I wanted to be a bad actor in the anime, but I failed.

It was gray and raining heavily.

In the conference room of the London Clock Tower, two people were talking in the shadows.

The indifferent tone made the dangerous topic seem unimportant.

"Spiritual summoning department?"

"Yes."

"Have you gone astray in order to reach the root?"

"Yes."

"Find him and get rid of him."

"Yes!"

The only person left in the conference room was the old figure sitting on the blood-red chair.

He looked into the gray distance and muttered to himself.

"As long as you stay secret, we won't bother you. But since you choose to expose yourself to mortals, we have no choice but to eliminate you."

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It has been two weeks since the horrific multi-death incident in Tokyo.

According to the latest news reports, the police have found the murderer and brought him to justice.

Although the report was too sloppy, it at least put the residents of Tokyo at ease.

General Investigation Bureau.

"What?! All 26 bodies disappeared?!!"

The head of the investigation team suddenly stood up and stared at his subordinate in front of him.

"Yes! Team leader! Our people have been guarding the morgue day and night waiting for the final forensic results, but all the bodies disappeared overnight last night!!"

As he said this, the young subordinate showed a look of horror.

It was as if I had experienced a bizarre and strange incident, and my whole body was filled with fear of the unknown.

"Did someone sneak in during the shift change? Where's the surveillance video?"

"No! No one has ever been in there! No one has ever been in there! But there's not a single body left!"

"answer my question!"

The investigation team leader couldn't help but raise his tone when he saw his subordinate so panicked.

"...Yes! The surveillance shows that no one has entered the morgue, and the surveillance is not damaged! Team leader! Do you think there is a ghost? Just like... just like in Chiba Village..."

"Okay! Go down, I'll find someone to take responsibility for this matter."

The head of the investigation team obviously didn't want to mention the matter of Chiba Village, and he waved his hand to signal his subordinates to leave.

The office is back to quiet!

"Gah!"

The strange noise caused by the chair being squeezed made the atmosphere, which was already weird because of the previous topic, even more ominous.

"The murderer can't be found, the body disappeared overnight, and the izakaya in Chiba Village is haunted! All these things! It's really..."

His face looked extremely ugly. As a "big shot" who had seen some of the world, he was certainly aware that there were some strange things in this world.

But now he has encountered it, and it is related to the case in hand. How can an ordinary man like him not be afraid?

But as a qualified team leader of a national agency, he could only grit his teeth and make a phone call.

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"26 corpses!! Hahahahaha!"

"Crack-!"

"Too unexpectedly! There are so many fresh and vicious corpses all at once! Hahahaha!"

"Crack-!"

“That’s awesome! That’s really awesome! Hahahahahaha!!”

"Crack-!"

In the mountains and forests on the border between Tokyo and Chiba.

The starlight in the night sky cannot penetrate the dense leaves, but a strange and terrifying sound echoes here!

On the pitch-black and cold ground, there were some ghost-like flames floating.

In the dim firelight, a man in a black robe was seen carving something on the ground with a sharp stone.

As time passed, the carved pattern became clearer and clearer, and finally turned into a circle surrounding the hexagram.

And this huge circle just surrounded the 26 neatly arranged bodies.

"Hahahahaha! Wonderful! Wonderful! This way, I'm even closer to the source!"

The bloody, dry, yellow fingers were placed on the tip of the tongue and licked.

He knelt on one knee and placed his hand on the ground 1 meter in front of the hexagram.

Then blue lines appeared on the surface of his body.

[Dark sorrow, bloody sorrow, dark brilliance]

[Shadow, Goat, Phantom]

[Please connect to the great source of the earth's spiritual veins of the core of the dead! ]

【Have mercy on these 26 dead! 】

[Let them become my blood and become my strength! ]

【It’s full! It’s full! 】

[Use this beautiful corpse to descend into the vast darkness in this wailing world! ]

[Give me the most powerful magic so that I can reach the root...]

As the chanting became more intense, the halo of the magic circle changed from blue to red and then to scarlet!

A hint of blush appeared on the corpse in the darkness, and these silky blushes slowly flowed into the singer's body like threads.

Gradually, the blue lines on the singer's skin turned scarlet, and his human grey eyes turned an inhumanly cruel blood red.

Even as he laughed, like a performer on stage with his arms outstretched, reveling in the increase of his own power.

The spell that was chanted smoothly became difficult at a certain moment.

He mobilized his lungs and muscles and chanted with all his might, but was interrupted at the critical moment!

"puff--!"

A mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth.

He knelt on the ground, the intense pain caused by the collapse of the magic circuits in his body made his whole body tremble, and his throat screamed mournfully.

But he kept on laughing crookedly!

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!"

"Great! Great! Even if I fail, my magic power can be increased so much! This is really great!!"

"It's getting more and more perfect! After a while, and with more corpses, I will be able to chant the spell to the end, and then I will have endless magic power!"

“Root! Where exactly is my root? What exactly is it? Hahahaha——!”

He scrambled to his feet and laughed loudly toward the sky.

"Kill more people! Kill more people! One, ten, a hundred! Until I am satisfied!"

"But before that, I have to find a spirit to help my broken body bear the pain!"

The weird soliloquy ends here.

The man in black robe left with a staggering step.

The mournful cry of an owl echoed in the darkness.

A flock of crows, stimulated by the blood, flapped their wings and shook the still leaves.

A gentle breeze arose.

The 26 gray, dried corpses piled in the middle of the disappeared hexagram suddenly moved.

"Well--!"

The zombie-like whimpering scared away the crows that had just gathered around!

Then, against the backdrop of the dim flames, there was a human figure with a distorted frame, standing crookedly.

Like a group of demons dancing wildly, 26 figures waved their claws and tore through the air, creating a biting cold wind!

After being in a daze for a long time.

The noise from two distant cities poured into their ears.

"Roar--!"

26 ferocious roars burst out at the same time!

They opened their dark eyes, dispersed, and walked towards the place where each other wanted to go most.

Stepping on the stiff limbs, in the night, in the forest, amid the fear of all herbivores and carnivores, they slowly approached the gathering place of vitality that was completely opposite to the deathly aura surrounding them.

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"Teacher, why did these people come back to life when I accidentally chanted the wrong spell?"

"Alive? Hahaha! Don't be naive. If magic that can revive others is that simple, then there is no need for this world to exist. Clean them up quickly before they go far. It would be bad if they are contagious... Of course, with your current strength, they can't be contagious."