Guardian

Night fell, and it was a beautiful day. Thick clouds and fog obscured the stars and moon, as if the great Lord would ignore everything, covering His eyes with His hands and absolving all sin.

This included removing bloodstained silver dollars from the stomach of a dead prosecutor.

"Jesus above, this guy was clearly a fraud, and we didn't kill him. This must be God's blessing upon us for our hard work."

"That's right, that guy is definitely not a demon, they must be God's angels."

Ritsuka and Nezha, who had just broken the leg of a rather audacious cultist, heard these words. She frowned and listened to their conversation, feeling utterly disgusted.

Can these guys even be considered human? Doing things like this without even realizing there's anything wrong with it. She couldn't even muster any anger; she only felt a deep weariness and helplessness.

"This era is a stain on human history. Ritsuka, you've come a long way and you know very well that the long scroll of Human History can neither be completely clean nor completely tainted. If you focus only on one point, your vision will become narrow and extreme."

Dr. Roman immediately noticed Ritsuka's emotions, and as Chaldea's psychologist, he immediately spoke up to ease Ritsuka's emotional stress.

Ritsuka simply shook her head and smiled, replying, "Don't worry, Doctor. I've received so much help along the way, I won't let this little thing make me deny everything. I just feel a bit powerless..."

"Sigh, hasn't Brother Bai come back yet?"

Nezha spoke:

"Master, they've only been gone for thirty minutes. Their senses are restricted, and finding them in this spacetime-affected area won't be easy."

Deep within the prison, the smoke from the Queen of Sheba's lantern, like the threads of Theseus, followed the trail, its path circling and sometimes pointing to the sky, sometimes to the Daichi.

"You've been with Abigail as her maid for so long, have you noticed anything?"

"As for intelligence? No, apart from knowing that she goes up the hillside every day hoping to see whales emerging from the shore, I don't know much more than you do."

But on a personal level, that child is rather unusual; he hardly gets along with any children his age, and he only has one female friend who has albinism.

The two followed the smoke into the largest forest north of Salem, but as soon as they stepped in, the earth and rocks in the forest began to churn, and menacing corpses crawled out of the woods.

Leading the group were several creatures that clearly did not belong to human history. Their bodies were entirely emerald green, their bellies were covered with layers of scales, and a huge mouth occupied their entire face, like an upright Venus flytrap, covered with cold, sharp teeth.

Its eyes resembled those of a chameleon, and it possessed four massive, muscular arms. The largest of them let out a howl, and then the surrounding ghouls surged towards the town of Salem like a tidal wave.

"Troublesome creatures, completely ready to give up. I'm afraid the whole of Salem is filled with these things."

Bai Mo frowned, Queen of Sheba Bai Mo his instructions. Looking at the ghouls swarming like sardines in the ocean, Bai Mo sighed and said to the Queen of Sheba:

"Don't let any fish that slip through the net escape."

The next moment, countless sharp Vacuum Sword Blade swarmed into the forest like locusts, annihilating all the ghouls. The three elder ghouls at the head roared and charged towards Bai Mo, but their heads were sliced off by the blades the moment they took a step.

With his senses limited, dealing with these things took longer than usual. There were no more ghouls to the north, but Bai Mo's expression wasn't good.

"Ritsuka and the others are probably playing Zombie Siege right now, we'd better hurry."

The Queen of Sheba smiled at Bai Mo's choice and asked playfully:

"You should know that even if we ignore these guys, Ritsuka and the others will be fine inside the house."

"She wouldn't stand idly by while a massacre was taking place, and neither would I."

Bai Mo and Ritsuka also fought together in Russia for a period of time. He knew very well the struggle she showed when she learned that he had to destroy the Lostbelt for the sake of Pan-Human History, and the relief she felt when she learned that he had saved them.

"Okay, leave it to me, we're very close."

The Queen of Sheba's smoke pointed to a cave in the forest, below which lay a deep pool. The two infiltrated, and Bai Mo began to forcefully pry open the cavern. With a splash, they arrived at a large cave hall.

There's someone over there.

In the darkness, Bai Mo immediately spotted what appeared to be a figure lying on a rock. He skimmed across the water with his toes and arrived in an instant. At the same time, the water deep within the cave surged, and a giant nearly nine meters tall, half-human and half-fish, emerged from it.

The giant leaped and pounced on Bai Mo, but Bai Mo easily dodged it, his gaze fixed on the girl. He picked her up, her long, pale hair falling down.

"Not Abigail? Albinism, and this family crest... she's Lavinia?"

"Aww!"

The roaring behemoth, seeing Bai Mo pick up Lavinia, pounced on him like a madman, its gaping maws ready to tear him to shreds.

Holding Lavinia in his arms, he used his Magnetic Field Power to heal her body, while simultaneously using his other hand to hold down the onrushing giant. Soon after, Lavinia opened her eyes and immediately saw the giant twisted under Bai Mo's power.

Her eyes were filled with anxiety, but she couldn't speak; the sounds she made were very weak, and blood was uncontrollably flowing from her seven orifices.

"The soul is damaged, no, it should be said that it has been oppressed and distorted by this place."

Bai Mo sensed Lavinia's situation. He had been to the Underworld several times and had some understanding and perception of the souls in this world.

Lavinia's eyes were filled with anxiety and sorrow. Bai Mo shook his head and said:

"Don't worry, I can still tell the difference between a monster that has lost its mind and a guardian. You should calm down too; your soul is about to give out."

If the half-human, half-fish giant before them were truly a man-eating beast, then Lavinia would have long since become a pile of bones. Bai Mo touched the giant's ugly face with one hand.

Atoms split, matter recombines.

Countless Magnetic Field Power, like whirlpools in the ocean, engulfed the giant's body. Heart-wrenching pain was evident in its eyes, yet even so, it remained fixed on Lavinia.

After a long while, the giant's body had transformed into a gaunt old man, who slowly extended his hand toward Lavinia.

Bai Mo handed the completely powerless Lavinia over. The moment they touched, a strange black True Magic surged up, and Bai Mo felt a warmth flowing from the old man's body into Lavinia.

Then, seemingly having fulfilled his final wish, the old man closed his eyes, and his soul vanished completely, beyond the comprehension of even the authority of the Underworld.