The wind stopped the snow.

The morning star is shining in the sky, and dawn is approaching.

The temperature in the woods seems to be rising.

The pine resin on the large and small branches of the larch melted and crackled, smashing against the unidentified creature that had shrunk into a ball.

The temperature on the unidentified creature was even higher, and the pine resin seemed to have landed on a giant soldering iron.

The rising green smoke carries a special smell and wafts into the distance.

The apricots smelled the smell and looked around uneasily.

"Fire! It's on fire! ”

The survivors hiding in the school building, leaning on the windows, pointed in the direction of the woods.

Only then did Apricot realize that the orange-red she had just seen was not a light but a fire.

"Whoosh!"

A fireball popped out of the woods and smashed in the direction of the school building.

"Ahh

The man who shouted that he was on fire lost his bag and fell to the ground with a "bang".

"Ahh

"Ahh

"Ahh

……

Brightly colored fireballs, appearing and disappearing, like ghostly ball lightning.

Every time it appears, it is accompanied by a scream.

“71……”

“70……”

“69……”

"My darling! Eat as soon as possible! Nadeshiko Shiina pressed her eyes on the binoculars, tracking the monster's every move. The slender tongue licked his lips, and his expression was crazy as if he was going crazy.

The researchers next to her moved lightly.

was originally oppressed by his mentor, but he may just not be able to finish his studies.

And now it's messing with Shiina and making her unhappy, and she's really going to die!

Aragaki, who was concentrating on destroying the drink, raised his head, his eyes locked on the direction of the firelight's movement, stood up and drew his curved blade teeth with both arms, and walked quickly towards the school building.

"Slow down, don't fall." Apricot followed behind and kept reminding.

She knew that Aragaki's eyes were not very good, and she had been walking slowly behind her just now, and now she was able to walk quickly.

Aragaki couldn't hear her, his gaze just following the bright spot in his vision.

The monster mitochondria that carried his will were screaming wildly.

It's like a magnetic spot, attracting you to rush through it as fast as you can.

He knew that the bright spot in that vision contained a lot of monster elements.

This feeling is not quantifiable and not objective.

But it's there.

Don't...... Do creatures with monster elements attract each other?

"Erupt!"

Aragaki instantly generated a powerful thrust in his legs, pushing him out of the body.

He uses the attacking techniques he learned from Keisuke Tokugawa to tease the growing fireball in his field of vision.

"Ahh

The man who was hugged in the face by the fireball let out a scream.

Before Aragaki's blade arrived, the fireball vanished.

There is no trace in the field of vision, in the model.

Did it disappear out of thin air?

Or ran out of perceptual range?

No!

No!

The monster mitochondria in his body frantically deflected to the right, towards his back.

"Bang!"

Aragaki was smashed to the ground.

"Stealth! It will be invisible! "Apricot saw everything. She saw something like a flame, first a layer of green light, then a ripple, and then a whole vanish.

Her voice caught the monster's attention.

The monster that pounced on Aragaki's head stomped on the branch with its pointed claws, forced it to turn, and smashed into the body of the apricot like a meteor.

Apricot's body was incomparably soft, and it was easily split into two by the galloping monster.

For some reason, the monster didn't absorb Kyoko's brain, turned around and jumped, and pounced on Aragaki.

This time Aragaki was not hit.

Although the chameleon-like stealth can hide vision, it can't hide the monster mitochondria.

"Data Improvement ......"

Depending on the direction and degree of movement of the monster's mitochondria, Aragaki updates the monster's location in real time in Shinjuku Junior High School's model.

But even so, Aragaki was still injured.

The speed of the little monster is very fast, exceeding the reflexes of Aragaki's body.

There were several wounds on the arms and thighs.

Although the bleeding stopped instantly, the monster mitochondria in the blood cells kept draining.

"Warning: Monster mitochondria are 98% remaining, and if you lose more than 10%, you will lose consciousness."

On the surface of Aragaki's body, a thin layer of keratin grows and covers Aragaki's body.

The monster attacked several times without causing any damage, and then became invisible again and fled.

"Ahh

"Ahh

……

The sound of life passing away was heard again.

Aragaki chased the light spots in the model and ran.

Suddenly!

The monster doesn't move!

Even the aura of the monster element is gone.

Aragaki slowed down and walked towards the last place where the monster had appeared.

His movements were all watched by Shiina Nadeshiko, "This hateful guy! Get all the fusion experiments out there and take out this guy who gets in the way! ”

"Yes!"

The researcher pressed the button.

In the second basement floor, a whole layer of humanoid creatures broke free from the wiring harness on their bodies and stood up.

Originally, they were all humans, but after being injected with monster serum, each of them possessed strange abilities.

It's just that they're all failed test subjects.

An experimental product that failed even more than Shiina Nadeshiko.

Although he has strange abilities, he has lost his mind.

Even if the combat power is about the same as Shiina Nadeshiko, about 1 energy level, but they can only be eternal test specimens, or cannon fodder.

Nadeshiko Shiina didn't believe that her group of mad dogs couldn't even beat a guy with only keratinized blade teeth.

She wants to provide the best environment for her baby to grow.

"Whoosh!"

Aragaki continued to move forward, and the crossbow arrow kept shooting at him.

This crossbow arrow, which was full of industrial flavor, shot into Aragaki's body.

The armor was easily torn apart.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

A few more crossbow arrows were fired at Aragaki's body.

"Hahaha! So weak! Nadeshiko Shiina patted the binoculars and smiled.

More arrows were fired at Aragaki.

Aragaki is about to turn into a sieve.

The monster's mitochondrial computation task is finally complete.

The armor on Aragaki has changed slightly.

But the crossbow bolt did not even enter his body again, as if the surface of the armor was incomparably smooth, and when it touched it, it slipped away.

Monster mitochondria are also showing tendencies at the moment.

Aragaki is in the model, marking them out one by one.

Hunting.

Absorb.

The clean and neat movements stunned Keisuke Tokugawa, who had just recovered a little physical strength.

"So much difference?"

The apricots that were broken into two petals on the ground also "came to life" at this time.

It's just that it's not one, it's two.

"There's more left on my side! I'm dominant! ”

"I've got a lot of brains here! I'm going to be the leader! ”

The two apricots actually quarreled.

Shiina Nadeshiko saw Aragaki and Kyoko, and instead of being angry, she laughed.

"Let you be my baby's training stone!"

Aragaki landed.

"Monster Elemental Recovered: 0.00013%"

"Optic Nerve: 14%."