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The outer shell of the orb, condensed from the 'lives' of many people, indeed burned fiercely.
But in Asakura's perception, the core inside the orb was not incinerated; [Candle] was only burning away that outer shell.
This won't do.
"Tsk… I didn't want to use it—" Asakura sighed helplessly, took off his glasses, and prepared to activate Truth Vision.
This thing puts a great burden on the body, mainly the brain. Originally, one use would put Asakura out of commission for a long time. Although the recent strengthening of his body by Curse power has slightly reduced this burden, it's only 'slightly' in the literal sense. Theoretically, he could only use it once a day at most, and two or three times a week was the limit.
However, in the past few days, to confirm the overlap of the malicious network and find the culprit's hidden location, Asakura had already over-frequency used it several times. Today, he had planned to rest and recover over the weekend, but then Gokou Ruri was attacked by the ghost, and to confirm the girl's safety, he unhesitatingly used his daily allowance of Truth Vision.
He didn't expect that after finally finding the target, he couldn't completely eliminate it because he didn't know what it was, and had to activate Truth Vision again.
"Burden aside, I feel like my eyesight will be affected if I keep looking like this…" He muttered, preparing himself mentally, and looked at the orb, which had already turned into a fireball in mid-air.
However, just that one glance struck Asakura like lightning, and his face changed drastically as he froze.
Blood flowed from his eye sockets, nose, corners of his mouth, and ears.
Some ghost shadows seized the opportunity to attack him. Fortunately, the Cursed Flame Scale Armor on Asakura's body had not been dispelled, and when they touched him, it faithfully took effect. Even if Asakura himself didn't dodge, it still incinerated all these sneaking ghost shadows.
A moment later, Asakura, who had been hard-controlled for several seconds, seemed to come back to his senses. He used all his strength to tightly close his right eye, thus interrupting the effect of Truth Vision.
He knelt on the ground, panting, completely drenched in sweat, and even his sweat had a faint reddish tint. It seemed some capillaries had burst under the immense pressure, making him look somewhat disheveled.
"I was careless…" The rank of the opposing orb was unexpectedly high, so much so that the amount of information fed back by his Truth Vision just now was too vast, almost boiling his brain.
However, every cloud has a silver lining, and precisely because of this, Asakura finally understood what the opponent was.
In short, the opponent was an evil god from another dimension.
Due to some accident, the consciousness of one of its dependents passed through the world's rift and attached itself to the girl named Ayase Aragaki.
The girl initially thought she was haunted by a ghost. Although she sought various exorcists, there were not many people in this world who truly possessed supernatural powers, and even if she found a genuine one, their exorcism abilities would likely be useless against an evil god's dependent from another dimension.
Finally, the girl was swallowed by the consciousness of the evil god's dependent from another dimension in fear, becoming its vessel.
And the evil god's dependent, having seized control of the body, naturally intended to have its god descend and rule this world, making this world also the promised land for their clan.
However, the 'supernatural' characteristic of this world itself was very peculiar, having a strong rejection of extraordinary individuals from other worlds.
Even an evil god could not forcibly descend into this world—the consequence of doing so would be to be cut off by this world and thrown into endless void.
So the evil god's dependent chose a roundabout way to save its god.
Since forcible descent was not possible, they would simply deceive the world, allowing the great evil god to obtain permission to legitimately enter this world through 'birth'—we are native beings 'born' in this world, just a little exceptionally gifted in appearance… As for how to transform and reform this world after birth, that would be the great evil god's business.
The evil god's dependent's initial plan was to select a suitable girl to become pregnant with the evil god's incarnation, serving as the 'Holy Mother' to give birth to the evil god.
But most women in this world were just ordinary people, completely lacking enough mystery to serve as a divine mother. After much searching, and delaying until the plan might be detected and corrected by this world's immune system if not implemented soon, the evil god's dependent only found two suitable candidates.
One of them was Gokou Ruri.
Just as Asakura had sensed long ago, although the girl herself hadn't realized it, her Curse was by no means a simple [Cat]—after all, even crows and stray dogs were affected when the Curse went berserk back then—although the evil god's dependent also didn't know her true nature, it was clear that the mystery she possessed was already sufficient to serve as a mother for the evil god's incarnation.
Incidentally, the other suitable candidate was Asakura, but he was excluded from the choice of mother due to his gender.
Furious and trembling.
However, the first time Slender Man appeared near the girl, Asakura caught a flaw, and after that, he remained vigilantly on guard until today, when they could no longer delay and had to launch an attack.
The result, naturally, was a failed abduction due to Asakura's heroic appearance.
Fortunately, the evil god's dependent also had a Plan B, which was to strip enough mystery from the girl through Human-Faced Sore to forge a Curse base, then fill it with a large amount of life force to create a container with the meaning of a 'placenta,' simulating the 'birth' process entirely through ritual.
If it were a typical anime or game, the protagonist of this world would first undergo a JRPG-style adventure, collecting clues bit by bit, and finally deduce the ultimate destination when the Evil God was about to be born, then fight their way in. Even after an intense battle, they would still fail to prevent the Evil God's arrival, and finally, shouting about love and bonds, they would rush forward and blow up the Evil God, giving people a feeling of 'if you could blow up the final Boss, then what were you messing around with earlier?'
But Asakura clearly had no awareness of being a protagonist.
So, when there were at least forty more hours until the Evil God's birth, he directly used a cheat, brought the two pink-haired girls, and launched a sneak attack.
Thus, the Evil God's kin was eating hotpot and singing songs, completely unaware, when he was blown up by Asakura.
"The Great Light, is it…?"
Asakura gasped for breath, his right eye tightly shut, looking at the fireball in front of him with his only remaining left eye: "'Birth,' is it…?"
He decided to perform a small excision surgery on the Evil God in front of him, letting It experience the shock of an abortion.
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