Chapter 466: Love at First Sight? The End of Yuzuriha Inori's World!
"…"
After a moment of silence, Sakuragawa Rikka spoke again, her voice slightly deeper. "How did you know?"
Ren told her indifferently, "I know many things. For example, you ate mermaid flesh and a Kudan, gaining immortality and the ability to foresee the future."
This time, he did not give her a chance to reply. "Do you want to create an anomaly that can turn you back into a normal person?"
Rikka, with everything exposed, showed no panic, instead looking up more calmly. "Yes, I want to be a normal person again. But as things stand, I don't have the ability to do so yet." So she wanted to experiment.
"I have an opportunity here, provided you truly lose this cursed power." Ren had already seen it; her ability was not really an ability, but a curse.
"Can I become a normal person again?" she asked with a skeptical attitude.
"Of course." Ren's words seemed to have a mysterious power.
The next moment, intense pain assaulted her entire body. "Ahhh!" She fell to the ground, screaming in agony, her body feeling as if her bones were breaking.
"You are now a normal person, but the pain from your long-term experiments on your body will now erupt all at once." Adhering to the principle of doing good to the end, Ren let a trace of Primal Energy fly from his fingertip and merge into her body.
Immediately, under Iwanaga Kotoko's incredible gaze, Sakuragawa Rikka's painful screams stopped, changing into comfortable moans. Her emaciated, skin-and-bones body rapidly filled out like an inflating balloon. In the blink of an eye, her appearance was gone, and her body transformed into what a normal person's should look like, her skin changing from a sickly pale to a healthy, soft luster.
The moaning stopped. She slowly opened her golden eyes and sat up, quietly looking at her transformed body. A long while passed before she murmured, "I… I really became a normal person again…" Was it excitement or a sense of loss? For the first time, she couldn't understand her own feelings.
"I can see your feelings are complex, but based on your understanding of how to create anomalies, this needs to be controlled. I'll give you two choices." Ren held up two fingers. "First, I erase your memories related to anomalies. Second, I place a restraint on you. Which do you choose?" One or the other. This was mandatory.
"…" Her eyes flickered. She understood she had no right to bargain. "I choose the second one…" After some thought, she still chose the restraint. If she lost a part of her memory, would she still be herself?
This choice surprised Ren slightly, but he proceeded. "From now on, you will not be able to create anomalies in any form."
"The situation is concluded. I will send you back to the hospital."
"Wait!" Hearing she was going to be sent back, she hurriedly called out. "Can you tell me your name and contact information?"
"Ren. The contact information is ***. What do you want?"
After she jotted it down, she specifically dialed the number. Upon hearing his phone ring, a faint smile appeared on her lips. "I wonder if Mr. Ren has heard the term 'love at first sight'?"
"Heh heh." Ren didn't answer. He simply moved his mind and sent her back to the hospital.
"Tsk tsk, a beauty is expressing her feelings for you. Don't you want to take the opportunity to have a go?"
Glancing at Iwanaga Kotoko, Ren calmly replied, "Of course I don't mind, if it weren't for a certain barren loli being here."
"???" Barren? Kotoko's eyes widened. Is he talking about me? She looked down and could see her toes at a glance. "Damn it!"
Back at the hospital, Sakuragawa Rikka was dazed. The changes in her body and the extra contact on her phone all indicated that everything was real. "Ren..." Thinking of this name, a smile floated to her lips.
[Ding! Detected that Chat Group member Yuzuriha Inori has come into contact with Abnormal Doomsday factors. Doom Companion activated!]
As soon as Ren finished dealing with Kotoko and Rikka, the prompt appeared.
[Doom Companion]: Four-person team
[Companion Time]: 3 days
[Companions]: Ren, Yuzuriha Inori, Scarlet Princess, Fairy Queen
[Companion Mission]: Eliminate the Transmigrator.
The Transmigrator. Guys of the same type as Natsuki Subaru.
[Ren: Yuzuriha Inori, how's your situation?]
[Yuzuriha Inori: No change. I don't know either.]
[Ren: Then it seems you just came into contact with them. Today, several new members joined the New Funeral Parlor.]
[Ren: Then the Transmigrator should be one of them. Don't alert them. Wait for us.]
[Scarlet Princess: What does this Doom Companion mean?] Stella was wary; she chose not to confirm.
[March 7th: It's triggered when a group member comes into contact with doomsday factors. The selected person will travel to their world to resolve it.]
[Fairy Queen: Different worlds... How can one judge if such a thing is real?]
[Ainz: Wouldn't you know if you confirmed it?]
[Scarlet Princess: It sounds like a devil's temptation. Could it be a trap?]
[Nami: They are really too cautious.]
[Ren: It doesn't matter. I can easily resolve a 5-star doomsday by myself.]
Let them be cautious. It didn't affect him. After he confirmed, time stopped. Iwanaga Kotoko, who had been chattering, was left with her mouth wide open. Ren casually created a peeled banana and inserted it into her mouth before walking into the black hole.
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