Chapter 2444: ?A Future's Snake of the Festival Shana? Two New Members Have Joined the Guild

Hearing the guild's notification chime, Aizen's expression didn't change in the slightest.

He lightly clenched his hand.

A black prism suddenly thrust out from midair, directly locking the Snake of the Festival's body in place.

Immediately after, he stuffed the Snake of the Festival together with the black prism into the Rulegong Society's warehouse.

Turning around, Aizen took only a few steps before appearing in front of Su Han and the others.

"No one's fighting you for the Snake of the Festival's body! What's the rush?"

Su Han said softly.

"I only locked down the Snake of the Festival's energy, that's all!"

Aizen chuckled and shook his head. "After all, the longer the Snake of the Festival lives, the more its power dissipates... once it spreads to a certain extent, its research value won't be much anymore."

"... I always feel like Aizen has turned into some perverted researcher like Orochimaru now!"

Bai Jing Heizi muttered, "Way too different from how he acts in Bleach."

Being in Academy City, and having finished the memory copy of the A Certain Magical Index series,

Bai Jing Heizi doesn't have much goodwill toward... researchers.

After all, even though the Misaka sisters incident had Aleister as the mastermind behind the scenes, it was ultimately Academy City's researchers who carried it out.

"You're wrong,"

Aizen shot Bai Jing Heizi a deep look. "My goal has never changed from start to finish! And that is to become stronger.

But if you want to become strong enough! Simply cultivating blindly is useless.

You also need to understand! To see it through.

Only then can you become stronger at the fastest speed."

"The reason I like researching now is simply because research lets me become stronger faster! In the end... touching the Throne of Heaven above all worlds."

Speaking of his own pursuit and dream, a glint of fervor surfaced in Aizen's eyes.

"However! No matter how strong you get, you still can't beat the Guild Master."

Bai Jing Heizi spread her palms open.

Very directly dousing Aizen with a bucket of cold water.

Aizen: "..."

He knew Bai Jing Heizi wasn't wrong! But couldn't Bai Jing Heizi say something nicer for once? "This time we got 200,000 points! Same old rules, distribute according to the guild's allocation."

Su Han casually sent the points as a red packet to the many members present, then stretched his lazy back. "Mission complete! Time to slip away now."

But before he could even move, a low voice rang out.

"Are you the Guild Master who named Shana... and has taken such good care of her?"

Su Han was briefly stunned, then looked at the Heavenly Punishment Pendant hanging on Shana's chest and shrugged. "... If you know the details, you should be able to tell that Shana's name wasn't given by me."

"... No! The current Shana hasn't met Yuji Sakai.

And the so-called memory copy... was issued by you. In my heart, Shana's name was naturally given by you.

The Heavenly Punishment God paused briefly, then said sincerely, "Thank you all... truly, thank you so much."

Even as one of the Three Gods of the Crimson World, the Heavenly Punishment God had his own pride.

But he was still deeply grateful to Su Han, keeping his posture very low... because he knew very well that without the appearance of Su Han and the others, Shana would have died for certain.

"No need! This is what I should do."

Smiling and waving at Shana and the Heavenly Punishment God, Su Han then closed his eyes and clicked submit mission.

Brilliant radiance swirled around his body, and Su Han along with the group vanished in an instant.

Shana, left behind, was silent for a long time, then turned her head to gaze at the city.

She bit her lower lip.

Just as the Heavenly Punishment God was worried that something had gone wrong with Shana's state of mind, Shana leapt down from the top of a skyscraper.

"... What are you going to do?"

Shana, who had casually undone the Fūketsu, said in a curt, blunt manner: "Find a shop! Get a bun."

"..."