Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

#27 - Section 27

A very cute, brownish-yellow puppy, with its tongue lolling out and tail wagging, enthusiastically approached Miko Yotsuya, greeting her with barks.

“Is this Sable?”

“Yeah, isn’t he cute?”

Although Miko Yotsuya preferred cats, she certainly didn't dislike such a cute puppy. She crouched down and stroked Sable's head, smiling gently.

“I wish I could communicate with you and ask what you're barking at every night.”

The only response she received was Sable's simple and unadorned barks.

“Woof, woof.”

… …

After dinner and some chatting, Yui Yuigahama went back to her room to sleep first.

Miko Yotsuya, of course, didn't have as carefree a heart as her. She kept playing with her phone, watching the numbers on the screen change from time to time, enduring her drowsiness, and waited until 12:59.

The moment the time on her phone changed to 1:00, she felt her heart stop for a moment.

“Woof! Woof! Woof!”

As expected, Sable's barking came from the living room.

Miko Yotsuya took a deep breath, her golden pupils trembling slightly. Suppressing the fear in her heart, she opened the bedroom door, muttering to herself.

“It… it shouldn't be there, right?”

She slowly walked into the living room and saw Sable, who was usually very well-behaved and cute, baring its teeth, fiercely staring towards the front door, a ferocious growl squeezing from its throat.

“Miko, did you get woken up too?”

Yui Yuigahama, wearing cute pajamas, rubbed her sleepy eyes and walked into the living room, yawning widely.

At this time, Miko Yotsuya was too preoccupied to reply, drenched in sweat.

Reflected in her golden pupils was the image of a woman in a white dress.

That wasn't the most important thing.

The most important thing was.

That woman's head was almost touching the ceiling.

You had to know, the ceiling of this apartment was a full two and a half meters high!

“Hachi… Hachishaku?”

Chapter 035: Open Your Eyes, Hundred Eyes

That white dress, that unusually tall figure, that flowing black hair.

And that oppressive feeling that made people's breathing stop.

There was absolutely no mistake.

Miko Yotsuya could be one hundred percent certain.

The tall woman in front of her was definitely not human, but a monster from Sakura Province stories, Hachishaku-sama!

“Miko, what's wrong?”

Unlike Miko Yotsuya, whose pupils had begun to quake, Yui Yuigahama was still yawning lazily, beckoning to Sable who was standing at the door.

“Come here, Sable. You bark like this every night, it's going to bother the neighbors.”

Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm.

Miko Yotsuya clenched her teeth, suppressing the fear in her heart.

The training she did with Weekend Yoshiteru was prepared for moments like this.

As long as she didn't let the other party know she could "see," she wouldn't be harmed in any way.

As for fighting the other party?

Miko Yotsuya hadn't even considered such an absurd idea.

The other party was the legendary Hachishaku-sama!

If she were to use games and light novels as an analogy, it would be like she was a newbie player who hadn't even finished the tutorial and hadn't even named their character, directly encountering an elite-level BOSS!

She had to send a message to Yoshiteru.

With this thought in mind, Miko Yotsuya tried her best to keep her hands from shaking, preparing to edit a text message to send to Yoshiteru.

Just then, the door of the house suddenly opened on its own, inexplicably.

Sable, who had been squatting at the door, immediately rushed out.

“Sable?”

Seeing her dog run out, Yui Yuigahama didn't hesitate at all and quickly chased out the door.

“Yuigahama-san…”

Miko Yotsuya didn't even have time to stop her.

This was bad, it was over, it was the end, GG.

Only such words could appear in Miko Yotsuya's mind.

Humans who couldn't see evil spirits wouldn't be harmed by evil spirits.

The problem was…

Could the legendary Hachishaku-sama really be measured by the behavioral patterns of ordinary evil spirits?

If it was really like the stories she had heard when she was a child, Hachishaku would first lure the target out of the house before killing them.

Now Yui Yuigahama-san had already gone out.

Then what next?

Miko Yotsuya took a deep breath, even though her legs were trembling, she edited the text message and sent it to Yoshiteru, while steadfastly walking quickly out of the house.

She couldn't just watch Yui Yuigahama get hurt.

At least before Yoshiteru arrived, she had to protect her friend.

When Miko Yotsuya chased out the door, she saw a scene she had never seen before in her life.

Under the pale moonlight, inside the apartment's corridor, countless white, yellowish paper scraps floated from who knows where.

Even the ground was piled with a thick layer of paper scraps, reaching up to her ankles.

“What… what is this…”

Miko Yotsuya's cold sweat had already soaked her pajamas.

At the end of the corridor, Yui Yuigahama had already found Sable who had run out, and was holding it in her arms.

Seeing that Miko Yotsuya had also followed, she walked over in three steps, smiling apologetically.

“Sorry, sorry, maybe Sable was too excited because guests came today and disturbed your sleep.”

“No, it's okay.”

Miko Yotsuya tried her best to force a smile, her gaze staying on Yui Yuigahama's face, but she could see out of the corner of her eye.

The tall Hachishaku was standing behind her.

In the waterfall-like black hair, there was only a pair of pale, inhuman pupils, staring straight at her.

“Yui, Yuigahama-san, let's go back inside, it's quite cold outside, don't catch a cold.”

She couldn't hold on anymore.

Miko Yotsuya felt that she really couldn't hold on anymore.

“Yeah, let's go back.”

Yui Yuigahama smiled sweetly and nodded, gently patting Sable's head in her arms, saying righteously.

“You're not allowed to run around anymore, okay.”

Just then.

“Hoo…”

Hachishaku, standing behind Yui Yuigahama, suddenly opened her lips slightly, letting out a sigh filled with endless resentment.

That wasn't the point.

What shocked Miko Yotsuya's pupils to widen was that, with Hachishaku's sigh, the ends of Yui Yuigahama's peach-pink hair actually fluttered slightly.

How was that possible!?

Hachishaku's breath moved Yui Yuigahama's hair?

But Yui Yuigahama was just an ordinary person who couldn't see, evil spirits shouldn't be able to touch her!

In the next second, in Miko Yotsuya's horrified gaze, Hachishaku stretched out a pale, incomparably white finger, gently lifted a strand of Yui Yuigahama's beautiful hair, and clenched it in her hand.

Yui Yuigahama, as the person involved, was completely unaware of this and still looked cute and innocent.

“Miko, why aren't you coming in yet?”

The current situation was.

As long as Yui Yuigahama took one more step forward, she would feel her hair being pulled.

The things after that…

She didn't dare imagine.

“Woof! Woof! Woof!”

Sable barked wildly at Hachishaku, baring its teeth.

“Eh? Why are you barking again?”

Yui Yuigahama was very confused and subconsciously prepared to turn her head.

Miko Yotsuya's actions were faster than the thoughts in her mind.

“Bang!”

When she came to her senses, she had already used her left hand to push away Hachishaku's palm, then pushed Yui Yuigahama directly into the house, and closed the door, leaning her back against it to hold it shut.

“Miko?”

Inside the door was Yui Yuigahama's call.

Outside the door was Miko Yotsuya facing Hachishaku.

“You… can you see me?”

Hachishaku first asked softly, her voice filled with a desolate emptiness.

Immediately after, it turned into a hoarse roar.

“You, you can see me!”

At this moment, Miko Yotsuya's mood suddenly became incomparably calm.

All the surrounding sounds seemed to disappear.

Even if Yoshiteru's actions were swift, from the time she sent the text message until now, it hadn't even been a minute.

This time, the other party couldn't save her.

“Is… is this my end…”