Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

Listening to the television reports on the big screen, passersby either ignored it or showed expressions of disdain.

"Heh, it's been two months, and they don't even have a suspect. And they call it a special investigation team."

"Exactly. All they say is 'as soon as possible.' I just don't understand. Such a big thing, and they really don't have a single lead?"

"If you ask me, we might as well rely on 'Mask' and 'Kira.'"

"Hey, could it be that the culprit has already been found by those two, or even eliminated?"

"That's possible too... But 'Mask' and 'Kira' aren't official organizations after all, and they wouldn't hold a press conference or anything. Sigh, I'm really curious."

Just then, the image on the big screen suddenly flickered a few times, emitting bursts of static.

Seeing this, the pedestrians couldn't help but stop and look at the flickering, snowy screen, exchanging puzzled glances.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem with the TV station's signal source?"

"Maybe the screen is broken?"

Kawasaki Kyouka, who was shopping with Kawasaki Saki and Kitagawa Marin, tugged at Kawasaki Saki's sleeve and pointed at the big screen.

"Sister, what's going on?"

"I don't know either."

Kawasaki Saki shook her head and smiled reassuringly.

"But it's okay, it's just an electronic malfunction, don't be afraid..."

Just then, the big screen flickered again a few times, and then a calm girl's voice came from it.

"Hello everyone, please be quiet and listen carefully to what we have to say."

"Eh?"

Hearing this voice, although somewhat different, but feeling a strangely familiar voice, Kawasaki Saki couldn't help but look up at the big screen.

Appearing in the center was a mysterious person in an empty room, bathed in the light of spotlights, wearing a pure white coat with pale gold patterns, and even with golden pupils.

"That is..."

Kawasaki Saki quickly covered her mouth, almost accidentally blurting out Yotsuya Miko's name.

"Is that 'Mask's' companion?"

"That's right! I saw her model when I went to buy figures last time!"

"She seemed to be there during the 'Teru Teru Bozu Killer' live stream too!"

The image on the screen shifted again, and appearing next was a mysterious person wearing a ghastly white coat and a bone mask, with a very petite figure.

"Recently, Kiyaki Agutani, the General Commander of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Mobile Unit, lost control. The serial accidental deaths in Tokyo, as well as the destruction of Shitennoji Temple..."

Speaking of this, the image shifted again, and appearing in it was a girl wearing a peach-pink mask, whom everyone was unfamiliar with, and whose voice sounded very lively.

"After our investigation, we found that this series of events was all planned by the same person!"

As the screen flickered again, Sakurajima Mai, wearing a rabbit-ear-shaped mask, continued.

"The person who committed these heinous crimes is..."

The next second, appearing on the screen was another mysterious person who had never appeared before, wearing a coat with lightning and cloud patterns.

"Sakurakawa Rikka."

As Amano Hina's voice fell, a photo of Sakurakawa Rikka was directly displayed on the big screen, and all the pedestrians on the street could see Sakurakawa Rikka's appearance clearly.

The screen shifted again, and a woman wearing a pure black, form-fitting outfit, with a model-like figure, wearing a black top hat, and only wearing a mask covering the upper half of her face, said softly in a cold voice.

"The wicked cannot escape punishment."

"We will make a commitment here..."

The moment "Kira" appeared on the screen, many of the pedestrians watching the big screen exclaimed.

After a brief pause of two or three seconds, accompanied by a very passionate-sounding music (P5 theme song, lifewillchange), when the person in the black coat and pure black mask appeared on the screen again, the crowd could no longer restrain themselves from cheering.

"'Mask'!"

"It's 'Mask' himself!"

"Oh my god, am I dreaming?"

...

Listening to the enthusiastic cheers of the surrounding crowd, including her younger sister beside her, Kawasaki Saki realized at this moment that, unknowingly, "Mask" had gone from being a criminal at the beginning to a hero with countless supporters.

"The criminal, the one who creates death, the evil one who causes panic, Sakurakawa Rikka."

Yosuzora walked into the camera, the black mask seemed to turn into a flame, burning fiercely.

"We will completely erase you from this world."

As the screen turned completely black, the atmosphere at the scene reached its climax in the BGM, and the people in various cities of Sakurakawa Prefecture all burst into enthusiastic cheers at this moment.

...

At the same time, Sakurakawa Rikka, who was in an apartment in a certain city and had watched the entire television broadcast, although her expression did not show any change, her slightly trembling hands still betrayed her nervous mood at this time.

"How... how is it possible..."

Sakurakawa Rikka muttered to herself, her eyes revealing disbelief.

"How could my identity be discovered..."

Just as the Overlimit Society members had speculated, Sakurakawa Rikka's Soul Avatar, Izanami, possessed two special abilities.

The first is to elicit the desires hidden deep within the human heart and transform the other party into a psychic.

To say it is transformation is not quite correct.

Each time she uses this ability, Sakurakawa Rikka loses a lot of life force. For her, whose physical condition is not very good, it is equivalent to using her life as a price to exchange for the birth of a psychic.

However, because Sakurakawa Rikka ate mermaid meat when she was young, she obtained true immortality, and this cursed physique directly offset the cost of using this ability.

The second special thing is that her Soul Avatar, Izanami, completely sacrifices its own combat power. Although it can actively manifest, even an adult man cannot defeat it, it gains an extremely exaggerated range of control.

Now, the limit distance for the Overlimit Society members to control their Soul Avatars, except for Yosuzora, is at most no more than one kilometer.

Sakurakawa Rikka has tested that the maximum distance she can maintain Izanami's existence is nearly half of Sakurakawa Prefecture.

Saying it this way may not be very intuitive.

Simply put.

If Rikka Sakurakawa were in Tokyo, the farthest distance her Soul Avatar could reach would directly cover the edge of Hokkaido and Kyushu on the other end.

Such ability is indeed worthy of the name Izanami for her Soul Avatar.

Rikka Sakurakawa is a very intelligent person, although her mental state is not quite normal, she is still very clever.

All her actions have never been carried out by herself in person. Instead, she uses the power of Izanami to create psychic ability users, gather followers, and guide them in secret.

Rikka Sakurakawa has only one goal.

To create an unprecedented disaster in Sakura Province, and then, through the nature of the Reverse World, create the most powerful evil spirit, ultimately merging Sakura Province... Kyushu, and this entire world, with the Reverse World.

It's not out of a desire to rule the world, nor is there any particular reason.

She simply wants to do it.

However, Rikka Sakurakawa never expected that she, who had been pretending to be a normal person, leaving no evidence, and having all actions carried out by Izanami, would actually be discovered?

How could this be possible!?

Rikka Sakurakawa is smart, but not smart enough to contend with both L and Light Yagami at the same time.

Based solely on criminal psychological profiling and a one-by-one investigation within Osaka City, she had already been identified as a target by those two.

Moreover, there's Yosho, who has a cheat, in that camp.

The moment Yosho knew Rikka Sakurakawa's name, she was already in a dead end.

Isn't this another Death Note in a different sense?

"Is the last resort... the only option left...?"

Rikka Sakurakawa looked at the magazine in her hand, which contained an article about a remote island with a sparse population and a harmonious atmosphere, where a god-worshipping ritual is held every year.

"Only there... only there... can I create a power sufficient to withstand 'Mask'..."

......

Meanwhile, in Kyoto, on the top floor of the office building renovated by the Yukinoshita Construction Company.

The members who had just appeared on television, as well as L, who hadn't shown his face, were gathered here.

"Are you sure you really won't leave any traces?"

Faced with Mai Sakurajima's question, L took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket and chewed on it, waving his hand dismissively.

"Don't worry, my real face and name haven't been exposed for so many years. It's just a world-class hacker who invaded and tampered with a TV broadcast screen. It won't leave any traces."

Hearing L's reply, Mai Sakurajima and the others clearly still didn't quite believe it.

What they didn't believe wasn't what the other party said, but the person himself.

Anyone would have the same reaction as Mai Sakurajima and the others.

The world's greatest detective, who has been investigating "Kira", actually didn't report to the Metropolitan Police Department or take any other action after learning the true identity of "Mask", but directly chose to become an assistant?

This is too outrageous.

Feeling the slightly suspicious gazes of Mai Sakurajima and the others, Yosho looked speechless.

"I'll emphasize it again, L wants to join because he is this kind of person, it has nothing to do with me. What do you mean by looking at me with those succubus-like eyes?"

"Really nothing to do with it?"

Light Yagami said with a smile upon hearing this.

"If it were me making the decision instead of you, I would choose the latter between believing L's words and killing him to prevent future troubles. From this perspective, L's joining is your credit."

To be honest, if it weren't for Yosho's usual lecherous side being too prominent, and his active performance in nighttime activities all along, the members of the Overload Society would even start to suspect that he had some special fetish.

Light Yagami too, and this L too, have actually become allies.

What kind of peculiar constitution is this?

However, although the members of the Overload Society still can't completely trust L, they can realize the value that this famous detective brings.

The resources of the Metropolitan Police Department, the intelligence network within official institutions, and that monstrously terrifying reasoning mind, and now, plus a network of contacts who can find world-class hackers to help.

If the one with Izanami's ability wasn't some Rikka Sakurakawa, but L...

Then he would simply be the most troublesome and terrifying enemy.

"Alright, now that the challenge has been sent out, we can start speculating on the enemy's next move."

L glanced at everyone present and said calmly.

"First, exclude Kyoto and Tokyo, and then, according to Rikka Sakurakawa's cautious personality, exclude those cities with large population densities that are prone to exposing her whereabouts."

Hearing this, Rio Futaba pushed up her glasses and added in a calm tone.

"Combining her mind-control ability, we must also exclude the remote mountains and forests where few people live. If Yosho's plan worked, her top priority now should be her own safety, and she will no longer act alone."

"Without anyone to convert, Rikka Sakurakawa is equivalent to having no ability. But if she converts them remotely one by one, the movements of the psychic ability users are likely to be monitored by us, or even tracked, thereby locking onto her main body."

"So her best choice is to go to a place that is not so eye-catching, but where many people live, and directly convert the local people to use as available pawns."

Hearing Rio Futaba's words, L nodded.

"Yes, your conclusion is the same as mine. I will be responsible for contacting the Metropolitan Police Department to strictly control the traffic arteries everywhere. Although the possibility of Rikka Sakurakawa finding a remote mountain forest to hide is unlikely, these places must also be manned just in case."

After saying this, L stood up, yawned a long yawn, rubbed his eyes, and waved his hand.

"Alright, if there's nothing else, I'll go back to Tokyo first."

When he reached the door, L suddenly seemed to have remembered something and said lightly.

"Oh, right, in order to avoid exposing my identity as much as possible, you can call me Ryuzaki from now on. Consider it a code name."

After L left, before the members could speak, Tamamo-no-Mae suddenly approached Yosho and whispered.

"Yosho-kun, do you think... is it possible that the person named Rikka Sakurakawa might seek help from some powerful evil spirits... or gods?"