I planted a sacred tree in Tokyo.

Chapter 514 We are invincible!
Demiplane,
On the outskirts of a city,
On the open space in the park at the top of the hill, figures appeared out of nowhere.

"Is this the demiplane?"

"It looks like it's not much different from our 'world'~~"

Upon entering the 'demigod plane' for the first time, Tokugawa Shizuka and Kamijou Touma looked around, but what they saw was exactly the same as an ordinary city in the island nation: even the words on the signs of distant buildings were so familiar.

That's for sure. This was originally a demiplane built by someone using a large number of 'fresh souls' from island nations.

These people, who have been given bodies, have not had their knowledge altered, and will naturally construct this world according to their 'previous life' knowledge.

"3,"

Mai Kawai next to him put on her glasses.
"2,"

It merges with the Earth Spider, transforming into the 'Calamity God' state, which is half-human and half-spider.

"1,"

Clang,

The shattered 'Thousand Blades' is drawn from its sheath.

Light,

Golden light descended from the sky!

Golden streaks of light stretched across the sky; this was not the Tyndall effect, but a harbinger of the arrival of the gods of this world.

"Hmph, not again?"

With a cold snort, the valiant man in hunting attire descended amidst golden light.

The 'Takemikazuchi' of this world!
"Outsiders, this time, you will not return alive. Gods—"

"Sigh... Can't we just live in peace in this corner of the world?"

Amidst a sigh, Sugawara no Michizane, dressed in black court robes, holding an ivory tablet, and resembling an old scholar, descended gracefully in another golden light.

"Everyone, I'm sorry."

As the old scholar pointed with his ivory tablet, countless children suddenly appeared on the outskirts of the mountain park where everyone was.

That's right, it's the kind of traditional island nation child wearing a kimono, wooden clogs, and with their hair tied in a bun.

?

"Be careful, it's 'Kagome-dōji'."

Nora, the 'local' girl, spoke up immediately.

"These 'childlike artifacts' devoid of any sense of good or evil will suppress our power—"

As soon as the words were spoken, countless children joined hands, forming a circle several kilometers in circumference, surrounding the crowd. Then:

"Bamboo cage eye, bamboo cage eye~"

"The little bird in the cage~~"

When will we be able to get out?

“The night at dawn,”

"The crane and the tortoise slipped and fell!"

Who is that behind them?

As countless children began to sing traditional folk songs from the island nation, their clear, melodious voices carried an eerie chill; the shadows beneath their feet, illuminated by the golden light from the sky, formed crisscrossing patterns that intersected and extended towards the center like a bamboo cage.

And the 'birds in the cage' are naturally the people who have just arrived in this demiplane!
"Ok?"

In a flash,

Standing atop this 'shaded bamboo cage',
Everyone felt their spiritual power being suppressed.

"Thirty percent?"

"Thirty percent!"

"Thirty percent!"

"One-tenth,"

Several experts reported the total amount of spiritual power they had suppressed. The others had their power suppressed by 30%, while only Chuan and Mai, as 'gods,' had their power suppressed by only 10%. Clearly, this 'Caged Bird' formation was a method used by the gods of this world to deal with 'heretics.'

"Destroy this magic circle!"

boom----

Needless to say, Ijiang was the first to make a move.

Whether these 'magic weapons' are children or anything else, anything that gets in his way must die!
A sky-blue skeletal giant appeared out of thin air, then covered with equally sky-blue 'muscles', transforming into a blue warrior made of spiritual energy; with swords drawn from its four arms, it charged forward and slashed at the children surrounding the battlefield.

"and many more!"

The blue spiritual energy longsword did not fall.
A crimson skeletal giant rushed up and grabbed the sky-blue warrior's wrist.

"Please wait a moment, Lord Ie—"

Given Guang's personality, she wouldn't allow the other party to attack the child; and besides, she—no, they weren't without other methods.

But what responded to her was a huge, spiritually powerful longsword that suddenly slashed down!

?

"Ha, how foolish."

Golden rays of light fell from the sky.
With each additional ray of light, a 'god' arrived. Seeing the two 'god avatars' fighting below, Takemikazuchi sneered, then became serious.

Two Susanoo bloodlines. It seems the 'main world' has recovered from the thousand-year war of the gods, so where should they go from here?
So be it, as a God of War—

"Huang Yun, come here!"

With a wave of his hand, golden lightning flew into his hand and transformed into a ferocious longsword.

"With Takemikazuchi here, who dares to fight?"

"I come!"

Kawai Mai, wielding the 'Thousand Blades', soared into the sky, her body shimmering with golden light, and engaged in a fierce battle with the 'Takemikazuchi'.

Boom boom boom boom~~~
Soaring into the sky, amidst the visible boiling of purple 'demonic power,' Kafka Lu conjured numerous nozzles from his writhing feet, spewing forth sky-blue light as he soared into the heavens!

The truly powerful, brick-like flight method made the eyes of the "gods" in the sky flicker.

"You Rashomon ghost, cease your rampage!"

Immediately, two heavily armored gods brandished their 'divine weapons' and charged at Kafka.

"Lord Ie, I am not trying to stop you, but rather—"

Rumble, rumble! !
Forced to retreat step by step by the four-armed blue samurai, Hikaru, the ninja, fought and tried to explain while inside the crimson skeletal giant. However, inside the sky-blue samurai, the expressionless Ie remained silent, only launching a relentless attack.

brush,

After all, it has four arms.
A slash swept past the crimson giant and hurtled towards the children holding hands!

boom----

However, the flash of the blade reached the circle of children.
It exploded out of thin air on the spot, and even the shockwave was reversed.

This is only natural. If a magic array is so easily destroyed, then what is the point of its existence?

The "Caged Bird" is a collection of thousands of "children's gadgets".
It is one of the world's trump cards.

Taking advantage of the fact that the battle between gods and demons in the sky was drawing everyone's attention, two figures sped off towards the outer edge of the battlefield.

The 'gods' in the sky merely glanced at it and then paid no more attention.

They were just two outsiders of the 'samurai' level.
They immediately paid the price for their carelessness:

"Touma, use your right hand."

"it is good!"

Those who rushed towards the artifacts used to surround the children on the battlefield were naturally Tokugawa Shizuka and Kamijou Touma.

Under Tokugawa Shizuka's command, Touma, who was running at full speed, stretched out his right hand.

click,

The explosion that suddenly occurred was very slight.
But it drew the attention of everyone on the battlefield!

"A bird in a cage"

It's broken?!
As Touma Kamijou raised his right hand and charged, the air in front of him exploded continuously, and the originally formless and intangible spiritual power shattered one after another.

The people who had been suppressed immediately felt a sense of relief. What?
Leaving aside the horrifying 'gods',

Even Kafka and Mai, who knew beforehand, were still shocked.

The Bird in a Cage formation composed of thousands upon thousands of 'children' could easily suppress the spiritual power of so many powerful individuals, so its strength was naturally beyond question; however, in front of that boy's right hand, it was as fragile as paper, easily punctured.

"ah?"

"Monster~~"

"Don't kill me, don't kill me!"

Even the children holding hands turned and ran away crying as they saw Toma rushing over.

In an instant, the great formation composed of thousands of 'divine artifacts' collapsed.

"Forehead"

This left Touma Kamijou, who was holding up his right hand, looking completely embarrassed.
Am I really that vicious?

"certainly,"

Tokugawa Shizuka, who was following behind him, rolled her eyes at him.
"The 'divine artifacts' of this world are said to be transformed from the souls of the dead."

Touma's right hand can erase any spells made of 'spiritual power', and this 'divine artifact' of the demiplane is made of spiritual power.

If you get touched,
They'll be reduced to ashes on the spot!

In this situation, Toma was practically 'death' itself in the eyes of those children.

"Magic array dispelled. Watch out from above!"

Upon hearing Tokugawa Shizuka's reminder, Kamijou Touma subconsciously raised his hand.

boom----

The next second, flames poured down like a mighty river, engulfing the two of them.

"Hmph, may you turn to ashes in the blazing flames of Venerable Yanhuo!"

A man with two buns tied behind his ears, exuding an air of nobility and authority, snorted coldly in the sky; flames continued to emerge from his mouth as he opened and closed it, clearly indicating that he held power over something like fire.

There is no fire god in the mythology of the island nation, because the real fire god, Kagutsuchi, burned his mother to death right after he was born and was killed on the spot by Izanagi.

However, there are many gods who possess the power of fire, and this one who calls himself 'Yanhuohuo Chujian Zun' is one of them.

This person is actually the son of Amaterasu's grandson!

Legend has it that Amaterasu's grandson descended to the mortal realm, wielding the Three Sacred Treasures and sweeping across the land. There, he encountered the cherry blossom goddess, "Konohana no Sakuyabi," and they made love. After a night of passion, she told Amaterasu's grandson that she was pregnant and about to give birth. Amaterasu's grandson was very suspicious. If a child was born in one night, it might not be her own, but rather the bloodline of another Kunitsu goddess.

Konohana no Sakuya was enraged by the death, so she set fire to the delivery room and gave birth to four children in the flames—the flames were the power of Amaterasu, and if not for the bloodline of the god Amatsu, they would have been reduced to ashes on the spot.

This is the origin of the island nation's royal family. And because the mother was the goddess of cherry blossoms, the samurai family has since been like cherry blossoms, shining brightly for a lifetime before withering away.

Only the first generation can barely maintain the divinity of 'immortality'.

Asama Shrine atop Mount Fuji
This is the one being worshipped.

"--What?!"

However, in the next instant, the expression on the face of the 'Yan Huohuo Chujian Zun', who was dressed in a wide robe, changed drastically.

Because the flames He exhaled, which could burn for three days and three nights, were actually disappearing!

wrong,

It was absorbed.

"Well done, Touma!"

Beneath the flames, Tokugawa Shizuka beamed with delight.

Even the flames of the gods are no match for Touma; no wonder she set her sights on him.
"Who are you, blasphemer?"

Seeing all his flames surge into the other's palm, the 'Yan Huo Huo Chu Jian Zun' in the sky angrily rebuked while cautiously retreating.

"Touma, hold me tight with your left hand."

?

"why?"

The high school boy with the urchin-shaped haircut looked puzzled as he raised his right hand to absorb the flames.

"Don't worry about it, just do it."

? ?
Although he didn't know what Tokugawa Shizuka was up to, Kamijou Touma still readily agreed and stretched out his left hand to hug the girl's waist.

In a flash,

Both the boy and girl blushed.

"How dare you ignore me!"

The question went unanswered, and instead, a mouthful of "dog food" (a slang term for public displays of affection) was stuffed into the mouth; the "Yan Huo Huo Chu Jian Zun" in the sky was so angry that his face turned as red as blood, and he raised his hand to grab:
"Red Leaf, come here!"

A crimson longsword fell into his hands.
"Hold on tight, Touma."

The heat and light from the sky calmed Tokugawa Shizuka down.
Before she could even savor the 'embrace' so close at hand, she took a step forward.

"Waaaaaah~~~"

Amidst Touma Kamijou's shouts, the two of them soared into the sky.

The ability that Tokugawa Shizuka learned from her training in 'spiritual nature transformation' was the ability to control magnetism.

Now, on the back of her left hand, there is also a spindle-shaped mark, which is the mark of the 'Eight Thousand Spears' of light; through this mark, she has temporarily gained spiritual power close to that of a demon.

Of course, it's just spiritual energy; it lacks all the related techniques for using it and the ability to cast spells.

It is enough.

Used for 'flying,' just like now.

In fact, Tokugawa Shizuka could have made Kamijou Touma fly in other ways, but—if she didn't take this opportunity to close the distance, was she supposed to carry Touma with chains and fly?

Seeing the two people flying towards him, 'Hankaka Izumi-no-Miko', who was holding a flaming longsword, was first shocked and then furious!
Faced with His mighty 'Heavenly God', instead of fleeing, He actively approached Him?
"Traitor, you shall be punished by Heaven!"

wow-

With a single swing of the longsword,
The raging flames drew out a waterfall of fire that swept across the entire army!

This strike, imbued with the might of the sun, seemed to instantly burn away the air within a radius of hundreds of meters, turning it into a vacuum. Then, it generated an extremely strong suction force, causing the surrounding air to surge in like fierce, turbulent currents, relentlessly collapsing and sweeping across the area.

Just facing this ring of raging flames gives one the feeling of first suffocating to death, and then being completely burned and destroyed by the dazzling sea of ​​fire.

Gods are like that; they don't need to specially train in swordsmanship. With just a swing of their blade, they can launch a wide-range attack!

Next second,
A hand emerges from the flames!
All the flames that approached the palm rushed toward the center of the palm.

It's as if there's another world connected between the five fingers: no matter how fierce the flames or how mighty the gods are, they are nothing more than fish and shrimp caught in a deep-sea whirlpool.

"What--?"

Before the deity named 'Yan Huo Huo Chu Jian Zun' could react, two figures passed through the sea of ​​fire unharmed.

Snapped,
Five fingers landed on his face.

"No----"

Amidst incredulous gasps, the body of this grandson of the gods suddenly collapsed, like a sand dune after a surging wave, instantly transforming into countless golden specks of light that drifted down.

? ? ? ? ?

In an instant, the entire battlefield fell silent.

Whether in the sky or on the ground, whether it was the 'god' of this demiplane, the two demon-level superhumans from the island nation, or Ie, they all stared blankly at the collapsing 'Henko-hime-no-Mikoto', unsure how to describe their feelings.

"what is this?"

Kawai Mayi murmured to herself,

She stared blankly at Kamijou Touma, who was holding Tokugawa Shizuka in one arm and whose other hand could instantly kill a 'god' with a single grab.

"Holding a girl in your arms and killing it?"

Where did that Yu-kun find such a terrifying helper?

That's a 'god'!
The 'gods' of this world have many strange aspects, but their combat power is all at least at the level of a powerful tiger, with many at the demon level, yet they were all instantly killed.
Is the extraordinary world this unreasonable too?
"here you go--"

Having witnessed the 'god-slaying' up close, Tokugawa Shizuka is excitedly searching for her next target.

"If we join forces, how can we possibly defeat an enemy?"

(End of this chapter)