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

I feel like I just heard something really important!

Li Cheng was at a loss for words, and could only glance sideways at Kiritsugu Emiya, who held the panties in mid-air, examining them with a serious expression. Seeing such a bizarre sight, Li Cheng felt he really needed to calm down.

Meanwhile, Kiritsugu Emiya was already considering whether biological information could still be extracted from the obviously cleaned panties.

……

On one side of the alley outside the building, a purple-haired girl frowned as she looked at the building in front of her.

"They found out? That was fast."

Despite the words tinged with surprise, the girl's expression remained largely unchanged, still perfectly calm.

"There are still two targets, and time is getting a bit tight..."

With a sigh of distress, the girl frowned slightly. Some "sounds" emanated from the building—sounds that made her quite uncomfortable. Without hesitation, she quickly disappeared into the darkness of the alleyway, as if she had never existed in the first place.

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Chapter 7, Section 249: The Mind-Reading Monster

Gently putting down the phone, Tokiomi Tohsaka turned around with an elegant, calm, and peaceful expression, looking behind him.

Behind him, at the doorway of the room, stood a silent figure, seemingly waiting for him to end the call.

The previous caller was Kiritsugu Emiya, who told Tokiomi Tohsaka about the incident and that he was likely to be the next target.

Kiritsugu Emiya made his thoughts very clear during the call, including his desire for the other party to accept the action group's protection and to work with the group to design a trap to capture them. Clearly, he had already planned to use the fact that Tokiomi Tohsaka was the target of the attack to set a trap for him.

Unfortunately, this plan is a little late.

Less than a minute into the call, the figure arrived at the door, standing quietly and waiting for him to end the call.

He could clearly sense the burning fighting spirit hidden beneath the other party's calm exterior. Therefore, with such a challenge now presented to him, his dignity and elegance as the head of the Tohsaka family no longer allowed him to refuse the challenge.

"Then, please follow me. There happens to be a very suitable place for fighting inside this house."

Maintaining his consistently elegant demeanor, Tokiomi Tohsaka smiled at the silent figure and then walked directly towards a certain place outside the corridor, without any concern that the other party might launch a surprise attack from behind him.

After a slight surprise, the figure quietly followed behind him, and the two of them walked one after the other into the depths of the house, into a spacious room.

"Then let's begin here, let's begin the battle as you wish."

Amidst Tokiomi Tohsaka's calm voice, a chilling atmosphere suddenly arose, instantly enveloping the two people in the room.

The figure that had been silently following behind suddenly charged forward like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the violent noise followed in the next moment sounded like music.

……

At the same time, Li Cheng and Emiya Kiritsugu had just walked out of that abandoned house.

"What was the result of the contact, Emiya? What did Mr. Tohsaka say?"

While they were still upstairs, Kiritsugu Emiya immediately called Tokiomi Tohsaka, and then quickly notified the action team and the criminal investigation team, making many arrangements. However, because Li Cheng was inside the house at that time responsible for sealing and taking away valuable evidence, he did not know what Kiritsugu Emiya was saying outside.

Having completed his exploration, he became somewhat curious.

“He has agreed to cooperate with us in developing a plan to lure and capture the suspect, and he is heading to the sixth division branch immediately. I will be there soon as well.”

As Kiritsugu Emiya answered, his tone suddenly changed as he looked at Li Cheng.

“Cheng, use your abilities to go and check on the Tohsaka residence. Although they are indeed very cooperative, there have been times when they have acted unilaterally and abandoned the action team. We cannot be sure if they will do anything else irrational.”

Uh, is this a suspicion that the other person is lying?

"It shouldn't be that bad. After all, he's a big shot here. If he cares about his reputation, he wouldn't lie about something like this, would he?"

Because he had a fairly good impression of Tokiomi Tohsaka, Li Cheng spoke up after thinking for a while.

"That's true, but it's also possible that because the other party is concerned about their reputation, they are unwilling to cooperate with us in order to prove their strength, and instead deliberately engage in a one-on-one battle with us."

Kiritsugu Emiya clearly disagreed and refuted Li Cheng without hesitation. Considering that the other party's words did make sense, Li Cheng prepared to use the gap to go and check on the Tohsaka residence. But at that moment, he suddenly sensed the aura of demonic energy coming from a deserted alley near the abandoned building.

"...Emiya, that youkai, she seems to be here."

After hesitating for a moment, Li Cheng whispered to Kiritsugu Emiya beside him.

"You mean..."

"Yes."

Such intense demonic energy was clearly an open declaration to Li Cheng that she was here. What exactly was the purpose of that youkai girl named Komeiji Satori...?

At that moment, Kiritsugu Emiya, standing beside him, suddenly went limp and collapsed onto Li Cheng. Li Cheng was startled to find that he had actually fainted. Almost simultaneously, an incredibly intense wave of dizziness swept over him, causing Li Cheng to stagger. Then, a powerful burst of demonic energy erupted from his body, and his left eye transformed into a bright purple, similar to Yukari.

"It really is her power."

A slightly young girl's voice rang out from the deserted alley.

Li Cheng focused his mind, helped Emiya Kiritsugu lie down against the wall, and then looked into the depths of the alley. A girl with purple hair, wearing somewhat ill-fitting clothes, was standing in the middle of the alley, staring calmly at Li Cheng.

Her appearance was that of a girl in her early teens, but her distinct demonic power was impossible to ignore. Even more peculiar were the thin red threads surrounding her and the deep red eyeball connected by those threads.

Is the third eye of the Yokai the eye that can read minds?

A monster that can read other people's memories is, in a sense, a truly frightening existence.

"I just let him take a nap, I didn't do anything to him."

Before Li Cheng could speak, the girl spoke in a detached tone. Then, seemingly after a moment's consideration, she asked again:

"What is your relationship with Yukari Yakumo?"

Immediately afterward, before Li Cheng could answer, she took a step back in surprise, her expression towards him becoming incredulous, as if she had seen a rare wild animal. The indifferent expression she had maintained for so long began to falter.

Oh no! I've been trying so hard to stop thinking about anything related to purple, yet she's managing to access my memories through subconscious associations triggered by her questions?!

No, I can't let her keep asking like this. Her abilities are too disadvantageous for me, who has no way to resist!

Retreat? No, having finally confronted her head-on, there's no reason to back down now. But if she stays with her, she might just dig out all her memories.

Therefore, there is only one answer.

Almost at the same moment that Li Cheng made up his mind, Komeiji Satoru's expression also stiffened, and then he turned and ran away without hesitation.

Li Cheng's figure flashed out from the gap in the next moment and chased after Komeiji Satoru ahead.

His idea was simple: since this demon could read his memories while she was awake, he could just knock her unconscious, and she wouldn't know anything. Then he could have the more skilled expert in gaps, Yukari, manipulate things to seal her abilities, or simply send her back to the Divine Society to be dealt with, solving the problem directly. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Upon learning of Li Cheng's thoughts, Komeiji Satori immediately turned and retreated. She didn't think she could fight this man, who was capable of going toe-to-toe with many ghosts, in close combat. Rather, fighting was not her forte.

His own demonic power had been suppressed to a great extent due to external factors, so his decision to take the initiative this time was indeed a bit too reckless.

I hope I can buy her enough time.

Just thinking about that silly, clueless guy makes me feel helpless.

She should have already started fighting by now. We mustn't let her battle be interrupted. So, let's take a small risk.

Thinking this, Komeiji Satoru stopped running and turned around abruptly the instant Li Cheng came within a step behind her.

The Eye of Awakening emitted light, unleashing its power upon Li Cheng, who was hot on her heels. Komeiji Satori's face paled instantly, and her body became somewhat ethereal, as if about to dissipate. She collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath. At the same moment, Li Cheng, who was about to catch her, shuddered, his entire body instantly engulfed by the light.

This, this is—

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Section 250, Chapter 8: Transition Line

At 11 p.m., Li Cheng silently pushed open the door, returned to the room, and then sat silently on the sofa without turning on the light. He sat there in the darkness without saying a word.

Zi was already asleep in bed by this time, but she had obviously heard Li Cheng's voice. A gap quietly opened behind Li Cheng, and Zi, with her long golden hair flowing down her back, hugged Li Cheng's neck, her soft body pressing directly against his.

Li Cheng remained silent, sitting quietly in place.

"You've been infected?"

After a while, Zi's voice broke the silence.

"……Um."

Li Cheng nodded slightly.

"That seems like a very unpleasant experience. So, was it some kind of psychological attack?"

"...It's an illusion, the ability to pull people into an illusion."

"It seems to be a rather unpleasant hallucination."

It's more than just bad...

In that illusion, all the pain and suffering I had ever experienced were reproduced in a mirror-like way.

Although I am now able to face the pain that I dared not face in the past, it is not a pleasant feeling to be used against me by the other party.

That short, three-eyed guy...

When he broke free from that illusion, he could clearly sense the other person's presence. It's likely that when that ability brought his past back to life, she also used this method to access a portion of his past memories.

This level of offense was not something that Li Cheng could easily forgive.

In other words, Li Cheng is now angry.

"Hmph, after all, it's a mind-reading monster. It's not surprising that it attacks its enemies through mental and memory-based methods, is it?"

Zi chuckled softly, released her arms from Li Cheng, and casually lay down on the sofa, brushing aside the few strands of hair that were obscuring her eyes.

"If Cheng really loses his composure and gets angry because of this, he might just be falling into her trap."

As she spoke, Zi raised one foot and gently tapped it on Li Cheng's back. After a moment of silence, Li Cheng sighed and reached out to grab Zi's outstretched foot.

"I've been through a lot of battles, after all, and I'm not going to be led by the nose so easily. But using something like this as a weapon is still hard to accept. I wish I could find that guy and beat him up right now."