The Demon King, reborn in Japan as a monk

“If you’re willing to listen to me, I naturally won’t tamper with your consciousness. But if you’re not… then I’ll just have to nip some potential problems in the bud.” Ishihara Akira didn’t refute, and continued to look at the three of them with a calm and composed expression.

"Xia He, what do you have to say about this?" Shen Chong ignored Shi Yuanzhang and instead questioned Xia He, who hadn't said a word since the initial introduction.

"Does my words have any effect? ​​If they did, I probably wouldn't be sitting here right now," Xia He sighed helplessly.

"So, you're being controlled by him?" Shen Chong's eyes flashed, and he went straight to the point.

"Why do you have to spell things out? If you do, Ishihara won't be able to let you off the hook anymore," Xia He replied.

"Just him alone? I don't believe it," Gao Ning sneered.

With the Twelve Labors Formation in hand, aside from the absolute top level...

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Aside from the old Celestial Master, he fears no one among the extraordinary individuals!

Even if Xia He is no longer here, and the Twelve Labors Formation is no longer complete, it's still the same.

Gao Ning then released his Qi and set up the Twelve Labors of Emotion Array in the room. Shen Chong joined in, followed by Dou Mei, and then Xia He's Muscle Breath Qi...

"Hmm?" Gao Ning looked at Xia He with some surprise when he noticed her joining in.

Xia He smiled, remaining silent, but her actions clearly demonstrated her stance.

She was unwilling to be controlled by Ishihara Sho.

"The Twelve Labors of Emotions Formation really suits my abilities." Feeling the Twelve Labors of Emotions Formation disturbing his meridians and emotions, Ishihara Akira couldn't help but chuckle.

"You actually resisted. But how long can you resist?" Gao Ning smiled as he saw that Ishihara Sho wasn't immediately affected. At the same time, he fully activated the array's power, channeling it into Ishihara Sho.

Dou Mei and Xia He are the same.

"Tsk, you guys really won't learn until you're faced with a fatal mistake." Ishihara Sho shook his head and sighed, then flicked his finger, sending several orbs of light flying like meteors towards Gao Ning, Shen Chong, and Dou Mei. Before they could react, the orbs entered their bodies through contact, and instantly, the unique effects of the Twelve Labors of Passion Array began to activate within them—

Their emotions fluctuate uncontrollably, sometimes rising and sometimes falling, sometimes angry and sometimes laughing, or they might burst into tears without any warning.

Then, fear appeared on their faces, as if they had seen something they feared most. They lost their composure on the spot, and their aura went berserk, causing the Twelve Labors Formation to stop operating silently.

"Yes, the Twelve Emotions Formation formed by the combined power of the four of you is very powerful. Apart from the Old Celestial Master, it seems that no one in the current circle of supernatural beings can rival you. But unfortunately, you've run into someone like me who specializes in manipulating human emotions and desires. So, the Twelve Emotions Formation not only won't affect me, it will actually become an asset to me, allowing me to amplify my power. So, why not..."

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"We could have sat down and talked things over properly, but instead we had to resort to violence," Ishihara Akira said regretfully, looking helpless.

Then he stood up, walked behind Gao Ning, Shen Chong, and Dou Mei, who were somewhat exhausted and injured due to their emotions, used a sealing technique to imprison their Qi circulation, and took all three of them down.

"Are you full?" Ishihara Akira asked Xia He, who was still sitting in the same spot, after he had settled the three of them.

"What do you think?" Xia He picked up a piece of food with her chopsticks, dipped it in the hot pot, and asked in return.

"Okay, then we'll go back after you finish eating." Seeing this, Ishihara Sho shrugged, walked back to Xia He's side and sat down, picked up his chopsticks, and peacefully started eating the hot pot in front of him with Xia He.

Only after they had eaten and drunk their fill did he use puppetry to control the three of them, making them follow him and Xia He as they left the Sichuan hot pot restaurant and returned to the place where he, Xia He, Lü Liang, and Liu Yanyan had stayed.

……

"How was it?" After all that fuss, Ishihara Akira, who had finally managed to gather the four madmen together again, asked with a smile.

"No wonder you said you wanted to be the Apocalypse. Your ability is indeed very compatible with the characteristics of the four of us." Feeling his superpowers grow even stronger, Shen Chong couldn't help but respond with some emotion.

"Now you shouldn't refuse to become my knights anymore, right?" Ishihara Akira continued to ask.

"Do we even have a choice now?" Shen Chong and Gao Ning exchanged a glance and smiled bitterly.

As for Dou Mei, she's now on Ishihara Akira's side, just like Xia He.

As for the method, it was naturally the same approach used to deal with Xia He. So, with Dou Mei completely succumbing to temptation, she had no chance to refuse.

"Now you can tell us your plans for the future, right?" Resigned, Shen Chong inquired about Ishihara Akira's plans.

"Afterwards, I will have you contact the Corpse Demon and speak with him personally. Once we've confirmed certain things, we will formally challenge Gong Qing to seize the position of acting leader of the Quanxing Sect. As for what comes after that, that will depend on when I truly..."

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"It's not too late to make arrangements after you become the acting leader of Quanxing," Shi Yuanzhang replied.

"Are you only looking for the Corpse Demon? What about the Six Thieves? Aren't you going to recruit them all together?" Gao Ning asked, puzzled.

"The Six Thieves... forget it. Their abilities have gone astray and don't align with my ideas. However, you could try to win them over to increase our support, lest the elders of Quanxing use some excuse to disown me as their leader," Ishihara Akira said after a moment's thought.

“That works too. I’ll contact the Corpse Demon later and invite him to meet you. Then I’ll go with Gao Ning to negotiate with the Six Thieves,” Shen Chong replied after thinking for a moment.

"can."

Things proceeded smoothly, and Ishihara Akira returned to his room to ponder the matter of the Double-Handed Technique...

Of course, she didn't forget to call Dou Mei, Xia He, and Liu Yanyan to keep her company.

Chapter 600 Misaki Shokuhou

Heavenly Demon, Reborn as a Monk in Japan

With ease, Ishihara Akane found the Talent Workshop, which Shokuhou Misaki had transformed into her secret base.

Without any hesitation, they went up and suppressed the defenses of the workshop, then took control of the leader and made him call Misaki Shokuhou to report the situation to her.

Of course, during this process, Ishihara Akane didn't forget to threaten Shokuhou Misaki—

"If you don't want problems with your external brain, I think you should know what to do."

So not long after, about half an hour later, Ishihara Akane met the true owner of the talent workshop, the fifth of the seven LV5 espers in Academy City—Shokuhou Misaki!

A fair-skinned girl who, despite being a middle school student, has an unusually large and unnaturally large figure that belies her age.

With her long, golden hair reaching her waist and starry eyes, paired with her Tokiwadai Middle School uniform, she gives the impression of an adult woman deliberately trying to look young and pretending to be a middle school student.

This shows just how outrageous her figure and appearance are.

"What an annoying look." Misaki Shokuhou complained, looking at Ishihara Akane with a gaze that seemed to appraise her from head to toe and then from toe to head several times.

"That just means your figure and looks are stunning enough. Otherwise, if someone with average looks stood here, do you think I would appreciate her with the same admiring eyes I would have for you?" Ishihara Akira replied with a smile, showing no embarrassment whatsoever.

"Who exactly are you? Why did you attack the Talent Workshop? And what is your purpose in calling me here?" Misaki Shokuhou pursed her lips and then got to the point.

“My name is Ishihara Sho. As for the purpose of attacking the workshop, it was to lure you here so I could meet you. As for the reason, I think you should still remember Dolly, right?” Ishihara Sho stated with a smile.

"Dolly? How do you know that name?" Misaki Shokuhou's expression changed immediately upon hearing this, and she asked in a gloomy tone.

"I know a lot of things. For example, I know that the Talent Workshop is actually your base, and that it contains an external brain cloned from your cerebral cortex that can provide you with super computing power when you need it, allowing you to break through your current level and reach an extremely exaggerated level of ability, although it is not yet LV6. And Dolly is the same. Are you sure you want me to tell you all this?"

"I never expected that even though I hid it so well, I would still be discovered in the end. Okay, what do you want to tell me?" Misaki Shokuhou sighed, seemingly helpless, and asked again.

“You know Dolly, and you lived with her as a friend for a while, so you should know who she is, right?” Ishihara Akira smiled and stated again in an inquiring tone.

Misaki Shokuhou remained silent, because she didn't want to talk too much about Dolly, especially in front of this stranger.

"Dolly is a clone, and she was the first test subject of Academy City's cloning project for Level 1 users. Unfortunately, Academy City's technology in this area was not mature enough at the time, resulting in various technical problems with Dolly, which not only prevented her from moving like a normal person, but also made her extremely fragile..."

"Stop talking!" Misaki Shokuhou couldn't listen anymore and immediately roared at him.

"Sure. We can leave Dolly out of the story. But don't you want to know about the sisters created under another plan that led to Dolly's birth? You know, in a way, they are also Dolly's sisters."

"What plan? What sisters?" Misaki Shokuhou frowned.

"The Mass Production of Ability Users Project and the Absolute Ability User Project are essentially two separate projects. The former was a project to mass-produce similar ability users, but it wasn't very successful. Although it was possible to mass-produce clones based on a particular ability user, the clones' ability levels couldn't reach the level of the original user. So, to some extent, this project failed. Then, the upper echelons of Academy City and some researchers, based on this project and adhering to the principle of making use of waste, launched a project called Absolute Ability Users, which aimed to artificially catalyze Level 6 ability users." After a pause, Ishihara Akira continued.

"The content is to take Accelerator, the first of the existing seven espers, as the target for development. By hunting down a large number of material espers and accumulating combat experience, we will forcibly improve Accelerator's ability level, so that under the influence of external forces, he can enter the ultimate goal that Academy City has been pursuing since its construction: LV6 espers!"

"The targets chosen by Accelerator in the plan are the Sisters created based on Misaka Mikoto, the third Railgun. There are 20,000 of them. And up until the moment I met you, Accelerator has already killed about 9000 Sisters. That means there are at least 11,000 more Sisters waiting to be killed..."

"And through your contact with Misaka Mikoto, you also know that Dolly's prototype is Misaka Mikoto, a clone created by the research institute using Misaka Mikoto's genes. By extension, these eleven thousand sisters waiting to be killed are eleven thousand Dollys..."

"What exactly are you trying to say!" Misaki Shokuhou interrupted Ishihara Akane before he could finish speaking.

“I want to stop this plan from continuing and rescue my sisters, but I can’t completely solidify it, so I thought of you—Dolly’s good friend, Misaki Shokuhou, who is known for her mental control,” Ishihara Akane said with a smile.

"Why not go find Misaka Mikoto? In terms of combat power alone, as the third-ranked, she should be more suitable than me to carry out this kind of task," Shokuhou Misaki retorted.

“I don’t have her contact information, and even if I rashly went there and told her that you’ve been cloned 20,000 times and are being relentlessly hunted by Accelerator, she might not believe me. So I thought of you. As the queen of the Queen’s Faction within Tokiwadai Middle School, which can rival the Misaka Faction, and the fifth-ranked Level 5 esper, I thought your words would be more convincing than mine, a stranger. That’s why I came here and forced you to come see me,” Ishihara Akira explained.

“But why should I listen to you?” Misaki Shokuhou sneered and questioned.

"Could it be that your feelings for Dolly are fake?" Ishihara Akira chuckled.

"Don't mention Dolly again!" Misaki Shokuhou said angrily.

Then, finally unable to bear Ishihara's self-talk any longer, he took out his arm from the white cloth bag that was hanging diagonally on his body, grabbed the remote control in his hand, and pressed it on Ishihara.

"Now, tell me your true purpose!" Misaki Shokuhou commanded confidently.

Chapter 601 Cry for Help

Heavenly Demon, Reborn as a Monk in Japan

"Speak!" After activating her ability, seeing that Ishihara Sho was still standing there silently, Shokuhou Misaki pressed the remote control she had specially prepared to help her concentrate again and shouted the command.

"What makes you think your abilities can control me?" Ishihara Akira chuckled, slowly walking towards Shokuhou Misaki as he asked with a hint of surprise.

He even knew Shokuhou Misaki's most closely guarded secrets, so how could he not know her abilities and status? Yet, despite all that, he still dared to stand directly in front of Shokuhou Misaki and face her head-on. How could he do that without certain preparations and trump cards?

Even with Ishihara Sho's strength, he would be the same even without any preparation.

But that's the logic. As someone who controls minds, Misaki Shokuhou couldn't possibly be unaware of these things, right?

Therefore, it can only be said that Misaki Shokuhou was distracted by Ishihara Akane's previous series of statements, causing her to overlook this aspect, or perhaps because this was the Talent Workshop, she could call upon the power of an external brain at any time without worrying about the aftermath, and thus assumed that she had the upper hand and did not consider this aspect.

However, regardless of which one it is, the current situation has far exceeded Misaki Shokuhou's expectations.

Misaki Shokuhou was startled by the invisible aura emanating from Ishihara Sho—or rather, the illusion created by Misaki Shokuhou's own wariness—and instinctively took two steps back.

Fortunately, her almost zero athletic talent didn't surface at this moment; otherwise, the classic scene of her tripping over herself would probably have played out right in front of Ishihara Yuki.

"Damn it!" Misaki Shokuhou yelled, immediately turned around, and ran back the way she came.

"You think you can still run away?" Ishihara Sho chuckled and suddenly appeared in front of Shokuhou Misaki, who was caught off guard and crashed heavily into his chest.

Misaki Shokuhou was thrown back, almost falling to the ground, but was immediately caught by Ishihara Akira.

"Let me go!" Misaki Shokuhou snapped out of her daze and glared at Ishihara Kaname.