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Chapter 1436: Scheme against each other (black pork ham tastes good)

 “Brother, I’m back.”

When Shajiuye opened the door of the office, she was filled with joy. After all, she could finally see Duanmuhuai. Although it was just a Golden Week holiday, for Shajiuye, it had been a long time since he had seen her.

"I also bought you a lot of souvenirs... Meijia also asked me to bring you a gift... Huh?"

 “Ah, you’re back.”

However, the person who came out to answer the door surprised Shajiuye.

 “Satori-san?”

Looking at Mianmu Saotiao, who came to greet him with a bright smile on his face, Shajiuye was in a daze for a moment, and even wondered if he had gone to the wrong place.

 “Why are you here?”

“Because Satori thinks it’s more fun to be around the teacher?”

　　　　???”

Hearing Mianme Satori's casual answer, Shajuye looked confused, but soon, she saw two other people sitting - only a beautiful girl with silver hair and a gray dress was sitting in front of the bar. While making coffee, on another sofa nearby, a blond girl hugged a bear doll, curled up and stared uneasily.

 “Uh…this is…?”

At this moment, Shajiuye's mind was full of questions. Although the appearance of Mianmu Zuotiao surprised her, as one of the Five Swordsmen, it was not surprising that she had an intersection with Duanmu Huai. But those two girls confused Shajiuye. He said they were guests, but the silver-haired girl was brewing coffee slowly, as if she was at home. How could she look like a guest?

And what's going on with that girl?

 “I…I’m going back to the room first.”

Shajiuye looked confused, but Shionji Yuko obviously didn't intend to get involved in these troublesome things. After all, the situation in front of her was very strange at first glance, so she decisively made an excuse and slipped back into the room.

Shajiuye was the only one standing blankly at the door. It was clear that this was his own home, but why did he feel...as if he was the guest?

But fortunately at this time, Duanmuhuai finally appeared.

"elder brother!"

Seeing Duanmuhuai appear, Shajiuye also raised his eyebrows and stared at him dissatisfied.

 “What the **** is going on?”

"Why………"

Facing Shajiuye’s dissatisfied questioning, Duanmuhuai sighed silently, but he still bit the bullet and introduced Shajiuye.

"This is Siesta. She is also a detective. I met her when I went out to solve the incident. Now she is temporarily working with us."

"I see……"

Hearing this, Shajiuye's eyes softened a lot when he looked at Shesta. The latter also raised his head, smiled slightly and nodded to her.

 “What about that girl?”

 “She…”

Duanmuhuai glanced at the blond girl curled up on the sofa again.

"Her name is Abigail Williams. For some reasons, she can only live here."

As for why this happened, Duanmuhuai could only say that Yog-Sothoth was really not easy to fool.

Originally, Duanmuhuai's idea was that as long as Yog-Sothoth was willing to help tell him where Nyarlathotep was, he would seal the girl again.

It turned out that Yog-Sothoth was not stupid. He just gave Duanmuhuai an approximate location and then told Duanmuhuai that when the time comes, it will appear again to explain the next clue.

To put it bluntly, Yog-Sothoth also knew that Duanmuhuai would definitely burn bridges across the river, so it did not even mention the whole life, in order to let Duanmuhuai keep Abigail instead of sealing or killing her. After Yog-Sothoth exited the possessed state, Abigail turned into a girl who looked weak and helpless.

 What else can be done about Duanmuhuai? He wanted to eliminate Abigail directly, but unfortunately he had to rely on her to show him the way.

 Forget it, keep it for now until Nyarlathotep is expelled.

Abigail, who is not possessed by Yog-Sothoth, seems to be a good, sensible and kind child, but to Duanmuhuai, this makes no sense. In fact, many games have this kind of development. A heroine who is kind, beautiful, gentle, and almost like an angel is revealed to be a sacrifice or substitute for resurrecting some demon or the devil, so she is hunted down.

And just when the whole world was targeting her, the male protagonist resolutely stood up and became the enemy of the world in order to protect the female protagonist. However, usually at the end of this kind of plot, the heroine will still be snatched away by the villain and then resurrected as the devil. And just when the world was about to be destroyed, the male protagonist's affectionate call awakened the female protagonist's consciousness, so they joined forces to eliminate the resurrected devil and save the world.

  Happy and congratulatory, happy and congratulatory.

Well, please note that the general game world is like this.

 But this is not the case in the sea of ​​stars.

 In fact, as a judge, players have encountered similar tasks many times. At the beginning, many players who were deeply poisoned by traditional games chose to help the male and female protagonists to make them lovers and get married. In the end, when one of them was possessed by the devil, they chose to let the other one go up and use "true love" "Awakening, thereby expelling the devil, completing a happy ending in the traditional sense. Unfortunately, that’s what they think. The problem is that this game doesn’t give you such good things.

 Basically, this situation will end in the following ways.

In the first type, when the male protagonist sees the demonized female protagonist, he becomes frightened and runs away. The female protagonist, who realizes that she has been abandoned, completely turns black, merges with the demon, and destroys the entire planet.

 The task failed.

In the second type, the male protagonist mustered up the courage to call the female protagonist, and the female protagonist seemed to have heard the male protagonist's call. She gradually returned to her original state, and then the two hugged each other and cried - and then the female protagonist bit the male protagonist off. neck and swallowed his flesh and blood. Then the devil said that the human soul had been swallowed by me. Do you think my acting looked like it? Hahaha, don't worry, you will follow in his footsteps and die together!

 Task failed.

 In the third type, the male protagonist musters up the courage to call the female protagonist, while the female protagonist hopes that the male protagonist will stay with her forever. In the end, the male protagonist who is willing to be the enemy of the world for the heroine chooses to abandon humanity and side with the heroine, so the player will face two demonized enemies - well, the devil wins twice, buy one get one free, Won Ma.

 Task failed.

So, how to protect the world from destruction?

 It’s actually very simple. As a judge, you just need to find the heroine before the devil and kill her directly. Then nothing will happen. If the male protagonist comes to stop it, then he will be killed as well.

 Without the possessed container, the devil will not be resurrected and the world will be at peace.

  Happy and congratulatory, happy and congratulatory.

 The mission was successful.

Oh, by the way, to be on the safe side, it’s best to kill the male protagonist as well, otherwise he may fall out of hatred and become an accomplice of the devil.

 So the task of eradicating evil must be done by cutting off the weeds and rooting them out.

And such missions are to warn players again and again that they are not the princes and princesses in fairy tales, they are judges. It is not their duty to expect "true love" to save the world. Their duty is to protect mankind at all costs and eliminate Threat to human existence.

The same is true for Abigail. Perhaps this weak, kind, angelic girl is showing her true nature, but the problem is that this is not important. What is important is that she is a person who can be possessed by Yog-Sothoth at any time. The container inside the body, this alone is enough for Duanmu Huai to directly obliterate it.

But at the moment, Nyarlathotep's priority is still higher than Yog-Sothoth... After all, Yog-Sothoth belongs to the people who will not offend others unless they offend me. Except for the idiots who seek death and take the initiative to die, Yog-Sothoth has no influence on mankind. Not much interest. Nyarlathotep, on the other hand, plays games with humans as guinea pigs all day long, so he must have an operation on him first!

　　If given the chance, Duanmu Huai wouldn't mind killing it directly.

 Strictly speaking, Duanmuhuai really didn’t want to cooperate with Yog-Sothoth if it wasn’t a last resort. He has never liked the kind of blabbering prophecies. Just like Duanmu Huai said before, if the future cannot be changed, then you know that the future is a waste of time. And if the future can be changed, then you know the future is also a waste of time.

And those who knew five hundred years before and five hundred years later are all neurotic, like Yog-Sothoth. Maybe he already knew all this, and even knew the result, but he didn't care. , because it knows the result, which means it will not lose... Well, Duanmuhuai is too lazy to care.

Duanmuhuai's way to deal with this kind of guy is - anyway, as long as I don't know about it, it means it doesn't exist!

To put it bluntly, this method of correspondence is a bit deceptive. It focuses on the idea that I think, therefore I am. However, Duanmuhuai said that I am a rough person and don’t like to think about things that exist and don’t exist. I don’t want to do anything that makes me think!

 So you, Yog-Sothoth, love to make plans. No matter what you plan, I will conquer the world with just one fist!

 Let’s see whether you have more ideas or I have the tougher fist!

 Just do it and you’re done!

　　……In short, that’s it.”

Duanmuhuai explained Abigail's situation to Shajiuye somewhat, but at this moment the girl was still curled up on the sofa, staring at Shajiuye with uneasy eyes like a kitten that had just been picked up. And looking at Abigail like this, Shajiuye also felt soft inside.

 “Okay...brother, I understand.”

As he spoke, Shajiuye walked up to Abigail, hesitated for a moment, and then handed over the red panda that was sleeping in his arms.

　　　　???”

Mimi was sleeping and looked confused. It was impossible for Duanmuhuai to take him with him when he went out, so Shajiuye took the red panda on vacation. At this time, it was also very tired. Originally, Mimi planned to have a good sleep, but... what does her master want to do?

　　　…………”

I have to say that the red panda is indeed a naturally cute creature. Abigail's eyes lit up when she saw the red panda lying in Shajuye's arms. She cautiously approached the red panda and stared at it. Then he looked at Shajiuye with pleading eyes and asked in a low voice.

 “Can I touch it?”

"certainly."

Hearing Abigail's request, Shajuye smiled slightly, and Abigail also stretched out her hand, placed it on the red panda's furry body, and stroked it slowly. As for the red panda, he turned his head and glanced at Abigail, then huddled up again.

It can be seen that small animals are indeed a magic weapon to bring people closer together.

Seeing Shajiuye focusing on Abigail, Duanmuhuai breathed a sigh of relief. Otherwise, he would not be able to explain to Shajiuye why Mianmu Zuotiao was at his home - even Shesta could explain it. , Shajuye may think that it is understandable that he is a colleague, but Mianmu Saotori...she has nothing to do with Shajuye.

In addition, this guy has no way to talk, Duanmuhuai is really afraid that Mianmu Zuoniao and Shajiuye will say something like "Your brother's milk is delicious" while chatting, and that will be the end of it.

 It is safer to let Shajuye and Abigail play with red pandas.

However, Duanmu Huai’s return this time is not just because the Golden Week is over, but because—the place Yog-Sothoth gave Duanmu Huai is Japan!

 In other words, Nyarlathotep is currently on this island!

 So next, finding its traces is Duanmu Huai’s most important task at the moment!