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

"What? Haven't you been bullying me all along?"

Somewhat indignant, she looked up, only to meet the other person's fixed gaze. Rin felt her breath catch in her throat. She quickly looked away, but was too embarrassed to look down again, so she turned her face away, pretending to look at the scenery on the riverbank.

The two remained in that position, and fell silent for a moment.

After a while, seemingly realizing that this couldn't continue, Wuming stepped back slightly, no longer blocking Rin's way. Rin Tohsaka immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but after realizing that her actions were too obvious, she quickly put on a serious expression.

"Do you remember this place, Rin?"

Wuming suddenly spoke up.

"This riverbank is where we first met."

"Hey, is this the place?"

It was something from a long time ago, Rin Tohsaka thought with wide eyes, but for a moment she couldn't quite recall it.

“Yes, you got lost from your family back then. You were walking along the riverbank, crying, when you met me. I helped you find your family,” Wuming said with great certainty. “It happened six years ago. I remember it very clearly.”

"I have no recollection of such a thing!"

Although she was arguing back, Rin Tohsaka did remember that afternoon when she was taking a walk with her family and they accidentally got separated halfway through.

Come to think of it, this man already looked like this back then. Six whole years have passed, and he still looks the same. Time seems unable to leave a mark on him; not even a wrinkle can be etched on him.

The initial memories are somewhat hazy, but the subsequent interactions are crystal clear. From his persistent efforts to find him and express his gratitude, to the correspondence they established, to his return to the New Tokyo Special District a few years ago as a member of the action team, and their increasing meetings, to his instruction in martial arts and his guidance in magic, until he left without saying goodbye half a year ago, and he chose to take the test and join the action team, and now, the two have met again.

This man, from the very beginning, seemed to understand her exceptionally well, as if they had known each other for a long time and spent countless days and nights together. She had once pressed him about why he understood her so well, and Wu Ming's answer at the time was clearly a fabricated story to deceive her.

"Well, how should I put it... If I told you that I actually come from another world, and that I know another version of you, and we get along quite well. But for some reason, I was summoned here by the father of this world as a weakened spirit, and unexpectedly gained a physical body, so I had to act as that idiot's older brother, and then I met this even smaller version of you, would you believe me?"

As a young girl at the time, I looked at him with a "What the hell are you talking about?" expression and immediately demanded that he repeat it in words she could understand, only to be flatly refused by him.

"Don't worry about it, just consider it me talking nonsense. Anyway... as long as I'm happy now, that's enough." When she pressed him repeatedly, Wuming simply said these words and never brought up the matter again.

Looking back now, I realize that what he said back then was indeed... indeed a lie!

"So, do you remember that I like you?"

Then, before Rin Tohsaka could properly finish her recollection, Wuming abruptly pulled her back to reality with a bombshell of words.

"Don't say things like that so casually!"

On the riverbank, once again a girl's angry roar and a man's faint laughter rang out.

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What am I, a bachelor, writing this stuff for? Sigh...

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Section 49, Chapter Six: The Born Killer

The next day, Li Cheng arrived at the Neon Headquarters of the Supernatural Abilities Bureau very early.

"So, does that mean Group Five is really wiped out...?"

Looking at the photos of the scene, at the gruesome, even unbearable, corpses, Li Cheng felt a palpable pressure. The Fifth Group was an elite unit of the Supernatural Abilities Bureau, comprised of three B-level experts. Now, they were so dead they couldn't even be pieced together—it was a slap in the face to headquarters.

"It has now been confirmed that the perpetrators are two escaped prisoners named Ryunosuke Uryu and Kirei Kotomine."

Sitting opposite Li Cheng, Kurogiri Kanya held a coffee and spoke with a serious expression. He had faint dark circles under his eyes, clearly indicating that he had been working all night without sleep.

“Is that so? Let me see. This guy named Ryunosuke Uryu seems to be just a mentally unstable serial killer. The A-rank criminal named Kirei Kotomine is the real problem,” Li Cheng said, looking up after glancing through the files of the two criminals. “So, should I go and track down Kirei Kotomine?”

“No, Kirei Kotomine has three teams working together on this. I need you to track down Ryunosuke Uryu, Mr. Li Cheng.”

Unexpectedly, Mikiya Kokutou gave the completely opposite answer.

"Why?" Li Cheng asked, somewhat confused. "He's just an ordinary murderer. In terms of strength, he's just an ordinary person who hasn't even reached B-level. Even the weakest action team could easily capture him. Why would they need me?"

"Because compared to Kirei Kotomine, he is more dangerous and more unpredictable."

After taking a sip of coffee, Kurogiri Kanya's previously listless expression recovered slightly, and he then spoke seriously:

"Kirei Kotomine is very goal-oriented, and we can roughly deduce his target and the area he roams. But Ryunosuke Uryu is different. He is a true 'born killer,' and ordinary prediction and calculation mechanisms are completely useless against him."

As he spoke, a wry smile appeared on his face.

“When he started committing crimes, it was actually the fifteenth case that we began to suspect the existence of a serial killer. It wasn’t until the forty-third case that we were able to confirm that there was indeed a serial killer. And at that time, we could only barely count six cases that might have been committed by him.”

"Even after confirming the existence of this person and starting the investigation, it took us a full six months to finally find a clue. In the end, it was thanks to a middle school student's unintentional tip that we were able to discover and arrest him in one fell swoop."

“Oh, I know that,” Li Cheng interrupted with interest. “It’s about Fujimura Taiga, right? I remember it was a hot news story back then. He happened to meet a serial killer and felt something was wrong, so he took the initiative and knocked the killer unconscious. When he was taken to the police station, it turned out he really was the serial killer.”

"Oh, Mr. Li Cheng, so you knew about this."

Kurogiri Mikiya said with some surprise.

"After all, I know Fujimura Taiga. She has a good relationship with the Emiya family. She seems to be studying under Irisviel, so I know a bit about her past. I haven't seen her much lately. I heard she's trying to get into a teacher's college and is planning to become a teacher."

Li Cheng recalled that he still had a deep impression of that energetic child, but now she doesn't go out to play much anymore because of her studies.

"We've gone off-topic, Mr. Li Cheng."

With a somewhat helpless smile, Kurogiri Kanya interrupted Li Cheng's wandering thoughts.

"In short, this person is a serial killer who is difficult to predict using common sense. Searching for him in a normal way is extremely difficult, so I hope you can follow up on this fugitive. With your abilities and experience, Mr. Li Cheng, you might be able to achieve better results in dealing with such a criminal."

Experience...

Li Cheng glanced at Kurogiri Mikiya in front of him with some surprise, then stood up without saying a word.

"Mr. Li Cheng?"

"Don't worry, I'll take responsibility for finding this person. It's definitely better to catch this crazy person who kills indiscriminately as soon as possible."

Holding the information about Ryunosuke Uryu in his hand, and looking at his happy and innocent smiling face in the photo, Li Cheng couldn't connect him with the cold-blooded and ruthless killer. However, the series of cruel cases were so real that he couldn't have any doubts.

Indeed, this really is... that familiar nauseating feeling...

Some things, though they are long gone, can never be erased. They can only take deep root in one's heart. Pretending they don't exist, they will still be unexpectedly bumped into, making one remember them again.

Slightly annoyed, Li Cheng scratched his head and prepared to leave, but halfway there, he suddenly remembered something and turned back to ask Kurogiri Mikiya, who was about to go back to work:

"Wait, Kurogiri, can the three action teams really keep up with that Kirei Kotomine? I remember he's quite strong, one of the best in A-rank."

“You don’t need to worry about that, Mr. Li Cheng.”

To this, Mikiya Kurohiri responded with a polite smile.

“We already know his general target and have made contact with the other party. The other party has also expressed its full cooperation, so the combat capability level of the action team is not the most important thing.”

"Him? So you mean a foreign player at the A level? Who is he again? I remember there are only a handful of A-level players here in the Special Zone."

“You know that person too, Mr. Li Cheng. You’ve even met him. And actually, his daughter is your colleague and junior.”

"Could it be..."

"Yes, the person cooperating with us this time is Mr. Tokiomi Tohsaka."

…A rare day when the sun wasn't too strong.

Li Cheng had to get up early and return to headquarters because of work. So he could only prepare breakfast in advance, leave a note, and ask tide to reheat the cold breakfast after she woke up.

Yes, tide can now understand most of the written language and can use the household appliances, albeit somewhat unskilled. And it only took Li Cheng a few days to learn all of this.

In addition, because she learned so quickly that she completely understood how to operate the TV remote, Li Cheng had to urgently contact the merchant to cancel the initial adult programs and then subscribe to a large number of children's programs in order to prevent this child with strong learning abilities from learning some bad things.

However, it was precisely because of tide's strong learning ability that Li Cheng was able to barely feel at ease leaving her alone at home. Even so, he still filled the note with a whole bunch of things like "Don't tamper with the electrical wires," "Don't open the door to strangers," and "Don't heat breakfast in the microwave for too long." As a result, Xi held the densely written note and looked at it for a long time before finally having to use a magnifying glass to read what Li Cheng had written.

"Hawoo~~"

With a soft yawn, tide sat on the balcony, swinging her legs in white stockings, quietly watching the vehicles and pedestrians passing by on the street outside.

It's definitely a bit boring without Cheng around.

For some reason, she couldn't concentrate on watching TV, and after finishing breakfast, she lost all motivation to look for food in the refrigerator. tide suddenly felt listless. Finally, with nothing to do, she simply went to sit on the balcony so that she could see Li Cheng immediately when he returned.

The 334th car, the 112th pedestrian, Cheng, did not return.

The 578th car, the 278th pedestrian, Cheng, did not return.

The 1123rd car, the 404th pedestrian, Cheng still hasn't returned...

Ugh, I'm so bored. I want to go out and find Cheng. Being alone is so boring, so incredibly boring!

Shaking her head, tide suppressed the restless emotions in her heart.

No, no, no, Cheng, tide must stay home and behave herself. tide promised Cheng, tide can't run around. tide must wait obediently for Cheng to come back.

But, it's so boring, so boring, so boring...

Yakumo Shio, leaning on the balcony railing, puffed out her cheeks and looked dejectedly at the pedestrians on the street outside the community, continuing to wait anxiously for Li Cheng's return.

"Yo!"

A gasp rang out from downstairs at that moment. She glanced over and saw an orange-haired young man in a leopard-print shirt waving at her.

Not a good product, bad review!

Completely ignoring the other person, tide turned her head away and continued to look at the entrance of the community, waiting for the person she was waiting for to return.

What she didn't notice was that the young man downstairs didn't leave because she ignored him. Instead, he observed her building with great interest and walked into the stairwell.

Concealing the blade in his sleeve, the young man, with a kind smile on his face, slowly walked upstairs.

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