"You saw it?" Jiu Ming tilted his head. "What is it... You can see that too? Some kind of strange resonance? Because Hell Girl is inside your body?"
"Hm?"
Only then did Jiu Ming notice something. Hell Girl's presence on her body seemed to have suddenly weakened considerably. Before, he had still been able to vaguely "see" her, but now only the faintest trace of an aura remained, as though she had already transferred elsewhere.
Yet after Mikage Yuzuki recovered and finished speaking, Hell Girl returned again...
Well, if she refused to show herself, Jiu Ming could hardly grab the girl by the collar and force Hell Girl to manifest immediately—or say something like, "If you don't, I'll kill this host of yours right now." Wouldn't that be a bit too brutal?
In any case, the person who had accessed Hell Correspondence was none other than Kitayama Akira, the student who lived in the same apartment building and whom Mikage Yuzuki had greeted before.
Mm, Jiu Ming had noticed some hatred in the boy's eyes toward someone before. Now it had developed into this.
"So, now that you know who bought a one-way ticket... uh, cough, who accessed Hell Correspondence, what are you planning to do?"
"I want to go talk him out of it. There's always a way to solve things."
"Fine, then talk to him first. At the very least, get the facts straight before saying anything else." Jiu Ming shrugged. Mm, getting the truth straight could never hurt. What if the person being sent that one-way ticket really deserved to die? If Jiu Ming stopped it without a second thought, that would be him having his brain short-circuit.
After no longer being human, the restraints imposed by so-called legal consciousness—and many of humanity's rules and regulations—had become