Tokyo No. 1 Colony.
Ze Zenin stood silently atop a high-rise, blood dripping from the Kusanagi Sword in his hand onto the rooftop.
Along the way, he had already killed dozens of players. Before a rule allowing point transfers was added, he had cut down nearly every incarnated ancient monster he encountered.
Occasionally, he encountered newly awakened players as well, but if they had few points, Ze Zenin simply turned and left.
"Almost there."
Ze Zenin narrowed his eyes at the leaderboard displayed by the golden bug Shikigami. He held the top spot by a commanding margin.
"Xuan'an..." he murmured, looking at the name ranked first.
That guy was probably harvesting players' lives somewhere outside the Kanto Region. He likely wanted to avoid running into him for now...
Now it was just a matter of who could kill faster.
A breeze brushed Ze Zenin's face as he stood on the rooftop, lifting his hair.
If not for the bloodstained Kusanagi Sword, no one would have imagined that the man before them had slaughtered his way through almost the entire Tokyo No. 1 Colony in just two days.
Ze Zenin suddenly frowned, casting a cold glance at the figure atop the building opposite him.
To be precise, it was a woman.
She had long, jet-black hair and slightly furrowed, dot-shaped eyebrows. Her eyes held a smile as she gazed at Ze Zenin, her face flushed.
"What a handsome man..."
The woman wriggled inside her white kimono, cupping her face in both hands like a lovestruck fool.
Then a pair of dragonfly wings sprouted from her back, and she flew toward Ze Zenin's high-rise.
"Wouldn't it be fun to cut off such a handsome man's head and hang it from a cherry tree?"
Hovering in midair, the woman smiled at Ze Zenin's