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These are half-finger gloves with several pieces of bright silver metal on the knuckles of the punching face. The jet-black composite fabric looks very stylish and is also very breathable.
In short, these are gloves that are extremely simple yet extremely violent, designed specifically for hitting people, with effects comparable to brass knuckles and iron lotus.
Dou Tang curiously took it and touched it. The silvery metal striking surface was cold and hard. Although the rough, prismatic surface was blunt, a sharp edge was unnecessary for a pair of gloves like this.
One punch is enough.
Dou Tang's face lit up with joy; he had to admit, the gift was indeed to his liking.
Holding the gloves, Dou Tang, seemingly drunk, said, "Thank you, I like them very much. I like all your gifts."
Lu Zizhen seemed not to care about his words at all, and drunkenly said, "Um... I'm glad you like it. Ah... I'm so sleepy, I really can't drink anymore, and I'm full."
Seeing that Lu Zizhen remained calm, Dou Tang gradually let go of his thoughts.
I thought she was behind Kuroki Keisaki's affair... but now it seems I was overthinking it.
So he raised the cup and drank it all in one gulp. His throat felt incredibly hot, which made him feel a little sluggish again.
Seeing that he had drunk another cup, Lu Zizhen stood up unsteadily, held onto the table with one hand, stood in front of Dou Tang, and looked down at him.
Dou Tang let out a long breath, which landed right on Lu Zizhen's face. Lu Zizhen squinted, while Dou Tang chuckled, appearing somewhat mischievous, almost unlike his usual self.
Lu Zizhen hiccuped and said softly, "Hey, you should know that I never treat someone well unconditionally, right?"
As she spoke, she lifted her leg, straddled Dou Tang, and sat on his lap in an intimate and natural manner.
Dou Tang swallowed and said, "You're drunk."
A fierce glint suddenly flashed in Lu Zizhen's eyes. She reached out and grabbed Dou Tang's collar, gritting her teeth and saying in a muffled voice, "You bastard... Nonsense, if I weren't drunk and I was like this, and you still didn't take the initiative... then are you even a man?"
Dou Tang grabbed Lu Zizhen's hand and suddenly realized that the hand was so soft and delicate, not at all like the hand of a Taoist priest who wields a sword, not to mention that this Taoist priest can summon heavenly thunder.
Lu Zizhen flipped her wrist, freeing herself from Dou Tang's hand, but then extended her five fingers and interlocked them with Dou Tang's ten fingers, her slender fingers firmly gripping Dou Tang's palm.
She smiled smugly, but before she could speak, she heard a thud behind her.
Dou Tang and Lu Zizhen shuddered simultaneously, the ambiguous atmosphere that had just arisen between them suddenly dissipated, and they both turned their heads away.
Huaiyin, who had been lying on the table, raised her head at some point. She still had her eyes closed and looked like she was asleep, but she frowned and called out as if she were sleepwalking.
"Brother, brother...! Cake, cake, I want to eat... cake!"
She even waved her arms slightly, as if she were being coquettish when she was angry.
"I want to eat cake!"
"Pfft..." Dou Tang couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Lu Zizhen relaxed again, but the tension and relaxation brought waves of weariness. She simply rested her head on Dou Tang's shoulder and fell asleep.
"Hey..." Dou Tang called softly, but Lu Zizhen was clearly unconscious, only muttering something, but Dou Tang couldn't hear it at all.
Sighing, Dou Tang looked at the table full of dishes, feeling utterly overwhelmed.
I guess I'll have to spend the whole morning cleaning up tomorrow.
Dou Tang carried the unconscious Lu Zizhen to the sofa, then neatly made the bed in the center of the room, put Huaiyin in the quilt, and covered Lu Zizhen with the quilt. After doing all this, Dou Tang sat down at the dining table, let out a long breath, and began to think.
The person who delivered the longsword, Kuroki Keizaki... Although Ejima Iya's matter is settled, it seems that even more problems are emerging.
Just as Dou Tang was starting to worry, he heard a soft clicking sound coming from the balcony. Then, a cat-like figure bathed in moonlight appeared behind the curtains, limping as it opened the balcony door and walked in.
Black Cat Mikazuki.
Ignoring the fact that there were other people sleeping in the room, it hoarsely said, limping on one hind leg, "Something's happened, Dou Tang, we need you."
"A talent scout... I told you, we need you..."
Chapter 92 Kisaragi Station
In the darkness, only silence answered Mikazuki the black cat.
Dou Tang waved, and Mikazuki grinned and came to him, but it seemed unable to jump. Dou Tang had to bend down and pull it into his arms.
"Tell me, what happened?" Dou Tang gently stroked its right hind leg and found that it was not seriously injured, just some minor scrapes.
Mikazuki was twitching from his touch, but he was too weak to struggle anymore. He could only lower his voice and say, "Something happened to the head. The evil spirits are in an uproar, and two major evil spirits are vaguely connecting."
"What do you mean?"
Mikazuki paused, then looked up, his bright cat eyes revealing an indescribable eeriness.
"Have you... heard of Kisaragi Station?"
"The final destination is human head talent."
………………
"call--"
October has arrived, it's already autumn, and the train station feels a bit cold on winter nights.
This is a small town near Kyoto. The tram tracks extending from Kyoto are an indispensable mode of public transportation here. As a necessary stop for Kyoto tram maintenance, the trams in this town even operate late at night.
"Meow--"
A cat's meow came from the darkness. The girl sitting on the platform bench looked up in confusion, but found nothing.
"Meow—Awoooooo!!!"
The cat's meows in the darkness suddenly turned into sharp, piercing screams, filled with terror.
The girl shrugged, puzzled.
Then, a rather heavy footstep gradually approached, coming from one side of the platform.
The girl looked in that direction and saw a tall man in a black trench coat walking towards her, carrying a long bag for fishing rods on his back.
Hmm... Are they people going fishing at the beach in the middle of the night? They look so young...
The man in black had large, piercing eyes, and a tall, muscular build that even the oversized black trench coat couldn't conceal. In the girl's worldview, if a man like that asked for her contact information, she would probably give it to him.
But his eyes were so cold, even more chilling than the autumn wind; he was the kind of person you'd immediately avoid if you made eye contact with him on the street.
Dou Tang was completely unaware that he had been rated by this stranger. He simply carried his things onto the platform and walked from the darkness into the light.
He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Excuse me, what time does the last tram arrive here?"
The girl was startled by his sudden conversation, exclaimed "Eh?", and then said, "Um... um, it should be 1:30! We'll be there soon, right?"
Dou Tang nodded, then asked curiously, "Is your head heavy?"
The girl raised her eyebrows in surprise, shook her head, and said, "No, no..."
This guy is so strange... Thinking this, the girl sat a little further away from him, her legs together, adopting a passive posture to protect herself.
Dou Tang stopped talking, turned around, and stared blankly at the darkness outside the platform.
Time passed slowly, and the girl would occasionally glance down at her watch, feeling uncomfortable with the aura emanating from the man in front of her.
It's like... fear, a fear that's not explained.
Suddenly, white lights shone in the distant darkness, and the blurry railway gleamed in the light—that was…
Proof of the tram speeding past the tracks.
The white light was getting closer.
Dou Tang glanced at the lights not far away, seemingly deep in thought.
His next action made the girl gasp in surprise.
This man... walked straight to the edge of the railway tracks and jumped off!
"Hey! You, don't do anything rash!"
The girl stood up a little anxiously, but made no attempt to get up from the bench.
No way, I'm not really going to have to witness a suicide by lying on the train tracks in the middle of the night!
Dou Tang stood in the middle of the railway tracks, his eyes gleaming with a faint indigo light. The hem of his black trench coat fluttered in the autumn wind, looking dashing, but also... insane.
He slowly took off the fishing rod bag from his back.
The tram's headlights emitted a dazzling white light, turning his black clothes into an intense white, but Dou Tang remained calm and unhurried.
"Woo——"
The roar of the tram echoed, and after seeing the pier in the middle of the railway, the tram seemed to want to slow down, and the wheels rubbed wildly against the rails, creating a dazzling display of iron flowers.
The sounds were piercing, both the tram horn and the friction of the rails were so piercing that the girl wanted to cover her ears, but she only placed her hands on either side of her cheeks.
Unable to suppress her curiosity, she stared intently at Dou Tang in the middle of the railway tracks. The man's profile did not resemble that of a disheartened person seeking death.
Instead, it was as if... a proud, arrogant figure riding on horseback, looking down on everything before him, even feeling sorry for him.
His eyelids even drooped down. Staring directly at the blazing white light didn't blind him; instead, it made him squint slightly as if he were feeling sleepy.
The fishing rod bag was blown away by the strong wind.
A straight, black-gold scabbard appeared in Dou Tang's hand.
That was... a longsword?
The girl had seen a longsword like that online, but it didn't seem to be a Japanese weapon... Why was he carrying it?
not……
She suddenly remembered the news she had recently seen, about how some otaku would try to die in all sorts of strange ways, like jumping off buildings in armor or deliberately getting hit by a truck while holding a plastic bag... supposedly that way they could be reincarnated into another world.
This...this guy looks pretty handsome, how did he become a chuunibyou otaku?
Dou Tang drew his longsword and held it in his hand; the tram was getting closer and closer.
The girl held her breath and stared wide-eyed.
Is this guy planning to use a longsword to cut down the tram?
But that wasn't actually the case. Dou Tang held the sword in reverse and then suddenly threw it to the ground. The blade sank almost halfway into the ground without making a sound, as if... it had cut into a piece of tofu.
Dou Tang took a step forward, bracing his heel against the sword, using the longsword embedded in the ground as his fulcrum, one foot forward and one foot back.
Tens up your hands and stretch them forward.
The girl suddenly felt as if all the blood in her body had frozen.
"Woo——————"
The tram had arrived, its roar like the shriek of death, as the steel monster charged directly at the reckless young man on the tracks.
Even though the brakes have been applied repeatedly, and the train has reduced its speed to the minimum, perhaps even slower than a car traveling at over 100 kilometers per hour, it is still something that humans cannot resist.
The next moment, indigo light appeared along with cherry-pink flames.
Then it blends in with the tram.
"boom!!!!"
The deafening sound instantly pierced the girl's eardrums, but the expected result of the tram crushing the man into a pulp did not occur. Instead, the front of the tram, which was carrying enormous kinetic energy, twisted and deformed, and all the windows of the first carriage shattered into pieces.
The headlights flashed twice and then went out completely.
The girl's screams were suppressed deep in her throat, unable to escape. She could only watch helplessly as the mess before her eyes was filled with shards of glass, some even scattering around her.
A strange, round, pink creature crawled up from under the railway tracks.
Chapter 93 Glass Brain
The air was filled with a strange smell of dust, and countless shards of glass were scattered on the platform, glittering in the moonlight.
A pink figure was reflected in the many panes of glass that reflected the moonlight.
Its round, candy-like body, along with its equally smooth, clay-like hands and feet, and its pale face covered with narrow, vertical black stripes, all combined to create a tall, grotesque monster that distorted anyone's perception of its size.
The cool moonlight shone on the pink exterior, turning it into an eerie, pale red color.
The Fall Guys stood with their backs to the moonlight, and their circular shadows gradually drew closer until they completely enveloped the girl.
Fear surged through her, and the girl could hardly suppress the mania and panic within her.
Dou Tang, on the other hand, was sizing up the girl in front of him.
Judging from the girl's clothing, she should be one of the missing persons mentioned by Kuro Neko Mikazuki. Her high school uniform is tattered, torn, and dirty, indicating that she has been lingering here for a long time.
But what's most eye-catching is the girl's head.
Compared to a normal person's head, the girl's head was abnormally enlarged several times, as bizarre as a water-filled balloon. The entire surface of her head had become almost transparent due to the expansion, and her facial features had become translucent like crystal, but her eyeballs remained the same size.