Demon Progenitor Development Project

Chapter 124 The Daily Life of Ghosts (1)

[The Rebellious Adult Demon - Yota]

Yota, as Tamayo's son, has a completely different style of doing things from Tamayo, and the relationship between the two is very bad.

Tamayo's Bewitching Blood Demon Art series only serves as a distraction and illusion, and has no inherent lethality.

Yang Tai is the complete opposite.

His Blood Demon Art can create diseases, and given enough time to spread, it can be extremely deadly.

The contrast is stark: a doctor's son who is capable of causing disease.

Therefore, Yang Tai's most frequent task is assassination.

Yang Tai's Blood Demon Art can create a parasitic spore that parasitizes the human body, absorbing life force and causing a person to slowly weaken and die. It is very inconspicuous. With a little more effort, it can make the enemy die silently and naturally.

Using this method, Hiiragi got rid of quite a few obstacles in his way.

When you develop your business outside and make a lot of money, there will always be greedy local bullies who want more. There's nothing you can do about it. If you want too much, the only thing you can do is kill yourself. Then, you can sow discord among your opponents and create chaos on their own, buying time to develop your business, establish yourself in the local area, and become a force that the local bullies can't afford to mess with.

The Ghost Clan's forces have always focused on external expansion, and they don't care much about their basic livelihood; they only require stability and that nothing goes wrong.

Yang Tai is often sent on business trips and can only return to Infinite City a few times a year, spending most of his time on transportation.

This time, Yang Tai took a rare vacation and returned to Infinite City without any missions to see his mother.

Tamayo looked at her son, who had grown up and become completely disobedient, and felt complicated emotions.

She vaguely heard a lot of information about her son from her colleagues.

She knew her son had killed many people, and she could accept it for the sake of survival, since she had no choice but to kill them in the current environment. But killing for personal desires was a different story.

Every time Yang Tai comes over, he gives her a lot of rare blood. This kind of reward is usually only obtained after completing high-difficulty tasks, and Gui is not allowed to go out hunting unless there are special circumstances.

When Tamayo learned of this for the first time, her face turned extremely ugly, and she had her first direct confrontation with her son.

Why kill innocent people?

"Innocent? Mother, you're overthinking it."

Yang Tai, who had already been through a lot, explained without changing his expression: "Only those humans who oppose ghosts but are not easy to kill directly are ghosts. These people usually hold high positions, and they are not clean."

"We're much better than those real vampires, aren't we?"

Tamayo was speechless.

She had specifically inquired about these matters; those who were openly run by ghosts generally offered good benefits.

Thanks to his past life as Shugo, he pays great attention to the situation at the grassroots level and also does charity work to gain fame.

As Tamayo grew older and was confined to the Infinite Castle, she had far less experience than Yota, who had been wandering around for years, and was completely unable to argue with him.

Her son has grown up and she can no longer control him; he's also unwilling to listen to her.

The matter was settled.

Yang Tai wore gold-rimmed glasses, a black suit, and black gloves on both hands. He perfectly embodied the air of a refined scoundrel, clearly an elite man who seemed to be well-off.

This is quite different from Yota's original background.

Tamayo, who almost didn't recognize her own son: ...

She could no longer understand this son who used to cuddle in her arms, and Tamayo even occasionally felt afraid of him.

"Mother, how have you been lately?" Yang Tai asked politely.

"We're conducting experiments just like before."

Tamayo's answer was much the same as before.

Yang Tai also asked his mother a few questions about his well-being, then pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and caught a faint scent of wisteria.

Wisteria, a flower that is poison to ghosts.

Why does my mother smell like that?

Yang Tai was confused. He had always known that his mother did not want to be a ghost and had a lot of opinions about ghosts. He had tried to correct her but to no avail.

He never thought his mother's desire to be human was a good idea; the difference between being human and being a ghost was too great.

Being poor as a human, being rich as a ghost, and even immortality—Yota was really troubled by Tamayo's ideas, and he didn't want to get involved.

After inquiring, Yota: ?

What medicine can help a ghost overcome the poison of wisteria flowers?

Has Mother finally come to her senses?

still is……

Having betrayed his own mother, Yota thought: Oh well, I should still report it.

[The First Demon on the Anti-Demon King Front - Tamayo]

After her son left, Tamayo silently returned to her laboratory.

Several undead men came forward to assist them.

The higher-ups valued Tamayo's experiments highly and provided her with a great deal of resources, including these corpse-like beings.

The kind-hearted Tamayo treated these undead people well, unlike the other researchers who used them directly as experimental subjects and sent many of these cannon fodder to the research institute every month.

These "corpse-like" people are basically transformed corpses.

The vampires transformed from stone demons can also create corpse-human beings by injecting their own essence into them, but as food, they would never do such a thing. They are already starving, so how could they do something that benefits the corpses but not themselves?

Tamayo was helpless about the plight of the corpse-born man, and even many of his colleagues disliked him.

When Tamayo first learned of the existence of the Corpse People, her thought was that it was too blasphemous!

This is an insult to someone's soul!

What will their surviving relatives think?

Tamayo's impression of the Oni clan's power worsened.

In Shugo's opinion, Tamayo is a 'person' who has a crooked backside.

As for her research on wisteria, her motives were indeed impure.

Tamayo firmly believes that demons should not exist in the world. She has always wanted to turn back into a human, but she has no clue about how to find a human-turning drug.

After some deliberation, Tamayo decided to start with the wisteria flowers and first create a medicine to overcome them.

Only after gaining the favor of those in power could she learn more information.

Look at Nayuta, who is valued by the higher-ups. The experimental information he conducts is kept extremely confidential, and Tamayo couldn't find out about it no matter how many times she inquired.

Tamayo donned an experimental lab coat, wore gloves, and had a gas mask on her face, making her appear fully armed.

Wisteria flowers are very poisonous.

Even the relatively weak Tamayo struggled to resist the toxins, while the corpse-born were unharmed, as they were themselves aged corpses and naturally carried the corpse poison.

Some delicate operations were beyond the capabilities of the undead, so Tamayo had to do them herself.

While Tamayo was conducting the experiment, she had the corpses record the data.

After finishing all that, Tamayo was exhausted. She sat down to rest and hesitated as she looked at a cabinet.

There was a jar in the cupboard filled with red candies.

It was a portable food developed within the research institute, extracted from the essence of human flesh and blood. It was shaped like a red crystal and looked a lot like candy. The ghosts in the research institute called it candy.

Eating candy is more convenient; there's no need to clean yourself up, and the taste isn't much different from eating a person directly. It's perfect for those working ghosts who forget to eat and sleep once they start working.

However, Tamayo found it very unpleasant to eat.

The research institute always distributed candy as a form of food rations. Before she knew it, Tamayo had accumulated a lot of candy. She didn't eat much of it, and she always felt a strong sense of guilt whenever she ate it.

But in order to fit in and to avoid losing her mind, she still had to eat it.

What a rebellious mother and son!