Chapter 203: Identity Exposed

Was it Sianjie Sha?

Higashio...

Mentioning Higashio made Li Gui feel guilty; she had killed people in that incident too, but secretly, and not many—just a few to whet her appetite—unlike Sianjie's massacre, yet she was indeed a participant.

"I shouldn't have left any evidence," Li Gui muttered, worried whether the cameras had captured her killing.

Back then, she didn't understand this world well enough; though she could absorb memories by eating people, she only knew cameras existed, not where exactly they were placed, so she had to scout and avoid them herself—what if some were hidden?

Who knows if some pervert had installed a pinhole camera on the street?

If there was a pinhole camera and she hadn't noticed it, and she got filmed, her identity would be exposed.

"You can't kill people in this world—there are too many cameras, and even if you dodge street surveillance, you might still be caught by dashcams or other passing vehicles; there are too many possible evidence trails."

Li Gui sighed.

Li Gui's muttering was seen clearly by Kamikawa Mitsu, far away in the apartment.

He knew she had gone to Higashio every day for several days, and he took this seriously, wanting to see exactly what Li Gui intended to do.

Honestly, with his current strength, killing Li Gui would take a moment—she couldn't resist even if she tried; the gap was too vast. Logically, as a Xu Mo who had killed countless people, she ought to be eliminated to prevent her from going berserk and causing a major disaster.

But he didn't do it.

Simply because keeping her alive was more useful than killing her; in some of his scripted scenarios, she had a role.

That's why Kamikawa Mitsu kept her—not out of fear, nor out of lust, but because she had utility.

In the following days.

Kamikawa Mitsu and Li Gui continued chatting daily.

This morning.

Kamikawa Mitsu woke early, instinctively picked up his phone, and checked the message Li Gui had sent.

【Good morning, saber smile. jpg】

Kamikawa Mitsu sent her a message in return.

【Morning, Emiya Shirou smile. jpg】

He stepped out of his room, knocked on Kamikawa Chie's door, and called for her to wake up.

"Chie, get up quickly—it's the last day before winter break. After today, you can sleep in all you want, so get up now."

"Oh~ coming, Nii-san."

Then Kamikawa Mitsu began washing up and preparing breakfast.

Just as he finished preparing breakfast, Kamikawa Chie came out of the bathroom into the living room.

"Chie, stop staring at your phone all day—it's too much..."

Kamikawa Mitsu, seeing her glued to her phone, couldn't help scolding her, not wanting her to become a phone addict.

Before he could finish speaking, Kamikawa Chie suddenly screamed.

"Oh my god!!"

Before Kamikawa Mitsu could react, Kamikawa Chie spun around, her delicate face filled with disbelief and shock, and blurted out to him:

"Nii-san!! Are we really descendants of Ashiya Douman?!"

Kamikawa Mitsu's motion of plating the fried egg froze.

Without hesitation, filled with excitement, Kamikawa Chie rushed toward him, shoved her phone screen in his face, pointed at the content, and chattered incoherently:

"Nii-san, oh my god, look, look—there are so many posts about us online! Someone dug up our ancestral roots and found out we're descendants of Ashiya Douman!"

Kamikawa Chie's face flushed red, her big dark eyes sparkling as if light would burst from them.

Her hand holding the phone trembled—not just her hand, but her legs stomped the floor, her whole body shook, utterly exhilarated; anyone seeing her would think she'd won a hundred million yen.

"It came true—no, no, I was right!"

As she spoke, a smug, self-satisfied little expression appeared on her face.

"See, Nii-san? I told you our family might be descendants of a fallen shrine clan—you didn't believe me! Now I was right, right? Ashiya Douman's descendants can't be worse than the Tsuchimikado family—can't we become transcendent too?"

At this point, Kamikawa Chie stuck her index finger between her lips and pouted.

"Hmm... but I promised you, Nii-san, that I'd be a good student and not become a shrine maiden or transcendent. But it's fine, fine—I'll follow your advice and not become one. I'll just be a normal student, study hard. After all, it's not some demonic-exorcising power—just prophecy."

But I'm so excited, Nii-san—I feel like I'm the protagonist, hehe.

A fallen shrine clan, a cute girl—this is totally the classic anime protagonist trope.

Not quite—the anime protagonist usually has some kind of cheat ability besides their background. What's my cheat? Could it be this prophetic ability? I just guessed, and our family turned out to be shrine descendants—could this be my cheat? Whatever I say comes true.

At this moment, she was like a little machine gun—tatatata—chattering nonstop, as excited as a child.

Then, as if realizing Kamikawa Mitsu hadn't spoken, she suddenly had a bizarre thought, hugged his arm with both hands, and beamed a sweet smile:

"I only guessed one thing right—it doesn't count as a cheat, hehe. I get it now! My cheat is having an amazing, caring Nii-san."

Kamikawa Mitsu stiffened, realizing Kamikawa Chie was joking—she was just being playful, trying to flatter him.

But... Chie, you've said it right again—I really am a 'cheat.'

With the system in my hands, I am, strictly speaking, a cheat.

He pinched Kamikawa Chie's tiny nose and said:

"Always being mischievous. Let me see what's going on."

Kamikawa Mitsu had long known the Kamikawa family was founded by Ashiya Douman, and he had anticipated that this identity might one day be exposed—he just didn't know how it would happen. Now that it suddenly was, he needed to see how.

Had the Transcendent Response Department's data been leaked?

Currently, only the senior officials of the Transcendent Response Department knew the Kamikawa family were descendants of the Ashiya family.

Not long after.

"This..." After checking online via his phone, Kamikawa Mitsu froze upon learning the reason for the exposure—he didn't know what to say.

The exposure of the Kamikawa family's connection to the Ashiya family had nothing to do with Director Takahashi, Mori田 Takeshi, or the entire Transcendent Response Department—it was revealed by a netizen named "This Monk's Dharma Name is Ultraman."

The world has never lacked people who eat too much and go looking for trouble.

Such people exist in every country, and this time it was a bored netizen who, after the gods returned and learned of their existence, came to believe the late Wang was no ordinary figure, convinced every video he filmed must hold hidden significance.

As everyone knows, the late Wang's first video had nothing to do with the transcendent, yet the netizen's curiosity and thirst for discovery led him to suspect the first video concealed something transcendent—and if any single video looked most like it held transcendent power, it was surely Kamikawa Mitsu.

Thus, he gathered a group of other bored netizens like himself to search for information on Kamikawa Mitsu.

The power of netizens is immense.

Through the netizen's request, this group enlisted their friends, who enlisted their friends in turn, eventually tracing Kamikawa Mitsu's ancestral home and uncovering his connection to Ashiya Dōman.

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