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Yuuki snorted coldly, then looked at Kato Megumi with an arrogant expression: "Since you summoned me, you have to grant me three wishes!"

"Okay... huh?" Kato Megumi initially agreed without hesitation, but after thinking about it carefully, she realized something was off and subconsciously asked, "Why should I grant you three wishes?"

"Because you are my Master!" Yuuki said matter-of-factly, "As my Master, it's reasonable for you to grant me three wishes, right?"

What the hell is reasonable!

"That's not right. Even if a wish is to be granted, shouldn't it be you who grants it for her?" For some reason, Yumiko Miura instinctively jumped in to retort, "Aladdin's lamp summons someone to grant a wish, doesn't it?"

"I don't care, since she summoned me, I have to grant her three wishes."

It feels so familiar...

The remaining three, including Yui, subconsciously twitched at the corners of their eyes. Wasn't this a scene that often occurred in the base before?!

"enough!"

The cloaked figure next to them covered his face and loudly interrupted the group who wanted to continue discussing the issue: "Be serious, you bastards!"

Yes, now is not the time for jokes!

Yumiko Miura was startled, and then she and Yui Yuigahama secretly pulled Yuki Risa to their sides.

"You are again... Oh!" Yukishiro looked at the cloaked man with displeasure at first, but his expression turned strange the next moment.

"Who is it? Oh, it's you..."

Eh?

The people behind him were stunned. Judging from his tone, they knew each other?!

The cloaked figure didn't want to speak, so he casually conjured a black spear made of black energy and thrust it towards Koyoshiro.

"Hey, hey, hey, can't you at least catch up first? Tell me what happened!"

With a helpless expression, Koyuki Shiori made a loose fist with one hand, and white light formed a longsword in his hand, which he gently used to deflect the opponent's black spear.

"But speaking of which, why are you using such a dark and grimy thing? Have you degenerated into a serf all these years?"

"That's great! We're a perfect match, because I'm fair-skinned!"

"Why do not you speak?"

Is it because you don't like to talk?

…………

Under Yui's deliberate guidance, the two gradually broke away from the fight between Yui and the others. One wielded a black spear and attacked with wide, sweeping movements, while the other wielded a white sword with lightness and elegance. The two fighting together looked like... a fixed match.

"W-What's going on?" Yui Yuigahama's eyes twitched wildly as she watched the two fight, which seemed like they were throwing a match. "Something feels off about these two..."

Not only did he feel something was wrong, everyone felt something was wrong.

There was no way around it; the two fought as if they had rehearsed it. Every attack was blocked by the other with precision and efficiency, turning what was supposed to be an action game into the illusion of a turn-based game.

"There's nothing I can do. We were all taught by the same master, so I can't break their moves!"

Yoshiro explained helplessly, "And isn't there anyone kind enough to explain this to me? We're fighting as soon as we come out, and I hate fighting the most."

"You can choose to die," the cloaked man replied sinisterly, then unleashed a black energy blast with one hand. Koyuki, feeling helpless, also casually returned a few white energy blasts.

The black and white bombardment, strangely, did not result in an explosion; instead, it gradually melted away like snow in spring.

"Don't be so irritable, you're acting like an angry little bastard."

"You bastard, if you keep spouting nonsense, I'll kill you!"

"Well, legally speaking, killing is wrong. Morally speaking, we have no grudge against each other, so it's even more wrong for you to kill me. From an ethical standpoint, it's simply outrageous for you to kill me. So you can't kill me."

"...Can't you just shut up, you bastard?"

"I couldn't do anything about it, because no one was kneeling on my neck."

"Damn it, can you please stop talking about that kind of 'burning merit' stuff?!"

"Oh, I don't have any merit. Do you have any?"

"..."

The two continued exchanging words, especially the cloaked figure, who seemed to be breaking down and whose attacks became increasingly fierce. Yui and the others were even forced to retreat a considerable distance because they couldn't withstand the aftershocks of their fight.

boom!

After the two clashed again and bombed a building, Yui used the momentum to jump back to Yui and the others.

"Hey, hey, hey, at least explain to me what happened!"

He spread his hands helplessly: "Otherwise, I won't even have the motivation to fight."

"Is such that……"

Gokou Ruri immediately stepped forward and succinctly explained the situation.

“I see…” Yuki stroked her chin. “Then this guy really went a bit too far.”

"Right? Right?" Yui Yuigahama exclaimed indignantly, "So many people died!"

"They didn't even go and blow up the sacred toilet? That's outrageous!"

"????"

Do you want to listen to what you are saying? !

And what the hell is this "divine toilet" thing?!

"By the way, what about those seven cards?" Yuuki suddenly changed the subject, reaching out her hand to Ruri Gokou: "Give them to me, maybe that way I'll have a way to defeat that guy."

Without a second thought, Gokou Ruri took the seven cards out of the shadows and placed them in Koyuki's hand.

This unconditional trust even surprised Yuki.

He put the card away and sighed with mixed feelings: "Didn't you ever have any doubts?"

“You are reason, even if you’re not the one we know, reason is reason, and we don’t need a reason to believe you,” Yui Yuigahama explained with a smile. “Besides… you won’t hurt us, right?”

"...Yes, I won't hurt you."

Koyuki was stunned for a moment, then nodded and flew back towards the cloaked figure.

A City of Ghosts and Monsters: Chapter 81 Yuigahama's Notebook

Something unexpected happened.

After receiving the card, Koyuki took it and resolutely flew towards the cloaked man. The seven cards floated behind him and spun around, as if he were about to unleash some ultimate move.

Amidst everyone's anticipation, he...

He stood beside the cloaked man, and the seven cards flew into the cloaked man's hand as he stood still.

The atmosphere froze at that moment.

This scene took everyone by surprise, leaving them completely stunned.

"What are you doing, you bastard?!"

The first to react was Yumiko Miura, who shouted loudly with a dark face, "There's a limit to joking!"

"Take it back, you bastard!"

However, Koyuki remained unmoved, simply standing quietly beside the cloaked figure.

"...As expected, I thought my perception was wrong." Yui Yuigahama smiled helplessly, but the light in her eyes gradually dimmed: "It's just that I didn't want to believe it..."

"W-What do you mean?" Ruri Gokou asked, trembling all over. "Yui, what exactly did you sense..."

They were aware of Yui Yuigahama's sensory abilities.

"Can't you see?" Saeko Busujima tightened her grip on the knife. "They're in cahoots..."

They're all in cahoots...

"How is this possible!" Yumiko Miura exclaimed in disbelief, "This is clearly that guy..."

Suddenly, as if someone had grabbed her throat, her face turned deathly pale.

“GeGeGe no Kitarō…” Komi Shoko looked at the two people standing together in the distance, a rare look of sadness on her face: “Why did you do this…”

Yuuki's cards were given to him by Yuuki, and now that he's in camouflage with that cloaked man, doesn't that mean...?

Ruri Gokou couldn't believe it: "It's impossible! How could the prince do such a thing?!"

"He has no reason to do this. He's so powerful; destroying the world would be a piece of cake for him. Why would he bother?"

"There must be some misunderstanding here!"

Her words were not without reason, and the group snapped out of their disappointment.

Yeah, with Yuki's power, there's no need for all this pretense. Just go for it! There's absolutely no need for all this unnecessary stuff!

This reason hit them right on the mark, and they needed a reason to convince themselves.

Perhaps because of her conscience, seeing the intense emotional turmoil of the group, Koyuki sighed and said to the cloaked figure, "Now that things have come to this, let's give them an explanation!"

"After all, they were chosen by the original body..."

"Humph!"

The cloaked figure sneered, "If you can't even withstand this much of a blow, then it only proves that the original body chose the wrong person."

That's what he said, but his cloak and bandages gradually turned into black mist and dissipated.

Before long, a figure identical to Koyuki appeared in their line of sight.

He looks almost exactly like Yuki, the only difference being his hair color. Yuki has the same blue hair as Yuki, but the cloaked man has black hair.

“How is this possible…” Gokou Ruri’s mouth dropped open.

Yui Yuigahama collapsed to the ground: "It's fake, right..."

Despair was written all over everyone's face.

If Gokou Ruri's previous speculation gave them a glimmer of hope, then the cloaked man's self-disclosure of his identity completely shattered that hope.

They look exactly alike... It's almost impossible to say they have no connection with Yuuki Osamu.

"Let me introduce ourselves. We're basically that guy's clones."

Yuuki stepped forward in the air and looked down at the people below: "In your terms, I am the embodiment of goodness, and this black-haired one is the embodiment of evil."

"Although we were just a product of that guy's whim, we are basically no different from him except for our strength. The only difference is the emphasis on our personalities."

Doppelgänger? !

Yui and the others turned pale. They immediately believed it because nothing was more convincing than the appearance of these two people.

"But if it's a clone, why would it do such a thing? That family... Rin would never be a villain like you who indiscriminately kills innocent people!" Yumiko Miura called Yuuki Rin's name for the first time, but under these circumstances...

"Hmph, do you really know him that well?"

Yuuki, with black hair, glanced at her, her eyes full of disdain: "You don't understand him at all, you don't even know his ultimate goal!"

purpose?

What purpose?

For no apparent reason, a sense of fear welled up inside Miura Yumiko. This fear wasn't directed at Yuuki, but at herself. They had spent so much time together, yet she hadn't even realized he had ulterior motives...

“I don’t understand him, but I know he’s very lonely…”

Yui Yuigahama bit her lower lip, her face pale as she looked at the two familiar yet unfamiliar figures in the sky: "He must have had a very hard time. No one can understand what he says, and his way of thinking is completely out of step with us. Beneath his absurd behavior lies a lonely soul... I know all of that!"

Ah this...

Yuki and the black-haired Yuki exchanged a glance, both noticing the surprise in each other's eyes.

They were clones created by extracting all of Yuuki Ri's memories from that time, one-to-one. Although they were several years apart from the current Yuuki Ri, they experienced all the joys and sorrows of the time travel without missing a single one.

That's why they found it a bit strange that someone would be willing to try to understand someone with such an eccentric personality... To be honest, they didn't understand whether this pink-haired girl was under a curse.

"I...I remember everything."

Yui Yuigahama took a card out of her pocket, and the card transformed into a notebook that landed in her hand.

“Li often says things that I don’t understand, but I always remember them.”

"The fact that it looks like living grass means that he is speechless about the current situation."

"Holy crap is one of his interjections, indicating that he is shocked by what is happening in front of him. Well... it can also mean speechless. He uses this word a lot. This word seems to be able to express a lot of emotions."