Chapter 409: Crazy Mita's Night Raid
"Won't this blow us up along with it?"
Hearing Kotoko's question, Asagiri shook his head and smiled.
"No. I can designate a safe area around me that won't be covered by the power, so as long as you stay by my side when I activate the ability, you won't be harmed."
"A range of one hundred kilometers... That's just too ridiculous..."
Kotoko had already realized the terrifying nature of the Mother Earth's Dinner ability.
It had a super large range and overwhelming destructive power.
Moreover, if Asagiri was in the state where he had already used Pointer Guidance and Sacrifice, commonly known as the boss's third phase, he could also restore his physical and mental strength based on the number of kills.
If it was used in a high density area, it would be equivalent to instantly recovering to his best state, with both physical and mental strength fully replenished.
Coupled with the newly obtained Persona from the previous Dungeon, Ruiner Nergigante, which possessed enormous size, destructive power, and endurance, it could be said that as long as Asagiri wanted to, he could completely raze a city to the ground in a short time.
He was worthy of being called a walking city destroying weapon.
"There are three Nyx Incarnations left..."
Kotoko looked at the prompt content popping up in the Eye Icon APP, carefully scrutinized the wording, and said thoughtfully,
"Judging from the meaning of this system prompt, Nyx Incarnations don't just exist in one world?"
"After all, it is an evil god that symbolizes death. It's not strange for multiple incarnations to exist in different worlds."
Hearing Asagiri's words, Yamauchi Sakura could not help asking in confusion,
"Evil god?"
"Yes."
Asagiri nodded slightly and said with a smile, his tone matter of fact.
"No matter what it claims to be, as long as it is hostile to us, then it is evil."
Kotoko immediately expressed her agreement.
"That's right. Listening to what it meant, it wants to destroy our world? That won't do."
"Although I am not a god who protects humans, Cursed beings are also part of this world. As their God of Wisdom, I won't allow something like world destruction to happen."
"Indeed, this is something that cannot be compromised."
Just as Yuuki Asuna finished speaking, she saw the dark red font on Asagiri's mobile phone screen suddenly jump.
The number 3 after the remaining number of Nyx Incarnations slowly turned into a 4 that looked as thick as blood.
"It increased?"
Seeing the suddenly jumping number, Yuuki Asuna, Kato Megumi, and Yamauchi Sakura all changed expressions.
Just as they wanted to say something, they saw Asagiri and Kotoko look at each other.
Then both of them showed inexplicable smiles.
"You... What are you smiling at?"
"Heh heh."
Asagiri had a profound and mysterious look as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"I laugh at Nyx for lacking wisdom, and Blackwatch for lacking strategy."
"Can you stop being pretentious?"
"Can't you see this? Nyx is scared."
Hearing Asagiri's words, Kotoko smiled and said,
"That's right. It realized that the number of its incarnations is too small now, and relying solely on the power of an individual incarnation, it simply cannot contend with us."
"If it had created another incarnation after a few days, we might have been worried, but it's been less than half an hour since the Dungeon ended, and it has already created another one."
"This can only mean that it is afraid and panicked."
"The point is that Nyx failed to kill us, and instead let us obtain intelligence about it."
Asagiri recalled the details of that battle and spoke slowly.
"Nyx's conceptual power cannot directly affect us. Or rather, the conceptual power it uses through the incarnation cannot directly erase us."
"It can only fight us through the original abilities of the incarnation, so it needs to create incarnations with powerful individual abilities."
"But the number of incarnations it can create must be limited. Otherwise, it could have completely possessed everyone in Blackwatch, and there would be no need for any misleading or behind the scenes manipulation."
"As for whether eliminating the incarnation will affect its main body... this cannot be concluded for sure."
"It hides in the back most of the time and only attacks when it thinks it has found an opportunity at the end."
"Perhaps it doesn't want the incarnation to be destroyed, or perhaps it's because only its incarnation body has the power to resist my Supreme Magic Bullet. In order to prevent me from using Supreme Magic Bullet to instantly kill those three taboo monsters, it couldn't let its incarnation be destroyed."
After Asagiri finished speaking, Kotoko continued,
"The abilities that Nyx guards against are all ones we have displayed in front of Blackwatch members."
"It seems it doesn't know that Asagiri also possesses the ability of Pointer Guidance to reverse time."
"Hmm..."
Yuuki Asuna first responded softly, then raised her hand to rub her sore eyes and yawned.
"So sleepy... I want to go rest first..."
"Everyone is tired. Let's all go wash up and rest first."
Asagiri stood up and said with a smile,
"After we wake up, we'll go find Kaguya and the others to discuss."
...
Half an hour later, in the master bedroom on the second floor of Kotoko's house.
"No one came to ambush me today."
Asagiri, who had just finished showering and changed into clean clothes, walked out of the bathroom and muttered to himself with a chuckle when he saw that no one planned to sneak into his room.
Usually, whether it was Yuuki Asuna, who seemed to have a serious personality, Kato Megumi, who did not talk much but always acted at critical moments, or the God of dirty jokes who never hid her wolfish ambition, all of them had shown behavior of wanting to sneak into his room during this kind of rest period and sleep with him.
There was no such segment today.
It seemed they were really tired.
After all, the movement distance in this Dungeon had been very long, the duration had been very long, the environment had been harsh, and then it was coupled with a high intensity battle.
Both the four girls in his team and Fujiwara Chika were in a state of extreme exhaustion, so they did not even have the thought of sneaking in.
They only wanted to rest as soon as possible.
Just as Asagiri was thinking this, a sensation suddenly came from his heart.
"Persona, Mita."
He reached out to catch the phantom Tarot card floating down from the air and crushed it.
Seeing Crazy Mita, who had been summoned, her body recovered as before, wearing a twin tail hairstyle, with a somewhat complicated expression on her face, he smiled.
"What's wrong? Did you come to me to review your performance in battle?"
Crazy Mita snorted softly upon hearing this, raised her cute face, and said with a bit of pride,
"Hmph, my performance in battle was impeccable."
"That's true."
Regarding Crazy Mita's performance in battle, Asagiri had nothing to say.
As a Persona with the ability to think independently, Crazy Mita had never shown any hesitation or timidity in battle.
Even if half of her shoulder was cut open, she would still pick up the chainsaw with her other hand and launch an attack.
"I wanted to ask..."
When Crazy Mita said this, she hesitated slightly.
She gently bit her lower lip, and after a long while, she finally gathered the courage to raise her head and look directly at Asagiri's face.
"Why do I bleed?"
"Are you being so philosophical right off the bat?"
Asagiri shook his head with a dumbfounded smile and said without hesitation,
"If you get hurt, you bleed. Isn't that a very normal thing?"
"It's not normal for me."
Crazy Mita lowered her head and stared at her fair palm.
She poked it gently with her left index finger, then raised her head again, stood on tiptoe, moved close to Asagiri, and pointed to her cheek.
"Pinch it."
"Are you acting cute?"
Asagiri knew that Crazy Mita was not deliberately acting cute, but the visual effect displayed was indeed as adorable as a little girlfriend acting spoiled.
"Hmm, very soft."
Hearing Asagiri's comment, Crazy Mita could not help frowning slightly, her tone a little displeased.
"Is there nothing else you want to say besides soft? Are you pretending to be stupid on purpose, or..."
"Mmph, mmph, mmph!"
Just as Crazy Mita said this, Asagiri suddenly started to fiercely rub her soft, fair cheeks.
Crazy Mita was slightly taken aback, then showed a speechless look and said indistinctly,
"Do you treat me like a pet?"
"Don't talk. Wait until I'm done rubbing."
Hearing Asagiri's words, Crazy Mita became even more speechless and said angrily,
"Is rubbing just the face enough? Do you want to rub other places too?"
"Is that so?"
Asagiri immediately nodded upon hearing this.
"Then I won't be polite."
"Are you really going to be so brazen? Go away, go away. If you want to rub, wait until I'm done talking."
Crazy Mita gently swatted away Asagiri's hand, then frowned deeply.
"My insides should be like those of a failed mechanical creation, so why, after my body was cut open, did I bleed?"
Asagiri shrugged and replied casually,
"Of course it's because you've already passed verification and become an officially launched Mita."
"Officially launched?"
Crazy Mita became even more confused upon hearing this.
"That world is no longer some game, but has become a truly existing world. Since that's the case, where would a verification step come from..."
"I'm not too sure either."
Asagiri first replied with a smile.
Then he immediately said something that caused a strange palpitation in Crazy Mita's heart.
"Perhaps it's because in my heart, you, Hat, and the others are no different. You are all perfect Mitas."
"So, the rules of that world changed because of me, leading to the changes in you."
"You... You..."
A blush appeared on Crazy Mita's face.
She first muttered a complaint.
"I... I don't want to become like them... How boring..."
After saying this, Crazy Mita suddenly stood on tiptoe and lightly touched Asagiri's lips.
Immediately afterward, her face flushed red, but she pretended to be calm and said,
"So the thing they said was very comfortable... is this feeling..."
"It's not too bad."