"Ha-huh, okay, I'm back."

On the single bed in the low-rent apartment, Kamiyakawa sat up suddenly after returning to consciousness.

Returning to reality, he immediately checked his left arm.

fine.

There are no maggots crawling inside the body.

Then there is the emotional and thinking level.

When black maggots invaded his body in the world just now, Kamiyagawa felt that his brain was uncontrollably filled with violence, killing, greed, and possessiveness, making him unable to think.

But now returning to reality, some of this negative and degenerate emotion still remains.

But it was only a little bit, and it could no longer influence his thinking.

I sat on the bed and adjusted my mood, and the remaining depraved mood finally slowly dissipated.

"It seems that although those maggots cannot follow my return into reality, their influence on thinking and emotions can be brought back."

This should be the "danger" that Zashiki Warashi senses when seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune.

Fortunately, the maggots had not invaded my body for long.

With the cooperation of Hannya, Tapir, and Mary, it only took more than ten seconds for Kamiyagawa to realize something was wrong and beheaded by Mary before being sent out of the Kaitan World.

If those maggots had been inside the body for a longer time, it would be hard to say whether his mind would return to normal after returning to reality.

"so close."

Thinking about it this way, Kamiya felt a little scared.

"Does it hurt?"

At this time, a familiar yet cold female voice came from the mobile phone in Kamiyagawa's pocket, and Miss Mary in a black and red dress appeared from the bedside.

Mary is now in a slightly battle-damaged state.

The gothic dress, which was originally extremely gorgeous and even a little exaggerated, was now stained with a lot of blood and cracked in several places, revealing fair skin with wounds.

"It doesn't matter whether it hurts or not. Thank you for your decisive action and getting me out." Kamiyakawa looked at Mary, "It's time for you to go back to the shikigami statue and take a rest. Maybe you should call Hannya out and give you a compress first."

Some powder?"

The doll girl in the red and black dress didn't reply, she just bent down slightly.

"Does it hurt?"

Mary gently rubbed Kamiyakawa's neck with her white, soft but cold fingertips.

I could smell the scent of roses mixed with benzoin on her body, which was slightly aggressive, but very nice.

"Eh? What's wrong with Mary?"

What surprised Kamiyagawa was that Mary's second question was not delivered through an electronic device.

Instead, she spoke out on her own.

The speaking voice sounds a bit clumsy, but very soft and serious. It is much more vivid and emotional than the one usually mixed with the rustling and current of electronic equipment.

Miss Mary spoke by herself. Kamiyagawa had encountered this situation once before.

It happened on the night when she contracted to become a shikigami.

That night, Kamiyagawa also used his own chest to additionally feel the heartbeat in Mary's chest.

"Mary, my heart is beating...sadly. If I kill you, Mary will be very sad."

The Gothic ghost story girl said this, her cold fingers slid down Kamiyakawa's neck, and finally grabbed Kamiyakawa's hand, pulled it to her chest and pressed it.

"Mary, I feel a little guilty."

Amidst the beautiful soft touch, Kamiyagawa really felt the chaotic thumping of his heart.

"What's going on? You obviously hacked me to death before without blinking an eye... Looking at it this way, has Mary become more emotional?"

Kamiyakawa thought this in his heart, but he comforted him: "It doesn't matter, I asked you to take action. You didn't kill me, but saved me. I won't really die in the other world, so

it does not matter."

"Killing you means saving you."

"Stop! You can't understand it this way! I can only say that you were really saving me in the situation just now."

"Oh." Mary nodded after listening to Kamiya's words, "As long as you want, although Mary will be sad, she will still listen to you and kill you."

"…Then thank you very much."

"..."

"laugh."

Kamiyagawa and Mary were chatting, and Hannya's voice suddenly came from beside them.

Soon, a beautiful figure with purple and white ruffles appeared in the room, suspended in mid-air.

Hannya crossed his arms in front of his chest and rolled his eyes at Mary and Kamiyagawa.

This is no longer a betrayal, right?

At least give me the most basic respect and pin me inside the shikigami statue so I won't come out!

This bitch Kamiyagawa really deserves to go to the other world and die one more time.

"Well……"

Seeing Hannya appear, Kamiyakawa withdrew his hand from Mary.

After that, Inugami, Tapir, Zashiki Warashi, and a little old man also appeared in the room one after another. The low-rent apartment, which was not too big in the first place, became visually crowded.

"Ahem, everyone did a good job just now. If you hadn't been active, those black maggots would have brought me great danger and trouble."

When Kamiyagawa saw everyone coming out, he cleared his throat and thanked his Shikigami Kaidans.

"Ouch——"

After finishing speaking, only Inugami barked slightly in frustration.

"It's okay, Gouzi. You are also very brave in fighting. Sensing the abnormalities of those maggots is not your strong point."

Kamiyagawa comforted Gouzi with a few words, and the shikigami ghost stories in the room began to revolve around him.

In fact, they showed up because they wanted to check on the master's physical condition.

After Kamiyagawa was burrowed into his body by black maggots, he became so abnormal that everyone present could see the strange stories.

"Wait a minute, check it out, don't pull my clothes..."

"ah!"

"Aba Aba!"

The weird tales teamed up to check Kamiyagawa's body, and finally came to the conclusion that "it's nothing serious."

This conclusion was mainly reached by the little old man with super perceptive ability and Zashiki Warashi who can seek good luck and avoid bad luck.

If both of them said it was fine, then it should mean that nothing really happened.

…

The Kaitan shikigami disappeared one after another and returned to rest as shikigami statues or spiritual beings.

Kamiyagawa was left alone in the room again.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He began to review the experience of the game just now.

First, he took out his phone again and checked the kill prompt——

[The Pig King has died and received 647 soul crystals!]

"The Pig King is indeed dead. Those weird maggots should not belong to him. When the Pig King turns into ashes and dissipates, those bugs are still there."

Moreover, King Inojisa is only C-level.

Both the evaluation given by the system and the number of soul crystals exploded after death are enough to confirm this.

"So when King Inojisa entered the suspected second stage, he erupted with an aura that was comparable to a B-level ghost story. It probably has something to do with those maggots."

In addition, Kamiyagawa had just been invaded by black maggots, and he had gained some additional information about maggots at the cost of personal experience——

"Black maggots appear to be attracted to wounds and burrow into the target's body."

"The moment I was invaded by them, I felt that some of my inner qualities expanded rapidly and became extreme, leading to me losing myself and even being unable to think."

Kamiyagawa is a person who feels quite good about himself.

He thinks there's nothing seriously wrong with him.

It's nothing more than that in the process of fighting against the enemy, sometimes one becomes excited and has a heightened desire to kill.

And some are greedy for money and loot.

"I feel that these two points are just minor problems that are understandable without harming others and benefiting myself. However, when the maggots entered my body just now, my thoughts became extremely violent and greedy. It should be that these two minor problems were greatly amplified by those maggots.
To be continued...