In the anime, people are in everyday Tokyo, but they are playing the reincarnation game Chapter 079

Chapter 79: The Mysterious Black Army.

Seeing the eagerness and overt excitement in Asagiri’s words, Yuuki Asuna first shook her head, then a smile touched her lips. Her tone, though tinged with helplessness, carried a gentle warmth.

“Sigh, you really are something. Players like you, who genuinely treat this game as a game, who seek enjoyment, and even anticipate danger, are probably few and far between in the player community. But there’s nothing I can do; you’re the Leader after all. Since that’s the case, let’s go together and see who the mastermind behind turning this city into such a state truly is.”

Hearing Yuuki Asuna’s words, Asagiri shook his head.

“No, you should leave first.”

“Me, leave first? But…”

“Don’t push yourself.”

Asagiri pointed to Yuuki Asuna’s right hand, which held the Exorcist’s longsword, and said calmly.

“You’ve been killing those regular infected and the occasional special infected for hours now. Your stamina must be at its limit, right?”

“I…”

Before Yuuki Asuna could speak, Asagiri walked up to her, gently stroked her long hair, and said with a smile.

“Don’t worry, I have the ‘Reversal Pocket Watch.’ If things really go south, I can still clear the dungeon and leave. Besides, your current condition is poor; you can’t display your original combat power. Leave the intelligence gathering on the mastermind to me. Once we leave the dungeon, I can just relay it to you, can’t I?”

“Then… alright.”

Although Yuuki Asuna was the type who disliked losing and had strong self-esteem, she knew Asagiri was right.

At this moment, let alone fighting, she might even become a burden to him.

“Then…”

Yuuki Asuna looked up, pursed her lips, and a deep worry showed in her eyes as she looked at Asagiri.

“You must be careful, extremely careful, do you hear?”

Asagiri nodded, speaking frankly.

“Then kiss me.”

“What kind of time is this, and you’re still thinking about taking advantage?”

Yuuki Asuna first blushed, then said angrily, “You…” After a slight hesitation, she still stood on her tiptoes and lightly kissed Asagiri’s cheek, then whispered in a voice as faint as a mosquito’s hum.

“When you return safely, you can kiss other places…”

Asagiri said earnestly, “So, wherever I say to kiss, you’ll kiss?”

“You…”

Yuuki Asuna wasn’t such a naive girl; she immediately understood that Asagiri was making a suggestive remark. She couldn’t help but clench her fist and lightly punch his shoulder, then said, both shy and angry.

“In short, if you die, I… I’m not done with you!”

The next second, after Yuuki Asuna clicked confirm in the mobile APP, her figure gradually disappeared.

“Heh, if I’m dead, how can you not be done with me? It’s not like I can have a revival match.”

Asagiri first said this, then the smile on his face disappeared. He put the “Mask of Ever-Changing” back on his face, looked at the pitch-black night outside the window, and muttered to himself.

“The mastermind… will it be those guys, just as I suspected…”

…

Ten minutes later, at the entrance of Jin’ai Hospital.

In the shadows of the night, many small blue-glowing dots suddenly appeared. Following them were more than a dozen mysterious figures, dressed in full black combat suits, wearing optical goggles and gas masks, with full-finger tactical gloves on their hands, holding black assault rifles. Not an inch of their skin was exposed. They advanced slowly in a standard combat squad formation, like special forces.

Among these people, there was only one whose tactical jacket and protective gear were black, but the inner lining was white.

This person in white combat gear raised their left arm. On their forearm armor, there was an LCD screen, which currently displayed nearly twenty red dots located within the Jin’ai Hospital’s administrative building.

“Fifty meters to the target location, continue advancing.”

After the commander-like figure gave the order, this squad completely ignored the common infected corpses scattered throughout the hospital and continued to advance towards the administrative building.

Several minutes later, the squad entered the first-floor lobby of the administrative building.

As soon as they entered, they saw a transparent plastic bag placed at the elevator entrance. Inside were nearly twenty implanted locators, which represented the red dots on the screen.

“Hmm?”

After the squad slowly approached, one member cautiously stepped forward. After a careful inspection, they reported to the commander.

“There doesn’t seem to be a trap. Someone deliberately collected the locators and placed them here.”

“A trap, huh…”

Just as the commander was about to give an order, a faint sound of footsteps suddenly echoed in the previously silent lobby.

The moment they heard the footsteps, all squad members simultaneously turned their guns towards the direction of the sound. However, through their night vision goggles, in the scene as bright as day, they saw a…

“A little girl? A human? How could she be here?”

Just as they felt confused, wondering why such a blonde, blue-eyed little girl holding a teddy bear would appear in this city, the commander looked at the little girl approaching step by step and gave the order.

“Shoot her, kill her.”

Facing such an inhumane order, the team members showed no signs of objection. One of them had already aimed his gun at the little girl’s brow, but before he could pull the trigger, the little girl suddenly spoke in a sweet, soft voice.

“Can you…”

“Please die for me?”

The moment the little girl’s voice fell, four squad members in black combat suits suddenly fell straight to the ground, instantly losing their breath.

“Fire!”

Noticing their teammates dying in such a bizarre manner, the remaining squad members showed no panic. Instead, they aimed at the little girl standing there and pulled their triggers.

The muzzle flashes illuminated the previously dim hospital lobby.

But before they could fire, the blonde, blue-eyed little girl vanished instantly, as if she had never been there.

“She disappeared… Is it a strange creature?”

The commander in white combat gear did not panic. Instead, he raised his hand, pressed the communication button, and then spoke.

“Report, Alpha squad encountered a strange incident, requesting support…”

Just as he was halfway through his sentence, another voice echoed from not far away.

“Persona…”

“Demifiend.”

The moment this voice rang out, a tall, dark shadow, over two meters tall, appeared in the first-floor lobby.

The moment it appeared, it approached at an extremely fast speed, directly grabbing a member in a black combat suit with both hands and tearing the person’s body in half at the waist.

“Bang bang bang!”

Even after seeing the bloody scene of their teammate’s body being torn apart, the other special forces members did not hesitate. Instead, they directly turned their guns and pulled the trigger on the tall, dark shadow.

A barrage of rifle bullets instantly shattered the tall, dark shadow’s body, which then disappeared into the air.

Immediately after, the squad members quickly advanced towards the direction from which the sound had just come. After turning the corner, they found no one there.

“That sound just now…”

The commander looked at the empty corridor and muttered to himself.

“It wasn’t a strange incident… but man-made? Who exactly could have passed through our monitored outer perimeter and secretly infiltrated this city…”

…

[Congratulations, “Player” Utsunomiya Asagiri, you have cleared this dungeon!]

[Demifiend’s trait “Rebirth of the End” activated, bullet resistance increased!]

[In this dungeon, your special bonus actions were: inferring part of the “disaster’s” truth, killing special infected, encountering and engaging the mastermind behind the “disaster,” and successfully eliminating five of their members!]

[This dungeon clear rating is: S+]

[Please begin customizing the quantity and type of clear rewards you wish to receive.]

“Asagiri, you’re back!”

Seeing Asagiri appear on the sofa, Iwanaga Kotoko and Katou Megumi, who had already woken up from a nap, and Yuuki Asuna, who had left not long ago and had been worried, immediately gathered around him.

“You… your condition…”

Asagiri waved his hand. Although his face looked very tired, he replied with a relaxed smile.

“It’s nothing, just some consumption from summoning my Persona. I didn’t get any injuries.”

“That’s good.”

Hearing Asagiri’s words, Yuuki Asuna breathed a sigh of relief, then tentatively asked.

“You said you summoned your Persona, which means…”

“Yes.”

Asagiri nodded, looking at Yuuki Asuna, Iwanaga Kotoko, and Katou Megumi in front of him, and slowly spoke.

“I met the mastermind behind the city’s disaster, and I fought them. It was just as I thought. What Alice once said about the people in black clothes, and the army mentioned by the ghostly man in the hospital, are actually all personnel belonging to a single military organization.”

“They’re from the same organization?”

Hearing this, Iwanaga Kotoko couldn’t help but frown.

The people who had entered that strange hotel but didn’t deal with the floating corpse spirit’s true form, and the people in this dungeon who injected survivors with the virus and placed implanted locators on special infected, experimenting with an entire city—they were actually from the same organization?

“That’s right.”

Asagiri paused here, then softly continued.

“The mysterious organization they belong to is called…”

“Blackwatch.”