Chapter 895 - 22: Patch Package
As the headquarters of the Super Natural Disaster Countermeasures Room.
The building’s protective measures are naturally extremely thorough, and the level of protection is seriously powerful.
There are countless Exorcism Talismans, densely packed Reaction Techniques, and layer upon layer of Barriers that work on both the living and Spirit Bodies. There are also subtle suggestions laid over every inch of land, constantly causing Scattering of Loiterers and preventing clueless ordinary people from wandering in through the wrong door by accident.
In this kind of situation, it goes without saying that the whole street and nearby area benefit from it.
A huge area in the surroundings has been scrubbed clean, turning into a patch of pure land where Evil Spirits won’t intrude.
The Evil Spirits who were used to lurking and squatting around here have no way to complain, and nowhere to file grievances against this sudden parachuted black force. Besides, most of them only have instincts left and not much intelligence. As for the few that do have reason and awareness, who know the Strategy Room’s headquarters building popped up overnight, they’re still unable to escape precise strikes.
In the face of someone who’s shown the ability to lock onto the entire planet, their existence is as conspicuous as a lighthouse in the night, with no way to hide.
So they were put early on the list of targets for Slaying Spirit and silencing, and their spots were already reserved; they didn’t even need to be rushed.
Just like that non-existent Shrine deep in the nearby mountains—the super Evil Spirit inside is one of them, marked from early on as something that must be eliminated, to make sure it never gets the chance to leak sensitive issues of this sort to people in the Mind Industry.
Even if normal people definitely wouldn’t believe such absurd statements, nipping things in the bud is still necessary.
Because to completely overlap multiple histories onto the same world, there are far, far too many places that need attention and countless details that must be taken care of.
The Creator is carefully maintaining the system’s operation, striving to run it, collecting data, watching for any potential bugs... how could they possibly allow loopholes outside the system to exist, or tolerate them posing a threat to their own system?
So in other words——
Slaying Spirit and silencing them is the natural outcome. Anyway, screening them and judging whether they should be killed isn’t that troublesome a job, especially once they’re on the list; then they’re even easier to handle.
But still, at the end of the day the Strategy Room’s headquarters building is just a building. At most it can sit in the city center and steadily provide stability to a small surrounding area. As for the outer zones, that’s where the whip can’t reach, places that can’t be effectively covered.
Especially because providing a pure land in the most bustling part of town keeps Evil Spirits from appearing in the city center, it in turn causes the spirit density in other areas to shoot up dramatically. After all, if they can’t show up here, naturally they’ll flow elsewhere.
That’s all there is to it——
Probably because he was too anxious, and also too young.
Yotsuya Kousuke has already, in his agitated panic, fallen into a small crisis—but he himself is completely unaware of it.
Tormented by his own anxious wild thoughts, he stubbornly heads into those dark alleys and out-of-the-way places to search, but fails to find any trace of his target. In the process, without realizing it, he leaves the main street and steps out of the suppression range of the Strategy Room’s headquarters building——
And naturally drifts deeper and deeper into the dark corners and remote spots.
"Damn it, where the hell did they go..."
Clenching his fists tight, Yotsuya Kousuke, whose heart is full of anger toward that scumbag and heartbreak over what happened to his sister, anxiously looks around all over the alley.
——No sign of them, still no sign.
——Where did they go, how are they walking so fast?!
Yotsuya Kousuke isn’t acting purely on impulse either; he has actually been seriously asking passersby along the way. It’s just that, because the objective circumstances differ a little, what he knows and what others have seen are often not the same thing at all.
Even though this young boy feels that he explained himself very clearly when asking questions.
But on the most basic premise level, even the direction he started searching in was wrong from the beginning.
Because he’s frantically asking people if they’ve seen a man and a woman go by—the girl a black long straight-haired JK, the guy clearly looking like no good person... This kind of question, colored with subjective judgments, brings him back a ton of responses, and many people kindly point out routes for him.
After all, in a prosperous city, evaluated by that sort of criteria, this kind of situation is actually extremely common—basically happening all the time.
It’s just that Mikko isn’t within this set of filter conditions. Although she’s also a JK, in everyone’s eyes she’s acting alone, without any companion, let alone walking together with some scumbag... So once he sets those filter conditions, the correct answer is excluded.
The result is that Yotsuya Kousuke gradually goes off the rails, searching further and further in the wrong direction.
He even runs into a love hotel to ask questions, only to end up with no results again. The young boy rushes back out, both furious and anxious, panting heavily.
Absolutely no progress at all.