I don't want to be an elf!

After making the last stroke on the paper, Nia Honjo put down her brush and let out a long sigh of relief.

"It's finished, finally finished."

With tears welling up in her eyes, she looked at the final volume of "The Silver Bullet," which was over two hundred pages long, and felt a surge of accomplishment.

This sense of accomplishment even surpassed that of completing the main quest of the previous world.

She has been in this world for three and a half months.

In other words, Honjo Nia updates her posts almost every day at a rate of two per day.

Two pages a day!

This is really not easy!

She handled everything herself, from the characters and background to the lines and composition!

To perfectly portray the persona of a hardcore otaku manga artist, she didn't even dare to hire an assistant, completing all the work by herself.

Now that the comic is finally finished, the most important part of the role-playing process has been completed, and the final role-playing evaluation will definitely be at least an A.

"Congratulations, Ms. Honjo."

Beside her, Shou Xia Shi, who had been abducted two months ago to work as a secretary at the shelter, said expressionlessly, "Do you need me to contact a publishing house for you?"

"Can I still find my previous publisher?"

"According to my search, your former publishing house disappeared shortly after the start of the Cataclysm."

"Then let's just pick one."

"I understand."

Having completed this important task, Honjo Nia relaxed completely, lying on the chair like a limp rag, looking like she didn't want to move at all.

"Goo..."

Then, my stomach began to protest with hunger.

"Now that I think about it, I don't think I ate anything last night." Honjou Nia rubbed her stomach. "Xiaxia, could you go to the kitchen and get me something? I don't want to move."

"I should have prepared dinner yesterday."

"Have it?"

"I left it at the door."

"But when I went out this morning, I only saw an empty plate."

"Then someone probably stole it. Also, don't wait until morning to get your dinner, Ms. Honjo." Suzuka stood up with a slightly helpless expression. "Not eating on time is bad for your health. If you don't make it a habit, you'll be more prone to illness when you get old."

"Aaaaaah, ugh, ugh!" Nia Honjou covered her ears. "Are you my mom?"

“I understand that it’s shameful for an adult to be lectured by a twelve-year-old, but for an adult to maintain such a slovenly and irregular lifestyle, Ms. Honjo should feel even more ashamed,” Kotobuki said mercilessly. “She drinks during the day, works all night, doesn’t eat when she should, doesn’t sleep when she should, doesn’t wash her own dishes, and doesn’t know how to dispose of empty bottles. Before I came here, I couldn’t imagine how Ms. Honjo took care of herself.”

“Why not just leave this to Nini?” Nia Honjou said matter-of-factly. “Otherwise, what would I do with that daughter?”

“Sigh, I used to envy Nibekol a little…” Shou Xia Shi sighed, “Distance really does make the heart grow fonder.”

Two months ago, when Shou Xia Shi was still working at her old company, she was working with her old partner, Ikuma Shoken.

Although she was used as a tool, she was still much better off than most of the cursed children, and she had no complaints about this life.

But for some reason, the company boss, who always had a cold face in front of the cursed children, suddenly smiled and wanted to meet her and transfer her to a cursed children's shelter in the outer district.

Although it was called a discussion, Shou Xia Shi actually knew that he had no choice.

As for any shelter, she had never heard of it and didn't believe such a thing could actually exist; she only used this reason as an excuse.

She had originally thought that she was to be executed by her superiors because of the recent excessive increase in the rate of erosion. She had even made preparations and took a car to the outer area without resistance.

Unexpectedly, a shelter built for the cursed children appeared in the outer area at some unknown time. There, she met Nia Honjou, who had helped her before, and became the financial manager of the shelter.

However, the financial management job is quite easy. It's just managing a shelter with fewer than 100 people. Compared to my previous job, it's practically a retirement life.

As for the rest of her time, she spent almost all of it taking care of Nia Honjo.

After spending these two months together, the image of the mysterious and holy nun, the kind and compassionate police officer, and the wealthy and powerful philanthropist in her mind was completely shattered.

Shou Xia Shi even sometimes wondered if this guy would starve to death at home if no one was around to take care of him.

Because the church refrigerator had nothing but beer!

I used to feel a little pity for Nibekol because he was stupid, but now it seems that if I want to take care of Honjou Nia, it's better if he's a little stupid.

Being too smart can make your blood pressure rise from anger!

During these limited days, seeing countless empty wine bottles scattered on the ground and Honjou Nia sleeping soundly half-naked, Toshikazu felt that her blood pressure was about to exceed its limit before the rate of erosion reached its limit.

"Food, I'm hungry," Nia urged.

"Don't rush me, I'll go right now."

Shou Xiashi put down the manuscript in his hand and walked towards the shelter.

However, when she opened the door, she saw another cursed child standing in the doorway.

He looked like he was about to knock on the door.

"Hiruko, what's the matter?" Sukatsu asked.

“Someone’s driving up. They’re a friend of the master. Should we let them in?” Hiruko Kohina asked.

"Hmm, Mr. Satomi and Ms. Tendo?" Suzuka guessed. "Let them in."

"Ok."

Hiruko Kohina nodded and turned to walk towards the iron gate of the shelter.

Only after Hiruko Kohina left did Suzuka's tense muscles relax.

She knew Hiruko Kohina's identity, as well as the identity of her father.

She had also attended the Ministry of Defense meeting where Hiruko Kagetane had caused such a ruckus.

Upon arriving at the shelter and learning that Honjou Nia had allowed such a dangerous person to remain there, her first reaction was to ask Honjou Nia to take her to the government.

However, since the oblivious Nia Honjo didn't care at all, she had no choice but to give up.

Even now, she still doesn't believe that such a dangerous person could lose his ferocity and truly integrate into the shelter.

Moreover, let's not even talk about how Hiruko Kagetane died because of Honjo Nia in a certain sense.

"How could someone be so heartless as to keep their enemy's child by their side without caring?"

Shou Xia sighed, muttering something like, "She's such a worry," as she walked toward the kitchen.

Five minutes later, Rentaro Satomi and his group entered the church.

"Speak, what is the reason you called us here?"

As soon as he entered, Tendo Kisara, yawning, got straight to the point and asked the question, looking too tired to chat.

“You have come at just the right time.”

While drinking a beer she had just taken out of the refrigerator, Honjou Nia patted the chair next to her and said, "Sit down, don't just stand there. I have something good to show you."

"New intelligence?" Kisara Tendo immediately perked up. "Who are we going to deal with this time?"

There is an agreement between Tendo Kisara and Honjo Nia.

In exchange for Nia joining the company, they obtained damaging information and evidence about the five people in Tendo's family who murdered Tendo Kisara's parents.

So far, Kisara Tendo has successfully killed two of his five enemies.

The first one is the black glove of the Tiantong family, which is used to carry Tiantong Xuanzhuo, who does the dirty work for the family.

The second is Cheon Dong Hee-min, who belongs to the government's finance department.

During the period when the Holy Emperor was stirring up trouble in the government, Tiantong Ximin was also brought down and exposed by the media.

Seeing that the situation was beyond repair, the Tendo family had no choice but to protect themselves by sending their family member, who held an important position in the government, out of the Tokyo area, waiting for an opportunity to make a comeback in the future.

However, Hirotoshi Tendo was unable to leave the Tokyo area.

After learning of Nia Honjo's escape route, Kisara Tendo alone blocked the highway in the outer district with his sword and killed his enemy.

Having tasted the sweetness of revenge once again, Kisara Tendo began to look forward to the next operation day and night.

Feeling the eager gaze from Tendogi, Honjou Nia drank another beer and said slowly, "Uh, no, I invited you here this time to show you my final volume."

"The final volume?" Tendo Kisara was taken aback. "What final volume?"

“The final volume of Silver Bullet,” Nia Honjou said matter-of-factly. “You haven’t forgotten that my main job is as a manga artist, have you?”

Tendou Kisara's eye twitched, and he said with a forced smile, "This is the 'big deal' you mentioned when you sent the message?"

"Isn't this a big deal?"

"What the hell?! Who cares if you're drawing manga or not at a time like this?!" Kisara Tendo exclaimed in frustration. "Do you know how busy I've been lately? Thanks to that Aldebaran that's corroding the monolith, the whole of Tokyo is incredibly busy right now, and you're telling me you've been drawing manga these past few days?!"

Three days ago, the Tokyo military discovered unusual signs of Gastrea activity outside the megalith.

Initially, only a few high-ranking military and government officials knew about this, and no one intended to leak it out, otherwise it would cause unnecessary unrest.

However, for some reason, multiple media outlets learned about the incident and dispatched helicopters to the scene to investigate.

If you don’t check, you won’t know. If you check, you will be shocked.

In the unexplored areas outside the monolith, the density of Gastrea increased exponentially; the media were so frightened by the mere few videos they filmed that they fled back.

These videos were naturally seen on television by all Tokyo residents, who were terrified, and the social atmosphere became tense.

As for who leaked this information to the media, Nia Honjo and the others knew.

Naturally, it is Tendou Kiku no Jo.

His plan to summon the Zodiac using the relics of the Seven Stars failed, and he seized this rare opportunity to spread restlessness and panic throughout the city.

Even though no one knew whether this was a natural gathering of Gastrea or a coincidence, thanks to Kikunojo Tendo's deliberate propaganda, people believed that the Gastrea were about to invade.

Then, the Gastrea were really about to invade.

Aldebaran, originally a stage four gastrula belonging to the constellation Taurus in the zodiac, appeared on the megalith.

This is a Gastrea whose fame is not much less than that of the Zodiac. Although it is only at stage four, it has a very high self-healing ability and can also produce corrosive chromium liquid and secrete pheromones to control mindless Gastrea to fight for it.

This threw the entire city of Tokyo into complete panic.