Becoming a Shadow in the New World

"Yohoo!"

Thinking of this, Sid couldn't help but cheer, and the medicine bottle in his hand was thrown into the air in a burst of emotion.

He wasn't lying about what he told Ita earlier; if it didn't work, he would take matters into his own hands. However, instead of researching a pill to cure his condition, he committed suicide and then used the seven-day resurrection method recorded in the library to revive himself and reset his physical state.

After all, if someone as intelligent as Ita couldn't detect what was wrong with his body, then with his knowledge, he probably wouldn't understand what was wrong either. It would be faster for him to just commit suicide and resurrect.

"I'm in an absolutely fantastic mood right now!"

While shouting this, he was calculating the speed at which the medicine bottle he had thrown into the air was falling. He estimated that it should be in front of him by now, so he stretched out his right hand and made a grasping gesture.

"It's really simple... Hey!"

Feeling the sensation of not holding anything in his hand, Sid froze, thinking he was hallucinating, and even unconsciously squeezed it twice.

"Where's the stuff?"

The figure flying at breakneck speed in the air came to a stop, turned its head to look around, and a crimson glint appeared in its eyes.

I saw it.

Behind Sid, a black dot, barely visible to a normal person, was falling rapidly. Sid's magically enhanced eyes allowed him to see the dot's true form: the medicine bottle he had just thrown into the air.

"Am I... trying to find a lost sword by marking the boat? How stupid of me, luckily no one saw it."

Sid's lips twitched, and after making a self-deprecating remark, he felt fortunate that he was in the sky above the vast ocean, where there wasn't even a bird, let alone a person.

With a flick of his ankle, Sid turned and flew toward the medicine bottle. He wasn't fast, but he caught it before it hit the sea.

"Snapped!"

After Sid got his hands on the medicine bottle, it made a sound when it touched his palm. When he picked it up, he saw that the bottom of the bottle had been smashed to pieces.

Sid casually patched up the loophole with magic and continued flying towards Itogami Island.

"Hiss... Why does this scene just now feel so familiar?"

As he flew, Sid felt that what had just happened was strange, as if this wasn't the first time something like this had happened.

"Have I... also lost things at sea before?"

With his hands crossed over his chest, Sid began to reminisce about the past.

"It seems... yes, but it also seems not."

Sid vaguely remembered something similar happening to him before, but upon closer reflection, he felt that he might have remembered it wrong.

"Forget it, if I can forget about it, it means it's not important. Let's just go down first."

After thinking for a long time, with Itogami Island right in front of him, he still couldn't figure it out, so he simply gave up.

He cast a Vanish spell on his optical invisibility barrier and then removed the magic he used to fly from his feet.

Without the blessing of magic, the body was affected by gravity and began to fall from a height of 10,000 meters, and the speed was getting faster and faster.

The sound of wind reached Sid's ears, and the surrounding scenery flashed by in Sid's vision, until it shifted from the blue sky to a series of tall buildings. As he got closer and closer to the roof of one of the buildings, he could even see a crack in the floor.

"call!"

Just as Sid was about to crash into the ground, an extremely small amount of magic surged from Sid's body, causing him to float in the air, almost touching the ground.

After straightening up in the air and canceling the magical enhancement, Sid was finally able to stand on Itogami Island in a true sense.

"Sigh! 0 points."

He plucked a single hair, looked at the tiny speck of dust at the tip, and silently gave this extreme sport a score of 0.

Only by reaching maximum speed in an instant and releasing the force in an instant, ignoring inertia, and turning motion into stillness, can one score 10 points; otherwise, one scores 0 points.

With that thought in mind, Sid still opened the door to the rooftop room and greeted the brown-haired woman standing to the side.

"Hey New, is everything ready?"

"It is ready, Lord Shadow."

As he spoke, Newt handed over a medical record.

"Thanks, New."

"I am deeply honored."

Sid's lips twitched again, but he suppressed the urge to complain and walked straight down the stairs.

This is Mitsukoshi Hospital.

Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Blonde Nun

"Ah! The weather is so nice."

So... could you please stop hiding from me? I may be oblivious to other people's gaze, but that doesn't mean I'm blind.

Standing on the street under the scorching sun, the already sparse passersby hurried past Sid, and one or two bumped into Sid's shoulder along the way, but Sid's gaze was only on the glass wall of the store in front of him.

The scene on the street was faintly reflected in the glass wall. Sid's enhanced vision allowed him to clearly see himself in the glass wall, and... the blonde nun peeking out from behind the wall.

Turning his head, Sid saw the blonde nun briefly pull her head back into view.

Originally, Sid was just going to Mitsukoshi Hospital to ask Gamma's men to help him make an alibi to cover up his sudden disappearance. But Sid figured he had already taken leave, so there was no point in going back to school now. Instead, he started wandering around the streets.

At first, he didn't notice the blonde nun behind him, after all... he was too weak to sense her gaze at all.

Even if he saw her, he assumed she was stalking someone, until he saw her appear behind him for the third time through the reflection of the glass.

Sid then realized that he, an ordinary extra, was being followed.

???

Why?Why?Why?

Sid thought his disguise as an extra was good enough, so why was someone still following him? What went wrong with him?

Sighing, suppressing his grief and anger, Sid began to calmly consider a solution.

It's pointless to dwell on where I went wrong right now; I should just figure out a way to gloss over this.

He now has two choices: either get rid of the blonde nun or drag her into an alleyway without surveillance cameras.

Sid's lips curled into a smile.

Isn't the answer obvious?

When the blonde nun cautiously peeked out again and looked at the spot where Sid had been standing, she found that he had disappeared from the spot and couldn't help but utter a sound of doubt.

"Eh?"

After glancing around and confirming that Sid was not there, the blonde nun stepped out from behind the wall and jogged towards the direction where Sid had been standing.

"call!"

Suddenly, a large hand reached out from a side alley and grabbed the blonde nun's hem.

"Ahhh!"

This sudden turn of events startled the blonde nun, who let out a scream and momentarily forgot to resist.

By the time the blonde nun realized what was happening, she had already been pulled into the alley by the immense force emanating from that hand, and her body was thrown against the wall.

"bump!"

A hand slammed against the wall, making a sound that startled the blonde nun again.

"Tell me, who are you? Why are you following me?"

With an icy gaze, Sid coldly questioned the blonde nun before him, deciding how to deal with her based on her answer.

If it was because he revealed some weakness on the street and was discovered by the woman in front of him, who then decided to follow him on a whim, then it would be relatively easy to handle. He could simply have his memory deleted. Deleting a day's worth of memories wouldn't have too much of an impact.

But if his shadow identity is discovered by any faction, he can only pray that faction is easy to talk to and willingly lets him erase his memories, otherwise...

The magic within his body surged silently, a cold glint flashed in Sid's eyes, and the atmosphere around him suddenly turned gloomy.

The only way is to let the other person voluntarily undergo a mental breakdown, thus allowing them to have their memories erased.

Whether the other party will tell or not is not within Sid's consideration. If the other party doesn't tell, he can simply force a memory search.

“Ehhhh…”

Sensing the sudden heaviness in the atmosphere around her, the blonde nun let out a scream, as if someone had pulled open her clothes and thrown an ice cube into her clothes in the dead of winter.

Sid remained motionless, observing the scene with cold indifference. If he could, he still didn't want to conduct a memory search; with his mental strength, touching someone else's memories would cause that person's mind to collapse.

"I, I, I..."

It might have taken tens of seconds, a few minutes, or just a few seconds before the blonde nun finally came to her senses and began to speak haltingly.

"I...I'm called Asia Argento, and the reason I'm following you is..."

"What is it?"

"I want to know if you are Mr. Shadow!"

The worst answer is that you can only pray that you voluntarily have your memories erased.

In the increasingly heavy atmosphere, Sid looked down at Asia, who had closed her eyes in fear, and sighed silently in his heart, already prepared to forcibly erase her memories.

As for why he doesn't deny that he is not the shadow?