I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

So, what exactly happened?

Unable to contain his curiosity, Li Cheng couldn't help but ask.

"Can't you see that, human? How foolish," Remilia sneered, then turned to see Li Cheng's inquisitive expression. She hesitated for a moment, then continued, "Isn't it obvious? That dilapidated shrine must have existed as a sealed entrance. Now that even the entrance has disappeared, something very troublesome must have happened inside, so all possible entrances and exits must be sealed off."

However, while she was pleased to have humiliated that voyeuristic old woman, if a truly serious problem arose, what about Sakuya, Flandre, and the others...?

Remilia's initially gloating expression gradually faded as she carefully considered the potential severity of this incident, her expression growing increasingly serious.

"But speaking of which, what exactly happened to warrant sealing off this place?"

Standing not far away, Li Cheng muttered to himself as he stretched out his hand, pondering whether he could use the power of his realm to find the hidden shrine.

"Hmph, who knows? Maybe it got bombed."

Remilia, who was feeling somewhat unhappy because she was worried about her family, continued Li Cheng's words with great dissatisfaction.

"Getting bombed is a bit too much, isn't it..."

Li Cheng chuckled twice, but suddenly the bizarre dreams he had had two or three times before surfaced in his mind, along with the place in those dreams that had been completely destroyed.

“Alright, there’s no point in staying here any longer,” Remilia sighed, as if she were tired, and turned to leave. “Since this place has been sealed off, it won’t be easily revealed until things calm down inside. Staying here any longer will be pointless.”

With that, Remilia turned and walked towards the edge of the clearing. After taking a couple of steps, she realized Li Cheng hadn't followed, so she turned back and said to him, somewhat annoyed, as he remained standing there in a daze:

"Didn't I say that there's no point in staying any longer?"

"I'm just... a little worried."

Recalling Huo's guidance and instruction on using demonic power in the past, and now the difficulty in contacting him, Li Cheng, as both master and disciple and friend, was indeed worried about Huo's condition.

“Such worries are pointless, human,” Remilia said bluntly. “You can’t do anything with your current strength.”

Indeed, he had already tried it, and the power of realms was completely ineffective. Moreover, when using realms, he had a strange feeling, as if he was trying to break through his own power. That invisible power was essentially the same as the realm he was using, but its richness and depth far surpassed his own.

Ah, well, if there's no solution, I guess I'll just have to leave for now.

Realizing that his worries were completely futile, Li Cheng sighed and turned to walk in the direction where Remilia was.

Because of that strange sense of familiarity, and because tide took her in, Li Cheng agreed to help her find a way to return to the world she lived in. However, after spending some time together, Li Cheng slowly began to sense the trouble involved.

Although tide could be willful at times, she was generally just a clingy and adorable little girl. But this vampire before her, while appearing short and childlike, possessed genuine aristocratic manners, always maintaining an arrogant posture. When communicating, she unconsciously placed herself in a superior position, yet at other times displayed a childlike curiosity and drive. This stark contrast brought her immense destructive power, no less than that of a spoiled brat.

Just like the water pipe wrench she twisted off out of curiosity yesterday morning, and the TV remote control she later broke in two out of curiosity, after spending a few days together, Li Cheng felt quite troubled by this vampire girl named Remilia.

Fortunately, compared to tide's initial act of completely destroying the house, Li Cheng could still bear this level of damage.

Next, I should buy a few more of those engraving gems from Tohsaka that can restore damaged items. Anyway, no one except the sixth group will buy her things, so she probably still has a lot of gems piled up that she can't sell.

"Ring ring—"

Just as Li Cheng was pondering, a pleasant ringtone rang out, accompanied by a strong vibration. Li Cheng's cell phone, located in a pocket in his pants, made a rather noticeable noise.

Who would attack at this time?

Li Cheng felt something was off. He took out his cell phone from his pocket and found that the number displayed on it was actually the dedicated line for the Sixth Division.

"Hmph, it seems that these intertwined destinies are about to begin to flow."

Remilia, walking ahead of Li Cheng, curled the corners of her lips and murmured softly.

"Ding--"

Li Cheng pressed the answer button, and then Rin Tohsaka's tired voice, as if she hadn't slept for several days, rang out during the call.

"Senior Li Cheng, we have results. We have obtained some information from the prisoner you captured."

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Section 160, Chapter 19: Experiment A-03

When Li Cheng arrived at the sixth group's branch, it was already around 10 a.m.

Because of the teleportation, Li Cheng appeared directly in the meeting room of the sixth group. There was no one in the room, so he was probably in the interrogation room where the sorcerer was being held.

Speaking of which, ever since discovering the peculiar ability of the Gap to teleport regardless of distance, Li Cheng has increasingly preferred using Gap teleportation instead of walking when he needs to go somewhere. It just goes to show that laziness is indeed human nature.

Upon opening the interrogation room door, Li Cheng immediately saw Rin Tohsaka asleep on the table. Her dark circles were clearly visible in her profile, suggesting she had been working tirelessly for quite some time. However, Li Cheng also noticed that she was covered with an unnamed red coat, and a steaming cup of coffee sat on the table, presumably prepared beforehand by that nagging man.

Just as Li Cheng entered the interrogation room, Kiritsugu Emiya emerged from one of the smaller rooms. Seeing Li Cheng, he nodded, gesturing for him to come in, and then turned and went back inside. Li Cheng followed closely behind, walking quietly into the room.

"How is it going? Did Tohsaka and Shin break the seal?"

After closing the door and confirming that Rin Tohsaka, who was sleeping outside, couldn't hear the sounds coming from inside, Li Cheng turned around and asked Kiritsugu Emiya.

“No, the restriction hasn’t been completely broken yet,” Kiritsugu Emiya shook his head. “The restriction was placed inside his head, and it’s very sophisticated. In the past two days, they’ve only barely figured out the trigger mechanism and then figured out a way to bypass it.”

As he spoke, Kiritsugu Emiya stepped aside, allowing Li Cheng to clearly see the sorcerer in the very center of the room, bound to a chair, head drooping, occasionally uttering indistinct sounds like "uh" and "mm".

Did he get injected with dementia medication and it made him stupid?

Looking at the man in front of him who was rolling his eyes and drooling, Li Cheng was momentarily skeptical about what exactly Rin Tohsaka and the others' so-called method of bypassing the restriction was.

"Although it may seem like a permanent blow to intelligence, it is actually just a temporary effect caused by a magic spell. It can be eliminated at any time and will not be detected by superiors."

Emiya Kiritsugu, standing to the side, explained calmly.

"Ah, that's good."

Li Cheng breathed a sigh of relief.

The reason for the sigh of relief was certainly not because the man wouldn't remain in this mentally impaired state indefinitely. Li Cheng's attitude towards enemies had always been extremely ruthless. In his view, inhumane measures against a small number of people were entirely acceptable, and even worth actively adopting, in order to protect the personal safety of more people.

That's why he could be so ruthless when facing vicious underage superhuman criminals, and he could also be so cruel to a follower he had just met as an enemy, almost killing him. In his eyes, from the moment that sorcerer attacked the ordinary residents of the neighborhood without regard for them, he had already considered that person as dead.

However, it is precisely because of his personality and way of doing things that he was able to get along so well with Kiritsugu Emiya, and even become friends with him.

However, the headquarters of the Supernatural Abilities Bureau has gradually begun to emphasize rules and regulations as well as humanitarianism, making the Sixth Group hesitant to take certain measures when needed. Although some problems can be avoided by acting first and reporting later or by fabricating evidence, it is still quite troublesome. Therefore, Li Cheng breathed a sigh of relief after knowing that this method would not leave any aftereffects.

"Speaking of which, what kind of technique did Tohsaka use to create this effect? ​​It's like he's turned into an idiot. The effect is just too good!"

Noticing the silly grin on the man bound to the chair, Li Cheng couldn't help but ask Kiritsugu Emiya, who was standing beside him.

“I heard it’s a technique that was learned from a former classmate,” Kiritsugu Emiya replied after thinking for a moment. “It seems to be a technique invented by a water-attribute great mage named Aqua. It can release magic by striking the enemy’s skull, causing the opponent to temporarily fall into a state of mental confusion and intellectual impairment.”

"If I remember correctly, the name of this technique is something like 'Mind-Destroying Strike'."

After carefully recalling Rin Tohsaka's description of the technique when she used it, Kiritsugu Emiya calmly addressed Li Cheng.

"I always feel that, whether it's the inventor of the spell or the way it's used and its name, there's something strange about it that I can't quite put my finger on."

After listening to Kiritsugu Emiya's words, Li Cheng said with a mix of amusement and exasperation. Just then, the sorcerer, who was tied to the chair, struggled and made some noises, attracting the attention of the two people who were talking.

"04, uh, uh, 04, where is it? 04, where is it?"

Suddenly, the man's eyes widened, his body tensed in the chair, and his eyes rolled wildly as if searching for something.

"In this state, the man is unaware of what he is saying, so the restrictions in his mind cannot detect anything. We can be certain that he won't lie in this state, but obtaining the information we want won't be so easy."

Lighting a cigarette, Kiritsugu Emiya stood calmly beside Li Cheng and spoke.

"Because he was turned into an idiot by the spell, he doesn't even know what he's saying anymore? That sounds really troublesome," Li Cheng sighed and walked up to the man. "But there's nothing we can do about it, we still have to ask. Hey, can you hear me?"

Li Cheng patted the man's face and leaned closer to ask, "What's your name?"

"Name? Name? Name?" The man repeated it three times, then looked up at Li Cheng and chuckled. "No name, none of us have names, hehehe. We are Class A test subjects, and test subjects don't have names, no names, no names, no..."

Suddenly, the man let out a heart-wrenching roar, struggling violently, causing the steel chains binding him to rattle. It should be noted that his body had been struck by Kiritsugu Emiya's Mystic Code, the Origin Bullet, essentially destroying his internal structure and rendering him a paralyzed cripple. Yet, he still possessed the strength to struggle, even managing to make the specially designed restraints rattle, demonstrating his extraordinary abilities.

"The experimental department, so he's a product of some kind of experiment?"

Li Cheng and Kiritsugu Emiya beside him both became serious.

An experiment capable of creating an A-level expert? Or is it an experiment that requires an A-level expert as a test subject? And he mentioned 04 earlier, meaning there are at least four test subjects?

"You've started with some incredible intelligence. So, what exactly is this so-called Class A test subject? Where did you come from? Who sent you here?"

Li Cheng continued to ask, but the man ignored him completely, only howling wildly to himself, making strange noises like "coo coo coo" and "whimper whimper," while constantly muttering to himself things like "Where is 04?", "03, I'm here," and "Brother is here to find you."

Li Cheng asked several questions in a row, but the man just kept talking to himself. Finally, realizing that he couldn't communicate with the other party at all, Li Cheng gave up the conversation and left.

"There's no way to communicate at all. Although it's true that we can bypass the restrictions, it's still very difficult to get information from him in this state."

Li Cheng shook his head and said as he walked up to Kiritsugu Emiya.

"No, as for intelligence, he has already revealed some more information."

As he spoke, Kiritsugu Emiya called out to the man:

"A-03!"

The man twitched as if pricked by a needle, and looked up blankly at Kiritsugu Emiya standing directly in front of him.

“Remilia Scarlett, what is your relationship with this person?”

Kiritsugu Emiya asked with a serious expression.

“Scarlett? Scarlett?” The man repeated twice, his expression suddenly turning mocking. “Ah, Scarlett? Haha, hahaha, dead, dead like pigs and dogs, so arrogant, but in the end they all died. Haha, hahaha… No, that’s not right!”

The man twisted his neck to an almost broken angle, grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth, and said while drooling:

"There are two left, yes, two left, haha. Rare, the last ones, worth studying, hahaha, so, so we have to pull out the nails, cut open the flesh, cut open, cut open, cut open... Hehe, it will cry, it will cry, the smallest one, keeps, keeps crying, hehe, hehe, hehehehehe..."

“There’s no escaping,” the man gritted his teeth, his face fierce, as if trying to emphasize his words. “No one can escape. No matter how long it takes, you have to go back. There’s no escaping, there’s no escaping…”

What on earth is this guy saying?

Watching the man's bizarre, erratic movements and words, Li Cheng couldn't help but wonder whether the technique was a "brain drain attack" or a "sanity drain attack."

"Ah, where's 04? Where's 04?" After rambling on for a long time, as if suddenly remembering something, the man suddenly began to struggle violently again, while shouting at the top of his lungs, "04, ah, where is 04? Brother, I'm here, here! 03, I'm here! Where did you go? 04, where did you go?"

Then, Kiritsugu Emiya asked the man several more questions, repeatedly using words that the man often used in his speech. However, the man seemed to be in a state of frenzy, completely unresponsive to Kiritsugu's words, simply continuing his madness.

"It seems this is the only way we can go this time."

After trying for more than an hour, Kiritsugu Emiya reluctantly gave up.

"Let's let Tohsaka try again after she's rested. If it really doesn't work, we can ask Kokutou to find some magicians who are proficient in spellcasting to help. Anyway, Kokutou has a wide network of connections and knows a lot of people."

Li Cheng offered his suggestion from the side.