Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

“Oh? You call this ability Domain Expansion? Our terminology is a bit different, but what's the point of pulling me into the Reverse Side? You don't think those ordinary evil spirits can affect me, do you?”

“Ordinary evil spirits indeed cannot affect you, but…”

Sakurajima Mai, protecting Toyohama Nodoka, retreated slowly, all the way to the corner of the wall, then a hint of a smile suddenly appeared in her voice.

“She can.”

“You mean…”

Before Misa Amane could finish asking, she suddenly felt an extremely powerful and somewhat strange spiritual power fluctuation.

The next second, the wall of the dance studio was directly smashed through.

Amadeus, wearing a white lab coat, appeared. Just her stance alone made Misa Amane feel that she was a terrifyingly strong enemy.

Amadeus surveyed the scene with her beautiful blue eyes, first looking at Sakurajima Mai, then turning to Misa Amane standing there, before slowly speaking.

“She… is she the enemy?”

Chapter 495: Declaration of Contention for the World, Special Training Targeting Yukino

“Oh? You are…”

Misa Amane sized up Amadeus with interest, her voice carrying a smile, but for some reason, it gave people the feeling that some extremely twisted fervor was hidden within her soul.

“An ability user I've never seen before, are you guys hiding an ace? Interesting.”

Amadeus completely ignored Misa Amane and instead asked Sakurajima Mai again.

“Is she the enemy?”

Sakurajima Mai shielded Toyohama Nodoka behind her, replying without hesitation.

“Yes, she is the enemy.”

Amadeus nodded slightly: “Okay, I understand.”

The next second, an astonishing spiritual power fluctuation erupted from her body, and even the white lab coat she was wearing began to flutter.

“Fusion, Nue.”

“Fusion with the Soul's True Body…”

“Bang!!!”

Before Misa Amane could finish speaking, Amadeus, who had fused with the Soul's True Body, her blue eyes flashing with 0 and 1 symbols like program code, had already appeared in front of her, kicking out a devastating roundhouse kick without hesitation.

After Misa Amane was kicked by this incredibly powerful roundhouse kick, smashing through the wall and flying out of the building, Amadeus did not hesitate at all, sprouting a pair of bird-like wings on her back, and immediately flew out.

Looking at the devastated dance studio, Toyohama Nodoka's brain was about to crash.

What exactly was going on?

Misa Amane, the specially appointed instructor of her idol group… was an ability user? And… also her sister's enemy?

This was also the first time Toyohama Nodoka had witnessed a battle between ability users up close. Faced with this level of power collision, where even sturdy concrete walls were as fragile as tofu, it was already a testament to her courage that she could barely maintain her balance.

“Sister, you…”

Just then, Toyohama Nodoka noticed that Sakurajima Mai's expression was a little off, and the palm of the hand holding her forearm was already oozing with sweat. She quickly asked with concern.

“Sister, are you alright?”

“Yeah… I'm fine.”

Sakurajima Mai forced a smile and nodded, the Soul's True Body, Suzuhikohime, following behind her, even beginning to become somewhat blurred.

This was her first time using the ability of Domain Expansion. Although it wasn't a complete version like Yotsuya Miko, Futaba Rio, or even Yozora, but a semi-finished product like those evil spirits, fusing the surrounding environment with the Reverse Side, the consumption of spiritual power and stamina was still quite astonishing.

What's more, within the range of the domain created by Sakurajima Mai, there were two extremely powerful ability users engaged in battle, which made it even more difficult for her to maintain the domain.

Now, she only hoped that Amadeus could eliminate that Misa Amane before she was exhausted, otherwise, when her spiritual power was depleted and she could no longer maintain the domain, Amadeus would return to the original Reverse Side she belonged to, and then…

No one in Tokyo would be able to stop Misa Amane.

…

At the same time, on the street outside the building.

“Bang.”

Although it was already night, Tokyo was, after all, a bustling metropolis, and the dance practice room building where Toyohama Nodoka was located was in the city center, so there were still many pedestrians on the street.

Just as these people were wondering why the moon in the sky had suddenly turned scarlet, and were about to take out their phones to take pictures and record it, a figure falling from the sky crashed onto the hard ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.

“Is she dead already?”

Amadeus, with wings sprouting from her back, slowly floated down from mid-air in an extremely elegant posture, gently stepping onto the ground.

“That's… 'Kira'?”

“No way, her outfit seems different…”

“What's going on? Is this another operation by 'Mask' and the others?”

At this time, Amadeus was still wearing the same scientist's white lab coat as Kurisu Makise, only with a pure white half-face mask on her face, with four black letters on the mask.

SERN.

“I've never seen you before.”

Hearing the voice coming from the dust cloud, Amadeus frowned slightly, muttering to herself.

“As expected, it's not that simple…”

After the dust cleared, Misa Amane was still standing there unharmed, not even a speck of dust on her black gothic dress. There was no sign of injury at all, as if the full-force blow that Amadeus had unleashed in the fused state of the Soul's True Body, Nue, was just a tickle to her.

“Your abilities… seem to be more than one, not switching, but able to use them simultaneously… interesting.”

Misa Amane's voice was still so sweet and gentle, looking at Amadeus standing there with curious eyes, like a child seeing a novel toy.

“An ability user like you, who can summon two, or even more, Soul's True Bodies at the same time, I've only seen one other besides you. As expected, just like that so-called god said, this world you're in is very interesting.”

“Interesting?”

The frequency with which the program code symbols flashed in Amadeus's blue eyes became faster and faster, and the spiritual power fluctuations on her body began to become even more astonishing.

Just as she was about to continue her attack, a sudden exclamation came from the crowd in the distance.

An evil spirit, wearing tattered clothes, flowing with blood, with a ferocious face, nearly three meters tall, and wielding a blood-stained machete, seemed unable to suppress its instinctive desire to kill humans. Even though it sensed that there were two powerful ability users not far away, it still roared ferociously, “You can see me,” and charged towards the crowd.

Amadeus frowned slightly at the sight and was about to use a long-range ability to eliminate the evil spirit when Misa Amane suddenly waved her hand.

“Tear it apart, Ishtar.”

“Okay.”

Ishtar, with demonic horns, extended her white, soft palm towards the evil spirit that wanted to attack ordinary people. As she slowly clenched her slender fingers, the evil spirit seemed to be grasped by an invisible hand, without even having time to let out a shrill roar. Its body, along with the blood-stained machete, directly turned into scattered powder, then disappeared as black smoke.

Seeing this scene, although Amadeus, due to being an artificial intelligence, wouldn't have any emotional fluctuations, the level of vigilance in his heart instantly increased a lot.

Killing that evil spirit wasn't difficult, the difficulty lay in eliminating it directly from a distance of dozens of meters without generating any spiritual power fluctuations.

Such an ability... was truly too bizarre, and what was bizarre wasn't just the ability.

"You..."

Amadeus stared intently at Misa Amane standing there, and slowly opened his mouth.

"Why do you do this?"

"Why?"

Misa Amane tilted her head, seemingly not understanding Amadeus's question at first. After two seconds, she realized that the other party was asking her why she had taken action to eliminate that evil spirit, so she smiled and replied.

"Isn't this a matter of course? Evil is right in front of us, how can we not eliminate it? This world needs a god to save it, needs a revolution, and everyone in this world you are in will become believers of the god. The god protects his believers, fulfills the wishes of believers, isn't this the duty of a god?"

Misa Amane's voice was sweet and gentle, and even had a bit of playfulness, but the words she spoke, and the tone of her voice, revealed an absurd strangeness, as if...

"You guys really think of yourselves as gods..."

Hearing Amadeus's words, Misa Amane shook her head and smiled.

"Not 'think of.'"

In Misa Amane's eyes, an even stronger scarlet color emerged.

"In our world, we have already become gods."

"Alright, time is almost up."

As she said these words, Misa Amane's Soul True Body, Ishtar, began to gradually dissipate, and even her own figure began to become increasingly blurred.

"I don't have any murderous intent or anything like that towards you, after all, I haven't received an order to kill you. Before I receive the order, let's all get along happily like this. I hope the next time we meet..."

"I can see your side's 'Lovers' card. I'm very curious, who exactly will be the one who possesses the same tarot card as me."

...

Later that evening, in a hotel in Tokyo.

"You're saying... that Misa Amane only showed her power and didn't attack, and then retreated directly?"

"Yes."

Hearing Mai Sakurajima's description of what had just happened, Saki Kawasaki and Marin Kitagawa both felt a little difficult to understand.

Clearly they were enemies, but they took the initiative to retreat when they had the advantage?

"Is she scared?"

"Scared? I don't think so."

Mai Sakurajima shook her head, pursed her lips, and said thoughtfully.

"Although Amadeus's power is very strong, if it really comes to a fight, Misa Amane might not be his opponent. The three of us have all signed contracts with Yozora. If any danger arises that is enough to threaten our lives, we can summon his appearance. But Misa Amane doesn't know this, so saying that she chose to run away because she was scared doesn't make much sense."

Rio Futaba, who was also in the video call, was also trying to think, but like Mai Sakurajima and the others, she couldn't understand Misa Amane's logic. After all, judging from the behavior of Teru Mikami killing the bailiffs, the other party simply didn't care about the lives of ordinary people, let alone themselves as enemies.

At this time, Kaguya Shinomiya, who was also in the video call, but did not participate in the Sobu High School excursion, but stayed in Kyoto to handle the affairs of the Shinomiya family and the Shijo family, suddenly spoke in a flat tone.

"Isn't there ample logic to Misa Amane's behavior?"

"Eh?"

Mai Sakurajima couldn't help but ask curiously: "Shinomiya-san, can you analyze her motives?"

"Isn't this obvious?"

Kaguya Shinomiya didn't beat around the bush and directly gave her analysis.

"In Misa Amane's words, she repeatedly mentioned the two items of our world and their world, and like Teru Mikami, she also mentioned the two words god and revolution. Of course, we already know now that the god in these two people's mouths actually refers to Light Yagami on another world line."

"Their goal is not to physically eliminate us, but to eliminate... no, to directly take away our influence, that is to say, their primary goal is to spread their ideas and gain the recognition and following of the people in this world, and the second is to destroy our image."

"In that situation at the time, even if she thought she could kill Mai-senpai, there would be no benefit in doing so. After all, this morning, you had just saved the lives of thousands of innocent people, and your reputation and influence were at their peak. At this time, killing one of the assistants of 'Persona' would only arouse the public's disgust towards them, let alone spread any ideas or bring about a revolution to the world."

"Obviously, this time's enemy is similar to the Rikka Sakuragawa and Professor Reis Gining you have encountered before, and they are not hostile to us for the sake of being hostile, but are acting to achieve a certain purpose."

Speaking of this, Kaguya Shinomiya paused slightly, and then shook her head.

"I've really seen too many people like this since I was a child. On the surface, they talk about lofty ideals, but in reality, they just use everyone as tools."

"I see..."

After listening to Kaguya Shinomiya's words, Rio Futaba probably understood the reason why Misa Amane didn't choose to attack Mai Sakurajima at that time. On the one hand, she felt that there was a risk in the encounter, and there was no need to start fighting now without enough information. On the other hand, what she wanted, or rather, what Light Yagami on another world line wanted, was for the whole world to agree with their ideas, and then... to become the god of the new world.

"She said a sentence that I care about very much."

Rio Futaba raised her hand and pushed her glasses, with a heavy expression on her face.

"She said... they have already become the gods of their world... This means..."

Without Rio Futaba needing to explain, Mai Sakurajima also understood her meaning and took the initiative to speak.

"It means that she and Teru Mikami both have the blessing of faith power. This can also explain why she has such a powerful force. In the world they are in, they have already succeeded once. In Yozora's words, it's like in a game, they are graduate players who have already cleared the game."

Mai Sakurajima pursed her lips and said apologetically.

"This time my identity has been exposed, which means that everyone's identities may all..."

"Actually, there's no need to worry too much."

Kaguya Shinomiya interrupted Mai Sakurajima's words, her tone didn't sound like she was deliberately comforting her, but rather analyzing from a rational perspective.

"This time's enemy is not acting to kill us, or rather, what they want to defeat is 'Persona' and the assistants of 'Persona', not Mai Sakurajima, Rio Futaba, or Yotsuya Miko. Besides, this is our world, where we have an absolute advantage in terms of connections, funds, intelligence channels, and power. So, Mai-senpai, you don't need to apologize. After all, no one expected that you would run into Misa Amane. It was just a coincidence, and no one will blame you."