Chapter 90: Chapter 90: Santa Claus
The little creature tasted the snack with obvious enjoyment, but it did not show much of a reaction.
"Didn’t the people who looked after you before give you a name?"
Using the snack as bait, Kotone Asaba tentatively asked the little creature again.
Perhaps because he had given it a snack, the little creature finally responded.
It shook its head.
Although it did not speak, that was enough to prove that it could understand what Kotone Asaba was saying.
[Gun Devil Affinity +5%]
The little creature kept eating nonstop, and its Affinity finally rose a little. He had not expected a single bag of snacks to bring them slightly closer.
"Is this your first time eating something like this?"
Kotone Asaba tried to communicate with the little creature more.
The little creature was still very aloof and only nodded slightly.
Kotone Asaba was a little surprised, but it actually made sense.
The people in the German military probably would not give this little creature any delicious food. Snacks with no real nutritional value were even less likely.
After all, Devils only needed human blood, but that did not mean they disliked the foods humans ate. It was just that a strict place like the military would usually not handle things in such a down-to-earth way.
"I have a lot more snacks here. If you want to eat, you can have your fill."
As he spoke, Kotone Asaba took several more bags of snacks out of the Kamui dimension and let the little creature eat them for the time being.
Meanwhile, he dealt with the remaining mafia members in the Kamui dimension.
Just like the previous process, Kotone Asaba transferred the mafia members out of the Kamui dimension one by one, controlled them with genjutsu, and absorbed their lifespans.
Once their lifespans had been completely absorbed and they died, the genjutsu would also be released, so there would be no ongoing drain on him.
After absorbing the second person’s lifespan, Kotone Asaba only obtained five years this time.
That person looked like he was only in his twenties or thirties. If he had died naturally of old age, he definitely would have had more than five years left. He was probably going to die in an accident five years later.
Though it could not really be considered a complete accident either. With an identity like mafia member, suddenly losing one’s life at any time was perfectly normal.
After spending quite some time, Kotone Asaba finally finished absorbing the lifespans of all the mafia members.
All added together, he had obtained a reserve of more than two thousand years of lifespan, enough to use the strongest thousand-year weapon, the Spear of Longinus, twice.
After finishing with those mafia members, Kotone Asaba needed to continue interacting with the little Gun Devil.
The little creature had already eaten several bags of snacks, and it had even opened the packaging itself.
However, its method was extremely simple and crude. It directly used the gun on its head to shoot open the packaging, which also caused some of the snacks inside the bags to scatter across the ground.
When the gunshot sounded earlier, it had almost startled Kotone Asaba. His first reaction had been to phase, and only then had he realized that the little Gun Devil had simply used its own ability to open a snack bag.
The little creature had never eaten such delicious things before, and it instantly fell in love with them.
[Gun Devil Affinity +5%]
[Gun Devil Affinity progress has reached 10%. Achievement reward obtained: Constitution +1]
Its Affinity had already reached ten percent. In truth, that only meant it had the tiniest bit of goodwill toward him, and he still could not casually touch it.
"Since you don’t have a name, and calling you the Gun Devil’s heart is too much trouble, how about I call you Little Gun?"
Kotone Asaba was terrible at naming things and was not very good at coming up with names, so he simply called it Little Gun.
The little creature had no particular reaction. It seemed to care nothing about names.
"Since you’re not responding, I’ll take that as silent approval."
Kotone Asaba said.
At that moment, he suddenly remembered that he should let Pochita come out and interact with Little Gun. They would have to come into contact sooner or later, so he might as well see whether they could get along peacefully.
He immediately transferred Pochita out.
When Little Gun saw Pochita suddenly appear, it first froze for a moment, then its expression showed hostility and wariness.
Pochita’s brows immediately furrowed as well. Little Gun’s appearance was extremely obvious, so Pochita could definitely recognize that this was the Gun Devil.
Given the bad blood between Pochita and the Gun Devil, it was normal for him not to look friendly.
"Woof!"
Pochita barked and acted fierce toward Little Gun.
"Woof!"
Little Gun also responded with a fierce expression.
No one knew whether it subconsciously behaved like a dog, or if it was copying Pochita and imitating a dog.
"Woof, woof!"
"Woof, woof, woof!"
"..."
Anyone who did not know the situation would really think this was two puppies arguing. Who would dare imagine that this was the infamous Chainsaw Devil and Gun Devil imitating dogs while arguing?
Although the two little creatures argued fiercely, neither of them actually started fighting.
Perhaps Little Gun instinctively felt fear and unease toward Pochita, so it did not dare make a move rashly.
Logically speaking, the Gun Devil had already lost its memories, so it should not remember what Pochita had done to it. But that fear seemed to be engraved into its very being, and it was also possible that its memory loss was not truly complete.
As for Pochita, he was relatively obedient. He was probably just messing around. If he really wanted to fight, he would have turned into the black Chainsaw form already.
He also understood that Kotone Asaba was trying to interact with the Gun Devil.
"All right, all right. Be nice to each other. From now on, if you want to eat more of those snacks from earlier, I’ll give you as many as you want. How about you make up with Pochita? The one I’m calling Pochita is him."
After saying this to Little Gun, Kotone Asaba also said to Pochita, "Pochita, its name is Little Gun now. How should I put it... Anyway, it’s going to be our companion from now on."
Little Gun hesitated for a while, then still nodded.
It was not exactly because it had been completely tempted by snacks, but because it was currently too weak and had no choice.
Aside from instinctively knowing how to use its abilities, all it knew was that the Pochita in front of it made it feel danger and unease.
"Woof."
Pochita also had no objections.
He could sense that this Gun Devil had become far, far weaker, and posed no threat to him or Kotone Asaba.
In truth, Pochita did not really have any deep hatred toward the Gun Devil in the first place. Back then, he had simply heard someone calling for help and went to deal with the Gun Devil. If the one calling for help at that time had been the Gun Devil, then he would have helped the Gun Devil fight someone else instead.
He did not hold hatred toward any Devil. Whoever called for help was who he would help. All he wanted was a hug. Unfortunately, everyone he hugged had died, except for Kotone Asaba.
Ever since he discovered that maintaining this form allowed him to hug Kotone Asaba normally, he never wanted to turn back into the black Chainsaw form again.
And because he had a contract with Kotone Asaba, the current Pochita would not react even if he heard someone calling for help.
At that moment, Kotone Asaba suddenly remembered that there was a piece of Gun Devil flesh inside the Kamui dimension. He had placed it in the Kamui dimension a long time ago and had never taken it out.
It might be useful this time.
Kotone Asaba immediately took out that piece of Gun Devil flesh and handed it to Little Gun.
"This is your flesh, right? Can you absorb it? Maybe it can restore some of your power."
Even though Little Gun had lost its memories, it could still recognize that this was its own flesh. It immediately swallowed it directly, and its power recovered slightly.
There were still many, many pieces of Gun Devil flesh scattered all across the world, most of which were held by Devils. Such a small piece of flesh naturally could not restore much power for Little Gun.
[Gun Devil Affinity +5%]
Its Affinity rose again. Kotone Asaba thought that it really had come in handy.
Now he had found the fastest way to raise the Gun Devil’s Affinity, which was to give Little Gun more pieces of Gun Devil flesh to restore its power.
"Woof."
Little Gun expressed its joy through that bark and its facial expression, seemingly wanting Kotone Asaba to give it more flesh.
If Pochita imitated dog behavior because he was willing to be Kotone Asaba’s pet, then Little Gun was probably learning from Pochita.
"Don’t rush. For now, I only had that one piece of flesh on me. Later, I’ll find more flesh for you."
Kotone Asaba said to Little Gun, "So come with me. I’ll find more pieces of flesh for you."
Before he knew it, he and Little Gun had formed this contract.
In truth, he had not planned to make a contract, but Little Gun itself treated this as one.
It was just like when he had first met Pochita. Pochita had also treated his words as a contract.
Now, the contract Kotone Asaba needed to fulfill was to give Little Gun more pieces of flesh, while Little Gun had to follow him.
Putting that aside for now, he needed to put Little Gun into the Kamui dimension first, then leave Germany.
Little Gun was different from Pochita. It absolutely could not be seen by outsiders.
If outsiders saw Pochita, they might still think he was cute. But if they saw Little Gun... the gun on its head was so obvious that it would easily make people think of the Gun Devil.
And if it was photographed by some media outlet, the German military would quickly discover that the Gun Devil’s heart had been taken by him. For now, he still did not want to openly oppose an entire country with his real identity, especially when it might even involve some of Germany’s allies...
For matters related to the Gun Devil, he only wanted to appear wearing a mask.
Before leaving, Kotone Asaba carefully checked Little Gun’s entire body again.
He did not find anything like a listening device on Little Gun. Either there had never been one, or the mafia members had already removed it.
With his insight, he could see even specks of dust clearly, so he could be certain that there was nothing on Little Gun’s body. But as for inside its body, that was harder to say.
"Little Gun, did anyone put anything inside your body?"
Kotone Asaba deliberately asked again.
Little Gun responded by shaking its head.
Since Little Gun had answered that way, he no longer paid attention to it.
In the blink of an eye, Kotone Asaba entered the Kamui dimension together with Little Gun and Pochita.
As for the mafia members’ corpses, he also threw them into the Kamui dimension, eliminating any traces so the German military would not notice anything.
He placed those corpses and the armored vehicles in a certain area of the Kamui dimension.
In any case, the Kamui dimension was large enough. Dividing out one area to store all kinds of "trash" had no effect at all.
Little Gun entered this unknown alternate space for the first time, but its reaction was quite calm.
In truth, that was only because it did not understand anything, and because its nature was relatively aloof.
After that, he returned to Tokyo.
Inside his own home, he could temporarily let Little Gun out. If he was anywhere else, he would have to keep Little Gun in the Kamui dimension at all times.
Kotone Asaba prepared a television, games, and all kinds of snacks for Little Gun. If Little Gun liked playing games, perhaps this could help improve its relationship with Pochita.
Little Gun looked at these things it had never seen before. Since it had nothing to do anyway, it wanted to try studying them.
"Woof."
At that moment, Pochita barked at Little Gun and began demonstrating, seemingly teaching Little Gun how to play games.
Seeing this, Kotone Asaba smiled in relief.
Pochita was still very obedient, and he was willing to listen to him and get along with Little Gun properly.
Under Pochita’s demonstration, Little Gun gradually started to roughly understand, imitating Pochita’s movements as it played the game.
The game happened to be related to guns, which made Little Gun even more interested.
Just then, his phone suddenly rang.
Kotone Asaba glanced at it and saw that the call was from Tokyo Public Safety. This was the phone in Yuki Kirisu’s office.
"Hello? Is something the matter, Miss Kirisu?"
"Good. You know how to address me properly, at least!"
Yuki Kirisu praised Kotone Asaba first, then began talking business.
"It’s like this. A classified item was intercepted by a major mafia group in Germany, and Germany is requesting emergency support. They don’t have enough manpower right now. Two elite squads just happened to be tied down by Devils that possess pieces of Gun Devil flesh, so they can’t get away for the time being. As for the other elite Devil Hunters they can actually send, there are only a few."
"I heard that even the elderly Santa Claus has shown up. If there hadn’t been news of him this time, many people would have assumed he had already died of old age."
"In short, Germany is asking various countries for urgent aid. They helped us once before, so this time, no matter what, we have to send at least one elite Devil Hunter as a gesture. But Japan doesn’t have many elites either. At the moment, aside from Captain Kishibe, you’re the only one who’s relatively free, so I came to ask you first. That’s the general situation. What do you think?"
The so-called classified item was undoubtedly the Gun Devil’s heart.
After listening to Yuki Kirisu speak for so long, Kotone Asaba had already thought things through during that time.
"Then I’ll go help. I’m free anyway."
Kotone Asaba agreed.
In reality, he had considered that the mafia group that had intercepted Little Gun might have a large amount of Gun Devil flesh. Since they dared challenge the military, they were definitely not an ordinary mafia group. There was an extremely high chance that they were secretly storing a large amount of Gun Devil flesh.
"Good. Your Devil power lets you teleport back and forth directly, right? It would be best if you went straight to Germany in a bit. The specific location is the Berlin Public Safety building. I’ll contact them right away and confirm your identity."
After that, Kotone Asaba and Yuki Kirisu hung up.
"I have something to do. You two can play in the other space. It’s just that you’ll have to restart this level."
Before setting out, Kotone Asaba said this to Little Gun and Pochita.
Neither little creature had any objections, so he let the two of them continue playing games in the Kamui dimension.
Immediately after that, he transferred himself to Germany. This time, he was not wearing a mask. He had come to Germany in his identity as a Devil Hunter from Tokyo Public Safety.
For the time being, he did not know where Berlin Public Safety was. However, the place he had come to last time had been Berlin, so this time, he also accurately teleported within Berlin’s borders.
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