Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

"Damn it… Damn it!"

Noticing her inability to help Miko Yotsuya and seeing the other girl's expression as she gritted her teeth, struggling to endure, Hina Amano felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

She… could only watch as the other girl desperately persevered, only watch as this earthquake intensified, until finally, it destroyed the entire city of Kyoto?

"Absolutely not…"

Amano Hina's eyes flashed with determination, and she released her hands, walking to a spot more than ten meters away.

Just as Miko Yotsuya breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the other girl had heeded her advice and was planning to evacuate to a safe place, she saw Amano Hina raise her head, her eyes fixed on the cloud-covered sky, and shout in a firm voice.

"Hey, you! Give me your power!"

Unsurprisingly, no response came from the clouds.

However, this time, Amano Hina did not intend to pray, but instead spoke in an unquestionable tone.

"This is not a request… I am, in the name of the contract, ordering you to fulfill the terms!"

The moment Amano Hina uttered the word 'contract,' the surrounding air seemed to tremble.

The next second, a blinding flash of lightning streaked through the clouds.

Amano Hina's body emanated a rainbow-like aura of seven-colored spiritual power.

She breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to herself.

"It really is like this."

Amano Hina had long suspected this.

Why was she able to obtain the ability to change the weather and summon lightning through prayer?

And why did a part of her body turn into a translucent, seven-colored form every time after she prayed?

Because this was the price for obtaining the help of that weather god.

A price and a condition.

There was only one way to achieve such a thing between humans and evil spirits.

Signing a contract.

And regardless of the nature of the contract, as long as the other party did not violate it, then the other party had to fulfill the contract, regardless of the strength of either side.

Simply put.

Amano Hina didn't actually need to pray.

It was just that the weather god had been misleading her, making her believe that she could only obtain the other party's help through sincere prayer.

In fact, this was already part of the contract, the ability that Amano Hina had obtained in exchange for her body gradually changing until she eventually disappeared, becoming a god.

"Hina, you…"

"Miko, focus."

Amano Hina didn't say much, but returned to the white door once more, took a deep breath, and placed her hands on the door.

After she joined, Miko Yotsuya could clearly feel that she was much more relaxed.

But…

"I can't push it…"

No matter how hard Miko Yotsuya and Amano Hina tried, the white door remained motionless, or rather, the combined spiritual power of the two girls was just enough to offset the power of the door, preventing it from continuing to open outward.

The key issue was that this was not a 'door' leading to the inner world. Even if it did not continue to open, the black and red swirling clouds in the sky were still growing larger and larger, and the shaking of the ground was becoming more and more violent.

Going on like this…

It was meaningless.

Just then, strands of red thread suddenly appeared in mid-air.

Although Miko Yotsuya had never seen this thing before, Amano Hina knew that it was the red thread representing the god of Itomori Town.

After the red thread appeared, it did not make jokes or say strange and funny things as it usually did, but directly covered the white door.

"Thank you."

Amano Hina knew that this guardian deity of Itomori Town was on her side.

Miko Yotsuya also clearly saw that after the other party joined in, the originally motionless white door began to gradually close inward, although the speed was very slow, it was indeed closing.

"Too late… It's too slow… It's going to be too late…"

Although the door was indeed gradually closing with the combined efforts of Mikazuki Munechika, Amano Hina, the suddenly appearing red thread, and her own spiritual power, Miko Yotsuya realized that this speed was ultimately too slow.

Judging from the speed at which the ground was shaking, in another twenty seconds… no, in another ten seconds, an earthquake powerful enough to destroy the entire city of Kyoto would erupt.

Just as Miko Yotsuya and Amano Hina realized that, at this rate, even if they closed the door, it would be too late, a faint golden light appeared in the air.

"Roar! ! !"

Accompanied by a deafening roar, the suddenly appearing golden goat head crashed directly into the white door.

Although it was not a benevolent god, it was still a deity with its own shrine in Kyoto City.

If Kyoto was destroyed, the golden goat head would be no different from an ordinary wandering spirit.

Moreover, it was still worried about one thing.

That Lord Yoboshi was still nowhere to be found.

If the other party found out that it had not lent a helping hand at a critical moment, but had stood idly by…

The golden goat head chickened out.

It didn't want to be devoured alive by that terrifying human.

After the golden goat head also joined the ranks of pushing the door, the white door finally began to close quickly.

Only a crack remained.

But this tiny gap, less than a centimeter wide, was like an insurmountable chasm, once again forming a stalemate with the people and spirits pushing the door.

"Just a little bit more…"

Seeing Yotsuya Miko's slightly pained appearance due to excessive spiritual power consumption, yet still gritting her teeth and persevering, Amano Hinana's eyes revealed a complex expression. Finally, she made up her mind and silently prayed in her heart.

In the next second, the seven-colored light on Amano Hinana's body suddenly became even more dazzling.

"Bang."

Just the slight sound of a door closing, at this moment, sounded like melodious celestial music to Yotsuya Miko and Amano Hinana.

The two took a few steps back and watched as the white door, after closing, burst and dissipated like fireworks, leaving not a trace behind.

And as the black-red vortex cloud exploded, turning into showers of rain, the violent tremors of the ground finally ceased.

"We won..."

Yotsuya Miko finally couldn't hold on any longer and collapsed to the ground, her face showing a relieved and relaxed expression.

Finally...

We won.

No one, not even the brightest Futaba Rio, had imagined that cutting off the electricity supply and mobile phone signal in Kyoto City were merely auxiliary means to instill panic in the citizens of Kyoto.

The real main event was the earthquake just now.

Although it took some time to close the door that appeared from who knows where, Yotsuya Miko and Amano Hinana could sense that the magnitude of the earthquake was not high. For Sakura Province, which experiences earthquakes year-round, it was just a small earthquake.

Kyoto's buildings all have strict earthquake resistance standards. Under this magnitude, it is absolutely impossible for them to collapse.

Most likely, there were no casualties.

......

Later that evening, inside another power plant.

"The earthquake just now..."

Futaba Rio and Sakurajima Mai stood not far away, learning from the walkie-talkie that Yotsuya Miko and Amano Hinana were safe and sound and were already heading towards their location.

This was the first good news.

The second piece of good news, according to Yagami Souichirou, was that the repairs to this power plant were nearing completion. In less than five minutes, it could be restored to normal operation.

Once that happened, everything would be easier to handle.

Futaba Rio didn't plan to restore the mobile phone signal in Kyoto City, because defending both a power plant and a communications infrastructure at the same time was simply too difficult.

How many evil spirits were there in Kyoto City alone? If you included those ghosts, there would be hundreds of thousands.

And what about the Overload Society?

Yotsuya Miko, Futaba Rio, Sakurajima Mai, Yuigahama Yui, Hachishaku-sama, even if you included Makino-hara Shoko and Menma, who were purely burdens, there were only seven of them.

Faced with such a vast difference in numbers, being able to guard a power plant and prevent Kyoto City from plunging into absolute darkness tonight was already the limit.

To divert strength to restore signal communications would be a suicide mission.

But the most important problem now is not in the real world.

With the entire city of Kyoto experiencing a power outage and the mobile phone signal being cut off, such an earthquake occurred. Even if the magnitude itself was not enough to cause much damage, how should the panic caused to humans be calculated?

In the real world, if the other side doesn't have any more tricks up their sleeve, the Overload Society has already won.

But...

That most important person hasn't returned yet...

......

At the same time, inside the Reverse World.

"Boom!!!!"

Feeling the earth-shattering tremors, before Tamamo-no-Mae could react, Ye Xing, who was originally lying on her lap with his eyes closed, opened his eyes.

"It's finally starting."

In the next second, Tamamo-no-Mae felt a blur before her eyes and found herself appearing in the open space outside the abandoned building.

At this moment, she was in no mood to be shocked by how fast Ye Xing was.

Because the scene unfolding before Tamamo-no-Mae's eyes was something she had never seen since her birth in the Reverse World.

The hard ground burst open with abyss-like cracks.

The gaps that should have revealed steel bars emitted scorching heat, flowing with a magma-like substance.

The shaking of the ground was so violent, it was as if it was about to shake the sky of the Reverse World down.

The moon in the sky had completely turned blood-red, and the surrounding black mist began to become increasingly thick, as if one was immersed in pitch-black seawater.

"This... this is..."

Even with Tamamo-no-Mae's composure, seeing such terrifying changes occurring in the Reverse World, she was instantly flustered.

Ye Xing, on the other hand, had a calm expression. Even standing on the constantly shaking ground, his figure remained stable. He simply said with interest.

"I see... It's an earthquake..."

"Earthquake?"

Hearing Ye Xing's words, Tamamo-no-Mae had an incredulous look on her face.

"I have never heard of such an earthquake..."

"You still don't understand."

Ye Xing pointed to the dark red magma flowing in the cracks and chuckled.

"Do you think there would be such things under the ground of Kyoto City? Including this earthquake, these cracks, are just reflections of people's fear in the Reverse World."

Just as Ye Xing's voice fell, before Tamamo-no-Mae could answer, she heard a series of heavy thuds coming from the black mist behind her.

"Thud, thud, thud..."

The ground, which had already stopped shaking, would tremble every time this sound came.

What made Tamamo-no-Mae feel horrified was that this sound...