"Do you believe in hell?"

In the luxurious and empty interview room, the purple curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows were pulled open from the middle to the sides, and the harsh light from the window shone into the room, passing through the heads of the three people who were facing the black-robed adjudicator with their backs to the ground, and fell on Higashinohara, who was sitting opposite.

This light illuminates the figure of the interviewer, but it makes all three people in black robes fall into a dim shadow, and the clever division of light and darkness makes everyone who walks into the room involuntarily feel a psychological pressure from themselves, and also makes it more difficult to lie.

After the interview table that accommodated the three of them, the woman sitting in the middle with a charming posture and turquoise pupils in her eyes looked at Higashinohara, who was sitting opposite her under the pseudonym "Nishimiyai", with a small smile, and asked her first question with a chuckle.

Speaking of which, Nishimiyai is a boy in the same grade as Higashinohara, and he is also the general who regarded him as a "lifelong enemy" at the last exchange meeting.

It's just that when Higashinohara won five consecutive battle rewards, the general who was full of thoughts and tried to turn the tide didn't have any chance to play from beginning to end, but the appearance of "strategizing" on his face left a deep impression on Higashinohara.

Today, borrowing his name for use is not a temporary idea...

In fact, Higashinohara's mind didn't linger on these side details for long, and quickly returned to the question in front of him—the question that the woman with turquoise vertical eyes sitting across from him had just asked.

Do you believe in hell?

His mind raced through the question.

It's a bit like going back to the time when he was doing brain teasers in his previous life, trying to find the "entry point" of this question and the "investigation point" of the questioner, which determines whether he should answer plainly and directly or with a dialectical thinking.

Thinking about this, Higashinohara's gaze quietly swept over the two men on the edge of the woman's flank, and he had some impression of the man sitting on the edge of the left hand side, and he vaguely remembered that the bloody night under the sky tree last month was led by this man.

However, Higashinohara was not impressed by the man on the right hand side on the other side with a high nose with eyes as sharp as a falcon.

However, subconsciously, he felt that this man exuded an incomparably terrifying aura from top to bottom, so terrifying that his gaze did not stop at the other party.

Higashinohara vaguely felt that as long as his attention was focused on the other party for a second, the other party would be able to detect him, and this kind of keen insight even made him unable to immerse his consciousness in the space of the [Sin Handbook].

Even though there was a 60:1 time difference inside and outside the [Sin Handbook], ordinary people could hardly detect his trance, but Higashinohara inexplicably felt that this man with sharp eyes like a falcon could detect his every move.

And under normal circumstances, Higashinohara, whose agility strength and physique are close to the peak of the fifth order, although he is already good enough among superpowers, he is afraid that he will not be able to survive even a second under the man in front of him.

This is someone who is even more extremely dangerous than that woman.

Higashino Hara quickly made a judgment in his heart.

......

"Oh? Is this question hard to answer? ”

In the shadows behind the interview seat, the woman who also exuded a dangerous atmosphere said with a smile, "You should be the one who has been thinking for the longest time among the dozen or so people we interviewed today, in fact, there is no need to be entangled, we don't conduct faith investigations, we just need to say what is in your heart..."

"Believe."

Higashinohara interrupted her.

"Why do you believe it?"

"I believe in the unknown."

The woman smiled and nodded, and continued, "Okay, then let's move on to the next question. ”

"What do you think is the nature of innate ability?"

"Strength."

Higashinohara didn't hesitate this time.

"That's all?"

"That's right."

"Very good answer."

The woman looked at Higashinohara with a smile, "I admire humans who also appreciate power, and although I can congratulate you on joining us through our interview for this investigation that requires strict confidentiality, this one next to me is a serious 'interviewer', so we still have to routinely move on to the next question." ”

"What do you think is the essence of life?"

Hearing the question of whether the woman was smiling or not, if it weren't for the gloomy black mansion of the Adjudication Division, Higashinohara would even suspect that some third-rate philosopher was asking him questions.

"Consciousness."

Higashinohara's answer was equally brief.

The woman sitting in the middle nodded, smiled and asked, "In other words, if it is a conscious thing, no matter what form it takes, do you feel that it belongs to a kind of life?" ”

"That's right."

"Then what will you do with them."

"It depends on how they treat me."

"A very sensible answer."

The woman said with a smile, the carbon pen in her hand spun around, and continued, "Then let's move on to the next question, which can also be said to be the last one. ”

"The place where this secret investigation of the Adjudication Division is going may be a little risky, it may be a place that you have never set foot in in your life, and you will not even have a second chance to set foot in, we have reminded you in advance, once you agree, there is no way out, you should know, the word regret does not exist in the Adjudication Division, so now, do you still want to join this investigation?"

When the woman said this, her eyes swept over Higashinohara's young face twice, and she couldn't help but admire the rare existence of such an outstanding appearance among human beings.

Of course, her focus was more on the change in Higashinohara's face when she said those words — and it turned out that she didn't see any change.

This is different from most of the humans interviewed before, if he is not lacking in the emotion of "fear", then he is really not afraid.

Or maybe there is a special purpose that drives him to ignore the fear in front of him.

These three reasons, no matter which one they are, are the "useful humans" that the Adjulinator needs this time.

As for the purpose of the other party,

She didn't care at all.

Whatever the outcome of this investigation, these human outcomes are already preordained, aren't they?

It's just that

It's a pity.

No, this handsome human brother in front of him may be able to be kept as a "toy" for a longer time... I believe that no one will stop me, right?

Thinking like this in the woman's heart, the eyes in her turquoise eyes gradually brightened a little, but the corners of her mouth hooked up a chilling smile.

.......

"I opt in."

In the next second, Higashinohara's answer was still simple.

If at first he was a little unsure whether the investigation launched by the Adjudicator in the Sky Tree was related to "alien demons", then after going through the three questions of "do you believe in hell", "the nature of natural ability" and "the nature of life" in front of the woman, he was basically convinced that this investigation was 100% related to something as strange as "alien demons".

The demon may be harmful to other abilities, and even if he can profit from it, he will have to shed a layer of horror, but for him, it is a walking "experience pack".

As long as he can kill it, the [Evil Manual] in Higashinohara's mind can automatically absorb unknown particles, gather them into ability fragments, and then directly decompose them into source power points to feed back to himself - this is also the most convenient and effective way for him to obtain source power points at present.

In the past, Higashinohara's mentality was not impatient.

But today, when he walked into this room and saw the woman with turquoise eyes sitting in the middle and the man with a high nose on the side with sharp eyes like a falcon, Higashinohara felt the terrifying pressure like a stormy wave, which made the sense of urgency in his heart even stronger.

He had no doubt that with the abilities and skills he had mastered now, even if it was another [six-star] sin value, he might still have the strength to fight against that woman.

But once he meets the man with eagle-like eyes, he will not have any ability to fight back.

Higashinohara already had some speculation in his heart - this should be the S-level high-end combat power on the A-level ruling of the Adjudication Division!

In the face of such a terrifying enemy, Higashinohara can only think of two methods, one is "one force to ten meetings", and use super high agility attributes to crush.

But the limitations of this approach are also obvious.

Regardless of whether he obtained enough temporary attributes from these two people to crush, even if the agility attribute was really to the extent of crushing, his body could not bear it, and he was afraid that he would fall below the [Critical Protection] and pass out at any time.

After all, the agility attribute has reached a certain level, and every time you improve a little higher, if you want to bring it into play, you have to bear exponentially more pressure behind you.

Since the road of hard stacking agility does not work, then in the face of the S-level high-end combat power of the Ruling Division, the most effective way for Higashinohara at present is to improve the [Selfless One Sword Stream] Eighth-Order Great Sword Hero-level Sword Style.

If he was able to brush the proficiency of the sword shape, secret technique, and secret meaning of the [Selfless Sword Stream] to the level of a high-level or even a grandmaster level possessed by the original owner through the source power points indirectly obtained from the alien demon, then this would undoubtedly be a leap forward in his combat power!

This is also the reason why Higashinohara chose to "join" so decisively, if you guess correctly, the S-level high-end combat power of the two adjudication divisions in front of him appeared in a small country in the East China Sea like Wano Country, and most of them are still related to themselves, and they are here to die in the two rulings of Wano Country.

Now that the enemy is clear and I am dark, he can't always wait for the enemy to sort out the clues step by step, and finally find his door before suddenly waking up and trying to defend again.

Then I'm afraid it will be too late.

The best defense is offense.

Of course, the premise is that there is capital to attack.

Therefore, Higashinohara must seize the opportunity of this investigation to brush up as many "experience packs" as possible, and find an opportunity to directly solve the existing risks when triggering the [Guilty Manual] mission... This is naturally the most ideal plan.

Higashinohara is not blindly optimistic.

If he is not more than half sure, he will not choose to do it.

There is really a day when his identity is accidentally investigated by the other party, but he can't do it himself, he can't give full play to the spirit of the "Three Harmony Gods" in his previous life, and he runs away with a bucket with Nishimaru Miri and his aunt...

Stay in the green mountains and don't be afraid of no firewood.

If you can't stay in Wano Country, you will go to the sea, and the sea is too chaotic to adapt to the uninhabited island... No, being a savage is not a good choice... Or go to some countries that are on the world government's blacklist.

Like the Grand Duchy of Shayash?

It is still a battlefield where several revolutionary forces are fighting for sovereignty, and it seems that there are still a group of revolutionary troops who support Kolotia, the daughter of the Grand Duke, but I don't know if those people will survive the war...

It seems too early to think about that...