NABC Chapter 77 Five Years Ago: The Songstress's Pursuit
Chapter 77 Five Years Ago: The Songstress's Pursuit
【XNUM X Year X NUM X Month X NUM X Day】
Night fell over Tengu City, Japan, and the clock quietly struck 12:50 a.m. The entire city seemed shrouded in a mysterious veil, utterly silent.
The streets were deserted, with only the streetlights casting a dim yellow glow, and only a few high-rise buildings still lit up and open for business.
At this moment, atop the most famous television station building in Tiangong City, a figure in a crisp military uniform stood there, exuding a heroic and dashing air.
He wore a ferocious and mysterious ram's head mask. Behind him, his black coat billowed like a cloak, dancing wildly in the howling wind.
Ming's gaze was cold and resolute. He knew that the target, the TV producer, in the brightly lit office had already shown murderous intent.
He opened his hand, and the "Divine Eclipse Manual" appeared in his palm. He gently turned a page, which recorded the sinful life of this person.
The images of countless young girls who had been sexually exploited by him through despicable means, those girls with dreams whose ideals had been repeatedly trampled upon by this man, flooded into Ming's eyes like a tide.
As his memories swirled, Ming's heart grew heavier. When he turned to the page titled "Waiting for the Moon at Night," his expression suddenly underwent a subtle change. A slight smile curled at the corners of his lips, revealing a chilling smirk.
"However, there is one thing I have to thank you for, which gave me the opportunity to get close to Yotsuki no Yoru the fastest. In return... I'll help you close your account tonight."
In the blink of an eye, Ming's body turned to ashes, which scattered in the vast night sky of Tiangong City.
"Let the show begin..." These were Ming's last whispers before he vanished.
"Hmph! That wretched woman, how dare she refuse my request! Doesn't she know who I am? With just a few words from me, I can easily ruin her reputation and make her disappear from the entertainment industry forever! This foolish woman doesn't know how to seize an opportunity. She could have simply obediently 'played' with me and risen through the ranks to great heights..."
At this moment, in the spacious and bright office of the TV station, the middle-aged man sat leisurely in a swivel chair with a laptop in front of him.
There was a newspaper next to the computer, which happened to be turned to the entertainment news page, with the headline from two months ago: "Pure idol singer Tsukino Yoshiro's abortion incident."
"Oh dear, what a pity! That girl... her face and figure are quite nice. If only I could have a taste of her..."
The man grinned wickedly, drool dripping from his mouth, as if he were fantasizing about something, and his fingers began to move.
"Squeak... Boom!"
With a crisp snap of the switch being pulled, the once bright office was plunged into darkness in an instant, with only the laptop screen, which was struggling to stay afloat by its battery, emitting a faint glow. No other light source was visible.
"Uh... could it be... a power outage?"
He muttered to himself, stood up, and shouted:
"Damn it! Ito, turn on the backup power in my office right now! What good are you bunch of brats I'm keeping around for...?"
Tap...tap...tap—
Just as the man was cursing, a series of alarming footsteps came from the doorway.
"Heh, you're really slow. Well then, you can serve me tonight."
At this point, the man was about to open the door, but the next second, his feet seemed to be grabbed by something and he couldn't move. He looked down in horror and saw that he was covered by a black substance.
The man struggled desperately, but the black substance only tightened its grip. He stared wide-eyed, trying to see what was causing the disturbance.
At that moment, a cold voice rang out in the darkness:
"Scumbag, your evening bell has rung."
Then, the man was completely dragged down.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw only a shrine standing in the shadows and a man sitting on it.
【Fantasy Library: The Demon-Slaying Chef】
"Kneel down!" On the shrine, Ming, wearing a ram's head mask, said with a slightly mocking tone.
"Damn it, who are you..." Before the man could finish speaking, a fireball pierced through his left leg.
"Aaaaaaahhhhhh!" the man screamed in pain, forced to kneel down due to the loss of a leg.
"Didn't you hear me? You bastard, this isn't a plea, it's... I'm ordering you to kneel down."
Seeing this, the man's face was filled with fear, and sweat mixed with tears streamed down his face.
"What do you want? I have money, I can give you a lot of money, just let me go."
Ming snorted coldly, "Hmph, to me, you are already a dead man. After you die, taking away your property will be an easy thing for me."
Ming slowly raised the [Divine Eclipse Manual] in his hand, the pages turning and emitting a cold, eerie light. "This records every crime you have committed; you cannot escape it."
In the [Phantom Library], the space shifts rapidly. When the man opens his eyes, he sees more than 30 girls he had persecuted surrounding him.
【The Fantasy Library: Hell Map: Desire】
The girls, their eyes vacant, approached the man step by step. The man retreated in terror, pleading for mercy, but the girls paid no heed.
As the girls surrounded him and rushed at him, they all turned into skeletons in the next second. The dried-up skeletons were scattered all over the ground, and the man collapsed to the ground in terror.
Ming stood on the shrine, coldly watching everything unfold.
"This is the bitter fruit of your sins." He finished speaking, and the pages of the [Divine Eclipse] in his hand turned again. The surrounding scenery changed, and the man found himself in a sea of fire, the flames licking at his skin, causing him unbearable pain.
Just when the man thought he was about to disappear completely, Ming closed the [Divine Eclipse Chapter]. The man found himself kneeling unharmed in his office, with Ming standing in front of him.
The man had just breathed a sigh of relief, thinking he had escaped a disaster, a glimmer of luck flashing in his eyes. But Ming raised his foot and stomped on his chest, his disgust undisguised.
“Don’t think this is the end. We still have one more game to play,” Ming said coldly.
The man's lips trembled as he was about to beg for mercy, but Ming pulled out a scalpel that gleamed coldly. "Your evil deeds will be repaid with your blood."
Ming injected glucose into the man's body to ensure he wouldn't easily pass out.
Answer me, what is 1000 - 7?
“9...993......”
The man had barely finished speaking when the scalpel fell, and he let out a bloodcurdling scream.
“Wrong~ Let’s continue then. Where to strike fatally, and where to suffer pain without dying, my teacher Möbius is quite qualified to speak on this matter~” Ming said.
Half an hour later, Ming, carrying a bag of garbage bags and dressed in women's clothing, slowly walked out of the building.
"Did I go too far today?" Ming muttered to himself as he approached the trash can, his eyes becoming much clearer.
After 24 years of immersion, Ming felt his humanity gradually fading away, possibly due to the influence of the [Spirit Crystal] within him, which had turned him into a complete monster.
However, he didn't pay much attention to it. After taking out the most important thing from the garbage bag, he threw the 'garbage' into the garbage can, where it turned into ashes and disappeared.
Inside an abandoned building~
A light blue-haired girl, feeling desperate because of the rumors, is holding a razor blade to her throat, her eyes filled with helplessness.
"I'm sorry, Mother, they, and... everyone who ever loved me deeply..." she said, tears streaming down her face, her lips dry and her voice hoarse.
This person is none other than the once wildly popular idol, Yoi Taiki.
Just because she refused the TV station employee's advances, she was falsely accused of being corrupt, and her fans, who once loved her deeply, turned around and insulted her...
Even her once clear, melodious voice, like that of a robin, gradually became hoarse, and she felt nauseous whenever a member of the opposite sex appeared in her sight.
Filled with despair for the world, she took a knife and ended her life.
Just as the knife tip was about to pierce her neck, her hand suddenly froze, as if pulled by gravity, unable to move.
"Wh...what happened..." Yoru Tsuki no stammered, her voice trembling with disbelief, her voice already exhausted.
Immediately, a strange book appeared before her eyes. The air heated up, and the fingers caught in the book began to burn, dancing along the shape of her fingers.
As the black flames grew larger, they gradually began to outline the shape of a human figure.
The flames burned brighter and brighter, but they did not harm anything around them in the slightest.
Finally, when the last flame went out, a complete image of a "demon" appeared before her!
"Who...who are you...?"
Xiaoyue stared at the newcomer in terror, and began to tremble. She even felt nauseous, not because she was disgusted, but because it was an instinctive reaction when she saw the newcomer.
The newcomer was half-covered in black flames and wore a sheep mask. His sheep-like eyes emitted an eerie red light. The chains that had pierced his body on the right side of his back grew out on the right side, fluttering like wings. Fear and magnificence were his synonyms.
Xiao Daiyue shrank back in fear, but there was a wall behind her, and she had nowhere to retreat.
"Don't be afraid, human... It's our first meeting. I am the elf [Flame Beast]. I have no ill intentions towards you," Ming's voice came from under the ram's head mask. The voice was both male and female, making it even more eerie.
But Yui Tsuki's eyes widened. "If you meant no harm, then why are you stopping me? This world has already abandoned me!"
"Humans, because I need you."
"Do you need... me?"
“I want to make a deal with you, and this is my gift.” As Ming spoke, he threw a bag wrapped around his back in front of the still bewildered Tsukino.
Xiao Daiyue hesitated for a moment, then slowly untied the bag. Seeing what was inside, her face turned deathly pale; it was the head of the TV producer who had previously sexually harassed her...
"What are you doing...?"
Yoru looked at Akira with trembling eyes. This trembling was accompanied by a mixture of instinctive fear and joy... This joy was indescribable, a joy that only the girl herself understood.
"This is the fate he deserved, and it's also a way to prove my sincerity."
"Not only that, this is just a small gift. I can also help you restore your singing voice... allowing you to transform yourself and become an idol again, making everyone who hears your voice unconditionally submit to you."
The sounds produced by the man and woman were extremely seductive, and the girl had no reason to refuse.
After a long silence, Xiao Daiyue slowly spoke:
"What...what do you want me to do...?"
Ming took a step closer, the black flames on his body flickered, and then a contract written on paper was presented to the girl. Xiaoyue took the contract and began to read it.
"1. After I leave, an angel I send will give you power, and the contract will be executed after that. After that, your soul will belong to me and you can only follow in my footsteps."
2. After that, I will give you orders if necessary, but you must accept them... Finally, I will strip you of your current name and give you a new name, Izayoi Miku. Are you willing?
The devil will only keep his promises; he will never lie.
These rules and requirements, if viewed by an ordinary person, would seem utterly unreasonable!
However, at this moment, Yoi-chan Tsuki-no—perhaps now more accurately called Izayoi Miku—slowly raised her head with a heart full of gratitude.
Her beautiful eyes were filled with hot tears.
She stared intently at the person before her, her gaze burning with devotion, as if he were not an ordinary person, but a supreme, omnipotent deity descended to earth.
Without the slightest hesitation, Miku Izayoi took the black pen that Ming handed her and wrote her name.
After signing, the contract floated in the air, billowing black flames rising from it before dissipating. Mei Jiu then walked forward slowly, knelt on one knee before Ming, and said with eyes full of piety:
"Thank you... thank you, Lord [Flame Beast]... From now on, whatever your request is, I will follow you to the death!"
Ming stared blankly at the girl's flushed face for a moment, then hesitated before speaking.
"I am a demon and cannot be compared to you humans by your notions of gender. I have no gender, and this is the advice I must give you."
After he finished speaking, Ming's body began to decompose and disintegrate, turning into countless ashes that drifted throughout the abandoned building.
As Miku watched Ming's departing figure, her eyes held a hint of infatuation...
"Ah, Lord [Flame Beast], thank you..."