Death League 101: I'm Dead In 10 Minutes!-Chapter 58: “Midnight Hunting Spree (32): Manhunt”
Leinster felt uneasy somewhere deep in his heart.
It was as if they were frogs being boiled in warm water, unaware of their demise.
This ruin gave him exactly that feeling.
Leinster told Otomen Lover about his speculation and Otomen Lover shuddered, her face turning pale.
"T-then what to do? Does this ruin have a deadline or something? Maybe we actually have to clear the Ruin before a certain time..."
If that’s the case, it would be the worst.
Leinster didn’t deny this possibility but their priority was still to evade the pursuers and find clues about the guardian deity.
They only have this little time to think about the clues, so Leinster quickly told Otomen Lover about his conspiracy theory.
"I think the shops in this mall are the keys to finding the guardian spirit."
Each store had a strange rule and they tried to harm the challengers, turning them into products for the ghosts to buy.
Since all they could do in the mall was to shop for goods, the clues must lie within the goods or the store.
"Hmmm...so far, the three stores use a specific part of the human body as their product."
Otomen Lover pointed out this fact that Leinster also realized.
The watch store required a whole human being, the jewel store required an eye and the clothing store required a human skin.
All of them were parts of a human body.
"Could it be that if we collected all the goods, it would actually form a complete entity?"
Leinster blurted out his thoughts, something based on his understanding of the monsters.
After all, he was an alien, he lived among strange monsters back in his original place.
He didn’t hesitate to speculate about the monsters’ thoughts with the most malice.
Otomen Lover subconsciously covered her mouth, resisting the urge to gag.
"I-if what you said is right, then we need to collect other body parts as well, right?"
But they already had a watch, it was supposed to be a complete human body—
Wait.
Otomen Lover’s eyes widened and her gaze met Leinster’s thoughtful look.
"No, I made a mistake. The watch didn’t represent a whole human body— "
"It represents a life force."
It was the very being that "fueled" a human!
"Ughhhh! So complicated!"
Otomen Lover groaned and suddenly slapped her forehead.
"Ah! We didn’t bring any clothes from the clothing store!"
If they had to gather the seven dragon balls— ah, no, the seven body parts or whatsoever, they needed the clothes too!
Otomen Lover immediately lamented a few times before she saw Leinster’s lips slowly rising all the way to his ears.
Ba-thump.
Her heart skipped a beat, but not with love.
It was a bad premonition.
"W-what are you planning to do?"
They really didn’t steal the clothes, right? The shopkeeper didn’t react at all.
Leinster wagged his imaginary devil tail as he whispered to Otomen Lover whose face slowly turned even paler than before.
"Y-you! You’re insane!" Otomen Lover stood up abruptly and almost shouted at Leinster.
"No, no, it’s entirely plausible. We just need to observe, and...hehehe."
Otomen Lover saw Leinster’s scheming face and knew that he had made up his mind.
She could only count her stocks of oil and grumbled.
"After all the commotion before, we only have one oil can each."
Next, they had to genuinely buy another product to get free oils.
"No worries, no worries. You just wait for my signal."
Leinster slowly stood up and walked back...
Towards the clothing store.
The audience in his livestream instantly erupted in an uproar.
[Pureblood_Uchiha:
Is he commiting suicide, or is he dumb, or is he crazy??]
[Leinster Slayer:
It seems that God heard my prayer. The bastard walked back to his own grave.]
The audience thought that Leinster would enter the clothing store again, but to their surprise, Leinster only snooped around a distance away from the clothing store, seemingly eyeing a target.
After a while, a few customers who were satisfied with their hunt inside the clothing store slowly strolled out of the store, walking towards Leinster’s place.
Leinster and Otomen Lover held their breaths, hiding in the gap between the stores, their lamps tucked beneath their clothes, only emitting an extremely dim light.
One customer, two, three...
Then, Leinster spotted a lone customer— a male.
This one was limping, but it walked fast, looking extremely disturbing.
The most eye-catching thing was his clothes— it looked brand new.
Leinster’s eyes instantly lit up.
"Found the target!"
Otomen Lover clutched her oil lamp tightly as she watched Leinster manipulate his chains.
His black chains slithered in silence, like a poisonous snake hunting for prey.
The target, the limping male ghost, didn’t notice the chains at all.
He just kept walking stiffly, looking for another prey while the Bounty Event was still on-going.
Behind the ghost, the chains sneaked into the male ghost’s simple t-shirt and then....
Grabbed the ghost’s wrists.
"Ah...?"
The male ghost felt something, but the chains moved so swiftly that by the time he noticed something wrong, his hands were already pulled up and his t-shirt was smoothly taken out of his body.
!!
Sexual harassment!!
The ghost felt so humiliated that its grey skin turned crimson red but then, he watched as the t-shirt slowly floated away towards a dark place.
And then, the chains came back!
This time, they restrained the ghost’s legs, instantly pulling down his pants.
!!
The new t-shirt that he had just bought!
His newly-bought trousers!
The ghost felt that he was about to faint.
At the same time, Leinster was thrilled as he stuffed the two clothes onto the shopping bag, not knowing that a person stood at the corridor on the other side, separated by the empty place in the middle.
The person compared the floating bounty picture and the one across their place.
After making sure that the target was right, a cold smile flashed on the person’s expressionless face.
A familiar scythe gleamed sharply in the dark.
Ha. The number one criminal.
"Found you."
