I planted a sacred tree in Tokyo.

Chapter 61 The End
Shibuya Ward
The heavens and earth changed color, Rashomon stood tall, and a hundred ghosts roared!
"Give up, officer."

The steel pipe was aimed at Iori Ichika, who had fallen to the ground, and Yamagami patiently explained.

"The weapon in my hand is not an ordinary steel pipe,"

"Strictly speaking, this is a coilgun."

A coilgun is a projectile acceleration weapon consisting of one or more coils.

Using a synchronous linear motor, a magnetic projectile is accelerated to extremely high speeds. This device is also known as the Gauss weapon, in honor of Karl Friedrich Gauss, who mathematically described the electromagnetic acceleration effect.

"The 'sorcery' I acquired allows me to control lightning. Although the voltage isn't very high, it's flexible enough."

If lightning is violently unleashed from the mountain, it will only be a short to medium-range attack.

However, when combined with his homemade weapon called 'Abe-che,' he can achieve precise long-range sniping: the shooting that 'warned' the helicopter earlier was his doing.

"At this distance, you can't dodge my attack."

Facing the steel pipe crackling with electricity, Ichika Iori, with one arm twisted and her body emitting blue smoke, sighed helplessly.

"You 'original extraordinary' people are really shameless."

Possesses all sorts of amazing abilities!
"Hey, buddy up the mountain,"

"Do you really want to watch the Tokyo Night Parade of One Hundred Demons?"

In response to Iori Ichika's question, Yamagami Toru's hand lowered the steel pipe slightly.

"Feel sorry,"

"After this is over, I will do something that benefits others."

Now, releasing water here at an unprecedented rate is already the best he can do.

Even though Seiko left quietly, everyone on the mountain turned a blind eye.

"Hey, are you still alive?"

"Cough cough,"

When Tanimura Wataru opened his eyes, he saw Fuji Seiko injecting him with adrenaline.

"This is what I am"

“You were severely injured by that ‘paper dance’; she has already summoned Rashomon.”

While quickly explaining, Fuji Seiko helped the other person up.

"Although I don't want to say it, you're the only one who can stop her."

There are limits to artificial superhuman abilities. Despite being far superior to humans in strength, speed, and physique, they lack additional abilities and therefore cannot pull off 'last-ditch comebacks' or similar feats.

His body was charred black, and his demonic power was almost gone. Tanimura Wataru twitched the corner of his mouth.

"A miraculous comeback, me?"

impossible
"Give,"

Fuji Seiko shoved an earpiece into Tanimura Wataru's ear, and he immediately heard a tearful voice in his ear.

"cross!"

"Hoshino?"

The girl's voice seemed to have a magical power, causing the exhausted Tanimura Wataru to struggle to his feet.

"Stop fighting, come back!"

"Watari, they asked me to encourage you to keep fighting."

"But...but I don't want you to die! I don't care about demons, or the safety of our island nation!"

The girl's cries came through the earpiece, but what she didn't know was that her words were part of the Metropolitan Police Department's plan.

"Don't cry, Hoshino."

I looked up at the magnificent 'Rashomon', where hundreds of ghostly phantoms roared and danced, as if the next moment... no, it had already begun!

Click click click

Amidst the dull rumble,
A giant Rashomon-like face splits open from the center and radiates outwards!
"I will stop all of this, study hard, do well on my exams, and live a good life."

"Crossing—"

The man, his body charred black, lay prone on the ground, having thrown away his headset.

"what!!!!!"

As his muscles twitched and writhed, countless white hairs pierced through the charred, dead skin and covered his body, transforming him once again into a majestic giant dog.

With all four claws exerting force, Wataru Tanimura unleashed his 'Four-Legged Technique' using his life force and charged forward once more.

"Mocha, Mai, come here!"

At his command, the two wounded 'dog demons' abandoned their opponents and turned back to their master without hesitation, the three of them colliding violently like arrows.

The man and the two dogs suddenly merged, transforming into a three-headed dog several meters tall!
Inuzuka Secret Technique: Human-Beast Hybrid Transformation - Three-Headed Wolf

"Hoohoho!!!"

After fusion, it's not just a matter of power x3; it also allows the use of more powerful techniques.

The charging three-headed giant dog, like the legendary 'Cerberus,' was about to seal the gate to the demons before it.

"Hey?"

He actually broke through at the last minute.

The 'Paper Dance' floating above Rashomon was taken aback. This was not part of his plan. Although the 'hero' he had planned for had arrived, he had not yet made a move.

However, it's all good. With Tanimura Wataru's breakthrough, the feedback to Akihi Yuu was that he unlocked a large number of C-rank physical techniques.

"Humph, dying struggle."

"Devour this dog demon! Paper Serpent—"

After a brief moment of 'stunned surprise', Paper Dance pointed forward with the paper fan in her hand, and countless swirling and flying papers immediately transformed into giant pythons that surged toward the three-headed dog.

"Go for it, Tanimura-kun!"

"give it to you!"

Encouraged by his colleagues behind him, the central head of the three-headed dog hardened its eyes; facing the surging papers with the word 'explosion' beginning to appear, it neither dodged nor avoided, preparing to withstand it head-on!

Just as the three-headed dog and the paper python were about to collide, the drain cover on the side street suddenly flew into the air with a 'bang'.

At the same time, a water dragon suddenly shot out, baring its fangs and claws!

"Rain, let it fall."

Splash,

The water dragon suddenly exploded, turning into countless raindrops that drenched the entire battlefield.

The three-headed dog was completely unaware, but the giant python made of paper crumbled instantly in the rain, scattering into countless wet pieces of paper.

? !
"It's you--"

Above Rashomon, a figure holding an umbrella suddenly leaped up and pressed his hand down on 'Paper Dance'. A torrent of water gushed from his palm, trapping 'Paper Dance' inside.

"This is your way of returning the favor for hindering my efforts,"

Water Prison Technique
"It's the Rain Woman?!"

"She actually showed up at this time? And..."

Those from the island nation observing the battle through drones exclaimed in surprise. Some quick-witted individuals had already grasped the situation.

Yes,

According to the intelligence they gathered,
The Rain Woman and the Paper Dancer were originally enemies!

It's understandable for them to get involved now, so what remains is:
"Go, Tanimura Watari!"

Even though the other side couldn't hear him, someone in the command room still couldn't help but clench their fists and shout.

"come on!!"

"Come on!!"

"Tanimura Watari, the fate of this island nation rests on your shoulders!"

Amidst the roars of "Gonbato!" in the Metropolitan Police Department, the three-headed dog in Shibuya seemed to be encouraged as well, growing even larger out of nowhere.

Chance,

The original benefactors have become the opposing side, while the original enemies have become allies.

As he sped along, Tanimura Wataru stared at the enormous gate before him and the roaring demons above it, desperately squeezing out all the power in his body. If his demonic power wasn't enough, he squeezed out his flesh and blood; if his flesh and blood weren't enough, he ignited his soul!

Blood vessels spread across his eyes, and fresh blood seeped from his nasal cavity and the gaps between his fangs, before being left far behind.

Akemi, Hoshino.
You should be like normal girls, reading, shopping, and enjoying your youth.

During the charge, it suddenly spun around, the huge three-headed dog's body turning rapidly.

fang fang

Its claws and teeth spun together, transforming into a massive, razor-sharp tornado that strangled and cut everything, shooting straight out and spinning faster and faster.

The deafening hurricane caused trees a hundred meters away to snap and break with a crackling sound, and some thinner branches were even blown down and broken off by the gale. The wreckage of a car that was too close was tumbled out of the hurricane with a roar, demonstrating the immense power it contained.

"A hundred demons—"

"Go back to hell!!!"

Rumble rumble rumble~~~~~
The ground was scooped out by the speeding tornado with its claws, creating a deep trench!

Amidst a deafening roar, the massive 'Rashomon' was blasted through, crashing into the 'Unification Church' building behind it, tearing it apart as well; it was as if the planet's gravity had ceased to exist, with countless building debris and rubble suspended in the air.

Succeeded?
Success! !

bang,
In a cloud of smoke, the giant three-headed dog that had pierced through the 'Rashomon' suddenly vanished, leaving only the figures of one person and two dogs falling to the ground.

"Ha, I finally got to be a hero!"

Pfft

The smile froze on Tanimura Watari's face as an umbrella swept across his forehead, knocking away the 'Sessho-seki' embedded in his flesh.

Snapped,

He grabbed the stone he was carrying, and from under the umbrella that covered his face, came the boy's voice.

"Feel sorry."

We were careless; the other side was after the 'Killing Stone'.
Feeling as if all the strength had been drained from his body, Tanimura Wataru fell helplessly like a tattered rag.

Dying?

In fact, he misunderstood.

His already exhausted body had begun to collapse due to the outburst just now, and it had nothing to do with the 'Killing Stone' being taken away.

"Brother Tanimura—"

"how so?!"

On the battlefield, Iori Kazuka desperately rushed toward the falling Tanimura Wataru, while in the Metropolitan Police Department's command center, a high-ranking official of the island nation perfectly experienced what it meant to have a 'great rise and fall'.

Why are there two 'Rain Women'?

"Damn it, our superhumans~~~"

"Not two, but clones! Look, Paper Dance has broken free!"

The 'Water Prison Technique' that separates water clones
Looking at the collapsing Rashomon, the falling Tanimura Wataru, and Kishida Jun who seized the 'Sessho-seki', a hint of surprise flashed in 'Kamimai's' eyes.

"Humans, you really surprise me."

This wasn't Akihiyu's arrangement, but it didn't affect the continuation of his 'script'.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh
As the 'Rashomon' collapsed, the phantoms of the hundred demons gradually faded away in their struggle, but they did not disappear completely. Instead, they transformed into specks of light that shot into the sky and flew in all directions, like a dazzling fireworks display.

"You did prevent the arrival of the hundred demons, but—"

As 'Paper Dance' changed the subject, everyone—from Iori Kazuka who caught Tanimura Wataru with one hand, to Fuji Seiko who was on guard with a gun, and the 'Ryuba Trio' who were holding back; to the high-ranking officials of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department who were closely monitoring the battlefield through a large number of surveillance devices—immediately became tense again.

Is it not over yet?

"The true spirits of the hundred demons have spread across this land,"

"They will seek new hosts, absorb resentment, anger, and hatred, and then regroup."

what? !

Amidst everyone's shock, anger, and fear, Paper Dance slightly turned her head and looked at the void beside her.

"Come out,"

"A fellow from the underworld."

"Oh dear~~ According to the rules, we are not allowed to interfere in human affairs."

"We must not let the world know of our existence."

A flippant voice rang out, and lines began to appear out of thin air.

As the lines sketched the human form, they were then filled in with color: a man in a plain white hunting robe, with plain white finger rings, a head of flowing white hair beneath a tall white hat, a face as white as snow, and features with an unusual softness. Although his entire body was pure white, his pupils were as red as blood.

The cuffs and trouser hems have flame-like patterns, which at first glance look like traces of blood.

"lie,"

Paper Dance bluntly exposed the other party's lie.

"Isn't that 'Rain Woman' one of your subordinates? Ghost Messenger White, or should I use a different name?"

"White Impermanence?"

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

P.S.: Let me reiterate, this book does not contain any mysterious Eastern superpowers! However, island nations do have concepts like Hell, the River of Three Crossings, Jizo, and Yama; their origins are self-evident.
(End of this chapter)