Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

Just now, for the first time, I used the power of my eyes to save someone.

"Are you unwilling?"

In Yotsuya Miko's mind, a woman's voice suddenly echoed.

"You can only 'see', but you can't change anything. Are you finally disgusted with your own weakness and incompetence?"

"Then, call my name."

As the voice in her mind faded, a barrier of black mist appeared in front of Yotsuya Miko, blocking the approaching hand of Hachishaku.

A strange gleam flashed in her golden eyes.

"I see, so this is the ability to materialize one's own soul."

Yotsuya Miko's heart was no longer filled with panic or hesitation.

She stared directly at Hachishaku in front of her and said, word by word.

"Open your eyes, Hyakume!"

Chapter 036: Kyoto's Number One Exorcist Arrives

As Yotsuya Miko's voice fell, the black mist in front of her instantly transformed into a human figure.

A woman with long black hair, a slender figure, and a beautiful face that was expressionless like a doll, wearing a kimono and wooden clogs, stood in front of Hachishaku.

The woman's eyes were covered and obscured by a strip of dark brown linen, making her look extremely eerie.

Even more eerie were her hands hidden beneath the wide sleeves of her kimono, with pairs of eyeballs, only showing the whites and lacking pupils or focus, opened on the backs of her hands.

This was the embodiment of Yotsuya Miko's soul, like Hachishaku, a yokai from legends, Hyakume.

"This is… my power…"

Yotsuya Miko muttered to herself, took a deep breath, and looked at Hachishaku standing in front of her. Her golden eyes were no longer filled with fear, but with firm determination.

"Go, Hyakume!"

As the other side of Yotsuya Miko's heart, the embodiment of her own soul, Hyakume, although based on the legendary yokai, was in fact one with Yotsuya Miko, and naturally would not disobey her orders.

The eyeballs on the backs of Hyakume's left and right hands rotated, staring at Hachishaku in front of her.

Black pupils suddenly coalesced in the originally white eyeballs, and a terrifying gaze that sent chills down one's spine locked onto Hachishaku.

"I see you."

Hyakume's voice was very light and ethereal, revealing a deep sense of melancholy.

But her actions were faster than her words.

In the blink of an eye, Hyakume's hands were on Hachishaku's arms, and the sharp nails on her fingers pierced deeply into Hachishaku's arms.

There was no blood.

Evil spirits do not bleed.

Only the bursts of black air emanating from the wounds, and Hachishaku's slightly distorted face, proved that Hyakume had indeed caused her harm.

"Die! Die! Die!"

Hachishaku's long hair was disheveled, like an evil spirit crawling out of hell, letting out a shrill roar.

The yellowed paper scraps that had been piled on the ground instantly gathered together, wrapping around Hyakume.

And Hyakume, of course, would not sit idly by and wait for death.

Although her figure was much smaller than Hachishaku, her strength did not seem to be lacking at all, and she forcibly dragged Hachishaku into the stairwell at the end of the corridor.

"Bang."

It was only after hearing the sound of the anti-theft door closing that Yotsuya Miko belatedly came back to her senses.

A wave of fatigue and dizziness suddenly surged into her body.

"Huff… huff…"

Yotsuya Miko leaned against Yui Yuigahama's door and sat down, rubbing her temples with one hand, clearly looking very strained.

"Is this the cost of soul materialization… This feeling is really not pleasant."

When she had just summoned Hyakume, Yotsuya Miko thought that she finally possessed the ability to fight against those "things", and felt a sense of relief and the pleasure of reversing the offensive and defensive positions.

However, the soul materialization that could fight against evil spirits, of course, came at a price.

Of course, not lifespan, body parts, or such serious prices, but physical and mental strength.

From the moment Hyakume appeared, only about a minute had passed, and Yotsuya Miko felt that she was exhausted.

This feeling was like not sleeping for three days and three nights, and then having to force yourself to solve profound mathematical problems.

Both the brain and the body were numb.

This made Yotsuya Miko even more aware that, as an exorcist fighting against evil spirits, Yae Hoshi was a much more excellent and powerful person than herself.

Yae Hoshi had maintained that white giant hand in the unfinished building for nearly three minutes.

And after landing, he didn't seem to show any signs of fatigue.

Such physical strength could already be said to be monster-level.

"Miko? Miko? Are you okay?"

When Yotsuya Miko saw the cold floor gradually enlarging in her eyes, she realized one thing.

She was leaning against Yui Yuigahama's door.

And Yui Yuigahama's door opened outwards.

"Bang."

"Eh!?"

When Yui Yuigahama, holding Sable, opened the door and walked out, she happened to see Yotsuya Miko lying on the cold floor in a very standard prostrate position.

She looked bewildered, hesitated for a few seconds, and then tentatively said.

"Miko, did you… drink too much?"

Yui Yuigahama had seen many drunkards who had either been entertaining or just drinking to drown their sorrows, lying on the side of the road.

Apart from the reason of drinking too much, she really couldn't think of what Yotsuya Miko was doing lying on the cold floor of the corridor in the middle of the night.

"Yui… Yui, go back quickly."

Faced with Yotsuya Miko's words that she squeezed out with all her strength, Yui Yuigahama was stunned for a moment, and then said with a coquettish smile.

"Miko, this is the first time you've called me by my first name, I'm very happy."

Yotsuya Miko was so anxious that she almost fainted. If she hadn't exhausted her physical strength and couldn't even move a finger, she would have liked to stand up and give Yui Yuigahama two punches.

What time is it? Why are you still talking about these irrelevant things?

But then, Yui Yuigahama's words made Yotsuya Miko's pupils shrink in shock.

"What are all these things?"

Yui Yuigahama squatted down and picked up a piece of yellowed paper scrap from the ground, and said in confusion.

"This is… paper money?"

"You, you can see it?"

"Of course, isn't the ground full of it?"

Yui Yuigahama looked around with a puzzled expression and muttered to herself.

"I don't know where Mom went, I can't find her in the room, and what are these things on the ground? They look a little scary."

Yotsuya Miko felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

What exactly was going on?

Why could Yui Yuigahama see the scattered paper scraps on the ground?

Wait a minute.

Was this really the apartment building where Yui Yuigahama lived?

Yotsuya Miko's brain had already been overloaded by this sudden change.

Just then.

The door of the stairwell was suddenly pushed open heavily.

"Bang!"

At the same time as the sound rang, Yotsuya Miko also sensed it.

Her soul materialization, Hyakume…

Had been torn apart by Hachishaku.

"That, that, what is that…"

Seeing Hachishaku, wearing a white dress, slowly walking out of the stairwell door with her head bowed and waist bent, even if Yui Yuigahama was slow to react, she realized that something was wrong.

"Yui, run…"

Yotsuya Miko's words were only halfway through when she suddenly stopped.

Run?

Where to run?

There was nowhere to run.

"Woof, woof, woof!"

Sable broke free from Yui Yuigahama's arms, landed on the ground, and bared its teeth fiercely at the approaching Hachishaku, trying to scare her away.

But Hachishaku's footsteps did not stop at all, and her bare, snow-white feet stepped on the yellowed paper scraps, making a soft rustling sound.

"Stand up, have to stand up."

Yotsuya Miko thought this in her heart, but obviously, her physical strength had been completely exhausted. Not to mention summoning Hyakume again, even if she tried her best, she could only barely sit up from the ground.

Just when Hachishaku was less than five meters away from the two girls, and Yotsuya Miko felt despair, an unexpected change suddenly occurred in the arena.

"Whoosh."

The yellowed paper scraps in front of Hachishaku suddenly burst into black flames.

She slowly retracted her raised right foot, and her eyes, hidden in her seaweed-like, disheveled black hair, looked behind Yotsuya Miko and Yui Yuigahama.

Hearing that familiar voice behind her, with a frivolous smile, Yotsuya Miko's desperate mood instantly calmed down.

"Kyoto's Number One Exorcist has arrived."

Chapter 037: The True Anti-Evil Spirit Treasure

"Ah, really? Yae Hoshi-kun?"

Yui Yuigahama turned around and saw Yae Hoshi standing there, and couldn't help but feel very surprised.

Why was he here at more than one o'clock in the morning?

Unlike the confused and puzzled Yui Yuigahama, after hearing Yae Hoshi's voice and seeing him standing there, Yotsuya Miko breathed a sigh of relief, and then, as if she had remembered something, quickly reminded him.

"Be careful, she's different from ordinary evil spirits…"

"Yeah, I know."

Before Yotsuya Miko could finish speaking, Yae Hoshi waved his hand to interrupt her, took two steps forward, looked at Hachishaku standing not far away, showed a look of emotion, and slowly said.

"I didn't expect that I would see the real Hachishaku one day. It's an honor to meet you."

Hachishaku seemed to be a little apprehensive, glanced at the paper scraps burning with black fire on the ground, slightly opened her lips, and made a chilling, cold voice.

"Who… are you?"

Yae Hoshi shrugged.

"Anyway, not Kuma, not your type."