Posts from 🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks Auto-translated

Any internal monologues were superfluous; the shinobi simply stood for a long time with a pale face, attentively observing what he saw, without looking away. Then he approached the severed head, knelt down. Gently, he ran his hand over her cheek, smoothed her hair, and closed her once bright green, now withered eyes, the color of stagnant swamp water. He touched two fingers to his lips and then to hers. If he believed in such concepts, he would probably have decided that the universe had decreed to punish him instantly for the passionate youthful emotion he had managed to experience – now he was beginning to understand what it had been.
Having imprinted her last moment on the darkest shelf of his memory, he rose and turned away. His blood ran cold, and a sudden gust of wind raised goosebumps on his exposed stomach – but not a shiver.
"What a freezer," came the first conscious thought.

Pulling his jacket tighter around him, he methodically, without haste, examined the scene, the shape of the cuts, the approaches and exits to this area, and everything else that came to mind, trying to imagine the sequence of events, perhaps the type of weapon that could have been used, and where his own, future victim might have gone, in whose stomach he would slowly and deliberately twist the katana.

—Be careful with sweets, you non-Asmidul. —Asmidul said with a sly grin, dropping the empty box into the trash can. —Unlike all sorts of diagnoses, this can really lead to the most unfortunate consequences.

Having said goodbye to the journalist in this way, he decides to quickly stop by Nergal's home address before the concert.

Genz needs to, apparently, not "examine the area," but remember what he ate at the restaurant yesterday...

—Hi, friend! —he waved to an old acquaintance. —Out for a run, or are you rushing somewhere?

- Hi, Asm! I'm running to the concert, don't want to be late!

- With thoughts?... Well, I can do that. What exactly would you like to hear?

The presentation featured Erika, Ghenza (appearing later), Asmidul with Nergal, Sheila, and many others.