Heh heh, Koichi Shido laughed, running his hand through his hair backward.
So it could already be mass-produced? Was it the complete version?
So everyone at the power station had already taken it and was immune to the threat of the dead body virus—everyone was a savior.
With this, his dream of crafting Takashi Komuro into a savior and using him as the core to establish his own paradise in this new world was shattered.
"Yuriko Takagi, so you're watching us as a joke? Treating us like clowns, is that it?"
His expression had been quite gentlemanly before, but by the end, Koichi Shido's face twisted with a hint of ferocity.
"It seems we'll have to use slightly more violent methods to make you obediently listen."
After these sighing words fell, Koichi Shido snapped his fingers.
Using this finger snap as a signal, the followers behind him revealed the weapons they had acquired from their hidden state.
At this moment, the people at the dam power station on the other side of the barrier, upon seeing their weapons, immediately panicked.
They panicked terribly, panicked—too fake.
As someone skilled at disguising his true nature, Koichi Shido could immediately see that most people were just pretending to be scared.
Though some were indeed a bit frightened, afraid they might accidentally fire.
More telling was that they seemed to have such confidence that if it came to talking with force, his side wasn't worth looking at.
But he hadn't seen these people carrying weapons either, and currently both sides were quite close.
Even though almost everyone on his side was touching firearms for the first time, they knew how to shoot, and at such close range, they could easily hit many people on the opposite side.
So what gave Yuriko Takagi and the others such confidence?
The source of this confidence was—this man, wasn't it!
A young man who, from beginning to end, looked at them like watching monkeys or a show, which greatly annoyed Koichi Shido.
Now that they had already torn off the facade, there was naturally no need to be polite.
With a flashy movement, he drew the pistol hidden inside his coat and aimed it at the other party, pulling the trigger without hesitation.
Hm? Why didn't he feel the trigger being pulled?
Instead, the hand holding the pistol separated and fell.
What was happening?
The next second, excruciating pain made it impossible for Koichi Shido to think about this question, and he screamed.
Not only was he screaming, but all the gun-wielding people behind him were screaming too.
What exactly had happened?
Vaguely noticing something, Koichi Shido looked up at the sky. There was what looked like a fighter jet-type drone, and some light seemed to have been emitted from this thing just now.
Suddenly, this drone shifted its angle slightly, and he clearly saw several beams of light being emitted backward.
Looking back, Koichi Shido saw someone who had turned to flee, whose body now showed neat red lines. It split open just like that, collapsing into several chunks of meat.
"Running fast only turns you into chunks of meat."
This cheerful voice made Koichi Shido turn his head back toward the voice's owner—that young man who had greatly annoyed him.
Then, in the blink of an eye, Koichi Shido looked somewhat bewildered at his current environment. He hadn't yet recovered from his defeat and couldn't understand why the Takagi family possessed such power.
Now he was no longer at the dam power station, but had been escorted to the Takagi house, bound hand and foot and detained in a courtyard.
This scene looked like a criminal about to be executed in ancient times.
"Saya, please believe me, I didn't do it on purpose, I didn't intentionally cause Uncle Takagi's death. You know that in that situation, the medicine might not have been effective for Uncle Takagi. In fact, it proves I was right—I became immune..."
Takashi Komuro kept explaining.
"...When the time comes, I'll become the most important person in the world, I'm humanity's savior, and Saya, you would be..."
Hearing these still-dreaming words, Saya Takagi felt physically uncomfortable and nauseous to the point of wanting to vomit. But she didn't interrupt this person who was already escaping reality.
She wanted to see just how disgusting the words he could say would be, how much more of his ugly inner self he could expose. Only then could she take revenge with no burden whatsoever, revenge more thoroughly.
"...When that time comes, our children might even be future leaders of humanity..."
She really was about to vomit.
"Shut up!"
Her mother couldn't help but speak first.
"Aunt Yuriko, what I'm saying is true, and I'll take good care of you in place of Uncle. If Aunt Yuriko doesn't mind, you could also marry me together with Saya."
This statement immediately left everyone around somewhat dumbfounded—they hadn't expected his inner ugliness to reach such depths.
Saya Takagi could no longer bear it either—this guy had now extended his filthy words to her mother.
"When that time comes..."
Bang—
The gunshot interrupted this disgusting person's voice, leaving him stunned, then mechanically looking down at his crotch...
The next moment, an extremely piercing, sharp, and unpleasant scream that made people want to vomit rang out.
"Sa-Saya, why... Wait, wait, don't kill me, aren't we good friends? Aren't we childhood friends?"
In response, Saya Takagi still pointed the cold gun barrel at this tearfully crying childhood friend. What mistake had she made to become childhood friends with such a person?
"Rei, Rei, help me, make Saya stop this."
The person being pleaded to—Rei Miyamoto—remained completely silent.
Her heart was already completely dead, and she felt not the slightest sympathy for the person before her.
"What about Hisashi?"
She still asked this question. Originally the two of them had been together, so why hadn't she seen Hisashi?
"Hisashi? He..."
As Takashi Komuro recounted, Rei Miyamoto's face grew increasingly livid, her hands trembling with the desire to shoot him.
Hisashi had been killed.
After Uncle Takagi was killed that night, Hisashi had wanted to leave the group, but was considered to be betraying them and would reveal the group's hiding place.
As a result, he was "accidentally" pushed down by Takashi Komuro and "accidentally" bitten by a dead body.
Then, with false sympathy, he had Hisashi conduct an experiment, saying that drinking his blood should make him immune to transforming into a dead body, but unfortunately it failed.
"Unfortunately, Hisashi wasn't blessed by heaven, he couldn't..."
Slap!
With tremendous force, Rei Miyamoto knocked out several of his teeth with her palm.
The Takashi Komuro before her had already become a demon.
Her gaze turned to another person—Koichi Shido. Takashi Komuro had become like this because he had been seduced and corrupted by this demon.
Rei Miyamoto wanted nothing more than to kill him immediately.
Yet this guy, clearly knowing what his situation would lead to, wasn't begging for mercy in various ways. Instead, he maintained a composed appearance, as if death was no big deal.
This was truly infuriating.
"Hey, is there any way to torture this guy so he can't maintain that infuriating expression?"
"Yes."
This was Ejie's answer to Saya Takagi's inquiry.
"What method?"
"Give him the Panacea, then protect areas like the neck that would be directly fatal, and throw him into a group of dead bodies."
This was Ejie's method.
These words made the bespectacled man, who had maintained an air of not fearing death, freeze. His face immediately turned pale to the extreme, and his pupils were instantly filled with terror.
Clearly, he understood how cruel this torture would be, how much worse than death it would be.
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