Across countless worlds: Yearning to become a giant of light.

Chapter 97 Supernatural Exploration Club: Exorcising Demons and Defending the Righteous Path! Today Only!

"Nothing was detected..."

Horii fiddled around in the classroom for ages but found nothing unusual. Then he turned around and saw Daigo's indescribable expression.

Horii first sniffed around the classroom in confusion, but there was no strange smell.

Even if there's still a slight smell of blood, it's mostly dissipated by now.

Horii, puzzled, walked over to Daigo and asked, "Daigo, what's wrong with you? You look like you've smelled the Corpse Monster (Silizan)."

Because saying "something that is subject to the cycle of the five grains" is a bit vulgar, he used the image of that disgusting monster from before as a substitute.

It can only be said that Horii's impression of Silizan is far too deep.

However, before Daigo could answer, Horii noticed what Daigo was holding.

"These are the props that the students used during their fight?"

"Ah, ah! Yes, please check it."

Seeing that Horii did not react to the symbols on the paper, Daigo thought that this thing (the old seal) might be related to Ultraman Tiga or an ancient civilization, so he pretended that it had no effect and handed it to Horii.

However, Horii was still a little confused when he let go as if he was trying to shake off something dirty, but his attention was quickly drawn to the old seal in his hand.

"It doesn't look like a typical religious symbol..."

As a scientist, Horii generally keeps his distance from theological things and knows nothing about anything other than mainstream religions, let alone the thing in his hand.

Fortunately, Horii wasn't like some scientists on film sets who dismiss anything they didn't know as 'superstition,' so he decisively uploaded the pattern on the paper to headquarters and asked Nori to check it in the database.

"Daigo, while the Nozue team is looking up information, let's go ask those students. We might get some unexpected results."

"Ok."

However, just as Daigo and Horii were leaving the club building, he suddenly saw a familiar figure waving at him in the distance. He squinted and saw that it was Chen Lin, who had changed into a school uniform at some point. At first glance, he thought he was a student of this school.

'Chen Lin? What's he doing here...? Has the situation become so serious that he needs to come in person?'

Because Chaos had always presented himself as someone who could "turn the tide," Daigo didn't even consider the possibility that Chen Lin might be a student at this school, even though he had already seen Chaos in his human form and he was a young man younger than himself.

"Daigo, what are you standing there for? Let's go!"

Horii, who had walked quite a distance ahead, turned around and realized that Daigo hadn't followed, so he called out to him loudly.

"Okay! I'm coming right now."

Seeing this, Daigo didn't dare to go up and ask Chen Lin, so he waved his hand and returned to Horii's side.

"You're not blinded by those schoolgirls, are you, Daigo?"

"No, no!"

For some reason, upon hearing this, Daigo recalled Camilla, Rena, and Keina's reactions when they learned that he was popular with the female students (their cold, condescending gazes), and he couldn't help but shudder, causing his rebuttal to sound incredibly flustered.

While Daigo was troubled by the chaotic scenes flashing through his mind, he was unaware that Chen Lin, whom he thought was facing a major crisis that required his personal intervention, reacted differently upon seeing him and Horii...

"Why is it still the Daigo + Horii combination this time? Where am I going to find the Shinjo + Horii stand-up comedy duo that I'm missing?"

After watching Daigo leave, Chen Lin muttered to himself, "I thought I would see Shinjo and Horii teasing each other, which wasn't in the TV series, but instead it was Daigo and Horii again."

In TV shows, aren't the best pairings Daigo and Shinjo (the pilot who died in the game), Daigo and Rena (the couple), and Horii and Shinjo (the best buddies)? So what's with Daigo and Horii?

Could this be a hidden combination I'm unaware of? (@Sirocco)
With that thought in mind, Chen Lin swaggered into the school's teaching building. When he got close to the club building, he found that there were police officers guarding the outside, so he used the invisibility function of the Chaos bracelet to conceal his figure.

I must thank Superman A-Guang again for his technical support.

"They probably haven't taken those old stamps yet." Arriving at the clubroom where Daigo and Horii had just been, Chen Lin picked up the stack of old stamps without hesitation.

however……

"I don't feel anything at all."

Whether viewed up close or pressed against his own body, Chen Lin felt nothing.

If this thing hadn't actually caused the (angel) to suffer, he would have thought it was just some random scribbling.

"Is it because my 'composition' is too complex, or because this body isn't real?"

As for the crowbar and the angel doll, needless to say.

The former is a pure physics-based holy sword, while the latter, after being covered in the old seal, had its remaining Kirieloid spiritual power completely vanish.

"It seems we'll have to ask the person involved."

However, considering that Daigo and Horii had left the crime scene, probably to meet with the parties involved, Chen Lin did not leave immediately. Instead, he went to another teaching building to check on Takarada Rikka.

…………

Meanwhile, Horii and Daigo, upon arriving at the hospital, did not first visit the most seriously injured members of the Faith Angels Society, but instead went to the ward where the members of the Supernatural Exploration Society, who were being treated as the perpetrators, were located.

However, it was less of a hospital ward and more of a place of house arrest for them, given that these students were in somewhat... a state of mental distress.

"Those guys who keep talking about angels are completely bewitched by supernatural beings! You have to believe me!"

Before they even entered, Horii and Daigo heard the student inside, the head of the Supernatural Exploration Club, shouting loudly at the police station's recorder.

"Young man, your mental state is very unstable right now. Please calm down before..."

The recorder sounded very distressed.

“I’m freaking calm, okay! But you just won’t believe me! My grandfather’s friend is Professor Anna Jones of Miskatonic University! We even have a photo of them together at home!”

The minister couldn't help but swear.

Knock, knock, knock…

At this moment, Daigo and Horii, who were outside the door, felt that if the police recorder continued talking, she might cause the student to lose his temper, so they quickly went up and knocked on the door of the infirmary.

"Excuse me, is it ..."

Upon hearing the knock on the door, the recorder stopped 'making things difficult' for the minister and turned to ask who it was.

"Victory Team".

Horii replied.

"Please come in."

When the young lady heard that it was the GUTS team, she immediately felt relieved. When she went to open the door and saw Daigo and Horii, her eyes lit up.

Horii: Are you sure you see me?

"Victory Team! You've finally arrived!"

The student on the bed was so excited to see Daigo and Horii that he immediately spoke up:

"Big brothers of the Victory Team! Listen to me! All those who believe in angels have been bewitched by some kind of supernatural creature! We must act immediately to eliminate them! Otherwise, human civilization will be in danger!"

Horii/Oko:?
Goodness, we haven't even started asking questions yet, and the person involved has already brought up the rise and fall of human civilization?

(End of this chapter)