Chapter 262
"Hoshikage Takuto said, looking at the figure's back."
Who are you?
"..."
After a brief silence, the figure slowly spoke.
"Atsuro, the 'Five Shoals Association' Kibito Atsuro."
After saying that, the figure who called himself Kibito Atsuro disappeared into the shadows.
"The Five Shoals Association..."
Hoshikage Takuto murmured to himself, then looked toward the direction of the District 39.
"So, what's next..."
A cruel smile slowly crept onto Hoshikage Takuto's lips.
——
"Based on the information given by that man named Kibito Atsuro, it should be around here."
Upon arriving at the District 39 Hoshikage Takuto looked around at the dilapidated streets and finally, following the directions given by Kibito Atsuro, walked to a manhole cover.
Gently tap open the manhole cover.
After only a short while, the manhole cover was opened, revealing a young girl inside.
Upon seeing the little girl's crimson eyes, Hoshikage Takuto's eyes revealed a look of disgust, though he concealed it well.
"Hello, little friend!" Hoshikage Takuto his disgust and greeted the little girl with a gentle smile, "Do you know Toudo Touka?"
Upon hearing Luo Mio's name, the little girl instantly lifted the manhole cover, revealing her upper body, and happily looked at Hoshikage Takuto.
"Uncle, do you know the older brother?"
Looking at the little girl approaching him, Hoshikage Takuto frowned slightly, then smiled and said to her.
"Of course, I'm his friend."
"Are you a friend of the big brother?" The little girl was puzzled for a moment, then smiled brightly and innocently at him, "My name is Maria, hello uncle!"
Hello, Maria.
"Uncle, would you like to come in?"
Hoshikage Takuto feigned surprise and looked at Maria, saying, "Really?"
"Yes!" The little girl named Maria nodded. "Since you're my big brother's friend, Uncle, then there's no problem."
"Is that so..." Hoshikage Takuto first feigned confusion, then smiled and said, "Then I'll come in."
Then Hoshikage Takuto went into the sewers.
He frowned slightly after smelling the faint, distinctive stench of the sewers around him.
After walking for a while, the little girl finally led Hoshikage Takuto to the deepest part of the sewer.
Among them, he saw many "Cursed Children" and an old man taking care of their lives.
"Hello." The old man looked at him kindly.
"Maria told me you're Mr. Todou's friend?"
Hoshikage Takuto smiled slightly.
"Yes."
"So, you came here this time...?"
"Ah, I came here this time to prepare a surprise for him."
"Surprise?"
The little girl held the old man's hand, tilting her head and looking at him with a puzzled expression.
Looking at the little girl's innocent face, Hoshikage Takuto smiled slightly, then the corners of his mouth gradually curved up, making him look very eerie.
"Yes... a surprise called despair!"
After saying that, Hoshikage Takuto pulled out a pistol from his pocket.
"Bang--!"
The muffled gunshots instantly echoed throughout the entire sewer system.
Then...
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!"
The muffled gunshots echoed throughout the entire sewer system.
Hoshikage Takuto looked at the countless corpses of girls before him, a slight smile crept onto his lips.
In order to suppress the "Cursed Children's " regenerative abilities, which are similar to those of Gastrea, he specially prepared bullets loaded with holmium and also carried spare magazines. Moreover, in order to make Luo Mio completely despair, he shot the corpse several times in succession.
In that case...
He had already begun to conceive the scene he imagined.
And in that moment of stunned silence...
"Uncle, what are you laughing at?"
A familiar girl's voice rang out in front of him.
"!"
Hoshikage Takuto lowered his head in alarm.
The little girl he had just cruelly shot was now standing perfectly unharmed in front of him.
The scenery around him shifted from the stench-filled sewers back to the dilapidated streets above them.
"...!" Hoshikage Takuto's eyes twitched as he watched this scene. "What... what's going on?!"
"Uncle?"
He saw a little girl named Maria looking at him with a puzzled expression.
Feeling the little girl's bright eyes and the warm breath coming from her mouth, Hoshikage Takuto but wonder if he had just been hallucinating.
But... the bloody scene in the sewer just now was still vivid in his mind.
"Uncle?"
The little girl tilted her head and looked at him with a puzzled expression.
"Haha..." Hoshikage Takuto came to his senses and looked at Maria with a gentle smile.
"It's nothing, Uncle was just a little distracted."
Is that so?
Although Maria was puzzled, she still said softly, "Since you are my older brother's friend, please come in."
"Um."
Hoshikage Takuto smiled and nodded, then a cruel look appeared in his eyes.
A few minutes later.
"Bang bang bang bang bang—!"
Several gunshots rang out again throughout the sewers.
In the sewer, Hoshikage Takuto held a pistol, his cheek splattered with bright red blood, and stared at the corpse before him with a ferocious and cruel smile... Bright red blood continued to flow from the corpse's wounds.
Seeing such a tragic scene, Hoshikage Takuto could easily imagine the look of despair on Luo Mio's face when she saw it.
"Hahahahahahahahahaha—!"
Hoshikage Takuto excitedly tilted his head back and laughed loudly.
"Uncle, what are you laughing at?"
The voice, seemingly magical, instantly brought Hoshikage Takuto, and he looked down.
He found himself standing in front of a manhole cover again, and the little girl in front of him was peeking out of the manhole cover, looking at him with a puzzled expression.
"Uncle, why is there red paint on your cheeks?"
The little girl's innocent words echoed in Hoshikage Takuto's ears, causing him to frantically take several steps back, staring at the little girl in front of him with a horrified expression.
"You, you, you—!"
Hoshikage Takuto was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
"Maria, what happened...?"
"Bang!"
Before the little girl could finish speaking, Hoshikage Takuto instantly fired a shot at her.
The little girl's body then fell into the sewer.
"Thump!"
The sound of something falling to the ground reached Hoshikage Takuto's ears from the sewer. Upon hearing the sound, Hoshikage Takuto bent over, covering his eyes with one hand, and gasped for breath due to fear.
But out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed something strange.
In his other spare magazine, the bullets that should have been used up when he was initially shot in the sewers had mysteriously reappeared.
"Uncle?"
"!"
Hoshikage Takuto's panting stopped abruptly, and he slowly raised his head, revealing a terrified and stunned expression.
The little girl he had just shot and who had fallen into the sewer reappeared unharmed before him.
"You... you... you...!!!"
Hoshikage Takuto was so frightened that he couldn't speak and quickly took a few steps back.
Then he turned around instantly and ran away from there.
And so, Hoshikage Takuto ran for an unknown amount of time until he was exhausted and collapsed to his knees.
"Ah... Uncle, why did you come back from the other side?"
"..."
A voice that was all too familiar rang out in front of him.
Hoshikage Takuto stiffly raised his head, staring blankly and fearfully ahead.
He came to the manhole cover again, but this time he was in a different direction; he came to the back of the little girl.
"Aaaaaaahh..."
Hoshikage Takuto screamed and then started firing wildly at the girl.
"Bang bang bang!"
His once handsome face was now covered in tears, sweat, snot, and saliva.
"Thump!"
He heard another sound of something falling to the ground.
Upon hearing the sound Hoshikage Takuto slumped to the ground, gripping his gun with both hands, but in the blink of an eye, he was in a daze.
"Uncle?"
A voice that filled him with despair once again rang out in front of him.
Seeing the girl reappear before him, Hoshikage Takuto kicked his legs and moved backward, his face filled with despair as he shouted as he drooled, snot, and tears streamed down his face.
"Don't come any closer—!"
After saying that, Hoshikage Takuto used all his strength to run towards the bushes on the side, taking difficult steps one by one through the bushes.
"Thump!"
As if he had been bumped by something, Hoshikage Takuto fell to the ground.