Chapter 189: The Strongest Exorcism Weapon, Professional Exorcist Yotsuya Miko 2
Watching Miko holding Mikazuki Munechika, cutting Kurobozu in half with one strike, followed immediately by another strike piercing the opponent's head, showing a very calm and professional appearance, Mai and Rio both praised in their hearts.
"So cool."
As expected of Miko, whose psychological quality was extraordinarily strong, and could remain expressionless facing terrifying evil spirits even when she had no strength.
This degree of professional exorcism already had a bit of Yoru's demeanor.
Just as Mai and Rio thought this, they saw Miko, who was originally striking a pose, suddenly show a panicked look and waved eagerly at the two of them.
"Come quickly, come quickly."
Seeing Miko, who could remain expressionless even facing Kurobozu and complete a precise slash, actually showing such a panicked look at this moment, Mai and Rio both felt their hearts tighten. Without caring to think much, they hurriedly leaped down from the roof of the building.
"What, are there other enemies?"
"That's not it."
Miko looked very eager, seeming about to cry, pointed at Kurobozu, which was turning into black Qi and dissipating inside the white bone cage, and said hurriedly.
"Quick, quick, quick, let Ame-no-Uzume and Hone-Onna come out to eat together, otherwise it'll be too late."
Mai and Rio: "..."
Watching Miko pulling Ame-no-Uzume and Hone-Onna close, letting these two join her Hyakume in sharing the Kurobozu, Mai sighed slightly and laughed dumbfoundedly.
"Miko, with your virtuous personality of not wasting anything at all, you will definitely become a good wife in the future."
Hearing Mai say she would become a good wife in the future, Miko couldn't help blushing slightly and replied shyly.
"Not at all, Mai-senpai cooks so well and is so beautiful, you are the one who will definitely become a good wife in the future."
Rio held an umbrella with her right hand, took off her glasses from her pocket with her left hand, put them back on, and sighed slightly, complaining.
"Is there a possibility that the two of you will become the same person's wives in the future? At that time, you'll have plenty of time to flatter each other, no need to start now, right?"
Hearing this, Mai and Miko both blushed with shyness.
Immediately after, Miko counterattacked grumpily.
"Still talking about the two of us, aren't you the same?"
Rio, who had just launched an attack, now showed exceptionally weak defense. Her fair and tender cheeks instantly turned completely red, stammering.
"I... I... I haven't thought about marriage or anything... Don't, don't drag me into this..."
Just then.
Yoru's smiling voice came from behind the three girls.
"What, thinking about me?"
Mai turned around and saw the casual clothes Yoru was wearing had tear after tear because they were bitten by that group of evil spirits earlier. Subconsciously stepping forward, she patted the dust off the opponent's body, her voice carrying both complaint and undisguised concern.
"How did you get so messy? Really, can't you be a little more careful?"
Yoru waved his hand and smiled.
"It's no big deal, anyway, I ate satisfyingly."
"Sigh... really don't know what to say about you..."
Rio, watching from the side, spoke with a bit of jealousy.
"Hey, hey, hey, there are two living people here too."
Mai showed an embarrassed look, looked up at the sky, half changing the subject and half genuinely somewhat surprised.
"The rain... has already stopped..."
Yoru nodded noncommittally.
"I called Amano Hina. It can't keep raining, it would be bad if it created another Teru Teru Bozu Killer for Tokyo."
Immediately after, he looked at the little remaining black Qi inside the white bone cage.
"It seems you guys have already resolved the Kurobozu."
"Mmhmm."
Rio nodded slightly, deactivated her Soul Manifestation, and said faintly.
"However, it was just good luck. As we thought before, this guy was an existence fused with two 'Doors'. If we hadn't launched a sudden attack intentionally against an unprepared enemy before it retracted that 'Door', it probably wouldn't have been resolved so easily."
"Sigh, that's not right, Futaba-san."
Yoru patted Rio's shoulder and smiled.
"As exorcists, we cannot have any bottom lines when dealing with evil spirits. The more despicable we can be, the better. We must perform operations with no lower limit."
Rio pouted.
"Then in this aspect, you are still more adept."
Immediately after, Rio turned her face away so Yoru couldn't look directly into her eyes, raised her hand to push her glasses frame, a bit of relieved joy showing in the depths of her eyes, and asked seemingly casually.
"Since you're fine, tell us what happened in the hotel."
Miko beside them noticed Rio's expression, and an auntie-like smile couldn't help showing on her usually emotionless face.
Futaba is really tsundere.
"Hoh, let me tell you, it's a pity you guys didn't see it. In the hotel, an epic battle of the century took place!"
"An epic battle of the century?"
Hearing Yoru actually use such words to describe what happened inside the hotel, the three girls Mai, Rio, and Miko all felt deep curiosity.
"Of course."
Yoru nodded, and slowly spoke with a serious face.
"At that time, one of the Five Swords Under Heaven of Sakura Prefecture, the heirloom famous sword Onimaru Kunitsuna, encountered the strongest enemy in its life!"
"Did not mourn the passing of Onmoraki for even a moment!"
"Next to enter the stage is, from the most prosperous commercial district of Shibuya in Tokyo, born in the bathroom of a luxury hotel, capable of extending and retracting freely, the crystallization of human technology, representing the dignity of modern creations, the brand-name showerhead!"
"And to say at that time, when Onimaru Kunitsuna and the showerhead met as enemies, their eyes were exceptionally red (with jealousy). Both sides refused to yield to each other, never losing a bit in momentum. A great battle was about to unfold...."
Hearing this, Rio hurriedly interrupted.
"Wait a moment, don't unfold."
Mai also complained with a speechless face.
"What are you talking about.... What Onimaru Kunitsuna battling a showerhead. You perverted junior, are you telling some meaningful dirty joke again?"
Miko just looked deeply at Yoru and didn't reply.
She vaguely already understood why the opponent didn't answer Rio's question directly, but used this, whether it really happened or was an abstract story made up on the spot, as an answer.
As expected...
In a strangeness event of this scale, it's impossible for no one to die.
Yoru didn't say it explicitly, probably also worrying that she and the others would feel a sense of guilt and heaviness in their hearts after hearing the truth.
"Anyway, let's go back first."
Just as Rio finished speaking, they suddenly heard a panting, angry shout from not far away.
"Th... that exorcist... stop right there!"
The three girls looked up in confusion and saw a monster running over from the distance of the street. It had a tall figure, dilapidated grayish-white skin, looking exactly like an evil spirit, leaving only one eyeball.
Seeing the opponent's other empty eye socket, Miko suddenly seemed to realize something, looked at Yoru beside her, and said with a complicated face.
"That eyeball you gave me back then, couldn't possibly...."
"Correct."
Yoru revealed a smile, walked to the side of the Slaughter Ghost who had run in front of everyone, and affectionately patted the opponent's shoulder.
"Let me introduce, this is the Slaughter Ghost, Mr. Kill, the unsung sponsor of our Super-Quant Club."
"Even giving away his eyeball without asking for any return, what kind of noble character is this?"
"Come, please give Mr. Slaughter Ghost some applause and encouragement."
Miko raised her hands and carefully clapped a few times.
Clap clap clap clap...
After clapping, she realized that both Mai and Rio were looking at her with complicated expressions.
Mai patted Miko's shoulder, sighed heavily, and said meaningfully.
"Miko, you can learn Yoru's exorcism skills, but in other aspects, don't get assimilated."
Miko tilted her head, confusion showing in her golden eyes.
"Eh? What do you mean?"
"Nothing."
Mai and Rio looked at each other, a very terrifying image emerging in both girls' hearts.
After a period of time...
Could it be that all the internal members of the Super-Quant Club will turn into Abstract Holy Bodies?
Too terrifying.
"Why are you clapping?"
The Slaughter Ghost was very honest, looking speechless.
"I didn't voluntarily give you the eyeball."
Yoru waved his hand and smiled.
"Look at what you're saying, being volunteered is also volunteering."
At this time, Rio suddenly examined the Slaughter Ghost and frowned slightly.
"By the way... isn't this Mr. Slaughter Ghost an existence in the Otherworld? How could he appear here?"
Facing this question, the Slaughter Ghost scratched its head and replied sincerely without any concealment.
"Seems like this morning.... or noon, anyway, when I was strolling in the Otherworld, I encountered a very difficult evil spirit. Then, I ate it, and felt I possessed the ability to come here."
Rio froze upon hearing this, then suddenly realized.
"So that's how it is, then everything makes sense."
In this incident, there was a doubtful point.
The original plan was for Yoru to hide his aura, find that "Door" in the hotel or the evil spirit fused with the "Door", and then directly eradicate it.
But the progression of the matter became that right after he entered the hotel, the entire area fused with the Otherworld, turning into a ghost domain where evil spirits could move freely.
Rio, Mai, Miko, and even Yoru himself thought that it was because the evil spirit hiding in the hotel had very keen perception and sensed his entry, so it took such measures.
Now it seemed, that wasn't the case at all.
This strangeness event was not the danger level of three "Doors".
But four.
It's just that before the Super-Quant Club members acted, an evil spirit fused with a "Door" bumped into the Slaughter Ghost while traveling in the Otherworld, and was then eaten.
The sudden action of the evil spirit in the hotel was entirely because it felt the danger of being hunted, so it took a self-preservation measure, anxious to enhance its power.
"However..."
Rio looked at the Slaughter Ghost standing there, thoughtful.
"For Mr. Slaughter Ghost to actually be able to defeat an evil spirit fused with a 'Door' without being fused with a 'Door' himself, he is truly an extremely special existence."
Speaking of this, Rio looked like she wanted to say something but stopped, glancing at Yoru beside her.
The latter immediately understood what she wanted to say but hesitated to say.
"Little Kill..."
Yoru patted the Slaughter Ghost's shoulder and said seriously.
"Actually, you are not the Slaughter Ghost, but a spiritual body in the Otherworld formed by the convergence of people's impressions of the legend of the Slaughter Ghost."
When he said this sentence, Mai, Rio, and Miko all held their breath, waiting for the Slaughter Ghost's reaction.
It should be known that back then, when Hachishaku-sama heard that she wasn't the real Hachishaku, but an existence formed by the convergence of people's impressions, she almost developed a mental illness.
Now, what kind of reaction would the Slaughter Ghost have?
"Oh, is that so."
The Slaughter Ghost nodded noncommittally, seeming completely uninterested in this.
"It doesn't matter. How I was created is not important. What's important is that I only want to kill more evil spirits, and I won't stop for a moment."
"As long as I continue this kind of action, then I am the true ghost of slaughter."
Hearing these words, Yoru exclaimed in admiration.
"Hoh, Little Kill, you are actually a philosopher? What you said makes a lot of sense."
The Slaughter Ghost's long hair draped on both sides of its cheeks. It looked at the street in the dimness, its only remaining eyeball showing a complicated emotion like pondering over life... pondering over spirit-life, murmuring to itself.
"When all the evil spirits in this world are eliminated, perhaps I will be able to touch true freedom."
"These words of yours, sound a bit like an old friend of mine."
"Just saying it casually."
Speaking of this, Yoru suddenly put away his smile and spoke slowly to the Slaughter Ghost.
"However, there is one thing I need your help with."
"Speak."
"From now on, you stay in Tokyo and hunt evil spirits."
"Do you even need to say that?"
The Slaughter Ghost seemed to have its sore spot poked. Its originally terrifying face became even uglier.
"In the Otherworld of Kyoto city, I can hardly find any powerful evil spirits anymore!"
"Do you know how long I walked to get from Kyoto to Tokyo!?"
"I beg you, leave a few for me, don't kill them all, don't kill them all."
Speaking to the end, the Slaughter Ghost felt like it was about to shed tears.
As the Shinigami among Yokai, its desire to slaughter evil spirits would never dissipate. Only after personally tearing apart and devouring powerful evil spirits could it be slightly relieved.
As a result, due to Yoru's actions in the Kyoto Otherworld, those powerful evil spirits were either eaten by Yoru or went into hiding.
A portion of the remainder went through the "Doors" to the real world.
The Slaughter Ghost truly couldn't take it anymore.
Tortured by the inner desire to slaughter, it could only walk on foot, passing through thick and viscous black mist, all the way from Kyoto to Tokyo.
Unexpectedly, having not been in Tokyo for many days and just having an enjoyable kill once, it ran into this guy again.
The Slaughter Ghost was too aggrieved.
"Don't worry, don't worry."
Yoru smiled and comforted.
"We won't stay long in Tokyo, yours, they're all yours."
The Slaughter Ghost wiped the tears beside its only remaining eye, looking very wronged.
"Really?"
"Really, don't worry."
"That's great."
Seeing the innocent, child-like smile on the Slaughter Ghost's face, Rio and others all had complicated expressions, not knowing how to evaluate.
Abstract...
Has the phenomenon of human-to-ghost transmission already begun?
.....
Meanwhile, inside the operations meeting room of the Tokyo Police Department.
"L, the news from the scene has come back."
L, squatting on the chair, turned his head and said faintly.
"'Kira' ran away?"
Hearing this, the high-ranking Police Department official showed an embarrassed look, sighed, and said.
"Yes, and Mikazuki Munechika is also..."
"Just a meaningless old antique, no need to mention it."
L completely didn't care about the Five Swords Under Heaven or the heirloom famous swords of Sakura Prefecture.
In his eyes, Mikazuki Munechika was just an ordinary iron sword, possessing no value at all.
"How many police officers died?"
Hearing this question, the high-ranking Police Department official showed a complicated look and slowly replied.
"Although there are injured officers, none are serious... not a single person died."
"Hmm?"
L raised his eyebrows, his eyes flickering. After a few seconds, he said meaningfully.
"Not a single person died? This is not good news."
"No one died, how could it not be good news?"
L's fingers tapped on the table, saying faintly.
"To be able to retreat completely unscathed while surrounded by your Police Department proves that he possesses special abilities beyond ordinary imagination. Killing a portion of the police officers, or even all of them, is entirely possible."
"But if he really did that, it would mean that no matter what 'Kira's' true identity is, he is just a criminal acting wildly according to his temper."
"But in this incident, 'Kira' actually didn't kill a single police officer. This makes him no ordinary criminal."
"Combined with his actions during this period and the cases he committed, it proves this guy has his own set of behavioral principles."
"The principle of only sanctioning evil people."
Speaking of this, L paused, thoughtful.
"But why... when he obviously could have left the scene long ago, did he choose to maneuver around with the Police Department... Is it absolute confidence in his own strength? Enjoying this excitement? I'm afraid it's not just that..."
A gleam of light flashed in L's eyes. He turned his chair and looked at that high-ranking Police Department official.
"I hope your Police Department can compile a report by tomorrow morning."
"Compile all the abnormal events that occurred in Tokyo city from the time the Tokyo National Museum was invaded to the time 'Kira' fled the scene."
"I want to see every detail in the report."