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"Is this all what you expected?"

There seemed to be a hint of wonder in the words of the "being"—marveling at the prophetic foresight of Aresta and marveling at the power of the upper jo to be numb.

Of course, the "being" was talking about the previous battle.

"No, in my imagination, it should be a more undoubted victory." The upside-down [human] was very honest with the "being", and directly said his thoughts: "What [power] ...... 'intervened' in this battle. ”

"Oh?"

"But everything is still within my calculations." After a moment of silence, Aresta said. The tone seemed to be deliberately proving something, as if to build confidence in himself.

It was clear that Aresta was no longer so confident when she had detected other powers.

"That's good, I'm looking forward to your next step."

There was a hint of a smile in the words of the being.

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Coming back from a trance, the shrine maiden looked at the empty corridor, but her heart never calmed down.

"Redemption...... ......"

With a hint of loneliness flashing in her eyes, she stood up and walked out of the hospital without hesitation.

This is a hospital for soul chasers in the underworld, and Mikoto Misaka's safety is beyond doubt.

Standing at the door of the hospital, looking at the hook moon that had long been hanging in the sky, the witch sighed softly.

But her heart is unprecedentedly clear.

"However, there is no turning back for a long time."

The shrine maiden's back was hidden in the darkness.

There are only two people who saw this scene and heard this sentence.

A smile appeared on one's face.

One from beginning to end, with a blank face.

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"It was a bit of a big fuss before." Walking in the ruins of the seventh school district, the witch's eyes were very calm: "Although there is a reason for delirium, but in this way, some things have been tried......"

With that, the shrine maiden raised her right hand. On the wrist, a watch glows faintly in the moonlight.

The watch seemed to others to be an unobtrusive ordinary watch. But in the eyes of the reincarnators, the watch does not mark the time, but a few lines are written.

"First of all, this can be regarded as a one-step process, and the number of heads required for the main god's watch has been completed in one fell swoop."

And those numbers written on the watch are the second achievement of the shrine maiden.

"Reward points 8500, side story level 2a level 1b ......"

"Because I got the watch for killing three newcomers, it is estimated that three thousand bonus points have been deducted. However, because I didn't pay attention to it when there was a hint, it's not very clear how these bonus points and side plots came about. ”

While talking to herself, she walked aimlessly, and the shrine maiden sorted out her thoughts.

"The reward for defeating the Fantasy Beast is 5,000 bonus points and an A-rank side story. Excluding the penalty for killing newcomers and the 100 points I earned before, I got a total of 11,400 bonus points this time, as well as two A-level and one B-level side story. ”

"So first of all, the idea of killing people or doing tasks to get bonus points is definitely wrong."

"And 'he' also said that the essence of reward points is cause and effect. In other words, as long as you create a large enough amount of cause and effect, you can get the corresponding reward points? ”

"But...... The destruction of the Seventh School District has drastically changed the plot of the Magic Forbidden Book Catalog and the Super Electromagnetic Cannon of a certain science, and the reward is actually just more than twice as much as killing the fantasy beast? ”

"The destruction of the fantasy beast itself is part of the plot, even if it can create cause and effect, how can there be so many."

The shrine maiden's thoughts gradually became clearer.

"There are three possibilities."

"The first is that when you find an opportunity to create cause and effect, the reward points of the main god's greed for ink will be more than when you complete the task of the main god."

"Second, because if you get more than 60,000 reward points, the inhibition will resist the arrival of the main god, so this is the protection mechanism of the main god."

"The third ...... Someone is controlling the occurrence of cause and effect. ”

"Of the three possibilities, the first and second are not very credible." The shrine maiden instantly ruled out two options, and then, only the third option remained.

"Control cause and effect...... ? ”

Indeed, although the shrine maiden destroyed most of the seventh school district where the plot unfolded, whether it was chasing souls in the underworld or Shangjo Dangma, I'm afraid that other important characters did not die under this turmoil.

This is a very reasonable assumption. As long as the important characters do not die, the story can continue to unfold, and the inertia of the plot may still pull the ending back to the original point. So even if the witch changes more plots in the "process", I'm afraid the impact won't be great.

"So...... Although the idea that you can only get bonus points by killing people is wrong, I am afraid that you can only get a lot of reward points by killing, and killing a lot of important story characters. ”

I don't know when I've stopped. The shrine maiden lifted the forefoot and entered a state where only the back foot touched the ground.

And because she didn't deliberately control the center of gravity, the witch in this state lay directly on the ground.

-- or rather, fell to the ground.

It was definitely impossible to get hurt, and the shrine maiden, whose spiritual power spread all over her body, did not feel the slightest pain.

Lying in the middle of a street in the ruins, the shrine maiden looked at the crescent moon hanging in the sky, and rarely relaxed.

"It's been a long time since it's been like this...... I'm lying down and looking at the moon. ”

The last time it was like this, it was when the master was still there.

Just thinking about it like this, the shrine maiden felt that her calm heart lake gave birth to a trace of waves.

"....... last thing."

Lying on the ground in large characters without any image, the shrine maiden continued to talk to herself.

"My demons...... Through this indulgence, I think it has been expelled. ”

Yes, demons.

After that battle, after the fourth-order maiden uttered the word, the shrine maiden felt as if she had been shrouded in a dark cloud, and she could not forget it.

It's like a spell.

But the strange thing is that the shrine maiden never doubted whether she had entered the state of "inner demon".

It's a kind of induction.

It's unreal, but it makes the shrine maiden feel something clearly.

- The demon in her heart has always been by her side.

Since when? The shrine maiden didn't know.

How can it be destroyed? The shrine maiden didn't know either.

But the shrine maiden knew that the word must have something to do with herself.

So, this is a temptation for the shrine maiden. A temptation to the demons of the heart.

It's just that he went along with his own heart and made the move to destroy most of the Seventh School District. This is also the temptation of the shrine maiden.

――If you go with your heart, will you be able to get rid of your demons?

The shrine maiden didn't know if she had succeeded. But she felt good.

So she felt like she had succeeded.

Did it work?

ps: Explain why there was no update the other day...... It's a lot like an excuse, but it's really a cold. But now, I'm still coughing all the time, and I'm still finishing a chapter with great discipline.