Star Rail: I, a Researcher, Joined the Chat Group

Hoshino Ai: "Oh, oh! It's on, it's on! Thank you, Sister Kanae! Sister Kanae is a goddess!"

Gotoh Hitori: "Eek, wait, what's going on? Sister Kanae looks injured. Is this the demon Sister Kanae said she couldn't deal with anytime soon? So scary... Even Sister Kanae can't beat it?"

Tokisaki Kurumi: "Over there... there's another injured girl. Is she Miss Butterfly's younger sister?"

Gotoh Hitori: "Eek, it really is! Isn't this a huge crisis?!! What do we do, what do we do?!!"

Hoshino Ai: "Doesn't matter. Lord Chen Mu will make a move!"

Gotoh Hitori: "But didn't Lord Chen Mu say he was just an ordinary person who was relatively good at research?"

Hoshino Ai: "...Speechless. Hitori, do you have to be this honest? You actually believed him?"

Demon Slayer World.

After starting the livestream, Kochou Kanae ignored everyone in the Chat Group.

Instead, she focused all her attention on Douma.

After all, Douma was the strongest enemy she had ever encountered, and he truly placed considerable pressure and danger upon her.

"Have you made up your mind, Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps?"

Douma looked at the silent Kochou Kanae and spoke with a light smile.

He knew nothing about the Chat Group.

Kanae had been silent for so long that he thought she had been tempted and was struggling internally.

As long as she hesitated, there was still a good chance of success.

Thus, the smile on Douma's face grew even broader.

At the side, Kochou Shinobu watched her sister with nervousness written all over her face.

She did not think her sister would consider becoming a demon. She was simply worried that her sister had been injured, otherwise why had she stayed silent for so long?

"Consider? Consider what?"

Before Kochou Kanae could speak, an unexpected voice suddenly cut into their conversation.

Accompanied by a burst of brilliant light.

Chen Mu's figure slowly appeared before them.

Both Shinobu and Douma stared at Chen Mu, who had appeared out of thin air, their faces full of astonishment as they froze in place.

Hoshino Ai: "Holy shit! Is this the great Chen Mu? He's so young! I originally thought someone who could research something like Space Teleportation would be older, or at least in their thirties or forties!"

Tokisaki Kurumi: "Not only is he absurdly young, he seems rather handsome too..."

Gotoh Hitori: "Amazing... This is really just too amazing..."

Demon Slayer World.

Kochou Kanae was also somewhat stunned when she saw Chen Mu. She asked uncertainly, "Mr. Chen Mu?"

"Yes, Miss Butterfly. Nice to meet you."

Chen Mu smiled and directly admitted it. Then he looked at Douma. "I see. Upper Rank Two, Douma. No wonder, Miss Butterfly, you said you had encountered a troublesome demon."

"Who are you? Are you also from the Demon Slayer Corps?"

Douma looked at Chen Mu, his expression turning somewhat grave.

After all, Chen Mu had suddenly appeared right before his eyes.

He had never heard of a human being capable of such a thing.

Douma found it utterly unbelievable.

Yet in the next instant.

Douma's pupils contracted.

Because he saw that Chen Mu, who had been some distance away just moments ago, had instantly appeared before him.

Hoshino Ai: "Holy shit!"

Gotoh Hitori: "Holy shit!"

Tokisaki Kurumi: "Holy shit!"

Hoshino Ai: "And he still says he's an ordinary person?!!"

Everyone in the Chat Group was utterly shocked by this sight.

"I see, so this is a demon? I really want to research one."

Chen Mu watched Douma's wistful expression with curiosity.

As he spoke, a blade appeared in his hand without warning.

Douma's pupils contracted as he hurriedly retreated.

After widening the distance between himself and Chen Mu, he still felt a sharp pain across his body.

"So fast!"

"This speed... is he really human?"

Douma looked utterly incredulous. He had not been able to react at all.

But when he looked at Chen Mu again, he discovered that Chen Mu was merely leisurely collecting his blood.

In other words, Chen Mu had not intended to attack at all—he had only wanted to take some blood.

Douma: "???"

It was not just Douma.

Everyone in the Chat Group was equally dumbfounded, flooding the chat with question marks.

Seeing Chen Mu's calm, unhurried demeanor, Douma found it even harder to believe.

The damage was low, but the humiliation was immense!

"Bastard!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Douma roared and launched an attack at Chen Mu.

Hundreds of sharp Ice Icicles formed around him, then surged toward Chen Mu all at once.

Yet faced with such an attack, Chen Mu did not even raise his head. He merely slowly put away the Demon Material he had collected.

Before the Ice Icicles could reach Chen Mu, they seemed to strike an invisible barrier before him, shattering completely and turning into silver light that faded into the air.

Hoshino Ai: "He's toying with him! Completely and utterly toying with him!"

Hoshino Ai: "I knew it! Someone who can build a Star Destroyer and a Space Device could never be an ordinary person!"

Gotoh Hitori: "I naively believed Mr. Chen Mu before. I always thought he really was an ordinary person. No wonder Mom says I'm too honest..."

Tokisaki Kurumi: "It seems there's no need to worry about Miss Butterfly's safety. As expected of a researcher—at a time like this, he's still thinking about collecting Demon Material for research?"

Tokisaki Kurumi: "You could tell Mr. Chen Mu was extraordinary from that speed alone. But for some reason, I can't help feeling that Mr. Chen Mu has no intention of making a move."

Everyone in the Chat Group was shocked beyond words.

This was completely at odds with the frail researcher image from before, damn it!

Meanwhile, Kochou Kanae, Kochou Shinobu, and Douma had all widened their eyes as well.

Kochou Kanae was comparatively composed.

While shocked by Chen Mu's strength, Kochou Shinobu also stared in disbelief at his abilities.

Could humans really possess such abilities?

"Who the hell are you?"

Douma finally realized something was wrong and demanded an answer from Chen Mu.

However, Chen Mu ignored him.

Instead, he continued looking at Douma curiously, then pulled out a gun from somewhere and fired a shot at him.

Wha...?

Before Douma could react, he was shot.

Fortunately, with a demon's physique...

He recovered quickly.

However, before he could speak, another shot followed close behind.

This time.

Douma was clearly recovering as well, but much more slowly.

Then.

The third shot rang out.

This shot differed from the previous two.

It made Douma clutch his wound and crouch down, the bullet wound no longer healing.

Feeling the bullet wound that continued to bleed without stopping, Douma wore an utterly incredulous expression.

One reason was that the three shots had completely stunned him.

The other was that he simply could not understand why his wound had failed to regenerate.

"I see. It looks like demons' regeneration does have certain limits after all, and there are also some countering factors involved."

Chen Mu looked at the results of the three shots, a thoughtful expression on his face as he murmured to himself.

He had used different bullets for each of the three shots, specifically to observe their effects.

Through this experiment, he confirmed some of his conjectures about demons.

And Douma's reaction had given him the result he wanted.

Hoshino Ai: "..."

Tokisaki Kurumi: "..."