"Damn it! Human! Your stinky hand touched my butt! It hurts a lot! Be careful or I'll kill you!"
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
"Hey! You damn human! Didn't she tell you not to! Can't you be a little gentler?! Be careful, just like her! I'll kill you too! Get lost!"
"Ah… this… I can't really get lost, can I… otherwise, there'll be no one left…"
"Blood! Give me blood! I want to drink blood!"
Renji, inside the noodle shop, heard the commotion outside and shouted,"Power, don't go too far, don't disturb other people's work."
Power's voice quieted down a bit, but she still grumbled with dissatisfaction. Then Renji turned and called out to a medical staff member inside the shop, asking her to please bring another blood bag.
The medical staff member went out, and not long after, Power's familiar shouting and cursing could be heard again from outside. A moment later, the medical staff member rushed back, holding an almost empty blood bag.
No, strictly speaking, it wasn't completely empty—there was still a little bit left—but it was practically used up.
"This… I'm really sorry… as for the blood, there's only this much left."
The medical staff member looked at Renji with an apologetic face, her voice tinged with embarrassment.
"No way? There's only this much left? What about the rest? Did you only bring this much out?"
The medical staff member pointed outside helplessly.
"We usually keep the blood bags in the ambulance. Just now, that fiend discovered them, and most of them were drunk by her. We… we didn't dare to stop her…"
Renji rushed out of the noodle shop and saw Power squatting inside the ambulance, wearing only a pair of pink little underwear on her lower body, like a hooligan. She was tearing open a blood bag in her hand, licking it with relish, completely disregarding the glances of the people around her.
Fami had returned at some point and was standing outside the ambulance, surrounded by a group of medical staff. They were urging her, saying,"Aren't you colleagues? Can't you pull this fiend down?"
Fami was trembling with nervousness, her face pale, but she dared not take a single step forward, nodding timidly. She was also very scared in her heart; Power was a fiend, after all, and the two had only interacted a few times.
Renji was a little annoyed but still held back, asking calmly,"Power, why did you drink all the blood? Didn't I tell you that Denji is still inside and hasn't been rescued?"
"This… this… this great one…"
Power's expression clearly panicked when she saw Renji. Her recently recovered butt started to ache faintly again. She quickly threw the blood bag in her hand haphazardly, her eyes darting around, finally settling on Fami's face.
Fami suddenly felt a sense of dread.
Sure enough, Power began to openly frame her and lie.
"It…! She made me do it! She made me drink all this blood! It was her! She did it all!"
"Eh?!!!"
Fami's eyes almost popped out, her face full of disbelief. She was about to open her mouth to explain that she hadn't told Power to do that at all, but when she saw Power's fierce gaze, the words that were on the tip of her tongue were swallowed back down. She only felt her throat dry and unconsciously swallowed.
Renji was furious. He rushed over, dragged Power out, placed her on his lap, and delivered another lightning-fast five-whip strike to her butt! Power's recently recovered butt was reddened again.
Fami, standing nearby, saw such a scene and heard the crackling, thunder-like sound coming from Power's butt, and was so scared that she also hid.
The expressions on the faces of the surrounding medical staff were also very strange, and their gazes towards Renji carried a hint of fear.
Power trembled all over from the beating, then began to scream in pain, finally crying loudly.
She lay on the stretcher, forcefully pinching her butt to stop the pain, tears streaming down her face, continuously cursing Renji as a bastard human and telling him to die.
"There's no other way, we can only use this little bit, sigh."
Renji took the blood bag with the last bit of blood, returned to the noodle shop, entered the white paper space, and by the time he came out, an hour had already passed.
Because there was so little blood, Denji still had one left hand and one right thigh that hadn't recovered, and her mind wasn't very clear, speaking incoherently.
She didn't know why, but she even wanted to transform into her Chainsaw Devil form, pulling the cord on her chest, but the transformation clearly failed, as only half of a chainsaw emerged from the middle of her head.
"Ahhh…! Wuwu ah hahahaha…!! Awuwu…!!"
Denji would laugh wildly one moment and cry loudly the next. Renji spent most of his time calming Denji down and teaching her how to write.
With great difficulty, and with Fami's help, they managed to lift the epileptic-like Denji into the ambulance. Renji exited his role-playing transformation state and let out a sigh of relief.
"Eh…? Eh…?!! Renji! You… you're bleeding from your nose!"
Fami pointed at Renji's nose in horror.
"Hmm?"
Renji touched his nose and found that he was indeed bleeding quite a bit. It was a side effect of staying in the white paper space for too long. He simply wiped it, temporarily said goodbye to Fami, called a taxi, and Renji also went to the hospital.
Upon arriving at the hospital, Renji was assigned by the Public Safety personnel to a triple room. Once inside, he discovered that Himeno and Hayakawa Aki were also there, making a total of three people including himself.
Denji and Power had been there earlier as well. Denji had recovered after drinking some blood, and Power's injuries—specifically her sore butt—had also healed.
As a result, the two of them began quarreling in the ward again, this time over an apple.
Hayakawa Aki couldn't stand it and chased both of them out, finally restoring some peace and quiet to the room.
After being treated by other Devil Contract users from Public Safety, Renji changed into a hospital gown, leaned against the head of the bed, received an IV drip, and let his thoughts drift.
"Should I use my skills to buy some healing abilities… hmm… no… no, I'll wait. I'll save up for a big purchase."
Renji's bed was the innermost, next to Himeno. Hayakawa Aki lay on the outermost bed. The ward was so quiet that only their soft breathing and the occasional chirping of birds from the window could be heard.
Hearing a sound, Renji turned his head. Himeno was calling out to him.
"Renji, what are you thinking about?"
"Hmm? Oh, nothing much. Just wondering who instigated the gang's attack on us. Who the real mastermind might be."
Himeno waved her hand dismissively."Why bother with such troublesome stuff? That's for the higher-ups to figure out. We just wait for Makima's instructions."
"That's true."
"Um, Renji," Aki said suddenly. "Do you have some time soon? I have a few things I want to ask you."
"Hmm? Yeah, I do."
"What, what? What are you two whispering about behind my back?" Himeno interjected.
"No… nothing, Senior Himeno. Just some ordinary things…" Aki replied, clearly flustered.
"Really?"
"Really."
The room fell into a quiet stillness. Himeno looked at Renji, then at Aki, and pouted.
"Ahhh~ I'm really in the way, huh~? What are the odds, right? Me being placed right between you two~ So awkward~ Maybe I should request a private room~ That way I won't disturb your little bonding session~"
"How could that be? I didn't mean that at all, Senior Himeno!" Aki quickly tried to explain.
Renji couldn't help but chuckle.
Hearing his laugh, Himeno instantly became annoyed. Her cheeks flushed slightly as she pulled the blanket over herself in mock shyness.
"What are you laughing at, Renji? Is it that funny?"
"Nothing, nothing…" Renji replied with a small smile. "It's not really a secret anymore anyway. It's because I'm a man, right?"
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