Respect was respect, but Yotsuya Miko didn't forget that she was facing the same problem.
What to do?
Eat, or not eat?
Yotsuya Miko suppressed her nausea, gritted her teeth, and slowly picked up a fish ball from the bento box with her chopsticks.
Just then, the long tongue suddenly extended from the darkness again, darting towards the fish ball she had picked up with her chopsticks with lightning speed.
"Hey!"
Under this sudden attack, although Yotsuya Miko maintained a calm expression, her right hand couldn't help but tremble slightly.
Fish balls have a smooth surface, making them inherently difficult to pick up.
With Yotsuya Miko's hand trembling like that, the fish ball immediately slipped from between the chopsticks and fell towards the dusty ground.
"Plop…"
The fish ball fell to the ground, and that faint, almost inaudible sound, like a starting gun in a hundred-meter dash, instantly triggered a change in the hundreds of Evil Spirits.
"You, can see!"
"You, can see!"
"You, can see!"
…
Looking at the twisted, writhing Evil Spirits, roaring chillingly, Yotsuya Miko tearfully looked at Kano Yoruhoshi and stammered,
"I… I'm sorry… I…"
"It's alright."
Kano Yoruhoshi waved his hand, checked his phone, and smiled,
"You lasted forty-seven minutes, and you even reached this floor and got to the point of eating your bento. You've done very well. Next…"
He put down his bento box, stood up, dusted off his clothes, and slowly walked in front of Yotsuya Miko. Looking at the hundreds of restless Evil Spirits, he sobered his smile and said,
"It's my turn to act."
As his words fell, Kano Yoruhoshi clasped his hands together. Under Yotsuya Miko's disbelieving gaze, a wisp of black mist slowly extended between his palms, eventually transforming into a pitch-black, guardless weapon resembling a Tang Dao.
He pointed the tip of the blade at the hundreds of Evil Spirits in front of him and said faintly,
"Come."
"You can see!"
Hundreds of Evil Spirits crowded together, letting out ferocious roars, and lunged at Kano Yoruhoshi, who stood there.
"Spear."
Facing this terrifying, hellish scene, Kano Yoruhoshi merely whispered two words, and a pitch-black long spear formed in his left hand.
Then, with a perfectly standard posture for a javelin throw, he threw the spear with all his might.
"Phew…"
The immense force behind the black long spear allowed it to pierce through dozens of Evil Spirits in quick succession, creating a brief void in what was originally a black, wave-like tide of Evil Spirits.
Immediately after, Kano Yoruhoshi, facing an Evil Spirit with a mouth exuding black mist that was about to gnaw at his neck, showed no sign of panic. He simply inverted the long blade in his right hand and plunged it, along with the Evil Spirit's distorted head, directly into the concrete ground.
He even had the leisure to explain to Yotsuya Miko behind him.
"When dealing with Evil Spirits, piercing the head is the best method. Most Evil Spirits can be eliminated this way, but to be safe, it's best to grind them into powder and watch them dissipate into black mist. That's the most secure way."
At this moment, Yotsuya Miko was too shocked to utter a single word.
Every time Kano Yoruhoshi swung his blade, even if the black Tang blade only grazed an Evil Spirit, it would instantly turn into smoke and dust, vanishing without a trace.
There were also some faster Evil Spirits that broke through the blade's obstruction and successfully approached Kano Yoruhoshi.
But all of this, in the end, was futile.
Even the most terrifying Evil Spirits, before touching Kano Yoruhoshi's body, were pierced by the black spikes that suddenly emerged from him, instantly turning into nothingness, just like the Evil Spirits struck by the black Tang blade.
"This…is this Kano Yoruhoshi's true strength?"
Yotsuya Miko looked at the scene before her, her golden pupils filled with disbelief.
She found it incredibly difficult to connect this scene with the exorcism stories she had heard.
Rather than saying this was expelling Evil Spirits…
It was more like slaughtering these Evil Spirits.
There was a simple, unadorned beauty in the sheer numerical dominance.
Kano Yoruhoshi: "I almost got ambushed by these Evil Spirits. Good thing I was one step ahead."
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Just as hundreds of Evil Spirits were rapidly disappearing, either being slain or devoured by Kano Yoruhoshi, a strange sound suddenly came from the stairwell, like many people gathered together, whispering in unison.
Yotsuya Miko couldn't make out a single word of the specific content.
She just felt all the hairs on her body stand on end the moment she heard the sound, and even her school uniform was instantly soaked by the cold sweat seeping from her back.
"Th-that's…"
"Whoosh!"
A gentle breeze swept through, as if a speeding train had passed by.
A monster, four or five meters thick, shaped like a python, with a slit in its head and a vertical eye growing within it, swiftly crawled from the direction of the stairwell into the main hall.
"What the hell!?"
Seeing this strange thing suddenly appear, Kano Yoruhoshi couldn't help but be stunned.
"Why does this thing look so much like a turtle…"
Before Kano Yoruhoshi could utter the word, he saw sharp, cold-glowing teeth emerge from both sides of the slit in the head of the monster, which was as thick as a giant python.
The strange whispering sound grew louder and louder.
The part of the monster that was unclear whether it was an eye or a mouth, darted out like an arrow from a bowstring, directly lunging at Yotsuya Miko, who was standing not far away, and viciously bit at her.
Facing this monster's sudden attack, Yotsuya Miko was completely terrified, her thoughts even coming to a standstill.
All she saw were the two rows of increasingly close teeth and that vertical eye filled with endless malice.
"Sigh, no choice."
Looking at the monster lunging at Yotsuya Miko, Kano Yoruhoshi's face, for the first time, showed a look of facing a formidable enemy. He put down the black Tang blade made of Evil Spirit power in his hand, extended his right hand towards the monster, and low-roared, "Come out."
As these three words left his lips, Yotsuya Miko saw an incredibly pale giant hand with sharp black nails on its five fingers instantly appear before her.
"This, this is the one I saw on the train last time…"
She recognized this strange giant hand as the one she had seen on the train last time.
Sure enough, this was also one of Kano Yoruhoshi's "abilities"?
While Yotsuya Miko was pondering, the sharp black nails on the five fingers of the pale giant hand had already fiercely pierced into the body of the snake-like Evil Spirit.
What burst out was not blood, but black mist.
The head of the snake-like Evil Spirit kept twisting, seemingly feeling intense pain.
Coincidentally.
Kano Yoruhoshi clenched the five fingers of his right hand, looking at the scene before him, and gasped.
Why did this Evil Spirit have to look like that?
It made him feel a bit empathetic; a certain part of him began to ache faintly.
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