Chapter 679: Each Person's Request

"Ahem, this beautiful young lady must be joking, right?" Tonomachi Hiroto said with a light cough.

"No, no, no, I am not joking at all!" Tokisaki Kurumi said with a smile.

Tobiichi Origami stared fixedly at Tokisaki Kurumi, who was leaning against Lingyun; in her memory, she seemed to have seen this girl before.

"Where on earth have I seen this person?" Tobiichi Origami muttered in her heart.

Suddenly, a flash of horror crossed Tobiichi Origami's eyes, and she finally remembered where she had seen this girl. It was the Spirit mentioned in the latest Spirit intelligence she had received. At the time, because she was in a hurry to go out with Itsuka Shido to find the Mysterious Shop, she had only given that file a cursory glance. However, the black lace-trimmed gothic lolita dress on that Spirit had left a deep impression on her.

"Night, Nightmare?" Tobiichi Origami gritted her teeth and spat out a name.

The name Nightmare was absolutely marked with the highest level of alert within the AST. According to the data passed down from above, this Spirit had at least ten thousand human lives on her hands. This was an absolutely shocking number; from this point alone, one could see the danger of this Spirit.

Tobiichi Origami did not think that the words spoken by such a dangerous person were a joke. If Tonomachi Hiroto were to agree, the other party might really wipe out everyone standing in front of him.

"Nightmare?" Itsuka Shido was somewhat puzzled. "Why would such a cute girl have such a bad name? No, this shouldn't be a name, but a codename, right? But why would such a girl have such a bad codename?"

Tobiichi Origami moved her mouth but did not dare to say the real reason. After all, the other party was not showing hostility toward them right now; if she provoked this terrifying Spirit, even with her Realizer in hand, she would not be able to protect the people present.

The thing that puzzled him most now was why Nightmare would appear in this place and seem so familiar with this shopkeeper. Did this shopkeeper even know the true identity of this Nightmare?

"Kurumi, what kind of joke are you playing with the guests!" Lingyun raised his eyebrows slightly and patted Tokisaki Kurumi on the shoulder with annoyance.

"Ahem, it's not often we see guests, so I just wanted to play a little joke on them!" Tokisaki Kurumi stuck out her tongue playfully.

Watching this scene, Tobiichi Origami could not help but start to doubt whether the person in front of her was really that murderous Nightmare. After all, if this person were truly that bloody executioner, the shopkeeper should be a corpse by now.

"Phew, so it was a joke!" Both Itsuka Shido and Tonomachi Hiroto let out a light breath.

However, Yatogami Tohka on the side had a rarely seen serious expression. Although she was usually a bit muddled and naive, her intuition was quite sharp; she could hear that the girl just now was not joking, and at the same time, she possessed the ability to do so.

"However, although Tokisaki Kurumi was joking, if you really want to become number one on that leaderboard of yours, then it seems that is the only way to do it!" Lingyun said with a smile.

"How could it be like this?" Tonomachi Hiroto felt the whole world go dark in an instant and slumped powerlessly on his chair.

"Unfortunately, we cannot accept this young man's request," Lingyun said.

"Uh, well, I have a question I'd like to ask," Itsuka Shido said with a headache, looking at Tobiichi Origami and Yatogami Tohka, who had started glaring at each other again beside him.

"Oh, what question?" Lingyun asked.

"This, I'd like to ask if there is any way to keep these two girls beside me from fighting," Itsuka Shido asked.

"Keep them from fighting? Young man, you've given me a difficult problem too!" Lingyun looked at Tobiichi Origami and Yatogami Tohka and shook his head slightly. "This is no simple matter!"

"Not a simple matter?" Itsuka Shido frowned, his tone filled with confusion.

"That's right, the difficulty of this request of yours is probably much harder than Tonomachi Hiroto's previous request!" Lingyun said.

"Uh, is the difficulty that high?" Itsuka Shido was somewhat dumbfounded.

"That's right, it's just that high!" Lingyun nodded. "The two of them, one is the Beginning, the other is the End; they are inherently opposing existences. Wanting them not to fight is a very high difficulty!"

"One is the Beginning? One is the End? What does that mean?" Itsuka Shido asked with some confusion.

"You don't need to know this now; you will naturally understand in the future!" Lingyun wore an expression of 'heavenly secrets must not be leaked'.

"Will understand in the future?" Itsuka Shido only felt as if his head had become a lump of paste, a messy jumble.

"This shopkeeper is really strange; the things he says are so inexplicable!" He could not help but complain in his heart.

"I also have a request; I wonder if the shopkeeper will accept it?" Tobiichi Origami on the side suddenly stood up and stared fixedly at Lingyun.

"Student Tobiichi?" Seeing Tobiichi Origami suddenly stand up excitedly, Itsuka Shido asked with some confusion.

"Oh?" Lingyun narrowed his eyes, already knowing what Tobiichi Origami's request was. "Let's hear it!"

"I want to know who the culprit who killed my parents back then was, and where they are now."

Given that Tonomachi Hiroto, who was unaware of the situation, was still here, Tobiichi Origami did not spell it out. But she believed that Lingyun would understand her subtext.

"It is better for you not to touch such matters now. Moreover, you cannot afford the price of the request right now!" Lingyun shook his head and said.

"Not to touch it, that's impossible!" Tobiichi Origami's tone was filled with unquestionable firmness. "I must find the culprit who killed my parents!"

"Regarding such matters, seeing is not necessarily believing; some things are ten million times more cruel than you imagine." There was a hint of warning in Lingyun's tone.

A look of bewilderment appeared on Tobiichi Origami's face; she heard an unusual implication in Lingyun's words.

"Even if there is an abyss ahead, I still want to see it!" Tobiichi Origami gritted her teeth and said. "I must find the culprit who killed my parents!"

Looking at the deep-seated hatred in Tobiichi Origami's eyes, Lingyun could not help but sigh slightly: "I have already given the warning; whether you listen or not is no longer my problem."

"You said I cannot afford the price of the request now, so if I possess that ability, will you accept my request?" Tobiichi Origami asked.

Lingyun looked at her, pondered for a while, and then nodded: "If you still persist in your actions by then, I will not refuse."

"Good, I understand!" Tobiichi Origami's expression became calm, but anyone could hear the determination in her words.