Chapter 99: The Void Demon Working as a Waiter?

"Wait." Director Takahashi stopped his subordinate, who was preparing to execute the order and play the video: "Go get Morita Takeshi, then play the video."

"Morita Takeshi? I seem to have heard that name somewhere. The Morita Takeshi on flight NH137?" Suzuki Kōshō hesitated for a moment.

Director Takahashi saw everyone's thoughts and said slowly:

"Morita Takeshi appeared in the video. As the person involved, he might understand the departed King from a different perspective."

"Morita Takeshi performed well in Higashi-Osaka this time; he is promising material." Minister Saitō interjected, intending to promote this capable general under his command.

Not long after.

Morita Takeshi arrived.

"Inspector Morita, I believe you know the departed King has released a new video..." Director Takahashi explained: "Watch the video with us later. Don't be stiff; if you have any opinions, say them directly."

"Hai!"

Morita Takeshi saluted, and the video began to play.

Tokyo, Japan, Arakawa Ward, Nippori, not far from Higashi-Osaka.

On the bustling street, lights were bright, colorful, with people coming and going.

It could be seen that coffee shops suitable for chatting and exchange, as well as KFC and McDonald's, were full of people watching the video and discussing supernatural monster topics.

At the same time.

In a high-end sushi restaurant, inside a private room, sat a woman so stunningly beautiful that one look made you want to move in next door and become the "neighbor Wang" next to her.

She wore a long red dress, blood-bright red, and upon appearing in the sushi restaurant, she instantly attracted everyone's gaze.

"With these legs, I could play for a year."

A customer in the shop whispered to his companion, who immediately replied with a sentence.

"I could play until my lower body is paralyzed, okay."

Everyone was focused on the woman's beauty and explosive figure, noticing none of her distracted expression.

The woman paid no attention to the wolf-like, lecherous gazes around her and ordered a private room.

Without a second word, she sat down and immediately picked up the tea the waiter had poured to drink.

Her hand was trembling.

To be precise, this devilishly beautiful woman was shaking; deep within her beautiful eyes lay intense fear, as if she had experienced something terrifying, so frightened her soul and spirit were about to flee, and she had been unsettled all the way here.

Click!

The devilishly beautiful woman noticed her hand was shaking and hurriedly reached out with her other hand to grasp the hand holding the teacup, trying to stop the tremor.

Her manner was as if she feared being seen afraid.

Unfortunately, no matter how she restrained herself, taking deep breaths or drinking tea, she could not calm down, because her hearing was incredibly sharp; even though she was in a private room with good soundproofing, she could still clearly hear the conversations of the guests in the shop, and even the quietest whispers of people on the street outside.

This hearing was no longer something a human possessed.

The content of these people's conversations was uniformly related to the supernatural and Higashi-Osaka; the more they spoke, the more excited and carried away they became, spittle flying everywhere.

It was precisely these words that made the devilishly beautiful woman unable to settle her mind, her heart pounding with fear.

Especially whenever people around her mentioned Master Konghai, or the Lord of Demons and Ghosts even more awesome than Master Konghai, Tamamo-no-Mae, the devilishly beautiful woman's heart would pound, and she became even less able to calm down.

"This world is too dangerous."

The devilishly beautiful woman murmured, thought of something, and a look of regret and anger appeared on her face; she couldn't help but curse.

"I told Xie Jie to be careful long ago, but he wouldn't listen, and now I can't even return to the Void Demon Realm, forced to stay in this terrifying world."

A sigh.

"But going back now is useless; without the Sacrificial Lord's protection, I'm definitely dead in the Void Demon Realm."

If the Six-Eyed Demon were still alive, even without looking at the devilishly beautiful woman's face, just hearing her voice and her knowing his name, Xie Jie, he would surely recognize who the devilishly beautiful woman was; was she not the companion Li Kui who came to Japan with him from the Void Demon Realm to conduct an invasion investigation back then?

Perhaps knowing she couldn't return at least for the short term, Li Kui could only find joy in bitterness and comfort herself.

"Fortunately, I didn't go with Xie Jie back then; otherwise, I would have died with him."

Unlike Xie Jie, Li Kui, who was famously cautious in the Void Demon Realm, maintained her cautious nature after arriving in Japan.

She did not slaughter indiscriminately on a grand scale; she chose to operate in secret, killing people by quietly taking them to uninhabited places, leaving no traces of the crime, unknown to gods or ghosts, with no one able to discover it.

Even when Xie Jie caused a huge disturbance in Higashi-Osaka, Li Kui did not appear; she observed from a very distant location, watching this world from the perspective of an onlooker to obtain the most perfect intelligence.

Xie Jie once said that Li Kui was even more terrifying and notorious than him, with enemies everywhere, yet she survived; the reason was her caution; even when arriving in another otherworld, even when judging this otherworld to be very low-level, she remained as cautious as ever.

From the current situation, Li Kui's caution was not wrong; at least she had not been discovered and was still alive.

"What should I do next? Find a way back to the Void Demon Realm, or settle down in this world and hide?"

Li Kui pondered her future plans.

Through her understanding, she was already clear that this world was terrifying; just those bizarre and colorful mythical supernatural beings sounded terrifying enough...

Especially when she accidentally overheard a pair of guests in the sushi restaurant discussing the supernatural of a nation named Huaguo: Gong Gong toppling the Buzhou Mountain, Pangu opening the heavens, Hou Tu creating the cycle of reincarnation; hearing these, she almost crushed the teacup in her hand to fragments from fright.

That was too terrifying.

Resurrection was already terrifying enough; the key was the cycle of reincarnation...

She decided, no matter what, she must hide her name and identity and become an invisible little mouse; after all, Void Demons were experimental white mice themselves, so becoming a transparent mouse now made no difference.

"Kill fewer people during this period; act like a human." Li Kui took a bite of sushi, and her dark eyebrows couldn't help but raise: "Eh, is the food in this world this delicious?"

Li Kui possessed a special ability: by eating the other party's brain, she could obtain the memories in their brain, provided the other party's strength was much lower than hers.

The Sacrificial Lord sent her as an invasion investigator precisely because of this ability.

Since the invasion of Japan, she had been cautious, but she had also eaten about ten people, obtaining information from Japan, understanding that this world differed from her own world in technology, daily conduct, food, and so on.

"If I want to act like a human, perhaps I should find a job?"

Li Kui knew this world had surveillance cameras, so if she had no job and kept eating and drinking everywhere, she would easily be discovered by the government; after all, since the Yunhu incident, the government had strengthened surveillance efforts, and now that the Higashi-Osaka supernatural incident had erupted, monitoring all over Japan and searching for supernatural beings would only intensify, not diminish.

Thinking and thinking, Li Kui let out a long sigh.

To think that a high-ranking member of the Profound Demon Hall like her would have fallen to working alongside ordinary people—this life is... I'm having such a hard time.

The next moment.

"Waiter," Li Kui called over a waiter: "Settle the bill."

"Alright."

The waiter turned to go settle the bill, but was stopped by Li Kui.

"May I ask, are you short on waiters here?"

"Huh?"

The waiter's mind was full of question marks, his face utterly bewildered,

Could it be...

Is this a case of eating without paying? Planning to settle the bill by washing dishes?

Then, after Li Kui pulled out the money she had taken from over a dozen slain people to pay the bill, and then asked if they needed waiters, the waiter was completely bewildered.

What's going on? Eating high-end sushi while applying for a waiter's job?

At the same time.

Tokyo, Japan, Arakawa District, an apartment.

Kamikawa Mitsu sat in the room, his gaze fixed on the window, his pitch-black eyes shimmering with profound depth, swirling with the rippling radiance of an immortal water lake, as if spanning vast distances to take in every blade of grass and every tree.

That direction was where Li Kui was located.

He was, from the Arakawa District apartment far away, watching Li Kui's every move.