Chainsaw Man: Mangekyo Sharingan

Chapter 127: Chapter 127: Makima’s Deadly Question

Back in his original male body, Kotone Asaba immediately felt much more comfortable.

However, there was no hope of raising Quanxi’s Affinity anymore unless he went to find the Gender Swap Devil and did it all over again.

He had already given up on raising Quanxi’s Affinity to 80%.

Little Gun and Pochita were both inside the Kamui dimension at the moment. From the time he went to Hong Kong until now, Kotone Asaba had never let them out, in order to avoid Pingtsi using her ability to see through the fact that he had contracts with the Gun Devil and the Chainsaw Devil.

Watching Little Gun and Pochita play video games over there, Kotone Asaba suddenly remembered that they had probably already played through the current games. It was about time to replace them with some new ones.

"When we get back to Tokyo later, I’ll take you two to buy some new games."

Kotone Asaba said to Little Gun and Pochita.

"Woof!"

"Woof!"

Little Gun and Pochita barked at the same time.

[Gun Devil Affinity +5%]

[Pochita Affinity +5%]

[Pochita Affinity progress has reached 90%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]

Now Pochita’s Affinity had already reached 90%. It really had not been easy. However, there was probably still quite some time before it reached 100%. Only then would he be able to obtain the Chainsaw Devil’s strength.

Through the Kamui dimension, Kotone Asaba transferred to Tokyo in the next instant, bringing Little Gun and Pochita out with him.

From the look of things, Kobeni Higashiyama and the others had just finished dinner and washed the dishes. Now they were each doing their own thing.

Kobeni was still the same as always, studying. Reze was teasing the dogs, while Makima was reading.

Makima immediately smelled Kotone Asaba’s scent and turned to look at him. "So you do know how to come back?"

At this moment, Makima’s tone sounded somewhat cold. After all, they had agreed that he would return on time, but Kotone Asaba had broken that promise.

Hearing Makima’s voice, Reze immediately reacted as well. "Koto is finally back. Are you done with your business?"

Kobeni Higashiyama, who was in the room, immediately put down the book in her hands.

"Not really. The main thing is that I ran into an accident two days ago. I was attacked by the Gender Swap Devil. I figured I shouldn’t come back looking like that, so I only returned to normal today."

Kotone Asaba explained with a smile.

Then he answered Reze, "As for the business, I’m not done yet, but it’s almost finished. It probably won’t take more than a few days."

"The Gender Swap Devil? So you turned into a girl before?"

Reze seemed very interested in that.

"Yeah."

Kotone Asaba nodded.

"Then do you have photos? I want to see what Koto looked like as a girl!"

Reze’s expression was practically one step away from her eyes shining.

"I actually do have photos. If you want to see them, go ahead..."

Kotone Asaba was not particularly concerned about it.

However, these photos had been taken by Pingtsi before on purpose. She had said she wanted to treasure and keep them, and had even shared a few with him.

Reze took the photos from Kotone Asaba with some impatience, and Kobeni also leaned over with a curious look.

"Not bad, not bad. As expected of Koto. Even after becoming a girl, you were very cute."

Reze nodded in approval, then asked Kobeni, "Right, Kobeni?"

"Huh? Ah, mm! I didn’t expect Mr. Asaba to be so cute after becoming a girl..."

Kobeni Higashiyama could not help exclaiming as well.

Why did it feel like Mr. Asaba was much cuter than her after turning into a girl...

Kobeni immediately felt a sense of defeat in her heart.

Only Makima seemed uninterested and did not come over to look at the photos with them.

But when Reze and Kobeni returned the photos to Kotone Asaba, Makima’s gaze fell on him.

"What is it? Do you want to see them too?"

Seeing Makima’s gaze, Kotone Asaba voiced his guess.

After Makima nodded slightly, Kotone Asaba handed the photos to her as well.

Makima looked at them for a while, then also gave her evaluation. "From a human perspective, among human women, this is indeed a very high level of attractiveness."

"Ahaha..."

Kotone Asaba laughed a little awkwardly.

Although Kobeni, Reze, and Makima had all praised him once, he could not really bring himself to feel happy about it.

"Then..."

At this moment, Makima suddenly changed the topic. With an expressionless face and a tone devoid of emotion, she asked Kotone Asaba, "Do you think I’m beautiful?"

Kotone Asaba was slightly stunned. He had not expected Makima to suddenly ask that.

"Of course you’re beautiful."

Kotone Asaba gave his honest evaluation.

But immediately afterward, Makima asked an extremely dangerous question. "Between me, Reze, and Kobeni, who is the most beautiful?"

As soon as she said that, Reze and Kobeni’s attention was immediately drawn over.

They also very much wanted to hear who Kotone Asaba thought was the most beautiful.

Sensing Reze, Kobeni, and Makima’s gazes all gathering on him, Kotone Asaba immediately felt a chill down his spine.

What kind of multiple-choice question was this?

This was clearly a death trap!

In order to avoid being "introduced" to a knife, Kotone Asaba gave an answer that offended no one and flattered no one.

"I think each of you has your own beauty."

"Kobeni is the very cute type, the kind that makes people want to cherish and protect her."

"Reze’s trait is that she’s very feminine. It feels like no man could avoid falling under Reze’s charm once she goes on the offensive."

"As for you, Makima, although you’re a devil, your appearance is no different from a human’s. Your beauty is top-tier even among humans, and your cold aura is also very attractive."

"If I absolutely have to say who’s the most beautiful, then I can only say that all of you are very beautiful."

He offended none of them and evaluated all of them.

At this moment, Kobeni Higashiyama’s mind was filled only with Mr. Asaba’s evaluation of her. Being called cute made her very happy.

As for Mr. Asaba’s evaluations of Reze and Makima, Kobeni was still busy being shy, so she basically did not hear the rest and did not care.

"Your mouth has gotten smarter. But it still makes me pretty happy to hear that."

How could Reze fail to see Kotone Asaba’s little thoughts? Still, it did indeed make her happy.

"..."

Makima seemed fairly satisfied and said nothing more.

Kotone Asaba took this opportunity to immediately change the topic. "I’m going to the mall later to buy some new games for Little Gun and Pochita. Do you want to come with me?"

Reze said, "Of course."

Kobeni said, "Me too..."

Makima said, "I’m going."

"Then let’s go together."

Before setting off, Kotone Asaba transferred Little Gun and Pochita back into the Kamui dimension. Pochita was fine, but Little Gun absolutely could not show himself in public.

Kotone Asaba traveled with Kobeni and the other two girls, and their words and actions were all very intimate. This trip made an unknown number of people look at him with envy.

Aside from buying several new games, he also bought some disposable toothbrushes and cups, as well as towels.

As for tonight, naturally, he would spend the night here in Tokyo.

The next day, Kotone Asaba arrived early at Hong Kong Public Safety and waited for Pingtsi and the others to wake up.

He had already helped Pingtsi and Long ask Hong Kong Public Safety for a short leave of just a few days. During this time, they could temporarily work as bounty hunters, so there was no hurry to wake Pingtsi and the others.

Kotone Asaba first went to prepare breakfast for them himself. By the time they woke up, they would be able to eat right away.

Cosmo was actually the first to wake up. It seemed that when Cosmo slept, she had to press the eyeball that had fallen out back into place before closing her eyes and sleeping.

When she got up and opened her eyes, that eyeball fell out again. Also, the pupils in both her eyes were heart-shaped at every moment.

Gradually, Pingtsi and Long also slowly woke up.

Pingtsi rubbed her eyes and asked Kotone Asaba in a sleepy daze, "Asaba... where did you go last night? You weren’t threatened by Quanxi again, were you?"

"I went to take care of something else. Anyway, it definitely had nothing to do with Quanxi. If I went to see her looking like I do now, she would absolutely kick me out."

Kotone Asaba said, "Let’s not talk about that. Wash up and have breakfast first, then we’ll set out for the black market to look at bounty missions."

"Mm..."

Pingtsi nodded. Her ponytail also looked half-awake as she took Long to the bathroom to wash up.

"You should go wash up too. Speaking of which, do you know how? If you don’t, I’ll teach you."

Kotone Asaba said to Cosmo.

"Halloween..."

Cosmo’s expression and tone both seemed somewhat confused.

"All right. Then once they’re done and come out, I’ll go teach you."

Kotone Asaba said.

While waiting for Pingtsi and Long, Kotone Asaba was bored and asked Cosmo, "By the way, these parts of yours... don’t they hurt?"

As he spoke, he pointed at the same spots on his own head, namely the right half of his forehead and his right eye.

Cosmo immediately shook her head, indicating that it did not hurt.

"Got it. Then I was just overthinking it."

Kotone Asaba said.

At that moment, Pingtsi and Long happened to finish washing up and come out, so he took Cosmo into the bathroom.

He took out the disposable items he had bought last night and slowly helped Cosmo brush her teeth while using words to teach her, especially the proper way to brush. If the method was wrong, it would easily hurt the gums.

"Also, don’t swallow toothpaste just because you think it tastes good. This isn’t edible."

Kotone Asaba felt that if he did not specifically remind her about this, Cosmo might really eat the toothpaste directly.

After that came washing her face with a towel. There was nothing particularly important to pay attention to there.

[Cosmo Affinity +5%]

[Cosmo Affinity progress has reached 50%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]

Kotone Asaba would slowly teach Cosmo the everyday life skills she needed to know. Along the way, her Affinity rose as well.

However, even though Cosmo’s Affinity had now reached 50%, it would not immediately unlock a new Codex page. They would have to wait until the Affinity levels in the first part of the Codex had all been raised to a sufficient degree. Cosmo was also among them and needed to reach 80%.

The breakfast combination of fried eggs and milk had long since been prepared. After eating, they directly took a taxi to the Hong Kong black market.

The black market was not limited to trading devil corpses. It was also possible to accept bounty missions there.

In the common understanding of ordinary people, there were usually two types of people: Public Safety Devil Hunters and private Devil Hunters. But in fact, there was also a profession that was generally not spoken of openly. That was the bounty hunter.

However, this was not a fixed profession. To put it plainly, both Public Safety and private Devil Hunters could work part-time as bounty hunters. But the scope involved was not limited to hunting devils. Sometimes it could also involve hunting a certain person.

Of course, Kotone Asaba would not look for bounty missions involving illegal activity. Those kinds of missions were also controlled very strictly. In a relatively formal place like the black market, they generally could not be found.

The place to accept bounty missions was on the top floor of the black market.

Kotone Asaba directly skipped past the area for trading devil corpses and brought Pingtsi, Long, and Cosmo straight to the top floor of the black market.

This place had special entry requirements. At the entrance, two tall men in suits stood guard.

Unlike the area below where devil corpses were traded, which allowed people to enter freely, the threshold for entering this top floor required an identity certificate as a Public Safety or private Devil Hunter, or status as someone like a behind-the-scenes sponsor. Ordinary people were not allowed to enter casually.

Kotone Asaba, Pingtsi, and Long all showed their identification. Although Cosmo had no identification, one could tell at a glance from her appearance that she was a Fiend, and she was clearly part of Kotone Asaba’s group, so the two men in suits did not make things difficult for them.

Not long after entering, they attracted quite a bit of attention.

First, because three rare Fiends had appeared at once. Second, because they were wearing Public Safety uniforms.

Public Safety Devil Hunters who came to work as bounty hunters were a minority, because Public Safety Devil Hunters already had high and stable incomes. There was no need for them to take such dangerous bounty missions.

Especially when Kotone Asaba was being hugged from the left and right by Pingtsi, Long, and Cosmo.

"Damn, am I seeing this right? Three Fiend girls are all clinging to that human boy?"

"What incredible luck with women. Though most people couldn’t survive that kind of luck. All three girls are Fiends..."

"They look like they should be Devil Hunters from Hong Kong Public Safety. I’ve heard Hong Kong Public Safety trains Fiends, and all of them are pretty useful. But who exactly is that boy? All three Fiends are under his command?"

"..."

The surrounding "bounty hunters" quietly discussed Kotone Asaba and the others.

Although Kotone Asaba could vaguely hear some of the discussions, he did not care what they were saying.

His gaze was fixed on the large screen in front of him, because the screen displayed real-time bounty missions that had not yet been accepted. Once a bounty hunter selected one, it would temporarily disappear. Only if the bounty hunter failed to complete it or abandoned it midway would it appear on the screen again.

Accepting a bounty mission was only the first step. After that, they had to privately meet with the sponsor behind it, obtain the detailed content of the bounty mission, and sign a contract. Only then would the bounty mission be considered officially accepted.

Bounty missions were usually more dangerous than the devils Public Safety and private Devil Hunters encountered, because the mission locations were often unsafe zones, such as forests, sea regions, slums, and other areas not under Public Safety control.

Places like forests and sea regions covered enormous areas. The areas Public Safety could control at any time were limited, and those outside their control counted as unsafe zones. Many dangerous devils hid in those places.

Then there were slums. Some slums looked like slums on the surface, but in reality, they were lawless lands no one managed, overrun with thugs and gangs. They were also places where certain devils liked to hide.

If it were not an unsafe zone, there would be no need for the sponsors behind the scenes to issue bounty missions. They could not very well compete with official Public Safety and private guilds to kill devils. That would be difficult and thankless.

Kotone Asaba, however, did not care about the danger.

He only paid attention to the missions with the highest bounties.

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