Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 341, The Senior's Power

rain.

Rain was everywhere, and within the curtain of rain that blotted out the sun, the other world arrived faster and more ferociously than before!
The rain, as if alive, dissolved, distorted, and reassembled the shrine's outline. The sense of space became distorted; familiar paths vanished, and the surrounding landscape grew more dilapidated, eerie, and permeated with an oppressive dampness and a sense of despair. The shrine itself seemed to come alive, radiating a suffocating malice.

This is the other world. In the rain, Sato, who was waiting at the back, attacked Uesugi Muneyuki without warning. He quickly pulled out a stun gun from his backpack and stabbed it directly into Uesugi Muneyuki's back!
In the heavy rain, everything around was shrouded in a blurry landscape. It seemed that Uesugi Muneyuki was completely unprepared, and once they captured him, the national goddess Shirakawa Mai would naturally be theirs as well.

However, Uesugi Muneyuki and Mai-senpai were not completely unprepared.

In fact, the moment these people discovered Uesugi and Shirama, Uesugi Muneyuki knew that Takahashi, the leader, was at least suspicious. At that time, he and Mai-senpai were in a state of near-invisibility, and anyone who faced them would think they were just an ordinary couple on a New Year's trip. Even those who knew them well would at most feel that they looked familiar, but would not be able to recognize who they were.

The fact that the other party could recognize them means that the other party is also a being from the other world!

Normally, when two beings from different worlds meet in the wild, the outcome is basically predetermined—only one can survive.

However, this was Uesugi Muneyuki's first time encountering something like this. Unlike Mai-senpai, he found it difficult to kill them immediately. Moreover, the other three people didn't seem to have any trace of the underworld. Mai-senpai knew very well that it was difficult for Uesugi Muneyuki to kill anyone at this time. Therefore, she simply agreed to let the six of them go together. On the one hand, she wanted Uesugi Muneyuki to experience the horror of the underworld. On the other hand, she also wanted to know what these people were doing at Kurosawa Shrine. Did they have any information that we didn't know about?
Now, as Sato, the burly man, suddenly pulled out a stun gun from his backpack, Uesugi Muneyuki finally confirmed that the four people on the other side were indeed a group and their intentions were not good!
In that case, I don't need to pretend to be a gentleman anymore!

With lightning speed, Uesugi Muneyuki summoned Hironaka Mariko and Miyahara Toru. With a furious shout, Hironaka Mariko appeared from the void. Having absorbed all of Saijo Yasue's curse power, Hironaka's strength had greatly increased. With a shriek, her pair of sharp claws transformed into purple light blades, knocking away the stun baton in Sato's hand. The modified high-voltage electricity on it turned Hironaka's claws black, leaving three purplish-black claw marks on Sato's body along his jacket, and blood flowed down instantly!

"Da da da~" Miyahara Tetsu reacted very quickly. The emergency inhaler rattled, and Smoker exhaled a thick white smoke in the rain, completely enveloping the other three people in the fog.

"So it really is you!" Takahashi finally reacted. "Uesugi, you really are from the other world. No wonder you're so good at solving cases! I've suspected you for a long time!"

After saying that, Takahashi finally revealed his ability to access the other world. He stretched out his arm, and a solid earthen wall rose from the ground, blocking the white smoke exhaled by Miyahara Toru.

Earth element ability?
Uesugi Muneyuki was stunned when he saw this.

At that moment, Mai-senpai made a move.

In the pouring rain, Shirakawa Mai's heavy down jacket vanished instantly, transforming into her most traditional and orthodox white robes and red hakama shrine maiden attire. A longbow made of Azusa Mountain sacred wood extended from her back, its quiver filled with wooden arrows crafted from eagle feathers. Stepping onto the ground to solidify her form, she prepared her bow, drew it, and released an arrow with unparalleled force. The arrow, enveloped in white light, pierced through the rain and transformed into a swirling storm!

Demon-destroying arrow!

boom!
The 60-centimeter-thick earthen wall that Takahashi had created was shattered with a single blow. The arrow passed through the collapsed earthen wall and landed not far away, blasting a crater more than 40 centimeters deep and more than one meter in diameter on the ground!

What the hell!

Uesugi Muneyuki's eyes widened and his mouth gaped open.

Is that an arrow? Isn't it some kind of RPG?
The three of them were so shocked by what they saw that they were speechless.

This is not what we agreed on!
"Tell me, who sent you to Kanto?" Shirakawa Mai was icy cold, her expression and voice equally cold. In her battle-ready state, Mai-senpai, standing in the pouring rain, resembled a frozen glacier: "Tell me, and I might consider sparing your lives; otherwise…"

The senior student's cold bow moved slightly: "The next arrow will be your head!"

"Tsk! Just as the Lord said!" Takahashi's reply seemed to be responding to something: "There really are still powerful figures from the underworld in Kanto..."

"I'll give you three seconds. Who is the Lord? Where does your power come from?" Shirakawa Mai said coldly.

"I……"

"Three...two..." Just as Mai-senpai was counting, Uesugi Muneyuki suddenly gestured for Mai-senpai to pay attention to the main hall next to her!

Something has exploded!
Inside the main hall of the Otherworld, a torrent of water ripped open the dilapidated roof. The icy rain never stopped. A blurry female figure, dressed in a soaked white kimono, with long hair covering her face, surrounded by water vapor and a sense of sadness/anger, vaguely appeared in the water. Her eyes were filled with annoyance, as if she had been disturbed, and she coldly stared at the people who had entered the Otherworld.

"What is that?" Uesugi Muneyuki felt his Azure Stone hissing wildly, so he could only ask Mai-senpai.

"That's..." Mai-senpai's expression changed drastically upon seeing the figure emerging from the rain. She grabbed Uesugi Muneyuki and pulled him behind her, shouting sharply, "Crouch down!!!"

Mariko Hironaka and Tetsuya Miyahara immediately returned to Muneyuki Uesugi's body.

The next second, a massive torrential downpour and flash flood instantly swept away the location where she and Uesugi Muneyuki were!

Similarly, Takahashi immediately raised an earthen wall to block the oncoming flash flood!
The torrential rain and raging floodwaters continued to obscure the figure in the white kimono amidst the rain.

As the overwhelming floodwaters swept past, a circular sphere of light gradually emerged from beneath the surface. Mai-senpai and Uesugi Muneyuki, standing safely within a transparent spiritual energy barrier, were unharmed. On the other side, Takahashi and his two companions, who had managed to withstand the floodwaters using their earthen spirit barrier, fared much worse. Although they had blocked most of the water flow, some droplets and moisture still caused them terrible damage. The corrosive water seeped into their clothes, leaving gaps, and the air was as cold as ice.

This wasn't the end. The woman in the rain began to whisper, filled with extreme sadness, despair, and a sense of abandonment. Except for Uesugi Muneyuki, the others involuntarily began to hallucinate. Mai-senpai reacted quickly; she recited a few calming mantras to dispel the hallucinations.

However, Uesugi Muneyuki's attention was on Sato on the other side. This taciturn big man was the only one who was not being protected!
This very scene caused the remaining five people on the scene to gasp in shock.

The torrential rain had ravaged Sato, leaving him splintered like melted jelly in mid-air. He screamed as his neck, waist, right arm from shoulder to elbow, and left thigh bone, flesh, and blood were all swallowed by the flood, leaving only his mangled torso and his desperate screams.

But that wasn't the end of it. A whisper came from the downpour, followed by a muddy torrent of water that poured onto Sato's body. His wrecked body was filled, swallowed, and assimilated by the mud. In the end, a three-meter-tall standing frogman replaced Sato. In the downpour, it opened its mouth and flicked its long frog tongue. The only proof of Sato's existence was the human face in the center of the standing frogman's chest.

"Takahashi, Nakamura, help..." The face could even speak, its eyes rolled back, and Sato's head, with its tongue sticking out, instinctively cried out.

The extremely bizarre scene before them sent a chill down the spines of the few survivors.

When Sato saved his life, the three-meter-tall standing frogman even grinned and played with the stun gun in its hand before rushing directly towards Uesugi Muneyuki and Shirakawa Mai!
Mai Shirakawa decisively dispelled the barrier. The senior student swung her Azusa Mountain Sage Bow to block the electric baton. The wooden bow was actually harder than the electric baton. After catching the electric baton, the senior student swung the bow back and slammed it into the frogman's face, instantly smashing half of its face: "Zong Xue!"

Mai-senpai felt a little numbness in her wrist.

Did they even inherit the power of the dead?
"Oh!" Uesugi Muneyuki raised his finger and fired a spirit ball that accurately hit the frogman's head. The frogman's head exploded like a watermelon, with blood and water splattering everywhere.

It was alive?! Looking at the clearly visible skeletal structure and brain inside the exploded frogman's head, Uesugi Muneyuki's expression turned grave.

This is not an elemental creature or an alchemical construct, but a living thing from the underworld!

"Help... Mom! Help!" Sato screamed in agony from the frogman's chest and face, while the frog's head, which had just been smashed, began to regenerate.

"There's no other way!" Senior Mai immediately drew an arrow.

Demon-destroying arrow!

Bang! A flash of cold light arrived first, followed by an arrow in the stream of light that pierced and shattered the entire frogman, along with Sato's smashed head, completely destroying this bizarre frogman.

"Huh?" A surprised voice came from the rain.

"Go!" After the devastating attack, Mai-senpai immediately grabbed Uesugi Muneyuki, signaling for us to retreat first!

Meanwhile, on the other side, Takahashi also encountered trouble.

More frogmen appeared in the flood, and each frogman had an old face on his chest. They were not as big as the new frogmen, and most of them were one or two meters tall.

They might all be villagers who once lived here, or former shrine maidens, but neither Uesugi nor Takahashi recognized them.

"What the hell is going on?!" Takahashi couldn't help but curse.

The Lord didn't mention this situation! It's true that some creatures from the underworld might arise due to a lack of supervision, but no one knew it would be this terrifying!
In the darkness, following closely behind the frogman were many things the size of watermelons.

As they drew closer, the three members of the Takahashi group couldn't help but tremble.

It's human heads!
No, they're tadpoles the size of watermelons! And the tadpoles have human faces on their backs!
As the rain washed over them, these human-headed tadpoles began to grow hind legs and gradually approached the three people.

Nourished by the rain, they are growing rapidly.

These frogmen are helpless against ordinary attack methods; no matter how they are destroyed, they will regenerate immediately, and even a Swiss Army knife cannot tear open their skin.

In a moment of desperation, Takahashi used a protective charm, and they temporarily disappeared amidst the golden light.

The frogmen lost their target and stood still, all turning their gaze to the figure in the main hall.

The woman in the rain had delicate features, a small face, and soft facial features. Her hairstyle and bangs accentuated her classical beauty—long, black hair styled in a traditional hee cut, and her pale skin looked like porcelain in the dim light. Most unforgettable were her eyes, with a melancholic restraint, and her figure in a plain white kimono appeared and disappeared in the rain.

Anyone who disturbs my peace shall die!
(End of this chapter)