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

Looking at the old man slowly walking down, Li Cheng said very bluntly.

“No, at that time, I was indeed quite distressed and didn’t know what to do,” the old man sighed and said with his head down. “Meeting you was an accident. Some time before that, the young master had already discovered that the monster was by your side.”

"Her name is tide."

Li Cheng corrected him coldly.

"I understand, Xi, it's a very nice name."

The old man nodded, his expression gradually becoming sharp.

“Mr. Li Cheng, I won’t say ‘please forgive me.’ Since the young master has decided to do this, I will support him to the end. Therefore, I will stand in your way and do everything in my power to stop you. You understand why I’m doing this, right?”

"Your name is... Ghost, right?"

Unexpectedly, Li Cheng did not act immediately, but instead asked the old man his name.

"Yes, Konoe Onimasa, the head butler of the Konoe family. You can just call me Onimasa."

"Alright, then, Master Guizheng, please give me your guidance!"

Along with this solemn voice came Li Cheng's sudden lunge and the crushed cement floor beneath his feet.

"Da da da da da da—"

Bullets swept through the building, leaving craters of all sizes on the ground, walls, and ceiling, and windows shattered one after another.

Ryougi Shiki moved swiftly through the hail of bullets. Not a single one of those high-speed bullets managed to touch her. Occasionally, one or two bullets would fly towards her, but she would simply pick up her blade and effortlessly slice them in half.

Two figures were chasing her, trying to stop her and hurt her. One was a short, hooded man, and the other was a muscular, bare-chested man. The two were chasing after her with all their might, but they could never catch up with Ryougi Shiki's speed. They could only keep running after her back.

Despite possessing A-level physical attributes, they completely lacked any of the qualities expected of an A-level fighter; their skills and reflexes were severely deficient. These two must be the "pseudo-A-level" fighters Li Cheng described, whom he had seriously injured? Indeed, they seemed far too weak.

He stopped, stepped against the wall, turned around and kicked the skinny man in the face. He flew backward and crashed into the short man, and the two of them rolled on the ground together.

Meanwhile, on the 14th floor...

Kiritsugu Emiya's body crashed through two walls in succession, sliding several meters across the ground amidst the flying debris before finally stopping. He struggled painfully to his feet.

With heavy breathing, Bane's two-meter-tall body emerged from behind the shattered wall.

An unexpected situation, a completely unexpected situation...

Throwing a smoke grenade and quickly shifting positions within the exploding mist, Kiritsugu Emiya, gun in hand, cautiously moved through the dilapidated stairwell.

Unlike the previous two times when he let her off easy, this time Bane attacked fiercely from the start, showing no intention of giving Kiritsugu Emiya any chance of survival. If Kiritsugu hadn't been prepared beforehand and hadn't distrusted Bane's apparent goodwill, he might have been killed right from the start.

The strength he just displayed was definitely at the A-level. Was this guy really just feigning weakness all along? I don't understand why he's doing this. What does he want?

A swift, sweeping kick came suddenly, but in an instant, Kiritsugu Emiya activated a magic spell, tripling his reflexes, and barely dodged the attack. He then drew his gun and unleashed a barrage of fire at his opponent. Bane charged forward, unleashing several punches amidst the bullets. Forced to continuously activate magic spells and rely on his heightened reflexes to dodge, Kiritsugu Emiya gradually retreated, eventually finding himself leaning against a wall.

Boom!

With a dull thud, Kiritsugu Emiya's body crashed through the wall and fell to the ground once again.

At the same time, amidst a flash of blades, the black-clad men who had surrounded Ryougi Shiki, along with the two individuals, one large and one small, lay dead in pools of blood.

"I won't... let you... stop... Lord Ren..."

The short, hooded figure, now stripped of her hood, revealed a severe case of albinism and was actually a very young woman. She lay helplessly on the ground, her body covered in multiple cuts from blades, her limbs out of control, yet she was still struggling with all her might to stand up and continue to obstruct Ryougi Shiki.

"We cannot...stop...Lord Ren..."

Eventually, her struggles gradually subsided, but with her blood-stained body, she managed to crawl more than ten meters out.

"It's like I'm the bad guy..."

Shi sighed slightly, sheathed his blade, turned and quickly left, continuing upstairs.

"...So, why can't I find it?"

After studying the flow of magic downstairs and trying to find its source for a full fifty minutes, Rin Tohsaka was on the verge of collapse.

"Why did I forget to bring the measuring instrument... This workload and calculations are impossible for me to do alone, ugh, so annoying!"

With a desperate roar, Rin resigned herself to her fate and randomly chose a magical path, embarking once again on her journey to find the center point. Unsurprisingly, she returned to her starting point fifteen minutes later.

"RUA!"

The desperate cries gradually began to sound shameful.

…………

The third update is complete; one more update is still owed.

Thank you to readers 風永魇憂飛 and Mocking Bird for their recommendation votes.

Sure enough, fewer people are watching, so there aren't many tipping or sending razor blades. It looks like I can easily pay it back tomorrow; it couldn't be easier.

Section 87, Chapter 22: The Inevitable Interceptor

With a dull thud, a figure landed heavily on the ground.

Gui Zheng coughed up blood, bracing himself on the ground, and struggled to get up again. Li Cheng walked behind him and punched him in the waist, knocking him to the ground again, unable to stand up.

"Stop it, it's over."

Seeing the old man struggling, Li Cheng sighed and gave up the idea of ​​continuing the pursuit.

"You'd better stay here and lie there until I rescue tide," Li Cheng said, turning and walking towards the stairwell. "I'll come back to settle the score with you then."

Reaching out and grabbing the table beside him, Gui Zheng tried his best to stand up again, but his foot slipped and he fell to the ground once more. He could only watch as Li Cheng's figure quickly disappeared around the corner of the corridor.

I really have... completely failed...

The old man closed his eyes, lay on the ground, and stopped struggling.

Meanwhile, on the fourteenth floor of the building, after an extremely intense battle, Kiritsugu Emiya finally exhausted himself. He could only lean against the wall beside him for support, watching Bane slowly and steadily approach in the distance.

"I must say you have an outstanding fighting spirit, Mr. Emiya. If I had given you time to make targeted preparations, I think it would have been difficult for me to win easily."

"..."

Without responding, Kiritsugu Emiya silently reloaded his gun, changed the magazine, and then fired fiercely at Bane in front of him.

At the very moment Kiritsugu Emiya fired his gun, Bane's body suddenly accelerated, bursting forth like a wild beast hunting its prey, forcefully closing the distance of more than ten meters to within inches, and immediately launching an extremely ferocious attack.

At the same instant, Kiritsugu Emiya's speed also increased dramatically, reaching a frequency far exceeding his reaction limit. He narrowly dodged the opponent's deadly attack and jumped into the crack in the wall beside him.

But Bane's body then passed through the wall and caught up with Kiritsugu Emiya, who accelerated to his limit. He punched Kiritsugu in the back, sending him rolling forward and crashing into a pile of haphazardly placed tables and chairs, bleeding profusely.

"Cough, cough—"

Both from the severe injuries he had sustained and from the fact that his acceleration ability was also harming his body, Kiritsugu Emiya coughed violently, splattering blood and foam on the ground. However, he quickly picked up the fallen gun and turned to point it at Bane, who was slowly approaching from a distance.

"Still not giving up? What a resilient man you are."

As he spoke casually, Bane walked slowly towards Kiritsugu Emiya as if taking a stroll.

"boom!"

The next moment, a gunshot rang out, and Bane lunged forward again, but this time, he had to stop. He simply reached out and grabbed the bullet that had been fired, stopping in place with some apprehension, assuming a defensive stance.

There was someone who stood in front of Kiritsugu Emiya.

"It's you?!"

Emiya Kiritsugu spoke with some surprise.

"I was also quite reluctant to come and save you, you shameless assassin."

Tokiomi Tohsaka, holding a jewel-encrusted cane, stood in front of Kiritsugu Emiya, facing Bane, and spoke in a very dissatisfied tone.

“But Rin has taken a liking to your son after all. If you just die here like this, I won’t be able to explain it to her.”

"...When did you come here?"

Leaning against a nearby rumpled table, Kiritsugu Emiya stood up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and asked.

"I knew it from the time you called Rin in the middle of the night yesterday to have her join the attack on the airport," Tokiomi Tohsaka said coldly. "I really didn't expect that you would dare to attack their headquarters even knowing the level of the enemy. Can I only say that you are as arrogant and audacious as assassins?"

"This isn't the first time I've faced this situation; I'm used to it anyway."

Spitting out a mouthful of blood, Kiritsugu Emiya calmly answered, taking off his coat as he did so. Tokiomi Tohsaka, seeing the ammunition and bombs scattered beneath his coat, couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. Had he not intervened in time, this guy might have blown up the entire building.

"In short, you'll be dealing with this big guy now. I'm really not good at dealing with enemies who aren't magicians. So I'll leave this place to you."

This commanding tone made Tokiomi Tohsaka involuntarily tighten his grip on his cane.

"I'll take care of this opponent. You'd better run away like a stray dog, Kiritsugu Emiya."

Extremely displeased, Tokiomi Tohsaka replied rather coldly.

"Very well, then I'll leave this to you to deal with, the elegant pervert who stalks his own daughter, Tokiomi Tohsaka."

After uttering a remark that made Tokiomi Tohsaka's veins bulge, Kiritsugu Emiya turned around and quickly ran into the stairwell, heading downstairs.

Bane shifted his position, attempting to catch up with Kiritsugu Emiya, but a sudden wall of fire blocked his path. Turning around, Tokiomi Tohsaka walked slowly towards him with elegant steps.

"Tohsaka family, magic combat, Tohsaka Tokiomi, I humbly request your guidance, unknown sir."

Along with Tokiomi Tohsaka's calm words came a blazing inferno.

“Bain”.

With a punch imbued with intense pressure, Bane shattered the flames, then clapped his hands, calmly looked at Tokiomi Tohsaka, and gave a simple reply.

At this moment, on the tenth floor of the building, in the crucial location of the testing grounds, a door outside the only main entrance to the testing grounds was gently pushed open.

Li Cheng slowly walked into the doorway, looking at Cheng Yan sitting quietly outside the test site gate, remaining silent.

"You've arrived."

Opening her eyes, Cheng Yan slowly sat up from the ground, looked at Li Cheng standing at the door, and said softly.

Li Cheng stepped forward and entered the room. He slowly walked to Cheng Yan, about four or five meters away, and stood to his left. He stopped and stared at Cheng Yan with cold eyes.

Almost simultaneously, the door was pushed open again, and Ryougi Shiki walked into the room with a cold expression. She glanced at Li Cheng, then slowly walked to Cheng Yan's right side, stood still, and stared at Cheng Yan in front of her.

"Where is Emiya?"

Ryougi Shiki, standing beside Li Chengchao, asked.

"I don't know, I didn't see it."