

Kanata shook his head.

"Terrible?"

Broly looked at the Crystal Palace Panel, at the girl's Happiness Value still rising, somewhat puzzled.

"Kanata, if you have a guilty conscience, just go ahead and call the police to arrest me; I'll take responsibility for this matter."

At this time, Shiki Ryougi (Weaving Personality) said carefreely; she wasn't afraid of the police.

"The police must be called, but this isn't your fault; I'll explain clearly to my uncle, and before that, we have to handle the scene, at least make it look like we are the victims, that we killed the serial killer in self-defense..."

"Eh, don't you think killing is wrong?"

"Killing is of course wrong, but it's already done, what else can we do."

Although Kanata stopped Ryougi Shiki from killing, he isn't someone who can't distinguish right from wrong; under the circumstances where things have come to this, the boy took out his past experience reasoning criminal cases, yet skillfully handled the scene situation.

"This way, we were saving kidnapped children, and in the struggle with the murder suspect, accidentally killed the culprit."

Watching Kanata skillfully command Broly to lie down, rearranging the scene inside the Abandoned Factory, everyone felt his contrast was too great.

"No, Azaka, your brother can't accept killing for revenge, but can accept harboring a criminal?"

Watching Kanata teaching Broly what to say in his statement, Rin Tohsaka leaned over to Kokutou Azaka and asked.

"My brother is like this; when I made a mistake as a child, he took the blame for me, and also silently made up for my mistakes."

Kanata called the police; the police arrived here very quickly, and upon seeing a fridge full of meat chunks, were shocked, but didn't suspect anything.

The team leader was his uncle Qiu Ci Da Su, and Kanata then told the story of the boy being kidnapped, them discovering it, coming out to search, finally finding their way to the Abandoned Factory, having some conflict with the serial killer inside, and finally accidentally killing the culprit.

"What you say sounds just like storytelling, but as long as the meat in the fridge is confirmed to match the DNA of victims from multiple bizarre dismemberment cases, and the dead guy is confirmed to be the culprit, then his death isn't an issue, regardless of whether you killed intentionally or by negligence."

"You figured it out?"

"You're okay at criminal reasoning, but the scene arrangement is a bit too deliberate; tonight I'm going to your home to mooch a meal, you'd better honestly explain the whole situation clearly."

Qiu Ci Da Su patted Kanata's shoulder; regarding his trust in Kanata, he did not treat Ryougi Shiki, who openly negligently killed Bai Chun Li Xu, as a criminal suspect.

However, taking a group of people back to the police station to record statements was still necessary; only not long after, the Ryougi Family sent lawyers, and brought out the group of people who had come.

For the Ryougi Family Head, upon learning it wasn't the daughter randomly killing people, but just killing a culprit who framed her, settling the police was completely not a problem.

"One Ryougi Family, one Xian Shang Family, and one that can even make the higher-ups call, the faraway Tohsaka Family..."

Right, with these connections, as long as it's confirmed the multiple dismemberment cases and the group of girls and boys brought in for statements are unrelated, then even if today's dead guy was intentionally killed by them, it's fine."

"That Kanata kid, how does he know so many well-connected friends?"

Qiu Ci Da Su couldn't figure it out no matter how he thought.

"The Killing Impulse problem is already solved, it was a misunderstanding; still going to see the expert this afternoon?"

Leaving the police station it was already noon; while eating lunch at a restaurant, Karen curiously asked Ryougi Shiki.

"We already agreed, and can't tell Miss Aozaki about refunding money; I feel we should still go take a look."

Ryougi Shiki originally wanted to say no need, but hearing Rin Tohsaka say this, she didn't refuse.

During this, Kanata inquired about the matter of demons.

After lunch, he took the initiative to propose leaving, saying he was going to find his detective uncle to explain clearly.

"Although the matter is bizarre, he just likes bizarre cases; I'll go tell him, and it can also let him know we are innocent."

"Azaka, aren't you going with your brother?"

"No, I want to accompany you guys to see that Origin expert."

Broly went to deliver lunch to Fujimura Taiga; Rin Tohsaka and the others went to Garan no Dou first.

And at Garan no Dou, Aozaki Touko held tea, placing it before a man with a stern face.

"Araya, have you stepped into the Realm you wanted to reach?"

Aozaki Touko asked.

"Not yet, but soon, very soon I'll get the answer in my heart."

Araya Souren answered this question, then countered with a question.

"What about you, Aozaki, are you going to take that final step?"

"Heh, I have no interest in hiding inside a Barrier for a lifetime before reaching the Root."

As a First Class Puppeteer, Aozaki Touko is actually only one step away from reaching the Root.

But if she really takes that step, without a doubt, she will be targeted by the Two Great Suppressive Forces.

This Puppeteer young lady has no interest in being Sealing Designated while also provoking the Counter Force's targeting.