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

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Chapter 357, Final Chapter: Long Live Peace!

"In other words, because she expended too much power and was injured, Zi triggered her stress-reactive self-protection state once again, which means she reverted to her childlike state?"

Inside the dilapidated shrine, Li Cheng and Huo sat facing each other, talking to each other.

"That's right. For the next month or so, she will maintain this figure and memory. If you want to experience her being obedient and only good at acting cute, I suggest this is a wonderful opportunity."

Huo took a small puff of his cigarette, slowly exhaled a puff of white breath, then turned to look at Li Cheng and said with a low laugh.

You seem to have some misunderstanding about Zi in her Tide state...

In short, having understood the situation, Li Cheng stood up and bid farewell to the calamity. As he walked out of the shrine, a young girl was squatting on the ground looking at the flowers. Li Cheng called out "Xi," and she cheered and ran over quickly, throwing herself into his arms. For a moment, Li Cheng felt as if his internal organs were about to be knocked out.

It seems that although the situation is critical this time, it is still better than when I first found her. At least the strength is much, much greater than when I first found her.

"Hehehe~"

The little girl raised her head and gave a silly smile. She rubbed against Li Cheng's chest and then climbed onto his back, just like a father carrying his lazy daughter who didn't want to walk. Li Cheng carried her slowly on the way home.

Although, in reality, Li Cheng and she should be considered husband and wife.

No, wait, why do I suddenly feel like I've turned into a sadistic criminal?

"Cheng, Cheng, big crab~, eat big crab~, tide wants to eat big crab, wants to eat Hainan big crab, wants to eat Hainan people~"

The girl on his back hummed happily, and the familiar tone made Li Cheng feel as if he had returned to those days a few months ago.

However, considering that Huo had clearly stated that Zi's condition would only last for a month, Li Cheng couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

Speaking of which, how should I address her these days? If I call her Zi, the little one seems quite resistant, but if I call her tide, I feel a little uncomfortable.

Li Cheng was at a loss for words.

The television in the street shop was broadcasting news that the blurry-looking man had become prime minister again. He had become a hero for participating in the rescue and battle during the Academy City incident. In addition, his political enemies were suddenly exposed to a lot of negative news. With the help of other manipulations, the man finally succeeded in returning to the political arena and sitting back in his prime ministership.

However, while the man's return to the prime ministership is big news in Japan, another piece of news has truly caused a huge stir worldwide.

Both the Beyonder Oda Nobueshi and Aleister, who was discovered to be a Beyonder, perished in the ruins of Academy City. After an inspection team composed of three Beyonders, jointly dispatched by the China Alliance, the Free Alliance, and the Three Kings Alliance, arrived at the scene of the battle, it was finally confirmed that the two Beyonders had been completely annihilated in the battle.

Decades have passed since the unprecedentedly devastating Third World War, and now, once again, a transcendent being has fallen. No one knows if this is a signal, a sign that the situation is about to change. But the world situation, which had gradually become stagnant and rigid, has indeed begun to slowly shift.

Eric of the Freedom Alliance was fitted with a superpower suppression device and imprisoned for life in the Freedom Alliance's harshest high-level superpower prison for crimes against humanity and destruction of the city. His cellmate next door was the man who caused the massacre in Tokyo Special District.

Before being escorted away, Eric's most prized disciple, Misaka Mikoto, went to visit him and asked him why he was helping Aleister. After a series of questions and answers, Misaka Mikoto left with a look of disappointment on her face. Not long after, she dropped out of the Free Alliance Ability Academy and returned to Japan.

Kiritsugu Emiya has been missing for many days recently. Because of his deal with that prime minister, he created many incidents for the prime minister's political enemies, and it can be said that he did a great deal of work to help that person regain the prime minister's position.

However, considering that it was at a crucial moment, when the Prime Minister risked his life to approach Aleister and fire the Origin Missile when he was off guard, the situation that day might not have been completely resolved. But now, reflecting on the whole process after the incident, Li Cheng couldn't help but wonder what stance the Prime Minister took throughout the entire event.

However, if we consider the outcome, the prime minister was indeed the biggest beneficiary. Aleister died, and only about one-tenth of Academy City remained. But the display device had stored the blueprints of the entire city, and Aleister Corporation had signed an agreement with the Japanese government promising to help restore Academy City if it suffered severe damage, up to 50% of the city.

Although Academy City retained 60% of its original structure and some functions could not be fully restored, it remained the world's largest academy for supernatural beings. However, its ostentatious display no longer attracted the hatred of magicians as much as before. Furthermore, after the incident of the fallen transcendents, Japan became a key area of ​​observation for major world powers. Ultimately, the magicians also halted their plans to destroy Academy City.

With Aleister's death, the Japanese government has successfully taken over leadership of the remaining Academy City. It can be said that this so-called Academy City now belongs to the Japanese government and to that prime minister.

Thinking about it this way, Li Cheng couldn't help but start to feel disgusted by the prime minister.

Forget it, there's no need to think about politicians. After all, they're people you can't really get close to. Just let them be.

At that moment, Li Cheng, who was passing by a street corner, noticed that a television in a shop window was showing the news of Touma Kamijou's discharge from the hospital.

Kamijou-kun was discharged from the hospital so quickly! No wonder he gets injured more often than he drinks water. Maybe one day he'll develop incredibly strong regenerative abilities.

After Touma Kamijou lost his arm, the terrifying power that emerged from his severed wrist—more than ten gigantic dragon heads that blotted out the sky, capable of intervening in the battle between Beyonders and even ultimately annihilating both Beyonders—was ultimately concealed. Apart from those present at the time, no one knew the truth of that battle; everyone believed that the two Beyonders had fought each other and perished together.

Touma Kamijou himself didn't have any deep memories of those leaders, and Li Cheng and the others didn't ask further. The other Transcender at the time, Backwater, simply left with the words, "I won't reveal your secrets," and indeed, no news about Yukari and Touma Kamijou surfaced afterward. From this perspective, Backwater seems to be a rather righteous person.

The television screen in the shop window suddenly began to shake violently. The interview, which had been in progress, was abruptly interrupted by screams. Then, an out-of-control car crashed into the frame, knocking Touma Kamijou, who had just regained some composure, flying through the air. The scene momentarily spiraled out of control. Li Cheng noticed that Touma Kamijou, as he flew through the air, seemed to have collided with a very cheerful, tall, blue-haired man, who was slammed off the road and fell into the nearby artificial river.

"..."

Ah, I guess I'll just pretend I didn't see anything. I can only say that some people's lives are indeed much more exciting than the average person's.

Li Cheng stopped paying attention to the images on the television, took a step forward, and carried the little girl who had fallen asleep at some point, into the crowd.

……

At the same time, in a dark underground environment, Aleister opened his eyes.

"You're finally awake. It was really dangerous. With injuries that severe, even I wasn't confident I could wake you up again."

A doctor who looked extremely old slowly emerged from the darkness, looking at the huge container in front of him with a complicated expression, and Aleister, whose body was now only a mangled shell, floating inside it.

"Has it already failed?"

Aleister, who had almost lost the ability to speak due to his severe injuries and could only speak through the mechanical synthesized voice of the electronic system, spoke in a low voice from inside the container.

“Yes, it’s a complete failure,” the doctor said, pulling up a stool and sitting down in front of the container. “Right now, you can’t do anything but stay inside this container.”

"It's alright."

Aleister's voice was completely devoid of emotion.

"Oh, not discouraged at all? Could it be... that you're still thinking about doing something even in this state?"

The doctor's gaze turned slightly displeased.

"Right now, of course, we can't do anything, but since we're still alive, it can't be considered a complete failure. It's just that we've taken a few detours from our intended goal."

Aleister spoke without emotion, floating upside down in the container, his gaze seemingly passing through the dark room before him, and seeing the Academy City being rebuilt in the distance.

"Is that so? I really don't understand the thinking of you paranoids. But at least for now, you are my patient. Please listen to me obediently and don't cause me any trouble."

The doctor sighed helplessly, and after checking the condition of the container and the various data, he turned and left the room. The door closed, and the dark room returned to its initial silence.

……

In another place, at night, not far from the reconstructed Academy City, in an artificial river that leads directly to the Neon Inland Sea, in a secluded woodland where there were no passersby, a figure slowly climbed ashore from the river.

The naked man, severely burned all over his body, had skin charred black, with pieces peeling off intermittently, from which blood and oil flowed and dripped, leaving a horrifying trail on the beach. He crawled until he reached a thicket of bushes, where he seemed to finally lose his strength and silently collapsed into the quiet ground.

Pain seeped into every pore of the body, transmitted through every nerve, and endless suffering completely overwhelmed the mind.

Heavy breaths escaped from his burned nostrils, while his blinded eyes began to move erratically.

He no longer had the strength to stand up. His body seemed to be gradually drifting away from his consciousness. Only the burning pain clung tightly to his soul, as if it would burn him to ashes.

Has this finally come to an end? Is my boring life finally coming to a close?

Oda Nobueshi, or rather, the remaining part of Oda Nobueshi, began to slowly disintegrate.

For some reason, in these final moments, he didn't think of his deceased brothers and sisters, nor of the many friends he had made over the years, but of his blood father, whom he had killed with his own hands and who remained incredulous until his breath stopped.

At the last moment, I actually remembered the person I hated the most. I really am a very boring person.

Silently mocking himself, Oda Nobueshi closed his eyes and then saw a woman's face.

Oh, a woman's face?

Is this what's called the near-death instinct, the instinct that men have when they're near death to want to procreate? Can this kind of thing still be preserved in the Beyonders?

While Oda Nobueshi was still in shock, the woman's face suddenly opened her eyes.

"Wow, is this my descendant? Wow, it looks like a complete mess. Could it be that, like me, they were burned to death?"

What... what is this?

"Haha, don't understand what happened? Well, there's nothing we can do about it. I'm your ancestor, Oda Nobunaga. Have you heard of that name? Although I don't know why someone who's dead can come back to life, since it's already happened, I can only accept it obediently!"

Oda Nobueshi is somewhat unable to understand the current situation.

"Hmm, this body is really in a terrible state. In that case, I'll use my power to repair it a little. But I'm sorry about the gender, since I have no idea how to restore a man's body structure."

A strange force began to spread across the charred body. The charred outer skin, as if it had turned into a shell, began to peel off slowly with crackling sounds, revealing fair skin beneath the necrotic shell.

A petite woman with long black hair slowly crawled out of the charred, empty shell of a human body. Naked, she staggered out of the bushes and looked at the brightly lit city in the distance.

"Hmm, is this the world of the future? It's really developed in a way that's completely baffling."

The girl looked on with interest, speaking loudly without caring that she was naked. But then, her expression suddenly turned to one of panic, and her voice changed to that of a man.

"Who are you? Why is my body..."

"I'm not really sure about this either," the man said, before the girl could finish her sentence. She then adopted a nonchalant expression and spoke in a female voice, "But if I analyze your memories carefully, it seems that you younger generations have been using the power containing fragments of my soul for research. It's probably because your power increased the most that you were able to revive me. It's just that you were very strong in the past, so I couldn't wake up. By the way, all of the above conclusions are just my wild guesses."

His family had been researching this power for hundreds of years, and it contained the soul of Oda Nobunaga, the source of that power? Wait, that's not the point. Wasn't Oda Nobunaga a man? How did he become a woman?

"Hmph, what's so strange about me being a woman?"

I don't want to comment on whether it's strange that you're a woman, but it's really strange that you took over my body and turned my body into a woman's!

"Ah, well, there's nothing I can do about it. After all, I never touched a man in my life, and I know absolutely nothing about how to reconstruct a male body, so there's nothing I can do about it, hahaha—but don't worry about such a small thing. At worst, I can just find a skilled puppeteer to make you a body."

As she spoke, the girl's red eyes, which seemed to burn, gazed at the distant city.

"In short, let's begin the great conquest of the new world now, and see for ourselves what this so-called new era is all about!"

Get me some clothes to wear first!

……

With fresh fish, vegetables, and some snacks and dried fruits that children like, Li Cheng carried large and small bags in one hand and held the hand of a skipping girl in the other, returning to his residential community.

The old man living downstairs was practicing calligraphy at a table in the open space, seemingly writing poetry. However, Li Cheng returned earlier and only saw the old man write the grass radical.

As soon as the door opened, a chubby-looking fox scurried out of the room with a "RUA" sound and pounced on the girl, rubbing against her. The girl giggled and hugged the fox tightly, rubbing against it in return.

Yes, after more than half a year, the fox pillow that Li Cheng bought for Zi and that Zi used to treat as a toy has finally—become a spirit!

"RUA! RUA!!"

The chubby fox barked loudly as it carried the girl riding on its back around the house. Li Cheng, who was already used to it, went to the kitchen and began preparing lunch for the day.

Although life seems to be getting more and more chaotic, it's still wonderful to be able to return to such peaceful days.

"RU~A~~!"

A fox, running backwards across the ceiling, flashed past the kitchen doorway, leaving only its signature call echoing for a short while.

It's just that the lousy barking of this fox might lead to a complaint against him.