An infinite journey starting from paradise

"Is this how you kiss a priest's hand? Hmm, did that scare you?"

Kitami Reika said this with a smile. She was obviously very satisfied with Lin Shangren's surprised expression.

She licked her lips, as if savoring the taste, or perhaps simply teasing.

"Hmm... just a simple kiss on the hand? I didn't notice anything unusual."

After confirming that the other party was just teasing him, Lin Shangren also pretended to be embarrassed:

"Kitami-sensei... If you're not a Christian, you don't need to perform this kind of greeting to a priest... Besides, Christians only perform this kind of greeting during solemn ceremonies."

"Is that so? I was being rude." Kitami Reika chuckled and said, "Father, you don't have classes today, do you? If you're free, could you please come to my infirmary and sit for a while? I'll treat you to tea as an apology for what happened just now."

"This……"

"Don't you have time, Father?"

Kitami Reika asked with a smile. Her smile seemed to have a kind of magic that made people unconsciously want to believe her.

"some……"

Lin Shangren was not bewitched by her. He simply wanted to find a place where no one else was in the way to subdue the demon believer. If they started fighting here, there was a high possibility of accidentally injuring students.

So, Lin Shangren followed Kitami Rika's lead and walked along the corridor.

The bell for class hasn't rung yet, but there are no students in the corridor.

"It's so quiet." Lin Shangren sighed again.

"Yes, the education here is very thorough. It has been like this since the beginning. The discipline and school rules strictly bind the students."

Kitami Reika answered in a low voice. She seemed to have recalled something and her expression became a little complicated.

Lin Shangren asked: "Since the beginning?"

"At least, it was like this when I was studying here," said Kitami Rika.

"Katami-sensei was once a student here too?"

Kitami Reika replied, "Yes, it's been eleven years. The war wasn't over yet, and I spent most of my high school years in underground air-raid shelters to avoid the bombing of the US military.

I originally thought that the school would relax its management after the war, but I didn't expect that after I became a teacher, the school would still be like this. But, it doesn't matter..."

“Alright…?”

"Isn't this good?" Kitami Rika gave a mysterious smile. "A Christian like Father Lin Shangren would probably like this kind of solemn and abstinent atmosphere, right?"

At this point, Kitami Reika suddenly stopped talking because she saw someone she knew.

Kitami Reika greeted him eagerly, "Hey, Hiroko-chan. Are you asking to attend class?"

"Oh?"

Lin Shangren followed Kitami Reika's gaze and saw that the person coming was a female teacher with brown-red hair.

She wore a black dress with a moderate opening, a white shirt with a floral collar underneath, the opening revealing a bit of her chest. The narrow skirt hugged her round buttocks tightly, her slender legs were wrapped in a pair of transparent glass stockings, and on her feet were a pair of burgundy high heels. She exuded an intellectual and gentle temperament.

What caught Lin Shangren's attention was that this female teacher looked somewhat familiar. Upon closer inspection, the look between her eyebrows was surprisingly similar to that of the strange female forensic doctor Lin Shangren had met yesterday.

【Name: Takagi Hiroko】

[Race: Human female]

[Identity: Teacher at Yingyu Girls' College]

[Status: Panic, memory loss]

[Note: He's a good teacher, but who doesn't have some secrets?]

"Hmm? Their surname is Takashiro. Is she related to that Natsume-san?"

Lin Shangren looked at Gaocheng Kuanzi curiously.

However, Takagi Hiroko ran away in a hurry as if she didn't see Kitami Reika and Hayashi Naoto.

"This teacher seems to be in a hurry to go to class." Lin Shangren said.

Kitami Reika shook her head slightly and responded in a complicated tone: "No, she's just avoiding me."

"Hiding from you?"

"We were classmates in high school, and we had some... minor friction later on. I've gotten over it, but... she seems to still be holding a grudge?

Or maybe... she's already forgotten. She simply doesn't want to be associated with me, the victim, so she keeps avoiding me..."

When she said this, Kitami Reika's expression became a little gloomy.

Lin Shangren noticed that the seductive aura emanating from her seemed to have faded a little.

"victim?"

"Nothing, just some old shit. Just a fight between high school girls."

Kitami Reika smiled, her temperament becoming extremely charming again: "Let's go, the health room is just ahead."

……

The health room, a high-accident area within the school, is also close by: the rooftop, the gymnasium, and the abandoned classrooms. Countless people of noble character have shed their sweat and energy in these places.

Kitami Reika pushed the door open and walked in, heading towards the desk where the tea set was placed. Meanwhile, Hayashi Shangren simply locked the door to the health room.

"What would you like to drink? Tea or coffee?" asked Kitami Rika.

"It will be all right."

As he spoke, Lin Shangren pointed his finger towards the north at Jian Lihua, and then she collapsed limply to the ground.

"Solved. Next, tie her up and start torturing her."

Lin Shangren wiped his hand across his forehead, put on Bruce Hearn's mask, and took out a roll of hemp rope and a pair of handcuffs from his pocket.

"Mask, handcuffs, bondage, and an unconscious woman. Putting these keywords together always feels weird."

Complaining in his heart, Lin Shangren walked to the side of Kitami Rika. Just as he was about to bend over to tie her up, he saw that Kitami Rika, who should have been knocked unconscious by the Eagle's Finger, suddenly moved.

Something was "crawl" on her back, and the white coat on her back was inexplicably soaked and a stain appeared.

"puff!"

The stained part of Kitami Rika's back suddenly broke open, and a gray-black tentacle shot out and headed straight for Lin Shangren.

"what?!"

Lin Shangren quickly retreated, barely avoiding the tentacles' attack.

However, the tentacle seemed to have eyes, twisting into an incredible arc and lashing towards Lin Shangren's head like a long whip.

Lin Shangren summoned his long sword, dodging the tentacle's attack with a single blow, then slashed it in two. However, the moment the tentacle was severed, a large amount of pink, viscous liquid gushed out from within. The tentacle was like an uncontrolled water pipe, twitching and spraying in all directions.

"What the hell is this?"

The pink liquid sprayed everywhere, emitting a sweet smell. Upon contact, Lin Shangren's crotch could not help but harden. Then, due to the effect of [Little Bird Healing Man], it returned to normal.

"Is it an aphrodisiac? The effect shouldn't be as good as the pink smoke from the other day. The little bird doctor can cure it."

After confirming that the enemy's aphrodisiac was ineffective on him, Lin Shangren no longer dodged deliberately, but rushed straight towards Kitami Rika's body.

Just at this moment, several tentacles emerged from behind Kitami Rika. They twitched, and dense spikes grew on their surface. Then they lashed towards Lin Shangren.

"Damn, a tentacle monster? That's disgusting."

Facing the tentacles that were approaching, Lin Shangren didn't retreat. Instead, he leaped high, twisting like a nimble water bird and swinging his sword. The streaks of light from Millicent's Sesher longsword formed a swirling cloud-like blade net.

The tentacles on Kitami Rika's back were chopped into pieces the moment they touched the water bird, and the gray-black tentacle flesh and sticky pink liquid were scattered everywhere.

Seeing that he was getting close to Kitami Reika, Lin Shangren retracted his knife. He hadn't gotten any information out of her yet, so he certainly couldn't just chop her into pieces.

However, just as Lin Shangren approached Kitami Reika, her clothes suddenly exploded. Before Lin Shangren could react, he was knocked back a long distance by the shockwave.

Kitami Reika had regained her feet, the severed tentacles on her back growing back. Her clothes had been ripped to shreds by the shockwave she had created, exposing her fair flesh. She wore only a pair of aqua-green panties. These were hollowed out except for the crotch area, and the hair could be vaguely seen between her legs.

"Is the explosion entering the second stage?"

Lin Shangren looked at Kitami Reika's character panel.

[Name: Kitami Reika / The Fallen Demon]

[Race: Human Female/Demon]

[Status: Coma, Demon Possessed]

[Note: The demon summoned to the human world eleven years ago has been living in symbiosis with the woman who served as the sacrifice. Since you used the Eagle Finger to knock Kitami Reika unconscious, this body will now be completely controlled by the demon.]

[Ding~ A demon wandering the human world has been detected. Should we start hunting it down?]

"Hey, hey, hey, how come it took us so long to figure out her identity?" Lin Shangren complained in his heart.

And Xiao Ai finally responded after a long absence:

[Because her identity wasn't fully revealed before. The Eye of Innocence isn't omniscient, it's mainly used to identify items.]

[And... even in the Gaia Library in Kamen Rider W, you need keywords to search for the truth of the case. You can't expect to see the truth without doing any research, right? ????`]

"Xiao Ai? Are you hot?"

[What are you talking about? I only slept for two days this time. What, Master, did you miss me? (??ω??)??]

"Yeah, really...Fuck!"

Lin Shangren was about to have some fun with Ashrose, but he saw Kitami Reika floating in the air. Not only her, but also the tables, chairs, and beds around her were floating.

"What the hell is this? Magneto?"

[Poking, telekinesis. (?ω?)]

[My Lord, use teleportation quickly to dodge, she's coming!]

"Do you think I'm a Pokémon?"

Lin Shangren once again used the Water Bird Dance to chop all kinds of furniture thrown at him into pieces. At the same time, the sword energy extended from the Water Bird Dance also forced Kitami Rika to retreat again and again.

However, the fragments chopped off by Lin Shangren once again stabbed towards Lin Shangren before hitting the ground. He wanted to dodge, but was fixed in mid-air by Kitami Rika's telekinesis.

Seeing that he was about to be stabbed through, Lin Shangren used the Four Beasts Dice.

"Zeno's paradox, these things will never reach the truth that touches me."

After many experiments, he found that the energy consumed by using Zeno's paradox to affect objects was much lower than that consumed by affecting people. In order to avoid being drained all at once, Lin Shangren did not choose to directly control Kitami Reika.

[Wow, no one at Jiaotong University uses flash? Do you know how to play?]

"You know nothing. Xiao Ai, is there any hope for her? If not, I'll kill her."

[She has completely merged with the demon. Although she may still retain some self-awareness, she definitely cannot transform back into an ordinary human.]

"Is that so?"

Lin Shangren was about to draw his gun when he heard Xiao Ai say:

[My Lord, she can control objects with her telekinesis, so guns might be useless.]

[My master, just chop her up! ??(◣д◢)??]

"Tsk, you don't have to tell me."

Lin Shangren's left hand summoned the short sword Feng Ling Yue Ying.

He pointed the long sword in his right hand at Bei Jianlihua and placed the short sword in his reverse grip on his right arm, striking the classic stance of the French Street Dance Team.

"Lin Shangren, join the hunt."

[Huan's sword, the soul's shape, the lines of Yuan, my lord, what is your way? ]

Seeing Lin Shangren's posture, Kitami Reika, who was floating in the air, or the demon possessing Kitami Reika, felt like she was facing a formidable enemy.

Just when she focused her attention completely on Lin Shangren.

The next moment, Lin Shangren's figure suddenly disappeared, and then a brilliant knife light directly cut off Kitami Rika's head.

He used the dancing water birds to force Kitami Reika to retreat to a shadowy place, and used strange postures to attract her attention. Finally, when her attention was completely focused in one direction, he teleported to the shadow behind her and beheaded her with one sword.

"See, Xiao Ai, this is how you use Flash. If she knew I could teleport, she would definitely keep a shockwave in reserve to prevent me from getting close. Then I'd be in a passive position."

【Tsk, you despicable outsider.】

"No, I haven't even poisoned the knife yet."

Lin Shangren shook the blood off his knife and looked at Kitami Reika's headless body. It was strange. Even though her head had been chopped off, no blood spurted out from her neck. Instead... countless tiny tentacles extended from her.