Chapter 44 The Second One - Please give me your monthly votes ヾ~
Vodka took a few steps back, looking at Gin in confusion, "B-Boss!"
Gin walked silently to the bag, half-squatted, and pulled open the zipper.
Inside the bag, a child with a pale face was revealed.
The child's eyes were closed, their head and body twisted at strange angles, and their limbs were in unnatural positions, all crammed messily into the bag, looking as if they had been stuffed in after their neck was twisted.
Vodka felt a chill down his spine and instinctively stepped back a little.
Just as he took two steps back, he suddenly felt something was off. He looked back and saw Jiang Xia observing him with an unreadable expression.
Vodka quietly got goosebumps. He cleared his throat and pretended to casually move back next to Gin.
Gin looked at the "corpse" in the bag with a satisfied expression.
He shot the corpse a few more times, then threw both the corpse and the bag into the burning incinerator.
There was a scorching sound. Gin closed the furnace door and looked back at Jiang Xia in the car.
"I'll let you off this time," Gin's voice was still sinister, but it no longer had the deadly oppressive feeling it had just now.
"However, if the missing child is reported in the newspaper, the Police search extensively, and it eventually traces back to you, remember to 'commit suicide to avoid punishment' in time."
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The matter was quickly resolved.
Jiang Xia once again hitched a ride with Gin and Vodka back to the city.
When he left, he retrieved all his belongings and additionally brought back a Ghost.
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It was already very late, and although he had just accepted a commission, Jiang Xia decided to put it off until tomorrow.
Today, he would go home and deal with the Ghosts.
On the way back, he briefly wrote down what had just happened in an email and sent it to Amuro Tooru. Of course, he didn't miss out on any deletions, additions, or artistic embellishments.
If Jiang Xia didn't say anything about this kind of thing, Amuro Tooru would definitely ask, and if Amuro Tooru didn't ask, he would most likely investigate it himself.
It was better to report it proactively, which would also give him a bit of a head start in terms of impression.
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Although Ghost Fetus retained some memories, their way of thinking relied more on instinctual judgment than on logic.
...Simply put, they were more childish than when they were human.
Because a year ago, Jiang Xia's parents sacrificed themselves to save her sister, which, roughly speaking, meant they were the children of her saviors. Miyano Akemi's initial favorability towards Jiang Xia was significantly higher than that of the Ghost Infant at the time.
This also meant that the resistance to the contract would be smaller.
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After returning home, Jiang Xia selectively found a ghost mint and fed it to the two Ghosts.
--Xiao Bai also came back with him, of course.
Puppets are physical entities, and like humans, they can be scorched by flames.
However, when puppets sustain excessive damage and disintegrate into the metaphysical forms of Ghosts and Shikigami, they are almost invincible and are not afraid of flames; moreover, they can return to their resurrection point with a single command.
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The ghost mint was quickly absorbed.
When Miyano Akemi was full, lying on the ground, stroking her belly and basking in the moonlight.
Jiang Xia poked her on the top of her head and politely lured the Ghost, "Want to sign a contract? I can grant you one small request."
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After they settled the terms, Jiang Xia led the new Ghost to the basement, skillfully unbuttoned his clothes and pricked himself, then skillfully used his blood to 'bomb' the Ghost.
The blood dripped onto Miyano Akemi's body, making a sizzling sound like roasting meat, while quickly moving across her skin.
Finally, it slowly stopped below her right eye, gradually forming a complex 'Z' shaped pattern.
As Miyano Akemi curiously raised her small hand to touch her face.
Information about the new Ghost Fetus also appeared in Jiang Xia's mind.
--Miyano Akemi, like the Ghost Infant at the time, also activated a skill.
And her skill sounded a bit more impressive than the Ghost Fetus's "Forced Confession"—she could make her main body invincible for 1 second.
After using the skill, Miyano Akemi would be weak for a period, similar to how ultimate abilities have cooldowns.
This weakness could recover naturally, or it could be force-shortened by feeding her ghost mint imbued with killing intent.
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After reading the skill, Jiang Xia mentally calculated the required amount of killing intent and sighed with both bitterness and relief.
The new ultimate ability was indeed very practical, but it also consumed a lot of killing intent.
Fortunately, he had already stocked up on a lot of provisions.
Moreover, he had also reaped a lot extra while in Gin's car just now—Gin's killing intent tonight seemed exceptionally abundant.
When Amuro Tooru spoke, the killing intent from Gin flowed out like water.
Then it was secretly pulled away by Jiang Xia, always maintaining a relatively peaceful amount.
--When a killing intent producer refuses to give up their murderous thoughts, most of the killing intent cannot be reaped.
But as long as the base amount is large enough, the overflow that can be reaped will naturally increase.
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Jiang Xia thought about the night's earnings and practically wanted to drag Amuro Tooru along to freeload off his car for another day.
But unfortunately, Amuro Tooru rarely got close to Gin normally, nor was he always being sarcastic...
Jiang Xia sighed regretfully.
Then he looked at the new Ghost next to him, and his mood improved again.
He ruffled the new Ghost's head a couple of times and went to bed with the two Ghosts.
Before turning off the lights, Jiang Xia released all the other Shikigami and counted them twice with the Ghosts on the bedspread, then went to sleep peacefully.