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Chapter 8: Dealing with the Zombie Devil

Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Dealing with the Zombie Devil

A little over half an hour after Kotone Asaba told the gang boss, the gang boss gathered a group of people and headed to the abandoned factory. Keiko Matsuno was among them.

"Keiko, why do you look like you’re in a bad mood?"

At this moment, the gang boss and Keiko Matsuno were both sitting in the back seat of a car on the way to the abandoned factory. He had noticed that Keiko Matsuno looked unhappy.

"It’s nothing. I just messed up today, so I’m a little frustrated."

Keiko Matsuno casually explained it, but did not say too much to the gang boss.

Letting Kotone Asaba slip away had made her very upset. Until now, she had always been the one to toy with others, but today, she felt as if she had been toyed with instead.

She just had no idea how that brat had escaped. She had clearly given instructions to those gang members.

Of course, the gang boss knew about Keiko Matsuno’s particular hobby. On top of that, since Keiko Matsuno did not explain in detail, he did not connect it to the young man who had spoken with him in the bar earlier.

After all, the targets Keiko Matsuno usually set her eyes on were reckless fools, and he felt that the young man from earlier was clearly not a reckless fool.

Soon, the gang boss and his group arrived at the abandoned factory.

"The Zombie Devil should be inside. Let’s go in and talk to it."

After saying that, the gang boss sent his men to force open the tightly shut gate in front of them.

Of course, the gang boss was not only accompanied by his own men. There were also people from other gangs with him. They had all come to make a contract with the Zombie Devil, hoping to obtain greater power and make more money.

They switched on their flashlights, and after heading deeper inside, they found the Zombie Devil.

Some of them were still afraid after all. The moment they saw the Zombie Devil’s terrifying appearance, they did not dare step forward.

The gang boss, however, approached step by step without changing his expression. "Let’s make a contract, Zombie Devil. Give us power, and we will satisfy your demands."

"Sure... What you want is a devil’s power, and what I want is a Devil Hunter’s life!"

The Zombie Devil agreed to make a contract with them.

"...A Devil Hunter’s life?"

Hearing the Zombie Devil’s contract condition, the gang boss froze for a moment, then slowly turned to look at Keiko Matsuno.

Not only him, everyone else with them also looked at Keiko Matsuno.

The reason was simple. Among this group, only Keiko Matsuno was a Devil Hunter.

Originally, the gang boss had brought Keiko Matsuno along only because she had happened to meet him at the bar. He had not expected her to come in handy so perfectly...

"Wh-why are you all looking at me?"

Keiko Matsuno immediately panicked a little, realizing that her situation had become somewhat dangerous.

Just as the thought of running away rose in her mind, someone suddenly stabbed her through the heart from behind.

"Ugh..."

Keiko Matsuno lowered her head in a daze, staring at the tip of the blade that had pierced through her chest.

After coming back to her senses, she wanted to use her devil’s power for one final resistance, but it was already too late. Others immediately came up and finished her off, and just like that, she collapsed in a pool of blood.

With the contract condition fulfilled, the gang boss and the others immediately obtained the Zombie Devil’s power.

However, this power was not the same as what they had imagined. Before they even realized what was wrong, they were all transformed into zombies by the Zombie Devil.

"Ha ha ha ha ha...!"

The Zombie Devil immediately burst into wild, strange laughter.

At the same time, the sound of applause came from a certain direction.

The Zombie Devil’s laughter stopped abruptly, and it looked in that direction. "...Huh? There’s still another human here."

From that direction, Kotone Asaba slowly walked over, with Pochita following beside him.

"A human and a... devil lackey?"

The Zombie Devil seemed to notice something. "You’re a Devil Hunter?!"

"Yes."

Looking at the gang boss and the others who had already become zombies, Kotone Asaba nodded in satisfaction.

After being lured by him, these people had encountered the Zombie Devil earlier than they had in the original story and had turned into zombies ahead of schedule. The debt Denji owed was now completely gone.

That was because Denji’s creditors were all among these people. In particular, that old man surnamed Hamano was the biggest creditor. Now that they had all become zombies, Denji naturally no longer needed to pay back his debts.

"Mr. Devil Hunter! Seriously! These guys are idiots! Super idiots! They actually wanted to gain my power, and now they’ve become zombies because of it. I mean, I am the Zombie Devil! Ha ha ha ha..."

Perhaps because the Zombie Devil was in such a good mood, it even had the spare interest to chat with Kotone Asaba.

"True..."

Before Kotone Asaba had transmigrated, when he had read the manga at home, he had already really wanted to make a comment about this. How had these guys been stupid enough to make something of themselves? Were they relying purely on being evil and heartless, without any brains at all?

"Mr. Devil Hunter! You should obediently die too!"

The Zombie Devil’s expression suddenly changed. It no longer wanted to chat with Kotone Asaba. "Devil Hunters kill us devils, so I hate them! That means I have to kill you!"

"Everyone! Chop him into pieces and throw him in the trash!"

Under the Zombie Devil’s command, the people it had turned into zombies immediately charged at Kotone Asaba with knives in hand.

However, Kotone Asaba’s expression remained calm.

"Pochita, let’s go."

"Woof, woof!"

Kotone Asaba grabbed the handle on Pochita’s body and pulled Pochita’s tail. The chainsaw on Pochita’s head instantly extended and began spinning at high speed.

The zombies had already rushed in front of him. Facing the knife tips stabbing straight toward him, he did not even blink. In the next instant, the entire knife, and even the whole zombie, passed straight through his body.

The other zombies were the same. No matter how they swung the knives in their hands, they could not touch Kotone Asaba in the slightest.

Of course, Kotone Asaba in his current state also could not attack those zombies. If he wanted to attack, he had to deactivate his "intangibility" state. It was impossible to make only his body intangible while leaving the chainsaw materialized. If he did not apply intangibility to Pochita as well, the chainsaw weapon would pass straight through his hand, which would also make attacking impossible.

He wanted to deal with the Zombie Devil first, then slowly take care of these zombies afterward.

Kotone Asaba advanced toward the Zombie Devil step by step. None of the zombies could stop him at all. Even when they pounced at him from every direction at once, they all lunged through empty air.

"What is going on? Why can’t we touch you?! Aah... it’s another one of these weird abilities! Disgusting! This is why I hate Devil Hunters so much!"

The Zombie Devil’s tone shifted from shock to anger.

However, it also realized that although the zombies could not touch this Devil Hunter, this Devil Hunter could not touch the zombies either, so it still did not take this Devil Hunter seriously.

Kotone Asaba was too lazy to waste words with the Zombie Devil. His expression remained cold and composed. When he got close to the Zombie Devil, he suddenly sped up and rushed forward.

"Come on! Die!"

The Zombie Devil still looked arrogant.

That was because it believed that if this Devil Hunter wanted to kill it, then it would also be able to touch this Devil Hunter. Any human touched by it would turn into a zombie.

However, Kotone Asaba was only pretending to attack. His entire body passed straight through the Zombie Devil, arriving behind it.

At that moment, his body and the chainsaw in his hand materialized. He instantly spun around and unleashed a returning horizontal slash, using the chainsaw in his hand to saw the Zombie Devil directly in half.