Zongman I fight weirdness in everyday world

“Huff…”

“Ding-a-ling”

A burst of inexplicably eerie breathing, accompanied by a crisp sound like wind chimes colliding, echoed behind the members of the Occult Research Club.

Rio Futaba and Miko Yotsuya turned around and saw a creature with a head like a goat, a body four to five meters tall, standing on all fours, its entire form a translucent gold, standing there silently.

In that instant, both girls felt a sense of tension rising within them.

Whatever this thing in front of them was…

It was terrifying.

This terror was different from the twisted faces and evil aura emanating from evil spirits.

It was more like…

A kind of aloofness that completely disregarded humans, a sense of being high above them.

“This thing… is… a god?”

No matter what, Miko Yotsuya couldn't reconcile the goat-headed, gigantic monster emanating a silent pressure with the so-called gods.

As ordinary people, Mai Sakurajima and Yui Yuigahama couldn't see the existence of the god.

But they weren't as oblivious as Hanawa Yurikawa.

Just seeing the changes in Miko Yotsuya and Rio Futaba's expressions, and feeling the suddenly quiet, deathly atmosphere where not even a bird chirped, the two girls knew that something must have happened.

“So, it finally came out.”

Yoru Hoshi turned around, looked at the translucent golden monster with a goat head, and smiled nonchalantly.

“A spirit ability user's soul must be very attractive to you, right?”

The goat god opened its mouth and spat out obscure and incomprehensible words.

“@@*＃＆￥（！＃）！）”

Yoru Hoshi frowned slightly, the smile on his face gradually disappearing.

“Speak human language.”

“@＆*！＃…”

Just as the goat god spoke again, only halfway through, something happened that neither Miko Yotsuya nor Rio Futaba had expected.

“I told you to speak human language!”

Yoru Hoshi didn't hesitate at all, he made a grasping motion forward with his left hand, and the Pale Ghoul Hand instantly appeared, delivering a resounding slap to the goat god.

“Slap!”

The muffled sound of the slap not only made the goat god's head tilt, but even made Miko Yotsuya and Rio Futaba feel as if this slap had landed on their own hearts.

Their breathing stopped abruptly.

Immediately afterward, the pupils of both girls dilated in shock.

What had Yoru Hoshi just done?

He had slapped a god!?

This was a genuine god, enshrined in a shrine!

“What kind of nonsense are you spouting? I can't understand a single word.”

Yoru Hoshi still had that nonchalant look, slowly walking up to the goat god and smiling.

“Be smart, sign a contract, and save yourself some unnecessary suffering, understand?”

What responded to him was the earth-shattering roar finally let out by the goat god as it came back to its senses.

“Why bother.”

Yoru Hoshi shook his head regretfully, a black longsword appearing in his right hand.

“You asked for this.”

Although his words sounded reluctant, Yui Yuigahama and the others clearly saw a hint of excitement and anticipation flash in Yoru Hoshi's eyes.

Clearly.

Slaughtering evil spirits was Yoru Hoshi's old trade.

But beating up a genuine god brought him an unprecedented sense of novelty.

It was a good thing Yoru Hoshi became an exorcist.

Otherwise, with this kind of mental state, he wouldn't be of any benefit to society.

“Open your eyes, Hundred Eyes!”

“Reveal your true form, Bone Woman!”

Although they didn't know what Yoru Hoshi was thinking, feeling the tense atmosphere at this moment, Rio Futaba and Miko Yotsuya didn't hesitate at all, each calling out their Soul True Names.

Yui Yuigahama and Mai Sakurajima couldn't see anything.

This was actually a good thing.

For them, as long as they weren't hit by the longsword in Miko Yotsuya's hand, there wouldn't be any risk of injury, they just needed to retreat to a safe distance.

“@@！＆＃！”

Clearly, the god wasn't deliberately talking nonsense with Yoru Hoshi.

Rather, its language was just like that.

Along with the god's words, two small girls with fox faces, as short as toddlers, appeared in the field.

As soon as they appeared, they tacitly rushed towards Miko Yotsuya and Rio Futaba, one on the left and one on the right.

“Hachishaku, go help Rio!”

Hearing Miko Yotsuya's words, Hachishaku immediately flashed over and stood in front of Rio Futaba together with Bone Woman.

Although Rio Futaba had awakened the ability to materialize her soul, it was only the second time she had used it, and she hadn't had time to undergo exorcism-related training.

Not to mention her mental fortitude.

No matter how calm and composed Rio Futaba was, she couldn't compare to Miko Yotsuya, who completely enjoyed the process of killing evil spirits and could remain expressionless when facing them.

Therefore, she needed Hachishaku's help even more.

“Oh? Adopting a strategy of defeating them one by one?”

Facing the goat god, which was several times larger than himself, Yoru Hoshi just smiled nonchalantly.

“You overestimate your own strength too much, and you also overestimate the strength of these two divine servants by your side too much.”

The goat god didn't intend to talk to him, it just opened its giant mouth and bit fiercely towards Yoru Hoshi's head, accompanied by a deafening roar.

Although this guy emanated an aloof aura, completely different from evil spirits.

In Yoru Hoshi's eyes, the so-called gods were the same as evil spirits.

They were just lowly existences lurking in the shadows, coveting humans.

“Come on!”

The Pale Ghoul Hand, in an extremely agile posture, instantly arrived above the goat god's head, its sharp fingers directly piercing into the other party's neck.

The goat god let out a painful roar, its wide-open mouth less than a meter away from Yoru Hoshi, but it couldn't get any closer.

“Such a huge body…”

Yoru Hoshi wore a kind smile on his face, and a row of barbed serrations appeared on the blade of the black longsword in his hand.

“It definitely won't be that easy to kill, right?”

At the instant his words fell, he had already lowered his body, gripped the longsword with his right hand, and slashed it all the way from the goat god's abdomen.

The barbed serrations forcibly tore a crack in the goat god's abdomen.

The pain caused was dozens of times greater than the longsword's cutting.

“Roar!!!”

The goat god's translucent golden body flickered a few times, constantly twisting its head, trying to break free from the Pale Ghoul Hand's restraints.

Its wide-open mouth opened wider and wider, until finally, it exceeded the limits of normal creatures, splitting into several petals, like some kind of Cthulhu evil god, with mouths with sharp teeth in each part, forcibly prying open the Ghoul Hand and shaking it in the air.

“So you're finally revealing your true form?”

Looking at the god, who now revealed its true face, although it exuded a holy aura, its face was even more twisted than an evil spirit, Yoru Hoshi wasn't surprised.

This thing was originally a monster.

In the original plot, Miko Yotsuya obtained the help of this so-called god, gaining three opportunities for the divine servants to help.

It sounded like a good god protecting humans.

What was the price?

The price was that after the three opportunities were used up, Miko Yotsuya would also become a divine servant like those two little girls with fox faces.

And those two little girls were originally human.

This was the so-called ritual of offering sacrifices to the gods in order to pray for peace.

“Greedy for human souls, yet disguised as a high and mighty, so-called god…”

Yoru Hoshi flicked the black longsword in his hand and stared directly at the twisted god in front of him.

“It's truly a disgusting existence.”

Since the goat evil spirit had revealed its true form, it meant it was using its full power.

Its several petal-like mouths with sharp teeth simultaneously launched attacks from all directions.

Two of them went to restrain the Pale Ghoul Hand floating in mid-air.

The rest were all tearing towards Yoru Hoshi's body.

Clearly, this so-called god, like the great demon Tamamo-no-Mae, possessed intelligence equal to humans.

Although it couldn't understand why a mere human, even if they were a spirit ability user, could summon something like the Pale Ghoul Hand, it could immediately make a decision to focus its attacks on Yoru Hoshi, whose body could be instantly torn to pieces if hit even once.

If the god was facing Miko Yotsuya and Rio Futaba at this time, its plan to bypass the soul materialization and directly attack the spirit ability user's body would be flawless.

The problem was.

Yoru Hoshi wasn't an ordinary spirit ability user.

“Want to eat?”

Yoru Hoshi's smile became even brighter, his right hand wielding the longsword, blocking the several giant mouths that were tearing over.

Then, he actually directly stuffed his left arm into one of the giant mouths.

“Then I'll let you eat!”

Even the god itself was stunned.

To voluntarily put an arm into its mouth.

Could there be such a good thing?

It didn't think much about it and bit down directly.

The sharp teeth all over its mouth pierced into Yoru Hoshi's arm.

But he didn't seem to feel any pain at all, and even asked with a chuckle.

“Hehe, how is it, is it delicious?”

At the instant his words fell, the god's huge translucent golden body suddenly began to tremble violently.

The several mouths that had split out instantly retracted, its tall body fell to the ground, letting out extremely painful roars, rolling around non-stop.

Back then, on the rooftop of Soubu High School, there was also an evil spirit that tried to devour Yoru Hoshi.

The result was that it was directly burst open.

At that time, the number of evil spirits Yoru Hoshi had devoured was probably between several hundred and a thousand.

Now, with the Reverse Side as a top-notch buffet restaurant, the number of evil spirits he had devoured in a short period of time had increased unimaginably.