Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

Originally the location of its mouth, it was sewn shut with thread, only opening into a near-imperceptible slit.

The wind-like breathing sound they had just heard emanated from this very spot.

Its bloodshot pupils, filled with resentment and distortion, locked onto the three individuals inside the house through that small window.

Outwardly, this evil spirit wasn't particularly terrifying.

However, when Amano Haruna saw the entity outside the window staring at them, she was first slightly stunned, then her expression changed, and she trembled as she spoke.

“This… this is the second floor…”

According to the height of Amano Haruna's room, the window was approximately five meters above the ground.

Which meant.

The evil spirit's head being outside the window indicated that its body was at least four meters tall.

An evil spirit of this size was beyond anything Amano Haruna, who had never encountered the supernatural, could imagine.

Even Yui Yuigahama, who had been to the Reverse Side, had never seen such a massive monster.

This… is this like Hachishaku-sama… an evil spirit fused with a “Gate”?

While Amano Haruna and Yui Yuigahama were in shock, the evil spirit outside the window made a move that horrified them.

It…

Straightened its back.

In that instant, Amano Haruna and Yui Yuigahama realized.

Their initial estimate of its size was far too naive.

After the evil spirit straightened its back, all they could see was the waist area of its tattered burlap shirt.

The second-floor window, nearly five meters high, only reached halfway up its body!?

What the hell is this thing?

A giant evil spirit!?

“ROAR!!!”

Accompanied by the sound of threads snapping and flesh tearing, a roar that shook the house reverberated through the heavens and earth.

Amano Haruna and Yui Yuigahama sat frozen on the ground, feeling as if their entire beings were plunged into intense despair.

“Come out.”

Ye Xing's voice remained calm as ever.

As soon as these two words were spoken, two ghostly hands, one black and one white, instantly appeared, protecting Amano Haruna and Yui Yuigahama by gently clasping them together in their palms.

The next second.

“BOOM!”

A massive palm descended from the roof, directly crushing the dilapidated two-story apartment building into ruins.

The two ghostly hands protected Yui Yuigahama and Amano Haruna, sending them tens of meters away in the nick of time before the palm landed.

After finally landing on the ground, Yui Yuigahama first steadied herself.

Seeing the two-story apartment building in the distance reduced to rubble, her pupils constricted in shock, and she muttered in disbelief.

“Ye… Ye Xing…”

Yui Yuigahama knew that Ye Xing's main ability was to summon two ghostly hands of contrasting colors, one black and one white.

This was his soul manifestation.

But…

Just now, both ghostly hands appeared to protect herself and Haruna.

Then Ye Xing…

Yui Yuigahama's mind went blank, unable to even think.

After leaving the house, she and Amano Haruna finally saw the full appearance of the evil spirit.

Its size was approximately ten meters.

It was the largest evil spirit that the ESP Research Society had ever encountered.

Its body was similar to a human, draped in a tattered, black-spotted burlap robe.

Its grayish-white hands hung low, with sharp, dark-gray nails growing on its ten fingers.

The surface of its skin was also a deep gray color.

Its entire being exuded an aura of deathly stillness.

Only its bloodshot, giant pupils revealed a twisted ferocity.

Also an evil spirit fused with a "Gate," compared to it, the Hachishaku-sama that Yui Yuigahama had seen before could even be considered quite cute.

“Yu… Yuigahama… what do we do?”

Although Amano Haruna was also trembling with fear, she bit her lower lip and forced herself to ask.

“I… I don’t know.”

Yui Yuigahama shook her head, despair evident in her eyes.

Although she herself was not a spiritualist, as an internal member of the ESP Research Society, she understood the nature of evil spirits, the Reverse Side, and the bizarre phenomenon of "Gates."

This was no longer the real world.

Ye Xing and Yotsuya Miko had encountered a similar situation once in that abandoned building.

The opening of the "Gate" was too high, causing a certain area of the real world to gradually merge with the Reverse Side.

And in such a ghost domain, everything followed the rules of the Reverse Side.

Whether or not one was a spiritualist, they could "observe."

Which meant.

Whether or not one was a spiritualist, they would become a target for evil spirits.

There were only two ways to escape.

The first was to leave the area affected by the "Gate."

The second was to directly eliminate the "Gate" that was causing the influence on this area.

Regardless of which…

Yui Yuigahama looked at the evil spirit, whose size was comparable to the Soubu High School main building, and smiled bitterly, deeply despairing.

“We can’t do it.”

Just then, the evil spirit's bloodshot pupils locked onto Amano Haruna and Yui Yuigahama.

It took only one step to cross from the train tracks behind the apartment building directly to the two of them.

Then, the evil spirit extended its dark-gray hand, its eyes filled with twisted murderous intent, as if to crush ants on the ground, pressing down on the two women.

The two ghostly hands, one black and one white, simultaneously met it.

After a brief few seconds of stalemate, they seemed to be exhausted, and were slowly pressed down along with the giant hand of the evil spirit.

“Yuigahama, be careful!”

Amano Haruna's pupils constricted in shock, and she made a completely subconscious move that she didn't even know why she did.

She clasped her hands together, interlocked her fingers, lowered her head slightly, closed her eyes, and anxiously said.

“Please!”

At the instant Amano Haruna's voice left her lips, a blinding light suddenly flashed across the originally pitch-black sky.

A bolt of lightning struck the evil spirit's outstretched hand.

“BOOM!”

The speed of the lightning was faster than the sound.

It wasn't until after the evil spirit was struck that the thunder roared.

“ROAR!!!”

The evil spirit howled in pain, retracting its hand.

Amano Haruna felt exhausted, as if she was about to faint.

Seeing this, Yui Yuigahama quickly supported her shoulders.

“Haruna, are you okay?”

“I, I’m okay.”

Haruna's breathing was somewhat difficult, and looking at the evil spirit not far away, before she could even breathe a sigh of relief, she fell into despair again.

The entity had not suffered too much damage.

The giant palm only had a charred mark, without even a hole.

Yui Yuigahama was also horrified.

Even the lightning from the sky…

Could not harm this evil spirit?

Yui Yuigahama was not a spiritualist and could not accurately judge the strength of this giant evil spirit.

But she knew one thing.

She and Haruna were probably going to die here today.

“Hmm…”

Just then, a figure slowly rose from the rubble formed by the collapsed two-story apartment building.

Ye Xing stretched lazily, looking at Amano Haruna and Yui Yuigahama in the distance, his eyes filled with a smile.

“Amano-san, your ability is quite good.”

This evil spirit, abnormally large and fused with a "Gate," was indeed very strong.

But it was far from the point where the black and white ghostly hands could not even contend with one of its hands.

Ye Xing was just conducting an experiment.

He wanted to see if Yui Yuigahama could awaken her soul manifestation ability in a desperate crisis.

Unexpectedly, he did not achieve his original purpose, but had other unexpected gains.

Amano Haruna's ability was not only to make the weather clear; in the original plot, she had also summoned lightning once.

Moreover, this was not the real world.

Amano Haruna was able to pray and summon lightning in the Reverse Side, proving one thing.

That weather-manipulating god (evil spirit) could not only interfere with the real world but also to some extent with the Reverse Side.

Indeed, it was an enemy worth eating.

Of course, now was not the time to consider that level of things.

Ye Xing's reappearance caused the tall evil spirit, which had originally been eyeing Amano Haruna and Yui Yuigahama, to turn around and once again lock its twisted and ferocious gaze on him.

For it, compared to the half-baked Amano Haruna and the ordinary Yui Yuigahama.

Clearly, Ye Xing, who possessed powerful spiritual power, was more tempting.

“Unlimited Blade Works.”

Without even waiting for the evil spirit to attack, Ye Xing took the initiative to use his ultimate move.

As a professional exorcist, he could roughly judge the strength of an evil spirit as soon as he met it.

The unusually large evil spirit in front of him had clearly devoured many of its kind.