Why are there only loser heroines around me?

"Recently, two patients were sent to Fengqiao Hospital. After examination, they were both diagnosed with septicemic plague. This disease is mainly transmitted by rat fleas, which are fleas that live on rats. It spreads very quickly, so recently we must pay attention not only to rat prevention but also to timely deworming." Mao Li said, "I knew when I was in school that every major rat infestation in human history has been followed by a plague outbreak, and this rat infestation is likely unprecedented in human history. Just a day ago, the higher-ups issued a strict order that any shops still open must not sell rat to customers. Today, since I'm having dinner with you, I also want to see if the owner of that shop has removed rat meat from the shelves."

The two were talking.

——A few hundred meters ahead, a white monster was walking towards this side.

The device linked to the barrier has started to sound the alarm, and Maori's police officers asked him how to control the situation.

Maori threw the cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it, telling his subordinates not to panic. They had just set up a sword barrier. The Onmyoji who set up the formation said that this was a rare large-scale offensive formation among many barriers, and it was the same as the one set up outside the Prime Minister's residence. Even if a monster of Shuten Douji's level walked into this barrier, it would not be able to get out alive. Besides, the strongest demon slayer in Fengqiao was fine today and was staying in their base. What was there to be afraid of?

The special police officers thought so too. With a big boss standing by them, what is there to be afraid of?

However, they still released the safety of their rifles as usual, and the snipers above the art gallery and in the distant buildings also aimed their sights at the humanoid monster.

Ukyo narrowed his eyes and looked over a hundred meters away. This monster looked very similar to the Cyclops that Iwanaga Kotoko had hunted in Shibuya not long ago, but it was smaller and its muscles were tighter and stronger. The one Kotoko had hunted was a bloated fat man, almost half the height of the Sky Tree, and this one in front of him...

He is about 1.8 meters tall, the same height as a normal adult man.

It must be a demon, because only a demon would be interested in the magic sword in front of the art gallery.

Just when everyone was still not able to react, it suddenly started to sprint. The Ogron's movements were not fast, but when its feet stepped on the ground, the bricks and stones would be cracked with every step it took. This meant that although it had the same height as an ordinary adult man, its weight was several times that of an adult man!

"Tyrfing is mine! Weak humans are not worthy of touching the magic sword!"

The special police were a little confused. He kept shouting about how humans were weak and Tyrfing... and then rushed into the sword barrier.

Ukyo knew the words it spoke. Tyr'fing, the famous severing sword in Norse mythology, was said to blaze like fire, a causal sword that guaranteed its strike. However, cursed, it shed blood upon unsheathing, condemning its wielder to self-destruction. It was named the "Sword of the Lord Slayer."

Previously, they speculated that this sword with eyes and rose thorns on the hilt must be a thing from the demon world, but they did not expect it to be a weapon of the gods in Norse mythology. Judging from the appearance of the sword alone, it obviously did not grow in the holy direction in the mythology.

It is also possible that the Tyrfing that the one-eyed monster mentioned has another sword, and perhaps there is a sword with the same name in the demon world?

In short, no one acted rashly, but just watched it rampage in the sword barrier.

The Onmyoji who set up the formation spoke biasedly. After entering the formation, the Cyclops' body expanded rapidly, from the original 1.8-meter Cyclops to a 3-meter-tall Cyclops. The golden lightsaber hit its body without any pain. Ukyo felt that the scene at this moment was a bit like using a toothpick to hit concrete. The Cyclops was so focused on drawing the sword that he completely ignored the damage of the lightsaber.

Mao Li's mouth twitched as he watched, "Is that Xipi Yin Yang Master lying to us? He said this barrier can protect against Shuten-doji!"

"Mostly nonsense," Ukyo said. "Nowadays, when you go out, every move has to be a bit of a gimmick. Shuten-douji is sealed in the gate of the underworld in Tokyo. They've never even seen Shuten in their lives, so how can they say that the barrier can protect them from Shuten-douji?"

Maori asked the snipers in the distance to be ready and load kinetic bullets first. They really had Barrett now. Unless the muscles of this Cyclops were thicker than those of a regular tank expert, he would not be able to withstand it.

The back of the Cyclops' hand was pierced by the blood thorns on the hilt of the magic sword. Its wailing sounded like some kind of infrasound, shaking everyone's head.

But it tried to pull the magic sword out after more than three minutes, and finally it could only helplessly roar to the sky, rush out of the barrier, grab a special police officer and tear him in half, with blood splattering in its mouth, "--Bang~!" Mao Li didn't need to say anything, because the two snipers in the distance had already fired at the same time, and two 12.6mm armor-piercing bullets hit its back and left arm, making it stagger twice.

The bullets from the other special police officers had no effect on it. Its single pale eye searched the crowd, and then pointed at Youjing.

"Come and fight me!"

Ukyo saw that its skin was covered with a dark gray layer, which looked like some kind of hard rock.

This was the first time he encountered a talking demon. He knew that low-level demons did not have language ability, so it was not difficult to infer that talking demons must be higher than low-level demons.

Mao Li raised his hand to signal everyone to cease fire and not to accidentally hurt Ukyo. At the same time, he did not intend to let Ukyo fight this demon alone. He drew the "Demon Slaying Sword" protected by the Onmyoji and said to Ukyo: "Let's go together. After the fight, we can have dinner."

"That's not the right thing to say," Ukyo said. "Did you see his skin? There's not a single mark where the armor-piercing bullet hit him. If the armor-piercing bullet can't break through the hard shell, then there's no way we can cut through it with our swords. My sword has a special attack against monsters, but it has no effect on demons."

Maori frowned slightly, "What do you mean?"

Ukyo said, "The armor-piercing rounds staggered him. It didn't penetrate his defense, but at least it did some damage. I mean... do you have any extra Barretts?"

The next moment, the Cyclops disappeared from the spot. He didn't know how the two humans in front of him dared to chat so openly in front of him.

Maori was a beat slow to react, but Ukyo pushed him away first, because ordinary people could not intervene in the upcoming battle.

The distance between the Cyclops and Ukyo was closing quickly, and then with a "bang", their fists collided with each other, and a deafening sound was heard. The cat lay on Ukyo's back again. He was strengthened. It seemed that he was just raising his fist to block, but in fact it contained 90% of the Tai Chi hidden power. But even so, the price of this punch was very high. Ukyo was knocked away, and his back hit the pillar of the art gallery, and blood oozed from the corner of his mouth. He recalled the long-lost feeling, as if he had punched a half-blood madman with a bronze throne!

Ukyo bit the tip of his tongue. This was not an opponent that could be easily dealt with by relying on the Nekomata.

So he "bleeds violently".

The last time he burst into blood, after human consciousness gradually weakened, the one who came out to replace his human personality was not the dragon gene, but the fantasy swordsman Ukyo who suffered from tuberculosis. He thought that the person who appeared this time was still Ukyo, and he could use the fatal secret move, Dream of Remnant Light. Although human swordsmanship may not be effective against this hard shell that even Barrett cannot penetrate, Ukyo's physical fitness is also very poor, and the swordsman with tuberculosis may not be able to withstand a punch from the Cyclops.

But at least the fantasy swordsman has stronger reaction nerves than ordinary humans, and being able to perform six consecutive Flying Swallow attacks is better than not being able to do so.

But after the six consecutive sword slashes like moonlight flashed by, the Cyclops in front of him just twisted his neck a little boredly, and the Muramasa blade in Ukyo's hand was rolled up instead.

There was a hint of mockery in its pale single eye. It was extremely disappointed that the swordsman it had specifically wanted to challenge had only this level of strength.

Ukyo raised his middle finger at it, "I thought you could pull out the demon sword, but I didn't expect you to poop so much. What's your reputation in the demon world? Which general's soldier are you?"

"Want to find out my true name?" The Cyclops said jokingly, "I know that as long as you humans know the demon's name, you can find its corresponding biography and thus find the weapon to kill it. I'm not that stupid."

"Indeed, Cyclops," Ukyo's last four emphasized.

Its physical features were so obvious that it was no wonder Ukyo could guess its identity.

The Cyclops in Greek mythology was ostracized after Zeus became the king of gods and was eventually assassinated by the sun god Apollo. So to kill it, Apollo's weapons might be needed. So the question is, where would he find Apollo's bow and Apollo's sun sword?

If we think optimistically, the image of the Cyclops is actually very common, and it may not be the one in Greek mythology. In general games, the Cyclops is an individual with high attack and high health, slow attack movements, and often appears as a dung monster. To deal with them, you don't have to use special weapons, and you just need to reduce their health bit by bit.

But the guy in front of him didn't have the characteristic of slow attack.

Youjing parried each move with his sword. There was a small forest behind the Fengqiao Art Museum. They had already fought from the square into the forest. Mud, gravel, and broken wood were mixed together like a vortex of death. The speed of the Cyclops was not slow, and he even showed signs of overpowering him.

After his spiritual revival, his abilities in all aspects were getting stronger every day. In other words, after the human will was eliminated, the personality that emerged in him was no longer able to keep up with his fighting rhythm. Ukyo fell into an awkward situation that was almost the same as "before the explosion" and "after the explosion". If his name was "Mikata Moriya", and he could perform an extraordinary 16-hit combo, and he didn't have a strong body like tuberculosis, then maybe the battle he faced would be a little bigger. However, Mikata Moriya was just an "ordinary swordsman". If he wanted to break the hard shell of the Cyclops, he had to have a magic sword that could cut through iron like mud.

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Chika Omari's novel, "The Humble One's Demon Slayer Story", has reached the top of the Bungo website.

The character "Xiaoju Zhihua" in the work can only be ranked second in the popularity list of the entire work because of her timid personality. Instead, the Chinese student Chu Shunsheng is the most popular person.

Although she never named Chu Shunsheng in her works, everyone seemed to know who he was.

Four days ago, she got permission from the editor to put the book on the shelves. On the way to the Himalayas, Xiaoju Zhihua did not stop writing. She updated a total of 45,000 words in four days.

Four days ago, her light novel went on sale in bookstores for the first time, with the online release and physical sales happening simultaneously. My editor told me that the first batch of 5000 copies was printed, and her online fans were incredibly supportive, so they sold out on the first day. However, many people complained about the illustrations, saying that Chu Shunsheng in the novel wasn't handsome enough, looking completely different from the real-life Ukyo, lacking any maturity.

Xiaoju had no choice about this. The teacher who drew illustrations for her was the well-known teacher Kana Nakamura in the industry, and her illustrations were always known for their cool character movements.

But when everyone already has a certain image in their mind for a certain character, then no illustrations may be able to satisfy the readers' preferences.

Komari kept posting apologies on the Bungo website's internal dynamics, saying it was her first time writing, so she didn't understand. These things happen during the first offline book release of light novels, and the author didn't need to say anything. The most criticized illustration was the "Red Lotus Spiral Sword" used by Ukyo in his battle against the crow frenzy at the end of the first volume.

From the perspective of a "bystander" like Xiaoju Zhihua, Chu Shunsheng signed a contract with the Red Lotus Devil to unlock the "Red Lotus Form". His whole body was self-igniting with the Hellfire, and when he swung his sword, he would release all his magic power to cut out black flames, with the flames of a fire dragon wrapped around his body. The moment the sword was chopped out, the fire dragon roared and rose to the sky, and the tornado bit the crows until all the crows were killed!

However, the fire dragon in Mr. Nakamura's illustration is a bit too thin. Most people feel that it does not match the image of a black flame fire dragon in their minds. They feel that Ukyo's "red lotus form" is not dark enough. The description in the novel is: "His black and white pupils were filled with a black flame, and the shadow of a wailing crow was constantly fading away."

The description of the Red Lotus Spiral Sword reads, "The ground began to tremble, and black flames from Hell climbed upwards. The black flames soared into the air, falling like a dragon. The flying black crows were engulfed in the flames. The black flame dragon's head spat out the vast and ancient inscription of Hell, and then the flames exploded. Spiral pillars of fire instantly spread out, engulfing the entire campus!"

Xiaoju didn't know what Ukyo's attack was like that day. She exhausted her imagination and felt that the only power that could destroy all the crows in an instant was fire, so she used more than 50,000 words in the previous article to write about the process of Ukyo signing a contract with the devil, in order to ensure that the "explosion" at the end of the first volume would be exciting enough.

Ukyo said that the golden finger cannot be too powerful, otherwise the author will lose control of the subsequent chapters, so Xiaoju added a restriction to this golden finger - the contract can only be effective for three minutes. After three minutes, if you want to continue to use it, you must pay something specified by the devil.

It could be money, friends, memories, body organs... and a host of other things that the devil is interested in.

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In front of Fengqiao Art Museum.

Ukyo looked at the black flames that suddenly ignited on Muramasa, and thought that it might be the effect of the "Midnight Killing Flame Demon Sword" that he had posted a message about on a certain platform.

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Along with it, the restless fire in the blood also ignited.

He already knew how to use fire, so he had no difficulty using the sudden black flames. He just didn't understand. After the "human consciousness" gradually disappeared, which character gave him the ability to replace the original personality?

And what is his current condition?

A second bloodbath?

Forget it... Now is not the time to dwell on this kind of thing.

He felt the restless flame in his blood, it had been so long... He took out the last thick cigar left in the cigarette box, Gurkha Black Dragon, which cost $1150 each. This was the principal's favorite brand, but now, it was also his favorite cigar. "Snap~!", with a light snap of his fingers, the cigar in his mouth was ignited, but the smoke was a little burnt and tasted strange. This was what happened when using a strong fire, so matches were used to light cigars slowly.

At this moment, Youjing lit this last cigar, which should have been lit after winning a battle or lying on the ground after dying in battle. It was not just to look cool, his main purpose was to test the strength of the sudden flame.

No one knows what his first tests led to.

Maori and the special police who chased into the woods from the rear battlefield saw that Ukyo suddenly took a deep puff of his cigar and exhaled the smoke slowly, as if he was chewing it carefully. The puff entered his lungs, and the consciousness of "Ukyo Tachibana" when he had a sudden blood burst was still there. He was originally a swordsman suffering from tuberculosis, but the unknown "friend" who appeared during the second blood burst cured Ukyo Tachibana's tuberculosis, and he felt an unprecedented comfort.

Things like "flames" have no consciousness, but Ukyo said, "All these years... I've been waiting for you to come back."

The Cyclops smelled a hint of his hometown from Ukyo, and in a trance he thought that the target he chose to hunt was a fellow human in human clothing.

The next moment, the spherical field around him suddenly became clear. It was some kind of black "barrier," its surface gleaming with unstable dark red embers. Almost instantly, the Cyclops before him swung his arms like a battering ram, pressing down on Ukyo head-on. Its fists bore iron-gray lines, resembling the cracks formed by dry earth in the sunlight. With a single, unadorned blow, it shattered Ukyo's field! But it was at that moment that it felt the intense heat enveloping it! Blazing flames erupted in all directions, like a sudden explosion of TATP!

This type of explosive, known for its chemical formula, is said to have the fastest detonation rate. A single strong vibration or knock can trigger it. Due to its instability, TATP's blast wave propagates extremely quickly, almost instantaneously! However, Ukyo's territorial detonation was even faster than TATP's. The Cyclops' arms were completely incinerated the moment they approached Ukyo. Its flesh evaporated, but its skeleton remained, a hollow, iron-gray bone hanging in mid-air.

The only eye socket on the Cyclops' face was filled with fear like a tide!

He knew that there were indeed many demons who liked to disguise themselves as humans and walk among the mortal world. The lower the level of the demon, the more they liked those low-level killings. It was true that they were evil by nature, but the main reason that prompted them to hunt down living creatures was that most of the lower-level demons were exiled to the "place of punishment" of eternal damnation by the damned God and some high-ranking demon.

When you experience endless fighting in the place of torture and become the most outstanding member of the "Gu Group", a higher-level demon will lead you to a higher level of hell.

The conditions there are better, and they won't have to be tortured by all kinds of weird detentions every day. By then, the demons will be able to slowly regain their sanity.

Some people are content with the status quo.

Some people still like killing and keep hunting down the strong.

Some people want to move up to a higher level and see what a better hell is like.

The so-called hell is actually a place with very strict hierarchy.

But no matter how good hell is, it is not as good as the human world, so demons of all levels are trying hard to squeeze into the human world.

The Cyclops knew that some of their higher-level counterparts who were tired of killing liked to disguise themselves as humans and experience life here.

But "disguise" is a very advanced ability.

The Cyclops can only transform his body into a shape similar to that of a human, but he cannot change his specific appearance.

Yet, this lord was able to disguise himself so vividly, he must be three or four levels higher than me...

Damn it, Gloria realized that the level of hell she was in was already very high. If it was three or four levels higher than it... wouldn't that be the legendary residence of the demon gods?

When it saw the black flames burning on Ukyo's body, a chill rose from the bottom of its heart. It realized that it had disturbed the life experience of a superior demon. Although they no longer like killing, they can fight all the way to the upper level of hell, where there is a strict hierarchy and the strong are respected. How can they be simple characters?

"grown ups……"

"I don't know your honorific title, can you forgive me..."

Muramasa slashed across its neck with a knife, and a skull fell right into Ukyo's palm. The hard shell that could withstand 12.7mm armor-piercing bullets was easily melted by the extremely high temperature. Ukyo never had any mercy on things that were not human. He used to be a member of the Lionheart Society and was in the Executive Department. The people there were all violent killers who would never listen to others finish speaking in a battle, and Ukyo perfectly inherited the traditional virtues of the two departments.

The headless body of the Cyclops fell down, and the Muramasa in Ukyo's hand turned into molten iron and burned, leaving only the hilt in his hand.

Mao Li in the distance took out his low-quality cigarette and paid with one. The young policeman next to him asked him foolishly what temperature was needed to turn the knife into molten iron. Mao Li calmly said 2038 degrees. The young policeman felt that his superior was amazing and knew a lot, and could even remember the data so clearly.

"The melting point of general steel is around 1500 degrees." Ukyo ruthlessly exposed Maori's lie. He could more or less understand Maori's little intention of pretending to be cool in front of his subordinates, but Ukyo really liked to expose other people's scientific mistakes, because when he did so, the expression on the person's face would usually be very interesting.

Mao Li's face turned red. He put his arm around Ukyo's shoulders, but he wasn't angry. "Can't you give me some face in front of your subordinates? What was that fire just now? I've never seen you use it before."

"There's a secret technique called Blood Rage. It uses the rules of spiritual resurrection to gradually remove your human consciousness from your body, allowing another powerful personality to gradually emerge during the spiritual resurrection, matching yours." Ukyo said, "Considering the dangerous nature of your work, I can teach you. But first, you have to ensure that after your human consciousness disappears, another, more powerful personality, revealed during the spiritual resurrection, will truly replace you. If not, I'm not sure what will happen."

"The person who was originally supposed to replace me was Tachibana Ukyo. You probably played Samurai Shodown when you were a kid. It's a fighting game that you might be interested in at your age."

"As for what the black flame was just now, I'm not quite sure... Maybe there's a character from some other work with a similar personality to mine, or some other Samurai Shodown fan fiction. I'll have to look it up when I get back to see if there's any Samurai Shodown fan fiction that uses Tachibana Ukyo with black flames."

Maori thought for a moment.

He really couldn't think of any character with a personality similar to his own.

In many movies related to superpowers, the police are just supporting roles, unless the movie is specifically about the police, but Mao Li can't think of any virtual police who fits his personality for the time being.

He first called on his teammates to collect the body of their companion who had just died tragically. Mao Li remembered that he had been following him since the Hanba incident. He didn't expect that his death was so unclear. But there was nothing he could do. Their line of work was now a high-risk profession. Compared to those who had no ability, the ones who were unlucky were often the first to die.

Mao Li calculated that he would have to attend four memorial services this Saturday. Things have really changed.

Halfway through his thought, he couldn't help but buy another one.

Ukyo was crouching down to examine the Cyclops's corpse. Its bones were heavy, not looking like bones, but some kind of metal. After the black flames had burned away all its flesh and blood, its surface was very shiny. Ukyo suddenly said, "Give me the body of this thing. I really like its bones. I'm going to find a swordsmith to forge me a new sword."

"No problem." Maori waved his hand and said, "Times have changed. This isn't the time when Joker released his game. The Onmyojis in Tokyo have sent a huge pile of corpses to the Hokuriku Advanced Science Institute. They can't even cut through them all. If you want, take them. The Toyohashi Metropolitan Police Department won't accept them. Leaving corpses in the police station will attract rats."

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Ukyo took a picture of the Cyclops' body and uploaded it to the Night Watch channel.

"Everyone, does anyone know of a skilled swordsmith? I have some high-quality sword-making material that's supposed to withstand temperatures of 1500 degrees. It's very difficult to forge."