Aozaki Aoko Case File

Baobhan Sith was temporarily placed by Aoko in the Castle of the Principle Blood. To put her at ease, Aoko even spent time accompanying Baobhan Sith on a stroll through the city's empty pedestrian street, explaining what kind of place the Principle Blood was and what rules one needed to live here.

Baobhan Sith was a bit afraid of loneliness, but years of hard survival had made such trivialities unimportant. The two-story house Aoko picked for her made her so happy she was speechless. After all, this was the first time in her life she'd ever lived in a beautiful house.

However, Aoko's good deed wasn't without expectations. The house she gave Baobhan Sith was, in her city plan, a shoe shop, specializing in designing and making all kinds of beautiful shoes.

In the original timeline, Baobhan Sith had a keen interest in shoes, collecting a huge number from pan-human history. Now, Aoko cut in early and started cultivating her in this direction, which was just as well—after all, interest is the best teacher.

Moreover, once fairies have a purpose, their lives enter a new stage. Perhaps Baobhan Sith might even gain a fairy domain related to shoes, just like Totorot.

After leaving some fashion magazines and daily necessities for Baobhan Sith, Aoko returned to the outside world. Standing in a field, she gazed at the cliffside village she'd established by the sea, feeling a surge of emotion.

"Great location, great views—just too bad the villagers are all beasts," Aoko muttered, raising her right hand and gently squeezing it. When she opened her hand again, several multicolored gems fell into the soil.

Then, several glowing lines rapidly spread across the ground, soon wrapping the entire Tintagel village in a tight cocoon. A hemispherical barrier rose from the ground, sealing the village off from the outside world. Outsiders would have a hard time noticing anything, and the fairy residents inside couldn't escape.

"Time to get to work!" Aoko intertwined her fingers, stretched her muscles, and then began layering herself with powerful reinforcement magic and spells. She walked leisurely toward the heart of Tintagel village.

At first, the fairies, seeing her immense magical power, thought she was a high-ranking visiting fairy. Many came over to make friendly overtures. But when Aoko started blasting their heads off with magical bullets, the villagers realized something was wrong.

She wasn't some traveling high fairy—she was here to exterminate them!

"You've got it all wrong," Aoko wagged her finger in denial, countless magical bullets floating at her side, "I'm not a fairy. I'm a human, you know."

"Damn beast!" snarled some defiant Fang Clan fairies in the village. "Don't think you can act so high and mighty just because you have more mana. I'll rip you apart and use you for fertilizer!"

Aoko shook her head. In an instant, a magical bullet shattered the head of the trash-talking Fang Clan fairy, splattering blood and gore all over the elegant room. "With a filthy mouth like that, fertilizer's all you're good for?"

After the strongest initial waves of fairy villagers were brutally slaughtered by Aoko, the rest, being timid, began to run. Aoko didn't rush after them but started methodically killing house by house, door to door.

Some clever fairies, realizing they had no chance, rushed home to grab their valuables and tried to escape the village. But when they reached the edge, they found an invisible barrier blocking their way—no matter how they attacked, it didn't budge.

Despair set in among the fairies.

"Here's Johnny~!" Aoko said with a grin as she smashed a hole in a house's front door with a fire axe she'd produced from who-knows-where, poked her face in, and delivered the classic movie line.

"KYAAAAAA!" The fairy inside screamed in terror on seeing Aoko's smiling face, but it was useless. A massive explosion blew the sturdy door apart, and the magically enhanced iron fire axe flew in, splitting the screaming fairy's skull open in a bloody instant.

House after house, fairy after fairy—the cleanup continued, and Aoko's spirits rose. Slaughtering these lawless fairies filled her with joy. That's why she wasn't afraid of the hassle—she wanted to personally call on each household.

It would've been easy to just wipe Tintagel out in an instant with wide-area magical blasts, but Aoko thought that would be too merciful—a painless death wasn't enough. For these wanton beasts, only being hunted down in terror, one by one, could make them taste a fraction of the despair and pain they'd inflicted on others.

The waves crashed against the cliffs, Tintagel burned, and the fairies screamed. But as time passed, the screams grew weaker, until only the crackling of flames and the sound of the sea wind remained.

"Whew~ Cleaning up is tough work!" Aoko stood at the far end of Tintagel, wiped her sweat with a handkerchief, and muttered. The iron fire axe, now chipped from the magical abuse, was casually tossed aside.

Looking back, she saw the village in ruins. The fairies' bodies had already started to decompose and transform, becoming part of the natural world. Aoko nodded in satisfaction, wiped her hands, and lifted the barrier.

After confirming there was no sign of life left, Aoko soared into the sky, heading east.

...

"Can't see a thing from up here!" Totorot carefully peered into the great pit, feeling a strange chill down her spine.

"Be careful, Totorot," Toneriko quickly pulled her back up, "According to Miss Aoko, the corpse of the horned god Cernunnos should be down there…"

"…Are we going to send someone down to check, as planned?" Ector asked. "Then tie the rope to me."

"No way!" Toneriko came to a firm denial. "Ector, you're a fairy of the Earth Clan—even with immortality, you can't resist the god's curse. We might need Miss Mash's help since the curse might not target her specifically."

Mash was happy to help. She nodded resolutely, Toneriko let Totorot tie the spinning wheel's thread around her waist, and got ready.

"This is for you," Toneriko handed Mash a rune stone she'd made herself. "We'll stay in communication at all times. If you don't respond within a set period, we'll pull you up immediately. Okay, Miss Mash?"

"Leave it to me!" Mash nodded determinedly.