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Chapter 9: Making Dreams Come True

Chapter 9: Chapter 9: Making Dreams Come True

"Aaaaaah!"

The Zombie Devil had no time to react at all before Kotone Asaba split it in two.

Immediately after that, Kotone Asaba destroyed both the exposed brain on the Zombie Devil’s head and the face on the right side of its chest.

With that, the Zombie Devil was completely dead.

Although the Zombie Devil would still revive in Hell, if it died again in Hell, it would reincarnate into the human world. Devils who reincarnated would lose their previous memories, and even their appearances would change. It was practically equivalent to becoming an entirely new individual.

So in a certain sense, this Zombie Devil really was thoroughly dead. If Kotone Asaba encountered the Zombie Devil again someday, the Zombie Devil would have no idea who he was.

Now that the Zombie Devil was dead, those zombies were no longer under its command either. They became true walking corpses, only instinctively searching for humans to bite.

Not only did their movements become sluggish, they also no longer knew how to use knives.

Now, it was much easier for Kotone Asaba to deal with these zombies. He casually killed them one by one, as easily as chopping vegetables.

After all, with the "Constitution" rewards from the Codex, his physical ability was already far beyond that of an ordinary person.

After dealing with these zombies, Kotone Asaba absorbed the Zombie Devil’s corpse into the Kamui dimension. This thing should be worth quite a lot of money.

As for those zombies’ severed limbs and remains, he was too lazy to deal with them. In any case, what he had done was reasonable and legal, so he did not need to worry about whether the police would come looking for him.

Humans who had already been zombified were no different from devils. As a private Devil Hunter, hunting devils was only natural.

It was already nine at night.

Normally, Denji would have gone to sleep long ago at this time. After all, he was hungry, so he could only rely on sleep to reduce the feeling of hunger a little.

Only tonight, he could not sleep.

First, it was because he had eaten two extremely delicious meals today, so he did not feel hungry at all. Even now, his stomach still felt a little full.

Second, it was because the person who had treated him the best had already left, and tomorrow, he was going to be dismembered by his creditors. That made it hard for him to fall asleep.

Sure enough, I still don’t want to die...

Denji curled up on the bed, his expression gloomy. The desperate reality before him had made even staying alive an extravagant hope.

Knock, knock.

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.

Denji’s whole body jolted. Could it be that Kotone had come back?!

But after thinking about it again, he felt that was unlikely. It was probably his creditors coming to his door.

Denji could not help sighing. They won’t even let me have one last sleep...

He got out of bed and opened the door, his face low and resigned to his fate.

But what he heard was Kotone Asaba’s voice.

"I’m back."

Denji immediately snapped his head up and stared at Kotone Asaba in shock.

"Kotone?! You... why did you come back?!"

"What’s with that expression? I never said I was leaving. I just went to take care of something."

Kotone Asaba smiled as he spoke.

Denji first felt pleasantly surprised, then his feelings became complicated, because Kotone staying would only get him dragged into his mess.

"Once morning comes, you should leave quickly..."

"Are you still worried about the debt? You don’t have to worry about that anymore. Those creditors of yours were all killed by the Zombie Devil."

"Huh?! They’re all dead? The Zombie Devil?!"

"Yeah. I just went to hunt the Zombie Devil. In the end, I found that your creditors had all been zombified by the Zombie Devil. They turned into zombies, so you don’t need to pay back your debt anymore."

Kotone Asaba did not tell Denji the whole truth.

"R-really?"

Denji’s face was full of disbelief.

That had been tens of millions in debt. Now, all of it had suddenly disappeared. Happiness had arrived so suddenly that he could not recover from it.

"Of course it’s true. You’ll probably see the related news tomorrow or the day after. For now, I’ll take you to rent a better place. Don’t live in this place anymore."

Kotone Asaba was very clear about what Denji wanted. He wanted to sleep in a better, bigger bed, play games in his room, eat delicious food...

[Denji Affinity +5%]

[Denji Affinity progress has reached 60%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]

"Oh! Hell yeah!"

Denji immediately snapped out of that gloomy, despairing mood from earlier.

He did not have anything he needed to bring. Even his clothes were the same set he had always been wearing. He had no other clothes.

Just like that, he directly followed Kotone Asaba and left.

When Kotone Asaba had just finished dealing with the Zombie Devil and those zombies, he had already found the place he intended to rent.

He took Denji to rent a suite.

It had two bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, a living room, and everything else it should have. Although the rent was not cheap, this amount of rent was nothing for a Devil Hunter.

Killing any random devil could earn several hundred thousand, or even over a million yen. Of course, the prerequisite was having the strength to casually hunt devils like that.

After confirming their new place to live, Kotone Asaba took Denji to buy new clothes, along with plenty of food and games. They were the kind of games played on a TV screen.

He also bought all kinds of furniture that needed to be bought.

Although they ran into some trouble along the way, because bringing Pochita into a shopping mall got them stopped by security and even drew the police over, fortunately, he had his private Devil Hunter identification, so he resolved all those problems.

[Denji Affinity +5%]

[Denji Affinity +5%]

[Denji Affinity progress has reached 70%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]

Taking a comfortable hot shower, putting on nice new clothes, playing fun games, eating tasty snacks, sleeping on a soft, big bed...

All of Denji’s dreams had come true today. It was even more than he had ever dared dream about.

Over the course of this one night, Denji’s Affinity increased quite a bit again.

Denji was especially excited tonight, so he did not sleep until very late.

At this moment, Kotone Asaba was in the other bedroom, and Pochita was naturally in this bedroom as well.

Pochita’s Affinity was no longer easy to increase now, so tonight, he planned to sleep while holding Pochita.

As for the chainsaw on Pochita’s head, he was not worried. In normal circumstances, the chainsaw on Pochita’s head was very short and did not spin. As long as he paid a little attention to how he held him, it would not hurt him.

Besides, with his current physical strength, even if the chainsaw in its normal state somehow injured him, it would not matter much.

The moment Kotone Asaba hugged Pochita, those characters immediately appeared before his eyes.

[Pochita Affinity +10%]

[Pochita Affinity progress has reached 40%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]