The next day, Asia and Sei, already living at Raize's house, stayed together, almost like a housemaid or nanny.
Sei showed Asia a bit of her divine power, so Asia spent the day glued to her.
The Biblical loli God genuinely wanted to care for Asia, since her slacking off for a certain plan had led to the church gradually decaying, affecting this innocent child.
Even though she had prepared for events before faking her death, it seemed her angels weren't very competent. The system maintenance and operations she had taught Michael, and the other archangels and seraphim, were the same.
Could it be that the Biblical God System can't function without her?
Sei, who wanted her own children to become independent, was not someone who ignored everything, but she had bigger and more important matters to take care of and could not reappear in this world for the time being.
On the other side, Raize was now planning to go to the company to prepare game-related matters. Today, it was his true self coming out, not just for the sake of going to the company, but also to deal with some ill-intentioned pests.
As mentioned before, Asia was expelled by the Church because she was framed by a certain person. That person had been secretly observing Asia, drawing her step by step into his trap.
Now, Raize deliberately walked into an area with little foot traffic. At this moment, a hidden fluctuation of power spread out, and from the corner of his eye, he noticed a magical glow appearing at the edge of his vision.
A barrier silently unfolded, dispersing any bystanders. After the light ahead dissipated, a ferocious, gigantic centipede suddenly appeared in front of Raize.
The front of the centipede actually had a twisted, hideous human face. It looked very much like the Elder Centipede from One Punch Man, just not as enormous.
This centipede-like ugly creature was a Stray Devil, something the mastermind behind the scenes had used to deal with Raize.
Probably because he was mistaken for an ordinary human, they planned to use a Stray Devil to kill him, so that Asia would return to her original trajectory, or perhaps to stage a "hero saves the beauty" scene.
"Kekekeke, pitiful human. Although I don't know why that great lord wants me to kill a lowly creature like you, as long as I kill you, I can return to the ranks of devils. Feel honored!"
A classic evil cackle, along with shamelessly revealing some information about itself. While delivering its cannon-fodder declaration, the Stray Devil crawled forward at high speed, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound as it opened its mouth wide and lunged at Raize.
"Such insignificant strength, yet so inexplicably arrogant."
Raize's expression was cold and indifferent. He made no defensive or offensive movement, but a wave of brutal and ferocious soul pressure burst out from the terrifying soul within his body.
That horrifying pressure surged like a tsunami, drowning the charging centipede Stray Devil. It was pressure originating from the soul itself, something that mere flesh could not defend against.
"Gah..."
The centipede Stray Devil, which had been charging forward, let out a miserable scream under this soul pressure, and its body immediately lost control and slammed into the ground.
Carrying the momentum from its initial charge, it scraped a deep groove into the ground, finally stopping right in front of Raize.
At close range, one human and one devil stared at each other. Raize's face remained expressionless, while the Stray Devil was filled with terror, trembling and unable to utter a word.
Soul pressure, known in the world of the Shinigami as spiritual pressure, also refers to the density of one's soul.
Soul power is like chakra: the higher the density, the stronger the power. Spiritual power is the energy of Shinigami souls, and spiritual pressure can be understood as a kind of gravitational pressure.
After inheriting the power of a certain Hollow, Raize's spiritual pressure naturally carried a violent and ferocious aura.
After all, Hollows are also a type of evil spirit, creatures that survive by devouring the souls of others.
When he first inherited White Ichigo, Raize felt an inexplicable hunger in his soul and immediately drained the three hundred thousand soul essences from the Dreaming Westward Journey in one go, and he was still not fully satisfied, continuing to train while devouring Red Soul Stones.
Frankly speaking, Raize's soul quality and density were outrageously high. Normally, the Stray Devil in front of him would have been completely incapable of sensing his spiritual pressure.
Combined with the previous Infinity Stone, Raize could feel that his soul quality had undergone another leap.
Because the difference in soul quality was like a dimensional gap, and the gap was simply too vast, Raize deliberately lowered his power so that the Stray Devil could sense it.
An ant can never fully perceive a creature the size of an elephant. Now, the Stray Devil felt as if it were being stared at by an immeasurably vast "gaze."
"Oh, so he's nearby? That saves me some effort."
After probing the Stray Devil's memories with memory magic, Raize nodded in understanding. He raised his finger, and a golden point of light gathered at his fingertip, flickering.
That insignificant point of light instantly made the Stray Devil's soul shudder with fear. Driven by terror, it broke through a bit of the pressure sealing it and struggled to beg for mercy.
"W-wait… this great lord…"
Rip!
A glass-bead-sized Reiryoku bullet infused with holy energy was flicked out by Raize and struck the target. The fairly large Stray Devil's body was erased as if wiped away by an eraser, instantly collapsing and disappearing entirely.
Even its soul was shattered into particles.
Calling it soul annihilation was not enough; its soul had been completely blown apart into dust and scattered.
After destroying the barrier that had dispersed bystanders and releasing his vast detection power, many supernatural beings in the city were immediately alarmed.
In a dark, lightless room not far from the city, Takiya himself had already gone to work. Fafnir, who was alone in the Takiya household playing games, paused slightly and turned his head toward Raize's direction.
"Who provoked that guy? Forget it. With that human's strength, even if he can't win, there's still Tohru."
Murmuring softly, Fafnir, dressed in a butler's uniform, withdrew his gaze and refocused on the game in front of him, his hands once again moving the controller.
"Huh? Raize's aura? Such a big commotion—are you looking for someone? Should I go over… forget it. There's nothing in this city that can threaten Raize. The weather's nice today, better hurry and air out the bedding~~"
Tohru, wearing a maid outfit, also sensed Raize's spreading aura immediately. She looked toward his direction in confusion. After extending her own perception and finding nothing stronger than herself or Raize, she hesitated briefly before withdrawing her gaze.
With Raize's unbelievable growth rate, Tohru felt inexplicably reassured about him.
Elsewhere, in a house not far from Raize's home, Lucoa, who had just finished bathing, slightly opened her smiling eyes, revealing a dazzling heterochromatic pupils as she looked toward Raize's direction.
"You really interest me a lot, Raize~"
Murmuring softly, Lucoa withdrew her gaze, the corner of her mouth curling into a smile. What an interesting human. Staying here to observe him was indeed the right choice.
After locking onto his target, Raize entered a super-acceleration state and covered a distance of two thousand meters in just one or two seconds.
Now he stood in front of a black-haired young man with refined clothes and a handsome appearance. The other party maintained a faint smile, his slightly narrow eyes squinting into a line.
A pure-blood devil, Diodora Astaroth.