I'm a demon in Tokyo!

Chapter 222 The Big Brother Wearing a Demon Mask Descends from the Sky! Mission Rating: SS-! Proof of Travel!
Quiet.

The surroundings suddenly became so quiet that Chisa could hear her own breathing clearly.

The original cries, ringing bells, and telephone calls—all those noisy, frightening, and unsettling sounds—disappeared, causing Chisa's little heart to skip a beat.

This is wrong, very wrong.

Chisa didn't tell Tamamo about the current situation.

Because it's pointless and will only make the older sister and the big brother who is about to come and save everyone more anxious.

My older sister once said that we should try to stay away from places that make us feel uneasy.

Chisa placed her small hands on her chest and patted them gently; she felt like she could hardly breathe.

We have to move into the mall.

Because it's definitely not allowed to go outside.

Chisa thought of the countless unprotected, terrified strangers outside the shopping mall and the shed, who were powerless to do anything.

Her upbringing taught her that everyone should be harmonious, loving, and helpful to one another, so she had to help them.

Even a casual remark of key information can unknowingly save many lives.

But in the end, the girl clenched her small hands tightly against her chest.

"Chisa... there's nothing I can do."

I don't care if I'm called a selfish bad kid!

—Chisa, all I want to do now is protect my family!

Chisa pinched her stiff cheeks, then squatted down in front of her two younger brothers who had just started elementary school, and gave them a bright, sunny smile.

She pointed to the road leading straight to the mall from the shed: "Yang Yi, Yang Er Jun, can you take your mother inside? It'll be cooler there with air conditioning."

"oh oh."

The two boys, who didn't quite understand what had happened but whose emotions had calmed down, nodded as if they understood.

They walked around the woman who had fainted on the cushion for a while before, with Chisa's guidance, they each took one arm.

The younger Yoji looked at Chisa, who was still standing there, and asked in a low voice,
"Sister, aren't you coming?"

"I'll come right away!"

With a heavy heart, Chisa smiled and made a heart shape with her hands before continuing to struggle with her difficult decision.

She looked down at the tall, imposing Special Affairs officer, who was at least three times her weight.

—This uncle had just saved their family, but he was just too heavy. Chisa felt that she could not possibly move him no matter what.

We have no choice but to leave the old man here.

Chisa swallowed the air that felt almost solid in her throat.

The girl bent down, grabbed her father's arms with both hands, and used all the strength she had ever had to drag her father, who weighed a full 160 pounds.

"Huh...huh..."

Before she had even covered half the distance, Chisa felt as if a fire was about to ignite in her chest.

They weren't this tired when their PE teacher made them run 200 meters before.

Fortunately, just as they were about to reach the pillar in the mall, his two younger brothers came running over, and the three of them worked together to finally drag their father behind the huge pillar on the first floor of the mall.

Next, Chisa found a clothing store as a hiding place—so many clothes would surely provide some cover.

After finishing everything, Chisa, her arms weak, plopped down and listened to the uneasy whispers in the mall, panting heavily.

At this moment, these sounds unexpectedly brought Chisa a sense of security.

After resting for two minutes, Chisa looked back at the original location of the shed with a complicated expression.

Sure enough, it still doesn't work.

The girl struggled to her feet, realizing that she couldn't just irresponsibly leave that old man there.

"You two sit here and play for a while, okay? Don't run around or talk too much." Chisa patted her two younger brothers' heads. "I'll bring that uncle in too."

"We're here to help!"

Yang Yi immediately raised his hand.

Yang Er glanced at his brother, not to be outdone: "Then we want one too!"

Chisa shook her head resolutely, making an arm-bending gesture at them—a gesture that showed strength but ultimately delivered nothing: "Such a small matter is enough for my older sister to handle alone! Understand?"

—Just kidding. If my brothers got into trouble because they went out with her, I would really feel guilty for the rest of my life.

Without saying anything more, Chisa immediately tiptoed back into the shed.

"Gulu..."

This time, just walking this far, Chisa felt as if an invisible hand was gripping her neck.

The middle-aged man in black was still lying on the ground, unconscious.

Trembling all over, Chisa wrapped her arms around the operator's arm, which was as thick as her thigh, and with all her might, she managed to drag him a dozen centimeters.

Chisa was already panting heavily.

"If my older sister knew I did this, she'd definitely scold me to death..."

She dared not look at the street outside, which had been swallowed by the thick darkness, and just kept her head down, struggling with the unconscious special affairs officer.

Several minutes later, an exhausted Chisa dragged the operator back to the previous pillar.

"This is... the best we can do..."

The girl, who was panting heavily, braced herself against her knees to keep from collapsing.

She didn't dare linger. Instead, she immediately lifted her lactic acid-filled legs and walked into the clothing store. When she saw her brothers, who were unharmed, she breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

"Yang Yi and Yang Er, well done..."

Chisa was about to encourage her younger brothers when she suddenly realized something.

When did shopping malls become so quiet?
Moreover, it was even quieter than before.

It was so bad it took my breath away.

The girl's smile, along with her body, froze.

Silently moving behind the oversized XL-sized clothes, Chisa cautiously peeked out again.

Then, in the very center of the mall's first floor, I saw an old-fashioned telephone booth covered in dust, rust, and grease.

She was less than fifty meters away!
In an instant, Chisa's heart turned ice-cold.

She turned around somewhat dazedly, looking at her two younger brothers who were staring at her with unwavering trust, and suddenly felt like crying.

Chisa wondered if she shouldn't have gone into the mall in the first place, and if running away outside would have been the right choice.
"Sister..."

Just as Yang Yi was about to speak, Qian Sha covered his mouth with her hand and made a shushing gesture.

"Yang Yi, Yang Er."

Chisa spoke in a whisper, "After you see your older sister run out, take your father and mother and run in the other direction, okay?"

Upon hearing this, the two children were on the verge of tears.

"Yangyi, don't separate from your older sister."

"Yang Er doesn't want it either."

Chisa thought to herself that her older sister didn't really want to be separated from them either, but that phone booth had already tracked them all the way here. If she didn't go out and act as bait to lure it away, then by the time it found this place, everyone would be doomed.

How heartbroken must Tamamo-nee be?
If she were the only one not there, at least when Tamamo-nee cried, there would be many people to comfort her.

It's very lively.

Isn't this ending pretty good?

"Sweethearts, if Yang Yi and Yang Er do as your older sister says, then I'll secretly bring you gummy candies every day during summer vacation, okay?"

Chisa smiled and spoke to her younger brothers, immediately capturing their attention.

"Then, sister, pinky promise, no take-backs allowed."

Yang Yi immediately stopped crying and extended her little finger with considerable experience.

Yang Er followed suit, seemingly understanding but not quite.

Chisa dared not delay any longer, so she immediately made a pinky promise with her younger brothers, and heard Yoichi say in a very low voice,

"A liar must swallow a thousand needles..."

Chisa had pricked her finger with a needle once before, so she thought swallowing a thousand needles must be very painful.

I really wish I had a chance to change my mind...

Chisa stood still, counted down from three in her mind, and then darted out of the clothing store.

At the same time, she shouted at the top of her lungs, imitating the busy tone of a telephone.

"Beep, beep! Beep, beep!"

After running a dozen steps, Chisa closed her eyes again and roared to the sky, "Anyone who doesn't want to die, run! Get as far away from this phone booth as possible!"

She didn't know how many people in the mall could hear her.

In short, this would create chaos, making her less likely to be noticed...

Qian Sha turned around, clinging to a sliver of hope.

Then, I saw a black telephone booth that had moved at some point and was now only thirty meters away from me.

So Chisa dared not look anymore.

She could only run forward as if her life depended on it, jumping over any obstacles in her path, climbing up any high stairs, and gritting her teeth to get up and keep running even when she tripped over a shelf.

Chisa thought she had never run so fast in her life, not even when the teacher said the first place winner would get a snack... Was she about to break the world record?

Vague and chaotic thoughts rose one by one amidst increasingly labored breathing, only to vanish just as quickly.

As Chisa tripped over again and was about to get up, she saw the old telephone booth already standing in front of her.

I can't run anymore.

Chisa opened her mouth, but decided not to waste any more effort.

She struggled to her feet, walked to the black telephone booth, and pulled open its rusty doorknob.

Went in.

It perfectly follows the rules for the occurrence of ghost stories.

Chisa stood in the dark, damp phone booth, her body trembling uncontrollably.

She remembered, or rather, vaguely remembered, that her older sister had said that if she made a phone call, she could buy some time.

These are the rules of the ghost stories from the black phone booths.

Jingle Bell.

The shrill ringtone sounded inside the phone booth, as if urging Chisa to pick it up and dial the number quickly.

The girl placed her hand on the delicate telephone dial, instantly silencing the phone booth.

So now, who should she call?
After Chisa hesitated for two seconds, the bell rang again, sounding like a death knell.

It doesn't seem to matter who you hit.

The key is...

With trembling fingers, the girl randomly dialed a number, then picked up the elegant red phone and shakily placed it to her ear.

Just as the chilling, deathly wail was about to pierce the phone, Qiansha forcefully closed her eyes and preemptively recited the "life-saving incantation" her older sister had told her.
"The Special Operations Division's Countermeasures Office is located at ■■■■■■■■■!"

The crying suddenly stopped.

"Aaaaaaaaaa!!!"

The next instant, a deafening scream and shriek came from the other end of the phone, causing her to drop the phone in fear. But soon, Chisa realized that she was alright.

The incident occurred in this phone booth.

It works! It really works! My sister didn't lie to me! My sister has never lied to me!
Chisa was so excited she almost jumped up and down in the phone booth.

But after she tried to turn the doorknob several times without success, Chisa realized that the screaming inside the phone booth had stopped.

Instead, insidious and cruel curses were cast.
"Die...die die die die die die die!"

One after another, the word "death" came from the speaker of the telephone swaying in mid-air.

With each word she heard, Chisa felt her body grow weaker and her consciousness become more blurred, as if the whole world was about to become irrelevant to her.

The girl tilted her head back, her eyes gradually dimming, and she murmured blankly:
"I don't want to die..."

Clap!

In a daze and darkness, Chisa felt a delicate hand roughly pry open her mouth and stuff something like a candy into it.

Thus, the body is revived and consciousness returns.

The world is clear again.

Deeper into the past.

Chisa stared blankly at the hand that landed on her face, and then saw through the broken glass window of the phone booth the man standing outside wearing a terrifying demon mask.

The girl heard him complain, sounding slightly annoyed.

"So you've gone this far! No wonder I couldn't find you after the signal dropped."

Chisa replied blankly, "So it really was my fault for running in here."

"Do not."

The man shook his head, carefully withdrew his hand, and forcefully tore the phone booth that had almost cost her her life into two pieces of trash.

After doing all this, Chisa felt another hand pat her head. She saw him looking down, staring directly into her eyes, and speaking to her with utmost seriousness.

"Chisa-chan, you did a great job. No one could do it better than you."

Uesugi Tetsu said, "If it weren't for you, you and your family wouldn't have been able to wait for me to come, and I wouldn't have the face to go back and see Tamamo."

Chisa's eyes widened in surprise: "You're the amazing older brother that my sister was talking about...!"

"Well, I am."

Uesugi Tetsu calmly assured her, "So, everything's alright now."

Chisa first showed an uncontrollable joy and relief, then spoke anxiously.
"Big brother, we still have our younger brother, our parents, and our uncles..."

"Xiaojia."

Uesugi Tetsu spoke up.

At the far end of the mall, a clear, sharp clang of a blade, signifying the completion of a mission, echoed out.

After hearing this, Uesugi Tetsu smiled at Chisa and said, "Don't worry, they're safe too."

Although Chisa didn't know how he knew from so far away, her heart told her that this slightly scary older brother was someone she could trust.

The girl didn't say anything more, but whispered, "Then Qian Sha will do whatever you say, big brother."

Upon hearing this, Uesugi Tetsu couldn't help but chuckle.

It's good that this child is so well-behaved; unlike Xiao Jia, who's always causing trouble...

"Next, I'll get you out of here first."

Uesugi Tetsu hesitated for a moment, and instead of grabbing Chisa by the back of the neck like he had when transporting Tamamo, he bent down and picked the girl up, then wrapped her in layers of qi.

A few seconds later, Uesugi Tetsuya and Kaga Kiyomitsu met up and found Tamamo's family members who had not suffered any substantial damage, as well as the operator whose ID number started with A.

Two minutes later, Uesugi Tetsu used his inner energy to lead everyone out of the haunted house's still-open area.

During the journey, even though Chisa was very worried about the strangers she met, she kept her mouth shut and didn't say a single word to Uesugi Tetsuya.

She knew that she was lucky to have survived and had no right to ask for more.

At the edge of the haunted house, Uesugi Tetsu gently released Chisa and Tamamo's family members from the protective aura.

"Big brother……"

Before Chisa and Tamamo could thank him, Uesugi Tetsuya immediately turned around and went back into the haunted house, disappearing from everyone's sight.

time does not wait.

As he entered and exited the edge of the haunted house, Uesugi Tetsu clearly felt a sticky sensation.

This "sticky feeling" is a sign that the ghost story has taken another step towards becoming a four-star story.

When the haunted house becomes completely inaccessible and the ghost story is absorbed into its body, the ascension will be considered complete.

Huhu.

With the wind whistling past his ears, Uesugi Tetsuya did not bother to clean up the remaining black telephone booth clones that had not yet been charred by the first round of lightning strikes.

At this point, whether this clone lives or dies is no longer of any importance.

Freed from the burden of protecting ordinary people, Uesugi Tetsuya returned to the vicinity of the mall in just over a minute.

He glanced at his phone, confirming the features of the phone booth once again.

Use the eye of interpretation to expand your circle of perception.

In just over ten seconds, Uesugi Tetsu found it.

—We found the black telephone booth hidden deep in an alley, concealed in the boundless darkness, almost emitting no scent, which it thought was perfectly concealed.

Needless to say.

A silver light shone from the back of his right hand, and a dozen or so ordinary plain spears wrapped in qi and purple-black lightning floated in mid-air, the light surrounding the spears growing increasingly intense.

With the next breath, all the plain guns fell toward the black phone booth indiscriminately!

shhhhhh!
Boom boom boom!
One after another, blinding bolts of lightning erupted from the ground, intertwining and converging, unleashing an aura of destruction.

Uesugi Tetsu held Kaga Kiyomitsu in mid-air, his eyes lowered, the location of the black telephone booth clearly reflected in the mirror of his mind.

Thoughts moved slightly.

A colorless sword light suddenly appeared from nothingness, causing the slightly charred black telephone booth to freeze abruptly in another alley, its upper right corner being severed without warning.

Natural Rinnegan-ryu Secret Technique: Sword of No Ignorance - Concealment!
The haunted house, which had turned completely black, swayed slightly and turned several shades white after that strike.

This proves that the illegal phone booths were severely weakened by this unseen attack, and their progress has been halted.

However, instead of being happy, Uesugi Tetsu frowned deeply.

Because it's too simple.

He had only used all his strength in two moves, and the almost godlike Black Telephone Booth had actually obediently accepted his attacks, letting him do as he pleased?
Even the Grand Master would never do such a thing.

"Die, die, die, die, die, die..."

In the brief moment of Uesugi Tetsu's contemplation, countless words of death suddenly rang in his ears.

Boom!

A torrent of scorching energy burst forth from Uesugi Tetsuya's dantian as if it were free, and the complex aura contained within it instantly dispelled the impending curse.

What followed was a wail, a mournful wail that seemed to make everyone in the entire haunted house cover their faces and weep.

"Ohh Ohh ohh……"

The black telephone booth itself remained motionless, standing openly and honestly before Uesugi Tetsuya's eyes.

The more intense the crying became, coupled with the mournful sound of the bell, it made Uesugi Tetsuya's nose tingle with emotion.

"Fine, the most important thing is to kill this weirdo of yours first."

The aura surged into the sky once more, instantly increasing Uesugi Tetsuya's speed to an almost unimaginable level.

The strength of his physical body, the will of Kaga Kiyomitsu, the pain of separation from loved ones and illness, the internal energy, the energy in his dantian, and all the spiritual power he could grasp, all converged on this one strike.

We must spare no effort and spare no expense to eliminate the factors that cause anxiety in the fastest way possible.

White Prajna, wielding a knife, descended from the sky.

The black and white blade flashed at a near-perfect angle, cleaving everything in two.

From this perfectly smooth slash, endless purple-black lightning, imbued with destructive power, surged like a tidal wave across the earth, the sky, and every street.

[You killed the weakened, failed-to-promote Black Telephone Booth (3.5 stars), gaining 990 Soul Ash!]

[You used Kaga Kiyomitsu to slay the weakened, failed-to-advance Black Telephone Booth. Kaga Kiyomitsu: Blade of Parting's quality has been moderately improved!]

[Your skill, Natural Rational Flow proficiency +30! ]

[Your skill, Five Thunder Method: Qi Combination Proficiency +200!]

[Your skill, Spirit Control Technique - Qi Proficiency +100!]

Your urgent time-limited mission is ready to be completed!

After the lightning, powerful enough to temporarily blind those looking in that direction, dissipated, the pitch-black haunted house that had enveloped an area of ​​several kilometers slowly became transparent and vanished.

Behind the charred, crooked iron frame, Uesugi Tetsu slowly sheathed Kaga Kiyomitsu.

There was no extra smile hidden beneath the mask.

Because all of this was too easy, so easy that he only needed to exert all his strength to obliterate the strange tale that was about to transcend the life level and become a true ghost god.

It doesn't even require triggering the usual trump card, "anger."

In the past, he would have thought such a thing was nonsense.

Uesugi Tetsuya stared silently at the title of the urgent time-limited mission.

The Demon Guide Association's probe...

The title of this task is absolutely accurate.

Uesugi Tetsu looked back down at the pile of charred phone booth frames and used his mind to complete the task.

[You have proactively chosen to complete the urgent time-limited mission – "The Demon Guide's Probe"!]

[Checking task completion status...]

[You prevented the ghost story "The Weak Black Telephone Booth" from being promoted to four stars and killed it with your own hands, earning you a base rating of S!]

[You will rescue all five of Tamamo's family members from the disaster area, ensuring their survival without serious injury. Base rating: S → SS-!]

【Settlement completed! 】

[Your urgent limited-time mission, "The Demon Guide's Probe," has been rated SS-!]

[Rewards are being distributed...]

You have obtained the Ancient Rotary Telephone (Special Item)!

You have obtained the Certificate of Walking (Special Item)!

The rewards are two special items, the latter of which is related to the traveler's identity, and they look pretty good.

But let's put aside these things that we can watch an hour later.

Open your eyes to interpretation.

Uesugi Tetsu stared at the wisp of black energy within the frame that had lingered for so long, and said indifferently, "Did you think I couldn't see it just because it was hidden inside?"

As the words fell, the wisp of black smoke slowly rose and transformed into a somewhat distorted, smoky skull.

The skull appeared to be remotely controlled, as its eye sockets were empty and its mouth was dry and lifeless.
"My guess was right... Thunder magic, knives, mask, attire, and techniques... all these characteristics point to you as..."

The skull paused, its eyes turning cold.

"Great Onmyoji, Che."

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