The white smoke of gunpowder was still in front of everyone.

Looking at Kohei Higashino, who was shot in the forehead, the police officers in the field suddenly fell silent for some reason.

"Kohei? What the fuck are you doing?!!! ”

Hearing the gunshots, Sousuke Araki, who had been pressed into the mud by more than a dozen police officers and couldn't see anything, had a strong body gushing out with amazing power like a volcanic eruption, and he directly pushed away the many police officers who were pressing on his body......

"Click."

The handcuffs on his wrists snapped so crisply.

His ferocious fist, piercing through the wind and rain, slammed into the faces of several armed police officers, directly leaving them unconscious.

"Hey...... Does this little rain want to extinguish the fire in my heart? ”

Above the shredder, after the gunshot, Kohei Higashino, who had a bullet hole in his forehead, shakily and slowly pulled the dagger out of Kazuo Amato's chest.

The bullet disrupted the balance of his brain and made him dizzy.

“…… It's ugly. ”

Ignoring the chaos below, he struggled to keep his eyes on the dagger in his hand.

Picked on the tip of the knife is a heart that is still beating wildly.

As the dagger flickered in the air, the heart bloomed like a bright red water balloon.

And on his other hand, Kazuo Amato, who only had a blood hole left in his chest, was already silent.

"Hey, as long as the heart is broken, such a monster will also be killed, and it will also die."

This is one of the knowledge that Higashino Kohei inherited from those figures in the desert.

“…… Hahaha...... Hahaha!! ”

This was the only knowledge he could rely on as he knew nothing about the otherworld.

As Higashino Kohei let go of his hand freely, Kazuo Amato's body fell directly towards the mouth of the rotating crusher.

"Wait......"

Immediately, everyone present was stunned, and only the sound of raindrops was heard......

and the sound of "tons and tons and tons of juice".

“…… Kohei ...... Are you good to come down......"

Sosuke Araki looked at Kohei Higashino, who was covered in blood, swaying, and laughing maniacally above the shredder.

"Come down, I'll call a doctor for you......"

He had never seen Kohei Higashino, who had a vicious look and a warm heart, showing such a hideous appearance.

In the raging rain, the eyes of the two intertwined through the rain curtain.

Higashino Kohei gently pointed his dagger at him and tapped his left chest.

Sousuke ...... Do you remember what Uncle Haruto said?

Because you're not strong enough here......

"I think I'm strong enough here now...... I'm going to see Reiko......"

Now, he has unexpectedly acquired a monster-like body that is strong enough.

Even if you jump into that crusher and break into pieces, you will most likely be back to the same as before.

But he has lost forever and wants to protect the person.

"That's it, farewell......"

Just as Sousuke Araki was climbing up the machine, Kohei Higashino was already hugging a raindrop, with an indifferent smile on his face, and fell towards the shredder.

After completing his revenge, he finally had the courage to meet the person he wanted to meet.

A shadow, as he fell, shrouded the "Abyssal Mouth" below.

“…… Kohei ...... No!!!! ”

"Bastard !!"

Looking at this scene, Sosuke Araki and Ryoma before the second were dumbfounded.

In mid-air, the dagger in Higashino's hand stabbed into his chest covertly and quickly.

"Uhh......hh Hey ......"

A bright red heart appeared in his hand and fell with him.

The Assammet clan is an immortal existence as long as the heart is still there.

Well, vice versa.

Just destroy this heart yourself......

"Break the machine, stop me !!"

"Boom ......"

Sousuke Araki slammed his fist into the shredder's control panel.

On his face, he couldn't tell whether it was tears or rain.

The metal shell, which had been embedded in the panel due to deformation, fell weakly to the side.

"Give it to me...... Close...... Shutdown ......"

But the buttons on that panel were in tatters, and no matter how much he pressed them, they didn't do anything.

“…… Rumble...... Boom ......"

Everyone in the arena looked at Sosuke Araki in amazement, and slammed into the steel crusher with punch after punch, leaving bloody fist prints one after another.

"Give...... I...... Stop......"

Even his arms were covered in blood, fractured and deformed, and he didn't even notice it.

"Please...... Give Kohei back to me! ”

As if in response to his plea, the crusher in front of him stopped turning.

It was the officer who was sent on the other end and finally succeeded in cutting off the power.

“…… Kohei ...... Certain...... It's okay......"

Sousuke Araki stumbled and tried to climb above the machine.

"Wait, you...... Who are you......"

As if seeing something incredible, Sosuke Araki's movements suddenly froze.

"You're going to ...... Kohei"

There were living runes, squirming wildly across his face.

But this time, Sousuke Araki did not stop like he had done for more than twenty years, but instead showed a bruised face and an extremely hideous expression.

“…… Do what?! ”

In his pupils, a white light ignited, slamming into the dense black runes.

The originally frozen body slowly and stubbornly took another step forward, as if it wanted to chase something.

The step was so firm that the runes on his face shattered, and thin marks of lava burned like lava.

Sousuke...... No...... Don't look at ......."

At the same time, a figure rushed forward and hugged Sosuke Araki tightly, his large hands pressing hard against the soaked, suffocating heavy stockings on his head.

"Enough...... Sousuke's younger brother...... You've ...... Tried my best......"

His vision was obscured, and after a long time in Ryoma's arms before the second one, Sousuke Araki regained consciousness, but he seemed to have completely forgotten what had happened a few seconds ago, and only continued to roar a few seconds ago.

"Why are you holding me back...... Exert oneself...... I don't want to try...... As long as I am alive, Xinghei ......"

In the midst of the rain, among the chaotic police officers, two embarrassed men in stockings hugged each other and knelt in front of the crusher, crying and crying.

Crying, like two children whose sand castles were destroyed by the waves.

We who have nothing and are born into the world.

There is not enough wealth, wisdom and strength.

In a world without direction, clumsily lingering.

Courage, hope, fetters, these useless vanities in adulthood......

Even this scarred body can be swept away by the Dominator.

But at least, please don't extinguish the last temperature in our hearts.

……

"Farewell, Kazuo ......"

In the corner of the warehouse, the silver-haired Matsumoto Ginji glanced at the blood droplets that were constantly oozing from the cracks of the crusher, and jumped into the sea without looking back.

"After all, I'm not as effective as the real mountain god......"

Just before Sosuke Araki and Er, Ryoma was numbly torn off his hood and handcuffed by the police officers, and was about to be escorted to the police car, when several black commercial vehicles stopped at high speed at the door of the warehouse.

"Uncle Siena...... I knew you were fine......"

Rushing down from the car was none other than Mochizuki Ayano, who had come all the way from Tokyo.

She was relieved to see Siena, who had been carried out of the warehouse on a stretcher and looked frail.

"The two of them...... What's wrong...... Here, what's going on? ”

Seeing Sosuke Araki and Ryoma Nizen, who were crying on their knees, as well as several unconscious police officers in the room, Mochizuki Ayano frowned.

Siena on the stretcher shook his head in confusion.

"I'm Mochizuki Ayano, the head of Section 9, and these two are not suspects, they're related people who assisted me......"

She hurriedly took out her ID and prepared to step forward to intercept the two of them.

"Oh no, there seems to be a problem in there......"

Siena's face suddenly changed, as if she remembered something.

He vaguely remembered that there seemed to be a guy lying on the platform on the second floor of the warehouse.

At the same time, a breeze blew through the cracks in the iron door of the warehouse.

The raindrops that fell from the air seemed to have been cut in half by several invisible blades.

"It's not !! good"

Siena, who was originally extremely weak, rolled over from the stretcher like a reflection of the light, and threw Mochizuki Ayano to the ground with her tall body.

Thin blood stains shattered the faint holy light on his back, bringing up a large tuft of blood.

Behind the two, two agents carrying stretchers turned their heads to check unconsciously, and then collapsed into a piece of flesh.

"Uncle Siena......"

Looking at the strange scene in front of him, Mochizuki Ayano, who was pressed to the ground by Siena, had his pupils shocking.

Like the people around her, she didn't "see" anything just now, only felt the abnormal surge of air.

However, she could indeed "see" a thin man wrapped in a black robe and wearing a white mask, rushing out of the warehouse and running towards the outside of the docks.

And what split the two agents into countless pieces was the whirlwind that he brought around him.

She doesn't "see" with her eyes, but with memory.

There was nothing in front of him, but he could read the coherent picture from his memory.

This contradictory, delayed visual experience gave her an extremely uncomfortable feeling.

"Bang."

Mochizuki Ayano rolled over, predicting the trajectory of the other party, and did not hesitate to touch the gun and shoot.

The slender spiritual power bullet cut through the night and accurately hit the figure in the black robe.

The man staggered, but as if he didn't feel pain, he quickly disappeared into the rain.

"Damn...... That guy, what kind of person is ......?"

Mochizuki Ayano stomped her foot, unwilling to chase into the rain.

"Don't chase ...... The resentment in that man's hand is very powerful. ”

Siena on the ground reached out and gently tugged at the hem of her trousers.

He remembered the irresistible, deadly sense of fear that the white mask brought to him.

“…… You have to be careful, the people around you. ”

Without the protection of the Holy Light, Siena was also seriously injured, and after a breathless reminder, he fainted.

"Uncle Siena!"

In front of the warehouse door, Mochizuki Ayano rain brought pear blossoms, and sat weakly in the flesh and blood.

……

"Puff ......"

In the darkness, a heart was beating vigorously.

The sound of a heartbeat is so loud that you can even hear the sound of blood gushing and flowing at high speed.

"Poof...... Puff ......"

A man, woken up by the sound of his own heartbeat.

He slowly opened his eyes......

It's a dark basement.

And himself, naked, lying on a shabby sofa.

In the empty basement, there is only an old computer with a faint glow on the screen.

The smell of blood wafted through the air.

"Here it is...... Hell? ”

"Sorry, it's not hell by standard...... Rather, it is a world that is uglier than hell. ”

A man answered his question in jerky Japanese and in a warm tone.

"The Asammet bloodline, which is known as immortal and immortal, and the more you die, the stronger you get, you woke up sooner than I expected......"

However, the direction in which the sound came from, no one existed.

“…… Who is it, pretending to be a ghost......"

The man on the couch appeared at the source of the sound at a ghostly speed, and punched it fiercely.

But this punch was in the air.

"In Aesop's Fable, there is a story called the farmer and the snake...... It took a lot of effort for me to gather enough flesh and blood sacrifices to restore Higashino-kun, who only has one heart left. ”

Hearing his words, a bitter meaning gradually appeared on the man's face.

Memories of the chaos came flooding back to my mind.

Kazuo Amato distorted his painful expression before he died, gouged out his heart with his own hands, and leaped towards the crusher with relief......

and, Sousuke and Ryoma's cries.

That's right, the man who woke up in the basement was Kohei Higashino, who even the police had confirmed to be "shattered".

"Only one heart left? Flesh and blood offerings? ”

Clearing his thoughts and remembering a certain word in the other party's words, Higashino Kohei turned his head to look at the corner of the basement with a bad premonition.

There, there is a hill of gravel.

This person should have used some method to intercept his heart before he fell into the crusher.

However, even the Asammet cannot heal themselves in a vacuum, and they need to consume a lot of blood.

"Don't worry, I just bought a few wild boars, and I won't go out to catch the blood sacrifice of the living, but I will get myself into trouble by doing that...... But when I was shifting my heart, I was almost surprised that your interesting friend saw through my phase form. ”

The voice in the air dispelled his concerns.

"Who are you? Why are you stopping me? ”

Higashino Kohei lowered his eyes and said indifferently.

"You should know that no matter how many times you stop me, I'll go down and reunite with Reiko......"

The great revenge was avenged, and he became a human, a ghost and a ghost, and he had already had the will to die and did not think about him.

This person deliberately saved himself, and he must not have been at ease.

"Hey, I just can't bear to see the last Asammet blood clan in this world, and commit suicide because of this boring thing......"

In the darkness, the space gradually distorted, turning into a human form, and sitting leisurely in the chair in front of the old computer.

"Besides, your method of suicide is not right, the Asammet bloodline is a difficult creature that can be resurrected with only the flesh and blood residues of the heart...... If you really want to kill yourself, you should ......"

It was a blond, blue-eyed, ponytail-wearing, bearded man.

He seemed to be too talkative, and even began to talk to himself about "the correct suicidal posture of the Asammet bloodline".

"You ......"

Seeing the man's face clearly, Higashino Kohei narrowed his eyes.

Without warning, he appeared in front of the other man and grabbed the man by the neck.

Compared to before, his movements are more agile and vigorous.

“…… I remember you, you were the journalist...... Something boring? What do you know......"

This man was the same foreign journalist who was punched by Reiko on the rainy night when he lost him.

"That's right, Chardo Nord, a reporter for NHK International, is one of my identities...... You can also think of me as a spectator, a trader who is curious about everything in the world. ”

Lifted high by him, the man's expression was still calm, but his face was a little red from suffocation.

He raised his hand and snapped his fingers: "I'm sorry, I remember you just said, reunion?" ”

“…… Kohei. ”

A woman's voice came from behind her, causing Kohei Higashino to stiffen all over.