Compendium of Anime and Manga: Starting with the Creation of the Delta of Fate, Group Friends Have Gone Wild - Chapter 38

It's impossible to fight.

Red Archer's damage is high, and their range is terrifyingly long. They can hit almost half the map, and their accuracy is also high.

They're much harder to fight than Medea.

I can't even touch them.

Honestly, after Kazuma Satou and Hachiman Hikigaya debriefed, they felt that "Medea" wasn't that difficult to get past.

She seemed to have a lot of magic, but none of it was effective output. She could only summon some weak Dragon Tooth Soldiers, making her less than half as threatening as "Souichirou Kuzuki."

"Ugh, so tired, can't move anymore, oys—"

Hachiman Hikigaya looked up at the sky, and at the Golden Fleece circling around him. Sleepiness washed over him, and he yawned:

"I... ah... gonna nap for a bit."

"Are you guys going to sleep on the concrete?"

Shido Itsuka's eyelids started to droop as well.

"Can't walk anymore, nothing I can do."

"I've never been this stimulated in my life, I really can't move."

"Zzz~"

Hachiman Hikigaya fell asleep again, even letting out little snores.

"So tired... oys oys~"

"I'm doing alright, I've been training for a while. Sigh, I got tricked into this by a moronic goddess. I thought I'd be marrying a princess, defeating a demon king, and reaching the peak of life.

Instead, I'm moving bricks every day, sweeping dust, plastering walls, sleeping in stables, and waking up with a stench. I reincarnated into another world only to end up in civil engineering. I really can't take it anymore."

"That sounds rough."

"There are always spatial quakes over where I am, it's pretty dangerous. I have to find ways to conquer these Spirits who cause disasters just by existing, to protect some cities and also to protect them from being harmed or exploited by bad people."

"Spirits? Girls?"

"Yeah, what about it?"

"You lucky dog! How can you, a little cross-dressing boy who tricks people's feelings, have a harem?!"

"I don't want to cross-dress! How did I trick your feelings?! And don't slander me! I... that's not called having a harem!"

"Get lost! Shido Itsuka, you little cross-dressing boy who tricked my feelings!"

"I... you... damn it, Kazuma Satou! You really are a dog!"

Kazuma Satou and the others chatted and bickered while recovering their strength. In just a few sentences, they managed to make Shido Itsuka blush furiously.

Shido Itsuka had never met anyone like this before. He instantly turned bright red.

"Mmm! So satisfying..."

Kazuma Satou felt refreshed after his rant. He took the "Yu's Footprints Map" out of his backpack, checked the location and direction, and then looked at a few important resource points.

Seeing the Emiya Residence, he suddenly remembered he had a key card.

Kazuma Satou's first thought wasn't about what he could get from inside.

It was whether he could go in and sleep after using the room card.

Would it be a little safer than outside?

He glanced at the map, but the distance was a bit too far.

Mahiro Oyama, in reality, had an extremely unhealthy physical condition. This translated to the same state in the game.

After the battle in the afternoon, plus the travel and struggling in the water just now, she was basically on the verge of death.

Kazuma Satou himself, Hachiman Hikigaya, and Shido Itsuka were slightly better off, but they were currently only at the level of ordinary people.

They were also extremely tired.

He struggled to his feet.

"Let's go, let's find a place to sleep."

"I'm really tired."

"Let's just stay in a nearby civilian house for the night."

"That works too, it's a good chance to look for them..."

Suddenly, Kazuma Satou felt someone tugging at his clothes. He turned his head and looked down; it was Mahiro Oyama.

"What's wrong?"

"Mmm mmm mmm."

Mahiro Oyama looked terrified and pointed to the other side of the dock.

There was a public telephone there, under the streetlight.

The receiver was hanging down, the cord stretched out long.

Which NPC is so immoral, they leave the phone receiver off the hook after their call?

The atmosphere in Fuyuki City isn't great.

Kazuma Satou took two steps forward, preparing to put the receiver back.

However, Hachiman Hikigaya, Shido Itsuka, and Mahiro Oyama behind him all reached out and forcefully stopped him.

He turned back, looking at their solemn expressions.

"...What's wrong?"

Mahiro Oyama said with a trembling voice, "Downstream, there's a black-and-red ghost-like thi-thing. I just saw an NPC get eaten by it, leaving only its fingers!"

As she spoke, she suddenly shrieked, grabbing their clothes and hiding behind them:

"Eek! The fingers... it ate those too."

Kazuma Satou turned back again, still seeing nothing.

Hachiman Hikigaya, maintaining as much composure as possible, looked at the strange entity in his vision, calmly observing its patterns and stating:

"It disappears and then reappears out of nowhere."

"This..."

Shido Itsuka, who had the most experience with power among the four, looked at the figure and could clearly feel a palpable malice radiating towards them.

"Such evil power."

Kazuma Satou also realized something was wrong. He turned back again... still seeing nothing.

But he didn't doubt his teammates. For a moment, he wondered if Shido Itsuka and the others were playing a prank on him.

But his intuition told him... they weren't.

Kazuma Satou turned back to look at Hachiman Hikigaya and the others.

"What about now?"

"It... appeared again."

"It's closer!"

"..."

Hachiman Hikigaya felt that this was not something they could handle, at least not yet.

But the problem was, with such a bizarre ability, could they really escape?

Wait... hold on?

"Kazuma, turn around! In the direction I'm pointing!"

Kazuma Satou didn't hesitate and immediately turned. He caught a fleeting black-and-red afterimage.

But it vanished in an instant.

"Don't move! I don't know why, but it seems like it doesn't want you to see it!"

Hachiman Hikigaya calmly analyzed:

"Every time you turned your head just now, it moved closer to us. When you turned to look, just as you were about to see it, it disappeared."

"I understand."

Kazuma Satou stared at the empty space where it had been.

Suddenly, The surrounding streetlights began to flicker and explode one after another, extinguishing one by one.

Mahiro Oyama was horrified.

Hachiman Hikigaya and Shido Itsuka shouted simultaneously:

"It's... extinguishing the lights!?"

"We need to illuminate the surroundings with something!"

"What can illuminate it?"

"What about a flashlight?" "It's not enough at all!"

In this critical moment, Kazuma Satou broke out in a cold sweat. Glancing at the moon, he quickly took out and equipped the "Imitation Hecate Wand."

As the wand bestowed by the Moon Goddess upon "Medea,"

It was drawing in a large amount of moonlight, illuminating the surroundings!

He looked at the illuminated area ahead.

The strange black-and-blood-colored figure had already come within ten meters of them.

It had even extended something like strips, writhing like tentacles, slowly groping through the air towards them like nematodes.

The moonlight illuminated the surroundings, The moment Kazuma Satou locked eyes with it, it stopped, as if it had sustained some damage.

The black and red figure flickered like static on an old television screen before vanishing before them.

Hachiman Hikigaya, Shido Itsuka, and Mahiro Oyama held their breath, not daring to make a sound.

Kazuma Satou, in particular, didn't dare to blink, his eyes fixed intently on that spot.

The four stood back-to-back, on high alert.

After a tense half-hour of not spotting the strange shadow, Kazuma Satou and the others nodded. The four coordinated their movements, still back-to-back, and cautiously circled the area to check their surroundings.

Hachiman Hikigaya said, "It looks like it's gone."

Mahiro Oyama patted her chest, "What was that thing? It scared me to death."

"A very... evil power."

Shido Itsuka's expression was grave. It was countless times more evil than the power of a reversed spirit; there was no comparison. It was like... the very embodiment of extreme malice.

"What do we do now?"

Mahiro Oyama asked, "With something so bizarre around, can we even sleep tonight?"

The three fell silent. This night in Fuyuki City... was just too unsettling.

How could a normal person survive in this city?