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As a result, the village chief's first question left Kerry completely bewildered.

Kerry frowned and recounted the whole story about the sewers and their late-night outing.

After listening, the village chief scratched his head.

"The sewers? I see, but I don't know much about that. Actually, it's a friend's daughter's house..."

Then the village chief talked about the house where Kerry and the others lived.

Actually, that house used to belong to another family. However, something happened. The original owners were involved in a cult attack that was very popular at the end of the last century. The whole family were cult members. At that time, the house actually had an heir. However, the Metropolitan Police Department officials at the time, considering that their mistress had nowhere to live, seized the house as part of the case and let their mistress live there, which would also make it easier for them to meet.

However, after the turn of the millennium, the official was investigated and punished again. In order to suppress such a scandal, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government simply made it a reality, reclaimed the property and auctioned it off at a low price, so that the previous owner could obtain it and renovate it.

The previous homeowner was the orphan daughter of one of Kappa's old friends, but unfortunately, she also disappeared after a while.

"Missing? Then why is the version I heard that was suicide?"

Kerry asked the village chief.

How would I know?

The kappa spread its hands, looking completely innocent.

“I bought it because it was my friend’s daughter’s former residence, and I gave it to you since you had nowhere to live.”

"Are you sure you haven't heard any rumors about ghosts?"

Kerry looked at the kappa with some distrust.

"Okay, actually I've heard of it, but aren't you experts in this area? It's good that you've solved this problem, otherwise it's just sitting empty... Waaah! Glug! Glug!"

Kerry pushed the kappa's head back into the water.

The blonde girl who had been confronting Kerry earlier leaned closer curiously.

"Won't the village chief die doing this?"

"Isn't he a kappa? I'm leaving now. Kappa, you should keep your head wet, so massage it a little longer."

"oh oh!"

After the girl took over Kerry's job and continued to push the sluice gate's head into the water, Kerry left Arakawa.

This trip wasn't entirely fruitless, but it certainly didn't make any progress in addressing the current situation.

Although telling that bastard Kappa should reduce the number of ordinary people going to the sewers, it's still impossible to figure out what caused the rats in the sewers to mutate. Kerry saw ordinary rats when he went down there.

And what exactly are your neighbors hiding?

When he arrived at his doorstep, Kerry looked around his house; all the lights were now off.

It seemed that the two men had rested, as he touched the meat cleaver at his waist.

Kerry did not choose to go inside.

Let's kill as many as we can; Kerry won't force the two of them to rest.

He also deeply felt the exhaustion and mental oppression that followed the killing and fighting.

Looking at the sky through the myriad lights of the city under the night sky, based on the moon's position and the constellations, it should be 1 a.m. Tokyo time.

However, Kerry, who was only relaxing his mind, was too lazy to actually rest.

Kerry opened the door, went to the bathroom, and grabbed the bird head mask that had been washed but not yet dried. He was a little puzzled as to why he had left his own behind. He gently closed the door and headed straight for the street corner.

"Well, even if it can be prevented, it's better to kill one at a time. After all, it wouldn't be good if they came out of the sewers and bit an ordinary person."

"Even if I die, my status will refresh, so why bother sleeping?"

"Kirito, I didn't realize you, a social butterfly, were so responsible. Good, young people should keep up this momentum."

The speaker was not Kerry, but two people wearing bird-head masks at the sewer opening, one of whom was using a hook to pull up the manhole cover.

Both of them were taken aback when they saw Kerry.

"Huh? You wouldn't be thinking of killing monsters and leveling up all by yourself, would you? How despicable."

Kazuma tossed a flashlight and a can of something from his arms over.

"Let's refresh ourselves before we go down. By the way, we didn't bring your hat, so you'll have to use a flashlight."

Kerry took it with both hands and saw that it was a bottle of Coke.

"You all discovered this."

Having answered the question of why he was there, Keli laughed, took out a dagger, poked a hole in the side of the cola can, and drank it all in one gulp, confident that he wouldn't choke.

"Let's go."

None of the three mentioned why they had ended up there, and they entered the Tokyo sewers for the second time through the dark entrance.

Meanwhile, across from the Kerry family's house, several sleepy-eyed old men and women stared with red eyes at the Kerry Manor.

"Why are they still fine? And they even go out. We asked your son, who is a policeman, to investigate what they do and why they go out in the middle of the night every day, but we still haven't found anything!"

And what's with those young men? Why did they suddenly pick a fight with those three?

One of the elderly women, somewhat distraught, asked the others around her.

There was complete silence behind her; no one answered her.

"Forget it, let them go. Anyway, the Shadows will be coming to this street soon."

……

In the sewers, the three quickly followed the markers and retraced the path they had previously explored.

They arrived at the site of the earlier attack, where bloodstains remained on the ground, but no bodies were left.

It is clear that after they left, the corpses were dragged away and eaten by rats.

Because they both attempted suicide once, both of them are now in very good spirits.

They glanced around casually, but one thing caught their attention.

Because although the rats fled in all directions when they escaped.

But it doesn't seem like they drag the food.

There were some obvious marks on the ground pointing forward.

Moreover, if you look closely at the ground, you can see some "animal trails" in the accumulated dust.

These are details that the group didn't notice before they were attacked by the rats.

Then the three of them began to follow the dust tracks and trails of blood to find the main activity areas of the rats.

However, the sewers are like highways; no matter which way you go, the scenery in front of you is always the same, and since they cover the entire city of Tokyo, it's not easy to find your way amidst the chaotic traces.

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Chapter Ninety-Two: The Owner of the Sewers

Following those tracks forward, sometimes other tracks would cover them, and sometimes the tracks would cross the narrow or wide "river" of the sewer.

The "river," teeming with microorganisms and all sorts of things, seemed to be steaming with mist under the headlamp, like a thick soup brewed by Nagumo himself.

Whenever this happens, the three of them will try to find a road that connects the two sides.

After all, although all three of them felt they could jump over it with all their might, if they lost their footing, they would suffer the same fate as King Shaya after being slashed by the raging wind.

Another ten minutes or so passed, and the marks increased.

It seems we've arrived at the area where those things are active.

According to several people's speculations, these items must have appeared in the Tokyo area only in the last few months.

Otherwise, there shouldn't have been no movement at all. Moreover, based on the ecological niche of those rats, they should be invincible in the sewers. As long as they can reproduce normally, their numbers should be endless. After all, the sewers are never short of food for these scavenging animals.

As they got closer to the area with the densest traces, the group noticed that the waterway in the middle seemed to be significantly wider than the one in front of them. This was likely because there was some important building nearby, and it had been specially built to avoid any problems.

Kerry and the other two could feel it; even through their masks, the surging urge was making them somewhat craving.

Although they couldn't hear any movement or see any objects because of the gurgling water, those things were right beside them.

Those dark pipes, the murky, bottomless water, even the cracks in the dome.

Those things are right there, and they're probably eyeing the people who have come to their territory with wary scrutiny through their eyes, which are filled with white.

"This is really..."

Kazuma gripped his trembling hand, feeling like a bespectacled man from Tsukihime, barely able to resist the urge to pull out a dagger and tear everything around him to pieces.

After walking a few more minutes, the group began to find animal droppings and...leftover bones on the ground.

The stark white bones were thus exposed before their eyes. If they weren't all experienced in cutting other things to the bone, the mere flicker of this headlamp would be enough to make an ordinary person scream and run away.

There were snakes, other small mice or geckos, but no stray dogs or cats were found.

It's probably because the sewer's protection system is pretty good; so far, none of those things have been flushed out of the sewer.

However, the group also discovered some bones that were clearly abnormal.

"This is a fish...?"

Kirito crouched down and found a fish skeleton on the ground that was clearly not the size of a sewer creature. Although it was in pieces, the largest piece showed that it was quite large.

The protruding fish skeleton is nearly 30 centimeters long, reminiscent of the European catfish that often appears in videos of giant fish.

The fact that such a massive object is now reduced to these scattered bones makes the impact all the more striking.

If it weren't for the arrival of these people, this place would probably be teeming with rats, but now those creatures seem to have abandoned their lair out of fear.

Kerry waved his flashlight and could occasionally see the shadows of rats darting in the distance. They kept a certain distance from the group and their numbers were increasing, but they still dared not pounce on them as before. It was as if they were facing a few minks that had invaded their nest. They could distinguish between predator and prey, and even if their numbers were many times greater than the other side, they dared not launch an attack rashly.

As you move forward, the traces reach a peak at one point, and then gradually begin to diminish again.

That point was a drain outlet.

"Tsk!"

Kerry clicked his tongue.

He had originally thought that these creatures' lair might be brazenly located outside.

However, judging from the current situation, their nests are likely located in the extensive network of network tunnels.