Chapter 348: The End of Saijo Yasue!

Uesugi Era Year 3, January 3rd, deep night.

Very bizarrely, in a certain place in Tokyo Metropolis Tama City, despite the sub-zero temperature, heavy rain was falling.

In the deep night, the rain poured fiercely, the entire street enveloped in a rain curtain, and in the depths of the heavy rain, a terrified soul was fleeing.

"Heh~ Hu~ Aaaah!!!!" The scream from a certain Chiba Prefecture murderer came to an abrupt halt; not far away, a Spirit Sphere tearing through the air shredded her last Residual Soul!

From then on, Saijo Yasue, this minor villain who kept returning, finally died thoroughly, dead beyond any possibility of dying again in any sense, her soul gone as well.

Immediately after, her memories unfolded before Uesugi Muneyuki.

Amidst the torrential rain, Saijo Yasue's memories surfaced, forcibly read by Uesugi Muneyuki.

Childhood memories, middle school memories, high school memories, and the memories of becoming a Cursed Grudge after suicide cost her her body.

Uesugi Muneyuki focused on investigating the events after Saijo Yasue became a Cursed Grudge, attacked Uesugi Muneyuki but was defeated, and then had most of her Cursed Grudge power seized by Hironaka Mariko.

This part of the memory was very chaotic; after being defeated by Uesugi Muneyuki, Saijo Yasue's Residual Soul fled to Kansai, and after a long period of recuperation, a person found her Residual Soul.

He bestowed upon her a new power.

That New God of Kansai?!

Uesugi Muneyuki continued searching exhaustively, and soon made a discovery.

That power was very close to the power on that Inner World Person named Takahashi Kenta that day; it appeared both were granted by the Kansai New God. After obtaining the power, Saijo Yasue returned to Kantou, sought an opportunity to commit crimes, and was finally encountered by Uesugi Muneyuki again, and slashed once more.

That Host Club enthusiast named Mano Matsuko was preparing to commit suicide; she hated this society to the core, but suffering from illness and debt bondage, she no longer had the capacity to retaliate against society. When preparing to commit suicide, her heart was filled with resentment; this extreme world-weariness and extreme hatred resonated with Saijo Yasue, so she willingly gave her body to Saijo Yasue to use without compensation. Saijo Yasue thus obtained a Synchronized Body with over 80% synchronization, and following Mano Matsuko's wish, she almost completely wiped out the Hosts of that Host Club.

"Good kill!" Village Flower Palace doesn't seem very friendly towards humans.

The soul reading Death Flashback ended here; Uesugi Muneyuki thought for a moment, then said to Arimura Hana: "Those four people that day should also have been dispatched by that Kansai person; that injection thing seems to be the key to awakening Inner World Power."

"I ate all their flesh and souls, unfortunately, the inferior races that cannot trigger resonance taste really not that great; compared to the disturbance I suffered, they're worthless." Arimura Hana still maintained that Ice Sculpture Kimono Beauty posture holding an Oil-paper Umbrella; Village Flower Palace replied casually: "As for that injection thing, that stuff is made from the New God's dead rotting corpse; it can briefly awaken a person's Inner World potential, but I don't understand the specifics either; most likely it's related to this New God's ability."

"Unexpectedly, our Kansai New God Imperial Prince is also a tomb-raiding master?" Uesugi Muneyuki thought for a while, then understood: "After all, Kansai has so many ancient tombs; it's perfectly normal for the remains of former New Gods to be inside them."

He obtained a very important clue.

First, the Kansai New God has always wanted to infiltrate his forces into Kantou, but he doesn't understand Kantou, and times have changed; even if his attack power rivals a tank, US military planes, ship cannons, and Barretts can teach him how to behave, so he dares not come over, only creating chaos and playing proxy wars.

Second, to manufacture similar injectors, he needs archaeology; perhaps I can start from the Kansai archaeological excavation line, and work together with the Metropolitan Police Department on two fronts...

"Hahahaha~ hahahahaha~" Just then, Hironaka Mariko beside him grabbed a clump of messy smoke, laughing loudly at Uesugi Muneyuki: "Look! Uesugi, that ugly man Miyahara has turned into this state, hahaha~"

One could vaguely see Miyahara Toru's ugly face emerging on the smoke's surface; the originally very ugly former Comedian had thoroughly turned into a mass of rotten flesh, layers of chins piled in the smoke, half gas half liquid, in short, extremely interesting.

After signing the Rain Contract with Arimura Hana, she healed Hironaka Mariko, but did not heal Miyahara Toru; her evaluation of human appearance was obviously influenced by "Arimura Hana" herself, tending towards the traditional samurai aesthetic of handsome men and beautiful women, disliking sleazy ugly men. So when Uesugi Muneyuki produced that Spirit Power Crystal hairpin of Shogetsuka, Village Flower Palace was slightly moved and accepted this Gift for this reason.

"............" Village Flower Palace's gaze shifted, looking at Hironaka Mariko.

The smile on Hironaka Mariko's face instantly froze; she hurriedly bowed to Arimura Hana with an awkward smile: "That, honored form, I didn't mean it! Really!"

"............ Boring." Arimura Hana roughly understood what Hironaka Mariko wanted to do, but she likewise couldn't understand Hironaka Mariko's words; she cannot comprehend human language and writing, but can roughly grasp a bit of the other party's intent through their actions.

One might wonder how is that possible? How could a high-ranking existence fail to understand a lower race?

Here we can give a chestnut — cats.

For humans, cats are undoubtedly a lower race; although they like to call them Cat Master and say Cat Combat Power Strong, in reality cats can't beat humans at all; it's just that humans stubbornly believe being scratched by a cat once counts as a loss.

Similarly, through some cat behaviors, humans can roughly understand what they want to do; for example, hungry meow meow, for example head rubbing people, for example belly exposure, and also raised tail, airplane ears, round head senile huffing extending claws.

However, cats' true language is extremely complex; for example, cats can secrete five types of pheromones from their head and anal glands, and humans spent decades barely deciphering three of them, two remain unknown to this day; the other three are respectively mating seeking, distinguishing familiar and strange existences, and safe zone markers for stabilizing emotions.

But this is only very vague general information; in reality, depending on environment, temperature and humidity, the cat's current mood, and individual differences between each cat, even the same pheromone sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, sometimes means something else; it differs for every specific cat.

Arimura Hana encounters this kind of perplexity; she can roughly understand a bit of meaning through human behavior, but she cannot understand human writing and language, and she disdains to understand — would a person have nothing better to do than keep sniffing a cat's anal glands to understand cat language?

"In any case, we've figured out some things." Mai Xuejie likewise stood in the rain; her body was still a bit sore and numb; having exposed a weakness, the National Goddess was a little submissive facing Uesugi Muneyuki, just saying in a low voice: "Don't worry, that Kansai person inexplicably lost one subordinate and three affiliated subordinates like this; he'll dare come over even less. We just need to make him Fuan Desu; time is on our side."

"Mai, regarding the closure of Kurosawa Shinai and road isolation, I'll leave it to your Kantou Shinai Alliance, Mai Xuejie." Uesugi Muneyuki nodded, smiling as he said in a low voice: "According to the Contract, we must try our best not to let her be disturbed."

"Mm, leave it to me." Mai Xuejie nodded: "There's one more thing to watch out for; besides civilian force infiltration, that Kansai person has another infiltration method, which is..."

"I understand, the Political Circle and Business Circle." Uesugi Muneyuki gazed at the rainy sky, meaningfully saying: "A little bit of supernatural power, even just a little bit, will absolutely drive those dying Old Men crazy."

Things have become interesting.

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January 4th, past 3 AM, Sakata Bridge Tower, 1802 Uesugi Residence.

Ikeda Erena tossed and turned in pain on the bed, flipping through her phone, saw the news about four Toyo University Gunma Campus Life Sciences Department Graduate Students missing during a test of courage, eyes vacant.

Can't sleep, simply can't sleep!

Damn Muneyuki! Where exactly did you go?

The Tall Beauty flipped through her phone's Communication Records; inside were only Uesugi Muneyuki's brief few dozen LINE replies and one call record.

Since after the New Year Holiday on January 1st, Uesugi Muneyuki said in the afternoon he would go to Uesugi Shinai in Yonezawa, and disappeared!

This left Erena, who originally planned to spend a sweet, lovey-dovey New Year Holiday with Uesugi Muneyuki, full of complaints.

Moreover, she had already grown accustomed to falling asleep under Uesugi Muneyuki's Pine Scent and warm skin; the result was these past few days sleeping alone, she simply couldn't sleep!

No good, without Muneyuki, I can't do it alone!

And, just three days without seeing Uesugi Muneyuki, Erena felt her body become very...

So these two days, a Super Gravity Field visibly enveloped Erena's body.

When she thought today would be another sleepless night... just before 4 AM, the Hotel Door suddenly sounded with an opening noise.

It's Uesugi Muneyuki returned!!!

Erena excitedly leapt directly from the bed, straight at the Hotel Door with a Meat Egg Scallion Chicken!

"Muneyuki! You're finally back!!!"