Now it seems…

This plan has completely failed.

"There's one more… oh, hiding here."

As this gentle and sweet voice rang out, the last surviving SERN member on this floor, hiding behind a desk, felt as if he had heard the whispers of a demon.

He abruptly stood up, looking at the mysterious person in front of him, who wore a light peach-colored mask and had peach-pink dango-style hair showing.

His eyes were filled with deep fear, and he trembled as he spoke.

"Kiyo… Kiyohime…"

"Eh? You recognize me?"

Yui Yuigahama, slightly curious, asked, hearing the name of her Soul's True Form being called out.

"Tell me, what has the future me done? Since you're going to die anyway, why don't you tell me? It'll let you live a little longer."

"You… you…"

The SERN member raised his gun.

Kiyohime immediately stood in front of Yui Yuigahama, but unexpectedly, the other party didn't aim the gun at Yui Yuigahama.

Instead, he directly pressed it against his chin and pulled the trigger.

Watching the enemy fall into a pool of blood, completely losing the breath of life, Kiyohime finally turned around.

Her long serpent tail flicked up, gently tapping Yui Yuigahama's forehead, looking somewhat displeased as she said,

"Hey, you, how can you be so relaxed during a battle, even having the mind to inquire about gossip about your future self?"

"I'm just curious, wondering if future me will marry and have children with Yozora…"

Seeing Yui Yuigahama muttering softly, Kiyohime couldn't help but roll her eyes, shaking her head helplessly.

"Please, the enemy only knows the code names 'Mask' and 'Kiyohime'. They don't know our real identities with Yozora, nor do they know our close relationship with him.

How could they pay attention to whether we marry and have children with him? The enemy probably doesn't even recognize us, or else why would you get the chance to ask?

I would have asked already."

"I guess so."

Kiyohime pouted, scolding Yui Yuigahama like an older sister.

"Although your fighting style was too aggressive last time when Yozora was in trouble, it's not good to be so timid now, as if you're afraid of hurting the enemy.

Could it be that you only have two states, yandere/blackened and gentle/kind? Are you a binary switch?

You need to find a middle ground, otherwise, we'll be a burden to the other members, understand?"

For Kiyohime, representing Yui Yuigahama's true heart, to say such words meant that deep down, Yui Yuigahama knew that although she had become a spirit user very early on, even now, compared to Yotsuya Miko, Futaba Rio, Touma Kazusa, and Saegusa Kasumi, her adaptability to combat was not even as good as Kawasaki Saki, who had become a spirit user later.

Being too gentle isn't a good thing either.

Of course, it was also because during the Kyoto attack incident last time, Yui Yuigahama almost fell into a yandere/blackened state, becoming the first spirit user within the Overload Society to lose control due to excessive emotional fluctuations, so she now has some concerns about her power, which is Kiyohime's power, and is hesitant to use it.

An hour later, at the Overload Society headquarters, which was the so-called "Soubu High School Dormitory Building" bought and renovated by the Yukinoshita Construction Company.

Looking at the girl lying on the sofa, breathing steadily, the members of the Overload Society looked at each other.

"Now… what should we do?"

"Wait for her to recover on her own?"

"No."

Futaba Rio waved her hand, frowning slightly as she said,

"Bringing her back to our base is already very risky. Since she's someone who arrived from the future timeline, she might have some kind of tracker on her that we can't detect but can lock onto her location.

According to her blood loss, she might not recover even after sleeping for a day and a night, and we don't have professional medical equipment here, so if this continues… it won't work."

Immediately afterward, Futaba Rio spoke again.

"However, she might… no, she definitely has information about the future timeline, which is too important for us, and we can't risk sending her to the hospital… this is really difficult…"

Just as everyone felt at a loss, Yuigahama Hachiman suddenly spoke.

"Well, I should have a way."

"Eh? Really?"

"Really."

Yuigahama Hachiman said, taking out a box of daifuku that looked very delicious from the bag on the table.

She looked like she was having a great appetite, but she tried to restrain herself, and said softly,

"God of Food, Iizuna!"

Along with Yuigahama Hachiman chanting her Soul's True Name, a cute girl with two white bun-like hair ornaments on her head, delicate and fair skin, and a petite figure appeared, striking an extremely handsome pose at the same time.

"Hi hi, Iizuna has arrived!"

Yotsuya Miko and the others saw Yuigahama Hachiman's Soul's True Form for the first time, and couldn't help but be surprised in their hearts.

As expected of Yuigahama Hachiman, who is consistent inside and out.

This Soul's True Form, Iizuna's personality, looks just like her, sunny, silly, pure, kind, exuding a temperament that makes people want to get close.

But in the next second, all the members' gazes were cast on Iizuna's chest, and they made a prolonged sound with unclear meaning.

"Hmm…"

Iizuna's size isn't as exaggerated as Yuigahama Hachiman's, but because of her petite figure, she can be considered curvy, with delicate branches bearing abundant fruit.

Immediately afterward, everyone's gazes were cast on Yukinoshita Yukino, who was standing there.

Yukinoshita Yukino's pretty face flushed slightly, biting her silver teeth lightly, her tone slightly dissatisfied as she said.

"What are you looking at me for? This is Yuigahama-san activating her ability, not me."

Yukinoshita Yukino had had enough of all the members of the Overload Society unknowingly treating her as the one with the smallest size, this invisible gaze of pity.

Now, she, Yukinoshita Yukino, is not the bottom!

After Menma officially became a member of the Overload Society, she and Menma are tied for the bottom!

Yukinoshita Yukino is still very aware of this.

Being able to find someone to be at the bottom with her is already a blessing.

To find someone who is slightly inferior to her in size, to compete for the position of last place…

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Yukinoshita Yukino and Touma Kazusa, the two members who initially couldn't stand each other, firmly occupy the throne of last place in two aspects respectively, unshakable.

The future of the Overload Society is bright.

Amidst the members' attention, Yuigahama Hachiman took a deep breath, and a layer of bright life light appeared on her body, then the light gathered into a ball and poured into Iizuna's snow-white palm.

Finally, Iizuna looked at the daifuku on the table, making the same expression as Yuigahama Hachiman, trying hard to swallow her saliva, desperately suppressing her appetite, reluctantly merging the light ball in her hand into one of the daifuku.

"Done."

“Uh…”

Rio Futaba took off her glasses, raised her hand to rub her sore eyes, and said with a puzzled expression.

“Hana… what’s wrong?”

Yurigawa Hana's complexion looked noticeably more tired than before she used her ability, but she still forced a smile and said.

“As… as long as I eat something delicious, my body will become healthy, right?”

“Right…?”

Rio Futaba originally wanted to say, how could eating a daifuku after losing so much blood make you feel better?

But after thinking about it carefully…

Since this is Hana Yurigawa's belief, does that mean that her Soul True Form, the Rice Container's ability, was born based on this idea?

Moreover, everyone clearly saw the life energy on her body gather into a ball of light and enter the daifuku.

Perhaps, this is the Rice Container's ability.

Sharing Yurigawa Hana's own life energy through cooking with the person who eats it, in order to heal physical injuries.

“Whether it works or not, we’ll know once we try.”

Mai Sakurajima picked up the daifuku and brought it to the girl’s lips.

The girl in a coma naturally couldn’t make chewing motions, but fortunately, the moment the daifuku touched her lips, it instantly turned into a stream of life energy and poured into her body.

In the tense gazes of everyone holding their breath, less than ten seconds passed before the girl slowly opened her eyes, her eyes still showing confusion.

“Where is this…?”

Yozora directly sat on the long table opposite the sofa where the girl was lying, leaned slightly, looked directly into her eyes, and said in a calm tone.

“Who are you?”

“I…”

The girl was about to answer, but suddenly seemed to remember something, and immediately sat up straight, moving very quickly, quickly drawing a dagger from her waist and holding it against Yozora’s neck.

What she didn't expect was that the girls around her just watched her put the weapon against the boy's neck, without any action or panic, and even looked at her with a bit of speechless amusement, as if looking at an idiot.

Just as she was about to say something, she suddenly glanced at the Yukinoshita sisters sitting there, and couldn't help but pause for a moment, murmuring.

“You are… Yukinoshita Haruno… and… Yukinoshita Yukino?”

Immediately afterwards, the girl scanned her surroundings and recited names.

“Rio Futaba… Touma Kazusa… Ogiso Setsuna…”

Listening to the names the other party recited, Yozora couldn't help but interrupt.

“Hey, hey, hey, that’s enough, are you doing a roll call here? Do you really think this is your home?”

The girl turned a deaf ear, just looking incomprehensible, muttering to herself.

“Why… are you all here… No, the point is that if you are all here… it proves that this is not SERN’s base… Before I fell into a coma, wait, before I fell into a coma, I seemed to see ‘Masked’.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

Yozora nodded, pinched the blade with two fingers, and in the girl's horrified gaze, broke the hard blade like breaking a fragile branch.

“You even held a knife to ‘Masked’'s’ neck, I just don’t understand, are people from your future timeline always so brave?”

Five minutes later, the girl took the hot coffee that Rio Futaba handed her, nodded, and said softly.

“Thank you.”

“First question.”

Rio Futaba sat on the sofa across the long table, looked directly into the girl's eyes, and slowly opened her mouth.

“Your name, age, position, and how many years from now did you come to this timeline?”

The girl did not hesitate at all and answered directly.

“My name is Amane Suzuha, I am eighteen years old this year, my position is a special agent in the Supernatural Countermeasures Action Group of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and I came here from a timeline about forty years from now.”

“Supernatural Countermeasures Action Group of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department?”

“Yes.”

Amane Suzuha held the coffee cup and smiled.

“Of course, in the timeline where you are now, the department I belong to has not yet been established.”

“Is that so…”

Rio Futaba recorded this information in her mind.

She didn't intend to give this girl, who claimed to be Amane Suzuha, any time to rest and adjust her spirit.

If she lied in this exhausted state, especially when it came to such complicated issues as timelines, her previous and subsequent testimonies would definitely show contradictions.

Because of this, Rio Futaba did not stop, but immediately continued to ask.

“Then, from the timeline you came from, or rather, according to the original progress, what exactly happened in these forty years?”

The question raised by Rio Futaba is also the question that the members of the Paranormal Phenomenon Research Society most urgently want to know now.

What exactly happened in the future? That would make such a huge organization try to kill the "Masked" group and his allies, when they have not fully grown up, in such a way?

Facing everyone's gaze, Amane Suzuha slowly opened her mouth.

“After ‘Masked’ and his assistants, that is, everyone here, defeated the evil god who called herself Izanami, Sakura Province seemed calm, but in fact, the pattern of the entire world changed greatly because of Rikka Sakurakawa distributing leaflets, telling the truth about spiritual abilities.”

“And the enemy, that is, a mysterious organization called SERN, supported by funds from many countries and hidden under the surface, unnoticed by the world, was at this time eyeing the utilization value of spiritual ability users and began experimenting.”

“The first target this organization targeted was naturally Sakura Province, where spiritual ability users were most active.”

“However, in the three years since the destruction of the Izanami God, SERN has tried countless times to infiltrate Sakura Province, trying to obtain information about spiritual abilities, but every time the personnel sent out were eliminated by ‘Masked’ or ‘Kira’ after their whereabouts were exposed.”

“The SERN executives realized that they could not set foot in the Sakura Province or Kyushu mainland areas, so they shifted their attention and tried to obtain specific information about spiritual abilities from the already awakened spiritual ability users.”

“I don’t know exactly when they succeeded, but they did succeed, and in the process of collecting information, all the senior executives of SERN realized the amazing benefits of spiritual abilities.”

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