Eighth Crown

"Boom—!"

The bomb exploded in the room, bursting with a faint orange-red fire, and at the same time, it also caused a rush of black smoke, and the explosion wind rushed out from the unobstructed window like an escape.

The rumbling sound even came from the depths of this abandoned city, causing some of the bad people who gathered here to make sounds of surprise.

Deep in the city, in front of a double-storey building.

The two rituals stood there in a daze, watching Liu Xia's series of smooth movements from taking out the bomb to throwing the bomb to detonating the bomb, and fell into speechlessness.

It's obvious that he hasn't confirmed whether Shirakawa-go is the real body of the serial killer, so he just bombed it? Aren't you worried about killing the wrong person?

But thinking about it carefully, three nights ago, when the two met for the first time in a residential area in the north, he seemed to have slapped himself with a bomb for the first time.

"It's nothing to be surprised at first."

Liu Xia retreated to the side of the two ceremonies, and even took a few steps back, hiding behind the two ceremonies, "I can only throw bombs. I'm really not good at close combat, so I'll leave it to you."

After Liu Xia hid behind the two rituals, the figures of the two rituals immediately became extremely conspicuous.

At least, the person who rushed out of the detonated room in order to avoid the bomb and looked a little disgraced, his eyes were immediately attracted by the two ceremonies.

"Liangyi? Is that you?"

The two ceremonies glanced at the direction behind them speechlessly, and saw that Liu Xia once again put her hand into her carry-on bag, looking like she was ready to take out a new bomb at any time. I can do anything, and I'm still a kid's idea.

Since they met several times, Liu Xia's calm response, decisive action, merciless when threatening people, and unhesitating style when killing people, it is really difficult for people to treat him as a real child.

His decisiveness and crispness are better than many experienced adult killers.

That's right.

Liu Xia, who has no feelings, has never known the preciousness of life. As long as you have the idea of ​​killing you, you will never hold back. No matter what kind of difficulties you have or how painful your experience is, According to kill is correct.

Because any happiness or misfortune can't make him resonate.

Liu Xia silently stayed behind the two ceremonies.

While watching the movements of the boy named Shirai Jun Rio opposite, he also looked at the back of the two rituals without a trace, thinking about the angle from which he should backstab her if the battle was over for a while.

Saying that you are not good at close combat is, of course, nonsense.

With the [Anonymous Spirit Base], Liu Xia, who has become a Servant, although his physical quality is undoubtedly the bottom in the Servant world, he has already reached the limit of the human body, and his strength and speed are three times that of ordinary people. .

Maybe he doesn't know how to move or martial arts, but with his strong physical fitness, he is enough to deal with the opponent, and with the [Future Vision] who can predict the future, even in hand-to-hand combat, he still has the confidence to kill Shirakawa-go. He was able to dodge the bomb just now. Judging from the speed at which he rushed out of the explosion, it was not much worse than Liu Xia. Like the two rituals, he was also a guy far beyond ordinary people.

The reason why they retreated early and hid behind the two ceremonies was just to be able to capture the two ceremonies from a favorable angle after the battle was over, so that the Liangyi family would throw a rat and leave Guanbuzi City.

He put his hand into the package, not to take out the bomb, but to take out the stun gun hidden in the package, so as to backstab her from the back of the two rituals and make her powerless.

Not to mention Liu Xia's inner thoughts, the two ceremonies standing in front of him had already confronted Bai Chun Li Xu.

Bai Chun Lixu is a young man of the same age as the two rituals. He has dark brown medium-parted short hair that just covers his ears. He is wearing a combination of a white shirt and black trousers, which is the school uniform of Guanbuzi Academy. .

According to the two ceremonies, Bai Chun Lixu was her first-year senior in the school, and she is a sophomore this year and is 17 years old.

The reason why it is dressed like a school uniform should be that I rushed here immediately after school, and I have no spare clothes, but it is precisely because of this that I can interact with most of the students who dropped out and left home. Many of them are school uniforms. Badly dressed people mixed together.

"Hey, Rio Bai, in just two months, you made five consecutive murders in the city, and then turned the blame on me. Is it you the 'serial killer'?"

Even if they knew that the other side was their admirer, the two ceremonies did not plan to chat with the other side, and they questioned the other side as soon as they exited.

"You knew already?!"

Bai Chunli Xu was obviously a little caught off guard, and there was a strong look of surprise on his face.

Although it is a legendary 'serial murderer', in the end, this guy is only a half-way monk, and his handling of corpses is always too high-profile. He doesn't understand the essence of killers who have to keep a low profile and hide themselves under any circumstances. Not as good as Liu Xia, who is a professional killer at all, but he was caught off guard by two ceremonies and questioned him to find out the truth.

He is indeed the serial killer in recent urban legends, the one who killed Liu Xia's parents and blamed the two ceremonies, is indeed him.

However, he doesn't seem to have any intention of concealing his identity in front of the two ceremonies.

He didn't know what he remembered, the shocked expression faded from his face, and suddenly there was an inexplicable fanatical expression in his eyes watching the two rituals, as if the believers saw the gods they believed in, and they seemed to be living alone on an isolated island. Robinson, who has been there for more than ten years, saw his companions.

"However, it's fine. Since you already know, come with me!"

When he said this, Bai Chun Lixu fell into a clear madness, and his eyes revealed a strong excitement. He was obviously a human, but he gave the illusion of a beast.

"I know that you, like me, have been suppressing the urge to kill in your heart, right? In this case, we are natural companions, and I have been alone for too long!"

"Liangyi, you are my best companion, I want you..."

This man, half of his brain has gone crazy.

His mental state is very weird. Although he had just rushed out of the building, he could see obvious rationality on his face, but now that his identity has been revealed, and after seeing the two ceremonies, he seems to have opened something. Strange switch, his face obviously became crazy, and his spirit became confused.

Because he has been suppressing his inner urge to kill alone all this time—probably suppressed, probably because he committed five cases in just two months, and he was identified as the same kind The two rituals, but none of them were killed - so when he saw the two rituals that he believed to have the same urge to kill, he couldn't help but become fanatical.

Humans are creatures that cannot stand loneliness.

Especially when the person has been in pain for a long time, he will become especially eager for the same kind.

So, Bai Chunli Xu set his sights on the two ceremonies.

Under the scorching loneliness, he became extremely eager for two rituals.

The reason why he blamed the two rituals for the crime after committing so many cases was probably because he wanted to use this to attract the attention of the two rituals, or to draw the two rituals into the dark world.

"It's just a desire for the same kind, it's boring."

Liu Xia penetrated into Shirai Junrio's heart with keen insight.

Longing for company because of fear of loneliness is only a third-rate relationship, and it is completely unable to reach the level of interest in him.

He didn't have the slightest sympathy and pity for Bai Chunli's lonely and longing heart. He didn't even understand what "loneliness" was, and of course he couldn't resonate with his heart.

Compared with this, he is more concerned about another thing.

That is Shirai Junrio's murderous impulse - when did it arise?

This is a huge doubt that is easily overlooked in this incident.

Judging from the cases committed by serial killers in the past two months, from the first to the fourth and fifth cases, Shirai Chunrio's killing techniques were constantly improving. Now that the fourth and fifth corpses have fallen into pieces, it can also be seen that he has undergone a rapid mental degeneration in the past two months.

This is both a depraved journey from sanity to madness, and a technological transition from unfamiliar to skilled.

This is the conclusion he draws from the information given by Daisuke Akimi, and there will be no falsehood.

According to this inference, it can be judged that the murderous impulse of Shirai Chunli should not exceed three months at most.

Liu Xia was 80% sure about the correctness of this conclusion.

Well, here comes the problem.

Why did he suddenly awaken the urge to kill three months ago?