Raiders of the Queen of the Damned

A clear voice with a crying voice came from the sky.

Su Nuo followed the prestige, and saw a girl with long black hair being caught by a crane and flying towards him.She was wearing a white off-the-shoulder long dress, and the hem of the skirt fluttered in the air like a blooming lily.

Some height away from him, the crane shattered into a light blue fluorescent light, Yuan Weilai fell obliquely along with the force of his forward movement, and he reached out to catch it.

Seeing the wet light in her eyes, Su Nuo asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Yuan Mirai grabbed his uniform collar, her hands trembling so hard, she asked hopelessly, "Did you kill someone just now?"

"Well, kill some by the way." The two-faced Su Nuo grinned viciously, with disregard for human life in the corners of his eyes and brows, "Let this brat taste it later."

Yuan Mirai stared at him blankly.

He killed people just to stimulate the knotweed Youren?

It's not surprising at all, he is such a murderous person who does whatever he wants, but she still feels sad.Because she once told herself and Wutiaowu that if Liangmian Sunuo killed innocent people indiscriminately in the future, she would kill him with her own hands.

Before, she said to the two-faced Su Nuo: "In the next year, if you don't kill anyone, I can restore your body."

What she got was: "When did you become so hypocritical?"

Although Su Nuo later apologized to her, but she knew that he really thought so when he said this, so she never mentioned it again.

During this period of time, the two-faced Su Nuo was trapped in the body of the knotweed Youren, and every time he came out, he did not take long and was quite peaceful.She naively thought that it was okay for the two-faced Su Nuo to be like this for the time being, but reality slapped her mercilessly and laughed at her stupidity.

She wanted to save people, but the two-faced Su Nuo was killing people.

In order to prevent more people from dying, she must kill the two-faced Su Nuo.

Yuan Weilai quietly looked at Su Nuo on both sides, the tears in his eyes flowed down and slid down his cheeks.

Thinking of killing the two-faced Su Nuo, she felt stuffy in her heart, and the bitter taste gradually spread.

She found sadly that even though she knew what kind of person the two-faced Su Nuo was, she still had a glimmer of hope for him.Two-faced Su Nuo is more important to her than she thought.

Seeing her crying, Su Nuo raised his hand to wipe the tears from her eyes: "Why are you crying?"

Looking at his ignorant appearance, Yuan Mirai's bitterness and sadness accumulated in her heart rushed to the peak. She could no longer suppress her emotions and slammed his hand off.

She cried and shouted: "Why do you want to kill people!"

Is it bad like before?

If he could keep quiet, she wouldn't have to be so sad.

Two-faced Su Nuo finally found Yuan Mirai's collapse, he was stunned, not understanding why she was so emotional.Seeing that Yuan Mirai was crying hard, his expression gradually became a little overwhelmed.

"...Don't cry." He held Yuan Weilai's face to wipe her tears, and explained stiffly, "I even saved someone. Your junior, Fu Heihui, is over there."

Just now, Fu Heihui was about to perish with the curse master Zhongmian Chuntai, so he summoned Mo Xuluo, and he opened the domain to defeat Mo Xuluo.

Su Nuo on both sides signaled Yuan Future to look aside.

Yuan Future looked over and saw a figure sitting leaning against the wall in the distance, with his head hanging down as if he was in a coma.Not far from him is the land razed by the two-faced Su Nuo domain. The street and the flat ground seem to be two worlds spliced ​​​​under the night.

He also saved people.

Maybe there is help?

Yuan Weilai firmly grasped Su Nuo's wrists on both sides, like a drowning person hugging driftwood when he was dying.

"If I say..." She looked into Su Nuo's blood-red eyes with faint expectation, "For me, don't kill anyone again in the future, are you willing?"

She thought, if the two-faced Su Nuo said yes, she would act as if nothing had happened, and "read the file" back to the time when she talked with Wujo Wu at the beginning of the month.She will take the initiative to have a good talk with the two-faced Su Nuo, even if she is called hypocritical again, she will not be angry.

as long as he wants.

She will give them another chance to start over.

If she does it all over again, she will definitely face her heart frankly and stop avoiding it.She will try her best to take care of the two-faced Su Nuo and make him better.

Su Nuo on both sides looked at her silently, as if she was thinking about it.

Yuan Mirai's heart suddenly turned cold.

For her, the two-faced Su Nuo didn't agree immediately but was thinking about it, which meant that he was actually not very willing.

"You must do this?" Su Nuo on both sides frowned slightly, "Can't you listen to me?"

He didn't say yes.

He wanted Yuan Mirai to listen to him.

Hearing this, Yuan Weilai pulled the corners of his lips into a bright smile, and tears kept pouring out of his eyes.

She laughed lowly.

She felt that she was so ridiculous that she expected something from the two-faced Su Nuo.There is no cure for the two-faced Su Nuo, and only death is his destination.It was because she overestimated herself and thought of herself as too important, thinking that she could change him, but in fact it was no match for his nature.

She was completely disappointed in the two-faced Su Nuo.

Seeing Yuan Future smiling and crying, Su Nuo on both sides frowned even tighter.

He didn't understand why Yuan Future had to put heavy shackles on himself, accept all kinds of rules in the world, and restrain him too.She was obviously free to live with him as she wanted.

"Su Nuo, let's fight."

Yuan Mirai put away her smile and wiped away her tears, saying this sentence seemed to have exhausted all her strength, and her dark eyes were full of fatigue.

"If you win, I will do whatever you want." Yuan Weilai said calmly, "If I win, I will kill you."

"You want to kill me?" The two-faced Su Nuo didn't seem to take it too seriously, but just reminded, "I have sixteen fingers now, and you can't beat them."

There were eleven more at once, no wonder the dominance of the body of the knotweed Youren fell into his hands.But this is not enough, in order to completely kill the two-faced Su Nuo, you need to collect all [-], which is why you have to wait for the knotweed Youren to absorb all the fingers before the death penalty.

Yuan Mirai said, "I'll give you the remaining four."

Su Nuo on both sides looked at her with unclear eyes.

There were still three "clearance rewards" stored by Yuan Future. She took out a sphere full of light, crushed it to make a wish, and the scattered fingers of Su Nuo on both sides appeared in her palm.

Four, not one.

This is the first wish.

"Eat it." Yuan Weilai sent his fingers to Su Nuo on both sides, "Fight me with all your strength."

"You really want to fight me?" Two-faced Su Nuo took the fingers from her palm and swallowed them one by one, feeling the magic power in her body gradually returning to its peak.

"Yeah." Yuan Mirai took out another wishing ball.

She crushed the wishing ball and stretched her hands towards Su Nuo's chest, her fingertips melted into his body like a river flowing into the sea.

She pulled her hand out, and a pink-haired boy who looked exactly like Knotaba Yuhito but with black lines on his face, wearing a gray and white kimono and a scarf was pulled out by her.

The soul of the two-faced Su Nuo left the body of the knotweed Youren.

This is the second wish.

Yuan Weilai pulled the two-faced Su Nuo aside, met the slowly opened brown pupils, and said, "Kumba, you are free."

From then on, Yuzhang Youren no longer had to be a container for the two-faced Nuo, and he did not have to face the fear and threats of the upper class, and he did not have to bear the responsibility of swallowing his fingers and suppressing the double-faced Nuo.A kind-hearted child like him should have a better life. It's the two-faced Nuo that caused him to suffer so much.

"Senior Yuan..." Hirohito Katsuobu saw the two-faced Su Nuo at the side, thought of what he did with his body, and punched him with a ferocious expression, "Go to hell!"

On both sides, Su Nuo raised his hand to block, and was about to say a few words to mock the knotweed Youren, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of Yuan Weilai's expressionless face.

He didn't say what he was going to say.

Yuan Mirai's current state inexplicably made him feel a little uneasy.

Katsuobu Yuren threw punches at the two-faced Su Nuo one after another, and the two-faced Su Nuo backed up while blocking, and suddenly kicked Knotweed Yuren out after pulling away from Yuan Mirai.After landing on the ground, Yuzhang Youren quickly got up, and rushed towards Su Nuo with a low growl.

"Knotweed, stop." Yuan Weilai shouted.

Hu Zhang Youren didn't stop immediately, and exchanged a few more punches with Liangmian Su Nuo, and was thrown out by the ankle when kicking.

"Take Fuhei away." Yuan Mirai ran to Yuren Yuzu who fell not far from her, and said to him, "I want to make a break with Su Nuo. Besides, the matter here in Shibuya has not been resolved yet, right?" ? Stop wasting time on Su Nuo."

She healed Kojou Yuhito's wound with a reversal technique.

"Understood." Knotabagi Yuhito calmed down, "I should go, there are other things waiting for me to do."

Yuan Wei said: "I wish you success."

When Yu Zhang Youren was under the control of his body, he heard Yuan Mirai's challenge to the two-faced Su Nuo. He felt that Yuan Mirai's victory was slim, but he hoped that she could win.

He said, "Sister Yuan is too."

Huzhang Youren ran towards Fu Heihui, picked him up and took him away.

Yuan Weilai turned around and looked at Su Nuo on both sides.

Su Nuo on both sides was staring at her, frowning tightly, as if thinking about something.

Yuan Wei said, "It's our turn."

"Are you serious?" Two-faced Su Nuo examined the expression on her face, as if trying to judge the authenticity of her words, "Do you really want to kill me?"

"Seriously." Yuan Weilai looked at him calmly, his eyes like the surface of a calm sea.

Seeming to be unbelievable, Su Nuo on both sides was silent for a moment, and then asked dryly, "Why?"

"Su Nuo, I grew up in this world. I have many friends and classmates. I like them very much and get along well with them. Emotionally, I think I am no different from human beings." The two-faced Su Nuo said what was in their hearts. They had never had the opportunity to say this before, "I grew up receiving human education. Although I am not a kind person, I have the most basic moral bottom line."

"I don't like the killing of innocent people," she said.

Two-faced Su Nuo said sarcastically, "Didn't you do the same before?"

"Believe it or not," Yuan Weilai took a deep breath, "When I did those things, I thought they were not real people, they were just my game."

Liangmian Su Nuo didn't quite understand what she said.

Yuan Mirai didn't intend to explain further, she asked: "Do you know why I didn't admit that I was Yuan Mirai before?"

Without waiting for Su Nuo to answer, she continued: "Because I want to avoid you, I am afraid that you will haunt me, and I don't want to spend the rest of my life with a cruel and bloodthirsty person."

"...Is it because of this?" Two-faced Su Nuo asked.

"That's why." Yuan Weilai said to him seriously, "Su Nuo, this time I want to be a god who loves the world."

God who loves the world.

Two-faced Su Nuo laughed.

Is this why Yuan Future put the shackles on himself?

It was useless for them to talk to each other.

Su Nuo on both sides said: "You say I won, you can do whatever you want with me."

Yuan Wei said: "Yes."

"If you win, you will kill me." Two-faced Su Nuo stretched out his fingers and nodded at her, "Then I won, and you will listen to me from now on."

Yuan Mirai: "Yes."

She will not lose.

Before the battle, Su Nuo on both sides asked, "How do I win?"

"Let me completely lose my ability to move." Yuan Weilai replied at the same time, quickly squeezed out the crane shikigami with spiritual power, grabbed her and flew up.

She went to Limei's appointment today without any talisman on her body.She was not good at melee combat, but now in order to have enough time to perform Yin Yang, she had to distance herself from the two-faced Su Nuo.

Su Nuo on both sides stood still, just quietly watching Yuan Weiwei form a seal in mid-air, as if waiting for her to use her Yin Yang technique.

Seeing that he didn't move, Yuan Wei simply switched to a more powerful Yin-Yang technique.

A giant fireball as dazzling as the sun fell down, forming a raging sea of ​​fire on this flat land, and the blazing flames surged like waves.

Yuan Weiwei knew that this trick would not cause any harm to the two-faced Su Nuo.

She also knows that it is very difficult for her to defeat the opponent.

But not impossible.

Yuan Mirai took out the last wishing ball.

The third wish, she had a whim before making the wish, and opportunistically made the wish of "let the two-faced Su Nuo die".

Perhaps the existence she created needs to be killed by her own hands, and a small weapon appeared in her hand.

The weapon is only as big as a palm, and its shape is similar to that of a subduing magic pestle, and it is made of bronze-colored metal.There is a small white jade bead at the top, and the tail is in the shape of a sharp triangular pyramid.

At the same time, its usage naturally emerged in her mind——

Pierce it into the heart of the two-faced Su Nuo, and he will die.

Yuan Mirai stared blankly at the weapon in his hand.

it is.

"This is Niroye."

"It can subdue demons and eliminate all obstacles, including restraints."

Ni Luoye, who subdue the devil's grudge.

She used this to untie the two-faced Su Nuo, and now she wants to use it to end the two-faced Su Nuo.

Everything in the world is really a circle, going around and returning to the original place.

The sea of ​​fire below lasted for more than ten seconds, and the surging fire wave finally subsided gradually, turning into green smoke and disappearing in the air.

Yuan Weilai held Ni Luoye, looking down for the figure of Su Nuo with two faces.

This piece of circular flat land with a radius of more than [-] meters was flattened by the Su Nuo domain on both sides, and there was nothing bare.

What about people?

"Don't look for it, I'm here."

The voice of Su Nuo on both sides came from above her, Yuan Wei looked up in surprise, and saw him hanging upside down with his calf hooked around the crane's neck, just looking at her.

When did he go up? !

The invisible slash slashed close to her side, cutting off a piece of her skirt.If it falls on her, blood will flow profusely.

Obviously water.

"You fight me seriously!" Yuan Weilai said angrily.

She really wants to kill the two-faced Su Nuo!

Yuan Mirai undoes the yin and yang technique of Crane Shikigami, and the crane instantly shatters into light blue light.

The two fell to the ground together.

Yuan Mirai was pulled down by gravity, and the icy wind gushed into her ears, cutting her face so painfully.

She saw that the expression of Su Nuo on both sides changed.The original relaxed and comfortable face gradually disappeared, and there was a palpitating indifference.His blood-red eyes stared at her, like a ferocious tiger staring at its prey in the jungle, with a strong sense of oppression overwhelming.

"You said it." He said, his voice did not fluctuate.

He's getting serious.

Realizing this, Yuan Future's heart beat faster and faster.

She held her breath to calm herself down, and quickly pinched the crane shikigami again with her spiritual power, trying to let the crane take her away before she fell to the ground.

The crane flapped its wings and quickly flew to her side.

Just when the crane grabbed her, the hand with two circles of black lines on the wrist penetrated the crane's body, tearing it to pieces.Two-faced Su Nuo turned around vigorously at the waist to throw up Yuan Mirai who was about to fall to the ground.After landing lightly, he jumped up, grabbed Yuan Mirai's arm and threw her to the ground.

Yuan Weilai landed on his back and fell heavily, and Ni Luoye let go of his hands and rolled out.

She coughed a few times in shock, and a strong pain spread from her back. Before she could get up, Su Nuo on both sides knelt down with her knees against her chest, pressing down on her like a heavy mountain.

She can't get up.

Then her two wrists were held by the two-faced Su Nuo.

"Didn't you want me to fight you seriously?" Two-faced Su Nuo looked at her coldly.

not good!

He wants to break her forearm so that she can't make seals!

Although Yuan Mirai was able to use the inversion technique to heal her arm again, the pain from the fracture was real, and she was very afraid of pain.She resisted the fear and the urge to cry out, gritted her teeth tightly, and waited for the severe pain to come.

Nuo on both sides paused.

He knew that Yuan Mirai was actually very delicate, and she was afraid of pain.In the past, if he moved a little rougher, her beautiful eyes would be covered with mist.

Looking at Yuan Mirai's white lips with tension, Su Nuo on both sides stood up while holding her wrist, and threw her sideways.

The skirt was rolled up by the wind, like a white flower withered in the wind.

After landing on the ground, Yuan Weiwei rolled out several times with his strength. The small off-white satchel slung across his shoulders rolled away, and his white skirt was covered with dust that had been scorched by fire. Escaped.

She is a little complicated.

Two-faced Su Nuo didn't break her forearm.

Yuan Mirai didn't pick up the satchel for a while, and once again used his spiritual power to quickly condense a huge boa constrictor shikigami.

While the boa constrictor Shikigami flicked its thick and powerful tail and savagely swept towards Su Nuo on both sides, Yuan Wei, enduring the pain, got up and ran to the place where Ni Luoye rolled down.

The boa constrictor shikigami couldn't stop the two-faced Su Nuo at all.

Yuan didn't run very far in the future when he heard the bang of a heavy object hitting the ground behind him.Her heart was beating faster and faster, as if it was about to jump out of her chest.

Niroye is not far ahead.

Suddenly, two wind-like invisible sharp blades struck from behind, cutting through Yuan Mirai's calf and shoulder.

The sharp pain made her legs go limp and she fell to the ground.

She crawled forward two steps, reaching out to hold Ni Luoye on the ground.

Two-faced Su Nuo walks towards her like a leisurely stroll.

He watched Yuan Weilai get up from the ground, and couldn't help but linger for a moment on the white calf that was exposed after the hem of her skirt was cut.She was using the reverse technique to heal the bleeding wound, but the scarlet blood remained on the skin and skirt, which was dazzlingly red.

Seeing that her injury was completely healed, he looked away, looked at the weapon in her hand that looked like a magic pestle, and said, "Ni Luoye, are you going to kill me with this thing?"

"Yes." Yuan Weilai threw a few balls of fire.

Hot fireballs exploded one after another in front of Su Nuo on both sides. While he was dodging sideways, she quickly condensed the crane spirit and grabbed her and flew into the sky.

Two-faced Su Nuo didn't chase after her. To make Yuan Future completely lose her ability to move, she must first exhaust her spiritual power and spell power, so that she cannot heal herself after being injured, and thus loses her ability to move.

He had to give her the chance to use Yin Yang.

Trouble, but had to do it.

Yuan Mirai was taken into mid-air by the crane shikigami, looking down at Su Nuo, who was standing on the ground leisurely on both sides.

She knew that the two-faced Su Nuo wanted to consume her.

Why didn't she want to use up herself to lower his vigilance?

The crane let go of its claws, flapped its wings and swooped down to catch Yuan Future with its back.

Yuan Weilai put Ni Luoye on the crane's back for the time being, his hands began to form seals, and he picked up a few yin and yang techniques that consumed spiritual power and smashed them down.

She has a lot of spiritual power. In order to consume more, she deliberately uses a lot of spiritual power to strengthen the effect of Yin Yang.

The flames poured down from midair, flowing like hot and dazzling magma, surrounding the figures of Su Nuo on both sides.There were deafening noises of explosions in the fire, and a vigorous figure rushed out of the fire, and then a torrential flood of water appeared out of thin air, rushing towards the figure quickly and powerfully.

The water and fire collided and made the sound of steam, and the whole area was filled with thick white mist, making it impossible to see clearly.

The remaining water on the ground suddenly turned into ice, and long ice thorns sprung up in large pieces like mushrooms after rain, and were cut off by invisible sharp blades, falling to the ground and breaking into shattered ice cubes.

As the fog dissipated, Su Nuo on both sides squatted among the broken ice on the ground, brushing the hair on the side of his head.

It seems almost.

The middle finger and ring finger of both hands stood up to face each other, and the rest of the fingers were bent to make a handprint very similar to the Yanmotian handprint - Tantuyin.

"Field Expansion—Chef Fumo"

He carefully limited the scope of the domain to a radius of 60 meters, reckoning that Yuan Future opened the protective barrier and ran out of the domain, there should not be much spiritual power left.

Yuan Mirai did indeed open the barrier as he expected, and the crane spread its wings and flew her out of the domain.

But for some reason, she moved a lot slower after she escaped more than ten meters away.The barrier protecting her vibrated slightly, as if it would soon be unable to hold on.

Su Nuo on both sides frowned slightly.

His estimation of Yuan Future's spiritual power was inaccurate, and the series of yin and yang spells thrown by Yuan Future just now consumed much more than he expected.

When she was more than halfway forward, the enchantment finally couldn't hold back and was shattered, and the crane shikigami also dissipated.Yuan Weilai fell to the ground, and all the slashes originally used to consume her spiritual power fell on her body, cutting her all over with cuts and bruises.

Blood flowed from the wound, making Yuan Mirai look embarrassed and pitiful. His snow-white skin continued to heal and shatter under the healing of the reversal technique and the slashing of the domain.

Yuan Weilai lay trembling on the ground, gritted his teeth to suppress the pain, and used the reversal technique to keep himself from being cut into pieces.

The speed at which she healed herself became slower and slower, and hideous wounds remained on her body.

The slashing stopped suddenly.

Two-faced Su Nuo lifts the realm.

He walked up to Yuan Mirai, squatted down, and raised her face.

Yuan Mirai has tears in his obsidian-like eyes, his teeth are clenched in pain, and his weak and stubborn appearance is endearing.Her spell power should be running low, and she couldn't use the reversal technique to heal the wound on her body. The wound was bleeding out, exuding the scent of blood that made him ecstatic.

"I lost." Yuan Weiwei's voice trembled slightly, and a tear fell from his eyes.

Su Nuo on both sides wiped away her tears: "Listen to me obediently from now on."

"Understood." Yuan Lai's slender eyelashes drooped, as if he was afraid of being bullied, and said in a pitiful tone, "If I ask you in the future, will you still agree..."

Her obedience made Su Nuo happy on both sides. He chuckled lightly and teased, "It depends on what request you made and how I feel."

"Can you kiss me?" Yuan Wei raised his wet eyes, "What if that's the request?"

Su Nuo on both sides pressed her soft lips with his thumb, and said in a low voice, "You can do it anytime."

"Then..." Yuan Weilai looked at him with a fragile expression, "Can you kiss me now?"

It's a bit strange to make this request at this time, but Liangmian Su Nuo felt that she couldn't do anything, so he helped her up.

He approached Yuan Weiwei, and suddenly stopped: "Where's your Ni Luoye?"

"I don't know where it fell." Yuan Weilai spread out her hands towards him, with nothing in her hands, her voice choked slightly, "Is it because I want to kill you that you don't like me anymore."

Knowing that she is very insecure right now, Su Nuo on both sides was about to kiss her lips when her heart suddenly ached.

He lowered his eyes.

The puppet with the appearance of a black-haired child appeared out of nowhere, curled up between him and Yuan Mirai's body, and pierced his heart with Ni Luoye in his hand.

It was the last puppet he made for Yuan Mirai.

"You've been tricked." Yuan Weilai pulled his hand away and stood up, revealing the broken satchel and the unfolded puppet scroll under him.She used the reversal technique to heal her injuries. If it weren't for the tears in her eyes and the bloodstains on her body, she would have thought that her fragility just now was an illusion.

It was she who summoned the puppet.

Two-faced Su Nuo asked, "When?"

"From the moment I got Ni Luoye." Yuan Future said.

She had long thought of using a puppet to sneak attack on the two-faced Nuo, but it was very difficult to succeed in the sneak attack, and he had to lose his vigilance against her.So she has been in a weak position, coordinatingly wasting her spiritual power, just to make him feel that she has no combat power and cannot pose a threat.

It just went so well.

It went well enough to make her feel uncomfortable.

Yuan Weilai said softly: "Su Nuo, I said this time that I want to be a god who loves the world, and I am serious."

Two-faced Su Nuo looked at her and smiled, his voice hoarse.

"You love the world, but can't you love me?"

As soon as the words fell, his soul suddenly exploded, turning into a black mist and disappearing in the world, leaving Yuan Future standing alone on the flat ground shrouded in night.

Yuan Mirai was stunned.

These words easily defeated her defenses.

With tears streaming down his eyes, Yuan Weilai knelt down and hugged his knees, crying uncontrollably.

She feels so sad.

The black-haired child puppet seemed to know her sadness, raised his hand stiffly, and touched her head, just like the two-faced Nuo used to comfort her.

Yuan Weilai cried for a while, and then cried even louder.

Actually she likes it.

She likes that bastard who shouldn't live in this world no matter what.

[TrueEnd: Demon Slayer]

[For the sake of the world, the gods killed their lovers]

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Su Nuo has been releasing water all the time. It was obvious at the beginning, but it will not be so obvious if he is asked to play seriously in the future.

He wanted to be serious, but he was going to break Future's arm, but if he couldn't do it, he was doomed not to be serious.His goal is to exhaust the future, so he let the future attack casually, including opening the domain later, just wanting her to use spiritual power to defend and continue to consume her.After all, he just couldn't bear it.He felt that even if he was not serious, he would not be able to beat him in the future.The puppet was his carelessness, and he didn't guard against the future at that time.