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

[Hmph, your little mouth is getting sweeter and sweeter, huh? Oh my, is Cheng hoping to get some "reward" from us when she gets back?]

"On the condition that you transform back into an adult from a child, otherwise I really don't dare to accept your 'reward'."

If I were to take it, I feel like I would completely die on a social level!

“In short, let’s start in five minutes,” Li Cheng said to the other two after thinking for a moment. “We’ll start from that car… wait, something seems off.”

In Li Cheng's perception, the magic that had been quietly dormant underground was slowly becoming active.

What are those people who took Illya and Shirou Emiya doing?

"The situation has changed; there's unusual activity down below. We'll go down now—"

Li Cheng stood up, about to say something, when a violent tremor suddenly came from underground. Amidst the screams of passersby, huge cracks suddenly appeared in the ground, windows of houses shattered, and the coffee shop where Li Cheng and his companions were even partially collapsed.

By activating the realm of slow and fast, Li Cheng rescued more than ten people from the coffee shop and moved them to the street the moment the collapse occurred. However, more collapses occurred in other parts of the neighborhood. With his powerful hearing, Li Cheng could hear the cries and screams of many people.

What on earth are those bastards doing?

……

Underground, inside the white research institute.

"Well."

Emiya Shirou grabbed a counter beside him and slowly got up from the ground.

Just minutes ago, an intense magical energy, almost nauseating, spread throughout the entire research institute in an instant. The overwhelming magical energy fluctuation destroyed a large amount of equipment in the institute, and the glass jar that had been holding Shirou Emiya shattered as well, causing him to fall to the ground and break free of control.

I'm so dizzy, that fall hurt so much.

Standing up, Shirou Emiya stretched and looked at the dilapidated white research facility in front of him, where piercing alarms could be heard.

In the distance, a wild beast's roar seemed to rise, filled with almost frenzied rage.

"Ilya, where are you?"

Emiya Shirou muttered to himself as he ventured deeper into the research institute.

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Section 374, Chapter Sixteen: Chaos and Misplay

"Come to think of it, I've only been busy these past few days, so why do I feel like it's been going on for quite a while?"

Li Cheng, who had grabbed a soldier wearing power armor and crushed him along with the armor and his neck, casually asked in the contract communication.

“That’s because I’ve been really busy these past few months,” Zi’s voice rang out, accompanied by the sound of eating ice cream. “And, I suddenly realized that you really like pinching necks, Cheng.”

"That's because this move is really effective. As long as you snap the neck of a humanoid enemy, they're basically done for. It's efficient and fast."

As he spoke, Li Cheng suddenly activated his cultivation realm, instantly disintegrating a shell that was being fired at him. Then, in the next moment, he restored it and redirected it back to the soldiers' positions. With a loud explosion and screams, the flames completely engulfed the soldiers.

He pressed forward, swiftly smashing through all the soldiers and mechanical guards blocking his way, advancing step by step toward the underground military base.

The further he went, the more complex the cracks on the surrounding walls became. There was no doubt that the previous energy burst had produced an extremely powerful force, and it would probably not be long before the base collapsed and was destroyed due to the damage to the building itself.

We need to find Illya and Shirou Emiya quickly.

Li Cheng fully activated his demonic power, rapidly penetrating deeper into the base.

At that very moment, on the bottom floor of the base, an old man was grabbing a researcher by the collar with a twisted expression and roaring angrily.

"Half gone? What exactly do you mean by 'half gone'? What the hell are you talking about?!"

“I’m talking about the integrity of the Holy Grail, sir.”

The researcher, dressed in white, answered meticulously and calmly.

"The Einzbern family did indeed design an incredibly terrifying creation, almost godlike: the Holy Grail. Theoretically, with enough magic to power it, it could even reverse the entire world. But all of this is predicated on the Holy Grail remaining intact."

“But based on the results of the magic just now, this girl, I mean this Holy Grail, is only an incomplete half-finished product. She should have another half that corresponds to it, and only when the two are combined will it be a truly complete Holy Grail. Sir, you cannot use half a Holy Grail to accomplish what a full Holy Grail can do.”

"Then let's find the other half!"

The man nearly went mad.

“It’s too late. Because of the forced activation, the functions of this Holy Grail’s components have been damaged,” the researcher said, turning his gaze to the enormous magical container in front of him, where Ilya was sleeping peacefully. “In other words, what’s in this container now is just an ordinary human girl, no longer the Holy Grail.”

"What did you say?"

"I was saying that the Holy Grail Project failed, which was really unexpected. No wonder the test results have been somewhat subtle. The Emiya family, who gave birth to her, probably completed the separation of the Holy Grail a long time ago. Her current body is simply unable to perform the true function of the Holy Grail. If it is forcibly activated, it will only revert her to an ordinary person."

The researcher spoke with a slightly eerie smile.

"Even I was fooled and used the half-full Holy Grail. It's a genius design. I wonder where the other half of the Holy Grail's function was transferred to."

-

As if sensing something, Chloe, who was having a physical education class on the playground of an ordinary school in Tokyo, looked up and gazed at the distant sky.

Just now, I felt like I sensed something.

-

"who are you?"

Inside the laboratory, the elderly man took a large step back, looking warily at the researcher who was becoming increasingly strange.

"Mog would never speak to me like that. Who are you?"

“Of course Mog can talk to you like that, General Stryker. As the person who provided you with the life extension technology and the avatar technology, it’s normal for Mog to be a little arrogant, isn’t it?”

The man laughed, as if he hadn't seen the gun barrels pointed at him all around him.

“However, now that the Holy Grail Project has failed and the ability modification project is proving useless, there is no need to continue using the identity of Mog. I have enjoyed these years with you, Mr. Stryker,” the man’s expression finally turned cold, “but now, it is time to say goodbye.”

An unusual sense of oppression began to swirl in the room.

"You...you...you actually..." The old man named Stryker finally revealed a look of horror on his face, "You're actually a super..."

The blinding black and red light caused Stryker to collapse to the ground, utterly powerless.

"Uh, uh, you, you..."

In the blink of an eye, all the soldiers present died, bleeding from all seven orifices. Only he, though his bones were shattered, did not die immediately.

“I’m not trying to spare your life, Mr. Stryker. I’m not that kind.”

The man stepped forward, appearing to Stryker like a smiling devil.

"It's just that someone really wanted to kill you with their own hands, so I just handed you over to them. After all, it would be too boring for a guy like you to die without knowing why."

As he spoke, the man's eyes turned purplish-red, and a dark crack appeared silently, swallowing him up.

It was a pleasure working with you, Mr. Stryker.

Just as the other person was about to disappear, Stryker saw the man open his mouth and speak silently to him.

Then, he heard a violent roar, accompanied by an unrecognizable howl, rapidly approaching from a distance.

It's that monster, that out-of-control "Hercules," damn it, because of the shock caused by the previous loss of control of magic, did that thing break free of its restraints?

Amidst a beast-like roar, a giant, over three meters tall and entirely blood-red, smashed through the door and burst into the severely damaged laboratory.

"Hu-hu-"

It seemed to be sniffing something, carefully searching, and soon it found what it was looking for: the sleeping girl.

click-

Amid the sound of the container shattering, the giant carefully cradled the sleeping Ilya in his arms, and gently smoothed her disheveled hair with a finger.

Then, it picked up Ilya and prepared to move out of the building.

"Stop right there!"

Suddenly, a boy's shout rang out from the other side of the passage.

"Roar!"

The giant roared and turned back, meeting the gaze of Shirou Emiya, who was covered in sweat from running. The towering giant and the short boy were worlds apart in stature.

Even so, Shirou Emiya remained completely unfazed.

"Give Ilya back to me!!"

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Section 375, Chapter Seventeen: A Malicious Gift

Lost.

Unsurprisingly, they lost.

No, talking about winning or losing, this can't even be called a battle.

I was nothing more than a foolish ant, charging forward in a fit of rage, wanting to destroy an elephant, only to be casually trampled by it.

Emiya Shirou lay unconscious in a pool of blood.

A few minutes earlier, he had charged forward with a short sword projected onto him, roaring as he rushed toward the giant monster, trying to take back Ilya.

Then, he was easily kicked away by the other party, and then his left arm was stepped on and crushed. He was then kicked more than ten meters away.

After several minutes of massive bleeding, Shirou Emiya, lying in a pool of blood, was on the verge of losing even basic consciousness.

Ah, this kind of ending is just right for a fool like me, isn't it?

Mingming knew from the very beginning that she had no chance of fighting the other party.

What an utterly foolish ending.

Dejected and powerless, Shirou Emiya slowly closed his eyes.