"Who? Is Ebina Hina my name?"
"Is he calling me?"
The girl, her consciousness chaotic and hazy, stood blankly on the spot. Like a doll, she watched the figure suddenly block the only path to the Building of Holy Glory.
"That was close. Almost couldn't save her."
Kawashima Toya's clear, azure eyes stared coldly at the three Evil God minions charging at him as he unsheathed the Demon Sword Murasame.
"I'll cut you down!"
With that, Toya shot toward the Evil God minions like a bullet.
Madness, ugliness, distortion, grotesqueness.
The three minions had long lost any human resemblance, remaining only as indescribable monsters.
A flash of sword light illuminated the dim, gloomy world.
Shing!
Thud—
The three Evil God minions were instantly sliced in half by Murasame, their severed bodies falling to the ground.
Just as Toya was about to deliver the finishing blow, the three minions regenerated at an incredible speed, recovering in the blink of an eye.
Even their severed body parts transformed into brand new Evil God minions.
The newly proliferated minions possessed the same aura as the originals, as if they were the same entity, yet not quite.
"Impossible to kill by conventional means, infinite proliferation!" Toya's eyes were cold, devoid of any emotional fluctuation. He murmured, "But that's just conventional logic!"
"You will die. Truly die!"
In an instant, countless Points of Death surged forth madly.
At this moment, the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, sublimated by the Greater Consciousness of the Root, were sharper than ever before.
Even these Evil God minions, for whom death did not exist in this world, were granted the concept of death.
Toya charged again with Murasame.
Sword lights flashed consecutively, and the proliferating Evil God minions instantly turned into black ash and scattered.
In just a few seconds, all the minions were annihilated.
This time, they didn't revive or multiply; they died completely.
"Let's go!" Toya grabbed the doll-like Ebina Hina and fled rapidly in the opposite direction, away from that building.
Ebina allowed Toya to carry her away without any struggle, staring blankly ahead.
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Top Floor of the Skyscraper of Holy Glory.
In a room of resplendent luxury, a figure watched Toya depart.
The shadow cast on the wall was an incredibly massive, dark, and bizarre entity.
The darkness of this shadow transcended light and shadow, reaching a realm no one could touch.
Facing this shadow, any human who dared to gaze upon it would fall into madness and die.
There would be no exceptions, nor any possibility of transforming into an Evil God minion—only the most miserable and painful death.
At the lowest level of the sacred tower, figures twisted by anomalies were worshipping the figure on the high floor in a frenzy.
[System Notice: Congratulations, Host. You have discovered the location of the Evil God's Banquet.]
[Reward: 10,000 Source Points.]
Toya stopped at the edge of the ruins with Ebina Hina and laughed helplessly. "That's really bad news."
He had wished to be as far away from that eerie area as possible, but it turned out to be the venue for the Evil God's banquet?
"Don't think about it. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."
Toya didn't dwell too much on the issue of the abandoned area. Worst case scenario, he'd just trick Gabriel next door into dealing with it.
If that failed, he could use the angel halo sitting in the Trash Fox Detective Agency as a one-time nuke to purify those anomalies.
After evacuating Ebina from the abandoned area, Toya finally had the chance to examine her condition.
"Good, she can still be saved."
At this moment, Ebina's condition was not optimistic.
Her pupils were dilated, gradually losing the color a normal person should have.
Faintly, he could even see madness and anger deep in her eyes.
It seemed she was furious at him for taking her away from that area.
"Calm down. I'll cut them off right away." Toya chuckled lightly and skillfully used Murasame to start severing the Evil God's aura from Ebina.
Within moments, all the filthy black aura belonging to the Evil God was killed by Toya.
Light gradually returned to Ebina Hina's eyes, but physical exhaustion left her with no energy to speak.
She could only take a hurried glance at the person who had pulled her out of the abyss before falling into a deep sleep on Toya's back.
Toya looked at Ebina's peaceful sleeping face and sighed helplessly. "I'll treat you as a patient and waive the fee."
"Otherwise, I'd definitely ask Miura Yumiko to increase the commission."
Carrying Ebina on his back, Toya walked for about ten minutes before finally hailing a taxi.
The taxi carried him and Ebina Hina toward the Trash Fox Detective Agency.
Back in the ruined town, a hazy, illusory figure slowly manifested, gazing at Toya as he left in the car.
"Child of Man, the era is entrusted to thee!"
"I can hold on no longer!"
With those words, the figure raised a hand as if offering something to Toya from across an unknown distance.