"I want to go see a movie with Yuzu."
She pressed the hard paper ticket hidden against her heart.
In Kujou Katora's heart, besides killing her sister who had fallen into the abyss of Aberration with her own hands, it seemed she had never had such a strong desire.
A movie theater late at night.
A screening with only two people.
The dim... flickering light of the projector.
And... the girl watching the screen with rapt attention, more captivating than the movie itself.
The forbidden... shameful... heart-pounding humiliation of kneeling before Miss Yuzu and acting like a puppy for her.
The sheer contrast of the girl's current tenderness and affection was just as intensely pleasurable and enjoyable.
Her very soul trembled.
She longed for the girl's next act of gentleness.
And longed even more... for the girl's next act of humiliation.
"However—"
"Someone as gentle as Yuzu... it would probably be very difficult to get her to humiliate me again."
"Strange... why am I having such odd thoughts?"
"Why do these thoughts make me feel like I'm becoming strange?"
She lifted her chin high, feigning a cold demeanor.
Kujou Katora tried hard to hide her true self in front of Su Yuzu.
But ah... compared to their first meeting, when Kujou Katora had worn a soft, gentle smile, but whose crimson eyes held a chilling madness that plunged one into an icy abyss...
...the Kujou Katora of now was more like a large cat waiting for its master to scratch the base of its tail.
The girl's scent was like a soul-corroding poison.
Even she herself had yet to fully realize it.
At some unknown point... she had already fallen deep into it.
Deeper than her desire for the girl's gentleness, perhaps Kujou Katora's heart concealed a far more profound and 'cherished' craving.
Subconsciously—
...behind her crimson eyes, she even began to ponder how she might 'anger' Miss Yuzu without making Miss Yuzu hate her.
"Kujou Katora does not like people."
"She likes dogs."
"Dogs are obedient."
"People are not."
"But..."
"Miss Yuzu is the exception."
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It was already afternoon when she returned from the training hall.
Kujou Katora had only taken a short nap before being woken by her subordinate—the young female superintendent known as 'Hayabusa.'
Tonight—
They had a very important mission.
She glanced back at the window of the women's dormitory.
Seeing the extinguished lights in Su Yuzu's room and the faint glow from that pink-and-blue nightlight, Kujou Katora turned away without a moment's hesitation.
A smile returned to her face.
A soft, gentle smile; a smile that could plunge one into an icy abyss.
Hayabusa had already finished investigating the origin of that "Epiphany Manufacture" earpiece.
The hiding place of the "Eye of Insight" cult... had also... more or less been pinpointed.
Just as Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi had mentioned before with her 'rats.'
Those maniacs had actually been hiding right under the nose of the Investigation Bureau.
Their den wasn't in some desolate ruins on the city's outskirts, reeking of Catastrophe, but... in the harbor's massive underground drainage system.
They were 'rats' in the truest sense of the word.
She had taken off her distinctive Investigation Bureau Fourth Action Division combat uniform.
The only things that now symbolized the girl's identity... were her crimson eyes and the black stockings clinging to her body.
In the dead of night—
Kujou Katora and Hayabusa strolled along the harbor embankment.
To be honest... she was rather reluctant to part with these 'rats.'
After all... it was these 'rats' who had given her a legitimate reason to return to Keigunen Private Academy and live in the Assault Department's women's dormitory.
After slaughtering these rats... she would have to set out on the path of hunting Aberrants once more.
Then she wouldn't be able to wish Miss Yuzu goodnight before bed every day.
Kujou Katora gazed at the black surface of the sea.
A dense white fog shrouded the sea.
Ever since the Catastrophe descended seven hundred years ago... that white fog, thick with the aura of Catastrophe, had always drifted over the sea at night.
It made nighttime navigation an extremely difficult affair.
The open ocean—
...had become a domain almost completely inaccessible to humankind.
Kujou Katora leaped nimbly down the sloped embankment, with Hayabusa sliding down diagonally behind her.
The massive sewer entrance was deep and dark, like a man-eating beast in the dead of night.
In the darkness... the burly men of the Investigation Bureau's Fourth Action Division appeared in neat formation.
They began to secure the scene.
The Fourth Action Division's method of operation was actually quite simple.
Kujou Katora was in charge of killing.
Hayabusa was in charge of reconnaissance and... at critical moments, restraining an out-of-control Kujou Katora.
As for those burly men.
Most of the time, they were only responsible for securing the scene, catching any who slipped through the net, and... cleaning up.
Click, clack, clack... The crisp sound of the girl's high heels on the damp concrete floor echoed through the vast sewer space.
A black-purple light flared up.
It was an eye-shaped totem.
These days... Kujou Katora had already seen this totem countless times.
A gaunt, skeletal figure emerged from the shadows, overflowing with a dense Aberrant aura.
Compared to a girl's Aberration, which might inspire certain fantasies...
...the gaunt, skeletal man before Kujou Katora... could probably only be described as purely 'corrupted.'
The next second... a savage, black-and-red beast leaped from the shadows, bit down on the back of the man's neck, and began shaking its head wildly.
A grin spread across Kujou Katora's lips.
She lowered the hand that had been pressing the hard paper ticket to her heart. Bending slightly, she lunged forward, extending her right hand toward the mangled body. The man's blood gushed like a spring into her palm.
VMMMM—
The sound of a chainsaw revving.
A slender blood-chainsaw, nearly as tall as the girl herself, formed in her hand.
Hayabusa simply followed quietly behind Kujou Katora.
She looked at the time.
The hunt has begun—
Lady Kujou should still be able to make her date with Miss Yuzu.
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