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One of them reached out and touched Asagiri's shoulder, while the other, with sharp nails extending from his black tactical glove, stabbed towards his neck.
"Innocent."
Asagiri didn't give her opponent a chance to touch her. With her right hand, she threw a rope dart that pierced the forehead of the enemy who tried to grab her shoulder, while with her left hand, she conjured an ice spear that emitted a chilling aura and pierced the chest of the clawed enemy.
In less than two seconds, the remaining Blackwatch members had already distanced themselves from him, changed their magazines, raised their guns, and pulled the triggers again, emptying the anti-spirit ammunition from their magazines.
The flashes of gunfire didn't stop until nearly five seconds later.
To the surprise of the Blackwatch members, even after switching to anti-spirit ammunition, their shots did not cause any damage to Asagiri.
"Really..."
Asagiri raised her hand, bent her index finger, and gently flicked away a metal shell casing that had landed on her shoulder. Then, she looked at the Blackwatch members, who were staring in shock and horror, and said calmly.
"That's it? What's next..."
"It's my turn now."
90
Chapter 90: War.
"What kind of monster is this...?"
The Blackwatch members gritted their teeth, feeling despair as they saw that their bullets had done no damage to "Shadow".
The next second, two of them pulled out grenades from their waists, their left arms suddenly swelled up, tearing their black tactical mobility suits apart, and they charged toward Asagiri at an astonishing speed like a truck.
"Persona, Alice".
Faced with the suicidal attack of two Blackwatch members, Asagiri simply crushed a tarot card with the "Grim Reaper" symbol on it and summoned Alice back to life.
"Could you please die for me?"
The moment Alice's sweet and lovely voice rang out, the eyes of the two Blackwatch members dimmed instantly. Before they could even pull out the pins of their grenades, their bodies, which had been halfway through their charge, suddenly collapsed to the ground. The other Blackwatch members also lost their breath, their lives instantly taken away.
Only the squad's commander remained standing there, his eyes filled with disbelief, seemingly unable to comprehend the scene before him.
"Knew it."
Seeing this happen, Asagiri seemed to have expected it and was not surprised at all.
Alice's unique skill effect has been enhanced as her mental strength has grown. The skill, which could only kill a small number of Blackwatch members with low mental strength before, can now kill most of the members of a Blackwatch squad.
The reason Alice was able to instantly kill all the Blackwatch members except for the squad commander is quite simple.
Their mental strength has decreased.
The main reason, of course, was the injection of that strange reagent. While their physical functions were enhanced, their mental state became unstable. In addition, since the start of the battle, Asagiri had been immune to all their attacks and had not even suffered a single injury, which caused their will to waver.
Simply put, the Blackwatch members have broken down.
Only the commander of this squad, who hadn't been injected with the bodily enhancement drug, was able to survive Alice's special ability, but...
They won't survive for much longer.
"Why... why are you getting in our way!?"
The Blackwatch squad commander clenched his fists upon seeing this and stared directly at Asagiri, who was standing there.
"We are acting for the higher evolution of humanity, to save this world and all of humanity. Why are you blocking our way...?"
"Oh my? Moral blackmail?"
Asagiri flashed and instantly appeared in front of the squad commander, grabbing his throat with one hand and lifting him up with one hand, laughing as she spoke.
"Luckily I have no morals, otherwise you would have really kidnapped me."
"Cough cough..."
The squad commander's face inside his tactical helmet was flushed red, and his legs were struggling. Even though he was suffocating and lacking oxygen, he still managed to draw the pistol from his waist and pull the trigger at Asagiri's chest.
"boom!!"
"I've already said, guns are useless against me."
Asagiri shook her head dismissively, looking at the Blackwatch squad commander's face, which was gradually turning purple from suffocation and lack of oxygen, and said in a flat tone.
"You can claim to be sacrificing innocent caregivers in this hospital for the good of all mankind, so of course I can kill you for my own benefit. Whose ideals are right and whose ideals are wrong? I don't care about such pointless questions at all."
At this point, Asagiri paused slightly, then snapped the other person's neck.
"Okay, it's over."
……
Meanwhile, in another area.
"over there!"
The three Blackwatch members, who had formed a battle formation, saw the red figure appear ahead and immediately raised their automatic rifles, aimed, and fired.
"Bang bang bang!"
The soldiers of Blackwatch are the elite of the elite, and they have experience in dealing with strange entities. Instead of the three of them aiming at one position and firing at the same time, they drew three lines of fire from three different angles, completely blocking Yuuki Asuna's path of advancement.
"The protection of the wind!"
Yuuki Asuna neither dodged nor evaded, but instead cast "Wind's Protection" on herself and the shimmering light in her hand. Her body became lighter and her speed increased dramatically as she charged forward into the hail of bullets.
When she was hit by the bullet, Asuna Yuuki was like Asagiri, who had bullet resistance, and her body did not sway at all. Meanwhile, Rikka Sakuragawa, who was hiding in the shadows, felt a series of stinging pains in her body, as if she had been hit by a toy gun bullet.
While Asuna Yuuki doesn't have any bullet resistance or similar abilities, she possesses a special passive skill called "Flash Blade," which increases her defense and strength stats the faster she moves.
When Yuuki Asuna is in full-speed Wind Blessing mode, she has the highest defense among the four members of the team, even surpassing Asagiri.
Her fighting style is very simple.
The best defense is offense.
Three sword flashes appeared, and Yuuki Asuna thrust out three swords in less than a second, taking the lives of three Blackwatch members.
Just then, several members of Blackwatch approached from behind Rikka Sakuragawa and Kotoko Iwanaga.
"Target found!"
Without hesitation, they raised their guns, aimed them at Kotoko Iwanaga and Rikka Sakuragawa who were standing there, and pulled the triggers.
But the next second, an astonishing scene unfolded that the Blackwatch members never expected.
The bullets fired from their automatic rifles seemed to be blocked by some invisible barrier, failing to cause any harm to Iwanaga Kotoko and Sakuragawa Rikka.
"Is your mental strength too low? You can't even see my black particles?"
What appeared to be nothing in front of the Blackwatch members was actually already covered by the black particles created by Kotoko Iwanaga, like a black barrier that blocked the hail of bullets that had just passed.
The properties of the jet-black particles are very special. Only those with a certain level of mental strength can "observe" them. However, because they were injected with the body function enhancement reagent, the Black Watch members, who should have been able to "observe" the jet-black particles, could not see the existence of this mysterious substance at all and thought they could successfully launch a surprise attack from behind.
What they failed to notice was not only the existence of the black particles, but also...
Kato Megumi appeared behind several Blackwatch members, holding a deep purple cursed dagger in her right hand and an Indian battle axe in her left. Even though her close combat skills were inferior to Yuuki Asuna and Asagiri, and even though the Blackwatch members had been injected with that reagent and their physical functions had been greatly enhanced, they were simply unable to put up an effective resistance at such close range. In less than two seconds, they were all killed by Kato Megumi.
"solve."
Seeing Kato Megumi's nonchalant expression after killing the Blackwatch members, Sakuragawa Rikka's eyes flashed with a strange light.
"I originally thought that, given your age and the personalities you've displayed, you would hesitate about killing someone, but I didn't expect..."
Kato Megumi shook her head and interrupted in a flat tone.
"The Leader said that Blackwatch is the enemy, this is war, and in war, there can be no hesitation or doubt when facing the enemy."
"That's true, but to actually do it..."
Kotoko Iwanaga raised her hand to interrupt Rikka Sakuragawa, saying nonchalantly.
"Those who couldn't do that probably died in the first phase of the dungeon, right? We're at the end of the second phase now. The fact that we've been able to clear dangerous dungeons multiple times and survive until now isn't just because of our stats."
After saying this, Kotoko Iwanaga looked at Asuna Yuuki, who had already dealt with the three Black Watch members and was walking towards her, and smiled.
"Alright, the cleaning is almost done. Let's meet Leader at the main gate of Giant Mountain Mental Hospital."
……
Ten minutes later, at the entrance of Jushan Mental Hospital.
"Leader, we're here!"
Upon hearing Kotoko Iwanaga's voice, Asagiri, who was standing at the gate, turned around, glanced at her three teammates, and nodded and smiled after confirming that none of them were injured.
"Alright, time to clear the dungeon."
Just as Asagiri, Yuuki Asuna, and the others were about to walk out of the gate of the Kyoyama Mental Hospital, they heard Sakuragawa Rikka suddenly shout.
"Wait a moment."
"Huh? What's wrong?"
Looking at the smiling Asagiri, Rikka Sakuragawa's eyes showed a somewhat complicated expression as she slowly spoke.
"What is your name...?"
"Miyamizu Mitsuha".
"what?"
Sakuragawa Rikka paused for a moment, then frowned slightly.
"That sounds like a girl's name, doesn't it? Is that really your name?"
"It's just a joke."
Asagiri first waved her hand, then pointed to Kotoko Iwanaga beside her and said with a smile.
"I am Utsunomiya Asagiri. But since you already know her name and what we look like, once we get back to the real world, a little investigation will tell you the names of the other three of us, right?"
Sakuragawa Rikka smiled slightly and shook her head.
"I don't want to do something that would make you think I'm hostile."
"What, are you afraid to eat my Supreme Magic Bullet?"
"I was really scared."
Sakuragawa Rikka nodded solemnly before speaking.
"As agreed, let's exchange intelligence."
Hearing this, Asagiri smiled and said nonchalantly.
"You already know most of the intelligence we have, right? So..."
“I’m not referring to you giving me information, but rather me telling you what I know.”
Sakuragawa Rikka looked at the four people in front of her and slowly spoke.
"As you were moving up, I used my unique talent to create a clone that reached the deepest part of the Giant Mountain Mental Hospital, which is the fifth underground level."
91
Chapter 91 The Sender of the Mysterious Email
"You've been to the fifth basement level?"
Upon hearing Rikka Sakuragawa's words, Kotoko Iwanaga became interested and asked curiously.
"Tell me first, what's the situation on the fourth basement level?"
Even without any rewards like level-up bonuses, Kotoko Iwanaga was still very interested in the secrets of the Giant Mountain Mental Hospital. After all, she was the goddess of wisdom among the supernatural, and there was no such terrifying area in the real world as the Giant Mountain Mental Hospital, which was full of eeriness and inaccessible to the living. At least she didn't know that such an area existed, so she was naturally very curious about the situation here.
"There are no mentally ill patients on the fourth basement level, nor are there any other strange entities, but..."
As Sakuragawa Rikka finished speaking, a hint of lingering fear flickered in her eyes, and she took a deep breath.
"As soon as you step into the fourth underground level, you will fall into a strange and inexplicable power. Pain and despair will come over you like a tide. I feel like my body is being torn apart. My eyeballs, internal organs, brain, and my whole body are in a burning pain. If hell really exists, then entering the fourth underground level is the most cruel punishment."
Is it an illusion?
"Do not."
In response to Kotoko Iwanaga's question, Rikka Sakuragawa shook her head and said softly.
"Rather than an illusion, it is more like a strange force in the fourth underground level that inflicts on those who enter the floor what happened there before, the pain and despair felt by those innocent people."