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Hongzi snorted angrily, sulking the whole way, stomping her feet loudly.
Matsuda led her away from the villa, out of the water sphere-like barrier, and into the dense forest outside.
Chapter 146 The Resurrection Went Wrong
After finding the police car that had been parked there, Matsuda let Akako get in first, while he greeted the crow that had led the way earlier.
I opened the car door only after it left.
"No wonder you found this place. The barrier I set up only prevented people from seeing us, but I forgot to guard against animals."
Hongzi watched the crows disappear into the distance in the sky and suddenly said.
“You should be glad I caught up with you,” Matsuda reminded him, “otherwise, who knows what might have happened to you?”
"Hmph, how could that ghost knight possibly be a match for me!" Hongzi said defiantly. "I just need to lure it into the villa's trap, and I'll win for sure!"
"Is that so?" Matsuda sneered. "I forgot to tell you, my Ghost Knight isn't very intelligent. You can't even beat an idiot, so what's there to be proud of?"
“You…” Hongzi’s face turned pale with anger.
Meanwhile, Matsuda also felt a sudden pain in his calf.
He looked down and saw that the Ghost Knight had stabbed his calf with his sword sheath.
Sure enough, this guy is getting smarter and smarter.
The system had stated before that Ghost Knight possessed its own thoughts, but Matsuda hadn't paid attention at the time, always treating it like a machine.
However, judging from the fact that the Ghost Knight disobeyed his orders because of Hoshino Terumi, it's clear that the Ghost Knight also has his own thoughts.
……
On the way back to Tokyo, Akako remained silent, still angry because of Matsuda's earlier comment that she couldn't even beat an idiot.
Matsuda also didn't want to talk, so the two of them remained silent all the way to the ground floor of Beika Central Hospital.
In the police car, Matsuda was about to get out when he suddenly remembered something.
"You... are you going to just keep going like this?" He pointed to Hongzi's Egyptian dancer costume.
"I told you, this is my witch outfit!"
Hongzi snorted angrily, then pushed open the car door and got out.
Forget it, if you don't care yourself, why should I meddle?
With that in mind, Matsuda stopped worrying and led Akako directly to Hoshino Terumi's hospital room.
Along the way, Matsuda also noticed that the others seemed unable to see Akako.
Otherwise, with her outfit, she would definitely turn heads.
The two arrived outside Hoshino Terumi's hospital room, and Matsuda returned the amethyst necklace to Akako.
"Be careful, absolutely no mistakes!" Matsuda warned.
"Don't worry, this kind of little magic is as simple as it gets for a witch like me!" Hongzi snorted dismissively.
Then, she pushed open the door to the ward.
This time, Matsuda confirmed that the others indeed couldn't see Akako.
As soon as the door opened, Yoko's gaze went straight past Akako and focused only on Matsuda behind her.
"Officer Matsuda, have you found anything?"
"No." Matsuda shook his head.
"Even Officer Matsuda couldn't find anything..."
Yoko pursed her lips, then suddenly lowered her head and began to cry beside Hoshino Terumi's hospital bed.
"It's all my fault. If I hadn't called Huimei to my apartment, this wouldn't have happened."
Kaoru Kusano and Yuki Koshino, who were standing nearby, quickly comforted her.
Taking advantage of the fact that the three people's attention was not on him, Matsuda hurriedly signaled to make a move quickly.
After nodding, Hongzi held the purple crystal necklace in her right hand and began to mutter complex and incomprehensible incantations.
Is magic really this complicated?
Matsuda was feeling a bit disgusted when he suddenly noticed something strange about his trouser leg.
He looked down and saw a black and white cat that had somehow appeared at his feet.
Its raised tail brushed against his trouser leg.
Where did the cat come from in the hospital ward?
Matsuda frowned, bent down, and tried to grab the cat and carry it out.
At this moment, Hongzi finished reciting her incantation.
The purple crystal she held in her right hand glowed, and a small figure flew out from it.
As the figure, which was originally only the size of a fingernail, began to slowly grow larger,
Unexpectedly, at that moment, the cat that had been hiding at Matsuda's feet suddenly let out a startled cry.
Then, with a sudden leap, he jumped directly onto the hospital bed, looked up, and swallowed the figure that had shrunk to the size of a fist in one gulp!
Fuck...
This happened in the blink of an eye, and neither Matsuda nor Akako had time to react.
After the cat devoured Hoshino Terumi's soul, it immediately collapsed onto the hospital bed, startling Yoko and the others.
"What should we do now?"
Matsuda stared in disbelief at the cat on the hospital bed and asked Akako a question.
"I...I don't know either." Hongzi shook her head blankly.
Kusano Kaoru thought Matsuda was talking to the three of them, so she reached out and picked up the cat, then asked in confusion, "What do you mean, what should we do?"
"No, I... Oh right, I need to pee, I'll go out first."
After saying this, Matsuda grabbed Akako and dragged her out of the ward to the less crowded emergency stairwell.
"Didn't you say this was just a little magic! Very simple?" Matsuda suppressed his anger. "What do we do now? Will Hoshino-san's soul be alright?"
"Y-it should be fine. We just need to extract her soul from the cat's body and then put it back into her original body," Hongzi replied with a dry laugh.
Matsuda clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, saying, "Then why don't you do it right now!"
"This, I'm afraid..."
Seeing that Matsuda's anger was about to erupt, Akako could only say awkwardly,
"Ms. Hoshino may have to stay inside that cat's body for a few days."
"What...does this mean?" Matsuda's forehead throbbed with anger.
"The soul-extracting spell and the soul-returning spell from yesterday were not my strongest red magic, so they both had time limits!"
Hongzi explained awkwardly.
"But don't worry, I'll be able to use those two spells again in seven days!"
"At that time, we will definitely be able to get Ms. Hoshino's soul back into her body!"
seven days?
Is this witch's magic a game skill?
There's a cooldown period?
Matsuda ignored Akako and instead asked the system in his mind if there was any way to help.
"The system can indeed immediately return Hoshino Terumi's soul to her body, but if it does that, Hoshino Terumi's mental state may be affected, or she may lose some memories."
"Wait, what do you mean by mental problems and amnesia?" Matsuda asked in surprise. "Couldn't we just let her soul return to her body intact?"
"Then we'll have to wait seven days," the system explained. "Hoshino Terumi's soul was forcibly extracted from her body today. If it were to happen again in a short time, her soul, being of ordinary strength, would definitely be damaged. That's why we need to wait a few days to allow her soul to rest a bit."
Chapter 147 Strange XP
"You need seven days too?" Matsuda asked. "Can't I exchange something with you to prevent her soul from being harmed?"
"Of course you can, but the cheapest Soul Protection Pill here costs 10,000 merit points. Are you sure you want to exchange it?"
The system explained,
"The host can let Hoshino Terumi's soul stay in the cat's body for a few days. The cat's body can nourish her soul. Seven days is such a short time, and it will not have any adverse effects on her soul."
Seven days... It seems like this is the only way to do it now.
Matsuda sighed.
A perfectly normal person suddenly turns into a cat. I wonder if Hoshino Terumi can accept it?
As he was pondering this question, he heard hurried footsteps coming from the other end of the hallway.
Matsuda peeked out and saw Kusano Kaoru jogging in the hallway.
She looked around as if she was searching for something.
"What's wrong?" Matsuda asked.
"Officer Matsuda, have you seen that black and white cat?" Kusano Kaoru gestured with her hand. "It's the one that suddenly collapsed on Terumi-nee's bed in the hospital room just now!"
"A cat?...The cat in Ms. Hoshino's hospital room ran away?" Matsuda's eyes widened instantly.
Hongzi, standing to the side, was also dumbfounded.
“Yes,” Kusano Kaoru nodded. “After that cat woke up, it went crazy, waving and scratching everywhere.”
As the girl spoke, she raised her arm, showing Matsuda the back of her right hand, where there were indeed several cat scratch marks.
"After scratching me, the cat suddenly ran out of the ward. I was a little worried, so I chased after it, but now I can't find it."
"Officer Matsuda, what do we do now?" Akako asked timidly. "If we can't find that cat, the young lady's soul will be assimilated by the cat's body in the long run!"