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Chapter 34: Atonement

Chapter 34: Chapter 34: Atonement

But because the black lump of flesh and giant eye had just fallen off, Ivan Goto’s reason seemed to recover somewhat.

Only now did he realize that he had seemingly turned into a Devil just now. He clearly knew that this was a terrible thing, yet he still wanted to kill Kotone Asaba and those classmates.

Ivan Goto clutched his head with both hands, his face full of pain. The contradiction in his heart tormented him terribly.

The negative influence brought on by the Jealousy Devil had gone far beyond what he had expected. It had actually made him become like a Devil, and had even made him want to kill people!

"No, don’t come over! Stay away from me! I’m about to lose control again!"

But his emotions and body gradually began going out of control again, so he hurriedly shouted for Kotone Asaba not to approach him.

No matter what, he did not want to end up killing someone. But it was difficult for him to control his body. Even trying to back away from Kotone Asaba was hard to do.

Kotone Asaba did not speak and did nothing. He merely observed Ivan Goto’s condition in silence.

He noticed that Ivan Goto had recovered some consciousness and reason, probably because he had removed the Devil thing from his body just now.

But now, the black lump of flesh and giant eye were about to grow out again, so Ivan Goto’s consciousness and reason would probably be swallowed up again too.

For the moment, Kotone Asaba did not have any good method. The simplest and crudest solution was to kill Ivan Goto directly.

But Ivan Goto’s painful struggle just now, along with the way he had shouted for Kotone not to come closer, made Kotone Asaba give up on that option.

Ivan Goto’s personality might be very strange, but he was not bad by nature. His reason had merely been affected by a Devil. If Kotone Asaba was going to kill anything, it should be the Devil that had formed a contract with Ivan Goto.

Since Goto could briefly recover his consciousness and reason, Kotone would help him remove the Devil thing from his body first...

Thinking this, Kotone Asaba used his left-eye Kamui again, removing the newly formed black lump of flesh on Ivan Goto’s back.

Sure enough, Ivan Goto temporarily returned to normal a little. He did not know exactly what was going on, only that Kotone Asaba seemed to be the one doing it.

After freezing for a moment, he immediately came back to his senses. He desperately wanted to break free from this state where he was being seriously affected by the Jealousy Devil. Otherwise, he would soon be unable to control himself again.

In his extreme anxiety, he suddenly remembered something the Jealousy Devil had said to him: the stronger his jealousy was, the stronger the Devil power he could unleash would become.

And just now, he had indeed turned into that because his jealousy had reached the extreme.

If he could reduce his jealousy, perhaps he could escape this state. The difficult part was reducing that jealousy.

Because Ivan Goto was under the influence of the Jealousy Devil, it was especially easy for him to feel jealousy. So in reverse, trying to lessen his jealousy became very difficult.

Ivan Goto began trying to make himself forget, doing his best to push away anything that would make him feel jealous.

But not long after he started trying, black lumps of flesh grew out of his back again.

"Damn it!"

Sensing that his emotions and body were about to fall out of his control again, Ivan Goto could not help cursing.

Kotone Asaba vaguely sensed Ivan Goto’s intent. It seemed he was trying to break free of the Devil’s influence, so naturally, Kotone would help him.

Kotone Asaba used his left-eye Kamui once more, and Ivan Goto once again briefly recovered his reason and consciousness.

This time, he seized the opportunity and barely managed to reduce his jealousy with great difficulty.

Right now, he did not dare think about anything. He was deeply afraid that one careless thought would ignite his emotions again.

"Is it finally resolved?"

Kotone Asaba noticed that the Devil thing on Ivan Goto’s back was gradually losing vitality, and there were no longer any signs of it "coming back from the dead."

Looking at Kotone Asaba in front of him, Ivan Goto had complicated feelings for a moment.

Not only had Kotone Asaba not done anything to him, he had instead helped him temporarily break free from the Jealousy Devil’s influence.

"Where is the Devil that made a contract with you?"

At that moment, Kotone Asaba asked Ivan Goto directly.

"..."

Ivan Goto hesitated for a while, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then said with firm resolve, "It’s in the basement beneath the Devil Research Club’s clubroom. It calls itself the Jealousy Devil."

Although saying these words would cause him to die for violating the contract, he decided to atone in this way.

Kotone Asaba had no idea what the consequences of Ivan Goto saying such a thing would be. However, he clearly saw a Devil suddenly appear, taking a stance as though it was about to kill Ivan Goto.

He immediately understood something and instantly teleported beside Ivan Goto with his teleportation ability, placing one hand on Ivan Goto’s shoulder.

At the same time, he entered his intangible state and applied intangibility to Ivan Goto. The Jealousy Devil’s life-taking attack failed to hit Ivan Goto.

"Good..."

Discovering that intangibility could avoid the punishment for breaking a contract, Kotone Asaba let out a slight sigh of relief.

He had only tried it just now with the mindset of seeing whether he could save Ivan Goto, but it had actually succeeded.

The main reason was that Kamui was too broken. This intangibility ability was fundamentally closely connected to the Kamui dimension. The Kamui dimension was an alternate space completely isolated from the real world, and it was also Kotone Asaba’s exclusive space.

Unless someone could forcibly open his Kamui dimension, even the punishment for violating a contract could do nothing to someone currently in an intangible state.

At this moment, Ivan Goto was extremely shocked to discover that he was completely fine.

Just now, for some reason, the Jealousy Devil’s attack had passed straight through his body without touching him at all.

Seeing Kotone Asaba standing beside him with one hand on his shoulder, Ivan Goto wondered if this was Kotone Asaba’s ability.

He found it unbelievable. Whether human or Devil, the party that violated a contract was doomed to die. Yet Kotone Asaba had actually allowed him to avoid the punishment for violating the contract.

Although Ivan Goto had not truly suffered the punishment for breaking the contract, the contract itself had already been completely destroyed. Now, he had almost no connection to the Jealousy Devil anymore, and he would no longer become so easily jealous in the future.

After this heavy lesson, he would never dare make a private contract with a Devil on his own again.

"You stay here quietly. I’ll go deal with that thing."

The "thing" Kotone Asaba mentioned was naturally the Jealousy Devil.